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diff --git a/old/69371-0.txt b/old/69371-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 13a860f..0000000 --- a/old/69371-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34299 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Elizabethan Stage (Vol 4 of 4), by -E. K. Chambers - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Elizabethan Stage (Vol 4 of 4) - -Author: E. K. Chambers - -Release Date: November 17, 2022 [eBook #69371] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE (VOL 4 -OF 4) *** - -Transcriber’s Note: - -This book contains some very large tables. A wide screen is necessary -to view these. - - - - - THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE - - VOL. IV - - - - - Oxford University Press - - _London_ _Edinburgh_ _Glasgow_ _Copenhagen_ - _New York_ _Toronto_ _Melbourne_ _Cape Town_ - _Bombay_ _Calcutta_ _Madras_ _Shanghai_ - Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UNIVERSITY - - [Illustration: DESIGN BY INIGO JONES FOR THE COCKPIT THEATRE AT - WHITEHALL - - NOW IN THE LIBRARY OF WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD] - - - - - THE ELIZABETHAN STAGE - - BY E. K. CHAMBERS. VOL. IV - - - OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS - - M.CMXXIII - - - Printed in England - - - - - CONTENTS - - VOLUME IV - - - PAGE - - XXIV. ANONYMOUS WORK 1 - - A. Plays 1 - B. Masks 55 - C. Receptions and Entertainments 60 - - - APPENDICES - - A. A Court Calendar 75 - B. Court Payments 131 - C. Documents of Criticism 184 - D. Documents of Control 259 - E. Plague Records 345 - F. The Presence-Chamber at Greenwich 351 - G. Serlio’s _Trattato sopra le Scene_ 353 - H. _The Gull’s Hornbook_ 365 - I. Restoration Testimony 369 - K. Academic Plays 373 - L. Printed Plays 379 - M. Lost Plays 398 - N. Manuscript Plays 404 - - - INDEXES - - I. Plays 409 - II. Persons 425 - III. Places 445 - IV. Subjects 454 - - - - - LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - - Design for Cockpit Theatre at Whitehall. By - Inigo Jones. From Library of Worcester - College, Oxford _Frontispiece_ - - The _Profilo_ or Section of a Stage. From - Sebastiano Serlio, _Architettura_ (1551) p. 354 - - The _Pianta_ or Ground-Plan of a Stage (_ibid._) p. 357 - - Elevation of a _Scena Comica_ (_ibid._) p. 359 - - Elevation of a _Scena Tragica_ (_ibid._) p. 361 - - Elevation of a _Scena Satyrica_ (_ibid._) p. 362 - - - - - NOTE - - -I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol -< following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that -named, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain -date not later than that named. Thus 1903 < > 23 would indicate the -composition date of any part of this book. I have sometimes placed the -date of a play in italics, where it was desirable to indicate the date -of production rather than publication. - -The documents from J. R. Dasent, _Acts of the Privy Council_ -(1890–1907), are reprinted by permission of the Controller of His -Majesty’s Stationery Office. - - - - - XXIV - - ANONYMOUS WORK - - -[Here I bring together, giving them the same treatment as the -individual works in ch. xxiii, pieces of which the authorship, as -regards the whole or a large part, is unknown or conjectural. They are -grouped as (A) Plays, (B) Masks, (C) Receptions and Entertainments. It -has been convenient, for the sake of classification, to include in the -third group a few which might alternatively have been brought into ch. -xxiii under the name of a part-author or describer.] - - - A. PLAYS - - - _An Alarum for London > 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1600, May 27. ‘Allarum to London’ is included in a memorandum -of ‘my lord chamberlens menns plaies Entred’ and noted as entered on -this day to J. Roberts (Arber, iii. 37). - -1600, May 29. ‘The Allarum to London, provided that yt be not printed -without further Aucthoritie.’ _John Roberts_ (Arber, iii. 161). - -1602. A Larum for London, or The Siedge of Antwerpe. With the ventrous -actes and valorous deeds of the lame Soldier. As it hath been playde by -the right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. _For William -Ferbrand._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1872), J. S. Farmer (1912, _T.F.T._), and W. -W. Greg (1913, _M.S.R._). - -The play has been ascribed to Shakespeare by Collier, to Shakespeare -and Marston by Simpson, and to Lodge by Fleay, _Shakespeare_, 291, -but no serious case has been made out for any of these claims. Bullen, -_Marlowe_, 1, lxxiv, says that Collier had a copy with doggerel -rhymes on the t.p. including the line, - - Our famous Marloe had in this a hand, - -which Bullen calls ‘a very ridiculous piece of forgery’. - - - _Albion Knight > 1566_ - -_S. R._ 1565–6. ‘A play intituled a merye playe bothe pytthy and -pleasaunt of Albyon knyghte.’ _Thomas Colwell_ (Arber, i. 295). - -Fragment in Devonshire collection. - -[The t.p. is lost, but the seventeenth-century play lists (Greg, -_Masques_, xlvii) include an interlude called _Albion_. A fragment on -Temperance and Humility, conjecturally assigned by Collier, i. 284, to -the same play, is of earlier printing by thirty years or so (_M.S.C._ -i. 243).] - -_Editions_ by J. P. Collier (1844, _Sh. Soc. Papers_, i. 55) and W. -W. Greg (1910, _M. S. C._ i. 229).--_Dissertations_: M. H. Dodds, -_The Date of A. K._ (1913, 3 _Library_, iv. 157); G. A. Jones, _The -Political Significance of A. K._ (1918, _J. G. P._ xvii. 267). - -Collier suggests that this was the play disliked at court on 31 Dec. -1559, but, as Fleay, 66, points out, that would hardly have been -licensed for printing. Dodds thinks it motived by the Pilgrimage of -Grace (1536–7) and written shortly after. - - - _Alice and Alexis_ - -A fragment (to iii. 1) of a play on the loves of Alice and Alexis, -thwarted by Tanto, with an argument of the whole, is in _Douce MS._ -171 (_Bodl._ 21745), f. 48^v. The date ‘1604’ is scribbled amongst the -pages. The manuscript also contains sixteenth-century accounts. There -seems nothing to connect this with Massinger’s _Alexius, or the Chaste -Lover_, licensed by Herbert on 25 Sept. 1639 and apparently included in -Warburton’s list of burnt plays (3 _Library_, ii. 232, 249). - - - _Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany > 1636_ - -_S. R._ 1653, Sept. 9. ‘A play called Alphonso, Emperor of Germany, by -John Poole.’ _H. Moseley_ (Eyre, i. 428). - -1654. The Tragedy of Alphonsus Emperour of Germany. As it hath -been very often Acted (with great applause) at the Privat house in -Black-Friers by his late Maiesties Servants. By George Chapman Gent. -_For Humphrey Moseley._ [Epistle to the Reader. The B.M. copy of the -play is dated ‘Novemb. 29, 1653’.] - -_Editions_ by K. Elze (1867) and H. F. Schwarz (1913), and in -collections of Chapman (q.v.). - -_Alphonsus_ may reasonably be identified with the _Alfonso_ given -before the Queen and the Elector Palatine at the Blackfriars on 5 May -1636 (Cunningham, xxiv). The ascription on the title-page to Chapman -is repeated therefrom by Langbaine who rejects that of Kirkman in 1661 -and 1671 (Greg, _Masques_, xlviii) to Peele, but the intimate knowledge -of German shown in the dialogue has led Elze and Ward, ii. 428, to -give Chapman a German collaborator, conceivably one Rudolf Weckerlin -of Würtemberg, who after a preliminary visit before 1614 settled -permanently in England about 1624 and obtained political employment, -which he varied with literary exercises. Later critics are inclined to -reject Chapman’s authorship altogether, and the case against it has -been effectively put by E. Koeppel, _Quellen-Studien zu den Dramen -Chapman’s_, 78, and Parrott. The ascription to Peele has been revived -by Robertson, _T. A._ 123, and though Parrott does not accept the full -argument, he agrees in regarding the play as originally of Peele’s -date, possibly by him, with or without a collaborator, and drastically -revised at a later period, perhaps by Weckerlin in 1636. Fleay, ii. -156, 311, also accepts Peele and identifies the play with _Harry of -Cornwall_, revived by Strange’s for Henslowe on 25 Feb. 1592, but, as -Greg (_Henslowe_, ii. 151) points out, the character in _Alphonsus_ is -not Henry, but Richard of Cornwall. It must be observed that no critic -has noticed the _S. R._ ascription to John Poole, which may quite well -be the origin of Kirkman’s ‘Peele’. Who John Poole was, I do not know. - - - _Apius and Virginia > 1567–8_ - -_S. R._ 1567–8. ‘A Tragedy of Apius and Virgine.’ _Richard Jones_ -(Arber, i. 357). - -1575. A new Tragicall Comedie of Apius and Virginia, Wherein is liuely -expressed a rare example of the vertue of Chastitie, by Virginias -constancy, in wishing rather to be slaine at her owne Fathers handes, -then to be deflowred of the wicked Iudge Apius. By R. B. _William How -for Richard Jones._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^{3, 4} (1825–76), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, -_T. F. T._) and R. B. McKerrow (1911, _M. S. R._). - -‘Haphazard, the Vice’ is a character. The stage-directions name ‘the -stage’, ‘the scaffold’. A prologue addresses ‘lordings’; an epilogue -has a prayer for the queen, nobles, and commons. The play is not -controversial, but the tone is Protestant. Fleay, 61, thinks it a -Westminster play of 1563–4; but no Westminster play of 1563–4 is on -record. If Fleay means 1564–5, the Westminster play of that Christmas -was _Miles Gloriosus_. There is nothing but the initials to -identify the author with Richard Bower of the Chapel (q.v.), but -the suggestion is more plausible than that of Wallace, i. 108, who -gives the play to Richard Edwardes (q.v.), finding that the ‘R. E.’ -subscribed to some of his manuscript poems is capable of being misread -‘R. B.’. - - - _Arden of Feversham > 1592_ - -_S. R._ 1592, April 3 (Bishop of London). ‘The tragedie of Arden of -Feuersham and Blackwall.’ _Edward White_ (Arber, ii. 607). [See s.v. -Kyd, _Spanish Tragedy_, for the record of a piracy of the play in 1592 -by Abel Jeffes.] - -1592. The Lamentable and True Tragedie of M. Arden of Feuersham in -Kent. Who was most wickedlye murdered, by the meanes of his disloyall -and wanton wyfe, who for the love she bare to one Mosbie, hyred two -desperat ruffins Blackwill and Shakbag, to kill him. Wherin is shewed -the great mallice and discimulation of a wicked woman, the vnsatiable -desire of filthie lust and the shamefull end of all murderers. _For -Edward White._ [Epilogue.] - -1599. _J. Roberts for Edward White._ - -1633. _Eliz. Allde._ - -_Editions_ by E. Jacob (1770), A. H. Bullen (1887), R. Bayne -(1897, _T. D._), J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), and in _Sh. -Apocrypha_.--_Dissertations_: C. E. Donne, _Essay on the Tragedy of -A. of F._ (1873); C. Crawford, _The Authorship of A. of F._ (1903, -_Jahrbuch_, xxxix. 74; _Collectanea_, i. 101); W. Miksch, _Die -Verfasserschaft des A. of F._ (1907, Breslau diss.); K. Wiehl, _Thomas -Kyd und die Autorschaft von ... A. of F._ (1912, _E. S._ xliv. 356); H. -D. Sykes, _Sidelights upon Shakespeare_, 48 (1919); L. Cust, _A. of F._ -(1920, _Arch. Cant._ xxxiv. 101). - -Jacob first claimed the authorship for Shakespeare. In spite of the -advocacy of Swinburne (_Study of Sh._, 129) modern criticism remains -wholly unconvinced. The play has tragic merit, but it is not of a -Shakespearian character, and it is impossible to fit its manner, before -1592, into any coherent theory of Shakespeare’s development. More -plausible is the case for Kyd, suggested by Fleay, ii. 28, who puts -the date as far back as 1585 on quite unreliable grounds of improbable -guess-work, and supported by Robertson, _T. A._ 151, and elaborately -argued by Crawford and Sykes. But Boas, _Kyd_, lxxxix, thinks that the -author was more likely an imitator of Kyd, and opinion remains divided. -Oliphant (_M. P._ viii. 420) suggests Kyd and Marlowe, possibly with -a third. The theme may also have been that of the _Murderous Michael_ -played at court by Sussex’s in 1579. - - - _The Birth of Hercules. 1597 <_ - -[_MS._] _B.M. Add. MS._ 28722. ‘The birthe of hercules.’ [Prologus -Laureatus; Mercurius Prologus; after text, ‘Testamentum poetae, ad -peleum. Comoedarum pariter et histrionum princeps Peleu, tuo pro -iudicio, volo hanc meam Comoediam, vel recitari, vel reticeri: hoc est: -aut vivere aut mori. Scripsi, nec poeta, nec moriens: et tamen poeta -moriens’. Written in one hand, with stage-directions by a second and -corrections by a third and possibly a fourth, on paper datable by the -watermark in 1597.] - -_Editions_ by M. W. Wallace (1903) and R. W. Bond (1911, _M. S. R._). - -This is pretty clearly a University play, and any connexion with the -_Hercules_ of the Admiral’s men in 1595 is highly improbable. As -George Peele died in 1596, it seems difficult to identify him with -the Peleus of the MS. Bond thinks that ‘the styles of composition and -writing agree in placing a date before 1600 out of the question’. - - - _Caesar’s Revenge > 1606_ - -_S. R._ 1606, June 5. ‘A booke called Julius Caesars reuenge.’ _J. -Wright and N. Fosbrook_, licensed by Dr. Covell and the wardens (Arber, -iii. 323). - -N.D. The Tragedie of Caesar and Pompey Or Caesars Reuenge. _G. E. for -Iohn Wright._ - -1607.... Priuately acted by the Studentes of Trinity Colledge in -Oxford. _For Nathaniel Fosbrook and Iohn Wright._ [Re-issue with cancel -t.p.] - -_Editions_ by F. S. Boas (1911, _M. S. R._) and W. Mühlfeld (1911, -1912, _Jahrbuch_, xlvii. 132; xlviii. 37), and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. -T._).--_Dissertations_: T. M. Parrott, _The Academic Tragedy of C. and -P._ (1910, _M. L. R._ v. 435); H. M. Ayres, _C. R._ (1915, _M. L. A._ -xxx. 771); G. C. Moore Smith, _The Tragedy of C. R._ (1916, 12 _N. Q._ -ii. 305). - -There is no traceable connexion between this and any other of the -several plays on Caesar, extant and lost, which are upon record. C. -Crawford (_M. S. C._ i. 290) indicates some parallels which suggest a -date of authorship between 1592 and 1596. - - - _Charlemagne or The Distracted Emperor c. 1600_ - -[_MS._] _Egerton MS._ 1994. At the end is the note, ‘Nella Φ δ Φ ν ρ la -B’ = ‘Nella fedeltà finirò la vita’. - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1884, _O. E. P._ iii) and F. L. Schoell -(1920).--_Dissertation_: F. L. Schoell, _Un Drame Élisabéthain Anonyme -C_ (1912, _Revue Germanique_, viii. 155). - -Bullen suggests that the author was Chapman, and also thinks Tourneur -or Marston conceivable. He quotes Fleay’s opinion in favour of Field. -Fleay, ii. 319, withdraws Field and substitutes Dekker. He identifies -the play with the ‘King Charlemagne’ of Peele’s _Farewell_ of 1589 (cf. -s.v. Peele, _Battle of Alcazar_). Schoell makes an elaborate case for -Chapman, and thinks that the play might be _The Fatall Love, a French -Tragedy_, entered as his in _S. R._ on 29 June 1660, and included, -without author’s name, in Warburton’s list of burnt plays (3 _Library_, -ii. 231). A date later than 1584 is indicated by the use of Du Bartas’s -_Seconde Semaine_ of that year. It may be added that the style points -to _c._ 1600 rather than _c._ 1590. - - - _Claudius Tiberius Nero > 1607_ - -_S. R._ 1607, April 10 (Buck). ‘A booke called the tragicall Life and -Death of Claudius Tiberius Nero.’ _Francis Burton_ (Arber, iii. 346). - -1607. The Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero, Rome’s greatest Tyrant. -Truly represented out of the purest Records of those Times. _For -Francis Burton._ [Epistle to Sir Arthur Mannering, son of Sir George of -Eithfield, Shropshire; Verses _Ad Lectores_.] - -1607. The Statelie Tragedie of Claudius Tiberius Nero.... _For Francis -Burton_. [Another issue.] - -_Edition_ by J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._). - -The play, which is on Tiberius, not Nero, is to be distinguished from -_Nero_ (1624). The epistle, not apparently by the author, says that the -play’s ‘Father was an Academician’. - - - _Club Law. 1599–1600_ - -[_MS._] St. John’s College, Cambridge, MS. S. 62. [Without t.p. and -imperfect; probably identical with a MS. of the play owned by Richard -Farmer.] - -_Edition_ by G. C. Moore Smith (1907). [Epilogue.]--_Dissertation_: G. -C. Moore Smith, _The Date of C. L._ (1909, _M. L. R._ iv. 268). - -The play is described by Fuller, _Hist. of Cambridge_ (1655), 156, as -given at Clare Hall in 1597–8. But J. S. Hawkins, in his edition of -Ruggle’s _Ignoramus_ (1787), xvi, gives the alternative date 1599, -and this has now been confirmed by the discovery of manuscript annals -of Cambridge, probably by Fuller himself, with the entry, under the -academic year 1599–1600, ‘Aula Clarensis. Club Law fabula festivissima -data multum ridentibus Academicis, frustra Oppidanis dolentibus’. The -play is a satire on the townsmen, and especially the anti-gown mayor of -1599–1600, John Yaxley. Fuller says that the townsmen were invited to -the performance and made to sit it through, and that they complained -to the Privy Council, who first ‘sent some slight and private check to -the principall Actors therein’, and then, when pressed, said that they -would come to Cambridge, and see the comedy acted over again in the -presence of the townsmen. The fact that there is no record of these -letters in the extant register of the Council hardly disproves the -substance of Fuller’s story. Hawkins ascribed the play to Ruggle (q.v.) -on the authority of an eighteenth-century memorandum. - - - _Sir Clyomon and Clamydes c. 1570_ - -1599. The Historie of the two valiant Knights, Syr Clyomon knight of -the Golden Sheeld, sonne to the King of Denmarke: And Clamydes the -White Knight, sonne to the King of Suauia. As it hath been sundry times -Acted by her Maiesties Players. _Thomas Creede._ [Prologue.] - -_Editions_ by W. W. Greg (1913, _M. S. R._) and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. -T._), and in collections of Peele. - -Subtle Shift ‘the vice’, Providence, and Rumour are among the -characters. - -Dyce ascribed the play to George Peele on the strength of a manuscript -note ‘in a very old hand’ on a copy of the 1599 edition. Bullen thinks -it of earlier date than Peele. Greg agrees, regarding it as about -contemporary with _Common Conditions_. L. Kellner, in _Englische -Studien_, xiii. 187, compares the language and style at great length -with Peele’s and concludes against his authorship, unless indeed he -wrote it in a spirit of parody. His arguments are challenged by R. -Fischer in _Englische Studien_, xiv. 344. Fleay, 70, assigned it, with -_Common Conditions_, to R. Wilson. Later (ii. 295), he substituted -R[ichard] B[ower]. He noted a parallel to Thomas Preston’s _Cambyses_, -and suggested as a date 1570 or 1578, the years, according to him, -of the original production and of a revival of _Cambyses_. G. L. -Kittredge, in _Journal of Germanic Philology_, ii. 8, suggests that -Preston himself was the author of _Sir Clyomon and Clamydes_. If the -‘her Maiesties Players’ of the title-page means the later company of -that name, the play, if not written, must have been revived 1583–94. -Fleay, ii. 296, further identifies it with _The Four Kings_ licensed -for Henslowe (i. 103) in March 1599; but an old Queen’s play would not -have needed a licence. An Anglo-German repertory of 1626 includes a -‘Tragikomödie vom König in Dänemark und König in Schweden’ (Herz, 66, -72). - - - _Common Conditions > 1576_ - -_S. R._ 1576, July 26. ‘A newe and pleasant comedie or plaie after the -maner of common condycons.’ _John Hunter_ (Arber, ii. 301). [Clearly -‘maner’ is a misreading of the ‘name’ of the t.p.] - -Q_{1}, N.D. An excellent and pleasant Comedie, termed after the name of -the Vice, Common Condicions, drawne out of the most famous historie of -Galiarbus Duke of Arabia, and of the good and eeuill successe of him -and his two children, Sedmond his sun, and Clarisia his daughter: Set -foorth with delectable mirth, and pleasant shewes. _William How for -John Hunter._ [T.p. adds ‘The Players names’ and ‘Six may play this -Comedie’; Prologue.] - -Q_{2}. Fragment, without t.p. or date, under r.t. ‘A pleasant Comedie -called Common Conditions’. - -_Editions_ in Brandl, 597 (1898), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, _Five -Anonymous Plays_) from Q_{2}, and by Tucker Brooke (1915, _Yale -Elizabethan Club Reprints_, i) from Q_{1}. - -The prologue refers to the audience ‘that sit in place’ and the -‘actours’ that ‘redy stand’. Fleay, ii. 296, suggests the authorship of -Richard Bower, on grounds of style. - - - _The Contention of York and Lancaster > 1592_ - -_S. R._ 1594, March 12. ‘A booke intituled, the firste parte of the -Contention of the twoo famous houses of York and Lancaster with the -deathe of the good Duke Humfrey and the banishement and Deathe of -the Duke of Suffolk and the tragicall ende of the prowd Cardinall of -Winchester, with the notable rebellion of Jack Cade and the Duke of -Yorkes ffirste clayme vnto the Crowne. _Thomas Millington_ (Arber, ii. -646). [Part i.] - -1602, April 19. Transfer from T. Millington to T. Pavier, ‘The first -and Second parte of Henry the Vj^t, ij bookes’ (Arber, iii. 204). -[Parts i and ii.] - -1594. The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of -Yorke and Lancaster, with the death of the good Duke Humphrey: And the -banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the Tragicall end of -the proud Cardinall of Winchester, with the notable Rebellion of Iacke -Cade: And the Duke of Yorkes first claime vnto the Crowne. _Thomas -Creede for Thomas Millington._ [Part i.] - -1595. The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of -good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two -Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right -Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants. _P. S. for Thomas -Millington._ [Part ii.] - -1600. _Valentine Simmes for Thomas Millington._ [Part i.] - -1600. _W. W. for Thomas Millington._ [Part ii.] - -[1619] N.D. The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, -Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke -Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided -into two Parts: And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William -Shakespeare, Gent. _For T. P._ [Parts i and ii, printed continuously -with _Pericles_, 1619 (q.v.).] - -_Editions_ by J. O. Halliwell (1843, _Sh. Soc._), Wright and Clark -(1863–6, 1893, _Cambridge Shakespeare_), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, _Sh. -Libr._ v, vi), F. J. Furnivall and T. Tyler (1886, 1889, 1891, _Sh. -Q_), and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: E. Malone, _On -the Three Parts of Hen. 6_ (1821, _Variorum_, xviii. 553); R. Grant -White, _On the Authorship of Hen. 6_ (_Works of Sh._ 1859–65, vii); J. -Lee, _On the Authorship of 2, 3 Hen. vi and their Originals_ (_N. S. S. -Trans._ 1875–6, 219); C. F. T. Brooke, _The Authorship of 2, 3 Hen. 6_ -(1912, _Trans. of Connecticut Academy_, xvii. 141). - -The various claims of Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, Peele, Lodge, and -Shakespeare himself to the _Contention_ can only be discussed in -relation to Shakespeare’s revision of them as _2, 3 Henry VI_, which -probably belongs approximately to the date of _1 Henry vi_, produced by -Strange’s on 3 March 1592. - - - _Thomas Lord Cromwell > 1602_ - -_S. R._ 1602, Aug. 11 (Jackson). ‘A booke called the lyfe and Deathe of -the Lord Cromwell, as yt was lately Acted by the Lord Chamberleyn his -servantes.’ _William Cotton_ (Arber, iii. 214). - -1602. The True Chronicle Historie of the whole life and death of Thomas -Lord Cromwell. As it hath beene sundrie times publikely Acted by the -Right Honorable the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants. Written by W. S. -_For William Jones._ - -_S. R._ 1611, Dec. 16. Transfer from William Jones to John Browne -of a ‘booke called the lyfe and death of the Lord Cromwell, by W: S.’ -(Arber, iii. 474). - -1613.... As it hath been sundry times publikely Acted by the Kings -Maiesties Seruants. Written by W. S. _Thomas Snodham._ - -1664; 1685. [Parts of F_{3} and F_{4} of Shakespeare.] - -_Editions_ printed by R. Walker (1734) and by T. E. Jacob (1889, -_Old English Dramas_), J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), and in _Sh. -Apocrypha._--_Dissertation_: W. Streit, _The L. and D. of T. L. C._ -(1904, Jena diss.). - -The W. S. of the title-page was interpreted as William Shakespeare in -Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, _Masques_, lx). No modern critic -accepts the attribution, except Hopkinson, who thinks that the original -author was Greene, and that Shakespeare revised his work. Heywood was -suggested by R. Farmer, and Drayton by Fleay, _Shakespeare_, 298; -_B.C._ i. 152, 160. The guesses at Wentworth Smith and William Sly -rest merely on their initials. - - - _King Darius > 1565_ - -_S. R._ 1565–6. ‘A playe intituled of the story of kyng Daryous beyinge -taken oute of the iij^{de} and iiij^{th} chapeter of the iij^{de} boke -of Esdras &c.’. _Thomas Colwell_ (Arber, i. 298). - -1565, October. A Pretie new Enterlude both pithie & pleasaunt of the -Story of Kyng Daryus, Beinge taken out of the third and fourth Chapter -of the thyrd booke of Esdras. _Colwell._ [On t.p. ‘Syxe persons -may easely play it’.] - -1577. _Hugh Jackson._ [B.M. C. 34, i. 21, from Irish sale of 1906.] - -_Editions_ by J. O. Halliwell (1860), A. Brandl (1898), 359, J. S. -Farmer (1907, 1909, _T. F. T._). - -The characters, other than Darius and Zorobabell, are mainly abstract, -and include Iniquitie, ‘the Vyce’. There is a Prolocutor. - - - _The Dead Mans Fortune > 1591_ - -[_MS._] _Add. MS._ 10449. ‘The plotte of the deade mans fortune.’ -[Probably from Dulwich.] - -The text is given by Steevens, _Variorum_ (1803), iii. 414; Boswell, -_Variorum_ (1821), iii. 356; Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 133; and a -facsimile by Halliwell, _The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas_ -(1860). - -The names of actors who took part in the play point to a performance by -the Admiral’s, about 1590–1 (cf. ch. xiii). - - - _The Reign of King Edward the Third > 1595_ - -_S. R._ 1595, Dec. 1. ‘A book Intitled Edward the Third and the Blacke -Prince their warres with kinge John of Fraunce.’ _Burby_ (Arber, iii. -55). - -1596. The Raigne of King Edward the third: As it hath bin sundrie times -plaied about the Citie of London. _For Cuthbert Burby._ - -1599. _Simon Stafford for Cuthbert Burby._ - -_Editions_ with Shakespeare _Apocrypha_, and by E. Capel (1759–60, -_Prolusiones_), F. J. Furnivall (1877, _Leopold Sh._), J. P. Collier -(1878, _Shakespeare_), G. C. Moore Smith (1897, _T. D._), J. S. -Farmer (1910, _T. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: H. von Friesen, _Ed. -iii, angeblich ein Stück von Sh._ (1867, _Jahrbuch_, ii. 64); J. P. -Collier, _K. Edw. III, a Historical Play by W. Sh._ (1874); A. Teetgen, -_Sh’s. K. Edw. iii, absurdly called, and scandalously treated, as a -‘Doubtful Play’: an Indignation Pamphlet_ (1875); A. C. Swinburne, _On -the Historical Play of K. Edw. iii_ (1879, _Gent. Mag._, 1880, &c., -_Study of Sh._); G. von Vincke, _K. Edw. iii, ein Bühnenstück?_ (1879, -_Jahrbuch_, xiv. 304); E. Phipson, _Ed. iii_ (1889, _N. S. S. Trans._ -58*); G. Liebau, _K. Ed. iii von England und die Gräfin von Salisbury_ -(1900, 1901), _K. Ed. iii von England im Lichte europäischer Poesie_ -(1901); R. M. Smith, _Edw. III_ (1911, _J. G. P._ x. 90). - -The authorship was first ascribed to Shakespeare (with that of _Edw. -IV_ and _Edw. II_!) in Rogers and Ley’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, -_Masques_, lxiv). The theory was advocated by Capell, and has received -much support, largely owing to the assent of Tennyson, against whose -authority, however, may be set that of Swinburne. In its latest and not -altogether unplausible form, Shakespeare is regarded as the author, not -of the whole play, but of i. 2 and ii, which deal with the episode of -the wooing of Lady Salisbury by the king, and are possibly, although -by no means certainly, due to another hand than that of the chronicle -narrative, to which they are only slightly linked. The style of these -scenes is not demonstrably un-Shakespearian, and they, and in less -degree the play as a whole, contain many parallels with _Hen. V_ and -other works of the ‘nineties, of which the repetition in II. i. 451 and -in Sonnet XCIV of the line - - Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds - -is the most striking. The controversy cannot be dealt with in detail -here. Shakespeare’s contribution, if any, may with most probability -be assigned to the winter of 1594–5; but it does not follow that -the original play may not have been of earlier date. No importance -is to be attached to the argument of Fleay (ii. 62; _Shakespeare_, -282) that the use of the phrase ‘Ave, Caesar’ in I. i. 164 caused -its use in Greene’s _Francesco’s Fortunes_ of 1590 (cf. App. C, no. -xliii), but it is noteworthy that a play on the subject was produced, -apparently under Anglo-German influence, at Danzig in 1591 (Herz, 5). -Of non-Shakespearian authors, for the whole or a part of the play as -extant, Marlowe is preferred by Fleay, Greene by Liebau and Robertson, -and Kyd by Sarrazin. - - - _Edward the Fourth > 1599_ - -_S. R._ 1599, Aug. 28. ‘Twoo playes beinge the ffirst and Second parte -of Edward the iiij^{th} and the Tanner of Tamworth With the history of -the life and deathe of master Shore and Jane Shore his Wyfe as yt was -lately acted by the Right honorable the Erle of Derbye his seruantes.’ -_John Oxonbridge and John Burby_ (Arber, iii. 147). - -1600, Feb. 23. Transfer of Busby’s interest to Humphrey Lownes (Arber, -iii. 156). - -1600. The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth. Containing -His mery pastime with the Tanner of Tamworth, as also his loue to faire -mistrisse Shoare, her great promotion, fall and miserie and lastly the -lamentable death of both her and her husband. Likewise the besieging -of London, by the Bastard Falconbridge, and the valiant defence of -the same by the Lord Maior and the Citizens. As it hath diuers times -beene publikely played by the Right Honorable the Earle of Derbie his -seruants. _F. K. for Humfrey Lownes and John Oxenbridge._ - -1605; 1613; 1619; 1626. - -_Edition_ by B. Field (1842, _Sh. Soc._).--_Dissertation_: A. Sander, -_T. Heywood’s Historien von König Edward iv und ihre Quellen_ (1907, -Jena diss.). - -Sander and others date the play 1594, by an identification with the -anonymous _Siege of London_ revived by the Admiral’s on 26 Dec. 1594. -Greg (Henslowe, ii. 173) more cautiously says that the play of 1594 -‘may underlie’ certain scenes of _1 Edward iv_. He regards _Edward -iv_, ‘on internal evidence, as unquestionably Heywood’s’. This is the -usual view, but Fleay, ii. 288, had doubted it. There is no external -evidence for Heywood’s authorship, or for any connexion between him and -Derby’s men. Moreover, in May 1603, he authorized Henslowe, on behalf -of Worcester’s, to pay Chettle and Day for ‘the Booke of Shoare, now -newly to be written’, also described as ‘a playe wherein Shores wiffe -is writen’. If this was a revision of his own play, he would hardly -have left it to others. It is fair to add that in the previous January -he had himself received payment with Chettle for an unnamed play, -which might be the same (Henslowe, ii. 234). The ‘three-mans song’ on -Agincourt in iii. 2 of Part I closely resembles Drayton’s _Ballad of -Agincourt_ (ed. Brett, 81), and must, I think, be his. _Jane Shore_ is -mentioned as a play visited by citizens in _The Knight of the Burning -Pestle_ (1607), ind. 57, and ‘the well-frequented play of Shore’ in -_Pimlyco or Runne Redcap_ (1609). A play, apparently on the same -subject, was performed by English actors at Graz on 19 Nov. 1607 (Herz, -98). - - - _Every Woman in Her Humour. 1607–8?_ - -1609. Everie Woman in her Humor. _E. A. for Thomas Archer._ [Prologue.] - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1885, _O. E. P._ iv) and J. S. Farmer -(1913, _S. F. T._).--_Dissertation_: J. Q. Adams, _E. W. I. and The -Dumb Knight_ (1913, _M. P._ x. 413). - -Fleay, ii. 321, suggests a date _c._ 1602 on the ground of apparent -reference to the _Poetomachia_. But this is not conclusive, and Adams -points to the use of a song (p. 335) from Bateson’s _Madrigals_ (1604). -He thinks that Lewis Machin was the author, as the style resembles -that of the comic part of _The Dumb Knight_ (vide s. Markham), and two -passages are substantially reproduced in the latter. If so, this also -may be a King’s Revels play. Allusions on p. 270 to the ‘babones’ (cf. -s.v. _Sir Giles Goosecap_) and on p. 316 to the Family of Love (cf. -s.v. Middleton) are consistent with a date of 1603–8. - - - _Fair Em c. 1590_ - -N.D. _For T. N. and I. W._ - -[In Bodleian. Greg says that this is ‘considerably earlier’ than -1631. The t.p. is as in 1631. Chetwood mentions three early editions, -including one undated and one of 1619. This is not now known.] - -1631. A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Millers Daughter of -Manchester. With the loue of William the Conqueror. As it was sundry -times publiquely acted in the Honourable Citie of London, by the right -Honourable the Lord Strange his Seruants. _For John Wright._ - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ ii), J. S. Farmer (1911, -_T. F. T._), and in collections of _Sh. Apocrypha._--_Dissertations_: -R. Simpson, _Some Plays Attributed to Sh._ (1875–6, _N. S. S. Trans._ -155); K. Elze, _Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu Mucedorus und F. E._ -(1880, _Jahrbuch_, xv. 339); P. Lohr, _Le Printemps d’Yver und die -Quelle zu F. E._ (1912). - -The play has a double plot. One theme is the contest of William the -Conqueror and the Marquess Lubeck for the loves of Princess Blanch of -Denmark and of Mariana, a Swedish captive; the other is the contest -of Manvile, Mountney and Valingford for Em, daughter of the Miller of -Manchester. A ‘ballad intituled The Miller’s daughter of Manchester’ -was entered on the Stationers’ Register by Henry Carr on 2 March 1581 -(Arber, ii. 390). _Fair Em_ has been included in the Shakespeare -_Apocrypha_ on the strength of a volume formerly in the collection -of Charles II, and then in that of Garrick, in which it was bound -up with _Mucedorus_ and _The Merry Devil of Edmonton_ and lettered -‘Shakespeare, vol. i’. On the other hand, Edward Phillips, in his -_Theatrum Poetarum_ (1675), assigned it to Greene. Clearly Greene is -not the author, although there are certain resemblances of situation -between the play and _Friar Bacon_; for he satirizes it in the preface -to _Farewell to Folly_ (_Works_, ix. 232), quoting one or two of its -expressions and blaming them as borrowed out of Scripture. Of the -author he says, ‘He that cannot write true English without the help -of clerks of parish churches will needs make himself the father of -interludes’, and, ‘The sexton of St. Giles without Cripplegate would -have been ashamed of such blasphemous rhetoric’. _Farewell to Folly_ -seems to have appeared in 1591 (cf. s.v. Greene), and _Fair Em_ may -perhaps therefore be dated between this pamphlet and _Friar Bacon_ -(_c._ 1589). Simpson adopts the theory, which hardly deserves serious -discussion, of Shakespeare’s authorship. He finds numerous (but -impossible) attacks by Greene upon Shakespeare from the _Planetomachia_ -(1585) onwards, and thinks that Shakespeare retorted in _Fair Em_, -satirizing Greene as Manvile and Marlowe as Mountney, and depicting -himself as Valingford. ‘Fair Em’ herself is the Manchester stage. -In the story of William the Conqueror he finds an allusion to the -travels of William Kempe and other actors in Denmark and Saxony. Fleay, -_Shakespeare Manual_ (1878), 281, adopts much of this fantasy, but -turns ‘Fair Em’ into the Queen’s company and Valingford into Peele. -In 1891 (ii. 282) he makes ‘Fair Em’ Strange’s company. His minor -identifications, whether of 1878 or of 1891, may be disregarded. More -plausible is his suggestion that the author of the play may be Robert -Wilson (q.v.), which would explain the attack upon Greene (q.v.) for -his _Farewell to Folly_ in R. W.’s _Martin Mar-sixtus_ (1591). The -suggestion that the play was the _Sir John Mandeville_ revived by -Strange’s for Henslowe in 1592 rests on a confusion between Mandeville -and Manvile, but it may have been the _William the Conqueror_ similarly -revived by Sussex’s on 4 Jan. 1594 (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 151, 158). - - - _The Fair Maid of Bristow > 1604_ - -_S. R._ 1605, Feb. 8. ‘A commedy called “the fayre Mayd of Bristoe” -played at Hampton Court by his Maiesties players.’ _Thomas Pavier_ -(Arber, iii. 283). - -1605. The Faire Maide of Bristow. As it was plaide at Hampton, before -the King and Queenes most excellent Maiesties. _For Thomas Pavier._ - -_Editions_ by A. H. Quinn (1902, _Pennsylvania Univ. Publ._) and J. S. -Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._). - -The court performance must have been during the Christmas of 1603–4, -which was at Hampton Court. Bullen, _Works of Day_, 10, rejects the -theory of Collier that this was Day’s _Bristol Tragedy_, written for -the Admiral’s in May 1602, on the grounds that it is not a tragedy and -does not resemble the known work of Day. Moreover, the King’s men are -not likely to have acquired an Admiral’s play. - - - _The Fair Maid of the Exchange c. 1602_ - -_S. R._ 1607, April 24 (Buck). ‘A booke called the faire Mayde of the -Exchaunge.’ _Henry Rocket_ (Arber, iii. 347). - -1607. The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange. With the pleasaunt Humours of -the Cripple of Fanchurch. Very delectable, and full of mirth. _For -Henry Rockit._ [Dramatis Personae headed ‘Eleauen may easily acte this -Comedie’, and Prologue.] - -1525. _I. L._ - -1637. _A. G._ - -_Edition_ by B. Field (1845, _Sh. Soc._).--_Dissertations_: L. A. -Hibberd, _The Authorship and Date of the Fair Maid of the Exchange_ -(_M. P._ vii. 383); P. Aronstein, _Die Verfasserschaft des Dramas The -Fair Maid of the Exchange_ (1912, _E. S._ xlv. 45). - -Heywood’s authorship was asserted by Kirkman in 1671 (Greg, _Masques_, -lxvii), denied by Langbaine in 1687, accepted by Charles Lamb and -out of respect to him by Ward, ii. 572, and is still matter of -dispute. Fleay, ii. 329, assigned it to Machin on quite inadequate -grounds. Hibberd argues the case for Heywood, and Aronstein attempts -a compromise by giving ii. I, iv. I, and V to Heywood and the rest to -some young academic student of Shakespeare and Jonson. The imitations -of these point to a date _c._ 1602. I do not offer an opinion. - - - _Fedele and Fortunio or Two Italian Gentlemen c. 1584_ - -_S. R._ 1584, Nov. 12. ‘A booke entituled Fedele et Fortuna. The -deceiptes in love Discoursed in a Commedie of ij Italyan gent and -translated into Englishe.’ _Thomas Hackett_ (Arber, ii. 437). - -1585. Fedele and Fortunio. The deceites in Loue: excellently discoursed -in a very pleasaunt and fine conceited Comoedie, of two Italian -Gentlemen. Translated out of Italian, and set downe according as it -hath beene presented before the Queenes moste excellent Maiestie. -_For Thomas Hacket._ - -[In the Mostyn sale (1919). Epistle ‘To the Woorshipfull, and very -courteous Gentleman, Maister M. R. M.A. commendeth this pleasaunt and -fine conceited comœdie’, signed M.A.; Prologue before the Queene; -Epilogue at the Court, signed M.A. The compiler of the Mostyn sale -catalogue says that this differs from the imperfect print in the -Chatsworth collection, containing sheets B to G only, without t.p., -epistle, prologue, or epilogue, which is the basis of the modern -editions. Both have the running title, ‘A pleasant Comœdie of two -Italian Gentlemen’. Collier, iii. 60, had seen a copy with the epistle -as found in the Mostyn print, but addressed to John Heardson and signed -A.M. This has been recently found in the Huntington collection. - -_Editions_ by P. Simpson (1909, _M. S. R._) and F. Flügge (1909, -_Archiv_, cxxiii, 45), and extracts by _Halliwell_ (1852, _Literature -of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_, 15).--_Dissertations_: W. -W. Greg, _Notes on Publications_ (1909, _M. S. C._ i. 218); F. Flügge, -_Fidele und Fortunio_ (1912, Breslau diss.). - -The epistle says ‘I commende to your freendly viewe this prettie -Conceit, as well for the inuention, as the delicate conueiance thereof: -not doubting but you will so esteeme thereof, as it dooth very well -deserue, and I hartely desire’. This praise of the ‘conueiance’ (which -I take to mean either ‘style’ or possibly ‘translation’) does not -suggest that M. A. (or A. M.) was the translator. It is true that ll. -224–41 appear in _England’s Helicon_ (1600) signed ‘Shep. Tonie’, and -that this signature is often taken to indicate Munday. On the other -hand, two lines of this passage also appear in _England’s Parnassus_ -(1600, ed. Crawford, 306) over the initials S. G., which suggest -Gosson. Another passage in _E. P._ (231) combines ll. 661–2 and 655–6 -of the play over the signature G. Chapman. This has led Crawford (_E. -S._ xliii. 203), with some support from Greg, to suggest Chapman’s -authorship. I do not think the suggestion very convincing, in view -of the inconsistency and general unreliability of _E. P._ and the -fact that Chapman’s first clear appearance as a writer is ten years -later, in 1594. The evidence is quite indecisive, but of Munday, -Chapman, Gosson, I incline to think Gosson the most likely candidate. -On the other hand, if M. R. is Matthew Roydon, he was the dedicatee -of poems by Chapman in 1594 and 1595. For M. A. I hardly dare guess -Matthew Arundel. In any case, the play is only a translation from L. -Pasqualigo’s _Il Fedele_ (1576). - - - _2 Fortune’s Tennis c. 1602_ - -[_MS._] _Add. MS._ 10449. ‘The [plott of the sec]ond part of fortun[s -Tenn]is.’ [A fragment, probably from Dulwich.] - -The text is given by Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 143. The actors named -show that it belonged to the Admiral’s, and Greg suggests that it may -be Dekker’s ‘fortewn tenes’ of Sept. 1600. Is it not more likely to -have been a sequel to that, possibly Munday’s _Set at Tennis_ of Dec. -1602? - - - _Frederick and Basilea. 1597_ - -[_MS._] _Add. MS._ 10449. ‘The plott of Frederick & Basilea.’ [Probably -from Dulwich.] - -The text is given by Steevens, _Variorum_ (1803), iii. 414; Boswell, -_Variorum_ (1821), iii. 356; Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 135; and a -facsimile by Halliwell, _The Theatre Plats of Three Old English Dramas_ -(1860). - -The play was produced by the Admiral’s on 3 June 1597, and the actors -named represent that company at that date (cf. ch. xiii). - - - _George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield > 1593_ - -_S. R._ 1595, April 1. ‘An Enterlude called the Pynder of Wakefeilde.’ -_Cuthbert Burby_ (Arber, ii. 295). - -1599. A Pleasant Conceyted Comedie of George a Greene, the Pinner -of Wakefield. As it was sundry times acted by the seruants of the -right Honourable the Earle of Sussex. _Simon Stafford for Cuthbert -Burby._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^{1–3} (1744–1825), by W. Scott (1810, _A. B. D._ -i), F. W. Clarke (1911, _M. S. R._), and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._), and -in collections of Greene.--_Dissertation_: O. Mertins, _Robert Greene -and the Play of G. a G._ (1885, Breslau diss.). - -Sussex’s men revived the play for Henslowe on 29 Dec. 1593 (Greg, -_Henslowe_, ii. 158). The Chatsworth copy has on the title-page the -following notes in two early seventeenth-century hands: ‘Written by -... a minister, who ac[ted] the piñers p̄t in it himself. Teste W. -Shakespea[re]’, and ‘Ed Iuby saith that the play was made by Ro. -Gree[ne]’. These, though first produced by Collier, appear (_M. S. -C._ i. 288) to be genuine. Greene’s authorship has been very commonly -accepted. Fleay, i. 264, ii. 51, supposed first Greene and Peele, then -added Lodge, but, although the text has been abridged, there is no -evidence of double authorship. Oliphant’s suggestion (_M. P._ viii. -433) of revision by Heywood only rests on the inclusion of the play -next his in the Cockpit list of 1639 (_Variorum_, iii. 159). R. B. -McKerrow thinks (_M. S. C._ i. 289) that the ‘by Ro. Greene’ of the -note may mean ‘about Ro. Greene’ as a leading incident is apparently -based on an episode of Greene’s life. An allusion in I. i. 42 to -_Tamburlaine_ gives an anterior limit of date. - - - _Sir Giles Goosecap. 1601 < > 3_ - -_S. R._ 1606, Jan. 10. (Wilson). ‘An Comedie called Sir Gyles Goosecap -Provided that yt be printed accordinge to the Copie wherevnto master -Wilson’s hand ys at.’ _Edward Blount_ (Arber, iii. 309). - -1606. Sir Gyles Goosecappe. Knight. A Comedie presented by the Chil: of -the Chappell. _John Windet for Edward Blount._ - -1636....A Comedy lately Acted with great applause at the private House -in Salisbury Court. _For Hugh Perry, sold by Roger Bell._ [Epistle -to Richard Young of Woolley Farm, Berks. Signed ‘Hugh Perry’.] - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1884, _O. E. P._ iii), W. Bang and R. -Brotanek (1909, _Materialien_, xxvi), J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._), -and T. M. Parrott (1914, _Chapman_, ii).--_Dissertations_: G. L. -Kittredge, _Notes on Elizabethan Plays_ (1898, _J. G. P._ ii. 10); T. -M. Parrott, _The Authorship of S. G. G._ (1906, _M. P._ iv. 25). - -Bullen thought the author, who is stated in Perry’s epistle to be dead -in 1636, might be some imitator of Chapman. Fleay, ii. 322, suggests -Chapman himself. This view receives elaborate support from Parrott, -and appears very plausible. As ‘your greatest gallants, for men, in -France were here lately’ (III. i. 47) the date is after the visit of -Biron in Sept. 1601 and possibly after that of Nevers in April 1602. It -cannot be later than the beginning of 1603, as ‘She is the best scholar -of any woman, but one, in Europe’ (I. i. 140) points to Elizabeth’s -lifetime. Moreover, Dekker, in his _Wonderful Year_ of 1603 (Grosart, -i. 116), has ‘Galen could do no more good, than Sir Giles Goosecap’, -and though ‘goosecap’ is a known term for a booby, e.g. in Nashe’s -_Four Letters Confuted_ of 1592 (_Works_, i. 281), the play seems to -be responsible for the ‘Sir Giles’. The phrase ‘comparisons odorous’ -in IV. ii. 64 echoes _Much Ado_, III. v. 18. The later part of the -period 1601–3 would perhaps best fit the allusions to the Family of -Love (II. i. 263), as to which cf. s.v. Middleton’s play of that name, -and to the baboons (I. i. 11), the memory of which is still alive in -_Volpone_ (1606) and _Ram Alley_ (1607–8). Probably these had already -amused London before 1605, as on Oct. 5 of that year the Norwich -records (Murray, ii. 338) note that ‘This day John Watson ironmonger -brought the Kyngs maiesties warrant graunted to Roger Lawrence & the -deputacion to the seid Watson to shewe two beasts called Babonnes’. So, -too, Kelly, 247, has a Leicester payment of 1606 ‘to the M^r of the -Babons, lycensed to travell by the Kings warrant’. There is a story -of a country fellow who wanted to go to a market town ‘to haue seene -the Baboones’ as late as J. Taylor’s _Wit and Mirth_ in 1629 (Hazlitt, -_Jest Books_, iii. 43). Fleay’s identifications of Chapman himself with -Clarence and Drayton with Goosecap hardly deserve consideration. - - - _Grim the Collier of Croydon. 1600_ - -[Alleged prints of 1599 (Chetwood), 1600 (Ward, i. 263), and 1606 -(Jacob) probably rest on no authority.] - -1662. Grim the Collier of Croyden; Or, The Devil and his Dame: With -The Devil and Saint Dunston. [Part of Gratiae Theatrales, or, A choice -Ternary of English plays. Composed upon especial occasions by several -ingenious persons; viz.... Grim the Collier ... a Comedy, by I. T. -Never before published: but now printed at the request of sundry -ingenious friends. R. D. 1662, 12^{mo}.] - -_Editions_ by W. Scott (1810, _A. B. D._ iii), in Dodsley^4, viii -(1876), and by J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._).--_Dissertation_: H. D. Sykes, -_The Authorship of G. the C. of C._ (1919, _M. L. R._ xiv. 245). - -Of I. T. nothing is known. Greg (_Henslowe_, ii. 213) regards the play -as clearly of the sixteenth century on internal evidence, and points -out that Henslowe, on behalf of the Admiral’s, paid Haughton 5s. on 6 -May 1600, ‘in earneste of a boocke which he wold calle the devell & his -dame’. The entry was subsequently cancelled, and presumably Haughton -transferred the play to another company. Sykes calls attention to -analogies with _Englishmen for my Money_, which confirm the probability -of Haughton’s authorship. It is only the ascription of 1662 to I. T. -which causes hesitation. Farmer (_Hand List_, 19) suggests that this -was John Tatham. Grim and the Devil both appear in the _Like Will to -Like_ of Ulpian Fulwell (q.v.), but I do not understand what kind of -indirect connexion Greg thinks may have existed between Haughton’s play -and a possible revival of Fulwell’s by Pembroke’s men in Oct. 1600. - - - _The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth > 1588_ - -_S. R._ 1594, May 14. ‘A booke intituled, The famous victories of -Henrye the Fyft, conteyninge the honorable battell of Agincourt.’ -_Thomas Creede_ (Arber, ii. 648). - -1598. The Famous Victories of Henry the fifth: Containing the -Honourable Battell of Agincourt: As it was plaide by the Queenes -Maiesties Players. _Thomas Creede._ - -1617.... as it was Acted by the Kinges Maiesties Seruants. _Bernard -Alsop._ [Another issue of the same sheets.] - -_Editions_ by J. Nichols (1779, _Six Old Plays_, ii. 317), W. C. -Hazlitt (1875, _Shakespeare’s Library_, v. 321), P. A. Daniel (1887, -_Sh. Q._), and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._). - -In _Tarlton’s Jests_ (ed. Halliwell for _Sh. Soc._ 24) is a story of -Knell acting Henry V and Tarlton doubling the parts of the judge and -the clown, which clearly refers to this play. The performance took -place ‘at the Bull in Bishopsgate’. Tarlton died in 1588. Fleay, -67; ii. 259, suggests that Tarlton was the author. Nashe in _Pierce -Penilesse_ (1592, _Works_, i. 213) speaks of ‘_Henrie_ the fifth -represented on the stage’. This is obviously too early to be the new -play of ‘harey the V’, given thirteen times for Henslowe between 28 -Nov. 1595 and 15 July 1596 by the Admiral’s, in whose inventories -of March 1598 Harry the Fifth’s doublet and gown appear. An earlier -Henslowe entry on 14 May 1592, sometimes quoted as ‘harey the v^{th}’ -by Collier, is really ‘harey the 6’ (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 152, 177; -_Henslowe Papers_, 121). Sykes thinks the author S. Rowley (q.v.). - - - _Histriomastix. 1589 (?), 1599_ - -_S. R._ 1610, Oct. 31 (Buck). ‘A booke called, Histriomastix or the -player whipte.’ _Thomas Thorpe_ (Arber, iii. 447). - -1610. Histrio-Mastix. Or, the Player whipt. _For Thomas Thorp._ - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ ii. 1) and J. S. Farmer -(1912, _T. F. T._).--_Dissertation_: F. Hoppe, _Histriomastix-Studien_ -(1906, Breslau diss.). - -Fleay, ii. 69, gives the whole play to Marston, but the sounder view -of Simpson that Marston, whose style in places is unmistakable, was -only the reviser of an earlier play, is revived in the elaborate and -mainly satisfactory study of Small, 67. The passages assigned by Small -to Marston are ii. 63–9, 128–9, 247–79; iii. 179–v. 191; v. 234; vi. -259–95. I should be inclined to add v. 244–67, but to omit ii. 128–9; -iii. 218–64; iv. 159–201; v. 61–102; v. 147–180; vi. 259–95, which may -just as well belong to the original play. No doubt vi. 259–95 is an -addition, constituting an alternative ending for a court performance -before Elizabeth; but this may just as well have been a contemporary -as a Marstonian addition, and in fact there is no court performance at -the end of the century available for it, while the attempt to find one -led Fleay to the impossible theory that it was given by Derby’s men. -As its whole substance is a satire on professional players, it must -have been both produced and revived by amateurs or boys; and the same -conclusion is pointed to by the enormous number of characters. The -original matter is so full of the technical learning of the schools -as to suggest an academic audience; I think it was a University or -possibly an Inns of Court, not a choirboy, play. The theme is the -cyclical progression of a state through the stages Peace, Plenty, -Pride, Envy, War, Poverty, and Peace again. It is illustrated by the -fortunes of a company of players, who wax insolent in prosperity, and -when war comes, are pressed for soldiers. Their poet Posthaste is -clearly Munday and not, as Simpson and others have vainly imagined, -Shakespeare. With him is contrasted the scholar-poet, Chrisoganus, a -philosopher with whom the players will have nothing to do. He seems to -belong to the order of ideas connected with the scientific school of -Thomas Harriott. Small thinks that the date was 1596, when there was -scarcity of food, a persecution of players, and a pressing of men for -service against Spain; and that the author might be Chapman. Certainly -Chapman was an early admirer of Harriott. But I disagree as to the -date. The style seems to me to be that of Peele or some imitator, -the attitude to the players an academic reflection of the attacks of -Greene, and the political atmosphere that of the years following the -Armada, when the relief of peace was certainly not unbroken by fears of -renewed Spanish attempts. Impressment was not a device of 1596 alone. -The only notice of it known to me in which players are known to have -especially suffered is in an undated letter of Philip Gawdy, assigned -by his editor to 1602 (Gawdy, 121), ‘All the playe howses wer besett -in one daye and very many pressed from thence, so that in all ther -ar pressed ffowre thowsand besydes fyve hundred voluntaryes, and all -for flaunders’. This is too late for the _proto-Histriomastix_, and -probably also for the revival, but men were being pressed for foreign -service as early as 1585, and again in 1588 and possibly in 1589 and -1591 (Cheyney, i. 158, 197, 219, 255; _Procl._ 805, 809). As to the -revival, Small puts it definitely in August 1599, when a scare of a -Spanish invasion, which had lasted for a month, came to a crisis in -London on Aug. 7 (Stowe, _Annales_, 788; Chamberlain, 59; _Sydney -Papers_, ii. 113; _Hist. MSS._ xv, app. v, 66), and he thinks that the -words ‘The Spaniards are come!’ (v. 234) are an insertion of this date. -They are not ‘extra-metrical’, as Fleay says, for the passage is not -in metre. There had, however, been earlier scares, e.g. in Oct. 1595 -(_Sydney Papers_, i. 355; cf. Arber, iii. 55, 56) and in Oct. 1597 -(_Edmondes Papers_, 303). The date of 1599 would agree well enough with -the career of Marston, and with that of the Paul’s boys, to whom the -revival was probably due, although I do not agree with Small that it -was their court play of 1 Jan. 1601, because I see no evidence that the -court ending belongs to the revision. I take it that _Histriomastix_ -was one of the ‘musty fopperies of antiquity’ with which we learn -from _Jack Drum’s Entertainment_, v. 112, that the Paul’s boys began. -The revision leaves Posthaste untouched, save for the characteristic -Marstonian sneer of ‘goosequillian’ (iii. 187). Munday of course was -still good sport in 1599. But Chrisoganus is turned from a scientific -into a ‘translating’ scholar (ii. 63). I agree with Small that -Marston has given him Jonsonian traits, and that he intended to be -complimentary rather than the reverse. I do not know that it is -necessary to suppose that Jonson misunderstood this and took offence, -for the real offence was given by _Jack Drum’s Entertainment_ in the -next year. But certainly some of the ‘fustian’ words put in the mouth -of Clove in _Every Man Out of His Humour_, III. i. 177 sqq., later in -1599 come from _Histriomastix_, and their origin is pointed by the -phrase ‘as you may read in Plato’s Histriomastix’. One of the fragments -of plays recited by the players contains the lines (ii. 269): - - Come Cressida, my Cresset light, - Thy face doth shine both day and night; - Behold behold thy garter blue - Thy knight his valiant elbow wears, - That when he shakes his furious Speare - The foe in shivering fearful sort - May lay him down in death to snort. - -I am not convinced with Small that this belongs to the revision, even -though it seems discontinuous with the following fragment of a Prodigal -Child play. But in any case the hit at Shakespeare, if there really -is one, remains unexplained. There is nothing else which points to -so early a date as 1599 for his _Troilus and Cressida_. I note the -following parallel from S. Rowlands, _The Letting of Humors Blood in -the Head-Veine_ (1600), Sat. iv: - - Be thou the Lady Cressit-light to mee, - Sir Trollelolle I will proue to thee. - - - _The Honest Lawyer > 1615_ - -_S. R._ 1615, Aug. 14. (Taverner). ‘A play called The Honest Lawyer.’ -_Richard Redmer_ (Arber, iii. 571). [Assigned by Redmer, apparently at -once, to Richard Woodriffe.] - -1616. The Honest Lawyer. Acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants. -Written by S. S. _George Purslowe for Richard Woodroffe._ -[Epilogue.] - -_Edition_ by J. S. Farmer (1914, _S. F._). - -A conceivable author is Samuel Sheppard (q.v.), but the absence of -extant early work by him makes a definite attribution hazardous. - - - _How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad c. 1602_ - -1602. A pleasant conceited Comedie, Wherein is shewed how a man may -chuse a good Wife from a bad. As it hath bene sundry times Acted by the -Earle of Worcesters Seruants. _For Mathew Law._ - -1605; 1608; 1614; 1621; 1630; 1634. - -_Editions_: 1824 (for Charles Baldwin), in _O. E. D._ (1825, i) and -Dodsley^4 (1876–9, ix), and by A. E. H. Swaen (1912, _Materialien_, -xxxv) and J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: C. R. -Baskervill, _Sources and Analogues of H._ (1909, _M. L. A._ xxiv. 711); -J. Q. Adams, _Thomas Heywood and H._ (1912, _E. S._ xlv. 30). - -The B.M. copy of 1602 (C. 34, b. 53) has the note ‘Written by Ioshua -Cooke’ in ink on the title-page. Presumably the author of _Greene’s Tu -Quoque_ (q.v.) is meant, with which Swaen, xiii, declares that the play -shows ‘absolutely no similarity or point of agreement’. Fleay, i. 289, -suggested an ascription to Heywood on the ground of parallelisms with -_The Wise Woman of Hogsdon_, and this case is elaborately and plausibly -argued by Swaen and Adams. The date must be before Worcester’s begin to -appear in Henslowe’s diary, 17 Aug. 1602. Fleay’s attempt to twist its -mentions of a certain ‘Thomas’ in the text (l. 790) into references to -Heywood himself and Thomas Blackwood, the actor, is mere childishness. - - - _Impatient Poverty (?)_ - -_S. R._ 1560, June 10. ‘ ... nyce wanton; impaciens poverte ...’ _John -King_ (Arber, i. 128). - -1560. A Newe Interlude of Impacyente pouerte newlye Imprynted. _John -King._ [B.M. C. 34, i. 26, from Irish sale of 1906 (cf. _Jahrbuch_, -xliii. 310). Engraved t.p.; on tablet at foot ‘T. R.’ Thomas Petit’s -mark after colophon. The t.p. has also ‘Foure men may well and easelye -playe thys Interlude’, with an arrangement of the parts.] - -N.D. An new enterlude of Impacient pouerte newly Imprynted. [In Mostyn -sale (1919). The t.p. has three woodcut figures. There is no imprint, -but as the woodcuts are also found in W. Copland’s print of _Youth_ and -as King’s copy of _Lusty Juventus_ also passed to Copland (1548–69), he -was probably the printer.] - -_S. R._ 1582, Jan. 15. Transfer from Sampson Awdeley to John Charlwood -(Arber, ii. 405). - -_Editions_ by J. S. Farmer (1907, _T. F. T._) and R. B. McKerrow (1911, -_Materialien_, xxxiii). - -The play has come to light since the issue of _The Mediaeval Stage_, -and I therefore include it here, although it is pre-Elizabethan. The -characters are Peace, Envy, Impatient Poverty (afterwards Prosperity), -Conscience, Abundance, Misrule, ‘Collhasarde’, and a Summoner. -The drama is a moral, non-controversial, and not even necessarily -Protestant in tone. It sets out the mutability of the world and the -defects of poverty and prosperity. The scene is a ‘place’, and there -are allusions to Newgate and Tyburn. If the T. R. of the title-page -is the same whose name is at the end of _Nice Wanton_, the play is -probably not later than the reign of Edward VI; but the Summoner and -allusions to penance and courts spiritual suggest an even earlier date. -The final address to the ‘Soueraynes’ contains the following stanza: - - Let vs pray al to that lorde of great magnificence - To send amonge vs peace rest and vnyte - And Jesu preserue our soueraigne Quene of preclare preeminence - With al her noble consanguynyte - And to sende them grace so the yssue to obtayne - After them to rule this most chrysten realme. - -The form of the companion stanzas suggests that the two last lines -originally rhymed, and that a line has dropped out before them. -Possibly an ending originally meant for Henry VIII and Jane Seymour -has been altered with a view to making it appropriate to Elizabeth. -The play is offered with other pre-Elizabethan plays by the company in -_Sir Thomas More_, IV. i. 42, and was also in the obsolete library of -Captain Cox (_Robert Laneham’s Letter_, ed. Furnivall, 30). - - - _Jack Drum’s Entertainment. 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1600, Sept. 8. ‘A booke Called Jack Drum’s enterteynmente. A -commedy as yt bathe ben diuerse tymes Acted by the Children of Paules.’ -_Felix Norton_ (Arber, iii. 172). - -1600, Oct. 23. Transfer from Norton to Richard Oliff (Arber, iii. 175). - -1601. Iacke Drums Entertainment: Or the Comedie of Pasquill and -Katherine. As it hath bene sundry times plaide by the Children of -Powles. _For Richard Olive._ [Introduction, i.e. Induction.] - -1616.... Newly Corrected. _W. Stansby for Philip Knight._ - -1618.... The Actors 12 men, and 4 women. _For Nathaniel Fosbrooke._ - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ ii. 125) and J. S. Farmer -(1912, _T. F. T._). - -All critics have recognized the style as Marston’s and some of the -vocabulary is vomited in _Poetaster_; cf. Small, 93. The date is fixed -to 1600 by allusions to hopes of ‘peace with Spaine’, ‘Kemps morice’, -and ‘womens yeare’ (i. 37, 45, 166). There is little doubt that the -critical Brabant Senior is Jonson, and that the play is that in which -he told Drummond that Marston staged him. The cuckolding of Brabant -Senior is based upon a story narrated by Jonson to Drummond (Laing, 21) -as one in which he had played the active, not the passive, part. If he -had imparted the same story to Marston, he not unnaturally resented -the use made of it. The minor identifications suggested by Fleay, ii. -74, have nothing to commend them, except possibly that of Sir Edward -Fortune with Edward Alleyn, who was building the Fortune in 1600. Were -not this a Paul’s play, one might infer from the closing line, - - Our _Fortune_ laughes, and all content abounds, - -that it was given at the Fortune. Can the Admiral’s have shared it -with Paul’s, as the Chamberlain’s shared _Satiromastix_? In iv. 37–48 -Brabant Senior criticizes three ‘moderne wits’ whom he calls ‘all apes -and guls’ and ‘vile imitating spirits’. They are Mellidus, Musus, and -Decius. I take them to be Marston, Middleton, and Dekker, all writers -for Paul’s; others take Decius for Drayton, to whom Sir John Davies -applied the name, and Musus, by a confusion with Musaeus, for Chapman -or Daniel. For v. 102–14, which bears on the history of the company, -cf. ch. xii (Paul’s). - - - _The Life and Death of Jack Straw > 1593_ - -_S. R._ 1593, Oct. 23. ‘An enterlude of the lyfe and deathe of Jack -Strawe.’ _John Danter_ (Arber, ii. 639). - -1593. [Colophon, 1594]. The Life and Death of Iacke Straw, A notable -Rebell in England: Who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of -London. _John Danter, sold by William Barley._ - -1604. _For Thomas Pavier._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^4 (1874, v), and by H. Schütt (1901) and J. S. -Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._). - -Fleay, ii. 153, Schütt, and Robertson, 121, all incline to suggest the -authorship, whole or in part, of Peele. Schütt would date _c._ -1588, but the theme is that of T. Nelson’s pageant of 1590–1, for which -year a member of Walworth’s company, the Fishmongers, was Lord Mayor. -The text of the play is very short, with only four acts. - - - _Jacob and Esau > 1558_ - -_S. R._ 1557–8. ‘An enterlude vpon the history of Jacobe and Esawe out -of the xxvii chapeter of the fyrste boke of Moyses Called genyses.’ -_Henry Sutton_ (Arber, i. 77). - -1568. A newe mery and wittie Comedie or Enterlude, newely imprinted, -treating vpon the Historie of Iacob and Esau, taken out of the xxvij. -Chap. of the first booke of Moses, entituled Genesis. _Henrie -Bynneman._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^4 (1874, ii), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, _T. F. -T._). - -The play must necessarily, from the date of the S. R. entry, be -pre-Elizabethan, and should have been included in Appendix X of _The -Mediaeval Stage_. C. C. Stopes, _Hunnis_, 265, and in _Athenaeum_ (28 -April 1900), claims the authorship for Hunnis; W. Bang has suggested -Udall, which seems plausible. The parts of Mido and Abra point to -boy-actors. - - - _1 Jeronimo c. 1604_ - -1605. The First Part of Ieronimo. With the Warres of Portugall, and the -life and death of Don Andræa. _For Thomas Pavier._ [Dumbshows.] - -_Editions_ by W. Scott (1810, _A. B. D._ i), in Dodsley^4 (1874, iv), -and by F. S. Boas (1901, _Works of Kyd_).--_Dissertations_: J. E. -Routh, _T. Kyd’s Rime Schemes and the Authorship of Soliman and Perseda -and 1 J._ (1905, _M. L. N._ xx. 49); A. L. Elmquist, _Zur Frage nach -dem Verfasser von 1 J._ (1909, _E. S._ xl. 309); A. Seeberger (1909, -_Archiv für Stenographie_, iv. 306); K. Wiehl, _Thomas Kyd und die -Autorschaft von ... 1 J._ (1912, _E. S._ xliv. 343); B. Neuendorff, -_Zur Datierung des 1 J._ (1914, _Jahrbuch_, l. 88). - -The ascription by Fleay, ii. 27, and Sarrazin to Kyd is rejected on -stylistic grounds by R. Fischer, _Zur Kunstentwicklung der Englischen -Tragödie_, 100, with whom Boas and other writers concur. A reference -to the jubilee of 1600 (I. i. 25) points to a date at the beginning -of the seventeenth century. If so, the play cannot be that revived -by Strange’s for Henslowe in Feb. 1592 and given, sometimes under the -title of _Don Horatio_, and sometimes under that of the _Comedy of -Jeronimo_, during a run of, and several times on the night before, the -_Spanish Tragedy_ (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 150, 154). It is, moreover, -not a comedy. It may, however, be a later version of the same theme, -motived by another revival of the _Spanish Tragedy_ by the Admiral’s -in 1601–2. If so, it was probably itself due, not to the Admiral’s, -but to the Chamberlain’s, and a piracy of their property by the Revels -boys explains the jest at ‘Ieronimo _in decimo sexto_’ in the induction -to the 1604 version of Marston’s _Malcontent_. It must be uncertain -whether _1 Jeronimo_ was the ‘Komödie vom König in Spanien und dem -Vice-Roy in Portugall’ given at Dresden in 1626 (Herz, 66, 76). - - - _The Troublesome Reign of King John 1587< >91_ - -1591. The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn King of England, with the -discouerie of King Richard Cordelions Base sonne (vulgarly named, The -Bastard Fawconbridge): also the death of King Iohn at Swinstead Abbey. -As it was (sundry times) publikely acted by the Queenes Maiesties -Players, in the honourable Citie of London. _For Sampson Clarke._ -There is a Second part with separate signatures and title-page. The -Second part of the troublesome Raigne of King Iohn, conteining the -death of Arthur Plantaginet, the landing of Lewes, and the poysning of -King Iohn at Swinstead Abbey. As ... London ... 1591. [The text of each -part is preceded by lines ‘To the Gentlemen Readers’, and a head-piece, -which has the initials W. D.] - -1611. The First and Second Part ... As they were (sundry times) lately -acted by the Queenes Maiesties Players. Written by W. Sh. _Valentine -Simmes for John Helme._ [The signatures are continuous through both -parts.] - -1622.... as they were (sundry times) lately acted. Written by W. -Shakespeare. _Augustine Mathewes for Thomas Dewes._ - -_Editions_ by G. Steevens (1760, _T. P._ ii), J. Nichols (1779, -_Six Old Plays_, ii), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, _Sh. Libr._ v), F. G. -Fleay, _King John_ (1878), F. J. Furnivall (1888, _Sh. Q_), J. S. -Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), F. J. Furnivall and J. Munro (1913, _Sh. -Classics_).--_Dissertations_: E. Rose, _Shakespeare as an Adapter_ -(_Macmillan’s Magazine_, Nov. 1878); G. C. Moore Smith, _Sh.’s K. -J. and the T. R._ (1901, _Furnivall Miscellany_, 335); H. D. Sykes, -_Sidelights on Shakespeare_, 99 (1919). - -The authorship was assigned by Malone to Marlowe, by Pope to -Shakespeare and W. Rowley, by Fleay, ii. 53, and _King John_, 34, to -Greene, Peele, and Lodge, working on a Marlowian plot. Furnivall and -Munro accept none of these theories, and the latter suggests a common -authorship with the early _Leir_. Sykes argues strongly for Peele. The -lines prefixed to Part I begin - - You that with friendly grace of smoothed brow - Have entertained the Scythian Tamburlaine. - -They do not claim to be a prologue, and may have been added on -publication. The play is not therefore necessarily later than -_Tamburlaine_ (_c._ 1587). But the tone is that of the Armada period. -Shakespeare used the play, with which, from the booksellers’ point of -view, his _King John_ seems to have been treated as identical. - - - _Judith c. 1595_ (?) - -[_MS._] _National Library of Wales, Peniarth_ (formerly _Hengwrt_), -_MS._ 508. - -G. A. Jones, _A Play of Judith_ (1917, _M. L. N._ xxxii. 1) describes -the MS. which contains the Latin text of the _Judithae Constantia_ -of Cornelius Schonaeus, of which a reprint was issued in London in -1595, together with an incomplete English translation in unrhymed -verse written as prose, perhaps as a school exercise, in a late -sixteenth-century or early seventeenth-century hand. - - - _A Knack to Know an Honest Man. 1594_ - -_S. R._ 1595, Nov. 26. ‘A booke intituled The most Rare and plesaunt -historie of A knack to knowe an honest man.’ _Cuthbert Burby_ (Arber, -iii. 54). - -1596. A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, called, A knacke to know an honest -Man. As it hath beene sundrie times plaied about the Citie of London. -_For Cuthbert Burby._ - -_Editions_ by H. De Vocht (1910, _M. S. R._) and J. S. Farmer (1912, -_T. F. T._). - -The play was produced by the Admiral’s on 22 Oct. 1594, and -twenty-one performances were given between that date and 3 Nov. 1596 -(Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 171). The text is confused and probably -surreptitious. - - - _A Knack to Know a Knave. 1592_ - -_S. R._ 1594, Jan. 7. ‘A commedie entitled “a Knack to knowe a knave” -newlye sett fourth as it hath sundrye tymes been plaid by Ned. Allen -and his Companie with Kemps applauded Merymentes of the menn of -Goteham.’ _Richard Jones_ (Arber, ii. 643). - -1594. A most pleasant and merie new Comedie, Intituled, A Knacke to -knowe a knave. Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played -by Ed. Allen and his Companie. With Kemps applauded Merrimentes of -the men of Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham. _Richard -Jones._ - -_Editions_ by J. P. Collier (1851, _Five Old Plays_), in Dodsley^4 -(1874, vi), and by J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._). - -Strange’s men produced ‘the Knacke to Knowe a Knave’ on 10 June 1592, -and played it seven times to 24 Jan. 1593. Henslowe usually enters it -as ‘the cnacke’. Fleay, 100, suggests that the _Osric_, revived by -the Admiral’s men on 3 and 7 Feb. 1597, may also be this play. Both -Fleay, ii. 310, and Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 156, suggest that Kempe’s -‘merriments’ are to be found in sc. 12, and that of the rest the -romantic part may be Peele’s and the moral part Wilson’s. Gayley (_R. -E. C._ i. 422) would like to find in the play the comedy written by -Greene and the ‘young Juvenall’, Nashe. The character Cuthbert Cutpurse -the Conicatcher is from the pamphlet (cf. s.v. Greene) entered in S. R. -on 21 April 1592, and the story of Titus Andronicus is alluded to in -F_{2}^v: - - As Titus was vnto the Roman Senators, - When he had made a conquest on the Goths. - - - _Leire > 1594_ - -_S. R._ 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled, The moste famous Chronicle -historye of Leire kinge of England and his Three Daughters.’ _Adam -Islip_ (Arber, ii. 649). [Islip’s name is crossed out, and Edward -White’s substituted.] - -1605, May 8. ‘A booke called “the Tragecall historie of kinge Leir and -his Three Daughters &c”, As it was latelie Acted.’ _Simon Stafford_ -(Arber, iii. 289). [Assigned the same day by Stafford with the consent -of William Leake to John Wright, ‘provided that Simon Stafford shall -haue the printinge of this booke’.] - -1605. The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, -Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordelia. As it hath bene diuers and sundry times -lately acted. _Simon Stafford for John Wright._ - -_S. R._ 1624, June 29. Transfer of ‘Leire and his daughters’ from Mrs. -White to E. Alde (Arber, iv. 120). - -_Editions_ by J. Nichols (1779, _S. O. P._ ii), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, -_Sh. Libr._ ii. 2), W. W. Greg (1907, _M. S. R._), S. Lee (1909, _Sh. -Classics_), J. S. Farmer (1910, _T. F. T._), R. Fischer (1914, _Quellen -zu König Lear_).--_Dissertations_: W. Perrett, _The Story of King Lear_ -(1904, _Palaestra_, xxxv); R. A. Law, _The Date of King Lear_ (1906, -_M. L. A._ xxi. 462); H. D. Sykes, _Sidelights on Shakespeare_, 126 -(1919). - -The Queen’s and Sussex’s revived ‘kinge leare’ for Henslowe on 6 and -8 April 1594, shortly before the first S. R. entry (Greg, _Henslowe_, -ii. 162). As the play is not named in the Sussex’s repertory of 1593–4, -there is a presumption that it belonged to the Queen’s. The authorship -is quite obscure. Fleay, 90, assigns it to Lodge and Peele; Fleay, 97, -to Lodge and Greene; Fleay, ii. 51, to Lodge and Kyd. Robertson, 176, -thinks the claim for Lodge indecisive, and surmises the presence of -Greene. Sykes argues for Peele. Lee hints at Rankins. The publishing -history is also difficult. The entries of 1605 appear to ignore -White’s copyright, although this was still alive in his son’s widow -in 1624. Lee suggests that the Stafford-Wright enterprise was due to -negotiation between Wright and White, whose apprentice he had been. The -play was clearly regarded as distinct from that of Shakespeare, which -was entered to N. Butter and J. Busby on 22 Nov. 1607, and it, though -based on its predecessor, is far more than a revision of it. It seems -a little improbable that _Leire_ should have been revived as late as -1605, and the ‘Tragecall’ and ‘lately acted’ of the title-page, taken -by themselves, would point to an attempt by Stafford to palm off the -old play as Shakespeare’s. But although 1605 is not an impossible date -for Shakespeare’s production, 1606 is on other grounds more probable. - - - _Liberality and Prodigality. 1601_ - -1602. A Pleasant Comedie, Shewing the contention betweene Liberalitie -and Prodigalitie. As it was playd before her Maiestie. _Simon Stafford -for George Vincent._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ by J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._) and W. W. Greg (1913, _M. -S. R._). - -A reference to ‘childish yeeres’ in the prologue points to boy actors. -The trial (l. 1261) is for an alleged crime on 4 Feb., 43 Eliz. (1601), -and the next court performance after this date was on 22 Feb. 1601 by -the Chapel, to which occasion the production may be assigned. Elizabeth -could be described as a ‘prince’, so that the use of this term does not -bear out Fleay, ii. 323, in assuming a revival of an Edwardian play, -but the characters are mainly abstract and the style archaic for the -seventeenth century, and it is conceivable that the _Prodigality_ -of 1567–8 had been revived. - - - _Locrine c. 1591_ - -_S. R._ 1594, July 20. ‘The lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest -sonne of Kinge Brutus, discoursinge the warres of the Brittans, &c.’ -_Thomas Creede_ (Arber, ii. 656). - -1595. The Lamentable Tragedie of Locrine, the eldest sonne of King -Brutus, discoursing the warres of the Britaines, and Hunnes, with their -discomfiture: The Britaines victorie with their Accidents, and the -death of Albanact. No lesse pleasant then profitable. Newly set foorth, -ouerseene and corrected, By W. S. _Thomas Creede_. [Prologue and -Epilogue.] - -1664; 1685. [F_{3}; F_{4} of Shakespeare.] - -_Editions_ of 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), and by R. B. McKerrow -(1908, _M. S. R._), J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), and in _Sh. -Apocrypha_.--_Dissertations_: R. Brotanek (1900, _Anglia-Beiblatt_, -xi. 202); C. Crawford, _Edmund Spenser, L. and Selimus_ (1901, 9 _N. -Q._ vii. 61; _Collectanea_, i. 47); W. S. Gaud, _The Authorship of L._ -(1904, _M. P._ i. 409); T. Erbe, _Die L.-Sage_ (1904); J. M. Robertson, -_Did Sh. Write T. A.?_ (1905); E. Köppel, _L. und Selimus_ (1905, -_Jahrbuch_, xli. 193); A. Neubner, _König Lokrin. Deutsche Übersetzung -mit literar-historischer Einleitung_ (1908); F. G. Hubbard (_MS._ cited -by J. W. Cunliffe in _C. H._ v. 84); C. A. Harper, _L. and the Faerie -Queene_ (1913, _M.L.R._ viii. 369). - -The interpretation of the W. S. of the title-page in F_{3} of 1664 as -indicating Shakespeare may be accurate, but does not suggest anything -more than revision for a revival, or perhaps only for the press. Some -revision is proved by the allusion in the epilogue to Elizabeth, - - That eight and thirtie yeares the scepter swayd, - -an allusion which was not chronologically accurate until the close of -the thirty-eighth regnal year on 16 Nov. 1596, after the play was in -print, and could hardly have been made before the beginning of that -year on 17 Nov. 1595, after it had been entered in S. R. As to the -original author, one is bound to be sceptical of the unconfirmed notice -by J. P. Collier (_Bibliographical Account_, i. 95) of an ‘inscription -on an existing copy of the play ... assigning the authorship of it to -Charles Tylney’. This, says Collier, ‘is the handwriting of Sir George -Buck. He adds the information that he himself had written the dumb -shows by which it was illustrated, and that it was originally called -_Elstrild_’. Charles Tilney was a cousin of the Master of the Revels, -and was executed for complicity in the Babington plot in 1586 (Camden, -_transl._ 303). The statement, if true, would give an early date to -the play, which the dumb shows and other ‘Senecan’ characteristics -have been supposed to confirm. Fleay, ii. 321, boldly conjectures that -the epilogue originally referred to ‘eight and twentie yeares’, and -that the play was ‘by’ in the sense of ‘about’, Tilney, supposing the -moral drawn against ‘ciuill discord’ instigated by ‘priuate amours’ -to point at Mary of Scots. Recent investigations, however, concerning -the relations of the play to Spenser on the one hand, and to _Selimus_ -(q.v.) on the other, suggest a date not earlier and not much later -than 1591, either for the original composition of the play, or for a -very substantial revision of it. Most of the points are well summed up -by Cunliffe in _C. H._ v. 84. _Locrine_ may borrow historical facts -from the _Faerie Queene_ (1590); it does not borrow phrases from it. -It does, however, borrow phrases and whole lines, with more than -Elizabethan plagiarism, from Spenser’s _Complaints_ (1591). There is -also an apparent loan from Wilmot’s _Tancred and Gismund_ (1591). -Some of the _Complaints_ passages are also borrowed by _Selimus_, -which makes similar booty both of _Locrine_ itself and of the _Faerie -Queene_. I agree with Cunliffe that the evidence is clearly in favour -of _Selimus_ being the later of the two plays, but am not so certain -that the second borrowing of the _Complaints_ passages tells against -a common authorship of the two. It would be so, ordinarily, but here -we have to do with an abnormal plagiarist. Whoever the author, he -belongs to the school of the university wits. Marlowe is preferred by -Malone, Peele by Fleay, Ward, Gaud, and for all but the comic scenes by -Hopkinson, Greene by Brooke, Peele and Greene by Robertson. - - - _The London Prodigal. 1603 < > 05_ - -1605. The London Prodigall. As it was plaide by the Kings Maiesties -seruants. By William Shakespeare. _T. C. for Nathaniel Butter._ - -1664; 1685. [F_{3}; F_{4} of Shakespeare.] - -_Editions_ in 1709, 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), by J. S. Farmer -(1910, T. F. T.), and in _Sh. Apocrypha_. - -Shakespeare’s authorship is accepted by few modern critics. An -exception is Hopkinson. Fleay, _Shakespeare_, 299; _B. C._ i. 152, -thinks that he may have ‘plotted’ the play, but that the writer is -the same as that of _Thomas Lord Cromwell_, whom he believes to be -Drayton. Perhaps he is right in regarding an allusion to service ‘under -the king’ (II. i. 16) as pointing to a Jacobean date. Brooke suggests -Marston or Dekker. A play ‘von einem ungehorsamen Khauffmanns Sohn’ -appears in Anglo-German repertories of 1604 and 1606 (Herz, 65, 94). - - - _Look About You. 1599_ (?) - -1600. A Pleasant Commodie, Called Looke about you. As it was lately -played by the right honourable the Lord High Admirall his seruaunts. -_For William Ferbrand._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^4 (1874, vii), and by J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. -T._) and W. W. Greg (1913, _M. S. R._). - -At the end of the play Gloucester proposes to fight the Saracens in -Portugal, and as Anthony Wadeson (q.v.) was writing _The Honourable -Life of the Humorous Earl of Gloster with his Conquest of Portugal_ in -June or July 1601, it has been suggested by Fleay, ii. 267, and Greg, -_Henslowe_, ii. 204, that Wadeson was also the author of _Look About -You_. The play ought itself to appear somewhere in Henslowe’s diary, -and Fleay may be right in identifying it with the _Bear a Brain_ of -1599, although the only recorded payment for that play was not to -Wadeson, but to Dekker. There are reminiscences of _R.J._ II. iv. 42; -III. v. 221 in l. 2329, and of _1 Hen. IV_, II. iv. 295 in l. 2426. - - - _The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. 1582_ (?) - -1589. The Rare Triumphs of Loue and Fortune. Plaide before the Queenes -most excellent Maiestie: wherein are many fine Conceites with great -delight. _E. A. for Edward White._ - -_Editions_ by J. P. Collier (1851, Roxb. Club) and in Dodsley^4 (1874, -vi). - -Fleay, ii. 26, assigns the play to Kyd on account of the similarity -of the plot to that of _Soliman and Perseda_, but this is hardly -convincing. On 30 Dec. 1582 Derby’s players performed _A History of -Love and Fortune_ at court, for which a city and battlement were -provided by the Revels office. If the two plays were identical, as -dates and style make not improbable, the city presumably served as a -background for the scenes at court, while the battlement was used for -the presenters Venus and Fortune, who are said in Act I to be ‘set -sunning like a crow in a gutter’. - - - _Love Feigned and Unfeigned_ (?) - -[_MS._] On first and last leaves (sig. a 1 and ii. 8 of a copy (Brit. -Mus. IB. 2172) of Johannes Herolt, _Sermones Discipuli_ (1492). - -_Edition_ by A. Esdaile (1908, _M. S. C._ i. 17).--_Dissertation_: E. -B. Daw, _L. F. and U. and the English Anabaptists_ (1917, _M. L. A._ -xxxii. 267). - -The text is a fragment, but there may have been more, as the original -fly-leaves and end papers of the volume are gone. Sir G. F. Warner -thinks the hand ‘quite early seventeenth century’. The corrections in -the same hand are such as rather to suggest an original composition, -but may also be those of an expert copyist. Miss Daw thinks that the -date of composition was in the seventeenth century, and that the play -represents ideas belonging to (_a_) the Anabaptists and (_b_) the -Family of Love, both of which were then active. She even suggests the -possible authorship of the controversialist Edmond Jessop. Personally, -I find it difficult to assign to the seventeenth century a moral -written precisely in the vein of the middle of the sixteenth century, -even to the notes (2, 69, 103) of action ‘in place’ (cf. ch. xix), and -a phrase (76), - - Why stare ye at me thus I wene ye be come to se a play, - -closely parallel to _Wit and Wisdom_, 12, which is probably -pre-Elizabethan. The Jacobean activity of Anabaptism and Familism only -revived movements which had been familiar in England from Edwardian -times, were particularly vigorous in 1575, and had apparently died down -during the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign; cf. for Anabaptists C. -Burrage, _The Early English Dissenters_ (1912), and for Familists s.v. -Middleton, _Family of Love_. - - - _The Maid’s Metamorphosis. 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1600, July 24 (Hartwell). ‘Two plaies or thinges thone called -the maides metamorphosis thother gyve a man luck and throw him into the -Sea.’ _Richard Oliffe_ (Arber, iii. 168). - -1600. The Maydes Metamorphosis. As it hath beene sundrie times Acted by -the Children of Powles. _Thomas Creede for Richard Olive._ [Prologue.] - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1882, _O. E. P._ i), R. W. Bond (1902, -_Lyly_, iii. 341), and J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._). - -Archer’s play list of 1656 (Greg, _Masques_, lxxxvi) started an -ascription to Lyly, which was probably suggested by the similarity -of name to _Love’s Metamorphosis_. Daniel, with Lyly as reviser, is -substituted by Fleay, ii. 324; Day by Gosse and Bullen; Day, with Lyly -as reviser, by Bond. A limit of date is given by the reopening of -Paul’s in 1599, and IV. i. 157 points to the ‘leape yeare’ 1600. Fleay -thinks that the play was performed at Anne Russell’s wedding on 16 June -1600 (cf. ch. V), but, though ‘three or foure Muses’ dance at the end -of the play, there is no indication of a mask, while the accounts of -the wedding say nothing of a play. - - - _The Marriage of Wit and Science > 1570_ - -_S. R._ 1569–70. ‘A play intituled the maryage of Wytt and Scyence.’ -_Thomas Marsh_ (Arber, i. 399). - -N.D. A new and Pleasant enterlude intituled the mariage of Witte and -Science. _Thomas Marsh._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^4 (1874, ii) and by J. S. Farmer (1909, _T. F. -T._). - -An allegorical moral, indebted to John Redford’s _Wit and Science_ -(_Med. Stage_, ii. 454). Fleay, 64; ii. 288, 294, proposes to identify -this with the _Wit and Will_ played at court in 1567–8 (cf. App. B), as -Will is a character. - - - _Meleager_ (?) - -B. Dobell, in _Athenaeum_ for 14 Sept. 1901, described a MS. in his -possession with the title A Register of all the Noble Men of England -sithence the Conquest Created. The date of compilation is probably -1570–90. On f. 3 is the argument in English of a play headed: - - Children of Paules Play. - Publij Ovidij Nasonis Meleager. - -Presumably the play was in English also. It was classical in manner -with five acts, a chorus, and dumb-shows. Act I opened with a dumb-show -before Melpomene of the Fates, Althea and the burning brand. It seems -distinct from the _Meleager_ of W. Gager (q.v.). - - - _The Merry Devil of Edmonton c. 1603_ - -_S. R._ 1607, Oct. 22 (Buck). ‘A Plaie called the Merry Devill of -Edmonton.’ _Arthur Johnson_ (Arber, iii. 362). [_The Life and Death of -the Merry Devil of Edmonton_, entered 5 April 1608, is a pamphlet by T. -B.] - -1608. The Merry Devill of Edmonton. As it hath beene sundry times -Acted, by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe, on the banke-side. -_Henry Ballard for Arthur Johnson._ [Prologue; Induction.] - -1612; 1617; 1626; 1631. - -_S. R._ 1653, Sept. 9. ‘The merry devil of Edmonton, by W^m: -Shakespeare.’ _H. Moseley_ (Eyre, i. 429). - -1655. _For William Gilbertson._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley (1875, x), and by H. Walker (1897, _T. D._), J. -S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), J. M. Manly (1913, _R. E. C._ ii), and in -collections of _Sh. Apocrypha_. - -Moseley’s attribution was repeated in the play lists of Archer in 1656 -and Kirkman in 1661 (Greg, _Masques_, lxxxix), and the play was bound -with _Mucedorus_ and _Fair Em_ as ‘Shakespeare, vol. i’ in Charles II’s -library. The attempt of Fleay, ii. 313 (cf. his _Shakespeare_, 294), to -show that Sir John the priest was originally called Oldcastle and gave -a name to the play is too far-fetched, but it leads him to support a -tradition originally based on a note by Coxeter (_Dodsley_^2, v. 247) -that the author was Drayton. He puts it in 1597, apparently because -Jessica calls Lancelot a ‘merry devil’ in _M. V._ II. iii. 2. But the -Host is pretty clearly copied from him of the _Merry Wives_ (_c._ -1599), and allusions to the king’s hunting (IV. i. 158, 186), although -perhaps merely part of the historic action, might also have been -topical under James I. The play existed by 1604, when it is mentioned -in T. M.’s _Black Book_ (Bullen, _Middleton_, viii. 36). Jonson calls -it ‘your dear delight’ in the prologue to _The Devil is an Ass_ (1616), -and it was revived at court on 3 May 1618 (Cunningham, xlv). - - - _Minds. 1575 <_ - -N.D. Comoedia. A worke in ryme, contayning an Enterlude of Myndes, -witnessing the Mans Fall from God and Christ. Set forth by H. N. and -by him newly perused and amended. Translated out of Base-Almayns into -English. [_No imprint or colophon._] [Preface to the Reader; Prologue -in dialogue.] - -This is a translation of the Low German _Comoedia: Ein Gedicht des -Spels van Sinnen, anno 1575_ of Henrick Niklaes, the founder of the -mystical sect known as the Family of Love (cf. s.v. Middleton). - - - _Misogonus. 1560 < > 77_ - -[_MS._] In collection of the Duke of Devonshire. [By two hands, of -which one is only responsible for the t.p. and some corrections in the -text. The t.p. has the heading ‘A mery and ρ ... Misogonus’, followed -by the names of the speakers and ‘Laurentius Bariωna Ketthering die -20 Novembris Anno 1577’. The text, which is apparently imperfect, -stopping in iv. 4, is probably all in one other hand, together with a -prologue, at the end of which is ‘Thomas Rychardes’. The inscriptions -‘Anthony Rice’ on the title-page, ‘Thomas Warde Barfold 1577’ on the -prologue-page, and ‘W. Wyll[~m]’ and ‘John York Jesu’ in margins of -the text, are all in later hands, some of them not of the sixteenth -century.] - -_Editions_ by A. Brandl (1898, _Q. W. D._), J. S. Farmer (1906), and R. -W. Bond (1911, _E. P. I._).--_Dissertation_: G. L. Kittredge, _The M. -and Laurence Johnson_ (1901, _J. G. P._ iii. 335). - -Brandl, following Collier, ii. 368, 378, dates the play in 1560, on the -ground of an allusion in IV. i. 131 to ‘the rising rection ith north’, -i.e. the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536, as twenty-four years before the -time of action, but it is not quite clear that the rambling dialogue -of rustics, in which the passage occurs, justifies the interpretation -put upon it; nor is the allusion in III. ii. 3 to the weathercock of -Paul’s, set up in 1553 and destroyed in 1561, any more conclusive, as -the phrase may have become proverbial. The style might be either of -_c._ 1560 or, in a provincial play, of _c._ 1577, or, as Bond suggests, -a reviser of _c._ 1577 might have revised a text of ten or twelve years -earlier. For author, Fleay, 16, 58, 60, taking the piece to be that -disliked at court on 31 Dec. 1559, offered Richard Edwardes, and is -followed by Wallace, i. III. There is nothing to suggest that the play -was ever performed at court at all. It seems more natural to look for -him, either in the Thomas Richards or in the Laurence Barjona of the -MS. Conceivably Richards might be the T. R. whose initials appear on -the prints of _Impatient Poverty_ and _Nice Wanton_ (cf. _Mediaeval -Stage_, ii. 460) in 1560. Barjona might be the name of a converted Jew. -But Kittredge regards it as an anagram of Johnson, and points out that -a Laurence Johnson matriculated at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in -1570, and took his B.A. in 1574 and his M.A. in 1577, while a Thomas -Richards of Trinity took his B.A. in 1571, and a Thomas Ward of Jesus -in 1580. A reference to Cambridge learning (III. iii. 74) does not, of -course, go far to prove Cambridge authorship. Anyway, the Barjona of -the title-page is probably the ‘Laur. Bariona’ who signed, also from -Kettering, the epistle to a book called _Cometographia_ on 20 Jan. -1579. It is the work of an Anglican; not therefore of the Laurence -Johnson, who was an Oxford Jesuit. I can add a few facts. A Laurence -Jonson, with one Chr. Balam and George Haysyll of Cambridge, made a -complaint through Lord North to the queen against the Bishop of Ely -in Dec. 1575 (_S. P. D. Eliz._ cv. 88). This is interesting, because -George Haysell of Wisbech was apparently one of Worcester’s players -(cf. ch. xiii) in 1583. There is also a Laurence Johnson who on 12 June -1572 wrote to Lord Burghley about his service in the Mint (_S. P. D. -Eliz._ lxxxviii. 17); possibly the same of whom Burghley wrote to his -‘brother’ William Herlle on 3 April 1575, that he could do nothing for -him (_S. P. D. Eliz._ ciii. 24). Finally a Laurence Johnson engraved -plates in 1603 (_D. N. B._). - - - _Sir Thomas More c. 1596_ - -[_MS._] _B.M. Harleian MS._ 7368. [The wrapper is endorsed, ‘The -Booke of Sir Thomas Moore’, and is in part composed of a vellum leaf -also used for that of Munday’s _John a Kent and John a Cumber_. The -character of the damp stains on the two MSS. shows that they must for -some time have lain together. Two passages of the original text have -disappeared, and six passages have been inserted, on fresh leaves or -slips, to replace these and other cancelled matter. One of these leaves -appears to have been misplaced. Greg finds seven distinct hands: (_a_) -the writer of the original text, whom he has now identified (_M. L. R._ -viii. 89) with Munday; (_b_) five contributors to the insertions, of -whom one appears also to have acted as a playhouse corrector, another -(writing 30 lines) seems clearly to be Dekker, and a third (writing 148 -lines) has been taken (v. _infra_) for Shakespeare; (_c_) the Master -of the Revels, Edmund Tilney, who has given some directions as censor, -of which the most important, at the beginning, runs: ‘Leaue out the -insurrection wholy & the Cause ther off & begin with S^r Tho: Moore att -the mayors sessions with a reportt afterwardes off his good service don -being Shriue off London vppon a mutiny Agaynst the Lumbardes only by -A shortt reporte & nott otherwise att your own perrilles E. Tyllney’. -Whether Greg is right in calling this a ‘conditional licence’ I am not -sure, but he corrects earlier writers by pointing out that the extant -insertions do not carry out Tilney’s instructions, and were probably -made before the play reached him. Although therefore the appearance -of an actor’s name in a s.d. suggests that the play was cast for -performance, it is not likely that it was actually performed, at any -rate in its present state.] - -_Editions_ by A. Dyce (1844, _Sh. Soc._), A. F. Hopkinson (1902), -C. F. Tucker Brooke (1908, _Sh. Apocrypha_), J. S. Farmer (1910, -photo-facsimile in _T. F. S._), and W. W. Greg (1911, _M. S. -R._).--_Dissertations_: R. Simpson, _Are there any extant MSS. in -Sh.’s Handwriting?_ (1871, 4 _N. Q._ viii. 1); J. Spedding, _Sh.’s -Handwriting_ (1872, 4 _N. Q._ x. 227), _On a Question concerning -a Supposed Specimen of Sh.’s Handwriting_ (1879, _Reviews and -Discussions_); B. Nicholson, _The Plays of S. T. M. and Hamlet_ (1884, -6 _N. Q._ x. 423); C. R. Baskervill, _Some Parallels to Bartholomew -Fair_ (1908, _M. P._ vi. 109); W. W. Greg, _Autograph Plays by A. -Munday_ (1913, _M. L. R._ viii. 89); L. L. Schücking, _Das Datum -der pseudo-Sh. S. T. M._ (1913, _E. S._ xlvi. 228); E. M. Thompson, -_Shakespeare’s Handwriting_ (1916) and _The Autograph MSS. of Anthony -Munday_ (1919, _Bibl. Soc. Trans._ xiv. 325); P. Simpson, _The Play -of S. T. M. and Sh.’s Hand in It_ (1917, 3 _Library_, viii. 79); J. -D. Wilson and others, _Sh.’s Hand in the Play of S. T. M._ (1919, -_T. L. S._ 24 April onwards); W. J. Lawrence and others, _Was S.T.M. -ever Acted?_ (1920, _T.L.S._ 1 July onwards); M. A. Bayfield and E. -M. Thompson, _Shakespeare’s Handwriting_ (1921, _T. L. S._ 30 June, 4 -Aug.). - -The play has been dated _c._ 1586 and _c._ 1596, in both of which -years there were disturbances with some analogy to the ‘Ill May Day’ -of the plot, and an early date has been regarded as favoured by -mentions (ll. 1006, 1148) of Oagle a wigmaker, since men of the name -were serving the Revels Office in this and similar capacities from -1571 to 1585 (Feuillerat, _Eliz., passim_), and by the appearance -as a messenger in a stage-direction (Greg, p. 89) of T. Goodal, an -actor traceable with Berkeley’s men in 1581 and with the Admiral’s or -Strange’s in the plot of _The Seven Deadly Sins_, _c._ 1590–1. But -Goodal may have acted much longer, and the Admiral’s men had business -relations with a ‘Father Ogell’ in Feb. 1600 (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. -300). Greg, after comparing Munday’s script in the play with other and -better datable examples of that script, inclines to put it ‘between -1596 and 1602, say 1598–1600’, and Sir E. M. Thompson, on a further -review of the same evidence, suggests 1592 or 1593. This, however, -involves putting the MS. of _John a Kent and John a Cumber_ (cf. ch. -xxiii, s.v. Munday) back to 1590, which, although palaeographically -possible, is inconsistent with evidence pointing to its production -by the Admiral’s in 1594. Certain parallels with _Julius Caesar_ and -_Hamlet_ might suggest the latter part of the possible period, although -the parallel suggested by Schücking with Fletcher’s _The Tamer Tamed_ -is too slight to bear out his date of 1605–8, and the attempt of Fleay -(ii. 312; _Shakespeare_, 292) to identify the play with the _Abuses_ of -Paul’s in 1606 is guess-work. Jonson’s apparent debt to _S. T. M._ in -_Bartholomew Fair_, pointed out by Baskervill, is also in favour of a -latish date. Obviously the mention of ‘Mason among the Kings players’ -(l. 1151) does not prove a Jacobean date, as Henry VIII had players. -No actor of the name in either reign is known, although an Alexander -Mason was marshal of the royal minstrels in 1494 (Collier, i. 45). -Account must be taken of the support given by Sir E. M. Thompson to the -theory of R. Simpson and Spedding that three of the added pages are in -the hand of Shakespeare. This is based on a minute comparison with the -few undoubted fragments, almost entirely signatures, of Shakespeare’s -writing. Both hands use ‘the native English script’ and are ‘of an -ordinary type’, without marked individual character ‘to any great -extent’, although slight peculiarities, such as ‘the use of the fine -upstroke as an ornamental adjunct to certain letters’, are common to -them. The demonstration would have been more convincing had the hands -been less ‘ordinary’, but Sir E. M. Thompson’s authority is great, -and some support is furnished by P. Simpson from the character of the -punctuation in the addition, and by J. D. Wilson from some orthographic -resemblances to the more reliable Shakespearian quartos. Sir E. M. -Thompson’s views are criticized in G. Greenwood, _Shakespeare’s -Handwriting_ (1920). If Shakespeare was the author, the analogies -between the matter of the addition and the Jack Cade scenes of _Henry -VI_ would be in favour of an earlier date, if that were possible, than -1596 or even 1594, although I should not like to be committed to the -view that Shakespeare might not have scribbled the fragment at any -time in the sixteenth century. On a balance of the mixed literary and -palaeographical evidence before us, the safest guess seems to be 1596. -As to the rest of the authorship, Dr. Greg’s discoveries point to -Munday, with some help from Dekker. Fleay’s argument (_Sh._ 292) for -Lodge and Drayton is flimsy. If Shakespeare had a share, the company -was probably the Chamberlain’s. Goodal’s name proves nothing as to this. - - - _Mucedorus > 1598; 1611_ - -1598. A most pleasant Comedie of Mucedorus, the Kings sonne of Valentia -and Amadine the Kings daughter of Arragon, with the merie conceites of -Mouse. Newly set foorth, as it hath bin sundrie times plaide in the -honorable Cittie of London. Very delectable and full of mirth. _For -William Jones._ [Arrangement of parts for eight actors; Induction.] - -1606. _For William Jones._ - -1610.... Amplified with new additions, as it was acted before the Kings -Maiestie at Whitehall on Shroue-sunday night. By his Highness Seruants -vsually playing at the Globe. Very delectable, and full of conceited -Mirth. _For William Jones._ [Arrangement of parts for ten actors; -Prologue. Collier professes to follow a print of 1609 with this altered -title, otherwise unknown; cf. Greg in _Jahrbuch_, xl. 104.] - -1611; 1613; 1615. - -_S. R._ 1618, Sept. 17. Transfer by Sarah, widow of William Jones, to -John Wright (Arber, iii. 632). - -1618; 1619; 1621; 1626; N.D. [1629] fragm.; 1631; 1634; 1639; N.D. -[1639 < > 63]; 1663; 1668. - -_Editions_ by J. P. Collier (1824) and with _Shakespeare_ (1878), -N. Delius (1874), in Dodsley^4, vii (1874), Warnke-Proescholdt -(1878), J. S. Farmer (1910, _T. F. T._), and with _Sh. -Apocrypha._--_Dissertations_: R. Simpson, _On Some Plays Attributed to -Sh._ (1875, _N. S. S. Trans._ 155); W. Wagner, _Ueber und zu M._ (1876, -_Jahrbuch_, xi. 59), _Neue Conjecturen zum M._ (1879, _Jahrbuch_, xiv. -274); K. Elze, _Noten und Conjecturen_ (1878, _Jahrbuch_, xiii. 45), -_Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu M._ (1880, _Jahrbuch_, xv. 339), _Last -Notes on M._ (1883, _E. S._ vi. 217); E. Soffé, _ IST M. ein Schauspiel -Sh.’s?_ (1887, Brünn Progr.); W. W. Greg, _On the Editions of M._ -(1904, _Jahrbuch_, xl. 95). - -It is difficult to date with precision the revival for which the -additions printed in the Q. of 1610 (1610/1?) were written, especially -as the genuineness of the Q. of 1609, in which Collier stated that he -found these additions, cannot be verified, since the accounts of the -Treasurer of the Chamber do not specify the exact days on which the -numerous appearances of the King’s men at court during the winters of -1608–9, 1609–10, and 1610–11 took place. The conjecture of Fleay (ii. -50; _Shakespeare_, 303) that the additions date from 1606 was -largely based on a guess that they appeared in the Q. of 1606, which -he had not seen. The added or altered passages are the prologue; i. -1, 2; iv. 1; parts of v. 2; and the final lines of the induction. The -prologue wishes James security - - From blemisht Traytors, stayn’d with Periurie. - -A bear is introduced in i. 2, as in _W. T._ iii. 3, and I venture to -conjecture that both episodes were inspired by the successful bear in -Jonson’s _Mask of Oberon_ on 1 Jan. 1611, to which there is also an -allusion in his _Love Restored_ of 6 Jan. 1612. If so, the revival -must have been on Shrove Sunday, 3 Feb. 1611. In I. i. 50 Anselmo says -that he was a shepherd in ‘Lord Iulios Maske’. _Oberon_, however, had -no shepherds proper, only satyrs and sylvans. The induction is altered -to compliment James instead of Elizabeth, and the following dialogue -between Comedie and Envie is introduced: - - _Envie._ Comedie, thou art a shallow Goose; - Ile ouerthrow thee in thine owne intent, - And make thy fall my Comick merriment. - - _Comedie._ Thy pollicie wants grauitie; thou art - Too weake. Speake, Fiend, as how? - - _Env._ Why, thus: - From my foule Studie will I hoyst a Wretch, - A leane and hungry Meager Canniball, - Whose iawes swell to his eyes with chawing Malice: - And him Ile make a Poet. - - _Com._ What’s that to th’ purpose? - - _Env._ This scrambling Rauen, with his needie Beard, - Will I whet on to write a Comedie, - Wherein shall be compos’d darke sentences, - Pleasing to factious braines: - And euery other where place me a Iest, - Whose high abuse shall more torment then blowes: - Then I my selfe (quicker then Lightning) - Will flie me to a puisant Magistrate, - And waighting with a Trencher at his backe, - In midst of iollitie, rehearse those gaules, - (With some additions) - So lately vented in your Theator. - He, vpon this, cannot but make complaint, - To your great danger, or at least restraint. - - _Com._ Ha, ha, ha! I laugh to hear thy folly; - This is a trap for Boyes, not Men, nor such, - Especially desertfull in their doinges, - Whose stay’d discretion rules their purposes. - I and my faction do eschew those vices. - -Fleay, with 1606 in his mind, finds here an apology for _The Fox_, -thinking Jonson the raven and _Eastward Hoe_ the ‘trap for Boyes’. In -1610 there had been no trouble about any London play, although one in -Lincolnshire had given offence. But a careful reading of the passage -will show that it is no apology at all, but a boast, and an attack upon -informers against the stage. - -As the play had been in print since 1598, it must not be assumed -that, because the King’s revived it in 1610–11, it was originally a -Chamberlain’s play. It may have belonged to the Queen’s or some other -extinct company. Evidently it was a popular play, as the number of -editions shows. _K. B. P._ ind. 91 tells us that Ralph has ‘play’d ... -Musidorus before the Wardens of our Company’. - -The ascription to Shakespeare is due to Archer’s list of 1656 (Greg, -_Masques_, xci) and to the inclusion of the play with _Fair Em_ and -_The Merry Devil of Edmonton_ in a volume in Charles II’s library, -lettered ‘Shakespeare, vol. i’ (_Variorum_, ii. 682). It now receives -little support, even as regards the added passages. Greene is preferred -as the original author by Malone and Hopkinson, Peele by von Friesen, -and Lodge by Fleay. - -After the suppression of the theatres in 1642, _Mucedorus_ was acted -by strolling players in various parts of Oxfordshire. An accident -during a performance at Witney on 3 Feb. 1654 is recorded in John Rowe, -_Tragi-Comoedia. Being a brieff relation of the strange and wonderful -hand of God, discovered at Witney in the Comedy acted February the -third, where there were some slaine, many hurt and several other -remarkable passages_ (1653/4). - -Either _Mucedorus_ or Greene’s _Alphonsus_ (q.v.) may have been the -play on a king of Arragon given at Dresden in 1626. It has also been -suggested (Herz, 95) that _Mucedorus_ influenced Pieter Hooft’s Dutch -pastoral _Granida_ (1605). - - - _Narcissus. 6 Jan. 1603_ - -[_MS._] _Bodl. MS._ 147303 (_Rawl. Poet. MS._ 212), f. 82^v. ‘A Twelfe -Night Merriment. Anno 1602.’ [Porter’s speech ‘at the end of supper’, -Wassail Song, Prologue, and Epilogue.] - -_Edition_ by M. L. Lee (1893). - -The porter’s name is Francis, and from some speeches and a letter -composed for him, which appear in the same manuscript, it is clear that -he was Francis Clark, who became porter of St. John’s, Oxford, on 8 May -1601, at which house therefore the play was doubtless given. It has -borrowings from _M. N. D._ and _1 Hen. IV._ - - - _New Custom. 1558 < > 73_ - -1573. A new Enterlude No less wittie: then pleasant, entituled new -Custome, deuised of late, and for diuerse causes nowe set forthe, neuer -before this tyme Imprinted. _William How for Abraham Veale._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^4 (1874, iii) and by J. S. Farmer (1908, _T. F. -T._). - -A moral of Protestant controversy, with typical personages, bearing -allegorical names, arranged for four actors. - -The final prayer is for Elizabeth, and Avarice played in the days of -Queen Mary. Fleay, 64; ii. 294, thinks it a revised Edward VI play, on -the ground of an allusion to a ‘square caps’ controversy of 1550. But -this was still vigorous in 1565 (cf. Parker’s _Letters_, 240). Fleay -also says that the _Nugize_ of Captain Cox’s collection (Laneham, 30) -is _Mankind_ (_Med. Stage_, ii. 438) in which New Gyse is a character. -But _Mankind_ was first printed in 1897, and probably this play is the -one Laneham had in mind. - - - _Nobody and Somebody > 1606_ - -_S. R._ 1606, Jan. 8. ‘The picture of No bodye.’ _John Trundell_ -(Arber, iii. 308). - -1606, March 12 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called no bodie and somme bodie &c.’ -_John Trundell_ (Arber, iii. 316). - -N.D. No-Body, and Some-Body. With the true Chronicle Historie of -Elydure, who was fortunately three seuerall times crowned King of -England. The true Coppy thereof, as it hath beene acted by the Queens -Maiesties Seruants. _For John Trundle._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ by A. Smith (1877), R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ i), -J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), of the early German translation -by F. Bischoff, _Niemand und Jemand in Graz im Jahre 1608_ (1899, -_Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins für Steiermark_, xlvii. 127), -and of Tieck’s translation by J. Bolte (1894, _Jahrbuch_, xxix. -4).--_Dissertation_: J. Bolte, _Eine Hamburger Aufführung von N. a. S._ -(1905, _Jahrbuch_, xli. 188). - -The play is probably Jacobean. There is a reference to the unwilling -recipients of knighthood (l. 325), and the use of Essex’s nickname -for Cobham, Sycophant, as the name of a courtier, must be later than -Cobham’s disgrace in 1603. Simpson thought that an allusion to the -misuse of the collections for rebuilding Paul’s steeple (l. 754) -pointed to an original date _c._ 1592, when the matter caused a -scandal, but the steeple was still unbuilt in James’s reign. Greg, -_Henslowe_, ii. 230, revising a conjecture of Fleay, i. 293, suggests -that _Albere Galles_, written by Heywood and Smith for Worcester’s -in Sept. 1602, may be this play, and Henslowe’s title a mistake for -_Archigallo_, one of the characters. The play seems to have reached -Germany by 1608. A performance at Graz in that year was probably -the occasion of the dedication by ‘Joannes Grün Nob. Anglus’ to the -archduke Maximilian of a manuscript German translation, now in the -Rein library. To it is attached a coloured drawing of a bearded man in -a doublet which hides his breeches, and with a book and chain in his -hands. Above is written ‘Nemo’ and ‘Neminis Virtus ubique Laudabilis.’ -A version is also in the Anglo-German collection of 1620 (Herz, 66, -112). - - - _Parnassus. 1598–1602_ (?) - -[_MSS._] _Bodl. Rawlinson MS._ D. 398. ‘The Pilgrimage to Parnassus’, -‘The Returne from Parnassus’. [1 _Parnassus_ with Prologue; 2 -_Parnassus_ with Stagekeeper’s speech for Prologue. The cover bears the -name of ‘Edmunde Rishton, Lancastrensis’, who took his M.A. from St. -John’s, Cambridge, in 1602.] - -_Halliwell-Phillipps MS._ ‘The Returne from Pernassus: or The Scourge -of Simony.’ [3 _Parnassus_, with induction for Prologue, which says, -‘The Pilgrimage to Pernassus, and the returne from Pernassus have stood -the honest Stagekeepers in many a Crownes expence for linckes and -vizards: ... this last is the last part of the returne from Pernassus’.] - -_S. R._ 1605, Oct. 16 (Gwyn). ‘An Enterlude called The retourne from -Pernassus or the scourge of Simony publiquely Acted by the studentes in -Sainct Johns College in Cambridg.’ _John Wright_ (Arber, iii. 304). - -1606. The Returne from Pernassus: Or The Scourge of Simony. Publiquely -acted by the Students in Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge. _G. Eld, -for Iohn Wright._ [Two issues. 3 _Parnassus_ only.] - -_Editions_ of 3 _Parnassus_ by T. Hawkins (1773, _O. E. D._ iii), -W. Scott (1810, _A. B. D._ i), in Dodsley^4 (1874, ix), by E. Arber -(1878) and O. Smeaton (1905, _T. D._), and of 1, 2, 3 _Parnassus_ by -W. D. Macray (1886) and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: -B. Corney (1866, 3 _N. Q._ ix. 387); J. W. Hales, _The Pilgrimage -to P._ (1887, _Academy_ and _Macmillan’s Magazine_; 1893, _Folia -Litteraria_, 165); W. Lühr, _Die drei Cambridger Spiele vom P. in -ihren litterarischen Beziehungen_ (1900, Kiel diss.); E. B. Reed, _The -College Element in Hamlet_ (1909, _M. P._ vi. 453); G. C. Moore Smith, -_The P. Plays_ (1915, _M. L. R._ x. 162). - -There are several notes of time and authorship. At the end of 1, -which was ‘three daies studie’ (l. 3), the pilgrimage has lasted ‘4 -yeares’ (712). Kinsader’s, i.e. Marston’s, _Satires_ and Bastard’s -_Epigrams_, both of 1598, are mentioned (212). The prologue to 2, -which is a ‘Christmas toy’ (18), deprecates the former courtesy of ‘our -stage’: - - Surelie it made our poet a staide man, - Kept his proude necke from baser lambskins weare, - Had like to have made him senior sophister. - He was faine to take his course by Germanie - Ere he could gett a silie poore degree. - Hee never since durst name a peece of cheese, - Thoughe Chessire seems to priviledge his name. - His looke was never sanguine since that daye; - Nere since he laughte to see a mimick playe. - -It is now seven years since the scholars started for Parnassus (62). -Gullio has been ‘verie latelie in Irelande’ and ‘scapt knightinge’ -(878), obviously with Essex in 1599. The _Epigrams_ (1599) of ‘one -Weaver fellow’, i.e. John Weever, are alluded to (982). The prologue to -3, also a ‘Christenmas toy’ (30), calls it ‘an old musty show, that -hath laine this twelue moneth in the bottome of a coalehouse’ (25). -‘The Authors wit’ (48) has stood ‘hammering upon ... 2 schollers some -foure (1606, whole) yeare’ (37). This is the third play of a series -(76): - - In Scholers fortunes twise forlorne and dead - Twise hath our weary play earst laboured. - Making them Pilgrims to Pernassus hill, - Then penning their return with ruder quill. - -_Belvedere_ (1600) is published (179) and Nashe is dead (314). The -Dominical letters are C, or for the Annunciation year D and C (1105), -and the moon is in ‘the last quarter the 5 day, at 2 of the cloke and -38 minuts in the morning’ (1133). These indications fit Jan. 1602 -(Lühr, 15, 105). The siege of Ostend, which extended from 1601 to -1604, has begun (1333). Jonson has ‘brought vp Horace giving the Poets -a pill’ (1811), and Kempe is back ‘from dancing the morrice over the -Alpes’ (1823). Both events took place in 1601. It is still Elizabeth’s -reign (1141). - -A quite clear conclusion as to date is not possible. The calendar -references, the four years of hammering (in 3), and the probability -that the writer would try to have his allusions to literary events up -to date, suggest performances at the Christmases of 1598–9, 1599–1600, -and 1601–2. This allows for a twelve-months’ delay, followed by a good -deal of revision, in the performance of 3. On the other hand, the -difference between four (in 1) and seven (in 2) years of pilgrimage -points to 1598–9, 1601–2, and 1602–3. On the whole, I lean to the first -alternative. - -So far as we know, the association of Kempe with the Chamberlain’s men -was out of date either in 1601 or 1602; conceivably he returned to the -company for a while in 1601, but he was certainly of Worcester’s in -1602. - -Moore Smith thinks that the ‘ruder quill’ of the prologue to 3 implies -that the author of 2 and 3 was distinct from the author of 1. But the -same prologue speaks clearly of a single author. Hales took the account -of his troubles in getting his degree literally, and pointed out that -foreign students at German universities were called ‘Käsebettler’ -and ‘Käsejäger’. Moore Smith doubts, and thinks the degree may have -been given at Cambridge by the influence of William Holland, senior -fellow of St. John’s, and his name glanced at in ‘Germanie’. The -absence alike of matriculation books and college admission registers -for the period makes identification difficult. Corney found a copy -of the print of 3 with the inscription ‘To my Lovinge Smallocke J. -D.’, which he thought in the same hand as the _Lansdowne MS._ of John -Day’s _Peregrinatio Scholastica_. Bullen was inclined to support -Day’s authorship on internal grounds, but Day was a Caius man, whose -university career closed in disgrace, and is not very likely to have -written plays for St. John’s some years later. And it is but a slight -connexion with Cheshire that ‘dey’ means ‘dairy’ in the dialect of that -county. Cheshire ought to be our clue. Charles Chester was not, so far -as I know, a writer. Hales seems to have thought that the theatrical -Beestons of London may have been connected with the Cheshire family of -that name. There was a Cheshire foundation at St. John’s, and Moore -Smith cites a suggestion that the author may have been William Dodd, a -Cheshire man, who became Scholar of St. John’s in 1597, B.A. in 1599, -and Fellow in 1602. The ‘priviledge’ reminds me of the traditional -jurisdiction of the Dutton family over minstrelsy in Cheshire -(_Mediaeval Stage_, ii. 259), but I do not know whether any Dutton can -be traced at St. John’s. - -In i. 2 of 3 Judicio is exercising the occupation of a ‘corrector -of the presse’, apparently in the employment of a particular -printing-house, not of the licensing authorities. The house would be -Danter’s, who is himself introduced in i. 3 bargaining with Ingenioso -to give him 40s. for a pamphlet. In iv. 3 Burbage and Kempe appear, and -here is the famous passage in which Kempe says: - - ‘Few of the vniuersity men pen plaies well, they smell too much - of that writer _Ouid_, and that writer _Metamorphosis_, and - talke too much of _Proserpina & Iuppiter_. Why heres our fellow - _Shakespeare_ puts them all downe, I and _Ben Ionson_ too. O - that _Ben Ionson_ is a pestilent fellow, he brought vp Horace - giuing the Poets a pill, but our fellow _Shakespeare_ hath giuen - him a purge that made him beray his credit.’ - -Fleay, _Shakespeare_, 221, suggests that the ‘purge’ was the -description of Ajax in _Troilus and Cressida_, I. ii. 15, and is -supported by Small, 167. If so, it was very irrelevant to its setting. -The purge ought to be _Satiromastix_, and though there is nothing to -indicate that Shakespeare had any responsibility for _Satiromastix_, it -is just conceivable that a Cambridge man, writing before the play was -assigned to Dekker in print, may have thought that he had. The allusion -is clearly to Shakespeare as a writer, or one might have thought that -he acted Horace-Jonson in _Satiromastix_. - -Especially in 3, the writer is much occupied with contemporary -literature, but this does not justify the slap-dash attempt of Fleay, -ii. 347, to identify nearly all his characters with individual literary -men. They are, of course, not individuals, but types, and types -of university men. The most that can be said is that there may be -something of Marston in Furor Poeticus, and a good deal of Nashe, with -probably also a little of Greene, in Ingenioso, who ultimately takes -flight, with Furor and Phantasma, to the Isle of Dogs (v. 3, 4): - - There where the blattant beast doth rule and raigne - Renting the credit of whom ere he please. - - - _Il Pastor Fido > 1601_ - -_S. R._ 1601, Sept. 16 (Pasfield). ‘A booke called the faythfull -Shepheard’. _Waterson_ (Arber, iii. 192). - -1602. Il Pastor Fido: Or The faithfull Shepheard. Translated out of -Italian into English. _For Simon Waterson._ [Sonnets by S. Daniel and -the Translator to Sir Edward Dymocke; Epistle to the same, dated 31 -Dec. 1601, and signed ‘Simon Waterson’.] - -1633. _For John Waterson._ [Epistle by John Waterson to Charles Dymock.] - -1633. _Augustine Matthewes for William Sheares._ [Another issue.] - -The preliminary matter of 1602 and 1633 is shown by Greg, _Pastoral_, -242, to point to a kinsman, but not the son, of Sir Edward Dymocke as -the translator. He may be a John Dymmocke, to whom Archer’s play-list -of 1656 (Greg, _Masques_, xcvi) assigns in error _The Faithful -Shepherdess_. The translation is from G. Battista Guarini’s _Il Pastor -Fido_ (1590). For a Latin translation see App. L. - - - _The Pedlar’s Prophecy > 1594_ - -_S. R._ 1594, May 13. ‘A plea booke intituled the Pedlers Prophesie.’ -_Thomas Creede_ (Arber, ii. 649). - -1595. The Pedlers Prophecie. _Thomas Creede, sold by William Barley._ -[Prologue.] - -_Editions_ by J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._) and W. W. Greg (1914, _M. -S. R._). - -The analogies of title and date of publication to _The Cobler’s -Prophecy_ have led Fleay, ii. 283, and others to ascribe the -authorship to Wilson. To me the play reads more like a belated piece of -_c._ 1560–70. - - - _Pericles c. 1607–8_ - -See Shakespeare (ch. xxiii), except in relation to whose work the play -can hardly be discussed. - - - _Philotus > 1603_ - -1603. Ane verie excellent and delectabill Treatise intitulit Philotus. -Quhairin we may persaue the greit inconveniences that fallis out in the -Mariage betwene age and zouth. _Robert Charteris, Edinburgh._ [At end -are verses beginning ‘What if a day or a month or a zeere’, possibly -Campion’s; cf. Bullen, _Campion_ (1903), 270.] - -1612. A verie excellent and delectable Comedie.... _Andro Hart, -Edinburgh._ - -_Editions_ by J. Pinkerton (1792, _Scottish Poems_, iii) and for -Bannatyne Club (1835). - -This has been ascribed to Robert Sempill (1530?-95), but merely because -his play before the Regent of Scotland on 17 June 1568 (Diary of -Robert Birrel in Dalyell, _Fragments of Scottish History_, 14) is not -otherwise known. R. Brotanek (1898, _Festschrift zum viii allgemeinen -deutschen Neuphilologentage in Wien_; cf. _Jahrbuch_, xxxv. 302) -suggests Alexander Montgomery. - - - _The Puritan. 1606_ - -_S. R._ 1607, Aug. 6 (Buck). ‘A book called the comedie of “the Puritan -Widowe”.’ _George Elde_ (Arber, iii. 358). - -1607. The Puritaine Or The Widdow of Watling-streete. Acted by the -Children of Paules. Written by W. S. _G. Eld._ [Running-title ‘The -Puritaine Widdow’.] - -1664; 1685. [Parts of F_{3} and F_{4} of Shakespeare.] - -_Editions_ in 1734 (J. Tonson), 1734 (R. Walker), by J. S. Farmer -(1911, _T. F. T._), and in _Sh. Apocrypha_. - -The W. S. of the title-page was interpreted as William Shakespeare -in Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, _Masques_, c). The attribution -is accepted by no modern critic, and guesses at Wentworth Smith and -William Smith rest similarly on nothing but the initials. Internal -evidence points to an author who was an Oxford man, and familiar with -the plays of Shakespeare. Middleton is preferred by Fleay, ii. 92, -Bullen (_Middleton_, i. lxxix), and others; Marston by Brooke, who -dwells on a general resemblance to _Eastward Hoe_, and seems inclined -to think that Jonson, whose _Bartholomew Fair_ the play foreshadows, -might also have contributed. The character George Pyeboard is clearly -meant for Peele, and the play uses episodes which appear in _The Merrie -Conceited Jests of George Peele Gent_. This, though the extant print is -of 1607, was entered in S. R. on 14 Dec. 1605. The Paul’s plays seem to -have terminated in 1606, and Fleay points out that an almanac allusion -in III. vi. 289 is to Tuesday, 15 July, which fits 1606. The attack on -the Puritan ministers was resented in W. Crashaw’s Paul’s Cross sermon -of 13 Feb. 1608 (cf. App. C, no. lvi). - - - _The Revenger’s Tragedy. 1606 < > 7_ - -_S. R._ 1607, Oct. 7 (Buck). ‘Twoo plaies, thone called the revengers -tragedie.’ _George Eld_ (Arber, iii. 360). - -1607. The Revengers Tragœdie. As it hath beene sundry times Acted, by -the Kings Maiesties Seruants. _G. Eld._ - -1608. _G. Eld._ - -_Editions_ in Dodsley^{1–4} (1744–1876), and by W. Scott (1810, _A. B. -D._ ii) and A. H. Thorndike (1912, _M. E. D._). - -The authorship is ascribed to ‘Tournour’ in Archer’s list of 1656 -and to ‘Cyril Tourneur’ in Kirkman’s lists of 1661 and 1671 (Greg, -_Masques_, cii). Fleay, ii. 264, is sceptical, thinking the work too -good for the author of _The Atheist’s Tragedy_, and inclined to suggest -Webster. Oliphant (_M. P._ viii. 427) thinks Tourneur impossible, -in view of the difference of manner, and suggests, only to reject, -Middleton. E. E. Stoll, _John Webster_, 107, 212, points out that both -plays are much under the influence of Marston, and that the date may be -fixed by the borrowing of the name and character of Dandolo from _The -Fawn_ (1606). - - - _The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York > 1592_ - -See _The Contention of York and Lancaster_. - - - _1 Richard the Second c. 1592 < > 5_ - -[_MS._] _Egerton MS._ 1994. The play forms a separate section of this -composite MS. It has no title-page and a few lines at the end are -missing. The handwriting is of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth -century. - -_Editions_ by J. O. Halliwell (1870) and W. Keller (1899, _Jahrbuch_, -xxxv. 3.--_Dissertations_: F. I. Carpenter, _Notes on the Anonymous -Richard II_ (1899, _Journ. Germ. Phil._ iii. 138); F. S. Boas, _A -Seventeenth Century Theatrical Repertoire_ (_Library_ for July 1917). - -The play deals with an earlier part of the reign than that of -Shakespeare’s _Richard II_. Keller concludes from a study of parallel -passages that it was known to Shakespeare, and that the author knew -Marlowe’s _Edward II_ and _2 Henry VI_. This gives a date of about -1592–5. Fleay, ii. 320, dates the play about 1591 and assigns it, for -no apparent reason, to the Queen’s men. Boas accepts the date 1590–5 -on internal evidence, but finds the names ‘George’ and ‘Toby’ in the -stage-directions as players of servants’ parts, and supposes the MS. -to belong to a seventeenth-century revival and to have been collected -with others in _Egerton MS._ 1994 by the younger William Cartwright, -who was one of a late King’s Revels company traceable during 1629–37 -(Murray, i. 279). He identifies ‘George’, rather hazardously, with -George Stutfield, who belonged to this company, and ‘Toby’ with an -Edward Tobye, who is not known to have belonged to it, but is found in -1623 among the Children of the Revels to the late Queen Anne (Murray, -i. 361; ii. 273). My difficulty about this is that the relation of _1 -Rich. II_ to Shakespeare’s play is so close as to make it natural to -regard it as having become a Chamberlain’s play, and therefore unlikely -to get into the hands of either of these Revels companies. Any company -might have a George. George Bryan, for example, is a possibility. Toby, -no doubt, is a rarer name. Toby Mills died in 1585, but might have left -a son or godson of his name. - - - _The True Tragedy of Richard the Third > 1594_ - -_S. R._ 1594, June 19. ‘An enterlude entituled, The Tragedie of Richard -the Third wherein is showen the Death of Edward the FFourthe with the -smotheringe of the twoo princes in the Tower, with a lamentable end of -Shores wife, and the Coniunction of the twoo houses of Lancaster and -Yorke.’ _Thomas Creede_ (Arber, ii. 654). - -1594. The True Tragedie of Richard the Third: Wherein is showne the -death of Edward the fourth, with the smothering of the two yoong -Princes in the Tower: With a lamentable ende of Shore’s wife, an -example for all wicked women. And lastly the conjunction and ioyning -of the two noble Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. As it was playd by -the Queenes Maiesties Players. _Thomas Creede, sold by William -Barley._ [Induction; Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ in _Variorum_ (1821), xix. 251, and by B. Field (1844, _Sh. -Soc._) and W. C. Hazlitt (1875, _Sh. Libr._).--_Dissertation_: G. B. -Churchill, _Richard the Third up to Shakespeare_ (1900, _Palaestra_, x). - -Collier, _Shakespeare_, v. 342, put the play earlier than 1588 on the -ground that the epilogue in praise of Elizabeth makes no mention of -the Armada. But ‘She hath put proud Antichrist to flight’ may pass -for such a mention. Fleay, 64, dates it about 1587: in ii. 28 he says -‘1586 or late in 1585’ as a ballad on the subject was entered on the -Stationers’ Register on 15 Aug. 1586; in ii. 315 he prefers 1591, -regarding the play as a continuation of _The Contention between York -and Lancaster_. He considers a later date as excluded by the close of -the court career of the Queen’s men in 1591. This, however, did not -close until 1594, and the epilogue was not necessarily given at court. -Churchill also thinks the play a continuation of the _Contention_, -and finds influences, not very striking, of Marlowe’s _Tamburlaine_, -_Faustus_, and _Edward II_. He concludes for 1590–1. There is very -little trace of any use by Shakespeare of this play for his _Richard -III_. - -Boswell groundlessly took the author to be that of _Locrine_ -(q.v.). Fleay, ii. 315, tries to divide the scenes between Lodge and -Peele, and suggests that they were re-writing Kyd. - - - _Robin Hood > 1560_ - -_S. R._ 1560, Oct. 30. ‘A newe playe called----.’ _William Copland_ -(Arber, i. 152). - -N.D. A mery geste of Robyn Hoode and of hys lyfe, wyth a newe playe -for to be played in Maye games very plesaunte and full of pastyme. -[_Colophon_] _Imprinted at London vpon the thre Crane wharfe by Wyllyam -Copland_. - -N.D. _For Edward White._ - -_Editions_ in J. Ritson, _Robin Hood_ (1795), ii. 199, F. J. Child, -_English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, iii (1888) 114, 127, and Manly -(1897), ii. 281. - -The play, which deals with the episodes of Robin Hood and the Friar and -Robin Hood and the Potter, is appended to a reprint of the narrative -_Geste_, originally printed by Wynken de Worde. Manly assigns Copland’s -edition to _c._ 1550, but Arber, v. 32, to ‘_c._ 1560, by the Printer’s -address’, and Furnivall, _Captain Cox_, to _c._ 1561. Apparently -Copland is not traceable at the Three Cranes before that year and had -earlier addresses. If so, I think that his anonymous entry of 1560 in -the Stationers’ Register may fairly be supposed to relate to _Robin -Hood_. - - - _Ruff, Cuff and Band c. 1615_ - -[_MS._] _Add. MS._ 23723. - -_S. R._ 1615, Feb. 10 (Taverner). ‘A booke called a Diologue betwene -Ruffe Cuffe and Band &c.’ _Miles Patriche_ (Arber, iii. 563). - -1615. A merrie Dialogue, Betwene Band, Cuffe, and Ruffe: Done by an -excellent Wit, And Lately acted in a Shew in the famous Vniversitie of -Cambridge. _William Stansby for Miles Partrich._ - -1615. Exchange Ware at the second hand, Viz. Band, Ruffe and Cuffe, -lately out, and now newly dearned vp. Or Dialogue, acted in a Shew in -the famous Vniversitie of Cambridge. The second Edition. _W. Stansby -for Myles Partrich._ - -1661. [Title as in ed. 1.] _For F. K._ - -_Editions_ in _Harleian Miscellany_^2, x (1813), and by J. O. Halliwell -(1849, _Contributions to Early English Literature_) and C. Hindley, -_Old Book Collector’s Miscellany_, ii (1872). - - - _The Second Maiden’s Tragedy. 1611_ - -[_MS._] _B.M._, _Lansdowne MS._ 807, f. 29, formerly _penes_ John -Warburton. [Greg distinguishes four contemporary hands: (_a_) a scribe -or copyist of the original text and certain additions on inserted -slips; (_b_) a corrector, probably the author; (_c_) the Master of the -Revels, Buck; (_d_) a theatre official, who added stage-directions. -The contributions of (_b_) and (_c_) are not wholly distinguishable, -especially where mere deletions are in question, as the author may, -besides literary corrections, have made others due to the hints, or -known views, of Buck as censor. The presence of a second literary -corrector is just possible. On the verso of the last leaf Buck has -written: ‘This second Maydens tragedy (for it hath no name inscribed) -may w^{th} the reformations bee acted publikely. 31 octob^r. 1611. G. -Buc.’ In later hands are the title ‘The Second Maydens Tragedy’ at -the beginning, and a note following Buck’s endorsed licence, which -originally ran, ‘The Second Maydens Tragedy October 31^{th} 1611 By -Thomas Goffe A Tragedy indeed’. Here Goffe’s name has been cancelled, -and two successive correctors have substituted, firstly, ‘George -Chapman’, and then ‘By Will Shakspear’. Warburton’s hand is not -discernible, and the last correction was probably made after his time, -as his list of manuscript plays (3 _Library_, ii. 232) includes ‘2^d. -p^t. Maidens Trag̃. Geo. Chapman’.] - -_S. R._ 1653, Sept. 9. ‘The Maid’s Tragedie, 2^d. part.’ _H. Moseley_ -(Eyre, i. 428). - -_Editions_ in 1824–5 (_O. E. D._ i), Chapman’s _Works_ (1875, -iii), and Dodsley^4 (1875, x), and by W. W. Greg (1909, _M. S. -R._).--_Dissertations_: J. Phelan, _Philip Massinger_ (1879, _Anglia_, -ii. 47); A. S. W. Rosenbach, _The Curious-Impertinent_ (1902, _M. L. -N._ xvii. 179); W. Nicholson, _The S. M. T._ (1912, _M. L. N._ xxvii. -33). - -The play may be assigned to the King’s men, in view of stage-directions -to ll. 1724, 1928, which show that ‘M^r Goughe’ played Memphonius and -‘Rich Robinson’ the Lady. Perhaps this also explains the ascription -of authorship to Thomas Goffe, which, like those to Chapman and -Shakespeare, now finds no favour. Tieck, who translated the play in -his _Shakespeare’s Vorschule_ (1829, ii), argued for Massinger, whose -lost _Tyrant_ he took the play to be. No doubt the chief character -is only entitled ‘Tyrant’ in the manuscript. But the _Tyrant_ has a -separate existence both in S. R. and in Warburton’s list. Fleay, ii. -331, thought that the title was originally meant to be _The Usurping -Tyrant_, and that the play was by the author of _The Revenger’s -Tragedy_, generally assigned to Tourneur. Rosenbach doubts Massinger, -and thinks Tourneur’s hand traceable. Swinburne seems to have suggested -Middleton. - - - _Selimus. 1591 < > 94_ - -1594. The First part of the Tragicall raigne of Selimus, sometime -Emperour of the Turkes, and grandfather to him that now raigneth. -Wherein is showne how hee most vnnaturally raised warres against his -owne father Baiazet, and preuailing therein, in the end caused him to -be poysoned: Also with the murthering of his two brethren, Corcut, -and Acomat. As it was playd by the Queenes Maiesties Players. _Thomas -Creede._ [Prologue and Conclusion.] - -1638. The Tragedy of Selimus Emperour of the Turkes. Written T. G. _For -John Crooke and Richard Serger._ [Re-issue of 1594 sheets with new t.p.] - -_Editions_ by A. B. Grosart (1898, _T. D._) and W. Bang (1908, _M. S. -R._), and in collections of Greene (q.v.).--_Dissertation_: H. Gilbert, -_Robert Greene’s S._ (1899, Kiel diss.); cf. s. _Locrine_. - -The T. G. of the 1638 title-page is probably meant for Thomas Goffe, -the author of contemporary plays on Turkish history. He, however, was -only born in 1591. Six passages from the play are assigned to Greene in -R[obert] A[llot’s] _England’s Parnassus_ (1600). This is fairly strong -evidence, and Greene’s authorship is supported by Grosart, Brooke (_Sh. -Apocrypha_, xix), and Gilbert. Ward and Gayley (_R. E. C._ i. 420) take -the opposite view. Crawford, who points out (_E. P._ xxxv, 407) that -Allot is not impeccable, prefers Marlowe. Fleay, ii. 315, would divide -the play between Greene and Lodge. The problem is bound up with that -of the authorship of _Locrine_ (q.v.), from which _Selimus_ clearly -borrows. It can therefore hardly be of earlier date than 1591. The -Conclusion, or epilogue, promises a second part, of which nothing is -known. - - - _Soliman and Perseda c. 1589 < > 92_ - -_S. R._ 1592, Nov. 20 (Bp. of London). ‘The tragedye of Salamon and -Perceda.’ _Edward White_ (Arber, ii. 622). - -N.D. The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda. Wherein is laide open, Loues -constancy, Fortunes inconstancy, and Deaths Triumphs. _Edward Allde for -Edward White._ [Induction.] - -1599. _E. Allde for E. White._ [In some copies ‘newly corrected and -amended’ is stamped on the t.p.] - -[1815]. [A facs. reprint, with date 1599 and imprint _Edward Allde for -Edward White_, of which two copies, C. 57. c. 15 and G. 18612, are in -B.M.; cf. W. W. Greg in _M. L. Q._ iv. 188, and R. B. McKerrow, _Bibl. -Evid._ 302. Some copies have ‘J. Smeeton, Printer, St. Martin’s Lane’ -on the v^o. of the t.p.] - -_Editions_ by T. Hawkins (1773, _O. E. D._ ii), in Dodsley^4, v -(1874), and by F. S. Boas (1901, _Works of Kyd_) and J. S. Farmer -(_S. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: E. Sieper (1897, _Z. f. vergleichende -Litteraturgeschichte_, N. F. x); G. Sarrazin, _Die Verfasser von S. u. -P._ (1891, _E. S._ xv. 250); E. Koeppel, _Beiträge zur Geschichte des -elisabethanischen Dramas_ (1892, _E. S._ xvi. 357); J. E. Routh, _T. -Kyd’s Rime Schemes and the Authorship of S. P. and 1 Jeronimo_ (1905, -_M. L. N._ xx. 49); K. Wiehl, _Thomas Kyd und die Autorschaft von S. u. -P._ (1912, _E. S._ xliv. 343). - -Fleay, ii. 26, Sarrazin, and Boas claim the play for Kyd, partly on -grounds of style, partly because the plot is an elaboration of the -‘play within the play’ of _The Spanish Tragedy_ (_c._ 1589), iv. 4; -Wiehl doubts on metrical grounds. Schick (_Archiv_, xc) suggests Peele, -who is said in the _Merry Conceited Jests_ (Bullen, _Peele_, ii. 389) -to have written, or pretended to have written, a play of _The Knight of -Rhodes_, a title which would apply to _Soliman and Perseda_. Robertson, -109, 150, 166, thinks that Greene collaborated with Kyd. - - - _Captain Thomas Stukeley. 1596_ - -_S. R._ 1600, Aug. 11 (Vicars). ‘Ye history of the life and Deathe -of Captaine Thomas Stucley, with his Mariage to Alexander Curtis -his daughter, and his valiant endinge of his life at the battell of -Alcazar.’ _Thomas Pavier_ (Arber, iii. 169). - -1605. The Famous Historye of the life and death of Captaine Thomas -Stukeley. With his marriage to Alderman Curteis Daughter, and valiant -ending of his life at the Battaile of Alcazar. As it hath beene Acted. -For _Thomas Pavier_. - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ i) and J. S. Farmer (1911, -_T. F. T._).--_Dissertations_: E. H. C. Oliphant (1905, 10 _N. Q._ iii. -301, 342, 382); J. Q. Adams, _C. T. S._ (1916, _J. G. P._ xv. 107). - -‘Tom Stucley’ is named as a stage hero by Peele in his _Farewell_ -(1589); but the present play is probably the _Stewtley_ produced by -the Admiral’s on 11 Dec. 1596 (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 181). There are -allusions to ‘the Theatre fields’ (611) and ‘her Majesty’ (752), which -may only represent historic time. Although Sebastian of Portugal is -a character, there is no reference to the legend of his survival, -which was well known in England in 1598. Simpson regards the play as -belonging to the Chamberlain’s, on the ground of certain political -proclivities which he chose to ascribe to that company. The text is -incoherent, and several theories representing it as a contamination of -two distinct plays have been promulgated. Simpson supposed that part of -a play on Don Antonio has been inserted into one dealing in five acts -with Stukeley’s adventures in England, Ireland, Spain, Rome, and Africa -respectively, and this view is elaborated by Oliphant, who attempts -to disentangle several original and revising hands, including that of -John Fletcher, to whom he assigns 245–335. Fleay, i. 127, thinks that -Dekker made up the play for Paul’s, _c._ 1600, out of _Stewtley_ and -a _Mahomet_ by Peele. Apparently he starts from _Satiromastix_, 980, -where Horace says that Demetrius Fannius ‘cut an innocent Moore i’ the -middle, to serue him in twice; & when he had done, made Poules-worke of -it’. But surely there is a difference between making two plays out of -one and making one play out of two. - - - _1 Tamar Cham > 1592_ - -[_MS._] ‘The plott of The First parte of Tamar Cham.’ In the possession -of Steevens, but now unknown. - -The text is given by Steevens, _Variorum_ (1803), iii. 414; Boswell, -_Variorum_ (1821), iii. 356; Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 144. - -The actors’ names point to a performance by the Admiral’s, near 2 Oct. -1602, when they bought the book from Alleyn (cf. ch. xiii). The play -was produced as ‘n. e.’ by the same company on 6 May 1596, but probably -Henslowe’s ‘n. e.’ in this case only indicates a substantial revision, -as the letters are also attached to the notice of a performance of Part -ii on 11 June 1596, and Part ii had already been played as ‘n. e.’ -by Strange’s on 28 April 1592. Obviously a Part i must already have -existed (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 155). - - - _The Taming of A Shrew c. 1589_ - -_S. R._ 1594, May 2. ‘A booke intituled A plesant Conceyted historie -called “the Tayminge of a Shrowe”.’ _Peter Short_ (Arber, ii. 648). - -1594. A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called The taming of a Shrew. As -it was sundry times acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Pembrook -his seruants. _Peter Short, sold by Cuthbert Burby._ [Induction.] - -1596. _Peter Short, sold by Cuthbert Burby._ - -1607. _V. S. for Nicholas Ling._ - -_Editions_ by J. Nicholls (1779, _Six Old Plays_, i), T. Amyot (1844, -_Sh. Soc._), W. C. Hazlitt (1875, _Sh. Libr._ vi), E. W. Ashbee (1876, -facs.), F. J. Furnivall (1886, _Sh. Q_), F. S. Boas (1908, _Sh. -Classics_), and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. T._). - -The Admiral’s and Chamberlain’s revived ‘the tamynge of A shrowe’ for -Henslowe on 11 June 1594, shortly after the entry in S. R. (Greg, -_Henslowe_, ii. 164). Presumably it belonged to the Chamberlain’s, who -had acquired it from Pembroke’s, and the 1594 performance may have been -either of the original, or of Shakespeare’s revision, _The Taming of -The Shrew_, for which 1594 is a plausible date. An early reference to -the printed book is in Harington’s _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (1596), 95, -‘For the shrewd wife, read the book of Taming a Shrew, which hath made -a number of us so perfect, that now every one can rule a shrew in our -country, save he that hath her’. It is to be noted that, unlike _Leire_ -(q.v.) and _King Lear_, the two versions counted, from the copyright -point of view, as one, so that the transfer of _A Shrew_ to Smethwick -made an entry of _The Shrew_ in S. R. for the purposes of F_{1} of -Shakespeare unnecessary. Probably Pembroke’s in their turn got the -play from the earlier Admiral’s or Strange’s. Its date has been placed -in or before 1589, because certain lines of it appear to be parodied -both in Greene’s _Menaphon_ of that year, and in the prefatory epistle -to _Menaphon_ by Nashe. Some such date is confirmed by its direct -imitations from Marlowe’s _Tamburlaine_ (_c._ 1587) and to a less -extent from _Dr. Faustus_ (_c._ 1588), which are collected by Boas, 93. -For author, Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, and Peele have all been suggested, -but, so far as we know, Marlowe did not repeat himself, and the others -did not plagiarize him, in this flagrant manner. Shakespeare also is -still often credited with a hand in the old play, as well as in the -revision, and the problem can best be discussed in connexion with -Shakespeare. Sykes gives part to S. Rowley (q.v.). - - - _The Thracian Wonder c. 1600_ - -1661. Two New Playes: Viz. A Cure for a Cuckold: A Comedy. The Thracian -Wonder: A Comical History. As it hath been several times Acted with -great Applause. Written by John Webster and William Rowley. _Tho. -Johnson, sold by Francis Kirkman._ [Separate t.p. The Thracian Wonder -... _as above_. Epistle to the Reader, signed ‘Francis Kirkman’.] - -_Editions_ by C. W. Dilke (1815, _O. E. P._ vi), and in collections of -Webster (q.v.).--_Dissertations_: J. le G. Brereton, _The Relation of -T. W. to Greene’s Menaphon_ (1906, _M. L. R._ ii. 34); J. Q. Adams, -_Greene’s Menaphon and T. W._ (1906, _M. P._ iii. 317); O. L. Hatcher, -_The Sources and Authorship of T. W._ (1908, _M. L. N._ xxiii. 16). - -The ascription of the title-page is rejected by Stoll, _Webster_, 34, -and modern writers generally, although Stork, _Rowley_, 61, thinks -that Rowley may have added comic touches. The use of Webster’s name -may be due to the identity of the plot with that of William Webster’s -_Curan and Argentile_ (1617). But William Webster took it from Warner’s -_Albion’s England_ (1586), iv. xx. From the same source Greene took it, -with a change of names, for _Menaphon_ (1589), and it is _Menaphon_, -with another change of names, that the play follows. Brereton ascribes -it to Greene himself; Hatcher thinks that the direct plagiarisms from -the source and the archaistic phrase ‘old Menaphon’ (iv. 2), whereas -Greene’s hero is a youth, point to an early sixteenth-century admirer -of Greene. Adams supports the suggestion of Fleay, i. 287, that this -is the _War Without Blows and Love Without Suit_ written by Heywood -for the Admiral’s in 1598, but this is a mere guess based on Heywood’s -title (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 199). Fleay then supposed that it was -revised for Queen Anne’s about 1607; elsewhere (ii. 332) he supposes it -a dramatization of Webster’s story for Prince Charles’s about 1617. - - - _Timon c. 1581 < > 90_ (?) - -[_MS._] _Dyce MS._ 52. [Epilogue. The MS. is a transcript in two hands.] - -_Editions_ by A. Dyce (1842, _Sh. Soc._) and W. C. Hazlitt (1875, _Sh. -Libr._ ii. 2).--_Dissertation_: J. Q. Adams, _The Timon Plays_ (1910, -_J. G. P._ ix. 506). - -Greek quotations and other pedantries suggest an academic audience, -but there is little indication of place or date, beyond parallels with -_Pedantius_, which lead Moore Smith (_M. L. R._ iii. 143) to suggest -Cambridge and _c._ 1581–90. Adams thinks that the piece may have been -performed by London schoolboys, and known to Shakespeare. - - - _Tom Tyler and his Wife > 1563_ - -_S. R._ 1562–3. ‘These ballettes folowynge ... an other of Tom Tyler.’ -_Thomas Colwell_ (Arber, i. 210). - -1661. Tom Tyler and His Wife. An Excellent Old Play, As It was Printed -and Acted about a hundred Years ago. The second Impression. [Prologue -and ‘concluding Song’. There is no imprint, but as most of the extant -copies have a variant t.p. with the additional words ‘Together, with -an exact Catalogue of all the playes that were ever yet printed’, -and as Kirkman’s catalogue of 1661 is appended, he was doubtless the -publisher.] - -_Editions_ by F. E. Schelling (1900, _M. L. A._ xv. 253), G. C. Moore -Smith and W. W. Greg (1910, _M. S. R._), and J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. -T._). - -The S. R. entry may refer to a ballad based on the play, or may -possibly be a loose description of the play itself. In any case there -is no reason to doubt the existence of a print of about that date. -The evidence of the 1661 title-page is confirmed by the entry of ‘Tom -tyler’ in Archer’s play-list of 1656 (Greg, _Masques_, cxii). -Chetwood, who cannot be relied on, gave the date as 1598, and an -inaccurate reproduction of this seems to be responsible for the 1578 of -other writers. The text of 1661 has been shown by C. P. G. Scott (in -Schelling’s introduction) to be a rendering into seventeenth-century -orthography of a play whose vocabulary may be put, with decreasing -certainty, within the limits 1530–80, 1540–70, and 1550–60. The -prologue says that the play is ‘set out by prettie boyes’, and the -‘concluding Song’ has a prayer for the preservation of the queen, -‘from perilous chance that hath been seen’. Fleay, ii. 295, somewhat -arbitrarily thinks the Chapel ‘more likely’ to have presented it than -Paul’s. A misinterpretation of Kirkman’s list of 1661 led E. Phillips, -_Theatrum Poetarum_ (1675), to assign the authorship to W. Wager -(_M. S. C._ i. 325). - - - _The Trial of Chivalry c. 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1604, Dec. 4 (Pasfield). ‘A book called The life and Deathe of -Cavaliero Dick Boyer.’ _Nathaniel Butter_ (Arber, iii. 277). - -1605. The History of the tryall of Cheualry, With the life and death -of Caualiero Dicke Bowyer. As it hath bin lately acted by the right -Honourable the Earle of Darby his seruants. _Simon Stafford for -Nathaniel Butter._ - -1605. This Gallant Caualiero Dicke Bowyer, Newly acted. [Another issue.] - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1884, _O. E. P._ iii) and J. S. Farmer -(1912, _T. F. T._).--_Dissertation_: C. R. Baskervill, _Sidney’s -Arcadia and the T. of C._ (1912, _M. P._ x. 197). - -Bullen thinks this may be _Love Parts Friendship_, written by Chettle -and Smith for the Admiral’s in 1602; Fleay, ii. 318, that it may be the -_Burbon_ brought to the Admiral’s by Pembroke’s in 1597, as the Duke -of Bourbon is a chief personage, and also the _Cutting Dick_ to which -Heywood wrote additions for Worcester’s in 1602 (Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. -187, 221, 231). There is, of course, no particular reason why a play by -Derby’s should appear in Henslowe’s diary at all. They were in London -in the winters of 1599–1600 and 1600–1. The only link between them and -Henslowe is Heywood, if he was the author of their _Edward IV_ (q.v.). -Fleay, i. 289, thinks that the present play may be by the same hands. -Probably the Earl of Derby himself wrote for the company. - - - _The Trial of Treasure > 1567_ - -1567. A new and mery Enterlude, called the Triall of Treasure, newly -set foorth, and neuer before this tyme imprinted. _Thomas Purfoot._ -[Arrangement for 5 actors; Prologue and Epilogue, headed ‘Praie for all -estates’.] - -_Editions_ by J. O. Halliwell (1850, _Percy Soc._ xxviii), -in Dodsley^4, iii (1874), and by J. S. Farmer (1908, _T. F. -T._--_Dissertation_: W. W. Greg, _The T. of T._, 1567--_A Study in -Ghosts_ (1910, 3 _Library_, i. 28). - -Greg shows that there was only one edition, not two, of 1567. The play -is a non-controversial morality, and may very well date from about 1567. - - - _1 Troilus and Cressida. 1599_ (?) - -[_MS._] _Add. MS._ 10449. [A fragmentary ‘plot’ without title, probably -from Dulwich.] - -The text is given by Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 142, who infers from -the names of the characters that it may have been the _Troilus and -Cressida_ written by Chettle and Dekker for the Admiral’s in April -1599. The few names of actors are not inconsistent with this (cf. ch. -xiii). - - - _The Valiant Welshman. 1610 < > 15_ - -_S. R._ 1615, Feb. 21 (Buck). ‘A play called the valiant welshman.’ -_Robert Lownes_ (Arber, iii. 564). - -1615. The Valiant Welshman, Or The True Chronicle History of the life -and valiant deedes of Caradoc the Great, King of Cambria, now called -Wales. As it hath beene sundry times Acted by the Prince of Wales -his seruants. Written by R. A. Gent. _George Purslowe for Robert -Lownes._ [Epistle to the Reader; Induction; Epilogue.] - -1663. _For William Gilbertson._ - -_Editions_ by V. Kreb (1902) and J. S. Farmer (1913, _S. F. T._). - -Borrowings from Ben Jonson’s _Alchemist_ (1610) require a late date, -and the assertion of Fleay, i. 26, that this is _The Welshman_ revived -by the Admiral’s on 29 Nov. 1595 may be disregarded (Greg, _Henslowe_, -ii. 178). There is nothing, beyond the initials, to connect the play -with Robert Armin, and Kreb would assign it to some young University -man. - - - _A Warning for Fair Women > 1599_ - -_S. R._ 1599; Nov. 17. ‘A warnynge for fayre women.’ _William Aspley_ -(Arber, iii. 151). - -1599. A warning for Faire Women. Containing, The most tragicall and -lamentable murther of Master George Sanders of London Marchant, nigh -Shooters hill. Consented vnto By his owne wife, acted by M. Browne, -Mistris Drewry and Trusty Roger agents therin: with their seuerall -ends. As it hath beene lately diuerse times acted by the right -Honorable, the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruantes. _Valentine Sims for -William Aspley._ [Induction.] - -_Editions_ by R. Simpson (1878, _S. of S._ ii) and J. S. Farmer (_S. F. -T._). - -References to ‘this fair circuit’ and ‘this Round’ are inconclusive -as to whether the play was produced before the Chamberlain’s went to -the Globe in 1599, as their earlier houses were probably also round. -E. Phillips, _Theatrum Poetarum_ (1675), 113, and A. Wood, _Athenae_ -(1691), i. 676, assign the authorship, incredibly, to Lyly. Fleay, ii. -54, conjectures Lodge; Bullen, _O. E. P._ iv. 1, Yarington. - - - _The Wars of Cyrus King of Persia > 1594_ - -1594. The Warres of Cyrus King of Persia, against Antiochus King of -Assyria, with the Tragicall ende of Panthæa. Played by the children of -her Maiesties Chappell. _E. A. for William Blackwal._ - -_Editions_ by W. Keller (1901, _Jahrbuch_, xxxvii. 1) and J. S. Farmer -(1911, _T. F. T._). - -The play, clearly influenced by _Tamburlaine_, may rest on one by -Farrant (q.v.) _c._ 1578. There is no record of any court performance -by the Chapel between 1584 and 1601. Fleay, ii. 322, guesses that an -allusion in Nashe’s _Summer’s Last Will and Testament_ (q.v.) points to -a performance of this play at Croydon twelve months earlier. The text -is disordered. A prologue ‘To the audience’ is inserted in Act II at -621 and refers to a chorus, but there is none. At 367 is ‘Finis Actus -primi’, but ‘Actus Secundus’ is at 502. - - - _The Weakest Goeth to the Wall > 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1600, Oct. 23 (Pasfield). ‘A booke called, the Weakest goethe -to the Walles.’ _Richard Oliff_ (Arber, iii. 175). - -1600. The Weakest goeth to the Wall. As it hath bene sundry times -plaide by the right honourable Earle of Oxenford, Lord great -Chamberlaine of England his seruants. _Thomas Creede for Richard -Oliue._ [Dumb Show and Prologue.] - -1618. _G. P. for Richard Hawkins._ - -_Editions_ by J. S. Farmer (1911, _T. F. T._), W. W. Greg (1912, _M. S. -R._), and with _Works_ of Webster (q.v.). - -The ascription of the play to Dekker and Webster by E. Phillips, -_Theatrum Poetarum_ (1675), 116, was rejected by Langbaine (1691) -and, so far as Webster is concerned, has nothing to recommend it (E. -Stoll, _Webster_, 34). Ward, iii. 56, finds Dekker’s humour, and Hunt, -_Dekker_, 42, thinks it Chettle’s, revised by Dekker. Fleay, ii. 114, -gives it to Munday, as the only known writer for Oxford’s, except -Oxford himself. But he is thinking of Oxford’s boy company of 1580–4, -not of the later company of 1601 or earlier, to whose repertory the -play probably belonged, and with whom Munday is not known to have had -anything to do. - - - _Wily Beguiled. 