Masque of Blackness 13

Lambeth Palace Library, Talbot Papers 3201, fol. 235v

Letter, Sir Thomas Edmonds to the Earl of Shrewsbury , dated 5 Dec. 1604, Whitehall . Single sheet; the letter appears on the recto and verso. The other masque referred to here is the lost Hymen and the Twelve Months (perf. 27 Dec. 1604 ).


[fol. 235v]
Our Cort of ladyes is preparing to sollempnize the Christmas with a gallant Maske which doth Cost the Eschequer 3000li.Sir Phillip Harbetes Marriage will also produce an other maske amonge the noblemen & gentellmen.

Bibliography
H&S, 10.446 (from Lodge, 1791, 3.114)
HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, 2.238
Lodge (1791), 3.114
Nichols (1828), 1.467-68 (from Lodge, 1791)