Note upon the performance of the Irish masque, contained in Edmund Howes' continuation
of John Stow's
Annals (1631). The "maske of Lords" refers to Campion's The Masque of
Squires, performed on 26 December.
[p. 928]
[The Earle of
Somerset
married.]
The 26. of December, 1613
Robert earle of
Somerset
married the lady Francis
Howard
daughter to ye earle of Suffolke
... and that night there was a gallant maske
of Lords, & vppon the wednesday night, there was a maske of the princes gentleman,
which pleased the king
so well, that he caused them to performe it againe vppon the Monday,
following.
Bibliography
Stow and Howes (1631), 928