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'''Sir Thomas Cawarden''' (died 25 August 1559) of [[Bletchingley]], [[Nonsuch Park]] and [[East Horsley]] ([[Surrey]]) was [[Master of the Revels]] to [[Henry VIII of England]], [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]], and [[Mary I of England|Mary I]].
'''Sir Thomas Cawarden''' (died 25 August 1559) of [[Bletchingley]], [[Nonsuch Park]] and [[East Horsley]] ([[Surrey]]) was [[Master of the Revels]] to [[Henry VIII]], [[Edward VI]], and [[Mary I of England|Mary I]].


==Background==
==Background==
Thomas was the son of William Cawarden, a [[Fulling|cloth-fuller]] and citizen of London. In 1528, he was apprenticed to a [[Mercery|mercer]] in London, Owen Hawkins.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), 601.</ref> By 1542, Thomas Cawarden had married. His wife's first name was Elizabeth; her surname is unknown.<ref>{{Harvnb|Robison|2004}}</ref>
Thomas was the son of William Cawarden, a [[Fulling|cloth-fuller]] and citizen of London. In 1528, he was apprenticed to a [[Mercery|mercer]] in London, Owen Hawkins.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), 601.{{full citation needed|date=March 2023}}</ref> By 1542, Thomas Cawarden had married. His wife's first name was Elizabeth; her surname is unknown.{{sfn|Robison|2008}}


==Career==
==Career==
In 1542 and 1547 he was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Bletchingley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bletchingley]] which did not have [[town status in the United Kingdom|town status]] and had a smaller [[forty shilling freeholder]] electorate than the average of the time, poor enough to be challenged in the courts in 1614.<ref>Maija Jansson (ed.), ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)'' (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9GqTX0uoT8C&pg=PR9&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=UkEf4ZrrR7tKn1fYUF0yU1YkPwc#PPR5,M1]</ref>
In 1542 and 1547 he was elected [[member of parliament]] for [[Bletchingley (UK Parliament constituency)|Bletchingley]] which did not have [[town status in the United Kingdom|town status]] and had a smaller [[forty-shilling freeholders|forty-shilling freeholder]] electorate than the average of the time, poor enough to be challenged in the courts in 1614.<ref>Maija Jansson (ed.), [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9GqTX0uoT8C&pg=PR9 ''Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons)''] (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)</ref>


In 1544 Sir Thomas Cawarden received a patent as [[Master of Revels|Master of Revels and Tents]], becoming the first head of an independent office and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] at [[Boulogne]] in September of that year. Tents were provided for festivals, royal progresses, and in military expeditions. In July and August 1547, Cawarden provided 'hales', 'roundhouses', and a kitchen tent for the mission to Scotland during the war of the [[Rough Wooing]] which culminated in the [[Battle of Pinkie Cleugh|Battle of Pinkie]].<ref>Starkey, David, ed., ''The Inventory of Henry VIII'', Society of Antiquaries, (1998), pp. 171-172.</ref> Cawarden paid for the tents which had been 'wetted in the shippe' to be dried and put away on their return.<ref>Kempe, ''The Loseley Manuscripts'', (1836), p. 104,</ref>
In 1544 Sir Thomas Cawarden received a patent as [[Master of the Revels|Master of Revels and Tents]], becoming the first head of an independent office and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] at [[Boulogne]] in September of that year. Tents were provided for festivals, royal progresses, and in military expeditions. In July and August 1547, Cawarden provided 'hales', 'roundhouses', and a kitchen tent for the mission to Scotland during the war of the [[Rough Wooing]] which culminated in the [[Battle of Pinkie]].{{sfn|Starkey|1998|pp=171–172}} Cawarden paid for the tents which had been 'wetted in the shippe' to be dried and put away on their return.{{sfn|Kempe|1836|p=104}}


