National Archives, SP
14/75/53, fols. 33 and 33v
Letter,
John Chamberlain
to
Alice Carleton
, 30 December 1613,
London
. Single unfolded sheet: the letter occupies pp. 1-2. Note: the second passage
probably refers to Campion's The Masque of Squires.
[fol. 33]
yesternight there was a medley maske of fiue english and fiue Scotts,
(which are called the high dauncers;) among whom
Sergeant Boide
, one Abraham Crummie, and Ackmoutie (that was at Padoua and venice) are esteemed
the most
principall and loftie, but how yt succeeded I heare not.
[fol. 33v]
Sir william Bowie<r>hath lost his eldest sonne Sir
Henry, he was a fine dauncer and shold haue ben
of the maske, but ouer-heating himself with practising he fell into the
small pocks and died, leauing a sonne, and a young widow the only daughter of Salter
one
of the Farmers.
Bibliography
CSPD 1611-18, 217
H&S, 10.541
Chamberlain (1939), 1.496-7