Letters from Mr John Pory
to
Sir Thomas Puckering
, 13 January 1631 and 12
January 1632. The second reports the collaboration between
Inigo Jones
and Aurelian Townshend on Albion's
Triumph, the King
's masque for 1632.
[p. 91]
That on Sunday last were published in the court strict orders, appointing who should
come
into the privy lodgings, and who should not
<...>
and that the same night the masque was performed at the court with great splendour.
...
[pp. 158-9]
The last Sunday night the king
's masque was acted in the Banqueting House, ... The inventor or poet of this masque
was Mr. Aurelian Townshend
, sometimes towards the
Lord Treasurer
Salisbury
,
Ben Jonson
being for this time discarded, by reason of the predominant power of his
antagonist,
Inigo Jones
, who this time twelvemonth was angry with him for putting his own name before his
in the title-page, which
Ben Jonson
made the subject of a bitter satire or two against Inigo.
Bibliography
Orgel & Strong, 1.405