[[Lady Jane Grey]] as queen requested tents on 19 July 1553. On 1 January 1559 Mary I ordered her officers to collect arms and armour from Cawarden's house to counter [[Wyatt's rebellion]]. Seventeen wagon loads were taken.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), pp. 610, 614-615.</ref> The patent also allowed him to keep 40 armed and liveried servants at [[Bletchingley]] Castle or Palace.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), 597.</ref>
[[Lady Jane Grey]] as queen requested tents on 19 July 1553. On 1 January 1559 Mary I ordered her officers to collect arms and armour from Cawarden's house to counter [[Wyatt's rebellion]]. Seventeen wagon loads were taken.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), pp. 610, 614–615.{{full citation needed|date=March 2023}}</ref> The patent also allowed him to keep 40 armed and liveried servants at [[Bletchingley]] Castle or Palace.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), 597.{{full citation needed|date=March 2023}}</ref>


Soon after his appointment, the revels office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[monastery]] at [[Blackfriars, London|Blackfriars]], having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the [[London Charterhouse]], and then at the [[priory]] of [[St. John of Jerusalem]] in [[Priory of Clerkenwell|Clerkenwell]], to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
Soon after his appointment, the revels office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[monastery]] at [[Blackfriars, London|Blackfriars]], having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the [[London Charterhouse]], and then at the [[priory]] of [[St. John of Jerusalem]] in [[Clerkenwell Priory|Clerkenwell]], to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}


He was appointed [[High Sheriff of Surrey]] and [[High Sheriff of Sussex|Sussex]] for 1547–48, keeper of Hampton Court in 1550 and joint [[Lieutenant of the Tower of London]] (with Sir Edward Warner) in Nov-Dec 1558.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
He was appointed [[High Sheriff of Surrey]] and [[High Sheriff of Sussex|Sussex]] for 1547–48, keeper of Hampton Court in 1550 and joint [[Lieutenant of the Tower of London]] (with Sir Edward Warner) in November–December 1558.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}


Cawarden formally obtained [[Bletchingley]], which had been the home of [[Anne of Cleves]], on 7 April 1547.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KlBIAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s Ellis, Henry, 'Extracts from the Proceedings of the Privy Council, in ''Archaeologia or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to Antiquity'', vol. 18, Society of Antiquaries, (1817), 131-132]</ref> He was also keeper of the house and gardens of [[Nonsuch Palace]] from 1543 to November 1556. Between 1547 and 1559 he was four times elected [[knight of the shire]] for [[Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)|Surrey]].
Cawarden formally obtained Bletchingley, which had been the home of [[Anne of Cleves]], on 7 April 1547.<ref>[[Henry Ellis (diplomat)|Ellis, Henry]], [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KlBIAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s "Extracts from the Proceedings of the Privy Council"], in ''Archaeologia or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to Antiquity'', vol. 18, Society of Antiquaries, (1817), 131–132</ref> He was also keeper of the house and gardens of [[Nonsuch Palace]] from 1543 to November 1556. Between 1547 and 1559 he was four times elected [[knight of the shire]] for [[Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)|Surrey]].


In 1551 Cawarden built a banqueting house in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] with Lawrence Bradshaw, surveyor of works. Cawarden was in charge of the interior decoration by the [[Serjeant Painter|painters Antony Toto and John Leades]].<ref>Colvin, Howard, ed., ''History of the King's Works,'' vol. 4 part 2, HMSO, (1982), 30-31, 57.</ref> This by 1556 had been largely superseded by his own Banqueting House at [[Nonsuch Park]] close to the original [[Nonsuch Palace]], at the foot of the [[North Downs]] which he had been granted in 1547 by King Edward ("a messuage and lands in the manor of Nonsuch alias Cuddington") to hold for 21 years for a rent of [[pound sterling|£5 5s. 8d]] {{inflation|UK|5.28|1547|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}.<ref name=m>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42965 |title=Parishes: Cuddington |editor=H.E. Malden |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1911 |work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |access-date=25 October 2013 }}</ref>
In 1551 Cawarden built a banqueting house in [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] with Lawrence Bradshaw, surveyor of works. Cawarden was in charge of the interior decoration by the [[Serjeant Painter|painters Antony Toto and John Leades]].<ref>[[Howard Colvin|Colvin, Howard]], ed., ''History of the King's Works,'' vol. 4 part 2, HMSO, (1982), 30–31, 57.</ref> This by 1556 had been largely superseded by his own Banqueting House at [[Nonsuch Park]] close to the original Nonsuch Palace, at the foot of the [[North Downs]] which he had been granted in 1547 by King Edward ("a messuage and lands in the manor of Nonsuch alias Cuddington") to hold for 21 years for a rent of [[pound sterling|£5 5s. 8d]] {{inflation|UK|5.28|1547|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}.<ref name=m>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42965 |title=Parishes: Cuddington |editor=[[Henry Elliot Malden|H. E. Malden]]|publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1911 |work=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 |access-date=25 October 2013 }}</ref>


