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John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources

Volume II: 1572 to 1578

Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth Goldring

Second volume in the definitive scholarly edition of a fascinating collection of texts relating to Elizabeth I's 'progresses' around England in the summer and at New Year - essential reading for all scholars of Elizabethan civilization
Includes accounts of the dramatic performances, orations, and poems written for the Queen, supplemented by eye-witness accounts of the Queen and her progresses, contemporary correspondence, details of the day-to-day running of the Court during the years from 1572 to 1578
Reliable transcriptions of important early modern texts - many of which are not available in modern editions - with up-to-date scholarly annotation and commentary
All foreign language material - Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, and Italian - is accompanied by specially-commissioned translations
Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white halftones and colour plates

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources

Volume II: 1572 to 1578

Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth Goldring

Description

John Nichols's The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth (1788-1823) has long been an indispensable reference tool for scholars working on Elizabethan court and culture - despite the serious limitations of an antiquarian edition now two centuries old. This old-spelling edition of the early modern materials contained in Nichols's Progresses is edited to high and consistent standards, and based on a critical re-examination of printed and manuscript sources. It is structured by a narrative of the two sets of annual progresses undertaken by Queen Elizabeth I: the 'summer progresses,' when Elizabeth travelled throughout southern England and the Midlands, visiting cities as far afield as Bristol, Coventry, Norwich, and Southampton; and the 'winter progresses,' when Elizabeth moved between her residences in and around London, including Richmond, Hampton Court, and Whitehall. New editions of the major progress entertainments - Kenilworth, Woodstock, Elvetham, Cowdray, Ditchley, and Harefield - are set alongside accounts of civic receptions, tilts and Accession Day entertainments, and non-dramatic texts, many of which have not been published since Nichols, including verses delivered by Eton scholars before the Queen (1563); John Lesley's Oratio (1574); Gabriel Harvey's Gratulationum Valdinensium (1578); and the Oxford and Cambridge verses on the death of Queen Elizabeth (1603). The editions are supported by translations of all non-English material, full scholarly annotation, illustrations, and maps. This will make John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources the most comprehensive collection of early modern texts pertaining to the court and culture of Queen Elizabeth.
Volume II of the edition covers the years from 1572 to 1578.

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources

Volume II: 1572 to 1578

Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth Goldring

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 September 1578
The Queen's visit to Sir Thomas Gresham at Osterley Park

John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources

Volume II: 1572 to 1578

Edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Clarke, and Elizabeth Goldring

Author Information

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 Reader in 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.

Contributors:

Contributors to the whole edition:

Simon Adams, Strathclyde University
Jayne Elisabeth Archer, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Richard Ashdowne
Margaret Beckett, retired
Jane Belfield
Martin Brooke, Sherborne School, Dorset
Elizabeth Clarke, University of Warwick
Patrick Collinson, Emeritus, University of Cambridge
Marie-Louise Coolahan, National University of Ireland, Galway
David J. Crankshaw, King's College London
H. Neville Davies, formerly University of Birmingham
Ingrid de Smet, University of Warwick
Faith Eales, University of Warwick
Alice Eardley, University of Warwick
Janet Fairweather, formerly University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Goldring, University of Warwick
Elizabeth Goldring, University of Warwick
Lawrence Green, University of Warwick
Paul E. J. Hammer, University of St. Andrews
Gabriel Heaton , Sotheby's
Felicity Henderson, Royal Society of London
Emma Herdman, University of Oxford
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University
Jill Husselby, freelance historian
Sarah Knight, University of Leicester
William Leahy, Brunel University
Elisabeth Leedham-Green, University of Cambridge
Margaret Midgley, University of Warwick
David K. Money, University of Cambridge
Victoria Moul, University of Oxford
Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby, York University, Toronto
David Parrott, University of Oxford
Julian Pooley, University of Leicester
Lynn Robson, University of Oxford
Sarah Ross, Massey University, New Zealand
Carol Chillington Rutter, University of Warwick
Alexander Samson, University College, London
Jason Scott-Warren, University of Cambridge
Helen Spurling, University of Cambridge
Dana F. Sutton, University of California at Irvine
Michael Ullyot, University of Calgary
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, University of Oxford
Gillian White, freelance lecturer
Philip Withington, University of Leeds
Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia