National Archives, SP
14/129/62, fols. 101r-v
Letter,
John Chamberlain
to
Sir Dudley Carleton
, 27 April 1622,
London
. One folded sheet, two leaves: the letter occupies pp. 1-2; p. 3 blank; p. 4
subscription. Note: no performance took place on 20 May.
[fol. 101]
the tilting that shold
haue ben on monday [.] was by reason of wet weather put of till thursday, and
then deferred till the 28th of the next moneth and the second part of the maske till
the
20th for that the king was sodainly taken with the gowte
or some such infirmitie in his knee.
the Prince
is nothing pleased with these delayes, (yf yt could be remedied,) the rather for
that now twise
[fol. 101v]
or thrise he had all in redines, and (as is saide) was desirous to make shew of the
fauor of a feather he had from his Spanish mistris.
Bibliography
CSPD 1619-23, 382
Nichols (1828), 4.755 (excerpt, probably from Birch's
transcription in BL, Add. MS 4174)
Chamberlain (1939), 2.433
Bentley (1941-68), 4.655-6 (from Chamberlain (1939))