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A05046	A letter whearin part of the entertainment vntoo the Queenz Maiesty at Killingwoorth Castl in Warwik sheer in this soomerz progress 1575 is signified / from a freend officer attendant in coourt vntoo hiz freend a citizen and merchaunt of London.	Laneham, Robert, 16th cent.	1575 (1575)	STC 15190.5; ESTC S2762	36,268	90

A LETTER Whearin part of the entertainment vntoo the Queenz Maiesty at Killing woorth Castl in warwik Sheer in this soomerz Progress ▪ 1575. iz signified from a freend officer attendant in Coourt vntoo hiz fréend a Citizen and Merchaunt of London DE REGINA NOSTRA ILLVSTRISSIMA Dum lamita ruant vicina ab Regina tumultu Laeta suos inter genialibus ILLA diebus Gratia Dijs fruitur Rumpantur et ilia Codro Vntoo my good freend Master Humfrey Martin Mercer AFter my harty commendacionz I commend me hartely too yoo Understand ye that syns throogh God and good fréends I am placed at Coourt héer as ye wot in a woorshipfull room Whearby I am not only acquainted with the most and well knoen too the best and euery officer glad of my company but also haue poour a dayz while the Councell sits not to go and too see things sight woorthy and too be prezēt at any sheaw or spectacl ●ny whear this Progress reprezented vntoo her highnes And of part of which sportez ▪ ●auing takin sum notez and obseruationz for I can not be idl at ony hand in the world azwel too put fro me suspicion of sluggardy az too pluk frō yoo doout of ony my forgetfulnes of fréendship I haue thought it meet to impart them vntoo yoo az frankly az fréendly ▪ and az fully az I can Well wot ye the blak Prins waz neuer stained with disloyaltée of ingratitude toward ony I dare be his warrant hee wyll not begyn with yoo that hath at hiz hand so déeply dezerued But héerin the better for conceyuing of my minde and instruction of yoors ye must gyue my leaue a littl az well to preface vntoo my matter az too discoors sumwhat of Kylling woorth Castl A Territory of the right honorabl my singular good Lord my Lord the Earl of Leyceter of whooincomparabl cheering and enterteynment thear vnto her Maiesty noow I wil sheaw yoo a part heer that coold not sée all nor had I seen all coold well report y half Whear thinges for the parsons for 〈◊〉 place tyme cost deuis●z straungnes and aboundauns of all that euer I sawe and yet haue I been what vnder my Master Bumsted and what on my oun ▪ affayrs while I occupied Merchaundyze both in Frauns and Flaunders long and many a day I saw none ony whear so memorabl I tell you playn The Castl-hath name of Kylling woorth but of truth groounded vpon feythfull story Kenelwoorth It stonds in Warwykshyre a lxxiiii myle northwest from London and az it wear in the Nauell of Englande foure mile sum what South from Couen●ree a proper Cittee and a like distauns from Warwyk a fayre Shyre Tooun on the North In ayr sweet and hollsum rayzed on an eazy moounted hil iz set eeuenly coasted with the froont straight intoo the East hath the tenaunts Tooun about it that pleazauntly shyfts from dale too hill sundry whear with sweet springs bursting foorth and iz so plentifully well sorted on euery side intoo arabl meado pasture wood water good ayrz az it appeerz to haue need of nothing that may perteyn too liuing or pleazure Too auantage hath it hard on the West still noorisht with many liuely springs a goodly Pool of rare beuty bredth length deapth and store of all kinde freshwaterfish delicat great fat and also of wyldfooul byside By a rare situacion and natural amitee séemz this Pool conioynd to the Castlz that on the West layz the hed az it wear vpon the Castls boozom embraceth it on eyther side Soouth and North with both the armz settlz it self az in a reach a flightshoot brode stretching foorth body legs amile or too Westward between a faire Parke on the one side which by the Brayz is linked too the Castl on the South sprinkled at the entrauns with a feaw Coonyez that for coolur and smallnes of number séem too be sufferd more for pleasure then cōmoditée And on the oother side North and West a goodly Chase wast wide large and full of red Deer oother stately gamez for hunting beautified with many delectabl fresh vmbragioous Boowerz arberz seatz wallks that with great art cost diligens wear very pleazauntly appointed which also the natural grace by the tall and fresh fragrant tréez soil did so farfoorth commend az Diana her self might haue deyned