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and his Lady, the Lady Warwick, the Earl of 

 Leicester, the Lord Admiral, the Lady Howard, the 

 Lord Hunsdon, Mr. Secretary Walsingham, the Lady 

 Stafford, Mr. Hennage, Mrs. Drewrey, the Ladies 

 and Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, Mrs. Abbing- 

 ton, the Maids of Honour, Sir George Howard, 

 the Captain of the Guard, the Grooms of the 

 Privy Chamber, the Esquires of the Body, the 

 Gentlemen Ushers, the Royal Physicians, the Keeper 

 of the Queen's Robes, the Groom Porter, the Clerk of 

 the Kitchen, and "the Wardrobe of the Bedes." 

 Bowyer s difficulties now commenced : " For the Queen's 

 Wayghters, I cannot as yet fynde anye convenyent 

 romes to place them in, but I will doo the best y' I can 

 to place them elsewher but yf y' please you S"", y' I doo 

 remove them. The Gromes of the Privye Chamber 

 nor Mr. Drewrye have no other waye to their Cham- 

 bers but to pass throwe that waye agayne that my 

 Lady of Oxford should come. I cannot then tell 

 wher to place Mr. Hatton, and for my Lady Carewe 

 here is no place with a chimney for her but that must 

 ley abrode by Mrs. Aparry and the rest of the 

 Privye Chambers. For Mrs. Shelton here is no romes 

 with chymeneys ; I shall staye [keep] one chamber 

 without for her. Here is as mutche as I have any 

 wayes able to doo in this house." * The description 

 reads like the festivities at Windsor Castle durinof an 

 Ascot week in the reign of George IV. 



In April, 1585, the queen, accompanied by a 

 brilliant retinue, attended the races at Croydon, when 



* Nichols, " Progress of Queen Elizabeth," vol. i., pp. 385, 386. 



