Event Comment: 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
Shrove-Munday (
HMC, 12th Report, Part V, Vol. II, p. 22).
The Bulstrode Papers, 20 Feb. 1670@1: This evening was danced over the grand ballet at
Whitehall, 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 (
HMC, 12th Appendix, Part V, Vol. II, p. 22)