1596 < > 1606_ - -_S. R._ 1606, Nov. 12 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called Wylie beguilde &c.’ -_Clement Knight_ (Arber, iii. 333). - -1606. A Pleasant Comedie, Called Wily Beguilde. The Chiefe Actors be -these: A poore Scholler, a rich Foole, and a Knaue at a shifte. _H. -L. for Clement Knight._ [Induction, Prologue, and Epilogue.] - -N.D.; 1623; 1630; 1635; 1638. - -_Editions_ by T. Hawkins (1773, _O. E. D._ iii), in Dodsley^4, -ix (1874), and by J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._) and W. W. Greg -(1912, _M. S. R._).--_Dissertations_: J. W. Hales, _Shakespearian -Imitations_ (1875, _Ath._ 1875, 17 July, 4 Sept.); F. J. Furnivall, -_Parallels_ (1875, 5 _N. Q._ iv. 144); P. A. Daniel, _On W. B._ (1875, -_Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet_, xxxv, _N. S. S._); E. Landsberg, _Zur -Verfasserfrage des anonymen Lustspiels W. B._ (1911, _E. S._ xliii. -189). - -The register of Merton College, Oxford, has for 3 Jan. 1567 the entry, -‘Acta est Wylie Beguylie Comoedia Anglica nocte in aedibus Custodis -per scolares, praesentibus Vicecustode, magistris, baccalaureis, cum -omnibus domesticis et nonnullis extraneis; merito laudandi recte agendo -prae se tulerunt summam spem’ (Boas, 157). No connexion is traceable -between this and the extant play, which Greg and Boas regard as of -Cambridge origin. But it does not seem to me markedly academic. The -character Lelia does not particularly suggest the Cambridge Latin -_Laelia_ of 1595, and the epilogue was spoken in a ‘circled rounde’. -The description of himself by Churms (l. 68), as ‘at Cambridge a -scholler, at Cales a souldier, and now in the country a lawyer, and -the next degree shal be a connicatcher’, does not go far in the way of -proof. This same passage fixes the date as not earlier than the Cadiz -expedition of 1596; obviously the use of the phrase ‘tricke of Wily -Beguily’ in Nashe’s _Have With You to Saffron Walden_ of 1596 (_Works_, -iii. 107) proves nothing one way or other as to date, although Dekker -naturally knew the play when he described rogues and their ‘knavish -comedy of Wily-Beguily’ in his _Belman of London_ of 1608 (_Works_, -iii. 125). If the date is 1596, the authorship of Peele, suggested by -the description of the prologue-speaker as ‘humorous George’, although -he is clearly distinct from the ‘fiery Poet’, and urged by Fleay, ii. -158, and Landsberg, becomes just possible, chronologically, before -his death in November of that year. But the Shakespearian imitations, -although most marked of _M. V._ and earlier plays, seem also to extend -to _Hamlet_, _M. W._, and _T. N._, and the right date may be _c._ -1602–6. If the production was in the ‘circled rounde’ of Paul’s, the -quasi-academic note is explicable. Sykes suggests S. Rowley (q.v.) as -part author. Fleay, _Shakespeare Manual_, 272, makes an amazing attempt -to interpret the play as a satire on Lyly, Lodge, Marston, Chettle, -Dekker, Drayton, Middleton, Chapman, Jonson, Henslowe, the Admiral’s, -the Chamberlain’s, the Chapel, and Paul’s. In the Induction, a juggler -finds the title _Spectrum_ exhibited, and later, ‘_Spectrum_ is -conueied away: and _Wily beguiled_, stands in the place of it’ (l. 46). - - - _The Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll. 1599 < > 1600_ - -_S. R._ 1600, Oct. 7. ‘A booke called The Wisdom of Doctor Dodepole -Plaied by the Children of Paules.’ _Richard Oliff_ (Arber, iii. 174). - -1600. The Wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll. As it hath bene sundrie times -Acted by the Children of Powles. _Thomas Creede for Richard Oliue._ - -_Editions_ by A. H. Bullen (1884, _O. E. P._ iii) and J. S. Farmer -(1912, _T. F. T._).--_Dissertation_: E. Koeppel, _Sh.’s J. C. und die -Entstehungszeit des anonymen Dramas The W. of D. D._ (1907, _Jahrbuch_, -xliii. 210). - -Fleay, ii. 155, assigned the play to Peele, chiefly on the ground that -a snatch of song is from his _Hunting of Cupid_ (q.v.). But Peele -died in 1596, and Koeppel points out that the phrase (Bullen, p. 129), -‘Then reason’s fled to animals, I see’, presupposes the existence of -_Julius Caesar_ (1599), III. ii. 109: - - O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, - And men have lost their reason. - - - _The Wit of a Woman > 1604_ - -1604. A Pleasant Comoedie, Wherein is merily shewen: The wit of a -Woman. _For Edward White._ [Prologue and Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ by J. S. Farmer (1912, _T. F. T._) and W. W. Greg (1913, _M. -S. R._). - -Nothing is known of the history of this prose comedy with Italian -names. ‘Sweet and twenty’ (l. 753) recalls _Tw. N._ II. iii. 52. - - - _Work for Cutlers c. 1615_ - -_S. R._ 1615, July 4 (Taverner). ‘A little thing called Worke for -Cutlers.’ _Richard Meighen_ (Arber, iii. 569). - -1615. Worke for Cutlers. Or, a merry Dialogue betweene Sword, Rapier, -and Dagger. Acted in a Show in the famous universitie of Cambridge. -_Thomas Creede for Richard Meighen and Thomas Jones._ [Epilogue.] - -_Editions_ by T. Park (1813, _Harleian Miscellany_^2, x), C. Hindley -(1872, _Old Book Collector’s Miscellany_, ii), A. F. Sieveking (1904). - -This short dialogue is described in the epilogue as ‘a Schollers -Prize’. Sieveking suggests the possibility of Heywood’s authorship, but -an academic author is more likely. - - - _A Yorkshire Tragedy c. 1606_ - -_S. R._ 1608, May 2 (Wilson). ‘A booke Called A Yorkshire Tragedy -written by Wylliam Shakespere.’ _Thomas Pavier_ (Arber, iii. 377). - -1608. A Yorkshire Tragedy. Not so New as Lamentable and true. Acted by -his Maiesties Players at the Globe. Written by W. Shakspeare. _R. B. -for Thomas Pauier._ [Head-title: ‘All’s One, or, One of the foure -plaies in one, called A Yorkshire Tragedy.’] - -1619. Omits ‘Acted ... Globe’. _For T. P._ [See ch. xxiii.] - -_Editions_ of 1735 (J. Tonson), by W. Knight (1843, _Pictorial Sh._ -vii), J. P. Collier (1878, _Works of Sh._), J. S. Farmer (1910, _T. F. -T._), and in _Sh. Apocrypha_.--_Dissertations_: J. P. Collier (_Ath._ -1863, i. 332); P. A. Daniel, _Notes on Sh.’s Y. T._ 1608 (_Ath._ 4 Oct. -1879); S. Lee, _Walter Calverley_ (_D. N. B._); B. Dobell, _The Author -of A Y. T._ (1906, 10 _N. Q._ vi. 41); H. D. Sykes, _The Authorship -of A Y. T._ (1917, _J. G. P._ xvi. 437, reprinted in _Sidelights on -Shakespeare_, 77). - -This ten-scene play from a four-play bill has merit, but most modern -critics are unable to regard that merit as of Shakespearian type, -although Ward, ii. 231, finds Shakespeare’s hand in some passages, and -Fleay, after wantonly guessing at Edmund Shakespeare (_Shakespeare_, -303), remained impressed (ii. 206) by the external evidence, and -thought that the play must be Shakespeare’s original ending to an -earlier version of _The Miseries of Enforced Marriage_, subsequently -altered by his collaborator, George Wilkins (q.v.), to end happily. -This is ingenious, but too conjectural. The play, like that of Wilkins, -takes its material from the history of Walter Calverley, executed for -murder on 5 Aug. 1605, which is told in Stowe’s _Annales_ and was the -subject of contemporary pamphlets. Dobell and Sykes argue a case on -internal evidence for the authorship of Wilkins himself. - - - B. MASKS - - - _Gesta Grayorum. 1594_ - -[_MS._] _Harl. MS._ 541, f. 138, contains the speeches in the -Shrovetide mask, probably in the hand of Francis Davison. The opening -hymn is not included, and the final hymn seems to have been added by -another hand. - -1688. Gesta Grayorum: or, the History Of the High and mighty Prince -Henry Prince of Purpoole, Arch-Duke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke -of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles and Tottenham, Count -Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of -Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knights-bridge, Knight of -the most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the Same. -Who Reigned and Died, A.D. 1594. Together with A Masque, as it was -presented (by His Highness’s Command) for the Entertainment of Q. -Elizabeth; who, with the Nobles of both Courts, was present thereat. -_For W. Canning._ [Epistle to Matthew Smyth, of the Inner Temple, -signed ‘W. C.’ The publication is recorded in Trinity Term 1688 (Arber, -_London Term Catalogues_, ii. 230).] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _Elizabeth_^{1, 2}, iii. 262 (1807–23), and by -W. W. Greg (1914, _M. S. R._) and B. Brown (1921). - -This is a narrative of the reign of a Christmas Prince, or Lord of -Misrule (cf. _Mediaeval Stage_, i. 417), appointed at Gray’s Inn for -the Christmas of 1594. The Prince was a Norfolk man, Henry Helmes, -and a list of the members of the Inn who held positions at his court -is given in the tract. The revels began on St. Thomas’s Eve, 20 Dec., -continued until Twelfth Night, were resumed at Candlemas, and again at -Shrovetide, when the Prince’s reign terminated. - -On Innocents’ Day, 28 Dec., at night, the Inner Temple were -entertained, and a stage set up, but the crowd was too great for the -‘inventions’ contemplated, and ‘it was thought good not to offer any -thing of account, saving dancing and revelling with gentlewomen; -and after such sports, a Comedy of Errors (like to _Plautus_ his -_Menechmus_) was played by the players. So that night was begun, and -continued to the end, in nothing but confusion and errors; whereupon, -it was ever afterwards called, _The Night of Errors_’. On 30 Dec. -an indictment was preferred against a supposed sorcerer, containing -a charge ‘that he had foisted a company of base and common fellows, -to make up our disorders with a play of errors and confusions; and -that that night had gained to us discredit, and itself a nickname of -Errors’. Presumably the players of Shakespeare’s _Comedy of Errors_ -were the Chamberlain’s men, and the Treasurer of the Chamber’s record -(App. B) of a play at court by these men, as well as the Admiral’s, on -28 Dec. is a slip for 27 Dec. (_M. L. R._ ii. 10). - -On 3 Jan. many nobles were entertained with a show illustrating the -amity of Graius and Templarius. It was followed by speeches from -six ‘Councellors’, advising respectively ‘the Exercise of War’, -‘the Study of Philosophy’, ‘Eternizement and Fame, by Buildings and -Foundations’, ‘Absoluteness of State and Treasure’, ‘Vertue, and a -Gracious Government’, and ‘Pass-times and Sports’. These are ascribed -by Spedding, i. 342, to Francis Bacon (q.v.), a view which finds some -confirmation in the fact that the Alnwick MS., many of the contents of -which are by Bacon, once contained a copy of some ‘Orations at Graies -Inne Revells’ (Burgoyne, xii). It is amusing to note that on 5 Dec. -1594 Lady Bacon, his mother, wrote to his brother Anthony, ‘I trust -they will not mum nor mask nor sinfully revel at Gray’s Inn’ (Spedding, -i. 326). The speeches of three of the ‘Councellors’, with one by the -Prince, are also preserved, without ascription, in _Inner Temple Petyt -MS._ 583, 43, f. 294. - -On 6 Jan. appeared six Knights of the Helmet ‘in a very stately mask, -and danced a new devised measure; and after that they took to them -ladies and gentlewomen, and danced with them their galliards, and so -departed with musick’. - -On 1 Feb. the Prince visited Greenwich, and promised to return at -Shrovetide. On his way back, he was met with a Latin oration by a boy -at St. Paul’s School. - -At Shrovetide, the Prince took his mask to the court at Whitehall. -The maskers were the Prince of Purpoole and his Seven Knights; -the torchbearers eight Pigmies; the presenters Proteus, Thamesis, -Amphitrite, and one of the Prince’s Esquires; the musicians two -Tritons, two Nymphs, and a Tartarian Page. - -The performance was upon a stage. After a hymn, the presenters made -speeches setting out how the Prince and Knights were in an Adamantine -Rock, to be released by Proteus, on the discovery of a Power (the -Queen) of more attractive virtue. The maskers issued from the Rock, -and danced ‘a new devised measure, &c.’; then took ladies, and danced -‘their galliards, courants, &c.’; then danced ‘another new measure’. -The Pigmies brought in eight escutcheons, with the maskers’ impresses, -which the Esquire presented to the Queen. The maskers then entered the -rock, while another hymn was sung. - -The maskers were Henry Helmes (Prince), William Cooke, Jarvis Tevery, -John Lambert, Molineux, Grimes, Paylor, and Campnies. - -After the mask, the courtiers danced a measure, and Elizabeth said, -‘What! shall we have bread and cheese after a banquet?’ - -The maskers were presented to the Queen ‘on the next day’ and praised -by her. The narrative goes on to record that ‘the same night’ was -fighting at barriers, in which the Prince took part as a defendant with -the Earl of Cumberland against the Earl of Essex and other challengers, -and won the prize; and concludes, ‘Thus on _Shrove-Tuesday_, at the -Court, were our sports and revels ended’. The dating is not quite -clear, but it seems probable that the mask and barriers were both on -the Tuesday, and the presentation on Ash Wednesday, presumably as the -Queen went to chapel. Conceivably, however, the mask was on Monday, -and the presentation and barriers on Tuesday. The Gray’s Inn records -(Fletcher, 107) note a disbursement on 11 Feb. 1595 to William Johnson -and Edward Morrys, who served as the Prince’s Lord Chancellor and Lord -Treasurer, of 100 marks for ‘the gentlemen for their sports & shewes -this Shrovetyde at the court before the Queens Majestie’. There was -also a levy on 8 May for the ‘shewes & desports’ of sums varying from -4_s._ to 10_s._ according to status, while the public stock of the -house was to contribute £30. - -The speeches in the mask were apparently by Francis Davison, one of -the Prince’s Gentlemen Pensioners, who included in his _Poetical -Rapsody_ (1602), sign. D 3 v^o, amongst Sonnets, &c., ‘To his first -Loue’, one ‘Vpon presenting her with the speech of Grayes-Inne Maske -at the Court 1594, consisting of three partes, The Story of Proteus -Transformations, the wonders of the Adamantine Rocke, and a speech to -her Maiestie’. The _Poetical Rapsody_, sign. K 8, also contains the -opening hymn of the mask, which begins ‘Of Neptune’s Empyre let us -sing’, and ascribes it to Thomas Campion (q.v.). Whether ‘The Song at -the ending’, which according to Dr. Greg has been inserted in _Harl. -MS._ 541 by a later hand, is also Campion’s must remain doubtful. The -MS. as originally written is just such a present as Davison may have -sent to his mistress. A list of ‘Papers lent’ by Davison in _Harl. MS._ -298 includes ‘Grayes In Sportes under S^r Henry Helmes. Eleaz. Hogdson’. - - - _The Twelve Months. 1608–12_ - -[_MS._] Formerly _penes_ Collier, but not now among his papers in -_Egerton MS._ 2623. - -_Editions_ by J. P. Collier, _Five Court Masques_ (1848), 131, with -title ‘The Masque of the Twelve Months’. - -The maskers are the twelve Months; the antimaskers Pages; the -presenters Madge Howlet, Pigwiggen a Fairy, Beauty, Aglaia, the Pulses, -Prognostication, and Somnus; the musicians the twelve Spheres. - -The locality is not given, but the presence of a king is contemplated. -The text is disordered, but can easily be reconstructed, as follows: -Madge Howlet, ‘going up towards the King’, and Pigwiggen speak -the opening dialogue (Collier, 137). The Spheres sing the first -song calling Beauty from her fort, the Heart (140). This is the -scene; on it are plumes, ‘the ensignes of the darling of the yeare, -delicious Aprill’. Beauty, Aglaia, and the Pulses, ‘beating before -them up towardes the King’, speak a dialogue (131). The Pages dance -an ‘antemasque’ (133). Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue (134). -The maskers appear, and are presented by Beauty (134). The second -‘antemasque’ is danced (134). Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue (134). -Prognostication enters, and prognosticates (135). The maskers descend, -and Beauty describes April, a prince ‘lov’d of all, yett will not -love’, with a ‘triple plume’ (135). After a second song, ‘they dance -their entrie’ (141). Beauty and Aglaia speak a dialogue (136). There is -a third song (141). ‘They dance their mayne dance: which done, Bewty -invites them to dance with the Ladies’ (137). There is a fourth song -(142). ‘They dance with the Ladies, and the whole Revells follows’ -(137). Beauty calls on Somnus (140). There is a last song (142). ‘They -dance their going off’ (140). - -Brotanek, 346, suggests 1 Jan. 1612 as a probable date. I agree with -him that ‘charming all warre from his mild monarchie’ (136) suggests -James I, although I do not think that ‘our fairy King’ (137) is -necessarily a reminiscence of the _Mask of Oberon_, especially as -this fairy king is James and not Henry. In any case ‘the heart of the -yeare’ (132), ‘prime of this newe yeare’ (135), ‘this winter nighte’ -(141) do not require a performance on 1 Jan. In fact, April and not -January leads the months in the mask. I would add to Brotanek’s notes -that April is clearly danced by a Prince of Wales, and that ‘lov’d of -all, yett will not love’ fits in with the uncertainty as to Henry’s -matrimonial intentions which prevailed in 1612. But he is not very -likely to have given two masks in the winter of 1611–12, nor is there -any evidence of any mask that winter except the _Love Restored_ of -6 Jan. Of course _The Twelve Months_ may never have been actually -performed. I have thought that it might have been the mask abandoned by -Anne on account of the death of the Queen of Spain in Dec. 1611 (cf. -Jonson, _Love Restored_). Beauty, ‘our fairy Queene’, is said to be -‘Great president of all those princely revells’ in honour of the ‘fairy -King’. But the mask is danced by men, not women, which seems to put a -Queen’s mask out of the question. No mask has yet been traced in the -winter of 1609–10. I am afraid I must leave the date open. If Henry led -the dance, his death in Nov. 1612 gives one limit. The ‘antemasque’ is -more likely to have been introduced after than before 1608. The use of -Pigwiggen as a fairy name recurs in Drayton’s _Nymphidia_, published in -1627. - - - _Mask of Flowers. 6 Jan. 1614_ - -_S. R._ 1614, Jan. 21 (Nidd). ‘The maske of flowers by the gent. of -Graies Inne vppon Twelfe Night 1613.’ _Robert Wilson_ (Arber, iii. 540). - -1614. The Maske of Flowers. Presented By the Gentlemen of Graies-Inne, -at the Court of Whitehall, in the Banquetting House, vpon Twelfe -night, 1613. Being the last of the Solemnities and Magnificences which -were performed at the marriage of the right honourable the Earle of -Somerset, and the Lady Francis daughter of the Earle of Suffolke, Lord -Chamberlaine. _N. O. for Robert Wilson._ [With Epistle to Sir -Francis Bacon by I. G., W. D., T. B. These initials, presumably of -Gray’s Inn men, have not been identified.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 735, and H. A. Evans, -_English Masques_ (1897). - -The maskers, in white embroidered with carnation and silver and -vizards, were thirteen transformed Flowers; the antimaskers in ‘the -anticke-maske of daunce’ Pantaloon, Courtesan, Swiss and his Wife, -Usurer, Midwife, Smug and his Wench, Fretelyne, Bawd, Roaring Boy, -Citizen, Mountebank, Jewess of Portugal, Chimney-Sweeper and his Wench; -the musicians twelve Garden Gods, also described as Priests, and in the -‘anticke-maske of the song’ Miller, Wine Cooper, Vintner’s Boy, Brewer, -Skipper, Fencer, Pedlar, Barber; the presenters Invierno, Primavera, -Gallus the Sun’s Post, Silenus, Kawasha, and attendants. - -The locality was the Banqueting House, at the lower end of which was a -‘travers painted in perspective’, as a city wall and gate, with temples -of Silenus and Kawasha on either side. The antimasks represented a -challenge, directed by the Sun, between wine and tobacco. ‘The travers -being drawne’ disclosed an elaborate garden sloping up to a mount and -arbour (33 ft. long × 21 ft. high) with a bank of flowers before it. -Upon a charm the flowers vanished to give place to the maskers, who -danced their first and second measure, then took ladies, for ‘measures, -corantoes, durettoes, morascoes, galliards’, and then ‘daunced their -parting measure’, which was followed by compliments to the king and the -bride and groom. - -For general notices of the Somerset wedding masks, cf. s.v. Campion, -_Mask of Squires_. On 23 Dec. Chamberlain wrote to Carleton (Birch, i. -282), ‘Sir Francis Bacon prepares a masque to honour this marriage, -which will stand him in above £2000; and though he have been offered -some help by the House, and specially by Mr. Solicitor, Sir Henry -Yelverton, who would have sent him £500, yet he would not accept -it, but offers them the whole charge with the honour. Marry, his -obligations are such, as well to his majesty as to the great lord -and to the whole house of Howards, as he can admit no partner’. On 5 -Jan. (Birch, i. 288) he briefly notes, ‘Mr. Attorney’s masque is for -to-morrow, and for a conclusion of Christmas and these shows together’. - -The records of Gray’s Inn confirm Chamberlain’s account, by giving no -signs that any expense fell on the Inn. On a letter by Bacon which may -refer to this occasion, cf. s.v. Bacon. - -Osborne, _James_, 82, a not very accurate writer, speaks of a Gray’s -Inn mask at court, following an Anglo-Scottish quarrel between Mr. -Hawley of Gray’s Inn and Mr. Maxwell. Probably he has this mask, which -was to honour a Scot, in mind. The quarrel was in fact over in June -1612 (Birch, i. 173). I doubt whether either this mask or the joint -Gray’s Inn and Inner Temple mask of 1612–13 had anything to do with it. - - - C. RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS - - - _Coronation Triumph. 1559_ - -_S. R._ 1558–9. ‘The passage of the quenes maiesties Throwoute the -Cytie of London.’ _Richard Tottle_ (Arber, i. 96). - -1558[9], Jan. 23. The Passage of our most drad Soueraigne Lady Quene -Elyzabeth through the citie of London to westminster the daye before -her coronacion. _Richard Tottill. Cum privilegio._ - -N.D. [1604.] The Royal Passage of her Majesty from the Tower of London -to her Palace of Whitehall, with all the Speaches and Devices, both -of the Pageants and otherwise, together with her Majesties severall -Answers, and most pleasing Speaches to them all. _S. S. for Jone -Millington._ - -N.D. [1604.] _S. S. for John Busby._ [Another issue.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 38 (1823), and A. F. Pollard, _Tudor -Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2), 365. - -There are also accounts in Machyn, 186, and in Holinshed (1808), iv. -158. For a list of the pageants cf. ch. iv. - - - _Bristol Entertainment. August 1574_ - -1575. The whole Order howe our Soveraigne Ladye Queene Elizabeth was -receyved into the Citie of Bristowe, in August, and the Speeches -spoken before her presens at her Entry; with the residue of Versis and -Matter that might not be spoken (for distance of the place), but sent -in a Book over the Waetter. _Thomas Marshe._ [In ‘_The Firste Parte -of Churchyardes Chippes, contayning Twelve seueral Labours_. Devised -and published, only by Thomas Churchyard, Gentilman’. Epistle to -Christopher Hatton.] - -1578. _Thomas Marsh._ - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ i. 393 (1788, 1823), and by J. P. -Collier (1867). - -Probably Churchyard was the deviser of the entertainment, as he -calls the _Chippes_ ‘a book of all my English verses in meter’. He -says, ‘Some of these Speeches could not be spoken, by means of a -Scholemaister, who envied that any stranger should set forth these -Shows’. _A worthie Dittie, song before the Queens Majestie at Bristow_, -by D. S[and], not in the Entertainment, is in _The Paradise of Daynty -Devises_ (1576). Elizabeth was at Bristol 13–21 Aug. 1574 and lay at -John Young’s. Fame, a boy with a speech in English verse, met her at -the High Cross. At the next gate were Salutation, Gratulation, and -Obedient Good Will, with their verses. On 14 Aug. the Queen attended -divine service at the College. On 15 and 16 Aug. the Forts of Peace -and Feeble Policy were arrayed, and there were sham fights by land and -sea, with speeches by Dissuasion, Persuasion, and John Roberts, who -apparently wrote his own. Was he the envious schoolmaster? - - - _Kenilworth Entertainment. 1575_ - -There are two descriptions: - - A. By _Gascoigne_ - -1576. The Princelye pleasures, at the Courte at Kenelwoorth. That is to -saye, The Copies of all such verses Proses, or Poeticall inuentions, -and other Deuices of pleasure, as were there deuised, and presented -by sundry Gentle men, before the Quenes Maiestie: In the yeare 1575. -_Richard Jones_. [The unique copy is believed to have been burnt -in the Shakespeare Library at Birmingham. The printer’s Epistle is -dated March 26, 1576.] - -1587. [Part of _Collection_.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 486 (1823), and elsewhere (cf. -Schelling, 121). - - B. By _Robert Laneham_ - -1575. A letter: Whearin part of the entertainment untoo the Queez -Majesty at Killingwoorth Castl, in Warwick Sheer in this Soomerz -Progress, 1575, is signified: from a freend officer attendant in the -Coourt untoo hiz freend a Citizen, and Merchaunt of London. [_No -imprint or colophon._] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 i. 420 (1823), by F. J. Furnivall, -_Captain Cox, his Ballads and Books_ (1871, _Ballad Soc._; 1890, _N. -S. S._), in _Sh.-Jahrbuch_, xxvii, 251 (1892), and elsewhere (cf. -Furnivall, ix, clxxvi). - -Elizabeth was at Kenilworth 9–27 July 1575. The diary of entertainments -is given in ch. iv. The contributions of specific authors were as -follows: - -9 July. Speeches of Sibylla, by William Hunnis; the Porter Hercules, by -John Badger; the Lady of the Lake, by George Ferrers; a Poet, in Latin, -by Richard Mulcaster, or Mercury (?) Paten. It is uncertain which was -used; Gascoigne prints Mulcaster’s, Laneham Paten’s. - -11 July. Dialogue of a Savage Man and Echo, ‘devised, penned, and -pronounced’ by Gascoigne. - -18 July. Device of the Delivery of the Lady of the Lake, by William -Hunnis, with verses by Hunnis, Ferrers, and Henry Goldingham, who -played Arion. - -20 July. Device of Zabeta prepared by Gascoigne, but not shown. - -27 July. Device of the Farewell of Silvanus, by Gascoigne. - - - _Woodstock Entertainment. 1575_ - -See ch. xxiii, s.v. SIR HENRY LEE. - - - _Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainments. August 1578_ - -There are two contemporary descriptions: - - A - -_S. R._ 1578, Aug. 30. ‘The ioyfull Receavinge of the Quenes maiestie -into Norwyche.’ _Henry Bynneman_ (Arber, ii. 336). - -N.D. The Ioyfull Receyuing of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie into -her Highnesse Citie of Norwich: The things done in the time of hir -abode there: and the dolor of the Citie at hir departure. Wherein are -set down diuers Orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by -Sir Robert Wood Knight, now Maior of the same Citie, and others: and -certain also deliuered to hir Maiestie in writing: euery of the turned -into English. _Henrie Bynneman._ [Epistle by Ber[nard] Gar[ter] to Sir -Owen Hopton.] - -_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 136. - - B - -_S. R._ 1578, Sept. 20. ‘The enterteignement of the Quenes Maiestie in -Suffolk and Norffolk; gathered by Thomas Churchyard.’ _Henry Bynneman_ -(Arber, ii. 338). - -N.D. A Discourse of the Queenes Maiesties entertainement in Suffolk -and Norffolk: With a description of many things then presently seene. -Deuised by Thomas Churchyarde, Gent. with diuers shewes of his own -inuention sette out at Norwich: ... _Henrie Bynneman_. [Epistle by -Churchyard to Gilbert Garrard. Adnitt (cf. s.v. Churchyard) says there -were two issues with varying prefatory matter.] - -_Extracts_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ (1823), ii. 115, 128, 130, 133, 179. - -A ballad and a sonnet, presumably from their titles based on A, were -registered by J. Charlwood and R. Jones respectively on 24 and 31 March -1579 (Arber, ii. 349, 350). - -Elizabeth was at Norwich 16–22 Aug. 1578. The diary is as follows: - -16 Aug. 1578. Oration by Mayor at Hartford Bridge; Speech, prepared but -prevented by rain, of King Gurgunt in Town Close near Blanch Flower -Castle; Pageant of the Commonwealth, with representations of local -loom industries, and speech by Garter in St. Stephen’s Street; Pageant -of the City of Norwich, Deborah, Judith, Esther, and Queen Martia, -with the City Waits and songs by Garter and Churchyard, at entry to -Market-place; Speech of a Turkish Boy by Churchyard, at Mr. Peck’s door. - -18 Aug. Speech of Mercury in an elaborate coach, by Churchyard. - -19 Aug. Show of Chastity, with dialogue and song of Chastity, Cupid, a -Philosopher, Wantonness, Riot, Modesty, Temperance, Good Exercise, and -Shamefastness, by Churchyard; Oration by Minister of Dutch Church. - -20 Aug. Oration by Stephen Limbert, Master of the Grammar School. - -21 Aug. Shows of Water Nymphs, with speeches, and of Manhood and -Desert, a contention of Manhood, Good Favour, Desert, and Good -Fortune, for Lady Beauty, prepared but prevented by rain, both by -Churchyard; Mask by Henry Goldingham in Privy Chamber after supper of -Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Pallas, Neptune, Diana, Mercury as -presenter, Cupid, torchbearers and musicians, who marched about the -chamber and made speeches and characteristic gifts, but apparently did -not dance. - -22 Aug. Speech and Song at St. Benet’s Gate by Garter; Show of Fairies -with their Queen and seven speeches, outside the gate, by Churchyard; -written Oration by Mayor at departure over City boundary. - -Churchyard also mentions ‘speeches well sette out and a speciall device -much commended’ in the park of the Earl of Surrey at Kenninghall on -12 Aug.; also divers ‘triumphes and devises’ in Suffolk, of which he -only specifies ‘a shew representing the Phayries (as well as might -be) ... in the whiche shew a rich jewell was presented to the Queenes -Highnesse’ at Sir Thomas Kidson’s house, Hengrave Hall, during 28–30 -Aug. In _Churchyards Challenge_ (1593) he claims ‘The whole -deuises pastimes and plaies at Norwich, before her Maistie’, and also -‘The Commedy before her Maestie at Norwich in the fielde when she went -to dinner to my Lady Gerninghams’ at Costessy (19 Aug.). - - - _Fortress of Perfect Beauty. 15–16 May 1581_ - -_S. R._ 1581, July 1. ‘The Tryumphe Shewed before the Quene and the -Ffrenche Embassadors.’ _Robert Walgrave_ (Arber, ii. 396). - -N.D. A brief declaratiō of the shews, deuices, speeches, and -inuentions, done & performed before the Queenes Maiestie, & the French -Ambassadours, at the most valiaunt and worthye Triumph, attempted and -executed on the Munday and Tuesday in Whitson weeke last, Anno 1581. -Collected, gathered, penned & published, by Henry Goldwel, Gen. _Robert -Waldegrave._ [Epistle by Goldwell to Rowland Brasebridge of Great -Wycombe.] - -_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._^2 (1823), ii. 310. - -This was a tilt, before François of Bourbon, dauphin of Auvergne, Artus -de Cossé, marshal of France, and other commissioners from France, for -the treaty of marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. The -challenge was delivered by a boy in red and white, as the Queen came -from Chapel on 16 April 1581. The tilt, first fixed for 24 April, was -put off to 1 May, 8 May, and finally 15 May. The gallery at the end -of the tilt-yard was named the Castle or Fortress of Perfect Beauty, -and the challengers, the Earl of Arundel, Lord Windsor, Philip Sidney, -and Fulke Greville, called themselves the Four Foster Children of -Desire. They entered from the stable, with trains of followers and a -Rowling Trench of printed canvas, to besiege the fortress. From this -boys spoke and sang, and cannonades of perfumes were shot off, while -flowers and other fancies were flung from scaling ladders. Then came -twenty-one defendants, each with his ‘invention’ and speech. They were -Henry Grey, Sir Thomas Perot, Anthony Cooke, Thomas Ratcliffe, Henry -Knolles, William Knolles, Robert Knolles, Francis Knolles, Rafe Bowes, -Thomas Kelwaie, George Goring, William Tresham, Robert Alexander, -Edward Dennie, Hercules Meautus, Edward Moore, Richard Skipwith, -Richard Ward, Edward Digbie, Henry Nowell, Henry Brunkerd. Perot and -Cooke were ‘both in like armour, beset with apples and fruit, the one -signifying Adam and the other Eve, who had haire hung all down his -helmet’. Their page was an Angel. Ratcliffe was a Desolate Knight, with -a page who presented his shield. The four Knolles brothers were Sons of -Despair, with Mercury for a page. The speeches of the pages are given. -Each defendant ran six courses with the challengers. ‘In the middest -of the running came in Sir Henrie Leigh, as unknowne, and when he had -broken his six staves, went out in like manner againe.’ At the end of -the first day the boy who gave the challenge announced a second on the -morrow. - -On the second day the challengers entered in a chariot ‘forewearied -and half overcome’ with a lady representing Desire, and a consort of -music. A herald made a speech for them. The defendants entered, and the -tournay and barriers followed. At the end a boy clad in ash colour and -bearing an olive-branch made submission of the challengers to the Queen. - -Foulkes, lxiii. 49, says that a set of blank cheques for this tilt are -in _Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 166. - - - _Tilbury Visit. 1588_ - -There are or were three accounts: - - A - -_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10. ‘The quenes visitinge the campe at Tilberye and -her enterteynement there the 8 and 9 of August 1588, with condicon yat -yt may be aucthorised hereafter.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 495). - -N.D. The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilsburie with her -Entertainment there. _Iohn Wolfe for Edward White._ [At end, ‘T. D.’, -doubtless the initials of Thomas Deloney.] - -_Editions_ in A. F. Pollard, _Tudor Tracts_ (_England’s Garner_^2), -492, and F. O. Mann, _Deloney’s Works_ (1912). - - B - -_S. R._ 1588, Aug. 10 (Stallard). ‘A ioyfull songe of the Roiall -Receaving of the quenes maiestie into her Campe at Tilbery: the 8 and -9 of August 1588.’ _John Wolf for Richard Jones_ (Arber, ii. 496). [It -does not seem likely that this entry relates to Aske’s book.] - - C - -1588. Elizabetha Triumphans. By James Aske. _Thomas Orwin for Thomas -Gubbin and Thomas Newman._ - -_Edition_ in Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. 545 (1823). - -The two extant narratives are discussed by M. Christy in _E. H. R._ -xxxiv. 43. - - - _Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1590_ - -See ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee. - - - _Cowdray Entertainment. 1591_ - -1591. The Speeches and Honorable Entertainment giuen to the Queenes -Maiestie in Progresse, at Cowdrey in Sussex, by the right Honorable the -Lord Montacute. _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William Wright._ - -1591. The Honorable Entertainment.... _Thomas Scarlet, sold by William -Wright._ [A different text, with a fuller description, but without the -words of the songs, and inaccurately dated.] - -_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 90 (1823), and R. W. Bond, -_Lyly_, i. 421 (1902). - -The host was Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague. Gascoigne’s -mask of 1572 was also written for him. Bond assigns the present -entertainment, conjecturally, to Lyly. McKerrow, 20, records that -William Barley, the stationer, was brought before the High Commission -for selling at Cowdray, on some date before 1598, a twopenny book -relating to Her Majesty’s progress. - -The diary is as follows: - -14 Aug. 1591. Speech by a Porter at the bridge on arrival at night. - -15 Aug. Sunday: a day of rest. - -16 Aug. Hunting in Park, and delivery of bow with a ditty by a Nymph. - -17 Aug. Dinner at the Priory, where Lord Montague lodged, and speeches -in the walks by a Pilgrim and a Wild Man, at an oak hung with Sussex -escutcheons, and a ditty before hunting. - -18 Aug. Speeches and ditty by an Angler and offering of fish by a -Netter at a pond in the walks before hunting. - -19 Aug. Dance of country people with tabor and pipe. - -20 Aug. Knighting, and departure to Chichester for dinner. - - - _Elvetham Entertainment. 1591_ - -_S. R._ 1591, Oct. 1. ‘The honorable entertaynement gyven to the quenes -maiestie in progresse at Elvetham in Hampshire by the righte honorable -the Erle of Hertford.’ _John Wolf_ (Arber, ii. 596). - -1591. The Honorable Entertainement gieuen to the Queenes Maiestie in -Progresse, at Eluetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle -of Hertford. _John Wolfe._ [There appear to be two editions or issues, -(_a_) without and (_b_) with a woodcut of the pond.] - -1591.... Newly corrected and amended. [This has a woodcut of the pond, -different from that in (1) (_b_).] - -_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._ ii. (1788), iii. 101 (1823), and R. -W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 431. - -Elizabeth was at Elvetham 20–23 Sept. 1591. The host was Edward -Seymour, Earl of Hertford. A Three Men’s Song of Phillida and Coridon, -which formed part of the Entertainment, is ascribed in _England’s -Helicon_ (1600) and _MSS._ to Nicholas Breton. Bond ascribes the -Entertainment to Lyly. An account of the amusements is in ch. iv. - - - _Bisham, Sudeley, and Rycote Entertainments. 1592_ - -1592. Speeches deliuered to her Maiestie this last progresse, at the -Right Honorable the Lady Russels, at Bissam, the Right Honorable the -Lorde Chandos at Sudley, at the Right Honorable the Lord Norris, at -Ricorte. _Joseph Barnes, Oxford._ [There appear to be two issues, -with slight variants.] - -_Editions_ by J. Nichols, _Eliz._^2 iii. 130 (1823), Sir S. E. Brydges -(1815), and R. W. Bond, _Lyly_, i. 471 (1902). - - - _Bisham_ - -The hosts were Sir Edward Hoby and his mother, Elizabeth, Dowager Lady -Russell. - -21 Aug. 1592. On arrival, at the top of the hill, speech by a Wild Man; -at the middle of the hill, dialogue of Pan and two Virgins, Sybilla -and Isabella; at the foot of the hill, ditty by Ceres and Nymphs in a -harvest-cart, followed by speech and gift of crown of wheat-ears and -jewel. - - - _Sudeley_ - -The host was Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos. - -10 Sept. 1592. Speech of old Shepherd at entry to castle. - -11 Sept. Show of Apollo and Daphne, with gift of tables of verses. - -12 Sept. Contemplated Presentation of High Constable of Cotswold, and -Choosing of King and Queen by Shepherds, with song and dialogue of -Melibœus, Nisa, and Cutter of Cotswold--prevented by weather. - - - _Rycote_ - -The host was Henry, Lord Norris. - -28 Sept. 1592. On arrival from Oxford, speech by an Old Gentleman [Lord -Norris]. - -2 Oct. Music in garden, with speech by Old Gentleman, and letters -containing jewels by messengers as from his sons in Ireland, Flanders, -and France. - -3 Oct. At departure, letter with jewel as from daughter in Jersey. - -Between Sudeley and Rycote, the Queen was entertained at Oxford (cf. -ch. iv) and Woodstock (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Sir Henry Lee). - - - _Tilt-yard Entertainment. 17 Nov. 1595_ - -See ch. xxiii, s.v. Peele, _Anglorum Feriae_. - - - _Harefield Entertainment. 1602_ - -Elizabeth was at Harefield Place, Middlesex, the house of Sir Thomas -Egerton, Lord Keeper, and his wife Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby, -from 31 July to 2 Aug. 1602. At the same house Milton’s _Arcades_ -was performed before Lady Derby in 1634. Seven fragments of the -entertainment have been preserved, and are printed by Nichols, _Eliz._ -iii. 570, 586, and Bond, _Lyly_, i. 491. Accounts of expenditure -involved, and a list of the gifts in kind contributed by Egerton’s -friends on this occasion are in _Egerton Papers_, 340, but the account -in 342–4 is a forgery (_vide infra_). - -(i) Dialogue between a Bailiff and Dairymaid, and presentation of a -rake and fork to the Queen, as she entered the demesne near the dairy -house. - -(ii) Dialogue at the steps of the house, and presentation of a heart, -by Place ‘in a partie-colored roobe, like the brick house’ and Time -‘with yeollow haire, and in a green roabe, with an hower glasse, -stopped, not runninge’. - -(iii) Verse petition accompanying gift of a robe of rainbows on behalf -of St. Swithin by Lady Walsingham on Monday morning [2 Aug.]. - -(iv) Farewell of Place, ‘attyred in black mourning aparell’ on the -Queen’s departure, with presentation of an anchor. - -(v) Verse ‘Complaint of the Satyres against the Nymphes’. - -(vi) Song and speech by a Mariner, who entered the ‘presence’ with a -lottery box, ‘supposed to come from the Carricke’. - -(vii) ‘The Severall Lottes’, a list of gifts and blanks, with a -poesy accompanying each, and the names of the ladies who drew them. -These were the Queen, the Dowager Countess of Derby, the Countesses -of Derby, Worcester, and Warwick, Lady Scroope, Mistresses Nevill, -Thynne, Hastinges, and Bridges, Ladies Scudamore, Francis, Knevette, -and Susan Vere, Mrs. Vavissour, Ladies Southwell and Anne Clifford, -Mrs. Hyde, Ladies Kildare, Howard of Effingham and Paget, Mistresses -Kiddermister and Strangwidge, the Mother of the Maids, Ladies -Cumberland, Walsingham, and Newton, Mrs. Wharton, Ladies Digbye and -Dorothy [Hastinges] and Mrs. Anselowe. One name, ending in ‘liffe’ -is illegible. It may be Ratcliffe. One MS. adds three lots assigned -to ‘country wenches’. Most of these ladies were maids of honour and -others who came with the court; one or two, e.g. Mrs. Kiddermister, -were country neighbours of the Egerton’s. - -These pieces are derived from various sources: - -(_a_) A transcript made by R. Churton in 1803 of a contemporary MS. -found at Arbury, the house of Sir Roger Newdigate, to whose family -Harefield passed in 1675, contains (i)-(v) and was printed by Nichols. - -(_b_) A _Conway MS._, printed by P. Cunningham in _Sh. Soc. Papers_, -ii. 65, contains (iii), the song from (vi), and (vii), with the heading -‘The Devise to entertayne hir M^{ty} at Harfielde ...’ and the date -1602. - -(_c_) The second edition (1608) of Francis Davison’s _Poetical -Rhapsody_ contains the speech from (vi) and (vii), with the incorrect -indication ‘at the Lord Chancellor’s house, 1601’, which misled Nichols -into supposing it to belong to some entertainment at York Place, the -year before that of Harefield. The item comes between two pieces by Sir -John Davies and has the initials J. D. - -(_d_) The diary of John Manningham (_Harl. MS._ 5353, f. 95) contains -amongst entries of Feb. 1603 some extracts from (i) and (vii), dating -the latter in ‘the last Sumer at hir M^{ties} being with the L. Keeper’. - -(_e_) A contemporary MS., printed as _Poetical Miscellanies_ (_Percy -Soc._ lv), 5, has (vii) dated 1602. - -(_f_) _Talbot MS._ K, f. 43, in the College of Arms, contains (iv) as -given at ‘Harville’ with the date ‘Aug. 1602’ and is printed by Lodge, -ii. 560. - -(_g_) _B.M. Birch MS._ 4173 contains a similar copy of (iv). - -On the strength of the _Poetical Rhapsody_, (vii) is generally assigned -to Sir John Davies, which hardly justified Dr. Grosart in assigning all -the pieces to him (_Works_, ii, clxxii). Bond transferred the whole -to Lyly, primarily as a conjecture, but was confirmed in his view by -finding in _Egerton Papers_, 343, a payment to ‘M^r Lillyes man, which -brought the lotterye boxe to Harefield’. But the document in which this -is found, and which also contains the item ‘x^{li} to Burbidges players -for Othello’, is one of Collier’s forgeries (Ingleby, 261). - -John Chamberlain (_Letters_, 164, 169) sent Dudley Carleton ‘the Quenes -entertainment at the Lord Kepers’ on 19 Nov. 1602, and on 23 Dec. wrote -that, as Carleton liked the Lord Keeper’s devices so ill, he had not -cared to get Sir Robert Cecil’s (cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Cecil). - - - _Progress from Scotland. 1603_ - -There were several contemporary prints: - - A - -_S. R._ 1603, May 9. ‘Kinge James his entrance into England.’ _Burby -and Millington_ (Arber, iii. 234). - -1603. The True Narration of the Entertainment of his Royal Majestie. -_Thomas Creede for Thomas Millington._ [Epistle by T. M. to Reader.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 53, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart -Tracts_ (_English Garner_^2), 11. - - B - -_S. R._ 1603, May 14. ‘King James his entertainement at Theobaldes, -with his welcomme to London.’ _Thomas Snodham_ (Arber, iii. 234). - -1603. King James his entertainment at Theobalds: With his Welcome to -London. By John Sauile. _Thomas Snodham, sold by T. Este._ - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 135, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart -Tracts_, 53. - - C - -_S. R._ 1604, Mar. 27. ‘The tyme Triumphant.’ _Ralph Blore_ (Arber, -iii. 256). - -1604. The Time Triumphant, Declaring in brief the arrival of our -Sovereign liege Lord, King James, into England, His Coronation at -Westminster, ... [&c.]. By Gilbert Dugdale. _By R. B._ - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), i. 408, and C. H. Firth, _Stuart -Tracts_, 69. - - D - -Jonson’s _Althorp Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii). - - E - -_S. R._ 1603, June 16. A ballad of ‘Englandes sweet Comfort with the -kinges entertaynmente by the Maior of Yorke’. _William White_ (Arber, -iii. 238). - -There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_ (1631), 819. For the -stages of the progress cf. App. A. Besides the device at Althorp, -speeches were prepared by Dekker for the entry to London, but not used -(cf. s.a. 1604). - - - _Coronation Triumph. 1604_ - -There are four contemporary prints: - - A - -_S. R._ 1604, Apr. 2 (Pasfield). ‘The magnificent Entertainement ... -the 15 of marche 1603.’ _Thomas Man junior_ (Arber, iii. 258). - -1604. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne -his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties -Tryumphant Passage (from the Tower) through the Honourable Citie (and -Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603. As well by the -English as by the Strangers: With the speeches and Songes, deliuered in -the seuerall Pageants. Tho. Dekker. _T. C. for Tho. Man the younger._ - -1604. The Whole Magnificent Entertainment.... And those speeches that -before were publish’t in Latin, now newly set forthe in English. _E. -Allde for Tho. Man the younger._ - -1604. _Thomas Finlason, Edinburgh._ - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, i. 337, and _Somers Tracts_ (1810), -iii. 1. - -The speeches for three of the pageants were Jonson’s, and some of those -for a fourth Middleton’s. Two others were in Latin. But Dekker himself -probably contributed the rest. Prefixed is a dialogue intended, but not -used, for James’s original entry into London in 1603, which may also be -assigned to Dekker. - - B - -Jonson’s _Coronation Entertainment_ (cf. ch. xxiii). - - C - -1604. The Arches of Triumph Erected in honor of the High and mighty -prince, James, the first of that name, King of England, and the sixt of -Scotland, at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable -Citty and chamber of London, vpon the 15^{th} day of March 1603. -Invented and published by Stephen Harrison Joyner and Architect: and -graven by William Kip. _John Windet._ [Verses by Thomas Dekker and -John Webster.] - -1604.... _John Windet, sold by John Sudbury and George Humble._ - - D - -G. Dugdale’s _Time Triumphant_. See s.a. 1603. - -There is also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 835, based on A. Some -ballads are registered in Arber, iii. 255–7, and various verses and -other illustrative materials are printed by Nichols. A list of the -pageants is in ch. iv. - - - _Entertainment of King of Denmark. 1606_ - -There are four contemporary prints: - - A - -_S. R._ 1606, July 30 (Wilson). ‘The Kinge of Denmarkes entertainement -at Tilberie Hope by the kinge &c.’ _Henry Robertes_ (Arber, iii. 327). - -1606. The Most royall and Honourable entertainement, of the famous and -renowmed King, Christiern the fourth, King of Denmarke, &c.... With -the royall passage on Thursday the 31. of July, thorough the Citty of -London, and honorable shewes there presented them, and maner of their -passing. By H. R. _W. Barley for H. R._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas -Smith, signed ‘Hen. Robarts’.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 54, and _Harleian -Miscellany_, ix. 431. - - B - -_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 19 (Wilson). ‘A Booke called Englandes farewell to -Christian the Ffourthe kinge of Denmarke With a Relacon of suche shewes -and seuerall pastymes presented to his Maiestie, as well at Courte -the ffirste of Auguste as in other places since his honorable passage -through the Cytie of London &c.’ _William Welbye_ (Arber, iii. 328). - -1606. Englands Farewell to Christian the fourth, famous King of -Denmarke. By H. Roberts. _For William Welby._ [Epistle to Sir John -Jolles, signed ‘H. Roberts’.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 75, and _Harleian -Miscellany_, ix. 440. - - C - -Jonson’s _Entertainment of the King of Denmark_ at Theobalds (cf. ch. -xxiii). - - D - -_S. R._ 1606, Aug. 8 (Hartwell). ‘A booke called the Kinge of Denmarkes -welcomme into England &c.’ _Edward Allde_ (Arber, iii. 327). - -1606. The King of Denmarkes welcome: Containing his arriual, abode, and -entertainement, both in the Citie and other places. _Edward Allde._ - -_Extracts_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), iv. 1072. - -There are also an account in Stowe, _Annales_, 885, and a _Relatio -oder Erzehlung wie ... Christianus IV, &c. im Königreich Engellandt -angelanget_ (1607, Hamburg). For the itinerary cf. App. A. Bond, -_Lyly_, i. 505, prints a song at Theobalds on 24 July and a pastoral -dialogue in Fleet Street on 31 July as possibly Lyly’s. - - - _The Christmas Prince. 1607–8_ - -[_MS._] _St. John’s College, Oxford, MS._ ‘A True and Faithfull -Relation of the Risinge and Fall of Thomas Tucker, Prince of Alba -Fortunata, Lord of St. John’s,’ &c. The writer is said (_D. N. B._) to -be Griffin Higgs, but the evidence is inadequate. - -_Edition_ [by P. Bliss], An Account of the Christmas Prince (1816, -_Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana_). Another is planned in _M. S. R._ - -This is the narrative of a lordship of misrule at St. John’s during -the Christmas of 1607–8. The MS. includes the text of a number of -plays and shows. Unfortunately Bliss omits the text of these, with the -exception of one called _The Seven Days of the Week_. The others were -_Ara Fortunae_, _Saturnalia_, _Philomela_, _Time’s Complaint_, _Somnium -Fundatoris_, _Philomathes_, _Yuletide_, _Ira seu Tumulus Fortunae_, -_Periander_ (an English play). Others were planned, but not given; cf. -_Mediaeval Stage_, i. 409. - - - _Chesters Triumph. 23 April 1610_ - -_S. R._ 1610, June 12 (Wilson). ‘A booke called Chesters Triumph in -honour of ye Prince, as it was performed vpon Saincte Georges Day 1610 -in thaforesayd Citty.’ _John Browne_ (Arber, iii. 436). - -1610. Chesters Triumph in Honor of her Prince. As it was performed -vpon S. Georges Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. _For I. B._ [The name -of Robert Amerie appears at the end. A preface and one poem are by R. -Davies.] - -_Editions_ in Nichols, _James_, ii. 291 (1828), and in _Chetham Soc._ -publications (1844). - -G. Ormerod, _Hist. of Cheshire_ (1882), i. 381, gives a description of -the show from a shorter account or programme in _Harl. MS._ 2150, f. -186, indexed (f. 3^v) as ‘M^r. Amory’s new shew invented by him’. This -is confirmed by the lines: - - Amor is loue and Amory is his name, - That did begin this pompe and princelye game. - - - _Camp-Bell. 29 Oct. 1609_ - -N.D. [1609?] Running title: Campbell, or The Ironmongers Faire Field. -[The only known copy (B.M. C. 33, E. 7) lacks the t.p. and sig. A. -Thomas Campbell was mayor in 1609. For his grandson, James Campbell, -mayor in 1629, Dekker wrote _London’s Tempe, or The Field of Happines_.] - -Greg, _Masques_, 21, assigns this to Munday, without stating his -grounds. - - - _London’s Love to Prince Henry. 31 May 1610_ - -1610. Londons Loue, to the royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the -Riuer of Thames, at his returne from Richmonde, with a worthie fleete -of her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a breife -reporte of the water Fight, and Fire workes. _Edward Allde, for -Nathaniel Fosbrooke._ [Epistle to Sir Thomas Campbell, Lord Mayor.] - -_Edition_ by J. Nichols, _James_, ii. 315 (1828). - -It appears from the city records that the device was by Munday, and -that Richard Burbadge and John Rice of the King’s men delivered the -speeches as Amphion and Corinea; cf. _Repertory_, xxix, f. 232^v, -and Letter Book D.D., f. 148^v, quoted by Halliwell-Phillipps in -_Athenaeum_ (19 May 1888), Stopes, _Burbage_, 108, and C. W. Wallace in -_Times_ (28 March 1913). Doubtless Munday also wrote the description. - - - _Creation of Henry Prince of Wales. 4 June 1610_ - -_S. R._ 1610, June 14 (Mokett). ‘A booke called, The creation of the -Prince, by master Danyell Price.’ _Roger Jackson_ (Arber, iii. 436). - -1610. The Order and Solemnitie of the Creation of the High and mightie -Prince Henrie, Eldest Sonne to our sacred Soueraigne, Prince of Wales, -Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. As it was celebrated in the -Parliament House, on Munday the fourth of Iunne last past. Together -with the Ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, and other matters of -speciall regard, incident to the same. Whereunto is annexed the Royall -Maske, presented by the Queene and her Ladies, on Wednesday at night -following. _For John Budge._ [The Mask is Daniel’s _Tethys’ Festival_, -with a separate t.p.] - -_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), ii. 183, and -Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 324. - -The ceremonies are also described in Stowe, _Annales_ (1615), 899, and -in MSS. of W. Camden quoted by Nichols. - -The diary is: - -31 May 1610. City reception with water pageant. - -4 June. Creation. - -5 June. Daniel’s mask. - -6 June. Tilt; fireworks; sea-fight. - - - _Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth. 1613_ - -The most important descriptions, besides the masks of Campion, -Beaumont, and Chapman (q.v.), are. - - A - -_S. R._ 1613, Feb. 18 (Mokett). ‘A booke called The Mariage of the twoo -great prynces Ffriderick Counte Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth &c with -the shewes and fierwoorkes on the Water, the maskes and Revels at the -Courte.’ _William Barley_ (Arber, iii. 516). - -1613. The Magnificent Marriage of the two great princes Frederick -Count Palatine, &c. and the Lady Elizabeth, Daughter to the Imperial -Majesties of King James and Queen Anne, to the Comfort of All Great -Britain. Now the second time imprinted, with many new additions of the -same Tryumphes, performed by the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the -Kings Pallace at Whitehall. _T. C. for W. Barley._ [Nichols says that a -manuscript copy of the first edition is in _Addl. MS._ 5767.] - -_Editions_ in W. Scott, _Somers Tracts_ (1809–15), iii. 35, and -Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 536. - - B - -1613. Heavens Blessing and Earths Joy: or, a True Relation of the -Supposed Sea-Fights and Fire-Workes as were Accomplished before the -Royall Celebration of the All-beloved Marriage of the two Peerlesse -Paragons of Christendome, Fredericke and Elizabeth. By John Taylor, the -Water Poet. _For Joseph Hunt, sold by John Wright._ - -1630. [Part of Taylor’s _Works_.] - -_Edition_ in Nichols, _James_ (1828), ii. 527. - - C - -1613. Beschreibung der Reiss: Empfahung des Ritterlichen Ordens: -Volbringung des Heyraths: vnd glückliche Heimführung: Wie auch der -ansehnlichen Einführung, gehaltene Ritterspiel vnd Freudenfests des -Durchleuchtigsten Hochgeboren Fürsten und Herrn Friedrichen des Fünften -... mit der ... Princessin Elisabethen. _G. Vögelin, Heidelberg._ [Of -this there is also a French translation, _Les Triomphes ... pour le -Mariage et Reception de Monseigneur le Prince Frederic V ... et de -Madame Elisabeth_. 1613.] - - D - -A distinct French account in _Mercure François_, iii. 72. - -For other accounts, extant and lost, and verses, cf. Arber, iii. 499, -514–18; Nichols, ii. *463, 536, 601, 624; Rimbault, 161–3; M. A. Green, -_Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia_, 36. - -The diary is: - -16 Oct. 1612. Arrival of Frederick at Gravesend. - -18 Oct. Reception at Court. - -29 Oct. Visit to Guildhall. - -21 Dec. Investiture with Garter. - -27 Dec. Betrothal. - -7 Feb. 1613. Garter installation. - -11 and 13 Feb. Fireworks and sea-triumph at Whitehall. - -14 Feb. Wedding. Campion’s mask. - -15 Feb. Running at the ring. Chapman’s mask. - -21 Feb. Beaumont’s mask. - - - _Bristol Entertainment. 1613_ - -[_MS._] _Calendar_ by William Adams, _penes_ C. J. Harford (in 1828). - -_S. R._ 1613, Oct. 8 (Mason). ‘A booke called the Queenes Maiesties -entertaynement at Bristoll.’ _John Budge_ (Arber, iii. 533). - -1613. A Relation of the Royall, Magnificent, and Sumptuous -Entertainment given to the High and Mighty Princesse Queen Anne, at -the Renowned Citie of Bristoll, by the Mayor, Sheriffes, and Aldermen -thereof; in the moneth of June last past, 1613. Together with the -Oration, Gifts, Triumphes, Water-combats and other Showes there made. -_For John Budge._ [Epistle by Robert Naile.] - -_Editions_ in _Bristol Memorialist_, No. 3 (1816), and Nichols, -_James_, ii. 648 (1828). - - - - - APPENDIX A - - A COURT CALENDAR - - -[_Bibliographical Note._--This is primarily a list of plays, masks, and -quasi-dramatic entertainments at court. The chronological evidence for -the plays mainly rests upon Appendix B. Tilts and a few miscellaneous -entertainments are included. And it has seemed worth while to trace -the movements of the court, partly in order to locate the palaces -at which the winter performances were given, partly because of the -widespread use of mimetic pageantry during Elizabeth’s progresses and -visits abroad. For the main migrations of the household (in small -capitals), the authorities here cited are confirmed by the daily or -weekly indications of a much more detailed _Itinerarium_ than can be -printed. Additions from sources not explored by me may be possible to -the record of shorter visits or even that of the by-progresses, upon -which Elizabeth was not always accompanied by the full household. I -have not attempted to deal so completely with the Jacobean period. -The King’s constant absences from court on hunting journeys are -difficult to track and of no interest to dramatic history. Appendix -B will show at which of the court plays he was personally present. -The principal material used may be classified as follows: (_a_) The -royal movements are frequently noted in ambassadorial dispatches, -in private letters, notably those of Roger Manners to the Earls of -Rutland (_Rutland MSS._), of Rowland Whyte, court postmaster, to Sir -Robert Sidney (_Sydney Papers_), and of John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley -Carleton (_Letters_, ed. Camden Soc., and Birch, _Court of James_) and -Sir Ralph Winwood (_Winwood Memorials_); and in the diaries of Henry -Machyn, Lord Burghley (Haynes-Murdin, ii. 745; _Hatfield MSS._, i. 149; -v. 69; xiii. 141, 199, 389, 464, 506, 596), Sir Francis Walsingham -(_Camden Miscellany_, vi), and John Dee. (_b_) Collections of State and -quasi-State Papers contain many dated and located documents emanating -from the court, such as proclamations, privy seals, signet letters, -and less formal communications from the sovereign or a secretary -or other officer in attendance. Unfortunately Elizabeth’s letters -missive have never been collected, and many of them are unlocated. -Naturally ministerial documents require handling with discretion, -lest the writers should be away from court. Letters patent bear the -date and location of the Chancellor’s _recepi_, and the Chancellor -was largely detached from the court. The sources for (_a_) and (_b_) -are given in the _Bibl. Note_ to ch. i. (_c_) The _Register_ of the -Privy Council records the localities of the meetings of that body, but -it must be borne in mind that the registration was not very perfect -(cf. ch. ii), and also that, although the Council ordinarily followed -the court, meetings were occasionally held in Westminster or London, -either at the Star Chamber or in the house of a councillor or even a -citizen, when the court happened to be out of town. (_d_) Church bells -were rung when the sovereign moved into or out of a parish, and the -churchwardens entered the ringers’ fees in their accounts. The entries -in J. V. Kitto, _The Accounts of the Churchwardens of St. Martin’s in -the Fields, 1525–1603_ (1901, cited as _Martin’s_), record many comings -and goings from Whitehall, but in some cases the date entered appears -to be other than that of the actual ringing, either by error or because -the payment was on a different day. The extracts from the accounts of -St. Margaret’s, Westminster (cited as _Margaret’s_), in J. Nichols, -_Illustrations_, 1, of Lambeth in D. Lysons, _Environs of London_, i. -222, and S. Denne, _Historical Particulars of Lambeth_ (1795, _Bibl. -Top. Brit._ x. 185), of Fulham in T. Faulkner, _Fulham_ (1813), 139, -of Kingston in Lysons, _Environs_, i. 164, and of Wandsworth by C. -T. Davis in _Surrey Arch. Colls._, xviii (1903), 96, are scrappy and -the year concerned is not always clear. Nichols, _Eliz._ iii. 37, -gives an analogous record from the accounts of Chalk in Kent of the -occasions on which the local carts were requisitioned for removes from -Greenwich. (_e_) The dates and localities of knightings are given in -W. A. Shaw, _The Knights of England_ (1906), but many of them are from -inconsistent and untrustworthy sources. (_f_) The _Chamber Accounts_ -(cf. App. B) contain under the annual heading ‘Apparelling of Houses’ -summaries of monthly bills sent in by the Gentlemen Ushers of the -Chamber of their expenses while engaged in making preparations for -royal visits. They yield much new information as to the houses visited, -but only very approximately date the visits. And it may be that the -Ushers occasionally had to prepare for a visit which never took place. -Analogous information is contained in the _Declared Accounts_ of the -Office of Works. A single account of the Cofferer of the Household, -printed by Nichols, i. 92, gives a daily record of the locality of -the household throughout the progress of 1561; as far as I know, it -is the only extant document of its kind. (_g_) J. Nichols, in his -_Progresses of Elizabeth_^2 (1823) and _Progresses of James I_ (1828), -drew fully upon the contemporary printed descriptions of state entries -and progresses, of which a list is given in ch. xxiv, and upon such -‘gests’ of progresses (cf. ch. iv) as survive. I have been able to -correct and amplify his record of houses visited to a great extent, as -much of the material now available, notably the Privy Council Register -and the Chamber Accounts, was not used by him, and he occasionally -assumed that royal plans were carried out, when they were not. I have -done what I can to identify the royal hosts and their houses, but there -is more of conjecture in my lists than my query-marks quite indicate. -The Chamber Accounts entries are not in chronological order. Often -only a name or a locality is given, and a good deal of plotting of -routes on a map has been necessary. A more thorough study of local and -family histories than I have been able to undertake would doubtless add -corrections and further details. Local antiquaries might well follow -the lines of study opened up by E. Green, _Did Queen Elizabeth visit -Bath in 1574 and 1592_ (1879, _Proc. of Bath Field Club_, iv. 105), W. -D. Cooper, _Queen Elizabeth’s Visits to Sussex_ (1852, _Sussex Arch. -Colls._, v. 190), W. Kelly, _Royal Progresses and Visits to Leicester_ -(1884), and M. Christy, _The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth through -Essex and the Houses in which she stayed_ (1917, _Essex Review_, xxvi. -115, 181). A knowledge of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century roads is -useful. The Elizabethan list in W. Smith, _The Particular Description -of England, 1588_ (ed. H. B. Wheatley and E. W. Ashbee, 1879) is fuller -than that in W. Harrison, _Description of England_ (ed. _N. S. S._ -ii. 107), or that described from a manuscript of _c._ 1603 by G. S. -Thomson in _E. H. R._ xxxiii. 234. The seventeenth-century description -of J. Ogilby, _Itinerarium Angliae_ (1675) became the parent of many -travellers’ guides. But it does not include three private royal roads -largely used in removes; viz. the King’s road by Chelsea to Richmond -and Hampton Court, Theobald’s Road, and a road from Lambeth Ferry to -Greenwich and Eltham. Useful studies are T. F. Ordish, _History of -Metropolitan Roads_ (_L. T. R._ viii. 1), and H. G. Fordham, _Studies -in Carto-Bibliography_ (1914). Other books are given in D. Ballen, -_Bibliography of Roadmaking and Roads_ (1914).] - - - 1558 - -Nov. 17. Accession of Elizabeth at HATFIELD. - -Nov. 22. PROGRESS through Herts and Middlesex to London by Hadley -(Alice Lady Stamford?, Nov. 22–3) and Charterhouse (Lord North, Nov. -23–8).[1] - -Nov. 28. _Tower of London._[2] - -Dec. 5. _Somerset House_, by water.[3] - -Dec. 22. _Whitehall._[4] - - - 1559 - -Jan. 6. Play (=Queen’s=?) and mask (Papists).[5] - -Jan. 12. TOWER, by water.[6] - -Jan. 14. Entry through London with pageants to WHITEHALL.[7] - -Jan. 15. Coronation.[8] - -Jan. 16. Tilt and mask (Almains and Palmers?). - -Jan. 17. Barriers.[9] - -Jan. 29. Mask (Moors?). - -Feb. 5 (S.S.). Mask (Swart Rutters). - -Feb. 7. Mask (Fishers). - -March 21. Morris from Household feast at Mile End to court.[10] - -_c._ March 31. Visit to Greenwich?[11] - -Apr. 25. Supper at Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[12] - -May 1. Maying on Thames at Whitehall.[13] - -_c._ May 17. Visit to Greenwich.[14] - -May 24. Mask (Astronomers) for French embassy.[15] - -May 25. Baiting at palace for embassy.[16] - -June 21. GREENWICH.[17] - -June 25. May game from London to court.[18] - -July 2. City musters and tilt at court.[19] - -July 3. Visit to Woolwich, with banquet in the _Elizabeth -Jonas_.[20] - -July 11. Joust by pensioners and mask.[21] - -July 17. PROGRESS in Kent and Surrey.[22] Dartford (July 17–18), Cobham -Hall (Lord Cobham, July 18–21 <), Gillingham, Otford (July > 23–28 <), -Eltham (Aug. 4), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Aug. 5–6?) and Nonsuch -(Earl of Arundel, Aug. 6–10). - -Aug. 7. =Paul’s.= - -Aug. 10. HAMPTON COURT.[23] - - Aug. 17–> 23. Visit to West Horsley (Lord Clinton), with mask - (Shipmen and Country Maids).[24] - -Sept. 28. WHITEHALL.[25] - -Nov. 5. Tilt.[26] - -Dec. 31. Play (=Chapel=?) and mask (Clowns or Nusquams?).[27] - - - 1560 - -Jan. 1. Mask (Barbarians) for John Duke of Finland.[28] - -Jan. 6. Masks (Patriarchs, Italian Women). - -Feb. 25 (S.S.) or 26. Mask (Nusquams or Clowns?). - -Feb. 27. Masks (Diana and Nymphs, Actaeon?). - -Apr. 10. Morris and ‘queen’ from London to court.[29] - -Apr. 21. Tilt.[30] - -Apr. 24 < > 27. Visit to Deptford.[31] - -Apr. 28. Tilt.[32] - -May 14. GREENWICH.[33] - -_c._ May 24. Visit to Westminster?[34] - -_c._ May. Visit to Eltham.[35] - -July 29. RICHMOND by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[36] - -Aug. 3. OATLANDS.[37] - -Aug. 5–30. PROGRESS in Surrey and Hants.[38] Sutton Place, Woking (Sir -Henry Weston, Aug. 5), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 7, 8), Rotherfield -(John? Norton), Southwick (John White), Portsmouth, Netley Castle (Aug. -12–13), Southampton (Aug. 13–16), Winchester (Aug. 16–23), Micheldever -(Edmund Clerk, Aug. 23), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 23–28), -Odiham (Chidiock Paulet?), Hartley Wintney (Sir John Mason?), Bagshot -(Sir Henry Weston?). - -Aug. 30. _Windsor._[39] - -Sept. 22 < > 30. HAMPTON COURT.[40] - -_c._ Oct. Visit to Horsley (Lord Clinton?).[41] - -Nov. 10 < > 25. WHITEHALL.[42] - -Nov. 27–> Dec. 2. Visit to Greenwich and Eltham.[43] - -_c._ Dec. Visit to Queenborough.[44] - - Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=, and masks. One of - the plays was Preston’s _Cambyses_.[45] - - - 1561 - -Feb. 17 (S.M.). Wrestling in ‘prychyng-plase’ at court.[46] - -Feb. 18, 19. Masters of fence at court.[47] - -Apr. 26 < > 29. GREENWICH.[48] - -June 24. River triumph. Dinner with Lord R. Dudley.[49] - -July 10–Sept. 22. PROGRESS in Essex, Suffolk, Herts., Middlesex.[50] -Tower (July 10), Charterhouse (Lord North, July 10–14) with visit to -Strand (Sir W. Cecil, July 13), Wanstead (Lord Rich, July 14), Havering -(July 14–19) with visits to Pyrgo (Lord John Grey, July 16) and -Loughton Hall (Lord Darcy?, July 17), Ingatestone (Sir William Petre, -July 19–21), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, July 21–26), Felix -Hall (Henry Long?, July 26), Colchester (Sir Thomas Lucas, July 26–30) -with visit to Layer Marney (George Tuke), St. Osyth (Lord Darcy, July -30–Aug. 2), Harwich (Aug. 2–5), Ipswich (Aug. 5–11),[51] Shelley Hall -(Philip Tilney, Aug. 11), Smallbridge (William Waldegrave, Aug. 11–14), -Hedingham (Earl of Oxford, Aug. 14–19), Gosfield (Sir John Wentworth, -Aug. 19–21), Lees (Lord Rich, Aug. 21–25), Great Hallingbury (Lord -Morley, Aug. 25–27), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, Aug. 27–30), Hertford -(Aug. 30–Sept. 16), Hatfield?, Enfield (Sept. 16–22). - -Sept. 22. ST. JAMES’S.[52] - -Oct. 28. Visit to Whitehall. Baiting and mask (Wise and Foolish -Virgins) for French embassy.[53] - -Dec. 4 < > 14. WHITEHALL.[54] - -Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=. - -Dec. 27 < > Jan. 3. Lord of Misrule from Temple to court.[55] - - - 1562 - -Jan. 15–16. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke), with mask.[56] - -Jan. 18. _Gorboduc_ and mask by Inner Temple. - -Feb. 1. Mask from London to court, ‘and Julyus Sesar’.[57] - -Feb. 2 < > 10 (S. T.). =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 10. Tilt.[58] - -Feb. 14. Running at ring.[59] - -June 5. GREENWICH.[60] - -Sept. 16 < > 19. HAMPTON COURT, by Southwark.[61] - -_c._ Oct. Visit to Oatlands.[62] - -Nov. 8. SOMERSET HOUSE.[63] - -Dec. 14 < > 21. WHITEHALL.[64] - -Christmas. =Dudley’s= and =Paul’s=. - - - 1563 - -Feb. 21 (S.S.). - -June 14. GREENWICH.[65] - -July 20 < > Aug. 1. RICHMOND, by Lambeth.[66] - -Aug. 2 < > 4. WINDSOR by Stanwell.[67] - -1562–3. Visits to Sunninghill, Oatlands, Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel), the -New Lodge, the Twelve Oaks.[68] - -Christmas.[69] Two plays by unnamed companies. - - - 1564 - -Feb. 2. Play by unnamed company. - -Feb. 13 (S.S.). - -Apr. 23 < > May 5. RICHMOND.[70] - -June 9. Three masks and ‘devise with the men of armes’ for French -embassy.[71] - -June 28. Visit _incognita_ to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke) for -St. Peter’s watch.[72] - -June 30 < > July 5. WHITEHALL.[73] - -July 5. Visit to Sackville House (Sir Richard Sackville), with play and -mask.[74] - -July 6. Visit to Cecil House (Sir W. Cecil) for christening of -Elizabeth Cecil.[75] - -July 6 < > 16. GREENWICH.[76] - -July 21 or 22. WHITEHALL.[77] - -_c._ July 27–Sept. 12. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Herts., Cambridgeshire, -Hunts., Northants., Leicestershire, Bucks., and Beds.[78] Theobalds -(Sir William Cecil), Enfield (July 31, Aug. 1), Hertford Castle, -Aldbury (Thomas Hyde), Haslingfield (Mr. Worthington, Aug. 4–5), -Grantchester (Aug. 5), Cambridge (King’s College, Aug. 5–10),[79] Long -Stanton (Bp. of Ely, Aug. 10), Hinchinbrook (Sir Henry Cromwell, Aug. -10),[80] Kimbolton (Thomas? Wingfield), Boughton (Edward Montague), -Launde (Henry, Lord Cromwell, _c._ Aug. 18), Braybrooke Castle (Sir -Thomas Griffin), Dallington? (Sir Andrew Corbett), Northampton (Mr. -Crispe), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor), Grafton, Thornton (George -Tyrrell), Toddington (Sir Henry Cheyne), St. Albans (Sir Richard Lee), -Great Hampden? (Griffith Hampden), Princes Risborough? (Mr. Penton), -Shardeloes in Amersham? (William Totehill), Harrow (Sept. 12), Osterley -(Sir Thomas Gresham). - -Sept. 13. ST. JAMES’S.[81] - -Sept. 15. Dinner with Marchioness of Northampton at Whitehall.[82] - -_c._ Oct.-Nov. Visits to Oatlands and Windsor.[83] - -Dec. 7. WHITEHALL.[84] - -Christmas. =Warwick’s= (twice), =Paul’s=, and =Chapel= (_Damon and -Pythias_?). - - - 1565 - -Jan. =Westminster= (_Miles Gloriosus_ and (?) _Heautontimorumenos_). - -Jan. 7. Tilt, dance, and foot tourney at night.[85] - -Feb. 2. =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 18. Play by =Sir Percival Hart’s sons= and mask (Hunters and -Muses). - -March 5 (S.M.). Tilt.[86] - -March 6. Tourney. Masks (Satyrs and Tilters) and play by =Gray’s Inn= -at supper by Earl of Leicester.[87] - -Apr. 27. Visit to Earl of Leicester.[88] - -May 12. Visit to Greenwich.[89] - -_c._ June 2. Visit to Tower, with imperial ambassador, Adam -Swetkowyz.[90] - -June 24 < > 26. GREENWICH.[91] - -July 14. WHITEHALL.[92] - -July 16. Visit to Durham Place for wedding of Henry Knollys and -Margaret Cave, with tourney and two masks.[93] - -July 17. RICHMOND.[94] - -Aug. 8. WINDSOR, by Ankerwyke (Sir Thomas Smith).[95] - -_c._ Aug.-Sept. Visits to Sunninghill, Farnham, and Bagshot.[96] - -Sept. 14. WHITEHALL. Visit to Cecilia of Sweden (Bedford -House?).[97] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[98] - -Oct. 7, 13. Visits to Cecilia of Sweden.[99] - -Oct. 29–> Nov. 2. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[100] - -Nov. 11. Tilt at wedding of Earl of Warwick and Lady Anne Russell.[101] - -Nov. 12. Tourney. - -Nov. 13. Barriers. - -Christmas. =Paul’s= (thrice by Jan. 3, including one at Savoy for -Cecilia of Sweden) and =Westminster= (_Sapientia Solomonis_). - - - 1566 - -Jan. 6. King of the Bean at court.[102] - -Feb. 5. GREENWICH.[103] - -Feb. 14. Visit to Baynard’s Castle (Earl of Pembroke).[104] - -Feb. 24–26 (S.). _Gismond of Salerne_ by Inner Temple (?). Wedding of -Earl of Southampton and Mary Browne, with two masks and tourney.[105] - -June 28 or 29. ST. JAMES’S.[106] - -July 1. Wedding of Thomas Mildmay and Frances Radcliffe at Bermondsey -(Earl of Sussex).[107] - -July 8–Sept. 9. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Hunts., -Northants., Lincs., Rutland, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berks.[108] -Hendon (Edward? Herbert, July 8), Shenley (Michael Pulteney), Hatfield, -Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), Bygrave (William Warren?), Wrest (Duchess -of Suffolk), Dame Ellensbury’s in Houghton Conquest, Willington (John -Gostwick), Bletsoe (Lord St. John), Bushmead (William Gery), Kimbolton -(Thomas? Wingfield, July 21), Leighton Bromswold, Fotheringay Castle, -Apethorpe (Sir Walter Mildmay), Colly Weston (July 29, Aug. 3), -Greyfriars at Stamford (Sir W. Cecil, Aug. 5), Grimsthorpe (Duchess of -Suffolk), Sempringham (Lord Clinton), Irnham (Richard Thimelby), Exton -(Sir James Harington), Kingscliffe, Deene (Edmund Brudenell), Dingley -(Edward Griffin), Whitefriars at Coventry (Aug. 17–19),[109] Kenilworth -(Earl of Leicester, Aug. 19–22), Warwick (Earl of Warwick), Charlecote -(Sir Thomas Lucy, > Aug. 24), Broughton (Richard Fiennes), Woodstock -(Aug. > 26–31), Oxford (Aug. 31–Sept. 6),[110] Rycote (Sir Henry -Norris, Sept. 6–7), Bradenham (Lord Windsor, Sept. 7–9). - -Sept. 9. WINDSOR.[111] - -Sept. Visit to Bagshot (The Bush).[112] - -Sept. 10 < > 17. RICHMOND.[113] - -Sept. 27. WHITEHALL.[114] - -Christmas. =Paul’s= (twice). - - - 1567 - -Jan. 10. Queen in country.[115] - -Jan. 17–Feb. 1. Visits to Croydon (Abp.?) by Lambeth (?), Nonsuch (Earl -of Arundel, Jan. 21–27), and Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, Jan. 27–Feb. -1).[116] - -Feb. 9–11 (S.). =Westminster.= - -Feb. 10. Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel)?[117] - -Feb. 11. =Windsor Chapel.= - -Apr. 13. Play for Spanish embassy.[118] - -June 11. RICHMOND.[119] - -July 22. WINDSOR.[120] - -Aug. 12? OATLANDS.[121] - -Aug. Visit to Beddington? (Francis Carew) by Kingston.[122] - -Aug. 18 < > 20–30. PROGRESS or visits in Surrey and Hants. Woking, -Guildford Manor (Aug. 20, 21), Loseley? (William More), Farnham (Bp. -Winchester, Aug. 24, 25, 29), Odiham, Bagshot.[123] - -Aug. 30. WINDSOR.[124] - -Oct. 12. HAMPTON COURT.[125] - -Dec. 23. WHITEHALL.[126] - -Christmas. =Rich’s= (twice), =Paul’s= (twice), =Westminster=. The -Revels prepared eight plays this winter, _The King of Scots_ (tragedy), -_As Plain As Can Be_, _The Painful Pilgrimage_, _Jack and Jill_, _Six -Fools_, _Wit and Will_, _Prodigality_, _Orestes_ (the extant play?), -and six masks, of which two were not used. - - - 1568 - -Jan. 2. Visit to Charterhouse.[127] - -_c._ Feb. Visit to Hackney.[128] - -Feb. 29–March 2 (S.). =Chapel= (tragedy) and =Windsor Chapel=. - -Apr. 6. GREENWICH.[129] - -July 6–12? Visit to Charterhouse (Duke of Norfolk).[130] - -July 12–Sept. 22. PROGRESS in Essex, Middlesex, Herts., Beds., -Bucks., Northants., Oxon., Berks.[131] Havering (July 13–15) with -visits to Giddy Hall in Romford (Sir Anthony Cooke) and Pyrgo (Lord -John Grey), Copt Hall (Thomas Heneage, July 19), Enfield (July 22, -25), Hatfield (July 30, Aug. 3, 4, 7), Knebworth (Rowland Lytton), -St. Albans (Sir Ralph Rowlett, Aug. 8), Dunstable (Edward Wingate), -Brickhill (Thomas Duncombe?), Whaddon (Lord Grey), Buckingham (William -Davers? at parsonage), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor, Aug. 14, 21), -Grafton Regis, Charlton (Sir Robert Lane), Bicester (Mr. More, Aug. -27), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris), Ewelme, Wallingford (Thomas Parry at -College), Yattendon (Sir Henry Norris?), Donnington Castle, Newbury -(Sept. 12, 13), Aldermaston (William? Forster), Reading (Queen’s house, -Mr. Stafford, Mr. Gare, Sept. 18?). - -Sept. 22. WINDSOR.[132] - -Oct. 3 < > 20. HAMPTON COURT.[133] - -Dec. 26. =Rich’s.= - - - 1569 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 12. WHITEHALL.[134] - -Feb. 22 (S.T.). =Windsor Chapel.= - -May 6. GREENWICH.[135] - -May 15 (?). Visit of Earl of Leicester and Odo de Coligny, Cardinal of -Châtillon, to Oxford, with _The Destruction of Thebes_.[136] - -July 21. RICHMOND, by Lambeth.[137] - -July 29. OATLANDS.[138] - -Aug. 5 < > 8–Sept. 23 or 24. PROGRESS in Surrey and Hants.[139] -Chertsey (Sir William FitzWilliam?), Woking (Aug. 9), Guildford (Aug. -10, 12), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 14, 17, 20, 22) with visit to -Kingsley (Nicholas Backhouse), Odiham, Basing (Marquis of Winchester, -Aug. 27, 29; Sept. 1), Abbotstone (Lord St. John), Soberton (Anne, -Lady Lawrence), Tichfield (Lady Southampton, Sept. 4, 6), Southampton -Tower (Sept. 6?, 8, 9, 14), Melchet (Richard? Audley), Mottisfont (Lord -Sandys), Wherwell (Sir Adrian Poynings), Hurstbourne? (Sir Robert -Oxenbridge), Steventon (Sir Richard Pexall), The Vine in Sherborne St. -John (Lady Sandys, Sept. 22), Hartley Wintney (Lady Mason), Bagshot -(Sir Henry Sutton). - -Sept. 23 or 24. WINDSOR.[140] - -Nov. 17. Accession day first kept.[141] - -_c._ Dec. Visit to Bisham (Lady Hoby).[142] - -Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.= - - - 1570 - -Jan. 6. =Chapel.= - -Jan. 20. HAMPTON COURT.[143] - -Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Rich’s.= - -March 19. Visit to Ham House (Madame de Châtillon).[144] - -June 18 < > 20. OATLANDS.[145] - -July 16–Sept. 29. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Bucks., Beds., Oxon., and -Berks.[146] Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, July 16–18), Denham (Sir -George Peckham, July 18–19), Chenies (Earl of Bedford, July 19–Aug. -13), Pendley (Edmund Verney, Aug. 15–17), Toddington (Sir Henry -Cheyne, Aug. 19, 20), Dame Ellensbury in Houghton Conquest, Segenhoe -in Ridgmont (Peter Grey), Wing (Sir William Dormer, _c._ Aug. 24), -Eythorpe (Sir W. Dormer), Rycote (Sir Henry Norris, Aug. 30, Sept. 2, -6, 7), Ewelme, Reading (Sept. 17, 24–26), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas -Neville). - -Sept. 29. WINDSOR.[147] - -Nov. 6 or 7. HAMPTON COURT.[148] - -Dec. 28. =Paul’s.= - - - 1571 - -Jan. 6. Challenge for jousting. - -Jan. 14 < > 19. SOMERSET HOUSE.[149] - -Jan. 23. Visit to Bishopsgate (Sir Thomas Gresham) to open Royal -Exchange.[150] - -Jan. 20 < > 29. WHITEHALL.[151] - -Feb. 25–27 (S.). =Chapel=, =Windsor Chapel=, and =Paul’s=. - -March 2. GREENWICH.[152] - -March 31 < > Apr. 2. WHITEHALL.[153] - -Apr. 20. Visit to St. George’s Fields.[154] - -Apr. 29. Queen at wedding of Marquis of Northampton and Helena von -Snavenberg or Snachenberg.[155] - -May 1–3. Tilt, tourney, barriers.[156] - -June 7, 8. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[157] - -_c._ Apr.-July. Two visits to Bermondsey (Earl of Sussex).[158] - -July 7 < > 8. HAMPTON COURT.[159] - -July-Aug. Visits to Horsley (Earl of Lincoln), Oatlands, Byfleet.[160] - -Aug. 8 < > 12–Sept. 22. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Herts., and Essex.[161] -Gunnersbury, Hendon (Edward Herbert), Hatfield (Aug. 15–21), Knebworth -(Rowland Lytton), Brent Pelham (Lord Morley, Aug. 26), Saffron Walden, -Audley End (Duke of Norfolk, Aug. 29–Sept. 3), Horham Hall in Thaxted -(Sir John Cutts, Sept. 5) with hunt in Henham Park, Lees (Lord Rich, -Sept. 7, 8), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess (Wiston Browne), Mark Hall -in Latton (James Altham, Sept. 13, 14, 17), Stanstead Abbots (Edward -Bashe, Sept. 20), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, Sept. 22), Hadley (Lady -Stamford), Harrow (William Wightman). - -Sept. 22. ST. JAMES’S.[162] - -Sept. 26. RICHMOND.[163] - -Oct. 23 < > 28. GREENWICH.[164] - -Dec. 12. WHITEHALL.[165] - -Dec. 16 < > 23. Wedding of Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil.[166] - -Dec. 23. Wedding of Edward Somerset (Lord Herbert) and Elizabeth -Hastings.[167] - -Christmas. The Revels prepared six masks this winter. - -Dec. 27. =Lane’s= (_Lady Barbara_). - -Dec. 28. =Paul’s= (_Iphigeneia_). - - - 1572 - -Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel= (_Ajax and Ulysses_). - -Jan. 6. =Chapel= (_Narcissus_). - -Feb. 17 (S.S.). =Lane’s= (_Cloridon and Radiamanta_). - -Feb. 19. =Westminster= (_Paris and Vienna_, with tourney and -barriers). - -Apr. 10 or 11. GREENWICH.[168] - -May 5. ST. JAMES’S.[169] - -_c._ May 25. Visit to Hampton Court (?).[170] - -_c._ June 10. Visit to Greenwich.[171] - -June 15. Baiting, and mask (Apollo and Peace) and tourney in banqueting -house at Cockpit for French embassy.[172] - -June 20. WHITEHALL.[173] - -July 15–Sept. 28. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Essex, Herts., Beds., -Bucks., Northants., Warwickshire, Oxon., Berks.[174] Bishopsgate -(Jasper Fisher), Bethnal Green (Joan, Lady White), Havering (July -19, 20), Birch Hall in Theydon Bois (Edward? Elderton), Theobalds -(Lord Burghley, July 22–25) visit to Enfield, Hatfield, Gorhambury -(Sir Nicholas Bacon, July 25–28), Dunstable (Edward Wingate?, July -28–29), Woburn (Earl of Bedford, July 29–31) with visit to Chicheley -(Elizabeth Weston), Salden (John Fortescue, Aug. 1–4), Beachampton -(Thomas? Pigott), Easton Neston (Sir John Fermor, Aug. 4–8), Edgecott -(William Chauncy, Aug. 10), Bishop’s Itchington (Edward Fisher, Aug. -11), Warwick Castle (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 11–13), Kenilworth (Earl of -Leicester, Aug. 13–16),[175] Warwick Castle (Aug. 16–18) with visit to -Warwick Priory (Thomas Fisher, Aug. 16),[176] Kenilworth (Aug. 18–23), -Charlecote (Sir Thomas Lucy, Aug. 23), Compton Wyniates (Lord Compton, -Aug. 23), Great Tew (Henry Rainsford), Woodstock (Aug. 27, Sept. 7–19) -with visit to Langley (Sir Edward Unton), Holton (Sir Christopher -Browne), Ewelme, Reading (Sept. 21–28), Philberds in Bray (Sir Thomas -Neville, Sept. 28). - -Sept. 28. WINDSOR.[177] - -_c._ Nov. 11. HAMPTON COURT.[178] - -Christmas. =Leicester’s= (thrice) and =Paul’s=. The Revels prepared -plays on _Theagenes and Chariclea_, _Perseus and Andromeda_, and -_Fortune_, and a double mask (Fishermen and Fruit-wives) this winter. - - - 1573 - -Jan. 1. =Windsor Chapel.= - -Jan. 6. =Eton.= - -_c._ Jan. 29. GREENWICH, by Somerset House.[179] - -Feb. 1–3 (S.). =Sussex’s=, =Lincoln’s= and =Merchant Taylors= (_Perseus -and Andromeda_?). - -Feb. 24–March 10. Visits to Fold in South Mimms (Mr. Waller), -Islehampstead Latimer (Miles Sandys), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon), -Brockett Hall in Hatfield (John Brockett), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick), -Theobalds (Lord Burghley, 8 days), and Bishopsgate (Jasper Fisher, -March 7).[180] - -July 14–Sept. 26. PROGRESS in Surrey, Kent, and Sussex.[181] Croydon -(Abp. of Canterbury, July 14–21), Orpington (Sir Percival Hart, July -21–24),[182] Otford (July 24), Knole in Sevenoaks (July 24–29), Bastead -(July 29), Comfort in Birling(Lord Abergavenny, July 29–Aug. 1), -Oxenheath in West Peckham? (Sir Thomas Cotton, Aug. 1), Eridge (Lord -Abergavenny, Aug. 1–7) with visit to Mayfield (Sir Thomas Gresham)?, -Bedgebury in Goudhurst (Alexander Culpepper, Aug. 7–8) by Kilndown, -Hemstead in Benenden (Thomas Guildford, Aug. 8–11), Northiam (George -Bishop, Aug. 11), Rye (Aug. 11–14) with visit to Winchelsea (Mr. -Savage?), Northiam (Aug. 14), Sissinghurst in Cranbrook (Richard Baker, -Aug. 14–17), Boughton Malherbe (Thomas Wotton, Aug. 17–19) by Smarden, -Hothfield (John Tufton, Aug. 19–21), Olantigh in Wye (Sir Thomas Kempe, -Aug. 21–22), Brabourne (Sir Thomas Scott, Aug. 22), Westenhanger (Aug. -22–25), Sandgate Castle (Aug. 25), Dover, (Aug. 25–31) by Folkestone -with visit to Thomas? Fisher, Sandwich (Roger? Manwood, Aug. 31–Sept. -3),[183] Wingham (Sept. 3), Canterbury (St. Augustine’s, Sept. 3–16) -with visit to Abp. Parker (Sept. 7),[184] Faversham (Sept. 16–18), -Tunstall (William Cromer, Sept. 18–19), Gillingham (Sept. 19), -Rochester (the Crown, Sept. 19–23) with visit to a ship, Bulley Hill -(Richard Watts, Sept. 23–24), Cobham (Lord Cobham, Sept. 24), Sutton -(Sept. 24), Dartford (Sept. 24–26). - -Sept. 26. GREENWICH.[185] - -_c._ Nov. Two visits to Deptford.[186] - -Nov. 25. SOMERSET HOUSE, by Leicester House (?).[187] - -Dec. 19. WHITEHALL.[188] - -Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (_Predor and Lucia_). Mask (Lance-knights). - -Dec. 27. =Paul’s= (_Alcmaeon_). - -Dec. 28. =Leicester’s= (_Mamillia_). - - - 1574 - -Jan. 1. =Westminster= (_Truth, Faithfulness, and Mercy_). Mask -(Foresters and Wild Men). - -Jan. 3. =Clinton’s= (_Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia_). - -Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (_Quintus Fabius_). Mask (Sages). - -Jan. 12. HAMPTON COURT.[189] - -Feb. 2. =Merchant Taylors= (_Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by -Alexander_). Mask (Virtues) not shown. - -Feb. 18–20. Visits to Earl of Lincoln and to Osterley (Sir Thomas -Gresham).[190] - -Feb. 21–23 (S.). Queen entertained privately by neighbours.[191] - -Feb. 21. =Leicester’s= (_Philemon and Philecia_). - -Feb. 23. =Merchant Taylors= (_Perseus and Andromeda_). Masks (Warriors -and Ladies). - -March 2–3. GREENWICH, by Lambeth (Abp. Parker).[192] - -June 30. RICHMOND, by Merton Abbey (Gregory? Lovell).[193] - -July 7. WINDSOR, by Stanwell and Colnbrook.[194] - -July 11 < > 13. =Italians.= - -July 15–Sept. 25. PROGRESS in Berks., Oxon., Gloucestershire, Somerset, -Wilts., Hants, and Surrey.[195] Binfield, Reading (July 15–23) with -play (July 15) by =Italians=, Caversham or Rotherfield Greys (Sir -Francis Knollys, July 23), Ewelme (July 23–24), Holton (Christopher -Browne, July 24), Woodstock (July 24–Aug. 2), Langley (Sir Edward -Unton, Aug. 2–3), Burford (Aug. 3), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton, Aug. -3–4), Sudeley Castle (Lady Chandos, Aug. 4, 5), Boddington (Mr. Denne), -Gloucester (Aug. 10) with visit to Churcham?, Frocester (George -Huntley, Aug. 10–11), Iron Acton (Sir Nicholas Pointz), Berkeley Castle -(Lord Berkeley, Aug. 11–12), Berkeley Hearne?, Bristol St. Lawrence, -Bristol (Sir John Young, Aug. 14–21),[196] Keynsham (Henry? Brydges, -Aug. 21), Morecroft (Stokes Croft?, Aug. 21), Bath (Aug. 21–23), -Hazelbury (John Bonham, Aug. 23), Lacock (Sir Henry Sherington, Aug. -23–28), Erlestoke (William Brouncker, Aug. 28–31), Heytesbury (Mr. -Hawker, Aug. 31–Sept. 3) with visit to Longleat (Sir John Thynne, Sept. -2), Wylye? (Lady Mervyn, Sept. 3), Wilton (Earl of Pembroke, Sept. 3–6) -with visit to Clarendon Park, Salisbury (Bp.’s, Sept. 6–9) with visit -to Amesbury, Winterslow (Giles Thistlethwaite?, Sept. 9), Mottisfont -(Lord Sandys, Sept. 9–10), Somborne (Henry? Gifford, Sept. 10), -Winchester (Sept. 10–13), Abbotstone (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13), -Alresford, Herriard (George Puttenham), Odiham (Sept. 14–16), Farnham -(Bp. Winchester, Sept. 15, 19), Bagshot (Sept. 24–25). - -Sept. 25. OATLANDS.[197] - -Oct. 1. HAMPTON COURT.[198] - -Oct. 19–22. Visit to Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel).[199] - -Christmas. _Phedrastus_ and _Phigon and Lucia_ rehearsed by =Sussex’s=, -Three masks this winter (Pilgrims, Mariners. Hobby-horses).[200] - -Dec. 26. =Leicester’s=, with boys. - -Dec. 27. =Clinton’s= (_Pretestus_?). - - - 1575 - -Jan. 1. =Leicester’s= (_Panecia_?). - -Jan. 2. =Clinton’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Windsor Chapel= (_Xerxes_?). - -Feb. 2. =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 3 < > 6. RICHMOND.[201] - -Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Chapel.= - -Feb. 14. =Warwick’s.= - -Feb. 15? =Merchant Taylors.= - -March 16. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[202] - -March 23 < > 25. ST. JAMES’S.[203] - -_c._ Apr. (?). Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham), by Chiswick.[204] - -Apr. 20. GREENWICH.[205] - -_c._ May 5–8. Two visits to Lady Pembroke in illness at Baynard’s -Castle.[206] - -May 23–Oct. 10 < > 11. PROGRESS in Middlesex, Herts., Beds., Bucks., -Northants., Warwickshire, Staffs., Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, -Oxon., Berks.[207] Stoke Newington (John Dudley, May 23), Theobalds -(Lord Burghley, May 24–June 6), Broxbourne (Sir George Penruddock), -Woodhall (Sir John Butler), Hatfield (June 7–14), Luton (George -Rotherham), Toddington (Lord Cheyne), Segenhoe in Ridgmont (Peter -Grey), Holcutt (Richard Charnock), Chicheley (Elizabeth Weston), -Grafton (June 19–July 6), Fawsley (Sir Richard Knightley), Long -Itchington (Earl of Leicester, July 9), Kenilworth (Earl of Leicester, -July 9–27),[208] Meriden (William Foster), Middleton (Sir Francis -Willoughby), Swinfen (John Dyott?), Lichfield (July 30–Aug. 3)[209] -with visits to Beaudesert (Lord Paget) and Alrewas (Walter Griffith, -July 30), Colton (Katharine, Lady Gresley), Chartley (Lady Essex), -Stafford Castle (Lord Stafford, Aug. 7, 8) with visit to Ellenhall -(Walter? Harcourt), Chillington (John Giffard), Dudley Castle (Lord -Dudley, Aug. 12), Hartlebury Castle (Bp. of Worcester, Aug. 12–13), -Worcester (Bp. of Worcester, Aug. 13–20)[210] with visits to Hindlip -(John Habington, Aug. 16), Hallow Park (John Habington, Aug. 18) -and Batenhall Park (Thomas Bromley, Aug. 19), Elmley Bredon (Anne -Daston, Aug. 20–22), Evesham? (Aug. 21), Campden (Thomas Smythe), -Sudeley Castle (Lord Chandos), Sherborne (Thomas Dutton), Langley -(Sir Edward Unton, Aug. 27), Cornbury (Thomas Stafford?, Aug. 29), -Woodstock (Aug. 29–Oct. 3) with entertainment by Sir Henry Lee,[211] -Holton (Christopher Browne), Rycote (Lord Norris, Oct. 6–8), Bradenham -(Frederick Lord Windsor), Wooburn (Sir John Goodwin), Philberds in Bray -(Sir Thomas Neville). - -Oct. 10 or 11. WINDSOR.[212] - -Dec. 20. HAMPTON COURT, by Colnbrook.[213] - -Dec. 26. =Warwick’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Windsor Chapel.= - -Dec. 28. =Leicester’s.= - - - 1576 - -Jan. 1. =Warwick’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.= - -Feb. 6 or 7. WHITEHALL, by Sion.[214] - -Feb. 27. =Italians.= - -March 4 (S.S.). =Leicester’s.= - -March 5. =Warwick’s.= - -March 6. =Merchant Taylors.= - -Apr. 26. GREENWICH.[215] - -May 9–19. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester, May 9–10), -Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham, May 10–12), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln, May -12–15), Nonsuch (Earl of Arundel, May 15–17), Beddington (Sir Francis -Carew, May 17–19).[216] - -_c._ June 7. Visit to Hatfield.[217] - -June 18. Visit to Deptford.[218] - -_c._ June. Visit to Eltham.[219] - -July 9. ST. JAMES’S.[220] - -July 22 or 23. WHITEHALL.[221] - -_c._ July. Visits to Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield), Fold? at Barnet (Mr. -Waller), and Hendon (Edward Herbert).[222] - -July 30–Oct. 9. PROGRESS in Essex, Herts., Bucks., Berks., and -Surrey.[223] Stratford at Bow (Richard? Young, July 30), Havering (July -30–Aug. 7) with visit to Pyrgo (Henry Grey) and hunt in Harolds Park, -Chigwell Hall (Sir John Petre, Aug. 7), Loughborough (John Stonard, -Aug. 7), Upshire? (Aug. 10), Mark Hall in Latton (James Altham, Aug. -10–11), Hatfield Broadoak (Sir Thomas Barrington, Aug. 11), Great -Hallingbury (Lord Morley, Aug. 11–14), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, -Aug. 14–19), Hertford Castle (Aug. 19–22), Hatfield (Aug. 24), Hertford -again (Aug. 26–28), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, Aug. 30), St. Albans -(Aug. 30–Sept. 1), Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sept. 1), Latimer -(Miles Sandys, Sept. 1–3) with visit to Chalfont St. Giles (John? -Gardiner), Hedgerley (Sir Robert Drury, Sept. 3), Windsor (Sept. -3–10) with visit to Folly John Park, Thorpe (Richard Polsted, Sept. -10), Byfleet (Sept. 10–11), Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln, Sept. 11–12), -Guildford (Sept. 12), Loseley in Artington (Sir William More, Sept. -12–13), Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 13?-20), Odiham (Sept. 20–22), -Mr. Hall’s (Sept. 22), Reading (Sept. 22–Oct. 8), Rotherfield Greys -(Sir Francis Knollys Oct. 8), Hurst (Richard Ward, Oct. 8–9), Windsor -(Oct. 9–12). - -Oct. 12. HAMPTON COURT.[224] - -Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (_Painter’s Daughter_). - -Dec. 27. =Howard’s= (_Tooley_). - -Dec. 30. =Leicester’s= (_Collier_). - - - 1577 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (_Error_). - -Jan. 6. =Chapel= and =Windsor Chapel= together (_Mutius Scaevola_). - -Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (_Cynocephali_). - -Feb. 12. WHITEHALL.[225] - -Feb. 17–19 (S.). _Cutwell_ rehearsed, but not played. - -Feb. 17. =Howard’s= (_Solitary Knight_). - -Feb. 18. =Warwick’s= (_Irish Knight_). - -Feb. 19. =Paul’s= (_Titus and Gisippus_). Mask of children. - -Feb. 26–March 3. Visit to Wanstead? (Earl of Leicester).[226] - -April. Italian play before Privy Council at Durham Place.[227] - -Apr. 29 < > May 6. GREENWICH.[228] - -May 9–10. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[229] - -May 14–_c._ 25. Visits to Stoke Newington (John Dudley), Theobalds -(Lord Burghley, May 14 or 15, for 3 days), Northiaw (Earl of Warwick), -Gorhambury (Sir Nicholas Bacon, May 18–22), Fold? at Barnet (Mr. -Waller), Highgate (Thomas? Lichfield).[230] - -June 24. Visit to Southwark for weddings of George, Earl of Cumberland, -to Margaret Russell, and Philip, Lord Wharton, to Frances Clifford.[231] - -_c._ July. Visit to Deptford.[232] - -July 19. RICHMOND, by Clapham.[233] - -July 24. Visit to Isleworth (Countess of Derby).[234] - -July 26. Visits to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham?) and Mortlake -Park Lodge (Earl of Leicester).[235] - -Aug. 23. OATLANDS, by Hampton Court.[236] - -Sept. 4–7 or 8. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[237] - -Sept. 12. Visit to Hanworth (Duchess of Somerset).[238] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to Sir John Zouch.[239] - -Sept. 23. WINDSOR, by Thorpe (Richard Polsted?).[240] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to Sunninghill.[241] - -Dec. 10. HAMPTON COURT, by Staines.[242] - -Dec. 26. =Leicester’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Chapel.= - -Dec. 28. =Warwick’s.= - -Dec. 29. =Paul’s.= - - - 1578 - -Jan. 5. =Howard’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Warwick’s.= - -Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.= - -Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Warwick’s.= - -Feb. 11. =Lady Essex’s= (instead of =Leicester’s=). - -_c._ Feb. Visit to Osterley (Sir Thomas Gresham).[243] - -Feb. 25–27. Visit to Putney (John Lacy?).[244] - -Feb. 27–March 3 (?). Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[245] - -March 3. GREENWICH.[246] - -Apr. 5 and 28. Visits to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[247] - -May 6–16. Visits to Tottenham (Lord Compton, May 6, 7), Theobalds (Lord -Burghley, May 7–10), Stanstead Abbots (Edward Bashe, May 10–12), Copt -Hall (Sir Thomas Heneage, May 12–13), Wanstead (Earl of Leicester, May -13–16).[248] - -May 16. GREENWICH.[249] - -July 11 < > 12–Sept. 23 < > 24. PROGRESS in Essex, Herts., Suffolk, -Norfolk, Cambridgeshire.[250] West Ham (Henry? Meautys), Havering -(July 12–20), Theydon Garnon (John Branch), Mark Hall in Latton (James -Altham, July 23), Standon (Sir Ralph Sadleir, July 24), Berden Priory -(Margery Averie), Audley End (Thomas Howard, July 26–30),[251] Barham -Hall in Linton (Robert Milsent), Keddington (Thomas Barnardiston), De -Greys in Cavendish (Sir George Colt, Aug. 1), Long Melford (Sir William -Cordell, Aug. 3–5), Lawshall (Sir William Drury, Aug. 5), Bury St. -Edmunds (Aug. 5, 6), Onehouse? (Sir William Drury), Stowmarket?,[252] -Euston (Edward Rookwood, Aug. 10), Kenninghall (Earl of Surrey, Aug. -11, 12),[253] Bracon Ash (Thomas Townsend, Aug. 16), Norwich (Bp. of -Norwich, Aug. 16–22) with visits to Costessey (Mary, Lady Jerningham, -Aug. 19) and Mount Surrey on Mousehold Hill (Earl of Surrey, Aug. -20), Kimberley (Sir Roger Woodhouse, Aug. 22 or 23), Wood Rising (Sir -Robert Southwell, Aug. 24), Breckles (Francis Woodhouse), Thetford (Sir -Edward Cleere, Aug. 27), Hengrave (Sir Thomas Kitson, Aug. 28–30), -Chippenham (Thomas Revett, Sept. 1), Kirtling (Lord North, Sept. 1–3), -Horseheath (Sir Giles Alington, Sept. 4), Waltons in Ashdon (Edward -Tyrell). Horham Hall in Thaxted (Sir John Cutts, Sept. 7, 11), Manuden -(Thomas Crawley), Hadham Hall (Henry Capel, Sept. 14), Hyde Hall -in Sawbridgeworth (Henry? Heigham), Hatfield Broadoak? (Sir Thomas -Barrington, Sept. 15), Rookwood Hall in Roding Abbess (Wiston Browne, -Sept. 18), Theydon Bois (Mrs. Elderton) with visit to Gaynes Park (Sir -William Fitzwilliam, Sept. 19), Loughborough (John Stonard, Sept. 21, -22), Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), Greenwich. - -Sept. 25. RICHMOND.[254] - -_c._ Dec. Visit to Hampton Court.[255] - -Dec. 26. =Warwick’s= (_Three Sisters of Mantua_). - -Dec. 27. =Chapel.= - -Dec. 28. =Sussex’s= (_Cruelty of a Stepmother_). - - - 1579 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (_Marriage of Mind and Measure_). - -Jan. 4. =Leicester’s= (_A Greek Maid_). - -Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (_Rape of the Second Helen_). - -Jan. 11. Mask (Amazons and Knights) and barriers, for Alençon’s agent, -M. de Simier.[256] - -Jan. 22 < > 25. WHITEHALL, by Chelsea.[257] - -_c._ Jan. 31. Visit to Hampton Court, by Putney (John Lacy).[258] - -_c._ Jan.-Feb. Visit to Leicester House (Earl of Leicester).[259] - -Feb. 1–2. Tilt and barriers for John Casimir, son of Elector -Palatine.[260] Play by =Warwick’s= ready, but not shown. - -March 1 (S.S.). =Warwick’s= (_Knight in the Burning Rock_). - -March 2. =Chapel= (_Loyalty and Beauty_). - -March 3. =Sussex’s= (_Murderous Michael_). Device by Earls of Oxford -and Surrey, Lord Thomas Howard, and Lord Windsor before French -ambassador and De Simier. Morris mask prepared, but not danced.[261] - -Apr. 28 or 29–May 2. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester), by -Greenwich.[262] - -June 24–26. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[263] - -July 2. GREENWICH, by Lambeth.[264] - -July 15–17. Visits to Gravesend and Deptford.[265] - -Aug. 17–29. Private visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[266] - -_c._ Aug. 30–31. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[267] - -Sept. 9–27 < > Oct. 2. PROGRESS in Essex.[268] Stratford at Bow -(Richard? Young, Sept. 9), Havering (Sept. 11–14), Ingatestone (Lady -Petre), New Hall in Boreham (Earl of Sussex, Sept. 17, 18), Moulsham -(Sir Thomas Mildmay), Thoby (Anthony? Berners), Brentwood (John? -Searle), Giddy Hall in Romford (Richard Cooke, Sept. 25–7), Ilford -(Thomas Fanshawe, at St. Mary’s Hospital?). - -Sept. 27 < > Oct. 2. GREENWICH.[269] - -Dec. 22. WHITEHALL.[270] - -Dec. 26. =Sussex’s= (_Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua_). - -Dec. 27. =Chapel= (_Alucius_). - -Dec. 28. Play by =Leicester’s= ready, but not shown. - - - 1580 - -Jan. 1. =Warwick’s= (_Four Sons of Fabius_). - -Jan. 3. =Paul’s= (_Scipio Africanus_). - -Jan. 6. =Leicester’s.= - -Jan. 15. =Strange’s tumblers.= - -Feb. 2. =Sussex’s= (_Portio and Demorantes_). - -Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Derby’s= (_The Soldan and the Duke of ---- _). - -Feb. 16. =Sussex’s= (_Sarpedon_). - -_c._ Feb. Visit to Charterhouse.[271] - -May 26 < > 29. NONSUCH, by Putney (John Lacy).[272] - -_c._ June. Visits to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[273] - -July 11 or 12. OATLANDS, by Molesey.[274] - -_c._ July-Aug. Visits to Chobham (Abp. Heath, Edward? Bray, John -Wolley) and Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln).[275] - -Aug. 16–20. Visit to Sunninghill, and Windsor?[276] - -_c._ Aug. 25–27. Visit to Woking.[277] - -Sept. 13. RICHMOND, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[278] - -Sept. 17. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. John Dee).[279] - -Oct. 10. Visit to Mortlake (Dr. Dee).[280] - -_c._ Nov. Visits to Harmondsworth (Mr. Drury), Colnbrook (Henry? -Draper), Windsor, Eton College, Ditton Park, and Nonsuch.[281] - -Dec. 6. WHITEHALL.[282] - -Dec. 26. =Leicester’s= (_Delight_). - -Dec. 27. =Sussex’s.= - - - 1581 - -Jan. 1. =Derby’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (_Pompey_). Challenge for tilt. - -Jan. 22. Tilt.[283] - -Feb. 2. =Sussex’s.= - -Feb. 5 (S.S.). =Chapel.= - -Feb. 7. =Leicester’s.= - -March 20. ST. JAMES’S.[284] - -Apr. 4. Visit to _Golden Hind_ (Sir Francis Drake) at Deptford.[285] - -Apr. 14. Challenge for Whitehall tilt. - -Apr. 20. WHITEHALL.[286] - -Apr. 20–June 14. Commissioners for marriage with Duke of Alençon in -London. Revels prepared barriers and two masks.[287] - -Apr. 25. Dinner by Queen for commissioners. - -Apr. 27. Dinner by Earl of Leicester for commissioners. - -Apr. 30. Dinner by Lord Burghley for commissioners. - -May 1. Baiting for commissioners. - -May 4. Supper by Earl of Sussex for commissioners. - -May 6–7. Tilt at Hampton Court for commissioners. - -May 15–16. Tilt at Whitehall for commissioners.[288] - -June 20. GREENWICH.[289] - -June 26 < > 30. Visit to Eltham.[290] - -July 5–8. Visits to Aldersbrook in Little Ilford? (Nicholas? Fuller), -Loughborough (Francis Stonard), and Leyton (Mary, Lady Paulett).[291] - -July 27–29. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[292] - -_c._ Sept. Visits to Eltham and Sundridge (William Isley).[293] - -Sept. 22–23. NONSUCH, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[294] - -Oct. 3. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[295] - -Oct. 4. RICHMOND.[296] - -Nov. 1. Visit of Duke of Alençon to England.[297] - -Nov. 16 or 17. WHITEHALL, by Putney (John Lacy).[298] - -Nov. 17–19. Tilt.[299] - -Christmas. The Revels prepared five plays and a mask.[300] - -Dec. 26. =Paul’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Strange’s= (activities). - -Dec. 31. =Chapel.= - - - 1582 - -Jan. 1. Barriers.[301] - -Jan. Visit to Deptford for launch of _Golden Lion_.[302] - -Feb. 1–17. PROGRESS in Kent at departure of Duke of Alençon. -Southfleet (William? Sedley, Feb. 1), Rochester (the Crown, Feb. -1–3), Sittingbourne (the George, Feb. 3–5), Canterbury (Sir Roger -Manwood, Feb. 5–6), Sandwich (Mr. Manwood, Feb. 8), Dover (St. James), -Canterbury (Feb. 12), Faversham (Feb. 13), Newington - -(Feb. 14), Rochester (Feb. 14–16) with visit to Bulley Hill (Anne? -Watts), Swanscombe (Ralph Weldon, Feb. 16), Horseman Place in Dartford -(Nicholas? Beer, Feb. 16–17).[303] - -Feb. 17. GREENWICH.[304] - -Feb. 26 (S.M.). Play at wedding of William Wentworth and Elizabeth -Cecil.[305] - -Feb. 27. =Chapel.= - -_c._ March. Visit to Highgate (Lady Sheffield).[306] - -_c._ Apr. Visit to Wanstead (Earl of Leicester).[307] - -May 17–19. Hunting visit.[308] - -May 20–22. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon) for wedding of Sir -Edward Hoby and Margaret Carey.[309] - -July 10–12. NONSUCH, by Putney (John Lacy).[310] - -_c._ July-Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[311] - -Aug. 17. OATLANDS, by Molesey (Thomas Brand).[312] - -_c._ Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking and Chobham (John Wolley).[313] - -Sept. 1–2 <. Visit to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln), by Byfleet (Lady Anne -Askewe)?[314] - -Sept. 20. WINDSOR, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[315] - -_c._ Sept. Visits to Folly John, Mote Park, and Sunninghill.[316] - -Dec. 26. =Chapel= (_A Game of the Cards_). - -Dec. 27. =Hunsdon’s= (_Beauty and Housewifery_). - -Dec. 30. =Derby’s= (_Love and Fortune_). - - - 1583 - -Jan. 1. =Strange’s= (activities). - -Jan. 5. Mask by ladies and boys. - -Jan. 6. =Sussex’s= (_Ferrar_). - -Jan. 12 < > 18. RICHMOND, by Colnbrook.[317] - -Feb. 10 (S.S.). =Leicester’s= (_Telomo_). - -Feb. 11. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[318] - -Feb. 12. =Merchant Taylors= (_Ariodante and Genevora_). - -_c._ March. Visit to Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[319] - -_c._ Apr. 13. Wedding of Robert Southwell and Elizabeth Howard.[320] - -Apr. 18. GREENWICH, by Clapham (John Worsopp).[321] - -May. Tilt for Count Albert of Alasco and French ambassador.[322] - -May 27–31 < > June 1. Visits to Theobalds (Lord Burghley) and -Ponsbourne (Sir Henry Cock), by Edmonton (Lady Nicholas) and Hackney -(Sir Rowland Hayward).[323] - -_c._ July. Visit to Nonsuch, by Streatham.[324] - -July 30. OATLANDS, by Chelsea, Mortlake, and Sion.[325] - -_c._ Aug. 27. Visits to Woking, Loseley (Sir William More), Guildford, -and (?) Petworth (Earl of Northumberland).[326] - -_c._ Aug. Visits to Pyrford (Earl of Lincoln) and Sunninghill, and to -Hampton Court.[327] - -_c._ Sept. Visits to Chobham (John Wolley) and Egham.[328] - -Oct. 5. ST. JAMES’S.[329] - -Nov. 25–29. Visit to Hampton Court, by Brentford (Thomas Wilkes).[330] - -Dec. 20. WHITEHALL.[331] - -_c._ Oct.-Dec.? Visit to Arundel House (Earl of Arundel).[332] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 29. =Queen’s.= - - - 1584 - -Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (_Campaspe_?). - -Jan. 6. =Chapel.= - -? Jan. or Feb. Visits to Heneage House (Sir Thomas Heneage) and Tower -Hill (Lord Lumley).[333] - -Feb. 2. =Chapel.= - -March 3 (S.T.). =Queen’s= and =Oxford’s= (_Sapho and Phao_?). - -Apr. 20 < > May 2. GREENWICH.[334] - -June 9. RICHMOND, by Stockwell.[335] - -July 17 < > 21. NONSUCH.[336] - -Aug. 7. OATLANDS, by Kingston (George Evelyn).[337] - -_c._ Aug. Visit to Cobham (Robert Gavell?).[338] - -_c._ Sept. 2. Visits to Egham, Sunninghill, Windsor, Burley Bushes, -Bagshot (Sir Henry Weston), and Blackwater.[339] - -Oct. 6 < > 10. HAMPTON COURT.[340] - -_c._ Nov. 5. Visit to Nonsuch.[341] - -Nov. 12. ST. JAMES’S, by Putney (John Lacy).[342] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[343] - -Dec. 6. Tilt.[344] - -_c._ Dec. Visit to Arundel House.[345] - -> Christmas. GREENWICH.[346] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s= (_Phyllida and Corin_). - -Dec. 27. =Oxford’s boys= (_Agamemnon and Ulysses_). - - - 1585 - -Jan. 1. =Oxford’s= (activities). - -Jan. 3. =Queen’s= (_Felix and Philiomena_). - -Jan. 6. =Queen’s= (_Five Plays in One)_. - -Feb. 8 < > 12. SOMERSET HOUSE.[347] - -Feb. 21 (S.S.). =Queen’s= (_Three Plays in One_), ready, but not shown. - -Feb. 23. =Queen’s= (‘antick’ play and comedy). - -Feb. 23 < > 26. GREENWICH.[348] - -_c._ March. Visit to Oatlands (?).[349] - -March 26–30. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[350] - -March 30 (?)-Apr. 3. Visits to Croydon (Abp.), Beddington (Sir Francis -Carew), and Lambeth (Abp.).[351] - -_c._ Apr. Visit to Lewisham.[352] - -_c._ May 2. Visit to Croydon.[353] - -_c._ June 18. Visit to Theobalds by Edmonton (Mr. Brassey) and -Tottenham High Cross (Richard Martin).[354] - -March-July. Tilt for M. de Campagny.[355] - -July 11. Visit to Barn Elms.[356] - -July 20 < > 24. NONSUCH.[357] - -July 27–29. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[358] - -_c._ Aug. 25. Visit to Wimbledon.[359] - -_c._ Aug. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[360] - -Sept. 26 < > Oct. 1. RICHMOND.[361] - -Nov. 17–19. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral).[362] - -Dec. 20–21. GREENWICH, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh).[363] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Howard’s.= - - - 1586 - -Jan. 1. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Howard’s and Hunsdon’s.= - -Jan. 9. =Stanley’s boys= (activities). - -Feb. 13 (S.S.). =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 26. Visit to Lambeth (Abp.).[364] - -March 27–Apr. 6. Visit to Lambeth and Westminster.[365] - -_c._ July 12. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[366] - -_c._ July. Visit to Hampton Court.[367] - -Aug. 10. WINDSOR, by Staines.[368] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to New Lodge.[369] - -Oct. 24. RICHMOND, by Colnbrook.[370] - -Dec. 20–21. GREENWICH, by Clapham and Lambeth.[371] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Leicester’s.= - - - 1587 - -Jan. 1. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Paul’s.= - -Feb. 28. =Queen’s.= - -_c._ Jan.-Apr. Archery show (Arthur and Round Table) by Hugh Offley -between Merchant Taylors and Mile End.[372] - -Apr. 26–May 1 or 2. Visit to Croydon.[373] - -May 1 or 2. NONSUCH.[374] - -_c._ May. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[375] - -May 25 < > 29. GREENWICH, by Streatham (Dr. Robert Forth).[376] - -_c._ July 9–Aug. 13. THEOBALDS (Lord Burghley), by Hackney (Sir Rowland -Hayward) and Enfield (Henry Middlemore), with visits to Waltham Forest, -Cheshunt (Lord Talbot), and Northiaw (Earl of Warwick, July 20–21).[377] - -Aug. 13 < > 20. OATLANDS, by Barnet (Mr. Waller), Harrow (William -Wightman), Sion, and West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[378] - -Sept. 19 < > 24. RICHMOND.[379] - -Oct. 24. Dinner at Westminster (Lord Admiral).[380] - -Nov. 17–21. Visit to Westminster (Lord Admiral) with dinner at Barn -Elms (Sir F. Walsingham, Nov. 20).[381] - -Nov. 18. Tilt.[382] - -Nov. 21–Dec. 6. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[383] - -Dec. 6. SOMERSET HOUSE.[384] - -Dec. 23. GREENWICH.[385] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 28. Symons and company (? =Queen’s=, activities). - - - 1588 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s= (_Galathea_?). - -Jan. 6. =Queen’s.= - -_c._ Jan. 16–20. Visits to Fulham (Bp. of London), Hounslow (Thomas -Crompton), Kensington (Mr. Malinge), and Lambeth (Abp.).[386] - -Feb. 2. =Paul’s= (_Endymion_?). - -Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 20. =Evelyn’s.= - -Feb. 10 or 20. Show in honour of Leicester.[387] - -Feb. 28. =Gray’s Inn= (_Misfortunes of Arthur_). - -_c._ Apr. 13–16. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward), Tottenham -High Cross (Richard Martin), and Stoke Newington? (Roger? -Townsend).[388] - -Apr.-May. Visits to Erith (Thomas? Compton), Croydon (Abp. of -Canterbury), by Lewisham and Wanstead (Earl of Leicester, May 7).[389] - -July 5–6. RICHMOND, by Lambeth and Stockwell.[390] - -July 29. ST. JAMES’S, by Putney (John Lacy).[391] - -Aug. 8–10. Visit to Tilbury camp, Ardern Hall in Horndon (Thomas Rich), -and (?) Belhus in Aveley (Edward Barrett).[392] - -Aug. 19. Visit to Ely House (Sir Christopher Hatton).[393] - -Aug. 26. Tilt.[394] - -Oct. 25. GREENWICH.[395] - -Nov. 8 or 12. Salute from the _Desire_ (Thomas Cavendish).[396] - -Nov. 12 < > 17. SOMERSET HOUSE.[397] - -Nov. 17. Tilt. - -Nov. 19. Tilt.[398] - -Nov. 24. Visit to St. Paul’s.[399] - -Nov. 30. GREENWICH.[400] - -Dec. 21–23. RICHMOND, by Lambeth.[401] - -Christmas. The Admiral’s showed activities as well as plays this winter. - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Paul’s.= - -Dec. 29. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1589 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s.= - -Jan. 12. =Paul’s.= - -_c._ Jan. Visit to Hampton Court.[402] - -Jan. 30. WHITEHALL, by Chelsea.[403] - -Feb. 9 (S.S.). =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 11. =Admiral’s.= - -May 26–28. Visit to Barn Elms (Sir Francis Walsingham).[404] - -_c._ June 11. Visit to Highgate.[405] - -June 18–19. NONSUCH, by Merton Abbey (Gregory Lovell).[406] - -Aug. 10 < > 16. OATLANDS, by West Molesey (Thomas Brand).[407] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to Hampton Court.[408] - -Sept. 26 or 27. RICHMOND.[409] - -_c._ Sept. Mask prepared for wedding of James VI in Scotland.[410] - -Nov. 15. SOMERSET HOUSE.[411] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[412] - -Dec. 2. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[413] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Paul’s= and =Admiral’s= (activities). - - - 1590 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Paul’s= (_Midas?_). - -Jan. 23–24. GREENWICH, by Lambeth.[414] - -Jan. 27. Visit to Earl of Warwick (at Bedford House?).[415] - -March 1 (S.S.). =Queen’s.= - -March 3. =Admiral’s.= - -May 30 or 31–June 6. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, Aug. 31), -Waltham Forest (Sir Richard Bartlett), and Ely House (Sir Christopher -Hatton, June 4–6).[416] - -July 28 < > Aug. 6. OATLANDS, by Sydenham House (William Aubrey?), -Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Chessington (William Harvey), and Stoke -d’Abernon (Thomas Leyfield).[417] - -Aug. Visit to the New Lodge.[418] - -Aug. 30–31. Visit to Woking.[419] - -Aug. 31 < > Sept. 6. WINDSOR, by Chobham (Edward? Bray) and -Sunninghill.[420] - -Sept. Visits to Ditton Park and Folly St. John Park (Mr. Norris).[421] - -Nov. 8 < > 14. SOMERSET HOUSE, by Staines, Richmond, and Putney (John -Lacy).[422] - -Nov. 17, 19. Tilts.[423] - -_c._ Nov. Visit to Sydenham Park.[424] - -_c._ Nov. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[425] - -_c._ Nov. 24. RICHMOND.[426] - -Dec. 4, 14. Visits to Mortlake and East Sheen.[427] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities). - - - 1591 - -Jan. 1. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 3. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 11–13. GREENWICH, by Lambeth.[428] - -Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Queen’s.= - -Feb. 16. =Strange’s and Admiral’s= (play and activities). - -May 2 < > 9–20 < > 23. Visits to Hackney (Sir Rowland Hayward, May -9, 10), Tottenham High Cross (Sir Richard Martin), Theobalds (Lord -Burghley, May 10–20), Enfield (Robert Wroth), and Havering.[429] - -_c._ July 1. Visit to Croydon (?).[430] - -July 19. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley) for review of Earl of -Essex’s horse in Covent Garden.[431] - -July 29 < > Aug. 1–Sept. 27. PROGRESS in Surrey, Sussex, and -Hants.[432] Mitcham (Margaret, Lady Blank), Nonsuch (Aug. 1, 2) with -visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), Leatherhead (Edmund Tilney), -East Horsley (Thomas Cornwallis, Aug. 3), Clandon Park (Sir Henry -Weston), Guildford (Aug. 4), Loseley (Sir William More, Aug. 5–9), -Katherine Hall, Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Aug. 10–14), Bramshott (Edmund -Mervyn, Aug. 14), The Holt (Lord Delawarr), Cowdray (Lord Montague, -Aug. 14–20) with visit to Oseburn Priory (Lord Montague, Aug. 17),[433] -West Dean (Sir Richard Lewknor, Aug. 20), Chichester (Lord Lumley, Aug. -20–22), Stanstead (Lord Lumley, Aug. 26), Portsmouth (Earl of Sussex, -Aug. 26–31), Southwick (John White, Aug. 31, Sept. 1), Tichfield -(Earl of Southampton, Sept. 2, 3), South Stoneham? (John Caplen), -Southampton (Sept. 5, 6), Fairthorne (Francis? Serle), Bishop’s Waltham -(Bp. Winchester, Sept. 8, 9), Warnford (William Neale), Tichborne -(Sir Benjamin Tichborne), Winchester (Bp.), Abbotstone (Marquis of -Winchester), Wield (William Wallop), Farleigh (Sir Henry Wallop, Sept. -12, 13), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Sept. 13–16) with visit to The -Vine in Sherborne St. John? (Lord Sandys, Sept. 18), Odiham (Edward -More, Sept. 19, 20), Elvetham (Earl of Hertford, Sept. 20–23),[434] -Farnham (Bp. Winchester, Sept. 23, 24) with visit to Bagshot?, Sutton -in Woking (Sir Henry Weston, Sept. 26–27). - -Sept. 27. OATLANDS.[435] - -Oct. 4 < > 7. RICHMOND, by Hampton Court.[436] - -_c._ Nov. 11. Visit to Ely House (Sir C. Hatton).[437] - -Nov. 15 < > 20. WHITEHALL.[438] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[439] - -Dec. 26. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Strange’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Strange’s.= - - - 1592 - -Jan. 1. =Strange’s.= - -Jan. 2. =Sussex’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.= - -Jan. 9. =Strange’s.= - -Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Strange’s.= - -Feb. 8. =Strange’s.= - -Apr. 7–21. Visits to Hammersmith (William Payne, Apr. 7), Osterley -(Lady Gresham, Apr. 7–9), Hampton Court (Apr. 12), Wimbledon (Sir -Thomas Cecil, Apr. 14–17), Croydon (Abp. of Canterbury, Apr. 17–21?), -Beddington (Sir Francis Carew, Apr. 18), Sydenham (William Aubrey, Apr. -21).[440] - -Apr. 21. GREENWICH.[441] - -_c._ Apr.-July (?). Visit to Blackfriars (Sir George Carey).[442] - -July 29–31. NONSUCH, by Mitcham (John Dent).[443] - -_c._ Aug. 9–Oct. 9. PROGRESS in Surrey, Middlesex, Bucks., Berks., -Wilts., Gloucestershire, and Oxon.[444] West Molesey (Thomas Brand), -Hanworth, Eastridge in Colnbrook (Ostrich Inn?), Eton College, -Maidenhead (the Lion), Bisham (Lady Russell, Aug. 11–13),[445] John -Haynes, Hurst (Edward? Ward), Reading (Mr. Davies, Aug. 15–19), -Burghfield (Francis? Plowden, Aug. 19), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey -Forster, Aug. 19–22), Chamberhouse in Thatcham (Nicholas Fuller), Shaw -near Newbury (Thomas Dolman, Aug. 24–26) with hunt in Donnington Park, -Hampstead Marshall (Thomas Parry, Aug. 26–27?), Avington (Richard? -Choke, Aug. 27?), Ramsbury (Earl of Pembroke, Aug. 27–29?),[446] -Burderhope (Thomas Stevens, Aug. 29), Lydiard Tregoze (Sir John -St. John, Sept. 1), Down Ampney (Anthony Hungerford, Sept. 1–2), -Cirencester (Sir John Danvers, Sept. 2–7), Rendcombe (Sir Richard -Berkeley), Whittington (John Cotton, Sept. 9), Sudeley Castle (Lord -Chandos, Sept. 9–12)[447] with visit to Alderton (Sir John Hickford), -Northleach (William Dutton?), Sherborne (William Dutton, Sept. 14–15), -Taynton? (Mr. Bray?), Burford (Laurence Tanfield, Sept. 15–16), Witney -(James Yate, Sept. 16–18), Woodstock (Sept. 18–23) with visit to -Ditchley (Sir Henry Lee),[448] Yarnton (Sir William Spencer, Sept. -23), Oxford (Sept. 23–28),[449] Holton (George Browne, Sept. 28), -Rycote (Lord Norris, Sept. 28–Oct. 1),[450] Princes Risborough (John -Reve at parsonage), Hampden (Mrs. Hampden, Oct. 2, 3), Chequers in -Elsborough? (William Hawtrey), Amersham?, Chenies (Lady Bedford, Oct. -4, 5), Latimer? (Edwin Sandys), Denham (John Norris, Oct. 7), Uxbridge -(Francis? Clifford), Bedfont (John Draper, Oct. 9). - -Oct. 9. HAMPTON COURT.[451] - -Nov. 17. Challenge for Shrovetide tilt.[452] - -Dec. 26. =Pembroke’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Strange’s.= - -Dec. 31. =Strange’s.= - - - 1593 - -Jan. 1. =Strange’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Pembroke’s.= - -_c._ Jan. Visit to Chelsea (Lord Admiral).[453] - -Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Strand (Sir Robert Cecil), by Putney (John -Lacy)?[454] - -Feb. 5–14. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[455] - -Feb. 17. SOMERSET HOUSE.[456] - -Feb. 25. ST. JAMES’S.[457] - -Feb. 26 (S.M.). Tilt.[458] - -Apr. 21. WHITEHALL.[459] - -May 2–14 <. Visit to Croydon (Abp.), by Streatham (Dr. Robert -Forth).[460] - -May 14 < > 22. NONSUCH.[461] - -June 18 < > 24. OATLANDS, by Hampton Court.[462] - -Aug. 1 < > 4. WINDSOR, by Egham (Richard Kellefet).[463] - -_c._ Aug. Visit to Sunninghill.[464] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[465] - -Dec. 1. HAMPTON COURT, by Laleham (Lawrence? Tomson).[466] - - - 1594 - -Jan. 6. =Queen’s.=[467] - -Feb. 10–12 (S.). - -March 19. GREENWICH, by Richmond and Somerset House (Lord Hunsdon).[468] - -May 29 < > June 2–June 22 < > July 5. Visits to Lambeth (Abp. of -Canterbury), Sion (June 3), Wimbledon (Sir Thomas Cecil, June 3), -Richmond, Osterley (Anne, Lady Gresham), Willesden (Mr. Payne, June 7), -Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, June 7), Hendon (Sir John Fortescue), -Friern Barnet (Sir John Popham), Theobalds (Lord Burghley, June -13–23?), Pyneste near Waltham, Enfield (Robert Wroth), Loughborough -(Francis Stonard), Hackney (Katharine, Lady Hayward).[469] - -July 12. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[470] - -Oct. 1 or 2. NONSUCH, by Camberwell (Bartholomew Scott) and Mitcham -(Lady Blank).[471] - -Oct. 25 < > 31. RICHMOND, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[472] - -Nov. 14. WHITEHALL?, by Battersea.[473] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[474] - -Nov. 27. SOMERSET HOUSE.[475] - -Dec. 7. Visit to Savoy (Sir Thomas Heneage).[476] - -Dec. 8. Visit to Hampton Court.[477] - -Dec. 11. GREENWICH.[478] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1595 - -Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.= - -Jan. 26. Wedding of Earl of Derby and Lady Elizabeth Vere.[479] -=Chamberlain’s= (_Midsummer Night’s Dream_)?. - -Jan. 30–Feb. 1. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[480] - -Feb. 18. ST. JAMES’S, by Lambeth (Abp.).[481] - -Feb. 24 < > March 3. WHITEHALL.[482] - -March 3 (S.M.). Mask (Proteus and the Rock Adamantine) by Gray’s -Inn.[483] - -March 4. Tilt and Barriers.[484] - -May 3. GREENWICH.[485] - -Aug. 18–22. NONSUCH, by Whitehall and Mitcham (John? Dent).[486] - -_c._ Aug.-Oct. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[487] - -Oct. 19 < > 24. RICHMOND, by Combe (Thomas Vincent).[488] - -Nov. 4. Visit to Barn Elms (Earl of Essex).[489] - -Nov. 14. _Whitehall_, by Putney (John Lacy).[490] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[491] - -Nov. 27 or 28. RICHMOND.[492] - -Dec. 11. Visit to Kew (Sir John Puckering).[493] - -Dec. 18 or 19. WHITEHALL.[494] - -Dec. 20. Visit to Huntingdon House (Lady Huntingdon).[495] - -Dec. 23. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[496] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Chamberlain’s.= - - - 1596 - -Jan. 1. =Admiral’s.= - -Jan. 4. =Admiral’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s=. - -Feb. 24. =Admiral’s.= - -Apr. 2–3. GREENWICH, by Putney (John Lacy) and Lambeth.[497] - -Apr. 8. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[498] - -_c._ Aug. Visit to Eltham.[499] - -Oct. 1–2. NONSUCH, by Lambeth (Lord Burgh) and Mitcham.[500] - -Oct. 12. RICHMOND, by Kingston (John? Cox).[501] - -Nov. 17. WHITEHALL, by Putney (John Lacy).[502] Tilt.[503] - -Dec. 23. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[504] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s.= - - - 1597 - -Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=. - -Feb. 6 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.= - -Feb. 8. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Feb. 19. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[505] - -March. Visit to Putney (John Lacy).[506] - -May 7. GREENWICH.[507] - -_c._ July 20–22. Visit to Scadbury (Sir Thomas Walsingham), by Eltham -and Chislehurst (Richard Carmarden).[508] - -Aug. 17–Sept. 20. PROGRESS in Essex, Middlesex, and Herts.[509] -Hackney (Lady Hayward), Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks, Aug. -17–19), Claybury (Thomas Knyvett, Aug. 19), Havering (Aug. 19–30) -with visit to Pyrgo (Sir Henry Grey), Loughborough (Francis Stonard) -with hunt at Loughton (Robert Wroth), Mrs. Bracy (Sept. 5), Theobalds -(Lord Burghley, Sept. 5, 7, 9) with visit to Enfield Chase (Sir Robert -Cecil) and hunt in Waltham forest (Ralph Colston’s walk), Edmonton -(Mr. Woodward), Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis, Sept. 13, 18, 19), -Kensington (Walter Cope, Sept. 19), Putney (John Lacy, Sept. 19–20). - -Sept. 20. RICHMOND.[510] - -_c._ Oct. 20. WHITEHALL, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Lord -Delawarr).[511] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[512] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1598 - -Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.= Mask (Passions) by Middle Temple.[513] - -Feb. 26 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.= - -Feb. 28. =Admiral’s.= - -May 2. GREENWICH.[514] - -July 5. Visit to Burghley House (Lord Burghley).[515] - -_c._ July. Visit to Eltham (Hugh Miller and John Lee).[516] - -_c._ Sept. Visit to Newington (Mr. Saunderson).[517] - -Sept. 12–13. NONSUCH, by Mitcham (Dr. Julius Caesar).[518] - -Sept. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[519] - -_c._ Oct. 10. RICHMOND, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[520] - -Nov. 13 or 14. WHITEHALL, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[521] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[522] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1599 - -Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Admiral’s.= - -Feb. 10. RICHMOND, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[523] - -Feb. 18 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.= - -Feb. 20. _Chamberlain’s._ - -Apr. 3. GREENWICH, by Lambeth (Abp.).[524] - -Apr. 7 (Easter Eve). Two Admiral’s men at court.[525] - -June 25. Visit to Alice, Countess of Derby (Holborn?), for wedding of -Mary Hemingham.[526] - -_c._ July. Visit to Eltham.[527] - -July 27–30. Visit to Wimbledon (Thomas, Lord Burghley), by Vauxhall -(Sir Noel Caron).[528] - -July 30. NONSUCH.[529] - -Aug. 16–17. Visit to Beddington (Sir Francis Carew).[530] - -_c._ Aug. 22. Visit to Somerset House.[531] - -Sept. 4–7. Visit to Hampton Court.[532] - -Oct. 3. RICHMOND, by Kingston (George? Evelyn).[533] - -_c._ Oct. Visit to Hampton Court.[534] - -Nov. 13. WHITEHALL, by Putney (John Lacy) and Chelsea (Earl of -Nottingham and Sir Arthur Gorges).[535] - -Nov. 19. Tilt.[536] - -Nov. 28. Visit to Earl of Essex at York House.[537] - -Dec. 7. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[538] - -Christmas.[539] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Admiral’s= (_Old Fortunatus_?). - - - 1600 - -Jan. 1. =Admiral’s= (_Shoemaker’s Holiday_). - -Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Jan. 19–21. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Nottingham).[540] - -Feb. 3 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s.= - -Feb. 5. =Derby’s.= - -Apr. 13 < > 20. GREENWICH, by Lambeth.[541] - -May 12. Activities, by Peter Bromvill. - -May 13. Baiting.[542] - -June 10. Visit to Lumley House (Lord Lumley), Greenwich.[543] - -June 16–17. Visit to Blackfriars (Lady Russell and Lord Cobham) -for wedding of Lord Herbert and Anne Russell, with mask (_The Lost -Muse_).[544] - -July 29. NONSUCH, by Newington (Mr. Carey).[545] - -Aug. 5–6. Visit to Tooting (John Lacy).[546] - -Aug. 13–16. Visit to Beddington (Sir F. Carew) and Croydon (Aug. -14).[547] - -Aug.? Visit to Kingston (George Evelyn).[548] - -Aug. 24 < > 26. OATLANDS, by Molesey (Dorothy, Lady Edmondes).[549] - -Sept. 1. Hunt at New Lodge.[550] - -Sept. 4. Visit to Hanworth (William Killigrew).[551] - -Sept. 9. Visit to Esher (Richard Drake).[552] - -> Sept. 12. Visit to Hampton Court (Earl of Nottingham).[553] - -_c._ Sept.-Oct. Visit to Thorpe (Mr. Bereblock).[554] - -Oct. 9. RICHMOND, by Sunbury (Sir Philip Boteler).[555] - -Nov. 13. WHITEHALL, by Chelsea (Earl of Shrewsbury).[556] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[557] - -> Dec. 4. Visit to Sackville House (Lady Glemham).[558] - -Dec. 22. Visit to Strand (Sir R. Cecil).[559] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1601 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s= and =Derby’s=. - -Jan. 6. =Chamberlain’s=, =Admiral’s=, =Derby’s=, and =Chapel= (‘showe’). - -Feb. 2. =Admiral’s.= - -Feb. 22 (S.S.). =Chapel.= - -Feb. 24. =Chamberlain’s.= - -May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis).[560] - -May 2. Visit to Chelsea (Earl of Lincoln)?[561] - -May 7. GREENWICH.[562] - -May 23. Visit by Lambeth.[563] - -_c._ July. Visits to Eltham (Hugh Miller) and Blackwall.[564] - -Aug. 6–8. WINDSOR, by Fulham (Bp. of London), Brentford, Hanworth -(William Killigrew), Staines (Bush Inn, Aug. 8).[565] - -Aug. Visits to Old Windsor (William? Meredith), Little Park, Mote -Park, Folly John Park (Anthony? Duck), and Philberds in Bray (William? -Goddard).[566] - -Aug. 13. Visit to Stoke Poges (Sir Edward Coke).[567] - -Aug. 28–Sept. 28. PROGRESS in Berks., Hants, and Surrey.[568] Hurst -(Sir Richard Ward, Aug. 28), Reading (Mr. Davies?, Aug. 28–Sept. 1) -with visit to Caversham (Sir William Knollys),[569] Englefield (Sir -Edward Norris), Aldermaston (Sir Humphrey Forster, Sept. 5), Silchester -Heath (Sept. 5), Beaurepaire (Sir Robert Remington), Basing (Marquis -of Winchester, Sept. 5–19), South Warnborough (Richard White, Sept. -20), Crondall (Mr. Paulet), Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, Sept. 22, 23), -Seale (Lady Woodruff), Loseley (Sir George More, Sept. 23), Clandon -(Sir Richard Weston), Stoke d’Abernon (Thomas? Vincent), Absey (Epsom?) -Court (Mr. Blanden). - -Sept. 28. RICHMOND.[570] - -Oct. 24. WHITEHALL, by Putney.[571] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[572] - -Christmas.[573] There may have been barriers.[574] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Chamberlain’s= and =Admiral’s= (with activities). - -Dec. 29. Visit to Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon), with play.[575] - - - 1602 - -Jan. 1. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Jan. 3. =Worcester’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Chapel.= - -Jan. 10. =Chapel.= - -Feb. 14 (S.S.). =Chamberlain’s= and =Chapel=. - -Feb. 19. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[576] - -Apr. 9 or 10. Visit to Wimbledon (Lord Burghley)?[577] - -Apr. 19. GREENWICH, by Lambeth (Abp.) and Blackfriars (Lord -Hunsdon).[578] - -May 1. Visit to Sydmonscourt, Lewisham (Sir Richard Buckley).[579] - -May 5. Visit to St. James’s Park (Dorothy Lady Chandos and Sir William -Knollys).[580] - -_c._ July 15. Visit to Eltham (Sir John Stanhope, Hugh Miller, and Sir -Thomas Walsingham).[581] - -July 28–Aug. 10? PROGRESS in Middlesex and Bucks.[582] Lambeth (July -28), Chiswick (Sir William Russell, July 28), Hounslow (Mr. Whitby), -Harlington (Ambrose Copinger), Harefield (Sir Thomas Egerton, July -31–Aug. 3),[583] Hitcham (Sir William Clarke, Aug. 3–9) with visit to -Taplow (Sir Henry Guilford, Aug. 7), Riddings in Datchet (Richard? -Hanbury), Thorpe (Mr. Oglethorpe). - -Aug. _c._ 10. OATLANDS.[584] - -_c._ Aug.-Sept. Visits to Woking, Chertsey (John Hammond), Byfleet -Lodge, New Lodge, and to Mr. Brooke in the forest, Mr. Bromley, and Mr. -Woodward.[585] - -Oct. 2 <. Visit to West Drayton (Lord Hunsdon) by Bedfont (John -Draper).[586] - -Oct. 8. RICHMOND.[587] - -Nov. 15. WHITEHALL, by Putney (John Lacy).[588] - -Nov. 17. Tilt.[589] - -Dec. 6. Visit to Savoy (Sir Robert Cecil), with dialogues.[590] - -Dec. 6 < > 23. Visits to Arundel House (Earl of Nottingham) and -Blackfriars (Lord Hunsdon).[591] - -Christmas.[592] - -Dec. 26. =Chamberlain’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Admiral’s.= - - - 1603 - -Jan. 1. =Paul’s.= - -Jan. 6. =Hertford’s.= - -Jan. 17. Visit to Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden).[593] - -Jan. 21. RICHMOND, by Putney (John Lacy).[594] - -Feb. 2. =Chamberlain’s.= - -March 6 (S.S.). =Admiral’s.= - -March 8 (?). =Admiral’s.= - -March 24. _Obiit Elizabetha._ Accession of James. - -Apr. 5–May 11. PROGRESS of James from Scotland.[595] Seton (Earl of -Wintoun, Apr. 5), Dunglass (Lord Home, Apr. 5, 6), Berwick (Apr. 6–8). -Fenham (Sir William Read, Apr. 8), Widdrington (Sir Robert Carey, -Apr. 8, 9), Newcastle (Robert Dudley, Apr. 9–13), Lumley Castle (Lord -Lumley, Apr. 13), Durham Castle (Bp. of Durham, Apr. 13, 14), Walworth -(Mrs. Jenison, Apr. 14, 15), Topcliffe (William Ingleby, Apr. 15, 16), -York (Lord Burghley, Apr. 16–18), Grimston Hall (Sir Edward Stanhope, -Apr. 18, 19), Pontefract Castle (Apr. 19), Doncaster (Bear and Sun, -Apr. 19, 20), Blyth (Apr. 20), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury, Apr. 20, -21),[596] Southwell (Apr. 21), Newark Castle (Apr. 21, 22), Belvoir -Castle (Earl of Rutland, Apr. 22, 23), Burley on the Hill (Sir John -Harington, Apr. 23), Burghley (Lord Burghley, Apr. 23–27) with another -visit to Burley on the Hill (Apr. 25, 26), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony -Mildmay, Apr. 27), Hinchinbrook (Sir Oliver Cromwell, Apr. 27–29), -Godmanchester (Apr. 29), Royston (Robert Chester, Apr. 29, 30), Standon -(Thomas Sadleir, Apr. 30–May 2), Broxbourne (Henry Cock, May 2, 3), -Theobalds (Sir Robert Cecil, May 3–7), Stamford Hill (May 7),[597] -Charterhouse (Lord Howard de Walden, May 7–11) with visits to Whitehall -and St. James’s. - -May 11. TOWER, by Whitehall.[598] - -May 13. GREENWICH.[599] - -May 25–27. Visits to Nonsuch by Putney, Beddington (Sir Francis Carew), -Oatlands, and Hampton Court.[600] - -_c._ June 12. Visits to Sion and Windsor.[601] - -June 1–27. PROGRESS of Anne from Scotland.[602] Berwick (June 3), -Bishop Auckland? (Bp. of Durham), York (June 11–15), Grimston Hall -(Sir Edward Stanhope, June 15), Worksop (Earl of Shrewsbury), Newark, -Nottingham, Wollaton (Sir Percival Willoughby, June 21), Ashby de la -Zouch (Earl of Huntingdon. June 23), Leicester (Sir William Skipwith, -June 23, 24), Dingley (Sir Thomas Griffin, June 24, 25), Holdenby -(Christopher Hatton, June 25), Althorp (Sir Robert Spencer, June -25–27),[603] Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor, June 27). - -June 24. WINDSOR, by Hanworth (Sir William Killigrew).[604] - -June 27–30. Visits to Easton Neston (June 27) meeting Anne, Grafton -(Earl of Cumberland, June 27, 28),[605] Salden in Muresly (Sir John -Fortescue), and probably Aylesbury (Sir John Packington), Hampden -(Alexander Hampden), and Great Missenden (Sir William Fleetwood).[606] - -July 13 < > 16. _Hampton Court._[607] - -July 22–23. _Whitehall_, by Fulham (Bp. of London).[608] - -July 25. Coronation.[609] - -July 27. _Hampton Court._[610] - -Aug. 10–Sept. 20. PROGRESS in Surrey, Hants, Berks., and Oxon.[611] -Pyrford (Sir Francis Wolley, Aug. 10), Loseley (Sir George More, -Aug. 11, 12), Farnham Castle (Bp. of Winchester, Aug. 14, 17), South -Warnborough (Sir Thomas White), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, Aug. 17, -22, 23), Salisbury (Bp. of Salisbury, Aug. 26–28), Basing again (Aug. -31), Shaw (Thomas Dolman), Woodstock (Sept. 8–20) with visit to Sir -Henry Lee (Sept. 15). - -Sept. 20. WINCHESTER.[612] - -Sept. 20 < > Oct, 6. Play.[613] - -Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Mask on arrival of Henry.[614] - -Sept. 20 < > Oct. 17. Visits to Southampton and Isle of Wight.[615] - -Oct. 20 < > 24. WILTON (Earl of Pembroke).[616] - -Nov. 1. Visit to Salisbury.[617] - -Dec. 2. =King’s= (_As You Like It_?). - -Dec. 12 < > 21. HAMPTON COURT.[618] - -Christmas.[619] - -Dec. 26. =King’s.= - -Dec. 27. =King’s.= - -Dec. 28. =King’s.= - -Dec. 30. =King’s.= - - - 1604 - -Jan. 1. =King’s= (two plays, one of Robin Goodfellow, _Midsummer -Night’s Dream_?). Mask (Indian and Chinese Knights).[620] - -Jan. 2. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 4. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 6. Mask. - -Jan. 8. Queen’s mask (_The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses_). - -Jan. 13. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 15. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 21. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 22. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. Tilt.[621] - -Feb. 2. =King’s.= - -Feb. 13. WHITEHALL.[622] - -Feb. 19 (S.S.). =King’s.= - -Feb. 20. =Prince’s= and =Paul’s= (Middleton’s _Phoenix_?).[623] - -Feb. 21. =Queen’s Revels.= - -March 12. TOWER.[624] - -March 13. Lion baiting.[625] - -March 15. Entry through London with pageants to WHITEHALL.[626] - -March 29. Tilt.[627] - -May 1. Visit to Highgate (Sir William Cornwallis) with Jonson’s -_Penates_.[628] - -May 30 < > June 2. GREENWICH.[629] - -June 16. Visit to Ruckholt in Leyton (Michael Hicks).[630] - -July 3 or 4. WHITEHALL.[631] - -July 12–21. Visits to Oatlands (July 14–16) and Windsor (July 18, -21).[632] - -July 24–Aug. 14. PROGRESS in Herts., Hunts., and Beds., broken by -Spanish visit.[633] Theobalds (Lord Cecil, July 24–29), Somersham (Sir -John Cutts, > Aug. 2), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5–14). - -Aug. 10. Arrival of Fernandez de Velasco, Constable of Castile, and -other Spanish and Flemish commissioners at Somerset House. - -Aug. 14. WHITEHALL.[634] - -Aug. 19. Signature of treaty and dinner to commissioners at Whitehall, -with baiting and activities.[635] - -Aug. 25. Departure of Constable of Castile. - -Aug. 20–Sept. 6 < > 15. PROGRESS resumed in Herts. and Oxon.[636] Ware -(Aug. 20), Woodstock (Sept. 6), Langley. - -Sept. 6 < > 15. WINDSOR.[637] - -Sept. 21. Visit to Eton College.[638] - -Sept. 22. HAMPTON COURT.[639] - -Oct. 1–6. Visit to Windsor and Easton Neston (Sir George Fermor) to -meet Charles.[640] - -Oct. 16. WHITEHALL.[641] - -Nov. 1. =King’s= (_Othello_). - -Nov. 4. =King’s= (_Merry Wives of Windsor_). - -Nov. 23. =Prince’s.= - -Nov. 24. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 14. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 19. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 26. =King’s= (_Measure for Measure_). - -Dec. 27. Mask for wedding of Sir Philip Herbert and Lady Susan Vere. - -Dec. 28. =King’s= (_Comedy of Errors_). - -Dec. 30. =Queen’s= (_How to Learn of a Woman to Woo_). - - - 1605 - -Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (_All Fools_). - -Jan. 3. =Queen’s Revels.=[642] - -Jan. 6. Creation of Charles as Duke of York. Queen’s mask (_Mask of -Blackness_). - -Jan. 7. =King’s= (_Henry V_). - -Jan. 8. =King’s= (_Every Man Out of His Humour_). - -Jan. 9 < > 14. =King’s= (_Love’s Labour’s Lost_), at the Earl of -Southampton’s or Viscount Cranborne’s for the Queen.[643] - -Jan. 15. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 22. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 2. =King’s= (_Every Man in His Humour_). Mask by Duke of Holst -(?).[644] - -Feb. 3. =King’s= (play ready but not shown). - -Feb. 5. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 10 (S.S.). =King’s= (_Merchant of Venice_). - -Feb. 11. =King’s= (_Spanish Maze_). - -Feb. 12. =King’s= (_Merchant of Venice_). - -Feb. 19. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 28 < > March 6. GREENWICH.[645] - -March 24. Tilt.[646] - -Apr. 4. Tilt.[647] - -May 20. Tilt.[648] - -June 3. Lion baiting in Tower.[649] - -June 26. WHITEHALL.[650] - -July 15. Baiting for imperial ambassador.[651] - -July 16–Aug. 31. PROGRESS in Essex, Herts., Beds., Northants., Oxon., -and Berks.[652] Havering (July 16–18), Loughton (Sir Robert Wroth, -July 18–20), Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury, July 20–24), Hatfield (July -24–26), Luton (Sir John Rotheram, July 26–27), Ampthill (July 27–Aug. -1), Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 1–3), Drayton (Lord Mordaunt, Aug. -3–6), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 6–9), Rockingham (Sir Edward -Watson, Aug. 9–12), Harrowden (Lord Vaux, Aug. 12–15), Castle Ashby -(Lord Compton, Aug. 15–16), Grafton (Earl of Cumberland, Aug. 16–20), -Hanwell (Sir Anthony Cope, Aug. 20–21), Wroxton (Sir William Pope, Aug. -21), Woodstock (Aug. 21–27), Oxford (Aug. 27–30),[653] Bisham (Sir -Edward Hoby, Aug. 30–31). - -Aug. 31. WINDSOR.[654] - -Sept. 10 < > 12. HAMPTON COURT.[655] - -_c._ Sept. 30. WHITEHALL.[656] - -Dec. 1. =Prince’s.= - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (ten) and =Paul’s= (two). - -Dec. 27. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 30. =Prince’s.= - - - 1606 - -Jan. 1. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 4. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 5. Mask (_Hymenaei_) for wedding of Essex and Frances Howard. - -Jan. 6. Barriers, with speeches (Truth and Opinion) by Jonson. - -March 3 (S.M.). =Prince’s.= - -March 4. =Prince’s.= - -March 22. Rumoured assassination of James on visit to Woking.[657] - -March 24. Tilt.[658] - -March 28. Visit incognito to Guildhall for trial of Henry Garnet.[659] - -May 16. GREENWICH.[660] - -June 1. Challenge for tilt by Knights of the Fortunate Island, or the -Lucent Pillar.[661] - -June 22–23. Birth and death of Princess Sophia. - -July _c._ 15–17. Visits to Oatlands and Farnham.[662] - -July 17–Aug. 11. Visit of Christian IV of Denmark.[663] Plays (two) by -=King’s= at Greenwich. - -July 18. Kings meet at Tilbury. - -July 18–24. Greenwich. - -July 24–28. Visit to Theobalds (Earl of Salisbury), by Blackwall and -Stratford. Mask (_Solomon and Queen of Sheba_).[664] - -July 24. Entertainment by Jonson. - -July 28–31. Greenwich. - -July 30. =Paul’s= (_Abuses_).[665] - -July 31. Triumph through London to Somerset House, with pageants at -Great Conduit (Bower of the Muses), Little Conduit (Concord), and Fleet -Conduit (Pastoral). - -Aug. 1–2. Whitehall. - -Aug. 2–6. Greenwich. - -Aug. 4. Ringing. - -Aug. 5. Tilt. - -Aug. 6. Masters of defence. - -Aug. 6. Visit to Richmond. - -Aug. 7. Visit to Hampton Court, with play by =King’s=. - -Aug. 7–8. Visit to Windsor. - -Aug. 8–9. Greenwich. - -Aug. 9–11. Rochester (Bp. William Barlow). - -Aug. 10. Dinner on _Elizabeth James_ near Chatham. - -Aug. 11. Farewell on _Admiral_ of Denmark at Gravesend, with -fireworks, - -_c._ Aug. 17. HAMPTON COURT.[666] - -Aug. PROGRESS, including Farnham (Aug. 23–24, Bp. of Winchester) and -Beaulieu (Aug. 30, Earl of Southampton).[667] - -Sept. 11–_c._ 18. Visit to Windsor.[668] - -Oct. 20 < > Nov. 1. WHITEHALL.[669] - -Dec. 26. =King’s= (_King Lear_). - -Dec. 28. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 29. =King’s=. - - - 1607 - -Jan. 4. =King’s.= - -Jan. 6. =King’s.= Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Lord Hay and Honora -Denny. - -Jan. 8. =King’s.= - -Jan. 13, 24, 30. =Prince’s= (three plays). - -Feb. 1. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 2. =King’s= (Barnes’s _Devil’s Charter_). - -Feb. 5. =King’s.= - -Feb. 11. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 15 (S.S.). =King’s.= - -Feb. 27. =King’s.= - -March 24. Tilt.[670] - -May _c._ 20–24. Entry on Theobalds, with entertainment by -Jonson.[671] - -May 25. Tilt for Prince de Joinville. Play (_Aeneas and Dido_) at -banquet by Earl of Arundel for Anne.[672] - -June 12. Visit to Lord Mayor and Clothworkers.[673] - -July 16. Visit to Merchant Taylors, with speech by Jonson.[674] - -July 19. WINDSOR, by Oatlands?[675] - -Aug. PROGRESS in Hants and Wilts.[676] Basing (Marquis of Winchester, -Aug. 5), Romsey, Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 10, 12), Salisbury -(Aug. 14–23), and possibly Isle of Wight. - -Aug. 23 < > Sept. 7. _Windsor._[677] - -Sept. 23 < > 27. _Hampton Court._[678] - -Oct. 27 < > 29. WHITEHALL.[679] - -Nov. 19. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 26, 27, 28. =King’s= (three plays). - -Dec. 30. =Prince’s.= - - - 1608 - -Jan. 2. =King’s.= - -Jan. 3. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 4. =Prince’s.= Fireworks.[680] - -Jan. 6. =King’s= (two plays). - -Jan. 7. =King’s.= - -Jan. 9. =King’s.= - -Jan. 10. Queen’s mask (_Mask of Beauty_). - -Jan. 17. =King’s= (two plays). - -Jan. 26. =King’s.= - -Feb. 2, 7 (S.S.). =King’s= (two plays). - -Feb. 9. Mask (by Jonson) for wedding of Viscount Haddington and -Elizabeth Radcliffe. - -March 24. Tilt.[681] - -May 13 < > 19. GREENWICH.[682] - -July 1. WHITEHALL.[683] - -July 7 < > 14–Aug. 14 < > 28. PROGRESS in Herts., Beds., and -Northants.[684] Theobalds (July 14–20) with visit to Lamer in -Wheathampstead (Sir John Garrard, July 19), Toddington (Lady Cheyne, -July 24, 25), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 1–3), Alderton (Sir Thomas -Hesilrige, Aug. 4), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 5–14) with visit to -Bletsoe (Lord St. John, Aug. 5). - -Aug. 14 < > 28. WINDSOR.[685] - -Sept. 4 < > 17. HAMPTON COURT.[686] - -Oct. 1 < > 21. WHITEHALL.[687] - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (twelve), =Queen’s= (five), -Prince’s (three), and =Children of Blackfriars= (three).[688] - - - 1609 - -Jan. 1. =Children of Blackfriars= (Middleton’s _Trick to catch -the Old One_). - -Jan. 4. =Children of Blackfriars.= - -Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (_Mask of Queens_). - -Feb. 28 (S.T.). Ringing.[689] - -March 24. Tilt.[690] - -Apr. 11. Visit to Durham House for opening of Britain’s Burse.[691] - -Apr. 18. Baiting.[692] - -May 6 < > 15. GREENWICH.[693] - -June 23. Lion baiting in Tower.[694] - -July 6. WHITEHALL.[695] - -July 22. WINDSOR.[696] - -July 23–Aug. 20 < > 31. PROGRESS in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., Dorset.[697] -Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 23–26), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, -July 26), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 3–7), Salisbury (Aug. 15, -20), Cranborne (Aug. 17–19), Tarrant. - -Aug. 20 < > 31. WINDSOR.[698] - -Sept. 1 < > 7. HAMPTON COURT.[699] - -Oct. 30. WHITEHALL.[700] - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (thirteen) and =Children of -Whitefriars= (five). - -Dec. 26. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 27. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 31. Challenge for barriers by Henry as Meliadus. - - - 1610 - -Jan. 6. Henry’s barriers, with speeches by Jonson.[701] - -Jan. 7. =Prince’s.=[702] - -Jan. 18. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 9. _Duke of York’s._ - -Feb. 18–20 (S.). - -March 24, 27. Tilt.[703] - -Apr. 20. Lion baiting in Tower.[704] - -Apr. 23. Triumph for Henry at Chester.[705] - -May 31–June 6. Creation of Henry as Prince of Wales.[706] - -June 5. Queen’s mask (_Tethys’ Festival_). - -June 6. Tilt, water triumph, and fireworks.[707] - -June 19. Visit to Woolwich.[708] - -July 24–_c._ Sept. 2. PROGRESS in Northants., Oxon., Berks., and -Hants.[709] Bletsoe (Lord St. John, July 29), Holdenby (Duke of York, -Aug. 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19) with visits to Apethorpe (Sir Anthony -Mildmay) and Kirby (Sir Christopher Hatton, Aug. 7) and Castle Ashby -(Lord Compton, Aug. 13, 14), Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 19), -Woodstock (Aug. 22–25), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 28), Aldershot -(Walter Tichborne? Sept. 2). - -_c._ Sept. 2. HAMPTON COURT.[710] - -Oct. 8 < > 18. WHITEHALL.[711] - -Dec. 10. =Queen’s= (three plays). - -Dec. 12. =Duke of York’s.= - -Dec. 19. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 20. =Duke of York’s.= - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fifteen). - -Dec. 27. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 28. =Prince’s.= - - - 1611 - -Jan. 1. Prince’s mask (_Oberon_). - -Jan. 14. =Prince’s.= - -Jan. 15. =Duke of York’s.= - -Jan. 16. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 2. Queen’s mask (_Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly_). - -Feb. 3–5 (S.). - -Feb. 3. King’s (_Mucedorus_)? - -Apr. 27. GREENWICH.[712] - -June 26 < > July 2. WINDSOR.[713] - -July 18–21. Visit to Englefield (Sir Edward Norris).[714] - -July 22 < > 25–Sept. 1 < > 10. PROGRESS in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and -Isle of Wight.[715] Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 25–8), Salisbury -(Aug. 3, 6, 10, 13), Beaulieu (Earl of Southampton, Aug. 19, 21, -26) with visit to Isle of Wight (Aug. 22), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin -Tichborne, Aug. 29), Farnham (Aug. 31), Bagshot (Sept. 1). - -Sept. 1 < > 10. HAMPTON COURT.[716] - -Oct. 31. WHITEHALL.[717] =King’s.= - -Nov. 1. King’s (_Tempest_). - -Nov. 5. King’s (_Winter’s Tale_). - -Nov. 9. =King’s.= - -Nov. 19. =King’s.= - -Dec. 16. =King’s.= - -Christmas.[718] - -Dec. 26. Ringing.[719] =King’s= (_A King and no King_). - -Dec. 27. =Queen’s= (_Greene’s Tu Quoque_). - -Dec. 28. =Prince’s.= - -Dec. 29. =Prince’s= (_Almanac_). - -Dec. 31. =King’s.= - - - 1612 - -Jan. 1. Ringing.[720] =King’s= (_Twins’ Tragedy_). - -Jan. 5. =King’s= and/or =Children of Whitefriars= (_Cupid’s -Revenge_). - -Jan. 6. Ringing.[721] Prince’s mask (_Love Restored_?) by gentlemen of -the court. - -Jan. 7. =King’s.= - -Jan. > 12–22. Visit of Anne and Henry to Greenwich.[722] - -Jan. 12. =King’s and Queen’s= (_Silver Age_) and/or =Duke -of York’s=. - -Jan. 13. =King’s and Queen’s= (_Rape of Lucrece_). - -Jan. 15. =King’s.= - -Jan. 19. =Lady Elizabeth’s.= - -Jan. 21. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 23. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 28. =Duke of York’s.= - -Feb. 2. =Queen’s= (_Greene’s Tu Quoque_). - -Feb. 5. =Prince’s.= - -Feb. 9. =King’s.= - -Feb. 13. =Duke of York’s.= - -Feb. 19. =King’s.= - -Feb. 20. =King’s= (two plays). - -Feb. 23 (S.S.). =King’s= (_Nobleman_). - -Feb. 24. =Duke of York’s= (_Hymen’s Holiday or Cupid’s Vagaries_). - -Feb. 25. Ringing. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Proud Maid’s Tragedy_). - -Feb. 28. Visit by Henry to Marquis of Winchester, with plays.[723] -=King’s.= - -Feb. 29. =Prince’s.= - -March 11. =Lady Elizabeth’s.= - -March 24. Tilt.[724] - -March 28. =King’s.= - -Apr. 3. =King’s.= - -Apr. 11. =Prince’s.= - -Apr. 16. =King’s.= - -Apr. 26. =King’s=, for Duc de Bouillon?[725] - -May-June. Visits to Eltham, Wanstead (Sir Edward Phelips, June 17, 25), -and Havering (Lady Oxford, June 18).[726] - -_c._ July 9. Visit to Kensington (Sir Walter Cope).[727] - -_c._ July 17–_c._ Sept. 1. PROGRESS in Herts., Beds., Northants., -Rutland, Notts., Leicester, Oxon., Berks.[728] Theobalds (July 17), -St. Albans?, Wrest? (Earl of Kent), Ampthill (July 23), Bletsoe (Lord -St. John, July 24–27), Castle Ashby (Lord Compton, July 27–30), Kirby -(Sir Christopher Hatton, July 30–Aug. 3), Apethorpe (Sir Anthony -Mildmay, Aug. 3–6), Brooke (Sir Edward Noel, Aug. 6–7), Belvoir (Earl -of Rutland, Aug. 7–10), Newark Castle (Aug. 10–11), Rufford Abbey -(Sir George Saville, Aug. 11–14), Newstead Abbey (Sir John Byron, -Aug. 14–17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17–18), Loughborough -(Aug. 18–19), Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 19–21), Dingley -(Sir Thomas Griffin, Aug. 21–22), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 22–24), -Grafton (Duke of Lennox, Aug. 24–26?), Hanwell? (Sir Anthony Cope), -Woodstock (Prince Henry, Aug. 26–31?),[729] Rycote (Lord Norris, Aug. -31–Sept. 1?), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Sept. 1?). - -Sept. 1 < > 21. WHITEHALL.[730] - -Oct. 16. Arrival of Elector Palatine.[731] - -Oct. 20. =Lady Elizabeth’s.=[732] - -Oct. 29. Visit of Elector to Lord Mayor’s show.[733] - -Oct. 31 or Nov. 1. Play put off for Henry’s illness.[734] - -Nov. 2 or 3. =Queen’s Revels= (_Coxcomb_)?[735] - -Nov. 6. Death of Henry. - -Christmas. Twenty plays by =King’s= this winter (Shakespeare’s _1, 2 -Hen. IV_ (?), _J. C._, _M. Ado_ (twice), _Oth._, _W. Tale_, _Tp._; -Jonson’s _Alchemist_; Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Philaster_ (twice), -_Maid’s Tragedy_, _King and No King_, _Captain_; Tourneur’s _Nobleman_; -Niccolls’s _Twins_; Ford’s _A Bad Beginning_, and _Cardenio_, _Merry -Devil of Edmonton_, _Knot of Fools_).[736] - -Dec. 27. Betrothal of Elector and Elizabeth.[737] - - - 1613 - -Jan. 1. =Queen’s Revels= (_Cupid’s Revenge_). - -Jan. 9. =Queen’s Revels= (_Cupid’s Revenge_). - -Feb. 11. Fireworks. - -Feb. 13. River triumph. - -Feb. 14 (S.S.). Wedding of Elector and Elizabeth. Lords’ mask (by -Campion). - -Feb. 15. Ringing. Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn mask (by Chapman). - -Feb. 16. =King’s.= Mask put off. - -Feb. 20. Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn mask (by Beaumont). - -Feb. 21. Banquet for James and the maskers. - -Feb. 25. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Dutch Courtesan_). - -Feb. 27. =Queen’s Revels= (_Widow’s Tears_). - -March 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Raymond Duke of Lyons_). - -March 2. =Prince Charles’s= (_1 The Knaves_). - -March 2–_c._ 4. Visit of Charles and Elector to Cambridge, with -Brooke’s _Adelphe_ (Mar. 2) and _Scyros_ (Mar. 3) by Trinity men. - -March? Visit by Frederick to Oxford.