John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume I: 1533 to 1571(John Nichols's ^IThe Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth^R)

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 I covers the years from 1533 to 1571.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Contents List of illustrations List of maps Abbreviations and conventions General Introduction The childhood and early years of Princess Elizabeth, 1533-53 Articles relating to the reign and execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1553-54 Articles relating to Princess Elizabeth, circa 1555-58 Tournament at Westminster, 1558 The coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth, 14 January 1559 The coronation of Queen Elizabeth I A tournament and Queen Elizabeth's first Parliament, January - February 1559 Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, April - July 1559 Charges for dinners, 1 - 3 July 1559 Payments for setting fourth of xii men to the Queenes Majestie hyr muster Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, July - December 1559 Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, January - April 1560 Queen Elizabeth's grant about singing men at Windsor, 8 March 1560 Letter from the Lord Admiral to William Cecil, 13 July 1560 The Queen's progress, July - September 1560 Letter from Francis Alen to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 3 September 1560 Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, February - July 1561 The Progress into Essex, Suffolk, and Hertfordshire, July - September 1561 Proclamation concerning married clergy, 9 August 1561 The Duke of Norfolk's feast at Norwich, 1561 Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, September - November 1561 Grand Christmas at the Inner Temple, December 1561 - January 1562 New Year's gift roll, 1 January 1562 Extracts from Strype's Annals of the Reformation, January - February 1562 Letter from the Queen to Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, 16 June 1562 The Queen's second Parliament, January 1563 The Queen at Northampton, 1563 Verses addressed to the Queen at Windsor by Eton scholars, 19 September 1563 Plague in London, 1562 - 63 Patents awarded to William Humphrey and Christopher Shutz, 1563 Draft proclamation relating to persons making portraits of the Queen, 6 December 1563 Extract from Holinshed's Chronicles, April 1564 Extracts from Burghley's memoranda, 7 June - 27 July 1564 Queen Elizabeth at the University of Cambridge, 5 - 10 August 1564 Robert Dudley's creation as Earl of Leicester, 29 September 1564 Extract from Holinshed, Chronicles, 2 October 1564 Extract from the diary of William Cecil, August 1565 Visit of Christopher, Margrave of Baden-Baden, September 1565 Marriage of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and Anne Russell, 11 November 1565 Letter from Francis Alen to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 December 1565 Christmas at Westminster, December 1565 Extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, January - April 1566 Letter from Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 1 April 1566 Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, June - August 1566 Queen Elizabeth at Coventry and Kenilworth, 17 - 22 August 1566 The Queen at Kenilworth, 19 - 22 August 1566 Queen Elizabeth's visit to the University of Oxford, 31 August - 6 September 1566 Queen Elizabeth in Rycot, 6 September 1566 Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, August - September 1567 Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, July - August 1568 Letter from Lord Herries to Queen Elizabeth, 19 August 1568 Letter from William Cecil to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 9 April 1569 Letter from Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, to the Parson of Downham, 12 July 1569 Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, 27 July - 3 August 1569 The proposed marriage of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, and the Duke of Norfolk, August-September 1569 The Mayor of Coventry removed from office, 8 September 1569 Letter from the Queen to the Aldermen and Recorder of Coventry, 8 September 1569 Letter from the Queen to the Earl of Huntingdon, 22 September 1569 Warrant for pulling down the Earl of Northumberland's hatchments at Windsor, 26 November 1569 Letter from the Queen to Lord Hunsdon, 26 February 1570 Extracts from the diary of William Cecil, April - August 1570 Letter to the Countess of Shrewsbury, 31 August 1570 Celebrations for the safety of the Queen and realm, 17 November 1570 Extracts from Holinshed's Chronicles, January - June 1571 The challenge of the four knights errant, May 1571 The Queen's progress, August - September 1571 The Queen's reception at Saffron Walden, 27 August 1571 The Queen at Theobalds, 22 September 1571 Extracts from Stow and Howes, The Annales, 9 November 1571 The Queen's health, December 1571 - March 1572

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.