1635 the young Gentleman resolved wyth his fictitous lord counsellors upon an intertaynement for his Highness at a supper and maske whereof were placed divers gentlewomen of different condition, the Queene come thither of herself without invitation and placed (promiscuously) amongst others together with the Lady Marquis Hamelton, her mother the lady Denbigh, the Countess of Holland, and the Countess of denbighs unmaryed daughter, all [disguised] under a disguised habit of Citizens wyves with hatts on, and so conducted in by a Semster cittizen as their companion but all theyre faces bare, yet with pretence [notwithstanding] not to be known in that disguyse, no more than that Byrd, which thrusting her head into a Bushe is saide then to think all her body hidn, at the Inns of Court
Entry:
pp. 270-80
INN OF COURT
1633-4
Bulstrode Whitelocke’s ‘Annals’ BL: Additional MS 53276
ff 104-5*
Volume:
Records of Early English Drama: Inns of Court. Edited by Alan H. Nelson and John R. Elliott, Jr. 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.