Lambeth Palace Library,
Talbot Papers 3202, fol. 131v
Letter,
Roland Whyte
to the
Earl of Shrewsbury
, dated 26 Jan. 1608,
Whitehall
.
[fol. 131v]
The Spanish Embassador hath invited the 15. ladies that were of the queens Maske: to dinner vpon Thursday next and they are to bring with them whom they please within limitaci on.
The great Maske intended for my Lord Hadingtons marriage is now the only thing thoughte vpon at court by 5. English. Lord Arundel. Lord pembroke Lord Montgomery Lord Theophilus
Howard
and Sir
Rob
ert
Rich
. and by 7. Scottes. duke
Lenox. d'obigney.Hay. Master of Mar young
Erskin
,Sankier and Kenedie. It will cost them about 300l a man.
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H&S, 10.482
HMC Shrewsbury and Talbot, 2.250
Lodge (1791),
3.223-4
Nichols (1828), 2.175