Cawarden died at [[East Horsley]] on 25 August 1559. His body was taken to Bletchingley. A brass plate intended for Thomas Cawarden's monument was found at [[Loseley Park]], the home of his executor, Sir William More, in the 19th century.<ref>Kempe (1836), 18.</ref>
Cawarden died at [[East Horsley]] on 25 August 1559. His body was taken to Bletchingley. A brass plate intended for Thomas Cawarden's monument was found at [[Loseley Park]], the home of his executor, Sir William More, in the 19th century.{{sfn|Kempe|1836|p=18}} Cawarden was succeeded as Master of the Revels by Sir [[Thomas Benger]].
Cawarden was succeeded as Master of the Revels by Sir [[Thomas Benger]].


== The Loseley Manuscripts ==
== Loseley manuscripts ==
Thomas Cawarden's official papers survived at his executor's descendants' house at [[Loseley Park|Loseley]]. These were moved into public collections. A catalogue of the papers in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] collection is available on-line. Other revels papers are available to study at the [[National Archives, Kew]], and the Surrey Record Office, [[Woking]]. Extracts from the papers were first published by Alfred Kempe in 1836, and by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1879.
Thomas Cawarden's official papers survived at his executor's descendants' house at Loseley Park. These were moved into public collections. A catalogue of the papers in the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]] collection is available on-line. Other revels papers are available to study at the [[National Archives, Kew]], and the Surrey Record Office, [[Woking]]. Extracts from the papers were first published by [[Alfred John Kempe|Alfred Kempe]] in 1836, and by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1879.


== Inventory of the revels costume and royal tents ==
== Inventory of the revels costume and royal tents ==
An inventory was made of the costumes kept by Thomas Cawarden as Master of Revels.<ref>David Starkey, ''Inventory of Henry VIII'' (London, 1998), pp. 166-172.</ref> This includes embroidered coverings and [[barding|bards for horses]].<ref>David Starkey, ''Inventory of Henry VIII'' (London, 1998), p. 166.</ref> Masque clothes for men include sets of 12 long garments of cloth of gold, of silver, and of crimson satin, and other sets for suites of masquers. Eight masquers dressed as "Turks" with head pieces in "Turkish fashion". There were clothes for performers to dress as falconers, as Germans or "Allmaynes", and as monks. There were masks with and without beards, masks for disguise as Germans, pilgrim's staffs, halberds, and shepherds' crooks.<ref>David Starkey, ''Inventory of Henry VIII'' (London, 1998), pp. 166-168.</ref>
An inventory was made of the costumes kept by Thomas Cawarden as Master of Revels.{{sfn|Starkey|1998|pp=166–172}} This includes embroidered coverings and [[barding|bards for horses]].{{sfn|Starkey|1998|p=166}} Masque clothes for men include sets of 12 long garments of cloth of gold, of silver, and of crimson satin, and other sets for suites of masquers. Eight masquers dressed as "Turks" with head pieces in "Turkish fashion". There were clothes for performers to dress as falconers, as Germans or "Allmaynes", and as monks. There were masks with and without beards, masks for disguise as Germans, pilgrim's staffs, halberds, and shepherds' crooks.{{sfn|Starkey|1998|pp=166–168}}