thear well inough too raunge for her pastime The leaft arm of this Pool Northward had my Lorde adoourned with a beautifull bracelet of a fayr tymberd bridge that iz of a .xiiii. foot wide and a six hunderd foot long railed al on both sidez strongly planked for passage reaching from the Chase too the Castl that thus in the midst hath cléer prospect ouer théez pleazurze on y bakpart and forward ouer all the Tooun mooch of the Cuntrée beside Héertoo a speciall commoditee at hand of sundry quarreiz of large bylding stone the goodnes whearof may the eazlyer be iudged in the bylding and aunciently of the Castl that az by the name by storiez well may be gatherd waz fyrst reared by Kenulph and hiz yoong sun and successor Kenelm born both indéed within the Ream héer but yet of the race of Saxons and reigned kings of Marchlond frō the yéer of oour Lord .798 ▪ too 23 ▪ yéerz toogyther abooue 770 yéer ago Although the Castl hath one auncient strong and large Kéep that iz calld Cezarz Toour rather az I haue good cauz too think for that it iz square and by foormed after the maner of Cezarz Fortz then that euer he bylt it Nay noow I am a littl in Master Martin I le tell ye all This Marchlond that Storyerz call Mercia iz numbred in their books the foourth of the seauen Kyngdoms that the Saxons had whilom heer diuided among them in the Ream Began in Ann. Domi. 616 139. yéer after Horsus and Engist continued in the race of a 17 kings a 249. yeer togyther and eended in Ann. 875. Reized from the rest sayz the book at fyrst by Pendaz prezumption ouerthroun at last by Buthreds Hascardy and so fell too the kyngdoom of the West Saxons And Marchlond had in it London Mildelsex heerin a Bishoprik Had more of Shyrez Gloceter Woorceter and Warwik and heerin a Bishoprik Chester that noow we call Chesshyre Darby and Stafford whervntoo one Bishop that had also part of Warwyk Shreusbery and hiz See at Couentree that waz then aforetyme at Lychfeeld Heertoo Hereford wherin a Bishoprik that had more too iurisdiction half Shreusbury part of Warwyk and also of Gloceter and the See at Hereford Also had Oxford Buckingham Hertford Huntyngdon and ●alf of Bed●ord and too theez Norhampton part of Lecyter and also Lincoln whear vnto a Bisshop whooz Sée at Lincoln Cittee that s●mtime before waz at Dorchester Heertoo the rest of Leyceter in Nottingham that of olld had a speciall Bishop whooz Sée waz at Leyceter but after

a library for theez Sciencez and az many goodly Monumens both in proze poetry and at afternoouz can tallk az mooch withoout book az ony Inhollder betwixt Brainford and Bagshot what degrée so euer he be Biside this in the field a good marshall at musterz of very great credit trust in the tooun héer for he haz béen chozē Alecunner many a yeer when hiz betterz haue stond by and euer quited himself with such estimacion az yettoo for tast of a cup of Nippitate hiz iudgment will be taken abooue the best in y parish be hiz noze near so red Captain Cox cam marching on valiauntly before cléen trust garterd abooue the knee all fresh in a velluet cap master Golldingam lent it him floorishing with hiz tonswoord and anoother fensmaster with him thus in the foreward makyng room for the rest And after them prooudly prickt on formost the danish launsknights on horsbak and then the English each with theyr allder poll martially in theyr hand Eeuen at the first enfree the meeting waxt sum what warm that by by kindled with coorage abothsidez gru from a hot skirmish vnto a blazing battayl first by spear shéeld ooutragioous in their racez az ramz at their rut with furious encoounterz that toogyther they tumbl too the dust sumtime hors man and after fall too it with sword target good bangz a both sidez the fight so ceassing but the battayl not so ended folloed the footmen both the hostez ton after toother fyrst marching in ranks then warlik turning then from ranks intoo squadrons then in too trianglz from that intoo rings and so wynding oout again A valiaunt captayn of great proowes az fiers az a fox assauting a gooz was so hardy too gyue the fyrst stroke then get they grizly together that great waz the actiuitée that day too be séen thear a both sidez ton very eager for purchas of pray toother vtterly stoout for redemcion of liberty thus quarell enflamed fury aboth sidez Twise the Danes had the better but at the last conflict beaten doown ouercom and many led captiue for triumph by our English wéemen This waz the effect