An Elizabethan Progress: The Queen's Journey into East Anglia, 1578

by Zillah Dovey

A complete and detailed account of one of Elizabeth I's progresses - the great state tours around a particular part of the kingdom. The author uses contemporary documents to study a single, but typical, long progress, covering the court servants' preparations, the stops en route and, in parallel, the work of the Queen's council who had to go along too. Based on contemporary sources and complemented by illustrative material, the text should be valuable to students and scholars, yet is also accessible to the amateur and local historian, and those with a general interest in the age of Elizabeth.

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Elliott Ford · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a chronicle of Elizabeth’s progress through East Anglia, Zillah Dovey provides the only monograph devoted to a single Elizabethan procession. It is an incredibly detailed account of an event that could so easily have been a simple retelling of the two pageant paeans of Thomas Churchyard and Bernard Garter.

[Paul Dickson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A first class account of an Elizabethan progress. I much enjoyed reading about the visit to Norwich in August 1578.