Costume for women included kirtles and sleeves, Italian gowns, costume for "frowes" or German wives, garments to disguise as African people called "Mores" with wigs of hair (made by [[Niccolo da Modena]]),<ref>Ian Smith, 'White Skin, Black Masks', Jeffrey Masten & Wendy Wall, ''Renaissance Drama 32'' (Evanson, 2003), p. 44: Albert Feuillerat, ''Documents relating to the revels of Edward VI and Mary'' (Louvain, 1914), p. 31: David Starkey, ''Inventory of Henry VIII'' (London, 1998), pp. 168 no. 8663.</ref> and as Egyptians or Gypsies. The royal tents included the king's lodging tent, really a group of connecting tents, his lesser lodging tent, a dining house, and decorative hangings and accessories. Cawarden was also responsible for the tents sent into Scotland with the army of the [[Rough Wooing]].<ref>David Starkey, ''Inventory of Henry VIII'' (London, 1998), pp. 170-2.</ref>
Costume for women included kirtles and sleeves, Italian gowns, costume for "frowes" or German wives, garments to disguise as African people called "Mores" with wigs of hair (made by [[Niccolo da Modena]]),<ref>Ian Smith, "White Skin, Black Masks", [[Jeffrey Masten]] & Wendy Wall, ''Renaissance Drama 32'' (Evanson, 2003), p. 44; {{harvnb|Feuillerat|1914|p=31}}; {{harvnb|Starkey|1998|pp=168, no. 8663}}.</ref> and as Egyptians or Gypsies. The royal tents included the king's lodging tent, really a group of connecting tents, his lesser lodging tent, a dining house, and decorative hangings and accessories. Cawarden was also responsible for the tents sent into Scotland with the army of the [[Rough Wooing]].{{sfn|Starkey|1998|pp=170–172}}


==Footnotes==
==Footnotes==
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==References==
===References===
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* {{cite book|last=Feuillerat|first=Albert|title=Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels|publisher=Louvain|year=1914}}
*{{Cite book |title = The Loseley Manuscripts
*{{Cite book |title = The Loseley Manuscripts
|editor-last = Kempe
|editor-last = Kempe
|editor-first = Alfred John
|editor-first = Alfred John|editor-link=Alfred John Kempe
|location = London
|location = London
|publisher = John Murray
|publisher = John Murray
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|first = William B.
|first = William B.
|publisher = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
|publisher = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
|url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37270
|url = https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-37270
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|url-access=subscription
|access-date = 17 February 2013
|year = 2008
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*{{Cite book |title = More, Sir Christopher (b. in or before 1483, d. 1549)
|last = Robison
|first = William B.
|publisher = [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
|url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77080
|access-date = 17 February 2013
|year = 2004
}} {{subscription required |date=February 2013}}
*{{Cite book |title = Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse
|last = Smith
|first = Irwin
|location = New York
|publisher = New York University Press
|year = 1964
|url = https://archive.org/details/shakespearesblac0000smit
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|url-access = registration
|access-date = 17 February 2013
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*{{Cite book |title = The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare With a History of the First Blackfriars Theatre
|last = Wallace
|first = Charles William
|location = Berlin
|publisher = George Reimer
|year = 1912
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=gCFaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+first+blackfriars+theatre%22&pg=PR20
|access-date = 17 February 2013
|access-date = 17 February 2013
|year = 2008 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37270
}}
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* {{cite book|editor-last=Starkey|editor-first=David|editor-link=David Starkey|title=The Inventory of Henry VIII|publisher=Society of Antiquaries|year=1998}}

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==Further reading==
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* [[E. K. Chambers|Chambers, E. K.]] ''Notes on the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors''. London, A. H. Bullen, 1906.
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* [[Peter Cunningham (British writer)|Cunningham, Peter]], ''Extracts from the accounts of revels at court'', Malone Society (1842)
*{{Cite book|last=Robison|first=William B.|title=More, Sir Christopher (b. in or before 1483, d. 1549)|publisher=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77080|url-access=subscription|access-date=17 February 2013|year=2004|ref=none}}
*{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Irwin|title=Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse|location=New York|publisher=New York University Press|year=1964|url=https://archive.org/details/shakespearesblac0000smit|url-access=registration|access-date=17 February 2013|ref=none}}
*{{Cite book|last=Wallace|first=Charles William|author-link=Charles William Wallace|title=The Evolution of the English Drama up to Shakespeare With a History of the First Blackfriars Theatre|location=Berlin|publisher=George Reimer|year=1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCFaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+first+blackfriars+theatre%22&pg=PR20|access-date=17 February 2013|ref=none}}


