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- ↑ Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1998), 93.
- ↑ Janet Arnold, 'Sweet England's Jewels', Anna Somers Cocks, Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels of the Renaissance (London, 1980), p. 30.
- ↑ Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich, The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment (Cambridge, 2016), p. 79: Mark Netzloff, Agents Beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 2020), p. 143.
- ↑ Maurice Howard, The Buildings of Elizabethan and Jacobean England (Yale, 2007), p. 132.
- ↑ Martin Wiggins & Catherine Richardson, British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue, vol. 3 (Oxford, 2013), pp. 199-200: John Nichols, Progresses of Elizabeth, vol. 3 (London, 1823), pp. 168-172
- ↑ William Leahy, Elizabethan Triumphal Processions (Ashgate, 2008), p. 139.
- ↑ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 462.