National Archives, SP 14/90/25, fols. 55 and 56
Letter,
John Chamberlain
to
Sir Dudley Carleton
, 18 January 1617,
London
. One folded sheet, two leaves: the letter occupies pp. 1-3; p. 4 subscription.
[fol. 55]
My very goode Lord: I forgat in my last to geue notice that there was a meaning before
the end of christmas to make the Lord villers an earle, (though I knew not of what place) which fell out the next day to be performed with all vsuall solemnitie, and he beares the name of
Buckingham
<.> on twelfe night was a maske wherin the newmade earle and the earle of mongomerie
dawnced with the quene, I haue heard no great speach nor commendations of the maske neither
before nor since, but yt is apointed to be represented again to morow at night, and
the Spanish ambassador inuited.
[fol. 56]
The virginian woman Poca-huntas, with her father counsaillor haue ben with the king
and graciously vsed, and both she and her assistant well placed at the maske, she
is vpon her return (though sore against her will) yf the wind wold come about to send
them away.
Bibliography
CSPD 1611-18, 428
Chamberlain (1939), 2.49-50
H&S, 10.568-9
Orgel & Strong, 1.271