==External links==
==External links==
* Folger Shakespeare Library, {{cite web|url=http://shakespeare.folger.edu/other/html/dfoloseley.html |title=Guide to the Loseley Collection}} (1955–2000)
* {{cite web|url=https://findingaids.folger.edu/dfoloseley.xml|title=Papers of the More family of Loseley Park, Surrey, 1489–1682 (bulk 1538–1630)|access-date=2 March 2023|publisher=[[Folger Shakespeare Library]]}}
* Historical Manuscripts Commission, 7th Report, ''Manuscripts of William More Molyneaux at Loseley Park'', (1879), 596–681.
* Historical Manuscripts Commission, 7th Report, ''Manuscripts of William More Molyneaux at Loseley Park'', (1879), 596–681.
* [[Alfred John Kempe|Kempe, Alfred John]], [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hGoNAAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''The Loseley Manuscripts'', John Murray, London (1836)]
* [http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/The+Loseley+Manuscripts+at+Surrey+History+Centre?opendocument The Loseley Manuscripts at Surrey History Centre]
* [http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/The+Loseley+Manuscripts+at+Surrey+History+Centre?opendocument The Loseley Manuscripts at Surrey History Centre]
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=176-lm_2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 Loseley Manuscripts at Surrey History Centre - National Archives record]
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=176-lm_2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 Loseley Manuscripts at Surrey History Centre – National Archives record]
* [http://www.bletchingleyparishchurch.org.uk/f6bca4ea.htm Cawarden's monument at St. Mary's Bletchingley]
* [http://www.bletchingleyparishchurch.org.uk/f6bca4ea.htm Cawarden's monument at St. Mary's Bletchingley]
* [http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHHER_1226 Place Farm Bletchingley] home of Anne of Cleves and Thomas Carwarden.
* [http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/GetRecord/SHHER_1226 Place Farm Bletchingley] home of Anne of Cleves and Thomas Carwarden.


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==Further reading==
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*[[Edmund Kerchever Chambers|Chambers, E.K.]] ''Notes on the History of the Revels Office Under the Tudors''. London, A. H. Bullen, 1906.
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* Cunningham, Peter, ''Extracts from the accounts of revels at court'', Malone Society (1842)
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* Feuillerat, Albert, ''Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels'', Louvain (1914).

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Revision as of 13:31, 2 March 2023

Sir Thomas Cawarden (died 25 August 1559) of Bletchingley, Nonsuch Park and East Horsley (Surrey) was Master of the Revels to Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I.

Background

Thomas was the son of William Cawarden, a cloth-fuller and citizen of London. In 1528, he was apprenticed to a mercer in London, Owen Hawkins.[1] By 1542, Thomas Cawarden had married. His wife's first name was Elizabeth; her surname is unknown.[2]

Career

In 1542 and 1547 he was elected member of parliament for Bletchingley which did not have town status and had a smaller forty-shilling freeholder electorate than the average of the time, poor enough to be challenged in the courts in 1614.[3]

In 1544 Sir Thomas Cawarden received a patent as Master of Revels and Tents, becoming the first head of an independent office and was knighted at Boulogne in September of that year. Tents were provided for festivals, royal progresses, and in military expeditions. In July and August 1547, Cawarden provided 'hales', 'roundhouses', and a kitchen tent for the mission to Scotland during the war of the Rough Wooing which culminated in the Battle of Pinkie.[4] Cawarden paid for the tents which had been 'wetted in the shippe' to be dried and put away on their return.[5]

Lady Jane Grey as queen requested tents on 19 July 1553. On 1 January 1559 Mary I ordered her officers to collect arms and armour from Cawarden's house to counter Wyatt's rebellion. Seventeen wagon loads were taken.[6] The patent also allowed him to keep 40 armed and liveried servants at Bletchingley Castle or Palace.[7]

Soon after his appointment, the revels office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved Dominican monastery at Blackfriars, having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the London Charterhouse, and then at the priory of St. John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.[citation needed]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1547–48, keeper of Hampton Court in 1550 and joint Lieutenant of the Tower of London (with Sir Edward Warner) in November–December 1558.[citation needed]

Cawarden formally obtained Bletchingley, which had been the home of Anne of Cleves, on 7 April 1547.[8] He was also keeper of the house and gardens of Nonsuch Palace from 1543 to November 1556. Between 1547 and 1559 he was four times elected knight of the shire for Surrey.

