National Archives, SP
14/158/33, fol. 43
Letter of court news,
John Chamberlain
to
Sir Dudley Carleton
, 17 January 1624,
London
. One folded sheet, two leaves: the letter occupies pp. 1-3; p. 4
subscription.
[fol. 43]
my very goode Lord: the maske for twelfth night was put of by reason of the
kings indisposition as was pretended, but the true casue is thought to
be the competition of the french and Spanish
ambassadors, which could not be accommodated in presence, and
whethersoeuer of them were absent yt wold sound to his disgrace, and so much the Spanish
ambassadors did intimate vpon notice that the french was first inuited, and forbare
not to say (that among many other) they
shold take this for the most notorious affront.
Bibliography
CSPD 1623-25 & Addenda, 149
Nichols (1828), 4.960-61 (from Birch's transcription, BL,
Add. MS 4174)
H&S, 10.659
Chamberlain (1939), 1.538-9
Bentley (1941-68), 4.661 (from Chamberlain (1939))