Event Comment: [
The edition of 1662 suggests that t
his 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 (Grandes), 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 t
his 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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