In 1551 Cawarden built a banqueting house in Hyde Park with Lawrence Bradshaw, surveyor of works. Cawarden was in charge of the interior decoration by the painters Antony Toto and John Leades.[9] This by 1556 had been largely superseded by his own Banqueting House at Nonsuch Park close to the original Nonsuch Palace, at the foot of the North Downs which he had been granted in 1547 by King Edward ("a messuage and lands in the manor of Nonsuch alias Cuddington") to hold for 21 years for a rent of £5 5s. 8d equivalent to £3,887 in 2023.[10]

Cawarden died at East Horsley on 25 August 1559. His body was taken to Bletchingley. A brass plate intended for Thomas Cawarden's monument was found at Loseley Park, the home of his executor, Sir William More, in the 19th century.[11] Cawarden was succeeded as Master of the Revels by Sir Thomas Benger.

Loseley manuscripts

Thomas Cawarden's official papers survived at his executor's descendants' house at Loseley Park. These were moved into public collections. A catalogue of the papers in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection is available on-line. Other revels papers are available to study at the National Archives, Kew, and the Surrey Record Office, Woking. Extracts from the papers were first published by Alfred Kempe in 1836, and by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1879.

Inventory of the revels costume and royal tents

An inventory was made of the costumes kept by Thomas Cawarden as Master of Revels.[12] This includes embroidered coverings and bards for horses.[13] Masque clothes for men include sets of 12 long garments of cloth of gold, of silver, and of crimson satin, and other sets for suites of masquers. Eight masquers dressed as "Turks" with head pieces in "Turkish fashion". There were clothes for performers to dress as falconers, as Germans or "Allmaynes", and as monks. There were masks with and without beards, masks for disguise as Germans, pilgrim's staffs, halberds, and shepherds' crooks.[14]

Costume for women included kirtles and sleeves, Italian gowns, costume for "frowes" or German wives, garments to disguise as African people called "Mores" with wigs of hair (made by Niccolo da Modena),[15] and as Egyptians or Gypsies. The royal tents included the king's lodging tent, really a group of connecting tents, his lesser lodging tent, a dining house, and decorative hangings and accessories. Cawarden was also responsible for the tents sent into Scotland with the army of the Rough Wooing.[16]

Footnotes

  1. ^ HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq., (1879), 601.[full citation needed]
  2. ^ Robison 2008.
  3. ^ Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
  4. ^ Starkey 1998, pp. 171–172.
  5. ^ Kempe 1836, p. 104.
  6. ^ HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq., (1879), pp. 610, 614–615.[full citation needed]
  7. ^ HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq., (1879), 597.[full citation needed]
  8. ^ Ellis, Henry, "Extracts from the Proceedings of the Privy Council", in Archaeologia or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to Antiquity, vol. 18, Society of Antiquaries, (1817), 131–132
  9. ^ Colvin, Howard, ed., History of the King's Works, vol. 4 part 2, HMSO, (1982), 30–31, 57.
  10. ^ H. E. Malden, ed. (1911). "Parishes: Cuddington". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  11. ^ Kempe 1836, p. 18.
  12. ^ Starkey 1998, pp. 166–172.
  13. ^ Starkey 1998, p. 166.
  14. ^ Starkey 1998, pp. 166–168.
  15. ^ Ian Smith, "White Skin, Black Masks", Jeffrey Masten & Wendy Wall, Renaissance Drama 32 (Evanson, 2003), p. 44; Feuillerat 1914, p. 31; Starkey 1998, pp. 168, no. 8663.
  16. ^ Starkey 1998, pp. 170–172.

References

Further reading

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