John Chamberlain writes to Alice Carleton. The gentlemen of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn presented a masque Monday night in 'the hall at court' as part of the celebrations for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Palatine. Chamberlain describes the spectacle: 'They had forty gentlemen of best choise out of both houses rode before them in theyre best array, upon the Kings horses: and the twelve maskers with theyre torch-bearers and pages rode likewise upon horses excedingly well trapped and furnished: besides a dousen litle boyes, dresst like babones that served for an antimaske, (and they say performed yt exceedingly well when they came to yt), and three open chariots drawne with fowre horses a peece that caried theyre musicians, and other personages that had parts to speake: all which together with theyre trumpetters and other attendants were so well set out, that yt is generally held for the best shew that hath ben seen many a day.'
| Name | Event Role(s) | Document Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Stuart, James I | beneficiary | |
| Phelips, Edward | beneficiary | |
| Carleton, Alice | bride | |
| Stuart, Elizabeth | bridegroom | |
| Chamberlain, John | correspondent |