John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton, 25 February 1612/13, with news of the masques and celebrations in honour of Princess Elizabeth's marriage to the Prince Palatine. The indoor entertainments were well received, he writes, and particularly the masques presented by the Inns of Court (15 and 20 February), which altogether cost the templars more than 4000l. The Gentlemen of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn were not discouraged by their failed first attempt (ie the last-minute cancellation of their masque planned for 16 February), but performed on Saturday to great applause. The king invited the masquers and their assistants – forty in all – to a dinner the following night (21 February), and managed to avoid paying for it by holding a running at the ring between his company and the Prince and his followers, who each paid 30l to take part. The royal family sat at a table by themselves, and the masquers at another, so there was no room at the feast for those who had paid for it; the young Lady Rich, Chamberlain gossips, was not pleased to see her husband – one of the Prince's followers – get nothing for his money. Three ambassadors – the French, Venetian, and the Netherlandish – attended the wedding and shows (14–20 February), but the Spanish ambassador claimed illness, and the Archduke's ambassador – apparently offended by having been invited only to the second day – declined. Chamberlain reports that none of the guests were entirely pleased by the affair, but that everyone was upset on some point.