[738] - -March 10. =Prince’s= (_2 The Knaves_). - -March 24. Tilt.[739] - -Apr. 10. Departure of Elector and Elizabeth, accompanied by James to -Rochester (Apr. 13).[740] - -Apr. 24–June 17. PROGRESS of Anne.[741] Hampton Court, with James, -Windsor, Reading (the Friars), Caversham (Lord Knollys, Apr. -27–28),[742] Bath, Bristol (Marchioness of Winchester, June 4–8),[743] -Siston (Sir Henry Billingsley, June 8), Bishop’s Cannings (June -11).[744] - -May 26. GREENWICH.[745] - -June 8. =King’s= (_Cardenio_) for Savoyard ambassador. - -July 1–4. Visits to Hampton Court and Oatlands.[746] - -_c._ July 8. WHITEHALL.[747] - -_c._ July 18. WINDSOR.[748] - -July 19 < > 20–_c._ Aug. 21. PROGRESS in Surrey, Hants, and Wilts.[749] -Farnham (Bp. of Winchester, July 20), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, -July 23), Andover (July 24, 26), Lydiard (Sir Oliver St. John?, July -27), Charlton (Earl of Suffolk, July 31), Salisbury (Aug. 5), Beaulieu -(Earl of Southampton, _c._ Aug. 6 < > 21). - -July-Sept. Visits of Anne to Bath and Wells (Aug. 20–22).[750] - -_c._ Aug. 21. WINDSOR.[751] - -Sept. 8. WHITEHALL.[752] - -_c._ Sept. 28. Visit to Hampton Court.[753] - -Nov. 1. =King’s.= - -Nov. 4. =King’s.= - -Nov. 5. =King’s.= - -Nov. 15. =King’s.= - -Nov. 16. =King’s.= - -Dec. 12. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Dutch Courtesan_). - -Dec. 24 or 28. =Queen’s.= - -Dec. 26. Mask (by Campion) for wedding of Earl of Somerset and Frances -Howard. - -Dec. 27. =King’s.= Challenge for tilt, with device by Jonson. - -Dec. 29. Mask (_Irish Mask_) for wedding. - - - 1614 - -Jan. 1. Tilt. =King’s.= - -Jan. 3. _Irish Mask_ repeated. - -Jan. 4. =King’s.= - -Jan. 4. Play and two masks (one Middleton’s lost _Mask of Cupid_) by -City at Merchant Taylors for wedding.[754] - -Jan. 5. =Queen’s.= - -Jan. 6. Gray’s Inn mask (_Mask of Flowers_) for wedding.[755] - -Jan. 10. =King’s.= - -Jan. 25. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Eastward Hoe_). - -Feb. 2. =King’s.= - -Feb. 3. Play (Daniel’s _Hymen’s Triumph_) for wedding of Lord -Roxborough and Jean Drummond at Somerset House. - -Feb. 4. =King’s.= Play for Lord Mayor at Somerset House.[756] - -Feb. 8. =King’s.= - -Feb. 10. =King’s.= - -Feb. 18. =King’s.= - -March 6 (S.S.). =King’s.= - -March 8. =King’s.= - -March 24. Tilt.[757] - -June 8 < > 12. GREENWICH.[758] - -June 21. WHITEHALL.[759] - -June 29. Visit to Richmond.[760] - -July 17–23. PROGRESS in Herts., Essex, Beds., broken by Denmark -visit.[761] Theobalds (July 17), The Rye in Hatfield Broadoak (Richard -Francke, July 18–19), Audley End (Earl of Suffolk, July 19–21), Royston -(July 21–22), Haynes (Robert Newdigate, July 22–23). - -July 22. Arrival of Christian IV, King of Denmark, at Somerset -House.[762] - -July 24 < > 30. Plays before Christian.[763] - -Aug. 1. Visit to Woolwich, Rochester, and Gravesend for departure of -Christian.[764] - -Aug. 1–31. PROGRESS resumed in Herts., Northants., Rutland, Notts., -Leicestershire, Oxon., Berks.[765] Theobalds (Aug. 1), Apethorpe (Sir -Anthony Mildmay, Aug. 3–4), Burley on the Hill (Lord Harington, Aug. -4–6), Belvoir (Earl of Rutland, Aug. 6–9), Newark Castle (Aug. 9–10), -Rufford Abbey (Sir George Saville, Aug. 10–15), Newstead Abbey (Sir -John Byron, Aug. 15–17), Nottingham (Thurland House, Aug. 17–18), -Leicester (Earl of Huntingdon, Aug. 18–19), Dingley (Sir Thomas -Griffin, Aug. 19–20), Holdenby (Duke of York, Aug. 20–22), Grafton -(Duke of Lennox, Aug. 22–25), Woodstock (Aug. 25–29), Oxford (Aug. 29), -Rycote (Lord Norris, Aug. 29–30), Bisham (Sir Edward Hoby, Aug. 30–31). - -> Sept. 11. WHITEHALL.[766] - -Nov. 1. =Lady Elizabeth’s= (_Bartholomew Fair_). - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (eight), =Queen’s= (three), -=Elector Palatine’s= (three), =Prince’s= (six).[767] - - - 1615 - -Jan. 6. Household mask (_Mercury Vindicated_?). - -Jan. 8. Mask repeated. - -Feb. 19–21 (S.). Mask by Spanish ambassador?[768] - -March 7–11. Visit of James and Charles to Cambridge.[769] - -March 24. Tilt.[770] - -May 13–15. Visit to Cambridge. - -> May 21. GREENWICH.[771] - -_c._ July 2–5. Visit to Oatlands.[772] - -July 20. WINDSOR.[773] - -July 21–_c._ Sept. 2. PROGRESS in Surrey, Hants, Wilts., and -Dorset.[774] Bagshot (July 22), Basing (Marquis of Winchester, July -23), Andover (July 26), Salisbury (July 28–31, Aug. 5), Lulworth -Castle (Viscount Bindon, Aug. 15), Broadlands (Henry? St. Barbe, Aug. -27), Tichborne (Sir Benjamin Tichborne, Aug. 29), Farnham (Bp. of -Winchester, Aug. 31). - -_c._ Sept. 2. WINDSOR.[775] - -Sept. 2 < > Oct. 18. WHITEHALL.[776] - -Dec. 17. =Queen’s= at Somerset House. - -Dec. 21. =King’s= at Somerset House. - -Christmas. Plays this winter by =King’s= (fourteen), =Queen’s= (four), -and =Prince’s= (four). - - - 1616 - -Jan. 1. Household mask (_Golden Age Restored_?). - -Jan. 6. Mask repeated. - -Feb. 11–13 (S.). - -March 4 < > 16. Visit to Royston, with play (_Susenbrotus_?) by -Cambridge men.[777] - -March 25. Tilt.[778] - -Apr. 23. _Obiit Gulielmus Shakespeare._ - - - - - APPENDIX B - - COURT PAYMENTS - - -The body of this appendix contains extracts from the accounts of the -Treasurer of the Chamber and the Office of Revels, in which expenditure -on plays or masks at court is recorded. But in view of the importance -of these documents as sources for the history of court entertainment, -it will be well to add something about their general nature and state -of preservation to what has already been said about the procedure of -the Treasurer of the Chamber in ch. ii and that of the Revels Office in -ch. iii. - - - THE AUDIT OF HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS - -Most, but not all, of the accounts preserved are records of audit. -There is, unfortunately, no systematic history of the Audit Office; but -the somewhat scrappy notices in F. S. Thomas, _The Ancient Exchequer -of England_ (1848), and H. Hall, _Studies in English Official -Historical Documents_ (1908), and _A Formula Book of English -Official Historical Documents_, Part II (1909), may be supplemented -for the Tudor period by the valuable study of M. D. George, _The -Origin of the Declared Account_ (1916, E. H. R. xxxi. 41). The -Record Office series of _Lists and Indexes_ includes lists of -_Declared Accounts_ (ii) and _Exchequer Accounts_ (xxxv). -Normally the auditing of royal expenditure was a function of the -mediaeval Exchequer. The procedure was for the officer charged with -incurring expenditure to appear as accountant before the Auditor-Baron -and his Clerk, and produce detailed statements, known as ‘particulars’, -together with vouchers for sums already spent out of any ‘imprest’ or -advance that had been made to him, and the warrants under which his -expenditure was authorized. From these the Exchequer officers prepared -a ‘compotus’ or balance sheet, signed it, when the balance was settled, -as a record that the accountant was ‘quietus’ or quit from debt to -the Crown, and passed it through the King’s Remembrancer to the Lord -Treasurer’s Remembrancer, in whose office it was enrolled by the Clerk -of the Pipe on the roll of ‘foreign’ or non-revenue accounts. It -was then returned to the King’s Remembrancer, who kept it, with the -particulars and vouchers as subsidiary documents. It was a lengthy -and cumbrous process. Moreover, the Lord Treasurer, like the Lord -Chancellor, was one of the high officers of state whose functions came -at an early date under the control of the barons, and the same motives, -which led the sovereign (cf. ch. ii) to develop in the Wardrobe and -Chamber an executive machinery independent of the Lord Chancellor, also -led him to desire that his more private expenditure should be withdrawn -from the survey of the Exchequer. Thus we find the Treasurer of the -Chamber accountable (cf. ch. ii) at the end of the fifteenth century -to the King alone, and in the mid-sixteenth century to the Court of -Surveyors or to _ad hoc_ auditors specially appointed by the King -or the Privy Council. When the Court of Augmentations absorbed the -Court of Surveyors in 1553, its establishment included two Auditors -of Prests, and although this court was itself merged in the Exchequer -under Mary, the more up-to-date methods of auditing were continued by -Elizabeth’s appointment in 1560, as themselves Exchequer officers, of -two ‘Auditores de lez Prestes et Compotorum forinsecorum nostrorum’. -The main difference between the methods of the Auditors of the Prests -and that of the Auditor-Baron appears to have been that the personal -appearance of the accountant was no longer necessary, who now himself -prepared in duplicate a balance sheet known as his Original Account, -or Book of Account, of which one copy was signed after examination and -returned to him as evidence of his quittance, while the other was kept -by the Auditors, who based upon it a summary known as the Declared or -Recorded Account, which took the place of the old _Compotus_. -This also was in duplicate. Apparently the Auditors kept one copy, -on paper, and sent another, on parchment, for preservation, as of -record, in the Pipe Office. I understand Miss George, however, to -think that the accountant was entitled to the paper copy, if he -chose to pay a fee for it, which he very often did not. The amount -of detail taken into the Declared Account from the Original Account -varied for different offices. The Revels Declared Accounts are very -summary; those of the Treasurer of the Chamber, at any rate as regards -play-payments, practically duplicates of the Original Accounts, except -that, unfortunately, the names of plays, which sometimes appeared in -the Original Accounts, are usually omitted. The Auditors also kept the -subsidiary documents submitted with the Original Account, and became -involved in a controversy, recorded in T. Fanshawe, _The Practice -of the Exchequer Court_ (1658), with the King’s Remembrancer, who -claimed that they should come to him. The King’s Remembrancer did -apparently see the Declared Account on its way to the Pipe Office, and -enrolled it, or a further summary of it. About 1603 all the Household -accounts appear to have gone before the Auditors of the Prests, except -those of the Cofferer, which still followed the old course of the -Exchequer. The procedures here described explain the provenance of such -Household accounts as belong to the official repositories now united in -the Record Office; some others, preserved there or elsewhere, come from -the private archives of the accountants themselves, being either the -audit duplicates supplied to them, or office copies and drafts of their -own Original Accounts, or the journals, pay books, and ledgers from -which these were prepared. - - - CHAMBER ACCOUNTS - -The following accounts appear to be extant. - - (a) _Mediaeval Period._ - -A few accounts and subsidiary documents of the reigns of Edward II, -Edward III, and Richard II are included in the Foreign Accounts on the -Great Rolls of the Exchequer (_P. R. O. Lists and Indexes_, xi. -108, 109), and in the Exchequer Wardrobe and Household Accounts (_L. -and I_. xxxv. 376, 379, 380, 382, 386, 391, 392, 396, 540). The -earliest are described, with extracts, by J. C. Davies, _The First -Journal of Edward II’s Chamber_ (_E. H. R._ xxx. 662). - - (b) _Early Tudor Period._ - -A number of accounts passed from the Augmentation Office to the -Exchequer and were amalgamated in 1839 with others from the office of -the King’s Remembrancer in a series of Exchequer Accounts, Various. -Here they are numbered 413 to 427. They are mainly accounts of -revenue and subsidiary documents, but a few accounts of payments -presented to the Record Office by the Trevelyan family have been added -to the series, and with them are listed as Wardrobe and Household -Accounts (_L. and I._ xxxv) some other payment accounts from -the Miscellaneous Books of the Treasury of Receipt of the Exchequer, -and one from the Miscellaneous Books of the Court of Augmentations. -Other payment accounts are in the British Museum and in unofficial -collections. It may be the case, as Newton, 359, suggests, that these -or some of them were abstracted from the Records by officials of -antiquarian tastes, but it must be remembered that duplicates even of -audited accounts were often kept by the accountants. These accounts are -generally known as The King’s Books of Payments. The following can be -traced: - - i. _Accounts of John Heron._ - -Three Books of Payments, for 1505–9, 1509–18, and 1518–21 respectively, -with many royal signatures by way of audit, are now in the P. R. -O. (_Misc. Books of Treasury of Receipt_, 214, 215, 216). The -contents of the Henry VIII books are abstracted in Brewer, ii. 1441; -iii. 1533. There must once have been an earlier book, for Collier, i. -49, 52, 76, gives extracts from one for 1492–1505, which he describes -as ‘formerly in the Chapter-house, Westminster’, as well as from -the three now extant, which he describes as ‘in the Chapter-house’. -Possibly this was _Addl. MS._ 21480, which has been traced back -(Newton, 359) through the hands of Craven Ord (a friend of Collier) -and Thomas Astle to those of Peter Le Neve, a Deputy-Chamberlain of -the Exchequer. But _Addl. MS._ 21481, which also came from Le -Neve, is a duplicate of the R. O. books for 1505–18, and therefore -_Addl. MS._ 21480 may only have been a duplicate of the missing -volume. Both the _Addl. MSS._ contain the royal signatures. Craven -Ord made some extracts which are now _Addl. MSS._ 7099, 7100, -and to these those supplied by Astle to R. Henry, _History of Great -Britain_, vi (1793), app., and those in S. Bentley, _Excerpta -Historica_ (1831), 85, owe their origin. Collier, i. 49, also cites -a small book for 1501–2 kept (perhaps under Heron) by one Robert -Fowler, which refers to parallel payments made by Thomas Trollop. - - ii. _Accounts of Brian Tuke._ - -A book signed monthly by Henry VIII, with some entries from 31 Dec. -1528 to 30 June 1529, but mainly covering the period from 17 Nov. -1529 to 29 Dec. 1532, was printed by N. H. Nicolas from a MS. -then in his possession as _The Privy Purse Expenses of Henry the -Eighth_ (1827) and misdescribed as an account of the Treasurer of -the Household. Presumably this MS. is identical with that owned by -Sir O. Bridgeman in 1634 and now _Addl. MS._ 20030. It overlaps -with an account for 1 Oct. 1528 to May 1531, presented by Sir W. C. -Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (_Exchequer Accounts, Various_, 420/11); -extracts are given in _Trevelyan Papers_ (C. S.), i. 136, and -an abstract in Brewer, v. 303. Collier, i. 116, and Nicolas (_ut -supra_), xxviii, give extracts from an account for Feb. 1538 to June -1541 in the possession of the Royal Society, presumably a duplicate of -the account for the same period in _Arundel MS._ 97, incorrectly -catalogued by the B.M. as an account of the Treasurer of the Household, -and abstracted in Brewer, xiii. 2. 524; xiv. 2. 303; xvi. 178, 698. An -account for May to Sept. 1542 in _Stowe MS._ 554 is abstracted in -Brewer, xvii. 474. Collier, i. 117, gives extracts from an account for -1543–4 in Craven Ord’s collection. - - iii. _Accounts of William Cavendish._ - -Account for 31 March 1547 to 31 Sept. 1549, of which extracts are given -in _Trevelyan Papers_, i. 191, ii. 13, were presented by Sir W. C. -Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (_Exchequer Accounts, Various_, 426/5, -6). _Misc. Exch. Augm._ 439 for 1547–8 is referred to by Newton, -359, as a Chamber account, and is presumably a duplicate. - - iv. _Account of Edmund Felton._ - -A Declared Account for 1 Apr. to 31 Dec. 1557 is in _D. A. Pipe -Office_, 541. Stopes, _Hunnis_, 145, cites a ‘Compotus Marie Rither and -Edmond Felton’ for 5 and 6 Edw. VI (_Queen’s Remembrancia_, 77/5) as a -Chamber Account. It is doubtless a Cofferer’s Account. - - (c) _Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods._ - - i. _Accounts in P. R. O._ - -The P. R. O. contains Chamber Accounts in four forms. Original -Accounts, as submitted for audit, are in _Audit Office, Accounts -Various_, 3/127–9. These are no doubt the ‘very incomplete’ set from -which extracts are given by Cunningham, xxvii. So far as play-payments -are concerned, they do not appear to be more detailed than the Declared -Accounts annually drawn up from them by the auditors, of which there -are duplicate sets, both nearly complete, belonging respectively -to the Audit Office and to the Pipe Office in the Lord Treasurer’s -Remembrancer’s Department of the Exchequer. They cover the terms of -office of Mason (1558–66), Knollys (1566–70), Heneage (1570–95), -Killigrew (1595–6), and Stanhope (1596–1617). From the Pipe Office -series I supplemented Cunningham’s extracts in _M. L. R._ ii -(1906), 1; iv (1909), 153, and give a complete record of play-payments -below. The payments are also given for 1558–85 from the Audit Office -series in Wallace, i (1912), 210, and very imperfectly from the Pipe -Office series for 1559–97 in Stopes, _Hunnis_, 318. Finally, -there are Enrolled Accounts in the King’s Remembrancer’s Department -(Scargill-Bird^1, liv). A single book for 1569–70 is in the same -Department (_Exchequer Accounts, Various_, 430/15). It appears to -be an office book, and has some original signatures by way of receipts -for payments. - - ii. _Accounts in British Museum._ - -_Harl._ 1641 and 1642 are duplicates of Heneage’s accounts for -1585–6 and 1593–4 as prepared for audit. _Harl._ 1644 is an office -book, 1581–3, containing signatures by way of receipts for wages and -the like. - - iii. _Accounts in Bodleian._ - -_Rawlinson MS._ A. 204, ff. 212, 269, contains duplicates of -Stanhope’s accounts for 1604–5 and 1610–11 as prepared for audit, and -_Rawlinson MSS._ A. 239 and 240 (formerly _Pepys MSS._ 78 and -79) are similar duplicates of his accounts for 1612–13 and 1616–17. -They are possibly office drafts, with some notes by a checking officer -or an auditor, but are not signed either by accountant or auditors. -Occasionally they are slightly more detailed as regards play entries -than the Declared Accounts. Thus in 1610–11 and 1612–13 they give -some dates of performances instead of the mere number for the season, -and in 1612–13 they even give the titles of the plays. Extracts of -these titles are given in Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 87, and _N. S. S. -Trans._ (1875–6) 419, and more completely below. Similar entries -are given by P. Cunningham in _Sh. Soc. Papers_, ii. 123, not -direct from the manuscript, but from notes taken therefrom by Vertue -and Oldys. These had passed, in the case of the Oldys notes through -Percy, to Steevens, and from him to Hazlewood, who had copied them, as -Oldys and Steevens had done, into an interleaved Langbaine. Malone had -already used Vertue’s notes. - -I should add that many ‘declarations’ or memoranda on the business of -the Treasurer of the Chamber and the state of his finances from time -to time are to be found in the Domestic State Papers, in Lansdowne and -other B.M. MSS., and in a volume (_Lord Steward’s Misc._ 301) -collected by Sir J. Caesar. - - - REVELS ACCOUNTS - -The following accounts appear to be extant: - - (a) _Early Tudor Period._ - - (i) _Accounts of Richard Gibson._ - -Brewer, ii. 1490; iii. 35, 1548; iv. 418, 837, 1390, 1392, 1415, 1603, -3073, gives abstracts of a series of accounts, ranging from 1510 to -1530, some or all of which are presumably taken from _Miscellaneous -Books of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer_, 217, 228, -229. - - (ii) _Accounts of John Bridges._ - -It appears from extracts given by Kempe, 69, that some accounts of John -Bridges between 1539, when he became Yeoman of the Revels, and 1544, -when Cawarden became Master, are at Loseley. - - (iii) _Accounts of Sir Thomas Cawarden._ - -Many of these are at Loseley, often in more than one copy. Kempe, 69, -gives a few extracts for the last years of Henry VIII, and the most -important documents for the next three reigns, ranging from 1547 to -1559; are printed by A. Feuillerat in _Materialien_, xxi and xliv, -with accompanying warrants and other subsidiary documents. From 1547 -to 1550 the accounts are mainly office copies of ‘particular’ books, -setting out the details and cost of each individual revel, airing, or -the like; but for 1550–55, and again for 1555–9, the ‘particular paye -bookes’ are brought together with summaries in two great ‘Certificates’ -(_Loseley MSS._ 62 and 63), which relate to the Tents as well as -the Revels. The second of these includes, as well as money accounts, -inventories of the office stuff and notes of its employment in masking -and other garments during 1555–60, and a similar record for 1550–5 is -in _Loseley MS._ 112. These Certificates, although signed by the -Clerk, Clerk Controller, and Yeoman, are not audited. Probably they are -office copies of Original Accounts prepared for audit. - - (b) _Elizabethan Period._ - -Eleven Original Accounts of the Masters or Acting Masters of the -Revels, with annotations by the Auditors, are in _R. O. Audit -Office, Accounts Various_, 3, 907 (formerly 1213). They relate to -the periods: (i) Feb. 1571–May 1572; (ii) June 1572–Oct. 1573; (iii) -Nov. 1573–Feb. 1574; (iv) March 1574–Feb. 1575; (v) March 1576–Feb. -1577; (vi) Feb. 1578–Oct. 1579; (vii) Nov. 1579–Oct. 1580; (viii) Nov. -1580–Oct. 1581; (ix) Nov. 1582–Oct. 1583; (x) Nov. 1584–Oct. 1585; (xi) -Nov. 1587–Oct. 1588. It will be seen that a regular annual system, -starting with the opening of the season for revels at All Saints in -each year, was ultimately adopted. All these accounts were printed in -P. Cunningham, _Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court_ -(1842, _Sh. Soc._), but (ii) imperfectly and (xi) from an -unaudited duplicate in the same bundle. These vagaries are corrected in -the text of Feuillerat (1908, _Materialien_, xxi), who also gives -an account for Nov. 1587–Oct. 1589 from _Lansd. MS._ 59, f. 38, -which in part duplicates (xi), and much illustrative matter, including -an estimate in some detail of the expenditure from Christmas 1563 to -Shrovetide 1565 from _S. P. Dom. Eliz._ xxxvi. 22. The Audit -Office series of Declared Accounts for the Revels is imperfect, but -contains two, printed by Feuillerat, for the years 1581–2 and 1583–4, -for which there are no Original Accounts. The Pipe Office series -appears to be complete. - - (c) _Jacobean Period._ - -There are only two Original Accounts, for 1604–5 and 1611–12, which are -printed by Cunningham. The Pipe Office Declared Accounts are complete. -I have not examined those of the Audit Office. The Original Accounts -for 1604–5 and 1611–12, and especially the former, have been the -subject of a good deal of controversy. The facts are as follows. They -were printed in 1842 by Peter Cunningham, then a clerk in the Audit -Office, who described them as a separate discovery from the Elizabethan -bundle, which he also printed. Twenty-six years afterwards, in 1868, he -attempted to sell them to the British Museum, stating that he had found -them some thirty years before ‘under the vaults of Somerset House--far -under the Quadrangle in a dry and lofty cellar, known by the name of -the “Charcoal Repository”’. Their official character was realized, -and they were sent to the Record Office, and placed amongst the papers -known as _Audit Office, Accounts Various_, 3, 908 (formerly 1214), -with a note that Mr. E. A. Bond, Keeper of the Manuscripts in the -British Museum, ‘saw reasons for doubting the genuineness of one, at -least, of these papers, from the peculiar character of the writing and -the spelling’. It is probable that Bond had in mind, wholly or mainly, -the play-list of the 1604–5 book, which does use some spellings, such -as ‘Shaxberd’ and ‘aleven’, which are unusual although by no means -unparalleled, and is, moreover, in a style of handwriting sufficiently -different from the rest of the document to have at first sight a -suspicious air. But it is an integral part of the book, occupying ff. -2, 2^v of its three small folio sheets, with other matter both on ff. -1, 1^v, and on ff. 5, 5^v, which form the second half of its sheet, and -therefore, if a forged insertion, it occupies a long blank conveniently -left by the original scribe just where, according to Revels practice, -such a list ought to come. Bond’s scepticism was shared by Sir Thomas -Duffus Hardy, and although the grounds of it did not extend beyond the -play-list in the 1604–5 account, the acceptance of this as a forgery -naturally reflected some suspicion upon the corresponding list for -1611–12. The position, however, called for some reconsideration when, -in _A Note on Measure for Measure_ (1880) and subsequently in the -fifth edition (1885) of his _Outlines_ (ed. 9, ii. 163, 309), -Halliwell-Phillipps called attention to evidence that Malone, at some -date before his death in 1812, and therefore before Cunningham was -born, was acquainted at least with the substance of the 1604–5 list. -The Bodleian contains a number of Malone’s note-books, which are -believed to have been purchased from Mr. Rodd, a London bookseller, -in 1838, and contain material collected after the issue of Malone’s -_Shakespeare_ of 1790 with a view to a second edition ultimately -produced by Boswell in 1821. With them were a bundle of loose scraps, -which have since been mounted and bound as a supplementary volume. -One of these scraps (_Malone MS._ 29, f. 69^v) consists of a -list of plays headed ‘1604 & 1605 Ed^d. Tylney’, which substantially -agrees with the list in the Revels book, even to the unusual spelling -‘Shaxberd’, although it is clearly not a transcript of the Revels list, -but merely an abstract of this, or a similar document, in an unknown -hand other than Malone’s. One of the plays named in the Revels book, -_The Spanish Maze_ of Shrove Monday, is omitted. No use of the -scrap had been made by Boswell, although he prints (_Variorum_, -iii. 360) extracts made by Malone from the Elizabethan Revels books, -together with a letter of 7 Nov. 1591 from Sir William Musgrave, of -the Audit Office, inviting Malone to inspect them, and an official -memorandum on the ‘State of the Books of Accounts and Records of the -Master of the Revels, still remaining in the Office for Auditing the -Public Accounts in 1791’. It is, I think, inconceivable that, if the -Jacobean as well as the Elizabethan books had then been discovered, -no reference should have been made to them either by Musgrave or -Malone, and the most probable explanation of the Bodleian scrap is -that the Jacobean books turned up later, and that an abstract of the -1604–5 list was then prepared for the use of Malone. It is true that -in that case the Jacobean books would naturally have been added to -the ‘proper presses’ which Musgrave says that he had provided for the -Elizabethan ones, whereas Cunningham found the two sets apart. But as -Cunningham also says that he had redeemed the Elizabethan bundle from -‘a destructive oblivion’, it is possible that Musgrave’s successors had -been neglectful. Moreover, although the 1604–5 list does not appear in -the 1821 _Variorum_, it is difficult to see on what other grounds -Malone can have stated of _Othello_ (_Variorum_, ii. 404), -‘We know that it was acted in 1604’. Probably, indeed, he had seen the -list, before he abandoned in a note of 1800 to Dryden’s _Grounds of -Criticism in Tragedy_ his earlier opinion that _Othello_ was -one of Shakespeare’s latest plays. Further, there is similar indirect -evidence that he had also come across the 1611–12 list. In 1808 he -privately printed and in 1809 published an _Account of the ... -Tempest_, written ‘some years ago’. The chief object of this was -to fix an inferior date by Shakespeare’s use of a pamphlet of 1610. -The superior date he took for granted, saying (p. 31) ‘That it was -performed before the middle of 1611, we have already seen’, and adding -the foot-note ‘Under a former article’. There was no former article, -but in the preface Malone describes the essay as making ‘a part of -the Disquisition concerning the order of the plays in an enlarged -form’, and no doubt the former article would have been included in -the disquisition, had Malone ever completed his own work. Boswell, -reprinting the essay in _Variorum_, xv. 414, altered the foot-note -to refer to the essay on the Chronological Order of Shakespeare’s Plays -in ‘vol. i’. This is in fact in vol. ii, but though Boswell here states -(ii. 465) that there is evidence that the _Tempest_ ‘was produced -in 1611’, he does not give any evidence beyond the pamphlet of 1610. -Probably he did not know everything that Malone knew. But how did -Malone arrive at ‘the middle of 1611’, since the 1604–5 list does not -take us beyond 1 Nov. 1611? I suppose he assumed that public production -preceded performance at court. Later in the essay (_Variorum_, xv. -423) he says that the play ‘had a being and a name in the autumn of -1611’. - -Since Halliwell-Phillipps’s discovery the prevalent view, suggested by -him, has been that if the lists, or at any rate that of 1604–5, are -forged, the forger had before him a genuine original. More recently, -however, the matter has been fully investigated by Mr. Ernest Law, who -stimulated the Record Office to a minute examination of the 1604–5 -document, including chemical and microscopical tests of the ink -conducted by Professor J. J. Dobbie at the Government Laboratories. -As a result, Mr. Law’s own view that the list is genuine is confirmed -by such high palaeographical authorities as Sir George Warner of the -British Museum and Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, Mr. Scargill-Bird, and other -officers of the Record Office, as well as by Professor Feuillerat, -than whom no one knows the Revels documents better, and Professor -Wallace. Mr. Law set out the evidence and the whole history of the -case in _Some Supposed Shakespeare Forgeries_ (1911). His view -was controverted in a review and a number of subsequent communications -in the _Athenaeum_ for 1911 (i. 638; ii. 101, 131, 421) and 1912 -(i. 469, 654; ii. 142) by a writer using the signature ‘Audi Alteram -Partem’, whose rather amazing contentions Mr. Law disposed of in the -same periodical (1911, ii. 297, 324, 388; 1912, i. 390, 470) and in -_More about Shakespeare Forgeries_ (1913). A recent controversy -between Mrs. C. C. Stopes, Mr. Law, and Sir E. M. Thompson (_T. L. -S._ 2, 23, 30 Dec. 1920; 27 Jan., 10, 24 Feb. 1921) has led to no -different result. - -I do not think that, in view of the palaeographical investigation, it -is any longer possible to reject the genuineness of the 1604–5 list, -and although that of 1611–12 has not been so minutely tested, it is -pretty obviously of a piece with the ‘Book’ of which it forms a part, -and had it stood alone, probably no suspicion would have fallen upon -it. In fact, it would really be more plausible--although this also is -not in the least plausible--to take the whole documents as forgeries, -than to take the lists as forged insertions in genuine accounts. - -It must be added that there are some singular things about the -substance of the books, with which Mr. Law does not seem to me quite -to grapple. On the whole, that of 1604–5 is rather less perplexing -than that of 1611–12. But the scribe has been oddly confused about his -dates. On f. 1^v he has written ‘iij^o’, instead of ‘ij^o’ for the -regnal year. And at the top of f. 2 he has apparently written ‘1605’ -and then corrected it to ‘1604’. The Queen’s Revels are called by -their obsolete name of ‘The Boyes of the Chapell’, which is odd in an -official document, but so they are, much later, in the Treasurer of the -Chamber’s account for 1612–13. It is more important that, while the -Treasurer of the Chamber records payments for two plays to the Queen’s -Revels, one on 1 Jan. and the other on 3 Jan., the Revels list omits -the play on 3 Jan. altogether, and instead records a performance of -_Love’s Labour’s Lost_ by the King’s men ‘betwin Newers Day and -Twelfe Day’. No complete explanation of this is possible. The most that -can be said is that there is independent evidence of a performance -of _Love’s Labour’s Lost_ in Jan. 1605, but at a date after -and not before Twelfth Night. This is derived from two letters. The -first is from Sir Walter Cope to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, -preserved at Hatfield (_Hist. MSS._ iii. 148) and printed by -Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 83: - - ‘I have sent and bene all thys morning huntyng for players - juglers and such kinde of creaturs, but fynde them harde to - fynde; wherfore, leavinge notes for them to seeke me, Burbage - ys come, and sayes ther ys no new playe that the Quene hath not - seene, but they have revyved an olde one cawled _Loves Labore - lost_, which for wytt and mirthe he sayes will please her - excedingly. And thys ys apointed to be playd tomorowe night - at my Lord of Sowthamptons, unless yow send a wrytt to remove - the corpus cum causa to your howse in Strande. Burbage ys my - messenger ready attendyng your pleasure.’ - -The letter is undated, but endorsed ‘1604’. Cecil’s title was Viscount -Cranborne from 20 Aug. 1604 to 4 May 1605. A second letter, from Dudley -Carleton to John Chamberlain on 15 Jan. 1605 (_S. P. D. Jac. I_, -xii. 13) gives within near limits the date of the performance. Carleton -says, - - ‘It seems we shall have Christmas all the yeare and therefore I - shall never be owt of matter. The last nights revels were kept - at my Lord of Cranbornes, where the Q. with the D. of Holst and - a great part of the Court were feasted, and the like two nights - before at my Lord of Southamptons. The Temples have both of them - done somewhat since Twelftide but nothing memorable, save that - it was observed on Friday last at night the greatest part of the - femal audience was the sisterhoode of Blackfriers.’ - -Mr. Law (_More about S. F._ 50) rightly rejects the suggestion of -‘Audi Alteram Partem’ that the ‘last night’ referred to was necessarily -14 Jan., the night before the date of Carleton’s letter; but I think -he is wrong in taking it as the last night of Christmas. This, of -course, was traditionally Twelfth Night, the day in 1605 of Jonson’s -_Mask of Blackness_. But surely Carleton’s whole point lies in -the exceptional prolongation of the Christmas festivities of this year -beyond Twelfth Night, and I feel clear that all the revels he here -refers to fell between 6 and 15 Jan. On 7 and 8 Jan. came _Hen. V_ -and _E. M. O._ Putting the facts together, we get a performance, -either at Southampton’s house or Cranborne’s, between 8 and 15 Jan. of -_Love’s Labour’s Lost_, which the Queen had not seen before. It -is not therefore at all likely that there had been another performance -of the same play at court between 1 and 6 Jan. It is true that the -Queen might by some accident have missed such a performance. But that -would not have prevented the Treasurer of the Chamber from paying for -it, whereas he would not pay for a performance ordered as part of an -entertainment given by Southampton or Cranborne. Nor would it have been -the duty of the Revels Office to attend such a performance, which makes -it rather mystifying that they should have confused it with the second -Queen’s Revels performance at court some days earlier, which it would -have been their duty to attend. The vagueness of the phrase ‘betwin -Newers Day and Twelfe Day’, suggesting that the list was prepared -retrospectively from memory, when the account was made up in the autumn -of 1605, may perhaps help to explain an error. On the other hand, a -forger, presumably knowing nothing of Cope’s letter, which first came -to light in 1872, could hardly have guessed at a revival of _Love’s -Labour’s Lost_ in 1605. - -The discrepancies between the Revels list of 1611–12 and the -corresponding accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber are rather -numerous. The Revels list records thirteen plays from 1 Nov. to 25 -Feb. ‘before the Kinges Maiestie’, including two which, although, I -suppose, ordered for the King, were in fact only given before the Queen -and Prince. The Treasurer paid for only ten plays as before the King, -and for many others before the younger members of the royal family -only, with which the Revels would not normally be concerned. The two -records agree as to 1 and 5 Nov., 26, 27, and 29 Dec., and 2, 23, and -25 Feb. On 28 Dec. the Treasurer notes a play by the Prince’s men which -the Revels list does not. On 1 Jan. the Revels list notes a play by -the King’s men, which the Treasurer does not. The play on 5 Jan. is -assigned by the Treasurer to the King’s men, and by the Revels list to -the Whitefriars. The plays on 12 and 13 Jan. appear from the Revels -list to have been joint performances by the King’s and Queen’s men, but -the Treasurer notes the play on 12 Jan. only, assigns that to the Duke -of York’s men, and refers to Henry but not to the Queen as present. -He also paid for one play by the King’s men before Henry, of which he -does not give the date, and which may be that of 13 Jan. Both records -note a play by the Duke of York’s men on 24 Feb., but while the Revels -list does not indicate that James was absent, the Treasurer treats the -performance as one before the royal children only. I do not know that -all this is beyond the blundering of the clerks concerned, especially -perhaps the Clerk of the Revels, at a time when the functions of the -office in relation to court plays had become trivial. On the other -hand, I am not clear that plays ordered by the Queen and paid for out -of her privy purse, instead of by the Treasurer of the Chamber, may not -sometimes have been produced under Revels Office auspices; if so, some -of the discrepancies might be thus accounted for. But obviously the -facts necessitate some caution in the use of the 1611–12 list. - - - ABSTRACT OF PAYMENTS - -I now give in tabular form an abstract of all entries in the Chamber -and Revels accounts, which enable us to establish the succession of -court performances during 1558–1616. These are arranged under years -running from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. Four columns are devoted to the -Chamber Accounts. Col. 1 records the dates of the performances, as -recorded in the Declared Accounts. Any correction or closer information -as to date derivable from other sources is added in square brackets. -For the Jacobean period I also show the personages before whom the -performances were given, K. standing for James, Q. for Anne, H. for -Henry, C. for Charles, E. for the Princess Elizabeth, and F. for the -Elector Palatine. Col. 2 contains the verbatim descriptions in the -accounts of the companies performing and their payees, and in a very -few cases of the nature of the performances. A few miscellaneous -entries are inserted in this column. Probably an exhaustive examination -of the records of the subordinate royal households during 1603–16 -might enable a few additions to be made. It is also possible that an -occasional play, perhaps on a progress, may have been rewarded out of -the Privy Purse. But the main series of performances provided for the -regular winter ‘solace’ of the sovereign appears to be fairly complete. -Col. 3 shows the amounts of the rewards. Col. 4 adds the dates of the -warrants for payment as given in the Declared Accounts and in brackets -the places where they were made out, W. for Westminster, H. for Hampton -Court, G. for Greenwich, R. for Richmond, J. for St. James’s, Wi. for -Windsor. I add references to the parallel extracts of Cunningham from -the Original Chamber Accounts (C.), and to the notes of the signing of -warrants in the Privy Council Register (D.) where these exist. A fifth -column, for certain years, adds the relevant extracts from such Revels -Accounts as survive. The references are to Feuillerat’s edition. Any -discrepancies of importance between Chamber, Privy Council, and Revels -records are dealt with in foot-notes. The variant dates of warrants in -the ill-kept Privy Council Register are not important. - - CHAMBER ACCOUNTS. REVELS ACCOUNTS. - - _Perfor- _Payees._ _Amount._ _Warrant._ - mance._ - - =1558–60= (_Pipe Office, Declared Accounts, Roll 541, mm. 17, 22_). - - -- ‘Quenes ... £6 13_s._ 4_d._ F. 34 (_1555–60_). - enterlude players [779] ‘ffurnisshinge a - for her hyghnes pley by the - accustomed rewarde children of the - dewevnto them at Chapple.’ - Newe yerestyde.’ - - -- ‘to players of £13 6_s._ 8_d._ F. 79 (_1558–9_). - enterludes.’ ‘playes and other - pastymes sett - forthe and shewen - in her Maiesties - presence.’ - - =1560–1= (_D. A. 541, m. 28_). - - Xmas. ‘Lorde Robte £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 21 Jan. (W.); - Dudleyes C. xxvii. - players.’ - - Xmas. ‘Sebastiane £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 21 Jan. (W.); - Westcott M^r of C. xxvii. - the Children of - Polles.’ - - =1561–2= (_D. A. 541, m. 37_). - - Xmas. ‘Lorde Robert £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 6 Jan. - Dudeleys - playo^{rs}.’ - - Xmas. ‘Sebestiane £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 6 Jan. - Westcote M^r of - the Children of - Powles.’ - - -- ‘Sebastiane £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 9 Mar. (W.); - Westecote M^r of C. xxvii. - the Children of - Powles.’ - - =1562–3= (_D. A. 541, m. 47_). - - Xmas. ‘playo^{res} of £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Jan. (W.); - the Lorde Robte C. xxviii; - Duddeley.’ D. vii. 134. - - - Xmas. ‘M. of the £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Jan. (W.); - children of C. xxviii; - Poles.’[780] D. vii. 134. - - =1563–4= (_no entry in D. A._). - - F. 116. ‘Charges - agaynst Cristmas - and Candelmas ffor - iij plays at - Wyndsor.’[781] - - =1564–5= (_D. A. 541, m. 67_). - - Xmas ‘therle of £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 18 Jan. (W.); - (2 plays).Warwickes C. xxviii; - players.’ D. vii. 187. - - - Xmas. ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 18 Jan. (W.); F. 117. ‘in - Westcote M^r of [782] C. xxviii; Ienevery ffor - the Children of D. vii. 187. cayrtene playes by - Powles.’ the gramar skolle - of Westmynster and - the childerne of - Powles.’ - - 2 Feb ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 9 Mar. (W.); - Westcott M^r of C. xxviii; - the Children of D. vii. 204. - Poles.’ F. 116. ‘Cristmas - ... ffor a maske - and a showe and a - play by the - childerne of the - Chaple.’ - - [_In margin_] - ‘Edwardes tragedy’. - - F. 117. ‘The - xviij^{th} of - februerie ... for - a play maid by Sir - Percivall Hartts - sones with a maske - of huntarsand - diuers devisses - and a rocke or - hill ffor the ix - musses to singe - vppone with a - vayne of sarsnett - dravven vpp and - downe before - them.’ - - F. 117. ‘Shroftid - [4–6 March] ... - new and diuers - showes made by the - gentillmen of - Greys Ine.’ - - [_In margin_] - ‘Gentillmenne of - y^e Innes of - Court. Diana, - Pallas.’ - - =1565–6= (_D. A. 541, m. 76_). - - Xmas ‘Sebastian £20 3 Jan. (W.). - (3 plays) Westcote M^r of - the Children of - Powles ... for - two seūall playes - ... at the Courte - ... and one other - also before her - Ma^{tie} at the - Ladye Cecilias - Lodging at the - Savoye.’ - - =1566–7= (_D. A. 541, m. 92_). - - Xmas ‘Sebastyan £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 11 Jan. (W.); - (2 plays) Westcote M^r of D. vii. - the children of 322 (12 Jan.). - Powles.’ - - Shrove- ‘John Taylor M^r £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 13 Feb. (W.); - tide of the Children D. vii. 327. - (9–11 of Westm^{r}.’ - Feb.). - - Shrove- ‘Richarde £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 16 Feb.; - tide Farraunte M^r of D. vii. 331 - (9–11 the children of (W. 17 Feb.). - Feb.) Windsore.’ - [11 Feb.]. -[783] - - =1567–8= (_D. A. 541, mm. 102–3_). - - Xmas. ‘John Tailer M^r £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Jan. (W.). F. 119. ’ theis - of the Children playes Tragides - at Westm^r.’ and Maskes ... - Xmas ‘The Lord Ryches £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 11 Jan. (W.). viz. ... seven - (2 plays).Plaiers.’ playes, the firste - namede as playne - Xmas ‘Sebastian £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 13 Jan. (W.). as canne be, The - (2 plays).Westcote M^r of seconde the - the Children of paynfull - Powles.’ plillgrimage, The - thirde Iacke and - Shrove- ‘William Hunnys £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 3 Mar. (W.). Iyll, The forthe - tide M^r of the sixe fooles, The - (29 Feb. Children of the fiveth callede - -2 Mar.). Quenes Ma^{tes} witte and will, - Chappell ... for The sixte callede - ... a Tragedie’. prodigallitie, The - sevoenth of - Shrove- ‘Richarde £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 1 Mar. (W.). Orestes diuers - tide. Ferrante M^r of howses, ... - the children of as Stratoes and a - Windesore.’ Tragedie of the - Kinge of Scottes, - to y^e whiche - belonged howse, - Gobbyns howse, - Orestioes howse - Rome, the Pallace - of prosperitie - Scotlande and a - gret Castell one - thothere side.’ - [784] - F. 123. ‘Revelles - vppon - Shrovesonday and - Shroftuisday at - nighte.’ - - =1568–9= (_D. A. 541, m. 113_). - - 26 Dec. ‘the Lorde Riches £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 28 Dec. (H.); - players.’ C. xxix. - - 1 Jan. ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 2 Jan.; - Westecote m^r of C. xxix. - the Children of - Powles.’ - - 22 Feb. ‘Richard £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 25 Feb. (W.); - Ferraunte Scole C. xxix. - m^r of the - Children of - Windesore.’ - - =1569–70= (_D. A. 541, m. 115_). - - 27 Dec. ‘Richarde £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 2 Jan. (Wi.); - Ferrante Schole C. xxix. - m^r to the - Children of - Windesore.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Willm Hun̄ys m^r £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Jan. (Wi.); - of the children C. xxix. - of her ma^{tes} - Chappell.’ - - 5 Feb. ‘the Lorde Riches £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Feb. (H.); - playo^{res}.’ C. xxix. - - =1570–1= (_D. A. 541, m. 127_). - - 28 Dec. ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 22 Feb. - Westecote M^r of - the Children of - Powles.’ - - Shrove- ‘Willm̄ Honnyes, £20 28 Feb. - tide (25 Richarde - –7 Feb.) Farraunte and - (3 plays).Sebastian - Westcote M^{rs} - of the Children - of the Q ma^{tes} - Chapple Royall - Windsore and - Powles.’ - - =1571–2= (_D. A. 541, m. 137_). - - 27 Dec. ‘Lawrence Dutton £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 5 Jan. (W.); F. 144. ‘Lady - and his D. viii. 61 Barbara showen on - fellowes.’[785] (12 Jan.). Saint Iohns day at - nighte by Sir - Robert Lanes Men.’ - - 28 Dec. ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 9 Jan. (W.); ‘Effiginia A - Westcott M^r of D. viii. 62 Tragedye showen on - the Children of (12 Jan.). the Innosentes - Powles.’ daie at nighte by - the Children of - Powles.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘Richard Farrant £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 5 Jan. (W.); ‘Aiax and vlisses - gent M^r of the D. viii. 62 showen on New - Children of (12 Jan.). Yeares daie at - Windsor.’ nighte by the - Children of - Wynsor.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Willm̄ Hunnys £6 13_s._ 4_d._ N.D.; D. viii.‘Narcisses showen - M^r of the 62 (12 Jan., on Twelfe daye at - childer of the ‘John’ Nighte by the - Chappell.’ Hunnis). Children of the - Chappell.’ - - 17 Feb. ‘John Greaves and £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 26 Feb. (W.); ‘Cloridon and - Thomas Goughe D. viii. 71 Radiamanta showen - servauntes to Sr (29 Feb.). on Shrove sundaye - Robt. Lane at Nighte by Sir - Knighte.’[786] Robert Lanes Men.’ - - 19 Feb. ‘John £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 22 Feb. (W.); ‘Paris and Vienna - Billingesley.’ D. viii. 71 showen on - [787] (29 Feb.). Shrovetewsdaie at - Nighte by the - Children of - Westminster.’ - - =1572–3= (_D. A. 541, m. 150_). - - Xmas ‘Therle of Leic. £30, ‘videlt. 1 Jan. (H.). F. 174. Scattered - (3 plays).players.’ for eūye playe entries refer to - vj^l xiij^s all these - iiij^d and for companies except - a more rewarde Sussex’s and to-- - by hirMa^{tes} ‘the play of - owne comaundem^t Cariclia’, - x^lIn all xxx^l.’ ‘Theagines’, - ‘the picture of - Andromadas’, - ‘the monster’, - ‘the playe of - fortune’. - - 1 Jan. ‘Richarde £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 2 Jan. (H.). - Farrante M^r of - the children at - Wyndesore.’ - - -- ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Jan. (H.). - Westecote M^r of - the Children of - Polles.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Elderton and the £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Jan. (H.). - Children of - Eyton.’ - - -- ‘Therle of Sussex £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Feb. - players.’ - - -- ‘Laurence Dutton £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Feb. - s^runte to therle - of Lincoln.’ - - 3 Feb. ‘M^r Moncaster.’ £20, ‘vj^l 10 Feb. - xiij^s iiij^d - and for a more - rewarde by her - Ma^{tes} owne - comaundem^t - xiij^l vj^s - viij^d.’ - - =1573–4= (D. A. 541, _mm_. 165–6). - - Xmas ‘Therle of £20, ‘xiij^l 9 Jan. (W.); F. 193. ‘Predor: & - (2 plays) Leicestres vj^s viij^d and D. viii. 177 Lucia, played by - [26, 28 players.’ by waye of (8 Jan.). Therle of - Dec.] speciall Leicesters - rewarde for servauntes vpon - theyre chardges Saint stevens - cunyng[788] and daye.’ - skill shewed ‘Mamillia, playde - therein vj^l by therle of - xiij^s iiij^d.’ Leicesteres - seruauntes on - Innosentes daye.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Sebastian £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Jan. (W.); ‘Alkmeon, played - Westcote M^r of D. viii. 178. by the Children of - the Children of Powles on Saint - Powles.’ Iohns daye.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘Willm̄ £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Jan. (W.); ‘Truth, - Elderton.’ D. viii. 178. ffaythfullnesse, & - Mercye, playde by - the Children of - Westminster for - Elderton vpon - New yeares daye.’ - - 3 Jan. ‘Laurence Dutton £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 11 Jan. (W.); ‘Herpetulus the - and the rest of D. viii. 178 blew knighte & - his Fellowes (10 Jan.). perobia playde by - s^runtes to the my Lorde Klintons - L Clinton.’ servantes the - third of Ianuary.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Richarde Ferant £10, ‘vj^l 10 Jan. (W.); ‘Quintus ffabius - Scholem^r.’ xiij^s iiij^d D. viii. 178. played by the - and in respecte Children of - of his chardges Wyndsor ffor M^r - coming hyther ffarrant on Twelfe - lxvj^s viij^d.’ daye.’ - - 2 Feb.} ‘Richarde £26 13_s._ 4_d._, 18 Mar. (G.); F. 206. ‘ffor - 23 Feb.} Moncaster.’ ‘xiij^l vj^s D. viii. 210. ... Timoclia at - viij^d and the sege of Thebes - further her by Alexander - Ma^{tes} speciall showen ... by M^r - rewarde for suche Munkesters - costes and Children.’ - chardges as he F. 213. ‘Percius & - was at for the Anthomiris playde - same xiij^l vj^s by Munkesters - viij^d.’ Children on - Shrovetewsdaye.’ - - 21 Feb. ‘Therle of Leic £10, ‘vj^l 22 Feb. (H.); ‘Philemon & - [789] his plaiers.’ xiij^s iiij^d D. viii. 198. Philecia play by - and forther by the Erle of - waye of her Lecesters men on - highnes rewarde Shrove Mundaye.’ - for suche chardges F. 227. ‘Italyan - as they had Players at Wynsor - furniture of bene & Reding ... the - at for the the xv^{th} of July - same lxvj^s 1574.’ - viij^d.’ - - =1574–5= (_D. A._ 541, _m._ 178). - - 26 Dec. ‘Therle of £10. 9 Jan.; F. 239. 27 Dec. - Lecesters C. xxx. ‘gloves for my - players.’ Lord of Lesters - boyes y^t plaied - at thecoorte.’ - F. 244. 25 Dec. - ‘my Lord of - Leicesters menns - playe.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘the Erle of £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 9 Jan.; F. 239. 1 Jan. - Leic’ players.’ C. xxx. ‘chymney sweepers - in my Lord of - Leycesters mennes - playe & for mosse - & styckes.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘the lord Clynton £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 11 Jan.; F. 244. 27 Dec. - players.’ C. xxx. ‘the Duttons - playe.’ - - 2 Jan. ‘the lord Clinton £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 11 Jan.; - players.’ C. xxx. - - 6 Jan. ‘Richard Farrante £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 23 Jan. (H.); F. 244. ‘King - m^r of the C. xxx. Xerxces syster in - children of the ffarrantes playe, - chapell of ... cariage ... - Wyndsor.’ for the playe ... - on twelfe nighte.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘Sebastian £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 16 Feb.; - Westecote M^r of C. xxxi. - the Children of - Powles.’ - - 13 Feb. ‘William Hunys £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 16 Feb. (R.); F. 244. 13 Feb. - m^r of the C. xxxi. ‘M^r Hvnnyes his - children of her playe.’ - ma^{tes} - Chappell.’ - - 13 Feb. ‘Richarde £13 6_s._ 8_d._, 17 Feb. (R.). [F. 238. The - [15 Feb. Moncaster.’ ‘vj^l. xiij^s. following - ?]. iiij^d and for a rehearsals took - reward gyven by place: 14 Dec. ‘my - her heignes vj^l. Lord Chamberlens - xiij^s. iiij^d’. players did show - the history of - Phedrastus & - Phigon and Lucia - together.’ - 18 Dec. ‘my Lord - of Leicesters - menne showed - theier matter of - Panecia.’ - 20 Dec. ‘my lord - Clyntons players - rehearsed a matter - called Pretestus.’ - 21 Dec. ‘the - showed ij other - playes.’] - - 13 Feb. ‘Therle of £10. 16 Feb. (R.); - [14 Feb.].Warwickes C. xxxi. - [790] players.’ - - =1575–6= (_D. A. 541, mm. 195–6_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Dutton, £20. 2 Jan. (H.); - 1 Jan. } Lawrence Dutton, D. ix. 68. - Jerome Savage, - etc. Thearle of - Warwickes - players.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Richard Farraunt £10. 30 Dec. (H.); - M^r of the D. ix. 67 - children of the (29 Dec.). - Chappell at - Wyndsore.’ - - 28 Dec. ‘Thearle of £10. 30 Dec. (H.); - Leicestre D. ix. 68 - players.’ (29 Dec.) - - 6 Jan. ‘Sebasten £10. 7 Feb. (H.); - Westcott M^r of D. ix. 71 - the children of (7 Jan.). - Powles.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘John Adams and £10. 4 Feb. (H.); - the rest of my D. ix. 81 - Lorde (-- Jan.). - Chamberlaynes - servaunt players.’ - - 27 Feb. ‘Alfruso £10. 12 Mar. (W.). - Ferrabolle and - the rest of the - Italyan players.’ - - 4 Mar.? ‘to ---- Burbag £10. 14 Mar. (W.). - [791] and his company - Servauntes to - thearle of - Leicester.’ - - 5 Mar. ‘Lawraunce Dutton £10. 8 Mar. (W.); - [792] and the rest of D. ix. 95 - his company (11 Mar.). - Servauntes to - thrighte - honourable Thearle - of Warwicke. - - 6 Mar. ‘Richard £10. 11 Mar. (W.); - Moulcastre to D. ix. 94. - hime.’ - - [Sept. ‘Richarde -- 11 Nov. 1577. - -Oct.] Farrant, M^r of - the Children of - her Ma^{tes} - chappell of - Winsore viz. for - the chardges of - xv of the singinge - men of the said - chappell and sixe - of the children - repayringe thither - to Readynge at her - ma^{tes} laste - being there.’ - - =1576–7= (_Audit Office, Declared Accounts, Roll xv, Bundle 382_) [Pipe Office - missing]. - - Xmas ‘Therle of £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 Jan. (H.); F. 256, 269. ‘The - holidays. Warwickes D. ix. 270. Paynters Daughter - [26 Dec.] players.’ ... on S^t Stevens - 27 Dec. ‘the Lord £10. 12 Jan. (H.). daie ... by therle - Howardes of Warwickes - players.’ seruauntes ... the - Xmas ‘Therle of £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 Jan. (H.); Duttons plaie.’ - holidays. Leicesters D. ix. 270. F. 256. ‘Toolie - [30 Dec.] players.’ ... on St. Iohns - Xmas ‘Sebastian £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 Jan. (H.); daie ... by the - holidays Westcote m^r of D. ix. 270. Lord Howardes - [1 Jan.] the Children of seruantes.’ - Powles.’ F. 256. ‘The - Xmas ‘Richard Farrante £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 Jan. (H.); historie of the - holidays. m^r of the D. ix. 270. Collyer ... on the - [6 Jan.] children of the Sundaie folowing - Chappell.’ [30 Dec.] ... by - th’ erle of - Leicesters men.’ - F. 266. ‘ffor - cariadge ... for - the Earle of - Leicesters to the - court 28^o - Decembris.’ - F. 266. ‘for that - their - [Leicester’s?] - plaie was deferred - until the Sundaie - folowing [30 Dec.].’ - folowing [30 - F. 256. ‘The - historie of Error - ... on Newyeres - daie ... by the - Children of - Powles.’ - F. 256. ‘The - historye of - Mutius Sceuola ... - by the on Twelf - daie ... Children - of Windsore and - the Chappell.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘Therle of £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 3 Feb. (H.); F. 256. ‘The - Sussexes D. ix. 280. historye of - players.’ the Cenofalles - ... on Candelmas - daie ... by the - Lord Chamberleyn - his men.’ - - 17 Feb. ‘The Lord £10. 20 Feb. (W.); F. 270. ‘The - Howardes D. ix. 293 Historie of - players.’[794] the Solitarie - Knight ... on - Shrove-sundaie - ... by the - Lord Howardes - seruauntes.’ - - 18 Feb. ‘Therle of £10. 20 Feb. (W.); F. 270. ‘The - Warwikes D. ix. 293 Irisshe Knyght - players.’ ... on - Shrovemundaie ... - by the Earle of - Warwick his - seruauntes.’ - - 17 Feb. ‘Sebastian £10. 20 Feb. (W.); F. 270. ‘The - [9 Feb.] Westcote.’ D. ix. 293. historye of Titus - [795] and Gisippus ... - on Shrove-tuysdaie - ... by the Children - of Pawles.’ - - April. ‘Durham Place (an N.D. - Italian playe [‘Apparelling - their done before charge.’] - her ma^{tes} - Privy Council).’ - - =1577–8= (_D. A. 541, mm. 209–12_). - - 26 Dec. ‘The Earle of £10.[796] 9 Jan. (H.); - Leicesters D. x. 138. - seruantes.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Richarde £10. 20 Jan. (H.). F. 277. Probably - Farrante m^r of for a rehearsal, - the children of ‘the cariadge of - her ma^{tes} the partes of y^e - chappell.’ well counterfeit - from the Bell - in Gracious strete - to St. Iohns to be - performed for the - play of Cutwell.’ - - 8 Dec. ‘The Earle of £10. 12 Jan. (H.). - Warwickes - players.’ - - 30 Dec. ‘Sebastian £10. 31 Jan. (H.). - Westcott.’ - - 5 Jan. ‘The Lorde £10. 9 Jan. (H.); - [797] Howarde baron of D. x. 138. - Effingham his - players.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Earle of £10. 12 Jan. (H.). - Warwickes - players.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘The Lorde £10. 15 Mar. (G.), - Chamblaynes in duplicate; - players.’ D. x. 185 - (14 Mar.). - - 9 Feb. ‘The Earle of £10. 18 Feb. (H.). - Warwickes - players.’ - - 11 Feb. ‘The Countes of £10. 14 Feb. (H.). - Essex players.’ - - (11 Feb.) ‘The Earle of £6 13_s._ 4_d._, 18 Feb. (H.). - Leicesters ‘for makinge - players.’ their repaire to - the Courte w^{th} - their whole - company and - furniture to - presente a - playe before her - ma^{tie} uppon - Shrove-tuesdaye - at nighte in - consideracon of - their chardgies - for that purpose - although the - plaie by her - ma^{ties} - comaundement - was supplyed - by others.’ - - -- ‘for a mattres N.D. [‘Apparelling - hoopes and charge’] - boardes with - tressells for - the Italian - Tumblers.’ - - =1578–9= (_d. a. 541, m. 222_). - - 26 Dec. ‘Therle of £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘An - Warwicke D. xi. 21 Inventyon or playe - sr^auntes.’ (R.). of the three - Systers of Mantua - ... on St Stephens - daie ... by thearle - of Warwick his - servauntes.’ - - 28 Dec. ‘y^e lord £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘An history - Chamblaynes D. xi. 21 of the creweltie of - players.’ (R.). A Stepmother ... on - Innocentes daie ... - by the Lord - Chamberlaynes - servauntes.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘y^e sayd lord £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘The - Chamblaynes D. xi. 21 historie of the - sr^auntes.’ (R.). Rape of the second - Helene ... on Twelf - daie.’ - - F. 299. 6 Jan. ‘my - Lord Chamberleynes - players second - plaie.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘ye M^r of ye £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘A Morrall - [798] Children at D. xi. 21 of the marryage of - Pawles.’ (R.). Mynde and Measure - ... on the sondaie - next after Newe - yeares daie ... by - the children of - Pawles.’ - - 4 Jan. ‘Therle of £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘A - Leicestres D. xi. 21 pastorell or - players.’ (R.). historie of A - Greeke maide ... on - the sondaie next - after Newe yeares - daie ... by the - Earle of Leicester - hisservauntes.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘M^r Ferr^aunte £10. 16 Jan.; F. 286. ‘The - [27 Dec.] M^r of the D. xi. 21 historie of ---- ... - [799] Children of her (R.). on St Iohns daie ... - Ma^{tes} by the children of - chappell.’ the Quenes maiesties - chappell.’ - F. 298. 27 Dec. ‘for - cariage of the - stuffe that served - the plaie for the - children of the - chappell to the - courte and back - agayne.’ - - (2 Feb.) ‘Jerome Savage £6 13_s._ 4_d._, 11 Mar.; F. 303. ‘The history - and his companye ‘in consideracon D. xi. 81 of ---- provided to - sr^auntes to of a playe (W. 18 have ben shewen ... - Therle of w^{ch} was in Mar.). on candlemas daie - Warwickes.’ readynes to have ... by the Earle of - bene presented Warwickes - before her servauntes.... Being - Ma^{tie} on in redines at y^e - Candlemas night place to have - last paste’. enacted the same. - But the Quenes - maiestie wold not - come to heare the - same and therefore - put of.’ - - 1 Mar. ‘therle of £10. 13 Mar.; F. 303. ‘The history - Warwickes D. xi. 75 of the Knight in the - sr^auntes.’ (W.). Burnyng Rock ... on - shrovesundaie ... by - the Earle of - Warwickes - servauntes.’ - - 2 Mar. ‘Richarde £10. 12 Mar.; F. 303. ‘The history - Ferrante M^r of D. xi. 70 of Loyaltie and - the children of (W.). bewtie ... on Shrove - her ma^{tes} monday ... by the - chapell.’ children of the - Quenes maiesties - chappell.’ - - 3 Mar. ‘ye lorde £10. 13 Mar.; F. 303. ‘The history - [800] Chamblaynes D. xi. 75 of murderous - players.’ (W.). mychaell ... on - shrove-tuesdaie ... - by the Lord - Chamberleynes - servauntes.’ - - =1579–80= (_D. A. 542, m. 8_). - - 26 Dec. ‘the Lorde £10. 25 Feb. F. 320. ‘A history - Chamblaynes (W.); of the Duke of - players.’ D. xi.377 Millayn and the - (25 Jan.). Marques of Mantua - ... on S^t Stephens - daie ... by the lord - Chamberlaynes - seruauntes.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Richarde Farrant £10. 25 Jan. F. 320. ‘A history - m^r of the (W.); of Alucius ... on - children of her D. xi.377. S^t Iohns daie ... - Ma^{tes} by the Children of - Chappell.’ her Maiesties - Chappell.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘y^e players of £10. 25 Jan. F. 320. ‘A history - the Erle of (W.); of the foure sonnes - Warwicke.’ D. xi. 377. of ffabyous ... on - Newe Yeares daie ... - by the Earleof - Warwickes - servauntes.’ - - 3 Jan. ‘Sebastian £10. 25 Jan. F. 321. ‘The history - Westcote master (W.); of Cipio Africanus - of the children D. xi. 377. ... the sondaye - of the Churche night after newe - of S^t Paules.’ yeares daie ... by - the Children of - Pawles.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘the players of £10. 25 Jan. F. 321. ‘The history - the E of (W.); of ---- ... on - Leicester.’ D. xi. 377. Twelve-daye ... by - the Earle of - Leicesters - seruauntes.’ - - 15 Jan. ‘the Lorde £10. 25 Jan. - Straunge his (W.); - Tumblers ... in D. xi.377. - consideracon of - certen feates of - Tumblinge by them - done before her - Ma^{tie}.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘the L. £10. 23 Feb. F. 321. ‘The history - Chamblaynes (W.); of Portio and - players.’ D. xi. 398. demorantes ... on - Candlemas daie ... - by the Lord - Chamberleyns - seruauntes.’ - - - 16 Feb. ‘the saide L. £10. 23 Feb. F. 321. ‘The history - Chamberlaynes (W.); of Serpedon ... on - players.’ D. xi. 398. Shrovetwesdaye ... - by the lord - Chamberleyns - seruauntes.’ - - 14 Feb. ‘the players of £10. 23 Feb. F. 321. ‘The history - the Erle of (W.); of the Soldan and - Derbye.’ D. xi. 398. the Duke of ---- ... - on Shrovesondaye ... - by the Earle of - Derby his - seruauntes.’ - [F. 326. ‘Examynynge - and rehersinge of - dyuers plaies and - choise makinge of x - of them to be showen - before her Maiestie.’ - In addition to the 8 - above were the - tumbling and - F. 320. ‘A historye - of ---- provided to - haue bene shewen ... - on Innocentes daie - ... by the Earle of - Leicesters - seruauntes being in - readynes in the - place to haue - enacted the same.... - But the Queenes - Maiestie coulde not - come forth to heare - the same/therefore - put of.’] - - =1580–1= (_D. A. 542, m. 21_). - - 27 Dec. ‘Therle of Sussex £10. 14 Jan. F. 336. ‘The Earle - srauntes.’ (W.); of Sussex men. A - D. xii. 321 storie of ---- ... - (30 Jan.). on S^t Iohns daie.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘Therle of £10. 20 Jan. F. 336. ‘The Earle - Darbyes players.’ (W.); of Derbiesmen. A - D. xii. 321 storie of ---- ... - (30 Jan.). on newe yeres daye.’ - - - 6 Jan. ‘Sebastian £10. 18 Jan. F. 336. ‘The - [801] Wastcote m^r of (W.); children of Pawles. - the children of D. xii. 321 A storie of Pompey - Powles.’ (30 Jan.). ... on twelf nighte.’ - - 2 Feb. ‘the Lorde £10. 13 Feb. F. 336. ‘The earle - Chamblaynes (W.); of Sussex men. A - players.’ D. xii. 330 storie of ---- ... - (14 Feb.). on Candlemas daie.’ - - 5 Feb. ‘the M^r of the £10. 14 Feb. F. 336. ‘The - (W.) Children of the (W.); children of the - Chappell.’ D. xii. 330. Quenes maiesties - chappell. A storie - of ---- ... on - shrove-sondaie.’ - - 7 Feb. ‘Therle of £10. 14 Jan. F. 336. ‘The Earle - Leiscesters (W.); of Leicesters men. - players.’ D. xii. 330 A storie of ---- - (14 Feb.). ... on shrove- - tuesdaie.’ - - 26 Dec. ‘to them £10. 14 Jan. F. 336. ‘The Earle - [Leicester’s] (W.); of Leicesters men. - more.’ D. xii.321 A Comodie called - (30 Jan.). delighte ... on St - Stephens daie.’ - - =1581–2= (_D. A. 542, mm. 32–3; Harl. MS. 1644, ff. 78^v, 80^v, 81^v_). - - 26 Dec. ‘the M^r of the £10. 14 Apr. F. 345. Table II, ‘v - Children of (W.); playes’. - Powles.’ D. xiii. 393 - (G.). - - 28 Dec. ‘the Servauntes £10. 21 Jan. - of the Lorde (W.); - Straunge ... for D. xiii. 311. - certen feates of - activitie shewed - her Ma^{tie}.’ - - 31 Dec.} ‘the M^r of the £20. 1 Apr. (G.); - 27 Feb.} Children of her D. xiii. 374. - ma^{tes} - Chappell.’ - - =1582–3= (_D. A. 542, mm. 44–5_). - - 26 Dec. ‘William Hunnys £10. 17 Feb. F. 349. ‘A Comodie - (Wi.) the m^r of the (R.). or Morrall devised - children of the on A game of the - chappell.’ Cardes ... on St - Stephens daie ... - by the Children of - her maiesties - Chapple.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘the Seruauntes £10. 17 Feb. F. 349. ‘A Comodie - (Wi.) of the Lorde of (R.). of Bewtie and - Hunsdon.’ Huswyfery ... on St - Iohns daie ... by - the lord of - Hundesdons - servauntes.’ - - 30 Dec. ‘the Seruauntes £10. 17 Feb. F. 349. ‘A Historie - (Wi.) of Thearle of (R.). of Loue and ffortune - Darby.’ ... on the sondaie - ... next before newe - yeares daie ... by - the Earle of Derbies - servauntes.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘John Simons ... £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 17 Feb. F. 349. ‘Sundrey - (Wi.) for showinge (R.). feates of Tumbling - c̄ten ffeates of and Activitie were - actiuitye and shewed before her - Tomblinge.’ maiestie on Newe - yeares daie at night - by the Lord Straunge - his servauntes.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘the Seruauntes £10. 17 Feb. F. 350. ‘A historie - (Wi.) of the Lorde (R.). of fferrar ... on - Chamberlayne.’ Twelf daie ... by - the Lord - Chamberleynes - servauntes.’ - - 10 Feb. ‘The Seruantes of £10. 17 Feb. F. 350. ‘A historie - (R.) Thearle of (R.). of Telomo ... on - Lecester.’ Shrovesondaie ... by - the Earle of - Leicesters - servauntes.’ - - 12 Feb. ‘Richarde £10. 17 Feb. F. 350. ‘A historie - (R.) Mulcaster ... (R.). of Ariodante and - w^{th} his Geneuora ... on - Scholers.’ Shrove-tuesdaie ... - by m^r Mulcasters - children.’ - - =1583–4= (_D. A. 342, m. 56_). - - 26 Dec.} 12 Mar. F. 362. Table III, - 29 Dec.} ‘her ma^{tes} £20. (W.), paid ‘vj histories, one - 3 Mar. } servauntes.’ 9 May. Comedie.’ - - 6 Jan. } ‘the master of £15. 12 Mar. - 2 Feb. } the children of (W.), - her ma^{tes} paid 29 Mar. - Chappell.’ - - 1 Jan. } ‘the Erle of £20. 12 Mar. - 3 Mar. } Oxforde his (W.), - servauntes ... paid 25 Nov. - paide to Johon - Lilie.’ - - =1584–5= (_D. A. 542, mm. 66–8_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘Robte Willson to £40. 14 Mar. F. 365. ‘A pastorall - 3 Jan.} thuse of him (G.). of phillyda & Choryn - 6 Jan.} selfe and the ... by her highnes - 23 Feb.} rest of her servauntes on S^t - ma^{tes} players.’ Stephens daie.’ - - ‘The history of - felix & philiomena - ... by her maiesties - servauntes on the - Sondaie next after - newe yeares daye.’ - - ‘An inuention called - ffiue playes in one - ... on Twelfe daie - ... by her highnes - servauntes.’ - - ‘An inuention of - three playes in one - prepared to haue ben - shewed ... on Shroue - Sondaye ... by her - maiesties - servauntes. ... But - the Quene came not - abroad that night.’ - - ‘An Antick play & a - comodye ... on - Shrouetewsdaie ... - by her maiesties - servauntes.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Henry Evans ... £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 7 Apr. (G.). F. 365. ‘The history - for one play ... of Agamemnon & - by the children Vlisses ... by the - of Therle of Earle of Oxenford - Oxforde.’ his boyes on St - Iohns daie.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘John Symons and £10. 14 Mar. F. 365. ‘Dyuers - other his fellowes (G.). feates of Actyuytie - Servantes to were shewed and - Therle Oxforde ... presented ... on - for ... feates of newe yeares daye ... - actiuitye and by Symons and his - vawtinge.’ fellowes.’ - - =1585–6= (_D. A. 542, m. 79; Harl. MS. 1641, ff. 20^v, 21_). - - 26 Dec. ‘her Ma^{tes} £10. 31 Jan. (G.). - players.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘the Servantes £10. 31 Jan. (G.). - of the lo - admirall.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘her Ma^{tes} £10. 31 Jan. (G.). - players.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘the Servantes of £10. 31 Jan. (G.). - the lo: admirall - and the lo - Chamblaine.’ - - 9 Jan. ‘John Symondes £10. 31 Jan. (G.) - and M^r - Standleyes Boyes - ... for Tumblinge - and shewinge - other feates of - activitie.’ - - 13 Feb. ‘her ma^{tes} £10. 28 Feb. - players.’ (G.); - D. xiv. 20 - (6 Mar.). - - =1586–7= (_D. A. 542, m. 94_). - - 26 Dec.} - 1 Jan.} ‘the Quenes £40. 18 Mar. (G.). - 6 Jan.} ma^{tes} - 28 Feb.} players.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘the Erle of £10. 31 Mar. (G.). - Lecesters - players.’ - - 26 Feb. ‘Thomas Giles m^r £10. 9 Apr. (G.); - of the Children D. xv. 24. - of Paules.’ - - =1587–8= (_D. A. 542, mm. 108, 115_). - - 26 Dec.} £20, ‘for their 20 Mar. F. 378, 388. ‘vij - 6 Jan.} ‘the Queenes chardges and (G.); playes besides - 18 Feb.} ma^{tes} paines as also D. xv. 425. feattes of Activitie - players.’ by waye of her and other shewes by - ma^{tes} rewarde the Childeren of - for geving their Poles her Maiesties - attendaunce in owne servantes & the - recitinge and gentlemen of Grayes - playing certein In.’ - playes and - enterludes before - her ma^{tie}‘. - - 28 Dec. ‘John Simons ... £10. 6 Mar. (G.). - for certein - feates of - actiuitie by him - and his Companie.’ - - 1 Jan.} ‘Thomas Giles m^r £20. 29 Feb. (G.). - 2 Feb.} of the children - of Powles.’ - - =1588–9= (_D. A. 542, mm. 125–6_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘the Quenes £20. 16 Mar. F.388. ‘at Christmas - 9 Feb.} Ma^{ts} Players.’ (W.); Newyearstide & - D. xvii.109. Twelftide there were - shewed presented & - 27 Dec.} ‘Tho Gyles m^r of £30. 23 Mar. enacted before her - 1 Jan.} the children of (W.); highnes ffyve playes - 12 Jan.} Powles.’ D. xvii.115. & ... at Shrovetide - there were shewed & - ‘the Lorde £20. 29 Feb. presented before her - 11 Feb.} Admyrall his (W.); twoe plaies All - [802] } players ... for D. xvii.90. which playes were - twoe Enterludes enacted by her - or playes ... Maiesties owne - and for showinge servantes the - other feates of children of Paules & - activity and the Lord Admiralls - tumblinge.’ men besides sondry - feates of actyvity - tumbling and - Matichives.’... - F. 390, ‘a paire of - fflannell hose for - Symmons the Tumbler’. - - =1589–90= (_D. A. 542, m. 142_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Dutton and £20. 15 Mar.; - 1 Mar.} John Lanham her D. xviii.420. - ma^{tes} - S^ru^antes for - themselves and - their companie.’ - - 28 Dec.} ‘the Servauntes £20. 10 Mar. (G.); - [803] } of the Lorde D. xviii.410. - } Admirall ... for - 3 Mar.} shewinge certen - } feates of - activities ‘the - servauntes of - the Lorde Admirall - ... for playinge.’ - - ‘Chris-} - tide.’ } ‘Thomas Giles m^r £30. 10 Mar.; - [28 } of the children D. xviii. 410 - Dec.] } of Powles.’ (G.). - [804] } - 1 Jan. } - 6 Jan. } - - =1590–1= (_D. A. 542, m. 155_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘Lawrence Dutton - 3 Jan.} and John Dutton £40. 7 Mar.; - 6 Jan.} her ma^{tes} C. xxxii; - 14 Feb.} players & there D. xx. 327 - companye.’ (G., 5 Mar.). - - 1 Jan. ‘John Laneham and £10. 7 Mar.; - his companye her C. xxxii; - ma^{tes} players.’ D. xx. 328 - (G., 5 Mar.). - - 27 Dec.} ‘George Ottewell £20. 7 Mar.; - 16 Feb.} and his companye D. xx. 328 - the Lorde Straunge (G., 5 Mar.). - his players for - [plays] ... and - for other feates - of Activitye then - also done by - them.’[805] - - =1591–2= (_D. A. 542, m. 168_). - - 26 Dec. ‘y^e Queenes £10. 29 Feb. (W.); - ma^{tes} players.’ D. xxii. 286 - (27 Feb.). - - 7 Dec. } - 8 Dec. } - 1 Jan. } ‘y^e seruantes of £60. 24 Feb. (W.); - 9 Jan. } y^e lo: Straunge.’ D. xxii.264 - 6 Feb. } (20 Feb.). - 8 Feb. } - - 2 Jan. ‘y^e servauntes £10. 20 Feb. (W.); - of y^e Earle of D. xxii.264. - Sussex.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘y^e servauntes £10. 28 Feb. (W.); - of y^e Erle of D. xxii.263 - Hartford.’ (20 Feb.). - - =1592–3= (_D. A. 542, m. 181_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘the servantes of £20. 11 Mar. (J.); - [806] } the Erle of D. xxiv.113. - 6 Jan. } Pembroke.’ - - 27 Dec.} ‘Servantes of the £30. 7 Mar. (J.); - 31 Dec.} Lorde Strange.’ D. xxiv.102. - 1 Jan. } - - - =1593–4= (_D. A. 542, m. 194: Harl. MS. 1642, f. 19^v_). - - 6 Jan. ‘her Ma^{tes} £10. 31 Jan. - players.’ - - =1594–5= (_D. A. 542, m. 208_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘To Willm̄ Kempe £20. 15 Mar. (W.). - 28 Dec.} Willm̄ Shakespeare - [27 } & Richarde Burbage - Dec.?] } seruantes to the - [807] } Lord Chamƃleyne - vpon the - councelles warr^t - dated at Whitehall - xv^{to} Martii - 1594 for twoe - seuerall comedies - or Enterludes - shewed by them - before her - Ma^{tie} in xpmas - tyme laste paste - viz^d vpon S^t - Stephens daye & - Innocentes daye - xiii^l vj^s viij^d - and by waye of her - ma^{tes} Rewarde - vj^l xiij^s - iiij^d.’ - - 28 Dec.} ‘Edwarde Allen, £30. 15 Mar. (W.). - 1 Jan.} Richarde Jones & - 6 Jan.} John Synger, - seruaunts to the - Lord Admyrall.’ - - =1595–6= (_D. A. 543, m. 12_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Hemynge and £50. 21 Dec. 1596 (W.). - 27 Dec.} George Bryan - 28 Dec.} srvu^antes to the - 6 Jan.} late Lorde - 22 Feb.} Chamƃlayneand now - srvu^antes to the - Lorde Hunsdon.’ - - 1 Jan.} ‘Edwarde Allen £40. 13 Dec. 1596 (W.). - 4 Jan.} and Martyn Slater - 22 Feb.} seruauntes to the - 24 Feb.} Lorde Admyrall.’ - - =1596–7= (_D. A. 543, m. 25_). - - 26 Dec.} - 27 Dec.} ‘Thomas Pope & £60. 27 Nov. 1597 (W.); - 1 Jan.} John Hemynges D. xxviii. 151. - 6 Jan.} servauntes to the - 6 Feb.} Lord Chambleyne.’ - 8 Feb.} [808] - - =1597–8= (_D. A. 543, m. 39_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Heminges £40. 3 Dec. 1598 (W.); - 1 Jan.} and Thomas Pope D. xxix. 324. - 6 Jan.} servauntes to the - 26 Feb.} Lorde Chamƃleyne.’ - - 27 Dec.} ‘Roƃte Shawe and £20. 3 Dec. 1598 (W.); - 28 Feb.} Thomas Downton D. xxix. 325. - servauntes to the - Erle of - Nottingham.’ - - =1598–9= (_D. A. 543, m. 55_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Heminges £30. 2 Oct. 1599 (N.); - 1 Jan.} and Thomas Pope C. xxxii. - 20 Feb.} servantes vnto - the Lorde - Chamberleyne.’ - - 27 Dec.} ‘Robert Shawe and £20. 2 Oct. 1599 (N.). - 6 Jan.} Thomas Downton - 18 Feb.} servauntes to - Therle of - Nottingham.’ - - =1599–1600= (_D. A. 543, m. 57_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Hemynge £30. 17 Feb. (R.); - 6 Jan.} servaunt to the C. xxxiii; - 3 Feb.} Lorde D. xxx. 89 - Chamberlaine. (18 Feb.). - - 27 Dec.} ‘Robert Shawe £20. 18 Feb. (R.); - 1 Jan.} servaunt to Therle C. xxxiii; - of Nottingham.’ D. xxx. 89. - [809] - - 3 Feb. ‘Robert Browne £10. 18 Feb. (R.); - [5 Feb.] servaunt to Therle D. xxx. 89. - [810] of Darby.’ - - =1600–1= (_D. A. 543, m. 69_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Hemynges £30. 31 Mar. (W.); - 6 Jan.} and Richarde C. xxxiii; - 24 Feb.} Cowley servunts D. xxxi. 217 - to the Lord (11 Mar.). - Chamƃleine.’ - - 28 Dec.} ‘Edwarde Allen £30. 31 Mar. (W.); - 6 Jan.} servaunte to the C. xxxiii. - 2 Feb.} Lord Admyrall.’ - - 1 Jan.} - 6 Jan.} ‘Roƃte Browne.’ £20. 31 Mar. (W.). - - 1 Jan. ‘Edwarde Peers £10. 24 June (G.); - M^r of the D. xxxi. 453. - children of - Poules.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Nathanyell Gyles £5. } - m^r of the } - children of the } 4 May (W.); - Chapple, for a } C. xxxiii. - showe w^{th} } - musycke and } - speciall songes } - p’pared for the } - purpose.’ } - 22 Feb. [the same] ... £10. } - ‘for a play’. - - =1601–2= (_D. A. 543, m. 83_). - - 26 Dec.} - 27 Dec.} ‘John Hemyng £40. 28 Feb. (R.). - 1 Jan.} servaunte to the - 14 Feb.} Lord - Chamberleyne.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Edward Allen £10. 28 Feb. (R.). - servaunt to the - Lord Admyrall.’ - - 3 Jan. ‘William Kempe £10. 28 Feb. (R.). - and Thomas - Heywoode - servauntes to - Therle of - Worcester.’ - - 6 Jan.} ‘Nathanyell Gyles £30. 7 Mar. (R.). - 10 Jan.} M^r of the - 14 Feb.} Children of her - Ma^{tes} Chappell.’ - - =1602–3= (_D. A. 543, mm. 95, 97_). - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Hemynges £20. 20 Apr. (W.); - 2 Feb.} and the rest of C. xxxiv. - his companie - servauntes to the - Lorde - Chamberleyne.’ - - 27 Dec.} ‘Edwarde Allen £30. 22 Apr. (W.); - 6 Mar.} servaunte to the C. xxxiv. - -- } Lorde Admyrall and - the reste of his - companie.’ - - 1 Jan. ‘Edward Peirs m^r £10. 31 May (G.). - of the Children - of Paules.’ - - 6 Jan. ‘Martyn Slater £10. 20 Apr. - and his fellowes - servauntes to - the Erle of - Hertforde.’ - - -- ‘John Hassett ... £10. 29 July (H.). - for presentinge - and makinge shewe - before his highnes - of his skyll in - vaultinge w^{ch} - he performed - w^{th} his - ma^{tes} good - lykinge.’ - - =1603–4= (_D. A. 543, m. 115–17_). - - 2 Dec. ‘John Hemyngs one £30. 3 Dec. (Wilton); - (K.) of his ma^{tes} C. xxxiv. - players ... for - the paynes and - expences of - himself and the - rest of the - company in comming - from Mortelake in - the countie of - Surrie unto the - courte aforesaid - [at Wilton] and - there p’senting - before his ma^{tie} - one playe.’ - - 26 Dec.} ‘John Hemynges £53. 18 Jan. (H.); - (K.) } one of his C. xxxv. - 27 Dec.} ma^{tes} - (K.) } players.’ - 28 Dec.} - (K.) } - 30 Dec.} - (H.) } - 1 Jan.} - (K.) } - - 1 Jan.} - (H.) } - 2 Jan.} ‘John Duke one of £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 19 Feb. (W.); - (H.) } the Queenes C. xxxv. - 13 Jan.} ma^{tes} players.’ - (H.) } - - 4 Jan.} ‘Edward Allen and £30. 19 Feb. (W.); - (H.) } Edward Juby two C. xxxv. - 15 Jan.} of the Princes - (H.) } Players.’ - 21 Jan.} - (K.) } - 22 Jan.} - (H.) } - - ‘Richard Burbadg £30. 8 Feb. (H.); - one of his C. xxxv. - ma^{tes} comedians - ... for the - mayntenaunce and - releife of - himselfe and the - rest of his - company being - prohibited to - p’sente any playes - publiquelie in or - neere London by - reason of greate - perill that might - growe through the - extraordinary - concourse and - assemble of people - to a newe increase - of the plague till - it shall please - God to settle the - cittie in a more - p’fecte health by - way of his - ma^{ties} free - gifte.’ - - 2 Feb.} ‘John Hemynges £20. 29 Feb. (W.); - (K.) } one of his C. xxxvi. - 19 Feb.} ma^{tes} players.’ - (K.) } - - 20 Feb. ‘Edward Jubie to £10. 17 Apr. (W.); - (K.) the use of C. xxxvii. - himselfe and the - rest of his - to the company - servauntes prince.’ - - 20 Feb. ‘Edward Pearce £10. 17 Apr. (W.). - (K.) m^r of the - children of - Powles.’ - - 21 Feb. ‘Edward Kircham £10. 30 Apr. (W.); - (K.) m^r of the C. xxxvii. - children of the - Queenes Ma^{tes} - Revells.’ - - [_Apparelling Charges_] - - ‘To Augustine - Phillippes and John - Hemynges for - thallowaunce of - themselves and - tenne of theire - ffellowes his - ma^{tes} groomes - of the chamber, - and Players for - waytinge and - attendinge on his - ma^{tes} service - by com̃ aundemente - vppon the Spanishe - Embassador at - Som’sette howse - the space of xviij - dayes viz^d from - the ix^{th} day of - Auguste 1604 vntill - the xxvij^{th} day - of the same as - appeareth by a bill - thereof signed by - the Lord Chamƃlayne. - xxj^{li}. xij^s.’ - - ‘To Thomas Greene - for thallowaunce - of hymselfe and - tenne of his - ffelowes groomes - of the chamber and - the Queenes Players - for waytinge and - attendinge vppon - Countye Arrenbergh - and the reste of the - comyssioners at - Durham howse by - com̃ aundmente the - space of eighteene - dayes viz^d from - the ix^{th} of - Auguste 1604 vntill - the xxvij^{th} of - the same as - appeareth by a bill - thereof signed by - the Lord Chamberlayne. - xix^{li}, xvj^s.’ - - - CHAMBER ACCOUNTS. REVELS ACCOUNTS.[811] - _Perfor- _Payees._ _Amount._ _Warrant._ - mance._ - - Cunningham, 203; Halliwell-Phillipps, - =1604–5= (_D. A. 543, mm. 136–8; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204_). _Bodl. Malone ii. 162; Law, _Sh. Forgeries_, xvi; - MS._ 29, f. _Audit_ _Office_, _Accounts Various_, - 69^v. 3, 907. - The Poets - 1604 & 1605 The w^{ch} mayd - Ed^d. Tylney Plaiers. 1604. the plaies. - 1 Nov.} Sunday after By By the Hallamas Day - (K.) } the Hallowmas--Merry Kings being the first of - 4 Nov.} ‘John Hemynges one £60. 21 Jan. Wyves of Windsor ma^{tis} Nouembar A play in - (K.) } of his Ma^{tes} (W.); perf^d. by the K’s plaiers. the Banketinge - 26 Dec.} players.’ C. xxxvi. players. house att Whithall - (K.) } Hallamas-- in the called The Moor of - 28 Dec.} Banquetting ho^s at By his Venis. The Sunday - (K.) } Whitehall the Moor Ma^{tis} ffollowinge A Play - 7 Jan.} of Venis--perf^d. by plaiers. of the Merry Wiues - (K.) } the K’splayers. of Winsor. - - 8 Jan.} On S^t Stephens By his On S^t Stiuens Shaxberd. - (K.) } Night--Mesure for Ma^{tis} Night in the Hall - Mesur by Shaxberd-- plaiers. A Play caled Mesur - perf^d. by the K’s for Mesur. - players. On By his On Inosents Night Shaxberd. - Innocents Night Ma^{tis} The Plaie of - Errors by Shaxberd-- plaiers. Errors. - perf^d. by the K’s - plaiers. - - 23 Nov.} ‘Edward Jubie one £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 10 Dec. On Sunday following By the On Sunday Hewood. - (Q.) } of the princes (W.); C. “How to Learn of a Queens ffollowinge A - 24 Nov.} plaiors.’ xxxvii. Woman to wooe by Mat^{tis} plaie cald How to - (H.) } ‘John Duke one of £10. 19 Feb.; Hewood, perf^d. by plaiers. Larne of a woman - 30 Dec.} the Quenes Ma{tes} C. the Q’s players. to wooe. - (K.) } plaiers.’ £20. xxxvi. - 1 Jan.} ‘Samuell Daniell 24 Feb. On New Years Night-- The On Newers Night A By Georg - (K.) } and Henrie Evans (W.); C. All fools by G. Boyes playe cauled: Chapman. - 3 Jan.} ... for ... the xxxvi. Chapman perf^d. by of the All Foulles. - (K.) } Quenes Ma{tes} the Boyes of the Chapell. - Children of the Chapel. - Revells.’ - - 14 Dec.} bet New y^{rs} day & By his Betwin Newers Day - (H.) } twelfth day--Loves Ma^{tis} and Twelfe day A - 19 Dec.} ‘Edward Jubie one £40. 22 Feb.; Labour lost perf^d. plaiers. Play of Loues - (H.) } of the princes C. xxxvi. by the K’s p:^{rs}. Labours Lost. - 15 Jan.} plaiers.’ On the 7^{th} Jan. K. By his On the 7 of January - (H.) } Hen. the fifth Ma^{tis} was played the play - 22 Jan.} perf^d. by the K. plaiers. of Henry the fift. - (H.) } p^{rs}. - 5 Feb.} On 8^{th} Jan.-- By his The 8 of January A - (H.) } Every one out of his Ma^{tis} play cauled Euery - 19 Feb.} humour. plaiers. on out of his Umor. - (H.) } On Candlemas night By his On Candelmas night - Every one in his Ma^{tis} A playe Euery one - humour. plaiers. In his Umor. - - - 2 Feb.} On Shrove Sunday The Sunday - (K.) } ‘John Heminges one £40. 24 Feb.; ‘the Marchant of ffollowing playe - 10 Feb.} of his Ma^{tes} C. Venis’ by Shaxberd-- provided and - (K.) } plaiers.’ xxxvii. perf^d. by the K’s discharged. - 11 Feb.} P^{rs}.--the same - (K.) } repeated on Shrove By his On Shrousunday A Shaxberd. - 12 Feb.} tuesd. by the K’s Ma^{tis} play of the - (K.) } Comm^d.’ plaiers. Marthant of Venis. - By his On Shroumonday A - Feb. ‘The same John £10. 28 Apr.; Ma^{tis} Tragidye of The - (K.) Heminges.’ C. xxxvii. plaiers. Spanishe Maz. - By his On Shroutusday A Shaxberd. - Ma^{tis} play cauled the - players. Martchant of Venis - againe com̃ anded - By the Kings - Ma^{tie}. - =1605–6= (_D. A. 543, mm. 163, 176_). - - 27 Dec. ‘John Duke one £8 6_s._ 8_d._ 30 Apr.; - (K.) of the Queenes C. xxxviii. - Ma^{tes} players.’ - - Xmas ‘John Hemynges £100. 24 Mar.; - and one of his C. xxxviii. - since Ma^{tes} - (K. 10 players.’ - plays) - - 1 Dec.} - (H.) } - 30 Dec.} ‘Edward Jubie one £50. 30 Apr.; - (H.) } of the Princes C. xxxviii. - 1 Jan.} players.’ - (K.) } - 4 Jan.} - (H.) } - 3 Mar.} - (K.) } - 4 Mar.} - (K.) } - - --(H. C. ‘Edward Kirkham £16 13_s._ 4_d._ 31 Mar.; - 2 plays) one of the C. xxxviii. - Mr^{es} of the - Childeren of - Pawles.’ - - 2 plays} - at G. } - [July } (K. and K. ‘John Heminges £30. 18 Oct.; - -Aug. } of Denmark) one of his C. xxxviii. - 1606] } Ma^{tes} - 1 play } Players.’ - at H. } - [7 Aug.} - 1606] } - - =1606–7= (_D. A. 543, m. 177_). - - 26 Dec.} - (K.) } - 29 Dec.} - (K.) } ‘John Heminges one of his £90. 30 Mar.; C. xxxix. - 4 Jan.} Ma^{tes} Players.’ - (K.) } - 6 Jan.} - (K.) } - 8 Jan.} - (K.) } - 2 Feb.} - (K.) } - 5 Feb.} - (K.) } - 15 Feb.} - (K.) } - 27 Feb.} - (K.) } - - 28 Dec.} ‘Edwarde Jubye £60. 28 Feb.; - 13, 24,} one of the C. xxxviii. - 30 Jan.} princes players.’ - 1, 11 } - Feb. } - - =1607–8= (_D. A. 543, mm. 195–6_). - - 26 Dec.} - (K.) } - 27 Dec.} - (K.) } - 28 Dec.} - (K.) } - 2 Jan.} ‘John Hemynges £130. 8 Feb. ‘1608’; - (K.) } one of his C. xxxviii - 6 Jan.} Ma^{ties} (1607’). - (K. } Players.’ - 2 plays)} - 7 Jan.} - (K.) } - 9 Jan.} - (K.) } - 17 Jan.} - (K. } - 2 plays)} - 26 Jan.} - (K.) } - 2 Feb.} - (K.) } - 7 Feb.} - (K.) } - - 19 Nov.} - 30 Dec.} (K. ‘Edward Juby one £40. 8 May; C. xxxix. - 3 Jan.} H.) of the Princes - 4 Jan.} Players.’ - - ‘John Hassett & £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 23 Sept. - Caleb Hassett ... - for feates of - activitie by them - performed upon a - vaughting horse.’ - - =1608–9= (_D. A. 543, m. 214_). - - Xmas. } ‘John Hemynges £120. 5 Apr.; C. xxxix. - (K. Q. } one of his - H. C. } mat^{es} plaiers.’ - 12 } - plays) } - - -- } ‘Thomas Greene £50. 5 Apr. - (K. H. } one of the - 5 } Queenes Ma^{tes} - plays) } plaiers.’ - - - -- } ‘Edwarde Jubye £30. 5 Apr.; C. xxxix. - (K. H. } one of the - 3 } Princes Players.’ - plays) } - - - Xmas. } ‘Roƃte Keyser ... £20. 10 Mar. (W.). - (K. 2 } for ... plaies - plays) } ... by the - Children of the - blackfriers.’ - - 4 Jan. ‘the same Roƃte £10. 10 Mar. - (H.) Keyser ... for - one play - presented by the - Children of the - blackfriers before - his highnes in the - Cockpitt at - Whitehall.’ - - -- -- ‘John Hemynges £40. 26 Apr.; C. xxxix. - one of his - ma^{tes} plaiers - ... by way of his - ma^{tes} rewarde - for their private - practise in the - time of infecc̄on - that thereby they - mighte be inhabled - to performe their - service before his - Ma^{tie} in - Christmas - hollidaies - 1609.’ - - =1609–10= (_D. A. 543, mm. 233–5_). - - ‘before (K. Q. ‘John Heminges one £130 2 Mar. (W.). - xρmas H. C. of the Kinges - and in E. 13 Ma^{tes} players.’ - the tyme plays) - of the - holidayes - and - afterwardes.’ - - -- ‘Roberte Keysar £50. 10 May (W.). - (K. H. ... in the behalfe - 5 plays) of himselfe and - the reste of the - Children of the - Whitefryars.’ - - 27 Dec. ‘Thomas Greene £10. 31 Mar. (W.). - (K.) one of the Queene - Ma^{tes} players.’ - - 26 Dec.} - (K.) } ‘Edwarde Jubye £40. 10 Mar. (W.). - 28 Dec.} one of the - (K.) } Princes Players.’ - 7 Jan.} - (K.) } - 18 Jan.} - (K.) } - 9 Feb. ‘the sayd William £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 Jan. 1613; C. xlii. - (C. E.) Rowley.’ - - -- -- ‘John Heminges £30. 10 Mar.; C. xl. - ... for himselfe - and the reste of - his companie - beinge restrayned - from publique - playinge w^{th}in - the citie of - London in the tyme - of infecc̄on - duringe the space - of sixe weekes in - which tyme they - practised - pryvately for his - ma^{tes} service.’ - - - =1610–11= (_D. A. 543, mm. 249, 250, 267; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204_). - - -- (K. ‘John Hemynges £150. 12 Feb.; C. xl. - Q. H. one of the Kinges - 15 players.’ - plays) - - 10 Dec.} ‘Thomas Greene £30. 18 Mar.; C. xl. - (H. } one of the Quenes - 3 } players ... for - plays) } three seuerall - 27 Dec.} playes before the - (K.) } Kinges Ma^{tie} - and the prince’ - (_D. A._); ‘for - presentinge three - severall playes - before the princes - highnes vppon the - x^{th} of Decemb: - and S^t Johns daye - at night 1610 - before the Kinges - Ma^{tie}’ - (_Rawl. MS._). - - 19 Dec.} - 28 Dec.} (K.) ‘Edwarde Jubye £40. 20 Mar.; C. xl. - 14 Jan.} one of the - 16 Jan.} Princes players. - - 12 Dec.} - (C. E.)} ‘the sayd William £20. 20 Jan. 1613 (W.); C. xlii. - 20 Dec.} Rowley.’ - (C. E.)} - 15 Dec.} - (C. E.)} - [Cunningham, xiii, - from _Privy Purse - Accounts_ of £2 10_s._ 8_d._ - Henry.]‘For - makinge readie the - Cocke pitt fower - seuerall tymes for - playes by the space - of fower dayes in - the month of - December 1610.’ - - CHAMBER ACCOUNTS. REVELS ACCOUNTS.[812] - Cunningham, 210, from - _Perfor- _Payees._ _Amount._ _Warrant._ _Audit Office, Accounts -mance._ Various_, 3, 907. - - =1611–12= (_D. A. 543, mm. 267–8_). - - 31 Oct.} By the Hallomas nyght was - (K.) } ‘John Heminges £60. 1 June; Kings presented att - 1 Nov.} ... for ... the C. xl. Players: Whithall before y^e - (K.) } Kinges Ma^{tes} Kinges Ma^{tie} a - 5 Nov.} servauntes and play called the - (K.) } players.’ Tempest. - 26 Dec.} The Kings The 5^{th} of - (K.) } players: Nouember: A play - 5 Jan.} called y^e winters - (K.) } nightes Tayle. - 23 Feb.} The Kings On S^t Stiuenes - (K.) } players: night A play called - A King [symbol] no - King. - - 9 Nov.} ‘the sayd John £80.[813] 1 June; The Queens S^t John night A - (H. C.)} Heminges.’ C. xii. players: play called the - 19 Nov.} City Gallant. - (H. C.)} - 16 Dec.} The Princes The Sunday - (H. C.)} players. followinge A play - 31 Dec.} called the Almanak. - (H. C.)} - 7 Jan.} The Kings On Neweres night A - (H. C.)} players. play called the - 15 Jan.} Twiñes Tragedie. - (H. C.)} - 9 Feb.} - (H. C.)} - 20 Feb.} The The Sunday following A - (H. C.)} Childern play called Cupids Reueng. - 28 Feb.} of - (H. C.)} Whitfriars. - 3 Apr.} - (H. C.)} - 16 Apr.} - (H. C.)} - - 9 Feb.} ‘the sayd John £26 13_s._ 4_d._ 1 June; By the The Sunday following - (H. C. E.)} Heminges.’ C. xli. Queens [Twelfth Night] att - 20 Feb.} players Grinwidg before the - (H.) } and the Queen and the Prince - 28 Mar.} Kings was playd the Siluer - (E.) } Men. Aiedg: and y^e next - 26 Apr.} night following - (H. C. E.)} Lucrecia. - - 27 Dec.} ‘Thomas Greene £20. 18 June; By the Candelmas night A - (K. Q.)} ... for ... the C. xli. Queens play called Tu - 2 Feb.} Queenes Ma^{tes} players. Coque. - (K. Q.)} servauntes.’ - - 21 Jan.} ‘the sayd Thomas £13 6_s_. 8_d_. 18 June; By the Shroue Sunday: A -[814] } Greene’ C. xli Kings play called the - (H. E.)} players. Noblman. - 23 Jan.} - (H. E.)} - - 28 Dec.} ‘Edward Juby ... £20. 18 June; By the Shroue Munday: A - (K.) } for ... the Prince C. xli. Duck of play called - 29 Dec.} highnes Yorks Himens Haliday. - (K.) } servauntes.’ players. - - 5 Feb.} ‘the sayd Edward £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 18 June; By the Shrove Tuesday A - (H.) } Juby.’ C. xlii. Ladye play called the - 29 Feb.} Eliza- proud Mayds - (H.) } beths Tragedie. - players. - - 11 Apr. ‘Edward Jubye ... £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 31 Mar. - ‘last for ... the 1613; - past’ Prynce Palatynes C. xlii. - (E.) Servants.’[815] - - 25 Feb. ‘Alexander Foster £10. 1 Apr.; - (K.) ... for ... the C. xl. - Ladye Eliz. - servauntes and - players ... for - ... the proud - Mayde.’ - - 19 Jan.} ‘the sayd £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 1 Apr.; - (H. E.)} Alexander C. xl. - 11 Mar.} Foster.’ - (H. E.)} - - 12 Jan. } ‘Willm̄ Rowley £26 13_s._ 4_d._ 20 June (W.); - (H. C. E.)} ... for ... the C. xlii. - 28 Jan. } Duke of Yorkes - (H. C. E.)} Servauntes - 13 Feb. } and Players.’ - (H. C. E.)} - 24 Feb. } - [816] } - (H. C. E.)} - - [Cunningham, xiv, £1 14_s._ 4_d._ - from _Privy Purse - Accounts_ of - Henry.] ‘For - makeinge readie - the Cockepitt for - a playe by the - space of twoe - dayes in the month - of December 1611.’ - - ‘For makinge £3 10_s._ 8_d._ - readie the - Cockepitt for - playes twoe - severall tymes by - the space of - ffower dayes in - the monethes of - January and - February 1611.’ - - =1612–13= (_D. A. 544, m. 14; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 239, ff. 46^v-48_). - - 8 June. ‘John Hemynges £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 9 July; - ... for ... the C. xliii. - kinges Ma^{tes} - Players for - presentinge a - playe before the - Duke Savoyes - Ambassado^{es}’; - _Rawl. MS._ ‘a - playe ... called - Cardenna’. - - -- ‘To him [Hemynges] £93 6_s._ 8_d._ 20 May; - (C. E. more’; _Rawl. MS._ C. xliii. - F., 14 ‘fowerteene - plays) severall playes, - viz: one playe - called ffilaster, - One other called - the knott of - ffooles, One other - Much adoe aboute - nothinge, The - Mayeds Tragedy, - The merye dyvell - of Edmonton, The - Tempest, A kinge - and no kinge, The - Twins Tragedie, - The Winters Tale, - Sir John - ffalstaffe, The - Moore of Venice, - The Nobleman, - Caesars Tragedye, - And on other - called Love lyes a - bleedinge’. - - -- ‘the sayd John £60. 20 May; - (K., 6 Heminges’; _Rawl. C. xliii. - plays) MS._ ‘Sixe - severall playes, - viz: one play - called a badd - beginininge makes - a good endinge, - One other called - y^e Capteyne, One - other the Alcumist. - One other Cardenno, - One other the - Hotspur, And one - other called - Benedicte and - Betteris’. - - 2 Mar.} ‘Willm̄ Rowley £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 7 June; - [817] } ... for ... the C. xlii. -(C. E. } Prynces - F.) } servantes’; _Rawl. - 10 Mar.} MS._ ‘One called - (C. E. } the first parte - F.) } of the Knaues ... - And one other - playe called the - second parte of - the Knaues’. - - 25 Feb.} ‘Josephe Taylor £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 28 June; - (C. E. } ... for ... the C. xliii. - F.) } Ladie Elizabeth - 1 Mar.} hir servantes’; - (C. E. } _Rawl. MS._ ‘one - F.) } playe called - Cockle de moye ... - and one other - called Raymond - Duke of Lyons’. - - -- ‘Phillip Rosseter £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 24 Nov.; - (C. E. for ... a play by C. xlii. - F.) [2 the Children of - or 3 the Chappell’; - Nov.?] _Rawl. MS._ ‘for - ... the Children - of the Queens - Majestys Revels, - for ... a Commedye - called the - Coxcombe’. - - 9 Jan.} ‘To him more ... £13 6_s._ 8_d._ 31 May; - (C. E. } for ... two other C. xlii. - F.) } playes by the - 27 Feb.} Children of the - (C. E. } Chappell’; _Rawl. - F.) } MS._ ‘one called - Cupidds revenge, - and the other - called the - Widdowes Teares’. - - 1 Jan. ‘The sayd Phillip £10. 31 May. - ‘1613’ Rosseter ... for - (K.) ... a play by the - said Children’; - _Rawl. MS._ ‘called - Cupides Revenge’. - [Sullivan, 139, - from _Accounts_ of - Elizabeth 29 Sept. - 1612 to 25 March - 1613 in _Exchequer - of Receipt Misc._, - Bundle 343.] - - -- ‘To her gracs £5. - [Oct. plaiers for - 20?] acting a Comedie - [818] in the Cocke pitt - w^{ch} her highnes - lost to M^r Edward - Sackvile on a - wager.’ - - =1613–14= (_D. A. 544, m. 29_). - - 4 Nov.} - (C.) } - 16 Nov.} - (C.) } ‘John Heminges £46 13_s._ 0_d._ 21 June; - 10 Jan.} and the rest of [819] C. xliii. - (C.) } his fellowes his - 4 Feb.} Ma^{tes} servaunts - (C.) } the Players.’ - 8 Feb.} - (C.) } - 10 Feb.} - (C.) } - 18 Feb.} - (C.) } - ‘1614’.} - - 1 Nov.} ‘the said John £90. 21 June; - (K.) } Heminges and the C. xliii. - ‘1614’.} rest of his - 5 Nov.} fellowes.’ - (K.) } - 15 Nov.} - (K.) } - 27 Dec.} - (K.) } - 1 Jan.} - (K.) } - 4 Jan.} - (K.) } - 2 Feb.} - (K.) } - 6 Mar.} - (K.) } - 8 Mar.} - (K.) } - - 24 Dec.} ‘Robƃte Lee and £20. 21 June (W.); - [820] } the rest of his C. xliii. - (K.) } fellowes the - 5 Jan.} Queenes Ma^{tes} - (K.) } servauntes the - Play^iers.’ - - 25 Jan. ‘Joseph Taylor £10. 21 June (W.); - (K.) for himselfe and C. xliv. - the rest of his - fellowes servaunts - to the Lady Eliz’ - her grace ... for - presenting ... a - Comedy called - Eastward howe.’ - - 12 Dec. ‘To him [Taylor] £6 13_s._ 4_d._ 21 June (W.); - (C.) more ... for C. xliv. - presenting ... a - comedy called the - Dutch Curtezan.’ - - =1614–15= (_D. A. 544, mm. 47, 48, 65_).[821] - - -- (K. ‘John Hemynges £80. 19 May; - 8 plays) ... in the behalfe C. xiii - of himselfe and (19 May ‘1613’). - his fellowes the - Kinges ma^{tes} - players.’ - - -- (K. ‘Roberte Leigh.’ £30. Apr. (W.). - 3 plays) [822] - - -- (K. } ‘Edward Juby in £26 13_s._ 4_d._ 15 Apr. - 2 plays)} the behalfe of - (C.) } himselfe and the - reste of his - fellowes the - Palsgraves - players.’ - - -- (C. ‘Willm̄ Rowley £43 6_s._ 8_d._ 17 May. - 6 plays) one of the - Princes players.’ - 1 Nov. - (K.) ‘Nathan ffeilde £10. 11 June; [_Pipe Office D. A._ - in the behalfe of C. xliv. (_Revels_), 2805.] - himselfe and the ‘Canvas for the - rest of his Boothes and other - fellowes ... for necessaries for a - ... Bartholomewe play called - Fayre.’ Bartholmewe Faire.’ - - =1615–16= (_D. A. 544, mm. 66, 77_). - - Between ‘John Heminges £140. 24 Apr. - 1 Nov. and the rest of 1617.[823] - and his fellowes the - 1 Apr. Kings Ma^{tes} - (K. Q. Players.’ - 14 plays) - - -- ‘Roberte Lee and £40. 20 May (G.). - (K. his fellowes the - 4 plays) Queenes Ma^{tes} - Servauntes.’ - - -- ‘Alexander Foster £26 13_s._ 4_d._ 29 Apr. (W.). - (C. one of the Princes - 4 plays) highnes Players.’ - - [A. F. Westcott, _New Poems of James I_, - lxxii, from _Accounts_ of Anne for Apr. 1615–Jan. - 1616.] - - 17 Dec. ‘Ellis Worth one £10. 7 Jan. - (Q.) of her Ma^{tes} - plaiers for so - much paid vnto him - in the behalfe of - himselfe and the - rest of his - fellowes of that - companie for one - plaie acted before - her ma^{tie} [at] - Queenes Court.’ - - 21 Dec. ‘John Heminge one £10. 22 Jan. - (Q.) of the Kinge - Ma^{tes} plaiers - for so much paid - vnto him in the - behalfe of - himselfe and the - reste of his - fellowes of that - companie for one - plaie acted before - her Ma^{tie} at - Queenes Court.’ - - - - - APPENDIX C - - DOCUMENTS OF CRITICISM - - [There is much vain repetition in learned controversy, whether - literary or ethical. I have attempted, by extract or summary, - to indicate the main critical positions taken up by writers of - different schools with regard to plays, and at the same time - to preserve the incidental information which they furnish on - points of stage history. It does not seem to me necessary to - do more than cite, as of minor importance, and practically - adding nothing, T. Becon, _The Catechisme_ (1564, _Works_, i, - f. cccccxxxii); E. Hake, _Merry Maidens of London_ (1567), - _A Touchstone for this Time_ (1574), sig. G 4^v; E. Dering, - _Catechisme for Householders_ (1572); T. Brasbridge, _Poor Man’s - Jewel_ (1578); R. Crowley, _Unlawful Practises of Prelates_ (> - 1583), sig. B 3^v; N. Bownde, _Doctrine of the Sabbath_ (1595), - 211; J. Norden, _Progress of Piety_ (1596, ed. _Parker Soc._), - 177; T. Beard, _Theatre of God’s Judgments_ (1597), 193, 197, - 374; W. Vaughan, _The Golden Grove_ (1600), i. 51; F. Hering, - _Rules for the Prevention of the Sickness_ (1603), sig. A 4^v; - R. Knolles, _Six Books of a Commonweal_ (1606, from J. Bodin, - _Six Livres de la République_, 1576–8, 1601), vi. 1; W. Perkins, - _Cases of Conscience_ (1608, ed. T. Pickering), 118; R. Bolton, - _Discourse of True Happiness_ (1611), 73; L. Bayly, _Practice of - Piety_ (_c._ 1612, ed. Webster, 1842), 182, 190; O. Lake, _Probe - Theologicall upon the Commandments_ (1612), 267; J. Dod and R. - Cleaver, _Exposition of the Ten Commandments_ (1612); G. Wither, - _Abuses Stript and Whipt_ (1613), ii. 3; D. Dyke, _Michael and - the Dragon_ (1615), 216. Probably such references could be - multiplied indefinitely; they show how dread of the stage became - a commonplace of pastoral theology. Thomas Spark’s _Rehearsal - Sermon_ (1579) is only known from the citation of it by Munday - (cf. No. xxvii, _infra_).] - - - i. 1489 (?). DESIDERIUS ERASMUS. - - [From _Epistola_ 31, to an unnamed friend (P. S. Allen, _Opus - Epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami_, i. 123), conjecturally - dated by Mr. Allen in 1489. Erasmus more briefly commends the - educational use both of Terence and Plautus in _De Ratione - Studii_ (1511, _Opera_, i. 521). In 1532 he edited Terence, and - to the same year belongs _Epist._ 1238 (_Opera_, iii. 2, 1457), - which praises the comedies without re-arguing at length the - ethical controversy; cf. W. H. Woodward, _Desiderius Erasmus - concerning the Aim and Method of Education_ (1904), 28, 39, 113, - 164.] - -Est enim in his Terentianis comoediis mirifica quaedam sermonis -puritas, proprietas, elegantia ac, vt in tam antiquo comico, horroris -minimum; lepos (sine quo rustica est omnis, quantumuis phalerata, -oratio) et vrbanus et salsus. Aut hoc igitur magistro aut nemine -discere licebit quo pacto veteres illi Latini, qui nunc vel nobis peius -balbutiunt, locuti sint. Hunc itaque tibi non modo etiam atque etiam -lectitandum censeo, verumetiam ad verbum ediscendum. - -Caue autem ne homuncionum istorum imperitulorum, imo liuidulorum -garritus te quicquam permoueant, qui vbi in ineptissimis authoribus -Florista, Ebrardo Graecista, Huguitione se senuisse viderunt, nec -tantis ambagibus ex imperitiae labyrintho potuisse emergere, id vnicum -suae stulticiae solatium proponunt, si in eundem errorem suum iuniores -omnes pelliciant. Nefas aiunt a Christianis lectitari Terentianas -fabulas. Quam ob rem tandem quaeso? Nihil, inquiunt, praeter lasciuiam -ac turpissimos adolescentum amores habent, quibus lectoris animum -corrumpi necesse sit. Facile vnde libet corrumpitur qui corruptus -accesserit. Syncerum nisi vas, quodcunque infundis acescit. Itane -isti religiosuli ad caetera vel vtilissima talpis caeciores, ad vnam, -si qua est, lasciuiam capreae sunt? Imo capri ac stolidi nihil sibi -praeter nequitiam, qua sola imbuti sunt (indocti quippe iidemque -mali), rapientes, non vident quanta illic sit moralitas, quanta vitae -instituendae tacita exhortatio, quanta sententiarum venustas. Neque -intelligunt totum hoc scripti genus ad coarguenda mortalium vitia -accommodatum, imo adeo inuentum. Quid enim sunt comoediae, nisi seruus -nugator, adolescens amore insanus, meretrix blanda ac procax, senex -difficilis, morosus, auarus? Haec nobis in fabulis, perinde atque -in tabula, proponuntur depicta; vt, quum in moribus hominum quid -deceat, quid dedeceat, viderimus, alterum amemus alterum castigemus. -En, in Eunucho Phaedria ille ex summa continentia in summam ineptiam -amore, tanquam morbo validissimo, immutatus, adeo vt eundem esse non -cognoscas; quam pulchro exemplo docet amorem rem esse et miserrimam et -anxiam, instabilem et prorsus insaniae turpissimae plenam. Assentatores -istos, pestilens hominum genus, Gnatonem suum, artis suae principem, -spectare iubeto. Iactabundi et sibi placentes, quales diuitum -plerosque imperitos videmus, Thrasonem suum spectent ac tandem cum sua -magnificentia quam ridiculi sint intelligant. - -Sed de his latius (quum [quae] de litteris scripsimus edemus) -nostra leges, volente quidem Deo. Ad praesentem locum satis fuerit -tetigisse comoedias Terentianas; modo recte legantur, non modo non ad -subuertendos mores, verum etiam ad corrigendos maximopere valere, certe -ad Latine discendum plane necessarias iudicauerim. An potius istud -ex Catholicon, Huguitione, Ebrardo, Papia caeterisque ineptioribus -sperare iubebunt? Mirum vero si his authoribus quis quid Latine dicat, -cum ipsi nihil non barbare locuti sint. Huiusmodi amplectatur, qui -balbutire volet; qui loqui cupiet, Terentium dicat, quem Cicero, quem -Quintilianus, quem Hieronymus, quem Augustinus, quem Ambrosius et -iuuenes didicere et senes vsi sunt; quem denique nemo, nisi barbarus, -non amauit. - - - ii. 1523–31. IOHANNES LUDOVICUS VIVES. - - - (_a_) - - [From Commentary on St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_ (1522), - viii. 27. The book was placed on the _Index Expurgatorius_, - ‘donec corrigatur’, and Rainolds, _Th’ Overthrow of - Stage-Playes_, 161, says that this was one of the offending - passages. Vives, a Spaniard by birth, was lecturer at Louvain - 1520–3, mainly in England 1523–8, and at Bruges 1528–31.] - -At qui mos nunc est, quo tempore sacrum celebratur Christi morte sua -genus humanum liberantis, ludos nihil prope a scenicis illis veteribus -differentes populo exhibere, etiam si aliud non dixero satis turpe -existimabit quisquis audiet, ludos fieri in re maxime seria. Ibi -ridetur Iudas, quam potest ineptissima iactans, dum Christum prodit: -ibi discipuli fugiunt militibus persequentibus, nec sine cachinnis -et actorum et spectatorum: ibi Petrus auriculam rescindit Malcho, -applaudente pullata turba, ceu ita vindicetur Christi captiuitas. -Et post paulum, qui tam strenue modo dimicarat, rogationibus unius -ancillulae territus abnegat magistrum, ridente multitudine ancillam -interrogantem, et exibilante Petrum negantem. Inter tot ludentes, inter -tot cachinnos et ineptias solus Christus est serius et seuerus. Quumque -affectus conatur moestos elicere, nescio quo pacto non ibi tantum, sed -etiam ad sacra frigefacit, magno scelere atque impietate, non tam eorum -qui vel spectant vel agunt, quam sacerdotum, qui eiusmodi fieri curant. -Sed hisce de rebus loquemur forsan commodiore loco. - - - (_b_) - - [From _De Tradendis Disciplinis_, iii. 6 (1531, _Opera_, vi. - 328).] - -After comparing the Latinity of Plautus and Terence for school -purposes, he adds: - -Ex vtroque cuperem resecta quae pueriles animos iis vitiis possent -polluere ad quae naturae quasi nutu quodam vergimus. - - - (_c_) - - [From _De Causis Corruptarum Artium_, ii. 4 (1531, _Opera_, vi. - 99).] - -Venit in scenam poesis, populo ad spectandum congregato, et ibi sicut -pictor tabulam proponit multitudini spectandam, ita poeta imaginem -quandam vitae; vt merito Plutarchus de his dixerit, Poema esse -picturam loquentem, et picturam poema tacens, ita magister est populi, -et pictor, et poeta: corrupta est haec ars, quod ab insectatione -flagitiorum et scelerum transiit ad obsequium prauae affectionis, -vt quaecunque odisset poeta, in eum linguae ac stili intemperantia -abuteretur: cui iniuriae atque insolentiae itum est obuiam, primum a -diuitibus potentia sua, et opibus, hinc legibus, quibus cauebatur, -ne quis in alium noxium carmen pangeret: tum inuolucris coepit tegi -fabula; paullatim res tota ad ludicra, et in vulgum plausibilia, est -traducta, ad amores, ad fraudes meretricum, ad periuria lenonis, ad -militis ferociam et glorias; quae quum dicerentur cuneis refertis -puerorum, puellarum, mulierum, turba opificum hominum, et rudium, mirum -quam vitiabantur mores ciuitatis admonitione illa, et quasi incitatione -ad flagitia, praesertim quum comici semper catastrophen laetam -adderent amoribus, et impudicitiae; nam si quando addidissent tristes -exitus, deterruissent ab iis actibus spectatores, quibus euentus -esset paratus acerbissimus. In quo sapientior fuit qui nostra lingua -scripsit Celestinam tragicomoediam; nam progressui amorum, et illis -gaudiis voluptatis, exitum annexuit amarissimum, nempe amatorum, lenae, -lenonum casus et neces violentas: neque vero ignorarunt olim fabularum -scriptores turpia esse quae scriberent, et moribus iuuentutis damnosa -... Recentiores in linguis vernaculis multo, mea quidem sententia, -excellunt veteres in argumento deligendo. Nullae fere exhibentur nunc -publicae fabulae quae non delectationem vtilitate coniungant. - - - iii. 1531. SIR THOMAS ELYOT. - - [From _The Governour_, i. 13 (ed. H. H. S. Croft, i. 123).] - -‘They whiche be ignoraunt in poetes wyll perchaunce obiecte, as is -their maner, agayne these verses [Horace, _Epist._ ii. 1. 126–31], -sayeng that in Therence and other that were writers of comedies, -also Ouide, Catullus, Martialis, and all that route of lasciuious -poetes that wrate epistles and ditties of loue, some called in latine -_Elegiæ_ and some _Epigrammata_, is nothyng contayned but -incitation to lechery. - -First, comedies, whiche they suppose to be a doctrinall of rybaudrie, -they be undoutedly a picture or as it were a mirrour of man’s life, -wherin iuell is nat taught but discouered; to the intent that men -beholdynge the promptnes of youth unto vice, the snares of harlotts -and baudes laid for yonge myndes, the disceipte of seruantes, the -chaunces of fortune contrary to mennes expectation, they beinge therof -warned may prepare them selfe to resist or preuente occasion. Semblably -remembring the wisedomes, aduertisements, counsailes, dissuasion from -vice, and other profitable sentences, most eloquently and familiarely -shewed in those comedies, undoubtedly there shall be no litle frute -out of them gathered. And if the vices in them expressed shulde be -cause that myndes of the reders shulde be corrupted: than by the -same argumente nat only entreludes in englisshe, but also sermones, -wherin some vice is declared, shulde be to the beholders and herers -like occasion to encreace sinners.’ Quotes Terence, _Eunuchus_, -v. 4. 8–18, on the moral end of comedy and virtuous counsel from -Plautus, _Amphitruo_, ii. 2. 17–21; Ovid, _Remedia Amoris_, -131–6; and Martial, _Epigr._ xii. 34. ‘Wherfore sens good and -wise mater may be picked out of these poetes, it were no reason, for -some lite mater that is in their verses, to abandone therefore al -their warkes, no more than it were to forbeare or prohibite a man to -come into a faire gardein, leste the redolent sauours of swete herbes -and floures shall meue him to wanton courage, or leste in gadringe -good and holsome herbes he may happen to be stunge with a nettile. -No wyse man entreth in to a gardein but he sone espiethe good herbes -from nettiles, and treadeth the nettiles under his feete whiles he -gadreth good herbes. Wherby he taketh no damage, or if he be stungen -he maketh lite of it and shortly forgetteth it. Semblablye if he do -rede wanton mater mixte with wisedome, he putteth the warst under foote -and sorteth out the beste, or, if his courage be stered or prouoked, -he remembreth the litel pleasure and gret detriment that shulde ensue -of it, and withdrawynge his minde to some other studie or exercise -shortly forgetteth it.... So all thoughe I do nat approue the lesson of -wanton poetes to be taughte unto all children, yet thynke I conuenient -and necessary that, when the mynde is become constante and courage is -asswaged, or that children of their naturall disposition be shamfaste -and continent, none auncient poete wolde be excluded from the leesson -of suche one as desireth to come to the perfection of wysedome.’ - - - iv. c. 1538 (?). NICHOLAS UDALL. - - [From Prologue to _Roister Doister_ (? 1566–7).] - - What Creature is in health, eyther yong or olde, - But som mirth with modestie wil be glad to use - As we in thys Enterlude shall now unfolde, - Wherin all scurilitie we utterly refuse, - Avoiding such mirth wherin is abuse: - Knowing nothing more comendable for a mans recreation - Than Mirth which is used in an honest fashion: - - For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health. - Mirth recreates our spirites and voydeth pensivenesse, - Mirth increaseth amitie, not hindring our wealth, - Mirth is to be used both of more and lesse, - Being mixed with vertue in decent comlynesse. - As we trust no good nature can gainsay the same: - Which mirth we intende to use, avoidyng all blame. - - The wyse Poets long time heretofore, - Under merrie Comedies secretes did declare, - Wherein was contained very vertuous lore, - With mysteries and forewarnings very rare. - Suche to write neither _Plautus_ nor _Terence_ dyd spare, - Whiche among the learned at this day beares the bell: - These with such other therein dyd excell. - - - v. 1551. MARTIN BUCER. - - [From _De honestis ludis_, a section of _De Regno - Christi_, presented to Edward VI by Bucer, who was then - Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, on 1 Jan. 1551, - printed in 1557, and again in _Scripta Anglicana_ (1577), - ii. 54.] - -Poterit iuuentus etiam exerceri agendo comoedias et tragoedias: -populisque his honesta, et ad augendam pietatem non inutilis exhiberi -oblectatio: sed piis, et ad regnum Christi doctis atque sapientibus -viris opus fuerit, qui comoedias eas atque tragoedias componant: in -quibus nimirum eiusmodi imitatio repraesentetur, consiliorum, actionum, -atque euentuum humanorum, siue communium et vulgarium, vt fit in -comoediis: sive singularium et qui sint maioris admirationis, quod -proprium est tragoediae, quae ad certam morum correctionem, et piam -conserat vitae institutionem. - -Vt si comoedia repraesentetur iurgium pastorum Abrahae et Lot, atque -horum a se inuicem discessio.... In huiusmodi comoedia tractari -possent, et vtili ad piam institutionem oblectatione repraesentari, -hi loci.... Ad eundem modum suppeditet piae comoediae vberem sane et -aedificandae pietati peridoneam materiam, historia quaesitae, obtentae -et adductae Isaaco sponsae Ribkae: ex hac enim historia queat describi -pia parentum cura, quaerendi liberis suis religiosa connubia: fides -bona et officiositas proborum seruorum.... Non dissimile argumentum -desumi queat et ex ea historiae de Iacobo parti qua describitur, -vt metu fratris, relictis parentibus, ad Labam auunculum suum -concesserit.... - -Tragoediis, Scripturae vbique perquam copiosam offerunt materiam, -historiis prope omnibus S. Patrum, regum, Prophetarum et Apostolorum -inde ab Adam vsque, primo humani generis parente. Omnino enim refertae -sunt hae historiae diuinis et heroicis personis, affectionibus, -moribus, actionibus, euentibus quoque inexpectatis, atque in contrarium -quam expectarentur cadentibus, quae Aristoteles vocat περιπετείας. Quae -omnia cum mirificam vim habeant fidem in Deum confirmandi, et amorem -studiumque Dei accendendi admirationem item pietatis atque iusticiae, -et horrorem impietatis, omnisque peruersitatis ingenerandi atque -augendi: quanto magis deceat Christianos, ut ex his sua poemata sumant, -quibus magna et illustria hominum consilia, conatus, ingenium, affectus -atque casus repraesentent, quam ex impiis ethnicorum vel fabulis vel -historiis! Adhibendae autem sunt in vtroque genere poematum, comico -et tragico, vt cum hominum vitia et peccata describuntur, et actione -quasi oculis conspicienda exhibentur, id fiat ea ratione, vt quamuis -perditorum hominum referantur scelera, tamen terror quidam in his -diuini iudicii, et horror appareat peccati: non exprimantur exultans in -scelere oblectatio, atque confidens audacia. Praestat hinc detrahere -aliquid decoro poetico, quam curae aedificandi pietate spectatores; -quae poscit vt in omni peccati repraesentatione sentiantur, -conscientiae propriae condemnatio, et a iudicio Dei horrenda trepidatio. - -At dum piae et probae exhibentur actiones, in his debet exprimi -quam clarissime sensus divinae misericordiae laetus, securaque et -confidens, moderata tamen, et diffidens sibi exultansque in Deo fiducia -promissionum Dei cum sancta et spirituali in recte faciendo voluptate. -Hac enim ratione sanctorum et ingenia, et mores, et affectus, ad -instaurandam in populo omnem pietatem ac virtutem, quam scitissima -imitatione repraesentantur. Eum autem fructum vt Christi populus ex -sanctis comoediis et tragoediis percipiant praeficiendi et huic rei -erunt viri, vt horum poematum singulariter intelligentes, ita etiam -explorati et constantis studii in regnum Christi: ne qua omnino agatur -comoedia, aut tragoedia, quam hi non ante perspectam decreuerint -agendam. - -Hi quoque curabunt, ne quid leue aut histrionicum in agendo admittatur: -sed omnia exhibeantur sancta quadam, et graui, iucunda tamen, sanctis -duntaxat, actione: qua repraesententur non tam res ipsae, et actiones -hominum, affectus et perturbationes, quam mores et ingenia: ac ita -repraesententur, vt excitetur in spectatoribus studiosa imitatio: eorum -autem quae secus sunt instituta et facta, confirmetur detestatio, et -excitetur declinatio vigilantior. - -His observatis cautionibus, poterit sane multa, nec minus ad virtutem -alendam prouehendamque, vtilis ludendi materia iuuentuti praeberi, -maxime cum studium et cura eiusmodi et comoediarum et tragoediarum -excitata fuerit, cum lingua vernacula, tum etiam lingua Latina et -Graeca. Extant nunc aliquot non poenitendae huius generis comoediae -et tragoediae, in quibus, etiamsi docti mundi huius desiderent in -comoediis illud acumen, eumque leporem, et sermonis venustatem, quem -admirantur in Aristophanis, Terentii, Plautique fabulis: in tragoediis, -grauitatem, versutiam, orationisque elegantiam, Sophoclis, Euripidis, -Senecae: docti tamen ad regnum Dei, et qui viuendi Deo sapientiam -discere student, non desiderant in his nostrorum hominum poematis -doctrinam coelestem, affectus, mores, orationem, casusque dignos filiis -Dei. Optandum tamen, vt quibus Deus plus dedit in his rebus praestare, -vt id mallent ad eius gloriam explicare, quam aliorum pia studia -intempestiuis reprehensionibus suis retardare: atque ducere satius, -comoedias atque tragoedias exhibere, quibus si minus ars poetica, -scientia tamen vitae aeternae praeclare exhibetur, quam quibus vt -ingenii linguaeque cultus aliquid iuuatur, ita animus et mores impia -atque foeda et scurrili mutatione conspurcantur. - - - vi. 1559. WILLIAM BAVANDE. - - [From _A Woork of Ioannes Ferrarius Montanus touchynge the good - orderynge of a Common-weale_, translated from the _De Republica - bene instituenda Paraenesis_, published by Ferrarius, a Marburg - jurist, in 1556.] - -[Extracts] f. 81. ‘The laste of all [the seven handicrafts in a -commonweal] is the exercise of stage plaiyng, where the people use to -repaire to beholde plaies, as well priuate as publique, whiche be set -forthe partlie to delight, partlie to move us to embrace ensamples of -vertue and goodnesse, and to eschue vice and filthie liuyng’ ... f. -100^v. ‘_Chapter viii, Concernyng Scaffolds and Pageauntes of divers -games and plaies and how farre thei be to be allowed, and set forthe -in a Citee_.... Plaies, set foorthe either upon stages, or in open -Merket places, or els where, for menne to beholde. Whiche, as thei -doe sometime profite, so likewise thei tourne to great harme, if thei -be not used in such sorte, as is bothe ciuill and semely in a citee, -whiche wee dooe abuse, when anythyng is set foorthe openly, that is -uncleanlie, unchaste, shamefull, cruell, wicked, and not standyng -with honestie.... Soche pastimes therefore muste bee set foorthe in a -commonweale, as doe minister unto us good ensamples, wherin delight and -profite be matched togither.... It is a commendable and lawfull thing -to bee at plaies, but at soche tymes as when we be unoccupied with -grave and seuere affaires, not onely for our pleasure and minde sake, -but that hauyng little to doe, we maie learne that, whiche shall bee -our furtheraunce in vertue.... There shall be no Tragedie, no Comedie, -nor any other kinde of plaie, but it maie encrease the discipline of -good maners, if by the helpe of reason and zeale of honestie, it bee -well emploied. Which then is doen, when, if thou either hearest, or -seest anything committed that is euill, cruell, vilanous, and unseamely -for a good manne, thou learnest thereby to beware and understandest -that it is not onely a shame to committe any soche thinge but also -that it shall be reuenged with euerlasting death. Contrariwise, if -thou doest espie any thing dooen or saied well, manfully, temperatly, -soberly, iustly, godlilye, & vertuously, thou ... maiest labour to -doe that thyself, whiche thou likest in another.... With whiche -discrecion, who so beholdeth Tragedies, Comedies, ... plaies of -histories, holie or prophane, or any pageaunt, on stage or on grounde, -shall not mispende his time. But like as a Bee of diuers floures, that -be of theire owne nature of smalle use, gathereth the swetenes of her -honie: so thence gathereth he that which is commodious for the trade of -his life, ioigneth it with his painfull trauaile, and declareth that -soche histories and exercises bee the eloquence of the bodie.’ - - - vii. 1563–8. ROGER ASCHAM. - - [From _The Scholemaster_ (1570), as reprinted in W. A. Wright, - _English Works of Roger Ascham_ (1904), 171. The tract, which - was largely based on the teaching of Ascham’s friend John Sturm, - was begun as a New Year gift for Elizabeth in December 1563, and - left unfinished at the author’s death in 1568. The best modern - edition is by J. E. B. Mayor (1863).] - -_The first booke teachyng the brynging vp of youth_.... P. 185. In -the earliest stage of Latin, Ascham ‘would haue the Scholer brought -vp withall, till he had red, & translated ouer y^e first booke of -[Cicero’s] Epistles chosen out by _Sturmius_, with a good peece of a -Comedie of _Terence_ also.... P. 208. There be som seruing men do but -ill seruice to their yong masters. Yea, rede _Terence_ and _Plaut_. -aduisedlie ouer, and ye shall finde in those two wise writers, almost -in euery commedie, no vnthriftie yong man, that is not brought there -vnto, by the sotle inticement of som lewd seruant. And euen now in our -dayes _Getae_ and _Daui_, _Gnatos_ and manie bold bawdie _Phormios_ -to, be preasing in, to pratle on euerie stage, to medle in euerie -matter, when honest _Parmenos_ shall not be hard, but beare small swing -with their masters.... _The second booke teachyng the ready way to -the Latin tong_.... P. 238. Read dayly vnto him ... some Comedie of -_Terence_ or _Plautus_: but in _Plautus_, skilfull choice must be vsed -by the master, to traine his Scholler to a iudgement, in cutting out -perfitelie ouer old and vnproper wordes.... On _Imitatio_ ... P. 266. -The whole doctrine of Comedies and Tragedies, is a perfite _imitation_, -or faire liuelie painted picture of the life of euerie degree of -man.... One of the best examples, for right _Imitation_ we lacke, and -that is _Menander_, whom our _Terence_ (as the matter required) in like -argument, in the same Persons, with equall eloquence, foote by foote -did follow. Som peeces remaine, like broken Iewelles, whereby men may -rightlie esteme, and iustlie lament, the losse of the whole.... P. -276. In Tragedies, (the goodliest Argument of all, and for the vse, -either of a learned preacher, or a Ciuill Ientleman, more profitable -than _Homer_, _Pindar_, _Vergill_, and _Horace_: yea comparable -in myne opinion, with the doctrine of _Aristotle_, _Plato_, and -_Xenophon_,) the _Grecians_, _Sophocles_ and _Euripides_ far ouer match -our _Seneca_, in _Latin_, namely in οἱκονομία _et Decoro_, although -_Senecaes_ elocution and verse be verie commendable for his tyme.’ -... P. 284. Ascham describes some contemporary Latin tragedies.... P. -286. ‘Of this short tyme of any pureness of the Latin tong, for the -first fortie yeare of it, and all the tyme before, we haue no peece -of learning left, saue _Plautus_ and _Terence_, with a litle rude -vnperfit pamflet of the elder _Cato_. And as for _Plautus_, except the -scholemaster be able to make wise and ware choice, first in proprietie -of wordes, then in framing of phrases and sentences, and chieflie in -choice of honestie of matter, your scholer were better to play, then -learne all that is in him. But surelie, if iudgement for the tong, and -direction for the maners, be wisely ioyned with the diligent reading -of _Plautus_, than trewlie _Plautus_, for that purenesse of the Latin -tong in Rome, whan Rome did most florish in wel doing, and so thereby, -in well speaking also, is soch a plentifull storehouse, for common -eloquence, in meane matters, and all priuate mens affaires, as the -Latin tong, for that respect, hath not the like agayne. Whan I remember -the worthy tyme of Rome, wherein _Plautus_ did liue, I must nedes honor -the talke of that tyme, which we see _Plautus_ doth vse. _Terence_ -is also a storehouse of the same tong, for an other tyme, following -soone after, & although he be not so full & plentiful as _Plautus_ is, -for multitude of matters, & diuersitie of wordes, yet his wordes, be -chosen so purelie, placed so orderly, and all his stuffe so neetlie -packed vp, and wittely compassed in euerie place, as, by all wise -mens iudgement, he is counted the cunninger workeman, and to haue his -shop, for the rowme that is in it, more finely appointed, and trimlier -ordered, than _Plautus_ is.... The matter in both, is altogether within -the compasse of the meanest mens maners, and doth not stretch to any -thing of any great weight at all, but standeth chiefly in vtteryng the -thoughtes and conditions of hard fathers, foolish mothers, vnthrifty -yong men, craftie seruantes, sotle bawdes, and wilie harlots, and so, -is moch spent, in finding out fine fetches, and packing vp pelting -matters, soch as in London commonlie cum to the hearing of the Masters -of Bridewell. Here is base stuffe for that scholer, that should becum -hereafter, either a good minister in Religion, or a Ciuill Ientleman -in seruice of his Prince and contrie: except the preacher do know soch -matters to confute them, whan ignorance surelie in all soch thinges -were better for a Ciuill Ientleman, than knowledge. And thus, for -matter, both Plautus and Terence, be like meane painters, that worke by -halfes, and be cunning onelie, in making the worst part of the picture, -as if one were skilfull in painting the bodie of a naked person, from -the nauell downward, but nothing else.’ - - - viii. 1565. WILLIAM ALLEY. - - [From _Miscellanea_ of notes to a _Praelectio_ of 1561 in - Πτωχὸμυσεȋον: _The Poore Mans Librarie_ (1565). On Alley, v. ch. - xxiii, s.v.] - -Alas, are not almost al places in these daies replenished with iuglers, -scoffers, iesters, plaiers, which may say and do what they lust, be it -neuer so fleshly and filthy? and yet suffred and heard with laughing -and clapping of handes. - - - ix. 1565–71. RICHARD EDWARDES. - - [The Prologue to _Damon and Pithias_. It appears from the - title-page that this had been ‘somewhat altered’ between the - production of the play in 1565 and its publication in 1571; cf. - ch. xxiii.] - - On euerie syde, wheras I glaunce my rouyng eye, - Silence in all eares bent I playnty do espie: - But if your egre lookes doo longe suche toyes to see, - As heretofore in commycall wise, were wont abroade to bee: - Your lust is lost, and all the pleasures that you sought, - Is frustrate quite of toying Playes. A soden change is wrought. - For loe, our Authors Muse, that masked in delight, - Hath forst his Penne agaynst his kinde, no more suche sportes to write. - Muse he that lust, (right worshipfull) for chaunce hath made this change, - For that to some he seemed too muche, in yonge desires to range: - In whiche, right glad to please, seyng that he did offende, - Of all he humblie pardon craues: his Pen that shall amende: - And yet (worshipfull Audience,) thus much I dare aduouche. - In Commedies, the greatest Skyll is this, rightly to touche - All thynges to the quicke: and eke to frame eche person so, - That by his common talke, you may his nature rightly knowe: - A Royster ought not preache, that were to straunge to heare, - But as from vertue he doth swerue, so ought his woordes appeare: - The olde man is sober, the yonge man rashe, the Louer triumphyng in ioyes, - The Matron graue, the Harlot wilde and full of wanton toyes. - Whiche all in one course they [in] no wise doo agree: - So correspondent to their kinde their speeches ought to bee. - Which speeches well pronounste, with action liuely framed, - If this offende the lookers on, let _Horace_ then be blamed, - Which hath our Author taught at Schole, from whom he doth not swarue, - In all suche kinde of exercise decorum to obserue, - Thus much for his defence (he sayth) as Poetes earst haue donne, - Which heretofore in Commedies the selfe same rase did ronne: - But now for to be briefe, the matter to expresse, - Which here wee shall present: is this _Damon_ and _Pithias_, - A rare ensample of Friendship true, it is no Legend lie, - But a thinge once donne in deede as Hystories doo discrie, - Whiche doone of yore in longe time past, yet present shalbe here, - Euen as it were in dooynge now, so liuely it shall appeare: - Lo here in _Siracusae_ thauncient Towne, which once the Romaines wonne, - Here _Dionysius_ Pallace, within whose Courte this thing most strange was donne, - Which matter mixt with myrth and care, a iust name to applie, - As seemes most fit wee haue it termed, a Tragicall Commedie, - Wherein talkyng of Courtly toyes, wee doo protest this flat, - Wee talke of _Dionysius_ Courte, wee meane no Court but that, - And that wee doo so meane, who wysely calleth to minde. - The time, the place, the Authours here most plainely shall it finde, - Loe this I speake for our defence, lest of others wee should be shent: - But worthy Audience, wee you pray, take thinges as they be ment, - Whose vpright Judgement wee doo craue, with heedefull eare and eye, - To here the cause, and see theffect of this newe Tragicall Commedie. - - - x. 1566. LEWIS WAGER. - - [From Prologue to _The Life and Repentance of Marie Magdalene_ - (1566). cf. ch. xxiii.] - - We and other persons haue exercised l. 10. - This comely and good facultie a long season, - Which of some haue bene spitefully despised; - Wherefore, I thinke, they can alleage no reason. - Where affect ruleth, there good iudgement is geason. - They neuer learned the verse of Horace doubtles, - Nec tua laudabis studia, aut aliena reprehendes.... - - I maruell why they should detract our facultie: l. 24. - We haue ridden and gone many sundry waies; - Yea, we haue vsed this feate at the vniuersitie; - Yet neither wise nor learned would it dispraise: ... - - Doth not our facultie learnedly extoll vertue? l. 31. - Doth it not teache, God to be praised aboue al thing? - What facultie doth vice more earnestly subdue? - Doth it not teache true obedience to the kyng? - What godly sentences to the mynde doth it bryng! - I saie, there was neuer thyng inuented, - More worth for man’s solace to be frequented. - - Hipocrites that wold not haue their fautes reueled - Imagine slaunder our facultie to let; - Faine wold they haue their wickednes still concealed; - Therfore maliciously against vs they be set; - O (say they) muche money they doe get. - Truely, I say, whether you geue halfpence or pence, - Your gayne shalbe double, before you depart hence.... - - We desire no man in this poynt to be offended, l. 80. - In that vertues with vice we shall here introduce; - For in men and women they haue depended: - And therfore figuratiuely to speake, it is the vse. - I trust that all wise men will accept our excuse. - Of the Preface for this season here I make an ende; - In godly myrth to spend the tyme we doe intende. - - - xi. 1569. ANON. - - [T. Warton, _History of Poetry_, iii (1781) 288 (ed. Hazlitt, - iv. 217), ascribes to this year a ‘Puritanical pamphlet without - name’, _The Children of the Chapel stript and whipt_, which he - says was ‘among Bishop Tanner’s books at Oxford’. It is not, - however, now traceable in the Bodleian. Warton’s extracts are - quoted in ch. xii, s.v. Chapel.] - - - xii. 1569. HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. - - [From _Henry Cornelius Agrippa, of the Vanitie and uncertaintie - of Artes and Sciences_, Englished by Ja[mes] San[ford] Gent. - (1569), a translation of _De incertitudine et vanitate - scientiarium et artium atque excellentia Verbi Dei declamatio_ - (1530), written in 1526 (_Opera_, ii. 1).] - -‘Cap. 4. Of Poetrie’ condemns it as lying. ‘Cap. 20. Of the Science -of stage Plaiers.’ After defining the player’s art and citing the -discussion between Cicero and Roscius recorded by Macrobius (cf. -no. xliii and ch. xi) and the banishment of players by the City of -Marseilles (cf. _Mediaeval Stage_, i. 7), Agrippa concludes, ‘And -therefore to exercise this Arte, is not onely a dishonest and wicked -occupation, but also to behold it, and therein to delite is a shameful -thinge, bicause that the delite of a wanton minde is an offence. And -to conclude, there was in times paste no name more infamous then stage -players, and moreouer, al they that had plaide an Enterlude in the -Theater, were by the lawes depriued from all honour.’ Plays are briefly -referred to in ‘Cap. 59. Of Holy daies’ and ‘Cap. 63. Of the whoorishe -Arte’. - - - xiii. 1574. GEOFFREY FENTON. - - [From _A Forme of Christian Pollicie gathered out of French_ - (1574). No single source has been traced and the treatise is - probably a compilation.] - -Book iii, ch. 7. ‘Players ... corrupt good moralities by wanton shewes -and playes: they ought not to be suffred to prophane the Sabboth -day in such sportes, and much lesse to lose time on the dayes of -trauayle. All dissolute playes ought to be forbidden: All comicall and -tragicall showes of schollers in morall doctrines, and declamations -in causes made to reprooue and accuse vice and extoll vertue are very -profitable.’ _The 7 Chapter_ expands the foregoing.... ‘Great then -is the errour of the magistrate to geue sufferance to these players, -whether they bee minstrels, or enterludours who on a scaffold, babling -vaine newes to the sclander of the world, put there in scoffing the -vertues of honest men.... There often times are blowen abroade the -publike and secreete vices of men, sometimes shrowded under honourable -personage, withe infinite other offences.... How often is the maiestie -of God offended in those twoo or three howres that those playes endure, -both by wicked wordes, and blasphemye, impudent jestures, doubtful -sclaunders, unchaste songes, and also by corruption of the willes of -the players and the assistauntes. Let no man obiect heare that by these -publike plaies, many forbeare to doo euill, for feare to bee publikely -reprehended ... for it may be aunswered first, that in such disguised -plaiers geuen over to all sortes of dissolucion, is not found a wil to -do good, seeing they care for nothing lesse than vertue: secondlye that -is not the meane to correct sinne.... Heare I reprooue not the plaies -of scollers ... Ch. 6. I wish that in place of daunses at mariage, the -time were supplied with some comical or historical show of the auncient -manages of Abraham and Sara, of Isaac and Rebecca, and of the two -Tobies and theyr wiues, matters honest and tending much to edify the -assistauntes.’ - - - xiv. 1575. GEORGE GASCOIGNE. - - [Prologue to _The Glasse of Governement_ (cf. ch. xxiii).] - - What man hath minde to heare a worthie Jest, - Or seekes to feede his eye with vayne delight: - That man is much unmeete to be a guest, - At such a feaste as I prepare this night. - Who list laye out some pence in such a Marte, - Bellsavage fayre were fittest for his purse, - I lyst not so to misbestowe mine arte, - I have best wares, what neede I then shewe woorse? - An Enterlude may make you laugh your fill, - _Italian_ toyes are full of pleasaunt sporte: - Playne speache to use, if wanton be your wyll, - You may be gone, wyde open standes the porte. - But if you can contented be to heare, - In true discourse howe hygh the vertuous clyme, - Howe low they fall which lyve withouten feare - Of God or man, and much mispende theyr tyme: - What ryght rewardes a trustie servaunt earnes, - What subtile snares these Sycophantes can use, - Howe soone the wise such crooked guyles discernes, - Then stay a whyle: gyve eare unto my Muse. - A Comedie, I meane for to present, - No _Terence_ phrase: his tyme and myne are twaine: - The verse that pleasde a _Romaine_ rashe intent, - Myght well offend the godly Preachers vayne. - Deformed shewes were then esteemed muche, - Reformed speeche doth now become us best, - Mens wordes muste weye and tryed be by touche - Of Gods owne worde, wherein the truth doth rest. - Content you then (my Lordes) with good intent, - Grave Citizens, you people greate and small, - To see your selves in Glasse of Governement: - Beholde rashe youth, which daungerously doth fall - On craggy rockes of sorrowes nothing softe, - When sober wittes by Vertue clymes alofte. - - - xv. 1577. THOMAS WHITE. - - [From _A Sermon preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde - of November 1577 in the time of the Plague_. By T. W. This was - printed, according to the colophon, by F. Coldocke on 10 Feb. - 1578. There are two copies in the B.M., but one has been bound - in error with the title-page of an earlier sermon of 9 Dec. - 1576, by the same author. T. W. was probably Thomas White, vicar - of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, and later founder of Sion College - and of White’s Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. The - sermon is sometimes claimed for Thomas Wilcox; but he was in - ecclesiastical disgrace in 1577 and unlikely to have access to - Paul’s Cross.] - -P. 46. ‘Looke but vppon the common playes in London, and see the -multitude that flocketh to them and followeth them: beholde the -sumptuous Theatre houses, a continuall monument of Londons prodigalitie -and folly. But I vnderstande they are nowe forbidden bycause of the -plague. I like the pollicye well if it holde still, for a disease is -but bodged or patched vp that is not cured in the cause, and the cause -of plagues is sinne, if you looke to it well: and the cause of sinne -are playes: therefore the cause of plagues are playes.... Shall I -reckon vp the monstrous birds that brede in this nest? without doubt I -am ashamed, and I should surely offende your chast eares: but the olde -world is matched, and Sodome ouercome, for more horrible enormities -and swelling sins are set out by those stages, than euery man thinks -for, or some would beleeue, if I shold paint them out in their colours: -without doubt you can scantly name me a sinne, that by that sincke is -not set a gogge: theft and whoredome; pride and prodigality; villanie -and blasphemie; these three couples of helhoundes neuer cease barking -there, and bite manye, so as they are vncurable euer after, so that -many a man hath the leuder wife, and many a wife the shreuder husband -by it: and it can not otherwise be, but that whiche robbeth flatlye the -Lord of all his honor, and is directly against the whole first table of -his law, should make no bones of breache of the second also, which is -toward our neighbour only. Wherefore if thou be a father, thou losest -thy child: if thou be a maister, thou losest thy seruaunt; and thou be -what thou canst be, thou losest thy selfe that hauntest those scholes -of vice, dennes of theeues, and Theatres of all leudnesse: and if it be -not suppressed in time, it will make such a Tragedie, that London may -well mourne whyle it is London, for it is no playing time.’ - - - xvi. 1577. JOHN NORTHBROOKE. - - [From _A Treatise wherein Dicing, Dauncing, Vaine playes, or - Enterluds, with other idle pastimes, &c., commonly used on the - Sabboth day, are reproued by the Authoritie of the word of God - and auntient writers_. N.D. H. Bynneman for George Byshop. - This is doubtless the ‘booke wherein Dycinge, dauncinge, vaine - playenge and Interludes, with other idle pastimes, &c., comonlie - used on the Saboth daie are reproved’, entered for Bishop in S. - R. on 2 Dec. 1577 (Arber, ii. 321). A second edition was printed - in 1579. Northbrooke was a Gloucester minister. The book was - edited by J. P. Collier (1843, _Sh. Soc._).] - -[Summary and Extracts.] The treatise is ‘made dialogue-wise’ between -Youth and Age. _Epistles_ to Sir John Yong and to The Christian -and Faithful Reader, dated respectively from Bristol and Henbury. _A -Treatise against Idlenes, Idle Pastimes, and Playes._ The greater -part deals generally with ‘ydle playes and vaine pastimes’ and their -relation to the Christian life. P. 82. Youth asks Age his opinion -of ‘playes and players, which are commonly vsed and much frequented -in most places in these dayes, especiallye here in this noble and -honourable citie of London’. Age condemns ‘stage playes and enterludes’ -as ‘not tollerable, nor sufferable in any common weale, especially -where the Gospell is preached; for it is right prodigalitie, which -is opposite to liberalitie’. Considers ‘the giftes, buildings, and -maintenance of such places for players a spectacle and schoole for -all wickednesse and vice to be learned in’, and particularly applies -this to ‘those places also, whiche are made vppe and builded for such -playes and enterludes, as the Theatre and Curtaine is, and other such -lyke places.... Satan hath not a more speedie way, and fitter schoole -to work and teach his desire, to bring men and women into his snare -of concupiscence and filthie lustes of wicked whoredome, than those -places, and playes, and theatres are; and therefore necessarie that -those places, and players, shoulde be forbidden, and dissolued, and put -downe by authoritie, as the brothell houses and stewes are’. Quotes the -Fathers on the offences to chastity at theatres. P. 92. Condemns the -playing of ‘histories out of the scriptures. By the long suffering and -permitting of these vaine plays, it hath stricken such a blinde zeale -into the heartes of the people, that they shame not to say, and affirme -openly, that playes are as good as sermons, and that they learne as -much or more at a playe, than they do at God’s worde preached.... Many -can tarie at a vayne playe two or three houres, when as they will not -abide scarce one houre at a sermon.... I speake (alas! with griefe -and sorowe of heart) against those people that are so fleshlye ledde, -to see what rewarde there is giuen to such crocodiles, whiche deuoure -the pure chastitie bothe of single and maried persons, men and women, -when as in their playes you shall learne all things that appertayne to -craft, mischiefe, deceytes, and filthinesse, &c. If you will learne -howe to bee false and deceyue your husbandes, or husbandes their wyues, -howe to playe the harlottes, to obtayne one’s loue, howe to rauishe, -howe to beguyle, howe to betraye, to flatter, lye, sweare, forsweare, -how to allure to whoredome, howe to murther, howe to poyson, howe to -disobey and rebell against princes, to consume treasures prodigally, -to mooue to lustes, to ransacke and spoyle cities and townes, to -bee ydle, to blaspheme, to sing filthie songs of loue, to speake -filthily, to be prowde, howe to mocke, scoffe, and deryde any nation -... shall not you learne, then, at such enterludes howe to practise -them?... Therefore, great reason it is that women (especiallye) shoulde -absent themselues from such playes.’ Notes the _infamia_ of -_histriones_, which he translates ‘enterlude players’, and refers -to the statute of 1572. Expounds the heathen origin of plays. P. 101. -Youth admits ‘that they ought to be ouerthrowne and put downe.... Yet -I see little sayd, and lesse done vnto them; great resort there is -daily vnto them, and thereout sucke they no small aduantage’. P. 102. -‘They vse to set vp their billes vpon postes certain dayes before, to -admonishe the people to make their resort vnto their theatres, that -they may thereby be the better furnished, and the people prepared to -fill their purses with their treasures.’ P. 102. Youth concludes: ‘I -maruaile the magistrates suffer them thus to continue, and to haue -houses builded for such exercises.... I maruaile much, sithe the rulers -are not onely negligent and slowe herein to doe, but the preachers are -as dumme to speake and saye in a pulpitte against it’; and Age: ‘I -doubt not but God will so moue the hearts of magistrates, and loose -the tongue of the preachers in such godly sort (by the good deuout -prayers of the faithfull) that both with the sworde and the worde such -vnfruitfull and barren trees shall be cut downe’. P. 103. Youth then -raises the question of scholastic plays. These Age admits. ‘I thinke -it is lawefull for a schoolmaster to practise his schollers to playe -comedies, obseruing these and the like cautions: first, that those -comedies which they shall play be not mixt with anye ribaudrie and -filthie termes and wordes (which corrupt good manners). Secondly, that -it be for learning and vtterance sake, in Latine, and very seldome -in Englishe. Thirdly, that they vse not to play commonly and often, -but verye rare and seldome. Fourthlye, that they be not pranked and -decked vp in gorgious and sumptious apparell in their play. Fiftly, -that it be not made a common exercise, publickly, for profit and gaine -of money, but for learning and exercise sake. And lastly, that their -comedies be not mixte with vaine and wanton toyes of loue. These being -obserued, I iudge it tollerable for schollers.’ _An Inuectiue against -Dice-Playing_ and _A Treatise against Dauncing_. - - - xvii. 1578. JOHN STOCKWOOD. - - [From _A Sermon Preached at Paules Crosse_ on 24 Aug. 1578. A - reprint is in Harrison, iv. 329. John Stockwood was Master of - Tonbridge Grammar School.] - -P. 23. ‘Wyll not a fylthye playe, wyth the blast of a Trumpette, sooner -call thyther a thousande, than an houres tolling of a Bell, bring to -the Sermon a hundred? nay euen heere in the Citie, without it be at -this place, and some other certaine ordinarie audience, where shall -you finde a reasonable company? whereas, if you resorte to the Theatre, -the Curtayne, and other places of Playes in the Citie, you shall on the -Lords day haue these places, with many other that I can not recken, so -full, as possible they can throng.’ P. 50. ‘We notwithstanding on the -Lordes daye must haue Fayers kept, must haue Beare bayting, Bulbayting -(as if it wer a thing of necessity for the Beares of Paris garden to be -bayted on the Sunnedaye) must haue baudie Enterludes.’ P. 85. Calls on -the Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen as ‘publike magistrates’ to keep watch -against ‘flocking and thronging to baudie playes by thousandes’ on the -Lord’s Day, and notes ‘resorting to playes in the time of sermons a -thing too manifest’. P. 133. ‘There be not many places where y^e word -is preached besides the Lords day (I woulde to God there were) yet euen -that day the better parte of it is horriblie prophaned by diuellishe -inuentions, as with Lords of Misserule, Morice dauncers, May-games, -insomuch that in some places, they shame not in y^e time of diuine -seruice, to come and daunce aboute the Church, and without to haue -men naked dauncing in nettes, which is most filthie: for the heathen -that neuer hadde further knowledge, than the lighte of nature, haue -counted it shamefull for a Player to come on the stage without a slop, -and therefore amongest Christians I hope suche beastly brutishnesse -shal not be let escape vnpunished, for whiche ende I recite it, and -can tell, if I be called, where it was committed within these fewe -weekes. What should I speake of beastlye Playes, againste which out of -this place euery man crieth out? haue we not houses of purpose built -with great charges for the maintenance of them, and that without the -liberties, as who woulde say, there, let them saye what they will say, -we will play. I know not how I might with the godly learned especially -more discommende the gorgeous Playing place erected in the fieldes, -than to terme it, as they please to haue it called, a Theatre ... I -will not here enter this disputation, whether it be vtterly vnlawfull -to haue any playes, but will onelye ioine in this issue, whether in -a Christian common wealth they be tolerable on the Lords day.... If -playing in the Theatre or any other place in London, as there are by -sixe that I know to many, be any of the Lordes wayes (which I suppose -there is none so voide of knowledge in the world wil graunt) then not -only it may, but ought to be vsed, but if it be any of the wayes of -man, it is no work for y^e Lords Sabaoth, and therfore in no respecte -tollerable on that daye.’ P. 137. ‘For reckening with the leaste, the -gaine that is reaped of eighte ordinarie places in the Citie whiche I -knowe, by playing but once a weeke (whereas many times they play twice -and somtimes thrice) it amounteth to 2000 pounds by the yeare.’ - - - xviii. 1578. JOHN FLORIO. - - [From _First Fruites_ (1578), A_{1}, an Anglo-Italian phrase - book.] - - Where shal we goe? - To a playe at the Bull, or els to some other place. - Doo Comedies like you wel? - Yea sir, on holy dayes. - They please me also wel, but the preachers wyll not allowe them. - Wherefore, knowe you it: - They say, they are not good. - And wherfore are they vsed? - Because euery man delites in them. - I beleeue there is much knauerie vsed at those Comedies: what thinke you? - So beleeue I also. - - - xix. 1578. GEORGE WHETSTONE. - - [From _Epistle_ to William Fleetwood, dated 29 July 1578, - prefixed to _Promos and Cassandra_; cf. ch. xxiii.] - -... I devided the whole history into two Commedies: for that, Decorum -used, it would not be convayde in one. The effects of both, are -good and bad: vertue intermyxt with vice, unlawful desyres (yf it -were possible) queancht with chaste denyals: al needefull action (I -thinke) for publike vewe. For by the rewarde of the good, the good -are encowraged in wel doinge: and with the scowrge of the lewde, the -lewde are feared from evil attempts: mainetayning this my oppinion -with Platoes auctority. ‘Nawghtinesse commes of the corruption of -nature, and not by readinge or hearinge the lives of the good or lewde -(for such publication is necessarye), but goodnesse (sayth he) is -beawtifyed by either action.’ And to these ends Menander Plautus and -Terence, themselves many yeares since intombed, (by their Commedies) -in honour live at this daye. The auncient Romanes heald these showes -of suche prise, that they not onely allowde the publike exercise of -them, but the grave Senators themselves countenaunced the Actors with -their presence: who from these trifles wonne morallyte, as the Bee -suckes the honny from weedes. But the advised devises of auncient -Poets, discredited with the tryfels of yonge, unadvised, and rashe -witted wryters, hath brought this commendable exercise in mislike. -For at this daye, the Italian is so lascivious in his commedies, that -honest hearers are greeved at his actions: the Frenchman and Spaniarde -folowes the Italians humor: the Germaine is too holye: for he presentes -on everye common Stage, what Preachers should pronounce in Pulpets. -The Englishman in this quallitie, is most vaine, indiscreete, and -out of order: he fyrst groundes his worke, on impossibilities: then -in three howers ronnes he throwe the worlde: marryes, gets Children, -makes Children men, men to conquer kingdomes, murder monsters, and -bringeth Gods from Heaven, and fetcheth Divels from Hel. And (that -which is worst) their ground is not so unperfect, as their working -indiscreete: not waying, so the people laugh, though they laugh them -(for theyr folleys) to scorne: Manye tymes (to make mirthe) they -make a Clowne companion with a Kinge: in theyr grave Counsels, they -allow the advise of fooles: yea they use one order of speach for all -persones: a grose _Indecorum_, for a Crowe wyll yll counterfet the -Nightingales sweete voice: even so, affected Speeche doth misbecome a -Clowne. For to work a Commedie kindly, grave olde men should instruct: -yonge men should showe the imperfections of youth: Strumpets should -be lascivious: Boyes unhappy: and Clownes should be disorderly: -entermingling all these actions, in suche sorte, as the grave matter -may instruct, and the pleasant delight: for without this chaunge, -the attention would be small, and the likinge, lesse. But leave I -this rehearsall, of the use, and abuse of Commedies: least that I -check that in others, which I cannot amend in my selfe. But this I am -assured, what actions so ever passeth in this History, either merry, or -morneful: grave or lascivious; the conclusion showes the confusion of -Vice, and cherishing of Vertue.... - - - xx. 1579. T. F. - - [From _Newes from the North. Otherwise called a Conference - between Simon Certen and Pierce Plowman_. Faithfully - collected and gathered by T. F. Student (1579, 1585), F_{4}, - quoted from 1585 ed. in Stubbes, 299. There seems to be no - justification for Collier’s identification of T. F. with Francis - Thynne.] - -I call to witnesse the Theaters, Curtines, Heauing houses, Rifling -boothes, Bowling alleyes, and such places, where the time is so -shamefully mispent, namely the Sabaoth daies, vnto the great dishonor -of God, and the corruption and vtter distruction of youth. - - - xxi. 1579. THOMAS TWYNE. - - [From _Physic against Fortune_ (1579), i. 30. This is a - translation from Petrarch’s _De remediis utriusque Fortunae_; - but Twyne has adapted the wording to bring in the names of the - London theatres.] - -_Joy._ I am delighted with sundrie Shewes. - -_Reason._ Perhaps with the Curteine or Theater: which two places -are well knowen to be enimies to good manners: for looke who goeth -thyther evyl, returneth worse. For that iourney is unknowen to the -good, whiche yf any undertake uppon ignoraunce, he cannot choose but be -defyled. - - - xxii. 1579. STEPHEN GOSSON. - - [From _The Schoole of Abuse, Containing a pleasaunt inuectiue - against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Iesters and such like - Caterpillers of a Commonwelth_ ... (1579; S. R. 22 July 1579). - A second edition appeared in 1587. There are modern reprints in - _Somers Tracts_, iii (1810), 552, and by J. P. Collier (1841, - _Sh. Soc_.) and E. Arber (1868, _English Reprints_). On 5 (or - 16) Oct. 1579 Spenser wrote to Gabriel Harvey (Gregory Smith, - i. 89, from _Two Other very Commendable Letters_, 1580): ‘Newe - Bookes I heare of none, but only of one, that writing a certaine - Booke, called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister - Sidney, was for hys labor scorned, if at leaste it be in the - goodnesse of that nature to scorne. Suche follie is it not to - regarde aforehande the inclination and qualitie of him to whome - wee dedicate oure Bookes.’] - -[Summary and Extracts.] _Epistle to Sidney. Epistle to the -Reader_.... ‘I take vpon mee to driue you from playes, when mine -owne woorkes are dayly to be seene vpon stages, as sufficient witnesses -of mine owne folly, and seuere iudges againste my selfe.’ Poetry and -Music are first attacked; an apologist for Homer being likened (p. 21) -‘to some of those players, that come to the scaffold with drum and -trumpet to profer skirmishe, and when they haue sounded allarme, off -go the peeces to encounter a shadow, or conquere a paper monster.’ P. -28. ‘As poetrie and piping are cosen germans: so piping and playing -are of great affinity, and all three chayned in linkes of abuse.’ P. -29. ‘I was first instructed in the university, after drawne like a -nouice to these abuses.’ Criticism of the theatre by the graver Greeks -and Romans and its abuses in Rome. Similar abuses have replaced ‘the -olde discipline of Englande’. P. 35. ‘In our assemblies at playes in -London, you shall see suche heauing, and shoouing, suche ytching and -shouldring, too sitte by the women; suche care for their garments, -that they bee not trode on: such eyes to their lappes, that no chippes -light in them: such pillowes to ther backes, that they take no hurte: -such masking in their eares, I knowe not what: such giuing them pippins -to passe the time: suche playing at foote saunt without cardes: such -ticking, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning -them home, when the sportes are ended, that it is a right comedie, to -marke their behauiour, to watche their conceites, as the catte for the -mouse, and as good as a course at the game it selfe, to dogge them a -little, or followe aloofe by the printe of their feete, and so discouer -by slotte where the deare taketh soyle. If this were as well noted, -as ill seene: or as openly punished, as secretly practised: I haue no -doubte but the cause would be seared to dry vp the effect, and these -prettie rabbets very cunningly ferretted from their borrowes. For -they that lack customers al the weeke, either because their haunte is -vnknowen, or the constables and officers of their parishe watch them -so narrowly, that they dare not queatche, to celebrate the Sabboth, -flock to theaters, and there keepe a generall market of bawdrie: not -that any filthynesse in deede is committed within the compasse of that -grounde, as was doone in Rome, but that euery wanton and his paramour, -euery man and his mistresse, euery John and his Joan, euery knaue and -his queane, are there first acquainted and cheapen the merchandise in -that place, which they pay for elsewhere as they can agree.’ Players -at least indirectly to blame for London’s wantonness. P. 37. ‘They -seeke not to hurte, but desire too please: they haue purged their -comedyes of wanton speaches, yet the corne whiche they sell, is full -of cockle, and the drinke that they drawe, ouercharged with dregges.’ -Advises those who would avoid offence to avoid the theatre. The -abuses are contrary to the Queen’s will. P. 39. ‘How often hath her -Maiestie, with the graue aduise of her honorable Councell, sette downe -the limits of apparell to euery degree, and how soone againe hath the -pride of our harts ouerflowen the chanel? How many times hath accesse -to theaters beene restrayned, and how boldly againe haue we reentred. -Ouerlashing in apparel is so common a fault, that the very hyerlings -of some of our players, which stand at reuersion of vi.s by the weeke, -iet vnder gentlemens noses in sutes of silke, exercising themselues -too prating on the stage, and common scoffing when they come abrode, -where they looke askance ouer the shoulder at euery man, of whom the -Sunday before they begged an almes. I speake not this, as though euerye -one that professeth the qualitie so abused him selfe, for it is well -knowen, that some of them are sober, discreete, properly learned honest -housholders and citizens well thought on amonge their neighbours at -home, though the pryde of their shadowes (I meane those hangebyes -whome they succour with stipend) cause them to bee somewhat il talked -of abroade. And as some of the players are farre frome abuse: so some -of their playes are without rebuke: which are as easily remembered as -quickly reckoned. The twooe prose bookes plaied at the Belsauage, where -you shall finde neuer a woorde without wit, neuer a line without pith, -neuer a letter placed in vaine. The _Iew_ and _Ptolome_, -showne at the Bull, the one representing the greedinesse of worldly -chusers, and bloody mindes of usurers: the other very liuely descrybing -how seditious estates, with their owne deuises, false friendes, with -their owne swoordes, and rebellious commons in their owne snares are -owerthrowne: neither with amorous gesture wounding the eye: nor with -slouenly talke hurting the eares of the chast hearers. The _Blacke -Smiths daughter_, and _Catilins Conspiracies_ vsually brought -in to the Theater: the first contayning the trechery of Turkes, the -honourable bountye of a noble minde, and the shining of vertue in -distresse: the last, because it is knowen too be a pig of myne owne -sow, I will speake the lesse of it; onely giuing you to vnderstand, -that the whole marke which I shot at in that woorke, was too showe the -rewarde of traytors in Catilin, and the necessary gouernment of learned -men, in the person of Cicero, which forsees euery danger that is likely -to happen, and forstalles it continually ere it take effect.... These -playes are good playes and sweete playes, and of al playes the best -playes and most to be liked, woorthy to bee soung of the Muses, or set -out with the cunning of Roscius himself, yet are they not fit for euery -mans dyet: neither ought they commonly to bee shewen. Now if any man -aske me why my selfe haue penned comedyes in time paste, and inueigh -so egerly against them here, let him knowe that _Semel insaniuimus -omnes_: I have sinned, and am sorry for my fault: hee runnes farre -that neuer turnes, better late than neuer. I gaue my self to that -exercise in hope to thriue but I burnt one candle to seek another, and -lost bothe my time and my trauell, when I had doone.’ Deprecates the -excuse that plays keep idle heads occupied. P. 42. ‘These because they -are allowed to play euery Sunday, make iiii or v Sundayes at least -euery weeke, and all that is doone is good for Augustus, to busy the -wittes of his people, for running a wool-gathering, and emptie their -purses for thriuing to fast.’ Has shown the abuses of players out of -profane writers rather than out of the Scriptures. Exhorts against -vanity; but, p. 44, ‘if players can promise in woordes, and performe it -in deedes, proclame it in their billes, and make it good in theaters; -that there is nothing there noysome too the body, nor hurtfull to the -soule: and that euerye one which comes to buye their iestes, shall -haue an honest neighbour, tagge and ragge, cutte and longe tayle, goe -thither and spare not, otherwise I aduise you to keepe you thence, my -selfe will beginne too leade the daunce’. Briefly reprehends dancers, -tumblers, dicers, carders, and bowlers, and more at length fencers. -_Epistle to Sir Richard Pipe, Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen_.... -P. 56. ‘I woulde the abuses of my Schoole were as wel knowen of you, -to reformation: as they are found out by other to their owne peril. -But the fishe _Sepia_ can trouble the water to shun the nettes, -that are shot to catch her: _Torpedo_ hath craft inough at the -first touch to inchant the hooke, to coniure the line, to bewitch -the rod, and to benumme the handes of him that angleth. Whether our -players be the spawnes of such fishes, I know not wel, yet I am sure -that how many nets so euer ther be layde to take them, or hookes to -choke them, they haue ynke in their bowels to darken the water, and -sleights in their budgets, to dry vp the arme of euery magistrate. If -their letters of commendations were once stayed, it were easie for you -to ouerthrow them.... I doubte not but the gouernours of London will -vexe mee for speaking my minde, when they are out of their wittes, and -banishe their players, when they are beste aduised.’ _Epistle to -the Gentlewomen Citizens of London_.... P. 58. ‘It is not ... your -sober countenance, that defendeth your credite; nor your friends which -accompany your person, that excuse your folly; nor your modestie at -home, that couereth your lightnesse, if you present your selues in open -theaters.... Though you go to theaters to se sport, Cupid may catche -you ere you departe.... In deede I muste confesse there comes to playes -of all sortes, old and young; it is hard to say that all offend, yet I -promise you, I wil sweare for none.’ - - - xxiii. _c._ 1579. THOMAS LODGE. - - [From a print without title-page edited by D. Laing (1853, _Sh. - Soc._) under the title of _A Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage - Plays_; part in Gregory Smith, i. 61. There can be little doubt - that this is the _Honest Excuses_ of Gosson’s _Apology_ and the - suppressed work of Lodge referred to in his _Alarum_ and Gosson, - _P. C._ (Nos. xxx, xxxv, _infra_); cf. J. D. Wilson in M. L. R. - iii. 166.] - -[Summary and Extracts.] P. 3. ‘There came to my hands lately a litle -(would God a wittye) pamphelet, baring a fayre face as though it -were the Scoole of Abuse.’ Defends against Gosson poetry, music, and -thirdly players, for whose art he claims both ‘antiquity’ and ‘use and -comoditye’ as an instrument of moral criticism. P. 24. Of comedies -he says, ‘Tulley defines them thus, _Comedia_ (saith he) is -_imitatio vitae, speculum consuetudinis, et imago veritatis_’. -P. 27. He has concessions to make. ‘I wish as zealously as the best -that all abuse of playinge weare abolished, but for the thing, the -antiquitie causeth me to allow it, so it be used as it should be. I -cannot allow the prophaning of the Sabaoth. I praise your reprehension -in that; you did well in discommending the abuse, and surely I wysh -that folly wer disclaymed; it is not to be admitted, it maks those -sinne, which perhaps if it were not, would have binne present at a good -sermon. It is in the magistrate to take away that order, and appoynt -it otherwyse. But sure it were pittie to abolish that which hath so -great vertue in it, because it is abused.’ P. 28. He turns on the -critic. ‘But, after your discrediting of playmaking, you salue upon -the sore somewhat, and among many wise workes there be some that fitte -your vaine: The Practice of Parasites is one, which I meruel it likes -you so well, since it bites you so sore. But sure in that I like your -judgement, and for the rest to, I approue your wit, but for the pigg -of your owne sow, (as you terme it) assuredly I must discommend your -verdit: Tell me, Gosson, was all your owne you wrote there? did you -borow nothing of your neyghbours? Out of what booke patched you out -Cicero’s Oration? Whence fet you Catilin’s Inuectiue?.... Beleue me -I should preferr Wilson’s Shorte and sweete if I were judge, a peece -surely worthe prayse, the practice of a good scholler; would the wiser -would ouerlooke that, they may perhaps cull some wisedome out of a -player’s toye.’ Assents to Gosson’s rebuke of carders, dicers, fencers, -bowlers, dancers, and tumblers. - - - xxiv. 1579. STEPHEN GOSSON. - - [From _The Ephemerides of Phialo and a short Apologie of the - Schoole of Abuse_ (1579; S. R. 7 Nov. 1579). A second edition - appeared in 1586. The Apologie is reprinted by E. Arber with - _The Schoole of Abuse_ (1868).] - -[Extracts.] _Epistle to Sidney_.... Sith it hath beene my fortune to -bear sayle in a storme, since my first publishing the _Schoole of -Abuse_ ... I can not but acknowledge my safetie, in your Worships -patronage. _The Ephemerides of Phialo_.... I think it necessary, before -I set downe the discourses of _Phialo_ ... to whippe out those Doggs, -which haue barked ... at mee for writinge the _Schoole of Abuse_.... It -is not long since, a friend of mine presented me with straunge newes -out of _Affrick_ [in margin, ‘A Libell cast out against the Schoole -of Abuse’] requesting me earnestly to shape them an answere.... I ... -unfolded the Paper, and found nothing within but guttes and garbage.... -And had not the writer himself, which sent these newes into _England_, -reuealed his name to some of his friends by whom I hearde it, I would -haue iudged such a Daw to bee hacht in _Barbary_, and the tydinges -that came, to be scribled in post.... This Doctour of _Affrike_ with -a straunge kinde of style begins to write thus: _To his frinds the -Plaiers_ ... If Players get no better Atturnie to pleade their case, I -will holde mee contented where the Haruest is harde, too take Otes of -yl debters in parte of payment.... I intende not to aunswere him.... -_An Apologie of the Schoole of Abuse_.... Such is the skirmishe of our -players, who perceiuing the truthe to stand on my side as an armour of -proofe; and finding them selues vnappointed for the fielde, keepe a -farre off, biting me in corners, casting out libels which are but clay, -and rattle on mine armour, or tippe me on the shinnes, without farther -hurt.... If plaiers take a little more counsel of their pillowe, they -shall finde them selues to be the worste and the daungerousest people -in the world.... If Diogenes were nowe aliue, to see the abuses that -growe by playes, I beleeue hee would wyshe rather to bee a Londoners -hounde than his apprentice, bicause hee rateth his dogge, for wallowing -in carrion; but rebukes not his seruaunt for resorting to playes, that -are ranke poyson.... We perceiue not ... that players counterfaiting a -shewe to make vs merry, shoote their nettes to worke our misery; that -when _Comedie_ comes vpon the stage, _Cupide_ sets vpp a Springe for -Woodcockes, which are entangled ere they descrie the line, and caught -before they mistruste the snare.... Our players, since I set out the -_Schole of abuse_, haue trauailed to some of mine acquaintance of both -Vniuersities, with fayre profers, and greater promises of rewardes, -yf they woulde take so much paine as too write agaynst mee.... When -neither of both Vniuersities would heare their plea, they were driuen -to flie to a weake hedge, and fight for themselues with a rotten -stake.... It is tolde mee that they haue got one in London to write -certaine _Honest Excuses_, for so they tearme it, to their dishonest -abuses which I reuealed.... How he frames his excuses, I knowe not yet, -because it is doone in hudder mudder. Trueth can neuer be Falsehods -Visarde, which maketh him maske without a torche and keepe his papers -very secret.... If the Excuser be the man that is named to me, he is -as famous a Clarke as _Clauitius Sabinus_, which was so troubled with -a grosse conceite, and as short a memory, that euery minute he forgote -the names of _Vlisses_, _Achilles_, _Priamus_, and such as he knew as -well as the Begger his dishe.... I was determined to send you greater -matters, touching the saleable toung of _Curio_, but I stay my handes -till I see his booke, when I haue perusd it I will tel you more. - - - xxv. 1580. ANON. - - [From Stationers’ Register, 8 April 1580 (Arber, ii. 368). - This is one of a number of ballads and pamphlets entered in - April-June 1580 as a result of the earthquake on 6 April; - Abraham Fleming, in his _A Bright Burning Beacon_, names eight - writers on the subject besides himself, including Thomas - Churchyard and Richard Tarlton. It may be that several of these - improved the occasion by reproving bear-baitings and plays, as - did Arthur Golding in his _A Discourse Upon the Earthquake_, but - it does not appear from Golding’s ‘reporte’ that any playhouses - suffered serious damage, although Halliwell-Phillipps, i. - 369, quotes Munday, _View of Sundry Examples_ (1580), ‘At the - playhouses the people came running foorth, supprised with great - astonishment’, and S. Gardiner, _Doomes-day Booke_ (1606), ‘The - earthquake ... shaked not only the scenicall Theatre, but the - great stage and theatre of the whole land’. On the contrary, the - only deaths were those of two children killed ‘while they were - hearing a sermon’ at Christ Church, Newgate, a detail which is - omitted in the reprint of the ‘reporte’ and of some of Golding’s - moralizing, with an official _Order of Prayer_ issued for use in - parish churches (_Liturgical Services_, Parker Soc., 573).] - -H. Carr, ‘a ballat intituled comme from the plaie, comme from the -playe: the house will fall, so people saye: the earth quakes, lett us -hast awaye’. - - - xxvi. 1580. ANTHONY MUNDAY (?). - - [Entry in S. R. for Edward White on 10 Nov. 1580 (Arber, ii. - 381). Collier, _S. R._ ii. 125, prints a ballad, probably - forged, ‘which has come down to us in MS.’, and suggests that it - may be the one in question. Fleay, 52, Thompson, 86, and J. D. - Wilson in _M. L. R._ iv. 486, suppose the entry to refer to the - ‘balat against plays’ ascribed to Munday (cf. ch. xxiii).] - -A Ringinge Retraite Couragiouslie sounded, wherein Plaies and Players -are fytlie Confounded. - - - xxvii. 1580. ANTHONY MUNDAY (?). - - [From _A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and - Theaters: the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend Byshop dead - long since: the other by a worshipful and zealous Gentleman now - aliue_: ... Set forth by Anglo-phile Eutheo (1580; _S. R._ 18 - Oct. 1580) in Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 97. It bears the City arms. - The title recalls that of No. xxvi. J. D. Wilson (_M. L. R._ - iv. 484) supports the conjectural attribution of Fleay, 51, to - Munday, on the ground that the author is a converted playwright, - probably identical with the one referred to in Gosson, _P. C._, - in terms resembling those applied to Munday in _A True Report of - ... M. Campion_ (cf. ch. xxiii).] - -[Summary and Extracts.] _Anglo-phile Eutheo to the Reader_.... -P. 99. ‘The first blast in my compt is The Schoole of abuse: a title -not vnfitlie ascribed vnto plaies. For what is there which is not -abused thereby?... that not vnfitlie they are tearmed, as of late The -schoole of abuse, by one; The schoole of Bauderie, by another; The nest -of the Diuel, and sinke of al sinne, by a third’ [_in margin_, -‘M^r Spark in his rehersal sermon at Paules Crosse, 29 of April, Ann. -1579’].... ‘I cal them, A second and third blast ... in respect of -the time present, wherein none, that I knowe, besides these Autors -haue written, though manie, thanked be God, in the principal places of -this land haue, and dailie, yea and openlie do speake against plaies -and Theaters.... Touching the Autor of the latter blast, thou maist -coniecture who he was, but I maie not name him at this time for my -promise sake; yet this do I saie of him, that he hath bine, to vse -his verie wordes, A great affecter of that vaine Art of plaie making, -&c. Yea, which I ad, as excellent an Autor of those vanities, as who -was best.... Praise God, I beseech you, for bringing this Autor, and -Maister Gosson, who made the Schoole of Abuse, out of Babylon.’ _A -second blast of retrait._ This is translated from Salvian, _De -Gubernatione Dei_, lib. vi. _A third blast of retrait._ P. 120. -‘Such doubtles is mine opinion of common plaies, vsual iesting, and -riming extempore that in a Christian-weale they are not sufferable. -My reason is, because they are publike enimies to virtue, & religion: -allurements vnto sinne; corrupters of good manners; the cause of -securitie and carelesnes; meere brothel houses of Bauderie: and bring -both the Gospel into slander; the Sabboth into contempt; mens soules -into danger; and finalie the whole Common-weale into disorder.’ -Offers his judgement for what it is worth; describes his experience -of plays and the reasons that led him to turn from them. P. 123. ‘I -confess that ere this I haue bene a great affecter of that vaine art -of Plaie-making, insomuch that I haue thought no time so wel bestowed, -as when my wits were exercised in the inuention of those follies.’ P. -125. ‘What I shal speake of the abuse of plaies by my owne knowledge, -I know maie be affirmed by hundreds, to whom those matters are as wel -knowen as to my selfe. Some citizens wiues, vpon whom the Lord for -ensample to others hath laide his hands, haue euen on their death beds -with teares confessed, that they haue receiued at those spectacles such -filthie infections, as haue turned their minds from chast cogitations, -and made them of honest women light huswiues; by them they haue -dishonored the vessels of holines; and brought their husbandes into -contempt, their children into question, their bodies into sicknes, and -their soules to the state of euerlasting damnation.... When I gaue -my selfe first to note the abuse of common plaies ... the Theater I -found to be an appointed place of Bauderie; mine owne eares haue heard -honest women allured with abhominable speeches. Sometime I haue seen -two knaues at once importunate vpon one light huswife; whereby much -quarel hath growen to the disquieting of manie. There seruants, as it -is manifestlie to be prooued, haue consented to rob their maisters, to -supplie the want of their harlots; there is the practising with married -wiues to traine them from their husbands, and places appointed for -meeting and conference. When I had taken a note of all these abuses, -& sawe that the Theater was become a consultorie house of Satan, I -concluded with my selfe, neuer to imploie my pen to so vile a purpose, -nor to be an instrument of gathering the wicked together.’ Apologizes -for pressing forward in the cause. The abuse of the Sabbath is the -first thing to be put down. P. 128. ‘Let therefore the Magistrate but -repel them from the libertie of plaieng on the Sabboth daie, For that -is the abuse which is generalie found fault withal, & allowed of none -but those who are altogether destitute of the feare of God, and without -conscience. To plaie on the Sabboth is but a priuiledge of sufferance, -and might with ease be repelled, were it throughlie followed. The -warrant which Magistrats have to forbid plaies is great, and passed -vnto them by such a Prince, whose auctoritie is aboue al auctorities -of earthlie gouernors.... Is not the Sabboth of al other daies the -most abused?... Are not our eies (there) carried awaie with the pride -of vanitie? our eares abused with amorous, that is lecherous, filthie -and abhominable speech? Is not our tong, which was giuen vs onelie to -glorifie God withal, is not our tong there imploied to the blaspheming -of Gods holie Name; or the commendation of that is wicked? Are not our -hartes through the pleasure of the flesh; the delight of the eie; and -the fond motions of the mind, withdrawen from the seruice of the Lord, -& meditation of his goodnes? So that albe it is a shame to saie it, yet -doubtles whosoeuer wil mark with what multitudes those idle places are -replenished, & how emptie the Lordes sanctuarie is of his people, may -wel perceaue what deuotion we haue.... Alas, what folie is in you, to -purchase with a penie damnation to your selues?... The Magistrate is -therefore to prouide in time a remedie to redresse the mischiefes that -are like to ensue by this common plague.... The Magistrates hart must -be as the hart of a Lion. He is not to shrinke in the Lordes cause, -or to stand in feare to reforme abuses of the Common-weale, because -of some particular men of auctoritie.... Alas, that priuate affection -should so raigne in the Nobilitie, that to pleasure, as they thinke, -their seruants, and to vphold them in their vanitie, they should -restraine the Magistrates from executing their office! What credite can -returne to the Noble, to countenance his men to exercise that qualitie -which is not sufferable in anie Common-weale? wheras it was an ancient -custome, that no man of Honor should reteine anie man, but such as -was excellent in some one good qualitie or other, whereby if occasion -so serued, he might get his owne liuing? Then was euerie noble mans -house a Common-weale in it selfe: but since the reteining of these -Caterpillers, the credite of noble men hath decaied, they are thought -to be couetous by permitting their seruants, which cannot liue of them -selues, and whome for neerenes they wil not maintaine, to liue at the -deuotion or almes of other men, passing from countrie to countrie, -from one Gentlemans house to another, offering their seruice, which is -a kind of beggerie. Who in deede, to speake more trulie, are become -beggers for their seruants. For commonlie the goodwil men beare to -their lordes, makes them drawe the stringes of their purses to extend -their liberalitie to them; where otherwise they would not.... Such like -men, vnder the title of their maisters or as reteiners, are priuiledged -to roaue abroad, and permitted to publish their mametree in euerie -Temple of God, and that through England, vnto the horrible contempt of -praier. So that now the Sanctuarie is become a plaiers stage, and a -den of theeues and adulterers.... And trust me I am of that opinion, -that the Lord is neuer so il serued as on the holie-daies. For then -hel breakes loase. Then wee permit our youth to haue their swinge; -and when they are out of the sight of their maisters, such gouernment -haue they of themselues, that what by il companie they meete withal, & -il examples they learne at plaies, I feare me, I feare me their harts -are more alienated in two houres from virtue, than againe maie wel be -amended in a whole yeare.’ P. 135. Players break the first commandment -by profanity. P. 137. Appeal against vanities. ‘Those pleasures of the -stage, what are they, but the drifts of Satan?... The foole no sooner -showeth himselfe in his colors to make men merrie, but straight-waie -lightlie there foloweth some vanitie, not onlie superfluous, but -beastlie and wicked. P. 139. Whosoeuer shal visit the chappel of Satan, -I meane the Theater, shal finde there no want of yong ruffins, nor -lacke of harlots, vtterlie past al shame: who presse to the fore-frunt -of the scaffoldes, to the end to showe their impudencie, and to be as -an obiect to al mens eies. Yea, such is their open shameles behauior, -as euerie man maie perceaue by their wanton gestures, wherevnto they -are giuen; yea, they seeme there to be like brothels of the stewes. For -often without respect of the place and company which behold them, they -commit that filthines openlie, which is horrible to be done in secret; -as if whatsoeuer they did, were warranted. For neither reuerence, -iustice, nor anie thing beside can gouerne them.’ The shamelessness -of young men. ‘Seeke to withdrawe these felowes from the Theater vnto -the sermon, they wil saie, By the preacher they maie be edified, but -by the plaier both edified and delighted.’ P. 142. Plays are a snare -to chastity, both through the examples shown on the stage, and the -comments of companions on the scaffolds. ‘The nature of these Comedies -are, for the most part, after one manner of nature, like the tragical -comedie of Calistus; where the bawdresse Scelestina inflamed the -maiden Melibeia with her sorceries.’ P. 144. Examples of the intrigues -‘aptlie taught in the Schoole of abuse.... I am sorie this schoole is -not pluckt downe by the magistrate; and the schoole-maisters banished -this citie.... The reuerend word of God & histories of the Bible, set -forth on the stage by these blasphemous plaiers, are so corrupted with -their gestures of scurrilitie, and so interlaced with vncleane, and -whorish speeches, that it is not possible to drawe anie profite out -of the doctrine of their spiritual moralities.’ P. 145. Attacks the -authors of plays. ‘The notablest lier is become the best Poet.... Our -nature is led awaie with vanitie, which the auctor perceauing frames -himself with nouelties and strange trifles to content the vaine humors -of his rude auditors, faining countries neuer heard of; monsters -and prodigious creatures that are not; as of the Arimaspie, of the -Grips, the Pigmeies, the Cranes, & other such notorious lies. And if -they write of histories that are knowen, as the life of Pompeie; the -martial affaires of Caesar, and other worthies, they giue them a newe -face, and turne them out like counterfeites to showe themselues on -the stage.... What doe they leaue behind them? monumentes of wanton -wicked life, and doting things for men of these latter daies.... But -some perhaps wil saie, The noble man delighteth in such things, whose -humors must be contented, partlie for feare, & partlie for commoditie: -and if they write matters pleasant, they are best preferred in court -among the cunning heads.... Those goodlie persons, if they be voide of -virtue, maie wel be counted like faire clothes ouer a foule wal; big -bladers ful of wind, yet of no waight.’ P. 147. Attacks the actors. -‘When I see by them yong boies, inclining of themselues vnto wickednes, -trained vp in filthie speeches, vnnatural and vnseemlie gestures, to -be brought vp by these Schoole-masters in bawderie, and in idlenes, -I cannot chuse but with teares and griefe of hart lament.... And as -for those stagers themselues, are they not commonlie such kind of -men in their conuersation, as they are in profession? Are they not -as variable in hart, as they are in their partes? Are they not as -good practisers of Bawderie, as inactors? Liue they not in such sort -themselues, as they giue precepts vnto others? doth not their talke -on the stage declare the nature of their disposition?’ Meets divers -objections. P. 148. ‘But they perhaps wil saie, that such abuses as are -handled on the stage, others by their examples, are warned to beware -of such euils, to amendment.... I cannot by anie means beleeue that -the wordes proceeding from a prophane plaier, and vttered in scorning -sort, interlaced with filthie, lewde, & vngodlie speeches, haue greater -force to mooue men vnto virtue, than the wordes of truth vttered -by the godlie Preacher.... If the good life of a man be a better -instruction to repentance than the tong, or words, why do not plaiers, -I beseech you, leaue examples of goodnes to their posteritie?... Are -they not notoriouslie knowen to be those men in their life abroade, -as they are on the stage, roisters, brallers, il-dealers, bosters, -louers, loiterers, ruffins?... To conclude, the principal end of all -their interludes is to feede the world with sights, & fond pastimes; -to iuggle in good earnest the monie out of other mens purses into -their owne handes.’ P. 150. ‘Some haue obiected, that by these -publique places manie forbeare to do euil for feare to be publiquelie -reprehended. And for that cause they wil saie it was tolerated in Rome, -wherein Emperors were touched, though they were present. But to such -it maie be answered, first that in disguised plaiers giuen ouer to al -sortes of dissolutenes, is not found so much as a wil to do good, seing -they care for nothing lesse than for virtue. Secondlie, that is not a -good meanes to correct sinne. For that if it be secret, it ought not -to be reuealed openlie, but by such meanes to be reformed as Christ -himselfe alloweth in his Gospel.’ P. 151. ‘The antiquitie of plaieng -is likewise often vsed for an argument to proue it allowable. But the -custome of euil is not to be maintained, because of antiquitie.’ P. -152. A final appeal. ‘The citie Marsiles ... would receaue into it -no stage-plaiers.... I would to God the Magistrates of our citie of -London would haue the like foresight. The permission of plaies so long -a time hath alreadie corrupted this citie; and brought the name of -the citizens into slander; the examples of Gods iudgement is at this -present an example in this citie.’ - - - xxviii. 1581. ANON. - - [Only known to me from the entry in _Catalogue of Chatsworth - Library_, iv. 49.] - -A Treatise of Daunses, wherein it is showed, that they are as it were -accessories and dependants (or things annexed) to whoredom: where also -by the way is touched and proved, that Playes are ioyned and knit -together in a ranck or rowe with them. - - - xxix. 1581. JOHN RAINOLDS. - - [From _Praefatio ad Academiam Oxoniensem_, dated ‘Febr. 2. - 1580’, to _Sex Theses de Sacra Scriptura et Ecclesia_ (1580), - 30. A translation is on p. 678 of _The Summe of the Conference - between John Rainolds and John Hart_ (1584). Rainolds was Fellow - of C.C.C., Oxford, 1566–86, then retired to Queens, became Dean - of Lincoln in 1593 and President of C.C.C. in 1598; for his - share in later stage controversy cf. No. 1.] - -Excitate studia, paene dixeram iacentia, sed spero meliora. Extinguite -Sirenes a studiis auocantes, desidiam, dulce malum: delicias, escam -Veneris: conuiuiorum luxum, vanitatem vestium, ludos illiberales, -symposia intempestiua, pestes scenicorum, Theatralia spectacula. - - - xxx. 1582. STEPHEN GOSSON. - - [From _Playes Confuted in fiue Actions, Prouing that they are - not to be suffred in a Christian common weale, by the waye both - the Cauils of Thomas Lodge, and the Play of Playes, written in - their defence, and other obiections of Players frendes, are - truely set downe and directlye aunsweared_ (N.D.; S. R. 6 Apr. - 1582), reprinted by Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 157.] - -[Summary and Extracts.] _Epistle to Sir Frances Walsingham._ ‘So fareth -it this present time with me, which giuing forth my Defiaunce vnto -Playes, am mightily beset with heapes of aduersaries.... I thought -it necessarye to nettle one of their Orators aboue the rest, not of -any set purpose to deface hym, because hee hath dealt very grossely, -homely, and vncharitably with me, but like a good Surgeon to cut, & to -seare, when the place requireth, for his owne amendment. Which thinge I -trust shall neither displease your honor, nor any of the godly, in the -reading, so long as the person whom I touch is (as I heare by hys owne -frendes, to hys repentance if he can perceiue it) hunted by the heauy -hand of God, and become little better than a vagarant, looser than -liberty, lighter than vanitie it selfe.’ Plays are an Augean stable to -be cleansed. ‘If euer so notable a thinge bee brought to passe it must -bee done by some Hercules in the Court, whom the roare of the enimy -can neuer daunt.’ Hints that this should be Walsingham. ‘The Gentlemen -Players in the citie of London, are growen in such a heate, that by -their foming, their fretting, their stampinge, my frendes do perceiue -how their harts woorke, and enforce me to bring to your honor no -common fraighte, but as much as my life and securitie hereafter shall -be woorth. If the prouidence of God, who many times scourgeth a man -with the sinne that he loued, haue ordeined those players whom I fed -with fancies, to be a whippe to my back, and a dagger to my brest, the -fault is mine owne, the punishmente due.’ _Epistle to the Universities -and Inns of Court._ P. 165. ‘I was very willing to write at this time, -because I was enformed by some of you which heard it with your ears, -that since my publishing the _Schole of Abuse_, two Playes of my making -were brought to the Stage: the one was a cast of Italian deuises, -called, The Comedie of Captaine Mario: the other a Moral, Praise at -parting. These they very impudently affirme to be written by me since -I had set out my inuectiue against them. I can not denie, they were -both mine, but they were both penned two yeeres at the least before I -forsoke them, as by their owne friends I am able to proue: but they -haue got suche a custome of counterfaiting vpon the Stage, that it is -growen to a habite, & will not be lefte. God knoweth, before whom to -you all I doe protest, as I shall answer to him at the last day, when -al hidden secrets shal be discouered, since the first printing of my -Inuectiue, to this day, I neuer made Playe for them nor any other.... I -departed from the City of London, and bestowed my time in teaching yong -Gentlemen in the Countrie, where I continue with a very worshipfull -Gentleman, and reade to his sonnes in his owne house.... As sonne as I -had inueighed against Playes, I withdrewe my selfe from them to better -studies, which so long as I liue I trust to follow.’ _The Confutation -of Playes. The First Action._ The Efficient Cause of Plays. Defends -his own change of mind. P. 167. ‘When I firste gaue my selfe to the -studie of Poetrie, and to set my cunning abroache, by penning Tragedies -and Comedies in the Citte of London: perceiuing such a Gordians knot -of disorder in euery play house, as woulde neuer bee loosed without -extremitie, I thought it better with Alexander to draw y^e sword that -should knappe it a sunder at one stroke, than to seeke ouernisely or -gingerly to vndoe it, with the losse of my time and wante of successe. -This caused mee to bidde them the base at their owne gole, and to geue -them a volley of heathen writers: that our diuines considering the -danger of suche houses as are set vp in London against the Lord, might -better them thoroughly with greater shotts.’ An incomplete remedy. -‘Acknowledging the mischiefe bred by playes wee hope to auoid yt by -changing their day yet suffer them still to remaine amonge vs.... The -abhominable practises of playes in London haue bene by godly preachers, -both at Paules crosse, and else where so zealously, so learnedly, so -loudly cried out vpon to small redresse; that I may well say of them, -as the Philosophers reporte of the moouing of the heauens, we neuer -heare them, because we euer heare them.’ Notes an answer to him. P. -169. ‘Amongest all the fauorers of these vncircumcised Philistines, -I meane the Plaiers, whose heartes are not right, no man til of late -durst thrust out his heade to mayntaine there quarrell, but one, in -witt, simple; in learning, ignorant; in attempt, rash; in name, Lodge: -whose booke, as it came not to my handes in one whole yeere after the -priuy printing thereof, so I confesse, that to it, before this time, -I aunswered nothing, partlie because he brought nothing; partlie -because my hearte was to bigge, to wrastle with him, that wanteth -armes. Therefore considering with my selfe that such kinde of sores -might bee launced to sone, I chose rather to let him ripen and breake -of him selfe, that vomiting out his owne disgrace, & being worne out -of fauour among his own friends, I might triumph in the cause & shedde -no blood.... Some of his acquaintance haue vaunted to cut and hewe -mee, I knowe not howe.’ The Devil is the efficient cause of plays, as -noted by Tertullian. P. 171. ‘And William [‘Thomas’ on a cancel in some -copies] Lodge in that patchte pamphlet of his ... confesseth openly -that playes were consecrated by the heathens to y^e honour of their -gods.’ Expounds the policy of the Devil in the matter. P. 172. ‘First -hee sente ouer many wanton Italian bookes.... Not contented with the -number he hath corrupted with reading Italian baudery, because all -cannot reade, [he] presenteth vs Comedies cut by the same paterne, -which drag such a monstrous taile after them, as is able to sweep whole -Cities into his lap.’ Argues that plays are of idolatrous origin, and -disliked by Scipio Nasica and other severer Romans. Rome held players -infamous. P. 178. ‘Wherefore I beseech God so to touch the heartes of -our Magistrates with a perfite hatred of sinne, and feare of Iudgement; -so to stirr vp some noble Scipio in the Courte, that these daunsing -Chaplines of Bacchus and all such as set vp these wicked artes, may be -driuen out of Englande.’ _The Second Action._ The Material Cause of -Plays. P. 179. ‘Yonge Master Lodge thinking to iett vpon startoppes, -and steale an ynche of his hight by the bare name of Cicero, allegeth -from him, y^t a Play is the Schoolmistresse of life; the lookinge -glasse of manners; and the image of trueth.... It seemeth that Master -Lodge saw this in Tullie with other folkes eyes, and not his owne. -For to my remembrance I neuer read it in him, neither doe I thinke -that Master Lodge can shewe it me.’ Cites passages of Cicero against -_spectacula_. Sets down the matter of plays. P. 180. ‘The argument of -Tragedies is wrath, crueltie, incest, iniurie, murther eyther violent -by sworde, or voluntary by poyson. The persons, Gods, Goddesses, -furies, fiendes, Kinges, Quenes, and mightie men. The grounde worke of -Commedies, is loue, cosenedge, flatterie, bawderie, slye conueighance -of whoredome; The persons, cookes, queanes, knaues, baudes, parasites, -courtezannes, lecherous olde men, amorous yong men.’ Criticizes the -Lodge-Cicero metaphor in detail. Plays no schoolmistress of life. ‘The -beholding of troubles and miserable slaughters that are in Tragedies, -driue vs to immoderate sorrow, heauines, womanish weeping and mourning, -whereby we become louers of dumpes, and lamentation, both enemies to -fortitude. Comedies so tickle our senses with a pleasanter vaine, that -they make vs louers of laughter, and pleasure, without any meane, both -foes to temperance. What schooling is this? Sometime you shall see -nothing but the aduentures of an amorous knight, passing from countrie -to countrie for the loue of his lady, encountring many a terible -monster made of broune paper, & at his retorne, is so wonderfully -changed, that he can not be knowne but by some posie in his tablet, -or by a broken ring, or a handkircher, or a piece of a cockle shell. -What learne you by that? When y^e soule of your playes is eyther meere -trifles, or Italian baudery, or wooing of gentlewomen, what are we -taught?’ Aristotle forbade plays to the young. P. 182. ‘If any goodnes -were to be learned at Playes it is likely that the Players them selues -which committ euery sillable to memory shoulde profitte most ... but -the dayly experience of their behauiour sheweth, that they reape no -profit by the discipline them selues.’ Thinks Master Lodge found ‘some -peeuish index or gatherer of Tullie to be a sleepe.... Wherein I -perceiue hee is no changeling, for he disputeth as soundly being from -the vniuersitie and out of exercise, as he did when hee was there, and -at his booke.’ P. 183. Plays no glass of behaviour. Manners should -not be rebuked where no reply is possible, or before such judges as -‘the common people which resorte to Theaters being but an assemblie -of Tailers, Tinkers, Cordwayners, Saylers, olde Men, yong Men, Women, -Boyes, Girles, and such like’. The Roman law of libel restrained ‘the -ouer-lashing of players’. P. 185. Criticizes [Wilson’s] _The Three -Ladies of London_ [cf. ch. xxiii] for making Love detest and Conscience -allow plays; also a rival play of _London against the Three Ladies_. -Denies that intention either of poets or players is to profit those -they rebuke. P. 187. Plays not the image of truth. P. 188. ‘In Playes -either those thinges are fained that neuer were, as Cupid and Psyche -plaid at Paules; and a greate many Comedies more at ye Blacke friers -and in euery Playe house in London, which for breuities sake I ouer -skippe: of if a true Historie be taken in hand, it is made like our -shadows, longest at the rising and falling of the Sunne, shortest -of all at hie noone. For the Poets driue it most commonly vnto such -pointes as may best showe the maiestie of their pen in Tragicall -speaches; or set the hearers a gogge with discourses of loue; or painte -a fewe antickes to fitt their owne humors with scoffes & tauntes; or -wring in a shewe to furnish the Stage when it is to bare; when the -matter of it selfe comes shorte of this, they followe the practise of -the cobler, and set their teeth to the leather to pull it out. So was -the history of Caesar and Pompey, and the Playe of the Fabii at the -Theater, both amplified there, where the Drummes might walke, or the -pen ruffle; when the history swelled and ran to hye for the number of -y^e persons that should playe it, the Poet with Proteus [? Procrustes] -cut the same fit to his owne measure; when it afoorded no pompe at -al, he brought it to the racke to make it serue.... I may boldely say -it because I haue seene it, that the Palace of pleasure, the Golden -Asse, the Œthiopian historie, Amadis of Fraunce, the Rounde Table, -baudie Comedies in Latine, French, Italian, and Spanish, haue beene -throughly ransackt to furnish the Playe houses in London.... Forsooth -saith the Authour of the Playe of plays showen at the Theater, the -three and twentieth of Februarie last: They shalbe nowe purged, the -matter shalbe good.... As for that glosing plaie at y^e Theater which -profers you so faire, there is enterlaced in it a baudie song of a -maide of Kent, and a little beastly speech of the new stawled roge, -both which I am compelled to burie in silence, being more ashamed to -vtter them than they.’ Thinks the minority of honest plays a trick of -the devil. Repeats his points as to the idolatrous origin of plays and -the infamy of players at Rome. The devil makes them alluring. P. 192. -‘For the eye, beeside the beautie of the houses and the Stages, hee -sendeth in Gearish apparell, maskes, vauting, tumbling, daunsing of -gigges, galiardes, morisces, hobbihorses, showing of iudgeling castes.’ -_The Third Action._ The Formal Cause of Plays. P. 195. ‘The Law of God -very straightly forbids men to put on womens garments.’ This is not to -be explained away as a prohibition of disguises meant to facilitate -adultery, but is absolute. P. 197. ‘In Stage Playes for a boy to put -one the attyre, the gesture, the passions of a woman; for a meane -person to take vpon him the title of a Prince with counterfeit porte, -and traine, is by outwarde signes to shewe them selues otherwise then -they are, and so with in the compasse of a lye, which by Aristotles -iudgement is naught of it selfe and to be fledde.’ Admits that Gregory -Nazianzen and Buchanan wrote plays. ‘To what ende? To be Plaied vpon -Stages? neither Players nor their friendes are able to proue it.’ -Refutes another objection. P. 198. ‘Let the Author of the playe of -playes & pastimes, take heede how he reason y^t action, pronuntiation, -agility of body are y^e good gifts of God. _Ergo_, plaies consisting -of these cannot be euill.’ Even the heathens condemned the waste of -money in spectacles. _The Fourth Action._ The Final Cause of Plays. P. -201. The end of plays is sinful delight, as is proved by the admissions -of Menander and Terence, ‘By the manner of penning in these dayes, -because the Poets send theire verses to the Stage vpon such feete -as continually are rowled vp in rime at the fingers endes, which is -plaucible to the barbarous, and carrieth a stinge into the eares of -the common people. By the obiect, because Tragedies and Commedies -stirre vp affections, and affections are naturally planted in that part -of the minde that is common to vs with brute beastes.’ Analyses the -argument of the Author of the Play of Plays, ‘spreading out his battel -to hemme me in’. P. 202. ‘He tyeth Life and Delight so fast together, -that if Delight be restrained, Life presently perisheth; there, zeale -perceyuing Delight to be embraced of Life, puttes a snafle in his -mouth, to keepe him vnder. Delight beinge bridled, Zeale leadeth life -through a wildernesse of lothsomenesse, where Glutte scarreth them -all, chafing both Zeale and Delight from Life, and with the clubbe -of amasednesse strikes such a pegge into the heade of Life, that he -falles downe for dead vpon the Stage. Life beinge thus fainte, and -ouertrauailed, destitute of his guyde, robbed of Delight, is readie to -giue vp the Ghost, in the same place; then entereth Recreation, which -with music and singing rockes Life a sleepe to recouer his strength. -By this meanes Tediousnesse is driuen from Life, and the teinte is -drawne out of his heade, which the club of amasednes left behinde. At -last Recreation setteth vp the Gentleman vpon his feete, Delight is -restored to him againe, and such kinde of sportes for cullices are -brought in to nourishe him, as none but Delighte must applye to his -stomache. Then time beinge made for the benefite of Life, and Life -being allowed to followe his appetite, amongst all manner of pastimes, -Life chooseth Commedies, for his Delight, partly because Commedies are -neither chargable to y^e beholders purse, nor painful to his body; -partly, because he may sit out of the raine to veiwe the same, when -many other pastimes are hindred by wether. Zeale is no more admitted to -Life before he be somewhat pinchte in the waste, to auoyde extremitie, -and being not in the end simply called Zeale but Moderate Zeale a fewe -conditions are prescribed to Comedies, that the matter be purged, -deformities blazed, sinne rebuked, honest mirth intermingled, and fitte -time for the hearing of the same appointed. Moderate Zeale is contented -to suffer them, who wyneth with delight to direct life againe, after -which he triumphes ouer Death & is crowned with eternitie.’ P. 203. -As Fathers and Councils ‘and y^e skilfulst Deuines at this day in -England which are compelled in Sermons to cry out against them’ are -challenged by this playmaker, will answer him. Distinguishes between -carnal and spiritual delight. Plays bring carnal delight, which is -contrary to reason and comes of corruption. _The Fifth Action._ The -Effects of Plays. P. 211. Why should he write against plays, when, -although famous men in both universities cry out against plays, ‘none -of them by printing haue taken the paines to write any full discouery -against them’? Partly because, being young, he will be better excused -than they if he ‘shoulde speake but one worde against y^e sleepines -of Magistrats which in this case is necessary to be toucht’; partly -because, ‘hauing once already written against playes, which no man -that euer wrote playes, did, but one, who hath changed his coppy, -and turned himself like y^e dog to his vomite, to plays againe, and -being falsly accused my selfe to do y^e like, it is needfull for me -to write againe’. Declares the effects of plays. Wantonness on the -stage excites the passions of the spectators. Theatres are ‘markets -of bawdry’. P. 215. ‘Our Theaters, and play houses in London, are as -full of secrete adulterie as they were in Rome.... In the playhouses -at London, it is the fashion of youthes to go first into the yarde, -and to carry theire eye through euery gallery, then like vnto rauens -where they spye the carion thither they flye, and presse as nere to y^e -fairest as they can.... They giue them pippines, they dally with their -garmentes to passe y^e time, they minister talke vpon al occasions, -& eyther bring them home to their houses on small acquaintance, or -slip into tauerns when y^e plaies are done. He thinketh best of his -painted sheath, & taketh himselfe for a iolly fellow, y^t is noted of -most, to be busyest with women in all such places.’ The players are -an evil in the commonwealth. P. 215. ‘Most of the Players haue bene -eyther men of occupations, which they haue forsaken to lyue by playing, -or common minstrels, or trayned vp from theire childehood to this -abhominable exercise & haue now no other way to get theire liuinge.... -In a commonweale, if priuat men be suffered to forsake theire calling -because they desire to walke gentleman like in sattine & veluet, with -a buckler at their heeles, proportion is so broken, vnitie dissolued, -harmony confounded, that the whole body must be dismembred and the -prince or the heade cannot chuse but sicken.... Let them not looke to -liue by playes; the little thrift that followeth theire greate gaine, -is a manifest token that God hath cursed it.’ A final appeal to his -countrymen, ending, ‘God is iust, his bow is bent & his arrowe drawen, -to send you a plague, if you staye too long’. - - - xxxi. 1583. JOHN FIELD. - - [From _A godly exhortation, by occasion of the late iudgement of - God, shewed at Parris-garden, the thirteenth day of Ianuarie: - where were assembled by estimation aboue a thousand persons, - whereof some were slaine; & of that number, at the least, as is - crediblie reported, the thirde person maimed and hurt_. Giuen - to all estates for their instruction, concerning the keeping of - the Sabboth day. By Iohn Field, Minister of the word of God.... - Robert Waldegrave for Henry Carre, 1583. There is no entry in - S. R., but on 21 Jan. Richard Jones and William Bartlett were - imprisoned and fined for printing ‘a thing of the fall of the - gallories at Paris Garden’ without licence (Arber, ii. 853). - On 19 Jan. Fleetwood wrote to Lord Burghley (_M. S. C._ i. - 160, from _Lansdowne MS._ 37, f. 10; also in Wright, ii. 184), - ‘Vpon the same day [13 Jan.] the violaters of the Sabothe were - punished by Godes providens at Paris garden and as I was writing - of these last wordes loo here is a booke sett downe vpon the - same matter’.] - -Epistle to the Lord Mayor, William Fleetwood, the Recorder, and the -Aldermen. Explains the address to them. A 2^v. ‘Is it not a lamentable -thing, that after so long preaching of the Gospell, there should bee -so great prophanation amongst vs? that Theaters should be full and -churches be emptie? that the streetes shoulde be replenished, and the -places of holy exercises, left destitute? I write not this simplie but -in respect, and by comparison.... If you say that this thing belongeth -not vnto you, because that Parris garden is out of your iurisdiction, -yet why are these men suffered to bring their Beares into the citie, -that thereby they may gather your company vnto them? It were duety in -you to hinder these and to take order that none of the citie should -repaire vnto such places.... 18^{th} January 1583. Iohn Feild.’ -The exhortation is mainly a general call to repentance and fear of -judgement, without special reference to the occasion. B 3. Stress is -laid on abuse of the Sabbath. B 4. ‘There is no Dicing house, Bowling -alley, Cock pit, or Theater, that can be found empty. Those flagges of -defiance against God, & trumpets that are blown to gather together such -company, will sooner preuail to fil those places, then the preaching -of the holy worde of God ... to fill Churches. Nothing can stoppe them -from the same: neyther feare of danger, losse of tyme, corruption -of maners, infection of diseases, expence of money, suspition of -honestie and such like.... Pounds and hundreds can be well ynough -afforded, in following these least pleasures, though euery dore hath -a payment, & euery gallerie maketh a yearely stipend: thogh euery dog -hath a coller, & euery Beare a prize, and euery cracke bring a great -aduenture.’ Enforces the warning of Paris Garden. B vii^v. ‘I wil set -it down as plainly as I can, and as truly as can be gathered from the -examination of those same common euidences, that haue fallen out.... -You shal vnderstand therfore (beloued Christians) that vpon the last -Lords day being the thirteen day of the first month, that cruell and -lothsome exercise of bayting Beares being kept at _Parris-garden_, in -the after-noone, in the time of common praiers, and when many other -exercises of Religion, both of preaching and Catechizing were had in -sundry places of the City, diuers Preachers hauing not long before -also cryed out against such prophanations: yet (the more pitty) there -resorted thither a great company of people of al sorts and conditions, -that the like nomber, in euery respect (as they say) had not beene -seene there a long time before. Beeing thus vngodly assembled, to so -vnholy a spectacle and specially considering the time; the yeard, -standings, and Galleries being ful fraught, being now amidest their -iolity, when the dogs and Bear were in the chiefest Battel, Lo the -mighty hand of God vppon them. This gallery that was double, and -compassed the yeard round about, was so shaken at the foundation, that -it fell (as it were in a moment) flat to the ground, without post -or peere, that was left standing, so high as the stake whervnto the -Beare was tied. Although some wil say (and as it may be truly) that -it was very old and rotten and therefore a great waight of people, -being planted vpon it then was wont, that it was no maruaile that it -fayled: and would make it but a light matter. Yet surely if this be -considered, that no peece of post, boord, or stake was left standing: -though we vrge it not as a miracle, yet it must needes be considered -as an extraordinary iudgement of God, both for the punishment of those -present prophaners of the Lordes day that were then, & also informe and -warne vs that were abroad. In the fal of it, there were slaine fiue -men and two women, that are come to knowledge, who they were and where -they dwelled, to wit, _Adam Spencer_ a _Felmonger_, in _Southwarke_, -_William Cockram_ a Baker, dwelling in _Shordich_, _Iohn Burton_ -Cleark, of _S. Marie Wolmers_ in _Lombard streat_, _Mathew Mason_, -seruant with Master _Garland_, dwelling in _Southwarke_, _Thomas -Peace_, seruant with _Robert Tasker_, dwelling in _Clerken well_. -The maydens names, _Alice White_, seruant to a Pursemaker without -_Cripplegate_, and _Marie Harrison_, daughter to _Iohn Harrison_, being -a waterbearer, dwelling in _Lombard streat_.’ C i^v. Nowe beside these -that were thus killed out right, with the flat fal of the Galleries, -strangely wrunge in peeces as it were by God himselfe, it could not -bee but in such confusion, there must needes come great hurt to many. -Howe many carried away death, as it were in theyr bosomes, that died -the same night, or some little tyme after, the Lorde knoweth. And we -heare since, though we know not the iust number, that many of them are -dead & buried, and namely one _Web_ a Pewterer his wife that dwelt in -_Limestreete_ who being there sore wounded, is now gon with diuers -others. Of all the multitude there, which must needes be farre aboue -a thousande, it is thought by the iudgement of most people, that not -the third personne escaped vnhurt; and by some that haue made search, -they esteme that there were sore hurt and maimed, aboue one hundred and -fiftye persons, some hauing theyr legs and armes broken, some theyr -backes, theyr bodies beeing sore brused, so that euery way into the -cittie from that time tyll towardes nine of the clocke and past: and -specially ouer _London bridge_, many were carried in Chayres, & led -betwixt their freendes, and so brought home wyth sorrowfull and heauy -heartes lyke lame cripples. They say also that at the first, when the -Scaffolde cracked (as it did once or twise) there was a crye of _fire -fire_, which set them in such a maze as was wonderfull, so that as -destitute of their wits they stood styll, and could make no shifte -for them selues, till the Scaffold was made euen with the ground.... -Amongst the rest it is credibly reported that there was one Woman, that -beeing in the Gallery, threw downe her childe before her, & leaped -after herselfe; and yet thankes bee to God neyther of both had any -maner of hurt, so was it with diuers others. But it shoulde appere that -they were most hurt and in danger, which stoode vnder the Galleries on -the grounde, vpon whom both the waight of Timbre and people fel. And -sure it was a miraculous worke of God, that any one of those should -haue escaped. But heere also God shewed his power for one man falling -downe into an hole as if it had beene some sawpit, it pleased God -that it was the meane of his deliuerance, so as all things that fell -vpon him did not touch him, and by that hee was preserued, wheras two -of th’other were slaine of either side of him.’ C. iii. Urges the -magistrates to ‘take order especially on the Sabaoth dayes that no -Cittizen or Cittizens seruauntes haue libertie to repaire vnto any of -those abuse places, that albeit the place be without the Cittie, and -by that meanes they haue not to deale with them, yet that they keepe -theyr _Beares_ out, and their straggling _Wantons_ in, that they may -be better occupied. And as they haue with good commendation so far -preuailed, that vppon Sabaoth dayes these Heathenishe _Enterludes_ and -_Playes_ are banished, so it wyll please them to followe the matter -still, that they may be vtterly rid and taken away. For surely it is -to be feared, beesides the distruction bothe of bodye and soule, that -many are brought vnto, by frequenting the _Theater_, the _Curtin_ and -such like, that one day those places will likewise be cast downe by God -himselfe, & being drawen with them a huge heape of such contempners -and prophane persons vtterly to be killed and spoyled in their bodyes. -God hath giuen them as I haue heard manye faire warninges already.... -January 17, 1583.’ - - - xxxii. 1583. PHILLIP STUBBES. - - [From _The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or - briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as - now raigne in many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: but - (especiallie) in a verie famous Ilande called Ailgna_ (S. R. - 1 Mar. 1583; eds. 1 May 1583, 16 Aug. 1583, 1584, 1585, 1595), - as reprinted by F. J. Furnivall (1877–9, _N. S. S._); other - reprints are by W. D. Turnbull (1836, from 1585) and J. P. - Collier (1870). Stubbes, a layman and Londoner, was author of - various ballads and pamphlets during 1581–93. A second part of - _The Anatomie of Abuses_ (S. R. 7 Nov. 1583) has not been - reprinted.] - -[Summary and Extracts.] The book, which is ‘made dialogue-wise’ between -Spudeus and Philoponus, who does most of the denunciation, is not -confined to the stage, but is a comprehensive analysis of contemporary -frailty. _Epistle to Phillip Earl of Arundel. Preface to the Reader._ -P. x. ‘Wheras in the processe of this my booke, I haue intreated of -certen exercyses vsually practised amongest vs, as namely of Playes -and Enterludes.... I would not haue thee so to take mee, as though -my speaches tended to the overthrowe and vtter disliking of all kynd -of exercyses in generall: that is nothing my simple meaning. But the -particulare Abuses which are crept into euery one of these seuerall -exercyses is the only thing which I think worthie of reprobation. -For otherwise (all Abuses cut away) who seeth not that some kind of -playes, tragedies and enterluds, in their own nature are not only of -great ancientie, but also very honest and very commendable exercyses, -being vsed and practised in most Christian common weales, as which -containe matter (such they may be) both of doctrine, erudition, good -example, and wholsome instruction; and may be vsed, in tyme and place -conuenient, as conducible to example of life and reformation of maners. -For such is our grosse and dull nature, that what thing we see opposite -before our eyes, do pearce further and printe deeper in our harts -and minds, than that thing which is hard onely with the eares.... -But being vsed (as now commonly they be) to the prophanation of the -Lord his sabaoth, to the alluring and inuegling of the People from -the blessed word of God preached, to Theaters and vnclean assemblies, -to ydlenes, vnthriftynes, whordome, wantonnes, drunkennes, and what -not; and which is more, when they are vsed to this end, to maintaine -a great sort of ydle Persons, doing nothing but playing and loytring, -hauing their lyuings of the sweat of other Mens browes, much like vnto -dronets deuouring the sweet honie of the poore labouring bees, than -are they exercyses (at no hand) sufferable. But being vsed to the -ends that I haue said, they are not to be disliked of any sober and -wise Christian.’ _The Maner of Sanctifiyng the Sabaoth in Ailgna._ P. -137. ‘Some spend the Sabaoth day (for the most part) in frequenting -of baudie Stage-playes and enterludes.’ P. 140. _Of Stage-playes and -Enterluds, with their wickednes._ ‘All Stage-playes, Enterluds, and -Commedies are either of diuyne or prophane matter: If they be of diuine -matter, then are they most intollerable, or rather Sacrilegious; for -that the blessed word of God is to be handled reuerently, grauely, -and sagely, with veneration to the glorious Maiestie of God, which -shineth therin, and not scoffingly, flowtingly, and iybingly, as it is -vpon stages in Playes and Enterluds, without any reuerence, worship, -or veneration to the same. The word of our Saluation, the price of -Christ his bloud, & the merits of his passion, were not giuen to be -derided and iested at, as they be in these filthie playes and enterluds -on stages & scaffolds, or to be mixt and interlaced with bawdry, -wanton shewes, & vncomely gestures, as is vsed (euery Man knoweth) in -these playes and enterludes.... Doo these Mockers and Flowters of his -Maiesty, these dissembling _Hipocrites_, and flattering _Gnatoes_, -think to escape vnpunished? beware, therfore, you masking Players, -you painted sepulchres, you doble dealing ambodexters, be warned -betymes, and, lik good computistes, cast your accompts before, what wil -be the reward therof in the end, least God destroy you in his wrath: -abuse God no more, corrupt his people no longer with your dregges, -and intermingle not his blessed word with such prophane vanities. For -at no hand it is not lawfull to mixt scurrilitie with diuinitie, nor -diuinitie with scurrilitie.... Vpon the other side, if their playes -be of prophane matters, than tend they to the dishonor of God, and -norishing of vice, both which are damnable. So that whither they be the -one or the other, they are quite contrarie to the Word of grace, and -sucked out of the Deuills teates to nourish vs in ydolatrie, hethenrie, -and sinne. And therfore they, cariyng the note, or brand, of God his -curse vppon their backs, which way soeuer they goe, are to be hissed -out of all Christian kingdomes, if they wil haue Christ to dwell -amongst them.’ Quotes the Fathers and ancients against _histriones_. -P. 143. ‘Then, seeing that Playes were first inuented by the Deuil, -practised by the heathen gentiles, and dedicat to their false ydols, -Goddes and Goddesses, as the howse, stage, and apparell to _Venus_, -the musicke to _Appollo_, the penning to _Minerua_ and the Muses, -the action and pronuntiation to _Mercurie_ and the rest, it is more -than manifest that they are no fit exercyses for a Christen Man to -follow. But if there were no euill in them saue this, namely, that the -arguments of tragedies is anger, wrath, immunitie, crueltie, iniurie, -incest, murther, & such like, the Persons or Actors are Goddes, -Goddesses, Furies, Fyends, Hagges, Kings, Queenes, or Potentates. Of -Commedies the matter and ground is loue, bawdrie, cosenage, flattery, -whordome, adulterie; the Persons, or agents, whores, queanes, bawdes, -scullions, knaues, Curtezans, lecherous old men, amorous yong men, with -such like of infinit varietie. If, I say, there were nothing els but -this, it were sufficient to withdraw a good christian from the vsing of -them; For so often as they goe to those howses where Players frequent, -thei go to _Venus_ pallace, & sathans synagogue [_in margin_, ‘Theaters -and curtaines Venus pallaces’], to worship deuils, & betray Christ -Iesus.’ To say that plays are ‘as good as sermons’ is to say that ‘the -Deuill is equipolent with the Lord’. P. 144. ‘There is no mischief -which these plaies maintain not. For do they not norish ydlenes? -and _otia dant vitia_, ydlenes is the Mother of vice. Doo they not -draw the people from hering the word of God, from godly Lectures and -sermons? for you shall haue them flocke thither, thick & threefould, -when the church of God shalbe bare & emptie.... Do they not maintaine -bawdrie, infinit folery, & renue the remembrance of hethen ydolatrie? -Do they not induce whordom & vnclennes? nay, are they not rather plaine -deuourers of maydenly virginitie and chastitie? For proofe wherof, -but marke the flocking and running to Theaters & curtens, daylie and -hourely, night and daye, tyme and tyde, to see Playes and Enterludes; -where such wanton gestures, such bawdie speaches, such laughing and -fleering, such kissing and bussing, such clipping and culling, Suche -winckinge and glancinge of wanton eyes, and the like, is vsed, as is -wonderfull to behold. Then, these goodly pageants being done, euery -mate sorts to his mate, euery one bringes another homeward of their way -verye freendly, and in their secret conclaues (couertly) they play the -_Sodomits_, or worse. And these be the fruits of Playes or Enterluds -for the most part. And wheras you say there are good Examples to be -learned in them, Trulie so there are: if you will learne falshood; if -you will learn cosenage; if you will learn to deceiue; if you will -learn to play the Hipocrit, to cogge, lye, and falsifie; if you will -learne to iest, laugh, and fleer, to grin, to nodd, and mow; if you -will learn to playe the vice, to swear, teare, and blaspheme both -Heauen and Earth: If you will learn to become a bawde, vncleane, and -to deuerginat Maydes, to deflour honest Wyues: if you will learne to -murther, slaie, kill, picke, steal, robbe, and roue: If you will learn -to rebel against Princes, to commit treasons, to consume treasurs, -to practise ydlenes, to sing and talke of bawdie loue and venery; if -you will lerne to deride, scoffe, mock, & flowt, to flatter & smooth: -If you will learn to play the whore-maister, the glutton, Drunkard, -or incestuous person: if you will learn to become proude, hawtie, & -arrogant; and, finally, if you will learne to contemne God and al his -lawes, to care nither for heauen nor hel, and to commit al kinde of -sinne and mischeef, you need to goe to no other schoole, for all these -good Examples may you see painted before your eyes in enterludes and -playes: wherfore that man who giueth money for the maintenance of -them must needs incurre the damage of _premunire_, that is, eternall -damnation, except they repent. For the Apostle biddeth vs beware, -least wee communicat with other mens sinnes; & this their dooing is -not only to communicat with other mens sinnes, & maintain euil to the -destruction of them selues & many others, but also a maintaining of -a great sorte of idle lubbers, and buzzing dronets, to suck vp and -deuoure the good honie, wherupon the poor bees should liue.’ Exhorts -‘all players & Founders of plaies and enterluds’ to leave their life. -P. 146. ‘Away therfore with this so infamous an art! for goe they neuer -so braue, yet are they counted and taken but for beggers. And is it -not true? liue they not vpon begging of euery one that comes? Are they -not taken by the lawes of the Realm for roagues and vacaboundes? I -speak of such as trauaile the Cuntries with playes & enterludes, making -an occupation of it, and ought so to be punished, if they had their -deserts.’ _Lords of Misrule in Ailgna.... The Manner of Church-ales in -Ailgna.... The maner of keeping of Wakesses, and feasts in Ailgna.... -The horrible Vice of pestiferous Dauncing, vsed in Ailgna.... Of -Musick in Ailgna, and how it allureth to vanitie.... Beare baiting and -other exercyses, vsed unlawfully in Ailgna._ P. 177. ‘These Hethnicall -exercyses vpon the Sabaoth day, which the Lord hath consecrat to holy -vses, for the glory of his Name, and our spirituall comfort, are not -in any respect tollerable, or to be suffered. For is not the baiting -of a Bear, besides that it is a filthie, stinking, and lothsome game, -a daungerous & perilous exercyse? wherein a man is in daunger of his -life euery minut of an houre; which thing, though it weare not so, yet -what exercyse is this meet for any Christian? what christen heart can -take pleasure to see one poore beast to rent, teare, and kill another, -and all for his foolish pleasure?... And, to be plaine, I thinke the -Deuill is the Maister of the game, bearward and all.’ _A Fearfull -Example of God his Iudgement vpon the prophaners of his Sabaoth._ P. -179. Describes the accident of 13 Jan. 1583, with the page-heading, ‘A -wofull cry at Syrap garden’. ‘So that either two or three hundred men, -women, and children (by estimation), wherof seuen were killed dead, -some were wounded, some lamed, and othersome brused and crushed almost -to the death.’ _A fearfull Iudgement of God, shewed at the Theaters._ -P. 180. ‘The like Iudgement (almost) did the Lord shew vnto them a -litle befor, being assembled at their Theaters, to see their bawdie -enterluds and other trumperies practised: For he caused the earth -mightely to shak and quauer, as though all would haue fallen down; -wherat the People, sore amazed, some leapt down (from the top of the -turrets, pinacles, and towres, wher they stood) to the ground; wherof -some had their legs broke, some their arms, some their backs, some hurt -one where, some another, and many sore crusht and brused; but not any -but they went away sore affraid, & wounded in conscience. And yet can -neither the one nor the other fray them from these diuelish exercyses, -vntill the Lorde consume them all in his wrath; _which God forbid_! -The Lord of his mercie open the eyes of the maiestrats to pluck down -these places of abuse, that god may be honored and their consciences -disburthened.’ - - - xxxiii. 1583. GERVASE BABINGTON. - - [From _A very Fruitful Exposition of the Commandements by - way of Questions and Answers_ (1583), 316. More general - references to the evils of plays and bear-baiting are on pp. - 190, 385. Babington was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, - and tutor in the Earl of Pembroke’s house at Wilton; he - afterwards became Bishop successively of Llandaff, Exeter, and - Worcester.] - -These prophane & wanton stage playes or interludes: what an occasion -they are of adulterie and vncleanenesse, by gesture, by speech, by -conueyances, and deuices to attaine to so vngodly desires, the world -knoweth with too much hurt by long experience. Vanities they are if we -make the best of them.... But I referre you to them, that vpon good -knowledge of the abominations of them, haue written largely & wel -against them. If they be dangerous on the day time, more daungerous on -the night certainely: if on a stage, & in open courtes, much more in -chambers and priuate houses. For there are manie roumes beside that -where the play is, & peraduenture the strangenes of the place & lacke -of light to guide them, causeth errour in their way, more than good -Christians should in their houses suffer. - - - xxxiv. 1583 (?). PHILIP SIDNEY. - - [From _The Defence of Poesie_ (1595, William Ponsonby; S. R. - 29 Nov. 1594), reprinted as _An Apologie for Poetrie_ (1595, - Henry Olney), and with 1598 and later editions of _Arcadia_. - Among many modern editions are those by E. Arber (1868), E. - Flügel (1889), A. S. Cook (1890), E. S. Schuckburgh (1891), J. - C. Collins (1907), and in Gregory Smith (1904), i. 148. The date - 1583 is conjecturally assigned by Cook on the ground of the - stylistic development since the _Arcadia_ (1580–3). But any date - is possible between 1579, when Gosson’s _School of Abuse_, which - probably stimulated it, and Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_, which it - mentions, appeared, and Nov. 1585, when Sidney went to the Low - Countries. The book contains a general valuation of poetry, on - humanistic lines, together with a criticism of English poetry in - particular. Only a few pages are devoted to the drama.] - -P. 44. ‘Perchance it is the Comick, whom naughtie Playmakers and -Stagekeepers, have iustly made odious. To the argument of abuse, I will -answer after. Onely thus much now is to be said, that the Comedy is -an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth, -in the most ridiculous and scornefull sort that may be. So as it is -impossible, that any beholder can be content to be such a one.... So -that the right vse of Comedy will (I thinke) by no body be blamed, -and much lesse of the high and excellent Tragedy, that openeth the -greatest wounds, and sheweth forth the Vlcers, that are couered with -Tissue: that maketh Kinges feare to be Tyrants, and Tyrants manifest -their tirannicall humors: that with sturring the affects of admiration -and commiseration, teacheth, the vncertainety of this world, and vpon -how weake foundations guilden roofes are builded.... But it is not -the Tragedy they doe mislike: For it were too absurd to cast out so -excellent a representation of whatsoeuer is most worthy to be learned.’ -P. 50. Answers criticisms of poetry as the ‘Nurse of abuse’, &c. P. -63. Criticizes ‘Our Tragedies and Comedies (not without cause cried -out against)’. Even in _Gorboduc_, much more in other plays, the -unities are disregarded (cf. quotations in ch. xix). ‘Besides these -gross absurdities, how all theyr Playes be neither right Tragedies, -nor right Comedies: mingling Kings and Clownes’ in a ‘mungrell -Tragy-comedie.... Our Comedians thinke there is no delight without -laughter.... Delight hath a ioy in it, either permanent, or present. -Laughter, hath onely a scornful tickling.... But I haue lauished out -too many wordes of this play matter. I doe it because as they are -excelling parts of Poesie, so is there none so much vsed in England, -and none can be more pittifully abused.’ - - - xxxv. 1584. THOMAS LODGE. - - [From _An Alarum against Usurers_ (1584; S. R. 4 Nov. 1583), - edited with _Defence of Poetry_ by D. Laing (1853, _Sh. Soc._).] - -[Extract from Epistle to Inns of Court.] ‘About three yeres ago, -one Stephen Gosson published a booke, intituled _The Schoole of -Abuse_, in which having escaped in many and sundry conclusions, I, -as the occasion then fitted me, shapt him such an answere as beseemed -his discourse; which by reason of the slendernes of the subject, -(because it was in defence of plaies and play makers) the godly and -reverent that had to deale in the cause, misliking it, forbad the -publishing: notwithstanding he, comming by a private unperfect coppye, -about two yeres since made a reply, dividing it into five sections, -and in his Epistle dedicatory, to the right honorable, Sir Frances -Walsingham, he impugneth me with these reproches, that I am become -a vagarant person, visited by the hevy hand of God, lighter than -libertie, and looser than vanitie.’ He proceeds to call Gosson an -‘untamed curtail’ and an ‘injurious Asinius’. - - - xxxvi. 1584. GEORGE WHETSTONE. - - [From _A Touchstone for the Time_, printed as an ‘Addition’ - to _A Mirour for Magestrates of Cyties_ (1584).] - -The tract is mainly on gaming. P. 24. ‘The godly Divines, in public -sermons, and others in printed books, have (of late) very sharply -inveighed against Stage-plays (unproperly called, Tragedies, Comedies, -and Morals), as the springs of many vices, and the stumbling-blocks -of godliness and virtue. Truly the use of them upon the Sabbath day, -and the abuse of them at all times, with scurrility and unchaste -conveyance, ministred matter sufficient for them to blame, and the -Magistrate to reforme.’ - - - xxxvii. 1586. WILLIAM WEBBE. - - [From _A Discourse of English Poetrie_ (1586), ed. Arber, 27; - also in Gregory Smith, i. 226. The promised expression of - opinion (p. 42) is on humanist lines.] - -The profitte or discommoditie which aryseth by the vse of these -Comedies and Tragedies, which is most, hath beene long in controversie, -and is sore urged among us at these dayes: what I think of the same, -perhaps I shall breefely declare anon. - - - xxxviii. 1587. WILLIAM RANKINS. - - [From _A Mirrour of Monsters: Wherein is plainely described the - manifold vices & spotted enormities, that are caused by the - infectious sight of Playes, with the description of the subtile - slights of Sathan, making them his instruments_. Compiled by - Wil. Rankins. Magna spes est inferni. Seene and allowed. _I. C. - for T. H._ 1587. The reference to Holywell suggests that the - author was the dramatist (cf. ch. xxiii).] - -Describes the wedding of Fastus and Luxuria at the ‘Chapell -_Adulterinum_’, near to Κοȋλοφρἑαρ ‘by interpretation from the -Greeks Hollow well [i.e. Holywell] where my selfe lulled in the -lap of Securitie, not long since was brought a sleepe by carelesse -cogitations’. The Chapel Adulterinum is ‘the Theater and Curtine’ -(4^v). A banquet and mask with torchbearers furnish an allegory of the -vices of players, and various allusions, to the fall of the Bear-garden -(3), to the 2_d._ payment for entrance (3^v), to advertisements by -drums and trumpets (5) and bills (5^v), to doorkeepers and boxholders -(6^v), are commented on in marginal notes. - - - xxxix. 1588. JOHN CASE. - - [From _Sphaera Civitatis_ (1588), a commentary on Aristotle’s - _Politics_ (_ad_ v. 8; vii. 17). A similar passage from the - commentary on the _Ethics_ (iv. 8) in _Speculum Moralium - Quaestionum_ (1586), 183, is quoted by Boas, 228. It is - interesting to find from _The Christmas Prince_, 12 (cf. ch. - xxiv), that Case once served as lord of misrule at St. John’s, - Oxford.] - - (a) _Lib. v, c. 8._ - -Alia nunc dubitatio sequitur, Vtrum ludi chorique permittendi sunt in -ciuitate? Memini me olim in Ethicis de his rebus obiter disputasse, -verum quoniam opportune se offert quaestio, abs re non erit eandem -paucissimis demonstrare: censeo ergo quibusdam adhibitis circumstantiis -haec tolerari ac permitti debere; non quod per se et vi sua res vtiles, -sed quod in moderato illorum vsu splendor comitatis (quae virtus minima -non est) manifeste apparet. Sunt igitur ludi non inanes et histrionicae -fabulae, veneris illecebrae, sed facetae comoediae magnificaeque -tragaediae, in quibus expressa imago vitae morumque cernitur.... Adhuc -in his mores hominum depictos discere, praeclara inuenta doctorum -obseruare, temporum antiquorum caniciem cernere, vocem, vultum, -gestumque splendide componere, varios affectus et passiones mouere, -famam acquirere et comparare possumus [_in margin_: scenae -trigemina corona]. Cum ergo ex iis tot commoda existant, non solum -toleranda sed etiam iuste approbanda videntur. Insuper antiquissimis -olim temporibus in omni praeclare instituta republica floruerunt ista: -ergo sunt licita.... Postremo his addi potest ratio quae est in textu, -nempe quod hoc modo potentiores viri quos timet ciuitas (coacti ad ista -edenda populo) elumbentur sedatioresque fiant. - - (b) _Lib. vii, c. 17._ - -Tertium est vt parentes suos liberos diligenter custodiant, et arceant -ab audiendis, videndis, spectandis, malis sermonibus, obscoenis idolis -Veneris, vanis spectaculis leuissimorum histrionum, qui plusquam -ridiculas ne dicam impias fabellas huc illuc vagabundi agunt. Hic -opportunè monendi sunt illi, qui suos infantulos iurare et conuitiari -docent, qui simulachra Veneris intuenda, artemque amandi perdiscendam -suis filiolis proponunt, qui denique ad theatra plena Veneris, plena -vanitatis illos non solum ire permittunt sed etiam alliciunt. Non hic -omnes ludos omnesque histriones praesertim hystoricos, tragicos, et si -placet comicos (modò sint verè faceti) condemno: quippè Aristoteles hoc -loco Theodorum quendam peritum tragoediarum actorem laudat, Cicero suum -laudauit Roscium, nos Angli Tarletonum, in cuius voce et vultu omnes -iocosi affectus, in cuius cerebroso capite lepidae facetiae habitant. - - - xl. 1588–90. MARTIN MARPRELATE CONTROVERSY. - - [The texts of the Marprelate pamphlets have been edited by W. - Pierce, _The Marprelate Tracts_ (1911); some were reprinted - earlier by E. Arber and in J. Petheram, _Puritan Discipline - Tracts_ (1842–60). The best accounts of this ribald controversy - on Church government are E. Arber, _An Introductory Sketch - to the Martin Marprelate Controversy_ (1879); W. Pierce, - _Historical Introduction to the Marprelate Tracts_ (1908); J. - D. Wilson, _The Marprelate Controversy_ (1909, C. H. iii. 374), - and _Martin Marprelate and Shakespeare’s Fluellen_ (1912); R. - B. McKerrow, _Works of Nashe_, v (1910), 34, 184; G. Bonnard, - _La Controverse de Martin Marprelate_ (1916). It seems probable - that Martin was a composite personality; Sir Roger Williams, - John Penry, and Job Throckmorton may all have had a share in - the pamphlets. The replies were inspired by Richard Bancroft, - then Canon of Westminster and a member of the High Commission. - It seems clear that both Lyly and Nashe took part in them, and - _Pappe with an Hatchet_ may reasonably be ascribed to Lyly. - Nashe has often been regarded as Pasquil, but Mr. McKerrow - does not think that any of the pamphlets can be supposed with - any certainty to be his; he probably contributed to the lost - plays. Of these Bonnard, 92, would distinguish five--(_a_) - Martin anatomized, (_b_) the May Game of Martinism, (_c_) Martin - carried to hell, as a vice, (_d_) Martin as cock, ape, and wolf, - (_e_) Martin ravishing Divinity; but (_b_) seems to be referred - to as a forthcoming pamphlet rather than as a play, and of the - others (_d_) and (_e_) almost certainly, and possibly all four, - were episodes in the same piece. F. Bacon in his _Advertisement - Touching the Controversies_ (_Works_, viii. 74), written in the - summer of 1589, criticizes the episcopal policy of answering - like by like, and ‘this immodest and deformed manner of writing - lately entertained, whereby matters of religion are handled in - the style of the stage’.] - - - (_a_) - - [From _The Epistle to the Terrible Priests of the Confocation - House_ (Oct.-Nov. 1588), 11, 19, reprinted by E. Arber (1880); - also by J. Petheram (1842) in _Puritan Discipline Tracts_ - (Martinist).] - -Sohow, brother Bridges [John Bridges, Dean of Salisbury] ... you haue -bin a worthy writer as they say of a long time, your first book was a -proper Enterlude, called Gammar Gurtons needle. But I think that this -trifle, which sheweth the author to haue had some witte and inuention -in him, was none of your doing: Because your bookes seeme to proceede -from the braynes of a woodcocke as hauing neyther wit nor learning.... -What if I should report abroad, that cleargie men come vnto their -promotions by Simonie? haue not you giuen me iuste cause? I thinke -Simonie be the bishops lacky. Tarleton tooke him not long since in Don -Iohn [Aylmer] of Londons cellor. - - - (_b_) - - [From _A Whip for an Ape: Or Martin displaied_ (Apr. 1589), 53, - 133, in Bond, _Lyly_, iii. 417 (Anti-Martinist).] - - Now _Tarleton’s_ dead, the Consort lackes a vice: - For knaue and foole thou maist beare pricke and price. - - * * * * * - - And ye graue men that answer _Martins_ mowes, - He mockes the more, and you in vaine loose times: - Leaue Apes to dogges to baite, their skins to crowes, - And let old _Lanam_ lash him with his rimes. - - - (_c_) - - [From _Anti-Martinus, sive Monitio cuiusdam Londinensis, ad - Adolescentes utriusque Academiae_, signed A. L. (1589; S. R. - 3 July 1589), 59 (Anti-Martinist).] - -Libros autem _Martini_ qui legit, nihil aliud reperiet, quam -perpetuatum conuitium; sic autem vibratum, vt facile videas ad -huiusmodi scurrilitates conquirendas, totam eius vitam theatris illis -Londinensibus, & leuissimis scenis, vel scurrarum & nepotum circulis -insidiatam. - - - (_d_) - - [From _Theses Martinianae, or Martin Junior_ (_c._ 22 July - 1589), sig. D ij (Martinist).] - -‘There bee that affirme the rimers and stage-players to haue cleane -putte you out of countenaunce ... the stage-players, poore rogues, are -not so much to be blamed, if being stage-players, that is plaine rogues -(saue onely for their liueries) they in the action of dealing against -Maister Martin, have gotten them many thousande eie witnesses, of their -wittelesse and pittifull conceites.’ The writer condoles with those -who ‘for one poor penny’ play ‘ignominious fools for an hour or two -together’. Martin may ‘contemn such kennel-rakers and scullions as have -sold themselves’ to be laughed at as ‘a company of disguised asses’. - - - (_e_) - - [From _Martins Months Minde_ (Aug. 1589), in Grosart, _Nashe_, - i. 164, 166, 175, 177, 180, 189 (Anti-Martinist).] - -_To the Reader._ ‘_Roscius_ pleades in the Senate house; Asses play -vpon harpes; the Stage is brought into the Church; and vices make -plaies of Churche matters.... These Iigges and Rimes, haue nipt the -father [Martin] in the head & kild him cleane, seeing that hee is -ouertaken in his owne _foolerie_. And this hath made the yong youthes -his sonnes, to chafe and fret aboue measure, especiallie with the -Plaiers, (their betters in all respects, both in wit, and honestie) -whom sauing their _liueries_ (for indeede they are hir Maiesties -men, and these not so much as hir good subiects) they call _Rogues_, -for playing their enterludes, and Asses for trauelling _all daie -for a pennie_ [_in margin_, Martin the vice condemneth the Plaiers, -Eigulus, sigulum].... _A true report of the death and buriall of Martin -Marprelate._ ... _Martin_ ... being ... sundrie waies verie curstlie -handled; as ... wormd and launced, that he tooke verie grieuouslie, to -be made a _May-game_ vpon the _Stage_ [_in margin_, The Theater] ... as -he saw that ... euerie stage Plaier made a iest of him ... fell into -a feauer.... _Martin_, ... calling his sonnes ... said ... I perceiue -that euerie stage plaier, if he play the foole but two houres together, -hath somewhat for his labour: and I ... nothing.... [The common people -are] now wearie of our state mirth, that for a penie, may haue farre -better by oddes at the Theater and Curtaine, and any blind playing -house euerie day.... In lept I ... with ... twittle tattles; that -indeede I had learned in Alehouses, and at the Theater of Lanam and -his fellowes.* ... These gambols (my sonnes) are implements for the -Stage, and beseeme Iesters, and Plaiers, but are not fit for _Church -plotters_.... Afterwards ensued his bequestes, in manner and forme -following ... Item, all my foolerie I bequeath to my good friend Lanam; -and his consort, of whom I first had it.’ - - - (_f_) - - [From _A Countercuffe giuen to Martin Iunior: ... by Pasquill - of England_ (Aug. 1589), in McKerrow, _Nashe_, i. 59 - (Anti-Martinist).] - -The Anotamie latelie taken of him, the blood and the humors that were -taken from him, by launcing and worming him at _London_ vpon the -common Stage ... are euident tokens, that beeing thorow soust in so -many showres, hee had no other refuge but to runne into a hole, and die -as he liued, belching. - - - (_g_) - - [From _The Protestatyon of Martin Marprelat_ (1589, before 20 - Oct.), 25 (Martinist).] - -Then among al the rimers and stage plaiers, which my Ll. of the cleargy -had suborned against me I remember Mar-Martin, Iohn a Cant. his -hobbie-horse, was to his reproche, newly put out of the Morris, take it -how he will; with a flat discharge for euer shaking his shins about a -May-pole againe while he liued. - - - (_h_) - - [From _The Returne of the renowned Caualiero Pasquill of - England_ (_c._ 20 Oct. 1589) in McKerrow, _Nashe_, i. 82, 92, - 100 (Anti-Martinist).] - -Howe whorishlie Scriptures are alleaged by them, I will discouer (by -Gods helpe) in another new worke which I haue in hand, and intituled -it, _The May-game of Martinisme_. Verie defflie set out, with Pompes, -Pagents, Motions, Maskes, Scutchions, Emblems, Impreases, strange -trickes, and deuises, betweene the Ape and the Owle, the like was neuer -yet seene in Paris-garden. _Penry_ the welchman is the foregallant -of the Morrice, with the treble belles, shot through the wit with a -Woodcocks bill: I woulde not for the fayrest horne-beast in all his -Countrey, that the Church of England were a cup of Metheglin, and came -in his way when he is ouer-heated; euery Bishopricke woulde prooue -but a draught, when the Mazer is at his nose. _Martin_ himselfe is -the Mayd-marian, trimlie drest vppe in a cast Gowne, and a Kercher of -Dame _Lawsons_, his face handsomlie muffled with a Diaper-napkin to -couer his beard, and a great Nosegay in his hande, of the principalest -flowers I could gather out of all hys works. _Wiggenton_ daunces -round about him in a Cotten-coate, to court him with a Leatherne -pudding, and a woodden Ladle. _Paget_ marshalleth the way, with a -couple of great clubbes, one in his foote, another in his head, & he -cryes to the people with a loude voice, _Beware of the Man whom God -hath markt_. I can not yet find any so fitte to come lagging behind, -with a budget on his necke, to gather the deuotion of the lookers on, -as the stocke-keeper of the Bridewel-house of Canterburie; he must -carrie the purse, to defray their charges, and then hee may be sure to -serue himselfe.... Methought _Vetus Comœdia_ beganne to pricke him at -London in the right vaine, when shee brought foorth _Diuinitie_ wyth -a scratcht face, holding of her hart as if she were sicke, because -_Martin_ would haue forced her, but myssing of his purpose, he left -the print of his nayles vppon her cheekes, and poysoned her with a -vomit which he ministred vnto her, to make her cast vppe her dignities -and promotions.... Who commeth yonder _Marforius_, can you tell me? -MARFORIUS. By her gate and her Garland I knowe her well, it is _Vetus -Comœdia_. She hath been so long in the Country, that she is somewhat -altred: this is she that called in a counsell of Phisitians about -_Martin_, and found by the sharpnes of his humour, when they had opened -the vaine that feedes his head, that hee would spit out his lunges -within one yeere.... PASQUIL. I haue a tale to tell her in her eare, of -the slye practise that was vsed in restraining of her. - - - (_i_) - - [From _Pappe with an Hatchet_ (1589, end of Oct.) in Bond, - _Lyly_, iii. 408 (Anti-Martinist).] - -_Sed heus tu, dic sodes_, will they not bee discouraged for the common -players? Would these Comedies might be allowed to be plaid that are -pend, and then I am sure he would be decyphered, and so perhaps -discouraged. - -He shall not bee brought in as whilom he was, and yet verie well, with -a cocks combe, an apes face, a wolfs bellie, cats clawes, &c. but in a -cap’de cloake, and all the best apparell he ware the highest day in the -yeare.... - -... Would it not bee a fine Tragedie, when _Mardocheus_ shall play -a Bishoppe in a Play, and _Martin Hamman_, and that he that seekes -to pull downe those that are set in authoritie aboue him, should be -hoysted vpon a tree aboue all other. [_In margin_] If it be shewed -at Paules, it will cost you foure pence: at the Theater two pence: at -Sainct Thomas a Watrings nothing. - - - (_k_) - - [From G. Harvey, _An Advertisement for Papp-Hatchett_ (1589, - Nov. 5), printed with _Pierces Supererogation_ (1593) and in - Grosart, _Harvey_, ii. 131, 213 (Philo-Martinist).] - -Had I bene Martin ... it should haue beene one of my May-games, or -August triumphes, to haue driuen Officials, Commissaries, Archdeacons, -Deanes, Chauncellors, Suffraganes, Bishops and Archbishops, (so -Martin would have florished at the least) to entertaine such an -odd, light-headded fellow for their defence; a professed iester, a -Hickscorner, a scoff-maister, a playmunger, an Interluder; once the -foile of Oxford, now the stale of London, and ever the Apesclogge of -the presse, _Cum Priuilegio perennitatis_.... I am threatened with a -Bable, and Martin menaced with a Comedie: ... All you, that tender -the preseruation of your good names, were best to please Pap-hatchet, -and fee Euphues betimes, for feare lesse he be mooued, or some One -of his Apes hired, to make a Playe of you; and then is your credit -quite vndone for euer, and euer: Such is the publique reputation of -their Playes. He must needes be _discouraged_, whom they _decipher_. -Better, anger an hundred other, then two such; that haue the Stage at -commaundement, and can furnish-out Vices, and Diuels at their pleasure. - - - (_l_) - - [From _An Almond for a Parrat, Or Cutbert Curry-knaues Almes_ - (1590, early), in McKerrow, _Nashe_, iii. 354 (Anti-Martinist).] - -Therefore we must not measure of _Martin_ as he is allied to _Elderton_ -or tongd like _Will Tony_, as he was attired like an Ape on the Stage, -or sits writing of Pamphlets in some spare outhouse, but as he is -_Mar-Prelat_ of England. - - - (_m_) - - [From _The First parte of Pasquils Apologie ... Printed where - I was, and where I will bee readie by the helpe of God and my - Muse, to send you the May-game of Martinisme for an intermedium, - betweene the first and seconde parte of the Apologie_ (2 July - 1590), in McKerrow, _Nashe_, i. 135 (Anti-Martinist). It may - be doubted whether _The May-game of Martinism_ ever had an - existence outside the allusions to it in these pamphlets.] - -And when I haue sent you the _May-game of Martinisme_, at the next -setting my foote into the styrroppe after it, the signet shall be -giuen, and the fielde fought. - - - xli. 1589. RICHARD (?) PUTTENHAM. - - [From _The Arte of English Poesie_ (1589; S. R. 9 Nov. 1588), - edited by E. Arber (1869); also in J. Haslewood, _Ancient - Critical Essays_, vol. i (1811), and in part in Gregory Smith, - ii. 1. On the author, cf. ch. xxiii.] - -Most of the treatise (bks. ii, iii) deals with the technicalities of -poetic structure and style, which the author sometimes illustrates from -interludes and verses of his own. Bk. i praises poetry in general, on -familiar but non-controversial humanist lines, and discusses with some -classical erudition the origin of various types of poetry, as tragedy, -comedy, and pantomime (c. 11), comedy (c. 14), tragedy (c. 15), staging -(c. 17), pastoral (c. 18). In a brief account of English poets (c. 31) -occurs: ‘But the principall man in this profession at the same time -[Edward’s] was Maister Edward [_sic_] Ferrys a man of no lesse mirth -and felicitie that way, but of much more skil, and magnificence in his -meeter, and therefore wrate for the most part to the stage, in Tragedie -and sometimes in Comedie or Enterlude, wherein he gaue the king so -much good recreation, as he had thereby many good rewardes.... Of the -later sort I thinke thus. That for Tragedie, the Lord of Buckhurst -and Maister Edward Ferrys for such doings as I haue sene of theirs do -deserue the hyest price: Th’ Earle of Oxford and Maister Edwardes of -her Maiesties Chappell for Comedy and Enterlude.’ - - - xlii. 1589. THOMAS NASHE. - - [From an epistle _To the Gentlemen Students of Both - Universities_, prefixed to Robert Greene’s _Menaphon_ (1589; - S. R. 23 Aug. 1589), reprinted from ed. 1610, which has some - corrections possibly by Nashe, in McKerrow, iii. 311, with - valuable notes (iv. 444) upon the allusions and supposed - allusions. The suggestion of Collier that _Menaphon_ was - originally printed in 1587 appears to be baseless. Outside the - three passages quoted, Nashe praises Watson’s translation of - _Antigone_. McKerrow’s collection of material for the critical - discussion of the epistle is so full that I need only compare - briefly my conclusions with his. In (i) Nashe seems to me to - be criticizing (_a_) ‘tragedians’, which for me are clearly - ‘tragic actors’, while McKerrow inclines to make them ‘writers - of tragedy’, and (_b_) their dramatists, who include blank-verse - ‘Art-masters’, which I agree with McKerrow is more likely, in - view of the fact that Greene above all flourished his University - degree, to mean ‘masters of their art’ than ‘masters of Arts’, - and translating tradesmen or serving-men with no education - beyond a grammar-school. The slight suggestions that Nashe - may have had Marlowe especially in mind are perhaps hardly - sufficient to outweigh his statement in _Have with you to - Saffron Walden_ (1596) that he ‘neuer abusd Marloe’; and Marlowe - was a University man, and no tradesman or serving-man. On the - other hand, there is no specific praise of Marlowe with other - University poets in the epistle. The whole of (i) is a precise - parallel to the following lines by Thomas Brabine, also prefixed - to _Menaphon_: - - ‘Come foorth you witts that vaunt the pompe of speach, - And striue to thunder from a Stage-mans throate: - View _Menaphon_ a note beyond your reach; - Whose sight will make your drumming descant doate: - Players auaunt, you know not to delight; - Welcome sweete Shepheard; worth a Schollers sight.’ - - In (ii) I am rather more inclined than McKerrow to think that - the ‘_Nouerint_’ and the ‘Kidde in _Æsop_’ may glance at Kyd, - who was not one of the University group, and was a grammarian, - a translator, and very likely already a serving-man. But the - attempts to trace him elsewhere in the passage come to very - little; nor is one playwright only necessarily in question, so - that, although the ‘handfuls of Tragicall speeches’ may point - to a play of _Hamlet_ as already extant in 1589, the inference - that Kyd was its author becomes extremely thin. In (iii) Nashe - attacks the players as parasitic on the poets, in terms closely - resembling those used later by Greene in his _Groatsworth of - Wit_ (No. xlviii). Probably Roscius is here Alleyn, and Caesar - stands for the poets in general. I do not agree with Fleay, _L. - of S._ 10, 99, that the epistle reflects a rivalry between the - poets of the Queen’s men and those of Pembroke’s, who indeed did - not yet exist, or any other company. The issue is between the - University poets on the one hand and the players and illiterate - poets on the other.] - -P. 311. ‘I am not ignorant how eloquent our gowned age is grown of -late; so that euery mechanicall mate abhorres the English he was borne -too, and plucks, with a solemne periphrasis, his _vt vales_ from the -inkehorne: which I impute, not so much to the perfection of Arts, -as to the seruile imitation of vainglorious Tragedians, who contend -not so seriously to excell in action, as to embowell the cloudes in -a speech of comparison, thinking themselues more than initiated in -Poets immortality, if they but once get _Boreas_ by the beard and the -heauenly Bull by the deaw-lap. But heerein I cannot so fully bequeath -them to folly, as their ideot Art-masters, that intrude themselues to -our eares as the Alcumists of eloquence, who (mounted on the stage of -arrogance) think to out-braue better pennes with the swelling bumbast -of a bragging blanke verse. Indeede it may bee the ingrafted ouerflow -of some kil-cow conceit, that ouercloyeth their imagination with a -more than drunken resolution, being not extemporall in the inuention -of any other meanes to vent their manhoode, commits the disgestion of -their cholericke incumbrances to the spacious volubilitie of a drumming -decasillabon. Mongst this kind of men that repose eternitie in the -mouth of a Player, I can but ingrosse some deep read Grammarians, who, -hauing no more learning in their skull than will serue to take vp a -commoditie, nor Art in their braine than was nourished in a seruing -mans idlenesse, will take vppon them to be the ironicall Censors of -all, when God and Poetrie doth know they are the simplest of all. To -leaue these to the mercy of their Mother tongue, that feed on nought -but the crums that fall from the Translators trencher, I come (sweet -friend) to thy _Arcadian Menaphon_, ...’ P. 315. ‘I’le turne backe to -my first text of Studies of delight, and talke a little in friendship -with a few of our triuiall translators. It is a common practise now a -dayes amongst a sort of shifting companions, that runne through euery -Art and thriue by none, to leaue the trade of _Nouerint_, whereto -they were borne, and busie themselues with the indeuours of Art, that -could scarcely Latinize their neck verse if they should haue neede; -yet English _Seneca_ read by Candlelight yeelds many good sentences, -as _Blood is a begger_, and so forth; and if you intreate him faire -in a frostie morning, hee will affoord you whole _Hamlets_, I should -say handfuls of Tragicall speeches. But O griefe! _Tempus edax rerum_, -whats that will last alwayes? The Sea exhaled by droppes will in -continuance bee drie, and _Seneca_, let blood line by line and page by -page, at length must needes die to our Stage; which makes his famished -followers to imitate the Kidde in _Æsop_, who, enamoured with the Foxes -newfangles, forsooke all hopes of life to leape into a newe occupation; -and these men, renouncing all possibilities of credite or estimation, -to intermeddle with Italian Translations: wherein how poorely they -haue plodded, (as those that are neither prouenzall men, nor are able -to distinguish of Articles,) let all indifferent Gentlemen that haue -trauailed in that tongue discerne by their two-pennie pamphlets: & no -maruell though their home borne mediocritie bee such in this matter; -for what can bee hoped of those that thrust _Elisium_ into hell, and -haue not learned, so long as they haue liued in the Spheres, the iust -measure of the Horizon without an hexameter? Sufficeth them to bodge -vp a blanke verse with ifs and ands, and otherwhile for recreation -after their Candle-stuffe, hauing starched their beards most curiously, -to make a Peripateticall path into the inner parts of the Citie, and -spend two or three howers in turning ouer French _Doudie_, where they -attract more infection in one minute, then they can do eloquence all -daies of their life, by conuersing with any Authors of like argument.’ -P. 323. ‘There are extant about _London_ many most able men to reuiue -Poetry ... as, for example, _Mathew Roydon_, _Thomas Atchelow_, and -_George Peele_; the first of whom, as he hath shewed himselfe singular -in the immortall Epitaph of his beloued _Astrophell_, besides many -other most absolute Comike inuentions (made more publike by euery mans -praise, than they can be by my speech), so the second hath more than -once or twice manifested his deepe witted schollership in places of -credite: and for the last, though not the least of them all, I dare -commend him to all that know him, as the chiefe supporter of pleasance -now liuing, the _Atlas_ of Poetrie, and _primus verborum Artifex_: -whose first increase, the arraignement of _Paris_, might pleade to -your opinions his pregnant dexterity of wit, and manifold varietie of -inuention; where in (_me iudice_) he goeth a steppe beyond all that -write. Sundry other sweete gentlemen I know, that haue vaunted their -pennes in priuate deuices, and tricked vp a company of taffata fooles -with their feathers, whose beauty if our Poets had not peecte with the -supply of their periwigs, they might haue antickt it vntill this time -vp and downe the Countrey with the King of _Fairies_, and dined euery -day at the pease porredge ordinary with _Delphrigus_. But _Tolossa_ -hath forgot that it was sometime sacked, and beggars that euer they -carried their fardels on footback: and in truth no meruaile, when as -the deserued reputation of one _Roscius_ is of force to enrich a rabble -of counterfets; yet let subiects for all their insolence dedicate a _De -profundis_ euery morning to the preseruation of their _Caesar_, least -their increasing indignities returne them ere long to their iugling -to mediocrity, and they bewaile in weeping blankes the wane of their -_Monarchie_.’ - - - xliii. 1590. ROBERT GREENE. - - [From _Francescos Fortunes: Or, The second part of Greenes Neuer - too Late_ (1590), reprinted in _Works_, viii. 111. For the - Roscius story, cf. No. xii and ch. xi.] - -P. 129. A palmer, telling the tale of Francesco, which contains some -probably autobiographical matter on the hero’s writing for the stage -(cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Greene), is interrupted by a request for his -‘iudgement of Playes, Playmakers and Players’. After observing that -‘some for being too lauish against that facultie, haue for their -satiricall inuectiues been well canuased’, he sketches the growth -of comedy at Athens and Rome, where ‘couetousnesse crept into the -qualitie’ and ‘the Actors, by continuall vse grewe not onely excellent, -but rich and insolent’. This is illustrated (p. 132) by a rebuke of -Cicero to Roscius, ‘Why _Roscius_, art thou proud with _Esops_ Crow, -being pranct with the glorie of others feathers? of thy selfe thou -canst say nothing, and if the Cobler hath taught thee to say Aue -Caesar, disdain not thy tutor, because thou pratest in a Kings chamber: -what sentence thou vtterest on the stage, flowes from the censure of -our wittes, and what sentence or conceipte of the inuention the people -applaud for excellent, that comes from the secrets of our knowledge. -I graunt your action, though it be a kind of mechanical labour; yet -wel done tis worthie of praise: but you worthlesse, if for so small a -toy you waxe proud’. _Publius Seruilius_ also bade a player ‘bee not -so bragge of thy silken roabes, for I sawe them but yesterday make a -great shew in a broakers shop’. The palmer concludes, ‘Thus sir haue -you heard my opinion briefly of plaies, that Menander deuised them for -the suppressing of vanities, necessarie in a common wealth, as long as -they are vsed in their right kind; the play makers worthy of honour for -their Arte: & players, men deseruing both prayse and profite, as long -as they wax neither couetous nor insolent’. - - - xliv. 1591. SAMUEL COX. - - [This letter of 15 Jan. 1591 to an unknown correspondent, - brother of one Mr. Lewin, occurs with other letters by Cox - in the letter-book of Sir Christopher Hatton (Nicolas, - _Hatton_, xxix), to whom he was secretary.] - -Has his letter ‘reprehending me in some sort for my sharpness against -the use of plays’. Cites view of Fathers, especially Chrysostom. -Regrets present toleration of ‘these dangerous schools of licentious -liberty, whereunto more people resort than to sermons or prayers’. -Now ‘rich men give more to a player for a song which he shall sing in -one hour, than to their faithful servants for serving them a whole -year.... I could wish that players would use themselves nowadays, as -in ancient former times they have done, which was only to exercise -their interludes in the time of Christmas, beginning to play in the -holidays and continuing until twelfth tide, or at the furthest until -Ashwednesday, of which players I find three sorts of people: the first, -such as were in wages with the king and played before him some time at -Hallowmass, and then in the later holidays until twelfthtide, and after -that, only in Shrovetide; and these men had other trades to live of, -and seldom or never played abroad at any other times of the whole year. -The second sort were such as pertained to noblemen, and were ordinary -servants in their house, and only for Christmas times used such plays, -without making profession to be players to go abroad for gain, for in -such cases they were subject to the statute against retainers. The -third sort were certain artisans in good towns and great parishes, as -shoemakers, tailors, and such like, that used to play either in their -town-halls, or some time in churches, to make the people merry; where -it was lawful for all persons to come without exacting any money for -their access, having only somewhat gathered of the richer sort by the -churchwardens for their apparel and other necessaries.’ - - - xlv. 1591. SIR JOHN HARINGTON. - - [From _A Preface, or rather a Briefe Apologie of Poetrie, and of - the Author and Translator_, prefixed to Harington’s translation - of Ariosto’s _Orlando Furioso_ (1591), reprinted in Gregory - Smith, ii. 194.] - -Harington upholds poetry on humanist lines, and answers the objections -of Cornelius Agrippa. P. 209. ‘The last reproofe is lightnes & -wantonnes.... First, the Tragicall is meerly free from it, as -representing onely the cruell and lawlesse proceedings of Princes, -mouing nothing but pitie or detestation. The Comicall, whatsoeuer -foolish playmakers make it offend in this kind, yet being rightly vsed, -it represents them so as to make the vice scorned and not embraced.... -And for Tragedies, to omit other famous Tragedies, that that was played -at _S. Iohns_ in Cambridge, of _Richard the 3_, would moue -(I thinke) _Phalaris_ the tyraunt, and terrifie all tyrannous -minded men from following their foolish ambitious humors, seeing how -his ambition made him kill his brother, his nephews, his wife, beside -infinit others, and, last of all, after a short and troublesome raigne, -to end his miserable life, and to haue his body harried after his -death. Then, for Comedies, how full of harmeles myrth is our Cambridge -_Pedantius_? and the Oxford _Bellum Grammaticale_? or, to -speake of a London Comedie, how much good matter, yea and matter of -state, is there in that Comedie cald the play of the Cards, in which -it is showed how foure Parasiticall knaues robbe the foure principall -vocations of the Realme, _videl_, the vocation of Souldiers, -Schollers, Marchants, and Husbandmen? Of which Comedie I cannot forget -the saying of a notable wise counseller that is now dead, who when some -(to sing _Placebo_) aduised that it should be forbidden, because -it was somewhat too plaine, and indeed as the old saying is, _sooth -boord is no boord_, yet he would haue it allowed, adding it was fit -that _They which doe that they should not should heare that they -would not_.’ - - - xlvi. 1592. THOMAS NASHE. - - [From _Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell_ (1592; - S. R. 8 Aug. 1592), reprinted in McKerrow, i. 149.] - -[Extracts.] P. 211. ‘There is a certaine waste of the people for whome -there is no vse, but warre: and these men must haue some employment -still to cut them off.... To this effect, the pollicie of Playes is -very necessary, howsoeuer some shallow-braind censurers (not the -deepest serchers into the secrets of gouernment) mightily oppugne -them. For whereas the after-noone beeing the idlest time of the day; -wherein men that are their owne masters (as Gentlemen of the Court, -the Innes of the Courte, and the number of Captaines and Souldiers -about _London_) do wholy bestow themselues vpon pleasure, and that -pleasure they deuide (howe vertuously it skils not) either into -gameing, following of harlots, drinking, or seeing a Playe: is it not -then better (since of foure extreames all the world cannot keepe them -but they will choose one) that they should betake them to the least, -which is Playes? Nay, what if I prooue Playes to be no extreame; but -a rare exercise of vertue? First, for the subiect of them (for the -most part) it is borrowed out of our English Chronicles, wherein our -forefathers valiant acts (that haue line long buried in rustie brasse -and worme-eaten bookes) are reuiued, and they themselues raised from -the Graue of Obliuion, and brought to pleade their aged Honours in -open presence: than which, what can be a sharper reproofe to these -degenerate effeminate dayes of ours? How would it haue ioyed braue -_Talbot_ (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne -two hundred yeares in his Tombe, hee should triumphe againe on the -Stage, and haue his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ten thousand -spectators at least (at seuerall times) who, in the Tragedian that -represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding? I will -defend it against any Collian, or clubfisted Vsurer of them all, there -is no immortalitie can be giuen a man on earth like vnto Playes.... All -Artes to them are vanitie: and, if you tell them what a glorious thing -it is to haue _Henrie_ the fifth represented on the Stage, leading -the French King prisoner, and forcing both him and the Dolphin to -sweare fealty, I, but (will they say) what do we get by it? Respecting -neither the right of Fame that is due to true Nobilitie deceased, nor -what hopes of eternitie are to be proposed to aduentrous mindes, to -encourage them forward, but onely their execrable luker, and fillthie -vnquenchable auarice. They know when they are dead they shall not be -brought vpon the Stage for any goodnes, but in a merriment of the -Vsurer and the Diuel, or buying Armes of the Herald, who giues them the -Lyon, without tongue, tayle, or tallents, because his maister whome -hee must serue is a Townesman, and a man of peace, and must not keepe -any quarrelling beasts to annoy his honest neighbours. In Playes, all -coosonages, all cunning drifts ouer-guylded with outward holinesse, -all stratagems of warre, all the cankerwormes that breede on the rust -of peace, are most liuely anatomiz’d: they shewe the ill successe of -treason, the fall of hastie climbers, the wretched end of vsurpers, the -miserie of ciuill dissention, and how iust God is euermore in punishing -of murther.... Whereas some Petitioners of the Counsaile against them -obiect, they corrupt the youth of the Cittie, and withdrawe Prentises -from theyr worke; they heartily wishe they might bee troubled with none -of their youth nor their prentises; for some of them (I meane the ruder -handicrafts seruants) neuer come abroade, but they are in danger of -vndoing: and as for corrupting them when they come, thats false; for no -Play they haue, encourageth any man to tumult or rebellion, but layes -before such the halter and the gallowes; or praiseth or approoueth -pride, lust, whoredome, prodigalitie, or drunkennes, but beates them -downe vtterly. As for the hindrance of Trades and Traders of the Citie -by them, that is an Article foysted in by the Vintners, Alewiues, and -Victuallers, who surmise, if there were no Playes, they should haue -all the companie that resort to them, lye bowzing and beere-bathing in -their houses euery after-noone.... Our Players are not as the players -beyond Sea, a sort of squirting baudie Comedians, that haue whores -and common Curtizens to playe womens partes, and forbeare no immodest -speech or vnchast action that may procure laughter; but our Sceane -is more statelye furnisht than euer it was in the time of _Roscius_, -our representations honourable, and full of gallant resolution, not -consisting, like theirs, of a Pantaloun, a Whore, and a Zanie, but -of Emperours, Kings, and Princes; whose true Tragedies (_Sophocleo -cothurno_) they do vaunt. Not _Roscius_ nor _Æsope_, those admyred -tragedians that haue liued euer since before Christ was borne, could -euer performe more in action than famous _Ned Allen_.... If I euer -write any thing in Latine (as I hope one day I shall) not a man of any -desert here amongst vs, but I will haue vp. _Tarlton_, _Ned Allen_, -_Knell_, _Bentlie_, shall be made knowne to _France_, _Spaine_, and -_Italie_: and not a part that they surmounted in, more than other, but -I will there note and set downe, with the manner of theyr habites and -attyre.’ - - - xlvii. 1592. ROBERT GREENE. - - [From _A Quip for an Upstart Courtier: Or, A quaint Dispute - between Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches. Wherein is plainely - set downe the disorders in all Estates and Trades_ (_Works_, xi. - 205).] - -A jury is being empanelled between the disputants, who represent new -and old ideals of gentry. P. 289. ‘An ouerworne gentleman attired in -veluet and satin’ is followed by ‘two pert Applesquires: the one had -a murrey cloth gowne on, faced down before with gray conny, and laid -thicke on the sleeves with lace, which he quaintly bare vp to shew his -white taffata hose, and black silk stockings: a huge ruffe about his -necke wrapt in his great head like a wicker cage, a little Hat with -brims like the wings of a doublet, wherein he wore a jewell of glasse, -as broad as a chancery seale: after him followed two boies in cloakes -like butterflies: carrying one of them his cutting sword of choller, -the other his dauncing rapier of delight.’ The ‘ouerworne gentleman’ is -a poet, the ‘applesquires’ a player and the usher of a dancing school. -Velvet Breeches thinks the poet ‘a proud fellow’, the others ‘plaine, -honest, humble men, that for a penny or an old-cast sute of apparell -will do anything. Indeed quoth Cloth Breeches you say troth, they are -but too humble, for they be so lowly, that they be base minded: I mean -not in their lookes or apparell, for so they be peacockes and painted -asses, but in their corse of life, for they care not how they get -crowns, I meane how basely so they haue them, and yet of the two I hold -the Plaier to be the better Christian, although in his owne imagination -too full of selfe liking and selfe loue, and is vnfit to be of the Iury -though I hide and conceale his faults and fopperies, in that I haue -beene merry at his sports: onely this I must say, that such a plaine -country fellow as my selfe, they bring in as clownes and fooles to -laugh at in their play, whereas they get by vs, and of our almes the -proudest of them all doth line. Well, to be breefe, let him trot to the -stage, for he shall be none of the Iury.’ - - - xlviii. 1592. ROBERT GREENE. - - [From _Greens Groatsworth of Wit_ (1596; S. R. 20 Sept. 1592), - reprinted in Grosart, xii. 131, and C. M. Ingleby, _Shakespere - Allusion-Books_, Part i (1874, _N. S. S._); cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. - Greene.] - -‘_Roberto_ ... vttered his present greefe, beseeching his advuise -how he might be imployed. Why easily, quoth hee, and greatly to your -benefit: for men of my profession get by schollers their whole liuing. -What is your profession, sayd _Roberto_? Truely sir, said he, I am a -player. A Player, quoth _Roberto_, I tooke you rather for a gentleman -of great liuing; for if by outward habit men shuld be censured, I tell -you, you would be taken for a substantiall man. So am I where I dwell -(quoth the player) reputed able at my proper cost, to build a Windmill. -What though the worlde once went hard with mee, when I was faine to -carrie my playing Fardle a footebacke; _Tempora mutantur_: I know you -know the meaning of it better than I, but I thus conster it, it is -otherwise now; for my very share in playing apparrell will not be solde -for two hundred pounds. Truely (said _Roberto_) it is strange, that you -should so prosper in that vaine practise, for that it seemes to me your -voyce is nothing gracious. Nay then, said the player, I mislike your -iudgement: why, I am as famous for Delphrigus, and the king of Fairies, -as euer was any of my time. The twelue labors of _Hercules_ haue I -terribly thundred on the stage, and plaied three scenes of the deuill -in the highway to heauen. Haue ye so (said _Roberto_?) then I pray you -pardon me. Nay more (quoth the player) I can serue to make a prettie -speech, for I was a countrie Author, passing at a morrall, for it was -I that pende the Morral of mans wit, the Dialogue of Diues, and for -seauen yeeres space was absolute interpreter of the puppets. But now my -Almanacke is out of date: - - _The people make no estimation, - Of Morrals teaching education._ - -Was not this prettie for a plaine rime extempore? if ye will, ye shall -haue more. Nay it is enough, said _Roberto_, but how meane you to vse -mee? Why sir, in making playes, said the other, for which you shall -be well paied, if you will take the paines.... Roberto, now famozed -for an Arch-plaimaking-poet, his purse like the sea sometime sweld, -anon like the same sea fell to a low ebbe; yet seldom he wanted, his -labors were so well esteemed. Marry, this rule he kept, what euer he -fingerd afore-hand, was the certaine meanes to vnbinde a bargaine; and -being asked why he so sleightly dealt with them that did him good? -It becomes me, sath hee, to be contrarie to the worlde: for commonly -when vulgar men recieue earnest, they doe performe; when I am paid any -thing afore-hand, I breake my promise.... _To those Gentlemen, his -Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, R. G. -wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities_.... -Base minded men al three of you, if by my miserie ye be not warned: -for vnto none of you (like me) sought those burres to cleaue: those -Puppits (I meane) that speake from our mouths, those Anticks garnisht -in our colours. Is it not strange that I, to whom they al haue beene -beholding: is it not like that you, to whome they all haue beene -beholding, shall (were ye in that case that I am now) be both at once -of them forsaken? Yes, trust them not: for there is an vpstart Crow, -beautified with our feathers, that with his _Tygers heart wrapt in -a Players hide_, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank -verse as the best of you: and being an absolute _Iohannes fac totum_, -is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrie. O that -I might intreate your rare wits to be imployed in more profitable -courses: & let these Apes imitate your past excellence, and neuer more -acquaint them with your admired inuentions. I know the best husband -of you all will neuer proue an Vsurer, and the kindest of them all -wil neuer prooue a kinde nurse: yet, whilst you may, seeke you better -Maisters; for it is pittie men of such rare wits, should be subiect to -the pleasures of such rude groomes. In this I might insert two more, -that both haue writ against these buckram Gentlemen: but let their -owne works serue to witnesse against their owne wickednesse, if they -perseuer to maintaine any more such peasants. For other new commers, I -leaue them to the mercie of these painted monsters, who (I doubt not) -will driue the best minded to despise them: for the rest, it skils not -though they make a ieast at them.’ Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Greene. - - - xlix. 1592. HENRY CHETTLE. - - [From _Kind-Harts Dreame. Conteining fiue Apparitions, with - their Inuectiues against abuses raigning. Deliuered by seuerall - Ghosts vnto him to be publisht_ ... by H. C. (N. D.). The tract - was entered in the Stationers’ Register (Arber, ii. 623) on 8 - Dec. 1592. The Ghosts are those of Anthony Now Now a fiddler, - William Cuckoe a juggler, Doctor Burcot a physician, Robert - Greene, and Richard Tarlton. Greene died in Sept. 1592. The - Epistle is signed by Henry Chettle (cf. ch. xxiii). The whole is - reprinted by C. M. Ingleby in Part I (1874) of the _Shakspere - Allusion-Books_ of the New Shakspere Society.] - -P. 37. _To the Gentlemen Readers._ ‘About three moneths since died M. -_Robert Greene_, leauing many papers in sundry Booke sellers hands, -among other his Groatsworth of wit, in which a letter written to diuers -playmakers, is offensiuely by one or two of them taken; and because -on the dead they cannot be auenged, they wilfully forge in their -conceites a liuing Author: and after tossing it two and fro, no remedy, -but it must light on me. How I haue all the time of my conuersing -in printing hindered the bitter inueying against schollers, it hath -been very well knowne; and how in that I dealt, I can sufficiently -prooue. With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and -with one of them I care not if I neuer be: The other, whome at that -time I did not so much spare, as since I wish I had, for that as I -haue moderated the heate of liuing writers, and might haue vsde my -owne discretion (especially in such a case) the Author beeing dead, -that I did not, I am as sory as if the originall fault had beene my -fault, because my selfe haue seene his demeanor no lesse ciuill, than -he exelent in the qualitie he professes: Besides, diuers of worship -haue reported his vprightnes of dealing, which argues his honesty, and -his facetious grace in writting, that aprooues his Art. For the first, -whose learning I reuerence, and at the perusing of _Greenes_ Booke, -stroke out what then in conscience I thought he in some displeasure -writ: or had it beene true, yet to publish it, was intollerable: him -I would wish to vse me no worse than I deserue. I had onely in the -copy this share: it was il written, as sometime _Greenes_ hand was -none of the best; licensd it must be, ere it could bee printed, which -could neuer be if it might not be read. To be breife, I writ it ouer; -and as neare as I could, followed the copy; onely in that letter I put -something out, but in the whole booke not a worde in; for I protest -it was all _Greenes_, not mine nor Maister _Nashes_, as some vniustly -haue affirmed.’ _Henrie Chettle_.... _The Dreame_. P. 43. ‘There -entered at once fiue personages.... The next, by his sute of russet, -his buttond cap, his taber, his standing on the toe, and other tricks, -I knew to be either the body or resemblaunce of Tarlton, who liuing, -for his pleasant conceits was of all men liked, and dying, for mirth -left not his like.... With him was the fifth, a man of indifferent -yeares, of face amible, of body well proportioned, his attire after -the habite of a schollerlike Gentleman, onely his haire was somewhat -long, whome I supposed to be Robert Greene, maister of Artes: of whome -(howe euer some suppose themselues iniured) I haue learned to speake, -considering he is dead, _nill nisi necessarium_. He was of singuler -pleasaunce the verye supporter, and, to no man’s disgrace bee this -intended, the only Comedian of a vulgar writer in this country.’ P. -63. _To all maligners of honest mirth_, Tarleton _wisheth continuall -melancholy_. ‘Now Maisters, what say you to a merrie knaue, that for -this two years day hath not beene talkt of. Wil you giue him leaue, if -he can, to make ye laugh? What, all a mort? No merry countenance? Nay -then I see hypocrisie hath the vpper hand, and her spirit raignes in -this profitable generation. Sith it is thus, Ile be a time-pleaser. -Fie vppon following plaies, the expence is wondrous; vpon players -speeches, their wordes are full of wyles; vppon their gestures, that -are altogether wanton. Is it not lamentable, that a man should spende -his two pence on them in an after-noone, heare couetousnes amongst -them daily quipt at, being one of the commonest occupations in the -countrey; and in liuely gesture see trecherie set out, with which euery -man now adaies vseth to intrap his brother. Byr lady, this would be -lookt into: if these be the fruites of playing, tis time the practisers -were expeld. Expeld (quoth you); that hath been pretily performd, to -the no smal profit of the Bouling-allyes in Bedlam and other places, -that were wont in the after-noones to be left empty, by the recourse -of good fellows vnto that vnprofitable recreation of Stage-playing. -And it were not much amisse, would they ioine with the Dicing houses -to make sute againe for their longer restraint, though the sicknesse -cease. Is not this well saide (my maisters) of an olde buttond cappe, -that hath most part of his life liu’d vppon that against which he -inueighs: Yes, and worthily.’ Suppression of plays to the advantage of -bawdy-houses, especially those not near Shoreditch. Discourse with a -pander. P. 65. ‘And you, sir, find fault with plaies. Out vpon them, -they spoile our trade, as you your selfe haue proued. Beside, they -open our crosse-biting, our conny-catching, our traines, our traps, -our gins, our snares, our subtilties: for no sooner haue we a tricke -of deceipt, but they make it common, singing Iigs, and making ieasts -of vs, that euerie boy can point out our houses as they passe by. -Whither now _Tarlton_? this is extempore, out of time, tune, and -temper.... Thy selfe once a Player, and against Players: nay, turne -out the right side of thy russet coate, and lette the world know thy -meaning. Why thus I meane, for now I speake in sobernes. Euery thing -hath in it selfe his vertue and his vice: from one selfe flower the Bee -and Spider sucke honny and poyson. In plaies it fares as in bookes, -vice cannot be reproued, except it be discouered: neither is it in -any play discouered, but there followes in the same an example of -the punishment: now he that at a play will be delighted in the one, -and not warned by the other, is like him that reads in a booke the -description of sinne, and will not looke ouer the leafe for the reward. -Mirth in seasonable time taken, is not forbidden by the austerest -Sapients. But indeede there is a time of mirth and a time of mourning. -Which time hauing been by the Magistrats wisely obserued, as well for -the suppressing of Playes, as other pleasures: so likewise a time -may come, when honest recreation shall haue his former libertie. And -lette _Tarleton_ intreate the yoong people of the Cittie, either to -abstaine altogether from playes, or at their comming thither to vse -themselues after a more quiet order. In a place so ciuill as this -Cittie is esteemed, it is more than barbarously rude, to see the -shamefull disorder and routes that sometimes in such publike meetings -are vsed. The beginners are neither gentlemen, nor citizens, nor any -of both their seruants, but some lewd mates that long for innouation; -& when they see aduantage, that either Seruingmen or Apprentises are -most in number, they will be of either side, though indeed they are -of no side, but men beside all honestie, willing to make boote of -cloakes, hats, purses, or what euer they can lay holde on in a hurley -burley. These are the common causers of discord in publike places. If -otherwise it happen (as it seldome doth) that any quarrell be betweene -man and man, it is far from manhood to make so publike a place their -field to fight in: no men will doe it, but cowardes that would faine -be parted, or haue hope to haue many partakers. Nowe to you that -maligne our moderate merriments, and thinke there is no felicitie but -in excessiue possession of wealth: with you I would ende in a song, -yea an Extempore song on this Theame, _Ne quid nimis necessarium_: but -I am now hoarse, and troubled with my Taber and Pipe: beside, what -pleasure brings musicke to the miserable. Therefore letting songes -passe, I tell them in sadnes, how euer Playes are not altogether to be -commended: yet some of them do more hurt in a day, than all the Players -(by exercizing theyr profession) in an age. Faults there are in the -professors as other men, this the greatest, that diuers of them beeing -publike in euerie ones eye, and talkt of in euery vulgar mans mouth, -see not how they are seene into, especially for their contempt, which -makes them among most men most contemptible. Of them I will say no -more: of the profession, so much hath _Pierce Pennilesse_ (as I heare -say) spoken, that for mee there is not any thing to speake. So wishing -the chearefull, pleasaunce endlesse; and the wilfull sullen, sorrow -till they surfet; with a turne on the toe I take my leaue. _Richard -Tarleton._’ - - - l. 1592–9. JOHN RAINOLDS V. WILLIAM GAGER AND ALBERICO GENTILI. - - [A controversy arising out of criticism by Rainolds on the - legitimacy of academic drama is contained in (_a_) Gager’s - _Momus_ and _Epilogus Responsiuus_, written _c._ Jan. 1592, - spoken 8 Feb., printed with additional matter _c._ May (cf. ch. - xxiii, s.v. Gager, _Ulysses Redux_; (_b_) Rainolds to Thomas - Thornton, 6 Feb. 1592; (_c_) Rainolds to Gager, 10 July 1592; - (_d_) Gager to Rainolds, 31 July 1592; (_e_) Rainolds to Gager, - 30 May 1593; (_f_) Gentili, _Commentatio de Professoribus et - Medicis_, printed with _Ad Titulum de Maleficis et Mathematicis - Commentarius_ (1593, with epistle of 26 June 1593; 1604); (_g_) - Gentili to Rainolds, 7 July 1593; (_h_) Rainolds to Gentili, - 10 July 1593; (_i_) Gentili to Rainolds, 14 July 1593; (_k_) - Rainolds to Gentili, 5 Aug. 1593; (_l_) two further letters by - Gentili and two by Rainolds, who ends the correspondence on - 12 Mar. 1594; (_m_) Gentili, _De Actoribus et Spectatoribus - Fabularum non Notandis Disputatio_ (1599, with epistle of 14 - Oct. 1597; reprinted in Gronovius, _Thesaurus Antiquitatum_, - viii); (_n_) _Th’ Overthrow of Stage-Players_ (1599, no - imprint, with epistle from Printer to Reader; 1600; 1629). This - is a print of (_c_), (_e_), (_g_), (_h_), (_i_), (_k_). All - the twelve letters are in _Oxon. C.C.C. MS._ 352 and some in - _Queen’s Coll. MS._ 359; a collection in _Univ. Coll. MS._ 157 - is lost, but probably added no more. Rainolds is satirized in - the Queen’s College, Cambridge, play of _Fucus Histriomastix_ - (_1623_, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, 1909), probably by Robert Ward.] - -The academic controversy is fully summarized by F. S. Boas in -_Fortnightly Review_ for August 1907 and _University Drama in the Tudor -Age_ (1914), 229, together with the analysis of Gager’s defence by -K. Young in _An Elizabethan Defence of the Stage_ (1916, _Wisconsin -Shakespeare Studies_, 103). I only quote the reference in the Epistle -to _Th’ Overthrow_ of 1599 to ‘Men ... that haue not been afraied of -late dayes to bring vpon the Stage the very sober countenances, graue -attire, modest and matronelike gestures, and speaches of men & women to -be laughed at as a scorne and reproch to the world’. - - - li. 1597 (?). JOHN HARINGTON. - - [From _A Treatise on Playe_, printed in _Nugae_, i. 191. I - retain Park’s date of ‘circa 1597’, although I doubt whether - it is based on anything but a conjecture that ‘this deere - yeer’ (204) may be 1595 or 1597, and the latest definite event - referred to is the death of Hatton on 20 Nov. 1591. The treatise - deals mainly with gambling.] - -One sayd merely that ‘enterludes weare the divells sarmons, and jesters -the divells confessors; thease for the most part disgracing of vertue, -and those not a little gracinge of vices’. But, for my part, I commend -not such sowere censurers, but I thinke in stage-playes may bee much -good, in well-penned comedies, and specially tragedies; and I remember, -in Cambridge, howsoever the presyser sort have banisht them, the wyser -sort did, and still doe mayntayn them. - - - lii. 1598. FRANCIS MERES. - - [From _Palladis Tamia: Wit’s Treasury_ (S. R. 7 Sept. 1598). - The general attitude of the treatise is humanist, but it is - only of value for the incidental notices and appreciations - of contemporary writers given in a rather fantastic series - of parallels between classical and Elizabethan literature. - Fuller extracts, including some personalia on Shakespeare and - other playwrights, not reprinted here, are in C. M. Ingleby, - _Shakspere Allusion-Books_, Part I (1874, _N. S. S._), 151, and - Gregory Smith, ii. 308.] - -Our famous and learned Lawreat masters of England would entitle our -English to far greater admired excellency if either the Emperor -Augustus, or Octauia his sister, or noble Mecaenas were aliue to -rewarde and countenaunce them; or if our witty Comedians and stately -Tragedians (the glorious and goodlie representers of all fine witte, -glorified phrase, and queint action) bee still supported and vphelde, -by which meanes for lacke of Patrones (O ingratefull and damned -age) our Poets are soly or chiefly maintained, countenaunced, and -patronized.... - -... A COMPARATIUE DISCOURSE OF OUR ENGLISH POETS WITH THE GREEKE, -LATINE, AND ITALIAN POETS.... - -... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and -Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the -most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For Comedy, witnes his -_Gentlemen of Verona_, his _Errors_, his _Loue Labors Lost_, his _Loue -Labours Wonne_, his _Midsummers Night Dreame_, and his _Merchant of -Venice_; For Tragedy, his _Richard the 2_, _Richard the 3_, _Henry the -4_, _King Iohn_, _Titus Andronicus_, and his _Romeo and Iuliet_.... - -... These are our best for Tragedie, The Lorde Buckhurst, Doctor Leg of -Cambridge, Doctor Edes of Oxford, Master Edward Ferris, the author of -the _Mirror for Magistrates_, Marlow, Peele, Watson, Kid, Shakespeare, -Drayton, Chapman, Decker, and Beniamin Iohnson. - -As M. Anneus Lucanus writ two excellent tragedies, one called _Medea_, -the other _De incendio Troiae cum Priami calamitate_: so Doctor Leg -hath penned two famous tragedies, the one of _Richard the 3_, the other -of _The Destruction of Ierusalem_.... - -... The best for Comedy amongst vs bee Edward, Earle of Oxforde, Doctor -Gager of Oxforde, Master Rowley, once a rare scholler of learned -Pembrooke Hall in Cambridge, Maister Edwardes, one of Her Maiesties -Chappell, eloquent and wittie Iohn Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, -Shakespeare, Thomas Nash, Thomas Heywood, Anthony Mundye, our best -plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilson, Hathway, and Henry Chettle.... - -As Georgius Buchananus’ _Iepthae_ amongst all moderne Tragedies is able -to abide the touch of Aristotle’s precepts and Euripedes’s examples: so -is Bishop Watson’s _Absalon_. As ... Watson for his _Antigone_ out of -Sophocles, ha[s] got good commendations: so these versifiers for their -learned translations are of good note among vs ... the Translators -of Seneca’s _Tragedies_, ... As Antipater Sidonius was famous for -extemporall verse in Greeke, and Ouid for his _Quicquid conabar dicere -versus erat_: so was our Tarleton, of whome Doctor Case, that learned -physitian, thus speaketh in the Seuenth Booke and seuenteenth chapter -of his _Politikes: Aristoteles suum Theodoretum laudauit quendam -peritum Tragœdiarum actorem, Cicero suum Roscium: nos Angli Tarletonum, -in cuius voce et vultu omnes iocosi affectus, in cuius cerebroso capite -lepidae facetiae habitant_. And so is now our wittie Wilson, who for -learning and extemporall witte in this facultie is without compare or -compeere, as, to his great and eternall commendations, he manifested in -his challenge at the _Swanne_ on the Banke Side. - - - liii. 1603. HENRY CROSSE. - - [From _Vertues Commonwealth: Or The Highway to Honour_, - reprinted in A. B. Grosart, _Occasional Issues_, vii (1878), - 111.] - -Must the holy Prophets and Patriarkes be set vpon a Stage, to be -derided, hist, and laught at? or is it fit that the infirmities of -holy men should be acted on a Stage, whereby others may be inharted -to rush carelessly forward into vnbrideled libertie?... Furthermore, -there is no passion wherwith the king, the soueraigne maiestie of the -Realme was possest, but is amplified, and openly sported with, and made -a May-game to all the beholders.... If a man will learne to be proud, -fantasticke, humorous, to make love, sweare, swagger, and in a word -closely doo any villanie, for a twopenny almes hee may be throughly -taught and made a perfect good scholler.... And as these copper-lace -gentlemen growe rich, purchase lands by adulterous Playes, & not fewe -of them vsurers and extortioners, which they exhaust out of the purses -of their haunters, so are they puft vp in such pride and selfe-loue, -as they enuie their equalles, and scorne theyr inferiours.... But -especially these nocturnall and night Playes, at vnseasonable and -vndue times, more greater euils must necessarily proceed of them, -because they do not onely hide and couer the thiefe, but also entice -seruants out of their maisters houses, wherby opportunitie is offered -to loose fellowes, to effect many wicked stratagems.... To conclude, -it were further to be wished, that those admired wittes of this age, -Tragædians, and Comædians, that garnish Theaters with their inuentions, -would spend their wittes in more profitable studies, and leaue off to -maintaine those Anticks, and Puppets, that speake out of their mouthes: -for it is pittie such noble giftes, should be so basely imployed, as to -prostitute their ingenious labours to inriche such buckorome gentlemen. - - - liv. 1604–5 (?). BEN JONSON. - - [Prologue to _Every Man In His Humour_, first printed in Folio - of 1616, and possibly written for a Jacobean revival.] - - Though neede make many _Poets_, and some such - As art, and nature haue not betterd much; - Yet ours, for want, hath not so lou’d the stage, - As he dare serue th’ill customes of the age: - Or purchase your delight at such a rate, - As, for it, he himselfe must iustly hate. - To make a child, now swadled, to proceede - Man, and then shoote vp, in one beard, and weede, - Past threescore yeeres: or, with three rustie swords, - And helpe of some few foot-and-halfe-foote words, - Fight ouer _Yorke_, and _Lancasters_ long iarres: - And in the tyring-house bring wounds, to scarres. - He rather prayes, you will be pleas’d to see - One such, to day, as other playes should be. - Where neither _Chorus_ wafts you ore the seas; - Nor creaking throne comes downe, the boyes to please; - Nor nimble squibbe is seene, to make afear’d - The gentlewomen; nor roul’d bullet heard - To say, it thunders; nor tempestuous drumme - Rumbles, to tell you when the storme doth come; - But deedes, and language, such as men doe vse: - And persons, such as _Comœdie_ would chuse, - When she would shew an Image of the times, - And sport with humane follies, not with crimes. - Except, we make ‘hem such, by louing still - Our popular errors, when we know th’are ill. - I meane such errors as you’ll all confesse - By laughing at them, they deserue no lesse: - Which when you heartily doe, there’s hope left, then, - You, that haue so grac’d monsters, may like men. - - - lv. 1607. BEN JONSON. - - [From Epistle to _Volpone_ (cf. ch. xxiii).] - -Hence is it, that I now render my selfe gratefull, and am studious -to iustifie the bounty of your act: To which, though your mere -authority were satisfying, yet it being an age wherein _Poëtry_ and the -Professors of it heare so ill on all sides, there will a reason bee -look’d for in the subject. It is certaine, nor can it with any forehead -be oppos’d, that the too-much licence of _Poëtasters_ in this time -hath much deform’d their _Mistresse_; that euery day their manifold -and manifest ignorance doth stick vnnaturall reproches vpon her. But -for their petulancy, it were an act of the greatest iniustice, either -to let the learned suffer, or so diuine a _skill_ (which indeed should -not be attempted with vncleane hands) to fall vnder the least contempt. -For if men will impartially, and not à-squint, looke toward the offices -and function of a _Poët_, they will easily conclude to themselues -the impossibility of any mans being the good _Poët_, without first -being a good _Man_. He that is sayd to be able to informe _yong-men_ -to all good disciplines, inflame _growne-men_ to all great vertues, -keepe _old men_ in their best and supreme state, or as they decline -to child-hood, recouer them to their first strength; that comes forth -the Interpreter and Arbiter of _Nature_, a Teacher of things diuine no -lesse than humane, a Master in manners; and can alone, or with a few, -effect the busines of Mankind. This, I take him, is no subject for -_Pride_ and _Ignorance_ to exercise their railing _rhetorique_ vpon. -But it will here be hastily answer’d, that the _Writers_ of these dayes -are other things; that not onely their manners, but their natures, are -inuerted, and nothing remaining with them of the dignity of _Poët_, -but the abused name, which euery Scribe vsurpes; that now, especially -in _Dramatick_, or (as they terme it) Stage-_Poëtry_, nothing but -Ribaldry, Profanation, Blasphemy, al Licence of offence to God, and -Man, is practisd. I dare not deny a great part of this, and am sory I -dare not: because in some mens abortiue _Features_ (and would they had -neuer boasted the light) it is ouer-true. But that all are embarqu’d -in this bold aduenture for Hell, is a most vncharitable thought, and -vtterd, a more malicious slander. For my particular, I can, and from a -most cleare conscience, affirme, that I haue euer trembled to thinke -toward the least Prophanenesse; haue loathed the vse of such foule and -vn-washd Baudr’y, as is now made the foode of the _Scene_. - - - lvi. 1608. WILLIAM CRASHAW. - - [From _The Sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiij. 1607_ - (1608, 2nd ed. 1609). Crashaw was preacher at the Inner Temple - and father of Richard Crashaw, the poet. The hypocrites, - Nicholas Saint-Tantlings and Simon Saint-Mary-Oueries, are - characters in _The Puritan_ (1607). John Selden says in his - _Table Talk_ (1689; ed. Reynolds, 134), ‘I never converted - but two, the one was Mr. Crashaw from writing against plays, by - telling him a way how to understand that place, of putting on - woman’s apparel, which has nothing to do with the business’; cf. - _infra_, s.v. Selden (1616).] - -P. 169. ‘Now there are also besides these two great Babels, certaine -other little pettie Babylons, namely, incurable sinnes amongst vs, -...’ P. 170. ‘2. The vngodly Playes and Enterludes so rife in this -nation: what are they but a bastard of Babylon, a daughter of error -and confusion, a hellish deuice (the diuels owne recreation to mock -at holy things) by him deliuered to the Heathen, from them to the -Papists, and from them to vs? Of this euill and plague, the Church of -God in all ages can say, truly and with a good conscience, _wee would -haue healed her_. [Quotes Tertullian and others.] ... All this they -are daily made to know, but all in vaine, they be children of Babylon -that will not bee healed: nay, they grow worse and worse, for now they -bring religion and holy things vpon the stage: no maruel though the -worthiest and mightiest men escape not, when God himselfe is so abused. -Two hypocrites must be brought foorth; and how shall they be described -but by these names, _Nicolas S. Antlings_, _Simon S. Maryoueries_. -Thus hypocrisie a child of hell must beare the names of two Churches -of God, and two wherein Gods name is called on publikely euery day in -the yeere, and in one of them his blessed word preached euerie day (an -example scarce matchable in the world): yet these two, wherin Gods -name is thus glorified, and our Church and State honoured, shall bee -by these miscreants thus dishonoured, and that not on the stage only, -but euen in print.’ Complains of profaneness, atheism, blasphemy, and -profaning of Sabbath ‘which generally in the countrie is their play -day’. Calls on magistrate, lest God take the matter into his own hand. - - - lvii. 1608 (?). THOMAS HEYWOOD. - - [From _An Apology for Actors. Containing three briefe Treatises. - 1. Their Antiquity. 2. Their ancient Dignity. 3. The True Use of - their Quality_ (1612), reprinted by William Cartwright as _The - Actor’s Vindication_ (N.D., but according to Douce 1658) and in - 1841 (_Sh. Soc._). I think the treatise was probably written in - 1607 and touched up in 1608, since (_a_) the series of actors - named as dead ends with Sly, who died in Aug. 1608; (_b_) the - Revels Office is located at St. John’s, which it lost about - Feb. 1608; (_c_) the frustrated Spanish landing in ‘Perin’ in - Cornwall ‘some 12 yeares ago’ is probably the abortive Spanish - attempt to burn Pendennis Castle on Falmouth Harbour, 3 miles - from Penrhyn, which appears from _S. P. D. Eliz._ cclvi, 21, - 40, and Dasent, xxv. 15, to have taken place in the autumn of - 1595, probably in connexion with the better-known landing of - 22 July 1595 in Mount’s Bay. Here there is a Perranuthnoe, but - this was a successful landing, resulting in serious damage to - Penzance, Mousehole, and Newlyn (_Procl._ 879). There was also - a raid at Cawsand Bay near Plymouth on 14 Mar. 1596 (_S. P. - D. Eliz._ cclvi. 89), in which the invaders fired some houses - and boats, and fled to sea on a shot being fired. But there - is no ‘Perin’ in Cawsand Bay. In _Journal of the Folk-Song - Society_, v. 275, is recorded a tradition that ‘the French once - landed invading troops at Padstow Bay; but on seeing a number - of mummers in red cloaks with their hobby-horse they supposed - that the English army was at hand, and fled’. This raid was at - St. Eval, 3 miles west of Padstow, on 13 July 1595 (_Hatfield - MSS._ v. 285), and no doubt formed part of the same expedition - which reached Mount’s Bay. Of course it was Spanish, not French; - the perversion is characteristic of tradition. Conceivably - this episode was what Heywood had in mind, but the nearest - ‘Perin’, Perranporth, is some dozen miles farther west than St. - Evall. Heywood was answered by I. G. in _A Refutation of the - Apology for Actors_ (1615), which contributes nothing new, and - uses material from Gosson’s _Plays Confuted_ (No. xxx), with - references to the long-destroyed Theatre unchanged.] - -[Summary and Extracts.] P. 3. _To the Earl of Worcester_. ‘I presumed -to publish this unworthy worke under your gracious patronage ... as -an acknowledgement of the duty I am bound to you in as a servant.’ -P. 4. _To my good Friends and Fellowes the Citty-Actors_. ‘That it -[our quality] hath beene esteemed by the best and greatest ... I -need alledge no more than the royall and princely services in which -we now live.... Some over-curious have too liberally taxed us ... we -may as freely (out of our plainnesse) answere, as they (out of their -perversenesse) object, instancing my selfe by famous Scaliger, learned -Doctor Gager, Doctor Gentiles, and others.... So, wishing you judiciall -audiences, honest poets, and true gatherers, I commit you all to the -fulnesse of your best wishes.’ P. 6. _Verses_ by, _inter alios_, -John Webster, and by Richard Perkins, Christopher Beeston and Robert -Pallant to their ‘fellow’. _Book i._ P. 15. The author is ‘mooved by -the sundry exclamations of many seditious sectists in this age.... It -hath pleased the high and mighty princes of this land to limit the use -of certaine publicke theaters, which, since many of those over-curious -heads have lavishly and violently slandered, I hold it not amisse to -lay open some few antiquities to approve the true use of them.’ A -vision of Melpomene. Actors in antiquity. P. 20. The lives of worthies -‘can no way bee so exquisitly demonstrated, nor so lively portrayed, -as by action.... A description is only a shadow, received by the eare, -but not perceived by the eye; so lively portrature is meerely a forme -seene by the eye, but can neither shew action, passion, motion, or any -other gesture to moove the spirits of the beholder to admiration: but -to see a souldier shap’d like a souldier, walke, speake, act like a -souldier; to see a Hector all besmered in blood, trampling upon the -bulkes of kinges; a Troilus returning from the field, in the sight of -his father Priam, as if man and horse, even from the steed’s rough -fetlockes to the plume on the champion’s helmet, had bene together -plunged into a purple ocean; to see a Pompey ride in triumph, then -a Caesar conquer that Pompey; labouring Hannibal alive, hewing his -passage through the Alpes. To see as I have seene, Hercules, in his -owne shape, hunting the boare, knocking downe the bull, taming the -hart, fighting with Hydra, murdering Geryon, slaughtering Diomed, -wounding the Stymphalides, killing the Centaurs, pashing the lion, -squeezing the dragon, dragging Cerberus in chaynes, and lastly, on his -high pyramides waiting _Nil ultra_, Oh, these were sights to make an -Alexander! To turne to our domesticke hystories: what English blood, -seeing the person of any bold Englishman presented, and doth not hugge -his fame, and hunnye at his valor, pursuing him in his enterprise -with his best wishes, and as beeing wrapt in contemplation, offers to -him in his hart all prosperous performance, as if the personator were -the man personated? so bewitching a thing is lively and well-spirited -action, that it hath power to new-mold the harts of the spectators, -and fashion them to the shape of any noble and notable attempt. What -coward, to see his countrymen valiant, would not bee ashamed of his -owne cowardise? What English prince, should hee behold the true -portrature of that famous King Edward the Third, foraging France, -taking so great a king captive in his owne country, quartering the -English lyons with the French flower-delyce, and would not bee suddenly -inflam’d with so royale a spectacle, being made apt and fit for the -like atchievement. So of Henry the Fift.’ The place of actors at Rome. -P. 24. ‘Neither Christ himselfe, nor any of his sanctified apostles, -in any of their sermons, acts, or documents, so much as named them, or -upon any abusive occasion touched them.... Since they (I say) in all -their holy doctrines, bookes, and principles of divinity, were content -to passe them over, as thinges tollerated and indifferent, why should -any nice and over-scrupulous heads, since they cannot ground their -curiousnesse either upon the Old or New Testament, take upon them to -correct, controule, or carpe at that, against which they cannot finde -any text in the sacred scriptures?’ P. 25. ‘Since God hath provided -us of these pastimes, why may we not use them to his glory? Now, if -you aske me why were not the theaters as gorgeously built in all other -cities of Italy as Rome, and why are not playhouses maintained as -well in other cities of England as London? My answere is ... Rome was -a metropolis, a place whither all the nations knowne under the sunne -resorted: so is London, and being to receive all estates, all princes, -all nations, therefore to affoord them all choyce of pastimes, sports, -and recreations.’ Actors in Greece. The scriptural prohibition of -change of sex-costume has no reference to plays. P. 28. ‘To see our -youths attired in the habit of women, who knowes not what their intents -be? who cannot distinguish them by their names, assuredly knowing they -are but to represent such a lady, at such a tyme appoynted? Do not -the Universities, the fountaines and well springs of all good arts, -learning, and documents, admit the like in their colledges? and they -(I assure my selfe) are not ignorant of their true use. In the time of -my residence at Cambridge, I have seen tragedyes, comedyes, historyes, -pastorals, and shewes, publickly acted, in which the graduates of -good place and reputation have bene specially parted.’ Value of such -exercises in teaching audacity in disputation and good enunciation. The -critics of acting ‘a sorte of finde-faults’. _Book ii._ Antiquities -of the theatre, and distribution of theatres in ancient and modern -states. P. 40. ‘The King of Denmarke, father to him that now reigneth, -entertained into his service a company of English comedians, commended -unto him by the honourable the Earle of Leicester: the Duke of -Brunswicke and the Landgrave of Hessen retaine in their courts certaine -of ours of the same quality.... And amongst us one of our best English -Chroniclers [in margin, ‘Stowe’] records, that when Edward the Fourth -would shew himselfe in publicke state to the view of the people, hee -repaired to his palace at S. Johnes, where he accustomed to see the -citty actors: and since then that house, by the prince’s free gift, -hath belonged to the Office of the Revels, where our court playes have -beene in late daies yearely rehersed, perfected, and corrected before -they come to the publike view of the prince and the nobility.’ Famous -classical actors. P. 43. ‘According to the occasion offered to do some -right to our English actors, as Knell, Bentley, Mils, Wilson, Crosse, -Lanam, and others, these, since I never saw them, as being before my -time, I cannot (as an eye-witnesse of their desert) give them that -applause, which no doubt they worthily merit; yet by the report of -many juditiall auditors their performances of many parts have been -so absolute, that it were a kinde of sinne to drowne their worths in -Lethe, and not commit their (almost forgotten) names to eternity. -Here I must needs remember Tarleton, in his time gratious with the -queene, his soveraigne, and in the people’s generall applause, whom -succeeded Wil. Kemp, as wel in the favour of her majesty, as in the -opinion and good thoughts of the generall audience. Gabriel, Singer, -Pope, Phillips, Sly, all the right I can do them is but this, that, -though they be dead, their deserts yet live in the remembrance of -many. Among so many dead, let me not forget one yet alive, in his -time the most worthy, famous Maister Edward Allen.... I also could -wish, that such as are condemned for their licentiousnesse, might by -a generall consent bee quite excluded our society; for, as we are -men that stand in the broad eye of the world, so should our manners, -gestures, and behaviours, savour of such government and modesty, to -deserve the good thoughts and reports of all men, and to abide the -sharpest censures even of those that are the greatest opposites to the -quality. Many amongst us I know to be of substance, of government, of -sober lives, and temperate carriages, house-keepers, and contributory -to all duties enjoyned them, equally with them that are rank’t with -the most bountifull; and if amongst so many of sort, there be any few -degenerate from the rest in that good demeanor which is both requisite -and expected at their hands, let me entreat you not to censure hardly -of all for the misdeeds of some.’ On royal actors, quoting (p. 45) -‘M. Kid, in his Spanish Tragedy’. _Book iii._ The quality not to be -condemned because of its abuses. P. 52. ‘Playing is an ornament to the -citty.’ It refines the language, instructs the ignorant, and teaches -moral lessons. P. 54. ‘Briefly, there is neither tragedy, history, -comedy, morall, or pastorall, from which an infinite use cannot be -gathered. I speake not in the defence of any lascivious shewes, -scurrelous jests, or scandalous invectives. If there be any such I -banish them quite from my patronage.’ Plays have discovered murders. P. -57. ‘We will prove it by a domestike and home-borne truth, which within -these few years happened. At Lin, in Norfolke, the then Earl of Sussex -players acting the old History of Feyer Francis’ drove a townswoman to -confess the murder of her husband in circumstances parallel to those -of the play. P. 58. Relates rout of Spanish raiders ‘at a place called -Perin in Cornwall’, though their alarm at the drum and trumpets of ‘a -company of the same quality some 12 yeares ago, or not so much ... -playing late in the night’. Another story of a woman who had driven a -nail into her husband’s brain, urged to remorse by a similar incident -in ‘the last part of the Four Sons of Aymon’ played by ‘a company of -our English comedians (well knowne)’ at Amsterdam. Summarizes the -favour of many sovereigns to players. P. 60. ‘The cardinal at Bruxels -hath at this time in pay a company of our English comedians.... But -in no country they are of that eminence that our’s are: so our most -royall and ever renouned soveraigne hath licenced us in London: so -did his predecessor, the thrice vertuous virgin, Queen Elizabeth; -and before her, her sister, Queene Mary, Edward the sixth, and their -father, Henry the eighth.’ P. 61. ‘Moreover, to this day in divers -places of England there be townes that held the priviledge of their -faires, and other charters by yearely stage-playes, as at Manningtree -in Suffolke, Kendall in the north, and others.... Now, to speake of -some abuse lately crept into the quality, as an inveighing against the -state, the court, the law, the citty, and their governements, with -the particularizing of private men’s humors (yet alive) noblemen, and -others: I know it distastes many; neither do I any way approve it, -nor dare I by any meanes excuse it. The liberty which some arrogate -to themselves, committing their bitternesse, and liberall invectives -against all estates, to the mouthes of children, supposing their -juniority to be a priviledge for any rayling, be it never so violent, -I could advise all such to curbe and limit this presumed liberty -within the bands of discretion and government. But wise and juditiall -censurers, before whom such complaints shall at any time hereafter -come, wil not (I hope) impute these abuses to any transgression in -us, who have ever been carefull and provident to shun the like.’ P. -162. _Epistle to the publisher._ Notes the printer’s faults in his -_Britain’s Troy_, and the pirating of his two epistles of Paris to -Helen, and Helen to Paris by Jaggard [in _The Passionate Pilgrim_]. - - - lviii. 1610. WILLIAM CRASHAW. - - [From _A Sermon Preached in London before the right honorable - the Lord Lawarre, Lord Gouernour and Captaine Generall of - Virginea ... Feb. 21, 1609_ (1610).] - -P. 57. ‘We confesse this action hath three great enemies: but who -be they? euen the Diuell, Papists, and Players.’ P. 62. ‘3. As for -Plaiers: (pardon me right Honourable and beloued, for wronging this -place and your patience with so base a subiect) they play with Princes -and Potentates, Magistrates and Ministers, nay with God and Religion, -and all holy things: nothing that is good, excellent or holy can escape -them: how then can this action?... But why are the Players enemies to -this Plantation and doe abuse it? I will tell you the causes: First, -for that they are so multiplied here, that one cannot liue by another, -and they see that wee send of all trades to Virginea, but will send no -Players, which if wee would doe, they that remaine would gaine the more -at home. Secondly ... because wee resolue to suffer no Idle persons -in Virginea, which course if it were taken in England, they know they -might turne to new occupations.’ - - - lix. 1615. I. H. - - [From _This World’s Folly. Or A Warning-Peece discharged vpon - the Wickednesse thereof_. By I. H. (1615).] - -B^v-B2. ‘What voice is heard in our streetes? Nought but the squeaking -out of those τερετίσματα, obscaene and light Iigges, stuft with -loathsome and vnheard-of Ribauldry, suckt from the poysonous dugs -of Sinne-sweld Theaters.... More haue recourse to Playing houses, -then to Praying houses.... I will not particularize those _Blitea -dramata_ (as _Laberius_ termes another sort) those _Fortune_-fatted -fooles, and Times Ideots, whose garbe is the Tooth-ache of witte, the -Plague-sore of Iudgement, the Common-sewer of Obscaenities, and the -very Traine-powder that dischargeth the roaring _Meg_ (not _Mol_) of -all scurrile villanies vpon the Cities face; who are faine to produce -blinde _Impudence_ [_in margin_, ‘Garlicke’], to personate himselfe -vpon their stage, behung with chaynes of Garlicke, as an Antidote -against their owne infectious breaths, lest it should kill their -Oyster-crying Audience. _Vos quoque_ [_in margin_, ‘Or _Tu quoque_’], -and you also, who with _Scylla_-barking, _Stentor_-throated bellowings, -flash choaking squibbes of absurd vanities into the nosthrils of your -spectators, barbarously diuerting _Nature_, and defacing Gods owne -image, by metamorphising humane [_in margin_, ‘_Greenes_ Baboone’] -shape into bestiall forme. Those also stand within the stroke of my -penne, who were wont to _Curtaine_ ouer their defects with knauish -conueyances, and scum off the froth of all wanton vanity, to qualifie -the eager appetite of their slapping Fauorites.’ - - - lx. 1615. J. COCKE. - - [The variant texts of this character are here given from the - two editions of John Stephens’ essays, in each of which it is - Bk. ii, char. 4, viz. (A) _Satyrical Essayes Characters and - Others_ (1615) and (B) _Essayes and Characters, Ironical and - Instructive. The second impression_ (1615), of which a reprint - is in J. O. Halliwell, _Old Books of Characters_ (1857), 131. - Between A and B had appeared the sixth edition of _The Wife_, - with the character of _An Excellent Actor_ and the reference to - a rival as ‘the imitating Characterist’ (v. No. lxi). To this - the additions in B are a rejoinder, and they are reinforced - by two epistles. One is ‘To the namelesse Rayler: who hath - lenghthened his Excellent Actor, a most needy Caracter following - the wife with a peece of dog-skin witt; dressed ouer with oyle - of sweaty Posthorse’. Here the writer, I. S., says he did - ‘admit a friends Satyre’. The other epistle, ‘To the nameles - Author of a late Character entituled, an _Excellent Actor_, - following _The Wife_’, is signed by ‘I. Cocke’, who says, - ‘witnes your gross mistaking of approued and authorised actors - for counterfeit Runagates, or country Players, inueighed against - by the Characterist’. Some appended verses claim for Cocke the - authorship of the _Tinker_, _Apparator_, and _Almanac-maker_ in - _The Wife_. It seems clear that Cocke and not Stephens wrote the - present character, and that _An Excellent Actor_ was a reply to - it. It is true that Stephens only speaks of it as ‘lenghthened’ - by the attack on himself, but ‘lenghthened’ may mean ‘pieced - out’, and there is no version, long or short, in any of the five - first editions of _The Wife_, while a reference to ‘the sixt - impression of S. Thomas Overburyes wife’ on p. 434 of B shows - this was before its writers. John Stephens (cf. ch. xxiii) was - a Lincoln’s Inn dramatist. I cannot find a likely Cocke in the - _Lincoln’s Inn Admission Books_; there is an Isaac Cox, admitted - 10 Jan. 1611 (i. 154), and a John Cookes on 6 June 1614 (i. - 166). Can the satirist be the John Cooke (cf. ch. xxiii) who - wrote _Greene’s Tu Quoque_?] - - - _A common Player_ - -_Is a slow Payer, seldom a Purchaser, never a Puritan._ The Statute -hath done wisely to acknowledg him a Rogue errant[824], for his chiefe -essence is, _A daily Counterfeit_[825]: He hath beene familiar so long -with out-sides, that he professes himselfe (being unknowne) to be an -apparant Gentleman. But his thinne Felt, and his silke Stockings, -or his foule Linnen, and faire Doublet, doe (in him) bodily reveal -the Broker: So beeing not sutable, hee proves a Motley: his mind -observing the same fashion of his body: both consist of parcells -and remnants: but his minde hath commonly the newer fashion, and -the newer stuffe: hee would not else hearken so passionately after -new Tunes, new Trickes, new Devises: These together apparrell his -braine and understanding, whilst he takes the materialls upon trust, -and is himself the Taylor to take measure of his soules liking. Hee -doth conjecture somewhat strongly, but dares not commend a playes -goodnes,[826] till he hath either spoken, or heard the _Epilogue_[827]: -neither dares he entitle good things _Good_, unlesse hee be heartned -on by the multitude: till then hee saith faintly what hee thinkes, -with a willing purpose to recant or persist: So howsoever hee pretends -to have a royall Master or Mistresse, his wages and dependance prove -him to be the servant of the people.[828] When he doth hold conference -upon the stage; and should looke directly in his fellows face; hee -turnes about his voice into the assembly for applause-sake, like a -Trumpeter in the fields, that shifts places to get an eccho.[829] -The cautions of his judging humor (if hee dares undertake it) be a -certaine number of sawsie rude[830] jests against the common lawyer; -hansome conceits against the fine Courtiers; delicate quirkes against -the rich Cuckold a cittizen; shadowed glaunce[831] for good innocent -Ladies and Gentlewomen; with a nipping scoffe for some honest Justice, -who hath[832] imprisoned him: or some thriftie Trades-man, who hath -allowed him no credit: alwayes remembred, his object is, _A new play_, -or _A play newly revived_. Other Poems he admits, as good-fellowes -take Tobacco, or ignorant Burgesses give a voyce, for company sake; as -thinges that neither maintaine nor be against him. To be a player, is -to have a _mithridate_ against the pestilence; for players cannot tarry -where the plague raignes; and therfore they be seldome infected.[833] -He can seeme no lesse then one in honour, or at least one mounted; -for unto miseries which persecute such, he is most incident. Hence -it proceeds, that in the prosperous fortune of a play frequented, he -proves immoderate, and falles into a Drunkards paradise, till it be -_last_ no longer. Otherwise when adversities come, they come together: -For Lent and Shrovetuesday be not farre asunder, then he is dejected -daily and weekely: his blessings be neither lame nor monstrous; they -goe upon foure legges, but moove slowly, and make as great a distance -between their steppes, as between the foure Tearmes. Reproofe is -ill bestowed uppon him; it cannot alter his conditions: he hath bin -so accustomed to the scorne and laughter of his audience, that hee -cannot bee ashamed of himselfe: for hee dares laugh in the middest -of a serious conference, without blushing.[834] If hee marries, hee -mistakes the Woman for the Boy in Womans attire, by not respecting a -difference in the mischiefe: But so long as he lives unmarried, hee -mistakes the Boy, or a Whore for the Woman; by courting the first on -the stage, or visiting the second at her devotions. When hee is most -commendable, you must confesse there is no truth in him: for his best -action is but an imitation of truth, and _nullum simile est idem_. It -may be imagined I abuse his carriage, and hee perhaps may suddenly bee -thought faire-conditioned; for he _playes above board_.[835] Take him -at the best, he is but a shifting companion; for hee lives effectually -by putting on, and putting off. If his profession were single, hee -would think himselfe a simple fellow, as hee doth all professions -besides his owne: His own therefore is compounded of all Natures, all -humours, all professions. Hee is politick also[836] to perceive the -commonwealth[837] doubts of his licence, and therefore in spight of -Parliaments or Statutes hee incorporates himselfe by the title of a -brotherhood. Painting and fine cloths may not by the same reason be -called abusive, that players may not be called rogues: _For they bee -chiefe ornaments of his Majesties Revells_.[838] I need not multiplie -his character; for boyes and every one, wil no sooner see men of this -Facultie walke along but they wil (unasked) informe you what hee is -by the vulgar title.[839] Yet in the generall number of them, many -may deserve a wise mans commendation: and therefore did I prefix an -Epithite of _common_, to distinguish the base and artlesse appendants -of our citty companies, which often times start away into rusticall -wanderers and then (like Proteus) start backe again into the Citty -number.[840] - - - lxi. 1615. JOHN WEBSTER (?). - - [This Character _Of an Excellent Actor_ is one of the additions - made in the 6th edition (1615) to the Characters printed with - Sir Thomas Overbury’s _The Wife_, of which the 1st edition - appeared after Overbury’s death on 15 Sept. 1613. The Characters - do not profess to be all from Overbury’s hand, and the present - one was evidently written as a reply to that of _A Common - Player_ (No. lx). The allusion to painting suggests that the - model was Richard Burbadge. The passage _Therefore the imitating - Characterist ... flea them_ was omitted in the 7th edition - (1616) and in later editions, including the 9th (1616), from - which the reprints in E. F. Rimbault, _Works of Overbury_, - 147, and H. Morley, _Character Writings_, 86, are taken. A. F. - Bourgeois, in 11 _N. Q._ x. 3, 23, gives some striking parallels - of phrase between the Characters of 1615 and the work of John - Webster, which may point to his authorship. Later Characters of - a Player are in J. Earle, _Microcosmography_ (1628, ed. A. S. - West, 81), and R. M., _Micrologia_ (1629, Morley, 285).] - - - _An Excellent Actor._ - -Whatsoeuer is commendable in the graue Orator, is most exquisitly -perfect in him; for by a full and significant action of body, he -charmes our attention: sit in a full Theater, and you will thinke -you see so many lines drawne from the circumference of so many -eares, whiles the _Actor_ is the _Center_. He doth not striue to -make nature monstrous, she is often seene in the same Scaene with -him, but neither on Stilts nor Crutches; and for his voice tis not -lower then the prompter, nor lowder then the Foile and Target. By his -action he fortifies morall precepts with example; for what we see him -personate, we thinke truely done before vs: a man of a deepe thought -might apprehend, the Ghosts of our ancient _Heroes_ walk’t againe, and -take him (at seuerall times) for many of them. Hee is much affected -to painting, and tis a question whether that make him an excellent -Plaier, or his playing an exquisite painter. Hee addes grace to the -Poets labours: for what in the Poet is but ditty, in him is both ditty -and musicke. He entertaines vs in the best leasure of our life, that -is betweene meales, the most vnfit time, either for study or bodily -exercise: the flight of Hawkes and chase of wilde beastes, either of -them are delights noble: but some think this sport of men the worthier, -despight all _calumny_. All men haue beene of his occupation: and -indeed, what hee doth fainedly that doe others essentially: this day -one plaies a Monarch, the next a priuate person. Heere one Acts a -Tyrant, on the morrow an Exile: A Parasite this man to night, to morow -a Precisian, and so of diuers others. I obserue, of all men liuing, a -worthy Actor in one kind is the strongest motiue of affection that can -be: for when he dies, wee cannot be perswaded any man can doe his parts -like him. Therefore the imitating Characterist was extreame idle in -calling them Rogues. His Muse it seemes, with all his loud inuocation, -could not be wak’d to light him a snuffe to read the Statute: for I -would let his malicious ignorance vnderstand, that Rogues are not to -be imploide as maine ornaments to his Maiesties Reuels; but the itch -of bestriding the Presse, or getting vp on this wodden Pacolet, hath -defil’d more innocent paper, then euer did Laxatiue Physicke: yet is -their inuention such tyred stuffe, that like Kentish Posthorse they -can not go beyond their ordinary stage, should you flea them. But to -conclude, I valew a worthy Actor by the corruption of some few of the -quality, as I would doe gold in the oare; I should not mind the drosse, -but the purity of the metall. - - - lxii. 1616. JOHN SELDEN. - - [From a letter to Ben Jonson of ‘28th of Feb. 1615’ (_Works_, - ii. 1690).] - -‘I have most willingly collected what you wished, my notes touching the -literal sense and historical of the holy text usually brought against -the counterfeiting of sexes by apparell.’ Explains it as a prohibition -of an idolatrous Palestine ritual. - - - lxiii. 1616. NATHAN FIELD. - - [From _Feild the Players Letter to M^r Sutton, Preacher att - S^t Mary Overs_, 1616, printed by Halliwell, _Illustrations_, - 115, from _S. P. Dom. Jac. I_, lxxxix. 105. There are some - slight references to the stage in Thomas Sutton’s _England’s - First and Second Summons_ (1616), 27, 195, but these are Paul’s - Cross sermons delivered, and in the case of the first at least - printed, before he became preacher at Saint Mary Overies in - 1616, and Field is probably answering something later and more - pointed.] - -Protests that Sutton’s labour ‘to hinder the Sacrament and banish me -from myne owne parishe Churche’ is ‘uncharitable dealing with your -poore parishioners, whose purses participate in your contribucion and -whose labour yow are contented to eate’. Can find nothing in the Bible, -‘which I have studied as my best parte’, condemning players, nor does -‘our Caesar, our David’, King James, condemn them. - - - - - APPENDIX D - - DOCUMENTS OF CONTROL - - [_Bibliographical Note._--The material here collected relates - to the control of the stage both by the central and, so far as - London and its suburbs are concerned, by the local authorities. - It is largely drawn from official sources, especially the - Chancery Rolls and the Privy Council Register, and the City - archives, in particular the series of _Remembrancia_, which - begins in 1579 and contains copies of official correspondence - between the Corporation and the Privy Council, or individual - persons of honour. Something has also been contributed by the - _Repertories_ of the Court of Aldermen and the _Journals_ of - the Common Council, but these, as well as the _Liber Legum_ - and the _Letter Books_, which extend to 1590, probably still - require further search. The nature of the Privy Council Register - is described in ch. ii, and it must be borne in mind that - orders relating to plays are probably missing from it, owing - to _lacunae_, of which the chief are May 1559–May 1562, Sept. - 1562–Nov. 1564, Dec. 1565–Oct. 1566, May 1567–May 1570, July - 1572–Feb. 1573, June 1582–Feb. 1586, Aug. 1593–Oct. 1595, April - 1599–Jan. 1600, Jan. 1602–May 1613. For the last of these an - abstract covering 1602–10 in _Addl. MS_. 11402 is an inadequate - substitute. Probably some volumes of the Register were burnt in - the fire of 1619 (cf. ch. i). Many of the documents were printed - by Collier, Hazlitt, Wright, and others, but in most cases - more authoritative texts are available in such publications as - the _Statutes of the Realm_ (1810–22), J. R. Dasent, _Acts of - the Privy Council_ (1890–1907), J. C. Jeaffreson, _Middlesex - County Records_ (1888–92), W. W. Greg, _Henslowe Papers_ (1907), - C. C. Stopes, _Extracts from London Play Regulations_ (1908, - Harrison, _Description of England_, Part iv), and _Collections - of the Malone Society_, vol. i (_Dramatic Records_ from the - _Remembrancia_, _Lansdowne Manuscripts_, _Patent Rolls_, and - _Privy Council Register 1603–42_, by E. K. Chambers and W. W. - Greg), and in view of the diplomatic accuracy of these I have - allowed myself to make the present copies more readable by means - of additional punctuation, modifications in the use of capitals, - and the extension of contractions. I have also occasionally - omitted an irrelevant passage or an endorsement. And I have - replaced full texts by abstracts where, as in the case of the - company patents, the full texts seemed to go better in other - sections of this work.] - - - i. - - [1531. Extract from _An Acte concernyng punysshement of Beggers - & Vacabundes_ (_22 Hen. VIII_, c. 12), printed in _Statutes_, - iii. 328. The Act was continued and amended in detail in 1536 by - _27 Hen. VIII_, c. 25 (_St._ iii. 558), replaced in 1547 by the - more severe _1 Edw. VI_, c. 3 (_St._ iv. 5), revived in 1550 by - _3 & 4 Edw. VI_, c. 16 (_St._ iv. 115), and continued in 1551–2 - by _5 & 6 Edw. VI_, c. 2 (_St._ iv. 131), in 1552–3 by _7 Edw. - VI_, c. 11 (_St._ iv. 175), in 1553 by _1 Mary_, c. 13 (_St._ - iv. 215), and in 1563 by _5 Eliz._ c. 3 (_St._ iv. 411).] - -[§ 3.] And be it farther enacted by the aucthoryte aforsayde that yf -any person or persones beyng hole & myghtie in body & able to laboure, -at any tyme after the sayde feast of Saynt John [24 June 1531] be taken -in beggyng in any parte of this Realme, or yf any Man or Woman beyng -hole & myghty in body & able to laboure havyng no lande [or] maister -nor usyng any lawful marchaundyse crafte or mystery, wherby he myght -gette his lyvyng after the same feast, be vagarant & can gyve none -rekenyng howe he doth lefully gett his lyvyng, that than yt shalbe -lefull to the Constables & all other the Kynges Officers Mynysters & -Subjectes of every Towne Paryshe & Hamlet to arest the sayd Vacaboundes -& ydell persons & them bryng to any of the Justices of Peace of the -same Shyre or Libertie, or els to the Highe Constable of the Hundrede -Rape or Wapentake wythin whyche suche persones shalbe taken; and yf he -be taken wythin any Cyte or Towen Corporate, than to be brought before -the Mayre, Shereffes or Baylyffes of every suche Towne Corporate; and -that every suche Justyce of Peace, Highe Constable, Mayres, Shereffes -and Baylyffes by their dyscretions shall cause every suche ydell -person so to hym brought to be had to the next market Towne or other -place, where the sayde Justices of Peace, Highe Constable, Mayres, -Baylyffes or other Officers shall thynke most convenyent by his or -there discretions & there to be tyed to the end of a Carte naked and be -beten wyth Whyppes thoroughe oute the same market Towne or other place -tyll his Body be blody by reason of suche whyppyng; and after suche -punysshement & whyppyng had, the person so punysshed by the dyscretion -of the Justice of Peace, Highe Constable, Mayre, Sheryffes, Baylyffes -& other Officers, afore whom suche person shalbe brought, shalbe -enyoyned upon his othe to retourne forthewyth wythout delaye in the -next & streyght waye to the place where he was borne, or where he last -dwelled before the same punysshement by the space of iij yeres & there -put hym selfe to laboure, lyke as a trewe man oweth to doo ... and yf -the person so whypped be an ydell person & no common begger than after -suche whippyng he shall be kepte in the Stockes till he hath founde -suertie to goo to servyce or elles to laboure after the dyscretion -of the sayde Justice of Peace, Mayres, Shireffes, Baylyffes, Highe -Constables or other suche Offycers afore whome any suche ydell person -beyng no commen begger shalbe brought, yf by the dyscretion of the same -Justice of Peace, Mayer, Shyreff, Bayly, Highe Constable, or other -suche hedde offycer, yt be so thought convenyent & that the partie so -punysshed be able to fynde suretye or elles to be ordered & sworne to -repayer to the place where he was borne or where he last dwelled by the -space of three yeres. - - - ii. - - [1549, May 27. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison, - iv. 313, from London _Repertory_, xii, f. 92.] - -[Sidenote: Amcotes, Mayor. Wylkynson.] - -Item, John Wylkynson, coriour, who comenly suffreth & meynteyneth -interludes & playes to be made and kept within his dwellyng house, was -streyghtly commandid no more to suffer eny suche pleyes there to be -kept, vpon peyne of imprysonement, &c. - - - iii. - - [1549, July 4. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison, - iv. 313, from London _Repertory_, xii. 1, f. 100.] - -[Sidenote: Interludes & bukler playinge.] - -At this courte. yt was agreyd that my Lorde Mayer, at his next -repayrynge to the Lorde Chaunceler, shulde desyre his Lordeshyps ayde -and advise for the steyinge of all comen interludes & pleyes within the -Citie & the suburbes therof. And further, that euery of my maisters -thaldermen shulde take suche ordre in their wardes with the constables, -& otherwyse by their discrecion, that there be no more buckler playing -suffred nor vsed within eny of their wardes duryng this besye tyme. - - - iv. - - [1549, 7 Nov. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison, - iv. 314, from London _Repertory_, xii. 1, f. 162^v.] - -[Sidenote: Hyll, Mayor. Enterludes.] - -Item, it is orderyd that the ij Secondaries of the Compters, Mr. Atkyns -& Mr. Burnell, shall, accordyng to the tenour of the recognysaunce -lately taken before the Lorde grete Master, & remaynyng with my Lorde -Mayer, pervse all suche enterludes as hereafter shalbe pleyed by eny -comen pleyr of the same within the Citie or the liberties therof, And -make reporte of the same to the Lorde Mayer for the tyme beynge, And -accordyng thervnto, my Lorde Mayer to suffer them to go forwarde, or to -stey. - - - v. - - [1550, 23 Dec. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison, - iv. 314, from London _Repertory_, xii. 2, f. 294^v.] - -[Sidenote: Players of interludes.] - -At this Courte, certein comen plaiers of interludes within this Citie -were bounden by Recognisaunce as herafter insuythe: - -Item, Johannes Nethe, Robertus Southyn, Robertus Drake, Robertus -Peacocke, Johannes Nethersall, Robertus Sutton, Ricardus Jugler, -Johannes Ronner, Willelmus Readyng, Edmundus Stokedale, Johannes -Rawlyns, Johannes Crane, Ricardus Gyrke, Johannes Radstone, Oliuerus -Page, Ricardus Pokeley, Ricardus Parseley, & Willelmus Clement, -recognoverunt se & eorum quemlibet, per se debere domino Regi xx li, -bonis etc soluendis etc: The condicion, etc, that yf the above bounden -John Nethe, Robert Southyn etc & eny and euery of them, do not at -herafter play eny interlude or comen play within eny of our Soueraygn -Lorde the kynges domynyons, without the especiall licence of our seid -Soueraygn Lorde, or of his most honourable Councell for the tyme beyng, -had & obteyned for the same, And also yf they the seid Recognytours, -& euery of them, do att all & euery tyme & tymes herafter, when they -or any of them shalbe, by the seid Counsell or eny of them, sent for, -personally appere before the seid Counsell or some of them, that then, -etc, or els etc. - - - vi. - - [1553. City order cited from _Letter Book_, R, f. 246, in _V. H. - London_, i. 295.] - -Plays and interludes were forbidden before 3 p.m. on Sundays and -holidays. - - - vii. - - [1558. A reference to plays is cited from _Letter Book_, V, f. - 216, in _V. H. London_, i. 322.] - - - viii. - - [1559, April 7. Proclamation. Despatches in V. P. vii. 65, 71, - also record this, which, however, is not preserved. It forms no - part of _Procl._ 504 for peace with France, which both Machyn - and Holinshed describe as proclaimed immediately before it, and - which bears date 7 April. _Procl._ 503, of 22 March, prescribing - Easter Sacrament in both kinds, has a clause enjoining mayors - and other officers to commit to prison ‘all disordred persons, - that shall seke willingly to breake, either by misordred dede, - or by railing, or contemptuous speach, the common peace and band - of charytie’; but, apart from the discrepancy of dates, this - seems too general in its terms to answer the descriptions.] - - - (_a_) - - [Entry in _Machyn’s Diary_, 193, misdated April 8.] - -Bluw-mantyll dyd proclaymyd that no players shuld play no more tyll -a serten tyme of no mans players; but the mare or shreyff, balle, -constabull, or odur offesers take them, lay them in presun, and the -quen commondement layd on them. - - - (_b_) - - [Extract from Holinshed, _Chronicle_, iii. 1184.] - -The same time also [April 7] was another proclamation made under the -queenes hand in writing, inhibiting that from thenceforth no plaies nor -interludes should be exercised, till Alhallowes tide next insuing. - - - ix. - - [1559, May 8. Extract from _An Act for the Uniformity of Common - Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the - Sacraments_ (_1 Eliz._ c. 2), printed in _Statutes_, iv. 1, 355. - Later clauses give concurrent power to deal with offences under - the Act to justices of assize or mayors and other head officers - of cities and boroughs, and to archbishops and bishops and other - ordinaries by ecclesiastical process.] - -It is ordained and enacted by the authority abovesaid, that if any -person or persons whatsoever, after the said feast of the Nativity of -St. John Baptist next coming [24 June 1559], shall in any interludes, -plays, songs, rhymes, or by other open words, declare or speak anything -in the derogation, depraving, or despising of the same book [of Common -Prayer], or of anything therein contained, or any part thereof, ... -then every such person, being thereof lawfully convicted in form -aforesaid, shall forfeit to the queen our sovereign lady, her heirs and -successors, for the first offence a hundred marks. - - - x. - - [1559, May 16. Proclamation 509, printed in Collier, i. 166, and - Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 19.] - - ¶ By the Quene. - -Forasmuche as the tyme wherein common Interludes in the Englishe tongue -are wont vsually to be played, is now past vntyll All Hallou-tyde, -and that also some that haue ben of late vsed, are not conuenient -in any good ordred Christian Common weale to be suffred. The Quenes -Maiestie doth straightly forbyd all maner Interludes to be playde -eyther openly or priuately, except the same be notified before hande, -and licenced within any Citie or towne corporate, by the Maior or other -chiefe officers of the same, and within any shyre, by suche as shalbe -Lieuetenauntes for the Quenes Maiestie in the same shyre, or by two of -the Justices of peax inhabyting within that part of the shire where any -shalbe played. - -And for instruction to euery of the sayde officers, her maiestie -doth likewise charge euery of them, as they will aunswere: that they -permyt none to be played wherin either matters of religion or of -the gouernaunce of the estate of the common weale shalbe handled or -treated, beyng no meete matters to be wrytten or treated vpon, but -by menne of aucthoritie, learning and wisedome, nor to be handled -before any audience, but of graue and discreete persons: All which -partes of this proclamation, her maiestie chargeth to be inuiolably -kepte. And if any shal attempt to the contrary: her maiestie giueth -all maner of officers that haue authoritie to see common peax kepte in -commaundement, to arrest and enprison the parties so offendinge, for -the space of fourtene dayes or more, as cause shal nede: And furder -also vntill good assuraunce may be founde and gyuen, that they shalbe -of good behauiour, and no more to offende in the likes. - -And further her maiestie gyueth speciall charge to her nobilitie and -gentilmen, as they professe to obey and regarde her maiestie, to take -good order in thys behalfe wyth their seruauntes being players, that -this her maiesties commaundement may be dulye kepte and obeyed. - -Yeuen at our Palayce of Westminster the xvi. daye of Maye, the first -yeare of oure Raygne. - - - xi. - - [1559, June. Lord Robert Dudley to the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord - President of the North, printed from _Heralds College Talbot - MS._ E. f. 29, in Collier, i. 168; also in Lodge, i. 376.] - -My good Lorde, - -Where my servauntes, bringers hereof unto you, be suche as ar plaiers -of interludes; and for the same have the Licence of diverse of my Lords -here, under ther seales and handis, to plaie in diverse shieres within -the realme under there aucthorities, as maie amplie appere unto your -L. by the same licence. I have thought emong the rest by my Lettres -to beseche your good L. conformitie to them like wise, that they maie -have your hand and seale to ther licence for the like libertye in Yorke -shiere; being honest men, and suche as shall plaie none other matters -(I trust); but tollerable and convenient; whereof some of them have -bene herde here alredie before diverse of my Lordis: for whome I shall -have good cause to thank your L. and to remaine your L. to the best -that shall lie in my litle power. And thus I take my leave of your good -L. From Westm., the of June, 1559. - - Your good L. assured, - R. Duddley. - -To the right Honourable & my verie good Lorde, the Erle of Shrewsburie. - - - xii. - - [1559, _c._ 13 June. Extract from _Injunctions given by the - Queen’s Majesty concerning both the Clergy and Laity of this - Realm_, printed by Pollard, _S. F._ 13; in full in Gee, 46, and - E. Cardwell, _Documentary Annals of the Church of England_ (ed. - 1844), i. 210.] - -Li. Item, because there is a great abuse in the printers of bookes, -which for couetousness cheefely, regard not what they print, so -they may haue gaine, whereby ariseth great disorder by publication -of vnfruitefull, vaine, and infamous bookes and papers, the Queenes -maiestie straitlye chargeth and commaundeth, that no manner of person -shall print any manner of booke or paper, of what sort, nature or in -what language soeuer it be, excepte the same be firste licensed by -her maiestie, by expresse wordes in writing, or by six of her priuie -counsel: or be perused and licensed by the Archbishops of Canterburie -and Yorke, the Bishop of London, the Chauncelors of both Vniuersities, -the Bishop being Ordinarye and the Archdeacon also of the place, where -any such shal be printed or by two of them, wherof the Ordinarie of the -place to be alwayes one. And that the names of such as shall allowe -the same to bee added in the end of euery such worke, for a testimonie -of the alowance thereof. And because many pamphlets, playes and -ballads, bee oftentimes printed, wherein regarde would bee had, that -nothing therein should be either heretical, seditious, or vnseemely -for Christian eares: her maiestie likewise commaundeth, that no manner -of person shall enterprise to print any such, excepte the same bee to -him licensed by suche her maiesties Commissioners, or three of them, -as be appointed in the Cittie of London, to heare and determine diuers -causes Ecclesiasticall, tending to the execution of certaine statutes, -made the last Parliament for vniformitie of order in Religion. And -if any shall sell or vtter any maner of bookes or papers, being not -licensed, as is aboue sayd: that the same partie shalbe punished by -order of the saide Commissioners, as to the qualitie of the fault -shalbe thought meete. And touching all other bookes of matters of -religion, or pollicie, or gouernance, that hath bene printed eyther on -this side the seas, or on the other side, because the diuersitie of -them is great, and that there nedeth good consideration to be had of -the particularities thereof, her maiestie referreth the prohibition -or permission thereof, to the order whiche her sayde Commissioners -within the Cittie of London shall take and notifie. Accordinge to the -whiche, her maiestie straitly commaundeth all maner her subiectes, and -especially the Wardens and company of Stationers to be obedient. - -Prouided that these orders doe not extende to any prophane aucthors, -and works in any language that hath ben heretofore commonly receiued -or allowed in any of the vniuersities or schooles, but the same may be -printed and vsed as by good order they were accustomed. - - [From appended Articles of Enquiry for diocesan visitations.] - -Item, whether you know any person in your parish ... that hath -invented, bruited, or set forth any rumours, false and seditious -tales, slanders, or makers, bringers, buyers, sellers, keepers, or -conveyors of any unlawful books, which might stir or provoke sedition, -or maintain superstitious service within this realm, or any aiders, -counsellors, procurers, or maintainers thereunto. - -Item, whether any minstrels or any other persons do use to sing or -say any songs or ditties that be vile or unclean, and especially in -derision of any godly order now set forth and established. - - - xiii. - - [1559, July 19. Extract from Patent for the establishment of the - High Commission for ecclesiastical causes, printed by Gee, 147, - from _Patent Roll, 1 Eliz._ p. 9, m. 23 dorso; also in Cardwell, - _Documentary Annals_, i. 255. There were later commissions of 20 - July 1562 (heads from _S. P. D. Eliz._ xxvi. 41, in Gee, 178), - 1572 (_P. R. 14 Eliz._ p. 8), 23 April 1576 (text in Strype, - _Grindal_, 543), 1583 (cf. Strype, _Whitgift_, i. 268), and - 1601 (text from _P. R. 43 Eliz._ p. 16, m. 37 dorso, in Rymer, - xvi. 400). That of 1562 seems to have followed the model of - 1559; those of 1576 and 1601 give a jurisdiction over seditious - books similar to that of 1559, but omit the provision as to - vagrants in London, which was doubtless made unnecessary by the - legislation of 1572 (cf. No. xxiv).] - -Elizabeth, by the grace of God, &c., to the Reverend Father in God -Matthew Parker nominated Bishop of Canterbury, and Edmond Grindall -nominated Bishop of London [and others] greeting. Where at our -Parliament ... there was two Acts and Statutes made and established, -the one entitled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer ... and the -other entitled An Act restoring to the Crown the Ancient Jurisdiction -of the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual ... and where divers -seditious and slanderous persons do not cease daily to invent and set -forth false rumours, tales, and seditious slanders, not only against -us and the said good laws and statutes, but also have set forth divers -seditious books within this our realm of England, meaning thereby to -move and procure strife, division, and dissension amongst our loving -and obedient subjects, much to the disquieting of us and our people: - -Wherefore we ... have authorized, assigned, and appointed you to be -our Commissioners, and by these presents do give our full power and -authority to you or six of you ... to inquire ... for all offences, -misdoers, and misdemeanours ... contrary to the tenor and effect of the -said several Acts and Statutes, and either of them; and also of all and -singular heretical opinions, seditious books, contempts, conspiracies, -false rumours, tales, seditious misbehaviours, slanderous words or -showings published, invented or set forth or hereafter to be published, -invented or set forth by any person or persons against us or contrary -or against any the laws or statutes of this our realm, or against the -quiet governance and rule of our people and subjects in any county, -city, or borough or other place or places within this our realm of -England, and of all and every the coadjutors, counsellors, comforters, -procurers and abettors of every such offender; and ... to hear and -determine all the premises ... and to visit, reform, redress, order, -correct and amend ... errors, heresies, crimes, abuses, offences, -contempts and enormities spiritual and ecclesiastical ... and to -inquire of and search out all ruleless men, quarrellers, vagrants and -suspect persons within our city of London and ten miles compass about -the same city, and of all assaults and frays done and committed within -the same city and the compass aforesaid. - - - xiv. - - [1563, Sept. 30. Precept from Lord Mayor to Aldermen, noted, - apparently from _Journal, Lodge_, No. 18, f. 184, in ‘Abstract - of Several Orders relating to the Plague’ (_Addl. MS._ 4376, f. - 52); cf. Creighton, i. 317.] - -Another to prohibit all interludes & playes during the Infection. - - - xv. - - 1564, Feb. 23. Extract from letter of Edmund Grindal, Bishop of - London, at Paul’s, to Sir W. Cecil, printed _M. S. C._ i. 148, - from _Lansd. MS._ 7, f. 141; also in Grindal, _Remains_ (1843), - 269; Wright, i. 166.] - -Mr. Calfhill this mornynge shewed me your letter to him, wherin ye -wishe some politike orders to be devised agaynste Infection. I thinke -it verie necessarie, and wille doo myne endevour bothe by exhortation, -and otherwise. I was readye to crave your helpe for that purpose afore, -as one nott vnmyndefulle of the parishe. - -By searche I doo perceive, thatt ther is no one thinge off late is -more lyke to have renewed this contagion, then the practise off an -idle sorte off people, which have ben infamouse in all goode common -weales: I meane these Histriones, common playours; who now daylye, butt -speciallye on holydayes, sett vp bylles, whervnto the youthe resorteth -excessively, & ther taketh infection: besydes that goddes worde by -theyr impure mowthes is prophaned, and turned into scoffes; for remedie -wheroff in my iugement ye shulde do verie well to be a meane, that a -proclamation wer sette furthe to inhibitte all playes for one whole -yeare (and iff itt wer for ever, it wer nott amisse) within the Cittie, -or 3. myles compasse, vpon paynes aswell to the playours, as to the -owners off the howses, wher they playe theyr lewde enterludes. - - - xvi. - - [1569, May 12. City precept, printed in Harrison, iv. 315, from - _Journal_, xix, f. 167^v.] - -[Sidenote: A precept for no playes to be played from the last day of -May 1569, vntill the last day of September then next following. - -And also for beting clothes in wyndowes & other places next the streat. - -Intratur.] - -Forasmuch as thoroughe the greate resort, accesse and assembles of -great multitudes of people vnto diuerse and seuerall Innes and other -places of this Citie, and the liberties & suburbes of the same, to -thentent to here and see certayne stage playes, enterludes, and other -disguisinges, on the Saboth dayes and other solempne feastes commaunded -by the church to be kept holy, and there being close pestered together -in small romes, specially in this tyme of sommer, all not being and -voyd of infeccions and diseases, whereby great infeccion with the -plague, or some other infeccious diseases, may rise and growe, to the -great hynderaunce of the comon wealth of this citty, and perill and -daunger of the quenes maiesties people, the inhabitantes thereof, and -all others repayryng thether, about there necessary affares; ... Thes -are, in the quenes maiesties name, streightly to charge and commaund, -that no mannour of parson or parsons whatsoeuer, dwelling or inhabiting -within this citie of London liberties and suburbes of the same, being -Inkepers, Tablekepers, Tauernours, hall-kepers, or bruers, Do or shall, -from and after the last daye of this moneth of May nowe next ensuinge, -vntill the last day of September then next following, take vppon him -or them to set fourth, eyther openly or privatly, anny stage play or -interludes, or to permit or suffer to be set fourth or played within -his or there mansion howse, yarde, court, garden, orchard, or other -place or places whatsoeuer, within this Cittye of London, the liberties -or suburbes of the same, any mannour of stage play, enterlude, or other -disguising whatsoeuer.... And fayle ye not herof, as ye tender the -welth of this citie, and the health of the quenes maiesties people, her -highnes good fauour and pleasure, and will aunswere for the contrary at -your vttermost perills. Yeouen at the guild hall of London, the xij of -May, 1569. God save the Quene. - - - xvii. - - [1571, Nov. 27. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 317, from _Repertory_, xvii, f. 236^v.] - -[Sidenote: Intratur. - -Preceptes to be made.] - -Item, it was ordered that preceptes shalbe made to euery of my Masters -thaldermen, that they from henceforth suffre no playe or enterlude to -be played within the precynctes of there seuerall wardes vpon Sondaies, -holly daies, or other daie of the weke, or ells at nyght of any of the -same daies, till suche tyme as other order by this courte shalbe taken -in that behalf. - - - xviii. - - [1571, Dec. 6. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison, - iv. 318, from _Repertory_, xvii, f. 239^v.] - -[Sidenote: My Lord of Leicesters men licensed to playe.] - -Item, this daye, licence is geven to my lord of Leicesters men to -playe within this Citie such matters as are alowed of to be played, at -convenient howers & tymes, so that it be not in tyme of devyne service. - - - xix. - - [1572, Jan. 3. Abstract of Proclamation for the Execution of the - Laws made against Unlawful Retainers (_Procl._ 663); for text - cf. _M. S. C._ i. 350.] - -Requires justices of assise to enforce after 20 Feb. 1572 the statutes -against unlawful retainers, and in particular _3 Hen. VII_ (1487), c. -12, one of several statutes confirming _8 Hen. VI_ (1429), c. 4, which -forbade the giving of any livery of cloths or hat by a lord to other -than his menials and lawyers (_R. O. Statutes of the Realm_, ii. 240, -522). - - - xx. - - [1572, _c._ Jan. Letter to the Earl of Leicester from his - Players; cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Requests that they may be retained as ‘houshold servaunts and daylie -wayters’, in view of the recent proclamation (No. xix, _supra_), and -may continue to have their lord’s license to certify the same when they -travel. - - - xxi. - - [1572, Jan. 29. Minute of Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 318, from _Repertory_, xvii, f. 263^v.] - -[Sidenote: My lord of Burgaueneys players.] - -Item, it is further granted at the like request [of Sir Thomas Gresham] -that my lord of Burgaueneys players shall play within this Citie -duringe my lordes Maiours pleasure. - - - xxii. - - [1572. Extract from MS. _Chronologie_ of William Harrison, s.a. - 1572, printed in Harrison, i. liv. The entries continue to 1593, - and this one was probably written after the building of the - Theatre and Curtain in 1576.] - -1572. Plaies are banished for a time out of London, lest the resort -vnto them should ingender a plague, or rather disperse it, being alredy -begonne. Would to god these comon plaies were exiled for altogether, as -semenaries of impiety, & their theaters pulled downe, as no better then -houses of baudrie. It is an euident token of a wicked time when plaiers -wexe so riche that they can build suche houses. As moche I wish also to -our comon beare baitinges vsed on the Sabaothe daies. - - - xxiii. - - [1572, May 20. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 318, from _Repertory_, xvii, f. 316.] - -[Sidenote: The Counsells Lettres for Plaies & Commodies. Intratur.] - -Item, this daie, after the readyng of the Lordes of the Quenes -Maiesties most honorable Counselles Letters, written in the favor of -certein persones to haue in there howses, yardes, or back sydes, being -overt & open places, such playes, enterludes, commedies, & tragedies -as maye tende to represse vyce & extoll vertwe, for the recreacion of -the people, & therby to drawe them from sundrye worser exercyses, The -matter theerof being first examyned, sene & allowed, by such discrete -person or persones as shalbe by the Lord Maiour thervnto appoynted, and -takyng bondes of the said houskeapars not to suffer the same playes to -be in the tyme of devyne service, & vpon other condicions in the same -Letters specified: - -Item, it was agreed that Master Townclark shall devyse a letter for -answer of thother, to be sent vnto my Lord Burleighe, signifiing to his -honour, that it is thought very perillous (considering the tyme of the -yere & the heat of the weather) to haue such conventicles of people -by such meanes called together, wherof the greatest number are of the -meanest sorte, beseching his honour, yf it maye so seame him good, to -be a meane wherby the same, for a tyme, may be forborne. - - - xxiv. - - [1572, June 29. Extract from _An Acte for the punishement of - Vacabondes and for Releif of the Poore & Impotent_ (_14 Eliz._ - c. 5), printed in _Statutes_, iv. 590. The Act was continued and - amended in detail by _18 Eliz._ c. 3 in 1576 (_St._ iv. 610) and - continued by _37 Eliz._ c. 11 in 1584–5 (_St._ iv. 718).] - -[§ 2.] ... All & every person and persons whatsoever they bee, being -above thage of fourtene yeres, being hereafter sett foorth by this Acte -of Parliament to bee Roges Vacabonds or Sturdy Beggers, and bee at any -tyme after the Feaste of Sainte Bartholomewe the Apostle next comming -[24 Aug.] taken begging in any parte of this Realme, or taken vagrant -wandring and misordering themselves contrary to the purport of this -present Acte of Parliament in any part of the same, shall uppon their -Apprehention be brought before one of the Justices of the Peece or -Maior or Cheef Officer of Cities Boroughes and Townes Corporate within -the Countye Cytye Boroughe or Towne Corporate, where the Apprehention -shall happen to bee ... to bee presentlye commytted to ... Gaole ... or -... Prison ... untyll the next Sessions of the Peace or Generall Gaole -Delivery.... At whiche Sessions or Gaole Delyverye yf suche person or -persones bee duelye convict of his or her Rogishe or Vacabondes Trade -of Lyef ... that then ymmedyatlye he or shee shalbe adjudged to bee -grevouslye whipped, and burnte through the gristle of the right Eare -with a hot Yron of the compasse of an Ynche about, manifestinge his or -her rogyshe kynde of Lyef, and his or her Punyshment receaved for the -same ... which Judgment shall also presentlye bee executed, Except some -honest person ... wyll of his Charitye be contented presentlye to take -suche Offendour before the same Justices into his Service for one whole -yere next followinge. - -[§ 4.] ... Yf after the said Punyshment executed or Judgement gyven, -the said persone ... do eftsones fall againe to any kynde of Rogyshe -or Vacabonde Trade of Lyef, that then the said Roge Vacabonde or -Sturdy Begger from thenceforthe to be taken adjudged & demed in all -respectes as a Felon; and shall in all Degrees receave have suffer -and forfayte as a Felon, excepte some honest person ... wyll ... take -him or her into his Service for two whole yeres.... And yf suche Roge -or Vacabounde ... eftsones the third tyme fall againe to a kynde of -Rogyshe or Vacabounde Trade of Lyef, that then suche Roge or Vacabound -shalbe adjudged & deemed for a Felon, and suffer paynes of Death and -losse of Land and Goodes as a Felon without Allowance or Benefyte of -Cleargye or Sanctuary. - -[§ 5.] ... All and everye persone and persones beynge whole and mightye -in Body and able to labour, havinge not Land or Maister, nor using -any lawfull Marchaundize Crafte or Mysterye whereby hee or shee might -get his or her Lyvinge, and can gyve no reckninge howe he or shee -dothe lawfully get his or her Lyvinge; & all Fencers Bearewardes Comon -Players in Enterludes & Minstrels, not belonging to any Baron of this -Realme or towardes any other honorable Personage of greater Degree; -all Juglers Pedlars Tynkers and Petye Chapmen; whiche seid Fencers -Bearewardes Comon Players in Enterludes Mynstrels Juglers Pedlers -Tynkers & Petye Chapmen, shall wander abroade and have not Lycense -of two Justices of the Peace at the leaste, whereof one to be of the -Quorum, when and in what Shier they shall happen to wander ... shalbee -taken adjudged and deemed Roges Vacaboundes and Sturdy Beggers. - -[§ 12.] Provided alwayes, That yt shalbe lawfull to the Lord -Chauncelour or Lorde Keper of the Greate Seale of England for the tyme -beinge to make Lycence under the said Greate Seale, as heretofore hath -benne accustomed, and that the said Lycence and Lycences shall as -largely extend as the Contentes of them wyll beare; any thing herein to -the contrary in any wyse notwithstandinge. - -[§ 39.] Provided alwayes, That ... yt maye and shall be lawfull to the -Justice and Justices of Peace, Maior Baylyffes and other Head Officers -of those Cytyes, Boroughes Places and Townes Corporate where there bee -Justice or Justices, to proceed to the execucion of this Acte within -the Precinct and Compasse of their Liberties, in suche manner & fourme -as the Justices of Peace in any Countye may or ought to doo within the -same Countye by vertue of this Acte, any Matter or Thinge in this Acte -expressed to the contrary therof notwithstandinge. - -[§ 42.] Provided alwayes, That this Acte or any Thing therein -contayned, or any aucthoritye thereby given, shall not in any wyse -extend to dysheneryte prejudice or hinder John Dutton of Dutton in -the Countye of Chester Esquier, his Heires or Assignes, for towching -or concerninge any Libertye Priviledge Preheminence Aucthoritie -Jurisdiccion or Inheritaunce which the sayd John Dutton nowe lawfully -useth or hathe, or lawfully may or ought to use within the County -Palatyne of Chester and the Countye of the Cyte of Chester, or eyther -of them, by reason of any anncient Charteres of any Kinges of this -Land, or by reason of any Prescription or other lawfull Usage or Tytle -whatsoever. - - - xxv. - - [1573, July. Privy Council Minutes, printed in Dasent, viii. - 131, 132.] - - - (_a_) [July 14] - -A letter to the Lord Mayour of London to permitte libertie to certein -Italian plaiers to make shewe of an instrument of strainge motiones -within the Citie. - - - (_b_) [July 19] - -A letter to the Lord Mayour to graunt libertie to certein Italians to -make shewe of an instrument there, merveling that he did it not at -their first request. - - - xxvi. - - [1574, March 2. Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London to Lord - Chamberlain Sussex, printed from _Cotton MS._ Roll xvi. 41, in - Collier, i. 206; also by S. Ayscough in _Gentleman’s Magazine_, - lxii, 1, 412; Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 23.] - -Our dutie to your good L. humbly done. Whereas your Lord. hath made -request in favour of one Holmes for our assent that he might have the -appointment of places for playes and enterludes within this citie, it -may please your L. to reteine undoubted assurance of our redinesse to -gratifie, in any thing that we reasonably may, any persone whom your -L. shall favor and recommend. Howbeit this case is such, and so nere -touching the governance of this citie in one of the greatest matters -thereof, namely the assemblies of multitudes of the Queenes people, -and regard to be had to sundry inconveniences, whereof the peril is -continually, upon everie occasion, to be foreseen by the rulers of this -citie, that we cannot, with our duties, byside the precident farre -extending to the hart of our liberties, well assent that the sayd -apointment of places be committed to any private persone. For which, -and other reasonable considerations, it hath long since pleased your -good L. among the rest of her Majesties most honourable Counsell, to -rest satisfied with our not granting to such persone as, by their most -honourable lettres, was heretofore in like case commended to us. Byside -that, if it might with reasonable convenience be granted, great offres -have been, and be made for the same to the relefe of the poore in the -hospitalles, which we hold as assured, that your L. will well allow -that we prefer before the benefit of any private person. And so we -committ your L. to the tuition of Almighty God. At London, this second -of March, 1573. - - Your L. humble - - Wm. Box. - Thomas Blanke. - Nicholas Woodrof. - Anthony Gamage. - Wyllm Kympton. - Wolstan Dixe. - John Ryvers, Maior. - Row. Hayward, Alder. - William Allyn, Alderman. - Leonell Ducket, Aldr. - James Haloys, Alderman. - Ambrose Nich’as, Ald. - Jhon Langley, Ald. - Thomas Ramsey. - Wyllym Lond. - John Clyffe. - Richard Pype. - -To the most honourable our singular good Lord, the Erle of Sussex, Lord -Chamberlan of the Queens most honourable Houshold. - - - xxvii. - - [1574, March 22. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, viii. 215.] - -A letter to the Lord Mayour of London to advertise their Lordships what -causes he hath to restraine plaies, to thintent their Lordships may the -better aunswer suche as desyre to have libertye for the same. - - - xxviii. - - [1574, May 10. Patent for Leicester’s men; cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform music, and plays seen and allowed by the -Master of the Revels, both in London and elsewhere, except during the -time of common prayer, or of plague in London. - - - xxix. - - [1574, July 22. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, viii. 273.] - -A letter to the Mayor of London to admitte the comedie plaiers to play -within that Cittie and to be otherwise favorablie used. - -A pasport for them to go to London, and to be well used in their -voyadge. - - - xxx. - - - (_a_) - - [1574, Nov. 15. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, viii. 313. - -Three letters of one effect to the Sherif and Justices of the counties -of Middlesex, Essex and Surrey to restraine all plaiers and other -unnecessarie assemblies, in respect of the plague, within x miles of -London untill Esther next. - - - (_b_) - - [1574, Nov. 15. Extract from report on papers of W. M. Molyneux - _Hist. MSS._ vii. 627).] - -Letter from Lords of the Council to the Sheriff and Justices of the -Peace of co. Surrey. Ordering ‘that there be no plays shewes nor any -such unnecessarie assemblies vsed in that countie within ten myles of -the cytie vntill Easter next vppon payne of imprisonment to such as -shall in any wies offend to the contrarie’: it having been ‘found by -experience that very great perill and inconveniences hath fallen vppon -sondry of the queenes maiesties subjects by the sufferance of great -assemblies of the people to come together at plaies and shewes neare -London in this tyme of contagion and infection of the plague’. - - - xxxi. - - [1574, _c._ Nov. Extract from _An Exhortation, or Rule, sett - downe by one Mr. (Thomas) Norton, sometyme Remembrauncer of - London, wherebie the L. Maior of Lo. is to order himselfe and - the Cittie_, printed by Collier, _Illustrations_, iii. 14, from - a manuscript of Sir Christopher Hatton, now _Addl. MS._ 32379, - f. 36, and datable by a mention of James Hawes (1574–5) as - mayor.] - -And one note out of place, that showld before have bene spoken: the -presente time requirithe yowe to have good care and use good meanes -towchinge the contagion of sickenes, that the sicke be kept from the -whole, that the places of persons infected be made plaine to be knowen -and the more releeved; that sweetenes and holsomnes of publique places -be provided for; that unnecessarie and scarslie honeste resorts to -plaies, to shewes to thoccasion of thronges and presse, except to -the servyce of God; and especiallie the assemblies to the unchaste, -shamelesse and unnaturall tomblinge of the Italion Weomen maye be -avoided: to offend God and honestie is not to cease a plague. - - - xxxii. - - [1574, Dec. 6. Act of Common Council of London during the - mayoralty of Sir James Hawes, printed _M. S. C._ i. 175, - from copy in _Lansd. MS._ 20, enclosed with reply of City - to Petition of Queen’s men _c._ Nov. 1584 (cf. No. lxxv); - also in Collier, i. 208; Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 27. I suppose - that this is the record of 1574 on plays cited from _Liber - Legum_, x. 363, in _V. H. London_, i. 322.] - -Whearas hearetofore sondrye greate disorders and inconvenyences have -benne found to ensewe to this Cittie by the inordynate hauntyinge -of greate multitudes of people, speciallye youthe, to playes, -enterludes, and shewes, namelye occasyon of ffrayes and quarrelles, -eavell practizes of incontinencye in greate Innes, havinge chambers -and secrete places adioyninge to their open stagies and gallyries, -inveglynge and alleurynge of maides, speciallye orphanes and good -Cityzens Children vnder Age, to previe and vnmete Contractes, the -publishinge of vnchaste vncomelye and vnshamefaste speeches and -doynges, withdrawinge of the Queenes Maiesties Subiectes from dyvyne -service on Sonndaies and hollydayes, at which Tymes suche playes -weare Chefelye vsed, vnthriftye waste of the moneye of the poore and -fond persons, sondrye robberies by pyckinge and Cuttinge of purses, -vtteringe of popular busye and sedycious matters, and manie other -Corruptions of youthe and other enormyties, besydes that allso soundrye -slaughters and mayheminges of the Quenes Subiectes have happened by -ruines of Skaffoldes, fframes, and Stagies, and by engynes, weapons, -and powder used in plaies; And whear[as] in tyme of goddes visitacion -by the plaigue suche assemblies of the people in thronge and presse -have benne verye daungerous for spreadinge of Infection, and for the -same and other greate Cawses by the Aucthoritie of the honorable Lordes -maiors of this Cyttie and the aldermen their Brethern, and speciallye -uppon the severe and earneste Admonition of the Lordes of the moste -honorable Councell, with signifyenge of her maiesties expresse pleasure -and commaundemente in that behalfe, suche vse of playes, Interludes, -and shewes hathe benne duringe this tyme of syckenes forbydden and -restrayned; And for that the lorde Maior and his Bretheren the -aldermen, together with the grave and discrete Citizens in the Comen -Councell assemblyd, doo doughte and feare leaste vppon Goddes mercyfull -withdrawinge his hand of syckenes from vs (which god graunte!) the -people, speciallye the meaner and moste vnrewlye sorte, sheould with -sodayne forgettinge of his visytacion, withowte feare of goddes wrathe, -and withowte deowe respecte of this good and politique meanes that he -hathe ordeyned for the preservacion of Commen weales and peoples in -healthe and good order, retourne to the vndewe vse of suche enormyties -to the greate offence of god, the Quenes maiesties commaundementes and -good gouernaunce; Nowe therfore, to the intent that suche perilles -maie be avoyded and the lawefull honest and comelye vse of plaies -pastymes and recreacions in good sorte onelye permitted, And good -provision hadd for the saiftie and well orderynge of the people thear -assemblydd, Be yt enacted by the Aucthoritie of this Comen Councell, -That from henceforthe no playe, Commodye, Tragidye, enterlude, nor -publycke shewe shalbe openlye played or shewed within the liberties of -the Cittie, whearin shalbe vttered anie wourdes, examples, or doynges -of anie vnchastitie, sedicion, nor suche lyke vnfytt and vncomelye -matter, vppon paine of Imprisonment by the space of xiiijten daies -of all persons offendinge in anie suche open playinge or shewinges, -and v li. for euerie suche offence; And that no Inkeper Tavernekeper -nor other person whatsoeuer within the liberties of thys Cittie shall -openlye shewe or playe, nor cawse or suffer to be openlye shewed or -played, within the hous, yarde or anie other place within the Liberties -of this Cyttie anie playe, enterlude, Commodye, Tragidie, matter, or -shewe, which shall not be firste pervsed and Allowed in suche order -and fourme and by suche persons as by the Lorde Maior and Courte -of Aldermen for the tyme beinge shalbe appoynted, nor shall suffer -to be enterlaced, Added, mynglydd, or vttered in anie suche play, -enterlude, Comodye, Tragidie, or shewe anie other matter then suche as -shalbe firste perused and allowed as ys abovesaid; And that no person -shall suffer anie plays, enterludes, Comodyes, Tragidies, or shewes -to be played or shewed in his hous, yarde, or other place wheareof -he then shall have rule or power, but onelye suche persons and in -suche places as apon good and reasonable consideracions shewed shalbe -thearvnto permitted and allowed by the lord maiour and Aldermen for -the tyme beinge; Neither shall take or use anie benifitt or Advauntage -of suche permission or Allowaunces before or vntill suche person be -bound to the Chamberlaine of London for the tyme beinge with suche -suerties and in suche Summe and suche fourme for the keepinge of good -order and avoydinge of the discordes and Inconvenyences abovesaid, as -by the Lorde maior and Courte of Aldermen for the tyme beinge shall -seme convenyent; neither shall vse or execvte aine suche Lycence, or -permission, at or in anie tymes in which the same for anie reasonable -consideración of syckenes or otherwise shalbe by the Lorde Maior and -Aldermen by publique proclamacion or by precept to suche persons -restrayned or Commaunded to staye and cease, nor in anie usuall tyme of -dyvyne service in the sonndaie or hollydaie, nor receyve anie to that -purpose in tyme of service to se the same, apon payne to forfeite for -euerie offence v li.; And be yt enacted that euerie person so to be -lycensed or permitted shall duringe the tyme of suche Contynuaunce of -suche lycens or permission paye or Cawse to be paid to the vse of the -poor in hospitalles of the Cyttie or of the poore of the Cyttie visyted -with sycknes, by the dyscretion of the said lorde maiour and Aldermen, -suche somes and Paymentes and in suche forme as betwen the lord Maior -and Aldermen for the tyme beinge on thonne partie and suche person so -to be lycensed or permitted on th’other partie shalbe Agreed, apon -payne that in waunte of euerie suche paymente, or if suche person shall -not firste be bound with good suerties to the Chamberlayne of London -for the tyme beinge for the trewe payment of suche Sommes to the poore, -That then euerye suche lycence or permission shalbe vtterlye voide and -euerie doinge by force or Cullour of suche lycence or permission shalbe -adiudged an offence against this Acte in suche manner as if no suche -lycence or permission hadd benne hadd, nor made, anie suche lycence -or permission to the Contrarye Notwithstandinge; And be yt lykewise -Enacted that all Sommes and fforfeytures to be incurrydd for anie -offence Against this Acte and all forfeytures of Bondes to be taken by -force meane or occasyon of this Acte shalbe ymployed to the reliefe of -the poore in the hospitalles of this Cittie, or the poore infected or -diseased in this Cittie of London, as the lorde Maior and Courte of -Aldermen for the tyme beinge shall adiudge meete to be distributed; and -that the Chamberlayne of London shall have and recover the same to the -purpozies aforesaid by Bill, plainte, Accion of dett, or ynformacion to -be Comenced and pursewed in his owne name in the Courte of the vtter -Chamber of the Guildhall of London Called the Maioures Courte, in which -svte no Essoine nor Wager of Lawe for the defendaunte shalbe Admittyd -or allowed; Provydid allwaie that this Acte (otherwise then towchinge -the publishinge of vnchaste, sedycious, and vnmete matters:) shall not -extend to anie plaies, Enterludes, Comodies, Tragidies, or shewes to be -played or shewed in the pryvate hous, dwellinge, or lodginge of anie -nobleman, Citizen, or gentleman, which shall or will then have the same -thear so played or shewed in his presence for the festyvitie of anie -marriage, Assemblye of ffrendes, or otherlyke cawse withowte publique -or Commen Collection of money of the Auditorie or behoulders theareof, -reservinge alwaie to the Lorde Maior and Aldermen for the tyme beinge -the Iudgement and construction Accordinge to equitie what shalbe -Counted suche a playenge or shewing in a pryvate place, anie thinge in -this Acte to the Contrarie notwithstanding. - - - xxxiii. - - [1577, April 8. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to Lord - Burghley, printed _M. S. C._ i. 151, from _Lansdowne MS._ 25, f. - 38. The Lord Chamberlain was the Earl of Sussex. Nothing more is - known of the nature or issue of Sir Jerome Bowes’s suit. He was - a follower of Leicester in 1571 (Stowe, _Annales_, 669), but was - banished from court for slandering him between the date of this - letter and Aug. 8, 1577 (_S. P. D. Add. Eliz._ xxv. 30). In 1583 - he was sent as ambassador to Russia.] - -My good L. I am requyred to put you in remembrance, for that Sir -Ierome Boues semes that your L. hath partely forgotten that hit was -her maiesties pleashr, that your L. my Chamberleyn & I shuld conferr -& consider of the sute touching plays to be granted to him & certayn -others, &c., which hir maiesties pleashr I brought to your L. & my -Chamberleyn being together in the preuey Chamber at Hampton court. & I -remember at that time we talking of that we myslyked of the perpetuytie -that they sutors desiered. & this also my L. Chamberleyn him self doth -well remember. Thus much I thought good at his request to remember to -your L. that it ys very trew hir maiestie dyd referr the consyderacion -of the sute to vs & to make report thereof accordingly. So I wyll take -leue & wishe your L. perfect health, this viij of Aprill, - - your L. assured frend, - R. Leycester. - - - xxxiv. - - [1577 Aug. 1. Minute of Privy Council, printed (_bis_) from - Register in Dasent, ix. 388; x. 4.] - -A letter to the Lord Wentworth, Master of the Rolles, and Mr. -Lieutenant of the Tower signifieng unto them that for thavoiding of -the sicknes likelie to happen through the heate of the weather and -assemblies of the people of London to playes, her Highnes’ plesure is -that as the Lord Mayour hath taken order within the Citee, so they -immediatlie upon the receipt of their Lordships’ letters shall take -order with such as are and do use to play without the Liberties of the -Citee within that countie, as the theater and such like, shall forbeare -any more to play untill Mighelmas be past, at the least, as they will -aunswer to the contrarye. - - - xxxv. - - [1577, Oct. 5. Extract from letter (Oct. 6) of William - Fleetwood, Recorder of London, to Lord Treasurer Burghley, - printed in _M. S. C._ i. 152, from _Lansdowne MS._ 24, f. 196; - also in Wright, ii. 66.] - -Yesterday ... I was at London with the Master of the Rolls at my Lord -Maiors at dyner.... At my Lord Maiors there dyned the Master of the -Rolles, Justice Sowthcot, Sir William Damsell, Mr. Levetenant, Sir -Rowland Hayward, Mr. Justice Randoll, Alderman Pulliso and my self. At -after dyner we heard a brabell betwene John Wotton and the Levetenuntes -sonne of the one parte, and certen ffreholders of Shordyche, for a -matter at the Theater. I mistrust that Wotton wilbe found in the fault -although he complayned. - - - xxxvi. - - [1578, Jan. 13. Privy Council Minute, printed in Dasent, x. 144 - -To the Lord Maiour of London to geve order that one Drousiano -[‘Dronsiano’, Dasent], an Italian, a commediante and his companye, may -playe within the Cittie and the Liberties of the same betwene this and -the firste weeke in Lent. - - - xxxvii. - - [1578, July 18. Extract from letter (July 21) from William - Fleetwood, Recorder of London, to Lord Treasurer Burghley, - printed in _M. S. C._ i. 155, from _Lansdowne MS._ 26, f. 191; - also in Wright, ii. 86.] - -Vpon Fridaye laste my Lord of London, my Lord Wentworthe and Mr. -Lievetenunte (but the Master of the Rolles was absent) did assemble -at my Lord Maiours, in assistaunce for good order shewed furthe the -Lords lettres. Sir Thomas Gresham, the Deane of Westminster, Mr. -Iustice Southcote, Sir William Damsell and others were wont to be of -the nomber; but surelie I think they were forgotten at the writinge -of my Lords theire honorable lettres.... I shewed vnto my Lords our -Assistaunts those pointes that your honour in tyme paste gave vs for -good order; plaies, vnlawful games, ffensse skoles, vacaboundes and -suche like to be suppressed, with a vigilant eye to the plage, to the -watches, and to laye often privie searches. - - - xxxviii. - - [1578, Nov. 10. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, x. 381.] - -A letter to Mr. Doctor Fourthe, Robert Lewseye, Edward Bellingham and -Barnarde Randolphe, esquiers, to restraine certen players within the -Bouroghe of Southewarke and other places nere adjoyning within that -part of Surreye, who by means of the alluring of the people to their -plaies [plans, Dasent] doe augement the infection of the Plages in -London, and if they shall not obeye their order to see them severely -punished. - - - xxxix. - - [1578, Dec. 23. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, x. 435.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour and the Justices of Middlesex and Surrey -requiring them to suffer the exercise of playes within the Cittie -of London and without the Liberties, and to have regarde that suche -orders as are prescribed for the stayeng of thinfection maie be duelie -observed, so as ther growe no hurte unto the sounde in their publicque -assemblies. - - - xl. - - [1578, Dec. 24. Privy Council Minute, printed in Dasent, x. 436.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour, &c, requiring him to suffer the Children -of her Majesties Chappell, the servauntes of the Lord Chamberlaine, -therle of Warwicke, the Erle of Leicester, the Erle of Essex and the -Children of Powles, and no companies els, to exercise playeng within -the Cittie, whome their Lordships have onlie allowed thereunto by -reason that the companies aforenamed are appointed to playe this tyme -of Christmas before her Majestie. - - - xli. - - [1579, March 13. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xi. 73.] - -To the Lord Maiour of London to take order within the Cittie and in all -other places within his jurisdiccion that there be no plaiers suffered -to plaie during this tyme of Lent, untill it be after the Ester weke; -and also to advertise their Lordships whose plaiers they be, and in -what places they have plaied since the begynnyng of this Lent, and that -this order may be observed hereafter yerelie in the Lent tyme &c. - -To the Justices of Peace in Midlesex to forbidd all maner of plaiers -in the Suburbs of London and other places neare adjoyning to the same, -that they do not in any wise exercise the same during this tyme of -Lent, and that this order may be observed hereafter yerelie during the -tyme of Lent, &c. - - - xlii. - - [1580, Feb. 21. Indictment of Middlesex jury, printed by J. C. - Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County Records_, ii. xlvii.] - -Midd. ss. Juratores pro domina Regina presentant quod Johannes Braynes -de Shorditche in comitatu Middlesexie yoman et Jacobus Burbage de -eadem yoman xxi^{mo} die Februarii anno regni Elizabethe Dei gracia -Anglie Francie et Hibernie Regine fidei defensoris &c. xxii^{do} -et diuersis aliis diebus et vicibus antea et postea congregauerunt -et manutenuerunt illicitas assemblaciones populi ad audienda et -spectanda quedam colloquia siue interluda vocata playes or interludes -per ipsos Johannem Braynes et Jacobum Burbage et diuersas alias -personas ignotas exercitata et practicata apud quendam locum vocatum -the Theatre in Hallywell in comitatu predicto Racione cuius quidem -illicite assemblacionis populi magne affraie insultus tumultus et quasi -insurrexiones et diuersa alia malefacta et enormia per quamplures -maledispositas personas tunc et ibidem facta et perpetrata fuere in -magnam perturbacionem pacis Domine Regine ac subuersionem bonorum -ordinis et regiminis ac ad periculum vitarum diuersorum bonorum -subditorum dicte Domine Regine ibidem existencium ac contra pacem -ipsius Domine Regine necnon contra formam statuti inde editi et prouisi -&c. - - - xliii. - - [1580, April 12. Sir Nicholas Woodrofe, Lord Mayor, to Sir - Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor, printed in _M. S. C._ i. 46, - from _Remembrancia_, 9.] - -My dutie humblie done to your Lp. Where it happened on Sundaie last -that some great disorder was committed at the Theatre, I sent for the -vnder shireue of Middlesex to vnderstand the cercumstances, to the -intent that by my self or by him I might haue caused such redresse to -be had as in dutie and discretion I might, and therefore did also send -for the plaiers to haue apered afore me, and the rather because those -playes doe make assembles of Cittizens and their familes of whome I -haue charge. But forasmuchas I vnderstand that your Lp with other of -hir Maiesties most honorable Counsell haue entered into examination -of that matter, I haue surceassed to procede further, and do humbly -refer the whole to your wisdomes and graue considerations. Howbeit I -haue further thought it my dutie to informe your Lp, and therewith also -to beseche to haue in your honorable remembrance, that the players -of playes, which are vsed at the Theatre, and other such places, and -tumbleres and such like are a very superfluous sort of men, and of -suche facultie as the lawes haue disalowed, and their exersise of those -playes is a great hinderaunce of the seruice of God, who hath with his -mighty hand so lately admonished vs of oure earnest repentance. It -is also great corruption of youthe with vnchast and wicked matters, -occasion of muche incontinence, practises of many ffrayes, querrells, -and other disorders and inconueniences, bisid that the assemble of -terme and parliament being at hand, against which time the most -honorable Lordes haue given vs earnest charge to haue care to auoide -vncleanenesse and pestering of the Citty, the said playes are matter -of great daunger. Therefore I humble beseche your Lp, for those and -other graue considerations that your Lp can better call to mind, it -will please you that some order be taken by commaundement from your -Lp and the rest of the most honorable Lordes that the said playes and -toumbelers be wholy stayed and forbidden as vngodlye and perilous, as -well at those places nere our liberties as within the iurisdiction of -this Cittie. And so I leaue to troble your Lp. At London this 12 of -Aprill 1580. - - Your Lps humble, - N: W: M. - -To the right honorable my singuler good Lord the Lord Chaunceller of -England. - - - xliv. - - 1580, April-July. Minutes of Privy Council, printed from - Register in Dasent, xi. 445; xii. 37, 112.] - - - (_a_) [April 13] - -Robert Leveson and Larrance Dutton, servantes unto the Erle of Oxford, -were committed to the Mareshalsea for committing of disorders and -frayes appon the gentlemen of the Innes of the Courte. - - - (_b_) [May 26] - -A letter to the Lord Chiefe Justice, Master of the Rolles and Mr. -Justice Southcote, to examine a matter of a certaine fraye betwene the -servauntes of th’erle of Oxforde and the gentlemen of the Innes of the -Courtes. - - - (_c_) [July 18] - -A letter to the Master of the Rooles and the Recorder of London to take -bondes of Thomas Chesson (sometime servant to therle of Oxford) for his -good behavior for one yere next following, and to release him out of -the prison of the Gatehowse. - - - xlv. - - [1580, April 17. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xi. 449.] - -A letter to the Lord Wentworth and Lord Hunsdon and the rest of the -Justices of Pece in the county of Middlesex that wheras the Queen’s -Majesty had given straight charg unto the Lord Maiour to have a -speciall care to the keping cleene of the City, and to provide and -prevent all soch occasions and causes as might breed or encrease -any infection, forasmuche as the great resorte of people to playes -ys thought to be very dangerous &c, they are required to give order -that all playes may be restrained until Michelmas, and further to -have a good regard to the execution of the Statute against roges and -vagabondes. - - - xlvi. - - [1580, May 13. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register in - Dasent, xii. 15.] - -A letter to the Justices of Peace of the countie of Surrey that whereas -their Lordships do understand that notwithstandinge their late order -geven to the Lord Maiour to forbidd all playes within and about the -Cittie untill Michalmas next for avoydynge of infection, nevertheles -certen players do playe sunderie daies every weeke at Newington Buttes -on that parte of Surrey without the jurisdiccion of the said Lord -Maior contrary to their Lordships’ order; their Lordships requier -the Justices not only to enquier who they be that disobey their -comaundement in that behalf, and not only to forbidd them expresly -for playing in any of theis remote places nere unto the Cittie untill -Michaelmas, but to have regard that within the precincte of Surrey none -be permitted to play; if any do to comitt them and to advertise, &c. - - - xlvii. - - [1580, June 17. Sir Nicholas Woodrofe, Lord Mayor, to Lord - Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, printed _M. S. C._ i. 47, - from _Remembrancia_, i. 40–1.] - -It may please your good Lp. Byside the continuall charge of my Dutie, -hauing lately receued by your Lp. a speciall and ernest commaundement -from hir Maiestie for the best meanes to be vsed that I can for -preseruing the Citty from infection, I will not faile so to do my -dilligence both for the cleane keping of the streates, for avoiding -of Inmeates, and for keping of good orders as haue ben heretofore -prescribed or that I can any way deuise, as shall ly in my power to -the vttermost that I shalbe able. Howbeit, because perill may and doth -commonlie growe vnto hir Maiesties Cittie and people many wayes by such -meanes as we cannot reforme, I humble besech your Lp. that you wilbe -meane to hir Maiestie and give the ayde of the hye autoritie of your -Lp. and the rest of the most honorable Counsell for redresse of such -thinges as in that behalf we finde dangerous, whereof some thinges haue -doble perill, both naturarly in spreding the infection and otherwise in -drawing Godes wrath and plage vpon vs, as the erecting and frequenting -of howses verie infamous for incontinent rule out of our liberties -and iurisdiction, also the drawing of the people from the seruice of -God and from honest exersises to vnchast plaies. Some vther thinges -do carrie other inconveniences, as the pestering of the Cittie with -mvltitudes of people for whome we shall not be able to make prouision -of vitale, fewell, and other necessaries at any reasonable prises. I -haue therefore sett downe a note which I send to your Lp. hereinclosed -of such matters as I do lack power to redresse, but ame constrayned to -craue such further ayde and assistance, as shalbe by your Lp. thought -meete in those cases. And so I leaue to troble your Lp. At London this -xvijth of Iune 1580. - - Your Lps. humble to comaund, - N. W. M. - -To the right honorable my singuler good Lord the Lord Tresorer of -England. - -The ‘note’ enclosed includes: - -‘Item that haunting of playes out of the liberties be restrayned as -well as within the fredome.’ - - - xlviii. - - [1581, July 10. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor and the - Justices of Middlesex and the Liberties, printed _M. S. C._ - i. 49, from _Remembrancia_, i. 221. The minute of the - letter is in Dasent, xiii. 128.] - -After our right hartie commendacons. Whereas we haue ben credibly -informed that the plage and other contagious diseases are sumwhat -of late increased within the Citie of London and liberties thereto -adioyning: fforasmuch as it is to be feared that the said infections -will spred further, in case any great assemblies of people together, -especially in this somer season, be permitted, as by former experience -it hath appeared, We haue thought good to requier yowe and euery of -yowe vpon the receipte hereof to geue streight order that no playes -or enterludes be suffered to be played within the Citie or liberties -adioyning, but that fourthwith yow charge and comaunde them to forbere -and desist, vntill thende of September or that yowe shall receaue -further order from vs, whereof we pray yowe that there be no fault. And -so bid yow hartely farewell. From Grenewich the xth of Iuly 1581. - - Your louing frendes, - - Thomas Bromeley Cancellarius - Ambrose Warwicke - Robert Leycester - Henrie Sidney - Thomas Sussex - ffraunces Bedford - ffraunces Knowles - Christopher Hatton. - - - xlix. - - [1581, July 11. City order, printed in Harrison, iv. 320, - without reference, probably from _Repertory_, xx.] - -[Sidenote: Stafferton committed to the Compter.] - -Item, Parr Stafferton gentleman of Grayes Inne for that he that daye -brought a dysordered companye of gentlemen of the Innes of Courte & -others, to assalte Arthur Kynge, Thomas Goodale, and others, servauntes -to the Lord Barkley, & players of Enterludes within the Cyttye, was -by this Courte committed to the Compter in Wood streete, and the -said players lykewyse. And aswell the sayd players as the sayd Parre -Stafferton, weare by this Courte commanded to set downe in wrytinge the -maner how the same quarell began. - - - l. - - [1581, July. Henry Lord Berkeley to the Lord Mayor, printed - _M. S. C._ i. 51, from _Remembrancia_, i. 224; but it appears - from No. xlix that the date is rather earlier than was there - suggested.] - -My very good Lord, ther is lately fallen owt some broile betwixt -certaine of my men and some of the Innes of the Courte, sought onely -by them. The matter, as I ame aduertised, is better knowen to your Lp. -then to my self. Whereupon ther is some of my men comitted to warde. -If by their misdemeanour they shold deserue imprisonment, I ame most -willing they shold abide it: Otherwise behauing them selues honestly -in euery respecte, as I cannot learne the contrary, sauing that they -played on the sabothe daie contrary to your order & comaundment -vnknowen to them, in respecte of that I yelde them faultie and they -them selues craue pardon. So ame I now to desier your Lp. to sett them -at libertie, whoe are vpon going into the Countrie to auoide querrell -or other inconuenience that mought followe. And thereupon I geue my -word that at any time hereafter, if further question shall arise -hereby, they shalbe fourthcoming to answere it, and so I leaue your -good Lp. to the Almightie. From my lodgeing at Strand this presente -Tuesdaie. 1581. - - Your Lps assured - Henrie Berkeley. - -To the right honorable the Lord Maiour of the Citie of London. - - - li. - - [1581, July 13. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 320, from _Repertory_, xx. f. 192.] - -[Sidenote: Preceptes for playes & enterludes.] - -Item, yt ys orderyd that preceptes shalbe forthwith made and dyrected -vnto euery Alderman of thys Cyttye, that from henceforthe durynge the -pleasure of thys Courte, they suffer no playes, enterludes, tumblynges, -pryces, or other suche publyque shewes, to be had or made within theyr -sayde wardes, by any parson or parsons whatsoever, vntil further order -shalbe taken by this Courte. - - - lii. - - [1581, Nov. 14. Precept of Lord Mayor, printed in Harrison, iv. - 320, from London _Journal_, xxi, f. 151^v.] - - By the Mayor. - -[Sidenote: A preceptt agaynste foote-ball playe and stage playes.] - -Theis shalbe streightlye to charge and commaunde you, that ye -take present order.... And also that ye gyve streighte charge & -commaundement to all thinhabitauntes within the same warde, that -they doe not at anye tyme hereafter, suffer anye person or persons -whatsoeuer, to sett vpp or fixe anye papers or breifes vppon anye -postes, houses, or other places within your warde, for the shewe or -settynge out of anye playes, enterludes, or pryzes, within this Cyttye, -or the lybertyes and suburbes of the same, or to be played or shewed in -anye other place or places within two myles of this Cyttie, and that -if anye suche shalbe sett vp, the same presentlye to be pulled downe & -defaced. Fayle you not hereof, as you will, etc. Dated the xiiijth of -November, 1581. - - Sebryght [Town Clerk]. - - - liii. - - 1581, Nov. 18. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor, the - Recorder, and the Court of Aldermen, printed _M. S. C._ i. - 50, from _Remembrancia_, i. 295. The Acts of the Council - show no meeting on 18 Nov. 1581; cf. No. lv.] - -After our hartie commendations. Whereas for auoyding the increase of -infection within your citie this last somer yow receaued order from vs -for the restrainte of plaies vntill Mighelmas last. For that (thankes -be to god) the sicknesse is very well seised and not likely in this -time of the yeare to increase; Tendering the releife of theis poore -men the players and their redinesse with conuenient matters for her -highnes solace this next Christmas, which cannot be without their -vsuall exercise therein; We haue therefore thought good to requier yowe -forethwith to suffer them to vse such plaies in such sort and vsuall -places as hath ben heretofore accustomed, hauing carefull regard for -continuance of such quiet orders in the playeng places as tofore yowe -haue had. And thus we bidd yowe hartelie farewell from the Courte at -Whitehall this xviij^o of Nouember 1581. - - Your Louing frendes, - - Edward Lincoln - Robert Leycester - Christopher Hatton - Thomas Sussex - H. Hunsdon - Amb: Warwick - James Croft - -To our very Louing frendes the Lord Maiour, mr. Sariant Fletewood -Recorder, and the Aldermen of the Cittie of London. - - - liv. - - [1581, Nov. 25. Extract from letter of John Field to the Earl of - Leicester, printed from _Cotton MS. Titus_, B. vii, f. 22, - in Collier, i. 245.] - -The more Sathan rageth, the more valianter be you under the standert -of him who will not be foyled. And I humblie beseech your honor to -take heede howe you gyve your hande, either in evill causes, or in the -behalfe of evill men, _as of late you did for players to the great -greife of all the godly_; but as you have shewed your forwardnes -for the Ministery of the Gospel, so followe that course still. Our -Cyttie hath bene well eased of the pester of those wickednesses, and -abuses, that were wonte to be nourished by those impure _interludes -and playes_ that were in use--surely the schooles of as greate -wickednesses as can be. I truste your honor will herein joyne with them -that have longe, owt of the word, cryed out against them; and I am -persuaded that if your honor knewe what sincks of synne they are, you -woulde never looke once towards them. The lord Jesus blesse you. Nov. -25, 1581. - - Your good lordshippes most bounden - Jo Feilde. - - - lv. - - [1581, Dec. 3. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register in - Dasent, xiii. 269.] - -Whereas certayne companyes of players hertofore usinge their common -excersice of playing within and aboute the Cittie of London have -of late in respect of the generail infection within the Cittie ben -restrayned by their Lordships’ commaundement from playing, the said -players this daye exhibited a peticion unto their Lordships, humblie -desiring that as well in respecte of their pore estates, having noe -other meanes to sustayne them, their wyves and children but their -exercise of playing, and were only brought up from their youthe in the -practise and profession of musicke and playeng, as for that the sicknes -within the Cittie was well slaked, so as noe danger of infection could -followe by the assemblyes of people at their playes, yt would please -their Lordships therfore to grante them licence to use their sayd -exercise of playeng as heretofore they had don; their Lordships their -upon for the consyderations aforesaid as also for that they are to -present certayne playes before the Quenes Majestie for her solace in -the Christmas tyme nowe following, were contented to yeld unto their -said humble peticion, and ordered that the Lord Mayor of the Cittie of -London should suffer and permitt them to use and exercise their trade -of playing in and about the Cittie as they have hertofore accustomed -upon the weeke dayes only, being holy dayes or other dayes, so as -they doe forbeare wholye to playe on the Sabothe Daye, either in the -forenone or afternone, which to doe they are by this their Lordships’ -order expressely denyed and forbidden. - - - lvi. - - [1581, Dec. 24. Patent of Commission for Edmund Tilney as Master - of the Revels, printed by Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 51, from _Patent - Rolls_, 1606 (_Watson’s Rolls_), m. 34, No. 46; also by T. E. - Tomlins in _Sh. Soc. Papers_, iii (1847), 1; Collier, i. 247, - who supposed the document to refer to the formation of the - Queen’s men in 1583; and Halliwell-Phillipps, _Illustrations_, - 114; cf. ch. iii and _Tudor Revels_, 62, 72.] - -[Sidenote: De Commissione speciali pro Edmundo Tylney Armigero Magistro -Revellorum.] - -Elizabeth by the grace of God &c. To all manner our Iustices, Maiors, -Sheriffes, Bayliffes, Constables, and all other our officers, -ministers, true liege men, and subiectes, and to euery of them -greetinge. We lett you witt that we haue aucthorised licensed and -commaunded and by these presentes do aucthorise licence and commaunde -our welbeloved Edmunde Tylney Esquire Maister of our Revells, aswell -to take and retaine for vs and in our name at all tymes from hensforth -and in all places within this our Realme of England, aswell within -ffrancheses and liberties as without, at competent wages aswell -all suche and as many painters, imbroderers, taylors, cappers, -haberdashers, joyners, carders, glasiers, armorers, basketmakers, -skinners, sadlers, waggen makers, plaisterers, fethermakers, as all -other propertie makers and conninge artificers and laborers whatsoever -as our said Servant or his assigne bearers hereof shall thinke -necessarie and requisite for the speedie workinge and fynisheinge of -any exploite workmanshippe or peece of seruice that shall at any tyme -hereafter belong to our saide office of the Revells, As also to take -at price reasonable in all places within our said Realme of England -aswell within ffrancheses and liberties as without any kinde or kindes -of stuffe, ware or marchandise, woode or coale or other fewell, tymber, -wainscott, boarde, lathe, nailes, brick, tile, leade, iron, wier, and -all other necessaries for our said workes of the said office of our -Revells as he the said Edmunde or his assigne shall thinke behoofefull -and expedient from tyme to tyme for our said seruice in the said -office of the Revells together with all carriages for the same both -by land and by water as the case shall require. And furthermore we -haue by these presentes aucthorised and commaunded the said Edmunde -Tylney that in case any person or persons, whatsoever they be, will -obstinatelie disobey and refuse from hensforth to accomplishe and -obey our commaundement and pleasure in that behalfe, or withdrawe -themselues from any of our said workes vpon warninge to them or any of -them given by the saide Edmunde Tylney, or by his sufficient deputie -in that behalfe to be named, appointed for their diligent attendance -and workmanship vpon the said workes or devises as to their naturall -dutie and alleigeance apperteineth, that then it shalbe lawfull vnto -the same Edmund Tilney or his deputie for the tyme beinge to attache -the partie or parties so offendinge and him or them to commytt to -warde, there to remaine without baile or mainprise vntill suche tyme -as the saide Edmunde or his deputie shall thinke the tyme of his or -their imprisonment to be punnishment sufficient for his or their saide -offences in that behalfe, and that done to enlarge him or them so -beinge imprisoned at their full libertie without any losse, penaltie, -forfaiture or other damage in that behalfe to be susteined or borne by -the said Edmunde Tilney or his saide deputie. And also if any person -or persons beinge taken into our said workes of the said office of -our Revells beinge arrested comminge or goinge to or from our saide -workes of our said office of our Revells at the sute of any person or -persons, then the said Edmunde Tilney by vertue and aucthoritie hereof -to enlarge him or them as by our speciall proteccion during the tyme of -our said workes. And also if any person or persons beinge reteyned in -our said workes of our said office of Revells haue taken any manner of -taske worke, beinge bound to finishe the same by a certen day, shall -not runne into any manner of forfeiture or penaltie for breakinge of -his day, so that he or they ymediatly after the fynishinge of our said -workes indevor him or themselues to fynishe the saide taske worke. And -furthermore also we haue and doe by these presentes aucthorise and -commaunde our said Servant Edmunde Tilney Maister of our said Revells -by himselfe or his sufficient deputie or deputies to warne commaunde -and appointe in all places within this our Realme of England, aswell -within francheses and liberties as without, all and euery plaier or -plaiers with their playmakers, either belonginge to any noble man -or otherwise, bearinge the name or names of vsinge the facultie of -playmakers or plaiers of Comedies, Tragedies, Enterludes or what other -showes soever, from tyme to tyme and at all tymes to appeare before -him with all suche plaies, Tragedies, Comedies or showes as they shall -haue in readines or meane to sett forth, and them to presente and -recite before our said Servant or his sufficient deputie, whom wee -ordeyne appointe and aucthorise by these presentes of all suche showes, -plaies, plaiers and playmakers, together with their playing places, to -order and reforme, auctorise and put downe, as shalbe thought meete or -vnmeete vnto himselfe or his said deputie in that behalfe. And also -likewise we haue by these presentes aucthorised and commaunded the said -Edmunde Tylney that in case if any of them, whatsoever they bee, will -obstinatelie refuse, vpon warninge vnto them given by the said Edmunde -or his sufficient deputie, to accomplishe and obey our commaundement -in this behalfe, then it shalbe lawful to the said Edmunde or his -sufficient deputie to attache the partie or parties so offendinge, and -him or them to commytt to warde, to remaine without bayle or mayneprise -vntill suche tyme as the same Edmunde Tylney or his sufficient deputie -shall thinke the tyme of his or theire ymprisonment to be punishement -sufficient for his or their said offences in that behalfe, and that -done to inlarge him or them so beinge imprisoned at their plaine -libertie, without any losse, penaltie, forfeiture or other daunger in -this behalfe to be susteyned or borne by the said Edmunde Tylney or his -deputie, Any Acte Statute Ordynance or prouision heretofore had or made -to the contrarie hereof in any wise notwithstandinge. Wherefore we will -and commaunde you and euery of you that vnto the said Edmunde Tylney or -his sufficient deputie bearer hereof in the due execution of this our -aucthoritie and commaundement ye be aydinge, supportinge and assistinge -from tyme to tyme as the case shall require, as you and euery of you -tender our pleasure and will answer to the contrarie at your vttermost -perills. In witnesse whereof &c, witnes our selfe at Westminster the -xxiiijth day of December in the xxiiijth yere of our raigne. - - per breve de priuato sigillo. - - - lvii. - - [1582, April 3. Precept by Lord Mayor, printed in Nicholl, - _Ironmongers_, 128.] - - By the Maior. - -These shalbe straightlie to charge and command you, that forthwithe -uppon the receit hereof you call before you all the freemen of your -said companie, and give to everie one of them straightlie charge and -commandement that they or anie of them do at annye time hereafter -suffer any of ther sarvants, apprentices, journemen, or children, to -repare or goe to annye playes, peices, or enterludes, either within -the cittie or suburbs thereof, or to annye place witheout the same, -uppon payne of everie servant so offendinge, or master so sufferinge, -to be punyshed at the dyscretion of me and my brethren. Fayle you not -hereof, as you will answer the contrarie at your perill. Geven at the -Guildhall, the iij daie of April, 1582. - - Sebright [Town Clerk]. - - - lviii. - - [1582, April 11. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor, printed - _M. S. C._ i. 52, from _Remembrancia_, i. 317. The minute of the - letter, undated and bound up before a minute of April 13 as f. - 691 of the manuscript Register among minutes of May 1582, is in - Dasent, xiii, 404.] - -After our hartie comendacons. Whereas heretofore for sundry good -causes and consideracons, as yow know, we haue oftentimes geuen order -for the restraint of plaies, in and about the Citie of London: and -neuerthelesse of late for honest recreation sake, in respecte that her -maiestie sometimes taketh delight in those pastimes, we thought it not -vnfitt, hauing regard vnto the season of the yere and the Clerenes of -the Citie from infection, to allowe of certaine companies of plaiers to -exercise their playeng in London, partly to the ende they might thereby -attaine to the more dexteritie and perfection in that profession, -the better to content her maiestie, whereupon we permitted the said -players to vse their playeng vntill we shold se cause to the contrary, -and foreseing that the same might be done without impeachment of the -seruice of God whereof we haue a speciall care, we restrained them from -playeng on the sabothe daye: and forasmucheas we suppose that their -honest exercise of recreation in playeng, to be vsed on the ordinarie -S. Hollydaies after euening prayer, as long as the season of the yere -may permitt and may be without daunger of the infection, will not be -offensiue, so that if care be had that their comodies and enterludes -be looked into, and that those which do containe mater that may bread -corruption of maners and conuersacion among the people (which we -desire in any case to haue auoided) be forbidden, whereunto we wishe -yow did appointe some fitt persones whoe maie consider and allowe of -suche playes onely as be fitt to yeld honest recreacion and no example -of euell: We haue therefore thought good to pray your Lp. to reuoke -your late inhibition against their playeng on the said hollydaies -after euening prayer, onely forbearing the Sabothe daie whollie -according to our former order. And when yow shall finde that the -continuance of the same their excercise by the increase of the sicknes -and infection shalbe dangerous, we praye your Lp. therin to geue vs -knowlege & thereupon we will presentely take order for their restrainte -accordinglie: Soe fare yowe hartelie well from the Court at Grenewich -the xjth of Aprill 1582. - - Your louing frendes, - - E: Lyncoln: T: Sussex: A: Warwyk: R: Leycester. - H: Hunsdon. I: Crofte. - -To our very Louing frende the Lord maior of the Citie of London. - - - lix. - - [1582, April 13. The Lord Mayor to the Privy Council, printed - _M. S. C._ i. 54, from _Remembrancia_, i. 319.] - -My dutie humblie done to your LLps. I haue receaued significacon of -your LLps. pleasure by your letters for enlarging the restrainte of -players on holydaies in the afternone, being not the sabbat daye, -so as the same may be done after seruice and without disturbance of -comon prayer and seruice of God, which as the experience is among vs -peraduenture not made knowen to your LLps. can very hardly be done. -For thoughe they beginne not their playes till after euening prayer, -yet all the time of the afternone before they take in hearers and fill -the place with such as be therby absent from seruing God at Chirch, -and attending to serue Gods enemie in an Inne; If for remedie hereof I -shold also restraine the letting in of the people till after seruice -in the chirche, it wold driue the action of their plaies into very -inconuenient time of night, specially for seruantes and children to -be absent from their parentes and masters attendance and presence: -Howbet the case is of more inconuenience (as I take it) for that the -plag increaseth, and the season extraordinarilie whote and perelous -for this time of yere, and in the opinion of me and my bretheren, -both more mete for the safetie of the Quenes subiectes, and more easy -to be stayed by good and lawfull policie in the beginning then when -it is growen to further spreding of infection, byside that the tearme -being at hand, and the parlament by prorogacon not long after, I haue -thought it dutie to obey your LLps. comaundement in signifieng that -euen now the renewing and continuance of their exersise by the increase -of siknes and infection is daungerous, prayeng your LLps. to take order -for continuing the restrainte accordinglie. As touching the orders -prescribed in your LLps. lettres for the maters and maner of their -playes at such time as yow may hereafter enlarge them, I will according -to your said direction take furder order at all times to restraine -them, till their maters be perused by graue and discrete persones such -as I shall require to take that peine, and till they well asure me to -obey the cautions appointed in your said letters. And so I leaue to -troble your LLps. At London this xiijth of Aprill 1582. - - Your LLps. humble. - -To the right honorable the Lords and other of the Quenes Maiesties most -honorable Counsell. - - - lx. - - [1582, July 1. Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, to the Lord Mayor and - Aldermen, printed _M. S. C._ i. 55, from _Remembrancia_, i. 359.] - -My Lord maiour, I ame to request yow and the rest whome it doth -apperteine that they wold geue licence to my seruant John Dauid this -bearer to playe his prouest prices in his science and profession of -defence at the Bull in Bishopsgatestrete or some other conuenient place -to be assigned within the liberties of London, and I will hartely -thanke your Lp. and the rest for the fauor yow shal shew him in this -behalf: So with my very hartie commendacions I wish yowe all well to -fare. From the Court this first of Iuly 1582. - - Your Lps. very louing frend, - Amb: Warwik. - -To my verie honorable good frend the L. Maiour and the rest of the -aldermen or shirefes. - - - lxi. - - [1582, July 23. Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, to the Lord Mayor, - printed _M. S. C_. i. 56, from _Remembrancia_, i. 383.] - -My Lord Maiour, I cannot thinke my self frendely delt with to haue my -seruante put to such publike disgrace: Yf yow had not first allowed -bothe others and him to take a like course of playeng prises, I had -not moued your Lp. by my former lettres nor my man shold not haue -requested extraordinary fauour aboue otheres, but to repulse him and to -forbid the place appointed, after allowance & publicacon of his Bills -(wherein my name was also vsed) and my seruante hereby greatly charged, -wanteth some part of that good and frendely consideracion, which in -curtesie and common humanitie I might looke for. The Circumstances and -manner of dealing geueth me cause to iudge my self hardly befrended -and regarded, that a light suggestion of a Companie of lewde verlettes -could so sodainely and easely carry yow awaye from a good frende to -my mans great losse and discredit, and in some sort to myne owne -impeachement. Yf yow be resolued that it standeth most behouefull for -the good gouerment of the Citie to haue those exercises vtterly put -downe and none allowed hereafter to deale in these kinde of prises, my -man shall rest him self without further sute, (albeit the first and -last to whome disgrace hath ben offered in this sorte:) But if others -be suffered to proceade as heretofore, and they not restrained, aswell -as my man, I must nedes iuge it no frendely nor indifferent maner of -dealing. I pray therefore, vnlesse there be cause to the contrary and -greater mater of exception, than lewde suggestions of badd persones; -(because my man refused to yealde to their disorder, and abvse of -exaction) giue my man such ordinarie and indifferent fauor, that he may -forthwith haue his daie and place as others of his profession. Or ells -I shall haue more iust cause of vnkindnesse offered me. From the Court -this xxiijth of Iuly 1582. - - Your Lps. very louing frende, - Ambrose: Warwike. - -To my very louing frende the Lord Maiour of London: ffrom the Courte. - - - lxii. - - [1582, July 24. The Lord Mayor to Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, - printed _M. S. C._ i. 57, from _Remembrancia_, i. 384.] - -My dutie humblie done to your Lp. I ame sorry that your Lp. taketh -my dealinges toward your seruant in such part, as I perceaue by your -letters yow are informed. Albeit the lawe in case of fensers haue some -hard exposition in some mens iugement, yet the truthe is that I did -not expulse your seruant from playeng his prise, but for your sake I -did geue him licence. Onely I did restraine him from playeng in an -Inne which was somewhat to close for infection, and appointed him to -playe in an open place of the leaden hall more fre from danger and -more for his Comoditie, which licence I gaue him in open Courte, and -he might well haue vsed it before increace of peril by heate of the -yere. But about xiiijtene daies afterward, when I thought he had taken -the benefitt and effecte of my graunte, the infection growing, whereof -your Lp. knoweth what earnest care I ought to haue, and how seriously -bothe her maiestie and your Lp. with the rest of the most honorable -haue often charged me, and for some other reasonable respectes touching -my dutie, I was indede inforced to restraine him from gathering publik -assemblie of people to his play within the Citie, and neuerthelesse -did allowe him in the open feildes where the peril might not be so -great: But verely my good Lord, whoesoeuer hath Informed yow that I -haue forbidden your man and licenced other to your seruantes disgrace -he doth me great wrong, for I neither haue nor intende so to doe. For -bothe your Lp. and my Lord of Leycester your brother haue euer ben my -honorable good Lordes, and so I haue and doe esteeme yow, and wold -doe asmuche to gratefie yow or any of yours as any that hath ben in -my place; and so I beseche yow to accoumpte of me. I haue herein yet -further done for your seruante what I may, that is that if he obteine -lawefully to playe at the Theater or other open place out of the Citie, -he hath and shall haue my permition with his companie, drumes, and -shewe to passe openly throughe the Citie, being not vpon the Sondaye, -which is asmuche as I maye iustefie in this season, and for that cause -I haue with his owne consent apointed him Monday next. And so I humblie -comitt your Lp. to the tuition of the Almightie. At London the xxiiijth -of Iuly 1582. - - Your Lps. humble. - -To the right honorable my singular good L. my Lorde the Erle of -Warwicke. - - - lxiii. - - [1582 (?). Extract from _Orders Appointed to be Executed in the - Cittie of London for Setting Rogues and Idle Persons to Worke, - and for Releefe of the Poore_, printed by Hugh Singleton (N.D.). - The B.M. copy (796 E. 37) is catalogued, with the date 1587, as - an Act of the Court of Aldermen. C. Welch, _The City Printers_ - (_Bibl. Soc. Trans._ xiv. 191), also gives the date as 1587, - and says that Singleton became City Printer on 4 Aug. 1584. - Whatever the date of the print, it seems clear from No. lxxv (2) - (_a_) that the order itself, or at any rate Art. 62 of it, is - later than the crying of the preachers against plays and earlier - than the Paris Garden accident of 13 Jan. 1583. The autumn of - 1582 seems to me the most likely date. Possibly Art. 62 was - alone new. Aydelotte, 70, says that the Orders which were to - enforce 18 Eliz. c. 3 were originally printed in 1579 or 1580, - and refers to _Journal_, xx, pt. ii, f. 325. Art. 61, and also - Art. 25, which directs an inquest for ‘suspect persons which ... - spend their times at bowling allies, playes, and other places - unthriftily’, may belong to the earlier version.] - -Art. 61. For helpe of the hospitals & Parishes in this charge all -churchwardens & collectors for the poore be strayghtly charged to -execute the lawe against such as come not to church, against al persons -without exception, and specially against such as while they ought to -be at diuine seruice, doo spend their time and their money lewdly in -haunting of plaies, and other idle and wycked pastimes and exercises. - -Art. 62. For as much as the playing of Enterludes, & the resort to -the same are very daungerous for the infection of the plague, whereby -infinite burdens and losses to the Citty may increase, and are very -hurtfull in corruption of youth with incontinence & lewdnes, and also -great wasting both of the time and thrift of many poore people and -great prouoking of the wrath of God the ground of all plagues, great -withdrawing of the people from publique prayer & from the seruice of -God: and daily cryed out against by the graue and earnest admonitions -of the preachers of the word of God: Therefore be it ordered that all -such Enterludes in publique places, and the resort to the same shall -wholy be prohibited as ungodly, and humble sute be made to the Lords -that lyke prohibition be in places neere unto the Cittie. - - - lxiv. - - [1583, Jan. 14. Extract from letter of Lord Mayor to Lord - Burghley, printed _M. S. C._ i. 158, from _Lansd. MS._ 37, f. 8, - and _M. S. C._ i. 58, from letter-book copy misdated Jan. 18 in - _Remembrancia_, i. 456; also in Wright, ii. 184, and quoted by - Collier, i. 243, with inaccurate reference to _Lansd. MS._ 73.] - -It maye please your Lp. to be further advertised (which I thinke you -haue alredie hard) of a greate mysshappe at Parise gardeine, where by -ruyn of all the scaffoldes at once yesterdaie a greate nombre of people -are some presentlie slayne, and some maymed and greavouslie hurte. -It giveth greate occasion to acknowledge the hande of god for suche -abuse of the sabboth daie, and moveth me in Consciens to beseche your -Lp. to give order for redresse of suche contempt of gods service. I -haue to that ende treated with some Iustices of peace of that Countie, -who signifie them selfes to haue verye good zeale, but alledge want -of Comyssion, which we humblie referre to the Consideracion of your -honorable wisedome. And so I leve to trowble your Lp. At London the -xiiijth of Ianuarye 1582. - - Your Lps. humble, - Thomas Blank Maior. - -To the right honorable my singler good lorde my lorde highe Tresurer of -Englande. - - - lxv. - - [1583, Jan. 15. Extract from letter of Lord Burghley to Lord - Mayor, printed _M. S. C._ i. 60, from _Remembrancia_, i. 458.] - -I am also hartely sorry for the mischance, whereof I haue vnderstanding -bothe by your Lps. lettres and otherwise at my being now at -Westminster, mishappened at Parrise Garden on Sonday last, and -althoughe I thinke your learning derely bought by the losse of so many -bodies, to haue the Saboth daie so prophaned to see wilde beastes -bayted, yet I think it very conuenient to haue both that and other like -prophane assemblies prohibited on the Saboth daie, and if it shalbe -requisite to haue such like worldly pastimes, I think some other daie -within the weke meeter for those purposes, and to that ende I minde -to treate with my LLs. of the Counsell, that some good order may be -taken for that purpose; wishing neuerthelesse that your Lp. in the -meane time, hauing rule of the whole Citie, might thinke it conuenient -to make a generall prohibition within euerie warde of that Citie and -liberties, that no person vnder your comaundement shold on the Saboth -daie resort to any such prophane assemblies or pastimes, which I leaue -to your Lps. discretion to be considered by the aduise of the Aldermen -your bretheren. From Richmond the xvth of Ianuary 1582. - - Your Lps. assured louing frend, - William: Burghley. - -To my very good Lord the Lord maiour of the Citie of London. - - - lxvi. - - [1583, Jan. 14–Feb. 6. Notes of credentials of Worcester’s men, - shown at Leicester in March 1584; for text of entries in _Hall - Papers_, cf. ch. xiii, s.v. Worcester’s.] - - - (_a_) [Jan. 14] - -Abstract of warrant of licence and recommendation from William Earl of -Worcester. - - - (_b_) [Feb. 6] - -Abstract of article in indenture of licence from Edmund Tilney, Master -of the Revels. - - - lxvii. - - [1583, April 19. Proclamation against Retainers (_Procl._ 768).] - -This is substantially similar to _Procl._ 663 of 3 Jan. 1572 (v. No. -xix). - - - lxviii. - - [1583, April 27. The Lord Mayor to Mr. Young, a Justice - of Middlesex, printed _M. S. C._ i. 62, from - _Remembrancia_, i. 498. The letter referred to in the first - sentence was one from the Privy Council on April 21, intimating - the Queen’s surprise that no plague hospital had been built - outside the City (_Remembrancia_, i. 497; _Index_, - 336). ‘Ill May daie’ was that of 1517, on which a riot took - place against the aliens resident in London.] - -Mr. Yong. I and my brethren haue lately receiued lettres from the -LLs. of the most honorable counsell for auoiding of all perills of -infection, in which lettres we haue also a most ernest significaton -of maiesties pleasure to that end with verie greuous charging vs with -negligence and defalt. Ther ar certain fencers that haue set vp billes -and meane to play a prise at the Theatre on Tuesday next, which is -May eue. How manie waies the same maie be inconuenient and dangerous, -specially in that they desire to passe with pomp through the citie, -yowe can consider, namelie the statute against men of that facultie, -the perill of infection, the danger of disorders at such assemblies, -the memorie of ill May daie begon vpon a lesse occasion of like sort, -the weakenesse of the place for ruine, wherof we had a late lamentable -example at Paris garden. For these causes, in good discretion we haue -not only not geuen them licence, but also declared to them the dangers, -willing them at their perill to forbeare their passing both thorough -the citie, and their whole plaieng of such prise. Now bicause yowe know -how much this mater importeth the whole citie, and how from time to -time the LLs. of the counsell haue willed the iustices of the cowntie -geue assistance for auoideng of such perills, we pray yowe hartely, -in confidence of your good diligence in her maiesties seruice and the -safetye of this citie, that yowe will both looke vnto it your self, and -so deale with the rest of the iustices, that no such prise be suffred, -or assemblie had, specially in this time of infection and those daies -of speciall danger, considering also the like danger in plaies at -that place. And so praieng yowe to remember that, if we be blamed for -suffering, we must say that we admonished yowe of it in time, I bid -yowe hartelie ffarewell. At the Guildhall this xxvijth of Aprill 1583. - - Your louing freind. - - - lxix. - - [1583, May 3. The Lord Mayor to Sir Francis Walsingham, - Secretary, printed _M. S. C._ i. 63, from _Remembrancia_, i. - 538.] - -It may please your honor. According to oure dutie, I and my bretheren -haue had care for staye of infection of the plage and published -orders in that behalfe, which we intend god willing to execute -with dilligence. Among other we finde one very great and dangerous -inconuenience, the assemblie of people to playes, beare bayting, -fencers, and prophane spectacles at the Theatre and Curtaine and other -like places, to which doe resorte great multitudes of the basist sort -of people; and many enfected with sores runing on them, being out of -our iurisdiction, and some whome we cannot discerne by any dilligence; -and which be otherwise perilous for contagion, biside the withdrawing -from Gods service, the peril of ruines of so weake byldinges, and -the auancement of incontinencie and most vngodly confederacies, the -terrible occasion of gods wrathe and heauye striking with plages. It -auaileth not to restraine them in London, vnlesse the like orderes -be in those places adioyning to the liberties, for amendment whereof -I beseche your honor to be meane to the most honorable Counsel, and -the rather I ame to make that humble sute, for that I wold be lothe -to susteine hir maiesties heauie displeasure, when such forren and -extraordinarie occasions shalbe aboue all our habilities by any -dilligence or foresight to redresse it. And so I leaue to troble your -honor. At London this 3 of May 1583. - - Your honours to comaund. - -To the right honorable Sir Frances Walsingham knight, principal -Secretarle to the Quenes most excellent Maiestie. - - - lxx. - - [1583, July 3. The Lord Mayor to the Privy Council, printed _M. - S. C._ i. 64, from _Remembrancia_, i. 520. In reply to a letter - of June 30, calling attention to the neglect of the statutes and - orders for the maintenance of archery (_Remembrancia_, i. 519; - _Index_, 16).] - -My dutie humbly done to your LLps. I and my brethren haue receiued -your honourable letters, for execution of the lawes for maintenance of -archerie and restraineng of vnlawfull games. We must acknowledge your -honourable and godly consideracion and for our partes do accordingly -intend to call the wardens of those pore companies, at whose suite -your lettres were obteined, and both to vse their aduise and diligence -and to adde our owne good meanes and indeuours that your LLps. good -meaninges maie take effect, and the lawes be executed with such good -circumspection and reasonable orders, as haue ben founde requisite for -the good gouernance of the youth in this citie. Vpon the occasion of -your LLps. said lettres reciting the vse of vnlawfull games to be to -the hinderance of the vse of archerie and of the maintenance of those -honest artificors, We ar humbly to pray [your] LLps. to haue in your -honorable remembrance how much not only the said vse of archerie and -maintenance of good artes ar decaied by the assemblers to vnlawfull -spectacles, as barebaiting, vnchast enterludes and other like, but -also infection therby increased, affraies, actes and bargaines of -incontinencie and thefte, stolen contractes and spoiling of honest -mens children, the withdrawing of people from seruice of God, and the -drawing of godes wrath and plages vpon vs, whereof god hath in his -iudgement shewed a late terrible example at Paris garden, in which -place in great contempt of god the scaffoldes ar new builded, and -the multitudes on the Saboath daie called together in most excessiue -number. These thinges ar obiected to vs, both in open sermons at -Poules crosse and elsewhere in the hearing of such as repaire from -all partes of to our shame and greif, when we cannot remedie it. The -reproch also to vs as the sufferers and mainteiners of such disorders -is published to the whole world in bokes. We herewith moued, as -becomieth vs in conscience and in regard of our honestie and credites -not to be accompted senselesse of the feare of God and of our duties -to her maiestie and the preseruacion of her subiectes in our charge, -haue endeuoured, and your good fauours concurring will more endeuour, -our selues for redresse of such enormities within our iurisdiction, -specially on the Sabbat and daies appointed for comon praier. Which our -trauailes shall yet be vaine and to no effect without your honourable -help and assistance. It may therfore please your good Lps. both to -geue your allowance of our proceding in such reformacion within our -liberties, and to send your Lps. lettres of request and comandement to -the Iustices of the cownties and gouernours of precinctes adioining to -this citie to execute like orders as we shall do for the honour of god -and seruice of her maiestie. And so beseching your Lps. that I may haue -your resolucion herein I leaue to troble your honours. At London this -iijd of Iulie 1583. - - Your LLps. humble. - -To the right honourable the Lordes and other of the Quenes maiesties -most honorable Counsell. - - - lxxi. - - [1583, Nov. 26. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor, printed - _M. S. C._ i. 66, from _Remembrancia_, i. 554.] - -After our hartie comendacons to your good Lp. Forasmuch as (God -be thanked) there is no suche infection within that citie at this -presente, but that hir maiesties playeres may be suffered to playe -within the liberties as heretofore they haue done, especially seeing -they are shortly to present some of their doeinges before hir maiestie, -we haue thought good at this present to pray your Lp. to geue order, -that the said players may be licenced so to doe within the Citie and -liberties betwene this and shroftyde next; so as the same be not done -vpon sondaies, but vpon some other weke daies, at conuenient times. -And so prayeng yowe that thereof there be no defaulte, We bid yowe -right hartely farewell. From St Iames the xxvjth of Nouember 1583. - - Your very louing frendes, - - Tho: Bromeley: cancellarius: - Fra: Bedford: - Chr. Hatton: - He: Hunsdon - William Burghley - Fra: Knollys: - Fra: Walsingham: - -To our verie louing frende the L. Maiour of the Citie of London. - - - lxxii. - - [1583, Nov. 28. Abstract of City licence, given by C. W. Wallace - in _Nebraska University Studies_, xiii. 11.] - -I shall later publish in extenso a licence granted by the City to the -Queen’s men, dated 28 Nov. 1583, wherein we learn for the first time -that the twelve chosen actors were ‘Robert Wilson, John Dutton, Rychard -Tarleton, John Laneham, John Bentley, Thobye Mylles, John Towne, John -Synger, Leonell Cooke, John Garland, John Adams, and Wyllyam Johnson’, -and that their playing places were to be ‘at the sygnes of the Bull in -Bushoppesgate streete, and the sygne of the Bell in Gratioustreete and -nowheare els within this Cyttye’ for the time being. - - - lxxiii. - - [1583, Dec. 1. Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary, to the Lord - Mayor, printed _M. S. C._ i. 67, from _Remembrancia_, - i. 553.] - -My very good L. Vnderstanding that vpon the receipte of my Ls. letters -written lately vnto yow in the behalf of hir maiesties players, your -Lp. interpreteth the licence geuen them therin to extend onely to holy -daies and not to other weke daies, I haue therefore thought good, being -partlie priuie to their LLps. meaning signified in their letters, -to explane more plainely their pleasures herein to your Lp., whoe, -considering in their graue wisdomes that without frequent exercise of -such plaies as are to be presented before hir maiestie, her seruantes -cannot conueniently satisfie hir recreation and their owne duties, -were therefore pleased to directe their letters vnto yowe, that vpon -the weke daies and worke daies at conuenient times your Lp. wold geue -order that they might be licenced betwene this and Shrouetide to -exercise their playes and enterludes (sondaies onely excepted and such -other daies wherein sermons and lectures are comonly vsed). I pray -your Lp. therefore that from hence fourthe yow will suffer them to -haue the benefite of this libertie accordinglie, as without the which -they shall not be able to doe that which is expected at their handes -for hir maiesties seruice and contentacion, whereunto I know your Lp. -will rather yelde your best ayde and furtherance, than any the least -impediment or interruption, which I wishe may be effectually manifested -by your especiall licence to be graunted to this ende to those hir -maiesties seruantes with all fauorable regard and expedition. And so I -comitt your Lp. to the grace of God. From the Courte at St. Iames the -first of December 1583. - - Your Lps. very assured louing frende, - Fra: Walsingham. - -To my very good Lord the Lord maiour of the Citie of London. - - - lxxiv. - - [1584, June 18. Extracts from letter of William Fleetwood to - Lord Burghley, printed _M. S. C._ i. 163, from _Lansd. - MS._ 41, f. 31; also in Wright, ii. 226.] - -Right honorable and my very good Lo. Vpon Whit Sondaye there was a very -good Sermond preached at the New churche yard nere bethelem, wherat my -Lo. Maiour was with his bretherne, and by reason no playes were the -same daye all the citie was quiet.... - -Vpon Mondaye night I retorned to London and found all the wardes full -of watchers. The cause thereof was for that very nere the Theatre or -Curten at the tyme of the Playes there laye a prentice sleping vpon -the Grasse, and one Challes _al._ Grostock dyd turne vpon the Too -vpon the belly of the same prentice, whervpon the apprentice start vp -and after wordes they fell to playne bloues; the companie encressed of -bothe sides to the nosmber of v^c at the least. This Challes exclaimed -and said that he was a gentelman and that the apprentise was but a -Rascall; and some there were litell better then rooges that tooke vpon -theym the name of gentilmen and said the prentizes were but the skomme -of the worlde. Vpon these trobles the prentizes began the next daye, -being Twesdaye, to make mutines and assembles, and dyd conspire to have -broken the presones & to have taken furthe the prentizes that were -imprisoned; but my Lo. and I having intelligens thereof apprensed .iiij. -or.v. of the chieff conspirators, who are in Newgate and stand Indicted -of theire lewd demeanors. - -Vpon Weddensdaye one Browne, a serving man in a blew coat, a shifting -fellowe having a perrelous witt of his owne, entending a spoile if -he cold have browght it to passe, did at Theatre doore querell with -certen poore boyes, handicraft prentises, and strook some of theym, and -lastlie he with his sword wondend and maymed one of the boyes vpon the -left hand; where vpon there assembled nere a ml. people. This Browne -dyd very cuninglie convey hym selff awaye, but by chaunse he was taken -after and browght to mr. Humfrey Smithe, and because no man was able to -charge hym he dismissed hym, and after this Browne was browght before -mr. Yonge, where he vsed hym selff so connynglie and subtillie, no man -being there to charge hym, that there also he was demised. And after -I sent a warraunt for hym, and the Constables with the deputie at the -Bell in Holbourne found hym in a parlor fast locked in, and he wold not -obeye the warraunt, but by the meane of the hoost he was conveyed a -waye, and then I sent for the hoost and caused hym to appere at Newgat -at the Sessions of Oier and determiner, where he was committed vntill -he browght furth his gest. The next daye after he browght hym forthe, -and so we Indicted hym for his misdemeanour. This Browne is a commen -Cossiner, a thieff, & a horse stealer, and colloreth all his doynges -here abowt this towne with a sute that he haithe in the lawe agaynst a -brother of his in Staffordshire. He resteth now in Newgate.... - -Vpon Weddensdaye, Thursdaye, Frydaye and Satterdaye we dyd nothing els -but sitt in commission and examine these misdemeanors; we had good -helpe of my lord Anderson and mr. Sackforthe. - -Vpon Sonndaye my Lo. sent ij Aldermen to the Court for the suppressing -and pulling downe of the Theatre and Curten. All the LL. agreed -therevnto, saving my Lord Chamberlen and mr. Viz-chamberlen, but we -obteyned a lettre to suppresse theym all. Vpon the same night I sent -for the quenes players and my Lo. of Arundel his players, and they -all willinglie obeyed the LL. lettres. The chiefestes of her highnes -players advised me to send for the owner of the Theater, who was a -stubburne fellow, and to bynd hym. I dyd so; he sent me word that he -was my Lo. of Hunsdons man, and that he wold not come at me, but he -wold in the mornyng ride to my lord; then I sent the vndershereff for -hym and he browght hym to me; and at his commyng he stowtted me owt -very hastie; and in the end I shewed hym my Lo. his mrs. hand and then -he was more quiet; but to die for it he wold not be bound. And then I -mynding to send hym to prison, he made sute that he might be bound to -appere at the Oier & determiner, the which is to morrowe; where he said -that he was suer the Court wold not bynd hym being a Counselers man. -And so I have graunted his request, where he shalbe sure to be bound or -els ys lyke to do worse. - - - lxxv. - - [_c._ 1584, Nov. (1) Petition of the Queen’s Players to the - Privy Council, and (2) Answer of the Corporation of London - enclosing the Act of Common Council of 6 Dec. 1574 (No. xxxii), - printed _M. S. C._ i. 168, from _Lansd. MS._ 20, f. 23; also - in part by Strype in his edition of Stowe’s _Survey_ (1720), - i. 292; Collier, i. 208; Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 27. The documents - are bound up out of order in the Lansdowne volume, the Act of - 1574 being Art. 10 and (1) being inserted as Art. 12 between - the two parts of (2) which are the reply to it. Each article is - officially endorsed in pencil with the date 1575, and the same - date is assigned by the printed _Catalogue of the Lansdowne - Manuscripts_ (1819) to Arts. 10, 12, and 13. This has misled - Collier and nearly all subsequent historians of the stage into - a belief that players were expelled from the City more or less - permanently in 1575, and that this expulsion led to the building - of the Theatre and the Curtain in 1576. The difficulty due to - the description of the petitioners as the Queen’s men is met by - Collier with a suggestion that ‘perhaps the Earl of Leicester’s - servants might so call themselves after the grant of the patent - in May 1574’, and by Fleay, 46, with an assertion that ‘the - whole body of then existing men actors who were going to perform - at Court at Christmas (Warwick’s, Leicester’s, Howard’s)’ were - meant. I called attention to the true bearing of the documents - in a review of T. F. Ordish, _Early London Theatres_ in the - _Academy_ for 24 Aug. 1895, but the misconception still exists; - it is found, for instance, in Thompson, 41. The facts, however, - are correctly given in Gildersleeve, 171. It is clear from - that part of the Corporation’s Answer which Collier suppressed - that the real date of the Lansdowne documents is later than - the ‘ruine at Parise garden’, which was on 13 Jan. 1583 (cf. - No. lxiv), and it must also be later than the establishment of - the Queen’s men in March 1583, and their first performances at - court in the winter of 1583–4. The petition was, on the face of - it, written at the beginning of a winter, and the most natural - interpretation would place it in the winter of 1584. It might - conceivably be 1585. There is no reference to it in the Acts of - the Privy Council, and it probably belongs to the period of the - missing register between June 1582 and Feb. 1586. Unfortunately, - the _Remembrancia_ also have a gap between March 1584 and Jan. - 1587. It will be observed that the Lansdowne papers are not, as - they stand, complete, since they lack the Articles sent with the - players’ Petition, and also the printed Act of Common Council - sent by the Corporation (No. lxiii). Strype says that the - proposed Remedies were adopted, but it is doubtful whether he - had any evidence other than the Lansdowne MS. itself.] - - - (1) - - To the Right Honorable the Lordes of her Maiesties - Privie Counsell: - -In most humble manner beseche your LLp. your dutifull and daylie -Orators the Queenes Maiesties poore Players. Wheras the tyme of our -service draweth verie neere, so that of necessitie wee must needes haue -excercise to enable vs the better for the same, and also for our better -helpe and relief in our poore lyvinge, the season of the yere beynge -past to playe att anye of the houses without the Cittye of London, as -in our articles annexed to this our Supplicacion maye more att large -appeere vnto your LLp: Our most humble peticion ys thatt yt maye -please your LLp. to vowchsaffe the readinge of these few Articles, and -in tender Consideracion of the matters therin mentioned, contayninge -the verie staye and good state of our Lyvinge, to graunt vnto vs the -Confirmacion of the same, or of as manye or as much of them as shalbe -to your Honors good Lykinge, And therwith all your LLp: favorable -letters vnto the L. Mayor of London to permitt vs to excercise within -the Cittye accordinge to the articles, and also thatt the said lettres -maye contayne some order to the Justices of Middlesex as in the same -ys mentioned, wherbie as wee shall cease the Continewall troublinge of -your LLp. for your often lettres in the premisses. So shall wee daylie -be bownden to praye for the prosperous preservation of your LLp. in -honor helth and happines long to Continew. - - Your LLp: most humblie bownden and daylie Orators, - her Maiesties poore Players. - -[Endorsed] Queens Players their Petition. - - - (2) (_a_) - - It may please your good Lp. - -The orders in London whereunto the players referr them are -misconceaued, as may appeare by the two actes of comon Counsell which I -send yow with note [pointing finger] directing to the place. - -The first of these actes of Comon counsell was made in the maraltie -of Hawes xvij^o Regine, and sheweth a maner how plaies were to be -tollerated and vsed, althoughe it were rather wished that they were -wholly discontinued for the causes appearing in the preamble; which is -for that reason somewhat the longer. - -Where the players reporte the order to be that they shold not play till -after seruice time, the boke [‘fo. 8^o’ added in margin] is otherwise; -for it is that they shal not onely not play in seruice time, but also -shal not receue any in seruice time to se the same; for thoughe they -did forbeare beginning to play till seruice were done, yet all the time -of seruice they did take in people; which was the great mischef in -withdrawing the people from seruice. - -Afterward when these orders were not obserued, and the lewd maters of -playes encreasced, and in the haunt vnto them were found many dangers, -bothe for religion, state, honestie of manners, vnthriftinesse of the -poore, and danger of infection &c, and the preachers dayly cryeng -against the L. maiour and his bretheren, in an Act of Common Counsel -for releafe of the poore which I send yowe printed, in the Article -62 the last leafe, is enacted as there appeareth, by which there are -no enterludes allowed in London in open spectacle, but in priuate -howses onely at marriages or such like, which may suffise, and sute -is apointed to be made that they may be likewise banished in places -adioyning. - -Since that time and namely upon the ruine at Parise garden, sute was -made to my LLs. to banishe playes wholly in the places nere London, -according to the said lawe. Letters were obtained from my LLs. to -banishe them on the sabbat Daies. - - - (_b_) - - Now touching their petition and articles - -Where they pretend that they must haue exercise to enable them in their -seruice before her maiestie: - -It is to be noted that it is not conuenient that they present before -her maiestie such playes as haue ben before commonly played in open -stages before all the basest assemblies in London and Middlesex, and -therfore sufficent for their exercise and more comely for the place -that (as it is permitted by the sayd lawes of common counsell) they -make their exercise of playeng only in priuate houses. - -Also it lyeth within the dutiefull care for her Maiesties royal -persone, that they be not suffred, from playeing in the throng of a -multitude and of some infected, to presse so nere to the presence of -her maiestie. - -Where they pretend the mater of stay of their lyuing: - -It hath not ben vsed nor thought meete heretofore that players haue -or shold make their lyuing on the art of playeng, but men for their -lyuings vsing other honest and lawfull artes, or reteyned in honest -seruices, haue by companies learned some enterludes for some encreasce -to their profit by other mens pleasures in vacant time of recreation. - -Where in the first article they require the L. Maiors order to continue -for the times of playeing on hollydaies: - -They missreport the order. For all those former orders of toleration -are expired by the last printed act of common Counsell. - -Also if the toleration were not expired, they do cautelously omitt the -prohibition to receiue any auditoire before common prayer be ended. And -it may be noted how vncomely it is for youth to runne streight from -prayer to playes, from Gods seruice to the Deuells. - -To the second article. - -If in winter the dark do cary inconuenience, and the short time of day -after euening prayer do leaue them no leysure, and fowlenesse of season -do hinder the passage into the feldes to playes, the remedie is ill -conceyued to bring them into London, but the true remedie is to leaue -of that vnnecessarie expense of time, wherunto God himself geueth so -many impediments. - -To the third. - -To play in plagetime is to encreasce the plage by infection: to play -out of plagetime is to draw the plage by offendinges of God vpon -occasion of such playes. - -But touching the permission of playes vpon the fewnesse of those that -dye in any weke, it may please you to remember one special thing. In -the report of the plage we report only those that dye, and we make no -report of those that recouer and cary infection about them either in -their sores running or in their garmentes, which sort are the most -dangerous. Now, my Lord, when the number of those that dye groweth -fewest, the number of those that goe abrode with sores is greatest, the -violence of the disease to kill being abated. And therfore while any -plage is, though the number reported of them that dye be small, the -number infectious is so great that playes are not to be permitted. - -Also in our report, none are noted as dyeing of the plage except -they haue tokens, but many dye of the plage that haue no tokens, and -sometime fraude of the searchers may deceiue. Therfore it is not reason -to reduce their toleration to any number reported to dye of the plage. -But it is an vncharitable demaund against the safetie of the Quenes -subiectes, and per consequens of her persone, for the gaine of a few, -whoe if they were not her maiesties seruants shold by their profession -be rogues, to esteme fifty a weke so small a number as to be cause of -tolerating the aduenture of infection. - -If your Lp. shal think resonable to permit them in respect of the -fewnesse of such as dye, this were a better way. The ordinarie deaths -in London, when there is no plage, is betwene xl. and l. and commonly -vnder xl., as our bokes do shew. The residue or more in plage time is -to be thought to be the plage. Now it may be enough if it be permitted, -that when the whole death of all diseases in London shal by ij or iij -wekes together be vnder l. a weke, they may play (_obseruatis alioqui -obseruandis_) during such time of death vnder l. a weke. - -Where they require that only her maiesties servants be permitted to -play: - -It is lesse eiuell than to grannt moe. But herin if your Lp. will so -allow them, it may please you to know that the last yere when such -toleration was of the Quenes players only, all the places of playeing -were filled with men calling themselues the Quenes players. Your -Ls. may do well in your lettres or warrants for their toleration to -expresse the number of the Quenes players and particularly all their -names. - - - The remedies. - -That they hold them content with playeing in priuate houses at weddings -etc. without publike assemblies. - -If more be thought good to be tolerated: that then they be restrained -to the orders in the act of common Counsell tempore Hawes. - -That they play not openly till the whole death in London haue ben by xx -daies under 50 a weke, nor longer than it shal so continue. - -That no playes be on the sabbat. - -That no playeing be on holydaies but after euening prayer: nor any -receiued into the auditorie till after euening prayer. - -That no playeing be in the dark, nor continue any such time but as any -of the auditorie may returne to their dwellings in London before sonne -set, or at least before it be dark. - -That the Quenes players only be tolerated, and of them their number and -certaine names to be notified in your Lps. lettres to the L. Maior and -to the Iustices of Middlesex and Surrey. And those her players not to -diuide themselues into seueral companies. - -That for breaking any of the orders, their toleration cesse. - - - lxxvi. - - [1586, May 11. Minutes of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xiv. 99, 102.] - -A letter to the Justices of Surrey that according to suche direction as -hath ben geven by their Lordships to the Lord Maior to restraine and -inhibite the use of plaies and interludes in publique places in and -about the Cittie of London, in respect of the heat of the yeere now -drawing on, for th’avoyding of the infection like to grow and increase -by th’ordinarie assemblies of the people to those places, they ar also -required in like sorte to take order that the playes and assemblies -of the people at the theater or anie other places about Newington be -forthwith restrained and forborne as aforesaid, &c. - -A letter to the Lord Maiour; his Lordship is desired, according to his -request made to their Lordships by his letters of the vijth of this -present, to geve order for the restrayning of playes and interludes -within and about the Cittie of London, for th’avoyding of infection -feared to grow and increase this time of sommer by the comon assemblies -of people at those places, and that their Lordships have taken the -like order for the prohibiting of the use of playes at the theater and -th’other places about Newington out of his charge. - - - lxxvii. - - [1586, June 23. Extract from _The newe Decrees of the Starre - Chamber for orders in printinge_, printed by Arber, ii. 807, - from _S. P. D. Eliz._ cxc. 48.] - -4. _Item_ that no person or persons shall ymprynt or cawse to be -ymprinted, or suffer by any meanes to his knowledge his presse, -letters, or other Instrumentes to be occupyed in pryntinge of any -booke, work, coppye, matter, or thinge whatsoever, Except the same -book, woork, coppye, matter, or any other thinge, hath been heeretofore -allowed, or hereafter shall be allowed before the ymprintinge thereof, -accordinge to thorder appoynted by the Queenes maiesties _Iniunctyons_, -And been first seen and pervsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and -Bishop of London for the tyme beinge or any one of them (The Queenes -maiesties Prynter for somme speciall service by her maiestie, or by -somme of her highnes pryvie Councell therevnto appoynted, and such as -are or shalbe pryviledged to prynte the bookes of the _Common Lawe_ of -this Realme, for such of the same bookes as shalbe allowed of by the -Twoo Chief Justices, and Chief Baron for the tyme beinge, or any twoo -of them onely excepted). Nor shall ymprynt or cause to be ymprinted any -book, work or coppie against the fourme and meaninge of any Restraynt -or ordonnaunce conteyned or to be conteyned in any statute or lawes of -this Realme, or in any Iniunctyon made, or sett foorth by her maiestie, -or her highnes pryvye Councell, or against the true intent and meaninge -of any Letters patentes, Commissions or prohibicons vnder the great -seale of England, or contrary to any allowyd ordynaunce sett Downe for -the good governaunce of the Cumpany of Staconers within the Cyttie of -London, vppon payne to haue all such presses, letters, and instrumentes -as in or about the pryntinge of any such bookes or copyes shalbe -employed or vsed, to be defaced and made vnserviceable for ymprintinge -forever. And vppon payne also that euery offendour and offendours -contrarye to this present Artycle or ordynaunce shalbe dishabled -(after any such offence) to vse or exercise or take benefytt by vsinge -or exercisinge of the art or feat of ympryntinge. And shall moreover -sustayne ymprysonment Six moneths without Bayle or mayneprise. - -Clause 6 empowers the Stationers Company to seize offending books -and bring offenders before the ‘highe Comissioners in causes -Ecclesyastycall or some three or more of them, whereof the sayd -Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of London for the tyme beinge to be -one’. - - - lxxviii. - - [1587, Jan. 25. Anon. to Secretary Sir Francis Walsingham, - printed from _Harl. MS._ 286, f. 102, in Collier, i. 257. A - partial copy by T. Birch is in _Addl. MS._ 4160, No. 53.] - -The daylie abuse of Stage Playes is such an offence to the godly, and -so great a hinderance to the gospell, as the papists do exceedingly -rejoyce at the bleamysh thearof, and not without cause; for every day -in the weake the players billes are sett up in sondry places of the -cittie, some in the name of her Majesties menne, some the Earl of -Leic^r, some the E. of Oxford, the Lo. Admyralles, and dyvers others; -so that when the belles tole to the Lectorer, the trumpetts sound to -the Stages, whereat the wicked faction of Rome lawgheth for joy, while -the godly weepe for sorrowe. Woe is me! the play howses are pestered, -when churches are naked; at the one it is not possible to gett a place, -at the other voyde seates are plentie. The profaning of the Sabaoth -is redressed, but as badde a custome entertayned, and yet still our -long suffering God forbayreth to punishe. Yt is a wofull sight to see -two hundred proude players jett in their silkes, wheare five hundred -pore people sterve in the streets. But yf needes this mischief must -be tollerated, whereat (no doubt) the highest frownith, yet for God’s -sake (Sir) lett every Stage in London pay a weekly pention to the pore, -that _ex hoc malo proveniat aliquod bonum_: but it weare rather -to be wisshed that players might be used, as Apollo did his lawghing, -_semel in anno_.... Nowe, mee thinks, I see your honor smyle, and -saye to your self, theise things are fitter for the pullpit, then a -souldiers penne; but God (who searcheth the hart and reynes) knoweth -that I write not hipocritically, but from the veary sorrowe of my soule. - - - lxxix. - - [1587, May 7. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register in - Dasent, xv. 70.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour of the Citie of London that whereas their -Lordships were given to understand that certaine outrages and disorders -were of late committed in certaine places and theaters erected within -that Citie of London or the suburbes of the same, where enterludes and -comedies were usuallie plaied, and for that the season of the yeare -grew hotter and hotter, it was to be doubted least by reason of the -concorse of people to such places of common assemblies there might some -danger of infeccion happen in the Citie, their Lordships thought it -expedient to have the use of the said interludes inhibited both at the -theaters and in all other places within his jurisdiccion, and therefore -required him accordinglie to take presente order for the stayinge of -the same, charginge the plaiers and actors to cease and forbeare the -use of the said places for the purpose of playinge or shewinge of anie -such enterludes or comedies untill after Bartholomew tide next ensuinge. - -A like letter to the same effecte to the Master of the Rolles. - -A like letter to the like effecte to the Justices of Surrie. - - - lxxx. - - [1587, Oct. 29. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xv. 271.] - -A letter to the Justices of Surry that whereas thinhabitauntes of -Southwark had complained unto their Lordships declaring that th’order -by their Lordships sett downe for the restrayning of plaies and -enterludes within that countie on the Saboath Daies is not observed, -and especiallie within the Libertie of the Clincke and in the parish -of St. Savours in Southwarke, which disorder is to be ascribed to the -negligence of some of the Justices of Peace in that countie; they -are required to take suche stricte order for the staying of the said -disorder as is allreadie taken by the Lord Maiour within the Liberties -of the Cittie, so as the same be not hereafter suffred at the times -forbidden in any place of that countie. - -A letter to the Justices of Middlesex that forasmuch as order is -taken by the Lord Maiour within the precinctes of the Cittie for the -restrayninge of plaies and interludes on the Saboath Daie, according to -such direccion as hath been heretofore given by their Lordships in that -behalfe, they are required to see the like observed and kept within -that countie, aswell in anie places priviledged as otherwise. - - - lxxxi. - - [1587, Nov. 23. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 322, from _Repertory_, xxi, f. 503^v.] - -Item yt is ordered that Sir Rowland Haywarde, Sir George Barne, Knight, -Mr. Martyn, Mr. Harte, Mr. Allott, Aldermen, shall repayre to the right -honorable the LL. and others of her Maiesties most honorble Pryuye -Councell & to move theyre honours for the suppressinge of playes and -interludes within this Cittye and the libertyes of the same. - - - lxxxii. - - [1589, Nov. 6. Sir John Harte, Lord Mayor, to Lord Burghley, - printed _M. S. C._ i. 180, from _Lansd. MS._ 60, f. 47; also in - Collier, i. 265; Hazlitt, _E. D. S._ 34.] - -My very honourable good L. Where by a lettre of your Lps. directed -to mr. Yonge it appered vnto me, that it was your honours pleasure I -sholde geue order for the staie of all playes within the Cittie, in -that mr. Tilney did vtterly mislike the same. According to which your -Lps. good pleasure, I presentlye sente for suche players as I coulde -here of, so as there appered yesterday before me the L. Admeralles and -the L. Straunges players, to whome I speciallie gaue in Charge and -required them in her Maiesties name to forbere playinge, vntill further -order mighte be geuen for theire allowance in that respecte: Whereupon -the L. Admeralles players very dutifullie obeyed, but the others in -very Contemptuous manner departing from me, went to the Crosse keys -and played that afternoon, to the greate offence of the better sorte -that knewe they were prohibited by order from your L. Which as I might -not suffer, so I sent for the said Contemptuous persons, who haueing -no reason to alleadge for theire Contempt, I coulde do no lesse but -this evening Comitt some of them to one of the Compters, and do meane -according to your Lps. direction to prohibite all playing, vntill your -Lps. pleasure therein be further knowen. And thus resting further to -trouble your L., I moste humblie take my leaue. At London the Sixte of -Nouember 1589. - - Your Lps. moste humble, - John Harte, maior. - -To the righte honorable my very good Lorde, the Lorde highe Tresaurer -of Englande. - - - lxxxiii. - - [1589, Nov. 12. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xviii. 214.] - -At the Starre Chamber 12^o Novembris, 1589. - -A letter to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury that whereas there bathe -growne some inconvenience by comon playes and enterludes in and about -the Cyttie of London, in [that] the players take upon themselves to -handle in their plaies certen matters of Divinytie and of State unfitt -to be suffred, for redresse whereof their Lordships have thought good -to appointe some persones of judgement and understanding to viewe -and examine their playes before they be permitted to present them -publickly. His Lordship is desired that some fytt persone well learned -in Divinity be appointed by him to joyne with the Master of the Revells -and one other to be nominated by the Lord Mayour, and they joyntly with -some spede to viewe and consider of suche comedyes and tragedyes as are -and shalbe publickly played by the companies of players in and aboute -the Cyttie of London, and they to geve allowance of suche as they shall -thincke meete to be plaied and to forbydd the rest. - -A letter to the Lord Mayour of London that whereas their Lordships have -already signified unto him to appointe a sufficient persone learned -and of judgement for the Cyttie of London to joyne with the Master of -the Revelles and with a divine to be nominated by the Lord Archebishop -of Canterbury for the reforming of the plaies daylie exercised and -presented publickly in and about the Cyttie of London, wherein the -players take uppon them without judgement or decorum to handle matters -of Divinitye and State; he is required if he have not as yet made -choice of suche a persone, that he will so doe forthwith, and thereof -geve knowledge to the Lord Archebishop and the Master of the Revells, -that they may all meet accordingly. - -A letter to the Master of the Revelles requiring him [to join] with two -others, the one to be appointed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury -and the other by the Lord Mayour of London, to be men of learning and -judgement, and to call before them the severall companies of players -(whose servauntes soever they be) and to require them by authorytie -hereof to delyver unto them their bookes, that they maye consider of -the matters of their comedyes and tragedyes, and thereuppon to stryke -oute or reforme suche partes and matters as they shall fynd unfytt -and undecent to be handled in playes, bothe for Divinitie and State, -comaunding the said companies of players, in her Majesties name, that -they forbeare to present and playe publickly anie comedy or tragedy -other then suche as they three shall have seene and allowed, which if -they shall not observe, they shall then knowe from their Lordships that -they shalbe not onely sevearely punished, but made [in]capable of the -exercise of their profession forever hereafter. - - - lxxxiv. - - [1591, July 25. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xxi. 324.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour of the Cyttie of London and the Justices of -Midlesex and Surrey. Whereas heretofore there hathe ben order taken to -restraine the playinge of enterludes and playes on the Sabothe Daie, -notwithstandinge the which (as wee are enformed) the same ys neglected -to the prophanacion of this daie, and all other daies of the weeke -in divers places the players doe use to recyte theire plaies to the -greate hurte and destruction of the game of beare baytinge and lyke -pastymes, which are maynteyned for her Majesty’s pleasure yf occacion -require. These shalbe therefore to require you not onlie to take order -hereafter that there maie no plaies, interludes or commodyes be used or -publicklie made and shewed either on the Sondaie or on the Thursdaies, -because on the Thursdayes those other games usuallie have ben allwayes -accustomed and practized. Whereof see you faile not hereafter to see -this our order dulie observed for the avoydinge of the inconveniences -aforesaid. - - - lxxxv. - - [1592, Feb. 25. The Lord Mayor to John Whitgift, Archbishop of - Canterbury, printed _M. S. C._ i. 68, from _Remembrancia_, i. - 635.] - -Our most humble dueties to your Grace remembred. Whereas by the daily -and disorderlie exercise of a number of players & playeng houses -erected within this Citie, the youth thearof is greatly corrupted & -their manners infected with many euill & vngodly qualities, by reason -of the wanton & prophane divises represented on the stages by the -sayed players, the prentizes & seruants withdrawen from their woorks, -& all sorts in generall from the daylie resort vnto sermons & other -Christian exercises, to the great hinderance of the trades & traders -of this Citie & prophanation of the good & godly religion established -amongst vs. To which places allso doe vsually resort great numbers -of light & lewd disposed persons, as harlotts, cutpurses, cuseners, -pilferers, & such lyke, & thear, vnder the collour of resort to those -places to hear the playes, divise divers evill & vngodly matches, -confederacies, & conspiracies, which by means of the opportunitie of -the place cannot bee prevented nor discovered, as otherwise they might -bee. In consideration whearof, wee most humbly beeseach your Grace for -your godly care for the refourming of so great abuses tending to the -offence of almightie god, the prophanation & sclaunder of his true -religion, & the corrupting of our youth, which are the seed of the -Church of god & the common wealth among vs, to voutchsafe vs your good -favour & help for the refourming & banishing of so great evill out of -this Citie, which our selves of loong time though to small pourpose -have so earnestly desired and endeavoured by all means that possibly -wee could. And bycause wee vnderstand that the Q. Maiestie is & must -bee served at certen times by this sort of people, for which pourpose -shee hath graunted hir lettres Patents to Mr. Tilney Master of hir -Revells, by virtue whearof hee beeing authorized to refourm exercise or -suppresse all manner of players, playes, & playeng houses whatsoeuer, -did first licence the sayed playeng houses within this Citie for hir -Maiesties sayed service, which beefore that time lay open to all the -statutes for the punishing of these & such lyke disorders. Wee ar most -humbly & earnestly to beeseach your Grace to call vnto you the sayed -Master of hir Maiesties Revells, with whome allso wee have conferred of -late to that pourpose, and to treat with him, if by any means it may -bee devised that hir Maiestie may bee served with these recreations as -hath ben accoustomed (which in our opinions may easily bee don by the -privat exercise of hir Maiesties own players in convenient place) & the -Citie freed from these continuall disorders, which thearby do growe, -& increase dayly among vs. Whearby your Grace shall not only benefit -& bynd vnto you the politique state & government of this Citie, which -by no one thing is so greatly annoyed & disquieted as by players & -playes, & the disorders which follow thearvpon, but allso take away a -great offence from the Church of god & hinderance to his ghospell, to -the great contentment of all good Christians, specially the preachers, -& ministers of the word of god about this Citie, who have long time & -yet do make their earnest continuall complaint vnto vs for the redresse -hearof. And thus recommending our most humble dueties and service to -your Grace wee commit the same to the grace of the Almightie. From -London the 25th of February, 1591. - - Your Graces most humble. - -To the right reuerend Father in God my L. the Archbisshop of Canturbury -his Grace. - - - lxxxvi. - - [1592, March 6. The Lord Mayor to Archbishop Whitgift, printed - _M. S. C._ i. 70, from _Remembrancia_, i. 646. Whitgift’s - letter, here referred to, does not appear to be in the - _Remembrancia_.] - -My humble duety to your Grace remembred. I received your graces letter, -whearin I vnderstood the contents of the same, & imparted the same -presently to my Brethren the Aldermen in our common Assembly, who -togither with my self yeld vnto your Grace our most humble thancks for -your good favour & godly care over vs, in vouchsafing vs your healp for -the removing of this great inconvenience which groweth to this Citie -by playes & players. As toutching the consideracion to bee made to Mr. -Tilney, and other capitulations that ar to passe beetwixt vs, for the -better effecting & continuance of this restraint of the sayed playes -in & about this Citie, wee have appointed certein of our Brethren the -Aldermen to conferre with him forthwith, pourposing to acquaint your -Grace with our agreement & whole proceeding hearin as occasion shall -requier. And thus recommending my humble duety and seruice to your -Grace I commit the same to the grace of the Almightie. From London the -6. of March, 1591. - - Your Graces most humble. - -To the right reverend Father in God the L. Archbishop of Canterbury his -Grace. - - - lxxxvii. - - [1592, March 18. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 322, from _Repertory_, xx, f. 345.] - -[Sidenote: Mr. Tilney to be treated for restraynte of plays.] - -Item yt is ordered that Sir Richard Martyn Knighte and William Horne -grocer, shall treate with Tilney Esquire Maister of the Revells for -some good order to be taken for the restrayning of the playes and -enterludes within this citie. - - - lxxxviii. - - [1592, March 22. Extracts from records of the Court of the Guild - of Merchant Taylors of London, printed in C. M. Clode, _Early - History of the Guild of Merchant Taylors_ (1888), i. 236.] - -‘A precepte directed frome the Lord Mayor to this Companie shewinge -to the Companie the great enormytie that this Citie susteyneth by the -practice and prophane exercise of players and playinge howses in this -Citie, and the corrupcion of youth that groweth thereupon, invitinge -the Companie by the consideration of this myscheyfe to yeilde to the -paymente of one Anuytie to one Mr. Tylney, mayster of the Revelles of -the Queene’s house, in whose hands the redresse of this inconveniency -doeth rest, and that those playes might be abandoned out of this citie.’ - -‘An Assemblye hereon the xxijth of March (1591), beinge our Master’s -view daye after they came downe frome dynner out of the Gallarie,’ took -the precept into consideration and determined, ‘albeit the Companie -think yt a very good service to be performed yet wayinge the damage of -the president and enovacion of raysinge of Anuyties upon the Companies -of London what further occasions yt may be drawne unto, together -with their great chardge otherwyse which this troublesome tyme hath -brought, and is likely to bringe, they thinke this no fitt course to -remedie this myscheife, but wish some other waye were taken in hand to -expell out of our Citye so generall a contagion of manners and other -inconveniency, wherein if any endevour or travile of this Companie -might further the matter they would be readye to use their service -therein. And this to be certified as the Companies answere if yt shall -apeare by conference with other Companies that the precepte requireth -necessarilie a returne of the Companies certificate, and answere in -this behalf.’ - - - lxxxix. - - [1592, June 12. Extract from a letter of Sir William Webbe, Lord - Mayor, to Lord Burghley, printed _M. S. C._ i. 187, from _Lansd. - MS._ 71, f. 28, and _M. S. C._ i. 70, from a letter-book copy - misdated ‘May 30’ in _Remembrancia_, i. 662.] - -My humble duety remembred to your good L. Beeing informed of a great -disorder & tumult lyke to grow yesternight abowt viij of the clock -within the Borough of Southwark, I went thither with all speed I could, -taking with mee on of the Sherifes, whear I found great multitudes of -people assembled togither, & the principall actours to bee certain -servants of the ffeltmakers gathered togither out of Barnsey street & -the Black fryers, with a great number of lose & maisterles men apt for -such pourposes. Whearupon having made proclamation, & dismissed the -multitude, I apprehended the chief doers and authors of the disorder, -& have committed them to prison to bee farther punished, as they shall -bee found to deserve. And having this morning sent for the Deputie & -Constable of the Borough with Divers other of best credit, who wear -thear present, to examine the cause & manner of the disorder, I found -that it began vpon the serving of a warrant from my L. Chamberlain by -on of the Knight Mareschalls men vpon a feltmakers servant, who was -committed to the Mareschallsea with certein others, that were accused -to his L. by the sayed Knight Mareschalls men without cause of offence, -as them selves doe affirm. For rescuing of whome the sayed companies -assembled themselves by occasion & pretence of their meeting at a play, -which bysides the breach of the Sabboth day giveth opportunitie of -committing these & such lyke disorders. The principall doers in this -rude tumult I mean to punish to the example of others. Whearin also -it may please your L. to give mee your direction, if you shall advise -vpon anything meet to bee doon for the farther punishment of the sayed -offenders. - - - xc. - - [1592, June 23. Extract from Privy Council Minute, printed by - Dasent, xxii. 549. The main purpose of the letter is to require - a ‘watch’ at midsummer, as certain apprentices were expected to - renew the recent disorder in Southwark (cf. No. lxxxix). The - Lord Mayor had already been charged, and letters also went to - the Justices of Surrey for the precincts of Newington, Kentish - Street, Bermondsey Street, the Clink, Paris Garden, and the - Bankside, and to those of other places near the City, including - Lord Cobham for the Blackfriars.] - -A letter to the Master of the Rolles, Sir Owen Hopton, knight, John -Barnes and Richard Yonge, esquiours.... - -Moreover for avoidinge of theis unlawfull assemblies in those quarters, -yt is thoughte meete you shall take order that there be noe playes used -in anye place neere thereaboutes, as the Theator, Curtayne, or other -usuall places where the same are comonly used, nor no other sorte of -unlawfull or forbidden pastymes that drawe together the baser sorte of -people, from hence forth untill the feast of St. Michaell. - - - xci. - - [1592, June 23. Privy Council Minute, printed by Dasent, xxii. - 549.] - -A letter to the Earle of Darbye. Whereas wee are informed that there -are certaine May gaimes, morryce daunces, plaies, bearebaytinges, ales -and other like pastimes used ordinarilye in those counties under your -Lordship’s Lieutenancye on the Sondaies and Hollydaies at the tyme -of Divine service and other Godlie exercyses, to the disturbance of -the service, and bad example that those kinde of pastimes should be -used in such sorte and at suche tyme when men do assemble togeather -for the hearinge of God’s worde and to joyne in Common praiers, which -sportes are moste ordinarilye used at those undue seasons by such as -are evill affected in religion, purposlie by those meanes to drawe the -people from the service of God, and to disturbe the same. Theis shalbe -therefore to praie your Lordship by vertue hereof to give knowledge -not onlie to the Byshop of that Dioces of this common and unsufferable -disorder, but to give speciall direction to all the Justices in theire -severall divisions by all meanes to forbid and not to suffer theis or -the like pastimes to be in anye place whatsoever on the Sondaie or -Holydaie at the tyme of Divine service. And yf notwithstandinge this -straite prohibicion and speciall order taken, any shall presume to -use the saide sportes or pastimes in the tyme [of] services, sermons -or other Godlye exercyses, you shall cause the favorers, mayntainers -or cheife offenders to be sent up hether to answere this theire -contentions and lewde behaviour before us. - - - xcii. - - [_c._ 1592, _c._ July. Undated documents, printed by Greg, - _Henslowe Papers_, 42, from _Dulwich MS._ i. 16–18; also - in Collier, _Alleyn Memoirs_, 33–6. I agree with Greg (cf. - Henslowe, ii. 52) that 1592 is a more likely date than 1593, - during the whole of the long vacation of which plague ruled. - We have not the terms of the Surrey inhibition of 23 June 1592 - (cf. No. xc), but it may have made an exception for Newington - Butts. If so, the documents can hardly be later than July, as - the plague was increasing by 13 Aug. (Dasent, xxiii. 118). But - Greg tacitly assumes that no earlier year than 1592 can be in - question, and as against this, cf. vol. i, p. 359. I think that - 1591 is a conceivable alternative, as Strange’s (q.v.) were - probably at the Rose by the spring of that year. There is no - corroborative evidence, indeed, of any inhibition in 1591. But - do the documents point to a general inhibition? The inference - from (b) is that houses other than the Rose were open.] - - - (_a_) - -[Petition from Strange’s men to the Privy Council.] - - To the right honorable our verie good Lordes, the Lordes of her - maiesties moste honorable privie Councell. - -Our dueties in all humblenes remembred to your honours. Forasmuche -(righte honorable) oure Companie is greate, and thearbie our chardge -intollerable, in travellinge the Countrie, and the Contynuaunce thereof -wilbe a meane to bringe vs to division and seperacion, whearebie wee -shall not onelie be vndone, but alsoe vnreadie to serve her maiestie, -when it shall please her highenes to commaund vs, And for that the -vse of our plaiehowse on the Banckside, by reason of the passage to -and frome the same by water, is a greate releif to the poore watermen -theare, And our dismission thence, nowe in this longe vacation, is to -those poore men a greate hindraunce, and in manner an vndoeinge, as -they generallie complaine, Both our and theire humble peticion and -suite thearefore to your good honnours is, That youe wilbe pleased of -your speciall favour to recall this our restrainte, and permitt vs the -vse of the said Plaiehowse againe. And not onelie our selues But alsoe -a greate nomber of poore men shalbe especiallie bounden to praie for -yor Honours. - - Your honours humble suppliantes, - The righte honorable the Lord Straunge - his servantes and Plaiers. - - - (_b_) - - [Petition from the Watermen of the Bankside to Lord Admiral - Howard.] - - To the right honnorable my Lorde Haywarde Lorde highe - Admirall of Englande and one of her maiesties moste - honnorable previe Counsayle. - -In most hvmble manner Complayneth and sheweth vnto your good -Lordeshipp, your poore suppliantes and dayly Oratours Phillipp Henslo, -and others the poore watermen on the bancke side. Whereas your good -L. hathe derected your warrant vnto hir maiesties Justices, for the -restraynte of a playe howse belonginge vnto the saide Phillipp Henslo -one of the groomes of her maiesties Chamber, So it is, if it please -your good Lordshipp, that wee your saide poore watermen have had muche -helpe and reliefe for vs oure poore wives and Children by meanes of -the resorte of suche people as come vnto the said playe howse, It -maye therefore please your good L. for godes sake and in the waye of -Charetie to respecte vs your poore water men, and to give leave vnto -the said Phillipp Henslo to have playinge in his saide howse duringe -suche tyme as others have, according as it hathe byne accustomed. -And in your honnors so doinge youe shall not onely doe a good and a -Charitable dede, but also bynde vs all according to oure dewties, with -oure poore wives and Children dayly to praye for your honnor in muche -happynes longe to lyve. - - Isack Towelle. William Dorret, master of her maiestes barge. - -[Fifteen signatures or marks of royal watermen and others follow.] - - - (_c_) - -[Warrant from the Privy Council for the reopening of the Rose.] - -Wheareas not longe since vpon some Consideracions we did restraine -the Lorde Straunge his servauntes from playinge at the Rose on the -banckside, and enioyned them to plaie three daies at Newington Butts, -Now forasmuch as wee are satisfied that by reason of the tediousnes -of the waie and that of longe tyme plaies haue not there bene vsed -on working daies, And for that a nomber of poore watermen are therby -releeved, Youe shall permitt and suffer them or any other there to -exercise them selues in suche sorte as they haue don heretofore, And -that the Rose maie be at libertie without any restrainte, solonge as -yt shalbe free from infection of sicknes, Any Comaundement from vs -heretofore to the Contrye notwithstandinge: ffrom. - -To the Justices Bayliffes Constables and others to whome yt shall -Apperteyne. - - - xciii. - - [1593, Jan. 28. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in Dasent, xxiv. 31.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour and Aldermen of the cittie of London. -Forasmuch as by the certificate of the last weeke yt appeareth the -infection doth increase, which by the favour of God and with your -diligent observance of her Majesty’s comandementes and the meanes and -orders prescribed to be put in execution within the cittie of London -maie speedelie cease. Yeat for the better furderance therof we thinke -yt fytt that all manner of concourse and publique meetinges of the -people at playes, beare-baitinges, bowlinges and other like assemblyes -for sportes be forbidden, and therefore doe hereby requier you and -in her Majesty’s name straightlie charge and commande you forthwith -to inhibite within your jurisdiction all plaies, baiting of beares, -bulls, bowling and any other like occasions to assemble any nombers of -people together (preacheing and Devyne service at churches excepted), -wherby no occasions be offred to increase the infection within the -cittie, which you shall doe both by proclamacion to be published to -that ende and by spetiall watche and observacion to be had at the -places where the plaies, beare-baitinges, bowlinges and like pastimes -are usually frequented. And if you shall upon the publicacion finde -any so undutifull and disobedient as they will notwithstanding this -prohibition offer to plaie, beate beares or bulles, bowle, &c., you -shall presentelie cause them to be apprehended and comitted to prison, -there to remaine untill by their order they shalbe dismissed. And -to the end the like assemblies within the out liberties adjoyning -to the cittie [may be prohibited], we have given direction to the -Justices of the Peace and other publique officers of the counties of -Middelsex and Surrey to hold the like course, not onlie within the -said liberties but also within the distance of seven myles about the -cittie, which we doubte not they will carefullie see to be executed, as -you for your partes within the cittie will doe the like, in reguarde -of her Majestie’s comandement, the benefitt of the cittie and for the -respectes alreadie signified unto you. - -Two other letters of the like tenour written to the Justices of the -Peace within the counties of Surrey and Middelsex for the prohibition -of like assemblies in the out liberties and within seven miles of the -cittie of either countie. - - - xciv. - - [1593, April 12. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 322, from _Repertory_, xxiii, f. 50^v.] - -[Sidenote: Elders of the Councell. Bearebaitinge and plaies.] - -Item, yt is ordered that Sir Richarde Martyn, Knighte, and Master -Saltonstall, aldermen, shall repayre to the righte honourable the -Lordes and others of her Maiesties most honorable Pryuey Counsell, -towching the presente suppressinge of bearebaitinge, bowling alleyes, -and such like prophane exercises within this Cytie, and the libertyes -thereof, and other places neare adioyninge. And Christofer Stubbes to -warne them, etc. - - - xcv. - - [1593, April 29. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxiv. - 209.] - -An open warrant for the plaiers, servantes to the Erle of Sussex, -authorysinge them to exercyse theire qualitie of playinge comedies and -tragedies in any county, cittie, towne or corporacion not being within -vij^{en} miles of London, where the infection is not, and in places -convenient and tymes fitt. - - - xcvi. - - [1593, May 6. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxiv. 212; - cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to Strange’s men, notwithstanding inhibition of plays -in London, to perform in towns seven miles from London or court, at -their most convenient times and places, except during times of divine -prayer. - - - xcvii. - - [1594, Feb. 3. The Privy Council to Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Lord - Mayor, printed _M. S. C._ i. 72, from _Remembrancia_, - ii. 6.] - -[Sidenote: For restraint of playes.] - -After our very hartie commendations to your L. Whearas certein -infourmation is given that very great multitudes of all sorts of people -do daylie frequent & resort to common playes lately again set vp in & -about London, whearby it is vpon good cause feared that the dangerous -infection of the plague, by Gods great mercy and goodnes well slaked, -may again very dangerously encrease and break foorth, to the great -losse and preiudice of hir Maiesties Subiects in generall & especially -to those of that Citie, of whose safetie & well doing hir Highnes -hath alwayes had an especiall regard, as by the last years experience -by lyke occasions & resort to playes it soddainly encreased from a -very little number to that greatnes of mortallitie which ensued. Wee -thearfore thought it very expedient to require your L. foorthwith to -take strait order that thear bee no more publique playes or enterludes -exercised by any Compaine whatsoever within the compas of five miles -distance from London, till vpon better lykelyhood and assurance of -health farther direction may bee giuen from vs to the contrary. So wee -bid your L. very hartily farewell. From the Court at Hampton, the 3. of -February. 1593. - - Your L. very louing friends, - - Io: Cant. Io. Puckering. C. Howard. - Th. Buckhurst. R. Cecyll. I. Fortescue. - -To our very good L. mr. Alderman Buckle L. Maior of the Citie of London. - - - xcviii. - - [1594, May 10. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in - Harrison, iv. 323, from _Repertory_, xxiii, f. 220.] - - Countess of Warwicks playes. - -Item yt is ordred that Mr. Saltonstall, Mr. Soame, Mr. Weoseley, -Mr. Barnham, and Mr. Houghton, aldermen, or any others [?] of them, -calling unto them Richard Wright, gentleman, shall consider of a cawse -recommended to this courte by the right honorable the Countys of -Warwicke concerning playes, And to make reporte to this courte of their -doings therein. And George Foster to warne them to meet together and to -attend on them. - - - xcix. - - [_c._ 1594, July-Oct. Extract from Articles submitted to the - Privy Council against the increase of the plague and for the - relief of poor people, printed _M. S. C._ i. 202, from _Lansd. - MS._ 74, f. 75. The date 1593 is assigned in the _Catalogue of - Lansdowne MSS._, but the document seems to be related to No. c.] - -That for avoydinge of great concourse of people, which causeth increase -of thinfection, yt were convenient, that all Playes, Bearebaytinges, -Cockpittes, common Bowlinge alleyes, and suche like vnnecessarie -assemblies should be suppressed duringe the tyme of infection, for that -infected people, after theire longe keepinge in, and before they be -clered of theire disease and infection, beinge desirous of recreacion, -vse to resort to suche assemblies, where throughe heate and thronge, -they infecte manie sound personnes. - - - c. - - [_c._ 1594, July-Oct. Extract from Orders, suggested by the - Privy Council, to be set down by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. - These are undated, but appear to be the ‘breif’ of orders sent - with a letter of the Privy Council, also undated, but addressed - to Sir Richard Martin, who was Lord Mayor from July to Oct. - 1594. Both documents are printed in _M. S. C._ i. 206, 211, - from _Lansd. MS._ 74, ff. 69, 71.] - - Interludes and plaies. - -If the increase of the sicknes be feared, that Interludes and plaies be -restreyned within the libertyes of the Cyttye.... - -... That all maisterlesse men who lyve idelie in the Cyttye without -any lawfull calling, frequenting places of common assemblies, as -Interludes, gaming howses, cockpittes, bowling allies, and such other -places, maie be banished the Cyttye according to the lawes in that case -provyded. - - - ci. - - [1594, Oct. 8. Henry Lord Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir - Richard Martin, Lord Mayor, printed _M. S. C._ i. 73, from - _Remembrancia_, ii. 33. The document is misdescribed in the - _Index_ to _Remembrancia_, 353, as referring, not to ‘my nowe - companie’, but to ‘the new company’.] - -[Sidenote: For players to bee suffred to play with in London.] - -After my hartie comendacions. Where my nowe companie of Players haue -byn accustomed for the better exercise of their qualitie, & for the -seruice of her Maiestie if need soe requier, to plaie this winter time -within the Citye at the Crosse kayes in Gracious street. These are to -requier & praye your Lo. (the time beinge such as, thankes be to god, -there is nowe no danger of the sicknes) to permitt & suffer them soe -to doe; The which I praie you the rather to doe for that they haue -vndertaken to me that, where heretofore they began not their Plaies -till towardes fower a clock, they will now begin at two, & haue don -betwene fower and fiue, and will nott vse anie Drumes or trumpettes att -all for the callinge of peopell together, and shalbe contributories -to the poore of the parishe where they plaie accordinge to their -habilities. And soe not dowting of your willingnes to yeeld herevnto, -vppon theise resonable condicions, I comitt yow to the Almightie. -Noonesuch this viijth of October 1594. - - Your lo. lovinge friend, - H. Hounsdon. - -To my honorable good friend Sir Richard Martin knight Lo: mayour of the -Citie of London. - - - cii. - - [1594, Nov. 3. The Lord Mayor to Lord Burghley, printed _M. - S. C._ i. 74, from _Remembrancia_, ii. 73. The theatre was - doubtless the Swan.] - -[Sidenote: Langley intending to erect a niew stage on the Banckside & -against playes.] - -My humble duetie remembred to your good L. I vnderstand that one -Francis Langley, one of the Alneagers for sealing of cloth, intendeth -to erect a niew stage or Theater (as they call it) for thexercising -of playes vpon the Banck side. And forasmuch as wee fynd by daily -experience the great inconuenience that groweth to this Citie & the -government thearof by the sayed playes, I haue embouldened my self to -bee an humble suiter to your good L. to bee a means for vs rather to -suppresse all such places built for that kynd of exercise, then to -erect any more of the same sort. I am not ignorant (my very good L.) -what is alleadged by soom for defence of these playes, that the people -must haue soom kynd of recreation, & that policie requireth to divert -idle heads & other ill disposed from other woorse practize by this kynd -of exercize. Whearto may bee answeared (which your good L. for your -godly wisedom can far best iudge of) that as honest recreation is a -thing very meet for all sorts of men, so no kynd of exercise, beeing -of itself corrupt & prophane, can well stand with the good policie -of a Christian Common Wealth. And that the sayed playes (as they are -handled) ar of that sort, and woork that effect in such as ar present -and frequent the same, may soon bee decerned by all that haue any -godly vnderstanding & that obserue the fruites & effects of the same, -conteining nothing ells but vnchast fables, lascivious divises, shifts -of cozenage, & matters of lyke sort, which ar so framed & represented -by them, that such as resort to see & hear the same, beeing of the base -& refuse sort of people or such yoong gentlemen as haue small regard -of credit or conscience, draue the same into example of imitation & -not of avoyding the sayed lewd offences. Which may better appear by -the qualitie of such as frequent the sayed playes, beeing the ordinary -places of meeting for all vagrant persons & maisterles men that hang -about the Citie, theeues, horsestealers, whoremoongers, coozeners, -conny-catching persones, practizers of treason, & such other lyke, -whear they consort and make their matches to the great displeasure of -Almightie God & the hurt and annoyance of hir Maiesties people, both -in this Citie & other places about, which cannot be clensed of this -vngodly sort (which by experience wee fynd to bee the very sinck & -contagion not only of this Citie but of this whole Realm), so long as -these playes & places of resort ar by authoritie permitted. I omit -to trouble your L. with any farther matter how our apprentices and -servants ar by this means corrupted & induced hear by to defraud their -Maisters, to maintein their vain & prodigall expenses occasioned by -such evill and riotous companie, whearinto they fall by these kynd of -meetings, to the great hinderance of the trades & traders inhabiting -this Citie, and how people of all sorts ar withdrawen thearby from -their resort vnto sermons & other Christian exercise, to the great -sclaunder of the ghospell & prophanation of the good & godly religion -established within this Realm. All which disorders hauing observed & -found to bee true, I thought it my duetie, beeing now called to this -publique place, to infourm your good L., whome I know to bee a patrone -of religion & lover of virtue & an honourable a friend to the State -of this Citie, humbly beeseaching you to voutchsafe mee your help for -the stay & suppressing, not only of this which is now intended, by -directing your lettres to the Iustices of peace of Middlesex & Surrey, -but of all other places, if possibly it may bee, whear the sayed playes -ar shewed & frequented. And thus crauing pardon for this ouer much -length I humbly take my leaue. From London the 3. of November. 1594. - - Your L. most humble. - -To the right honourable my very good L. the L. high Treasurer of -England. - - - ciii. - - [1595, Sept. 13. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen to the Privy - Council, printed _M. S. C._ i. 76, from _Remembrancia_, ii. 103.] - -[Sidenote: Toutching the putting doune of the plaies at the Theater & -Bankside which is a great cause of disorder in the Citie:] - -Our humble duty remembred to your good LL. & the rest. Wee haue been -bold heartofore to signify to your HH: the great inconvenyence that -groweth to this Cytie by the common exercise of Stage Plaies, whear in -wee presumed to be the more often & earnest suters to your HH: for the -suppressing of the said Stage Plaies, aswell in respect of the good -government of this Cytie, (which wee desire to be such as her Highnes & -your HH: might be pleased thearwithall), as for conscience sake being -perswaded (vnder correccion of your HH. Iudgment) that neither in -policye nor in religion they ar to be permitted in a Christian Common -wealthe, specially being of that frame & making as vsually they are, & -conteyning nothing but profane fables, Lasciuious matters, cozonning -devizes, & other vnseemly & scurrilous behaviours, which ar so sett -forthe, as that they move wholy to imitacion & not to the avoyding of -those vyces which they represent, which wee verely think to bee the -cheef cause, aswell of many other disorders & lewd demeanors which -appeer of late in young people of all degrees, as of the late stirr & -mutinous attempt of those fiew apprentices and other servantes, who -wee doubt not driew their infection from these & like places. Among -other inconveniences it is not the least that the refuse sort of evill -disposed & vngodly people about this Cytie haue oportunitie hearby -to assemble together & to make their matches for all their lewd & -vngodly practizes: being also the ordinary places for all maisterles -men & vagabond persons that haunt the high waies to meet together & to -recreate themselfes. Whearof wee begin to haue experienc again within -these fiew daies, since it pleased her highnes to revoke her Comission -graunted forthe to the Provost Marshall, for fear of whome they retired -themselfes for the time into other partes out of his precinct, but -ar now retorned to their old haunt & frequent the Plaies (as their -manner is) that ar daily shewed at the Theator & Bankside: Whearof will -follow the same inconveniences whearof wee haue had to much experienc -heartofore, ffor preventing whearof wee ar humble suters to your good -LL: & the rest to direct your lettres to the Iustices of peac of Surrey -& Middlesex for the present stay & finall suppressing of the said -Plaies, aswell at the Theator & Bankside as in all other places about -the Cytie. Whearby wee doubt not but, the oportunytie & very cause -of so great disorders being taken away, wee shalbe able to keepe the -people of this Cytie in such good order & due obedienc, as that her -highnes & your HH: shalbe well pleased & content thearwithall. And so -most humbly wee take our Leaue. From London the xiijth of September. -1595. - - Your HH: most humble. - -To the right honourable the LL: & others of her Maiesties most -honourable privy Counsell. - - - civ. - - [1596, July 22. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxvi. 38.] - -Letters to the Justices of Middlesex and Surrey to restrayne the -players from shewing or using anie plaies or interludes in the places -usuall about the citty of London, for that by drawing of muche people -together increase of sicknes is feared. - - - cv. - - [1596, _c._ Sept. Extract from letter of T. Nashe to William - Cotton, printed with facsimile by McKerrow, _Nashe_, v. 194, - from _Cotton MS. Julius_, C. iii, f. 280. Internal evidence - bears out the ‘T. Nashe’ subscribed in a nineteenth-century - hand. The original signature has gone, but the top of ‘N’ was - declared to be visible by Collier, who printed the letter in _H. - E. D. P._ (1831), i. 303; it is also in Grosart, _Nashe_, i. - lxi. The date is suggested by an allusion to the return of Essex - from Cadiz on 10 Aug. 1596, and the beginning of term on 9 Oct. - 1596. Allusions to Harington’s _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (S. R. 30 - Oct. 1596) might point to a rather later date, but Harington’s - dedication is dated 3 Aug. 1596, and the first issue may not - have been registered.] - -Sir this tedious dead vacation is to mee as vnfortunate as a terme at -Hertford or St. Albons to poore cuntry clients or Iack Cades rebellion -to the lawyers, wherein they hanged vp the L. cheife iustice. In towne -I stayd (being earnestly inuited elsewhere) vpon had I wist hopes, & -an after harvest I expected by writing for the stage & for the presse, -when now the players as if they had writt another Christs tears, ar -piteously persecuted by the L. Maior & the aldermen, & howeuer in there -old Lords tyme they thought there state setled, it is now so vncertayne -they cannot build vpon it. - - - cvi. - - [1596, Nov. Petition by Inhabitants of Blackfriars to Privy - Council, printed by Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 304, from undated - copy assignable by the handwriting to c. 1631 in _S. P. D. - Eliz._ cclx. 116. The date is given by No. cvii; cf. Bk. iv, - s.v. Blackfriars. The document has been suspected as a forgery, - but is probably genuine, although it is odd to find Lord Hunsdon - as a signatory, since one would have supposed that he could - influence James Burbage through his son Richard, who was one of - Hunsdon’s players. Collier, who first produced it, misdated it - 1576, and used it to support a theory that the Blackfriars was - built in 1576 (i. 219). Curiously enough, he used it again for - 1596 (i. 287), and added to it an alleged counter-petition by - the Chamberlain’s men, now in _S. P. D. Eliz._ cclx. 117, which - is certainly a forgery. Hunsdon was not Chamberlain in Nov. - 1596.] - -To the right honorable the Lords and others of her Majesties most -honorable Privy Councell,--Humbly shewing and beseeching your honors, -the inhabitants of the precinct of the Blackfryers, London, that -whereas one Burbage hath lately bought certaine roomes in the same -precinct neere adjoyning unto the dwelling houses of the right -honorable the Lord Chamberlaine and the Lord of Hunsdon, which romes -the said Burbage is now altering and meaneth very shortly to convert -and turne the same into a comon playhouse, which will grow to be a -very great annoyance and trouble, not only to all the noblemen and -gentlemen thereabout inhabiting but allso a generall inconvenience -to all the inhabitants of the same precinct, both by reason of the -great resort and gathering togeather of all manner of vagrant and -lewde persons that, under cullor of resorting to the playes, will come -thither and worke all manner of mischeefe, and allso to the great -pestring and filling up of the same precinct, yf it should please -God to send any visitation of sicknesse as heretofore hath been, for -that the same precinct is allready growne very populous; and besides, -that the same playhouse is so neere the Church that the noyse of -the drummes and trumpetts will greatly disturbe and hinder both the -ministers and parishioners in tyme of devine service and sermons;--In -tender consideracion wherof, as allso for that there hath not at -any tyme heretofore been used any comon playhouse within the same -precinct, but that now all players being banished by the Lord Mayor -from playing within the Cittie by reason of the great inconveniences -and ill rule that followeth them, they now thincke to plant them -selves in liberties;--That therefore it would please your honors to -take order that the same roomes may be converted to some other use, -and that no playhouse may be used or kept there; and your suppliants -as most bounden shall and will dayly pray for your Lordships in all -honor and happines long to live. Elizabeth Russell, dowager; G. -Hunsdon; Henry Bowes; Thomas Browne; John Crooke; William Meredith; -Stephen Egerton; Richard Lee; ... Smith; William Paddy; William de -Lavine; Francis Hinson; John Edwards; Andrew Lyons; Thomas Nayle; Owen -Lochard; John Robbinson; Thomas Homes; Richard Feild; William Watts; -Henry Boice; Edward Ley; John Clarke; William Bispham; Robert Baheire; -Ezechiell Major; Harman Buckholt; John Le Mere; John Dollin; Ascanio de -Renialmire; John Wharton. - - - cvii. - - [1596, Nov. Extract from Petition of _c._ Jan. 1619 from - Constables and Inhabitants of Blackfriars to Lord Mayor and - Aldermen, printed in _M. S. C._ i. 90, from _Remembrancia_, v. - 28; cf. Bk. iv, s.v. Blackfriars.] - -Sheweth That whereas in Nouember 1596, diuers both honorable persons -and others then inhabitinge the said precinct, made knowne to the -Lordes and others of the privie Counsell, what inconveniencies -where likelie to fall vpon them, by a common Playhouse which was -then preparinge to bee erected there, wherevpon their Honours then -forbadd the vse of the said howse, for playes, as by the peticion and -indorsemente in aunswere thereof may appeare. - - - cviii. - - [1597, May 6. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxvii. 97.] - -A letter to the High Sheriff of Suffolk, William Foorth, John Gurdall -and ---- Clopton, esquires. We do understand by your letter of the third -of this instant of a purpose in the towne of Hadley to make certaine -stage playes at this time of the Whitson holydaies next ensuinge, and -thether to draw a concourse of people out of the country thereaboutes, -pretending heerein the benefit of the towne, which purpose we do -utterly mislike, doubting what inconveniences may follow thereon, -especially at this tyme of scarcety, when disordred people of the comon -sort wilbe apt to misdemeane themselves. We do therefore require you -straightly to prohibite the officers and all others in the towne of -Hadley not (_sic_) to goe forward with the sayd playes and to -cause the stage prepared for them to be plucked downe, letting them -know that they are to obey this our order as they will answere it at -their perill. We thanck you for the care you take to keepe the country -in good order. And so, &c. - - - cix. - - [1597, July 28. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen to the Privy - Council, printed _M. S. C._ i. 78, from _Remembrancia_, ii. 171.] - -[Sidenote: To the Lords against Stage playes.] - -Our humble dutyes remembred to your good LL. & the rest. Wee haue -signifyed to your HH. many tymes heartofore the great inconvenience -which wee fynd to grow by the Common exercise of Stage Playes. Wee -presumed to doo, aswell in respect of the dutie wee beare towardes her -highnes for the good gouernment of this her Citie, as for conscience -sake, beinge perswaded (vnder correction of your HH. iudgment) that -neither in politie nor in religion they are to be suffered in a -Christian Commonwealth, specially beinge of that frame & matter as -vsually they are, conteining nothinge but prophane fables, lascivious -matters, cozeninge devises, & scurrilus beehaviours, which are so set -forth as that they move wholie to imitation & not to the auoydinge of -those faults & vices which they represent. Amonge other inconveniences -it is not the least that they give opportunity to the refuze sort of -euill disposed & vngodly people, that are within and abowte this Cytie, -to assemble themselves & to make their matches for all their lewd & -vngodly practices; being as heartofore wee haue fownd by th’examinaton -of divers apprentices & other seruantes whoe have confessed vnto vs -that the said Staige playes were the very places of theire Randevous -appoynted by them to meete with such otheir as wear to ioigne with them -in theire designes & mutinus attemptes, beeinge allso the ordinarye -places for maisterles men to come together & to recreate themselves. -For avoyding wheareof wee are now againe most humble & earnest sutours -to your honours to dirrect your lettres aswell to our selves as to the -Iustices of peace of Surrey & Midlesex for the present staie & fynall -suppressinge of the saide Stage playes, aswell at the Theatre, Curten, -and banckside, as in all other places in and abowt the Citie, Wheareby -wee doubt not but, th’opportunitie & the very cause of many disorders -beinge taken away, wee shalbee more able to keepe the worse sort of -such evell & disordered people in better order then heartofore wee haue -been. And so most humbly wee take our leaves. From London the xxviijth -of Iulie. 1597. - - Your HH most humble. - -[Sidenote: The inconueniences that grow by Stage playes abowt the Citie -of London.] - -1. They are a speaciall cause of corrupting their Youth, conteninge -nothinge but vnchast matters, lascivious devices, shiftes of Coozenage, -& other lewd & vngodly practizes, being so as that they impresse the -very qualitie & corruption of manners which they represent, Contrary to -the rules & art prescribed for the makinge of Comedies eaven amonge the -Heathen, who vsed them seldom & at certen sett tymes, and not all the -year longe as our manner is. Whearby such as frequent them, beinge of -the base & refuze sort of people or such young gentlemen as haue small -regard of credit or conscience, drawe the same into imitacion and not -to the avoidinge the like vices which they represent. - -2. They are the ordinary places for vagrant persons, Maisterles men, -thieves, horse stealers, whoremongers, Coozeners, Conycatchers, -contrivers of treason, and other idele and daungerous persons to meet -together & to make theire matches to the great displeasure of Almightie -God & the hurt & annoyance of her Maiesties people, which cannot be -prevented nor discovered by the Gouernours of the Citie for that they -are owt of the Citiees iurisdiction. - -3. They maintaine idlenes in such persons as haue no vocation & draw -apprentices and other seruantes from theire ordinary workes and all -sortes of people from the resort vnto sermons and other Christian -exercises, to the great hinderance of traides & prophanation of -religion established by her highnes within this Realm. - -4. In the time of sicknes it is fownd by experience, that many hauing -sores and yet not hart sicke take occasion hearby to walk abroad & to -recreat themselves by heareinge a play. Whearby others are infected, -and them selves also many things miscarry. - - - cx. - - [1597, July 28. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxvii. - 313.] - -A letter to Robert Wrothe, William Fleetwood, John Barne, Thomas -Fowler and Richard Skevington, esquires, and the rest of the Justices -of Middlesex nerest to London. Her Majestie being informed that there -are verie greate disorders committed in the common playhouses both -by lewd matters that are handled on the stages and by resorte and -confluence of bad people, hathe given direction that not onlie no -plaies shalbe used within London or about the citty or in any publique -place during this tyme of sommer, but that also those play houses that -are erected and built only for suche purposes shalbe plucked downe, -namelie the Curtayne and the Theatre nere to Shorditch or any other -within that county. Theis are therfore in her Majesty’s name to chardge -and commaund you that you take present order there be no more plaies -used in any publique place within three myles of the citty untill -Alhalloutide next, and likewyse that you do send for the owners of the -Curtayne Theatre or anie other common playhouse and injoyne them by -vertue hereof forthwith to plucke downe quite the stages, gallories -and roomes that are made for people to stand in, and so to deface the -same as they maie not be ymploied agayne to suche use, which yf they -shall not speedely perform you shall advertyse us, that order maie -be taken to see the same don according to her Majesty’s pleasure and -commaundment. And hereof praying you not to faile, we, &c. - -The like to Mr. Bowier, William Gardyner and Bartholomew Scott, -esquires, and the rest of the Justices of Surrey, requiring them to -take the like order for the playhouses in the Banckside, in Southwarke -or elswhere in the said county within iij^e miles of London. - - - cxi. - - [1597, Aug. 15. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxvii. - 338.] - -A letter to Richard Topclyfe, Thomas Fowler and Richard Skevington, -esquires, Doctour Fletcher and Mr. Wilbraham. Uppon informacion given -us of a lewd plaie that was plaied in one of the plaiehowses on the -Bancke Side, contanynge very seditious and sclanderous matter, wee -caused some of the players to be apprehended and comytted to pryson, -whereof one of them was not only an actor but a maker of parte of the -said plaie. For as moche as yt ys thought meete that the rest of the -players or actors in that matter shalbe apprehended to receave soche -punyshment as theire leude and mutynous behavior doth deserve, these -shalbe therefore to require you to examine those of the plaiers that -are comytted, whose names are knowne to you, Mr. Topclyfe, what ys -become of the rest of theire fellowes that either had theire partes in -the devysinge of that sedytious matter or that were actors or plaiers -in the same, what copies they have given forth of the said playe and -to whome, and soch other pointes as you shall thincke meete to be -demaunded of them, wherein you shall require them to deale trulie as -they will looke to receave anie favour. Wee praie you also to peruse -soch papers as were fownde in Nash his lodgings, which Ferrys, a -Messenger of the Chamber, shall delyver unto you, and to certyfie us -th’examynacions you take. So, &c. - - - cxii. - - [1597, Oct. 8. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxviii. 33. - A note dates the actual signing of the warrants on Oct. 3.] - -A warrant to the Keeper of the Marshalsea to release Gabriell Spencer -and Robert Shaa, stage-players, out of prison, who were of lat comitted -to his custodie. - -The like warrant for the releasing of Benjamin Johnson. - - - cxiii. - - [1598, Feb. 9. Extract from _An Acte for punyshment of Rogues - Vagabondes and Sturdy Beggars_ (_39 Eliz._ c. 4, printed in - _Statutes_, iv. 899). The Act was continued, subject as regards - John Dutton to legal proof of his claim, by _43 Eliz._ c. 9, in - 1601 (_St._ iv. 973).] - -[§ 1.] From and after the Feaste of Easter next comminge [16 April -1598], all Statutes heretofore made for the punyshment of Rogues -Vagabondes or Sturdy Beggers ... shall ... be utterly repealed.... - -[§ 2.] All Fencers Bearewardes common Players of Enterludes and -Minstrelles wandring abroade (other than Players of Enterludes -belonging to any Baron of this Realme, or any other honorable Personage -of greater Degree, to be auctoryzed to play, under the Hand and Seale -of Armes of such Baron or Personage) ... shalbe taken adjudged and -deemed Rogues Vagabondes and Sturdy Beggers, and shall susteyne such -Payne and Punyshment as by this Acte is in that behalfe appointed. - -[§ 3.] Every person which is by this presente Acte declared to be -a Rogue Vagabonde or Sturdy Begger, which shalbe ... taken begging -vagrant wandering or mysordering themselves in any part of this Realme -..., shall uppon their apprehension by thappoyntment of any Justice of -the Peace Constable Hedborough or Tythingman of the same County Hundred -Parish or Tything where suche person shalbe taken, the Tythingman or -Headborow being assisted therein with thadvise of the Minister and one -other of that Parrish, be stripped naked from the middle upwardes and -shall be openly whipped untill his or her body be bloudye, and shalbe -forthwith sent from Parish to Parish by the Officers of every the same, -the nexte streighte way to the Parish where he was borne, if the same -may be knowen by the Partyes confession or otherwyse; and yf the same -be not knowen, then to the Parish where he or she last dwelte before -the same Punyshment by the space of one whole yeare, there to put him -or her selfe to labour as a true Subject ought to do; or not being -knowen where he or she was borne or last dwelte, then to the Parish -through which he or she last passed without Punyshment. - -[§ 4.] Yf any of the said Rogues shall appeare to be dangerous to the -inferior sorte of People where they shalbe taken, or otherwyse be such -as will not be reformed of their rogish kinde of lyfe by the former -Provisions of this Acte, ... it shall and may be laufull to the said -Justices of the Lymittes where any such Rogue shalbe taken, or any two -of them, whereof one to be of the Quorum, to commit that Rogue to the -House of Correccion, or otherwyse to the Gaole of that County, there to -remaine untill their next Quarter Sessions to be holden in that County, -and then such of the same Rogues so committed, as by the Justices of -the Peace then and there presente or the most parte of them shalbe -thought fitt not to be delivered, shall and may lawfully by the same -Justices or the more parte of them be banysshed out of this Realme.... -And if any such Rogue so banyshed as aforesaid shall returne agayne -into any part of this Realme or Domynion of Wales without lawfull -Lycence or Warrant so to do, that in every such case such Offence -shalbe Felony, and the Party offending therein suffer Death as in case -of Felony. - -[§ 10.] Reserves privileges of John Dutton. - - - cxiv. - - [1598, Feb. 19. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxviii. - 327.] - -A letter to the Master of the Revelles and Justices of Peace of -Middlesex and Surrey. Whereas licence hath bin graunted unto two -companies of stage players retayned unto us, the Lord Admyral and -Lord Chamberlain, to use and practise stage playes, whereby they -might be the better enhabled and prepared to shew such plaies before -her Majestie as they shalbe required at tymes meete and accustomed, -to which ende they have bin cheefelie licensed and tollerated as -aforesaid, and whereas there is also a third company who of late (as -wee are informed) have by waie of intrusion used likewise to play, -having neither prepared any plaie for her Majestie nor are bound to -you, the Masters of the Revelles, for perfourming such orders as -have bin prescribed and are enjoyned to be observed by the other two -companies before mencioned. Wee have therefore thought good to require -you uppon receipt heereof to take order that the aforesaid third -company may be suppressed and none suffered heereafter to plaie but -those two formerlie named belonging to us, the Lord Admyrall and Lord -Chamberlaine, unles you shall receave other direccion from us. And so, -&c. - - - cxv. - - [1598, May 1. Abstract from Vestry records of St. Saviour’s, - Southwark, by W. Rendle, _Bankside_, vi, in Harrison, ii, - App. i.] - -It had been ordered, May 1, 1598, that Mr. Langley’s new buildings -shall be viewed--they were near to the Paris Garden playhouse--and that -Mr. Henslowe and Jacob Meade shall be moved for money for the poor on -account of the playhouses. - - - cxvi. - - [1598, July 19. Extract from Vestry records of St. Saviour’s, - Southwark, printed in _Variorum_, iii. 452, and by W. Rendle, - _Bankside_, v, in Harrison, ii, App. i.] - -It is ordered at this vestrye that a petition shal be made to the bodye -of the councell concerninge the play houses in this pareshe, wherein -the enormeties shal be showed that comes therebye to the pareshe, -and that in respect thereof they may be dismissed and put down from -playing, and that iiij or ij of the churchwardens, Mr. Howse, Mr. -Garlonde, Mr. John Payne, Mr. Humble, or ij of them, and Mr. Russell -and Mr. Ironmonger, or one of them, shall prosecute the cause with a -collector of the Boroughside and another of the Bankside. - - - cxvii. - - [1600, Jan. 12. Warrant from Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, - Lord Admiral, printed by W. W. Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, - 49, from _Dulwich MS._ i. 27; also by Collier, _Alleyn - Memoirs_, 55.] - -Weareas my Servant Edward Allen (in respect of the dangerous decaye -of that Howse which he and his Companye haue nowe, on the Banck, and -for that the same standeth verie noysome for resorte of people in the -wynter tyme) Hath thearfore nowe of late taken a plott of grounde neere -Redcrossestreete London (verie fitt and convenient) for the buildinge -of a new Howse theare, and hath prouided Tymber and other necessaries -for theffectinge theareof, to his greate chardge: Forasmuche as the -place standeth verie convenient for the ease of People, and that -her Maiestie (in respect of the acceptable Service, which my saide -Servant and his Companie haue doen and presented before her Highenes -to her greate likeinge and Contentment, aswell this last Christmas -as att sondrie other tymes) ys gratiouslie moued towardes them, with -a speciall regarde of fauor in their proceedinges: Theis shalbe -thearefore to praie and requier youe, and everie of youe, To permitt -and suffer my saide Servant to proceede in theffectinge and finishinge -of the saide New howse, without anie your lett or molestation, towardes -him or any of his woorkmen. And soe not doubtinge of your observacion -in this behalf, I bidd youe right hartelie farewell. Att the Courte, at -Richmond, the xijth of Januarye, 1599. - - Notingham. - -To all & euery her maiesties Justices & other Ministers, and Officers, -within the Countye of Middlesex, & to euery of them, And to all others -whome it shall Concerne: - - - cxviii. - - [1600, March 9. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxx. 146.] - -A letter to Sir Drew Drewry, knight, William Waad, esquier, Clerke -of the Councell, Thomas Fowler, Edward Vaughan and Nicholas Collyns, -esquires, Justices of the Peace in the countie of Middlesex. Wee are -given to understand by our very good Lord the Lord Willoughby and -other gentlemen and inhabitauntes in the parishe of St. Giles without -Creplegate that there is a purpose and intent in some persons to -erect a theatre in White Crosstreete, neere unto the Barres in that -parte that ys in the countie of Middlesex, wherof ther are to manie -allreadie not farr from that place, and as you knowe not longe sithence -you receaved spetiall direction to pluck downe those and to see them -defaced, therefore yf this newe erection should be suffered yt would -not onlie be an offence and scandall to divers, but a thinge that would -greatly dysplease her Majestie. These are therefore to will and require -you in any case to take order that no soche theatre or plaiehowse be -built there, or other howse to serve for soche use, both to avoide -the many inconveniences that therby are lyklie to ensue to all the -inhabitantes, and the offence that would be to her Majestie, havinge -heretofore given sufficient notice unto you of the great myslyke -her Highnes hath of those publicke and vayne buildinge[s] for soche -occacions that breed increase of base and lewde people and divers other -disorders. Therefore wee require you not to faile forthwith to take -order that the foresaid intended buildinge maie be staied, and yf any -be begone, to see the same quite defaced. So, &c. - - - cxix. - - [1600, March 28. Extract from Vestry records of St. Saviour’s, - Southwark, printed in _Variorum_, iii. 452, and by W. Rendle, - _Bankside_, v, in Harrison, ii, App. i.] - -It is ordered that the churchwardens shall talk with the players for -tithes for their playhouses within the liberty of the Clinke, and for -money for the poore, according to the order taken before my lords of -Canterbury and London and the Master of the Revels. - - - cxx. - - [1600, April 1. Abstract of entry in Roll of the General - Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex, printed by J. C. - Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County Records_, i. 260. The - proclamation referred to must, I suppose, be the old one of 1559 - (No. x). I do not know of any Star Chamber order about plays, - but it is quite possible that one was made in 1597, and not - recorded in the Council Registers, as the Star Chamber had its - own Clerk, distinct from those of the Privy Council.] - -Recognizance ... of John Wolf of Eastsmithfield, co. Midd. Stationer, -in the sum of forty pounds; The condition of the recognizance being -‘that, whereas the abovebounden John Wolf hathe begun to erecte and -builde a Playhowse in Nightingale Lane near East Smithefeilde aforesaid -contrary to Her Majesties proclamacion and orders sett downe in Her -Highenes Court of Starrchamber. If therefore the said John Wolf do not -proceede anie further in buildinge or erectinge of the same playhowse, -unless he shall procure sufficient warrant from the Rt. Honourable the -Lords of Her Majesties most honourable Privye Councill for further ... -then this recognizaunce to be void or els to remaine in full force.’ - - - cxxi. - - [_c._ 1600, April. Certificate of the Inhabitants of Finsbury to - the Privy Council, printed by W. W. Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 50, - from _Dulwich MS._ i. 28; also by Collier, _Alleyn Memoirs_, 58.] - - To the righte honorable the Lordes and others of her - maiesties most honorable privie Councell: - -In all humblenes, wee the Inhabitantes of the Lordshipp of Fynisburye, -within the parrishe of St. Gyles without Creplegate, London, doe -certifie vnto your honnours, That wheare the Servantes of the right -honorable Earle of Nottingham haue latelie gone aboute to erect and -sett vpp a newe Playehowse within the said Lordshipp, Wee could be -contented, that the same might proceede and be Tollerated (Soe it -stande with your honnours pleasuers) ffor the reasons and Causes -followeinge. - -First because the Place appoynted oute for that purpose Standeth very -tollerable, neere vnto the ffeildes, and soe farr distant and remote -frome any person or Place of accompt, as that none cann be Annoyed -thearbie: - -Secondlie because the Erectours of the saied howse are contented to -give a very liberall porcion of money weekelie, towardes the releef of -our Poore, The nomber & necessity whereof is soe greate that the same -will redounde to the contynuall comfort of the saied Poore: - -Thirdlie and lastlie wee are the rather Contented to accept this meanes -of releif of our Poore, because our Parrishe is not able to releeue -them, neither hath the Justices of the Sheire taken any order, for -any Supplie oute of the Countrye, as is enioyned by the late Acte of -Parliamente: - -[Twenty-seven signatures follow.] - -[Endorsed] The Certificate of the Inhabitantes of the Lordship of -Fynisburye of theire Consent to the Tolleracion of the Erection of a -newe Plaiehowse theare. - - - cxxii. - - [1600, April 8. Privy Council to the Justices of Middlesex, - printed by W. W. Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 51, from _Dulwich MS._ - i. 29; also by Collier, _Alleyn Memoirs_, 57.] - -After our hartie comendacions. Whereas her Maiestie (haveinge been -well pleased heeretofere at tymes of recreacion with the services of -Edward Allen and his Companie, Servantes to me the Earle of Nottingham, -wheareof, of late he hath made discontynuance) hath sondrye tymes -signified her pleasuer, that he should revive the same agayne: -Forasmuche as he hath bestowed a greate some of money, not onelie for -the Title of a plott of grounde, scituat in a verie remote and exempt -place neere Goulding lane, theare to erect a newe house, but alsoe is -in good forwardnes aboute the frame and woorkmanshipp theareof; the -convenience of which place for that purpose ys testified vnto vs vnder -the handes of manie of the Inhabitantes of the Libertie of Fynisbury, -wheare it is, and recomended by some of the Justices them selves. Wee -thearfore havinge informed her Maiestie lykewise of the decaye of -the house, wherein this Companye latelie plaied, scituate vppon the -Bancke, verie noysome for the resorte of people in the wynter tyme, -haue receaued order to requier youe to Tollerate the proceedinge of the -saide New howse neere Goulding lane, and doe heerbye requier youe and -everie of youe to permitt and suffer the said Edward Allen to proceede -in theffectinge and finishinge of the same Newe howse, without anie -your lett or interrupcion, towardes him, or anye of his woorkmen, the -rather because an other howse is pulled downe, in steade of yt. And -soe, not doubtinge of your conformitye heerin, wee comitt youe to God. -Frome the Courte at Richmond the viijth of Aprill 1600. - - Your lovinge frendes - - Notingham - G Hunsdon - Ro: Cecyll - -To the Justices of Peace of the Countye of Middlesex especially of St. -Gyles without Creplegate, and to all others whome it shall Concerne. - - - cxxiii. - - [1600, May 15. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxx. 327. - Bromvill had performed at court on 12 May (cf. App. A).] - -An open letter to the Justices of Peace in the countie of Surrey, -and to all others her Majesty’s officers and lovinge subjectes in -that county or burrough of Southwark to whome yt shall appertain, -&c. Whereas the bearer Peter Bromvill hath bene recommended unto her -Majestie from her good brother the French Kinge and hath shewed some -feates of great activity before her Highnes, her Majestie ys pleased -to afforde him her gratious favor and leave to exercyse and shewe the -same in soch publicke place as maie be convenient for soche exercyses -and shewes, and because for the present he hath made choice of a place -called the Swann, in old Parys Garden, beinge the howse of Francis -Langley, these shalbe to let you understand her Majesty’s good pleasure -in his behalfe, and to require you not onlie to permytt him there to -shewe his feates of activitye at convenient tymes in that place without -let or interrupcion, but to assyst him (as there shalbe occacion) that -no abuse be offered him. - -_Postscript_ of Mr. Secretary’s hand. It ys not meant that he shall -exercyse upon any Sabothe day. - - - cxxiv. - - [1600, June 22. Order of the Privy Council, printed _M.S.C._ i. - 80, from _Remembrancia_, ii. 188; also by Dasent, xxx. 395, and - Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 307, from minute in Council Register. - The examiner’s note at the end is by one of the Clerks of the - Council. The original draft of the order has been altered in the - Register, and there is a marginal note by Thomas Smith that ‘the - alteracion and interlyning of this order was by reason that the - said order after the same was entred in the Booke came againe in - question and debate, and the said interlyninge and amendementes - were sett downe according to the laste determinacion of their - Lordships’. Evidently the interlineations were important, and - they are therefore marked below with square brackets, although - of course they do not appear as such in the _Remembrancia_ copy, - which agrees substantially with the final draft in the Register. - Dasent found the cancelled passages in the Register illegible.] - -[Sidenote: An order sett downe by the lordes and others of hir -Maiesties pruiye Councell the 22 of Iune 1600 to restrain the excessiue -number of Plaie howses & the imoderate vse of Stage plaies in & about -the Cittye.] - -Whereas diuers Complaintes haue bin heretofore made vnto the Lordes and -others of hir Maiesties privie Counsaile of the manifold abuses and -disorders that haue growen and doe Continew by occasion of many howses -erected & emploied in and aboute the Cittie of London for common Stage -Plaies. And nowe verie latelie, by reason of some Complainte exhibited -by sondrie persons against the buildinge of the like house in or nere -Goldinge Lane by one Edward Allen, a seruant of the right honorable -the Lo: Admirall, the matter, aswell in generalitie touchinge all the -said houses for Stage Plaies and the vse of playenge, as in particuler -concerninge the said house now in hand to be builte in or neere -Goldinge Lane, hath bin brought into question & Consultacion amonge -theire LL. Forasmuch as yt is manifestlie knowne and graunted that the -multitude of the said houses and the misgouerment of them hath bin made -and is dailie occasion of the idle riotous and dissolute livinge of -great numbers of people, that leavinge all such honest and painefull -Course of life, as they should followe, doe meete and assemble there, -and of maine particuler abuses and disorders that doe there vppon -ensue. And yet neuerthelesse yt is Considered that the vse and exercise -of suche plaies, not beinge euill in yt self, may with a good order -and moderacion be suffered in a well gouerned estate, and that, hir -Maiestie beinge pleased at some times to take delighte and recreacion -in the sight and hearinge of them, some order is fitt to bee taken -for the allowance and mainteinance of suche persons, as are thoughte -meetest in that kinde to yeald hir Maiestie recreacion and delight, & -consequentlie of the howses that must serue for publique playenge to -keepe them in exercise. To the end therefore, that bothe the greatest -abuses of the plaies and plaienge houses maye be redressed, and the -vse and moderacion of them retained, The Lordes and the rest of hir -Maiesties privie Councell, withe one and full Consent, haue ordered in -manner and forme as followeth. - -First, that there shall bee about the Cittie two howses and noe more -allowed to serue for the vse of the Common Stage plaies, of the which -howses one shalbe in Surrey in that place which is Commonlie called -the banckside or there aboutes, and the other in Midlesex. And foras -muche as there Lordshippes haue bin enformed by Edmond Tylney Esquire, -hir Maiesties seruant and Master of the Reuells, that the howse now in -hand to be builte by the said Edward Allen is not intended to encrease -the number of the Plaiehowses, but to be in steed of an other, namelie -the Curtaine, Which is either to be ruined and plucked downe or to be -putt to some other good vse, as also that the scituacion thereof is -meete and Conuenient for that purpose. Yt is likewise ordered that the -said howse of Allen shall be allowed to be one of the two howses, and -namelie for the house to be alowed in Middlesex, [for the Companie -of Plaiers belonging to the L: Admirall], soe as the house Called -the Curtaine be (as yt is pretended) either ruinated or applied to -some other good vse. And for the other allowed to be on Surrey side, -whereas [there Lordshipps are pleased to permitt] to the Companie of -players that shall plaie there to make there owne Choice which they -will haue [of diuers houses that are there], Choosinge one of them and -noe more, [And the said Companie of Plaiers, being the Seruantes of the -L. Chamberlen, that are to plaie there haue made choise of the house -called the Globe, yt is ordered that the said house and none other -shall be there allowed]. And especiallie yt is forbidden that anie -stage plaies shalbe plaied (as sometimes they haue bin) in any Common -Inn for publique assemblie in or neare about the Cittie. - -Secondlie, forasmuche as these stage plaies, by the multitude of -houses and Companie of players, haue bin too frequent, not seruing for -recreacion but inviting and Callinge the people daily from there trad -and worke to mispend there time, It is likewise ordered that the two -seuerall Companies of Plaiers assigned vnto the two howses allowed -maie play each of them in there seuerall howse twice a weeke and noe -oftener, and especially that they shall refraine to play on the Sabboth -daie, vppon paine of imprisonment and further penaltie, and that they -shall forbeare altogether in the time of Lent, and likewise at such -time and times as anie extraordinarie sicknes or infeccion of disease -shall appeare to be in and about the Cittie. - -Thirdlie, because these orders wilbe of litle force and effecte vnlesse -they be dulie putt in execucion by those to whome yt appertaineth to -see them executed, It is ordered that seuerall Coppies shall be sent -to the L. Mayor of London, and to the Iustices of the Peace of the -Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and that Lettres should be written -vnto them from there Lordshipps, straightlye Charginge them to see the -execucion of the same, as well by Committinge to prison the owners of -Plaiehouses and players as shall disobey & resist these orders, as by -anie other good and lawfull meanes that in there discretion they shall -finde expedient, And to certifie there Lordshipps from time to time, as -they shall se Cause, of there proceedinges therein. - - Examinatum per Tho: Smithe. - - - cxxv. - - [1600, June 22. Minute of Privy Council for letters conveying - No. cxxiv, printed by Dasent, xxx. 411, and Halliwell-Phillipps, - i. 308, from Council Register.] - -Letter of this tenour to the Lord Maiour of London, the Justices of -the Peace of the counties of Midlesex and Surrey. By occasion of some -complaintes that of late have bin made unto us of the multitude of -houses servinge for common stage-playes in and aboute the citty of -London, and of the greate abuses and disorders growen by the overmuch -haunte and resorte of many licentious people unto those houses and -places, we have entred into consideracion of some fitt course to -be taken for redresse of the saide disorders by suppressing dyvers -of those houses and by some restrainte of the imoderate use of the -plaies. For which cause wee have sett downe certaine orders to be -duely henceforth observed and kept, a copy whereof we sende you -hereinclosed, and have sent the like to the Lord Maiour of London and -to the Justices of the Peace of Middlesex. But as wee have donne our -partes in prescribinge the orders, so unlesse you perfourme yours in -lookinge to the due execution of them wee shall loose our labour and -the wante of redresse must be imputed unto you and others unto whome it -apperteyneth, and therefore wee doe hereby authorize and require you -to see the said orders to be putt in execucion and to be continued, as -you do wish the amendement of the aforesaide abuses and will remove the -blame thereof from your selves. And so, &c. - - - cxxvi. - - [1601, March 11. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxxi. - 218.] - -A letter to the Lord Mayour requiring him not to faile to take order -the playes within the cyttie and the liberties, especyally at Powles -and in the Blackfriers, may be suppressed during this time of Lent. - - - cxxvii. - - [1601, May 10. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxxi. 346.] - -A letter to certaine Justices of the Peace in the county of Middlesex. -Wee do understand that certaine players that use to recyte their playes -at the Curtaine in Moorefeildes do represent upon the stage in their -interludes the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quallity -that are yet alive under obscure manner, but yet in such sorte as all -the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that -are meant thereby. This beinge a thinge very unfitte, offensive and -contrary to such direccion as have bin heretofore taken that no plaies -should be openly shewed but such as were first perused and allowed and -that might minister no occasion of offence or scandall, wee do hereby -require you that you do forthwith forbidd those players to whomsoever -they appertaine that do play at the Courtaine in Moorefeildes to -represent any such play, and that you will examine them who made that -play and to shew the same unto you, and as you in your discreccions -shall thincke the same unfitte to be publiquely shewed to forbidd them -from henceforth to play the same eyther privately or publiquely, and -yf upon veiwe of the said play you shall finde the subject so odious -and inconvenient as is informed, wee require you to take bond of the -cheifest of them to aunswere their rashe and indiscreete dealing before -us. So, &c. - - - cxxviii. - - [1601, Dec. 31. Minute of letter from Privy Council to Justices - of Middlesex and Surrey, printed by Dasent, xxxii. 466, and - Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 309, from Council Register.] - -Two letters of one tenour to the Justices of Middlesex and Surrey. -It is in vaine for us to take knowledg of great abuses and disorders -complayned of and to give order for redresse, if our directions finde -no better execution and observation then it seemeth they do, and wee -must needes impute the fault and blame thereof to you or some of you, -the Justices of the Peace, that are put in trust to see them executed -and perfourmed, whereof wee may give you a plaine instance in the great -abuse contynued or rather encreased in the multitude of plaie howses -and stage plaies in and about the cittie of London. - -For whereas about a yeare and a half since (upon knowledge taken of -the great enormities and disorders by the overmuch frequentinge of -plaies) wee did carefullie sett downe and prescribe an order to be -observed concerninge the number of playhowses and the use and exercise -of stage plaies, with lymytacion of tymes and places for the same -(namely that there should be but two howses allowed for that use, one -in Middlesex called the Fortune and the other in Surrey called the -Globe, and the same with observacion of certaine daies and times as in -the said order is particularly expressed), in such sorte as a moderate -practice of them for honest recreation might be contynued, and yet the -inordinate concourse of dissolute and idle people be restrayned, wee do -now understande that our said order hath bin so farr from takinge dew -effect, as in steede of restrainte and redresse of the former disorders -the multitude of play howses is much encreased, and that no daie -passeth over without many stage plaies in one place or other within and -about the cittie publiquelie made. - -The default of perfourmance of which our said order we must in greate -parte the rather impute to the Justices of the Peace, because at the -same tyme wee gave earnest direction unto you to see it streightly -executed, and to certifie us of the execution, and yet we have neither -understoode of any redresse made by you, nor receaved any certificate -at all of your proceedinges therein, which default or omission wee -do now pray and require you foorthwith to amende, and to cause our -said former order to be putt duely in execution, and especiallie to -call before you the owners of all the other play howses (excepting -the two howses in Middlesex and Surrey aforementioned), and to take -good and sufficient bondes of them not to exercise, use or practise, -nor to suffer from henceforth to be exercised, used or practized any -stage playinge in their howses, and if they shall refuse to enter into -such bondes, then to comitt them to prison untill they shall conforme -themselves. And so, &c. - - - cxxix. - - [1601, Dec. 31. Minute of letter from Privy Council to Lord - Mayor and Aldermen of London, printed by Dasent, xxxii. 468, and - Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 308, from Council Register; also in _M. - S. C._ i. 83, from letter-book copy in _Remembrancia_, ii. 187.] - -A letter to the Lord Maiour and Aldermen of London. Wee have receaved -a letter from you renewing a complaint of the great abuse and disorder -within and about the cittie of London by reason of the multitude of -play howses and the inordinate resort and concourse of dissolute -and idle people daielie unto publique stage plaies, for the which -information, as wee do commende your Lordship because it betokeneth -your care and desire to reforme the disorders of the cittie, so wee -must lett you know that wee did muche rather expect to understand that -our order (sett downe and prescribed about a yeare and a half since -for reformation of the said disorders upon the like complaint at that -tyme) had bin duelie executed, then to finde the same disorders and -abuses so muche encreased as they are. The blame whereof, as wee cannot -but impute in great part to the Justices of the Peace or somme of them -in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, who had speciall direction -and charge from us to see our said order executed for the confines of -the cittie, wherein the most part of those play howses are scituate, -so wee do wishe that it might appeare unto us that any thinge hath -bin endeavoured by the predecessours of you, the Lord Maiour, and by -you, the Aldermen, for the redresse of the said enormities, and for -observation and execution of our said order within the cittie. - -Wee do therefore once againe renew heereby our direction unto you (as -wee have donne by our letters to the Justices of Middlesex and Surrey) -concerninge the observation of our former order, which wee do praie and -require you to cause duelie and dilligentlie to be put in execution -for all poyntes thereof, and especiallie for th’expresse and streight -prohibition of any more play howses then those two that are mentioned -and allowed in the said order, charging and streightlie comaunding -all suche persons, as are the owners of any the howses used for stage -plaies within the cittie, not to permitt any more publique plaies to -be used, exercised or shewed from hencefoorth in their said howses, -and to take bondes of them (if you shall finde it needefull) for the -perfourmaunce thereof, or if they shall refuse to enter into bonde or -to observe our said order, then to committ them to prison untill they -shall conforme themselves thereunto. And so praying you, as your self -do make the complaint and finde the ennormitie, so to applie your best -endeavour to the remedie of the abuse, wee bidd, &c. - - - cxxx. - - [1602, March 31. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor, printed - _M.S.C._ i. 85, from _Remembrancia_, ii. 189.] - -[Sidenote: A lettre to the L. Maior for the Bores head to be licensed -for the plaiers.] - -After our verey hartie Commendacions to your Lp. We receaued your -lettre, signifieinge some amendment of the abuses or disorders by -the immoderate exercise of Stage plays in and about the Cittie, by -meanes of our late order renued for the restraint of them, and with -all shewinge a speciall inconvenience yet remayneinge, by reason that -the seruants of our verey good L. the Earle of Oxford, and of me the -Earle of Worcester, beinge ioyned by agrement togeather in on Companie -(to whom, vpon noteice of her Maiesties pleasure at the suit of the -Earle of Oxford, tolleracion hath ben thaught meete to be graunted, -notwithstandinge the restraint of our said former Orders), doe not -tye them selfs to one certaine place and howse, but do chainge there -place at there owne disposition, which is as disorderly and offensiue -as the former offence of many howses. And as the other Companies that -are alowed, namely of me the L. Admirall and the L. Chamberlaine, be -appointed there certaine howses, and one and noe more to each Companie. -Soe we doe straightly require that this third Companie be likewise to -one place. And because we are informed the house called the Bores head -is the place they haue especially vsed and doe best like of, we doe -pray and require yow that that said howse, namely the Bores head, may -be assigned onto them, and that they be verey straightlie Charged to -vse and exercise there plaies in noe other but that howse, as they will -looke to haue that tolleracion continued and avoid farther displeasure. -And soe we bid your Lp. hartely farewell, from the Court at Ritchmond -the last of March, 1602. - - Your lordshippes verey lovinge friendes, - - T Buckurst - E Worcester. - Ihon Stannop: - Io: fortescu. - Notingham - W: Knowlis - Ro: Cecyll. - I: Herbert. - - - cxxxi. - - [1603, March 19. Abstract of Privy Council Minute, printed - Dasent, xxxii. 492, from _Addl. MS._ 11402.] - -Letters to the Lord Mayor and Justices of Middlesex and Surrey for the -restraint of stage-plaies till other direction be given. - - - cxxxii. - - [1603, May 7. Extract from _Procl._ 944, printed, with ‘in - their lewd’ for ‘Enterludes’, in Strype, _Annals_, iv. 528.] - -And for that we are informed that there hath beene heretofore great -neglect in this kingdome of keeping the Sabbath-day: For better -observing of the same, and avoyding all impious prophanation, we do -straightly charge and commaund, that no Beare-bayting, Bulbayting, -Enterludes, Common Playes, or other like disordered or unlawful -Exercises, or Pastimes, be frequented, kept, or used at any time -hereafter upon the Sabbath-day. - - - cxxxiii. - - [1603, May 19. Patent for King’s men; cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays at the Globe and in convenient places -in towns elsewhere. - - - cxxxiv. - - [1604, Feb. 4. Patent for Children of the Queen’s Revels; cf. - text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays approved by Samuel Daniel in the -Blackfriars or other convenient place. - - - cxxxv. - - [1604, April 9. Privy Council to Lord Mayor of London - and Justices of Middlesex and Surrey, printed by W. W. - Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 61, from contemporary copy in - _Dulwich MS._ i. 39; also in Collier, _Alleyn Memoirs_, 66; - Halliwell-Phillipps, _Illustrations_, 115, _Outlines_, i. 310. - The abstract of the lost Council Register in _Addl. MS._ 11402 - has the note (f. 93^v) ‘9 Ap. 1604 A lettre to the lo: Mayor - & the Iustices of Surrey & Middlesex to suffer the players to - playe againe Lent being past &c’ (Dasent, xxxii. 511; _M. S. C._ - i. 371).] - -After our hart[ie commendations] to your [Lo.] Wheras the kings -maiesties Plaiers have given ty[ ] hyghnes good service in -ther Quallitie of Playinge, and for as much Lickwise as they are at all -times to be emploied in that Service, whensoever they shalbe Comaunded, -we thinke it therfore fitt, the time of Lent being now Passt, that -your L. doe Permitt and suffer the three Companies of Plaiers to the -King, Queene, and Prince publicklie to Exercise ther Plaies in ther -severall and vsuall howses for that Purpose, and noe other, viz. The -Globe scituate in Maiden lane on the Banckside in the Countie of -Surrey, the Fortun in Golding Lane, and the Curtaine in Hollywell in -the Cowntie of Midlesex, without any lett or interupption in respect of -any former Lettres of Prohibition heertofore written by vs to your Lo. -Except there shall happen weeklie to die of the Plague Aboue the Number -of thirtie within the Cittie of London and the Liberties therof. Att -which time we thinke it fitt they shall Cease and forbeare any further -Publicklie to Playe, vntill the Sicknes be again decreaced to the saide -Number. And so we bid your Lo. hartilie farewell. From the Court at -Whitehalle the ixth of Aprille, 1604. - - Your very Loving ffrends - Nottingham - Suffock - Gill Shrowsberie - Ed Worster - W: Knowles - J: Stanhopp - -To our verie good L. the Lord Maior of the Cittie of London and to the -Justices of the Peace of the Counties of Midlesex and Surrey. L. Maiore. - - - cxxxvi. - - [1604, July 7. Extracts from _An Acte for the Continuance and - Explanation of the Statute made in the 39 yeere of the Raigne of - our late Queene Elizabeth, intituled An Acte for Punishmente of - Rogues, Vagabondes and Sturdie Beggers_ (_1 Jac. I_, c. _7_), - printed in _Statutes_, iv. 1024. The Act was amended in detail - by _7 Jac. I_, c. 4, in 1610 (_St._ iv. 1159).] - -[§ 1.] Whereas by [_39 Eliz._ c. 4] ... it was enacted, That all -persons callinge themselves Scholers goinge aboute begginge, all -Seafaringe men pretending losse of their Shippes or Goods on the Sea, -goinge aboute the Countrie begginge, all idle persons goinge aboute -in any Countrie, either begginge, or usinge any subtile Crafte or -unlawfull Games or Playes, or fayninge themselves to have knowledge in -Phisiognomie Palmestry or other like craftye Science, or pretendinge -that they can tell Destinies Fortunes or such other like fantasticall -Imaginations; all persons that be, or utter themselves to be Proctors -Procurers Patent Gatherers or Collectors for Gaoles Prisons or -Hospitals; all Fencers Bearwardes common Players of Enterludes, -and Minstrels wandringe abroad, (other then Players of Enterludes -belonginge to any Baron of this Realme, or any other honourable -Personage of greater Degree, to be authorized to play under the Hande -and Seale of Armes of such Baron or Personage) shalbe taken adjudged -and deemed as Rogues Vagabondes and Sturdie Beggers, and shall suffer -such Paine and Punishment as in the said Acte is in that behalfe -appointed, as by the same Acte more at large is declared; Sithence the -making of which Acte divers Doubtes and Questions have bene moved and -growen by diversitie of Opinions taken in and upon the letter of the -said Acte: For a plaine Declaration whereof be it declared and enacted, -That from henceforthe no Authoritie to be given or made by any Baron of -this Realme or any other honourable Personage of greater Degree, unto -any other person or persons, shall be availeable to free and discharge -the saide persons, or any of them, from the Paines and Punishmentes in -the saide Statute mentioned, but that they shall be taken within the -Offence and Punishment of the same Statute. - -[§ 3.] Amends _39 Eliz_. c. 4, § 4, which provided for banishment of -dangerous rogues, by providing for branding and setting to labour in -place of settlement; a second offence to be felony, without benefit of -clergy. - -[§ 6.] Continues _39 Eliz_. c. 4 as amended. - -[§ 8.] Reserves privileges of John Dutton. - - - cxxxvii. - - [1604, Oct. 13. Letter of Assistance from the Duke of Lennox for - his players, printed by W. W. Greg from _Dulwich MS._ i. 40, in - _Henslowe Papers_, 62; also in Collier, _Alleyn Memoirs_, 69.] - -Sir I am given to vnderstand that youe haue forbidden the Companye of -Players (that call themselues myne) the exercise of their Playes; I -praie youe to forbeare any such course against them, and seeing they -haue my License, to suffer them to continue the vse of their Playes; -and vntill you receaue other significacion from me of them, to afforde -them your favoure and assistance. And so I bidd youe hartely farewell. -From Hampton Courte the xiijth of October, 1604. - - Your loving freende - - Lenox. - -To all maiors, Justeses of peas, Shreefes, Balifes, Constabells and all -other his highnes officers and lofing subiects to whome it shall or may -in any wise appertaine. - -[_Addressed_] To my loving freend Mr. Dale esqr. and all other Justeses -whatsoeuer. - - - cxxxviii. - - [N.D. _c._ 1604. Draft royal licence for Queen Anne’s men; cf. - text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays, when the plague-list in London and -the liberties thereof falls to thirty, in the Curtain and Boar’s Head, -and in convenient places in towns elsewhere. - - - cxxxix. - - [1605, Oct. 5. Abstract of Privy Council Minute, printed _M. - S. C._ i. 371, from _Addl. MS._ 11402, f. 107.] - -A lettre to the Lord Mayor to forbidde Stage plaies & to take order -that the infectede bee kept in their howses, &c. - -Like lettres to the Iustices of the peace of Middlesex & Surrey. - - - cxl. - - [1605, Dec. 15. Abstract of Privy Council Minute, printed _M. - S. C._ i. 372, from _Addl. MS._ 11402, f. 109.] - -Lettres to the Lord Mayor, the Iustices of Middlesex and Surrey to -suffer the Kings the Queens and the Princes Players, to play & recite -their enterludes at their accustomed places. - - - cxli. - - [1606, March 7. Signet warrant from Queen Anne for her players; - cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays in London and other towns, except -during divine service, and requires assistance of justices. - - - cxlii. - - [1606, April 30. Patent for Prince Henry’s men; cf. text in Bk. - iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays at the Fortune and in convenient -places in towns elsewhere, with a proviso saving the authority, power, -privileges, and profits of the Master of the Revels. - - - cxliii. - - [1606, May 27. _An Acte to Restraine Abuses of Players_ (_3 Jac. - I_, c. 21), printed in _Statutes_, iv. 1097; also in Hazlitt, - _E. D. S._ 42.] - -For the preventing and avoyding of the greate Abuse of the Holy Name -of God in Stagelayes, Interludes, May-games, Shewes, and such like; -Be it enacted by our Soveraigne Lorde the Kinges Majesty, and by the -Lordes Spirituall and Temporall, and Commons in this present Parliament -assembled, and by the authoritie of the same, That if at any tyme or -tymes, after the end of this present Session of Parliament, any person -or persons doe or shall in any Stage play, Interlude, Shewe, May-game, -or Pageant jestingly or prophanely speake or use the holy Name of God -or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghoste or of the Trinitie, which -are not to be spoken but with feare and reverence, [? such person -or persons] shall forfeite for everie such Offence by hym or them -committed Tenne Pounds, the one moytie thereof to the Kinges Majestie, -his Heires and Successors, the other moytie thereof to hym or them that -will sue for the same in any Courte of Recorde at Westminster, wherein -no essoigne, Proteccion or Wager of Lawe shalbe allowed. - - - cxliv. - - [1607, April 12. The Lord Mayor to the Earl of Suffolk, Lord - Chamberlain, printed _M. S. C._ i. 87, from _Remembrancia_, ii. - 283.] - -[Sidenote: Concerninge the Infection of the Plague.] - -My humble dutie remembred to your good Lp: Whereas it pleaseth god -that the Infeccion of sicknes is for theis two or three weekes of -late somewhat increased in the Skirtes and Confines of this Cittie, -and by the vntymely heate of this season may spreade further then -can hereafter be easelie prevented, My humble desier is that your -Lp: for the preventinge of soe great a danger will vouchsafe your -honourable favour in two speciall pointes concerninge this Matter. -First in restrayninge such comon Stage Plaies, as are Daylie shewed and -exercised and doe occasion the great Assembleis of all sortes of people -in the suburbes and partes adioyninge to this Cittie, and cannot be -continiewed but with apparant daunger of the encrease of the sicknes. -Secoundly, Whereas it appeareth by the Certificate that the said -Skirtes and out Partes of the Cittie are more subiecte to the Infection -then any other Places. That your Honours will please to give order to -the Iustices of Middlesex to put in due execution such ordenances as -are formerly by your Lordshippes recomended vnto them in this behalfe, -especially that there may be a better care hade of White Chappell, -Shorditch, Clarken-Well and such other remote Partes then formerly hath -ben accustomed. And that there may some speciall Officers be appointed -to see good order kept and obserued in those Places, where there is noe -Justice of Peace resident or nere there biwaies to looke to the same. -Which beinge accordingly performed in the out Skirtes of this Cittie, -My desier is that your Lp: will rest satisfied and assuered of oure -carefullnes here within the Cittie and Lyberties thereof to the vtmost -of our Indeauour, as is fittinge a matter of such Consequence. And soe -most humblie I take my leaue And rest - - Aprill 12, 1607. Your Lps: most humble. - -To the right honourable my very good Lo: the Earle of Suffolke Lo: -Chamberlaine of his Maiesties House. - - - cxlv. - - [1608, Dec. 20. Entry in Gaol Delivery Register of Justices for - Middlesex, printed by J. C. Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County - Records_, ii. 47.] - -Recognizances, taken before Sir William Waad knt. J.P., Lieutenant -of the Tower of London, of Daniel Hitch of Whitechappell yeoman and -James Waters of Eastsmythfeilde ironmounger, in the sum of ten pounds -each, and of William Claiton of Eastsmythfeilde victualler, in the sum -of twenty pounds; For the appearance of the said William Claiton at -the next Session of the Peace, to answer for sufferinge playes to bee -played in his house in the night season. - - - cxlvi. - - [1609, April 15. Patent for Queen Anne’s men; cf. text in Bk. - iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays at the Red Bull and Curtain and -in convenient places in towns elsewhere, with a proviso saving the -authority, power, privileges and profits of the Master of the Revels. - - - cxlvii. - - [1610, Jan. 4. Patent for the Children of the Queen’s Revels; - cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays in the Whitefriars or other convenient -place. - - - cxlviii. - - [1610, March 30. Patent for the Duke of York’s men; cf. text in - Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays in houses and about London and -in convenient places in towns elsewhere, with proviso saving the -authority, power, privilege and profit of the Master of the Revels. - - - cxlix. - - [1611, April 27. Patent for the Lady Elizabeth’s men; cf. text - in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority to perform plays in houses in and about London and -in convenient places in towns elsewhere, with proviso saving the -authority, power, privilege and profit of the Master of the Revels. - - - cl. - - [1612, Oct. 1. Order at General Session of the Peace for - Middlesex held at Westminster, printed from Sessions Rolls in J. - C. Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County Records_, ii. 83.] - -An Order for suppressinge of Jigges att the ende of Playes--Whereas -Complaynte have [_sic_] beene made at this last Generall Sessions, -that by reason of certayne lewde Jigges songes and daunces vsed and -accustomed at the playhouse called the Fortune in Gouldinglane, -divers cutt-purses and other lewde and ill disposed persons in greate -multitudes doe resorte thither at th’end of euerye playe, many tymes -causinge tumultes and outrages wherebye His Majesties peace is often -broke and much mischiefe like to ensue thereby, Itt was hereuppon -expresselye commaunded and ordered by the Justices of the said benche, -That all Actors of euerye playhouse within this cittye and liberties -thereof and in the Countye of Middlesex that they and euerie of them -utterlye abolishe all Jigges Rymes and Daunces after their playes, -And not to tollerate permitt or suffer anye of them to be used vpon -payne of ymprisonment and puttinge downe and suppressinge of theire -playes, And such further punishment to be inflicted upon them as their -offences shall deserve, And that if any outrage tumult or like disorder -as aforesaid should be committed or done, that then the partyes so -offending should forthwith be apprehended and punished accordinge -to their demeritt. For the better suppressinge of which abuses and -outrages, These are to will and require you and in His Majesties name -streightelye to charge and commaunde you that you diligently and -stryctlye looke vnto the performaunce of the same order, And that if -either the players do persiste and contynewe their sayd Jigges daunces -or songes as aforesayd or any disordered persons doe committ or attempt -any violence or outrage in or about the sayd playe-houses, That then -you apprehend all and euerie such person of either kind so offendinge -and forthwith bringe them before me or some other of his Majesties -Justices of Peace to answeare their contemptes and further to be dealt -[with] as to Justice shall appertayne.--By the Court. S. P. Reg. - - - cli. - - [1612, Nov. 8. The Privy Council to the Lord Mayor, printed _M. - S. C._ i. 88, from _Remembrancia_, iii. 64.] - -[Sidenote: From the Lordes, for the suppressinge of Stage plaies, -Bearebaytinges and idle shewes, vpon the death of Prince Henry.] - -After our very hartie Commendacions to your Lordshipp. Whereas it hath -pleased the Almightie God to take awaie the most Noble and Worthie -Prince of Wales, to the exceedinge greate sorrowe and Greef, aswell of -theire Maiesties, as of all theire deere and lovinge Subiectes. And -that these tymes doe not suite with such playes and idle shewes, as are -daily to be seene in and neere the cittie of London, to the scandall -of Order and good governement at all occasions when they are most -tollerable. As wee haue allreadie addressed lettres to the Iustices of -peace of Middlesex and Surrey for the suppressinge of any playes or -shewes whatsoever within those Counties, soe wee doe hereby require -your Lpp. to take speedie and speciall order for the prohibitinge of -all Playes, shewes, Bearebaytinges, or any other such sighte, within -that cittie and liberties thereof, and vtterlie to restraine the vse -and exercise thereof, vntill you shall receave further order from vs. -And if you shall finde anie person offendinge therein, to commytt him -or them to Prison without favour or connyvauncie, and to acquainte -vs therewith. And soe wee bidd your Lordshipp Hartelie farewell. From -Whitehall the viijth of November, 1612. - - Your Lps. verie loving Frindes, - - T. Ellesmore Cancellarius. - E. Wotton: - H: Northampton: - Stanhop. - T. Suffolk: - - - clii. - - [1613, Jan. 11. Patent for the Elector Palatine’s men; cf. Bk. - iii, and text in _M. S. C._ i. 275.] - -Gives authority to perform plays at the Fortune and in convenient -places in towns elsewhere, with proviso saving the authority, power, -privileges and profits of the Master of the Revels. - - - cliii. - - [1613, July 13. Extract by Sir Henry Herbert from an office-book - of Sir George Buck, printed in _Variorum_, iii. 52, and - Adams, _Herbert_ 42.] - -For a license to erect a new playhouse in the White-friers, &c. £20. - - - cliv. - - [1615, March 29. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in _M. S. C._ i. 372; also in Collier, i. 380.] - -A warrant to John Sentie one of the Messingers. Whereas John Hemminges, -Richard Burbidge, Christopher Beeston, Robert Lee, William Rowley, -John Newton, Thomas Downton, Humphry Ieffs with others Stageplayers -in and about the Citty of London have presumed notwithstanding the -commaundement of the Lord Chamberlayne signified vnto them by the -Master of the Revells to play this prohibited time of Lent. Theese -are therefore to will and commaund yowe to make your repayre vnto the -persons abouenamed, and to charge them in his Maiesties name to make -their appearance heere before vs of his Maiesties Privie Councell on -ffriday next at 8 of the Clocke in the forenoone without any excuse or -delay. And in the meane time that neither they, nor the rest of their -Company presume to present any Playes or interludes, as they will -answere the contrary at their perills. - - - clv. - - [1615, June 3. Patent for erection of Porter’s Hall; cf. text in - Bk. iv.] - -Gives authority to the patentees of the Queen’s Revels to build a -playhouse for the Queen’s Revels, at Porter’s Hall in Blackfriars, and -for the performance of plays by the Queen’s Revels, Prince Charles’s -men, and the Lady Elizabeth’s men therein. - - - clvi. - - [1615, July 13. Patent for the Children of the Queen’s Chamber - of Bristol; cf. text in Bk. iii.] - -Gives authority for the performance of plays in houses in Bristol -and in convenient places in towns elsewhere, with proviso saving the -authority, power, privilege and profit of the Master of the Revels. - - - clvii. - - [1615, Sept. 26. Minute of Privy Council, printed from - Register in _M. S. C._ i. 372; also in Chalmers, 463; - _Variorum_, iii. 493.] - -[Sidenote: Ordered at the Sessions next before.] - -Whereas Complaint was made to this Boarde by the Lord Mayour and -Aldermen of the Cittie of London That one Rosseter, and others havinge -obtayned lycense vnder the great Seale of Englande for the buildinge -of a Play house haue pulled downe a great Messuage in Puddle wharfe, -which was sometimes the house of the Ladie Sanders within the Precinct -of the Blackfryers, are now erectinge a Newe Playhouse in that place, -to the great prejudice and inconvenience of the Gouerment of that -Cittie: Their Lordships thought fitt to send for Rosseter to bringe -in his Lettres Patentes, which beinge seene, and pervsed by the Lord -Chief Iustice of Englande fforasmuch as the Inconveniences vrged by the -Lord Mayour and Aldermen were many, and of some consequence to their -Goverment. And specially for that the said Play house would adioyne -soe neere vnto the Church in Blackfryers, as it would disturbe, and -interrupt the Congregacion at divine Service vpon the weeke dayes: And -that the Lord Chiefe Iustice did deliver to their Lordships, That the -Lycence graunted to the said Rosseter did extende to the buildinge of a -Playhouse without the liberties of London, and not within the Cittie. -It was this day ordered by their Lordships, That there shalbe noe -Play house erected in that place, And that the Lord Mayour of London -shall straitly prohibit, and forbidd the said Rosseter and the rest -of the Patentees, and their workemen to proceede in the makeinge, and -convertinge the said Buildinge into a Play house: And if any of the -Patentees or their workemen shall proceede in their intended buildinge -contrary to this their Lordships Inhibicion, that then the Lord Mayour -shall committ him or them soe offendinge, vnto Prison and certefie -their Lordships of their contempt in that behalfe. Of which their -Lordships order the said Rosseter, and the rest are to take notice, and -conforme themselves accordingly as they will aunsweare to the contrary -at their perrilles. - - - clviii. - - [1616, July 16. Warrant by William Earl of Pembroke, Lord - Chamberlain, printed by Murray, ii. 343, from copy recorded in - Mayor’s Court Books of Norwich.] - -Whereas Thomas Swynnerton and Martin Slaughter beinge two of the Queens -Maiesties company of Playors hauinge separated themselves from their -said Company, have each of them taken forth a severall exemplification -or duplicate of his maiesties Letters patente graunted to the whole -Company and by vertue therof they severally in two Companies with -vagabonds and such like idle persons, haue and doe vse and exercise the -quallitie of playinge in diuerse places of this Realme to the great -abuse and wronge of his Maiesties Subjects in generall and contrary to -the true intent and meaninge of his Maiestie to the said Company And -whereas William Perrie haueinge likewise gotten a warrant whereby he -and a certaine Company of idle persons with him doe travel and play -under the name and title of the Children of his Maiesties Revels, to -the great abuse of his Maiesties service And whereas also Gilberte -Reason one of the prince his highnes Playours hauing likewise separated -himselfe from his Company hath also taken forth another exemplification -or duplicate of the patent granted to that Company and liues in the -same kinde & abuse And likewise one Charles Marshall, Homfry Jeffes and -William Parr: three of Prince Palatynes Company of Playours haveinge -also taken forthe an exemplification or duplicate of the patent -graunted to the said Company and by vertue thereof liue after the like -kinde and abuse Wherefore to the [end that] such idle persons may not -be suffered to continewe in this course of life These are therefore -to pray, and neatheless in his Maiesties name to will and require you -vpon notice giuen of aine of the said persons by the bearer herof -Joseph More whome I haue speciallye directed for that purpose that you -call the said parties offendours before you and therevpon take the -said seuerall exemplifications or duplicats or other ther warrants by -which they vse ther said quallitie from them, And forthwith to send the -same to me And also that you take goode and sufficient bonds of any of -them to appeare before me at Whitehall at a fixt daye to answeare ther -said contempte and abuses whereof I desire you not to fayle And these -shalbe your sufficient warrant in that behalfe Dated at the Courte at -Theobalds this 16th day of July in the fowertenth yeare of the raigne -of our soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie of England ffrance and -Irelande and of Scotland the nine and fortieth 1616. - - Pembrook. - -To all Justices of peace Maiours Sheriffs Baliffs Constables and other -his Maiesties officers to whome it may appertayne. - - - clix. - - [1616, Oct. 4. Abstract of entries in Process Book for - General Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex, printed by J. C. - Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County Records_, ii. 235.] - -Amongst memoranda of process against a large number of persons, charged -with neglecting to work or contribute for the repair of the highways, -appears this memorandum, touching the Red Bull theatre, ‘Christofer -Beeston and the rest of the players of the Redd Bull are behinde -five pounds, being taxed by the bench 40s. the yeare by theire owne -consentes’. - - - clx. - - [1617, Jan. 27. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register - in _M. S. C._ i. 374; also in Chalmers, 463; _Variorum_, iii. - 494.] - -A letter to the Lord Mayor of London. Whereas his Maiestie is informed -that notwithstanding diverse Commaundementes and prohibicions to the -contrary there bee certaine persons that goe about to sett vp a Play -howse in the Black ffryaers neere vnto his Maiesties Wardrobe, and for -that purpose have lately erected and made fitt a Building, which is -allmost if not fully finished, Youe shall vnderstand that his Maiesty -hath this day expressly signifyed his pleasure, that the same shalbee -pulled downe, so as it bee made vnfitt for any such vse, whereof wee -Require your Lordshipp to take notice, and to cause it to bee performed -accordingly with all speede, and therevpon to certify vs of your -proceedinges. And so, &c. - - - - - APPENDIX E - - PLAGUE RECORDS - - - [_Bibliographical Note._--Early accounts of the vital statistics - of the plague are J. Graunt, _Natural and Political Observations - upon the Bills of Mortality_ (1662, 1665, 1676); _Reflections - on the Weekly Bills of Mortality_ (1665, two eds.); J. Bell, - _London’s Remembrancer_ (1665). Modern studies are C. Creighton, - _History of Epidemics in Britain_ (1891); C. H. Hull, _The - Economic Writings of Sir William Petty_ (1899, with reprint - of Graunt’s _Observations_); W. J. Simpson, _A Treatise on - Plague_ (1905). Murray, ii. 171, discusses _The Relation of the - Plague to the Closing of the Theatres_. The ultimate material - consists largely of the weekly bills of mortality returned - for each London parish and published by the City authorities. - In these the deaths from plague were separately stated. They - were probably prepared throughout our period, at any rate from - the plague of 1563. On 14 July 1593 John Wolf entered in the - Stationers’ Register (Arber, ii. 634) a licence to print ‘the - billes, briefes, notes and larges gyven out for the sicknes - weekly or otherwise’. The only complete bill extant is one for - 20 Oct. 1603 (_Political Tracts_, 1680, in Guildhall Library), - but summaries of the weekly totals are available for 1563–6 - (J. Gairdner, _Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles_, 123, 144), - 1578–83 (Creighton, i. 341, from _Hatfield MSS._), 1593 (Hull, - ii. 426, from Graunt; _vide infra_), 1597–1600 (Hull, ii. 432, - from _Ashmolean MS._ 824), 1603 (Hull, ii. 426, from Graunt; - Scaramelli in _V. P._ x. 33 sqq.), 1604 (Nicolo Molin in _V. - P._ x. 132 sqq.), 1606–10 (Creighton, i. 494, from Bell). - During the sixteenth century the bills appear normally to have - covered 108 or 109 parishes wholly or partly within the City - jurisdiction, but on 4 Aug. 1593 Westminster, St. Katherine’s, - St. Giles, Southwark, Shoreditch, and other suburbs were ordered - exceptionally to make returns to the Lord Mayor (Dasent, xxiv. - 442). On 14 July 1603 the normal list was extended to include - eleven suburban parishes, and in 1606 another was added, making - 121 in all. But the important areas of Westminster, Lambeth, - Newington, Stepney, Hackney, Islington, and Rotherhithe remained - uncovered. Moreover, the suburban figures seem from the print - of 1603 to have been recorded separately, and those in Bell’s - pamphlet are shown by a comparison of his entry for 12 May 1636 - with that in Herbert’s Office-Book (_Variorum_, iii. 239) to - relate only to the City and liberties. The returns for this area - were probably the basis for play restraints in the seventeenth - century (cf. Bk. ii, ch. x). The bills seem to have been issued - on Thursdays, with figures for the seven days ending on the day - of issue.] - -I give all facts indicating any epidemic condition of plague such as -would affect the performance of plays. The play restraints cited are in -App. D. - -_1560._ Trinity term was adjourned to Michaelmas on 24 May (_Procl._ -525), but plague is not named as the reason. - -_1563._ Plague was brought about June by English troops from Havre. The -deaths were above 30 from 3 July to 7 Jan. 1564, and reached 1,828 on -1 Oct. Stowe, _Annales_, 656, gives the totals as 17,404 from 108 City -parishes, and 2,732 from 11 suburban parishes; Camden (tr.), 83, as -21,130 from 121 parishes. Michaelmas term was adjourned to Hilary on -21 Sept. (_Procl._ 582), and Hilary term transferred to Hertford on 10 -Dec. (_Procl._ 583). Plays were restrained on 30 Sept. - -_1564–6._ The bills show no plague deaths over 30. - -_1568._ Some precautions were taken in the City and Westminster -against plague (Creighton, i. 318, 338). - -_1569._ Further precautions were taken on 27 March (Creighton, i. -338) and plays restrained on 31 May until 30 Sept. There was in fact -plague in September and October (Creighton, i. 338; La Mothe, ii. 249, -287; _Sp. P._ ii. 193, 203). Michaelmas term was deferred on 28 Sept. -(_Procl._ 642) and adjourned to Hilary on 23 Oct. (_Procl._ 644). -Access to court was restrained on 3 Oct. (_Procl._ 643). - -_1570._ There was plague in July and August (_Hatfield MSS._ i. 476; -_Sp. P._ ii. 262, 270, 273; Creighton, i. 338). Michaelmas term was -deferred on 24 Sept. (_Procl._ 658). - -_1572._ Harrison reports a restraint of plays for fear of plague. -There is no other evidence. - -_1573._ Plague appeared in the autumn (Creighton, i. 339). The Lord -Mayor’s feast was suppressed (_Remembrancia_, 38). - -_1574._ Michaelmas term was deferred on 1 Oct. (_Procl._ 691). The -plague deaths on 28 Oct. were 65 (Holinshed, iii. 1240). The Lord -Mayor’s feast was suppressed (Dasent, viii. 303). Plays were restrained -on 15 Nov. until Easter. - -_1575._ There was plague in Westminster, but apparently none in London -(Creighton, i. 340). Michaelmas term was deferred on 26 Sept. (_Procl._ -696). - -_1576._ There was plague in the Tower on 13 July (Dasent, ix. 163). -Michaelmas term was deferred on 29 Sept. (_Procl._ 708). - -_1577._ There was plague in August, September, and November (Dasent, -x. 22, 35, 40, 86). Plays were restrained on 1 Aug. to Michaelmas. -Michaelmas term was deferred on 16 Sept. (_Procl._ 719), and further on -15 Oct. (_Procl._ 722). - -_1578._ The plague deaths were over 30 in nearly every week from 17 -April to 18 Dec., reaching 280 on 2 Oct., and totalling 3,568 for the -year. The Lord Mayor’s feast was suppressed and the precautions against -infection revised (Dasent, x. 339, 386, 413). Michaelmas term was -deferred on 22 Sept. (_Procl._ 724) and 20 Oct. (_Procl._ 725), and -adjourned on 14 Nov. to Hilary (_Procl._ 729). Plays were restrained on -10 Nov. and the restraint removed on 23 Dec. - -_1579._ The plague deaths were below 30 in each week, totalling 629 for -the year. - -_1580._ The plague deaths were not above 8 in any week, totalling 128 -for the year, but plays were restrained from 17 April to Michaelmas, -and other precautions taken (_Remembrancia_, 329). - -_1581._ There was plague in the latter part of the year, with deaths -over 30 from 17 Aug. to 2 Nov., reaching 107 on 5 Oct., and totalling -987 for the first forty-five weeks of the year; the figures for the -last seven weeks are missing. The precautions were revised (Creighton, -i. 319). Plays were restrained on 10 July and the restraint removed on -18 Nov. Michaelmas term was deferred on 21 Sept. (_Procl._ 760), and -other precautions taken (_Remembrancia_, 331). - -_1582._ There was some plague during the year (_Remembrancia_, 332), -with deaths over 30 from 26 July to 27 Dec., reaching 216 on 25 Oct., -and totalling 2,976 for fifty-one recorded weeks of the year. Plays -were restrained, probably with the assent of the Privy Council, -although the Register is missing. Michaelmas term was deferred on 18 -Sept. (_Procl._ 764), and transferred to Hertford on 8 Oct. (_Procl._ -765). - -_1583._ The plague deaths were over 30 from 3 to 31 Jan., after -which the record fails. But precautions continued (_Remembrancia_, -335). A restraint of plays was terminated on 26 Nov. - -_1584._ There is no evidence of plague, but the dispute of this -year suggests that the summer restraint of recent years had been -repeated. - -_1585._ There is no evidence of plague or restraint. - -_1586._ There is no evidence of plague, other than a precautionary -restraint of 11 May. - -_1587._ There was a similar precautionary restraint on 7 May. - -_1588–91._ There is no evidence of plague or even of precautionary -restraints. - -_1592._ The first notice of plague is on 13 Aug., when it was daily -increasing (Dasent, xxiii. 118), and there is ample evidence of -its seriousness to the end of the year (ibid., 136, 177, 181, 183, -203, 220, 230, 231, 241, 273, 274, 276, 365; Birch, _Eliz._ i. -87; Creighton, i. 351). A new ‘booke of orders and remedies’ was -recommended by the Council (Dasent, xxiii. 203) on 19 Sept. to the Kent -justices. This is doubtless the _Orders Thoughte Meete by her Maiestie -and her privie Counsell to be executed_ of which several prints -(1592, 1593, 1603, N.D.) exist. It is for provincial use, and has no -special reference to the restraint of plays. Plays had been under -restraint for other reasons than plague since 23 June. The mayoral -feast was suppressed on 11 Oct. (Dasent, xxiii. 232). Access to Hampton -Court was restrained on 12 Oct. (_Procl._ 854). Michaelmas term was -deferred and finally transferred for a short session to Hertford on -21 Oct. (_Procl._ 852, 855, 856). There appear to be no statistics of -deaths; those ordinarily given belong to 1593 (_vide infra_). Suitors -were still excluded from court on 13 Dec. (Dasent, xxiii. 365), but -thereafter there was some recovery, and the records in Henslowe, i. 15, -show that plays were permitted from 29 Dec. to 1 Feb. 1593, although no -formal order is extant. - -_1593._ This was a year of continuous plague (Creighton, i. 352). The -Privy Council warned the Lord Mayor on 21 Jan. that the increase of -deaths after some weeks of diminution required care (Dasent, xxiv. -21), and the Register shows preoccupation with the subject up to -August, when the record fails (ibid., 31, 163, 209, 212, 252, 265, -284, 342, 343, 347, 373, 400, 405, 413, 442, 443, 448, 472). Plays -were restrained on 28 Jan. Trinity term was deferred on 28 May and -Michaelmas term transferred for a short session to St. Albans on 24 -Sept. (_Procl._ 860, 865, 866). Bartholomew Fair (24 Aug.) was strictly -limited (_Procl._ 863). Access to court at Nonsuch was restrained on -18 June and at Windsor on 15 Sept. (_Procl._ 861, 864). The statistics -of deaths are puzzling. Stowe, _Annales_, 766, gives for the period -from 29 Dec. 1592 (Friday) to 20 Dec. 1593 (Thursday) 8,598 in all -and 5,390 from plague within the walls, and 9,295 in all and 5,385 -from plague in the liberties, totalling 17,893 in all and 10,775 from -plague. Camden (tr.), 423, gives a corresponding total of 17,890. A -marginal note to the printed bill of 1603 gives for weeks ending 20 -Dec. 1592 (Wednesday) to 23 Dec. 1593 (Sunday) 25,886 in all and 15,003 -from plague. Here are two divergent computations for the same period, -one of which deserts the Thursdays, to which we know that earlier and -later weekly bills related. Both are more or less contemporary records. -On the other hand, a series of broadsheets (cited in Hull, ii. 426), -followed by a table appended to Graunt’s _Observations_ (ibid.), give -nearly the same figures (25,886 and, not 15,003, but 11,503) as the -totals of weekly figures for the period from 17 March (Friday) to -22 Dec. (Friday), not of 1593, but of 1592, and Graunt adopts these -figures for March to Dec. 1592 in the text of his _Observations_ (Hull, -ii. 363), while he adopts 17,844 and 10,662, which are approximately -Stowe’s figures, for 1593. As a matter of fact, the weekly figures -given do not add up exactly to 25,886 and 11,503; I make them (as -does Hull, ii. 427) 26,407 and 11,106; Creighton, i. 354, makes the -larger figure 25,817. Finally, the anonymous _Reflections on the -Bills of Mortality_ (1665) give 25,886 and 11,503 as the totals for -13 March (Tuesday) to 18 Dec. (Tuesday), not of 1592, but of 1593 -again. The authority of these _Reflections_ is not great, and there -is a discrepancy between the period they take and that taken in the -1603 bill. But I do not see how the detailed weekly figures of the -broadsheets can belong to 1592. The plague deaths are 3 on 17 March -and 31 on 24 March. For the rest of the year they only fall below 30 -on 31 March, 7 April, 5 May, and finally on 22 Dec. They reach 41 on -28 April, 58 on 26 May, and climb to 118 on 30 June. There is a big -jump to 927 on 7 July; they get to a maximum of 983 on 4 Aug. and -thereafter decline, dropping below 100 from 24 Nov. and ending with 71 -on 15 Dec. and 39 on 22 Dec. These figures cannot apply to 1592, when -plague only made its appearance about August. On the other hand, the -figures for 4 Aug. (1,503 and 983) and 29 Sept. (450 and 330) do not -tally exactly, although they do in general effect, with the 1,603 and -1,135 given as ‘the greatest that came yet’ in Henslowe’s letter of -Aug. 1593, or the 1,100 to 1,200 from plague, representing an abatement -in two weeks of 435, in his letter of 28 Sept. (_H. P._ 37, 40). On -the whole, however, I think that all the figures before us relate to -1593 and not 1592, and that the ascription of the detailed tables to -1592 is due to the fact that they begin with 17 March 159–2/3. Graunt -similarly (Hull, ii. 378) quotes 1593 and 1594, where he clearly means -1594 and 1595. The discrepancies between Stowe and the tables are -probably due to the different number of parishes covered by different -computations. If the larger figures relate to an area wider than that -of City and liberties (cf. the P. C. order of 4 Aug. 1593 cited in the -_Bibl. Note_), we perhaps get also an answer to the view of Creighton, -i. 354, and Hull, ii. 427, that they are neither of 1592 nor 1593, but -altogether spurious as representing an impossibly high rate of general -mortality for sixteenth-century London, even when allowance is made for -the unscientific nature of the ‘plague-tokens’ as a diagnosis and the -consequent increase in plague-time of deaths ascribed to other causes. - -_1594._ As in 1592–3, the diminution of plague in December allowed -of a short winter play season. Henslowe, i. 16, records plays from -26 Dec. to 6 Feb. A restraint was ordered on 3 Feb. It was still -thought necessary to inhibit access to court on 21 April (_Hatfield -MSS._ iv. 514), but the plague deaths for the year were only 421 -(Graunt in Hull, ii. 378; Bell, _London’s Remembrancer_). Plays began -tentatively in April and May and regularly in June (Henslowe, i. 17). -The systematization of City precautions was under consideration in the -autumn. - -_1595._ There were only 29 plague deaths (Graunt, in Hull, ii. 378; -Bell, _London’s Remembrancer_). - -_1596._ Plays were restrained for fear of infection on 22 July, but -there is no other evidence of plague. - -_1597–1600._ The tables show no plague deaths above 4 in any week. - -_1601–2._ There is no evidence of plague. - -_1603._ Plague broke out during April (_V. P._ x. 33). Precautions were -already being taken on 18 April (_Remembrancia_, 337). Plays had been -restrained during the illness of Elizabeth on 19 March and probably not -resumed. The terms of the patent to the King’s men on 19 May imply an -existing restraint. The epidemic was a bad one; for an account of it, -cf. Creighton, i. 474, and Dekker, _The Wonderful Year_ (1603, _Works_, -i. 100). The coronation was shorn of its entry and other splendours, -and speedy resort to the country enjoined (_Procl._ 961, 964, 967). -Bartholomew and other fairs were suppressed or put off (_Procl._ -964, 968). Trinity term was deferred on 23 June (_Procl._ 957) and -Michaelmas term deferred on 16 Sept, and transferred to Winchester on -18 Oct. (_Procl._ 970, 973). Stowe, _Annales_, 857, gives the total -deaths in the City and liberties as 38,244, including 30,578 from -plague. Creighton, i. 478, calculates from the weekly tables that with -the addition of those suburbs for which records are available, these -figures must be increased to 42,945 and 33,347. The report of 60,000 -deaths, which Nicolo Molin (_V. P._ x. 126) found hard to believe, was -obviously an exaggeration. The weekly plague bill for the City and -liberties reached 30 on 26 May, 43 on 9 June, and rose very rapidly -from the end of the month, reaching a maximum of 2,495, with 542 for -the recorded suburbs, on 1 Sept. On 22 Dec. the plague deaths for City, -liberties, and the suburbs henceforward included in the City lists (120 -parishes in all) was still 74. Nicolo Molin’s statements on 5 Dec. that -the plague had almost disappeared, and on 15 Dec. that it was never -mentioned (_V. P._ x. 124, 126), must have been optimistic. - -_1604._ Nicolo Molin (_V. P._ x. 132 sqq.) records the totals of the -bills (probably a week or so late) in despatches from 26 Jan. to 23 -Oct. He gives 15 on 26 Jan. and 27 for the City only on 8 Feb., and -thereafter 20 is only reached in a few weeks of May, August, and -September; 30 never. On 23 Oct. there had only been 6 in the last -fortnight, and ‘as that is nothing out of the common, I will not make -any further reports on this subject’ (_V. P._ x. 190). A play restraint -was removed on 9 April, but the reason given was the expiration of -Lent, and it is not impossible that the theatres may have been open -before Lent, which began on 22 Feb. The warrant of 8 Feb., however, for -a special royal subsidy to the King’s men (App. B) suggests that they -were still unable to perform in public on that date. - -_1605._ Creighton, i. 493, says there was ‘not much’ plague; but a -letter of 12 Oct. (Winwood, ii. 140) notes a ‘sudden rising of the -sickness to thirty a week’, followed by some abatement, and there was a -restraint of plays for infection on 5 Oct. which was removed on 15 Dec. - -_1606._ This was a year of plague. The deaths reached 33 on 10 July and -50 on 17 July, rose to a maximum of 141 on 2 Oct., and remained, but -for one or two weeks, above 40 to 4 Dec. and above 30 to the end of -the year. The total, for 121 parishes, was 2,124. Michaelmas term was -adjourned on 23 Sept. (_Procl._ 1038) and access to court restrained -on 1 Nov. (_Procl._ 1039). There is no record of a specific order for -the restraint of plays; possibly it was automatic as a result of the -play-bill. - -_1607._ During the first half of the year the plague deaths were under -30, except for 38 on 1 Jan., 33 on 5 Feb., 30 on 12 March, 33 on 19 -March, and 43 on 30 April. They increased in the autumn, passing 30 -on 9 July and 40 on 23 July, to a maximum of 177 on 24 Sept. After 19 -Nov. they fell below 30. The total for the year was 2,352. As early as -12 April the City, unjustified as yet by the plague bill, asked for a -restraint of plays. Access to court was restrained on 2 Nov. (_Procl._ -1050). - -_1608._ The plague deaths were under 30 until 28 July, when they rose -to 50; for the rest of the year they were over 40, with a maximum -of 147 on 29 Sept, and a total of 2,262. The King’s men practised -privately for about eight weeks this winter (App. B). - -_1609._ The plague of this year, the heaviest since 1603, is recorded -in Dekker’s _Work for Armourers_ (1609, _Works_, iv. 96). The deaths -were over 30, and, with four exceptions, over 40 up to 30 Nov., with -a maximum of 210 on 21 Sept. and a total of 4,240. Michaelmas term -was deferred on 22 Sept. (_Procl._ 1085). The King’s men practised -privately for six weeks this winter (App. B). - -_1610._ The plague deaths were between 30 and 40 on 28 Dec. 1609 and on -4 and 18 Jan. 1610; then under 30 to 28 June, passing 30 on 5 July and -40 on 12 July, and remaining there during most of the rest of the year, -with a maximum of 99 on 30 Aug. and a total of 1,803. They fell below -40 on 29 Nov. and below 30 on 6 Dec. - -_1611–16._ Plague was absent from London (Creighton, i. 496). - - - - - APPENDIX F - - THE PRESENCE-CHAMBER AT GREENWICH - - - [Entry for 27 Aug. 1598 in _Pauli Hentzneri J. C. Itinerarium - Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae_ (1629) 200. The first - edition is of 1612. A translation by R. Bentley was printed by - Horace Walpole in 1757.] - -Venimus deinde, ad Arcem Regiam, Grönwidge seu Grunwidge, vulgo -dictam.... Postquam hanc arcem ingressi sumus, ex mandato summi -Cubiculariorum Praefecti, quod Dn. Daniel Rogerius impetraverat, in -Cameram Praesentationis, undiquaque tapetis preciosis exornatam, -(Pavimentum vero, uti in Anglia moris est, foeno erat constratum) -quam Regina, quando in sacellum ad preces ire vult, transire solet; -Ad ianuam stabat nobilis quidam vestibus holosericis amictus, -et catena aurea cinctus, qui Comites, Barones, Nobiles et alios -utriusque sexus, Reginam adire cupientes, ad eandem deducebat; (erat -tum forte dies Dominicus, quo Magnates plaerumque Reginam invisere -solent) in Camera, quam dixi, praestolabantur Reginam, Episcopi, -Cantuariensis et Londinensis, Consiliarii, Officiarii, et nobiles -magno numero. Postea cum hora precum instaret, Regina ex suo conclavi -prodiit, tali cum comitatu; Praeibant Nobiles, Barones, Comites, et -Equites Ordinis Periscelidis, omnes splendide vestiti, et capite -detecto; Proxime antecedebant duo, alter qui sceptrum Regni, alter -qui gladium in vagina rubra aureis liliis distincta, reconditum -cuspide sursum versa portabat, inter quos medius procedebat, Magnus -Angliae Cancellarius, sigillum Regni in marsupio holoserico rubro -gerens; Hos sequebatur Regina, aetatis, uti rumor erat, lxv annorum, -magna cum Maiestate, facie oblonga et candida, sed rugosa, oculis -parvis, sed nigris et gratiosis, naso paululum inflexo, labiis -compressis, dentibus fuliginosis (quod vitium ex nimio saccari usu, -Anglos contrahere verisimile est) inaures habens duas margaritis -nobilissimis appensis, crinem fulvum sed factitium; Capiti imposita, -erat parva quaedam corona, quae ex particula auri celeberrimae illius -tabulae Lunaeburgensis, facta esse perhibetur; pectore erat nuda, -quod Virginitatis apud Anglos Nobiles signum est; Nam maritatae sunt -tectae; Collum torques gemmis nobilissimis refertus circumdabat; manus -erant graciles, digiti longiusculi, statura corporis mediocris; in -incessu magnifica, verbis blanda et humanissima; induta forte tum -temporis erat veste serica alba, cuius oram margaritae preciosissimae -fabarum magnitudine decorabant, toga superiniecta ex serico nigro, -cui argentea fila admista, cum cauda longissima, quam Marchionissa -pone sequens a posteriori parte elevatum gestabat; Collare habebat -oblongum, vice catenae, gemmis et auro fulgens; Tum, cum tali in pompa -et magnificentia incederet, nunc cum hoc, mox cum alio loquebatur, -perhumaniter, qui vel legationis vel alterius rei causa eo venerant, -utens nunc materno, nunc Gallico, nunc Italico idiomate; Nam, -praeterquam quod Graece, et Latine eleganter est docta, tenet ultra iam -commemorata idiomata, etiam Hispanicum, Scoticum, et Belgicum; Omnes -illam alloquentes, pedibus flexis id faciunt, quorum aliquos interdum -manu elevare solet; Hos inter forte tum erat, Baro quidam Bohemus, -Gulielmus Slawata nomine, Reginae literas offerens, cui manum dextram, -chirotheca detracta, annulis et lapidibus preciosissimis splendentem -porrexit osculandam, quod maximum insignis clementiae signum est; In -transitu, quocunque faciem vertit, omnes in genua procidunt; Sequebatur -Gynaeceum ex Comitissis, Baronissis, et Nobilibus foeminis, summa -pulchritudine et forma excellentibus constans, et maxima ex parte, -vestimentis albicans; Ab utroque latere comitabantur eam Satellites -nobiles cum hastis deauratis, quorum quinquaginta sunt numero; In -praeambulo Sacelli, quod huic atrio contiguum est, porriguntur ipsi -libelli supplices, quos benignissime accipit, unde tales fiunt -acclamationes; God save the quene Elisabeth, hoc est, Deus salvet -Reginam Elisabetham; Ad quae populo sic ipsa respondet; I thancke you -myn good peupel, id est, Ago tibi gratias popule mi bone; In sacello -habebatur excellens Musica, qua finita una cum precibus, quae vix -ultra dimidiam horam durabant, Regina eadem magnificentia et ordine, -quo antea discesserat, redibat, et ad prandium se conferebat. Interea -vero dum sacris intererat, vidimus illi apparari mensam hac adhibita -solemnitate; Primo Nobilis quidam atrium ingressus, sceptrum manu -tenebat, adiunctum sibi habens alium quendam Nobilem cum mappa, qui -ambo cum ter summa cum veneratione genua flexissent, alter ad mensam -propius accedens, eam mappa insternebat; quo facto, rursus poplite -flexo discedebant; veniebant post hos alii duo, quorum alter rursum -cum sceptro, alter cum salino, orbe, et pane aderat, qui cum, uti -priores, ter genua incurvassent, et res modo dictae mensae impositae -essent, eadem omnino cum ceremonia abivere. Venit tandem Virgo quaedam -Comitissa, uti affirmabatur, eximiae pulchritudinis, vestita veste -serica alba, cui erat adiuncta nobilis matrona, cultrum praegustatorium -ferens, quae ter summo cum decore in pedes provoluta, postea ad mensam -accessit, orbes sale et pane abstersit, tanta cum veneratione, ac si -Regina ipsa praesens fuisset; cumque paululum commorata ad mensam -esset, venerunt satellites Regii, omnes capite nudi, sagis rubris -induti, quibus in postica parte erant affixae rosae aureae, singulis -vicibus xxiv missus ferculorum, in patinis argenteis et maxima ex parte -deauratis, adferentes; Ab his nobilis quidam, ordine cibos accepit, -et mensae imposuit; Praegustatrix vero, cuilibet satelliti, ex eadem, -quam ipsemet attulerat, patina, buccellam degustandam praebuit, ne -aliqua veneni subesset suspicio; Dum satellites isti, qui centum -numero procera corporis statura, et omnium robustissimi ex toto -Angliae Regno, ad hoc munus summa cura deliguntur, supradictos cibos -adportarent, erant in Aulae area xii Tubicines, et duo Tympanistae, qui -tubis, buccinis, et tympanis magno sonitu per sesqui horam clangebant; -Caeremoniis autem, modo commemoratis, circa mensam absolutis, aderant -illico virgines aliquot nobiles, quae singulari cum veneratione, -cibos de mensa auferebant, et in interius et secretius Reginae -cubiculum asportabant; Eligere ibi Regina solet quos vult, caeteri pro -Gynaeceo servantur; Prandet et coenat sola paucis astantibus, atque -nullus admittitur, neque peregrinus, neque Regni quoque incola, nisi -rarissime, et quidem ex singulari magnatis alicuius intercessione. - - - - - APPENDIX G - - SERLIO’S TRATTATO SOPRA LE SCENE - - - [Extract from Sebastiano Serlio’s _Architettura_ (1551), being - the text of ff. 26^v-31^v of _Il secondo libro di Perspettiva_, - which also contain five woodcuts, representing (_A_) the - _profilo_ or section of a stage (f. 26^v), (_B_) the _pianta_ - or ground-plan of the same stage (f. 27^v), (_C_), (_D_), (_E_) - elevations of a _scena comica_ (f. 28^v), _scena tragica_ (f. - 29^v), and _scena satyrica_ (f. 30). An English translation, - through the ‘Dutch’, of the five books of the _Architettura_ - was published in 1611, having been entered in the Stationers’ - Register by Thomas Snodham on 14 Dec. 1611 (Arber, iii. 473). - Each book has a separate imprint, _London Printed for Robert - Peake and are to be sold at his shop neere Holborne conduit, - next to the Sunne Tauerne. Anno Dom. 1611_. Each has also a - colophon, with slight variants; that of the fifth book, which - alone names the printer, is _Here endeth the fift Booke: And - this also is the end of the whole worke of Sebastian Serlius; - Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into - English, at the charges of Robert Peake. Printed at London, - by Simon Stafford. 