National Archives, SP 14/78/65, fols. 113r-v
Letter,
John Chamberlain
to
Sir Dudley Carleton
, 1 Dec. 1614,
London
. One folded sheet, two folios: the letter occupies pp. 1-3; p. 4 subscription.
[fol. 113]
the bishop of St Dauids
Doctor Rudde
is lately dead, and much posting and suing there
[fol. 113v]
is for his place, so sharpe set men are now adayes for euery litle profit or preferment:
and yet for all this penurious world we speake of a maske this christmas towards which the king geues 1500li the principall motiue wherof is thought to be the gracing of younge villers and to
bring him on the stage.
Bibliography
CSPD 1611-18, 261
H&S, 10.553 (listed under
Gold. Age
)
Chamberlain (1939), 1.560-2 (561)
Nichols (1828), 3.25 (from Birch's transcription, BL Add. MS 4173)