Well, the Jacobean court, but that's more or less the same thing -- you know those Stuarts. Anyway, another bit of trivia for you which amused me a great deal.
In 1618, the Venetian ambassador and his entourage attended a performance of Ben Jonson's masque Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and chaplain Orazio Busino was good enough to write about it
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