1611. B. W._ I do not know whether B. W. - conceals the name of a translator. Robert Peake, who also - signs an Epistle to Prince Henry, prefixed to the first book, - was not a stationer, but a serjeant painter to James. In this - translation the _Treatise of Scenes_ occupies ff. 23^v-27 - of Bk. ii, ch. 3. The title of this book is _The second - Booke of Architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating - of Perspectiue, which is, Inspection, or looking into, by - shortening of the sight_. The woodcuts are reproduced, with some - modifications, especially in details of heraldic decoration.] - - [Illustration: (_A_) - - THE _PROFILO_ OR SECTION OF A STAGE] - -[f. 26^v] Per che ne la seguente carta io trattaro delle Scene e de -Theatri che a nostri tempi si costumano, onde sara difficile a -comprendere doue et come si debbia porre l’ orizonte delle scene, per -essere diuerso modo dalle regole passate, ho voluto far prima questo -profilo, accio che la pianta in sieme col profilo l’ un per l’ altro si -possino intendere; ma sara perho bene a studiare prima su la pianta, -et se quelle cose non si intenderanno ne la pianta, recorrere al -profilo doue meglio s’ intendera. Primieramente donque io cominciaro -dal suolo dauanti: loquale sara a l’ altezza de l’ occhio et voglio -que sia piano et e segnato C, et da B fin a l’ A sara lo suolo leuato -dalla parte de A la nona parte; et quel diritto piu grosso sopra del -qual e M dinota lo muro nel capo della sala. Quel diritto piu sottile -doue e P sara lo pariete della scena cioe l’ ultimo. Il termine doue -e l’ O e l’ orizonte. La linea di punti che viene ad essere aliuello -da L a O doue essa finira nel pariete vltimo della scena, iui sara l’ -orizonte, loqual pero seruira solamente per quel pariete, et questa -linea sara quella che sara sempre orizonte, alle faccie de i casamenti -che saranno in maiesta. Ma quelle parti de i casamenti che scurtiano -lo suo orizonte sara quel piu lontano segnato O. Et e ben ragione se -i casamenti in effetto han dua facie, lequai spettino a dua lati, che -anchora habbino dua orizonti; et questo e quanto al profilo della -scena. Ma lo proscenio si e quella segnata D: la parte E rappresenta -l’ horchestra leuata da terra mezzo piede. Doue si vede F sonno le -sedie de piu nobili. Li primi gradi segnati G saran per le donne piu -nobili, et salendo piu ad alto le men nobili vi si metterano. Quel -luoco piu spacioso doue e H e vna strada, et cosi la parte I vn altra -strada onde fra l’ una e l’ altra quei gradi saranno per la nobilita -de gli huomini. Dal I in su li gradi che vi sonno, li men nobili si -metteranno. Quel gran spacio segnato K sara per la plebe, et sara -magiore et minore secondo la grandezza del luoco; et lo Theatro, et -la scena ch’ io feci in Vicenza, furono circa a questo modo, et de -l’ un corno a l’ altro del Theatro era da piedi ottanta, per essere -questo fatto in vn gran cortile, doue trouai magior spacio, che doue -era la scena per essere quella appoggiata ad vna loggia. Li armamenti -et ligature de i legnami furono nel modo dimostrato qui auanti, et -per esser questo Theatro senza appoggio alcuno, io volsi (per magior -fortezza) farlo ascarpa nella circonferentia di fori. - - [Illustration: (_B_) - - THE _PIANTA_ OR GROUND-PLAN OF A STAGE] - - - _Trattato sopra le Scene._ - -[f. 27] Fra l’ altre cose fatte per mano de gli huomini che si -possono mirare con gran contentezza d’ occhio et satisfationi d’ -animo: e (al parer mio) il discoprirsi lo apparato di vna scena, doue -si vede in picol spacio fatto da l’ arte della Perspettiua superbi -palazzi, amplissimi tempij, diuersi casamenti, et da presso, e di -lontano, spaciose piazze ornate di varii edificij, dritissime e longhe -strade incrociate da altre vie, archi triomphali, altissime colonne, -pyramide, obelischi, et mille altre cose belle, ornate d’ infiniti -lumi, grandi, mezzani, et piccoli, secondo che l’ altre lo comporta, -liquali sono cosi arteficiosamente ordinati, che rappresentano tante -gioie lucidissime, come saria Diamanti, Rubini, Zafiri, Smeraldi, et -cose simili. Quiui si vede la cornuta et lucida Luna leuarsi pian -piano; et essersi inalzata, che gli occhi de i spettatori non l’ han -veduta muouersi: in alcune altre si vede lo leuare del sole, et il suo -girare, et nel finire della comedia tramontar poi con tale artificio -che molti spettatori di tal cosa stupiscono; con l’ artificio a qualche -bon proposito si vedera descendere alcun Dio dal cielo, correre -qualche Pianeta per l’ aria, venir poi su la scena diuersi intermedij -richissimamente ornati, liuree di varie sorti con habiti strani, si per -moresche come per musiche. Tal’ hor si vede strani animali entro de i -quali son huomini, et fanciulli, atteggiando, saltando, et correndo -cosi bene, che non e senza merauiglia de riguardanti, le quai tutte -cose dan tanto di contentezza a l’ hocchio, et a l’ animo, che cosa -materiale, fatta da l’ arte, non si potria imaginare piu bella; et di -quelle cose poi che siamo in proposito de l’ arte della perspettiua, -io ne trattaro alquanto. Pure quantunque questo modo di perspettiua -di ch’ io parlaro sia diuerso dalle regole passate, per essere quelle -imaginate sopra li parieti piani: et questa per essere materiale et -di rilieuo e ben ragione a tenere altra strada. Primieramente per il -commune vso si fa vn suolo leuato da terra quanto l’ hocchio nostro; -cioe dalla parte dauanti et di dietro si fa piu alto la nona parte, -partendo in noue parti tutto il piano, et vna di quelle. Sia leuato -il detto suolo dalla parte di drieto verso l’ orizonte, et sia ben -piano et forte per causa delle moresche. Questa pendentia io l’ ho -trouata commoda con la esperientia, perche in Vicenza (citta molto -ricca et pomposissima fra l’ altre d’ Italia) io feci vno Theatro, et -vna scena di legname, perauentura, anzi senza dubio, la magiore che -a nostri tempi si sia fatta, doue per li merauigliosi intermedij che -vi accadeuano, cioe carette, Elefanti, et diuerse moresche, io volsi -che dauanti la scena pendente vi fosse vn suolo piano, la latitudine -del quale fu piede xij, et in longitudine piedi lx, doue io trouai tal -cosa ben commoda, et di grande aspetto. Questo primo suolo essendo -piano, lo suo pauimento non vbidiua a l’ orizonte, ma li suoi quadri -furono perfetti, et al cominciare dal piano pendente tutti quei quadri -andauano a l’ orizonte ilche con la sua debita distantia sminui. Et -perche alcuni han posto l’ orizonte a l’ ultimo pariete che termina la -scena, il qual e necessario metterlo sul proprio suolo al nascimento -di esso pariete, doue dimostra che tutti li casamenti se adunano, io -mi sono imaginato di trapassare piu la con l’ orizonte, la qual cosa -mi e cosi bene reuscita, che a fare tal cose ho sempre tenuto questa -strada, et cosi consiglio coloro che di tal arte se diletterano, a -tener questo camino, como nella seguente carta dimostraro, et come ne -ho trattato qui adietro nel profilo del Theatro, et della Scena. Et -perche gli apparati delle comedie sono di tre maniere, cioe la Comica, -la Tragica, et la Satyrica, io trattaro al presente de la comica, i -casamenti della quale voglion essere di personagi priuati, liquali -apparati per la maggior parte si fanno al coperto in qualche sala, che -nel capo di essa vi sia camere per la commodita de i dicitori, et iui -si fa lo suolo come qui piu a dietro io dissi, e ne dimostrai lo suo -profilo, et qui alianti dimostrero la pianta. Primieramente la parte -C e quel suolo piano et poniam caso che vn quadro sia dua piedi, et -medesimamente quegli del piano pendente son dua piedi per ogni lato, et -e segnato B; e (come ho detto nel profilo) io non intendo di mettere l’ -orizonte al pariete vltimo de la scena, ma quanto sara dal principio -di esso piano B fin al muro sia trapassato altro tanto di la dal muro -con l’ orizonte; et quelle dua linee di punti dinotano lo muro in capo -di essa sala, e cosi tutti li casamenti et altre cose haueranno piu -dolcezza ne i scurcij, doue tirati tutti li quadri ad esso orizonte, -et diminuiti secondo la sua distantia, si leuaran su li casamenti, li -quali son quelle linee grosse sul piano, per diritto, et per trauerso; -et questi tai casamenti io li ho sempre fatti di telari, sopra liquali -ho poi tirato tele, facendogli le sue porte in faccia et in scurtio -secondo le occasioni, et ancho ci ho fatto alcune cose di basso rilieuo -di legnami che han aiutato molto le pitture, come al suo loco ne -trattaro. Tutto lo spacio da li telari al muro segnati A seruiranno -per li dicittori, et sempre lo pariete vltimo vuol essere discosto -dal muro almen dua piedi, accio li diccitori possino passar coperti; -dipoi quanto si trouera alto l’ orizonte, sia tanto alzato vn termino -al principio del piano B che sara L et da li a l’ orizonte sia tirata -vna linea chi e di punti, laquale sara al liuello, et doue questa -ferira nel vltimo pariete: iui sara l’ orizonte di esso pariete: et non -seruira perho ad altro telaro: ma la detta linea sia vna cosa stabile, -perche questa seruira a tutti quei telari che saranno in maiesta, per -trouare le grossezze di alcune cose, ma lo primo orizonte di la dal -muro seruira a tutti li scurcij de i casamenti. Et perche a far questo -saria necessario a rompere esso muro, ilche non si puo fare, io ho -sempre fatto vno modello piccolo di cartoni et legnami, ben misurato -et traportato poi in grande di cosa in cosa giustamente con facilita. -Ma questa lettione forsi ad alcuno sara difficile, nondimeno sara -necessario faticarsi nel far de modelli et esperientie, che studiando -trouara la via. Et perche le sale (per grande che siano) non son capaci -di Theatri, io nondimeno, per accostarmi quanto io possi agli antichi, -ho voluto di esso Theatro farne quella parte che in vna gran sala possi -capere. Perho la parte D seruira per proscenio. La parte circolare -segnata E sara l’ orchestra leuata vn grado dal proscenio, intorno -laquale son sedie per li piu nobili, che son F; li gradi primi G son -per le donne piu nobili; la parte H e strada et cosi la parte I. Gli -altri gradi son per li huomini men nobili, fra liquali vi son scale per -salire piu agiatamente. Quei luochi spaciosi segnati K saran poi per la -plebe et saranno magiori o minori secondo li luochi, et come il luoco -sara magiore, lo Theatro prendera piu della sua perfetta forma. - - [Illustration: (_C_) - - ELEVATION OF A _SCENA COMICA_] - - - _Della Scena Comica._ - -[f. 28] Quanto alla dispositione de i Theatri, et delle Scene circa -alla pianta io ne ho trattato qui adietro, hora delle scene in -perspettiua ne trattaro particularmente, et perche (com’ io dissi) le -scene si fanno di tre sorte, cioe la Comica per rappresentar comedie, -la Tragica per le tragedie, e la Satyrica per le satyre, questa prima -sara la Comica, i casamenti della quale vogliono essere di personaggi -privati, come saria di cittadini auocati, mercanti, parasiti, et altre -simili persone. Ma sopra il tutto che non vi manchi la casa della -Rufiana ne sia senza hostaria, et uno tempio vi e molto necessario. -Per disporre li casamenti sopra il piano detto suolo, io ne ho dato il -modo piu adietro, si nel leuare i casamenti sopra li piani, come nella -pianta delle scene massime, come et doue si dee porre l’ orizonte. -Nientedimeno accio che l’ huomo sia meglio instrutto circa alle forme -de i casamenti, io ne dimostro qui a lato vna figura, laquale potra -essere vn poco di luce a chi di tal cosa vorra dilettarsi. Pur in -questa essendo cosi picola non ho potuto osseruare tutte le misure. -Ma solamente ho accennato alla inuentione per aduertir l’ huomo a -saper fare elettione di quei casamenti che posti in opera habbino a -reuscir bene come saria un portico traforato, dietro del quale si vegga -vn altro casamento come questo primo, li archi delquale son di opera -moderna. Li poggiuoli (altri dicono pergoli; altri Renghiere) hanno -gran forza nelle faccie che scurzano, et cosi qualche cornice che li -suoi finimenti vengono fuori del suo cantonale, tagliati intorno et -accompagnati con l’ altre cornice dipinte, fanno grande effetto; cosi -le case che han gran sporto in fuori riusciscono bene, come l’ hostaria -della luna qui presente; et sopra tutte le altre cose si de fare -elettione delle case piu piccole, et metterle dauanti, accio che sopra -esse si scuoprano altri edificii, come si vede sopra la casa della -Ruffiana, l’ insegna della quale sono li rampini, o vogliam dire hami, -onde per tal superiorita della casa piu adietro viene a rappresentar -grandezza, et riempisse meglio la parte della scena, che non farebbe -diminuendo, se le summita delle case diminuissero l’ una dopo altra; et -benche le cose qui disegnate habbino vn lume solo da vn lato, nondimeno -tornano meglio a dargli il lume nel mezzo: percioche la forza de i lumi -si mette nel mezzo, pendenti sopra la scena, et tutti quei tondi, o -quadri, che si veggono per gli edificii sono tutti i lumi artificiati -di varii colori transparenti: de i quali daro il modo da fargli ne l’ -estremo di questo libro. Le finestre che sono in faccia sara bene a -mettergli de lumi di dietro, ma che siano di vetro, et ancho di carta -ouero di tela dipinta torneran bene. Ma s’ io volessi scriuere di tutti -gli aduertimenti che mi abbundano circa a tal cose, io sarei forsi -tenuto prolisso, perho io le lassaro nel’ intelletto di coloro che in -tal cose si voranno essercitare. - - [Illustration: (_D_) - - ELEVATION OF A _SCENA TRAGICA_] - - - _Della Scena Tragica._ - -[f. 29] La Scena Tragica sara per rappresentare tragedie. Li casamenti -d’ essa vogliono essere di grandi personagi; percioche gli accidenti -amorosi, et casi inopinati, morte violenti et crudeli (per quanto si -lege nelle tragedie antiche, et ancho nelle moderne) sonno sempre -interuenute dentro le case de signori, duchi, o gran principi, imo, di -Re; et perho (come ho detto) in cotali apparati non si fara edificio -che non habbia del nobile: si come se dimostra nella seguente figura, -entro la quale (per esser cosa piccola) non ho potuto dimostrare -quei grandi edificij Regij et signorili, che in vn luogo spatioso -si potrebbono fare. Ma basti solamente a l’ Arcitetto che in torno -a cose simili si vorra essercitare, per hauer vn poco di luce circa -alla inuentione, et dipoi secondo li luochi et anchora li sugietti -sapersi accommodare; et (come ho detto nella scena comica) sempre si -de fare elettione di quelle cose che tornano meglio a riguardanti, -non hauendo rispetto a mettere vn edificio piccolo dauanti ad vno -grande, per le gia dette ragioni. Et perche tutte le mie scene ho -fatte sopra li telari, ci sonno tal volta alcune difficulta, che e ben -necessario a seruirsi del rilieuo di legname, come quello edificio -al lato sinistro, li pilastri del quale posano sopra vn basamento -con alcuni gradi. In questo caso sara da fare il detto basamento di -basso rilieuo, leuato sopra lo piano, et poi si faran li due telari, -cioe quello in faccia, et quello in scurtio; et stano solamente fin -alla summita del parapetto, che e sopra li primi archi. Hora perche -gli archi secondi se ritirano per dar luoco al parapetto, cosi li dua -telari di sopra si ritiraranno: di maniera che tal opera verra bene, et -quello ch’ io dico di questo edificio se intende anchora de gli altri, -quando qualche parti si ritireranno, massimamente di quei casamenti -che sono qua dauanti. Ma quando tai cose fussero di lontano, vn telaro -solo seruiria, facendo tutte le parti ben lineate, et ben colorite. -Circa alli lumi artificiati, s’ e detto a bastanza nella scena comica. -Tutte le superficie sopra li tetti, come saria camini, campanili, et -cose simili (benché quiui non vi siano) se faranno sopra vna tauola -sottile, tagliati intorno, ben lineati et coloriti. Similmente qualche -statue finte di marmo o di bronzo si faranno di grosso cartone, o -pur di tauola sottile, ben ombregiate et tagliate intorno; poi si -metteranno alli suoi luochi, ma siano talmente disposti, et lontani che -i spettatori non le possino vedere per fianco. In queste Scene, benche -alcuni hanno dipinto qualche personagi che rappresentano il viuo, come -saria vna femina ad vn balcone, o drento d’ una porta, etiamdio qualche -animale, queste cose non consiglio che si faccino, perche non hanno -il moto et pure rappresentano il viuo; ma qualche persona che dorma a -bon proposito, ouero qualche cane o altro animale che dorma, perche non -hanno il moto. Anchora si possono accomodare qualche statue, o altre -cose finte di marmo, o d’ altra materia, o alcuna hystoria, o fabula -dipinta sopra vn pariete, che io lodaro sempre si faccia cosi. Ma nel -rappresentare cose viue lequali habbino il moto, ne l’ estremo di -questo libro ne trattaro, et daro il modo come s’ abbino a fare. - - [Illustration: (_E_) - - ELEVATION OF A _SCENA SATYRICA_] - - - _Della Scena Satyrica._ - -[f. 30] La Scena Satyrica e per rappresentar satyre, nelle quali se -riprendono (anzi vero se mordeno) tutti coloro che licentiosamente -viuono, et senza rispetto nelle satyre antiche erano quasi mostrati -a dito gli huomini viciosi et mal viuenti. Perho tal licentia si -puo comprendere che fusse concessa a personaggi che senza rispetto -parlassero, come saria a dire gente rustica, percioche Vitruuio -trattando delle scene, vuole che questa sia ornata di arbori, sassi, -colli, montagne, herbe, fiori, et fontane, vuole anchora che vi -siano alcune capanne alla rustica, come qui appresso se dimostra. Et -perche a tempi nostri queste cose per il piu delle volte si fanno -la inuernata, doue pochi arbori et herbe con fiori se ritrouano, si -potran bene artificiosamente fare cose simili di seta lequali saranno -anchora piu lodate che le naturali; percioche, cosi come nelle Scene -Comiche et Tragiche se imitano li casamenti et altri edificij, con -l’ artificio della pittura, cosi anchora in questa si potran bene -imitare gli arbori et l’ herbe co fiori. Et queste cose quanto saranno -di maggior spesa tanto piu lodeuoli saranno, perche (nel vero) son -proprie di generosi magnanimi, et richi signori, nemici della bruta -Auaritia. Questo gia vidiro gli occhi mei in alcune scene ordinate da -l’ intendente Architetto Girolamo Genga, ad instantia del suo padrone -Francesco Maria Duca di Vrbino, doue io compresi tanta liberalita nel -prence, tanto giuditio et arte l’ Arcitetto, et tanta bellezza nelle -cose strutte, quanto in altra opera fatta da l’ arte che da me sia -stata veduta giamai. (O Dio immortale) che magnificentia era quella di -veder tanti arbori et frutti, tante herbe et fiori diuersi, tutte cose -fatte di finissima seta di variati colori, le ripe et i sassi copiosi -de diuerse conche marine, di limache et altri animaletti, di tronchi -di coralli di piu colori, di matre perle, et di granchi marini inserti -ne i sassi, con tanta diuersita di cose belle; che a volerle scriuere -tutte, io sarei troppo longo in questa parte. Io non diro de i satyri, -delle Nymphe, delle syrene, et diuersi monstri o animali strani, fatti -con tal artificio, che aconzi sopra gli huomini et fanciulli secondo la -grandezza loro, et quelli, andando et mouendosi secondo la sua natura, -rappresentauano essi animali viui. Et se non ch’ io sarei troppo -prolisso, io narrarei gli habiti superbi di alcuni pastori, fatti di -ricchi drappi d’ oro et di seta, foderati di finissime pelle d’ animali -seluatichi. Direi anchora de i vestimenti d’ alcuni pescatori, liquali -non furono men ricchi de gli altri, le rete de i quali erano di fila -d’ oro fino, et altri suoi stromenti tutti dorati. Direi di alcune -pastorelle et Nymphe, gli habiti delle quali sprezauano l’ Auaritia. -Ma io lassaro tutte queste cose ne gli intelletti de i giudiciosi -Architetti: liquali faranno sempre di queste cose, quando trouaranno -simili padroni conformi alle lor voglie, gli et donanti piena licentia, -con larga mano, di operare tutto quello che vorranno. - - - _Di Lumi arteficiali delle Scene._ - -[f. 31] Ho promesso piu adietro negli trattati delle scene, di dare il -modo come si fanno i lumi artificiali di variati colori transparenti; -perche primieramente diro del colore celeste, il quale rappresenta il -zafiro et ancho assai piu bello. Prendi vn pezzo di sale ammoniaco, et -habbi vn bacile da barbiere o altro vaso di ottone, mettendogli drento -vn detto di aqua. Poi questo pezzo di sale va ben fregando nel fondo, -et intorno questo bacile, tanto che ’l se consumi tutto: agiungendoli -de l’ aqua tuttauia, et quando vorrai piu quantita di questa aqua, -et che ’l colore sia piu bello, fa maggiore la quantita del sale -ammoniaco. Fatto adonque vno bacile pieno di questa aqua falla passare -per il feltro in vno altro vaso, et questa sara di color celeste -bellissimo. Ma volendolo piu chiaro vi agiungerai de l’ aqua pura, -cosi di questo sol colore ne farai di molti piu chiari et piu scuri -quanto vorrai; et se di questa medesima aqua zafrina vorrai fare colore -di Smeraldo, mettili drento alquanto di zaffarano, tanto piu o meno, -secondo che la vorrai piu oscura o piu chiara. Di queste cose non ti do -le proportioni; ma con la esperientia ne farai di piu forte o chiare -o pur oscure. Se vorrai fare del colore di Rubino, se sarai in luoco -doue siano vini vermigli carichi di colore et chiaretti: questi faranno -di rubin maturi et gai cioe acerbi, et se non hauerai de vini, prendi -del vergine tagliato in pezzeti, mettendolo in vna caldara piena d’ -aqua, con alquanto di alume di rocha, et la farai bolire spiumandola, -et poi passare pel feltro, et agiungendoli aqua pura se vorrai colore -piu chiaro; et se vorai colore di Balasso, il vino goro, bianco, et -vermiglio insieme, fara tal colore. Cosi anchora li vini bianchi piu -et meno carichi faran colore de Griso passo, et di Thopasso. Ma (senza -dubio alcuno) l’ aqua pura passata pel feltro contrafara li Diamanti. -Pure, per farli, sara necessario adoperare alcune forme in punta, et -in tauola, et alla fornace de i vetri fare delle bozze che prendano -tal forma, et quelle impire d’ aqua. Ma il modo de disporre questi -colori transparenti sara questo. Sara di dietro alle cose dipinte, -doue anderanno questi colori, vna tauola sottile traforata nel modo -che saran compartiti questi lumi, sotto laquale sara un’ altra tauola -per sostenere le bozze di vetro piene di queste aque; poi dette bozze -si metteranno con la parte piu curua appoggiate a quei buchi, et bene -assicurate che non caschino per i strepiti delle moresche; et dietro le -bozze si mettera vno cesendelo, overo lampada, accio lo lume sia sempre -equale; et selle bozze verso la lampada saranno piane anzi concaue, -riceueranno meglio la luce, et li colori saranno piu transparenti, -cosi anchora per quei tondi liquali saranno in scurtio sara da fare -le bozze di quella sorte. Ma se accadra tal fiata vn lume grande et -gagliardo, sara da metterui di dietro vna torza, dopo laquale sia vn -bacile da barbiere ben lucido et nuovo, la reflettione del quale fara -certi splendori, come di raggi del sole. Et se alcuni luochi saranno -quadri come mandola, o altre forme, si prendera delle piastre di vetri -di variati colori posti a quei luochi col suo lume di dietro. Ma questi -lumi non saran (perho) quelli che allumineranno la scena, percioche -gran coppia di torze si metteno pendente dauanti alla scena. Si potra -anchora su per la scena mettere alcuni candelieri con torze sopra, ed -anchora sopra essi candelieri vi sia vn vaso pieno di acqua, drento -laquale metterai vn pezzo di camphora, loquale ardendo fa bellissimo -lume, et e odorifero. Alcuna fiata accadera a dimostrare qualche cosa -che abbruscia (sia che si voglia); si bagnara benissimo di aqua vite -della piu potente, et apizatogli lo fuoco con vna candeletta: ardera -per vn pezzo. Et ben che quanto alli fuochi si potra dire assai piu, -voglio questo sia basteuole per presente. Ma parliamo di alcune cose -lequali sono di gran diletto a spettatori. Mentre la scena e vota -de dicitori, potra l’ Arcitetto hauer preparato alcune ordinanze -di figurette, di quella grandezza che si ricercara dove hauranno a -passare, et queste saranno di grosso cartone colorite et tagliate -intorno, lequali posaranno sopra vn regolo di legno a trauerso la -scena, doue sia qualche arco, fatto sopra il suolo vno incastro a -coda di Rondina, entro lo quale si mettera detto regolo; et cosi -pianamente vna persona dietro al detto arco le fara passare, et tal -fiata dimostrare che siano musici con istrumenti et voci, onde dietro -alla scena sara vna musica a somissa voce. Tal volta fara correre vn -squadrone di gente chi a piedi et chi a cauallo, lequali con alcune -voci o gridi sordi, strepiti di tamburi, et suono di trombe, pascono -molto gli spettatori. Et se tal volta accadera che vno Pianeta, o altra -cosa per aria si vegga passare, sia ben dipinta quella cosa in cartone -et tagliata intorno; poi dietro la scena (cioe a gli vltimi casamenti) -sia tirato a trauerso vn filo di ferro sottile, et con alcuni aneletti -in esso filo attacati dietro il cartone, nel quale sia un filo negro, -et da l’ altro lato sara vna persona che pian piano lo tirara a se, -ma sara di forte lontano, che ne l’ uno ne l’ altro filo sara veduto. -Tal fiata accadera tuoni, lampi et folgori a qualche proposito; li -tuoni cosi si faranno. Sempre (come ho detto) le scene si fanno nel -capo di vna sala, sopra laquale gli e sempre vn suolo, sopra del -quale si fara correre vna grossa balla di pietra, laquale fara bene -il tuono. Lo lampo cosi si fara. Sara vno dietro alla scena in luoco -alto, hauendo nella mano vna scatoletta, entro laquale vi sia polue di -vernice: et il coperchio sia pieno di busi: nel mezzo del coperchio -sara vna candeletta accesa: et alzando in su la mano, quella polue -salira in alto, et perchuotera nella candela accesa, di maniera che -fara lampi assai bene. Circo al folgore, sara tirato vn filo di ferro -lontano a trauerso la scena, che descenda a basso, entro del quale -sara aconcio vn rochetto, o raggio, che si sia, ma questo sara ornato -di oro stridente, et mentre si fara lo tuono, nel finir di quello sia -scaricata vna coda, et nel medesimo tempo dato il fuoco al folgore, et -fara buono effetto. Ma s’ io volessi trattare di quante cose similimi -abbondano, io saria troppo longho; pero faccio fine quanto alla -perspettiua. - - - - - APPENDIX H - - THE GULL’S HORNBOOK - - [Chapter vi from T. Dekker, _The Gull’s Hornbook_ (1609). There - is no entry in the Stationers’ Register. Editions are by J. Nott - (1812), J. O. Halliwell (1862), C. Hindley (1872, _Old Book - Collector’s Miscellany_, ii), A. B. Grosart (1884, _Dekker’s - Works_, ii), G. Saintsbury (1892), O. Smeaton (1904), and R. - B. McKerrow (1904, _King’s Library_; 1905, _King’s Classics_). - I have adopted two trifling emendations; ‘Plaiers are’ for - ‘Plaiers and’ in the first paragraph, and ‘Stage, like time’ for - ‘Stagelike time’ in the ninth. McKerrow reprints the chapter - on the Stage from S. Vincent’s Restoration adaptation of the - pamphlet in _The Young Gallant’s Academy_ (1674).] - - - _How a Gallant should behaue himself in a Playhouse._ - -The Theater is your Poets Royal Exchange, vpon which, their Muses (that -are now turnd to Merchants) meeting, barter away that light commodity -of words for a lighter ware then words, _Plaudities_ and the _Breath_ -of the great _Beast_, which (like the threatnings of two Cowards) -vanish all into aire. _Plaiers_ are their _Factors_, who put away the -stuffe, and make the best of it they possibly can (as indeed tis their -parts so to doe). Your Gallant, your Courtier, and your Capten, had -wont to be the soundest paymaisters, and I thinke are still the surest -chapmen: and these by meanes that their heades are well stockt, deale -vpon this comical freight by the grosse: when your _Groundling_, and -_Gallery Commoner_ buyes his sport by the penny, and, like a _Hagler_, -is glad to vtter it againe by retailing. - -Sithence then the place is so free in entertainment, allowing a stoole -as well to the Farmers sonne as to your Templer: that your Stinkard -has the selfe same libertie to be there in his Tobacco-Fumes, which -your sweet Courtier hath: and that your Car-man and Tinker claime as -strong a voice in their suffrage, and sit to giue iudgement on the -plaies life and death, as well as the prowdest _Momus_ among the tribe -of _Critick_: It is fit that hee, whom the most tailors bils do make -roome for, when he comes should not be basely (like a vyoll) casd vp in -a corner. - -Whether therefore the gatherers of the publique or priuate Playhouse -stand to receiue the after-noones rent, let our Gallant (hauing paid -it) presently aduance himselfe vp to the Throne of the Stage. I meane -not into the Lords roome, (which is now but the Stages Suburbs). No, -those boxes, by the iniquity of custome, conspiracy of waiting-women -and Gentlemen-Ushers, that there sweat together, and the couetousnes of -Sharers, are contemptibly thrust into the reare, and much new Satten -is there dambd by being smothred to death in darknesse. But on the -very Rushes where the Commedy is to daunce, yea and vnder the state -of _Cambises_ himselfe must our fethered _Estridge_, like a peece of -Ordnance be planted valiantly (because impudently) beating downe the -mewes and hisses of the opposed rascality. - -For do but cast vp a reckoning, what large cummings in are pursd vp by -sitting on the Stage. First a conspicuous _Eminence_ is gotten; -by which meanes the best and most essenciall parts of a Gallant (good -cloathes, a proportionable legge, white hand, the Persian lock, and a -tollerable beard) are perfectly reuealed. - -By sitting on the stage, you haue a signd pattent to engrosse the whole -commodity of Censure; may lawfully presume to be a Girder: and stand at -the helme to steere the passage of _Scænes_[;] yet no man shall -once offer to hinder you from obtaining the title of an insolent, -ouer-weening Coxcombe. - -By sitting on the stage, you may (without trauelling for it) at the -very next doore, aske whose play it is: and, by that _Quest_ of -_inquiry_, the law warrants you to auoid much mistaking; if you -know not the author, you may raile against him: and peraduenture so -behaue your selfe, that you may enforce the Author to know you. - -By sitting on the stage, if you be a Knight, you may happily get you a -Mistresse: if a mere _Fleet street_ Gentleman, a wife: but assure -yourselfe by continuall residence, you are the first and principall man -in election to begin the number of _We three_. - -By spreading your body on the stage, and by being a Justice in -examining of plaies, you shall put your selfe into such true -_Scænical_ authority, that some Poet shall not dare to present his -Muse rudely vpon your eyes, without hauing first vnmaskt her, rifled -her, and discouered all her bare and most mysticall parts before you -at a Tauerne, when you most knightly shal for his paines, pay for both -their suppers. - -By sitting on the stage, you may (with small cost) purchase the deere -acquaintance of the boyes: haue a good stoole for sixpence: at any -time know what particular part any of the infants present: get your -match lighted, examine the play-suits lace, and perhaps win wagers -vpon laying tis copper, &c. And to conclude whether you be a foole or -a Justice of peace, a Cuckold or a Capten, a Lord Maiors sonne or a -dawcocke, a knaue or an vnder-Sheriffe, of what stamp soeuer you be, -currant or counterfet, the Stage, like time, will bring you to most -perfect light, and lay you open: neither are you to be hunted from -thence though the Scar-crows in the yard, hoot at you, hisse at you, -spit at you, yea throw durt euen in your teeth: tis most Gentlemanlike -patience to endure all this, and to laugh at the silly Animals: but if -the _Rabble_ with a full throat, crie away with the foole, you -were worse then a mad-man to tarry by it: for the Gentleman and the -foole should neuer sit on the Stage together. - -Mary let this obseruation go hand in hand with the rest: or rather -like a country-seruing-man, some fiue yards before them. Present not -your selfe on the Stage (especially at a new play) vntill the quaking -prologue hath (by rubbing) got cullor into his cheekes, and is ready -to giue the trumpets their Cue that hees vpon point to enter: for then -it is time, as though you were one of the _Properties_, or that you -dropt out of the _Hangings_, to creepe from behind the Arras, with -your _Tripos_ or three-footed stoole in one hand, and a teston mounted -betweene a forefinger and a thumbe in the other: for if you should -bestow your person vpon the vulgar, when the belly of the house is but -halfe full, your apparell is quite eaten vp, the fashion lost, and the -proportion of your body in more danger to be deuoured, then if it were -serued vp in the Counter amongst the Powltry: auoid that as you would -the Bastome. It shall crowne you with rich commendation to laugh alowd -in the middest of the most serious and saddest scene of the terriblest -Tragedy: and to let that clapper (your tongue) be tost so high that all -the house may ring of it: your Lords vse it; your Knights are Apes to -the Lords, and do so too: your Inne-a-court-man is Zany to the Knights, -and (many very scuruily) comes likewise limping after it: bee thou a -beagle to them all, and neuer lin snuffing till you haue scented them: -for by talking and laughing (like a Plough-man in a Morris) you heap -_Pelion_ vpon _Ossa_, glory vpon glory: As first, all the eyes in the -galleries will leaue walking after the Players, and onely follow you: -the simplest dolt in the house snatches vp your name, and when he -meetes you in the streetes, or that you fall into his hands in the -middle of a Watch, his word shall be taken for you: heele cry, _Hees -such a Gallant_, and you passe. Secondly, you publish your temperance -to the world, in that you seeme not to resort thither to taste vaine -pleasures with a hungrie appetite: but onely as a Gentleman, to spend -a foolish houre or two, because yoe can doe nothing else. Thirdly you -mightily disrelish the Audience, and disgrace the Author: mary, you -take vp (though it be at the worst hand) a strong opinion of your owne -iudgement and inforce the Poet to take pitty of your weakenesse, and, -by some dedicated sonnet to bring you into a better paradice, onely to -stop your mouth. - -If you can (either for loue or money) prouide your selfe a lodging -by the water-side: for, aboue the conueniencie it brings, to shun -Shoulder-clapping, and to ship away your Cockatrice betimes in the -morning, it addes a kind of state vnto you, to be carried from thence -to the staires of your Playhouse: hate a Sculler (remember that) worse -then to be acquainted with one ath’ Scullery. No, your Oares are your -onely Sea-crabs, boord them, and take heed you neuer go twice together -with one paire: often shifting is a great credit to Gentlemen; and that -diuiding of your fare wil make the poore watersnaks be ready to pul -you in peeces to enioy your custome: No matter whether vpon landing -you haue money or no, you may swim in twentie of their boates ouer the -riuer upon _Ticket_: mary, when siluer comes in, remember to pay -trebble their fare, and it will make your Flounder-catchers to send -more thankes after you, when you doe not draw, then when you doe; for -they know, It will be their owne another daie. - -Before the Play begins, fall to cardes, you may win or loose (as -_Fencers_ doe in a prize) and beate one another by confederacie, -yet share the money when you meete at supper: notwithstanding, to gul -the _Ragga-muffins_ that stand aloofe gaping at you, throw the -cards (hauing first torne foure or fiue of them) round about the Stage, -iust vpon the third sound, as though you had lost: it skils not if the -foure knaues ly on their backs, and outface the Audience, theres none -such fooles as dare take exceptions at them, because ere the play go -off, better knaues than they will fall into the company. - -Now sir, if the writer be a fellow that hath either epigramd you, or -hath had a flirt at your mistris, or hath brought either your feather -or your red beard, or your little legs, &c. on the stage, you shall -disgrace him worse then by tossing him in a blancket, or giuing him the -bastinado in a Tauerne, if, in the middle of his play (bee it Pastoral -or Comedy, Morall or Tragedie), you rise with a skreud and discontented -face from your stoole to be gone: no matter whether the Scenes be -good or no, the better they are the worse do you distast them: and, -beeing on your feet, sneake not away like a coward, but salute all your -gentle acquaintance, that are spred either on the rushes, or on stooles -about you, and draw what troope you can from the stage after you: the -_Mimicks_ are beholden to you, for allowing them elbow roome: -their Poet cries perhaps a pox go with you, but care not you for that, -theres no musick without frets. - -Mary if either the company, or indisposition of the weather binde you -to sit it out, my counsell is then that you turne plain Ape, take vp -a rush and tickle the earnest eares of your fellow gallants, to make -other fooles fall a laughing: mewe at passionate speeches, blare at -merrie, finde fault with the musicke, whew at the childrens Action, -whistle at the songs: and aboue all, curse the sharers, that whereas -the same day you had bestowed forty shillings on an embrodered Felt and -Feather, (scotch-fashion) for your mistres in the Court, or your punck -in the city, within two houres after, you encounter with the very same -block on the stage, when the haberdasher swore to you the impression -was extant but that morning. - -To conclude, hoard vp the finest play-scraps you can get, vpon which -your leane wit may most sauourly feede for want of other stuffe, when -the _Arcadian_ and _Euphuisd_ gentlewomen haue their tongues sharpened -to set vpon you: that qualitie (next to your shittlecocke) is the onely -furniture to a Courtier thats but a new beginner, and is but in his A -B C of complement. The next places that are fild, after the Playhouses -bee emptied, are (or ought to be) Tauernes, into a Tauerne then let vs -next march, where the braines of one Hogshead must be beaten out to -make vp another. - - - - - APPENDIX I - - RESTORATION TESTIMONY - - - i. - - [Extracts from _A Short Discourse of the English Stage. To his - Excellency, the Lord Marquess of Newcastle_, attached to Richard - Flecknoe’s _Love’s Kingdom_ (1664), and reprinted in Hazlitt, - _E. D. S._ 275. Flecknoe, who died _c._ 1678, was old enough to - travel abroad in 1640.] - -They Acted nothing here but Playes of the holy Scripture, or Saints’ -Lives; and that without any certain Theaters or set Companies, till, -about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s Reign, they began here first -to assemble into Companies, and set up Theaters, first in the City, (as -in the Inn-yards of the Cross-Keyes, and Bull in Grace and Bishops-Gate -Street at this day is to be seen) till that Fanatick Spirit which -then began with the Stage, and after ended with the Throne, banisht -them thence into the Suburbs, as after they did the Kingdom, in the -beginning of our Civil Wars. In which time, Playes were so little -incompatible with Religion, and the Theater with the Church, as on -Week-dayes after Vespers, both the Children of the Chappel and St. -Pauls Acted Playes, the one in White-Friers, the other behinde the -Convocation-house in Pauls, till people growing more precise, and -Playes more licentious, the Theatre of Pauls was quite supprest, -and that of the Children of the Chappel converted to the use of the -Children of the Revels.... - -It was the happiness of the Actors of those times to have such Poets -as these to instruct them, and write for them; and no less of those -Poets to have such docile and excellent Actors to Act their Playes, -as a Field and Burbidge; of whom we may say, that he was a delightful -Proteus, so wholly transforming himself into his Part, and putting -off himself with his Cloathes, as he never (not so much as in the -Tyring-house) assum’d himself again until the Play was done: there -being as much difference between him and one of our common Actors, as -between a Ballad-singer who onely mouths it, and an excellent singer, -who knows all his Graces, and can artfully vary and modulate his -Voice, even to know how much breath he is to give to every syllable. -He had all the parts of an excellent Orator (animating his words -with speaking, and Speech with Action) his Auditors being never more -delighted then when he spoke, nor more sorry then when he held his -peace; yet even then, he was an excellent Actor still, never falling -in his Part when he had done speaking; but with his looks and gesture, -maintaining it still unto the heighth, he imagining Age quod agis, -onely spoke to him: so as those who call him a Player do him wrong, -no man being less idle then he, whose whole life is nothing else but -action; with only this difference from other mens, that as what is but -a Play to them, is his Business: so their business is but a play to him. - -Now for the difference betwixt our Theaters and those of former times, -they were but plain and simple, with no other Scenes, nor Decorations -of the Stage, but onely old Tapestry, and the Stage strew’d with Rushes -(with their Habits accordingly) whereas ours now for cost and ornament -are arriv’d at the heighth of Magnificence.... For Scenes and Machines -they are no new invention, our Masks and some of our Playes in former -times (though not so ordinary) having had as good or rather better then -any we have now. - - - ii. - - [Extracts from _Historia Histrionica: an Historical Account - of the English Stage, shewing the Ancient Use, Improvement, - and Perfection of Dramatick Representations in this Nation. In - a Dialogue of Plays and Players_ (1699). A facsimile reprint - was issued by E. W. Ashbee in 1872. The text is also given in - Dodsley^4, xv. I use, with a correction, the modernized text of - A. Lang, _Social England Illustrated_ (1903, Arber, _English - Garner_^2), 422. The _Historia Histrionica_ is ascribed to James - Wright, an antiquary and play-collector (1643–1713), who can - only have recorded what he learnt from others. He is, of course, - writing primarily of the Caroline, rather than the Elizabethan - or Jacobean period.] - -_Truman._ I say, the actors that I have seen, before the Wars, Lowin, -Taylor, Pollard, and some others, were almost as far beyond Hart and -his company; as those were, beyond these now in being.... - -_Lovewit._ Pray, Sir, what master-parts can you remember the old -‘Blackfriars’ men to act, in Johnson’s, Shakespeare’s, and Fletcher’s -plays? - -_Truman._ What I can at present recollect I’ll tell you. Shakespeare -(who, as I have heard, was a much better Poet than Player), Burbage, -Hemmings, and others of the older sort, were dead before I knew the -Town. But, in my time, before the Wars; Lowin used to act, with mighty -applause, Falstaff; Morose; Vulpone; and Mammon in the _Alchemist_; -Melancius in the _Maid’s tragedy_. And at the same time, Amyntor was -played by Stephen Hammerton: who was, at first, a most noted and -beautiful Woman-Actor; but afterwards he acted, with equal grace and -applause, a young lover’s part. - -Taylor acted Hamlet incomparably well; Jago; Truewit, in the _Silent -Woman_; and Face, in the _Alchemist_. - -Swanston used to play Othello. - -Pollard and Robinson were Comedians. So was Shank; who used to act Sir -Roger in the _Scornful Lady_. These were of the ‘Blackfriars’.... - -_Truman._ Before the Wars, there were in being, all these Play -Houses at the same time. - - The ‘Blackfriars’ and ‘Globe’ on the Bankside. A winter, and - summer house belonging to the same Company; called ‘The King’s - Servants’. - - The ‘Cockpit’ or ‘Phoenix’ in Drury Lane; called ‘The Queen’s - Servants’. - - The Private House in Salisbury Court; called ‘The Prince’s - Servants’. - - The ‘Fortune’ near White Cross Street: and the ‘Red Bull’ at - the upper end of St. John’s Street. The two last were mostly - frequented by citizens, and the meaner sort of people. - -All these Companies got money, and lived in reputation: especially -those of the ‘Blackfriars’, who were men of grave and sober behaviour. - -_Lovewit._ Which I much admire at. That the Town, much less than -at present, could then maintain Five Companies; and yet now Two can -hardly subsist. - -_Truman._ Do not wonder, but consider! That though the Town was then, -perhaps, not much more than half so populous as now; yet then the -prices were small (there being no scenes), and better order kept among -the company that came: which made very good people think a play an -innocent diversion for an idle hour or two; the plays being then, for -the most part, more instructive and moral.... It is an argument of the -worth of the Plays and Actors of the last Age, and easily inferred that -they were much beyond ours in this, to consider that they could support -themselves merely from their own merit, the weight of the matter, and -goodness of the action; without scenes and machines.... - -_Lovewit._ I have read of one Edward Alleyn.... Was he one of the -‘Blackfriars’? - -_Truman._ Never, as I have heard; for he was dead before my time. -He was Master of a Company of his own; for whom he built the ‘Fortune’ -playhouse from the ground: a large round brick building.... - -_Lovewit._ What kind of Playhouses had they before the Wars? - -_Truman._ The ‘Blackfriars’, ‘Cockpit’, and ‘Salisbury Court’ -were called Private Houses; and were very small to what we see now. -The ‘Cockpit’ was standing since the Restoration; and Rhodes’s Company -acted there for some time. - -_Lovewit._ I have seen that. - -_Truman._ Then you have seen the other two, in effect; for they -were all three built almost exactly alike, for form and bigness. Here -they had ‘Pits’ for the gentry, and acted by candlelight. - -The ‘Globe’, ‘Fortune’, and ‘Bull’ were large houses, and lay partly -open to the weather: and there they always acted by daylight.... - -_Truman._ Plays were frequently acted by Choristers and Singing -Boys; and several of our old Comedies have printed in the title-page, -Acted by the Children of Paul’s (not the School, but the Church); -others, By the Children of Her Majesty’s Chapel. In particular, -_Cynthia’s Revels_ and the _Poetaster_ were played by them; -who were, at that time, famous for good action.... Some of the Chapel -Boys, when they grew men, became Actors at the ‘Blackfriars’. Such were -Nathan Field and John Underwood. - - - iii. - - [Extracts from John Downes, _Roscius Anglicanus, or, an - Historical Review of the Stage_ (1708), reprinted by Joseph - Knight (1886). An earlier reprint is in F. G. Waldron, _Literary - Museum_ (1792). Downes became prompter to the Duke of York’s men - under Sir William Davenant at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1662.] - -In the Reign of King _Charles_ the First, there were Six Play Houses -allow’d in Town: The _Black-Fryars_ Company, His Majesty’s Servants; -The Bull in St. _John’s-street_; another in _Salisbury Court_; another -call’d the _Fortune_; another at the _Globe_; and the Sixth at the -Cock-Pit in _Drury-Lane_; all which continu’d Acting till the beginning -of the said Civil Wars. The scattered Remnant of several of these -Houses, upon King _Charles’s_ Restoration, Fram’d a Company who Acted -again at the Bull, and Built them a New House in _Gibbon’s Tennis -Court_ in _Clare-Market_; in which Two Places they continu’d Acting all -1660, 1661, 1662 and part of 1663. In this time they Built them a New -Theatre in _Drury Lane_.... - -Sir _William_ [Davenant] in order to prepare Plays to Open his Theatre, -it being then a Building in _Lincoln’s-Inn Fields_, His Company -Rehearsed the First and Second Part of the Siege of _Rhodes_; and the -Wits at _Pothecaries-Hall_: And in Spring 1662, Open’d his House with -the said Plays, having new Scenes and Decorations, being the first that -e’re were Introduc’d in _England_. - - - - - APPENDIX K - - ACADEMIC PLAYS - - [The academic drama only lies on the fringe of my subject, but - I have included notes on extant English plays in chapters xxiii - and xxiv, and give below, for the sake of convenience, a list - of these, and another of those Latin plays which there is any - positive evidence for assigning to the period 1558–1616 and to - English authorship. Fuller treatment will be found in G. B. - Churchill and W. Keller, _Die lateinischen Universitäts-Dramen - in der Zeit der Königin Elisabeth_ (1898, _Jahrbuch_, xxxiv. - 220); G. C. Moore Smith, _Notes on Some English University - Plays_ (1908, _M. L. R._ iii. 141), and _Plays performed in - Cambridge Colleges before 1583_ (1909, _Fasciculus J. W. Clark - dicatus_, 265); L. B. Morgan, _The Latin University Drama_ - (1911, _Jahrbuch_, xlvii. 69); and F. S. Boas, _University - Plays_ (1910, _C. H._ vi. 293, with full bibliography), and - _University Drama in the Tudor Age_ (1914). Further material - from Cambridge archives is in preparation by G. C. Moore - Smith. In addition to the plays given in this list, some are - incorporated in the description of _The Christmas Prince_ (cf. - ch. xxiv, s.a. 1607–8.] - - - ENGLISH PLAYS - -_Albumazar._ - By T. Tomkis. - -_Antipoe._ - By F. Verney. - -_Birth of Hercules._ - Anon. - -_Caesar’s Revenge._ - Anon. - -_Claudius Tiberius Nero._ - Anon. - -_Club Law._ - Anon. - -_Lingua._ - By T. Tomkis. - -_Narcissus._ - Anon. - -_1, 2, 3 Parnassus._ - Anon. - -_Queen’s Arcadia._ - By S. Daniel. - -_Ruff, Cuff and Band._ - Anon. - -_Sicelides._ - By P. Fletcher. - -_Timon_ - Anon. - -_Work for Cutlers._ - Anon. - - - LATIN PLAYS - -_Adelphe._ - By S. Brooke (q.v.). - -_Atalanta._ - _Harl. MS._ 6924, with dedication to Laud, President of St. - John’s, Oxford, 1611–21, signed by Philip Parsons, of St. - John’s, B.A. 1614, M.A. 1618. - -_Bellum Grammaticale._ - _S. R._ 1634, April 17. ‘A booke called Bellum grammaticale - &c by Master Spense’, authorized by Herbert. _John Spenser_ - (Arber, iv. 317). - -1635. Bellum Grammaticale sive Nominum Verborumque discordia civilis -Tragico-Comoedia. Summo cum applausu olim apud Oxonienses in Scaenam -producta et nunc in omnium illorum qui ad Grammaticam animos appellant -oblectamentum edita. _B. A. and T. Fawcet, impensis Joh. Spenceri._ - -_Editions_ of 1658, 1698, 1718, 1726, 1729, and in J. Bolte (1908, -_Andrea Guarnas B. G. und seine Nachahmungen_, 106). - -A performance was given before Elizabeth at Ch. Ch., Oxford, on 24 -Sept. 1592, with a prologue and epilogue by Gager, which are printed -with his _Meleager_. But the play was not new, for Sir John Harington, -who records the 1592 performance in his _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (1596), -127, had already named ‘the Oxford Bellum Grammaticale’ as ‘full of -harmeles myrth’ in his _Apologie of Poetrie_ (1591). The ‘Master -Spense’ of the S. R. entry may be a confusion with the publisher’s -name. Wood, _Ath. Oxon._ ii. 533, was told by Richard Gardiner of Ch. -Ch. that the author was Leonard Hutten, who took his B.A. from Ch. Ch. -in 1578, and his M.A. in 1582. He was known as a dramatist by 26 Sept. -1583, when Gager wrote of him (Boas, 256), - - Seu scribenda siet Comoedia, seu sit agenda, - Primum Huttone potes sumere iure locum. - -The source was the Latin prose narrative _Bellum Grammaticale_ (1511) -of Andrea Guarna. Ralph Radclif (_c._ 1538) seems to have also treated -the theme, but not necessarily in dramatic form (_Mediaeval Stage_, ii. -197). - -_Britanniae Primitiae, sive S. Albanus Protomartyr_ (_c._ -1600). - - _Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS._ 215. The Bodleian Catalogue dates - the MS. _c._ 1600. The play, described in _Jahrbuch_, - xlvii. 75, is a fragment only, probably written in some Jesuit - seminary on the Continent, but with an English interest. There - seems to be nothing specifically English in the theme of - _Sanguis Sanguinem sive Constans Fratricida Tragoedia_, - which is in the same MS. - -_Caesar Interfectus_ (_c._ March 1582). - - Epilogue of a play by Richard Edes (q.v.) at Ch. Ch., Oxford. - -_Dido_ (12 June 1583). - - By W. Gager (q.v.). - -_Euribates Pseudomagus._ - - _Camb. Emmanuel MS._ 3. 1. 17. ‘Authore M^r Cruso Caii - Colle: Cantabr.’ - - Aquila Cruso entered Gonville and Caius in 1610. - -_Fatum Vortigerni._ - - _Lansd. MS._ 723, f. 1. ‘Fatum Vortigerni seu miserabilis - vita et exitus Vortigerni regis Britanniae vna complectens - aduentum Saxonum siue Anglorum in Britanniam.’ - - Keller puts the play at the end of the sixteenth century, and - thinks it influenced by _Richard III_. - -_Fortunia_ (March 1615). - - See s.v. _Susenbrotus_. - -_Herodes._ - - _Camb. Univ. MS._ Mm. I. 24, with dedication by William - Goldingham, B.A. 1567 and Fellow of Trinity Hall 1571, to ‘D. - Thomae Sackuilo, Equiti aurato, Domino de Buckhurst.’ Sackville - became Lord Buckhurst 1567 and K.G. 1588. - -_Hispanus_ (March 1597). - - _Bodl. Douce MS._ 234, f. 15^v. This was ‘in diem - comitialem anno domini 1596’, and the actor-list is composed - of members of St. John’s, Cambridge (Boas, 398). The MS. has - the note ‘Summus histrio-didascalus Mr. Pratt’ and a possible - indication of authorship in the mutilated name ‘orrell’, which - may stand for Roger Morrell, Fellow of St. John’s. - -_Hymenaeus_ (March 1579). - - _St. John’s Cambridge MS._ S. 45; _Caius Cambridge - MS._ 62. - - _Edition_ by G. C. Moore Smith (1908). - - The actor-list agrees closely with that of Legge’s _Ricardus - III_, and points to St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1579 (Boas, - 393). The source is Boccaccio’s _Decamerone_, which suggests - the possible authorship of A. Fraunce (q.v.), who used the - _Decamerone_ for his contemporary _Victoria_. - -_Ignoramus_ (8 March 1615). - - By G. Ruggle (q.v.). - -_Labyrinthus_ (March 1603?). - - By W. Hawkesworth (q.v.). - -_Laelia_ (1 March 1595). - - _Lambeth MS._ 838. - - _Edition_ by G. C. Moore Smith (1910).--_Dissertation_: G. C. - Moore Smith, _The Cambridge Play ‘Laelia_’ (1911, _M. L. R._ vi. - 382). - - The production is assigned by Fuller, _Hist. of Cambridge_ - (ed. Nichols), 217, to a visit by the Earl of Essex to Cambridge - as Chancellor of the University in 1597–8. Moore Smith has, - however, shown that it almost certainly belongs to an earlier - visit, and took place at Queens’ College on 1 March 1595. The - chief evidence is the reference in Rowland Whyte’s account of - the _Device_ by Essex or Bacon (q.v.) for 17 Nov. 1595 to - ‘Giraldy’ and ‘Pedantiq’, as played at Cambridge. These may - fairly be taken to be the Gerardus and the pedant Petrus of - _Laelia_. The actors of these two parts are identified with - George Meriton and George Mountaine, Fellows of Queens’, by John - Weever, _Epigrammes_ (1599), iv. 19. - - Your entertaine (nor can I passe away) - Of Essex with farre-famed Laelia; - Nor fore the Queen your service on Queens day. - - Conceivably this may also attribute authorship of the play - and the device. The play is an adaptation of the Italian _Gl’ - Ingannati_ (_c._ 1531) through _Les Abusez_ (1543) of Charles - Estienne. It is possible that, directly or indirectly, it - influenced _Twelfth Night_. - -_Leander_ (March 1598). - - By W. Hawkesworth (q.v.). - -_Machiavellus_ (1597). - - _Bodl. Douce MS._ 234, f. 40^v, dated ‘Anno Dmni 1597, Decemb. - 9’. - - A note in Douce’s hand assigns the authorship to [Nathaniel] - Wiburne, who, like the other actors, was of St. John’s, - Cambridge, in 1597 (Boas, 398). - -_Melanthe_ (1615). - - By S. Brooke (q.v.). - -_Meleager_ (Feb. 1582) - - By W. Gager (q.v.). - -_Nero_ (1603). - - By M. Gwynne (q.v.). - -_Oedipus._ - - By W. Gager (q.v.). - -_Panniculus Hippolyto Assutus_ (8 Feb. 1592). - - By W. Gager (q.v.). - -_Parthenia._ - - _Emmanuel, Cambridge, MS._ 1. 3. 16. Greg, _Pastoral Poetry and - Pastoral Drama_, 368, thinks the handwriting later than 1600. - -_Pastor Fidus_ (> 1605). - - _Cambridge Univ. Libr. MS._ Ff. ii. 9. ‘Il pastor fido, di - signor Guarini ... recitata in Collegio Regali Cantabrigiae’, - with _Prologus_ and _Argumentum_. _T. C. C. MS._ - R. 3. 37. - - Greg, _Pastoral_, 247, points out that this must be the - ‘Fidus Pastor, which was sometimes acted by King’s College men - in Cambridge’, out of which a contemporary observer thought - that Daniel’s _Queen’s Arcadia_ (q.v.) was drawn. It is a - translation of Guarini’s _Il Pastor Fido_ (1590). - -_Pedantius_ (1581). - - _Caius College, Cambridge, MS._ 62. ‘Paedantius comoedia - acta in collegio Sanctae et individuae Trinitatis authore M^{ro} - Forcet.’ - - _T. C. C. MS._ R. 17 (9). - - _S. R._ 1631, Feb. 9. ‘A Comedy in Lattyn called - Pedantius’, authorized by Austen. _Milborne_ (Arber, iv. - 248). - - 1631. Pedantius Comoedia, Olim Cantabrig. Acta in Coll. Trin. - Nunquam antehac Typis evulgata. _W. S. Impensis Roberti - Mylbourne._ - - [Engravings of Dromodotus and Pedantius. Introductory lines, - ‘Pedantius de Se’. The title-page has an engraved border - dated 1583, already used for W. Alexander’s _Monarchicke - Tragedies_ (1616).] - - _Edition_ by G. C. Moore Smith (1905, _Materialien_, - viii). - - The introductory line, ‘Ante quater denos vixi Pedantius - annos’, suggests production in 1591, but the play cannot - have been very recent when Sir John Harington, in a note to - his translation of _Orlando Furioso_ (1591), Bk. xiv, cited - a ‘pretie conceit’ of ‘our Cambridge Comedie Pedantius (at - whiche I remember the noble Earle of Essex that now is, was - present)’. In his _Apologie of Poetrie_, prefixed to the - translation, Harington also says (G. Smith, _Elizabethan - Critical Essays_, ii. 210), ‘How full of harmeles myrth is our - Cambridge _Pedantius_? and the Oxford _Bellum Grammaticale_?’ - Harington, who again cites ‘our _Pedantius_ of Cambridge’ in his - _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (1596), 126, was with Essex at Cambridge - during 1578–81, and Moore Smith has shown that the production - at Trinity was probably on 6 Feb. 1581, shortly before the - defeat of Gabriel Harvey by Anthony Wingfield of Trinity for - the Public Oratorship of Cambridge. There can be little doubt - that Harvey was the butt of _Pedantius_, and hardly more that - Wingfield was concerned in this satire. Nashe has two allusions - to the matter. In _Strange News_ (1593) he says that Harvey’s - verses were ‘miserably flouted at in M. _Winkfields_ Comoedie of - _Pedantius_ in Trinitie Colledge’ (_Works_, i. 303). In _Have - With You to Saffron-Walden_ (1596) he says, ‘Ile fetch him aloft - in Pedantius, that exquisite Comedie in Trinitie Colledge; - where, vnder the cheife part, from which it tooke his name, as - namely the concise and firking finicaldo fine School-master, - hee was full drawen & delineated from the soale of the foote to - the crowne of his head’, and goes on to enumerate the principal - traits of Harvey touched off by the actors, who ‘borrowed his - gowne to playe the Part in, the more to flout him’ (_Works_, - iii. 80). So far, we are left a little uncertain whether the - main authorship is to be ascribed, with Nashe in _Strange News_, - to Anthony Wingfield, or, with the _Caius MS._, to Edward - Forsett, both of whom were Fellows of Trinity in 1581. Moore - Smith has, however, shown in _T. L. S._ (10 Oct. 1918) that - Forsett refers to ‘Pedantio meo’ in the epistle to an unprinted - _Concio_ of his among the MSS. of St. John’s, Cambridge. For an - absurd attempt to assign the authorship to Bacon, largely on the - ground of some non-existent pigs in the title-page border, cf. - E. A. [E. G. Harman], _The Shakespeare Problem_ (1909), and _T. - L. S._ (27 March, 17 April, 1 May, 1919). Modern ascriptions - to Thomas Beard and to Walter Hawkesworth seem to rest on - misunderstandings. - -_Perfidus Hetruscus._ - - _Bodl. Rawlinson MS._ C. 787. - -_Physiponomachia_ (1609–11). - - _Bodl. MS._ 27639. - - Dedicated to John Buckeridge, President of St. John’s, Oxford, - 1605–11, by Christopher Wren, father of the architect, who took - his B.A. from St. John’s in 1609. - -_Psyche et Filii Ejus._ - - _Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS._ 171, f. 60. - - This is a Jesuit play, on the heresy of England. - - Lugentis Angliae faciem dum Poeta pingeret. - - - Moore Smith (_M. L. R._ iii. 143), who is responsible - for the title, thinks that it was written at the seminary of - Valladolid, perhaps in Elizabeth’s reign. - -_Richardus Tertius_ (March 1580). - - By T. Legge (q.v.). - -_Romeus et Julietta_ (c. 1615). - - _Sloane MS._ 1775, f. 242. - - According to H. de W. Fuller in _M. P._ iv (1906), 41, this is - a fragment based on A. Brooke’s _Romeus and Juliet_, probably a - student’s exercise, with corrections. It is datable by two poems - in the same hand on the royal visit to Cambridge in 1615. - -_Roxana_ (_c._ 1592). - - By W. Alabaster (q.v.). - -_Sapientia Solomonis_ (1565–6). - - _Addl. MS._ 20061. ‘Sapientia Solomonis: Drama Comicotragicum.’ - - This is an expanded version of the _Sapientia Solomonis_ of Sixt - Birck (1555). A performance is recorded at Trinity, Cambridge, - in 1559–60 (Boas, 21, 387), but the prologue and epilogue to - this version make it clear that it was acted before Elizabeth - and the _inclita princeps Cecilia_, i. e. Cecilia of Sweden, who - was in England during 1565–6 (cf. ch. i), by a - - puellorum cohors - Nutrita magnificis tuis e sumptibus. - - These were the Westminster boys, who gave the play in 1565–6 - (cf. ch. xii). The elaborately bound and decorated MS. bears - Elizabeth’s initials in several places, and was evidently the - ‘book’ officially provided for her. - -_Scyros_ (3 March 1613). - - By S. Brooke (q.v.). - -_Silvanus_ (13 Jan. 1597). - - _Bodl. Douce MS._ 234. ‘Acta haec fabula 13º Januarii an. - dmi. 1596.’ - - The actor-list belongs to St. John’s, Cambridge, and is headed - by the name of [Francis] Rollinson, whose authorship has been - unjustifiably assumed. - -_Solymannidae_ (5 March 1582). - - _Lansd. MS._ 723. ‘Solymannidae, Tragoedia ... 1581 Martii - 5º.’ - -_Susenbrotus_ or _Fortunia_ (March 1615). - - _Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS._ 195, f. 79. ‘Susenbrotus Comoedia. - Acta Cantabrigiae in Collegio Trin. coram Rege Jacobo & Carolo - principe Anno 1615.’ - - _Bridgewater MS._ ‘Fortunia.’ - - The accounts of the royal visit of 7–11 March 1615 do not - mention the play, and the date of this visit would be ‘1614’. - It may be the unnamed play given by Cambridge men, not at - Cambridge, but at Royston in March 1616; the actors are ‘extra - Lyceum’, cf. ch. iv. - -_Tomumbeius_ (> 1603). - - _Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS._ 75. ‘Tomumbeius siue Sultanici in - Aegypto Imperii Euersio. Tragoedia noua auctore Georgio Salterno - Bristoënsi.’ - - Nothing is known of George Salterne, and a dedication to - Elizabeth is hardly sufficient to indicate a production before - her at Bristol during the progress of 1574. - -_Ulysses Redux_ (5 Feb. 1592). - - By W. Gager (q.v.). - -_Vertumnus_ (29 Aug. 1605). - - By M. Gwynne (q.v.). - -_Victoria_ (_c._ 1580–3). - - By A. Fraunce (q.v.). - -_Zelotypus_ (1606). - - _Emmanuel, Cambridge, MS._ 3. 1. 17; _T. C. C. MS._ R. - 3, 9. - - The actor-list points to St. John’s, Cambridge, in 1606. - - - - - APPENDIX L - - PRINTED PLAYS - - [_Preliminary Note._--This is a chronological abstract of plays, - printed or entered for printing in the Stationers’ Register, - of which either the entry or the possible date of production - falls in 1558–1616. Some of the later plays are only included - in deference to the conjectures of others as to their early - origin in whole or in part. The list is little more than an - index; details must be sought in chh. xxiii and xxiv. I think it - is nearly self-explanatory. The plays marked T. in col. 1 are - those of which the first entry in the Register is in connexion - with a transfer of copyright; the name in col. 4 is then that - of the transferrer. Titles of non-extant plays are marked with - inverted commas in col. 3; some of them (cf. App. M) may not - really relate to plays at all. The symbol (s) in col. 6 is used - where the imprint indicates, not that a play is printed ‘for’ a - stationer, but that it is ‘to be sold by’ a stationer; it is not - quite clear how far the two formulae are equivalent. The most - important notes in col. 7 are those in italics, which indicate - direct evidence afforded by the entry or first title-page as - to companies by which the plays had been acted. I have added - from other sources additional ascriptions which seem certain - or reasonably probable, and sometimes omitted even title-page - evidence where it obviously relates to production by a company - of later origin than 1616. The notes in col. 8 must not be taken - as attributions of authorship, but merely as guides to the - relevant sections in ch. xxiii or to ch. xxiv. The brackets in - this column indicate that the plays, being pre-Elizabethan, are - dealt with in App. X of _The Mediaeval Stage_. Some statistics, - based on this list, of the output of plays from the Elizabethan - press, will be found in ch. xxii.] - - DATE OF DATE OF - ENTRY. PRINT. TITLE. ENTERER. PRINTER. PUBLISHER. SOURCE. AUTHOR. - (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) - - 1557–8 N.D. Wealth and Health J. Walley [_No imprint_] [Anon.] - 1557–8 N.D. Youth J. Walley J. Walley [Anon.] - 1557–8 1568 Jacob and Esau H. Sutton Bynneman [Anon.] - 1558–9 1559 Troas Tottel Tottel Transl. Seneca. - 1560, } Thyestes Powell? Transl. Seneca. - Mar. 26} - 1560, June 10 1560 Nice Wanton King King [Anon.] - 1560, June 10 N.D. Impatient Poverty King King [Anon.] - 1560, Aug. 14 N.D. Lusty Juventus King Copland [Wever.] - 1560, Oct. 30? N.D. Robin Hood Copland Copland Anon. - N.D. Enough is as Good as a J. Allde W. Wager. - Feast - 1560–1 ‘Witless’ Hacket [Heywood.] - 1560–1 1561 Godly Queen Hester Pickering {Pickering } [Anon.] - 1561, May 11 N.D. Free Will Tisdale Tisdale Transl. Cheke. - 1561 Hercules Furens H. Sutton Transl. Seneca. - 1561–2 ‘Two Sins of King David’ Hacket [App. M.] - 1562–3 1562 Three Laws Colwell Colwell [Bale.] - 1562–3 N.D. Jack Juggler Copland Copland [Anon.] - 1562–3 1575 Gammer Gurton’s Needle Colwell Colwell Univ. [Anon.] - 1562–3 1661 Tom Tyler and his Wife Colwell Kirkman Anon. - 1562–3 1563, Oedipus Colwell Colwell Transl. Seneca. - Apr. 28 - [T. 1582, N.D. Weather [Awdeley] Awdeley [Heywood.] - Jan. 15] - 1565–6 [_t.p. Albion Knight (fragm.) Colwell Anon. - lost_] - 1565–6 1565, }Gorboduc Griffith Griffith _Inner Temple_ Norton. - Sept. 22} - 1565–6 1565, }King Darius Colwell Colwell Anon. - Oct. } - 1565–6 1566 Agamemnon Colwell Colwell Transl. Seneca. - 1565–6 [_t.p. Cruel Debtor (fragm.) Colwell W. Wager. - lost_] - 1565–6 1566 Medea Colwell Colwell Transl. Seneca. - 1565–6} N.D. Patient Grissell Colwell Colwell Phillip. - 1568–9} - 1566–7 N.D. Octavia Denham Denham Transl. Seneca. - 1566–7 1581 Hippolytus Denham T. Marsh Transl. Seneca. - 1566–7} 1581 Hercules Oetaeus {Denham } - 1570–1} {Colwell } T. Marsh Transl. Seneca. - 1566–7 [_t.p. Ralph Roister Doister Hacket [Udall.] - lost_] - 1566–7 ‘Far Fetched and Dear Hacket [App. M.] - Bought is Good for - Ladies’ - 1566–7 1566 Repentance of Mary Charlwood Charlwood L. Wager. - Magdalen - 1566–7 ‘College of Canonical Charlwood [App. M.] - Clerks’ - 1567 Trial of Treasure Purfoot Anon. - 1567 Orestes Griffith Pickering. - 1567–8 1571 Damon and Pithias R. Jones R. Jones _Chapel_ Edwardes. - 1567–8 1575 Apius and Virginia R. Jones Howe R. Jones Anon. - 1568–9 1568 Like Will to Like J. Allde J. Allde Fulwell. - 1568–9 [1578?] ‘Susanna’ Colwell T. Garter. - 1568–9 N.D. The Longer Thou Livest, R. Jones Howe R. Jones W. Wager. - the More Fool Thou Art - [T. 1582, {1569, } - Jan. 15] {Sept. 14}Four Ps [Awdeley] J. Allde [Heywood.] - 1569–70 N.D. Disobedient Child Colwell Colwell Ingelend. - 1569–70 N.D. Marriage of Wit and T. Marsh T. Marsh Anon. - Science - 1569–70 N.D. Cambyses J. Allde J. Allde Preston. - 1573 Supposes Bynneman R. Smith _Gray’s Inn_ Gascoigne. - 1573 Jocasta Bynneman R. Smith _Gray’s Inn_ Gascoigne. - 1573 New Custom Howe Veale Anon. - 1575 Glass of Government Middleton Barker Gascoigne. - N.D. Minds [_No imprint_] Transl. Anon. - 1576, July 26 N.D. Common Conditions Hunter Howe Hunter Anon. - 1576, Oct. 22 1576 Tide Tarrieth No Man H. Jackson H. Jackson Wapull. - 1577, Nov. 25 1578 All for Money Ward {Ward and } Lupton. - {Mundee } - 1577 Abraham’s Sacrifice Vautrollier Transl. Golding. - 1577 God’s Promises Charlwood Peele [Bale.] - 1578, July 31 1578, ) Promos and Cassandra R. Jones R. Jones Whetstone. - Aug. 20} - 1580–1 1581 Ten Tragedies T. Marsh T. Marsh Transl. Seneca. - 1581, July 31 1581 Antigone Wolf Wolf Transl. Watson. - 1581 Conflict of Conscience Bradock Woodes. - 1584, Apr. 6 1584 Sapho and Phao Cadman Dawson Cadman _Chapel, Paul’s_ Lyly. - 1584, Nov. 12 1585 Fedele and Fortunio Hacket Hacket Transl. Anon. - 1584 Arraignment of Paris H. Marsh _Chapel_ Peele. - 1584 Three Ladies of London Ward Wilson. - [T. 1597, 1584 Campaspe [Cadman] Cadman _Chapel, Paul’s_ Lyly. - Apr. 12] - 1585, Apr. 1 } 1592 Galathea {Cawood } - 1591, Oct. 4 } {J. Broome } Charlwood J. Broome _Paul’s_ Lyly. - 1587 [8] Misfortunes of Arthur Robinson _Gray’s Inn_ Hughes. - 1588 Andria East Woodcock Transl. Kyffin. - 1589 Rare Triumphs of Love E. A. E. White Derby’s? Anon. - and Fortune - 1590, July 31 1590 Three Lords and Three R. Jones R. Jones Queen’s? Wilson. - Ladies of London - 1590, Aug. 14 1590 1, 2 Tamburlaine R. Jones R. Jones _Admiral’s_ Marlowe. - 1591, Feb. 9 1591 Phillis and Amyntas Ponsonby T. Orwin Ponsonby Transl. Fraunce. - 1591, July 26 ‘Hunting of Cupid’ R. Jones Peele. - 1591, Oct. 4 1591 Endymion J. Broome Charlwood J. Broome _Paul’s_ Lyly. - 1591, Oct. 4 1592 Midas J. Broome Scarlet J. Broome _Paul’s_ Lyly. - 1591 Tancred and Gismund Scarlet Robinson (s) _Inner Temple_ Wilmot. - 1591 1, 2 Troublesome Reign of [T. Orwin] Clarke Queen’s Anon. - King John - 1592, Apr. 3 1592 Arden of Feversham E. White E. White Anon. - 1592, May 3 1592 Antonius Ponsonby Ponsonby Transl. Herbert. - 1592, Oct. 6 N.D. Spanish Tragedy Jeffes E. Allde E. White Strange’s? Kyd. - 1592, Nov. 20 N.D. Soliman and Perseda E. White E. Allde E. White Anon. - [Oxford] 1592 Ulysses Redux Joseph Barnes Univ. Gager. - {Meleager } - [Oxford] 1592 {Panniculus Hippolyto} Joseph Barnes Univ. Gager. - { assutus } - 1593, July 6 1594 Edward II W. Jones W. Jones _Pembroke’s_ Marlowe. - 1593, Oct. 8 1593 Edward I Jeffes Jeffes Barley (s) Peele. - {Roberts } - 1593, Oct. 19 1594 Cleopatra S. Waterson { and } S. Waterson Closet Daniel. - {E. Allde} - 1593, Oct. 23 1593 Jack Straw Danter Danter Barley (s) Anon. - {Queen’s } - 1593, Dec. 7 1594 Orlando Furioso Danter Danter Burby {Admiral’s} Greene. - {Strange’s} - 1594, Jan. 7 1594 Knack to Know a Knave R. Jones R. Jones _Strange’s_ Anon. - 1594, Jan. 26 1594 Cornelia {Ling and } Roberts {Ling and} Transl. Kyd. - {Busby } {Busby } - {E. White (s) {_Derby’s_ } - 1594, Feb. 6 1594 Titus Andronicus Danter Danter { and {_Pembroke’s_} Shakespeare. - {Millington (s) {_Sussex’s_ } - 1594, Mar. 5 1594 Looking Glass for London Creede Creede Barley (s) {Queen’s? } Greene. - and England {Strange’s } - 1594, Mar. 12 1594 1 Contention of York and Millington Creede Millington Pembroke’s? Anon. - Lancaster - 1594, May 2 1594 Taming of A Shrew Short Short Burby (s) _Pembroke’s_ Anon. - 1594, May 13 1595 Pedlar’s Prophecy Creede Creede Barley (s) Anon. - 1594, May 14 1598 Famous Victories of Creede Creede _Queen’s_ Anon. - Henry V - 1594, May 14 1598 James IV Creede Creede Queen’s? Greene. - {Strange’s} - 1594, May 14 1594 Friar Bacon and Friar Islip E. White {Sussex’s } Greene. - Bungay {_Queen’s_} - 1594, May 14 } 1605 King Leir {Islip } Stafford J. Wright {Queen’s } Anon. - 1605, May 8 } {Stafford} {Sussex’ } - 1594, May 14 ‘John of Gaunt’ E. White [App. M.] - 1594, May 14 1599 David and Bethsabe Islip Islip Peele. - 1594, May 14 ‘Robin Hood and Little Islip [App. M.] - John’ - 1594, May 17 } {Ling and } {Strange’s} - 1632, Nov. 20 } 1633 Jew of Malta {Millington. } I. B. Vavasour {Sussex’s } Marlowe. - {Vavasour } {Admiral’s} - 1594, May 24 1594 Wounds of Civil War Danter Danter _Admiral’s_ Lodge. - 1594, June 8 1594 Cobbler’s Prophecy Burby Danter Burby Wilson. - 1594, June 10 1595 Menaechmi Creede Creede Barley (s) Transl. Warner. - 1594, June 18 1594 Mother Bombie Burby Scarlet Burby _Paul’s_ Lyly. - 1594, June 19 1615 Four Prentices of London Danter I. W. {Admiral’s} Heywood. - {_Anne’s_ } - 1594, June 19 ‘Heliogabilus’ Danter [App. M.] - 1594, June 19 1594 True Tragedy of Richard III Creede Creede Barley (s) _Queen’s_ Anon. - 1594, July 20 1595 Locrine Creede Creede Anon. - N.D. Fair Em {T. N. and} _Strange’s_ Anon. - {I. W. } - 1594 Battle of Alcazar E. Allde Bankworth {Strange’s } Peele. - {_Admiral’s_} - 1594 Selimus Creede _Queen’s_ Anon. - 1594 Wars of Cyrus E. A. Blackwall _Chapel_ Anon. - [T. 1600, 1594 Dido [Lynley] J. Orwin Woodcock _Chapel_ Marlowe. - June 26?] - 1595, Apr. 1 1599 George a Greene Burby Stafford Burby _Sussex’s_ Anon. - {Hancock (s)} - 1595, Apr. 16 1595 Old Wive’s Tale Hancock Danter { and } _Queen’s_ Peele. - {Hardy (s) } - 1595, May 10 Ninus and Semiramis’ Hardy [App. M.] - {T. Gosson} - 1595, May 23 } Valentine and Orson’ {and } _Queen’s_ [App. M.] - 1600, Mar. 31} {Hancock. } - {W. White } - 1595, Sept. 22 1597 Woman in the Moon Finch W. Jones Lyly. - 1595, Nov. 24 ‘Rufus I’ Blackwell Admiral’s? [App. M.] - 1595, Nov. 26 1596 Knack to Know an Honest Burby Burby Admiral’s Anon. - Man - 1595, Dec. 1 1596 Edward III Burby Burby Chamberlain’s? Anon. - [T. 1602, 1595 True Tragedy of Richard [Millington] P. S. Millington _Pembroke’s_ Anon. - Apr. 19] Duke of York - 1596, Jan. 20 ‘1 Chinon of England’ [?] {Gosson and } [App. M.] - {Danter } - 1597, Apr. 21 ‘Eunuchus’ Linley Transl. Kyffyn - 1597, Aug. 29 1597 Richard II Wise Simmes Wise _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - 1597, Oct. 20 1597 Richard III Wise Simmes Wise _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - [T. 1607, 1597 Romeo and Juliet [Burby] Danter _Hunsdon’s_ Shakespeare. - Jan. 22] 1598 1 Henry IV Wise P. S. Wise Chamberlain’s Shakespeare. - 1598, Feb. 25 - 1598, July 22 1600 Merchant of Venice Roberts Roberts Hayes _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - 1598, Aug. 15 1598 Blind Beggar of Alexandria W. Jones W. Jones _Admiral’s_ Chapman. - 1598, Oct. 5 ‘Celestina’ Aspley [App. M.] - 1598, Oct. 5 1598 Virtuous Octavia Ponsonby Ponsonby Closet Brandon. - [T. 1607, 1598 Love’s Labour’s Lost [Burby] W. W. Burby Chamberlain’s Shakespeare. - Jan. 22] - [T. 1618, 1598 Mucedorus [S. Jones] W. Jones Anon. - Sept. 17] - {Adelphi } - {Andria } - [Cambridge] 1598 {Eunuchus } Legatt Transl. Bernard. - {Heautontimoroumenos} - {Hecyra } - {Phormio } - {Oxenbridge } {H. Lownes } - 1599, Aug. 28 1600 1, 2 Edward IV {and } F. K. {and } _Derby’s_ Anon. - {Busby } {Oxenbridge } - 1599, Nov. 17 1599 Warning for Fair Women Aspley Simmes Aspley _Chamberlain’s_ Anon. - 1599 Humourous Day’s Mirth Simmes _Admiral’s_ Chapman. - 1599 Two Angry Women of {Hunt and } _Admiral’s_ Porter. - Abingdon {Ferbrand } - 1599 Clyomon and Clamydes Creede _Queen’s_ Anon. - 1599 Alphonsus Creede Greene. - 1600, Feb. 20 1600 Old Fortunatus Aspley S. S. Aspley _Admiral’s_ Dekker. - 1600, Mar. 28 1603 Patient Grissell Burby Rocket _Admiral’s_ Dekker. - 1600, Apr. 8 1600 Every Man Out of His Holme Ling Chamberlain’s Jonson. - Humour - 1600, May 27 ‘Cloth Breeches and Velvet Roberts _Chamberlain’s_ - Hose’ - 1600, May 29 1602 A Larum for London Roberts Ferbrand _Chamberlain’s_ Anon. - 1600, July 24 1600 Maid’s Metamorphosis Oliffe Creede Oliffe _Paul’s_ Anon. - 1600, July 24 ‘Give a Man Luck, and Oliffe - Throw Him into the Sea’ - [Stayed 1600, - Aug. 4] [1623] As You Like It _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - [Stayed 1600,} {Millington } - Aug. 4] } 1600 Henry V [?] Creede {and } _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - [T. 1600, } {Busby (sen.)} - Aug. 14] } - [Stayed 1600,} {Burby } - Aug. 4] } 1601 Every Man In His Humour {and } Burre _Chamberlain’s_ Jonson. - 1600, Aug. 14} {Burre } - [Stayed 1600,} {Wise } {Wise } - Aug. 4] } 1600 Much Ado About Nothing {and } V. S. { and } _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - 1600, Aug. 23} {Aspley} {Aspley} - 1600, Aug. 11 1600 {1 Sir John Oldcastle Pavier V. S. Pavier _Admiral’s_ } Drayton. - {‘2 Sir John Oldcastle’ Pavier } - 1600, Aug. 11 1605 Captain Thomas Stukeley Pavier Pavier Admiral’s? Anon. - 1600, Aug. 14 ‘Tartarian Cripple, Burby [App. M.] - Emperor of - Constantinople’ - 1600, Aug. 23 1600 2 Henry IV {Wise and} V. S. {Wise and} _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - {Aspley } {Aspley } - 1600, Sept. 8 1601 Jack Drum’s Entertainment F. Norton Oliffe _Paul’s_ Anon. - 1600, Oct. 7 1600 Wisdom of Dr. Dodipoll Oliffe Creede Oliffe _Paul’s_ Anon. - 1600, Oct. 8 1600 Midsummer Night’s Dream Fisher Fisher _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - 1600, Oct. 23 1600 Weakest Goeth to the Wall Oliffe Creede Oliffe _Oxford’s_ Anon. - 1600, Oct. 28 1600 Summer’s Last Will and {Burby and} Stafford Burre Private Nashe. - Testament {Burre } - 1600, Nov. 25 1601 Love’s Metamorphosis Wood Wood _Paul’s, Chapel_ Lyly. - 1600, Dec. 1 1601 1, 2 Robert Earl of Leake Leake _Admiral’s_ Munday. - Huntingdon - 1600 Look About You Ferbrand _Admiral’s_ Anon. - [T. 1610, 1600 Shoemaker’s Holiday [Simmes] Simmes _Admiral’s_ Dekker. - Apr. 19] - 1601, Jan. 7 1604 Dr. Faustus Bushell V. S. Bushell _Admiral’s_ Marlowe. - 1601, Mar. 1 ‘God Speed the Plough’ John Harrison [App. M.] - 1601, May 23 1601 Cynthia’s Revels Burre Burre _Chapel_ Jonson. - 1601, July 3 ‘George Scanderbarge’ E. Allde _Oxford’s_ [App. M.] - 1601, Aug. 3 1616 Englishmen for my Money W. White W. White Admiral’s Haughton. - 1601, Sept. 16 1602 Pastor Fido S. Waterson S. Waterson Transl. Anon. - {M. Lownes } {M. Lownes } - 1601, Oct. 24 1602 1, 2 Antonio and Mellida {and } {and Fisher.} _Paul’s_ Marston. - {Fisher } {Fisher } - 1601, Nov. 11 1602 Satiromastix John Barnes E. White {_Chamberlain’s_} Dekker. - {_Paul’s_ } - 1601, Dec. 21 1602 Poetaster M. Lownes M. Lownes _Chapel_ Jonson. - 1601 Two Lamentable Tragedies Lawe Admiral’s? Yarington. - 1602, Jan. 18 1602 Merry Wives of Windsor Busby (sen.) T. C. A. Johnson _Chamberlain’s_ Shakespeare. - 1602, June 7 1602 Blurt Master Constable E. Allde Rocket _Paul’s_ Middleton. - 1602, July 26 1603 Hamlet Roberts [Simmes] {Ling and} _King’s_ Shakespeare. - {Trundle } - 1602, Aug. 11 1602 Thomas Lord Cromwell Cotton W. Jones _Chamberlain’s_ Anon. - 1602 Liberality and Prodigality Stafford Vincent Chapel? Anon. - 1602 How a Man may Choose a Lawe _Worcester’s_ Anon. - Good Wife from a Bad - [Edinburgh] 1602 Satire of the Three Charteris [Lindsay.] - Estaitis - 1603, Feb. 7 } {Roberts. } {Bonian} - 1609, Jan. 28 } 1609 Troilus and Cressida {Bonian and } Eld { and } _King’s_ Shakespeare. - {Walley } {Walley} - 1603, Feb. 23 [_t.p. Nero Blount Blount Univ. Gwynne. - impf._] - [Edinburgh] 1603 Darius Waldegrave Closet Alexander. - [Edinburgh] 1603 Philotus Charteris Anon. - N.D. Massacre at Paris E. A. E. White {Strange’s } Marlowe. - {_Admiral’s_} - {1604 Croesus } - 1604, Apr. 30 {1607 Alexandraean } Blount Simmes Blount Closet Alexander. - {1607 Julius Caesar } - 1604, July 5 1604 Malcontent {Aspley and } V. S. Aspley Revels, King’s Marston. - {Thorpe } - 1604, Nov. 2 1605 Sejanus Blount Eld Thorpe King’s Jonson. - 1604, Nov. 9 1604 1 Honest Whore T. Man (jun.) V. S. Hodgets Henry’s Dekker. - 1604, Nov. 29 1605 Philotas {S. Waterson } Eld {S. Waterson} Revels Daniel. - {and Blount } {and Blount } - 1604, Dec. 4 1605 Trial of Chivalry Butter Stafford Butter _Derby’s_ Anon. - 1604 Wit of a Woman E. White Anon. - 1605, Feb. 8 ‘Richard Whittington’ Pavier _Henry’s_ [App. M.] - - 1605, Feb. 8 1605 Fair Maid of Bristow Pavier Pavier _King’s_ Anon. - 1605, Feb. 12 1605 When You See Me, You Butter Butter _Henry’s_ S. Rowley. - Know Me - 1605, Mar. 2 1607 Westward Ho Rocket Hodgets (s) _Paul’s_ Dekker. - [_cancelled_] - 1605, June 26 1605 Dutch Courtesan Hodgets T. P. Hodgets _Revels_ Marston. - 1605, July 5 1605 1 If You Know Not Me, Butter Butter Anne’s? Heywood. - You Know Nobody - 1605, Sept. 4 1605 Eastward Ho {Aspley and} Aspley _Revels_ Chapman. - {Thorpe } - 1605, Sept. 14 1606 2 If You Know Not Me, Butter Butter Anne’s? Heywood. - You Know Nobody - 1605, Oct. 16 1606 3 Parnassus J. Wright Eld J. Wright Univ. Anon. - 1605, Nov. 26 1606 Queen’s Arcadia S. Waterson Eld S. Waterson Univ. Daniel. - 1605, Nov. 26 1606 Gentleman Usher Simmes Simmes Thorpe Chapel? Chapman. - 1605 All Fools Thorpe _Revels_ Chapman. - 1605 London Prodigal T. C. Butter _King’s_ Anon. - 1605 1 Jeronimo Pavier Chamberlain’s? Anon. - 1606, Jan. 10 1606 Sir Giles Goosecap Blount Windet Blount _Chapel_ Anon. - 1606, Mar. 12 N.D. Nobody and Somebody Trundle Trundle _Anne’s_ Anon. - 1606, Mar. 12 1606 Fawn Cotton T. P. Cotton _Revels_, _Paul’s_ Marston. - 1606, Mar. 17 1606 Sophonisba Edgar Windet _Revels_ Marston. - 1606, May 13 1607 Fleir {rundle } F. B. F. B. (s) _Revels_ Sharpham. - {and Busby} - {J. Wright} - 1606, June 5 N.D. Caesar’s Revenge { and } G. E. J. Wright Univ. Anon. - {Fosbrooke} - 1606, Nov. 12 1606 Wily Beguiled C. Knight H. L. C. Knight Paul’s? Anon. - 1606 M. D’Olive T. C. Holmes _Revels_ Chapman. - 1606 Isle of Gulls Hodgets (s) _Revels_ Day. - 1607, Feb. 23 1607 Lingua S. Waterson Eld S. Waterson Univ.? Tomkis. - 1607, Apr. 10 1607 Claudius Tiberius Nero Burton Burton Univ.? Anon. - 1607, Apr. 20 1607 Whore of Babylon {Butter and} Butter _Henry’s_ Dekker. - {Trundle } - 1607, Apr. 24 1607 Fair Maid of the Exchange Rocket Rocket Anon. - 1607, May 9 1607 Phoenix Johnson E. A. Johnson _Paul’s_ Middleton. - 1607, May 15 1607 Michaelmas Term Johnson Johnson _Paul’s_ Middleton. - 1607, May 20 1607 Woman Hater {Edgar and } - {R. Jackson } R. R. Hodgets (s) _Paul’s_ Beaumont. - 1607, June 3 1607 Bussy D’Ambois Aspley Aspley _Paul’s_ Chapman. - 1607, June 29 1607 Cupid’s Whirligig {Busby and } E. Allde Johnson (s) _King’s Revels_ Sharpham. - {Johnson } - 1607, June 29 1607 Travels of the Three J. Wright J. Wright _Anne’s_ Day. - English Brothers - 1607, July 31 1607 Miseries of Enforced Vincent Vincent _King’s_ Wilkins. - Marriage - 1607, Aug. 6 1607 Puritan Eld Eld _Paul’s_ Anon. - 1607, Aug. 6 1607 Northward Ho Eld Eld _Paul’s_ Dekker. - 1607, Aug. 6 1607 What You Will Thorpe Eld Thorpe Paul’s? Marston. - 1607, Oct. 7 1607 Revenger’s Tragedy Eld Eld _King’s_ Anon. - 1607, Oct. 7 1608 Trick to Catch the Old One Eld Eld _Paul’s_ Middleton. - 1607, Oct. 12 1608 Family of Love {Browne and} Helme _King’s Revels_ Middleton. - {Helme } - 1607, Oct. 14 ‘Jesuits Comedy’ {E. Allde [App. M.] - {and } - {Johnson } - 1607, Oct. 16 1607 Devil’s Charter J. Wright G. E. J. Wright _King’s_ Barnes. - 1607, Oct. 22 1608 Merry Devil of Edmonton Johnson Ballard Johnson _King’s_ Anon. - 1607, Nov. 26 1608 King Lear {Butter and } [Okes] Butter _King’s_ Shakespeare. - {Busby (sen.) } - [T. 1610, 1607 Volpone [Thorpe] Thorpe King’s Jonson. - Oct. 3] - 1607 Woman Killed with Kindness W. Jaggard Hodgets (s) Anne’s Heywood. - 1607 Sir Thomas Wyatt E. A. T. Archer _Anne’s_ Dekker. - 1607 Vertumnus Okes Blount Univ. Gwynne. - 1608, Mar. 22 N.D. Your Five Gallants Bonian Bonian _Revels_ Middleton. - 1608, Mar. 26 ‘Adams Tragedy’ W. White [App. M.] - 1608, Mar. 28 1608 Law Tricks Moore Moore _Revels_ Day. - 1608, Apr. 12 1608 Humour out of Breath Helme Helme _King’s Revels_ Day. - 1608, Apr. 29} 1630 2 Honest Whore {T. Man (jun.)} Eliz. Allde Butter Henry’s Dekker. - 1630, June 29} {Butter } - 1608, May 2 1608 Yorkshire Tragedy Pavier R. B. Pavier _King’s_ Anon. - 1608, May 20 1609 Pericles Blount H. Gosson _King’s_ Shakespeare. - {W. Jaggard} - 1608, May 20} 1623 Antony and Cleopatra {Blount. } W. Jaggard {and Blount} King’s Shakespeare. - 1623, Nov. 8} {Blount and} {and } - {I. Jaggard} {Smethwick } - {and Aspley} - 1608, June 3 1608 Rape of Lucrece {Busby and} Busby _Anne’s_ Heywood. - {Butter } - 1608, June 5 1608 Conspiracy and Tragedy of Thorpe Eld Thorpe _Revels_ Chapman. - Byron - 1608, Oct. 4 1608 A Mad World, my Masters {Burre and} H. B. Burre _Paul’s_ Middleton. - {Edgar } - 1608, Oct. 6 1608 Dumb Knight Bache Okes Bache _King’s Revels_ Markham. - 1608, Nov. 25 1609 Mustapha Butter Butter Closet Greville. - {H. Walley } - 1609 { Jan. 26} 1609 The Case is Altered {and } B. Sutton _Revels_ Jonson. - { July 20} {Bonian and} - {B. Sutton } - 1609, Jan. 27 ‘Bonos Nochios’ Charlton [App. M.] - 1609, Jan. 27 ‘Craft upon Subtlety’s Charlton [App. M.] - Back’ - 1609, Mar. 10 1610 Turk Busby (jun.) E. A. Busby (jun.) _King’s Revels_ Mason. - 1609 Every Woman in Her E. A. Archer King’s Revels? Anon. - Humour - 1609 Two Maids of Moreclack N. O. Archer _King’s Revels_ Armin. - N.D. Faithful Shepherdess {Bonian and} Revels? Beaumont. - {H. Walley } - 1610, Sept. 20 {1612?} Epicoene {Browne and } Stansby Browne (s) _Revels_ Jonson. - {1620 } {Busby (jun.)} - 1610, Oct. 3 1612 Alchemist Burre Snodham {Burre } King’s Jonson. - {Stepney (s)} - 1610, Oct. 31 1610 Histriomastix Thorpe Thorpe Paul’s? Anon. - 1610, Nov. 9 1611 Ram Alley Wilson Eld Wilson _King’s Revels_ Barry. - {Stepney} - 1611, Sept. 14 1611 Atheist’s Tragedy Stepney { and } Tourneur. - {Redmer } - 1611, Oct. 14 1611 Golden Age Barrenger Barrenger _Anne’s_ Heywood. - 1611, Nov. 23 1612 Woman a Weathercock Budge Budge _Revels_ Field. - [T. 1635, 1611 Catiline [Burre] Burre King’s Jonson. - July 4] - 1611 May Day Browne _Revels_ Chapman. - 1611 Roaring Girl Archer _Henry’s_ Dekker. - 1612, Feb. 1 1612 Christian Turned Turk Barrenger Barrenger Daborne. - 1612, Feb. 15} ‘Nobleman’ {Blount } King’s Tourneur. - 1653, Sept. 9} {Moseley } - 1612, Feb. 15 ‘Twins’ Tragedy’ Blount King’s Niccols. - 1612, Apr. 17 1612 Widow’s Tears Browne Browne _Revels_ Chapman. - 1612, Apr. 17 1613 Revenge of Bussy Browne T. S. Helme (s) _Revels_ Chapman. - 1612, Dec. 17 1613 Mariam Hawkins Creed Hawkins Closet Carey. - 1612 White Devil N. O. Archer _Anne’s_ Webster. - 1612 If It Be not Good, the {I.T. } _Anne’s_ Dekker. - Devil is in It {Marchant (s)} - 1613 Silver Age Okes Lightfoot (s) Anne’s Heywood. - 1613 Brazen Age Okes Rand Anne’s? Heywood. - 1613 Cynthia’s Revenge R. Barnes Stephens. - - 1613 Insatiate Countess T. S. Archer _Revels_ Marston. - 1613 Knight of the Burning Burre Revels Beaumont. - Pestle - 1614, May 23 1614 Hog Hath Lost his Pearl Redmer Redmer _Prentices_ Tailor. - 1614 Greene’s Tu Quoque Trundle Anne’s_ Cooke. - 1615, Jan. 13 1615 Hymen’s Triumph Constable Constable Somerset House_ Daniel. - 1615, Feb. 10 1615 Ruff, Cuff, and Band Partrich Stansby Partrich Univ. Anon. - 1615, Feb. 21 1615 Valiant Welshman R. Lownes Purslowe R. Lownes _Charles’s_ Anon. - [Cambridge] {1615,} Melanthe Legge Univ. Brooke. - {Mar. } - { 27 } - 1615, Apr. 18} {Burre } - 1630, July 20} 1630 Ignoramus {Edmondson } T. P. I. S. Univ. Ruggle. - {and Spencer} - 1615, Apr. 24 1615 Hector of Germany Jos. Harrison Creede Jos. Harrison _Prentices_ Smith. - 1615, Apr. 24 1615 Cupid’s Revenge Jos. Harrison Creede Jos. Harrison _Revels_ Beaumont. - 1615, Apr. 28 1615 Albumazar Okes Okes Burre Univ. Tomkis. - {Meighen } - 1615, July 4 1615 Work for Cutlers Meighen Creede {and } Univ. Anon. - {T. Jones} - 1615, Aug. 14 1616 Honest Lawyer Redmer Purslowe Woodroffe _Anne’s_ Anon. - 1616, Mar. 19 1616 Scornful Lady Partrich Partrich _Revels_ Beaumont. - 1618, Aug. 7 1619 A King and No King Blount Walkley _King’s_ Beaumont. - 1618 Amends for Ladies Eld Walbancke {_Charles’s_ } Field. - {_Elizabeth’s_ } - {Higgenbotham } - 1619, Apr. 28 1619 Maid’s Tragedy {and } Constable _King’s_ Beaumont. - {Constable } - 1620, Jan. 10 1620 Philaster Walkley Walkley _King’s_ Beaumont. - 1621, Oct. 6 1622 Othello Walkley N. O. Walkley _King’s_ Shakespeare. - 1621, Dec. 7 1622 Virgin Martyr T. Jones B. A. T. Jones Dekker. - 1621 Thierry and Theodoret Walkley _King’s_ Beaumont. - {Tempest } - {Two Gentlemen of Verona } - {Measure for Measure } - {Comedy of Errors } [W. Jaggard] - {[As You Like It] } at charges of - {All’s Well that Ends Well} {W. Jaggard} - {Twelfth Night } {Blount } {and Blount} {I. Jaggard } - 1623, Nov. 8 1623 {Winter’s Tale } {and } {and } {and Blount } King’s Shakespeare. - {I Henry VI } {I. Jaggard} {Smethwick } - {Henry VIII } {and Aspley} - {Coriolanus } - {Timon of Athens } - {Julius Caesar } - {Macbeth } - {[Anthony and Cleopatra] } - {Cymbeline} } - 1623 Duchess of Malfi Okes J. Waterson _King’s_ Webster. - 1628, Jan. 9 1632 [Six Court Comedies] Blount Stansby Blount Lyly. - 1630, Feb. 26 1631 Hoffman J. Grove I. N. Perry Henry’s? Chettle. - 1630, Apr. 8 1630 Chaste Maid in Cheapside Constable Constable _Elizabeth’s_ Middleton. - 1630, Nov. 8 1631 Match Me in London Seile {Alsop and } Seile Dekker. - {Fawcet } - 1631, Feb. 9 1631 Pedantius Milborne W. S. Milborne Univ. [App. K.] - 1631, Apr. 25 1631 Sicelides Sheares I. N. Sheares Univ. P. Fletcher. - 1631, May 16} 1634 Noble Soldier {Jackman } Vavasour Dekker. - 1633, Dec. 9} {Vavasour} - 1631, May 16 } 1636 Wonder of a Kingdom {Jackman } Raworth Vavasour Dekker. - 1636, Feb. 24} {Vavasour} - 1631, May 18 1631 Caesar and Pompey Harper Harper {Edmonson (s)} Chapman. - {Alchorne (s)} - 1631, Nov. 24 1632 A New Wonder Constable G. P. Constable Anne’s? W. Rowley. - 1631 Bartholomew Fair I. B. Allott _Elizabeth’s_ Jonson. - 1631 The Devil is an Ass I. B. Allott _King’s_ Jonson. - 1632, May 9 1632 Roxana Crooke Badger Crooke Univ. Alabaster. - 1632, Nov. 10 1633 Alaham Seile E. P. Seile Closet Greville. - 1632 1, 2 Iron Age Okes Anne’s? Heywood. - 1633, Jan.15 1633 Match at Midnight Sheares Mathewes Sheares W. Rowley. - 1634, Apr. 8 1634 Two Noble Kinsmen J. Waterson Cotes J. Waterson _King’s_ Beaumont. - 1634, Apr. 17 1635 Bellum Grammaticale Spencer {B. A. and} Spencer Univ. [App. K.] - {Fawcet } - 1635, July 17 1636 Labyrinthus Robinson Univ. Hawkesworth. - 1635, Aug. 29 1637 Pleasant Dialogues and } Hearne R. O. {Hearne } - Dramas } {Slater (s)} Closet Heywood. - 1637, Mar. 25 1637 Royal King and Loyal Becket N. and J. Becket _Henrietta’s_ Heywood. - Subject Okes - 1637, Nov. 28 1638 A Shoemaker a Gentleman J. Okes J. Okes Cooper (s) Anne’s? W. Rowley. - 1638, Mar. 12 1638 Wise Woman of Hogsdon Shephard M. P. Shephard Anne’s? Heywood. - 1638, Oct. 24 1639 Chabot Admiral of France {Crooke and} Cotes {Crooke and} _Henrietta’s_ Chapman. - {Cooke } {Cooke } - 1639, Jan. 22 1639 Monsieur Thomas J. Waterson Harper J. Waterson _King’s_ Beaumont. - 1639, Apr. 25 1639 Wit Without Money {Crooke and} Cotes {Crooke and} _Henrietta’s_ Beaumont. - {Cooke } {Cooke } - 1639, Apr. 25 1640 Nightwalker {Crooke and} Cotes {Crooke and} _Henrietta’s_ Beaumont. - {Cooke } {Cooke } - 1641, Mar. 23 1641 Parliament of Bees Ley Ley Closet Day. - 1646, Sept. 4} {Robinson and} - 1661, Feb. 13} 1661 Mayor of Quinborough {Moseley. } Herringham _King’s_ Middleton. - {Herringham } - {Captain } {King’s } - {Coxcomb } {Revels } - {Bonduca } {Robinson} {Robinson} {King’s } - 1646, Sept. 4 1647 {Woman’s Prize } { and } { and } {King’s? } Beaumont. - {Love’s Cure } {Moseley } {Moseley } {King’s? } - {Honest Man’s Fortune} {Elizabeth’s} - {Valentinian } {King’s } - - 1660, June 29 1647 {Wit at Several Weapons} {Robinson} {Robinson} - {Four Plays in One } { and } { and } Beaumont. - {Moseley } {Moseley } - 1652, Apr. 12 1652 Widow Moseley Moseley _King’s_ Middleton. - 1653, Sept. 9 1654 Alphonsus, Emperor of Moseley Moseley _King’s_ Anon. - Germany - { ‘Jew of Venice’ } Dekker. - { ‘History of Cardennio’ } King’s Shakespeare. - {1657 No Wit, no Help, like a} Moseley Middleton. - 1653, Sept. 9 { Woman’s } Moseley - {[1824–5] Second Maiden’s Tragedy} Anon. - { ‘Henry y^e first’ } Shakespeare. - { ‘Hen. y^e 2^d’ } Shakespeare. - { ‘Knave in Print’ } Charles’s W. Rowley. - 1654, Apr. 8 ‘Maidens Holiday’ Moseley Marlowe. - 1654, May 13 1654 Appius and Virginia Marriott [_No imprint_] Anne’s? Webster. - 1655, June 20 1655 Fortune by Land and Sea Sweeting {Pollard and} _Henrietta’s_ Heywood. - {Sweeting } - 1655, June 20 1655 Lovesick King Sweeting {Pollard and} Provincial? Brewer. - {Sweeting } - 1655, June 20 1655 Poor Man’s Comfort Sweeting {Pollard and} Daborne. - {Sweeting } - 1656 Old Law E. Archer Middleton. - 1656 Sun’s Darling Bell Penneycuicke Dekker. - 1657, Sept. 14 1659 Blind Beggar of Bethnal F. Grove {Pollard and} Admiral’s Day. - Green {Dring } - 1657 Lust’s Dominion {F. K. } Marlowe. - {Pollard (s)} - 1658, May 21 1658 Witch of Edmonton Blackmore Cottrel Blackmore Dekker. - {[1812] Faithful Friends } Beaumont. - { ‘History of Madon King } Beaumont. - { of Britain’ } - { ‘Philenzo & Hypollita’ } Dekker. - { ‘Antonio & Vallia’ } Dekker. - { ‘History of King Stephen’} Shakespeare. - 1660, June 29 { ‘Duke Humphrey’ } Shakespeare. - { ‘Iphis & Iantha’ } Moseley Shakespeare. - { ‘An Ill Beginning has a } King’s Ford. - { Good End’ } - { ‘London Merchant’ } Ford. - { ‘Gustavus, King of } Dekker. - { Swethland’ } - { ‘Tale of Joconda and } Dekker. - { Astolso’ } - 1661 Thracian Wonder T. Johnson Kirkman (s) Anon. - {Kirkman } - 1662 Birth of Merlin T. Johnson { and } W. Rowley. - {H. Marsh} - 1662 Grim the Collier of Croydon R. D. Anon. - - - - - APPENDIX M - - LOST PLAYS - - [_Bibliographical Note._--As unknown prints have turned up in - the sale of an Irish collection (1907) and the Mostyn sale - (1919), and others may yet turn up from time to time, I give a - list of plays as to the existence or preparation for publication - of which there is some evidence. These are mainly taken - either from the Stationers’ Register or from the publishers’ - advertisement lists (Rogers and Ley’s in 1656, Archer’s in - 1656, Kirkman’s in 1661 and 1671), analysed by W. W. Greg in - an appendix to his _Masques_ (1902). One is included in Sir - John Harington’s catalogue of his library of plays apparently - compiled in 1610 (cf. ch. xxii). Probably some of the registered - titles, in which the description ‘play’ or ‘interlude’ is not - used, do not relate to plays at all. I might have added a few - more of this type from A. Esdaile, _List of English Tales and - Romances_ (1912, _Bibl. Soc._), xxxiii. And it must be borne - in mind that registration is not proof of publication. In - particular, it is pretty clear that the two long series of - entries by Humphrey Moseley on 9 Sept. 1653 and 29 June 1660, - from which I have taken those conceivably relating to pre-1616 - work, represent unaccomplished enterprises. They are fully - discussed in W. W. Greg, _The Bakings of Betsy_ (1911, _3 - Library_, ii. 225), together with John Warburton’s (_ob._ 1759) - list in _Lansd. MS._ 807, f. 1, of plays which he claims to have - possessed in MS., until ‘through my own carelesness and the - ignorance of my ser[vant] in whose hands I had lodgd them they - was unluckely burnd or put under Pye bottoms’. As this list is - evidently in some way related to Moseley’s entries, I have, for - the sake of completeness, cited a few titles which it adds.] - - -_A Bad Beginning Makes a Good Ending._ - - By Ford (q.v.). - -_Adam’s Tragedy._ - - _S. R._ 1608, March 26 (Pasfield). ‘A book called Adams - tragedie.’ _W. White_ (Arber, iii. 372). - - This is not likely to have been a play. - -_Antonio and Vallia._ - - By Massinger (q.v.). - -_Baggs Seneca._ - - See ch. xxiii (Seneca). - -_Bartholomew Fairing._ - - Comedy in Archer’s list as well as Jonson’s _B. Fair_. - -_Battle of Affliction._ - - Tragedy in Archer’s list. - -_Belinus._ - -_Brennus._ - - Sir John Harington’s catalogue of his plays in 1610 (7 _N. - Q._ ix. 382) includes ‘Belynus, Brennus’. This might - represent either two plays or one. - -_Bonos Nochios._ - - _S. R._ 1609, Jan. 27 (Segar). ‘An enterlude called Bonos - Nochios.’ _Charlton_ (Arber, iii. 400). - -_Cardenio._ - - Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.) and Fletcher. - -_Celestina._ - - _S. R._ 1598, Oct. 5. ‘A booke intituled The tragicke Comedye of - Celestina, wherein are discoursed in most pleasant stile manye - Philosophicall sentences and advertisementes verye necessarye - for younge gentlemen Discoveringe the sleightes of treacherous - servantes and the subtile cariages of filthye bawdes.’ _William - Aspley_ (Arber, iii. 127). - - This was doubtless, like the earlier _Calisto and Meliboea_ - (_Mediaeval Stage_, ii. 455) and James Mabbe’s _The Spanish - Bawd_ (1631), a version of the Spanish _Celestina_ (1499) of - Fernando de Rojas, but it can hardly have been Mabbe’s, which - was entered in S. R. on 27 Feb. 1630, while Mabbe, although born - in 1572, is first heard of as a writer in 1611, and appears to - have turned his attention to things Spanish as a result of a - visit to Spain in that year. - -_1 Chinon of England._ - - _S. R._ 1596, Jan. 20. ‘The ffirste parte of the famous historye - of Chinan of England.’ _T. Gosson and Danter_ (Arber, iii. 57). - - The Admiral’s produced ‘Chinone of Ingland’ as a new play on - 3 Jan. 1596. Greg, ii. 178, is probably right in relating the - S. R. entry to Christopher Middleton’s romance, _The Famous - Historie of Chinon of England_, printed by Danter for Cuthbert - Burby in 1597. But ‘Chinon of England’ is in Rogers and Ley’s - list. - -_Cleopatra._ - - An unascribed ‘Cleopatra’, in addition to the plays of Daniel - (q.v.) and May, is in Rogers and Ley’s list. - -_Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose._ - - _S. R._ 1600, May 27. ‘A morall of Clothe breches and veluet - hose, As yt is acted by my lord Chamberlens servantes.’ - _Roberts_ (Arber, iii. 161). - - This is one of the plays stayed by a note in the Register on the - same day (cf. ch. xxii). - -_College of Canonical Clerks._ - - _S. R._ 1566–7. ‘An interlude named the Colledge of canonycall - clerkes.’ _John Charlewod_ (Arber, i. 335). - -_Craft Upon Subtlety’s Back._ - - _S. R._ 1609, Jan. 27 (Segar). ‘An enterlude called, Crafte - vppon Subtiltyes backe.’ _Charlton_ (Arber, iii. 400). - -_Crafty Cromwell._ - - A tragi-comedy in Kirkman’s list of 1661. Greg, _Masques_, lx, - thinks it may be a duplicate entry of _Cromwell’s Conspiracy_ - (1660). - -_Destruction of Jerusalem._ - - By Legge (q.v.). - -_Duke Humphrey._ - - Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.). - -_English Arcadia._ - - A comedy in Archer’s list, but probably, as suggested by Greg, - _Masques_, lxv, an error for Gervase Markham’s romance (1607, - 1613) of that name. - -_Eunuchus._ - - By Kyffyn (q.v.)? - -_Faithful Friends._ - - Ascribed to Beaumont (q.v.) and Fletcher. - -_Far Fetched and Dear Bought is Good for Ladies._ - - _S. R._ 1566–7. ‘A playe intituled farre fetched and deare - bowght ys good for lades.’ _Thomas Hackett_ (Arber, i. 331). - -_Fatal Love._ - - Ascribed to Chapman (q.v.). - -_Fortune._ - - _S. R._ 1566–7. ‘A playe of Fortune to know eche one hyr - conditions and gentle manours aswell of Women as of men &c.’ - _Thomas Purfoote_ (Arber, i. 332). - - Collier, _Stationers’ Registers_, i. 155, suggested that - this was a ‘lottery, or game’, not an interlude, and this - receives support from a transfer of his father’s copies to - Purfoot’s son on 6 Nov. 1615 (Arber, iii. 576), which includes - ‘The little booke of Fortune with pictures’. - -_George Scanderbeg._ - - _S. R._ 1601, July 3. ‘The true historye of George - Scanderbarge as yt was lately playd by the right honorable the - Earle of Oxenforde his servantes.’ _E. Allde_ (Arber, iii. - 187). - - There seems no adequate reason for ascribing this to Marlowe - (q.v.) or Nashe. - -_Give a Man Luck and Throw him into the Sea._ - - _S. R._ 1600, July 24. ‘Two plaies or thinges ... the other gyve - a man luck and throw him into the sea.’ _Oliffe_ (Arber, iii. - 168). - -_Godfrey of Bulloigne._ - - See Heywood, _Four Prentices of London_. - -_God Speed the Plough._ - - _S. R._ 1601, March 1. ‘A booke called God spede the ploughe.’ - _Harrison_ (Arber, iii. 180). - - This is not necessarily the play acted by Sussex’s men for - Henslowe in Dec. 1593 (ch. xiii), or indeed a play at all. - -_Guise._ - - Entered in Rogers and Ley’s list as by Marston (q.v.), in - Archer’s as a comedy by Webster (q.v.), and in Kirkman’s of 1661 - and 1671 without ascription; that of 1671 calls it a tragedy. - -_Gustavus, King of Swethland._ - - Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.). - -_Heliogabalus._ - - _S. R._ 1594, June 19. ‘An ... enterlude of the lyfe and deathe - of Heliogabilus.’ _Danter_ (Arber, ii. 654). - - Can this be the play on ‘the mad priest of the Sun’ apparently - referred to by Greene (q.v.) in _Perimides_ (1588)? - -_Hemidos and Thelay._ - - _S. R._ 1569–70. ‘A boke intituled the Rufful tragedy of Hemidos - and Thelay by Rychard Robynson.’ _Henry Bynneman_ (Arber, i. - 411). - - Probably not a play. - -_Henry I._ - -_Henry II._ - - Both ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.). - -_Hunting of Cupid._ - - By Peele (q.v.). - -_Impatient Grissell._ - - A comedy in Archer’s list. - -_Iphis and Iantha._ - - Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.). - -_The Jesuits’ Comedy._ - - _S. R._ 1607, Oct. 14 (Jackson). ‘A book called the Jesuytes - Commedie. Acted at Lyons in Fraunce the 7 and 8 of August 1607.’ - _Allde and Johnson_ (Arber, iii. 361). - - Probably only a narrative of this famous performance; cf. ch. x. - -_The Jew of Venice._ - - Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.). - -_Job._ - - Ascribed to Greene (q.v.). - -_Joconda and Astolso._ - - Ascribed to Dekker (q.v.). - -_John of Gaunt._ - - _S. R._ 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled the famous historye of - John of Gaunte sonne to Kinge Edward the Third with his Conquest - of Spaine and marriage of his Twoo daughters to the Kinges of - Castile and Portugale &c.’ _E. White_ (Arber, ii. 649). - - Probably not a play but the chap-book source of that begun by - Hathway (q.v.) and Rankins for the Admiral’s in 1601 (cf. Greg, - _Henslowe_, ii. 216). Arber, v. 176, however, describes it - as a play printed for White by Islip. - -_Joseph’s Afflictions._ - - An interlude in the lists of Archer and Kirkman. - -_A Knave in Print._ - - By W. Rowley (q.v.). - -_The London Merchant._ - - By Ford (q.v.). - -_Madon, King of Britain._ - - Ascribed to Beaumont (q.v.). - -_The Maiden’s Holiday._ - - Ascribed to Marlowe (q.v.) and Day. - -_Manhood and Misrule_ (?). - - In Rogers and Ley’s list; presumably identical with the comedy - of _Manhood and Wisdom_ in those of Archer and Kirkman. - -_The Second Maiden’s Tragedy._ - - Extant in MS. (cf. ch. xxiv). - -_Marriage of Wit and Wisdom._ - - By Merbury (q.v.); extant in MS. - -_Mother Rumming._ - - A comedy in Archer’s list. Greg, _Masques_, xc, suggests an - error for T. Thompson’s late _Mother Shipton_, which Archer - omits. Elinor Rumming, however, might well have made a - play-theme. - -_The Netherlands._ - - In Rogers and Ley’s list. - -_Niniveh’s Repentance._ - - An interlude in Rogers and Ley’s and Archer’s lists. - -_Ninus and Semiramis._ - - _S. R._ 1595, May 10. ‘The tragedie of Ninus and Semiramis, - the first Monarchs of the world.’ _Hardy_ (Arber, ii. 297). - -_The Nobleman._ - - By Tourneur (q.v.). - -_2 Sir John Oldcastle._ - - By Drayton (q.v.). - -_Ortenus._ - - Archer’s list has both _Ortenas_, a tragedy, and _Ortenus_, a - comedy. - -_The Owl._ - - By Daborne (q.v.). - -_Philenzo and Hippolyta._ - - By Massinger (q.v.). - -_The Queen._ - - A tragedy in Archer’s list. Fletcher’s name is given, but Greg, - _Masques_, c, says this has ‘crept in from another entry’. - -_Richard Whittington._ - - _S. R._ 1605, Feb. 8. ‘The history of Richard Whittington of his - lowe byrthe, his great fortune, as yt was plaid by the prynces - servantes.’ _Pavier_ (Arber, iii. 282). - - The play is referred to in _K. B. P._ ind. 22. - -_Robin Hood and Little John._ - - _S. R._ 1594, May 14. ‘A booke entituled a pastorall plesant - Commedie of Robin Hood and Little John.’ _Islip_ (Arber, ii. - 649). - - Arber, v. 176, describes the play as printed by Islip for E. - White, to whom the copy was passed by a cancel. It appears in - Rogers and Ley’s and Archer’s lists of 1656. Greg, _Henslowe_, - ii. 190, finds an allusion to its ‘merry jests’ in Munday’s - _Downfall of Robin Hood_, iv. 2. - -_Rufus I._ - - _S. R._ 1595, Nov. 24. ‘A booke intituled The true tragicall - historie of kinge Rufus the First with the life and deathe of - Belyn Dun the first thief that ever was hanged in England.’ _W. - Blackwell_ (Arber, iii. 54). - - Greg, _Henslowe_, ii. 164, thinks this the _Bellendon_ played - as a new piece by the Admiral’s and Chamberlain’s for Henslowe - on 10 June 1594 (cf. ch. xiii). The title curiously resembles - that of another book, probably, as Greg suggests, a chap-book, - entered in S. R. by T. Gosson on 17 May 1594 as ‘a book - intituled The famous Cronicle of Henrye the First, with the life - and death of Bellin Dunn the firste thief that ever was hanged - in England’ (Arber, ii. 650). Perhaps this was the source of the - play. - -_A Sackful of News._ - - _S. R._ 1557–8. ‘These bokes folowynge called ... a sacke full - of newes.’ _J. King_ (Arber, i. 75). - - 1582, Jan. 15. Transfer from S. Awdeley to John Charlwood - (Arber, ii. 405). - - 1586, Sept. 5. ‘A sackfull of newes, beinge an old copie: whiche - the said Edward is ordered to haue printed by Abell Jeffes.’ - _Edward White_ (Arber, ii. 456). - - This is less likely to have been the ‘lewd’ play suppressed at - the Boar’s Head, Aldgate, in Aug. 1557 (_Mediaeval Stage_, - ii. 223) than the jest-book known to Captain Cox in 1575 (F. J. - Furnivall, _Laneham’s Letter_, lxvi. 30) and printed from - the earliest extant edition of 1673 by W. C. Hazlitt, _Old - English Jest Books_, ii. 163. - -_King Stephen._ - - Ascribed to Shakespeare (q.v.). - -_Susanna._ - - By T. Garter (q.v.). - -_The Tartarian Cripple._ - - _S. R._ 1600, Aug. 14. ‘The famous Tragicall history, of ye - Tartarian Crippell Emperour of Constantinople.’ _Burby_ (Arber, - iii. 169). - - Not necessarily a play. - -_’Tis Good Sleeping in a Whole Skin._ - - By W. Wager (q.v.). - -_Tityrus and Galatea._ - - Possibly identical with Lyly’s _Galathea_ (q.v.). - -_The Twins’ Tragedy._ - - By Niccolls (q.v.). - -_The Two Sins of King David._ - - _S. R._ 1561–2. ‘An new interlude of the ij synmes of kynge - Davyd.’ _Hacket_ (Arber, i. 181). - -_Valentine and Orson._ - - _S. R._ 1595, May 23. ‘An enterlude of Valentyne and Orsson, - plaid by her maiesties Players.’ _T. Gosson and Hancock_ (Arber; - ii. 298). - - 1600, March 31 (in full court). ‘A famous history called - Valentine and Orsson played by her maiesties Players.’ _W. - White_ (Arber, iii. 159). - - The relation of this Queen’s play to that written by Hathaway - and Munday (q.v.) for the Admiral’s in 1598 is uncertain. - -_Witless._ - - _S. R._ 1560–1. ‘Playe of wytles.’ _Hacket_ (Arber, i. 154). - - Probably John Heywood’s dialogue of _Witty and Witless_, extant - in MS. (_Mediaeval Stage_, ii. 446). - -_A Yorkshire Gentlewoman and her Son._ - - Ascribed to Chapman (q.v.). - - - - - APPENDIX N - - MANUSCRIPT PLAYS - - [_Bibliographical Note._--This list includes only English texts. - Most of the Latin plays (cf. App. K) also exist in MS. The - English ones so preserved are generally of an academic type; on - the general character of the few that are of playhouse origin, - cf. ch. xxii. Of the fifteen play texts collected in _Egerton - MS._ 1994, only three appear to be of plays written before - 1616; descriptions of this collection are in A. H. Bullen, - _O. E. P._ ii. 417, and F. S. Boas, _A Seventeenth-Century - Theatrical Repertoire_ (_3 Library_, July 1917). In addition - to the plays named below, there are a _Pelopidarum Secunda_ - in _Harleian MS._ 5110, which may be of any date in the first - half of the seventeenth century, and a Welsh ‘enterlut’, dated - 1584 and without ascription or title in _Peniarth MS._ 68 (_H. - M. C. Welsh MSS._ i. 2. 467). A full account of the Plots - (‘plott’ ‘plotte’, ‘platt’) is given, with the seven texts, - by Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 127. They have sometimes been - taken for ‘_scenarie_’ of impromptu plays, like the Italian - ‘Commedie dell’arte’, although one of them is for the extant - _Battle of Alcazar_; but they were probably for the use of the - ‘bookholder’ or the ‘tireman’, and consist of skeleton outlines - of the action, with notes of entrances and exits, and of the - points at which properties and music are required. The names - of the dramatis personae are generally accompanied by those of - the actors who represented them. The paper on which they are - written is mounted on pasteboard, and a hole cut near the top - probably served to suspend them on a peg in the playhouse. All - seven probably belong to companies (Strange’s and Admiral’s) - with which Edward Alleyn was connected. One was utilized for the - cover of a Dulwich MS., and G. Steevens, who once owned three of - the others, found ‘reason to suppose that these curiosities once - belonged to the collection of Alleyn’.] - - - PLAYS - - _Alaham_ (Greville). MS. at Warwick Castle. - - _Alice and Alexis._ Bodl. MS. 21745 (Douce MS. 171). - - _Antipoe_ (Verney). Bodl. MS. 31041. - - _Aphrodysial_ (Percy). MS. formerly in collection of Duke - of Devonshire. - - _Arabia Sitiens_ (Percy). Ibid. - - _Birth of Hercules._ B.M. Addl. MS. 28722. - - _Bugbears_ (Jeffere). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 807. - - _Charlemagne._ B.M. Egerton MS. 1994. - - _Club Law._ St. John’s College, Cambridge, MS. S. 62. - - _Cuck-Queans and Cuckolds Errant_ (Percy). MS. formerly in - collection of Duke of Devonshire. - - _Cupid’s Sacrifice_ (Percy). Ibid. - - _Faery Pastoral_ (Percy). Ibid. - - _Faithful Friends_ (Beaumont and Fletcher). Victoria and - Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 10. - - _Gentleman Usher_ (Chapman). Alleged MS. in Heber - collection. - - _Gismund of Salerne_ (Wilmot). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 786. B.M. - Hargrave MS. 205. MS. in private collection, now unknown. - - _Hercules Oetaeus_ (Elizabeth). Bodl. MS. e Museo 55. - - _Honest Man’s Fortune_ (Beaumont and Fletcher). Victoria - and Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 9. - - _Hymen’s Triumph_ (Daniel). Edinburgh University, Drummond - MS. - - _Iphigeneia_ (Lumley). B.M. Royal MS. 15 A. ix. - - _Jocasta_ (Gascoigne). B.M. Addl. MS. 34063. - - _John a Kent and John a Cumber_ (Munday). MS. in collection - of Lord Mostyn. - - _Judith._ National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS. 508 - (formerly Hengwrt MS.). - - _Love Feigned and Unfeigned._ B.M. I. B. 2172. - - _Marriage Between Wit and Wisdom_ (Merbury). B.M. Addl. MS. - 26782. - - _Massacre at Paris_ (Marlowe). Alleged fragmentary MS. - - _Mayor of Quinborough_ (Middleton). A late MS. - - _Meleager_ (argument). MS. formerly in possession of Mr. B. - Dobell. - - _Misogonus_ (Johnson). Formerly in collection of Duke of - Devonshire. - - _Monsieur d’Olive_ (Chapman). Alleged MS. in Heber - Collection. - - _Sir Thomas More._ B.M. Harleian MS. 7368. - - _Mustapha_ (Greville). MS. at Warwick Castle. Cambridge - University Library MS. Ff. ii. 35. - - _Narcissus._ Bodl. MS. 147303 (Rawlinson Poet. MS. 212). - - _Necromantes_ (Percy). MS. formerly in collection of Duke - of Devonshire. - - _Nobleman_ (Tourneur). Alleged MS. in private collection at - Oxford. - - _Oration of Gwgan and Poetry_ (Owen). National Library of - Wales, Peniarth MS. 65. - - _Orlando Furioso_ (Greene). Dulwich MS. i. 138. - - _Parliament of Bees_ (Day). B.M. Lansdowne MS. 725. - - _Parnassus._ Bodl. Rawlinson MS. D. 398. MS. formerly in - collection of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. - - _Poor Man’s Comfort_ (Daborne). B.M. Egerton MS. 1994. - - _1 Richard II._ B.M. Egerton MS. 1994. - - _Ruff, Cuff, and Band._ B.M. Addl. MS. 23723. - - _Second Maiden’s Tragedy._ B.M. Lansdowne MS. 807. - - _Sicelides_ (P. Fletcher). Bodl. Rawl. Poet. MS. 214. B.M. - Addl. MS. 4453. - - _Timon._ Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS. 52. - - _Volpone_ (Jonson). MS. as yet unprinted. - - - PLOTS - - _Battle of Alcazar._ B.M. Addl. MS. 10449. - - _Dead Man’s Fortune._ Ibid. - - _2 Fortune’s Tennis._ Ibid. - - _Frederick and Basilea._ Ibid. - - _1 Tamar Cham._ MS. formerly in the collection of George - Steevens, not now known. - - _Troilus and Cressida._ B.M. Addl. MS. 10449. - - _2 Seven Deadly Sins._ Dulwich MS. xix. - - - MASKS - - _Ashby Entertainment_ (Marston). B.M. Sloane MS. 848. MS. - at Bridgewater House. - - _Mask of Blackness_ (Jonson). B.M. Royal MS. 17 B. xxxi. - - _Mask of Queens_ (Jonson). B.M. Royal MS. 18 A. xlv. B.M. - Harleian MS. 6947. - - _Twelve Months._ MS. formerly in the collection of J. P. - Collier, now unknown. - - _Ulysses and Circe_ (Browne). Cambridge, Emmanuel College - MS. 68. MS. in collection of Mr. H. C. Pole-Gell. - - - - - INDEXES - - - I. OF PLAYS - - II. OF PERSONS - - III. OF PLACES - - IV. OF SUBJECTS - - - - - INDEXES - - - These indexes are selective, not exhaustive. That of _Plays_ - is, I hope, full. Classical and foreign plays, including plays - given by English players abroad, but not Latin plays written - in England, are printed in italics; plays not clearly extant - in inverted commas. Translations and fragmentary texts are - indicated by ‘tr.’ and ‘fr.’ respectively, and compositions - not properly to be classed as plays are also noted. Duplicate - titles which might cause confusion are distinguished by - dates or authorship. References to the main notices, in vol. - iii, pp. 201–518, and vol. iv, pp. 1–74, and occasionally - elsewhere, of plays belonging or conjecturally assigned to - the period 1558–1616 are printed in blacker type. Titles are - shortened by the omission of such words as ‘A’, ‘The’, ‘King’, - and cross-references are only given from the better-known - alternative titles. The index of _Persons_ gives those connected - with the Court and with stage affairs, other as a rule than the - players and playwrights, who are alphabetically arranged in - chh. xv and xxiii respectively. The index of _Places_ includes, - besides London localities, all those recorded in Appendix A as - visited by Elizabeth, but not, unless for some special reason, - those at which travelling players performed. In the index of - _Subjects_ inverted commas are used for technical terms and for - ordinary objects as represented on the stage. - - - - - INDEX I: OF PLAYS - - - A - - ‘A Bad Beginning Makes a Good Ending’, iii. 315; iv. 127, 180. - - A Woman is a Weathercock, iii. =313=. - - A Woman will have her Will. _See_ Englishmen for my Money. - - _Abraham_, iii. 322, 514. - - ‘Abraham and Lot’, ii. 95. - - _Abraham Sacrifiant_, i. 249; iii. 322. - - Abraham’s Sacrifice (tr.), iii. =322=. - - ‘Absalom’ (1602), ii. 228. - - Absalon (_c._ 1535), iii. 506; iv. 246. - - ‘Abuses’, iv. 33. - - ‘Adams Tragedie’, iv. =398=. - - Adelphe, i. 131; iv. 127. - - Adelphi (tr.), iii. =236=. - - Aegio (fr.), iii. =209=. - - ‘Aemilia’, i. 131. - - ‘Aeneas and Dido’, iv. 122. - - ‘Aesop’s Crow’, ii. 83. - - Agamemnon (tr.), iii. =477=. - - ‘Agamemnon’, ii. 169. - - ‘Agamemnon and Ulysses’, ii. 17, 101; iv. 101, 160. - - _Agarite_, iii. 16. - - ‘Ajax and Ulysses’, ii. 63; iv. 87, 146. - - ‘Ajax Flagellifer’, i. 130, 233. - - ‘Ajax Flagellifer’ (tr.), i. 127. - - Alaham, iii. =331=. - - Alarum for London, iv. =1=. - - ‘Alba’, i. 130. - - ‘Albere Galles’, ii. 227; iii. 341; iv. 37. - - Albion Knight (fr.), iv. =1=. - - Albumazar, i. 131; iii. =498=. - - Alchemist, iii. 123, 222, 224, =371=, 499; iv. 51, 127, 180, 371. - - ‘Alcmaeon’, ii. 15; iv. 89, 147. - - ‘Alexander and Lodowick’, ii. 144, 167, 170. - - Alexandraean Tragedy, iii. =209=. - - ‘Alexius’, iv. 2. - - ‘Alfonso’, iv. 2. - - Alice and Alexis (fr.), iv. =2=. - - ‘Alice Pierce’, ii. 132, 166. - - All Fools, iii. 146, =252=; iv. 119, 171. - - ‘All Fools but the Fool’. _See_ ‘The World Runs on Wheels’. - - All for Money, iii. 23, =411=. - - ‘All is not Gold that Glisters’, ii. 178. - - All is True. _See_ Henry VIII. - - All’s One. _See_ Yorkshire Tragedy. - - All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 207; iii. =487=. - - Allot Pageant, iii. =455=. - - ‘Almanac’, ii. 190; iv. 125, 178. - - Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, iv. =2=. - - Alphonsus, King of Arragon, ii. 286; iii. =327=; iv. 36. - - ‘_Alt Proculo_’, ii. 286. - - Althorp Entertainment, i. 126; iii. =391=. - - ‘Alucius’, ii. 35; iv. 97, 156. - - _Amantes Amentes_, ii. 285. - - Amends for Ladies, iii. 297, =313=. - - _Aminta_, ii. 262; iii. 317. - - _Amphitrio_, iii. 4, 5. - - ‘_Amphitryo_’, ii. 286; iii. 345. - - _Andria_, iii. 7. - - Andria (tr. Bernard), iii. =236=. - - Andria (tr. Kyffin), iii. =398=. - - ‘_Anglia_’, ii. 277. - - Anglorum Feriae (tilt), iii. =463=. - - ‘_Annabella eines Hertzogen Tochter von Ferrara_’, ii. 284, 286; - iii. 432. - - Annus Recurrens. _See_ Vertumnus. - - Antigone (tr.), iv. 234, 246. - - Antipoe, iii. =503=. - - 1, 2 Antonio and Mellida, iii. 139, 256, =429=. - - Antonio’s Revenge. _See_ Antonio and Mellida. - - Antony, iii. =337=. - - Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 213; iii. 124, 220, 275, =488=. - - ‘Antony and Valia’, ii. 147; iii. 301. - - Aphrodysial, iii. 137, =464=. - - Apius and Virginia (R. B.), iii. 23; iv. =3=. - - Appius and Virginia (Webster), iii. =508=. - - Ara Fortunae. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Arabia Sitiens, iii. =464=. - - Arcadia Reformed. _See_ Queen’s Arcadia. - - ‘Arcadian Virgin’, ii. 173. - - Arches of Triumph. _See_ Coronation Triumph. - - Archipropheta, iii. 31. - - Arden of Feversham, ii. 108; iii. 395, 518; iv. =3=. - - ‘Ariodante and Geneuora’, ii. 76; iv. 99, 159. - - ‘Arraignment of London’, ii. 253; iii. 35, 272. - - Arraignment of Paris, iii. =459=; iv. 236. - - ‘Arthur, King’, ii. 166. - - Ashby Entertainment, iii. =434=. - - _Asinaria_, iii. 5. - - ‘As Plain as can Be’, iv. 84, 144. - - As You Like It, ii. 6, 204, 209, 296; iii. =486=; iv. 117. - - _Astrologo_, iii. 499. - - Atalanta, iv. =373=. - - Atheist’s Tragedy, iii. =499=; iv. 42. - - _Aulularia_, i. 127. - - - B - - _Bacchides_, iii. 5. - - _Balet Comique de la Royne_, i. 176; iii. 15. - - Ball, iii. 260. - - Band, Cuff and Ruff. _See_ Ruff, Cuff and Band. - - ‘Barnardo and Fiammetta’, ii. 144. - - Bartholomew Fair, i. 262; ii. 469; iii. 227, =372=; iv. 33, 42, - 130, 183. - - ‘Bartholomew Fairing’, iv. =398=. - - ‘Battle of Affliction’, iv. =398=. - - Battle of Alcazar, ii. 175; iii. =459=; iv. 5. - - ‘Battle of Evesham’, iii. 214. - - ‘Battle of Hexham’, iii. 214. - - ‘Baxster’s Tragedy’, ii. 179. - - ‘Bear a Brain’, ii. 171; iv. 28. - - Bearing down the Inn. _See_ Cuckqueans and Cuckolds Errants. - - Beaumont’s Mask, i. 173. - - Beauty (mask), i. 173; iii. =379=; iv. 122. - - ‘Beauty and Housewifery’, ii. 192; iv. 99, 159. - - ‘Beech’s Tragedy’. _See_ ‘Thomas Merry’. - - ‘_Behendig Dieb_’, ii. 286. - - Believe as You List, i. 321. - - ‘Belin Dun’, ii. 141, 143; iv. 403. - - ‘Belinus’, iii. 182; iv. =398=. - - ‘Bellman of London’, ii. 253. - - ‘Bellman of Paris’, iii. 289, 304. - - Bellum Grammaticale, i. 129; iv. 238, =374=. - - ‘Bendo and Richardo’, ii. 122. - - Birth of Hercules, iv. =4=. - - Birth of Merlin, ii. 145; iii. 474. - - Bisham Entertainment, iv. =66=. - - ‘1, 2 Black Bateman of the North’, ii. 162, 166. - - ‘1, 2 Black Dog of Newgate’, ii. 227. - - ‘Black Joan’, ii. 132, 168. - - Blackness (mask), i. 171; iii. =375=; iv. 119. - - ‘Blacksmith’s Daughter’, ii. 394; iv. 204. - - Blind Beggar of Alexandria, iii. =251=. - - Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, iii. =285=. - - Blurt Master Constable, iii. 142, =439=. - - ‘Bold Beauchamps’, iii. 347. - - Bonduca, iii. =228=. - - ‘Bonos Nochios’, iv. =399=. - - ‘Boss of Billingsgate’, ii. 180. - - ‘_Botzario ein Alt Römer_’, ii. 284. - - ‘Bourbon’, ii. 132, 156, 167; iv. 50. - - ‘Brandimer’, ii. 122. - - ‘Branholt’, ii. 132, 166; iii. 230. - - Brazen Age, iii. 109, =345=. - - ‘Brennus’, iii. 183; iv. =398=. - - Bristol Entertainment (1574). iv. =60=. - - Bristol Entertainment (1613), iv. =74=. - - ‘Bristol Tragedy’, ii. 179; iii. 304; iv. 12. - - ‘Bristow Merchant’, iii. 304. - - Britanniae Primitiae, iv. =374=. - - ‘Brute Greenshield’. _See_ ‘Conquest of Brute’. - - ‘Buckingham’, ii. 95, 130, 202, 217. - - Bugbears, ii. 14; iii. 28, =351=. - - Bussy D’Ambois, iii. 142, =253=. - - ‘Byron’ (1602), ii. 228; iii. 258, 267. - - Byron (1608). _See_ Conspiracy and Tragedy. - - - C - - Caesar and Pompey (Chapman), iii. =259=. - - ‘Caesar and Pompey’ (_c._ 1582), ii. 394; iv. 216. - - ‘1, 2 Caesar and Pompey’ (1594–5), ii. 143–4; iii. 259. - - Caesar and Pompey. _See_ Caesar’s Revenge. - - ‘Caesar Interfectus’, iii. 309. - - ‘Caesar’s Fall, or, The Two Shapes’, ii. 179. - - Caesar’s Revenge, iv. =4=. - - _Calandra_, iii. 9, 13. - - Calisto and Melibaea, ii. 30; iv. 211, 399. - - Calthrop Pageant, iii. =463=. - - Cambyses, iii. 37, =470=; iv. 6, 79. - - Campaspe, ii. 17, 39; iii. 32, =413=. - - Campbell, or, the Ironmongers’ Fair Field (show), i. 137; iv. =72=. - - Captain, iii. =226=; iv. 127, 180. - - ‘Captain Mario’, iv. 214. - - Captain Thomas Stukeley. _See_ Stukeley. - - ‘Capture of Stuhl Weissenburg’, ii. 207, 367. - - ‘Cardenio’, ii. 217; iii. =489=; iv. 127, 128, 180. - - ‘1, 2 Cardinal Wolsey’, ii. 178; iii. 266. - - ‘Cards’, i. 268; iii. 453; iv. 238. - - ‘_Carolus Herzog aus Burgundt_’, ii. 284. - - _Casina_, iii. 5. - - _Cassaria_, iii. 8, 11. - - ‘Castle of Security’, i. 333. - - ‘Catiline’ (1588), i. 222. - - Catiline his Conspiracy (1611), iii. =372=. - - ‘Catiline’s Conspiracies’ (_c._ 1579), ii. 394; iv. 204. - - ‘Catiline’s Conspiracy’ (1598–9), ii. 163, 170. - - Caversham Entertainment, iii. =244=. - - Cecil House Entertainment, iii. =248=. - - ‘Celestina’, iv. =399=. - - ‘_Celinde und Sedea_’, ii. 284, 289. - - Chabot, Admiral of France, iii. =259=. - - Challenge at Tilt, iii. =393=. - - ‘Chance Medley’, ii. 169. - - Chapman’s Mask, i. 173; iii. =260=. - - ‘Charlemagne’ (_c._ 1589), iii. 260, 329; iv. 5. - - Charlemagne (_c._ 1600), iii. 260; iv. =5=. - - Chaste Maid in Cheapside, iii. =441=. - - Chester’s Triumph, iv. =71=. - - ‘Chinon of England’, ii. 144; iv. =399=. - - ‘_Christabella_’, ii. 286. - - Christian Turned Turk, i. 328; iii. =271=. - - ‘Christmas Comes but Once a Year’, ii. 227; iii. 267. - - Christmas Prince (revels), iv. =71=, 228. - - Christus Redivivus, iii. 31. - - Chrysanaleia (show), i. 137; iii. =449=. - - Chryso-Thriambos (show), i. 137; iii. =449=. - - City Gallant. _See_ Greene’s Tu Quoque. - - ‘1, 2, 3 Civil Wars of France’, ii. 169; iii. 253. - - Civitatis Amor (show), iii. =443=. - - Claudius Tiberius Nero, iv. =5=. - - ‘Cleopatra’ (Anon.), iv. =399=. - - Cleopatra (Daniel), iii. =275=. - - _Cléopâtre Captive_, iii. 13. - - ‘Cloridon and Radiamanta’, ii. 96; iv. 87, 146. - - ‘Clorys and Orgasto’, ii. 122. - - ‘Cloth Breeches and Velvet Hose’, iv. =399=. - - Club Law, iv. =5=. - - Clyomon and Clamydes, ii. 286; iii. 39; iv. =6=. - - ‘Cobler of Queenhithe’, ii. 168. - - Cobler’s Prophecy, iii. 35, =516=; iv. 41. - - Cockle de Moye. _See_ Dutch Courtesan. - - ‘College of Canonical Clerks’, iv. =399=. - - ‘Collier’, ii. 89; iii. 317; iv. 93, 151. - - ‘Columbus’, iii. =434=. - - Come See a Wonder. _See_ Wonder of a Kingdom. - - Comedy of Errors, i. 222; ii. 123, 130, 201, 211; iii. =482=, 506; - iv. 56, 119, 171, 246. - - Comedy of Humours. _See_ Humorous Day’s Mirth. - - ‘Comedy of Jeronimo’, ii. 122; iv. 23. - - Common Conditions, iii. 39; iv. =6=. - - ‘Conan, Prince of Cornwall’, ii. 169. - - Conflict of Conscience, iii. 25, =517=. - - ‘1, 2 Conquest of Brute’, ii. 163, 169, 170. - - ‘Conquest of Spain by John of Gaunt’, ii. 161, 178. - - ‘Conquest of the West Indies’, ii. 161, 178. - - Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron, i. 327; ii. 53; iii. 147, =257=. - - ‘Constantine’, ii. 122. - - Contention between Liberality and Prodigality. _See_ Liberality and - Prodigality. - - Contention of York and Lancaster, ii. 129–30; iv. =7=, 44. - - Coriolanus, ii. 213; iii. =488=, 509. - - Cornelia, iii. =397=. - - _Cornélie_, iii. 16, 397. - - Coronation Triumph (1559), iv. =60=. - - Coronation Triumph (1604), iii. =391=; iv. =69=. - - ‘Cosmo’, ii. 123. - - Country Girl, iii. 237. - - Country’s Tragedy in Vacuniam. _See_ Cupid’s Sacrifice. - - Cowdray Entertainment, iv. =65=. - - ‘Cox of Collumpton’, ii. 171, 172. - - Coxcomb, ii. 251; iii. =223=; iv. 127, 181. - - ‘Crack Me this Nut’, ii. 144, 180. - - ‘Craft upon Subtlety’s Back’, iv. =399=. - - ‘Crafty Cromwell’, iv. =399=. - - Creation of Henry Prince of Wales, iv. =72=. - - Croesus, iii. =209=. - - Cromwell, iv. =8=, 28. - - Cruel Debtor (fr.), iii. =505=. - - ‘Cruelty of a Stepmother’, ii. 93; iv. 95, 154. - - ‘Crysella’, ii. 286; iii. 292. - - Cuckqueans and Cuckolds Errants, iii. 136, =464=. - - ‘Cupid’ (mask), i. 174; iii. =442=; iv. 129. - - ‘Cupid and Psyche’, ii. 15, 171; iii. 346; iv. 216. - - Cupid’s Revenge, iii. =225=; iv. 125, 127, 178, 181. - - Cupid’s Sacrifice, iii. =464=. - - ‘Cupid’s Vagaries’. _See_ ‘Hymen’s Holiday’. - - Cupid’s Whirligig, iii. =491=. - - ‘Cutlack’, ii. 140–1, 146. - - ‘Cutting Dick’, ii. 228; iv. 50. - - ‘Cutwell’, i. 223; ii. 381; iv. 91, 152. - - Cymbeline, ii. 214–15; iii. 111, 223, =489=. - - ‘Cynocephali’, ii. 93; iv. 91, 152. - - Cynthia and Ariadne (mask). _See_ Ashby Entertainment. - - Cynthia’s Revels, ii. 43; iii. 145, =363=, 430; iv. 372. - - Cynthia’s Revenge, iii. =495=. - - - D - - ‘Damon and Pythias’ (Chettle), ii. 171. - - Damon and Pythias (Edwardes), ii. 34; iii. 32, =310=; iv. 81, 143, - 193. - - ‘Damon and Pythias’ (puppet-play), iii. 373. - - ‘Danish Tragedy’, ii. 179; iii. 264. - - Darius (Alexander), iii. =209=. - - Darius, King (Anon.), iii. 23; iv. =8=. - - David and Bethsabe, iii. 48, =461=. - - Dead Man’s Fortune (plot), ii. 136; iv. =9=. - - ‘Death of the Duke of Guise’ (Anon.), i. 323. - - Death of the Duke of Guise (Marlowe). _See_ Massacre at Paris. - - Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. _See_ Robin Hood. - - ‘Delight’, ii. 89, 394; iv. 97, 158. - - ‘Delphrigus’, iv. 236, 241. - - Denmark Entertainment, iii. =392=; iv. 70. - - Descensus Astraeae (show), i. 137; iii. =463=. - - ‘Destruction of Jerusalem’ (Legge), iii. =408=; iv. 246. - - ‘Destruction of Jerusalem’ (Smythe), iii. 409. - - ‘Destruction of Thebes’, i. 129; iv. 85. - - ‘Devil and Dives’, iii. 411. - - Devil and his Dame. _See_ Grim the Collier of Croydon. - - ‘Devil of Dowgate’, iii. 232. - - Devil’s Charter, iii. 112, =214=; iv. 122. - - ‘Dialogue of Dives’, iv. 241. - - Dido (Gager), i. 129; iii. =318=. - - ‘Dido’ (Halliwell), i. 127. - - ‘Dido’ (Ritwise), ii. 11. - - ‘Dido and Aeneas’, ii. 132, 166; iii. 374, 427. - - Dido Queen of Carthage (Marlowe), iii. 35, =426=. - - ‘Diocletian’, ii. 143; iii. 298. - - ‘Disguises’, ii. 144; iii. 256. - - Disobedient Child, iii. 25, =351=. - - Distracted Emperor. _See_ Charlemagne. - - Dixie Pageant, iii. =463=. - - Doctor Faustus, ii. 281, 286; iii. 329, =422=; iv. 44, 48. - - ‘Don Horatio’, ii. 122; iv. 23. - - Double Falsehood, iii. 490. - - Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon. _See_ Robin Hood. - - Dream of a Dry Year. _See_ Arabia Sitiens. - - Duchess of Malfi, iii. =510=. - - ‘Duke Humphrey’, iii. 489. - - Duke of Guise, iii. 26. - - ‘Duke of Milan and Marquis of Mantua’, ii. 93; iv. 97, 156. - - Dumb Knight, ii. 289; iii. =418=; iv. 11. - - Dutch Courtesan, iii. 148, =430=; iv. 127, 128, 180, 182. - - - E - - ‘1, 2 Earl Godwin and his Three Sons’, ii. 166. - - ‘Earl of Hertford’, ii. 180. - - Eastward Ho! i. 326; ii. 51; iii. 149, =254=, 257, 286, 367, 433; - iv. 36, 42, 129, 182. - - Edward I, iii. =460=. - - Edward II, iii. =425=; iv. 9, 42, 44. - - Edward III, iv. =9=. - - Edward IV, ii. 281; iv. =10=. - - _Ehrebrecherin_, ii. 275–6. - - Elstrild. _See_ Locrine. - - Elvetham Entertainment, iv. =66=. - - Endymion, i. 327; ii. 18–19; iii. 33, =415=; iv. 103. - - England’s Joy (show), iii. 287, =500=. - - ‘English Arcadia’, iv. =400=. - - ‘English Fugitives’, ii. 173. - - English Traveller, iii. 339. - - Englishmen for my Money, iii. =334=; iv. 16. - - Enough is as Good as a Feast, iii. =504=. - - Epicoene, i. 327; ii. 59; iii. 222, 230, =369=; iv. 371. - - _Epidicus_, iii. 5. - - Epithalamion on the Marquis of Huntly’s Marriage (show), iii. - =351=. - - ‘_Erlösung aus der Löwengrube_’, ii. 283–4. - - ‘Error’, ii. 15; iv. 93, 151. - - _Esther und Haman_, ii. 285–6. - - _Eugène_, iii. 13. - - _Eunuchus_, iii. 5, 7. - - Eunuchus (tr. Bernard), iii. =236=. - - ‘Eunuchus’ (tr. Kyffin?), iii. =398=. - - Euribates Pseudomagus, iv. =374=. - - Every Man In his Humour, iii. =359=; iv. 119, 172, 247. - - Every Man Out of his Humour, i. 381; iii. 122, 128, 292, =360=; - iv. 19, 119, 172. - - Every Woman in her Humour, iii. 418; iv. =11=. - - Exchange Ware at Second Hand. _See_ Ruff, Cuff and Band. - - ‘Ezechias’, i. 127. - - - F - - ‘Fabii’. _See_ ‘Four Sons of Fabius’. - - Faery Pastoral, iii. 137, =464=. - - ‘1, 2 Fair Constance of Rome’, ii. 161, 171, 173. - - Fair Em, iii. 325, 329; iv. =11=, 30, 36. - - Fair Maid of Bristow, iii. 431; iv. =12=. - - ‘Fair Maid of Italy’, ii. 95–6, 114. - - ‘Fair Maid of London’, i. 320. - - Fair Maid of the Exchange, iv. =13=. - - ‘Fairy Knight’, iii. 304. - - Faithful Friends, iii. =232=. - - Faithful Shepherdess, iii. 151, =221=, 313; iv. 41. - - Fall of Mortimer (fr.), iii. 374. - - Family of Love, iii. =440=; iv. 11, 29. - - Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, ii. 202; iii. 472; iv. =17=, - 239. - - ‘Famous Wars of Henry I and the Prince of Wales’. _See_ ‘Welshman’s - Prize’. - - ‘Far Fetched and Dear Bought is Good for Ladies’, iv. =400=. - - Fatal Dowry, iii. 314. - - ‘Fatal Love’, iii. 259; iv. 5. - - Father’s Own Son. _See_ Monsieur Thomas. - - Fatum Vortigerni, iv. =374=. - - _Favola d’Orfeo_, iii. 6. - - Fawn, or, Parasitaster, ii. 22, 284, 286; iii. 140, =432=; iv. 42. - - _Fedele_, iii. 316. - - Fedele and Fortunio, iii. 28, 316; iv. =13=. - - ‘Felix and Philiomena’, ii. 106; iv. 101, 160. - - ‘Felmelanco’, ii. 180; iii. 471. - - ‘Ferrar’, ii. 93; iv. 99, 159. - - Ferrex and Porrex. _See_ Gorboduc. - - ‘Ferrex and Porrex’ (Haughton), ii. 164, 171. - - _Filli di Sciro_, iii. 238. - - ‘Finding of Truth’, ii. 79. - - ‘First Introduction of the Civil Wars of France’, ii. 164, 169. - - ‘Five Plays in One’ (1585), ii. 106; iii. 497; iv. 101, 160. - - ‘Five Plays in One’ (1597), ii. 144; iii. 347. - - Fleir, iii. 151, =490=. - - _Flora_, iii. 13. - - Flowers (mask), i. 174; iv. =59=, 129. - - ‘Forces of Hercules’ (activities), ii. 90, 272. - - Forest of Elves. _See_ Faery Pastoral. - - Fortress of Perfect Beauty (tilt), i. 144; iv. =63=. - - _Fortunato_, ii. 285–6. - - ‘Fortune’, iv. 88, 146. - - ‘Fortune’ (lottery), iv. =400=. - - Fortune by Land and Sea, iii. =343=. - - ‘1, 2 Fortune’s Tennis’ (plot), ii. 177, 180; iii. 448; iv. =14=. - - Fortunia. _See_ Susenbrotus. - - ‘Fount of New Fashions’. _See_ ‘Isle of a Woman’. - - Fountain of Self-Love. _See_ Cynthia’s Revels. - - Four Elements, ii. 30; iii. 23. - - ‘Four Kings’, ii. 167, 169; iv. 6. - - Four PP., ii. 30. - - ‘Four Plays in One’, ii. 122; iii. 497. - - Four Plays in One. _See_ Yorkshire Tragedy. - - Four Plays or Moral Representations in One, iii. =231=. - - Four Prentices of London, iii. 221, =340=. - - ‘Four Sons of Aymon’, ii. 181. - - ‘Four Sons of Fabius’, ii. 98, 394; iv. 97, 156, 216. - - Fox. _See_ Volpone. - - Frederick and Basilea (plot), ii. 150; iv. =14=. - - Free Will (tr.), iii. =262=. - - ‘Freeman’s Honour’, iii. 493. - - ‘French Comedy’ (1595), ii. 143. - - ‘French Comedy’ (1597), ii. 144. - - ‘French Doctor’, ii. 146, 180; iii. 301. - - Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, ii. 114; iii. =328=; iv. 12. - - ‘Friar Fox and Gillian of Brentford’, ii. 169. - - ‘Friar Francis’, ii. 95; iv. 253. - - ‘Friar Rush and the Proud Woman of Antwerp’, ii. 178. - - ‘Friar Spendleton’, ii. 132, 156, 166. - - ‘_Fromme Frau zu Antorf_’, ii. 281. - - Fucus, sive, Histriomastix, i. 253. - - Fulgens and Lucres, iii. 22–4. - - ‘Funeral of Richard Cœur de Lion’, i. 320; ii. 166. - - - G - - Galathea, ii. 18; iii. 34, =415=; iv. 103. - - ‘Galiaso’, ii. 143. - - Game at Chess, i. 327; iii. 438. - - ‘Game of the Cards’, i. 268; ii. 37; iv. 99, 158. - - Gammer Gurton’s Needle, ii. 274; iii. 27; iv. 229. - - _Genièvre_, iii. =14=. - - Gentle Craft. _See_ Shoemaker’s Holiday. - - Gentleman Usher, iii. 146, =251=, 253. - - Gentleness and Nobility, ii. 30. - - George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, iv. =14=. - - ‘George Scanderbeg’, iv. =400=. - - Gesta Grayorum (mask), i. 168; iii. 240; iv. =56=, 109. - - ‘_Gevatter_’, ii. 286. - - ‘Ginecocratia’, iii. 470. - - _Giocasta_, iii. 321. - - Gismond of Salerne, iii. 30, =514=; iv. 82. - - ‘Give a Man Luck and Throw him into the Sea’, iv. =400=. - - Glass of Government, iii. =321=; iv. 196. - - ‘God Speed the Plough’, ii. 95; iv. =400=. - - ‘2 Godfrey of Bulloigne’, ii. 143; iii. 340. - - Godly Queen Hester, iii. 25, 311, 350. - - Golden Age, iii. 109, 114, =344=. - - Golden Age Restored (mask), i. 174; iii. =390=; iv. 130. - - ‘Golden Ass’. _See_ ‘Cupid and Psyche’. - - Goosecap, Sir Giles, iii. 146, 251, 255; iv. 11, =15=. - - Gorboduc, i. 265; iii. 29, =456=; iv. 80, 226. - - ‘Gowry’, i. 328; ii. 211. - - ‘_Graf von Angiers_’, ii. 286. - - Great Duke of Florence, ii. 286. - - ‘Grecian Comedy’. _See_ ‘Love of a Grecian Lady’. - - ‘Greek Maid’, ii. 89; iv. 96, 154. - - Greene’s Tu Quoque, iii. =269=; iv. 20, 125, 126, 178, 254. - - Grim the Collier of Croydon, iv. =16=. - - _Griseldis_, iii. 292. - - ‘Guido’, ii. 144. - - Guise (Marlowe). _See_ Massacre at Paris. - - ‘Guise’ (Webster), iii. 426, 434; iv. 400. - - ‘Gustavus King of Swethland’, iii, 304. - - Guy Earl of Warwick, iii. 304. - - ‘Guy of Warwick’, ii. 127; iii. 289, 304. - - - H - - Haddington Mask, i. 173; iii. =381=. - - Hamlet, i. 380; ii. 193, 195, 202, 206, 209, 219, 286, 395; iii. - 107, 112, 116, 117, 185, 252, 397, =486=; iv. 33, 53, 234, 371. - - ‘Hannibal and Hermes’, ii. 166. - - ‘Hannibal and Scipio’, ii. 177. - - ‘Hardicanute’, ii. 132, 156, 167. - - ‘Hardshifte for Husbands’, iii. 472. - - Harefield Entertainment, iv. =67=. - - Hay Mask, iii. =240=. - - _Heautontimorumenus_, i. 75; ii. 72; iv. 82. - - Heautontimorumenus (tr.), iii. =236=. - - Heaven’s Blessing and Earth’s Joy. _See_ Marriage of Frederick and - Elizabeth. - - Hector of Germany, iii. =493=. - - Hecyra (tr.), iii. =236=. - - ‘Heliogabalus’, iii. 324; iv. =401=. - - Hemetes the Hermit. _See_ Woodstock Entertainment. - - ‘Hemidos and Thelay’, iv. =401=. - - ‘Hengist’. _See_ ‘Vortigern’. - - ‘Henry I’, ii. 144; iii. 307, 489. - - ‘Henry II’, iii. 489. - - 1 Henry IV, i. 220, 311; ii. 6, 196, 204, 217, 443; iii. 307, - =484=; iv. 36, 127, 180, 246, 371. - - 2 Henry IV, ii. 196, 217, 293, 443; iii. =485=; iv. 127, 180, 246, - 371. - - ‘Henry V’ (Anon.), ii. 144, 211; iv. 17. - - Henry V (Shakespeare), ii. 203, 211, 415; iii. =485=; iv. 9, 119, - 172. - - Henry V. _See_ Famous Victories. - - 1 Henry VI, i. 260; ii. 122, 129–30, 201; iii. 55, 97, =481=; iv. - 8, 17, 238. - - 2 Henry VI, ii. 129–30, 202; iii. 113, =481=; iv. 8, 34, 43. - - 3 Henry VI, ii. 129–30, 200, 202; iii. =481=; iv. 8. - - Henry VIII (Rowley). _See_ When You See Me, You Know Me. - - Henry VIII (Shakespeare), ii. 95, 130, 202, 217, 219, 419; iii. - =489=. - - ‘Henry of Cornwall’, ii. 122; iv. 2. - - ‘2 Henry Richmond’, ii. 161, 171. - - ‘Herbert Mask’, iii. 377. - - ‘1, 2 Hercules’, ii. 143–4, 167; iii. 345; iv. 4. - - Hercules Furens (tr.), iii. =477=. - - Hercules Oetaeus (fr. tr.), iii. =311=. - - Hercules Oetaeus (tr.), iii. =478=. - - Herod and Antipater, iii. 417. - - Herodes, iv. =375=. - - ‘Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia’, ii. 97; iv. 89, 148. - - ‘_Herzog von Florenz und Edelmanns Tochter_’, ii. 281, 286. - - ‘_Herzog von Mantua und Herzog von Verona_’, ii. 286. - - ‘Hester and Ahasuerus’, ii. 140, 193, 202. - - Hickscorner, iii. 22. - - Highgate Entertainment, i. 126; iii. =392=. - - Himatia Poleos (show), i. 137; iii. =449=. - - _Hippolytus_, iii. 3, 319. - - Hippolytus (tr.), iii. =478=. - - Hispanus, iv. =375=. - - ‘_Histoire Angloise contre la Roine d’Angleterre_’, i. 323. - - ‘History of Love and Fortune’, iv. 28. - - ‘History of the Old Testament’, ii. 11. - - Histriomastix, i. 381–2; iii. 135, 362; iv. =17=. - - ‘Hit Nail o’ th’ Head’, iii. 437. - - Hoffman, iii. =264=. - - Honest Lawyer, iv. =19=. - - Honest Man’s Fortune, i. 321; ii. 251; iii. =227=. - - 1, 2 Honest Whore, iii. =294=. - - Horestes, iii. 38, =466=; iv. 84, 144. - - ‘Hot Anger Soon Cold’, ii. 169. - - How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, iii. 342; iv. =19=. - - ‘How to Learn of a Woman to Woo’, iii. 342; iv. 119, 171. - - Hue and Cry after Cupid. _See_ Haddington Mask. - - Huff, Suff, and Ruff. _See_ Cambyses. - - Humorous Day’s Mirth, iii. =251=. - - ‘Humorous Earl of Gloucester with his Conquest of Portugal’, ii. - 179; iv. 28. - - Humour out of Breath, iii. =287=. - - Hunting of Cupid, iii. =462=; iv. 54. - - ‘Huon of Bordeaux’, ii. 95; iii. 304. - - Hymenaei (mask), i. 172; iii. =378=; iv. 120. - - Hymenaeus, iv, =375=. - - ‘Hymen’s Holiday’, ii. 244; iv. 126, 178. - - Hymen’s Triumph, i. 174; iii. =276=; iv. 129. - - - I - - If It be not Good, the Devil is in It, iii. 271, =297=. - - 1, 2 If You Know not Me, You Know Nobody, iii. =342=. - - Ignoramus, i. 131; iii. =475=. - - _Illusion Comique_, iii. 16. - - ‘Impatient Grissell’, iv. 401. - - Impatient Poverty, iii. 23; iv. =20=, 31. - - Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Mask, iii. =233=. - - Insatiate Countess, iii. =433=. - - ‘Iphigenia’ (Anon.), ii. 14; iii. 352; iv. 87, 146. - - Iphigenia (tr. Lumley), ii. 14; iii. =411=. - - ‘Iphigenia’ (tr. Peele), iii. =462=. - - _Iphigenia in Aulis_, iii. 411. - - ‘Iphis and Iantha’, iii. 489. - - Ira seu Tumulus Fortuna. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - ‘Irish Knight’, ii. 98, 381; iv. 91, 152. - - Irish Mask, i. 173; iii. 247, =388=; iv. 128. - - 1, 2 Iron Age, iii. =345=. - - Irus. _See_ Blind Beggar of Alexandria. - - ‘Isle of a Woman’, ii. 167, 169; iii. 253. - - ‘Isle of Dogs’, i. 298, 324; ii. 132, 151; iii. 353, 364, =453=; - iv. 323. - - Isle of Gulls, i. 326; ii. 52; iii. 150, =286=, 295, 296. - - ‘Italian Tragedy’ (Day), ii. 173; iii. 518. - - ‘Italian Tragedy’ (Smith), ii. 227. - - Ivy-Church, The Countess of Pembroke’s. _See_ Phillis and Amyntas. - - - J - - ‘Jack and Jill’, iv. 84, 144. - - Jack Drum’s Entertainment, i. 381; ii. 20; iii. 138; iv. 18, 19, - =21=. - - Jack Juggler, iii. 27. - - Jack Straw, iv. =22=. - - Jacob and Esau, iii. 24, 350; iv. =22=. - - James IV, ii. 296; iii. =330=. - - ‘Jealous Comedy’, ii. 123, 130, 201. - - _Jemand und Niemand_, ii. 281–2, 285–6. - - ‘Jephthah’ (Dekker), ii. 179. - - _Jephthes_ (Buchanan), iii. =514=; iv. 246. - - 1 Jeronimo, ii. 286; iii. 396; iv. =22=. - - ‘Jeronimo, Comedy of’, ii. 122–3. - - ‘Jeronimo’. _See_ Spanish Tragedy. - - ‘Jerusalem’, ii. 122; iii. 409. - - ‘Jesuits’ Comedy’, i. 323; iv. =401=. - - ‘Jew’, ii. 380; iv. 204. - - Jew of Malta, ii. 286; iii. =424=. - - ‘Jew of Venice’, iii. =301=. - - ‘Joan as Good as my Lady’, ii. 169. - - ‘Job’, iii. 330. - - Jocasta, iii. 30, =320=. - - ‘Joconda and Astolso’, iii. 304. - - Johan, Kinge, i. 241, 245; iii. 22; iv. 79. - - Johan Johan, ii. 30; iii. 23. - - Johan the Evangelist, iii. 22. - - John, King, ii. 194; iii. =483=; iv. 24, 246. - - John. _See_ Troublesome Reign. - - John a Kent and John a Cumber, iii. =446=; iv. 32, 33. - - John and Matilda, iii. 447. - - John Baptist, i. 241. - - ‘John of Gaunt’, iv. =401=. - - _Joseph_, iii. 18. - - ‘Joseph’s Afflictions’, iv. =401=. - - _Josephus Jude von Venedig_, ii. 145, 147, 286. - - ‘Joshua’, ii. 180. - - ‘Judas’ (1600), ii. 173, 178. - - ‘Judas’ (1601), ii. 178. - - ‘_Jude_’, ii. 281. - - Judith (fr. tr.), iv. =24=. - - ‘Jugurtha’, ii. 171. - - ‘Julian the Apostate’ (Anon.), ii. 144. - - ‘Julian the Apostate’ (Ashton), iii. 210. - - _Julio und Hyppolita_, ii. 145, 285; iii. 301. - - Julius Caesar (Alexander), iii. =209=. - - Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), ii. 203, 217, 286, 365; iii. =486=, - 509; iv. 33, 54, 127, 180. - - _Juvenis_, _Pater_, _Uxor_, iii. 351. - - - K - - Kenilworth Entertainment, iv. =61=. - - King and No King, iii. =225=; iv. 125, 127, 177, 180. - - King of Denmark’s Entertainment, iv. =70=. - - ‘King of Fairies’, iv. 236, 241. - - ‘King of Scots’, iii. 432; iv. 84, 144. - - Knack to Know a Knave, iv. =24=. - - Knack to Know an Honest Man, iv. =24=. - - ‘1, 2 Knaves’, ii. 244; iv. 127, 180. - - ‘Knight in the Burning Rock’, ii. 98; iv. 96, 155. - - ‘Knight of Rhodes iii. 462; iv. 47. - - Knight of the Burning Pestle, iii. 151, =220=, 237; iv. 36. - - ‘Knot of Fools’, iv. 127, 180. - - ‘_König aus Arragona_’, ii. 286; iii. 327. - - ‘_König aus Engelandt und Goltschmitt Weib_’, ii. 281. - - ‘_König in Dennemark und König in Schweden_’, ii. 286. - - ‘_König in Spanien und Vice Roy in Portugall_’, ii. 286. - - ‘_König Ludwig und König Friedrich von Ungarn_’, ii. 281. - - ‘_König von Khipern und Herzog von Venedig_’, ii. 281, 286. - - _Königes Sohne aus Engellandt und Königes Tochter aus Schottlandt_, - ii. 281, 285, 286. - - - L - - Labyrinthus, iii. =336=. - - ‘Lady Amity’, iii. 215. - - ‘Lady Barbara’, ii. 96; iv. 87, 146. - - 1, 2 Lady Jane. _See_ Sir Thomas Wyatt. - - Lady of May (show), i. 124; ii. 89; iii. =491=. - - Laelia, iii. 212; iv. 53, =375=. - - ‘Late Murder of the Son upon the Mother’, iii. 512. - - Law Tricks, iii. =285=. - - Leander, iii. =336=. - - Lear, King, ii. 212, 286; iii. =488=, 499; iv. 25, 48, 121. - - Leire, King, ii. 202; iv. =25=, 48. - - _Lena_, iii. 11. - - Liberality and Prodigality, iii. 145; iv. 26. - - Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, iii. 25, =503=; iv. 194. - - ‘Like Quits Like’, iii. 267. - - ‘Like unto Like’ (1600), ii. 133; iv. 16. - - Like will to Like (_c._ 1568), ii. 14; iii. 24, =317=; iv. 16. - - Lingua, iii. =497=. - - _Lisandre et Caliste_, iii. 16. - - Little Thief. _See_ Nightwalker. - - Locrine, iii. 232; iv. =26=, 44, 46. - - ‘London Against the Three Ladies,’ iii. 515; iv. 216. - - ‘1, 2 London Florentine’, ii. 180–1. - - ‘London Merchant’, iii. 315. - - London Maid. _See_ Thorny Abbey. - - London Prodigal, iv. =27=. - - London’s Love to Prince Henry, iv. =72=. - - ‘1 Long Meg of Westminster’, ii. 147, 190. - - ‘Longshanks’, ii. 144, 181; iii. 461. - - ‘Longsword, Sir William’, i. 320; ii. 170. - - Look About You, iv. =28=. - - Looking Glass for London and England, ii. 280, 296; iii. =328=. - - Lords’ Mask, i. 173; iii. =241=. - - Love and Fortune, ii. 118; iii. 45; iv. =28=, 99, 159. - - ‘Love and Self-Love’ (show), iii. 212, 306. - - Love Feigned and Unfeigned, iv. =28=. - - Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly (mask), i. 173; iii. =386=; iv. - 125. - - Love Lies Bleeding. _See_ Philaster. - - ‘Love of a Grecian Lady’, ii. 146; iii. 462. - - ‘Love of an English Lady’, ii. 143. - - ‘Love Parts Friendship’, ii. 179; iii. 266; iv. 50. - - ‘Love Prevented’, ii. 166; iii. 467. - - Love Restored (mask), i. 173; iii. =387=; iv. 35, 58, 125. - - Love’s Cure, iii. =231=. - - Love’s Labour’s Lost, ii. 194, 211; iii. 260, =482=; iv. 119, 139, - 172, 246. - - ‘Love’s Labour’s Won’, ii. 197; iii. 489; iv. 246. - - Love’s Metamorphosis, iii. 34, 145, =416=. - - Love’s Mistress, iii. 346. - - Lovesick King, iii. =237=. - - ‘Loyalty and Beauty’, ii. 35; iv. 96, 155. - - _Lucidi_, iii. 13. - - ‘Lud, King’, ii. 95. - - ‘_Ludovico, ein König aus Hispania_’, ii. 284. - - ‘Lustie London’, iii. 470. - - Lust’s Dominion, iii. =427=. - - Lusty Juventus, iii. 22; iv. 380. - - - M - - Macbeth, i. 126; ii. 212, 215, 269; iii. 332, 438, 439, =488=, 498. - - ‘Machiavel’ (1592), ii. 122; iii. 272. - - ‘Machiavel and the Devil’ (1613), i. 374; ii. 252; iii. 272. - - Machiavellus, iv. =376=. - - ‘Mack’, ii. 143; iii. 299. - - Mad World, my Masters, iii. 143, =439=. - - ‘Madman’s Morris’, ii. 166. - - ‘Madon King of Britain’, iii. 233. - - ‘Mahomet’, ii. 146, 180; iii. 327; iv. 47. - - ‘Mahomet’s Poo’, iii. 327, 460, 462. - - Maidenhead Well Lost, iii. 347. - - ‘Maiden’s Holiday’, iii. 289, =427=. - - Maid’s Metamorphosis, ii. 20; iii. 136; iv. =29=. - - Maid’s Tragedy, iii. =224=; iv. 127, 180, 371. - - ‘Malcolm King of Scots’, ii. 179. - - Malcontent, iii. 147, =431=; iv. 23. - - ‘Mamillia’, ii. 89; iv. 89, 147. - - ‘Mandeville’, ii. 122–3; iv. 12. - - ‘Manhood and Misrule’, iv. =402=. - - Mankind, iv. 37. - - ‘Man’s Wit’, iv. 241. - - _Marc Antoine_, iii. 337. - - ‘Marcus Geminus’, i. 128. - - Mariam, iii. 247. - - Marius and Sulla. _See_ Wounds of Civil War. - - ‘Marquis d’Ancre’, i. 327; iii. 511. - - Marriage between Wit and Wisdom, iii. =437=. - - Marriage of Frederick and Elizabeth (shows), iv. =73=. - - ‘Marriage of Mind and Measure’, ii. 15; iii. 437; iv. 96, =154=. - - Marriage of Wit and Science, iv. =29=. - - ‘Marshal Osric’, ii. 227; iii. 341. - - ‘_Märtherin Dorothea_’, ii. 286. - - Martial Maid. _See_ Love’s Cure. - - ‘Martin Swart’, ii. 144. - - Mary Magdalene. _See_ Life and Repentance. - - Mask of Heroes, ii. 245. - - Massacre at Paris, i. 323; ii. 123, 146; iii. =425=. - - Match at Midnight, iii. =474=. - - Match Me in London, iii. =297=. - - ‘Match or No Match’, iii. 472. - - May Day, iii. 147, =256=. - - ‘May Lord’, iii. 374. - - Mayor of Quinborough, iii. =442=. - - Measure for Measure, ii. 211; iii. =487=; iv. 119, 171. - - Medea (tr.), iii. =478=. - - ‘Medicine for a Curst Wife’, ii. 179, 227. - - Melanthe, i. 131; iii. =238=. - - Meleager, i. 129; iii. 32, =318=; iv. 30. - - Meleager (argument), ii. 18; iv. =30=. - - ‘_Melone König aus Dalmatia_’, ii. 284. - - _Menaechmi_, iii. 4, 5, 20. - - Menaechmi (tr.), iii. =505=. - - _Menechmes_, iii. 17. - - ‘Merchant of Emden’, ii. 143. - - Merchant of Venice, ii. 195, 211, 283, 286; iii. 301, =484=; iv. - 30, 53, 119, 172, 246. - - Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists (mask), i. 174; iii. =389=; - iv. 130. - - ‘Merry as May Be’, ii. 180. - - Merry Devil of Edmonton, iv. 12, =30=, 36, 127, 180. - - Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 64, 204, 211; iii. 185, =486=; iv. 30, - 53, 119, 171. - - Messallina, ii. 519. - - Metropolis Coronata (show), i. 137; iii. =449=. - - Michaelmas Term, iii. 143, =440=. - - Midas, ii. 18; iii. 34, =416=; iv. 104. - - Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn Mask. _See_ Chapman’s Mask. - - Midsummer Night’s Dream, i. 124; ii. 117, 194; iii. =483=; iv. 36, - 109, 118, 246. - - _Miles Gloriosus_, i. 75; ii. 72; iii. 5, 20; iv. 3, 82. - - ‘Miller’, ii. 168; iii. 407. - - Minds (tr.), iv. =31=. - - ‘Mingo’, ii. 89. - - Miseries of Enforced Marriage, iii. =513=; iv. 55. - - Misfortunes of Arthur, iii. 30, =348=; iv. 103. - - Misogonus, iii. 24; iv. =31=. - - Moll Cut-Purse. _See_ Roaring Girl. - - Monsieur d’Olive, iii. 146, =252=. - - Monsieur Thomas, iii. =228=. - - Montague Mask, iii. 321. - - More, Sir Thomas, i. 321; iv. 21, =32=. - - ‘Mortimer’, iii. 425. - - Mother Bombie, iii. 34, =416=. - - ‘Mother Redcap’, ii. 166. - - ‘Mother Rumming’, iv. =402=. - - Mountebanks Mask, iii. 240, 435. - - Mucedorus, i. 328; ii. 286; iii. 271; iv. 12, 30, =34=. - - Much Ado About Nothing, ii. 197, 217, 300, 312; iii. =485=; iv. 16, - 127, 180. - - Mulleasses. _See_ Turk. - - ‘Mulmutius Dunwallow’, ii. 170. - - ‘Muly Mollocco’, ii. 122–3; iii. 460. - - ‘Murderous Michael’, ii. 93; iv. 4, 96, 155. - - Mustapha, iii. =331=. - - ‘Mutius Scaevola’, ii. 35, 63; iv. 91, 151. - - - N - - ‘Narcissus’ (1572), iv. 87, 146. - - Narcissus (1603), iv. =36=. - - ‘Nebuchadnezzar’, ii. 144. - - Necromantes, iii. =464=. - - Nero (Anon.), iv. 5. - - Nero (Gwynne), iii. =332=. - - ‘Netherlands’, iv. =402=. - - New Custom, iv. =36=. - - New Wonder, A Woman Never Vexed, iii. =474=. - - ‘New World’s Tragedy’, ii. 144. - - Nice Wanton, iii. 23. - - Nightwalker, iii. =230=. - - ‘Niniveh’s Repentance’, iv. =402=. - - ‘Ninus and Semiramis’, iv. =402=. - - No Wit, no Help, like a Woman’s, iii. =441=. - - Noble Soldier, iii. 288, =300=. - - ‘Nobleman’, iii. =500=; iv. 126, 127, 178, 180. - - Nobody and Somebody, iv. =37=. - - Northern Man. _See_ Too Good to be True. - - Northward Ho! iii. 141, 286, =295=. - - ‘Nugize’, iv. 37. - - - O - - Oberon (mask), i. 173; iii. =385=; iv. 35, 58, 125. - - Octavia (tr.), iii. =478=. - - Oedipus (fr.), iii. =319=. - - Oedipus (tr.), iii. =477=. - - Old Fortunatus, ii. 281, 286; iii. =290=; iv. 112. - - Old Law, iii. =438=. - - Old Wive’s Tale, iii. 48, 329, =461=. - - 1, ‘2’ Oldcastle, ii. 6, 171, 218; iii. =306=. - - ‘Olympo’, ii. 143; iii. 344. - - _Oration of Gwgan and Poetry_ (Welsh), iii. =457=. - - Orestes. _See_ Horestes. - - ‘Orestes Furious’. _See_ ‘Agamemnon’. - - Orlando Furioso, i. 378; ii. 286; iii. 325, =329=, 461, 472. - - ‘Orphans’ Tragedy’, ii. 173, 179; iii. 518. - - ‘Ortenus’, iv. =402=. - - ‘Osric’, ii. 147. - - Othello, ii. 207, 211, 215, 217; iii. 112, =487=; iv. 68, 119, 127, - 138, 171, 180, 371. - - Overthrow of Rebels. _See_ Sir Thomas Wyatt. - - ‘Owen Tudor’, ii. 173. - - ‘Owl’, ii. 253; iii. 233, 272. - - - P - - ‘Page of Plymouth’, ii. 171. - - ‘Painful Pilgrimage’, iv. 84, 144. - - ‘Painter’s Daughter’, ii. 98; iv. 93, 151. - - ‘Palamon and Arcite’ (Anon.), ii. =143=. - - ‘Palamon and Arcite’ (Edwardes), i. 128; iii. =311=. - - _Pammachius_, i. 241. - - _Pandoste_, iii. 16–17. - - ‘Panecia’, ii. 88; iv. 91, 149. - - Panniculus Hippolyto Assutus, iii. =319=. - - ‘Paradox’, ii. 144. - - Parasitaster. _See_ Fawn. - - Pardoner and Frere, ii. 30; iii. 22. - - ‘Paris and Vienna’, ii. 75; iv. 87, 146. - - Parliament of Bees (dialogues), iii. =287=, 299, 300. - - 1, 2, 3 Parnassus, i. 381, 385; iv. =38=. - - Parthenia, iv. =376=. - - Pasquill and Katherine. _See_ Jack Drum’s Entertainment. - - ‘Passion of Christ’, iii. 211. - - Pastor Fido (tr.), iv. =40=. - - Pastor Fidus (tr.), iv. =376=. - - Pastoral Dialogue, iii. =492=. - - ‘Pastoral Tragedy’, ii. 170. - - Pathomachia, iii. 499. - - Patient Grissell (Dekker), ii. 286; iii. =292=. - - Patient Grissell (Phillip), iii. 38, =465=. - - Pedantius, iv. 49, 238, =376=. - - Pedlar’s Prophecy, iv. =41=. - - Penates. _See_ Highgate Entertainment. - - _Penulus_, iii. 5. - - Perfidus Etruscus, iv. 377. - - Periander. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Pericles, ii. 213; iii. =488=, 513; iv. 41. - - ‘Perseus and Andromeda’, ii. 76; iv. 88, 90, 146, 148. - - ‘Phaethon’, ii. 164, 166, 178; iii. 300. - - ‘Phedrastus’, ii. 93; iv. 91, 149. - - ‘Phigon and Lucia’, ii. 93; iv. 91, 149. - - Philaster, or, Love Lies Bleeding, iii. =222=, 224; iv. 127, 180. - - ‘Philemon and Philecia’, ii. 88; iv. 90, 148. - - ‘Philenzo and Hypollita’, ii. 145; iii. 301. - - ‘Philip of Spain’, ii. 181; iii. 343. - - ‘Philipo and Hippolito’, ii. 143; iii. 300. - - Phillis and Amyntas (tr.), iii. =316=. - - ‘_Philole und Mariana_’, ii. 289; iii. 418. - - Philomathes. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Philomela. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Philotas (Daniel), i. 326; iii. 150, =275=. - - ‘Philotas’ (Lateware), iii. 275. - - Philotus, iv. =41=. - - ‘Phocas’, ii. 144, 167. - - _Phoenissae_, iii. 321. - - Phoenix, iii. 143, =439=; iv. 118. - - _Phormio_, ii. 11; iii. 20. - - Phormio (tr.), iii. =236=. - - ‘Phyllida and Corin’, ii. 106; iv. 101, 160. - - Physiponomachia, iv. 377. - - ‘Pierce of Exton’, ii. 167. - - ‘Pierce of Winchester’, ii. 169. - - Pinner of Wakefield. _See_ George a Greene. - - ‘Plays and Pastimes’, i. 257; ii. 394; iv. 217. - - Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas, ii. 448; iii. =346=. - - Poetaster, i. 380–1, 384; ii. 43; iii. 146, 293, =364=, 430; iv. - 21, 372. - - Polyhymnia (tilt), i. 145; iii. =402=. - - ‘Pompey’, ii. 15, 394; iv. 97, 158. - - ‘Pontius Pilate’, ii. 168, 180. - - Poor Man’s Comfort, iii. =271=. - - ‘Poor Man’s Paradise’, ii. 173. - - ‘Pope Joan’, ii. 122. - - _Porcie_, iii. 397. - - ‘Portio and Demorantes’, ii. 93; iv. 97, 156. - - ‘Practice of Parasites’, iv. 206. - - ‘Praise at Parting’, iv. 214. - - ‘Predor and Lucia’, ii. 88; iv. 89, 147. - - ‘Pretestus’, ii. 97; iv. 91, 149. - - Prince Henry’s Barriers, iii. =393=. - - Princely Pleasures at Kenilworth. _See_ Kenilworth Entertainment. - - Prodigal Child (fr.), iii. 445. - - ‘Prodigality’, iv. 26, 84, 144. - - ‘Progne’, i. 129; iii. 239. - - _Progne_, iii. 239. - - Progress of James I from Scotland, iv. =68=. - - Promos and Cassandra, iii. 29, =512=; iv. 201. - - Prophetae, i. 241. - - Prophetess, iii. 298. - - Proteus (mask). _See_ Gesta Grayorum. - - ‘Proud Maid’s Tragedy’, iii. 441; iv. 126, 178. - - Psyche et Filii ejus, iv. =377=. - - ‘Ptolome’, ii. 380; iv. 204. - - Puritan, i. 262; iii. 143; iv. =41=, 249. - - _Pyrame et Thisbée_, iii. 16–17. - - ‘_Pyramo und Thisbe_’, ii. 283. - - ‘Pythagoras’, ii. 144, 167. - - - Q - - ‘Queen’, iv. =402=. - - ‘Queen of Ethiopia’, ii. 135. - - Queens (mask), i. 173; iii. =382=; iv. 123. - - Queen’s Arcadia, i. 131; iii. 227, =276=, 373. - - ‘Quintus Fabius’, ii. 63; iv. 89, 148. - - - R - - Ralph Roister Doister, ii. 14, 70, 74; iii. 27; iv. 188. - - Ram Alley, iii. =215=; iv. 16. - - ‘Randulf Earl of Chester’, ii. 180; iii. 446. - - ‘Ranger’s Comedy’, ii. 96, 114, 140, 146. - - Rape of Lucrece, iii. =343=; iv. 126, 178. - - ‘Rape of the Second Helen’, ii. 93; iv. 96, 154. - - Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune. _See_ Love and Fortune. - - ‘Raymond Duke of Lyons’, ii. 248; iv. 127, 181. - - ‘Re Vera’, iii. 476. - - ‘Red Knight’, ii. 93. - - ‘_Reich Mann und arme Lazarus_’, ii. 281, 286. - - _Rencontre_, iii. 13. - - Revenge for a Father. _See_ Hoffman. - - Revenge for Honour, iii. 260. - - Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois, iii. =258=. - - Revenger’s Tragedy, iv. =42=, 45. - - 1 Richard II (_c._ 1592), iv. =42=. - - Richard II, i. 220, 325; ii. 194, 204, 270; iii. =484=; iv. 43, - 246. - - ‘Richard II’ (1611), ii. 216. - - ‘Richard III’ (Rowley), iii. 472. - - Richard III (Shakespeare), ii. 95, 130, 202, 448; iii. =481=; iv. - 44, 246. - - Richard III. _See_ True Tragedy. - - ‘Richard Crookback’, ii. 179. - - Richard Duke of York. _See_ Contention of York and Lancaster. - - ‘Richard the Confessor’, ii. 95. - - ‘Richard Whittington’, ii. 189; iv. =402=. - - Richardus Tertius, iii. =408=; iv. 238, 246. - - Rivales, i. 129, 251; iii. =319=. - - Roaring Girl, ii. 439; iii. =296=; iv. 254. - - Robert Laneham’s Letter. _See_ Kenilworth Entertainment. - - ‘Robert II, or, The Scot’s Tragedy’, ii. 171. - - ‘Robin Goodfellow’, iii. 279. - - ‘Robin Goodfellow’ (forgery), iii. 267. - - 1, 2 Robin Hood, ii. 6; iii. =446=. - - Robin Hood (May game), iv. =44=. - - ‘Robin Hood and Little John’, iii. 447; iv. =402=. - - ‘Robin Hood’s Pennyworths’, ii. 178. - - ‘Roderick’, ii. 133. - - Romeo and Juliet, ii. 194, 196, 203, 283, 286, 403; iii. 51, 58, - 59, 66, 83, 94, 98, 99, 200, =483=; iv. 246. - - Romeus et Julietta, iv. =378=. - - Roxana, ii. 519; iii. =208=. - - Royal King and Loyal Subject, iii. =341=. - - ‘Royal Widow of England’, ii. 46. - - Ruff, Cuff and Band, iv. =44=. - - ‘Rufus I’, iv. =403=. - - Running Stream Entertainment, iii. =443=. - - Rycote Entertainment, iv. =66=. - - - S - - ‘Sackful of News’, ii. 444; iv. =403=. - - Sad Shepherd (fr.), iii. 374. - - S. Albanus Protomartyr. _See_ Britanniae Primitiae. - - ‘Samson’ (1567), ii. 380. - - ‘Samson’ (1602), ii. 180, 367. - - ‘Samson’ (_c._ 1607), iii. 120. - - Sapho and Phao, ii. 17, 39; iii. 33, =414=; iv. 100. - - Sapientia Solomonis, ii. 74; iv. =378=. - - ‘Sarpedon’, ii. 93; iv. 97, 157. - - Satiromastix, i. 381; iii. 141, 253, =293=, 353, 364–6; iv. 21, - 40, 47. - - Saturnalia. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Satyr. _See_ Althorp Entertainment. - - ‘Scipio Africanus’, ii. 15; iv. 97, 156. - - ‘Scogan and Skelton’, ii. 178. - - Scornful Lady, iii. =229=; iv. 371. - - ‘Scot’s Tragedy’. _See_ Robert II. - - Scourge of Simony. _See_ Parnassus. - - Scyros, i. 131; iii. =238=; iv. 127. - - Sea Feast. _See_ Aphrodysial. - - ‘Sebastian of Portugal’, ii. 178. - - Second Maiden’s Tragedy, i. 321; iii. 224; iv. =45=. - - Sejanus, i. 327; iii. 255, =366=, 433. - - ‘Self Love’, ii. 83. - - Selimus, iv. 27, =46=. - - ‘Set at Maw’, ii. 143; iii. 297. - - ‘Set at Tennis’, ii. 177, 180; iii. 448; iv. 14. - - ‘1, 2 Seven Days of the Week’, ii. 144. - - Seven Days of the Week. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Seven Deadly Sins, ii. 107, 122, 125; iii. =496=; iv. 33. - - ‘Seven Wise Masters’, ii. 171. - - ‘She Saint’, ii. 253. - - ‘Shepherd’s Song’ (show), iii. 313. - - Shoemaker a Gentleman, iii. =473=. - - Shoemaker’s Holiday, iii. =291=; iv. 112. - - Shore. _See_ Edward IV. - - ‘Short and Sweet’, iii. 516; iv. 206. - - Sicelides, i. 131; iii. =315=. - - _Sidonia und Theagenes_, ii. 285. - - ‘Siege of Dunkirk and Alleyn the Pirate’, ii. 181. - - ‘Siege of Edinburgh Castle’, iii. 283. - - ‘Siege of London’, ii. 146. - - Silent Woman. _See_ Epicoene. - - Silvanus, iv. =378=. - - Silver Age, ii. 286; iii. 109, =344=; iv. 126, 178. - - ‘Silver Mine’, ii. 53. - - ‘Singer’s Voluntary’, ii. 177, 180; iii. 492. - - Sir Clyomon and Clamydes. _See_ Clyomon and Clamydes. - - Sir Giles Goosecap. _See_ Goosecap. - - ‘Sir John Mandeville’. _See_ ‘Mandeville’. - - Sir John Oldcastle. _See_ Oldcastle. - - Sir John van Olden Barnevelt. _See_ Van Olden Barnevelt. - - Sir Thomas More. _See_ More. - - Sir Thomas Wyatt. _See_ Wyatt. - - ‘Sir William Longsword’. _See_ ‘Longsword’. - - ‘1, 2 Six Clothiers’, ii. 178–9. - - ‘Six Fools’, iv. 84, 144. - - ‘Six Yeomen of the West’, ii. 162, 178. - - ‘Soldan and the Duke of ----’, ii. 118; iv. 97, 157. - - Soliman and Perseda, iv. 28, =46=. - - ‘Solitary Knight’, ii. 134; iv. 91, 152. - - ‘Solomon and Queen of Sheba’ (mask), i. 172; iv. 121. - - Solymannidae, iv. =378=. - - Somnium Fundatoris. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - Sophonisba, iii. 148, =433=. - - _Sophonisbe_, iii. 13. - - Spaniard’s Night-Walk. _See_ Blurt Master Constable. - - ‘Spanish Comedy’, ii. 122. - - ‘Spanish Fig’, ii. 179; iii. 300. - - ‘Spanish Maze’, iv. 119, 137, 172. - - ‘Spanish Moor’s Tragedy’, ii. 173; iii. 427. - - Spanish Tragedy, ii. 279, 286; iii. =395=; iv. 23, 46, 253. - - _Speculum Aestheticum_, iii. 498. - - ‘Spencers’, ii. 163, 169; iii. 425. - - _Spiritata_, iii. 352. - - Squires (mask), i. 173; iii. =245=. - - ‘Stephen’, iii. 489. - - ‘Stepmother’s Tragedy’, ii. 171. - - ‘Stewtley’, iv. 47. - - ‘Strange News out of Poland’, ii. 171; iii. 465. - - _Studentes_, iii. 351. - - Stukeley, Captain Thomas, iv. =47=. - - ‘Sturgflattery’, ii. 132, 168. - - Sudeley Entertainment, iv. =66=. - - Suffolk and Norfolk Entertainment, iv. =62=. - - Summer’s Last Will and Testament, iii. 35, 427, =451=; iv. 52. - - Sun’s Darling, iii. =299=. - - Supposes (tr.), iii. 27, =321=. - - _Suppositi_, iii. 9, 321. - - ‘Susanna’, iii. =319=. - - _Susanna_, ii. 275, 283–4. - - Susenbrotus, i. 131; iv. 130, =378=. - - Swetnam the Woman Hater Arraigned by Women, ii. 448. - - _Sylvanaire_, iii. 16. - - - T - - Tale of a Tub, iii. 373. - - ‘1, 2 Tamar Cham’ (plot), ii. 122–3, 126, 144, 181; iv. =47=. - - 1, 2 Tamburlaine, iii. =421=; iv. 15, 24, 44, 48, 52. - - Tamer Tamed. _See_ Woman’s Prize. - - Taming of A Shrew, ii. 130, 193, 311; iii. 324, 423, 472; iv. =48=. - - Taming of The Shrew, ii. 193, 197, 200, 202; iii. 222, =482=; iv. - 48. - - Tancred and Gismund, iii. 30, =514=; iv. 27. - - ‘Tancredo’, iii. =517=. - - ‘Tanner of Denmark’, ii. 122. - - ‘Tartarian Cripple’, iv. =403=. - - ‘Tasso’s Melancholy’, ii. 143, 181. - - ‘Telomo’, ii. 89; iv. 99, 159. - - Temperance and Humility, iv. 1. - - Tempest, ii. 216, 217; iii. 360, 373, =489=; iv. 125, 127, 177, - 180. - - ‘Terminus et non Terminus’, iii. 450, 453. - - Tethys’ Festival (mask), i. 173; iii. =281=; iv. 72, 124. - - ‘That Will Be Shall Be’, ii. 144. - - ‘Theagenes and Chariclea’, iv. 88, 146. - - ‘The Blind Eats Many a Fly’, ii. 227. - - ‘The Buck is a Thief’, iii. 232. - - The Case is Altered, iii. =357=. - - The Devil is an Ass, iii. =373=; iv. 30. - - The Hog hath Lost his Pearl, iii. =496=. - - The Longer Thou Livest, the More Fool Thou Art, iii. =504=. - - The Tide Tarrieth No Man, iii. =505=. - - The Weakest Goeth to the Wall, iii. 503; iv. =52=. - - ‘The Woman is too Hard for Him’, iii. 222. - - ‘The World Runs on Wheels’, ii. 169; iii. 252. - - Thebais (tr.), iii. 478. - - Thenot and Piers (show), i. 124; iii. =337=. - - Theobalds Entertainment (1591), iii. =247=. - - Theobalds Entertainment (1594), iii. =248=. - - Theobalds Entertainment (1607), i. 126; iii. =392=. - - Thersites, iii. 24. - - Thierry and Theodoret, iii. =230=. - - Thomas Lord Cromwell. _See_ Cromwell. - - ‘Thomas Merry’, ii. 171; iii. 518. - - Thorny Abbey, iii. 506. - - Thracian Wonder, iv. =49=. - - ‘Three Brothers’, ii. 227. - - Three Ladies of London, ii. 380; iii. 25, =515=; iv. 217. - - Three Lords and Three Ladies of London, iii. =515=. - - ‘Three Plays in One’, ii. 106; iii. 497; iv. 101, 160. - - ‘Three Sisters of Mantua’, ii. 98; iv. 95, 154. - - Thyestes (tr.), iii. =477=. - - Tilbury Visit, iv. =64=. - - Time Triumphant. _See_ Progress of James I. - - Time’s Complaint. