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)