of this sheaw that az it waz handled made mooth matter of good pastime brought all indéed intoo the great coourt éen vnder her highnes windo too haue béen séen but az vnhappy it waz for the bryde that cam thyther too soon yet waz it a four a clok For ●er highnes behollding in the chamber delectabl dauncing indéed and héerwith the great throng vnruliness of the peopl waz cauz that this solemnitée of Brydeale dauncing had not the full muster waz hoped for and but a littl of the Couentrée plea her highnes allso saw commaunded thearfore on the Tuisday followyng too haue it ful oout az accordingly az waz prezented whearat her Maiesty laught well they wear the iocunder and so mooch the more becauz her highnes had gyuen them too bucks fiue mark in mony too make mery togyther They prayd for her Maiesty long happily too reign and off too cum thither that they mought sée her and what reioycing vpon their ampl rewardand what triūphing vpon the good acceptauns they vaunted their play waz neuer so dignified nor euer any players afore so beatified Thus though the day took an ●end yet slipt not the night all sléeping awey for az neyther offis nor obsequy ceassed at any tyme too the full to perfoorm the plot hiz honor had appoynted So after supper waz thear a play prezented of a very good theam but so set foorth by the Actoourz well handling that pleazure mirth made it seeme very short though it lasted too good oourz more But stay master Martyn all iz not doon yet After the play oout of hand folloed a most delicioouz and if I may so terme it an Ambrosiall Banket whearof whither I myght more muze at the deintyness shapez the cost or els at the varietée and number of the disshez that wear a three hundred for my part I coold littl tel them and noow less I assure yoo Her maiesty eat smally or nothing which vnderstood the coorsez wear not so orderly serued sizely set dooun but wear by and by az disorderly wasted and coorsly consumed more courtly me thought then curteously But that waz no part of the matter moought it pleaz be like doo that it cam for then waz all well inoough Untoo this banket thear waz appoint●d a mask for riches of arry of an in●redibl cost but the tyme so far spent and very late in the night noow● waz cauz that it cam not foorth too the sheaw And thus for Sondayz seazon hauing stayd yoo the lenger accordyng too the matter hee● make I an eend ye may breath yea while Munday the eyghteenth of this Iuly the weather being hot her highnes kept the Castl for coolness till aboout fiue a clok her Maiesty in the Chase hunted the hart az afore of fo rs that whyther wear it by the cunning of the hunsmen or by the naturall desyre of the Deer or els by both anon he gat hym too soyl again which reyzed the accstumed delight a pastyme indeed so intyerly pleazaunt az whearof at times whoo may haue the full and frée fruition can find no more sacietée I wéen for a recreation then of theyr good viaundes at timez for their sustentacion Well the game waz gotten and her highnes returning cam thear vppon aswymming Mermayd that from top too tayl waz an eyghteen foot long Triton Neptunes blaster whoo with hiz trumpet foormed of a wrinkld weald az her Maiesty waz in sight gaue soound very shrill sonoroous in sign he had an ambassy too pronoouns anon her highnes waz cummen vpon the bridge whearunto he made hiz fish to swim the swifter and hy then declared how the supream salsipotent Monarch Neptune the great God of the swelling Seaz Prins of profunditees and Soouerain Segnior of all Lakez freshwaterz Riuerz Créekes and Goolphs vnderstanding hoow a cruell knight one Syr Brose sauns pitée a mortall enmy vntoo ladiez of estate had long lyen aboout the banks of this pooll in wayt with hiz bands héer too distress the lady of the lake whearby she hath béen restrained not only frō hauing any vse of her auncient liberty territoriez in theez parts but also of making repayr geuing attēdauns vntoo yoo nobl Quéen ꝙ he az she woold she promist and allso shoold dooth thearfore signify and héerto of yoo az of his good leag and déer fréend make this request that ye will deyn but too sheaw yoor parson toward this pool whearby yoor only prezens shall be matter sufficient of abandoning this vncurtess knight and putting all his bands too flight and also of deliuerauns of the lady oout of this thralldom Moouing heer with from the bridge fleeting more intoo the pool chargeth he in Neptunes name both Eolus with all his