England as seen by foreigners in the days of Elizabeth & James the First Comprising translations of the journals of the two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610; both illustrative of Shakespeare . res allusion to this Duke of Wirtemberg inthe Merry Wives of Windsor (act iv. sc. 5.) as Duke de Jamanie and Cosen Garmombles, the title by which he was known in Englandbeing Count Mompelgard.—Remarks on this subject by Messrs. , J. O. Halliwell, H. Staunton, and Dr. W. Bell, xciv-ciii. Custom of English Actors to travel and perform plays in Germanyand the Netherlands.—Some new evidence of th
England as seen by foreigners in the days of Elizabeth & James the First Comprising translations of the journals of the two Dukes of Wirtemberg in 1592 and 1610; both illustrative of Shakespeare . res allusion to this Duke of Wirtemberg inthe Merry Wives of Windsor (act iv. sc. 5.) as Duke de Jamanie and Cosen Garmombles, the title by which he was known in Englandbeing Count Mompelgard.—Remarks on this subject by Messrs. , J. O. Halliwell, H. Staunton, and Dr. W. Bell, xciv-ciii. Custom of English Actors to travel and perform plays in Germanyand the Netherlands.—Some new evidence of this custom, in one in-stance immediately connected with the Duke of Wirtemberg, ciii-cxi. Biography of Prince Lewis Frederick, son of the Duke. His corre-spondence with James I. (Record Office and British Museum.) Hesees Othello acted.—Account of the Princes visit to Cambridge, byBishop Hacket, cxii-cxx. Hentzner and other foreign travellers in the present volume re-ferred to, cxxi-cxxiii. Strangers and sojourners in England, as Secretaries and in othercapacities.—G. Rudolph Weckherlin.—Death of Abraham Vanderdort,Keeper of Charles the Firsts pictures, cxxiii-cxxxii. Courteous and Gentle Reader, ITH all becoming respect we beg leaveto introduce to your favourable notice agroup of intelligent foreigners, who,in the ensuing pages, will discourse, ifnot very learnedly, at least it is hopedpleasantly and profitably, on the fascinating and attractivetheme of Old England—its men and manners, its womenand their ways, as they were seen and noted by thoseobserving foreigners during the glorious effulgence ofthe Shakespearian era. To assemble this group of foreigners who haverecorded their impressions of England and the Englishhas not been the task of a day; for no bibliographicalguide to such works exists. Our knowledge of themis only gained by degrees, as the books occur at sales orin the catalogues of foreign booksellers. The majority b x Introduction. of tho
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