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, & o
ther 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 o
ther 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 o
ther officers (
Shakespeare Quarterly, XI [1960], 494)
Performances
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