Ebook The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare

On the 10th Jan. 1634-5, a Privy Seal was issued to Edmund Taverner, Esq., to enable him to receive a larger sum than we have yet seen paid at once on account of any Mask at Court: it was for 1400l. 'towards the charge of a mask, to be presented before his Majesty at Whitehall at Shrovetide next.' Sir H. Herbert says nothing of this performance; his MS. (as far as Malone has quoted it) for the year beginning Jan. 1st, 1634-5, being occupied chiefly with an account of the establishment of a company of French players in London.