Event Comment: [The edition of 1662 suggests that this was a ballet, the text offering description or synopses of the entries. Edition of 1662: Being part of that Magnificent Entertainment by the Noble
Prince,
DelaGrange, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolns Inn. Presented to the High
and Mighty
Charles II, Monarch of
Great Britain,
France and Ireland. On Friday 3 of January 1662.
Evelyn, Diary: After Prayers I went to
Lond: invited to the solemn foolerie of the
Prince de la Grange at Lincolne Inn: where came also
the King,
Duke, &c.: beginning with a
grand Masquev
and a formal Pleading before the mock-
princes (Gr
andes), Nobles & Knights of the Sunn: He had his
L. Chancelor,
Chamberlaine, Treasurer, & other royal officers gloriously clad & attended, which ended in a magnificent Banquet: one
Mr John? Lort, being the young spark, who maintained the Pageantrie.
Pepys, Diary: While I was there, comes by the King's life-guard, he being gone to
Lincoln's Inn this afternoon to see the Revells there; there being, according to an old custom, a
prince and all his nobles
and other matters of sport
and charge.
John Ward (notebooks, 6 Jan.): I saw a Leopard
and the same day as strange a sight which was the mock
prince of Lincolnes' Inne his Nobels his
Knights of the Garter and his other officers (
Shakespeare Quarterly, XI [1960], 494)