Viewing Event Record: The Gentlemen of the Four Inns may not perform a joint masque, but the Gentlemen of Gray's Inn will do just as well: Bacon to Burghley

Sir Francis Bacon writes to Lord Burghley. He apologizes that the projected 'joynt maske' by the Gentlemen of the Four Inns has failed, but notes that the Gray's Inn is 'well furnyshed of galant yowng gentlemen.' He proposes instead a masque featuring 'a dozen gentlemen of Graies Inne.'