Notes
1. British Library, Ms. Egerton 2598, fol. 82r.
2. The Derby Household Books, ed. Raines, F. R. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1853), p. 65.
3. Chambers, Edmund K., The Elizabethan Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951 [1923]), II, 111.
Cf. also Chambers, ' William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930), I, p. 35: ‘Perhaps [the Queen's men] never visited Scotland, as a projected royal wedding was deferred.’ The question of the visit is of special interest in view of the possibility that Shakespeare was at that time a member of the Queen's company. For a recent discussion of the theory that the young Shakespeare belonged in December 1589 to the Earl of Pembroke's troupe, and that that organization was one of two companies into which the Queen's men had split in the late 1580s, see my paper on ‘The Origin and Personnel of the Pembroke Company’, Theatre Research International, V (1979), pp. 48–68.
4. British Library, Ms. Cotton Caligula D. I. fol. 408r; the right-hand edge of the manuscript has been damaged by fire. An abbreviated modernized version of this paragraph appeared in The Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland, ed. Boyd, W. K. (Edinburgh, 1898 + ), X, pp. 179–80.
5. Shortly after October, while James was abroad, Bothwell began plotting, with the aid of witchcraft, to procure the king's death; his machinations are described in the anonymous tract Newes from Scotland (London, 1591) and in King James's treatise on Daemonologie (Edinburgh, 1597); both works were reprinted in one volume by G. B. Harrison (London: John Lane, 1924). For a discussion of the possible reflection of the Bothwell affair in Shakespeare's Scottish play, see my paper ‘Witchcraft and Politics in Macbeth’ in the forthcoming centenary volume of the Folklore Society.
6. Stowe, John, A Survey of London (1603), ed. Kingsford, C. L. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1908]), I, p. 166.
7. See Withington, Robert, English Pageantry: An Historical Outline (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1918), I, pp. 182, 191, 202; Hayward, John, Annals of Queen Elizabeth, cited by Jenkins, Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Great (New York: Coward-McCann, 1959), pp. 66–7. The royal canoneers were probably in Edinburgh again when Charles I was crowned there in 1633, since the king's progress along High Street was accompanied by peals of ordnance from the Castle (Withington, , Pageantry, p. 237).
8. See Pinciss, G. M., ‘The Queen's Men, 1583–92’, Theatre Survey, XI (1970), pp. 57–8: ‘It is doubtful that the actors ever performed before the man who was to become the next ruler of England, for his marriage festivities in Scotland were considerably delayed.’
9. The Queen's players performed before the English Court on 26 December 1589; see Chambers, , Eliz. Stage, IV, p. 163.
