John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume II: 1572 to 1578(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 II covers the years from 1572 to 1578.

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.