Table of Contents

New Year's gifts charged upon Lady Howard, 1 January 1572
Musters in London, March - May 1572
Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Lord Mayor of London
Prices of poultry in London, 4 April 1572
The ratification of the Treaty of Blois, 26 May - 5 July 1572
Extract from Holinshed's Chronicles, 18 June - 13 July 1572
Letter from Nicholas Bacon to William Cecil, 17 July 1572
The Queen's progress, summer 1572
The Queen's entertainment at Warwick, 12 - 19 August 1572
Extract from the diary of William Cecil, 22 August 1572
Execution of the Duke of Northumberland, 22 August 1572
The Queen's summer progress, 23 August-September 1572
Letter from the Queen to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 22 October 1572
Gifts charged upon Lady Howard, 22 February 1573
The Queen at Lambeth Palace, Lent 1573
The order of the Maundy at Greenwich, 19 March 1573
Letter from Gilbert Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 May 1573
Letter from Gilbert Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 25 May 1573
Queen Elizabeth's progress to Kent and Canterbury, July - September 1573
Letter from William Cecil to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 10 August 1573
Extract from the 'account book' of Richard Dering, 20 August 1573
The Queen's progress, 22 - 31 August 1573
The Queen's reception at Sandwich, 31 August - 3 September 1573
William Fleetwood's 'city diary', 1 October 1573
Accounts of dinners held for the Court of Exchequer at
Westminster Hall, March 1573 - February 1574
New Year's gifts charged upon Lady Howard, 1 January 1574
John Lesley, Bishop of Ross, Oratio, 1574
Queen Elizabeth at Lambeth Palace, March and May 1574
Relations between Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots
Letter from Gilbert Lord Talbot, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 10 May 1574
Letter from Gilbert Lord Talbot, to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 24 May 1574
Letter from Gilbert Lord Talbot, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, 28 June 1574
Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, June 1574-February 1574/5
The Queen's summer progress, July-August 1574
Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Bristol, 14 - 21 August 1574
Extracts from the diary of Lord Burghley, August 1574
The Queen at Longleat and Wilton, 2 - 6 September 1574
The Queen at Salisbury, 6 - 9 September 1574
Gifts charged upon Lady Howard, 1 January 1575
Extract from the records of the Corporation of Leicester, 29 April 1575
The Queen at Baynard's Castle, London, 5 - 8 May 1575
Letter from Anne, Lady Talbot, to the Countess of Shrewsbury, 8 May 1575
Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Kenilworth, 9 - 27 July 1575
The Queen at Lichfield, 30 July - 3 August 1575
The Queen at Chartley Castle, Stafford Castle, Chillington, and Hartlebury Castle, August 1575
Queen Elizabeth at Worcester, 13 - 20 August 1575
The Queen at Elmley Bredon and Sudeley Castle, August 1575
Queen Elizabeth's entertainments at Woodstock, 29 August - 3 September 1575
The Queen's movements, September - December 1575
Gifts charged upon Lady Howard, New Year 1576
Gifts given to the Queen, New Year 1576
Plate received at sundry times of sundry persones, 1576
Letter from Francis Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 4 January 1576
Sir Henry Lee's challenge before Champagny, 28 February 1576
The Queen's speech before Parliament, 15 March 1576
Letter from the Queen to the Masters and Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge, 24 April 1576
Letter from Gilbert Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 6 July 1576
Letter from Francis Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1576
Letter from Francis Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 July 1576
The Queen's progress, summer 1576
Expenses of the Queen's table, 1576
Gifts charged upon Lady Howard, New Year 1577
Gifts given to the Queen, New Year 1577
The Queen at Theobalds, May 1577
Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury, 18 - 22 May 1577
The Queen's summer progress, 1577
Letter from Lord Buckhurst to Sussex, 4 July 1577
Letter from the Queen to the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, 25 June 1577
Letter from Lord Burghley to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 4 August 1577
Letter from Lord Burghley to the Earl of Sussex, 7 August 1577
Correspondence of Lord Burghley, 21 August - 7 September 1577
The Queen at Hampton Court, 19 February 1578
The Queen's visits to John Lacy
Letter from Gilbert Talbot to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 3 May 1578
Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Wanstead, 1578 (including Sir Philip Sidney's The Lady of May)
The Queen's summer progress, July 1578
Letter from Lord Burghley to Mr Randolph, 21 July 1578
The Queen at Audley End, 26 - 30 July 1578
Gabriel Harvey, Gratulationum Valdinensium (1578): verses presented to Queen Elizabeth
Expenses incurred by Saffron Walden for the Queen's visit to Audley End
The Queen's entertainment in Suffolk and Norfolk, 1578
The Queen at Hawstead, August 1578
The Queen's reception and entertainment at Norwich, 16 - 22 August 1578
Extracts from the household book of Lord North, 1 - 26
Extracts from the household book of Lord North, 1 - 26 September 1578
The Queen's visit to Sir Thomas Gresham at Osterley Park

About the Author

Dr. Jayne Elisabeth Archer is lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in the Department of English Literature, Aberystwyth University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, where she spent four years as AHRC postdoctoral Research Fellow on the John Nichols Project. She is co-editor of The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007),
and has published articles on Elizabethan and Jacobean masques, early modern women's receipt books, and alchemy in early modern literature. She is currently working on a book-length study of the relationship
between housewifery and natural philosophy in early modern literature. Dr. Elizabeth Clarke is Professor of English at the University of Warwick. She is author of Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997) and has just finished a study in versions of the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. She was director of the Perdita Project for early modern women's manuscripts and is currently directing a British Academy-funded project on the
life-writing of Elizabeth Isham (1608-1654). Dr. Elizabeth Goldring was a Research Fellow in the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and is now an Associate Fellow of both the Centre and
Warwick's History of Art Department. She is co-editor of two essay collections - The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and Performance (Ashgate, 2002) - and associate general editor of Europa Triumphans: Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2004). Other recent publications include articles in The British Art Journal,
The Burlington Magazine, and ELR: English Literary Renaissance. She was Consultant to English Heritage for the exhibition 'Queen and Castle: Robert Dudley's Kenilworth', which opened in 2006.