*p4atcourt Comment. *c4atcourt $Lady Mary Bertie= to $Katherine Noel=, 16 Feb. 1670@1: Here is no newes but that the grand Ballett is not to be danced till <i>Shrove-Munday</i> (<i>HMC, 12th Report</i>, Part V, Vol. II, p. 22). <i>The Bulstrode Papers</i>, 20 Feb. 1670@1: This evening was danced over the grand ballet at <i>Whitehall</i>, wherein the $Court= appeared in their greatest gallantry imaginable, and the time spent in songs, the chiefest dances and musicke the town could afford (I, 173). $Lady Mary Bertie=, 23 Feb. 1670@1: I was on Munday atcourt to see the grane ballett danced. It was so hard to get room that wee were forced to goe by four a clocke, though it did not begin till nine or ten. The [they (?)] were very richly [dressed] and danced very finely, and shifted their clothes three times. There was also fine musickes and excelent sing some new song made purpose for it (<i>HMC, 12th Appendix</i>, Part V, Vol. II, p. 22).