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - ‘Time’s Triumph and Fortune’s’, ii. 147; iii. 346. - - ‘Timoclea at the Siege of Thebes by Alexander’, ii. 76; iv. 90, - 148. - - Timon, iv. =49=. - - Timon of Athens, ii. 213; iii. 260, =488=, 513. - - ‘Tinker of Totnes’, ii. 144. - - ‘’Tis Good Sleeping in a Whole Skin’, iii. 505. - - ‘’Tis no Deceit to Deceive the Deceiver’, ii. 163, 170. - - Titirus and Galathea. _See_ Galathea. - - _Tito Andronico_, ii. 285. - - ‘Titus and Gisippus’, ii. 15; iv. 91, 152. - - ‘Titus and Vespasian’, ii. 122–3, 129–30, 202. - - Titus Andronicus, ii. 122, 126, 129–30, 193, 202; iii. =482=; - iv. 246. - - ‘Tobias’, ii. 179. - - ‘2 Tom Dough’, ii. 179. - - Tom Tyler and his Wife, iii. 27; iv. =50=. - - Tomumbeius, iv. =379=. - - ‘Too Good to be True’, ii. 162, 179; iii. 266. - - ‘Tooley’, ii. 134; iv. 93, 151. - - ‘Torrismount’, ii. 65. - - ‘Toy to Please Chaste Ladies’, ii. 144. - - _Tragedia del Libero Arbitrio_, iii. 263. - - ‘Transformation of the King of Trinidadoes Daughters’, iii. 268. - - _Trappolaria_, iii. 476. - - Travels of the Three English Brothers, ii. 446; iii. 117, 221, - =286=. - - Tres Sibyllae (show), i. 126, 130; iii. 332. - - Trial of Chivalry, iii. 266, 495; iv. =50=. - - Trial of Treasure, iv. =51=. - - ‘Triangle of Cuckolds’, ii. 166. - - Trick to Catch the Old One, iii. 143, =439=; iv. 123. - - _Trinummus_, iii. 5. - - ‘Tristram of Lyons’, ii. 170. - - Triumphs of Truth (show), i. 137; iii. =443=. - - Triumphs of Reunited Britannia (show), i. 137; iii. =448=. - - Troas (tr.), iii. =477=. - - Troilus and Cressida, ii. 207; iii. =487=; iv. 19, 40. - - Troilus and Cressida (plot), ii. 158, 169, 170; iv. =51=. - - Troja Nova Triumphans (show), i. 137; iii. =305=. - - Troublesome Reign of King John, ii. 202; iv. =23=. - - ‘Troy’, ii. 144; iii. 345. - - ‘Troy’s Revenge and the Tragedy of Polyphemus’, ii. 163, 169. - - True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York. _See_ Contention of York and - Lancaster. - - True Tragedy of Richard III, ii. 108; iv. 4, =43=. - - ‘Truth, Faithfulness, and Mercy’, ii. 75; iv. 89, 147. - - ‘Truth’s Supplication to Candlelight’, ii. 173; iii. 296. - - _Tugend- und Liebesstreit_, ii. 147. - - ‘_Turcke_’, ii. 289; iii. 435. - - ‘Tumholt’, i. 322. - - Turk, ii. 289; iii. =435=. - - ‘Turkish Mahomet and Hiren the Fair Greek’, iii. 327, =462=. - - Twelfth Night, i. 222; ii. 207; iii. =487=; iv. 53, 376. - - ‘Twelve Labours of Hercules’, iv. 241. - - Twelve Months (mask), i. 173; iv. =58=. - - ‘Twins’ Tragedy’, iv. 125, 127, 178, 180. - - 1, ‘2’ Two Angry Women of Abingdon, iii. =467=. - - Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 194, 285; iii. =483=; iv. 246. - - Two Italian Gentlemen. _See_ Fedele and Fortunio. - - Two Lamentable Tragedies, iii. 266, =518=. - - Two Maids of Moreclack, iii. =210=. - - ‘Two Merry Women of Abingdon’, ii. 170. - - Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 217; iii. =226=, 311, 373. - - ‘Two Shapes’. _See_ ‘Caesar’s Fall’. - - ‘Two Sins of King David’, iv. =403=. - - Two Supposed Heads. _See_ Necromantes. - - Two Tragedies in One. _See_ Two Lamentable Tragedies. - - Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools, iii. 260. - - ‘Tyrant’, iv. 45. - - - U - - Ulysses and Circe (mask), i. 174; iii. =238=. - - Ulysses Redux, i. 251; iii. =318=; iv. 245. - - ‘Unfortunate General’, ii. 227. - - ‘_Ungehorsam Khauffmanns Sohn_’, ii. 284. - - ‘Uther Pendragon’, ii. =144=; iii. 475. - - - V - - ‘Valentine and Orson’, ii. 166; iv. =403=. - - Valentinian, iii. =229=. - - Valiant Welshman, iv. =51=. - - Van Olden Barnevelt, i. 321, 327. - - ‘Vanity’, iii. 178. - - ‘Vayvode’, ii. 170. - - ‘Venetian Comedy’, ii. 143; iii. 301. - - ‘Verity’. _See_ ‘Re Vera’. - - _Verlorne Sohn_, ii. 281, 284, 285–6. - - ‘Vertumnus’. _See_ ‘Alba’. - - Vertumnus, sive, Annus Recurrens, i. 130; iii. =332=. - - _Victoria_, iii. 31, =316=. - - Vincentio and Margaret. _See_ Gentleman Usher. - - _Vincentius Ladislaus_, ii. 276, 284. - - Virgin Martyr, ii. 286; iii. =298=. - - Virtuous Octavia, iii. =236=. - - Vision of the Twelve Goddesses (mask), i. 171; iii. =277=; iv. 118. - - Volpone, iii. 286, =368=, 432; iv. 16, 36, 248, 371. - - ‘Vortigern’, ii. 144, 180; iii. 442. - - - W - - ‘War without Blows and Love without Suit’, ii. 169; iv. 49. - - ‘Warlamchester’, ii. 146. - - Warning for Fair Women, ii. 434; iv. =52=. - - Wars of Cyrus King of Persia, iii. 311; iv. =52=. - - Wealth and Health, ii. 22; iv. 380. - - ‘Welshman’, ii. 147; iv. 51. - - ‘Welshman’s Prize’, ii. 166; iii. 307. - - Westward Ho! iii. 141, 256, 286, =295=. - - ‘What Mischief Worketh in the Mind of Man’, ii. 104. - - What You Will, i. 381; iii. 140, 293, =430=. - - What You Will. _See_ Twelfth Night. - - When You See Me, You Know Me, iii. =472=. - - White Devil, iii. =509=. - - Whore of Babylon, iii. =296=. - - Widow, iii. =442=. - - Widow of Watling Street. _See_ Puritan. - - ‘Widow’s Charm’, ii. 181. - - Widow’s Tears, ii. 367; iii. 147, =256=; iv. 127, 181. - - ‘Will of a Woman’. _See_ ‘Isle of a Woman’. - - ‘William Cartwright’, ii. 181. - - ‘William the Conqueror’, ii. 95; iv. 12. - - Wily Beguiled, iii. 136, 472; iv. =53=. - - Winter’s Tale, ii. 215, 216, 217, 286; iii. 373, =489=; iv. 125, - 127, 177, 180. - - Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll, iii. 136; iv. =54=. - - ‘Wise Man of West Chester’, ii. 143, 180; iii. 446. - - Wise Woman of Hogsdon, iii. =342=; iv. 20. - - Wit and Science, ii. 11. - - ‘Wit and Will’, iv. 30, 84, 144. - - Wit and Wisdom, iii. 24. - - Wit at Several Weapons, iii. =232=. - - Wit of a Woman, iv. =54=. - - Wit without Money, iii. =229=. - - Witch of Edmonton, iii. =298=. - - ‘Witch of Islington’, ii. 147. - - ‘Witless’, iv. =404=. - - ‘Woman Hard to Please’, ii. 144; iii. 467. - - Woman Hater, i. 327; iii. 143, =219=. - - Woman in the Moon, iii. 46, =416=. - - Woman Killed with Kindness, iii. =341=, 342. - - Woman’s Prize, iii. =222=; iv. 33. - - ‘Woman’s Tragedy’, ii. 163, 167. - - Wonder of a Kingdom, iii. 288, =299=. - - ‘Wonder of a Woman’, ii. 144; iii. 433, 474. - - Wonder of Women. _See_ Sophonisba. - - Woodstock Entertainment (1575), iii. =400=. - - Woodstock Entertainment (1592), iii. =404=. - - ‘Wooer’, iii. 470. - - ‘Wooing of Death’, ii. 173. - - Work for Cutlers, iv. =54=. - - ‘World’s Tragedy’, ii. 144. - - ‘Worse Afeared than Hurt’, ii. 169. - - Wounds of Civil War, iii. =410=. - - Wyatt, Sir Thomas, iii. =293=. - - ‘Wylie Beguylie’, iv. 53. - - - X - - ‘Xerxes’, ii. 63; iv. 91, 149. - - - Y - - ‘Yorkshire Gentlewoman and her Son’, iii. 260. - - Yorkshire Tragedy, iii. 231; iv. =54=. - - Your Five Gallants, iii. 150, =440=. - - Youth, iii. 23; iv. 380. - - Yuletide. _See_ Christmas Prince. - - - Z - - Zelotypus, iv. =379=. - - ‘Zenobia’, ii. 122. - - ‘_Zerstörung der Stadt Constantinopel_’, ii. 289–90; iii. 462. - - ‘_Zerstörung der Stadt Troja_’, ii. 289; iii. 345. - - - - - INDEX II: OF PERSONS - - - A - - Abercrombie, Mr., iii. 388. - - Abergavenny (title). _See_ Neville. - - Acton, Richard, iii. 402. - - Adams, Robert, ii. 343. - - Agrippa, Henry Cornelius, on plays, iv. 195. - - Alamanni, Luigi, iii. 13. - - Alasco, Count Albert of, i. 129; iii. 318; iv. 100. - - Alberghini, Angelica, ii. 263. - - Alberti, Leo Battista, iii. 2. - - Alençon, François, Duke of, also Duke of Anjou, i. 5, 16, 22, 90, - 167; iv. 96, 98. - - Alexander, Robert, iii. 402; iv. 64. - - Allde, John, stationer, iii. 444. - - Allen, Giles, ii. 385, 398. - - Allen, John, musician, i. 201; iii. 246, 383. - - Allen, Sir William, ii. 401. - - Alley, William, iii. 209; - on plays, i. 244; iv. 192. - - Andreae, Joannes Valentinus, i. 344. - - Anhalt-Cöthen, Louis Prince of, ii. 360. - - Anne of Denmark, Queen, i. 6, 167, 170, 174, 199, 204, 212, 218, - 325; ii. 220, 265; iii. 241, 244, 278, 282, 380, 383, 386, 387, - 392; iv. 116, 117, 125, 128, 183; - her men, ii. 225–40. - - Ansell, Richard, mat-layer, iii. 262. - - Ansley. _See_ Harvey. - - Anton Maria, ii. 263. - - Archer, Francis, iii. 419. - - Aremberg, Jean de Ligne, Count of, i. 25; iv. 170. - - Ariosto, Ludovico, iii. 8, 321. - - Aristotle, i. 240, 254. - - Armstrong, Archie, court fool, i. 53. - - Arnold, John, yeoman of revels, i. 79, 83, 86. - - Arundel (title). _See_ Fitzalan, Howard. - - Ascham, Roger, on plays, i. 239; iv. 191. - - Ashley, Sir Anthony, clerk of privy council, ii. 411, 517. - - Ashley or Astley (b. Champernowne), Catherine, mistress of robes, - i. 45. - - Ashley or Astley, Sir John, master of revels, i. 104; iii. 241, - 378. - - Ashton, Roger, ii. 111, 266, 269. - - Askewe, Anne Lady, iv. 99. - - Aubigny (title). _See_ Stuart. - - Aubrey, William, master of requests, iv. 105, 106. - - Auchternouty, Mr., iii. 388. - - Austin, William, iii. 287. - - Aylmer, John, bishop of London, ii. 110; iv. 229. - - Ayrer, Jacob, ii. 271; iii. 396, 418, 462. - - - B - - Babington, Gervase, on plays, i. 254; iv. 225. - - Bacon (b. Cooke), Anne Lady, i. 264; ii. 381; iii. 211; iv. 56. - - Bacon, Anthony, ii. 381; iii. 211; iv. 56. - - Bacon, Sir Francis, ii. 371; iii. 187; iv. 59. - - Bacon, Sir Nicholas, lord keeper of the seals, i. 110, 117; iv. 88, - 93. - - Baden, Margrave of, i. 324. - - Badger, Sir Thomas, iii. 241, 377. - - Badius Ascensius, Jodocus, iii. 7. - - Baile, Steven, groom of revels, i. 100. - - Baines, Richard, iii. 419. - - Baldwin, William, ii. 82–3. - - Bale, John, i. 241. - - Ball, Cutting, iii. 324. - - Bame. _See_ Baines. - - Banbury (title). _See_ Knollys. - - Bancroft, Richard, archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 168. - - Banks, horse trainer, ii. 383; iii. 279. - - Barbarigo, Gregorio, Venetian ambassador, i. 25. - - Barley, William, stationer, iv. 65. - - Barlow, William, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Barnard, John, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 73; ii. - 491–2. - - Barrose, John, fencer, iii. 359. - - Barry, Leonard, iii. 388. - - Basil, Simon, surveyor of works, i. 180. - - Baskervile, Susanna, ii. 236. - - Bavande, William, on plays, i. 237; iv. 190. - - Bawdewin, Thomas, ii. 301. - - Beaumont, Comte de, French ambassador, i. 24, 204; iii. 258, 281, - 376. - - Becke, Mathew, sergeant of bears, ii. 450. - - Bedford (title). _See_ Russell. - - Bedingfield, Anne, ii. 445. - - Belgiojoso, Baldassarino da, i. 176. - - Benger, Sir Thomas, master of revels, i. 75, 80, 319. - - Berkeley (b. Carey), Elizabeth, ii. 194; iii. 272, 378. - - Berkeley, George, 8th Lord, iii. 510. - - Berkeley, Henry, 7th Lord, i. 115; ii. 103; iv. 90; - his men, ii. 103. - - Berkeley, Thomas, ii. 103, 194. - - Berkshire (title). _See_ Norris. - - Bertie (b. Willoughby), Catharine, Duchess of Suffolk, i. 108; ii. - 2; iv. 83. - - Bertie, Peregrine, 9th Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, ii. 440, 500; iv. - 326. - - Bertie, Richard, ii. 2. - - Bertie, Robert, 10th Lord Willoughby d’Eresby, iii. 246, 377, 378. - - Bethell, Mr., i. 210; iii. 381. - - Bett, Henry, ii. 390, 397. - - Betts, Robert, ii. 316. - - Bevill (b. Knyvet), Frances Lady, iii. 375. - - Beza, Theodore, i. 245, 249; iii. 322, 514. - - Bibbiena, Bernardo da, iii. 9, 13. - - Bill, William, dean of Westminster, ii. 70. - - Biron, Charles, Duc de, i. 23; ii. 456; iii. 257; iv. 15. - - Bishop, Nicolas, ii. 392. - - Blackwell, William, ii. 485. - - Blagrave, Thomas, clerk of tents and revels, acting master of - revels, i. 73, 83, 85, 89, 93, 99; ii. 492, 499, 500, 502; iii. - 409. - - Blount, Charles, 8th Lord Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire, i. 4, 220; - iii. 212, 276, 402. - - Bochan, dancer, i. 202; iii. 244, 387. - - Bodley, Sir John, ii. 426. - - Boier, Simon, gentleman usher of chamber, i. 108. - - Boissise, Thumery de, French ambassador, i. 24, 169. - - Bonarelli della Rovere, G., iii. 238. - - Bonetti, Rocco, fencer, ii. 500–3. - - Bouillon, Duc de, i. 24; iv. 126. - - Bourke, John, 2nd Lord Bourke of Connell, iii. 402. - - Bouset, Johan, ii. 275. - - Bowes, Edward, ii. 451. - - Bowes, Sir Jerome, i. 88; ii. 506; iv. 276. - - Bowes, Ralph, master of Paris Garden, ii. 450, 486; iii. 402; iv. - 64. - - Bowes, Thomas, ii. 451. - - Bowll, William, yeoman of chamber, deputy yeoman of revels, i. 79, - 86. - - Bowyer, Sir Henry, iii. 388. - - Box, Edward, ii. 410. - - Boyd, sergeant, iii. 388. - - Brabine, Thomas, iii. 325. - - Bracciano, Duke of, i. 6, 222. - - Brackyn, Francis, iii. 476. - - Bradshaw, Charles, ii. 495, 504. - - Bramante Lazzari, iii. 9. - - Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Abbé de, i. 159, 176. - - Braye, locksmith, ii. 388. - - Brayne, John, ii. 380, 387, 397. - - Brayne, Margaret, ii. 389. - - Brend, Judith, ii. 431. - - Brend, Sir Matthew, ii. 426–31. - - Brend, Nicholas, ii. 415, 426. - - Breton, Nicholas, iii. 320. - - Brewe, Patrick, ii. 435. - - Brewer, Thomas, iii. 237. - - Bridges, John, dean of Salisbury, iv. 229. - - Bridges, John, yeoman of revels, i. 73; iv. 135. - - Brigham, Mark, ii. 442. - - Bromfield, Robert, mercer, ii. 175, 184. - - Bromley, Sir Thomas, lord chancellor, i. 287; iv. 92, 297, 282, - 296. - - Bromley, Thomas, ii. 334, 418. - - Bromvill, Peter, iv. 112, 329. - - Brooke, Christopher, iii. 262. - - Brooke (b. Howard), Frances, Lady Cobham, formerly Countess of - Kildare, ii. 507. - - Brooke, George, 9th Lord Cobham, ii. 476, 478, 485, 492–3. - - Brooke, George, i. 199. - - Brooke, Henry, 8th Lord Cobham, lord warden of Cinque Ports, i. - 220; ii. 507; iv. 37, 113. - - Brooke, William, 7th Lord Cobham, lord warden of Cinque Ports, lord - chamberlain, i. 40, 169, 268; ii. 195, 495, 507; iv. 77, 89. - - Brooke. _See_ Parr. - - Broughton. _See_ Unton. - - Browker, Hugh, ii. 413. - - Browne, Anthony, 1st Viscount Montague, i. 111, 162–3; iii. 321; - iv. 65. - - Browne, Sir Anthony, judge, ii. 486. - - Browne, Anthony, i. 163; iii. 322. - - Browne, John, bearward, ii. 450. - - Browne (b. Dormer), Mary, i. 163; iii. 322. - - Browne, Thomas, i. 163. - - Browne. _See_ Dormer, Petre, Wriothesley. - - Brunkerd, Henry, iv. 64. - - Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Henry Julius, Duke of, playwright, ii. 275, - 284. - - Bruskett, Thomas, ii. 503–5. - - Bryan, Sir Francis, ii. 485. - - Brydges (b. Bray), Dorothy, Lady Chandos, afterwards Lady Knollys, - iv. 115. - - Brydges (b. Clinton), Frances, Lady Chandos, iv. 90. - - Brydges, Giles, 3rd Lord Chandos, iv. 66, 92, 107. - - Brydges, Grey, 5th Lord Chandos, iii. 246, 394. - - Brydges, Katherine, iii. 401. - - Brydges (b. Hopton), Mary, Lady Chandos, ii. 299; iii. 401. - - Brydges, William, 4th Lord Chandos, ii. 299. - - Brydges. _See_ Kennedy. - - Bucer, Martin, on plays, i. 239; iv. 188. - - Buchanan, George, iii. 12, 514. - - Buck, Sir George, master of revels, i. 46, 96–105, 322; ii. 68; - iii. 170, 412; iv. 45. - - Buckeridge, John, president of St. John’s, Oxford, iii. 168; iv. - 377. - - Buckhurst (title). _See_ Sackville. - - Buckingham (title). _See_ Villiers. - - Buggin, Edward, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 79, 82, - 96. - - Burby, Cuthbert, stationer, ii. 306. - - Burgh, Sir John, ii. 361. - - Burgh, Thomas, 5th Lord Burgh, lord deputy of Ireland, iv. 101, - 110. - - Burghley (title). _See_ Cecil. - - Burgram (Bingham), John, ii. 432. - - Burnaby, Thomas, ii. 451, 464–5. - - Burrough, Mrs., iii. 401. - - Butler, Sir Philip, iii. 402; iv. 113. - - Button, Sir William, deputy master of ceremonies, i. 53. - - Bywater, Laurence, ii. 499. - - - C - - Caesar, Sir Julius, master of requests, chancellor of exchequer, - master of the rolls, ii. 371, 451; iv. 111. - - Calle, Mrs., tire-woman, ii. 228. - - Calliopius, iii. 7. - - Calvin, John, i. 245–9. - - Camden, William, iii. 254, 359, 398, 507. - - Campbell (b. Cornwallis), Anne, Countess of Argyll, ii. 317. - - Campion, Edmund, iii. 468. - - Campnies, Mr., iv. 57. - - Cardell, Thomas, dancer, i. 202. - - Carew, Sir Francis, iv. 84, 92, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 105, 106, - 109, 111, 112, 113, 116. - - Carew, George, 1st Lord Carew, iii. 212. - - Carey (b. Morgan), Anne, Lady Hunsdon, i. 10; iii. 401. - - Carey, George, 2nd Lord Hunsdon, knight marshal, lord chamberlain, - i. 40, 220; ii. 192, 204, 479, 501, 504, 508; iii. 450, 505; - iv. 107, 114, 115, 320, 329; - his men, ii. 195–208. - - Carey, Henry, 1st Lord Hunsdon, lord chamberlain, i. 10, 40, 110, - 141, 268; ii. 192, 411, 486, 497; iii. 505; iv. 99, 108, 280, - 284, 288, 296; - his men, ii. 192–5. - - Carey, Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth, i. 145, 199; iii. 212, 267, - 377, 402, 405. - - Carey. _See_ Berkeley, Hoby, Howard, Scrope. - - Carlisle (title). _See_ Hay. - - Caron, Sir Noel, iv. 112. - - Carr, Robert, Viscount Rochester, Earl of Somerset, lord - chamberlain, i. 12, 41, 53, 146, 148, 173, 200, 216; ii. 68, - 372; iii. 220, 232, 240, 245, 250, 286, 388, 389, 393, 442; iv. - 59, 128. - - Carr, Mr., iii. 389. - - Cartwright, William, player, iv. 43. - - Cary, Henry, 1st Lord Falkland, iii. 241, 245, 294. - - Cary, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 54. - - Case, John, iii. 318; - on plays, i. 250; iv. 228. - - Casimir, John, Prince Palatine, iv. 96. - - Cason (b. Brend), Elizabeth, ii. 431. - - Castelvetro, Ludovico, iii. 18. - - Cavallerizzo, Claudio, ii. 265. - - Cave. _See_ Knollys. - - Cavendish, Thomas, iv. 103. - - Cavendish, William, Earl, Marquis, and Duke of Newcastle, i. 208; - ii. 374; iii. 372. - - Cavendish, Sir William, treasurer of chamber, i. 59; iv. 134. - - Cavendish, Mrs., i. 45. - - Cawarden, Elizabeth Lady, ii. 480. - - Cawarden, Sir Thomas, master of revels, i. 34, 73; ii. 477, 480–93; - iv. 135. - - Cecil (b. Howard), Katharine, Viscountess Cranborne, iii. 383. - - Cecil (b. Cooke), Mildred, Lady Burghley, iii. 248. - - Cecil, Robert Lord, Viscount Cranborne, 1st Earl of Salisbury, - secretary, lord treasurer, i. 10, 12, 96, 118, 121, 220; ii. - 196; iii. 212, 247, 254, 257, 276, 331, 384, 392, 413, 496; iv. - 69, 71, 108, 109, 111, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 139, - 315, 329, 335. - - Cecil, Thomas, 2nd Lord Burghley, 1st Earl of Exeter, iii. 247; iv. - 106, 108, 112, 115, 116. - - Cecil, William, 1st Lord Burghley, secretary, lord treasurer, i. - 20, 79, 80, 88, 91, 110, 117, 119, 167, 227, 244, 265, 267; ii. - 100, 113, 306; iii. 160, 212, 247, 411, 459, 477; iv. 79, 81, - 83, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 98, 100, 101, 102, 105, 108, 109, 110, - 111, 266, 269, 276, 277, 281, 292, 296, 305, 310, 316. - - Cecil, William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, iii. 242, 246. - - Cecil. _See_ Hatton, Vere, Wentworth. - - Cecilia of Sweden, i. 10, 23, 142, 324; iv. 82, 144, 378. - - Cervantes, Miguel de, iii. 221. - - Chaderton, Edmund, treasurer of chamber, i. 57. - - Chaloner, Sir Thomas, i. 211; iii. 386. - - Champagny, M. de, iii. 405; iv. 101. - - Chandos (title). _See_ Brydges. - - Charles Duke of York, afterwards Charles I, i. 13, 171, 199, 322; - ii. 241; iii. 238, 280, 281, 376, 382, 383, 443; iv. 119, 122, - 123, 124, 127, 129, 130; - his men, ii. 241. - - Charles IX, King of France, ii. 261. - - Châtillon, Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of, i. 129; iv. 85. - - Cheke, Sir John, ii. 493; iii. 262. - - Chester, Charles, iii. 363. - - Chettle, Henry, on plays, i. 261; iv. 242. - - Cheyne, Henry Lord, iv. 81, 86, 91. - - Cheyne (b. Wentworth), Jane Lady, iii. 263; iv. 123. - - Cheyne, Sir Thomas, treasurer of household, lord warden of Cinque - Ports, i. 35; ii. 476, 485, 490–2, 499. - - Cheyne. _See_ Pole, Wriothesley. - - Chichester (b. Harington), Frances Lady, iii. 380. - - Chidley, Mr., iii. 269. - - Chisan, Alexander, musician, i. 202; iii. 385. - - Cholmley, John, i. 356, 361; ii. 406–8. - - Chytraeus, N., ii. 455. - - Cicero, on plays, i. 238, 377; iv. 206, 215. - - Cinthio, Giraldi, iii. 512. - - Claiton, William, victualler, i. 304; iv. 340. - - Clark, Francis, porter of St. John’s, Oxford, iv. 36. - - Clarke, Roger, ii. 115. - - Clarke, Sir William, i. 118; iv. 115. - - Clatterbocke, Thomas, groom of revels, i. 93, 100. - - Clifford, Francis, 4th Earl of Cumberland, i. 338; iv. 107. - - Clifford, George, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, i. 145; iii. 212, 402; - iv. 94, 117, 120. - - Clifford (b. Russell), Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, iii. 268, - 273, 399; iv. 94. - - Clifford. _See_ Sackville, Stanley, Wharton. - - Clifton, Henry, ii. 42. - - Clinton, Edward, 1st Earl of Lincoln, lord admiral, lord steward, - i. 35, 109, 157; ii. 90, 96, 261; iv. 78, 79, 83, 86, 92, 93, - 94, 97, 100, 284, 288; - his men, ii. 97. - - Clinton, Henry, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, i. 328; ii. 96, 278; iv. 113; - his men, ii. 97. - - Clowes, William, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Cobham (title). _See_ Brooke. - - Cock, Sir Henry, cofferer of household, iv. 100, 116. - - Cocke, J., on players, iv. 255. - - Coke, Sir Edward, solicitor- and attorney-general, chief justice of - common pleas and king’s bench, i. 103, 200, 306, 338; ii. 473; - iv. 114. - - Coke. _See_ Hatton. - - Cole, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Colet, John, dean of St. Paul’s, ii. 9. - - Collins, Edward, ii. 390. - - Collins, Richard, clerk to Stationers, iii. 158, 165. - - Compton, William, 2nd Lord Compton, i. 220; iii. 212, 246, 394, - 402; iv. 88, 94, 120, 124, 126. - - Confess, dancer, i. 202; iii. 244, 386, 387. - - Constable, Sir William, ii. 205. - - Conyers, John, auditor of the prest, i. 92. - - Cooke, Sir Anthony, reformer, iv. 84. - - Cooke, Sir Anthony, tilter, i. 144; iii. 402; iv. 64. - - Cooke, Richard, iv. 96. - - Cooke, W. iv. 57. - - Cooke. _See_ Bacon, Cecil, Russell. - - Cooper or Coprario, John, musician, i. 202; iii. 244, 246. - - Cop, Michel, i. 247. - - Cope, Sir Walter, i. 220; iii. 306, 371, 389; iv. 111, 126, 139. - - Cope. _See_ Rich. - - Cornwallis, Sir William, i. 111; iii. 391, 506; iv. 108, 111, 113, - 118. - - Corraro, Gregorio, iii. 239. - - Correr, Marc’ Antonio, Venetian ambassador, i. 25. - - Coryat, Thomas, ii. 276; iii. 315. - - Cosin, Richard, corrector of books, iii. 167, 187. - - Cossé, Artus de, Seigneur de Gonnor, i. 161. - - Cotton, William, corrector of books, iii. 167, 451; iv. 319. - - Cox, Samuel, on plays, iv. 237. - - Cranborne (title). _See_ Cecil. - - Cranwigge, James, i. 361. - - Crashaw, William, on plays, i. 262; iv. 249, 254. - - Creede, Thomas, stationer, iii. 184. - - Crichton, Robert, 6th Lord Sanquhar, ii. 413; iii. 382. - - Crocus, Cornelius, iii. 18. - - Croft, Sir James, comptroller of household, i. 35; iv. 284, 288. - - Cromwell, Henry, Lord Cromwell, iv. 81. - - Cromwell, Sir Oliver, iii. 498; iv. 81, 116. - - Cromwell, Oliver, lord protector, iii. 498. - - Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, lord privy seal, i. 242; ii. 74; - iv. 8. - - Crosse, Henry, on plays, iv. 247. - - Crowley, Robert, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Cruso, Aquila, iv. 375. - - Cumberland (title). _See_ Clifford. - - Cure, Thomas, ii. 411. - - ‘Cuthbert Cony-catcher’, pamphleteer, i. 377; iii. 325; iv. 25. - - - D - - D’Ancre, Marshal, iii. 511. - - Danter, John, stationer, iii. 187, 263. - - Danvers, Sir Charles, iii. 402. - - Danvers, Henry Lord, iii. 390. - - Danvers. _See_ Herbert. - - Darcy, Thomas, iii. 393. - - Dauncy, John, porter of St. John’s gate, i. 79, 93. - - David, John, fencer, ii. 380; iv. 289. - - Dee, John, astrologer, iii. 372, 398; iv. 91, 97. - - De Laune, Gideon, ii. 507. - - De Laune, William, physician, ii. 498, 504. - - Delawarr (title). _See_ West. - - Denmark, Christian IV, King of, i. 12, 23, 134, 138, 146, 172, 179; - ii. 22, 276, 458; iii. 316, 392; iv. 70, 121, 129. - - Denny, Edward Lord, iii. 240, 402; iv. 64. - - Denny. _See_ Hay. - - Denton, James, ii. 62. - - Derby (title). _See_ Stanley. - - Derry, Thomas, court jester, i. 53. - - D’Este, Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara, iii. 4. - - D’Este, Hippolyte, iii. 13. - - Dethick, Sir William, ii. 283. - - Devereux (b. Howard), Frances, Countess of Essex, afterwards of - Somerset, i. 172, 173; iii. 245, 282, 378, 383, 388, 393; iv. - 59, 67, 120, 128. - - Devereux (b. Knollys), Lettice, Countess of Essex, afterwards - Countess of Leicester and Lady Blount, i. 220; ii. 48, 85, 102; - iv. 91; - her men, ii. 103. - - Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, master of the horse, earl - marshal, lord deputy of Ireland, i. 6, 18, 33, 34, 45, 145, - 220, 324, 385; ii. 102, 205, 415; iii. 211, 212, 276, 296, 318, - 364, 402, 408; iv. 105, 108, 109, 112, 319, 375; - his men, ii. 103. - - Devereux, Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex, lord chamberlain, i. 41, 146, - 172; iii. 378; iv. 120. - - Devereux, Walter, 1st Earl of Essex, lord deputy of Ireland, i. 10; - ii. 102; iii. 211, 349; - his men, ii. 102. - - Devereux. _See_ Percy, Rich. - - Devonshire (title). _See_ Blount. - - De Witt, John, ii. 360, 456; iii. 72, 78, 90, 100. - - Dickens, George, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Digby, Edward, iv. 64. - - Digby, Sir Everard, iii. 402, 433. - - Digby, Sir John, iii. 241. - - Digby, Sir Kenelm, iii. 355. - - Digby, Lady, iv. 67. - - Dingwall (title). _See_ Preston. - - Dix, William, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Dodmer, Bryan, of the revels, i. 81, 86, 88. - - Doncaster (title). _See_ Hay. - - Donne, John, i. 349, 359; ii. 298, 464; iii. 238, 355, 479. - - Dormer (b. Browne), Elizabeth Lady, i. 163; iii. 322. - - Dormer, Robert, 1st Lord, i. 163; iii. 322. - - Dormer, Sir William, i. 163; iii. 322. - - Dorrington, Sir John, master of Paris Garden, ii. 451–2. - - Dorrington (Darrington), Richard, keeper of dogs, ii. 450. - - Dorset (title). _See_ Sackville. - - Dossi, Dosso, iii. 11. - - Dover, tailor, ii. 184. - - Dowland, John, musician, i. 202; iii. 262. - - Dowland, Robert, musician, i. 202; iii. 262. - - Downes, John, iv. 372. - - Drake, Sir Francis, i. 5; ii. 299; iv. 97. - - Drawater, John, of the revels, i. 86. - - Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, iii. 276, 354. - - Drummond. _See_ Ker. - - Drury, William, i. 165. - - Drury, Mr., iii. 212. - - Du Bartas, Guillaume, iv. 5. - - Dudley, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, master of ordnance, i. 142; ii. - 97, 117, 380; iv. 82, 83, 88, 93, 102, 104, 282, 284, 288, 289; - his men, ii. 97. - - Dudley, Ann, iii. 242. - - Dudley (b. Russell), Anne, Countess of Warwick, i. 142; ii. 97; - iii. 399, 401; iv. 67, 82, 315; - her men, ii. 99. - - Dudley, Edward, 4th Lord, ii. 304; iv. 92. - - Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester, master of horse, lord steward, - i. 4, 5, 34, 107, 109, 110, 112, 114, 118, 125, 129, 141, 227, - 267, 288, 324; ii. 85, 342, 345, 453, 496; iii. 268, 318, 322, - 349, 402, 456, 478; iv. 61, 79, 82, 83, 85, 88, 91, 92, 93, 94, - 95, 96, 98, 99, 282, 284, 288; - his men, ii. 85–91. - - Dudley, Sir Robert, i. 45; iii. 212. - - Dudley. _See_ Hastings. - - Dun, fencer, ii. 413. - - Dunbar (title). _See_ Home. - - D’Urfé, Honoré, iii. 228, 229. - - Dutton, John, of Cheshire, i. 280, 299; ii. 314; iv. 46, 271, 324, - 337. - - Dymock, Sir Edward, i. 328; iv. 40. - - - E - - Edmondes (b. Lydcott), Dorothy Lady, gentlewoman of privy chamber, - ii. 451; iv. 113. - - Edmonds, Mary, ii. 418. - - Edwardes, Richard, on plays, iv. 193. - - Egerton, Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, Viscount Brackley, lord keeper of - the seal, lord chancellor, i. 98, 117; iv. 67, 115, 342. - - Elizabeth, Queen, i. 3–6, 19, 107, 112, 113, 119, 120, 125, 142, - 155, 267, 268, 327; ii. 173; iii. 253, 278, 310, 364, 469; iv. - 60, 351; - alleged visit to playhouse, ii. 48; - references to, in plays, i. 323; iii. 296, 361, 452, 498; iv. 15, - 26, 43, 47; - her men, ii. 83, 104–17. - - Elizabeth, Lady, Princess of England, Electress Palatine, i. 7, 12, - 17, 22, 139, 173, 199, 216, 218; ii. 246, 285; iii. 233, 241, - 260, 282, 388; iv. 72, 128, 129, 181; - her men, ii. 246–60. - - Ellesmere (title). _See_ Egerton. - - Elyot, Sir Thomas, iii. 470; - on plays, i. 239; iv. 187. - - Eottes (Eworth, Eeuwowts), Hans, i. 163, 165, 178. - - Erasmus, Desiderius, ii. 449; - on plays, i. 238; iv. 184. - - Erskine, James, master of Mar, iii. 382. - - Erskine, Thomas, Viscount Fenton, Earl of Kelly, captain of guard, - groom of stole, i. 47, 53. - - Erskine, Mr., iii. 382. - - Essex (title). _See_ Devereux. - - Evelyn, George, ii. 117; iv. 100, 111, 112, 113; - his men, ii. 117. - - Exeter (title). _See_ Cecil. - - - F - - Fanshawe, Thomas, king’s remembrancer in the exchequer, iv. 96. - - Farel, William, i. 245, 248. - - Farlyon, John, serjeant of tents, yeoman of revels, i. 72. - - Farrant, Anne, ii. 496. - - Favour, John, ii. 503. - - Feake, James, ii. 341. - - Feckenham, John, abbot of Westminster, i. 243. - - Felton, Edmund, cofferer of household, i. 62; iv. 134. - - Fennor, William, ii. 191, 468; iii. 500, 502. - - Fenton, Christopher, ii. 499, 502, 505. - - Fenton, Geoffrey, on plays, iv. 195. - - Fenton (title). _See_ Erskine. - - Féria, Count of, Spanish ambassador, i. 24. - - Ferrabosco, Alfonso, musician (the elder), i. 25, 49, 163, 178; ii. - 264. - - Ferrabosco, Alfonso, musician (the younger), i. 201; ii. 264; iii. - 378, 382, 383, 385, 387. - - Ferrarius, Joannes, on plays, i. 237; iv. 190. - - Ferrers, George, ii. 82, 332, 341. - - Field, John, ii. 316; - on plays, i. 267; iv. 219, 284. - - Field, Nathan, on plays, iv. 259. - - Field, Nathaniel, stationer, ii. 316. - - Field, Richard, stationer, ii. 508. - - Finett, Sir John, master of ceremonies, i. 25, 53, 203. - - Finland, John Duke of, iv. 78. - - Firenzuola, A., iii. 13. - - Fish, Walter, yeoman of revels, i. 86, 96. - - Fitton, Anne, ii. 326. - - Fitton, Mary, maid of honour, i. 45, 169; iv. 115. - - Fitzalan, Henry, 12th Earl of Arundel, lord steward, i. 4, 11, 35, - 111, 157; ii. 116; iii. 411; iv. 77, 80, 82, 83, 91; - his men, ii. 116. - - Fitzgerald (b. Howard), Frances, Countess of Kildare, ii. 507; iv. - 67. - - Flecknoe, Richard, iv. 369. - - Fleetwood, William, recorder of London, i. 265, 285, 292; iii. 512; - iv. 201, 219, 277, 280, 284, 297, 322. - - Fleetwood, Sir William, iv. 117. - - Fleming, Abraham, iii. 400. - - Florio, John, iii. 274; - on plays, iv. 201. - - Flower, John, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Fluddie, Thomas, yeoman of bears, ii. 460. - - Ford, Thomas, musician, i. 202; iii. 262. - - Forsett, Edward, iv. 377. - - Fortescue, Sir John, master of wardrobe, chancellor of exchequer, - chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, i. 80, 90; ii. 479; iv. 88, - 108, 117, 315, 335. - - Foscarini, Antonio, Venetian ambassador, i. 25, 264. - - Fowler, Edmund, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 100. - - Fox, Matthew, i. 130. - - Francatrippa, ii. 263, 325. - - Frederick V, Count and Elector Palatine (Palsgrave), i. 22, 24, - 131, 173; ii. 134, 285; iii. 233, 238, 241, 260, 305, 493; iv. - 73, 127, 128; - his men, ii. 190–2. - - Fremownte, Jane, ii. 492. - - Freshwater, William, merchant tailor, ii. 228, 239. - - Frith, Mary, iii. 296, 313. - - Frith, Richard, dancing-master, ii. 494, 498–9. - - - G - - Gager, William, on plays, i. 251; iv. 245. - - Ganassa, Alberto, ii. 263, 294. - - Gardiner, Stephen, bishop of Winchester, i. 275. - - Gargrave, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 54. - - Garland, Thomas, ii. 465. - - Garnet, Henry, iv. 121. - - Garnier, Robert, iii. 13, 337, 397. - - Garret, Elizabeth, maid of honour, iii. 401. - - Garret, Mr., i. 146. - - Gascoigne, George, on plays, iv. 196. - - Gawdy. _See_ Hatton. - - Genga, Girolamo, iii. 9; iv. 363. - - Gentili, Alberico, iii. 318; - on plays, i. 253; iv. 245. - - Gerard, Elizabeth Lady, iii. 380. - - Gerard, Thomas, 1st Lord, iii. 402. - - Germaine, Sir Thomas, iii. 377. - - Gerrard, William, iii. 235. - - Gerschow, Frederic, ii. 46, 367; iii. 256. - - Gibson, Richard, serjeant of arms, revels, and tents, i. 72; iv. - 135. - - Giles, Thomas, dancer, i. 201–2; iii. 241, 244, 378, 380, 382, 383, - 385. - - Giles, Thomas, haberdasher, i. 79, 86, 164. - - Gill, Daniel, ii. 435. - - Giustinian, Giorgio, Venetian ambassador, i. 25; iii. 380. - - Glemham (b. Sackville), Anne Lady, iv. 113. - - Gonzaga, Louis, Duke of Nevers, ii. 261. - - Goodyere, Sir Henry, iii. 280. - - Gordon, George, 1st Marquis of Huntly, iii. 351. - - Gordon (b. Stuart), Henrietta, Marchioness of Huntly, iii. 351. - - Gordon, Sir Robert, iii. 393. - - Gorges, Sir Arthur, iii. 267; iv. 112. - - Gorges. _See_ Parr. - - Goring, Sir George, iii. 241; iv. 64. - - Gosson, Stephen, on plays, i. 254; iv. 203, 206, 213. - - Gosson, Mrs., tire-woman, ii. 184. - - Goterant, M., iii. 509. - - Gravett, William, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Grazzini, A. F., iii. 352. - - Greene, Robert, on players, iv. 236, 240. - - Grene, Jack, court fool, i. 48. - - Grene, Robert, court fool, i. 48. - - Gresham (b. Ferneley), Anne Lady, iv. 106, 108. - - Gresham, Sir Thomas, i. 20; iv. 81, 82, 83, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, - 268, 277. - - Gresham, William, iii. 402. - - Greville, Sir Fulke, 1st Lord Brooke, secretary for Wales, - treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, i. 144; - iii. 187, 211, 402; iv. 64. - - Grey (b. Blennerhasset), Anne Lady, ii. 485. - - Grey, Anne Lady, iii. 514. - - Grey, Arthur, 14th Lord Grey of Wilton, iii. 320; iv. 84. - - Grey (b. Talbot), Elizabeth, Lady Ruthin, iii. 282. - - Grey, Henry, 6th Earl of Kent, iv. 126. - - Grey, Henry, 1st Lord Grey of Groby, iv. 64, 93, 111. - - Grey, Lord John, iv. 79, 84. - - Griffeth, John, porter of St. John’s gate, i. 93. - - Griggs, John, carpenter, ii. 391, 406. - - Grimald, Nicholas, iii. 31. - - Grimes, Mr., iv. 57. - - Grindal, Edmund, bishop of London, archbishop of Canterbury, i. - 244, 278; ii. 73; iv. 266. - - Groto, Luigi, iii. 208. - - Guaras, Antonio de, Spanish agent, i. 24. - - Guarini, G. Battista, iv. 41. - - Guildford, Sir Henry, comptroller of household, i. 71. - - Guildford (b. Somerset), Elizabeth Lady, iii. 282, 380, 383. - - Guildford, Sir Richard, master of horse, ii. 476. - - - H - - Habington (b. Wykes), Catharine, iii. 401. - - Habington, John, cofferer of household, iv. 92. - - Haddington (title). _See_ Ramsay. - - Hale, Thomas, groom of tents, ii. 499. - - Hales, Robert, lutenist, i. 49; iii. 403. - - Hall, Thomas, musician, ii. 499. - - Hannam, Jack, iii. 365. - - Hardy, Alexandre, iii. 15. - - Harington, Sir James, iv. 83. - - Harington, John, 1st Lord Harington of Exton, iii. 388; iv. 116. - - Harington, Sir John, i. 172; iii. 183, 222, 329, 363, 370, 404, - 498; iv. 48, 319, 374, 377, 398; - on plays, i. 258, 268; iv. 237, 245. - - Harington. _See_ Chichester, Russell. - - Harmon, Edmund, barber, ii. 31. - - Harper, Sir George, ii. 485, 492. - - Harriot, Thomas, iii. 249; iv. 18. - - Harrison, William, on plays, iv. 269. - - Harsnett, Samuel, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Hart, Sir Percival, i. 214, 280; iv. 82, 89, 143. - - Hartwell, Abraham, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Harvey (b. Ansley), Cordelia Lady, maid of honour, iv. 67. - - Harvey, Gabriel, i. 97; ii. 4, 19; iii. 263, 325–6, 358, 363, 412, - 419, 428, 450, 461, 494, 497; iv. 377. - - Harvey, Richard, ii. 109; iii. 325, 450. - - Harvey. _See_ Wriothesley. - - Hassett, Caleb, vaulter, iv. 174. - - Hassett, John, vaulter, iv. 167, 174. - - Hastings (b. Dudley), Catherine, Countess of Huntingdon, iv. 110. - - Hastings, Lady Dorothy, maid of honour, iii. 278, 378; iv. 67. - - Hastings (b. Stanley), Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon, iii. 383, - 434. - - Hastings, George, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, iv. 116. - - Hastings, Henry, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, i. 174; iii. 434; iv. 126, - 129. - - Hastings, Mrs., iv. 67. - - Hastings. _See_ Somerset. - - Hatcher, John, vice-chancellor of Cambridge, ii. 100. - - Hatton, Sir Christopher, K.G., gentleman of privy chamber, - vice-chamberlain, captain of guard, lord chancellor, i. 4, 42, - 47, 109, 110, 112, 199; iii. 457, 468; iv. 60, 103, 104, 105, - 106, 282, 284, 296. - - Hatton, Sir Christopher, K.B., iv. 117, 123, 124, 126. - - Hatton (b. Cecil), Elizabeth Lady, afterwards Lady Coke, i. 200; - iii. 278, 376, 380. - - Hatton (b. Gawdy), Elizabeth Lady, iii. 334. - - Hatton or Newport, Sir William, iii. 334. - - Hawes, Sir James, lord mayor, i. 282; iv. 273, 300. - - Hawley, of Gray’s Inn, iv. 60. - - Hay (b. Denny), Honora Lady, i. 172; iii. 240; iv. 122. - - Hay, James Lord, Viscount Doncaster, 1st Earl of Carlisle, - gentleman of the bedchamber, master of the wardrobe, i. 172, - 200; iii. 240, 242, 246, 280, 377, 378, 382, 393, 394; iv. 122. - - Hayward, Katharine Lady, iv. 108, 110. - - Hayward, Sir Rowland, lord mayor, iv. 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 272, - 277, 305. - - Hayward. _See_ Knyvet. - - Heardson, John, iv. 13. - - Heath, Nicholas, archbishop of York, lord chancellor, i. 243; iv. - 97. - - Heath, Richard, mercer, ii. 184. - - Helmes, Henry, lord of misrule, iv. 56. - - Hemingham, Mary, iv. 112. - - Heneage, Sir Thomas, gentleman of the privy chamber, treasurer of - the chamber, vice-chamberlain, chancellor of the duchy of - Lancaster, i. 4, 42, 64; ii. 113; iv. 84, 94, 100, 134. - - Heneage. _See_ Wriothesley. - - Henri IV, King of France, i. 23, 204, 323, 327; ii. 160; iii. 297; - iv. 329. - - Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, i. 7, 12, 22, 23, 131, 134, 138, - 140, 147, 171, 173, 199, 304; ii. 134, 266; iii. 238, 250, 275, - 282, 305, 382, 385, 387, 393, 507; iv. 58, 72, 117, 124, 125, - 126, 127, 341, 353; - his men, ii. 186–90. - - Henslowe, Philip, groom of chamber, sewer for chamber, i. 46, 47, - 358–68; iii. 288; iv. 312. - - Hentzner, Paul, i. 14; ii. 362, 456; iv. 351–3. - - Herbert (b. Talbot), Catherine, Countess of Pembroke, i. 160; iv. - 91. - - Herbert, Henry, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, president of Wales, i. 160, - 179; ii. 128; iii. 318, 337, 394, 436; iv. 90, 107; - his men, ii. 128–34. - - Herbert, Sir Henry, master of revels, i. 105, 316, 319, 321, 322, - 370; ii. 346; iii. 183, 194, 222, 227. - - Herbert, Sir John, secretary of state, iv. 335. - - Herbert (b. Newport), Magdalen Lady, afterwards Lady Danvers, iii. - 370. - - Herbert (b. Sidney), Mary, Countess of Pembroke, iii. 272, 401, - 404, 492. - - Herbert (b. Talbot), Mary, Countess of Pembroke, iii. 316. - - Herbert, Philip, 1st Earl of Montgomery and 4th Earl of Pembroke, - lord chamberlain, i. 41, 146, 172, 200; iii. 218, 242, 246, - 268, 280, 316, 332, 377, 378, 382, 393, 394, 436; iv. 119. - - Herbert (b. Vere), Susan, Countess of Montgomery, i. 54, 172, 200; - iii. 278, 282, 316, 375, 377, 378, 380, 383; iv. 67, 119. - - Herbert, Thomas, ii. 401. - - Herbert, William, 1st Earl of Pembroke, lord steward, i. 35, 159; - ii. 362; iii. 349, 372, 477; iv. 77, 80, 81, 82. - - Herbert, William, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, lord chamberlain, i. 41, - 45, 53, 146, 200; ii. 308; iii. 246, 280, 316, 377, 382, 394; - iv. 117, 342. - - Herbert. _See_ Talbot. - - Herbert (title). _See_ Somerset. - - Héroard, Jean, ii. 293. - - Heron, Jerome, dancer, i. 201–2; iii. 244, 382, 383, 386. - - Heron, Sir John, treasurer of chamber, i. 58. - - Hertford (title). _See_ Seymour. - - Hesse-Cassel, Maurice Landgrave of, ii. 277; iii. 498. - - Hesse-Cassel, Otto Prince of, ii. 369, 457; iii. 498. - - Heywood, John, ii. 12, 18, 30, 32; iii. 19. - - Heywood, Thomas, on plays, i. 262; iv. 250. - - Hicks, Sir Michael, i. 112; iv. 111, 118. - - Hobart, Sir Henry, attorney-general, iii. 260. - - Hoby, Sir Edward, i. 220; iv. 66, 99, 120, 124, 127, 129. - - Hoby (b. Carey), Margaret Lady, iv. 99. - - Hoby, Sir Thomas, iii. 263. - - Hoby. _See_ Russell. - - Holderness (title). _See_ Ramsay. - - Holland, Aaron, ii. 445. - - Holmes, Mr., i. 318; iv. 271. - - Holst, Duke of, i. 24, 205; iii. 377; iv. 119. - - Holt, John, yeoman of revels, i. 73, 79; ii. 492. - - Home, Alexander, 1st Earl of, iv. 116. - - Home, George, 1st Earl of Dunbar, keeper of privy purse, i. 63. - - Honing, William, clerk comptroller, afterwards clerk, of tents and - revels, i. 95, 99. - - Hooft, Pieter, iv. 36. - - Hopton, Sir Owen, lieutenant of Tower, i. 89; iii. 321; iv. 62. - - Horace, on comedy, i. 238. - - Horley, John, ii. 494. - - Howard (b. Talbot), Alethea, Countess of Arundel, i. 200; iii. 282, - 380, 383. - - Howard (b. St. John), Anne, Lady Howard of Effingham, iii. 375; iv. - 67. - - Howard (b. Knyvet), Catherine, Countess of Suffolk, i. 54, 210; - iii. 278, 375. - - Howard, Charles, 2nd Lord Howard of Effingham, 1st Earl of - Nottingham, lord chamberlain, lord admiral, lord steward, i. - 18, 35, 40, 41, 98, 125; ii. 134, 274, 440, 451; iv. 101, 102, - 112, 113, 115, 312, 315, 335, 336; - his men, ii. 134–86. - - Howard, Sir Charles, iii. 245, 246. - - Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton, lord warden of Cinque Ports, - lord privy seal, i. 103; ii. 210; iii. 367; iv. 342. - - Howard, Sir Henry, iii. 245, 246. - - Howard (b. Carey), Katharine, Countess of Nottingham, mistress of - robes, i. 45; iii. 375, 401. - - Howard, Katherine, iii. 401. - - Howard (b. Stuart), Margaret, Countess of Nottingham, i. 54; iii. - 278. - - Howard, Mary, i. 45. - - Howard, Philip, Earl of Surrey, afterwards 13th Earl of Arundel, i. - 141, 144; ii. 116; iii. 506; iv. 63, 64, 95, 96, 100; - his men, ii. 116. - - Howard, Theophilus, 2nd Lord Howard de Walden, iii. 241, 245, 246, - 378, 382, 394. - - Howard, Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, i. 10, 33, 156; iv. 84, 87. - - Howard, Thomas, 14th Earl of Arundel, i. 53, 147; iii. 316, 378, - 382, 393. - - Howard, Thomas, Lord Howard de Walden, Earl of Suffolk, lord - chamberlain, lord treasurer, i. 10, 40, 103, 200, 209; iii. - 214, 255, 367, 388; iv. 59, 95, 96, 116, 128, 129, 336, 339, - 342. - - Howard, Sir Thomas, iii. 241, 245, 246, 378. - - Howard, William, 1st Lord Howard of Effingham, lord admiral, lord - chamberlain, lord privy seal, i. 40, 110. - - Howard, William, iii. 212. - - Howard. _See_ Brooke, Cecil, Devereux, Fitzgerald, Knollys, - Seymour, Southwell. - - Humfrey, Laurence, vice-chancellor of Oxford, iii. 401. - - Hunsdon (title). _See_ Carey. - - Huntingdon (title). _See_ Hastings. - - Huntley (title). _See_ Gordon. - - Hussey. _See_ Russell. - - Hutchinson, William, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Hutten, Leonard, iv. 374. - - Hyde, John, ii. 389. - - Hyde, Lucy, gentlewoman of the bedchamber, iv. 67. - - Hynde, John, iii. 383. - - - I - - Ibotson, Richard, ii. 383. - - Il Bianchino, iii. 5. - - Inghirami, Tommaso, iii. 3. - - Ipolyta, the Tartarian, i. 48. - - Isam, Mrs., iii. 326. - - Isley. _See_ Mason. - - - J - - Jaggard, William, stationer, iii. 479–80. - - James, King, i. 7, 13, 21, 23, 122, 125, 146, 167, 215, 264, 341; - ii. 7, 111, 265, 275; iii. 255, 257, 372, 392; iv. 104; - references to, in plays, i. 323, 325; iv. 28, 35; - his men, ii. 208–20. - - James, Walter, iii. 389. - - Jarret, Sir Thomas, iii. 241. - - Jeffes, Abel, stationer, iii. 395. - - Jerningham, Sir Henry, ii. 478, 493. - - Jerningham (b. Baynham), Mary, Lady, iv. 95. - - Jerningham. _See_ Kingston. - - Jodelle, Étienne, iii. 13. - - Johnson, Peter, ii. 504. - - Johnson, Robert, musician, i. 202; iii. 244, 262, 385, 387. - - Joinville, Prince de, i. 24; ii. 454; iii. 392; iv. 122. - - Jones, Inigo, i. 7, 17, 130, 171, 178–80, 233, 234; iii. 242, 250, - 262, 282, 354, 373, 375, 378, 382, 383, 386, 387. - - Jonson, Benjamin, on Puritans, i. 262; - on plays, iv. 247, 248. - - Joyner, William, fencer, ii. 499. - - - K - - Katherens, Gilbert, carpenter, ii. 465. - - Kellefet, Richard, groom of wardrobe of beds, iv. 99, 100, 108. - - Kelly (title). _See_ Erskine. - - Kelway, Thomas, iv. 64. - - Kennedy (b. Brydges), Elizabeth Lady, i. 45; iv. 67. - - Kennedy, Sir John, iii. 382. - - Kent (title). _See_ Grey. - - Ker (b. Drummond), Jean, Lady Roxborough, i. 174; iii. 277; iv. - 129. - - Ker, Robert, Lord Roxborough, i. 174; iii. 277; iv. 129. - - Keyes, Thomas, ii. 464. - - Kiddermister, Mrs., iv. 67. - - Kiechel, Samuel, ii. 358. - - Kildare (title). _See_ Fitzgerald. - - Killigrew, Sir William, groom of privy chamber, acting treasurer of - chamber, i. 65; iv. 113, 114, 117, 134. - - Kingston, Felix, stationer, iii. 163. - - Kingston (b. Scrope), Mary Lady, formerly Lady Jerningham, ii. 485, - 501. - - Kingston, Sir William, comptroller of household, ii. 476. - - Kirkham, Edward, yeoman of revels, i. 96, 99. - - Knasborough, James, ii. 424. - - Knollys or Knowles (b. Howard), Elizabeth Lady, iii. 278, 375, 378. - - Knollys, Sir Francis, vice-chamberlain, treasurer of the chamber, - treasurer of the household, i. 35, 42, 64, 161; iv. 90, 93, - 134, 282, 296. - - Knollys, Francis, iii. 212; iv. 64. - - Knollys, Henry, i. 161; ii. 486; iv. 64, 82. - - Knollys (b. Cave), Margaret, i. 161; iii. 401; iv. 82. - - Knollys, Robert, iii. 212, 402; iv. 64. - - Knollys, Sir Thomas, iii. 402. - - Knollys, William, 1st Lord Knollys, afterwards Earl of Banbury, - comptroller and treasurer of the household, i. 35, 174; iii. - 212, 244, 402; iv. 64, 114, 115, 128, 335, 336. - - Knollys. _See_ Brydges, Devereux, Paget. - - Knowles, John, ii. 429, 432. - - Knyvet or Knevet, Lady, iv. 67. - - Knyvet, Thomas Lord, gentleman of privy chamber, keeper of - Whitehall, i. 102; iii. 283; iv. 111. - - Knyvet. _See_ Bevill, Howard. - - - L - - La Boderie, Antoine de, French ambassador, i. 24, 204; ii. 53; iii. - 257, 380, 382, 384. - - Lacy, John, i. 20; iv. 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, - 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116. - - Lake, Sir Thomas, clerk of signet, i. 22; ii. 53, 69. - - Lambarde, William, ii. 206, 358; iii. 162. - - Lambe, Sir John, dean of arches, iii. 163. - - Lambert, John, iv. 57. - - La Mothe-Fénelon, Bertrand de, French ambassador, i. 24. - - Lane, Sir Robert, ii. 96; iv. 84; - his men, ii. 96. - - Laneham, Robert, keeper of council chamber door, i. 69; ii. 328; - iv. 403. - - Langley, Francis, i. 368; ii. 131–3, 411–12; iv. 316. - - Langworth, Arthur, ii. 451. - - Lanier, Nicholas, musician, i. 201; iii. 246. - - Latewar, Richard, iii. 275, 318. - - Laud, William, president of St. John’s, Oxford, archbishop of - Canterbury, iv. 373. - - Leath, Nicolas, iii. 503. - - Lee (b. Paget), Anne Lady, iii. 399. - - Lee, Sir Henry, K.G., master of the armoury, i. 18, 42, 141, 145–6; - iv. 64, 92, 107, 117. - - Lee, Sir Henry, baronet, iii. 400. - - Lee, Sir John, iii. 377. - - Leek, Sir Francis, i. 270. - - Lees, Richard, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 73, 79. - - Leicester (title). _See_ Dudley, Sidney. - - Lennox (title). _See_ Stuart. - - Lewknor, Sir Lewis, master of ceremonies, i. 53; iii. 377. - - Lily, William, ii. 8, 16, 18. - - Limbert, Stephen, master of Norwich grammar school, iv. 63. - - Lincoln (title). _See_ Clinton. - - Lisle (title). _See_ Sidney. - - Lodge, Thomas, on plays, i. 256; iv. 206, 226. - - Long, Sir Richard, master of Paris Garden, ii. 450. - - L’Orme, Philibert de, iii. 14. - - Lorraine, François de, i. 159. - - Louis XIV, King of France, ii. 298. - - Lovell, Gregory, cofferer of the household, iv. 90, 104. - - Lovell, Sir Thomas, treasurer of chamber, i. 58. - - Lucy, Sir Thomas, iv. 83, 88. - - Lumley, John Lord, i. 11; iii. 411; iv. 100, 116. - - Lupo, Thomas, musician, i. 202; iii. 241, 244, 385, 387. - - Luther, Martin, on plays, i. 241. - - Lygon, Roger, ii. 486. - - Lyly, John, on plays, iv. 232. - - Lyly, Peter, corrector of books, iii. 168, 413. - - Lyzarde, William, painter, i. 230. - - - M - - Mabbe, James, iv. 399. - - Macrobius, i. 377. - - Madox, Richard, i. 371; iii. 321. - - Mahelot, Laurent, iii. 16. - - Malim, William, master of Eton, ii. 74. - - Malthouse, John, ii. 464. - - Manners, Edward, 3rd Earl of Rutland, ii. 385, 401. - - Manners (b. Sidney), Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, i. 211; iii. - 212, 354, 378. - - Manners, Francis, 6th Earl of Rutland, i. 148; iii. 246, 394; iv. - 126, 129. - - Manners, Roger, 5th Earl of Rutland, i. 220; iv. 116. - - Manners. _See_ Russell, Sandys, Tyrwhitt. - - Mantegna, Andrea, iii. 5. - - Manwood, Sir Roger, chief baron of exchequer, iv. 89, 98. - - Mar (title). _See_ Erskine. - - Marchand, Guillaume, iii. 15. - - Markham, Gervase, i. 121. - - Marprelate, Martin, on plays, iv. 229–33. - - Marsigli, Bernardino, iii. 5. - - Marsigli, Fino, iii. 5. - - Martial, i. 377. - - Martin, Sir Richard, lord mayor, iv. 101, 103, 105, 305, 309, 314, - 315, 316. - - Martin, Richard, lawyer, i. 169; iii. 262, 365. - - Mary, Queen of Scots, i. 23, 159. - - Mason, Alexander, marshal of minstrels, iv. 33. - - Mason (b. Isley), Elizabeth Lady, iv. 85. - - Mason, Sir John, treasurer of chamber, i. 62; iii. 477; iv. 78, - 134. - - Mason, John, yeoman of crown, ii. 12. - - Mason, Mathias, lute of privy chamber, i. 49. - - Matthew, Sir Toby, iii. 212. - - Maxwell, Mr., iv. 60. - - Maynard, Sir Henry, i. 112. - - Meade, Jacob, keeper of bears, ii. 452, 465. - - Meautys, Hercules, iv. 64. - - Medici, Catherine de, i. 176; iii. 12–13. - - Medwall, Henry, ii. 79. - - Melanchthon, Philip, i. 239. - - Mendoza, Bernardino de, Spanish ambassador, i. 24. - - Meres, Francis, on plays, iv. 246. - - Meriton, George, iii. 212; iv. 375. - - Merry, Edward, ii. 504. - - Meyrick, Sir Gilly, i. 220; ii. 205. - - Middlemore, Henry, groom of privy chamber, iv. 102. - - Middlemore, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 54. - - Middleton, Christopher, iv. 399. - - Miklowe, John, treasurer of chamber, i. 59. - - Mildmay, Sir Anthony, iv. 116, 120, 124, 126, 129. - - Mildmay (b. Radcliffe), Frances Lady, i. 162; iii. 468; iv. 83. - - Mildmay, Sir Thomas, i. 162; iii. 468; iv. 83. - - Mildmay, Sir Walter, chancellor of exchequer, i. 76; iv. 83. - - Miles, Ralph, ii. 390. - - Miles, Robert, ii. 387–92. - - Millet, William, ii. 426. - - Moldavia, Prince of, iii. 371. - - Molin, Nicolo, Venetian ambassador, i. 25; iii. 377. - - Molineux, Mr., iv. 57. - - Mompelgard, Count, iii. 452. - - Monarcho, an Italian, i. 48. - - Monmouth (title). _See_ Carey. - - Monox, William, iii. 326. - - Monson, Sir Thomas, iii. 240. - - Montague (title). _See_ Browne. - - Monteagle (title). _See_ Parker. - - Montgomery (title). _See_ Herbert. - - Montmorency, François, Duc de, French ambassador, i. 15, 80, 144, - 157, 162. - - Moore, Edward, iv. 64. - - Mordaunt, Henry, 4th Lord, iv. 120. - - More, Christopher, clerk of exchequer, ii. 476. - - More, Sir George, ii. 486, 503, 506; iv. 114, 117. - - More, Sir William, i. 74, 95, 109; ii. 476–506; iv. 84, 93, 100, - 106. - - More. _See_ Wolley. - - Morgan, Meredith, iii. 387, 391. - - Morice, Ralph, ii. 460. - - Morison. _See_ Radcliffe. - - Morley, Thomas, musician, corrector of books, iii. 168, 212. - - Morley (title). _See_ Parker. - - Morrell, Roger, iv. 375. - - Moseley, Humphrey, iii. 183; iv. 398. - - Mountaine, George, iii. 212; iv. 375. - - Mountford, Thomas, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Mountfort, Thomas, clerk to Stationers, iii. 165. - - Mountjoy (title). _See_ Blount. - - Munday, Anthony, on plays, i. 254; iv. 208. - - Muretus, iii. 12. - - Murgatroyd, Michael, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Murray, Sir James, iii. 254. - - - N - - Najera, Duke of, ii. 454. - - Nannoccio, Andrea, iii. 13. - - Napton, John, ii. 451. - - Nashe, Thomas, on plays, i. 260; iv. 234, 238. - - Necton, William, surveyor of works, i. 95. - - Needham, John, iii. 212, 402. - - Nevers, Duc de, i. 6, 23, 170; iv. 15. - - Neville, Henry, 3rd Lord Abergavenny, ii. 92; iv. 89; - his men, ii. 92. - - Neville, Sir Henry, ii. 493. - - Neville, Lady Mary, iii. 380. - - Neville, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 169; iv. 67. - - Newcastle (title). _See_ Cavendish. - - Newdigate, Nicholas, i. 87, 165–6. - - Newman, John, ii. 496. - - Newport. _See_ Hatton, Herbert. - - Newton, Katharine Lady, iv. 67. - - Nicoll, Basil, ii. 335, 418, 425. - - Nicoll, William, ii. 390. - - Nidd, Gervas, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Nigri, Francesco, de Bassano, iii. 263. - - Niklaes, Henrick, iv. 31. - - Noel, Henry, iii. 212, 402; iv. 64. - - Norfolk (title). _See_ Howard. - - Norris, Sir Edward, iv. 114, 125. - - Norris, Francis, 2nd Lord, afterwards Earl of Berkshire, iii. 394; - iv. 127, 129. - - Norris, Henry, 1st Lord, i. 112; iv. 66, 83, 85, 86, 92, 107. - - Norris (b. Williams), Marjorie Lady, i. 112. - - North, Dudley, 3rd Lord, iii. 245, 246, 394. - - North, Edward, 1st Lord, i. 10; iv. 77, 79. - - North, Sir John, ii. 500. - - North, Roger, 2nd Lord, treasurer of household, i. 35; ii. 113; iv. - 95. - - Northampton (title). _See_ Howard, Parr. - - Northbrooke, John, i. 253; - on plays, iv. 198. - - Northumberland (title). _See_ Percy. - - Norton, Thomas, city remembrancer, on plays, i. 265, 282; iv. 273. - - Nottingham (title). _See_ Howard. - - Nowell, Alexander, dean of St. Paul’s, ii. 16, 70. - - - O - - Offley, Hugh, i. 139; iv. 102. - - Ogle, wigmaker, ii. 184; iv. 33. - - Oldcastle, Sir John, i. 324. - - Overbury, Sir Thomas, iv. 257. - - Oxford (title). _See_ Vere. - - - P - - Page, William, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 100. - - Paget (b. Knollys), Lettice Lady, iv. 67. - - Paget, Thomas, 3rd Lord, iv. 91. - - Paget, William, 1st Lord, secretary of state, i. 275; iii. 399. - - Paget. _See_ Lee. - - Pakenham, Edmund, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 96, - 100. - - Palladio, Andrea, iii. 11. - - Palmer, Mr., dancer, iv. 115. - - Parker, Edward, 10th Lord Morley, his men, ii. 113, 120, 124, 192. - - Parker, Henry, 9th Lord Morley, iv. 79, 87, 93. - - Parker (b. Harlestone), Margaret, i. 114. - - Parker, Matthew, archbishop of Canterbury, i. 110, 114, 117; iv. - 77, 78, 83, 89, 90, 265. - - Parker, William, 4th Lord Monteagle, ii. 205. - - Parr (b. Brooke), Elizabeth, Marchioness of Northampton, iv. 81. - - Parr (b. Suavenberg), Helena, Marchioness of Northampton, - afterwards wife of Sir Thomas Gorges, iv. 86. - - Parr, William, Marquis of Northampton, ii. 476; iii. 263; iv. 86. - - Parry (b. Reade), Blanche Lady, lady of privy chamber, i. 45; iii. - 401. - - Parry, Sir Thomas, comptroller and treasurer of household, i. 35. - - Parsons, Philip, iv. 373. - - Parsons, Robert, ii. 63. - - Parys, Robert de, ii. 459. - - Pasfield, Zacharias, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Pasqualigo, Luigi, iv. 14. - - Paulet, John, Lord St. John, 2nd Marquis of Winchester, iv. 85, 90. - - Paulet, John, 4th Marquis of Winchester, i. 117; iv. 114, 117, 122, - 123, 126, 128, 130. - - Paulet, William, 1st Marquis of Winchester, lord treasurer, i. 79; - iv. 78, 85. - - Paulet, William, 3rd Marquis of Winchester, ii. 91; iv. 106. - - Pavier, Thomas, stationer, iii. 479. - - Paylor, Mr., iv. 57. - - Payne, Anthony, ii. 446. - - Payne, Joan, ii. 464. - - Payne, William, ii. 451, 462–4. - - Peake, Robert, serjeant printer, iv. 353. - - Peck, Mr., of Norwich, iv. 63. - - Peckham, Sir George, ii. 385; iv. 86. - - Pellegrino da Udine, iii. 9. - - Pembroke (title). _See_ Herbert. - - Percy, Sir Charles, ii. 205. - - Percy (b. Devereux), Dorothy, Countess of Northumberland, i. 220; - iii. 375. - - Percy, Henry, 8th Earl of Northumberland, i. 110; iv. 100. - - Percy, Henry, 9th Earl of Northumberland, iii. 367. - - Percy, Sir Josceline, ii. 205. - - Perrot, Sir Thomas, i. 144; iv. 64. - - Peruzzi, Baldassare, iii. 9. - - Petre (b. Browne), Anne Lady, iv. 96. - - Petre, John, 1st Lord, iv. 93. - - Petre (b. Somerset), Katharine Lady, iii. 282, 380. - - Petre (b. Waldegrave), Mary Lady iii. 514. - - Petre, Sir William, iii. 160; iv. 79. - - Pett, Phineas, iii. 234. - - Phelips, Sir Edward, master of the rolls, iii. 260; iv. 126. - - Philip II, King of Spain, i. 243, 323. - - Philipps, Thomas, clerk of tents and revels, i. 73; ii. 492. - - Pickering, Sir William, i. 4, 42. - - Pickleherring, Robert, ii. 285. - - Pinck, ii. 299. - - Platter, Thomas, ii. 364, 456. - - Plautus, i. 127, 222, 238–40; iii. 2, 19; iv. 186, 187, 188, 190, - 191, 201, 256. - - Plutarch, on poetry, i. 238. - - Pod, puppet-showman, ii. 319. - - Pole, Henry, ii. 499. - - Pole, Margaret, formerly Cheyne, ii. 499. - - Pomponius Laetus, iii. 3. - - Pope, Morgan, ii. 410, 450–1, 463–4. - - Popham, Sir John, chief justice of queen’s bench, ii. 205; iv. 108. - - Porta, Giambattista, iii. 476, 499. - - Porter, Henry, lutenist and sackbut, i. 49. - - Portinari, Sir John, ii. 477, 490, 500–3. - - Portington, William, master carpenter of works, i. 180; iii. 380. - - Poupin, Abel, i. 247. - - Powlter, Simon, yeoman of bears, ii. 450–1. - - Pratt, Mr., iv. 375. - - Prescot, Richard, porter of St. John’s gate, i. 100. - - Preston, Richard, 1st Lord Dingwall, i. 146; iii. 241, 280, 377, - 393, 394. - - Pricket, Robert, i. 307. - - Proby, Peter, i. 65. - - Prynne, William, i. 253, 263, 306, 387; ii. 374, 423. - - Puckering, Sir John, lord keeper of the seal, i. 125; iv. 110, 315. - - Puttenham, George, iii. 470; iv. 90. - - Puttenham, Richard, on plays, i. 258; iv. 233. - - - Q - - Quadra, Alvarez de, bishop of Aquila, Spanish ambassador, i. 10, 24. - - - R - - Radcliffe (b. Morison), Bridget, Countess of Sussex, iii. 397. - - Radcliffe, Henry, 4th Earl of Sussex, ii. 92; iii. 394, 468; - his men, ii. 94. - - Radcliffe (b. Pound), Honora, Countess of Sussex, ii. 92; - her men, ii. 94. - - Radcliffe, Robert, 5th Earl of Sussex, i. 46, 146; ii. 92; iii. - 212, 213; iv. 106; - his men, ii. 94–6. - - Radcliffe, Sir S., iii. 262. - - Radcliffe, Thomas, 3rd Earl of Sussex, lord chamberlain, i. 40, 88, - 110, 141; ii. 92, 342; iv. 79, 96, 98, 271, 276, 282, 284, 288; - his men, ii. 92–3. - - Radcliffe. _See_ Mildmay, Ramsay. - - Radford, tailor, ii. 184. - - Rainolds, John, president of Corpus, Oxford, i. 129; iii. 318; - on plays, i. 250; iv. 185, 213, 245. - - Raleigh (b. Throgmorton), Elizabeth Lady, i. 45, 220. - - Raleigh, Sir Walter, captain of the guard, i. 4, 10, 42, 45, 47, - 220, 324; ii. 196, 204, 342, 456, 500; iii. 31, 267, 354, 363, - 419. - - Raleigh, Walter (the younger), ii. 323, 354. - - Ramsay (b. Radcliffe), Elizabeth, Viscountess Haddington, i. 173; - ii. 300; iii. 282, 381; iv. 123. - - Ramsay, John, Viscount Haddington, afterwards Earl of Holderness, - i. 173; ii. 300; iii. 381; iv. 123. - - Rankins, William, on plays, i. 260; iv. 227. - - Raphael, iii. 9. - - Rastell, John, ii. 30, 80. - - Ratcliffe, Mary, lady of the privy chamber, i. 45, 108; iv. 67. - - Ratcliffe, Thomas, iv. 64. - - Ratcliffe, Mr., iii. 212. - - Ratsey, Gamaliel, i. 310, 340, 350, 353. - - Rawlidge, Richard, i. 298; ii. 359. - - Redman, William, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Retz, Marshal de, i. 165. - - Reynolds, Edward, iii. 212. - - Reynolds, Henry, iii. 384. - - Rhenanus, Johannes, i. 344; iii. 498. - - Riario, Raffaelle, iii. 3. - - Rich, Sir Henry, iii. 243, 245. - - Rich (b. Cope), Isabel Lady, iii. 243. - - Rich (b. Devereux), Penelope Lady, i. 54, 220; iii. 278, 375, 492. - - Rich, Richard, 1st Lord, ii. 91; iv. 79; - his men, ii. 91. - - Rich, Robert, 2nd Lord, ii. 91; - his men, ii. 92. - - Rich, Sir Robert, i. 220; iii. 382. - - Richard, Duke of Gloucester, ii. 77. - - Rippon, Roger, i. 285. - - Ritwise, John, ii. 11. - - Roberts, James, stationer, iii. 188. - - Roche, David, 5th Lord Roche of Fermoy, ii. 92. - - Rochester (title). _See_ Carr. - - Roe, Sir John, i. 205; iii. 279. - - Rogers, Sir Edward, vice-chamberlain, comptroller of household, i. - 35, 41. - - Rollinson, Francis, iv. 378. - - Rookwood, Edward, i. 114; iv. 95. - - Roper, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 54. - - Rossello, Pietro, iii. 4. - - Rous, Sir Anthony, treasurer of chamber, i. 59. - - Rovere, Francesco Maria della, Duca d’Urbino, iii. 9; iv. 363. - - Rovere, Guidobaldo della, Duca d’Urbino, iii. 9. - - Rowe, John, iv. 36. - - Roxborough (title). _See_ Ker. - - Rubidge, Rowland, musician, i. 202; iii. 385. - - Russell (b. Hussey), Bridget, Countess of Bedford, formerly - Countess of Rutland, iv. 107. - - Russell, Edward, 3rd Earl of Bedford, iii. 212. - - Russell, Elizabeth, lady of privy chamber, i. 45. - - Russell (b. Cooke), Elizabeth Lady, formerly Lady Hoby, i. 169; ii. - 479, 508; iv. 66, 85, 107, 113, 320. - - Russell, Francis, 2nd Earl of Bedford, i. 110; iii. 478; iv. 86, - 88, 282, 296. - - Russell (b. Harington), Lucy, Countess of Bedford, i. 54, 171, 200, - 220; iii. 273, 278, 306, 354, 375, 378, 380, 383, 389, 399. - - Russell, William, 1st Lord Russell of Thornhaugh, lord deputy of - Ireland, iv. 115. - - Russell. _See_ Clifford, Dudley, Somerset. - - Ruthin (title). _See_ Grey. - - Rutland (title). _See_ Manners. - - - S - - Sackford, Sir Henry, master of tents, keeper of privy purse, i. 63, - 74, 76, 80, 83; ii. 497. - - Sackford, Thomas, master of requests, i. 89; iv. 298. - - Sackville (b. Clifford), Anne, Countess of Dorset, afterwards of - Pembroke and Montgomery, i. 200; iii. 268, 273, 282, 380, 383, - 399; iv. 67. - - Sackville, Lady Anne, iii. 378. - - Sackville, Edward, 4th Earl of Dorset, iii. 246, 248; iv. 181. - - Sackville, Henry, iii. 398. - - Sackville, Sir Richard, under treasurer, i. 76, 161; iv. 81. - - Sackville, Richard, 3rd Earl of Dorset, iii. 245, 246, 268, 394. - - Sackville, Robert, Lord Buckhurst, ii. 65, 516. - - Sackville, Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, 1st Earl of Dorset, lord - treasurer, i. 110, 161; ii. 261; iii. 318, 398; iv. 315, 335, - 375. - - Sackville, Thomas, iii. 398. - - Sackville, Sir William, iii. 398. - - Sackville. _See_ Glemham. - - Sadler, Edmund, iii. 391. - - Sadler, Sir Ralph, iv. 79, 95. - - Saint-Gelais, Mellin de, iii. 13. - - St. John, Oliver, 1st Lord St. John of Bletsoe, iv. 83. - - St. John, Oliver, 3rd Lord St. John of Bletsoe, iv. 118, 120, 123, - 124, 126. - - St. John. _See_ Howard. - - St. John (title). _See_ Paulet. - - Salisbury (title). _See_ Cecil. - - Salterne, George, iv. 379. - - Salvian, i. 254. - - Sandys (b. Manners), Elizabeth Lady, iv. 85. - - Sandys, William, 3rd Lord, iv. 85, 90, 106. - - Sanford, Henry, iii. 279. - - Sanquhar (title). _See_ Crichton. - - Sarmiento de Acuña, Diego, Conde de Gondomar, i. 25; iii. 230. - - Saunders, Sir Nicholas, ii. 474, 486. - - Saunders, Sir Thomas, ii. 474, 478, 486. - - Saunders, Lady, ii. 474. - - Sawnders, Ninian, ii. 474. - - Scamozzi, Vincenzo, iii. 11. - - Scaramelli, Giovanni, Venetian secretary of embassy, i. 25. - - Schonaeus, Cornelius, iv. 24. - - Scrope, Emmanuel, 11th Lord, iii. 394. - - Scrope, Henry, 9th Lord, warden of west marches, ii, 266. - - Scrope (b. Carey), Philadelphia Lady, iv. 67. - - Scrope. _See_ Kingston. - - Scudamore, Sir John, gentleman usher of the chamber, iii. 212. - - Scudamore, Mary Lady, i. 108; iii. 401; iv. 67. - - Segar, Sir William, Garter king of arms, i. 319; iii. 170, 439. - - Segna, Nicoletto, iii. 5. - - Selden, John, iii. 254; - on plays, iv. 258. - - Sellers, William, ii. 432. - - Selman, John, cut-purse, iii. 387. - - Serlio, Sebastiano, iii. 10, 12, 153; iv. 353–65. - - Servi, Constantine de’, i. 173, 180; iii. 246. - - Seton, Robert, 1st Earl of Wintoun, iv. 116. - - Seymour (b. Stanhope), Anne, Duchess of Somerset, iv. 94. - - Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford, i. 10, 123; ii. 116; iv. 66, - 106; - his men, ii. 116. - - Seymour (b. Howard), Frances, Countess of Hertford, i. 54; ii. 278, - 375, 401. - - Seymour, Lord Henry, ii. 500–2. - - Seymour, Jane, queen consort, ii. 80. - - Shakespeare, Edmund, iv. 55. - - Shakespeare, William, i. 349–50, 370, 381–2; ii. 90, 91, 95, 129, - 199, 269, 272, 309, 340, 346, 361, 417–25, 474, 496, 541; iii. - 331, 460, 495, 513; iv. 33, 40. - - Sheffield, Edmund, 3rd Lord, ii. 299. - - Shelton, Thomas, translator, iii. 221. - - Shelton. _See_ Walsingham. - - Shenton, William, court fool, i. 48. - - Sherley (Shirley) family, iii. 286. - - Shirley, James, iii. 259. - - Shrewsbury (title). _See_ Talbot. - - Sidney, Sir Henry, iii. 337; iv. 282. - - Sidney, Sir Philip, i. 144; ii. 90, 343; iii. 40, 211, 316, 317, - 318, 330, 337; iv. 64, 203, 206; - on plays, i. 257; iv. 226. - - Sidney, Sir Robert, Viscount Lisle, afterwards Earl of Leicester, - i. 53, 121, 322; ii. 237; iv. 113. - - Sidney, Sir Thomas, iii. 402. - - Sidney. _See_ Herbert, Manners, Wroth. - - Silva, Diego de, Spanish ambassador, i. 24. - - Simier, M. de, i. 166; iv. 96. - - Skipwith, Sir Richard, iv. 64. - - Skipwith, Sir William, iii. 222. - - Slawata, Gulielmus, iv. 352. - - Smallpiece, Thomas, ii. 497. - - Smith, John, of Christ’s, i. 250. - - Smith, Sir Thomas, secretary, iii. 160; iv. 82. - - Smith, Sir Thomas, clerk of privy council, master of requests, iv. - 331. - - Smith, William, ii. 399. - - Smythe, John, iii. 409. - - Soldino, ii. 263. - - Somerset (b. Russell), Anne, Lady Herbert, i. 6, 169, 220; iii. - 375; iv. 29, 113. - - Somerset, Lady Blanch, iii. 378. - - Somerset, Edward, Lord Herbert of Chepstow, 4th Earl of Worcester, - master of the horse, lord privy seal, i. 34, 200, 209; ii. 220; - iv. 87, 250, 335, 336; - his men, ii. 225–9. - - Somerset (b. Hastings), Elizabeth, Countess of Worcester, i. 54; - iv. 67, 87. - - Somerset, Henry, Lord Herbert of Chepstow, afterwards 5th Earl and - 1st Marquis of Worcester, i. 169; iv. 113. - - Somerset, Sir Thomas, iii. 280, 378, 393. - - Somerset, William, 3rd Earl of Worcester, ii. 220; - his men, ii. 220. - - Somerset. _See_ Guildford, Petre, Windsor, Winter. - - Somerset (title). _See_ Carr. - - Sophia, Princess, iv. 121. - - Sotherton, John, baron of exchequer, i. 92. - - Southampton (title). _See_ Wriothesley. - - Southwell (b. Howard), Elizabeth Lady, i. 54; iv. 67, 99. - - Southwell, Elizabeth, i. 45. - - Southwell, Sir Robert, iv. 95, 99. - - Spark, Thomas, on plays, iv. 184, 208. - - Sparo, Mother, i. 87. - - Spencer, Sir John, iii. 500. - - Spencer, John, iii. 391. - - Spencer, Robert, 1st Lord, ii. 283; iii. 391. - - Spencer, Sir William, iv. 107. - - Spencer. _See_ Stanley. - - Spenser, Edmund, iii. 207, 328, 412; iv. 27. - - Spes, Guerau de, Spanish ambassador, i. 24. - - Stafford, Alexander, clerk comptroller of tents and revels, i. 100. - - Stafford (b. Stafford), Dorothy Lady, mistress of Robes, i. 45. - - Stafford, Edward, 3rd Lord, iii. 272; iv. 92. - - Stafford, Sir Edward, iii. 272. - - Stallard, Thomas, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Stanhope, John, 1st Lord Stanhope of Harrington, treasurer of - chamber, vice-chamberlain, i. 42, 64; iv. 134, 335, 336, 342. - - Stanhope. _See_ Seymour. - - Stanley (b. Spencer), Alice, Countess of Derby, i. 174; iii. 434; - iv. 67, 112. - - Stanley (b. Vere), Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, i. 54, 168, 200; - ii. 118, 127, 194, 301; iii. 278, 282, 375, 380, 383; iv. 67, - 109. - - Stanley, Ferdinando, Lord Strange, 5th Earl of Derby, ii. 118; iii. - 394, 402, 450; - his men, ii. 118–26. - - Stanley, Henry, Lord Strange, 4th Earl of Derby, lord steward, i. - 35; ii. 118; iv. 311; - his men, ii. 118. - - Stanley (b. Clifford), Margaret, Countess of Derby, iii. 401; iv. - 94. - - Stanley, William, 6th Earl of Derby, i. 168; ii. 117, 118, 194; iv. - 109; - his men, ii. 126. - - Stanley. _See_ Hastings. - - Stephens, John, iv. 255. - - Stettin-Pomerania, Philip Julius, Duke of, ii. 46, 367, 456; iii. - 256. - - Stocket, Lewis, surveyor of works, i. 80. - - Stockfisch, Hans, ii. 291. - - Stockwood, John, on plays, i. 254; iv. 199. - - Stone, Philip, ii. 445. - - Stone, Sir William, mercer, ii. 184; iii. 369. - - Stone the fool, iii. 369. - - Strange (title). _See_ Stanley. - - Strangwidge, Mrs., iv. 67. - - Street, Peter, carpenter, ii. 399, 415, 436, 465. - - Stuart, Lady Arabella, i. 54, 199, 212, 325, 327; ii. 59; iii. 282, - 370, 380. - - Stuart, Esmé, Lord Aubigny, i. 102; iii. 255, 280, 367, 382. - - Stuart, Sir Francis, iii. 370. - - Stuart, Ludovick, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Duke of Richmond, gentleman - of bedchamber, lord steward, i. 35, 146, 171; ii. 241; iii. - 246, 258, 280, 316, 382, 393; - his men, ii. 241. - - Stuart, Sir William, master of Paris Garden, ii. 452, 465. - - Stuart. _See_ Gordon, Howard. - - Stubbes, Phillip, on plays, i. 253; iv. 221. - - Stukeley, Thomas, i. 138. - - Sturm, John, i. 239. - - Stymmelius, Christopherus, iii. 351. - - Suavenberg or Snachenberg. _See_ Parr. - - Suffolk (title). _See_ Bertie, Howard. - - Surrey (title). _See_ Howard. - - Sussex (title). _See_ Radcliffe. - - Sutton, Thomas, founder of Charterhouse, iii. 369. - - Sutton, Thomas, preacher, i. 263; iv. 259. - - Swallow, John, ghost-name, iii. 495. - - Swego, Mrs., tire-woman, i. 163. - - Swetkowyz, Adam, imperial ambassador, iv. 82. - - Sylvester, William, carpenter, ii. 379. - - Symonds, Thomasine, ii. 405. - - - T - - Tabarin, Giovanni, ii. 262. - - Talbot (b. Herbert), Anne Lady, i. 160. - - Talbot, Edward, i. 325. - - Talbot, Francis, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, president of the north, - i. 277; iv. 264. - - Talbot, Francis Lord, i. 160. - - Talbot, Gilbert, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, i. 46; iii. 213; iv. 102, - 111, 113, 116, 336. - - Talbot, corrector of books, iii. 165. - - Talbot. _See_ Grey, Herbert, Howard. - - Tamworth, John, groom of privy chamber, keeper of privy purse, - i. 62. - - Tanfield, Sir Lawrence, chief baron of exchequer, iv. 107. - - Tasso, Torquato, iii. 317. - - Taverner, Mr., iii. 170. - - Taxis, Juan de, Spanish ambassador, i. 25, 26, 204; iii. 281, 376. - - Taylor, John, waterman, ii. 127, 191, 370, 459, 468; iv. 16. - - Taylor, John, witness, ii. 462. - - Terence, i. 237–40; iii. 2, 6, 15; iv. 184, 186, 187, 188, 190, - 191, 196, 201, 217. - - Tevery, Jarvis, iv. 57. - - Textor, J. Ravisius, iii. 351. - - Theobald, Lewis, iii. 490. - - Thomasina, court dwarf, i. 48. - - Thornton, Thomas, i. 251; iv. 245. - - Thrale, Hester, afterwards Piozzi, ii. 428. - - Throgmorton, Arthur, i. 168. - - Throgmorton, Sir Nicholas, i. 244. - - Throgmorton. _See_ Raleigh. - - Thynne, Sir John, iv. 90. - - Thynne, Mrs., iv. 67. - - Tice, John, ii. 503, 506. - - Tilney, Edmund, master of revels, i. 88, 93, 96, 318, 321; iii. - 170; iv. 32, 106, 285, 293, 305, 306, 308, 309. - - Tiptoft, John, Earl of Worcester, ii. 293. - - Topcliffe, Richard, i. 114; iii. 444, 455; iv. 323. - - Topping, Richard, tailor, iii. 410. - - Travers, John, serjeant of tents, i. 73. - - Treheren, Mr., ii. 175. - - Trentham. _See_ Vere. - - Tresham, William, iv. 64. - - Tripp, Henry, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Tuke, Sir Brian, treasurer of chamber, i. 59; iv. 133. - - Turenne, Viscount, iii. 403; iv. 105. - - Turner, fencer, ii. 413. - - Twyne, Thomas, on plays, iv. 202. - - Tyrwhitt (b. Manners), Bridget Lady, i. 45. - - Tyrwhitt, Robert, i. 45. - - - U - - Ubaldini, Petruccio, i. 163, 178; ii. 264. - - Udall, Nicholas, ii. 70, 74; - on plays, iv. 188. - - Unton (b. Broughton), Dorothy Lady, i. 164. - - Unton, Sir Edward, iv. 88, 90, 92. - - Unton, Sir Henry, i. 64, 163. - - - V - - Van Buchell, Arend, ii. 361. - - Vaughan, Cuthbert, master of Paris Garden, ii. 450. - - Vaughan, Richard, corrector of books, iii. 167. - - Vaughan, Thomas, treasurer of chamber, i. 57. - - Vaux, Edward, 4th Lord Vaux, ii. 103; iv. 120; - his men, ii. 103. - - Vaux, William, 3rd Lord, ii. 103; - his men, ii. 103. - - Vavasour, Sir Thomas, iii. 399, 402. - - Vavasour or Finch, Anne, iii. 399, 407. - - Vavisour. _See_ Warburton. - - Velasco, Juan Fernandez de, Constable of Castile, i. 12, 24; ii. - 211, 453; iv. 118, 169. - - Vere (b. Cecil), Anne, Countess of Oxford, iv. 87. - - Vere, Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford, great chamberlain, i. 4, 141, - 144; ii. 99, 497; iii. 412, 444, 506; iv. 87, 96; - his players, ii. 100–2. - - Vere (b. Trentham), Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford, iv. 126. - - Vere, Sir Francis, i. 322; iii. 499. - - Vere, Henry, 18th Earl of Oxford, ii. 301. - - Vere, John, 16th Earl of Oxford, great chamberlain, ii. 99; iii. - 322; iv. 79; - his men, ii. 99. - - Vere, Lady Mary, iii. 401. - - Vere, Lady Susan, iii. 401. - - Vere. _See_ Herbert, Stanley. - - Vernon. _See_ Wriothesley. - - Verreyken, Ludovic, Flemish ambassador, i. 23, 25, 220; ii. 204. - - Viaud, Théophile de, iii. 17. - - Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, i. 174, 200; iii. 389. - - Vitruvius, iii. 2; iv. 362. - - Vittoria (Fioretta), ii. 262. - - Vives, Johannes Ludovicus, on plays, i. 238; iv. 185. - - - W - - Wager, Lewis, i. 261; - on plays, iv. 194. - - Walden (title). _See_ Howard. - - Waller, Sir Walter, i. 280. - - Walsingham (b. Shelton), Audrey Lady, i. 54, 200, 210, 220; iii. - 278, 375, 380; iv. 67. - - Walsingham, Sir Francis, secretary of state, i. 88, 89, 111, 266, - 267; ii. 104, 343, 497; iii. 174, 187, 506; iv. 94, 99, 102, - 104, 213, 294, 296, 303. - - Walsingham, Sir Thomas, iii. 252, 257, 419; iv. 110, 115. - - Walton, Henry, ii. 80. - - Wapull, George, clerk to Stationers, iii. 158. - - Warburton (b. Vavisour), Anne Lady, iii. 399; iv. 67. - - Warburton, John, iv. 398. - - Ward, Richard, cofferer of household, iv. 64, 93. - - Warwick (title). _See_ Dudley. - - Webbe, William, on plays, i. 258; iv. 227. - - Webster, John, on players, iv. 257. - - Wedel, Lupold von, ii. 358, 455. - - Weldon, Sir Ralph, clerk of green cloth, iv. 99. - - Wentworth (b. Cecil), Elizabeth, iv. 81, 99. - - Wentworth, Thomas, 2nd Lord Wentworth, iv. 276, 277, 280. - - Wentworth, William, iv. 99. - - West, Thomas, 11th Lord Delawarr, iv. 111. - - West, Thomas, 12th Lord Delawarr, iv. 254. - - West, William, 10th Lord Delawarr, iii. 412; iv. 106. - - Wharton (b. Clifford), Frances Lady, iv. 94. - - Wharton, Philip, 3rd Lord, iv. 94. - - Wharton, Mrs., iv. 67. - - Whetstone, George, on plays, iv. 201, 227. - - White, Edward, stationer, iii. 395. - - White, Thomas, on plays, i. 254; iv. 197. - - White, William, property maker, ii. 184. - - Whitgift, John, archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 166, 450, 451; iv. - 101, 102, 103, 106, 108, 109, 111, 115, 306, 307, 308, 315. - - Whithorne, Timothy, ii. 334. - - Wiburne, Nathaniel, iv. 376. - - Wilcox, Thomas, iv. 197. - - Wilkes, Sir Thomas, clerk of privy council, iv. 100. - - Wilkes, William, iii. 428. - - Wilkins, Thomas, ii. 401. - - Wilkinson, John, coriour, iv. 261. - - Willett, John, mercer, ii. 228. - - Williams, John, bishop of Lincoln, ii. 349. - - Williams, Sir Roger, iii. 212. - - Williams. _See_ Norris. - - Willis, R., i. 333. - - Willoughby, Ambrose, esquire of body, i. 46. - - Willoughby, Francis, ii. 2. - - Willoughby. _See_ Bertie. - - Wilson, John, corrector of books, iii. 168. - - Wilson, Thomas, master of requests, secretary of state, ii. 15; - iii. 165. - - Winchester (title). _See_ Paulet. - - Windsor, Edward, 3rd Lord, iv. 83. - - Windsor, Frederick, 4th Lord, i. 144; iv. 64, 92, 96. - - Windsor (b. Somerset), Katharine Lady, iii. 282, 380, 383. - - Wingfield, Sir Anthony, i. 109; iv. 377. - - Winter (b. Somerset), Anne Lady iii. 282, 380, 383. - - Wintoun (title). _See_ Seton. - - Wistow, ii. 451. - - Withens, Robert, ii. 406. - - Wither, Anne, formerly Phillips, ii. 418. - - Wither, John, ii. 334, 418, 423–4. - - Wolf, John, stationer, iv. 327, 345. - - Wolley (b. More), Elizabeth Lady, ii. 498. - - Wolley, Sir John, Latin secretary, ii. 497; iv. 97, 99, 100. - - Wood, Sir Robert, mayor of Norwich, iv. 62. - - Woodford or Simball, Thomas, ii. 445, 516–17. - - Woodhouse, Mrs., maid of honour, i. 54. - - Woodman, victualler, ii. 493. - - Woodward, Agnes, i. 358. - - Woodward, Elizabeth, ii. 333. - - Woodward, Joan, i. 358. - - Worcester (title). _See_ Somerset. - - Wotton, Edward, 1st Lord, comptroller of household, i. 35, 64; iv. - 342. - - Wren, Christopher, iv. 377. - - Wright, James, iv. 370–2. - - Wriothesley (b. Vernon), Elizabeth, Countess of Southampton, i. 45. - - Wriothesley, Henry, 2nd Earl of Southampton, i. 162; iii. 488; iv. - 82. - - Wriothesley, Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton, i. 45, 46, 147, 220; - iii. 212, 249, 358, 393, 417; iv. 106, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, - 128, 139. - - Wriothesley (b. Cheyne), Jane, Countess of Southampton, iv. 85. - - Wriothesley (b. Browne), Mary, Countess of Southampton, afterwards - Lady Heneage and Lady Hervey, i. 162; iii. 468; iv. 82. - - Wroth (b. Sidney), Mary Lady, iii. 371, 375. - - Wroth, Sir Robert, iv. 105, 108, 111, 120, 322. - - Württemberg, Frederick, Duke of, ii. 455. - - Württemberg, Lewis Frederick, Prince of, ii. 369, 457. - - Wyatt, Sir Henry, treasurer of chamber, i. 59; ii. 476. - - Wyatt, Sir Thomas, i. 59; ii. 476. - - - Y - - Yaxley, John, mayor of Cambridge, iv. 6. - - Yelverton, Sir Henry, solicitor-general, iv. 59. - - Yetswiert, Nicasius, French secretary and clerk of signet, i. 98. - - Yorke, Sir John, i. 305, 328. - - Young, Sir John, mayor of Bristol, iv. 90, 198. - - Young, Richard, i. 285; ii. 478; iv. 93, 96, 293, 297, 305, 310. - - - Z - - Zanobi, iii. 13. - - Zingerling, Justus, ii. 369, 457. - - - - - INDEX III: OF PLACES - - - A - - Abbotstone (Hants), iv. 85, 90, 106. - - Aberdeen, ii. 269. - - Absey Court, iv. 114. - - Aldbury (Herts.), iv. 81. - - Aldeburgh (Suffolk), plays at, ii. 2. - - Aldermaston (Berks.), iv. 85, 107, 114. - - Aldersbrook (Essex), iv. 98. - - Aldershot (Hants), iv. 124. - - Alderton (Glos.), iv. 107. - - Alderton (Northants), iv. 123. - - Alresford (Hants), iv. 90. - - Alrewas (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Althorp (Northants), i. 126; iii. 391; iv. 117. - - Amersham (Bucks.), iv. 81, 107. - - Amesbury (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Ampthill (Beds.), iv. 120, 126. - - Andover (Hants), iv. 128, 130. - - Ankerwyke (Bucks.), iv. 82. - - Apethorpe (Northants), iv. 83, 116, 120, 124, 126, 129. - - Ardern Hall (Essex), iv. 103. - - Artington. _See_ Loseley. - - Ashby, Castle (Northants), iv. 120, 124, 126. - - Ashby de la Zouch (Leicester), i. 174; iii. 434; iv. 116. - - Ashdon (Essex), iv. 95. - - Audley End (Essex), i. 75; iv. 87, 95, 129. - - Aveley (Essex), iv. 103. - - Avington (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Aylesbury (Bucks.), iv. 117. - - - B - - Bagshot (Surrey), iv. 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 90, 100, 106, 125, 130. - - Barham Hall (Cambs.), iv. 95. - - Barn Elms (Surrey), iv. 94, 99, 101, 102, 104, 109. - - Barnet (Herts.), iv. 92, 93, 102. - - Barnstaple (Devon), plays at, ii. 1. - - Basing (Hants), i. 117; iv. 78, 85, 106, 114, 117, 122, 123, 128, - 130. - - Bastead (Kent), iv. 89. - - Batenhall Park (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Bath (Somerset), i. 122, 334; iv. 90, 128. - - Battersea (Surrey), iv. 109. - - Beachampton (Bucks.), iv. 88. - - Beaudesert (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Beaulieu (Hants), iv. 121, 122, 123, 125, 128. - - Beaurepaire (Hants), iv. 114. - - Beddington (Surrey), iv. 84, 92, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 105, 106, - 109, 111, 112, 113, 116. - - Bedfont (Middlesex), iv. 107, 115. - - Bedgebury (Kent), iv. 89. - - Belhus (Essex), iv. 103. - - Belvoir (Leicester), i. 118; iv. 116, 126, 129; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Benenden (Kent), iv. 89. - - Berden (Essex), iv. 95. - - Berkeley (Glos.), i. 115; iv. 90. - - Berwick (Northumberland), iv. 116. - - Bethnal Green (Middlesex), iv. 88. - - Bicester (Oxon.), iv. 85. - - Binfield (Berks.), iv. 90. - - Birch Hall (Essex), iv. 88. - - Birling (Kent), iv. 89. - - Bisham (Berks.), iv. 66, 85, 107, 120, 124, 127, 129. - - Bishop Auckland (Durham), iv. 116. - - Bishop’s Cannings (Wilts.), iii. 312; iv. 128. - - Bishop’s Itchington (Warwick), iv. 88. - - Bishop’s Waltham (Hants), iv. 106. - - Blackwater (Hants), iv. 100. - - Bletsoe (Beds.), iv. 83, 118, 120, 123, 124, 126. - - Blyth (Notts.), iv. 116. - - Boddington (Glos.), iv. 90. - - Boreham (Essex), iv. 79, 96. - - Boughton (Northants), iv. 81. - - Boughton Malherbe (Kent), iv. 89. - - Brabourne (Kent), iv. 89. - - Bracon Ash (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Bradenham (Bucks.), iv. 83, 92. - - Bramshott (Hants), iv. 106. - - Brasted (Kent), i. 280. - - Bray (Berks.), iv. 86, 88, 92, 114. - - Braybrooke (Northants), iv. 81. - - Breckles (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Brent Pelham (Herts.), iv. 87. - - Brentford (Middlesex), i. 388; iv. 100, 114. - - Brentwood (Essex), iv. 96. - - Brickhill (Bucks.), iv. 84. - - Bridgnorth (Shropshire), i. 335. - - Bristol (Glos.), i. 139; ii. 68; iv. 60, 74, 90, 128, 379; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Broadlands (Hants), iv. 130. - - Brockett Hall (Herts.), iv. 88. - - Brooke (Rutland), iv. 126. - - Broughton (Oxon.), iv. 83. - - Broxbourne (Herts.), iv. 91, 116. - - Buckingham, iv. 84. - - Bulley Hill (Kent), iv. 89, 99. - - Burderhope (Wilts.), iv. 107. - - Burford (Oxon.), iv. 107. - - Burghfield (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Burghley (Northants), iv. 116. - - Burley on the Hill (Rutland), iv. 116, 129. - - Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Bushmead (Beds.), iv. 83. - - Byfleet (Surrey), iv. 86, 93, 99, 115. - - Bygrave (Herts.), iv. 83. - - - C - - Camberwell (Kent), iv. 109. - - Cambridge, i. 127, 131, 226, 233, 250; ii. 99, 113, 206; iv. 49, - 53, 81, 127, 130, 373–9. - - Campden (Glos.), iv. 92. - - Canterbury (Kent), i. 110, 117, 165, 334, 339; iv. 89, 98. - - Cavendish (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Caversham (Oxon.), i. 174, 199; iv. 90, 114, 128. - - Chalfont St. Giles (Bucks.), iv. 93. - - Chamberhouse (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Charlecote (Warwick), iv. 83, 88. - - Charlton (Northants), iv. 84. - - Charlton (Wilts.), iv. 128. - - Chartley (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Chatham (Kent), iv. 121. - - Chelsea (Middlesex), i. 17, 20; iv. 96, 100, 104, 107, 110, 111, - 112, 113. - - Chenies (Bucks.), i. 110, 118; iv. 86, 107. - - Chequers (Bucks.), iv. 107. - - Chertsey (Surrey), iv. 85, 115. - - Cheshire, iv. 271. - - Cheshunt (Herts.), iv. 102. - - Chessington (Surrey), iv. 105. - - Chester, i. 134, 339, 387; iv. 71, 124, 271. - - Chicheley (Bucks.), iv. 88, 91. - - Chichester (Sussex), iv. 106. - - Chigwell (Essex), iv. 93. - - Chillington (Staffs.), iv. 92. - - Chippenham (Wilts.), iv. 95. - - Chislehurst (Kent), iv. 110. - - Chiswick (Middlesex), iv. 91, 115. - - Chobham (Surrey), iv. 97, 99, 100, 105. - - Churcham (Glos.), iv. 90. - - Cirencester (Glos.), iv. 107. - - Clandon (Surrey), iv. 106, 114. - - Clapham (Surrey), iv. 94, 99, 102. - - Clarendon Park (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Claybury (Essex), iv. 111. - - Cobham (Kent), i. 15; iv. 77, 89. - - Cobham (Surrey), iv. 100. - - Colchester (Essex), ii. 345; iv. 79. - - Colly Weston (Northants), iv. 83. - - Colnbrook (Bucks.), iv. 90, 92, 97, 99, 102, 107. - - Colton (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Combe (Surrey), iv. 109. - - Combe Abbey (Warwick), i. 12. - - Comfort (Kent), iv. 89. - - Compton Wyniates (Warwick), iv. 88. - - Copt Hall (Essex), iv. 84, 94. - - Cornbury (Oxon.), iv. 92. - - Costessy (Norfolk), iv. 63, 95. - - Coventry (Warwick), i. 116, 126, 335; iv. 83; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Cowdray (Sussex), i. 110; iv. 65, 106. - - Cranborne (Dorset), iv. 123. - - Cranbrook (Kent), iv. 89. - - Crondall (Hants), iv. 114. - - Croydon (Surrey), ii. 160; iii. 426, 451; iv. 52, 77, 83, 89, 101, - 102, 105, 106, 108, 113. - - - D - - Dallington (Northants), iv. 81. - - Dartford (Kent), iv. 77, 99. - - Datchet (Bucks.), iv. 115. - - De Greys (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Dean, West (Sussex), iv. 106. - - Deene (Northants), iv. 83. - - Denham (Bucks.), iv. 86, 107. - - Deptford (Kent), iii. 419; iv. 78, 89, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98. - - Dingley (Northants), iv. 83, 117, 127. - - Ditchley (Oxon.), iii. 399, 407; iv. 107. - - Ditton Park (Bucks.), iv. 97, 105. - - Doncaster (Yorks.), iv. 116. - - Donnington (Berks.), iv. 85, 107. - - Dover (Kent), iv. 89, 98; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Down Ampney (Wilts.), iv. 107. - - Drayton (Northants), iv. 120. - - Drayton, West (Middlesex), iv. 115. - - Dudley (Worcester), i. 119; iv. 92. - - Dulwich (Surrey), i. 349, 360; ii. 298. - - Dunglass (Haddington), iv. 116. - - Dunstable (Beds.), iv. 84, 88. - - Dunwich (Suffolk), plays at, ii. 2. - - Durham, iv. 116. - - - E - - Earlham (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Easton Neston (Northants), iv. 81, 84, 88, 117, 119. - - Edgecott (Northants), iv. 88. - - Edinburgh, ii. 78, 265–9. - - Edmonton (Middlesex), iv. 100, 101, 111. - - Egham (Surrey), iv. 99, 100, 108. - - Ellenhall (Staffs.), iv. 92. - - Elmley Bredon (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Elsborough (Bucks.), iv. 107. - - Eltham (Kent), i. 11, 15; iv. 77, 78, 79, 92, 98, 110, 111, 112, - 113, 115, 126. - - Elvetham (Hants), i. 123; iv. 66, 106. - - Enfield (Middlesex), i. 11; iv. 79, 81, 84, 88, 102, 105, 108, 111. - - Englefield (Berks.), iv. 114, 125. - - Epsom (Surrey), iv. 114. - - Erith (Kent), iv. 103. - - Erlestoke (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Esher (Surrey), iv. 113. - - Eton (Bucks.), ii. 73; iv. 97, 107, 119. - - Euston (Suffolk), i. 114; iv. 95. - - Evesham (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Ewelme (Oxon.), iv. 85, 86, 88. - - Exeter (Devon), ii. 69, 355; iii. 424; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Exton (Rutland), i. 12; iv. 83. - - Eythorpe (Bucks.), iv. 86. - - - F - - Fairthorne (Hants), iv. 106. - - Farleigh (Hants), iv. 106. - - Farnham (Surrey), iv. 78, 82, 84, 85, 90, 93, 106, 114, 117, 121, - 123, 125, 128, 130. - - Faversham (Kent), iv. 89, 98. - - Fawsley (Northants), iv. 91. - - Felix Hall (Essex), iv. 79. - - Fenham (Northumberland), iv. 116. - - Fold (Middlesex), iv. 88, 92, 93. - - Folkestone (Kent), iv. 89. - - Fotheringay (Northants), iv. 83. - - Friern Barnet (Middlesex), iv. 108. - - Frocester (Glos.), iv. 90. - - Fulham (Middlesex), iv. 103, 114, 117. - - - G - - Gaynes Park (Essex), iv. 95. - - Giddy Hall (Essex), iv. 84, 96. - - Gillingham (Kent), iv. 77, 89. - - Gloucester, i. 333; iv. 90; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Godmanchester (Hunts.), iv. 116. - - Gorhambury (Herts.), i. 110, 117; iv. 88, 93. - - Gosfield (Essex), iv. 79. - - Goudhurst (Kent), iv. 89. - - Grafton (Northants), iv. 81, 84, 91, 117, 120, 123, 124, 127, 129. - - Grantchester (Cambs.), iv. 81. - - Grantham (Lincs.), ii. 222. - - Gravesend (Kent), i. 138; iv. 96, 121, 129. - - Greenwich (Kent), i. 9, 12, 15, 138; ii. 33; iii. 349; iv. 77–130 - _passim_, 351. - - Grimsthorpe (Lincs.), iv. 83; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Grimston (Yorks.), iv. 116. - - Guildford (Surrey), i. 110; iv. 84, 85, 93, 100, 106. - - Gunnersbury (Middlesex), iv. 87. - - - H - - Hackney (Middlesex), iv. 84, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 110. - - Hadleigh (Suffolk), i. 338; iv. 319. - - Hadley (Middlesex), iv. 77, 87. - - Hallingbury, Great (Essex), iv. 79, 93. - - Hallow Park (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Ham (Surrey), iv. 86. - - Ham, West (Essex), iii. 369; iv. 95. - - Hammersmith (Middlesex), iv. 106. - - Hampden (Bucks.), iv. 81, 107, 117. - - Hampstead Marshall (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Hampton Court (Middlesex), i. 9, 12, 13, 15, 108, 144; iii. 277; - iv. 77–128 _passim_. - - Hanwell (Oxon.), iv. 120, 127. - - Hanworth (Middlesex), iv. 94, 107, 113, 114, 117. - - Harefield (Middlesex), i. 117, 125; ii. 207; iv. 67, 115. - - Harlington (Middlesex), iv. 115. - - Harmondsworth (Middlesex), iv. 97. - - Harold’s Park (Essex), iv. 93. - - Harrow (Middlesex), iv. 81, 87, 102. - - Harrowden (Northants), iv. 120. - - Hartlebury (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Hartley Wintney (Hants), iv. 78, 85. - - Harwich (Essex), iv. 79. - - Haslingfield (Cambs.), iv. 81. - - Hatfield (Herts.), i. 11, 12, 126; ii. 12, 13; iv. 77, 79, 83, 84, - 87, 88, 91, 92, 93, 120. - - Hatfield Broadoak (Essex), iv. 93, 95, 129. - - Havering (Essex), i. 11, 12, 21; iv. 79, 84, 88, 93, 95, 96, 105, - 111, 120, 126. - - Haynes (Beds.), iv. 129. - - Hazelbury (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Hedgerley (Bucks.), iv. 93. - - Hedingham (Essex), iv. 79. - - Hemstead (Kent), iv. 89. - - Hendon (Middlesex), iv. 83, 87, 92, 108. - - Hengrave (Suffolk), iv. 63, 95. - - Henham Park (Essex), iv. 87. - - Herriard (Hants), iv. 90. - - Hertford (Herts.), iv. 79, 81, 93, 346, 347, 348. - - Heytesbury (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Highgate (Middlesex), i. 126; iii. 391; iv. 92, 93, 99, 104, 108, - 111, 113, 118. - - Hinchinbrook (Hunts.), i. 13, 127; iii. 498; iv. 81, 116. - - Hindlip (Worcester), iv. 92. - - Hitcham (Bucks.), iv. 115. - - Holcutt (Beds.), iv. 91. - - Holdenby (Northants), i. 13; iv. 117, 123, 124, 127, 129. - - Holt (Sussex?), iv. 106. - - Holton (Oxon.), iv. 88, 90, 92, 107. - - Horham Hall (Essex), iv. 87, 95. - - Horndon (Essex), iv. 103. - - Horseheath (Cambs.), iv. 95. - - Horsley, East (Surrey), iv. 106. - - Horsley, West (Surrey), i. 15, 157; iv. 78, 79, 86. - - Hothfield (Kent), iv. 89. - - Houghton Conquest (Beds.), iv. 83, 86. - - Hounslow (Middlesex), iv. 103, 115. - - Hull (Yorks.), i. 339. - - Hurst (Berks.), iv. 93, 107, 114. - - Hurstbourne (Hants), iv. 85. - - Hyde Hall (Herts.), iv. 95. - - - I - - Ilford (Essex), iv. 96, 98. - - Ingatestone (Essex), iv. 79, 96. - - Ipswich (Suffolk), i. 335; iv. 79; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Irnham (Lincs.), iv. 83. - - Iron Acton (Glos.), iv. 90. - - Islehampstead (Bucks.), iv. 88. - - Isleworth (Middlesex), iv. 94. - - - K - - Katharine Hall (Surrey?), iv. 106. - - Keddington (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Kendal (Westmorland), iv. 253. - - Kenilworth (Warwick), i. 13, 118, 122, 166; iii. 468; iv. 61, 83, - 88, 91. - - Kenninghall (Norfolk), iv. 63, 95. - - Kennington (Surrey), i. 150. - - Kensington (Middlesex), i. 220; iv. 103, 111, 126. - - Kettering (Northants), iv. 31. - - Kew (Surrey), i. 12, 125; iv. 110. - - Keynsham (Somerset), iv. 90. - - Kilndown (Kent), iv. 89. - - Kimberley (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Kimbolton (Hunts.), iv. 81, 83. - - King’s Lynn (Norfolk), iv. 253. - - Kingscliffe (Northants), iv. 83. - - Kingsley (Hants), iv. 85. - - Kingston (Surrey), i. 87, 108; iv. 84, 100, 110, 111, 112, 113. - - Kirby (Northants), iv. 124, 126. - - Kirtling (Cambs.), iv. 95. - - Knebworth (Herts.), iv. 83, 84, 87. - - - L - - Lacock (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Laleham (Surrey), iv. 108. - - Lambeth (Surrey), i. 20, 114; iv. 77–115 _passim_. - - Lamer (Herts.), iv. 123. - - Lancashire, i. 339; iv. 311. - - Langley (Oxon.), iv. 88, 90, 92, 119. - - Latimer (Bucks.), iv. 88, 93, 107. - - Latton (Essex), iv. 87, 93, 95. - - Launde (Leicester), iv. 81. - - Lawshall (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Layer Marney (Essex), iv. 79. - - Leatherhead (Surrey), iv. 106. - - Lees (Essex), iv. 79, 87. - - Leicester, i. 116, 334, 337; ii. 221; iv. 116, 126, 129; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Leighton Bromswold (Hunts.), iv. 83. - - Lewes (Sussex), i. 110. - - Lewisham (Kent), iv. 101, 103, 115. - - Leyton (Essex), iv. 98, 111, 118. - - Lichfield (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Linton (Cambs.), iv. 95. - - London, Westminster and Suburbs - --_City of London and Whitefriars._ - Artillery Garden, iii. 340; - Baynard’s Castle, i. 9, 159, 160; ii. 494; iv. 77, 80, 81, 82, - 91, 113; - Bishopsgate (Bull), ii. 380; iv. 86, 87, 88; - Boar’s Head (Aldgate), ii. 356, 443; - Boar’s Head (Eastcheap), ii. 443; - Bridewell, ii. 52, 476, 481; iii. 496; - Britain’s Burse, i. 10; iii. 129; - Carpenters’ Hall, ii. 356; - Carter Lane, ii. 481, 483; - Castle Lane, ii. 481; - Christ Church, ii. 44; - Christ’s Hospital, iii. 458; - Clothworkers’ Hall, iv. 122; - Conduits, i. 132; ii. 453; iv. 121; - Convocation House, ii. 13, 16; - Counter (Poultry), ii. 164; iv. 367; - Counter (Wood St.), iv. 282; - Creed Lane, ii. 481; - Crosby Hall, i. 10; - Dorset (Sackville) House, i. 161; ii. 516; iv. 81, 113; - East Smithfield, i. 301, 304; iv. 327, 340; - Ely Place, i. 102; iii. 235; iv. 103, 104, 105, 106; - Fleet Ditch, ii. 476, 481; - Fleet St., ii. 159; - Gracechurch St. (Bell, Cross Keys), ii. 344, 380–2; - Guildhall, i. 135; iv. 121; - Heneage House, iv. 100; - Holborn, i. 220; ii. 475; iv. 112; - Huntingdon House, iv. 110; - Leadenhall, iv. 290; - London Bridge, ii. 366, 376; - Ludgate Hill or Bowier Row (Bel Savage), ii. 382, 481; - Merchant Taylors, i. 134, 174; ii. 75, 213; iii. 442; iv. 102, - 122, 129; - New Fish St., ii. 159; - Newgate, ii. 54; iv. 298; - Northumberland Place, ii. 356; iii. 502; - Puddle Wharf, ii. 472, 481; - St. Andrew’s Hill, i. 9; ii. 474; - St. Andrew’s (Holborn), iii. 507; - St. Antholin’s, i. 262; - St. Bartholomew’s, ii. 44; - St. Botolph’s (Aldersgate), ii. 356; - St. Giles’s (Cripplegate), ii. 295, 435; iv. 12; - St. Gregory’s, ii. 13, 16; - St. Leonard’s (Shoreditch), ii. 295, 384; - St. Mary’s (Aldermanbury), ii. 311, 320; - St. Mary-le-Bow, i. 104; - St. Mary Woolnoth, ii. 73; - St. Mildred’s (Bread St.), ii. 404; - St. Paul’s Cathedral, i. 135; ii. 9–11; iii. 128; iv. 103; - its weathercock, iii. 466; iv. 31, 37; - St. Paul’s Churchyard, iii. 420; - St. Paul’s Cross, i. 254, 262; iv. 208; - St. Paul’s Grammar School, i. 132, 133; iv. 56; - St. Peter’s Hill, i. 103; - Salisbury Court, ii. 516–17; - Southampton House, iv. 119; - Stationers’ Hall, iii. 166, 174, 186, 422; - Tower, i. 9, 131, 134; iv. 77, 79, 82, 100, 116, 118, 120, 123, - 124; - Trinity Hall, ii. 356; - Wardrobe, i. 9; ii. 473, 476; - Warwick Inn, i. 74; ii. 491; - Water Lane (Fleet St.), ii. 516; - Whitefriars, i. 10, 103; ii. 477–9, 515–7. - --_Blackfriars_, i. 10, 74, 76, 95, 169; ii. 48, 194, 475–515; iv. - 107, 113, 114, 115; - Ankerhouse, ii. 483; - Apothecaries’ Hall, ii. 492, 507; iv. 372; - Bridewell Lane, ii. 482; - Cobham House, ii. 485, 488, 492, 504; - Duchy Chamber, ii. 490, 502; - Fleet Bridge, ii. 481; - Gate St., ii. 481; - Glass-house, ii. 506; - High St., ii. 482; - Hunsdon House, ii. 501, 504, 506; - Ireland Yard, ii. 482–3; - King’s Printing House, ii. 506; - Pipe Office, ii. 498, 504; - Porter’s Hall playhouse, ii. 472; - Printing House Lane, ii. 501; - St. Anne’s, ii. 474, 478, 482, 486, 491, 511; iv. 320; - Shoemakers’ Row, ii. 483; - Stairs, ii. 481; - Water Lane, ii. 482, 484, 501, 508. - --_Middlesex Suburbs._ - Blackwall, iv. 113, 121; - Charterhouse, i. 10; iv. 77, 79, 84, 97, 116; - Finsbury, ii. 435; - Finsbury Fields, ii. 370, 385–6, 396; - Golden Lane (Fortune), ii. 435; - Holywell (Theatre, Curtain), ii. 363, 384, 400; - Hoxton fields, ii. 158, 400; iii. 353; - Islington (Saracen’s Head), ii. 127, 356; - Kingsgate, i. 13; - Marylebone Park, i. 11; - Mile End, i. 139: iv. 77, 102; - Moorfields, ii. 401; - New River, i. 137; iii. 443; - Nightingale Lane, iv. 327; - St. James’s (Clerkenwell), ii. 445; - St. John’s (Clerkenwell), i. 11, 76, 79, 95, 101, 223; ii. 481; - iv. 250, 252; - St. John St. (Red Bull), ii. 445; - Stepney (Red Lion), ii. 380; - Stratford at Bow, iv. 93, 96, 121; - Whitechapel (Boar’s Head), ii. 67, 242, 444; - Whitecross St., ii. 435. - --_Southwark and Surrey Suburbs._ - Bankside (Rose, Globe, Hope), ii. 359, 363, 370, 376–8, 449; - Barge, Bell and Cock, ii. 464; - Bargehouse, i. 8; ii. 413, 460; - Bearsfoot Alley, ii. 470; - Beargardens, ii. 449–65; - Beargardens Lane, ii. 463, 470; - Bermondsey, ii. 459; iv. 83, 86; - Clink, ii. 228, 359, 376, 406, 459, 461; - Copt Hall, ii. 411, 461; - Cuckold’s Haven, iii. 149; - Deadman’s Place, ii. 377, 427; - Globe Alley, ii. 378, 427–33; - Holland St., ii. 377, 461; - Horseshoe Alley, ii. 433; - Lambeth Marsh, ii. 459; - Maid (Maiden) Lane, ii. 359, 377, 405, 427–33; - Marshalsea, ii. 132, 163; iii. 353; iv. 280, 310, 323; - Mason Stairs, ii. 462; - Newington (Newington Butts), ii. 359, 404; iv. 111, 113; - Paris Garden or Wideflete (Swan), i. 8, 63; ii. 342, 359, 376, - 449, 458–61; - Palmyra, ii. 428; - Park, ii. 431; - Pike Garden, ii. 462; - Rose Alley, ii. 406; - St. George’s Fields, ii. 359; iv. 86; - St. Margaret’s, ii. 405, 427; - St. Mary Overies, i. 262, 263, 376, 427; - St. Saviour’s, ii. 405, 427; - Stews, i. 359; ii. 376, 405, 460, 462; - Southwark, i. 275, 300, 315, 317, 359; ii. 99, 295, 355, 359, - 376, 407, 449; iv. 80, 94; - Winchester House, ii. 376; iii. 234. - --_Liberty of Duchy of Lancaster._ - Arundel House, iv. 83, 100, 101, 115; - Bedford House, iv. 82, 104; - Cecil House, iii. 248; iv. 119; - Leicester (Essex) House, iv. 92, 93, 94, 96; - Savoy, i. 9; iv. 82, 109, 115, 144; - Somerset House (Denmark House, Queen’s Court), i. 10, 12, 174, - 216; ii. 211; iii. 277; iv. 77–112 _passim_, 118, 121, 129, - 130, 169, 183; - Strand, iii. 392; iv. 79, 108, 109, 113. - --_Westminster._ - Banqueting House, i. 15–17; ii. 453, 480; iii. 234, 242, 245, - 282, 375, 378, 379, 383, 385, 386; iv. 59, 87, 171; - Baptista’s, i. 102; - Burghley House, i. 168; ii. 194; iv. 81, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111; - Cockpit, i. 8, 13, 146, 216, 218, 234; iv. 87, 175, 177, 179, - 181; - Conduit Court, ii. 453; - Covent Garden, iv. 105; - Durham Place, i. 10; iv. 93, 123, 170; - Exchequer Chamber, i. 135; - Gatehouse, i. 328; iv. 280; - Haunce’s, i. 102; - Hyde Park, i. 11; - King’s Road, i. 13; - St. James’s, i. 11, 13; iv. 77–116 _passim_; - St. James’s Park, i. 8; iv. 115; - St. Stephen’s, ii. 25; - Tilt-yard, i. 8, 18, 141–8; ii. 453; iii. 211, 261, 268, 402–5; - Westminster Abbey, ii. 70, 361; - Westminster Hall, i. 135, 150; - Westminster palace, i. 8, 102; - Whitehall, i. 8, 15, 19, 143; iv. 77–129 _passim_; - York House, iv. 112. - - Long Itchington (Warwick), iv. 91. - - Long Melford (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Long Stanton (Cambs.), iv. 81. - - Longleat (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Loseley (Surrey), i. 109; iv. 84, 93, 100, 106, 114, 117. - - Loughborough (Essex), iv. 93, 95, 98, 108, 111. - - Loughborough (Leicester), iv. 126. - - Loughton (Essex), iv. 79, 111, 120. - - Lulworth (Dorset), iv. 130. - - Lumley (Durham), iv. 116. - - Lumley House, Greenwich (Kent), iv. 112. - - Luton (Beds.), iv. 91, 120. - - Lydiard (Wilts.), iv. 107, 128. - - Lyons, iv. 401. - - - M - - Maidenhead (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Maldon (Essex), i. 339; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Manningtree (Suffolk), iv. 253. - - Manuden (Essex), iv. 95. - - Mark Hall (Essex), iv. 87, 93, 95. - - Marlborough (Wilts.), plays at, ii. 1. - - Mayfield (Kent), iv. 89. - - Melchet (Hants), iv. 85. - - Meriden (Warwick), iv. 91. - - Merton (Surrey), iv. 90, 104. - - Micheldever (Hants), iv. 78. - - Middleton (Warwick), iv. 91. - - Mimms, South (Middlesex), iv. 88. - - Missenden, Great (Bucks.), iv. 117. - - Mitcham (Surrey), iv. 106, 107, 109, 110, 111. - - Molesey (Surrey), iv. 97, 99, 102, 104, 107, 113. - - Morecroft (Somerset), iv. 90. - - Mortlake (Surrey), i. 218; ii. 209; iv. 91, 94, 97, 100, 105, 168. - - Mottisfont (Hants), iv. 85, 90. - - Moulsham (Essex), iv. 96. - - Mount Surrey (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Mousehold (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Muresley. _See_ Salden. - - - N - - Netley (Hants), iv. 78. - - New Hall (Essex), i. 111; iv. 79, 96. - - Newark (Notts.), iv. 116, 126, 129. - - Newbury (Berks.), iv. 85, 107. - - Newcastle (Northumberland), i. 334; iv. 116; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Newington (Kent), iv. 98. - - Newmarket (Cambs.), i. 13. - - Newstead (Notts.), iv. 126, 129. - - Nonsuch (Surrey), i. 11, 12, 20, 157; iv. 77–113 _passim_, 116. - - Northampton, iv. 81. - - Northiam (Sussex), iv. 89. - - Northiaw (Herts.), iv. 88, 93, 102. - - Northleach (Glos.), iv. 107. - - Norwich (Norfolk), i. 126, 166, 306, 336, 339, 387; ii. 59, 60, - 105, 221, 326, 345; iii. 517; iv. 62, 95; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Nottingham, i. 159, 335; iv. 116, 126, 129. - - - O - - Oatlands (Surrey), i. 11, 12, 20; iv. 77–115 _passim_, 116, 118, - 121, 122, 128, 130. - - Odiham (Hants), iv. 78, 84, 85, 90, 93, 106. - - Olantigh (Kent), iv. 89. - - Onehouse (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Orpington (Kent), iv. 89. - - Oseburn (Sussex), iv. 106. - - Osterley (Middlesex), i. 20, 139; iii. 267; iv. 81, 82, 83, 86, 90, - 91, 92, 94, 106, 108. - - Otford (Kent), iv. 77, 89. - - Oxenheath (Kent), iv. 89. - - Oxford, i. 87, 116, 126, 128–30, 142, 227, 233, 250; ii. 40, 206; - iv. 83, 85, 107, 120, 127, 129, 373–9; - plays at, ii. 2. - - - P - - Peckham, West (Kent), iv. 89. - - Pendley (Herts.), iv. 86. - - Penrhyn (Cornwall), iv. 250, 253. - - Pershore (Worcester), ii. 300. - - Petworth (Sussex), i. 110, 111; iv. 100. - - Philberds (Berks.), iv. 86, 88, 92, 114. - - Plymouth (Devon), plays at, ii. 1. - - Ponsbourne (Herts.), iv. 100. - - Pontefract (Yorks.), iv. 116. - - Portsmouth (Hants), iv. 78, 106. - - Princes Risborough (Bucks.), iv. 81, 107. - - Putney (Surrey), i. 20; iv. 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, - 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116. - - Pyneste (Middlesex), iv. 108. - - Pyrford (Surrey), iv. 92, 93, 94, 97, 99, 100, 117. - - Pyrgo (Essex), iv. 79, 84, 93, 111. - - - Q - - Quarrendon (Bucks.), iii. 398, 407. - - Queenborough (Kent), iv. 79. - - - R - - Ramsbury (Wilts.), iii. 337; iv. 107. - - Reading (Berks.), i. 11, 13, 20; iv. 85, 86, 88, 90, 93, 107, 114, - 128, 151; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Rendcombe (Glos.), iv. 107. - - Richmond (Surrey), i. 9, 13, 15; iv. 77–116 _passim_, 121, 129. - - Riddings (Bucks.), iv. 115. - - Ridgmont (Beds.), iv. 86, 91. - - Rochester (Kent), iv. 89, 98, 99, 121, 128, 129. - - Rockingham (Northants), iv. 120. - - Roding Abbess (Essex), iv. 87, 95. - - Romford (Essex), iv. 84, 96. - - Romsey (Hants), iv. 122. - - Rookwood Hall (Essex), iv. 87, 95. - - Rotherfield (Hants), iv. 78. - - Rotherfield Greys (Oxon.), iv. 90, 93. - - Royston (Cambs.), i. 13, 131; iv. 116, 129, 130, 378. - - Ruckholt (Essex), i. 111; iv. 111, 118. - - Rufford (Notts.), iv. 126, 129. - - Rycote (Oxon.), i. 111, 125; iv. 66, 83, 85, 86, 92, 107, 127, 129. - - Rye (Sussex), iv. 89. - - - S - - Saffron Walden (Essex), iv. 87; - plays at, ii. 2. - - St. Albans (Herts.), i. 13; iv. 81, 84, 93, 126, 348. - - St. Osyth (Essex), iv. 79. - - Salden (Bucks.), iv. 88, 117. - - Salisbury (Wilts.), iv. 90, 117, 122, 123, 125, 128, 130. - - Sandgate (Kent), iv. 89. - - Sandwich (Kent), iv. 89, 98. - - Sawbridgeworth (Herts.), iv. 95. - - Scadbury (Kent), iii. 419; iv. 110. - - Seale (Surrey), iv. 114. - - Segenhoe (Beds.), iv. 86, 91. - - Sempringham (Lincs.), iv. 83. - - Seton (Haddington), iv. 116. - - Shardeloes (Bucks.), iv. 81. - - Shaw (Berks.), iv. 107, 117. - - Sheen (Surrey), i. 9, 13; iv. 105. - - Sheffield (Yorks.), ii. 301. - - Shelley Hall (Suffolk), iv. 79. - - Shenley (Herts.), iv. 83. - - Sherborne (Glos.), iv. 90, 92, 107. - - Sherborne St. John (Hants), iv. 85, 106. - - Shrewsbury (Shropshire), iii. 110; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Silchester (Hants), iv. 114. - - Sion (Middlesex), iv. 92, 100, 102, 108, 116. - - Sissinghurst (Kent), iv. 89. - - Siston (Glos.), iv. 128. - - Sittingbourne (Kent), iv. 98. - - Smallbridge (Suffolk), iv. 79. - - Smarden (Kent), iv. 89. - - Soberton (Hants), iv. 85. - - Somborne (Hants), iv. 90. - - Somersham (Hunts.), iv. 118. - - Southampton (Hants), i. 387; iv. 78, 85, 106, 117; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Southfleet (Kent), iv. 98. - - Southwell (Notts.), iv. 116. - - Southwick (Hants), iv. 78, 106. - - Stafford, iv. 92. - - Staines (Middlesex), iv. 94, 102, 105, 114. - - Stamford (Lincs.), iv. 83. - - Stamford Hill (Middlesex), iv. 116. - - Standon (Herts.), iv. 79, 95, 116. - - Stanstead (Sussex), iv. 106. - - Stanstead Abbots (Herts.), iv. 87, 93, 94. - - Stanwell (Middlesex), iv. 80, 90. - - Steventon (Hants), iv. 85. - - Stockwell (Surrey), iv. 100, 103. - - Stoke d’Abernon (Surrey), iv. 105, 114. - - Stoke Newington (Middlesex), iv. 91, 93, 103. - - Stoke Poges (Bucks.), iv. 114. - - Stokes Croft (Somerset), iv. 90. - - Stoneham, South (Hants), iv. 106. - - Stowmarket (Suffolk), iv. 95. - - Stratford-on-Avon (Warwick), ii. 91, 107, 305, 320, 321, 361; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Streatham (Surrey), iv. 98, 100, 102, 108. - - Sudeley (Glos.), iv. 66, 90, 92, 107. - - Sunbury (Middlesex), iv. 113. - - Sundridge (Kent), iv. 98. - - Sunninghill (Berks.), iv. 80, 82, 94, 97, 99, 100, 105, 108. - - Sutton (Kent), iv. 89. - - Sutton Place, Woking (Surrey), iv. 78, 106. - - Swinfen (Staffs.), iv. 91. - - Sydenham (Kent), iv. 105, 106. - - Sydmonscourt (Kent), iv. 115. - - - T - - Taplow (Bucks.), iv. 115. - - Tarrant (Dorset), iv. 123. - - Taynton (Oxon.), iv. 107. - - Tew, Great (Oxon.), iv. 88. - - Thatcham (Berks.), iv. 107. - - Thaxted (Essex), iv. 87, 95. - - Theobalds (Herts.), i. 13, 20, 113, 118, 120, 124, 126; iii. 247–9, - 392; iv. 69, 71, 81, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 100, 101, 102, 105, - 108, 111, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 129. - - Thetford (Norfolk), i. 13; iv. 95. - - Theydon Bois (Essex), iv. 88, 95. - - Theydon Garnon (Essex), iv. 95. - - Thoby (Essex), iv. 96. - - Thornton (Bucks.), iv. 81. - - Thorpe (Surrey), iv. 93, 94, 113, 115. - - Tichborne (Hants), iv. 106, 125, 130. - - Tichfield (Hants), iv. 85, 106. - - Tilbury (Essex), iv. 64, 70, 103, 121. - - Toddington (Beds.), iv. 81, 86, 91, 123. - - Tooting (Surrey), iv. 113. - - Topcliffe (Yorks.), iv. 116. - - Tottenham (Middlesex), iv. 94, 101, 103, 105. - - Tunstall (Kent), iv. 89. - - Twickenham (Middlesex), iii. 211. - - - U - - Upshire (Essex), iv. 93. - - Urbino, iv. 363. - - Utrecht, ii. 90. - - Uxbridge (Middlesex), iv. 107. - - - V - - Vauxhall (Surrey), iv. 112. - - Vicenza, iv. 355, 356. - - Vine (Hants), iv. 85, 106. - - - W - - Wallingford (Berks.), iv. 85. - - Waltham (Essex), iv. 102, 104, 108, 111. - - Waltons (Essex), iv. 95. - - Walworth (Durham), iv. 116. - - Wanstead (Essex), i. 125; iii. 492; iv. 79, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, - 99, 126. - - Ware (Herts.), i. 13; iv. 119. - - Warnborough, South (Hants), iv. 114, 117. - - Warnford (Hants), iv. 106. - - Warwick, i. 139; iv. 83, 88. - - Wells (Somerset), i. 126; iv. 128. - - Westenhanger (Kent), iv. 89. - - Weymouth (Dorset), plays at, ii. 2. - - Whaddon (Bucks.), iv. 84. - - Wheathampstead (Herts.), iv. 123. - - Wherwell (Hants), iv. 85. - - Whittington (Glos.), iv. 107. - - Widdrington (Northumberland), iv. 116. - - Wield (Hants), iv. 106. - - Wight, Isle of, iv. 117, 122, 125. - - Willesden (Middlesex), iv. 108. - - Willington (Beds.), iv. 83. - - Wilton (Wilts.), i. 122, 143; ii. 209; iii. 238, 272, 337, 492; iv. - 90, 117, 168. - - Wimbledon (Surrey), iv. 101, 106, 108, 112, 115. - - Winchelsea (Sussex), iv. 89. - - Winchester (Hants), i. 11; iii. 285, 468; iv. 78, 90, 106, 117, - 350; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Windsor (Berks.), i. 9, 15, 20, 142; ii. 61, 160; iv. 77–130 - _passim_. - - Windsor Forest--Burley Bushes, iv. 100; - Folly John Park, iv. 93, 99, 105, 114; - Mote Park, iv. 99, 114; - New Lodge, iv. 80, 102, 105, 113, 115; - Twelve Oaks, iv. 80. - - Wing (Bucks.), iv. 86. - - Wingham (Kent), iv. 89. - - Winterslow (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - Witney (Oxon.), iv. 37, 107. - - Woburn (Beds.), i. 110; iv. 88. - - Woking (Surrey), i. 13; iv. 84, 85, 97, 99, 100, 105, 115, 120. - - Wollaton (Notts.), iv. 116; - plays at, ii. 2. - - Wooburn (Bucks.), iv. 92. - - Wood Rising (Norfolk), iv. 95. - - Woodhall (Herts.), iv. 91. - - Woodstock (Oxon.), i. 11, 13, 121, 142; iii. 267, 400–2, 404–7; - iv. 83, 88, 90, 92, 107, 117, 119, 120, 124, 127, 129. - - Woolwich (Kent), iii. 369; iv. 77, 124, 129. - - Worcester, i. 116, 387; iv. 92. - - Worksop (Notts.), iv. 116. - - Wrest (Beds.), iv. 83, 126. - - Wroxton (Oxon.), iv. 120. - - Wye (Kent), iv. 89. - - Wylye (Wilts.), iv. 90. - - - Y - - Yarmouth (Norfolk), i. 298, 336, 355; iii. 451. - - Yarnton (Oxon.), iv. 107. - - Yattendon (Berks.), iv. 85. - - York, i. 336; iv. 69, 116; - plays at, ii. 1. - - Yorkshire, i. 277, 304, 328; iv. 264. - - - - - INDEX IV: OF SUBJECTS - - - A - - Abergavenny’s men, ii. 92. - - ‘Above’, iii. 91–8, 115, 133, 153. - - Abridgement of plays, iii. 186, 251. - - Academic plays, lists of, i. 127–31; iv. 273–9; - staging of, i. 226; - critics of, i. 249. - - Accession day, i. 18, 128, 141–8; iii. 212, 402, 405–6, 463; iv. - 85, 375. - - Accidents at performances, i. 128, 228, 256, 264, 283, 290; ii. - 135, 175, 462; iii. 311; iv. 208, 219, 225, 274, 292–5. - - Activities, i. 123, 282, 300; ii. 99, 101, 110, 111, 118–19, 136, - 182, 261–3, 272, 292, 294, 413, 529, 550; iv. 97, 98, 99, 101, - 102, 103, 104, 105, 112, 114, 154, 156, 158, 159, 161, 162, - 163, 167, 174, 205, 206, 217, 273, 279, 283. - - Actors. _See_ Players. - - Acts, iii. 124, 130, 199. - - Admiral, lord, i. 67. - - Admiral’s men, ii. 134–86. - - Adult companies, list of, ii. 77. - - ‘Alcove’, iii. 82, 111, 120. - - Allowances. _See_ Licences. - - Almonry, i. 35; - boys of, ii. 9, 70. - - Alphabetical figures in masks, i. 198; iii. 378, 383. - - ‘Alternationist’ theory of staging, iii. 120. - - Amalgamation of companies, i. 355; ii. 17, 94, 95, 112, 113, 120, - 124, 129, 132, 136, 140, 155, 192–3, 225, 244, 248, 258; iii. - 343–4. - - Amanuensis to playwright, iii. 368. - - Ambassadors, i. 22–5, 204; iii. 241, 243, 246, 277, 280, 283, 376, - 380, 382, 384, 385, 386, 389, 390; iv. 63, 77, 79, 81, 84, 87, - 96, 98, 100, 118, 119, 120. - - Animals on stage, i. 372; iii. 75. - - Anne, warrant to players from, ii. 234. - - ‘Antemasque’, i. 194; iii. 261, 281; iv. 59. - - ‘Antick’ dance, iii. 385. - - ‘Antick’ play, iii. 502; iv. 101, 159. - - ‘Anticke-maske’, i. 194; iii. 244; iv. 59. - - Antimask, i. 193; iii. 381, 383, 385, 386. - - Apparel of players, i. 348, 352, 358, 362, 371, 372; ii. 131, 168, - 184, 215, 228, 243, 245, 248, 254, 256; iv. 199, 204, 217, 237, - 240, 241, 304. - - ‘Apparelling’ charges, i. 63. - - Apprentices, plays by, iii. 493, 496. - - Apprentices to players, i. 371; ii. 154, 212. - - _Arbori_, iv. 362. - - ‘Arbours’, iii. 55, 89. - - Archery, i. 139, 290. - - Armada day, i. 22. - - Armoury, office of, i. 49; iii. 399. - - Arms of players, i. 350; ii. 98, 305, 333. - - ‘Arras’, iii. 80, 111, 133; iv. 367. - - Arthur and Round Table show, i. 139; iv. 102. - - Articles of players, i. 352, 364–5, 379; ii. 45, 65, 241, 245, 247, - 254–5. - - Arundel’s men, ii. 116. - - Assaults in masks, i. 151, 154, 191. - - ‘Assembled’ texts of plays, iii. 185, 194. - - Associations of players, i. 352; ii. 3. - - Atmospheric phenomena on stage, iii. 76, 110. - - Attacks on plays. _See_ Ethics. - - Attendants in playhouses, i. 371; ii. 150, 187, 541. - - Audit, i. 58–62; iv. 131. - - Auditorium. _See_ Court plays, Playhouses. - - Augmentations, court of, i. 60. - - _Aulaeum_, iii. 11. - - ‘Ave, Caesar’, iv. 10. - - - B - - Baboons, iii. 215, 234, 261, 369; iv. 11, 16, 254. - - Back cloths, iii. 129. - - Badges of players, i. 311, 382; ii. 81, 91. - - _Ballet_ in France, i. 176. - - Banqueting houses, i. 15–17, 74, 80, 84, 90, 116, 157, 202, 216; - iii. 401. - - Banquets after masks, i. 206; iii. 235, 280, 283, 376. - - _Barbaturiae_, i. 152, 192. - - Barriers, i. 19, 140; iii. 378, 385, 393; iv. 57, 64, 77, 86, 87, - 96, 98, 109, 114, 120, 124; - in play, i. 232; - in show, iii. 501. - - Battle scenes, iii. 52, 106. - - Battlements in court plays, i. 231; iii. 44, 91. - - ‘Beam’ on Paul’s stage, iii. 136. - - Bear-baiting, ii. 375, 449–71; - days for, i. 316; ii. 257, 471; iv. 307. - _See_ Blind Bear. - - Beargardens, ii. 376–9, 449–72. - - ‘Beards’, ii. 105. - - ‘Bears’ in masks, iii. 385, 388; - in plays, iv. 35. - - Bears, names of, ii. 457. - - Bed Chamber, i. 14, 53. - - Bed ‘thrust out’, iii. 113. - - ‘Bed-curtains’, iii. 86, 112. - - Bel Savage playhouse, ii. 382. - - Bell playhouse, ii. 381. - - ‘Benefits’, i. 370, 373; ii. 172. - - Berkeley’s men, ii. 103. - - ‘Bills’, ii. 113, 514, 547; iii. 373, 501; iv. 199, 205, 228, 267, - 283, 289, 303. - - Birthday of sovereign, i. 20. - - Black stages, iii. 79. - - Blackfriars, children of, ii. 53–5. - - Blackfriars playhouse (1576), ii. 495–7. - - Blackfriars playhouse (1596), ii. 503–15. - - Blind bear, whipping of, ii. 456–8, 469. - - Board and cord game, i. 123. - - Boar’s Head playhouse, ii. 443–5. - - Bonds of players, i. 352; ii. 131, 224. - - ‘Bookholders’, ii. 540; iv. 404. - - ‘Books’, as stock of players, i. 372; ii. 65, 161, 168; iii. 193; - used by prompter, i. 227; ii. 540; - provided for court audience, i. 227; ii. 72; iv. 378; - describing masks, i. 207; ii. 264; iii. 278, 281, 382; - describing tilt, i. 145. - _See_ Original, Play-texts. - - Books hawked in playhouses, ii. 549. - - ‘Bouche of court’, i. 51. - - ‘Boxes’, ii. 531, 555; iii. 496. - - ‘Boxholders’, i. 356; ii. 187, 388, 514, 532; iv. 228. - - Boy bishop, ii. 11. - - Boy companies, ii. 8–76, 88, 100–1, 119; - list of, ii. 8; - organization of, i. 378, 386; ii. 47; - staging for, iii. 130–54. - - Boys in women’s clothes, i. 248, 251, 254, 262, 362, 371; iii. 373; - iv. 217, 249, 252, 256, 258. - - Brandenburg, players at court of, ii. 288–92. - - Brawls, i. 198; iii. 239. - - Bride ale, i. 123. - - Bristol, children of Chamber of, ii. 68. - - Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, players at court of, ii. 275–7. - - Bull playhouse, ii. 380. - - Bull-baiting, ii. 449, 454–8. - - _Bullettini_ (tickets), iii. 496. - - Burning of playhouses, ii. 419, 442. - - ‘By’ progresses, i. 20, 120. - - - C - - _Calciatura_, i. 51. - - Calvinism and plays, i. 245. - - _Camera regis_, i. 54. - - _Camerarii_, i. 36. - - Camp scenes, iii. 53, 106. - - _Candelieri_, iv. 364. - - Candlemas, i. 20, 213. - - ‘Canopy’, ii. 557; iii. 138, 141, 142, 148. - - Capitalism and profit-sharing, i. 360–8; ii. 248–50. - - Captain of Guard, i. 47. - - Cards in playhouse, ii. 549; iv. 368. - - Cart-takers, i. 117. - - _Casamenti_ (houses), iii. 5; iv. 355, 356, 359, 360. - - _Case_ (houses), iii. 3–12. - - ‘Castles’, i. 11. - - ‘Casts’, number of players required for, i. 332; iii. 179, 317, - 437, 470, 504, 505, 517; iv. 7, 13, 20, 21, 37, 51; - players’ names in, iii. 510. - - Censorship, i. 224, 239, 240, 246, 249, 266, 271, 275, 282, 283, - 288, 289, 295, 303, 318–22; iii. 158–77, 191, 365, 367; iv. 2, - 6, 32, 35, 45, 261, 263, 264, 269, 271, 274, 288, 306. - _See_ Licences, Master of Revels, Play-texts, Restraints, Satire, - Sedition. - - Ceremonies, Master of, i. 53. - - Challenges for tilt, i. 142. - - Chamber accounts, i. 58–66; iv. 132–5, 140, 142–83 (extracts). - - Chamber as organ of administration, i. 56. - - Chamber officers, i. 42–7. - - Chamber scenes, iii. 65, 94, 111. - - Chamberers, i. 44. - - Chamberlain, Great, i. 32. - - Chamberlain of Household, Lord, i. 36–41, 48, 50, 66, 67, 100, 108, - 205, 209, 218, 224, 226; - of Queen Anne’s household, ii. 237. - - Chamberlain’s men, ii. 92–3, 134–5, 193–208. - - ‘Chameleon’ players, i. 340, 376, 378, 383; ii. 3, 98; iii. 325. - - Chancellor, Lord, iv. 67. - - Chancery, i. 31, 55. - - Chapel, children of, ii. 23–48, 50, 52, 59, 60. - - Chapel Royal, i. 14, 48; ii. 24; iv. 352; - plays in, ii. 35. - - ‘Cheques’ for tilt, iv. 64. - - Children, of Blackfriars, ii. 53–5; - Chamber of Bristol, ii. 68; - Chapel, ii. 23–48, 50, 52, 59, 60; - Eton, ii. 73; - King’s Revels, ii. 64–8; - Merchant Taylors, ii. 75; - Paul’s, ii. 8–23; - Queen’s Revels, ii. 48–51, 56–61; - Revels, ii. 51; - Revels to Queen Anne (1623), iii. 474; iv. 43; - Westminster, ii. 69–73; - Whitefriars, ii. 55; - Windsor, ii. 61–4. - - _Children of the Chapel Stript and Whipt_, i. 278; ii. 34. - - ‘Christian Terence’, i. 239; iii. 12, 321. - - Christmas, i. 19, 213; ii. 24, 71, 74; iv. 237. - - Christmas Prince, iv. 71. - - Churches, plays in, i. 336; ii. 35; - advertised in, iv. 210. - - ‘Cities’ in court plays, i. 231; iii. 44. - - Civic receptions, i. 126, 131. - - _Claque_, ii. 549. - - Clerk of Market, i. 116. - - Clerk of Revels and Tents, i. 73, 83, 94. - - Clerk Comptroller of Revels and Tents, i. 73, 94. - - ‘Clerk plays’ ii. 265. - - Clinton’s men, ii. 96. - - ‘Close walk’, iii. 56. - - Closet, i. 14, 48. - - ‘Closet’ plays, iii. 19, 208, 236, 247, 275, 321, 330. - - Clowns, ii. 152, 334. - - Cockmaster, i. 53. - - Cockpit at court, i. 8; - as playhouse, i. 216, 234. - - Cockpit, Drury Lane, playhouse, ii. 238, 240, 302, 372; iv. 15. - - Coffer Chamber, i. 45. - - Cofferer of Household, i. 35, 50, 115; iv. 134. - - _Comedie_, iv. 357–60. - - Comedy, definitions of, i. 238, 239, 257. - - _Comitas_, i. 250. - - _Commedia dell’ arte_, ii. 262–3, 553; iii. 13. - - _Commedia sostenuta_, ii. 264; iii. 11, 13. - - Commissions, to take up boys, ii. 17, 24, 27, 31, 33, 41, 43, 50, - 52, 62, 64; - for Revels office, i. 84, 89. - - ‘Commoning’ in mask, i. 153, 197. - - Competition of companies, i. 386; ii. 7, 367. - - ‘Compositions’ of players, i. 352; ii. 174, 191, 237. - - Comptroller of Household, i. 35, 55, 67. - - Continent, players on, i. 342–7; ii. 271–94. - - Contracts for playhouses, ii. 436, 466; - with players, ii. 151–5. - - Conversion of players abroad, ii. 290. - - Copper lace, i. 208; ii. 184; iv. 367. - - ‘Copy’ for printed plays, iii. 193, 432. - - Copyright, iii. 159, 172–7, 186–91, 395; iv. 48. - - Corantos, i. 198; iii. 234, 239, 241, 278, 280, 282, 375, 378, 380, - 383, 385, 390, 435; iv. 57, 59, 115. - - ‘Coronation’ Day. _See_ Accession day. - - Coronations, i. 131–4; ii. 29; iii. 392; iv. 60, 69. - - Corrector of press, iv. 40. - - ‘Correctors’ of books, iii. 165, 167, 192. - - Council Chamber, i. 14. - - ‘Counting-house’, iii. 69. - - Court plays, i. 213–19, 223–34; - statistics of, ii. 3–8; - seasons for, i. 213; - rooms for, i. 216; - rewards for, i. 217; - Revels officers at, i. 223; - lighting of, i. 225; - auditorium for, i. 226; - staging of, i. 229; iii. 1–46. - _See_ Auditorium, Battlements, Cities, Domus, Front Curtains, - Maisons, Payments, Perspective, Rehearsals, Senate houses, - State, Walls. - - Courtyard scenes, iii. 61. - - Cressets, ii. 543. - - Cross Keys playhouse, ii. 383. - - ‘Cues’, ii. 541; iv. 367. - - _Curia regis_, i. 30, 54, 66. - - Curtain playhouse, ii. 400–4. - - Curtains, iii. 78, 81, 111; - on court stage, i. 231; iii. 21, 30, 33, 35, 44, 46; - in masks, i. 181. - _See_ Arras, Aulaeum, Bed curtains, Black, Discoveries, Front - curtains, Hangings, Sinking, Traverse, Veil. - - Cutpurses in playhouses, i. 264, 283, 304, 317; ii. 403, 441, 447, - 545; - at court, iii. 376–7, 387. - - - D - - Dances, i. 6, 198; - in masks, i. 149, 195, 199; - after plays, ii. 550; - between acts, ii. 557; iii. 130; - in nets, iv. 200. - _See_ Jigs. - - Dancing bears, ii. 449. - - Dancing masters, i. 201; ii. 494. - - Dates, styles used for, iii. 355, 362, 390. - - Daylight playing, iv. 372. - - Days for playing, i. 285, 288, 290, 291, 293, 295, 301, 302, 303, - 314, 316; iv. 200, 205, 303, 307, 312, 331. - - ‘Dead rent’ of playhouse, ii. 22. - - Debts of players, i. 351, 363, 368; ii. 149, 157, 175, 191, 226, - 245, 248. - - Declared Accounts, iv. 132. - - _Decorum_, i. 256. - - Defences of plays, i. 250–3, 256–60, 262; iv. 184, 186, 187, 188, - 190, 191, 193, 194, 196, 201, 206, 226, 228, 237, 238, 243, 245, - 250, 257, 259. - - Denmark, players in, ii. 271, 276, 284. - - ‘Deputations’ of players, i. 336; ii. 59–60. - - Derby’s men, ii. 118–27. - - ‘Descents’, iii. 77, 108, 132. - - Devices in masks, i. 190; iii. 279; - in tilts, i. 143; - on progress, i. 122–6. - - Devil on the stage, i. 256; iii. 423. - - Diagrams of stage, iii. 84. - - _Dicitori_ (players), iv. 358, 364. - - ‘Diet’, i. 51. - - Dining in state, i. 15, 34, 46. - - Disard, ii. 82. - - ‘Discoveries’, iii. 28, 81, 96, 111, 133. - - Disguising, i. 151. - - Disorders at playhouses, i. 264, 266, 283, 287, 291, 293, 297, 298, - 304, 317; ii. 100, 104, 105, 396, 441, 447; iii. 501; iv. 244, - 274, 277, 278, 279, 280, 282, 297, 310, 318, 321, 341. - - Division of companies, i. 293, 332, 341; ii. 106, 111, 121, 129, - 239; iv. 302, 312, 343. - - _Domus_, ii. 539; iii. 6–8, 31. - - Doors of playhouse, ii. 538; - on stage, iii. 73, 83, 100, 132; iv. 366. - - Double mask, i. 152, 154, 191. - - Doubling of parts, i. 371. - - Drama. _See_ Plays. - - Dramatists. _See_ Playwrights. - - Drums and trumpets announcing plays, ii. 160, 547; iv. 199, 203, - 219, 228, 291, 316, 320. - - Duke of York’s men, ii. 241–4. - - Duration of plays, iv. 195, 198, 230, 316. - - Duretto, i. 198; iii. 234; iv. 59. - - Dwarfs at court, i. 48. - - - E - - Earl Marshal, i. 33. - - ‘Earnest’, ii. 161. - - Earthquake, i. 256, 286–7; iv. 208. - - ‘Easer’ to playhouse, ii. 393, 402. - - Economics of stage, i. 308, 348–88. - - Edge of stage, action on, iii. 29, 90, 107, 154. - - Educational value of plays, i. 237–40, 249, 251; iv. 184, 186, 187, - 188, 191, 199. - - Εκκύκλημα, iii. 97. - - Elector Palatine’s men, ii. 190–2. - - ‘End’ of stage, iii. 74. - - _Engelische Comedien und Tragedien_, ii. 285. - - Enrolled Accounts, iv. 132, 134. - - Entrance fees, ii. 531–4, 556; iii. 501; iv. 194, 219, 228, 230, - 232, 240, 243, 366. - - Entrances to stage, iii. 73. - - _Entremets_, i. 152. - - Entry of maskers, i. 182. - - Epilogue, ii. 547, 550; iv. 256. - - Esquires of Body, i. 46, 50; - of Household, i. 42–4. - - Essex’s men, ii. 102. - - Ethics of the stage, i. 236–68; iv. 184–259 (extracts), 267, 269, - 273, 279, 281, 284, 291, 294, 295, 300, 303, 307, 317, 318, - 321. - - Eton, children of, ii. 73. - - Evelyn’s men, ii. 117. - - Exchequer, i. 5, 31, 54, 60, 62; iv. 131. - - Exchequer court, i. 8. - - ‘Excursions’, iii. 53. - - Execution scenes, iii. 57, 97. - - Executions near playhouse, ii. 396. - - Exemplifications of patents, i. 305, 355; ii. 192, 235, 259. - - ‘Extempore’ plays, ii. 553; iii. 287, 444–5. - - ‘Extraordinary’ household officers, i. 46, 49. - - Extravagance of plays, i. 252, 255, 263. - - - F - - Fairies in shows, i. 124; iii. 401–2; iv. 63. - - Family of Love, iii. 440, 441; iv. 11, 16, 29. - - ‘Fee lists’, i. 29. - - Fees of household, i. 29, 50; - of players, ii. 78, 83. - - Fencing, i. 289, 305, 361; ii. 343, 380, 382, 404, 410, 413–14, - 470, 499, 500, 529; iv. 54, 79, 121, 205, 206, 270, 277, 283, - 289, 293, 294, 324, 337. - - Ferrara, plays at, iii. 4, 8. - - Finance of masks, i. 207–12. - - Finance of stage. _See_ Boxholders, Entrance fees, Fees of players, - Gallery takings, Gatherers, Gratuity, Henslowe, Highway, - Hospitals, Housekeepers, Pensions, Poor, Profits, Rewards, - Sharers, Stock, Takings. - - Fines of players, ii. 256. - - _Finestre_ (windows), iv. 360. - - Fireworks, i. 123, 139; ii. 455; iv. 72, 73, 74, 88, 121, 122, 124, - 127. - - Flags on playhouses, ii. 546; iv. 219. - - _Folgore_ (lightning), iv. 365. - - Folk-survivals in masks, i. 150. - - Fools, at court, i. 48, 53; - on stage, ii. 327, 339. - _See_ Clowns. - - Foreshortening of space, iii. 25, 33, 37, 38, 41, 43, 50, 99, 117, - 137, 150. - - Forgeries, i. 59; ii. 79, 108, 159, 195, 207, 211, 229, 480, 496, - 508, 510, 515; iii. 247, 252, 266–7, 274, 292, 421, 423, 425, - 426, 428, 434, 459, 490, 512; iv. 1, 68, 136–41. - - Fortune playhouse, ii. 435–43. - - France, players in, ii. 292–4. - - Free list, i. 361, 374; ii. 387, 406. - - French players in England, iii. 19. - - Front curtains, i. 231; iii. 10, 21, 30, 44, 79. - - - G - - ‘Gag’, i. 322. - - Galleries, of stage, ii. 534; iii. 45, 90–8, 119; - of auditorium, ii. 514, 530–4, 555. - - Gallery takings, i. 355; ii. 131, 139, 182, 239, 245, 249, 256, - 388, 393, 412. - - Galliards, i. 6, 198; iii. 234, 239, 241, 278, 280, 282, 378, 380, - 383, 385, 390, 435; iv. 56, 57, 59, 115, 217. - - Garden scenes, iii. 55. - - _Garderoba_, i. 55. - - Garter, i. 20, 139; ii. 61, 160. - - Gatherers, i. 356, 371; ii. 150, 174, 187, 389, 392, 393, 406, 445, - 538. - - ‘Gatheryngs’, ii. 532; iii. 504. - - _Gelosi_, ii. 262–3. - - Geneva, history of plays at, i. 245. - - Gentlemen of Chapel, ii. 24–30; iv. 150; - of Privy Chamber, i. 43, 50. - - Gentlemen Ushers of Chamber, i. 44–5, 50, 108, 205, 226. - - Germany, players in, i. 342–7; ii. 272–92. - - ‘Gests’ of progresses, i. 108; iv. 117, 120, 126. - - ‘Get-penny’, i. 373. - - ‘Ghost-names’, ii. 108, 312, 319; iii. 495. - - Gifts in mask, i. 150, 160, 168, 196; iii. 278, 279, 282, 375, 435, - 468; - on progress, i. 113, 116, 125. - - Globe playhouse, ii. 414–34. - - ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ Shakespearian quartos, iii. 185. - - Gowry Day, i. 21. - - Grades in household, i. 42. - - _Gradi_ (tiers of seats), iv. 355, 358. - - Graphic dances, i. 199. - - ‘Gratuity’ to players, i. 339. - - Gray’s Inn, i. 214, 222; iii. 233, 239, 320–1, 348; iv. 56, 59, 82, - 109, 127, 143, 162. - - Great Chamber, i. 13, 216. - - Green Cloth, board of, i. 35. - - Groom Porter of Chamber, i. 45, 100. - - Grooms of Chamber, i. 45, 50, 208, 311, 358; - of Privy Chamber, i. 43, 50; - of Revels, i. 93, 100; - of Stole, i. 53. - - Grooms, in playhouses. _See_ Attendants. - - Groundlings, ii. 527; iv. 366. - - Guard Chamber, i. 13. - - Guilds and plays, i. 289, 296. - - Gunpowder Day, i. 21; iii. 367. - - - H - - Hall officers, i. 34, 226. - - ‘Hall’ or ‘room’, for masks, ii. 189; - for interludes, iii. 23, 27. - - Hall scenes, iii. 63, 86. - - Hallowmas, i. 21; iv. 237. - - Halls of palaces, i. 13, 15, 202, 216. - - Hangings, iii. 78, 111, 133, 501; iv. 367, 370. - - Harbingers, i. 46, 108. - - Harlots in playhouses, i. 255, 264; ii. 549; iv. 203, 209, 211, - 218, 223. - - ‘Heavens’, ii. 544–6, 555; iii. 30, 75–7, 108, 133, 501. - - ‘Hell’, ii. 528; iii. 30, 501. - - Hell-mouth, i. 232; ii. 528; iii. 72, 90. - - Henchmen, i. 45. - - Henslowe’s companies, finance of, ii. 94, 121, 123, 139–43, 148, - 156–7, 159–64, 174, 181–5, 189, 225–8, 245, 248–50, 254–7. - - _Hercules, Labours of_, i. 152, 246; ii. 90. - - Hereditary household officers, i. 32. - - Hertford’s men, ii. 116. - - Hesse-Cassel, players at court of, ii. 277–83. - - High Commission, i. 275–6; iii. 162, 166–8, 171–2; iv. 265, 303. - - Highway rates on playhouses, i. 317; iv. 344. - - Hireling players, i. 362, 370; ii. 184, 250; iv. 204. - - Hiring of playhouses, i. 369; ii. 448, 516. - - Hissing, ii. 549. - - Hobby-horses, i. 232; iii. 475; iv. 91, 217. - - Hock Tuesday play, i. 123. - - ‘Honour’ in dance, i. 198; iii. 241. - - Hope playhouse, ii. 448–71. - - Horse and ape baited, ii. 454–7. - - Horse, performing, ii. 383; iii. 279. - - Hospitals, subsidies by players to, iv. 272, 275. - - _Hosteria_ (inn), iv. 360. - - Hôtel de Bourgogne, staging at, iii. 15–19. - - Hour of performances, i. 289, 313; ii. 543, 556; iv. 262, 288, 300, - 316. - - Household, i. 30–70. - - Household accounts, iv. 131. - - ‘Housekeepers’, i. 356, 368; ii. 417, 425, 442, 510. - - ‘Houses’ for plays, i. 78, 229; iii. 21, 42. - - Howard’s men, ii. 134–86. - - Humanism and the stage, i. 237, 250. - - Hunsdon’s men, ii. 192–208. - - Hunt in plays, i. 232. - - Hunting, i. 7, 11, 13, 17, 21, 22. - - ‘Hut’, ii. 544–6; iii. 78. - - - I - - _Imprese_, i. 143, 148, 197; iii. 213, 403; iv. 57, 231. - - Improvisation, ii. 553. - - _Infamia_ of players, i. 252, 254; iv. 195, 199, 215, 217. - - ‘Ingle’, ii. 550. - - Inhibition of plays. _See_ Restraint. - - Inner Temple, i. 214, 221; iii. 215, 233, 237, 238, 457, 514; iv. - 80, 82, 127. - - ‘Innovation’, restraint for, ii. 206. - - Inns, plays in, i. 283, 284, 304; ii. 356, 379–83, 527; iv. 267, - 273, 288, 340, 369. - - Inter-act dances, ii. 557; iii. 130; - music, ii. 541, 557; iii. 125, 130. - - Interior action, iii. 63, 70, 119, 133, 152. - - Interlude, early use of term, i. 56. - - Interlude players of Household, i. 48, 63; ii. 77–85. - - Interludes, setting of, iii. 21–7. - - _Intermedii_, i. 152, 185; iii. 6, 384; iv. 356. - - Inventories of Admiral’s, ii. 165. - - Ireland, players in, i. 341. - - Italian plays, ii. 261–5. - - Italy, player in, ii. 273. - - - J - - Jesuit plays, i. 323; iv. 374, 377, 401. - - Jewel House, i. 42, 57, 63. - - Jigs, i. 304; ii. 325, 342, 404, 455, 542, 551; iii. 496; iv. 217, - 243, 340. - - Jugglers, iv. 192, 217, 270. - - Justices, control of plays by, i. 271, 274, 276, 279, 285, 299, - 306, 337. - - ‘Juxtaposition’ of backgrounds, iii. 18, 21. - - - K - - Keepers of Bears, ii. 450–2; - of Dogs, ii. 450–1; - of Council Chamber Door, i. 69. - - King of the Bean, i. 19; iv. 82. - - King’s men, ii. 208–20. - - King’s Revels (1629–37), iv. 43. - - King’s Revels, children of, ii. 64–8. - - Kirk of Scotland and plays, ii. 265–8. - - Knight Marshal, i. 33. - - Knight of Crown, i. 141; iii. 403. - - Knight of Pendragon Castle, iii. 268. - - Knights of Body, i. 42–4. - - Knights, satirized in plays, iii. 215, 252, 253, 255, 257, 439, - 440; iv. 37, 38. - - - L - - Labels, for localities, iii. 30, 40, 122, 126, 137, 154; - for play-titles, iii. 20, 41, 126, 137, 154; - for properties, iii. 137. - - Ladies at playhouses, ii. 549, 555. - - Ladies of Bed Chamber, i. 44, 54; - of Drawing Chamber, i. 54; - of Presence Chamber, i. 45; - of Privy Chamber, i. 44, 54. - - Lady Elizabeth’s men, ii. 246–60. - - Lady Essex’s men, ii. 103. - - Lady Warwick’s men, ii. 99. - - _Lampo_, iv. 365. - - Lane’s men, ii. 96. - - Lavoltas, i. 198; iii. 241, 435. - - Lawsuits of players, ii. 23, 43, 57, 64, 80, 128, 131, 156, 202, - 221, 236–40, 241–3, 383, 387–93, 398–400, 414, 424, 445, - 515–17. - - Leap-year, in plays, iii. 253, 292, 440; iv. 21, 29. - - Learned counsel, i. 69. - - Leicester’s boys, ii. 88. - - Leicester’s men, ii. 85–91. - - Length of plays, ii. 543, 556. - - Lennox’s men, ii. 241. - - Lent, restraint in, i. 286, 297, 301, 315; ii. 141–2, 159–60; iv. - 256, 278, 297, 332, 336, 342. - - _Liaison_, iii. 200. - - ‘Liberties’, ii. 477–80. - - Licences, _for plays_, by high commission, i. 275; - by local officers, i. 276; - by master of revels, i. 318; ii. 222; iii. 276; - by privy council, i. 275; - by secondaries of the compter, i. 275; - by sovereign, i. 275; - by special commission, i. 295, 319; - by Samuel Daniel, ii. 49; - _for playhouses_, by local officers, i. 276, 279, 299, 306, 337; - by master of revels, i. 288, 295; - by privy council, i. 300; - _for playing companies_, by lords, i. 266, 270, 274, 276, 279, - 286, 294, 299, 304, 310, 335, 337, 354; ii. 222; - by master of revels, i. 288; ii. 221; - by privy council, i. 274, 300; ii. 94, 123; - under signet, i. 306, 338; ii. 260; - _for printing books_, by correctors, iii. 162–77, 187–92; - by high commission, iii. 162, 166–8; - by lord chamberlain, iii. 192; - by master of revels, iii. 158, 169, 191, 258; - by privy council, iii. 159–63, 168; - by sovereign, iii. 160; - by Stationers’ company, iii. 162–77, 187–92; - subject to conditions, iii. 169, 188–90. - _See_ Censorship, Deputations, Exemplifications, Patents, - Restraints. - - _Liebeskampff_, ii. 285. - - Lighting of plays, i. 225, 227; ii. 541, 543, 556; iv. 372. - - Lincoln’s Inn, i. 222; iii. 260; iv. 127. - - Lincoln’s men, ii. 96. - - Lion-baiting, ii. 454. - - Lists for tilt, i. 140. - - Livery of Household, i. 51, 539; - of players, i. 311, 313; ii. 82, 86, 105, 107, 211, 229, 239. - - Local players, i. 280, 310, 328. - - Locality, indicated in dialogue, iii. 41, 127; - change of, iii. 18, 25, 34, 36, 38–9, 43, 102, 121. - _See_ Edge, Foreshortening, Juxtaposition, Labels, Multiple, - Split Scenes, Unity. - - _Loggia_, iii. 25, 32, 36, 43. - - Long Parliament, plays suppressed by, i. 306, 387. - - Lord Lieutenant, plays licensed by, i. 276. - - Lord Mayor’s show, i. 135–8; iii. 305, 443, 445, 448, 455, 463; iv. - 72. - - Lords of Misrule, i. 19, 135; iv. 55, 71, 80, 200. - - Lords of players, i. 266, 270, 274, 276, 279, 286, 294, 299, 304, - 310, 335, 337, 354; ii. 3, 221; iii. 180, 188; iv. 205, 210, - 230, 237, 263, 264, 268, 293, 298, 316, 319, 320, 324, 326, - 328, 334, 337. - - Lords’ rooms, ii. 531, 535–7; iii. 118; iv. 366. - - Lost plays (list), iv. 398–404. - - Lotteries, iv. 67, 400. - - _Lumi artificiali_, iv. 355, 363. - - _Luoghi deputati_, iii. 6. - - Lutenists, i. 49; ii. 31, 277. - - - M - - Machines, i. 179, 184, 232, 233; iii. 77, 97, 282, 376, 378–9, 383, - 386; iv. 370, 371. - - Maids of Honour, i. 45; iii. 514; iv. 114, 352. - - ‘Maisons’, iii. 16. - - Managers of companies, i. 352; ii. 219, 238–9. - - Manuscript plays (list), iv. 404–6. - - Manuscripts used by players, iii. 193–7; iv. 4, 32, 43, 45. - - Maps and plans of London, ii. 353–5, 376–9, 433. - - Marprelate controversy, i. 261, 294; ii. 18, 110, 412; iii. 450; - iv. 229–33. - - _Mascarade_, i. 176. - - ‘Mask’, etymology of, i. 153. - - Masks, i. 75, 76, 78, 79, 86, 100, 149–212; iii. 500; - characters in, i. 158, 192; - inserted in plays, i. 186–90. - _See_ Alphabetical, Antimask, Assaults, Banquets, Books, - Commoning, Devices, Double Mask, Entry, Finance, - Folk-survivals, Gifts, Hall, Honour, Patterns, Perspective, - Proscenium, Revels, Scenes, Spectators, Taking out, - Torch-bearers, Truchmen. - - ‘Masque’, so spelt by Jonson, i. 176. - - Master of Ceremonies, i. 53; - of Horse, i. 34, 67, 100, 107, 209; - of Paris Garden, ii. 450–3; - of Posts, i. 48, 62, 69; - of Requests, i. 48, 69; - of Robes, i. 52. - - Master of Revels, i. 71–105, 282, 288, 295, 299, 300, 303, 305, - 318–22; iv. 135–41, 272, 285, 293, 305, 308–9, 325, 338, 340, - 342, 343; - fees of, i. 319; ii. 184; - play-texts altered by, i. 320; - supposed players of, i. 318; ii. 223. - _See_ Licences. - - Masters of Chapel, ii. 23, 27; - of Eton, ii. 73; - of Merchant Taylors, ii. 75; - of Paul’s, ii. 8, 21; - of Westminster, ii. 69; - of Windsor Chapel, ii. 61. - - Masters of companies, i. 379, 386; iv. 371. - - Masterships in Household, i. 34. - - Matachines, iii. 280, 382; iv. 162. - - Mat-layer, i. 182, 208; iii. 262. - - May games, i. 4, 6, 20, 120, 135, 303; iii. 268, 391; iv. 44, 77, - 94, 113, 115, 200, 231–3, 247, 311, 338. - - Mayors, control of plays by. _See_ Justices, Restraint. - - Measures, i. 198; iii. 234, 239, 241, 278, 280, 282, 375, 378, 383, - 385, 386, 434; iv. 56, 57, 59. - - Men companies, list of, ii. 77. - - Merchant Taylors, i. 296; ii. 72, 75, 213; iii. 394, 493; iv. 309; - children of, ii. 75. - - ‘Merriments’, ii. 325; iv. 24. - - _Messalina_ engraving, ii. 519. - - Messengers of Chamber, i. 45, 69; ii. 114; iii. 444. - - ‘Mewing’, ii. 549; iv. 369. - - Middle Temple, i. 222; iii. 260; iv. 111, 127. - - Midsummer bonfires, i. 20; - watch, i. 4, 135; iv. 81. - - _Mimorum aedes_, ii. 538. - - Minstrels, i. 48; iv. 337. - - ‘Momer’, ii. 324, 332. - - _Momeries_, i. 152. - - ‘Monarke’ at Revels office, i. 87. - - ‘Morals’ written for printing, iii. 179. - - Morascos, i. 198; iv. 59. - - _Moresche_, i. 195; iii. 6; iv. 356. - - Morley’s men, ii. 113, 120, 124, 192. - - Morris dance, i. 4, 124, 126, 135, 151, 156, 195, 262; ii. 326; - iii. 362, 391, 453, 513; iv. 77, 78, 96, 200, 217, 231, 311, - 367. - - Mother of the Maids, i. 45, 54; iv. 67. - - Motions, i. 281; iii. 373; iv. 271; - in masks, iii. 382, 387. - - ‘Mouth’, officers for, i. 46. - - ‘Multiple’ staging, iii. 18, 21, 25, 43. - - Mumming, i. 150–1. - - Music, ii. 541, 556. - - Music house, i. 225; ii. 542, 557; iii. 139. - - Music room, iii. 96, 120. - - Music tree, ii. 557; iii. 137. - - Musicians at court, i. 48, 63; - in masks, i. 201. - - - N - - ‘ne’, significance of, ii. 122, 141, 145; iii. 421. - - Netherlands, players in, ii. 273–4, 285, 288, 291, 292. - - New Year’s Day, i. 19, 213. - - Newington Butts playhouse, ii. 404. - - Night performances, i. 304; iv. 225, 247, 268, 302, 306, 340. - - Nîmes, synod of, i. 249. - - Nottingham’s men, ii. 141–86. - - - O - - Open country scenes, iii. 51. - - _Orchestra_, ii. 530. - - _Ordinanze di figurette_ (plots?), iv. 364. - - Original Accounts, iv. 132. - - ‘Originals’ of plays, iii. 193, 227. - - _Orizonte_ (vanishing-point), iv. 355–8. - - Ostend, siege of, iv. 39. - - Out-of-doors action, convention of, iii. 29, 42, 60, 63. - - Outer Chamber, i. 42, 45. - - ‘Over the stage’, ii. 534. - - Oxford’s boys, ii. 100–1. - - Oxford’s men, ii. 99–102. - - - P - - ‘Pageanter’, iii. 445. - - Pageants, i. 126, 132, 135, 138, 151, 160, 175, 303; ii. 90; iii. - 20, 305, 358, 445; iv. 60, 63, 77, 92, 118, 121, 231, 339. - - Pages of Chamber, i. 45. - - Palaces, i. 8–15. - - Palsgrave’s men, ii. 190–2. - - Papist plays, i. 328. - - _Pariete_ (scenic wall), iv. 355, 362. - - Paris Garden, ii. 450–65. - - Parliaments, i. 22. - - ‘Parts’ of plays, ii. 44; iii. 185, 194, 329. - - Passports, ii. 138, 274. - - Patents, stages of, i. 272; - for Master of Revels, i. 89, 99; iv. 285; - for playing companies, i. 281, 302, 304, 305, 385; ii. 49, 55, - 56, 67, 68, 87, 187, 190, 208, 218, 229, 230, 243, 246; iv. - 270, 272, 335–43, 344; - for playhouse, ii. 472. - - Patterns for masks, i. 163, 165. - - Paul’s, children of, ii. 8–23; - grammar school, ii. 9–11, 16, 21; - playhouse, ii. 16; iii. 144. - - Payments for court plays, iv. 141–83. - - Pembroke’s men, ii. 128–34, 166, 199. - - _Pendentia_ (rake of stage), iv. 356. - - Pensioners, i. 47, 50, 140; iv. 352. - - Pensions of players, i. 352; ii. 191, 237. - - Pent-house, ii. 544. - - _Pergoli_ (balconies), iv. 360. - - Περίακτοι (turn-tables), i. 233; iii. 3. - - Perspective, in mask-settings, i. 184; - on court stage, i. 231; - on Italian stage, iii. 8–10, 13; iv. 355; - on French stage, iii. 17; - on court stage, iii. 21, 44; - in private theatres, iii. 133, 154. - - Phoenix playhouse, ii. 372, 375. - - _Pianta_ (ground-plan of stage), iv. 355. - - Pippins in playhouses, iv. 203, 218. - - ‘Piracy’ of plays, iii. 184–92. - - Pit, ii. 555; iv. 372. - - ‘Place’, iii. 22, 27, 37. - - ‘Place behind the stage’, iii. 82. - - Plagiarism, iii. 408. - - Plague, history of, in London, i. 329; iv. 345–51; - bills of, i. 292, 302, 330; iv. 301, 336, 338, 345; - restraint of plays for, i. 267, 278, 282, 286–97, 302–4, 329; - ii. 113; iv. 259–345, 346–51; - subsidies to King’s men in, i. 218; ii. 210, 214; iv. 168, 174, - 176; - in progress time, i. 109, 111, 119, 121. - - _Platea_, iii. 16, 22. - - _Plaudite_, ii. 549; iii. 370; iv. 366. - - Players as covenant servants, ii. 154; - as gentlemen, i. 349; ii. 98, 298; - as Grooms of Chamber, i. 47, 52, 311; ii. 105, 211; iv. 169; - as rogues and vagabonds, i. 254, 270, 279, 287, 292, 294, 299, - 305, 383; iv. 224, 230, 255, 258, 270, 300, 324, 337; - in masks, i. 200; ii. 217; - in poets’ feathers, i. 376; iii. 326, 450; - in prison, i. 298, 339; ii. 52, 55, 155, 323; iii. 257, 353, 496; - iv. 305, 323; - on the road, i. 332, 376, 380, 383–4; iii. 353; iv. 236, 241, - 257; - pressing of, i. 383; iv. 18. - _See_ Apparel, Apprentices, Arms, Boys, Casts, Chameleon, Clowns, - Continent, Contracts, Conversion, Copper lace, Debts, - Doubling, Fines, Hireling, Infamia, Lawsuits, Quality, - Ranting, Recognisances, Statutes, Supers, Temperament, - Vizards, Women. - - Playhouses, list of, ii. 379; - succession of, ii. 355–79; - iconography of, ii. 519; - audience in, ii. 548, 555; - auditorium of, ii. 526–38, 555; - cost of, i. 368; ii. 387, 391, 406–9, 423, 436, 441, 443; - destruction of, ii. 374; - luxury of, i. 285, 348; ii. 358, 395, 530; iv. 197, 200, 217, - 269; - profits of, i. 355, 368; ii. 391, 424–5, 510, 512; - seating of, ii. 530–8, 555; - shape of, ii. 524, 554; - size of, ii. 527, 554; - structure of, ii. 393, 409, 434, 439, 443, 448, 522–57; - suppression of, in city, ii. 359; - visits of foreigners to, ii. 358–69. - _See_ Accidents, Attendants, Bills, Bookholders, Books, Boxes, - Boxholders, Bullettini, Burning, Cards, Contracts, Cressets, - Cutpurses, Disorders, Doors, Entrance fees, Executions, - Flags, Free list, Galleries, Gatherers, Groundlings, Harlots, - Hiring, Hissing, Hour, Housekeepers, Hut, Ladies, Licences, - Lighting, Lords’ rooms, Mewing, Night, Pent-house, Pippins, - Pit, Plaudite, Private, Public, Refreshments, Rooms, Round, - Shadow, Seats, Signs, Smoking, Sounding, Square, Stage, - Stagekeepers, Staging, Stinkards, Stools, Taphouses, Tiring - house, Tombs, Top, Trumpets, Understanders, Upper rooms, - Yard. - - Playing companies, lists of, i. 341; ii. 8, 77; - succession of, ii. 3–8; - organization of, i. 310–13, 352–68, 378. - _See_ Adult, Amalgamation, Articles, Associations, Badges, Bonds, - Boy, Competition, Compositions, Deputations, Division, - Exemplifications, Finance, Housekeepers, Licences, Local, - Lords, Managers, Masters, Patents, Pensions, Provincial, - Sharers, Size, Stock, Syndicates. - - Plays, lists of, iv. 373–406; - called ballads, iii. 504, 505; - falsity of, i. 254; iv. 211, 217; - incongruities in, iii. 40, 88; iv. 201, 203, 215, 226, 248; - preferred to sermons, i. 255, 258; iv. 199, 219, 223, 304; - price of, i. 372; ii. 160–4; - written for printing, iii. 28; - within plays, iii. 93. - _See_ Acts, Calvinism, Closet, Defences, Duration, Epilogue, - Ethics, Extempore, Get-penny, Length, Morals, Plots, - Politics, Prayers, Prologue, Puritans, Religious, Revision, - Revivals, Runs, Satire, Sedition, Topical, Vice. - - Play-texts, sold to printers, iii. 184, 194; - printing of, i. 341; ii. 114, 128; iii. 158–200, 479. - _See_ Abridgement, Assembled, Copy, Copyright, Corrector, Good - and Bad, Manuscripts, Morals, Originals, Parts, Piracy, - Press-corrections, Publishers, Scriveners, Shorthand, - Stage-directions, Star Chamber, Stationers, Staying, - Surreptitious. - - Playwrights, collaboration of, ii. 161, 253; iii. 368; - in prison, iii. 254, 257, 263, 270, 353, 367, 394, 419, 428, 454, - 500; - relation of, to players, i. 372–86; ii. 162, 251–3; iii. 325, - 365, 450; iv. 236, 241, 450; - to boy companies, i. 378; ii. 50. - _See_ Amanuensis, Benefits, Earnest. - - _Pléiade_, plays of, iii. 13, 19. - - ‘Plot’ of playhouse, ii. 439. - - ‘Plots’ of plays, ii. 125, 136, 150, 158, 175–7; iii. 125, 459, - 496, 500; iv. 9, 14, 47, 51, 404. - - _Poetomachia_, i. 381; iii. 252, 292, 293, 353, 365, 369, 428, 430; - iv. 11, 17, 21, 40, 47. - - _Poggiuoli_ (balconies), iv. 360. - - Politics in plays, i. 244, 262–3, 276, 304, 321, 322–8; ii. 51–5, - 196, 204, 210, 211, 215; iii. 254, 257, 271, 275, 286, 296, - 364, 367, 415. - - _Pomponiani_, iii. 3. - - Poor rate on playhouses, i. 281, 283, 294, 300, 301, 317; ii. 410; - iv. 304, 316, 324, 325, 327, 328. - - Porter of St. John’s Gate, i. 79, 93, 100. - - Porter’s Hall playhouse, ii. 472–4; iii. 272. - - _Porticus_, ii. 530. - - Posts, Master of, i. 48, 62, 69. - - Posts on stage, ii. 544–5; iii. 27, 38, 72, 75, 108. - - Prayers at end of plays, i. 245, 311; ii. 550; iii. 180, 466, 470, - 504, 505; iv. 3, 37, 50, 51. - - Prayer-time, restraint in, i. 282, 283, 289, 292, 313; ii. 123. - - Presence Chamber, i. 14; iv. 351–3. - - Presenters, iii. 92, 128. - - President of Council, i. 68. - - Press-corrections, iii. 197. - - Prices of seats, ii. 531–4, 536. - - Prince Charles’s men, ii. 241–6. - - Prince Henry’s men, ii. 186–90. - - Printed plays (list), iv. 379–97. - - Prison scenes, iii. 62, 66. - - Private performances, i. 219, 283, 292, 340; ii. 159; iii. 451–3; - iv. 36, 276, 300, 302, 308. - - ‘Private’ playhouses, i. 380; ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iii. 149; iv. - 366, 372; - arrangements of, ii. 554–6; - staging in, iii. 130–54. - - ‘Privileges’ for books, iii. 159. - - Privy Chamber, i. 14, 42. - - Privy Council, i. 66–70; - Clerks of, i. 48, 68; - register of, i. 68, 277; iv. 259; - control of plays by, i. 69, 217, 266–8, 269–307; iii. 367; iv. - 259–345; - of printing, iii. 159–63, 168, 172. - - Privy Gallery, i. 14. - - Privy Garden, i. 14. - - Privy Purse, i. 62, 66. - - Privy Seal, i. 54, 56, 67. - - Proclamations, i. 68, 270, 273, 276, 279, 302. - - Profanity in plays, i. 255, 303, 322; iv. 338. - - _Profilo_ (section of playhouse), iv. 353–5. - - Profits of players, i. 348, 368–70; iv. 200, 219, 269, 371. - - Progresses, i. 17, 21, 107–31; ii. 25; - plays during, i. 214. - - Prologue, ii. 542, 547; iii. 72; iv. 367. - - Prompters. _See_ Bookholders. - - Properties, i. 224, 231, 372; ii. 168; iii. 88, 137; iv. 367. - - _Proscenio_ (floor of stage), iii. 4; iv. 355, 358. - - Proscenium, ii. 528, 540; iii. 16, 31. - - Proscenium arch of masks, i. 181, 234; - of plays, i. 234; iii. 20. - - Provinces, plays in, i. 304, 328, 332–41, 387; ii. 1; iv. 36, 273, - 311, 319. - - ‘Provision’, offices of, i. 35. - - Public halls, plays in, ii. 356. - - ‘Public’ playhouses, ii. 355, 511, 522, 536; iv. 366. - - Publishers, iv. 379; - play-lists of, iv. 398. - - _Pueri elemosinariae_, ii. 9, 70. - - Puppet plays. _See_ Motions. - - Puritans and plays, i. 236–68, 294; iv. 184–259 (extracts). - - Purveyance, i. 116. - - - Q - - _Quadri_ (squares), iv. 356, 358. - - ‘Quality’ of players, i. 309. - - ‘Queen’ of folk, i. 124; iv. 78. - - Queen’s men, ii. 83, 104–15, 229–40. - - Queen’s Revels, children of, ii. 48–51, 56–61; iii. 273. - - Quintain, i. 123. - - - R - - ‘Rake’ of stage, i. 233; iv. 356. - - Ranting of players, i. 384; ii. 447. - - _Rappresentazioni_, iii. 6. - - Recesses on stage, iii. 42, 51, 70, 81, 110. - - Recognisances by players, i. 283, 300, 319; iv. 261, 269, 275, 298, - 325, 327, 333, 340. - - Recreation, i. 267, 309. - - Red Bull playhouse, ii. 445–8. - - Red Lion playhouse, ii. 379. - - _Rederijker_, iii. 102. - - Refreshments, ii. 548. - - Regensburg theatre, iii. 78. - - Rehearsals, i. 87, 223; iv. 149, 152, 157, 252, 286, 372. - - Religious subjects in plays, i. 239–45, 255, 266, 323, 325; ii. - 265; iv. 185, 188, 196, 198, 222, 369. - - _Remembrancia_ of City, i. 277, 286; iv. 259. - - ‘Removes’, i. 17, 20. - - _Renghiere_ (balconies), iv. 360. - - ‘Repertory’ theatres, ii. 148; - output of, ii. 162. - - Requests, Masters of, i. 48, 69. - - Restraint of plays, i. 265, 269–307; iv. 259–345; - area of, i. 278, 282, 331; ii. 94, 123. - _See_ Innovation, Lent, Plague, Prayer-time, Royal deaths, - Sedition, Sunday. - - Retainers, i. 271, 279; ii. 86; iv. 268, 293. - - Revels, children of, ii. 51. - - Revels companies in provinces, ii. 53, 59–61, 67. - - ‘Revels’ in mask, i. 198; iii. 386. - - Revels Office, i. 71–105, 116, 223; - airings in, i. 78, 101; - allowances to officers of, i. 76, 79, 90, 94, 101; - arms and seal of, i. 104; - commission for, i. 84, 89, 99; - finance and accounts of, i. 71–105; iv. 135–41, 142–83 - (extracts); - functions of, at court plays, i. 223; - housing of, i. 74, 75, 81, 83, 87, 89, 95, 101; ii. 477, 491–3, - 516; - inventories of, i. 73, 74, 76, 89, 158; iv. 136; - ledgers of, i. 74, 82. - _See_ Clerk, Clerk Comptroller, Groom, Master, Yeoman. - - Revision of plays, i. 373, 384; ii. 130, 170, 172, 179; iii. 396, - 423, 431, 433, 440. - - Revivals of plays, i. 373; ii. 43, 211; iii. 104, 364. - - Rewards for plays, i. 217, 369; ii. 78–9. - - Rich’s men, ii. 91. - - ‘Riding’ charges, i. 63. - - Rings, ii. 355, 449, 525. - - ‘Rivers’, iii. 51, 58, 90, 107. - - Robes, Master of, i. 52; - Mistress of, i. 44. - - Rome, plays at, iii. 3, 9. - - ‘Room’. _See_ ‘Hall’. - - ‘Rooms’, ii. 530. - - Roscius, i. 376–7; ii. 297–8, 329, 331; iii. 223, 353; iv. 195, - 204, 228, 230, 236, 239. - - Rose playhouse, ii. 405–10. - - Round playhouses, ii. 355, 434, 524; iv. 372. - - _Roxana_ engraving, ii. 519. - - Royal deaths, restraint for, i. 302, 304, 329, 339; iv. 335, 341. - - _Ruffiana_ (courtesan), iii. 32; iv. 359. - - Running at the ring, iii. 243, 279; iv. 74, 80, 121, 125, 127. - - ‘Runs’ of plays, ii. 148. - - Rushes on stage, ii. 529; iv. 366–8. - - - S - - St. Elizabeth’s Day, i. 18. - - St. George’s Day, i. 20; iii. 367; iv. 71. - - St. Peter’s watch, iv. 81. - - Salisbury Court playhouse, ii. 373, 375, 517. - - Satire in plays, i. 258, 261–3, 268–9, 322–8; iv. 194, 238, 253, - 256, 368; - of bishops, i. 294; - citizens, i. 264; iv. 239; - courtiers, iii. 310; - French, i. 323; ii. 53; iii. 257, 426; - Henri IV, ii. 53; - James, i. 325–8; ii. 53; - humours, i. 263; - lawyers, iii. 365, 475; - magistrates, iv. 254; - persons of honour, i. 321, 324, 327; ii. 343; iii. 455, 496; iv. - 332; - Poles, iii. 455; - Puritans, i. 261, 262, 294; iii. 372, 476; iv. 229–33, 245, 249; - Scotch, i. 323, 326; ii. 51; iii. 254, 286, 354, 432; - soldiers, iii. 365; - sovereigns, i. 327–8, 493; iv. 247, 254; - Spanish, i. 323; - Swedish, i. 324; - usurers, iii. 286, 288; iv. 239; - women, iii. 417; &c., &c. - _See_ Marprelate, Sedition. - - _Satyre_, iv. 362. - - Saxony, players at court of, ii. 288–9. - - _Scale_ (steps), iv. 358. - - _Scena_, ii. 539; iii. 3. - - _Scenae trigemina corona_, i. 251. - - _Scenarie_, iv. 404. - - _Scene_, iv. 353–65. - - Scenes, as background for stage, i. 233; iii. 12, 129; iv. 366, - 370, 371, 372; - for masks, i. 155, 170–84; - as divisions of play, iii. 50, 125, 131, 199; - types of, iii. 50–68, 106. - _See_ Perspective. - - Scenic presentation. _See_ Staging. - - Schoolboy plays, i. 378; ii. 11, 69–76; iii. 211. - - Scotland, players in, i. 341; ii. 78, 265–70. - - Scriveners’ copies of plays, iii. 193. - - Seasons for plays, i. 329. - - Seats on stage, ii. 534–8; iv. 366–8. - - Secondaries of the Compter, plays licensed by, i. 275. - - Secretaries of State, i. 48, 56, 67, 68. - - _Secretarii_, i. 55, 56. - - _Sedie_ (seats), iv. 355, 358. - - _Sedilia_, ii. 530. - - Sedition in plays, i. 264, 266, 271, 273, 275, 283, 295, 299; iii. - 453–5; iv. 322. - _See_ Politics, Restraints, Satire, Theology. - - ‘Senate houses’, i. 231; iii. 44, 58, 95. - - Serjeants, i. 34, 42; - at Arms, i. 47. - - Servitors in playhouses. _See_ Attendants. - - Setting of plays. _See_ Staging. - - Sewers for Chamber, i. 46. - - ‘Shadow’, ii. 544. - - Sharers, i. 352–8, 369; iv. 369. - - _Sharers Papers_ of 1635, i. 357; ii. 59, 384, 417, 425, 508–10. - - Shepherds, king and queen of, iv. 66. - - Ship-board scenes, iii. 116. - - Shoes, in play, ii. 326, 365; iii. 362. - - Shops on stage, iii. 59, 110. - - Shorthand, plays reported by, iii. 185, 343–4. - - Shrovetide, i. 20, 213; iv. 237. - - Shrove-Tuesday riots, i. 265; ii. 240. - - ‘Side’ of stage, iii. 74. - - Siege scenes, iii. 38, 54, 96. - - Signet, Clerks of, i. 48, 57. - - Signet licences for players, i. 306, 338; ii. 260. - - Signs of theatres, ii. 362, 400, 424. - - Silver mine, satire of, in play, ii. 53. - - Sinking curtains, iii. 9, 30. - - Size of companies, i. 354. - - Small seals, i. 56. - - Smoking in playhouse, ii. 548; iv. 367. - - ‘Solace’ of queen, i. 267, 292. - - ‘Soundings’ in playhouse, ii. 542; iii. 72; iv. 368. - - Sovereign, plays licensed by, i. 275. - - Spain, players in, ii. 292. - - Spanish landings in Cornwall, iv. 251. - - Spectators, _rôle_ of, in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197. - - ‘Split’ scenes, iii. 86. - - Square playhouse, ii. 439, 524. - - Stage, structure of, ii. 528. - - Stage-directions, nature of, iii. 180, 193–8; - players named in, iii. 196, 227, 271, 285, 295, 330; iv. 32, 43, - 45. - - Stagekeepers, ii. 109, 541; iv. 38. - - Staging, in Italy, iii. 2–12; iv. 353–65; - in France, iii. 12–19; - at court, iii. 19–46; - in 16th century, iii. 47–102; - in 17th century, iii. 103–30; - in private theatres, iii. 130–54; - change of locality the problem of, iii. 18, 99, 121–30. - _See_ Above, Academic, Alcove, Alternationist, Animals, Arbours, - Arras, Atmospheric, Back cloths, Beam, Bears, Bed, Black, - Canopy, Castles, Close walk, Counting house, Curtains, - Descents, Diagrams, Discoveries, Domus, Doors, Edge, - Εκκύκλημα, End, Entrance, Excursions, Foreshortening, - Hangings, Heavens, Hell, Houses, Hut, Interior action, - Interludes, Juxtaposition, Locality, Machines, Multiple, - Out-of-doors, Over, Perspective, Place, Posts, Properties, - Rake, Recesses, Rivers, Rushes, Scenes, Senate houses, Shops, - Side, Stairs, Standardization, Studies, Tents, Throne, - Thunder, Titles, Traps, Traverse, Trees, Upper stage, Walls, - Windows, Wings. - - ‘Stairs’, iii. 95. - - ‘Standardization of effects’, iii. 2, 50, 131. - - ‘Standing’ houses, i. 8, 115; - offices, i. 49, 71, 102. - - Stanley’s boys, ii. 119. - - Star Chamber, i. 67, 69, 273, 300, 328; ii. 43; iv. 327; - orders of, on printing, iii. 162, 166, 172. - - ‘State’ for sovereign, i. 203, 226. - - Stationers, ethics of, iii. 186. - - Stationers’ Company, iii. 160–77, 186–91, 505; iv. 265, 303. - - Stationers’ Register, iii. 158, 163–77, 188–91, 422; iv. 379, 398. - - Statistics of plays, iii. 22, 49, 105, 177, 181–3. - - Statutes concerning players, i. 270, 276, 279, 299, 303, 304; iv. - 260, 263, 269, 324, 336, 338. - - ‘Staying’ of printing, ii. 172, 204; iii. 183–91, 292, 359–60. - - Steward of Household, Lord, i. 35, 55, 67. - - ‘Stinkards’, ii. 533; iv. 366. - - Stock of playing companies, i. 352, 372; ii. 55, 137, 230, 243. - - Stole, Groom of, i. 53. - - ‘Stools’, ii. 535–7; iv. 366–8. - - _Strade_ (gangways), iv. 355. - - Strange’s men, ii. 118–24. - - Street scenes, iii. 56. - - _Strenae_, i. 5, 19. - - ‘Strolling’ players, i. 332. - - ‘Studies’, iii. 67, 110. - - Suburbs convenient for players, i. 278, 284, 298, 300; ii. 370. - - Sunday performances, i. 255, 283, 285, 287–90, 293–6, 301, 302, - 314; iv. 195, 200, 201, 202, 203, 206, 210, 221, 225, 249, 262, - 267, 268, 275, 279, 282, 285, 288, 292, 295, 296, 297, 302, - 305, 307, 310, 329, 335. - - ‘Supers’, i. 371. - - ‘Surreptitious’ prints of plays, iii. 184–92. - - Surveyors, court of, i. 58. - - Sussex’s men, ii. 92–6. - - Swan playhouse, ii. 411–14, 521 (drawing), 526–31, 538–9, 544–7. - - Sweden, players in, ii. 274. - - Sword dance, i. 171; iii. 280; iv. 117. - - Syndicates for companies, i. 379; ii. 43, 45, 56, 65. - - - T - - ‘Taking out’ in mask, i. 150, 153, 155, 197. - - Takings of playhouses, i. 370; ii. 122, 148. - - Taphouses at playhouses, i. 369; ii. 406, 424, 442. - - _Tectum_, ii. 531. - - _Telari_ (scenic cloths), iv. 358. - - Temperament of players, i. 351. - - Tenancy, joint and in common, ii. 417. - - Tents, office of, i. 49, 72, 74, 76, 82, 94, 102; ii. 491. - - Tents on stage, iii. 53, 86, 106. - - Terence engravings, iii. 6, 15. - - _Théâtre en demi-rond_, iii. 14. - - Theatre playhouse, ii. 383–400. - - _Théâtre tout en pastoralle_, iii. 17, 34, 35, 44, 48, 52. - - Theatres. _See_ Playhouses. - - _Theatri_, iv. 353–65. - - Themes, ii. 191, 300, 343–4, 349, 553; iv. 244, 246. - - Theocracy at Geneva, i. 245. - - Theology in plays, i. 242, 271, 273, 294; ii. 328; iv. 254. - - Threshold scenes, iii. 59. - - ‘Throne’, iii. 64, 72, 77, 87, 89, 108; iv. 248. - - Thunder on stage, iii. 76, 110; iv. 248. - - Thursdays kept for bear-baiting, i. 316. - - Tilts, i. 18, 19, 20, 21, 139–48; iii. 212–13, 245, 268–9, 316, - 393, 399, 402–5, 463, 509; iv. 63. - _See_ Books, Challenges, Cheques, Devices, Lists, Tourney. - - Tiltyards, i. 141. - - ‘Tiph, toph’, ii. 293. - - Tire-men, i. 371; ii. 149, 226, 541; iii. 83; iv. 404. - - Tire-women, i. 163; iii. 387. - - Tiring house, i. 100, 225, 229, 231; ii. 392, 538, 555; iii. 72, - 82; iv. 248, 370. - - Titles. _See_ Labels. - - ‘Tombs’, iii. 59, 110. - - ‘Top’, iii. 98. - - Topical allusions in plays, i. 322–8. - _See_ Satire, Sedition. - - Torch-bearers in mask, i. 195. - - _Torze_ (torches), iv. 364. - - Touching for evil, i. 123. - - Tourney, i. 140. - - _Tragedie_, iv. 360. - - Tragedy, definitions of, i. 240, 257. - - Traps, ii. 528; iii. 42, 89, 96, 107, 133. - - ‘Traverse’, i. 181; iii. 25, 78, 234, 279, 282, 434; iv. 59. - - Treason, executions for, iii. 286, 433, 440, 491. - - Treasurer, Lord High, i. 54, 67; - of Chamber, i. 54–67, 217; iv. 132–5; - of Household, i. 35, 37, 55, 67. - - Trees on stage, iii. 52, 89, 107. - - _Trionfi_, i. 152. - - Truchmen, i. 163, 165, 166, 190. - - Trumpets in playhouse, iv. 367. - - Tumblers. _See_ Activities. - - _Tuono_ (thunder), iv. 365. - - Turkish rope-dancer, ii. 111, 261, 550. - - Twelfth Night, i. 19, 205, 213; iii. 281. - - - U - - Unchastity in plays, i. 252, 255, 258, 282–3, 304. - - ‘Understanders’, ii. 527. - - Unity of place, iii. 18, 22, 29, 34, 36, 40, 121, 134. - _See_ Locality. - - Universities, public plays within, ii. 100, 113, 213; iii. 469; - criticism of plays at, i. 249. - - University receptions, i. 127. - - Unlocated scenes, iii. 50. - - Upper rooms, ii. 387. - - Upper stage, iii. 120, 153. - - _Ursarii_, ii. 449. - - - V - - Vaux’s men, ii. 103. - - ‘Veil’, iii. 80. - - Verge, iii. 387. - - _Versurae_ (wings), iii. 3, 11, 100. - - _Vexillatores_, ii. 547. - - _Viae ad forum_, iii. 4, 100. - - ‘Vice’, iii. 317, 412, 437, 466, 504, 505; iv. 3, 6, 7, 9, 229, - 233. - - Vice-Chamberlain of household, i. 41, 67. - - Vitruvius on stage, iii. 3. - - Vizards, i. 151, 196, 371; iii. 241, 376, 387; iv. 38. - - ‘Void’, i. 152. - - _Vuota di dicitori_ (tiring room?), iv. 364. - - - W - - Wager paid in play, iv. 181. - - Wager plays, ii. 297, 468, 554. - - ‘Wages’ at court, i. 51. - - _Wagner Book_, iii. 71. - - ‘Walls’, ii. 36, 39, 44; iii. 54, 72, 96, 106. - - Wardrobe as organ of administration, i. 55. - - Wardrobe, Great, i. 72, 80, 90, 94, 211. - - Wardrobe officers, i. 42, 56. - - Warwick’s men, ii. 97–9. - - Watching Chamber, i. 13. - - Water triumphs, i. 123, 134, 138; iv. 72, 73, 74, 103, 124, 127. - - Watermen, i. 63, 296; ii. 121, 370; iv. 312, 368. - - Waymaker, i. 108, 116. - - Weddings at court, iii. 233, 239, 241, 245, 260, 276, 351, 378, - 381, 388, 393; iv. 82, 83, 86, 87, 94, 99, 109, 112, 113, 119, - 120, 122, 123, 127, 128, 129. - - Welsh play, iii. 457. - - Westminster, children of, ii. 69–73. - - White staves, i. 39, 205, 226. - - Whitefriars, children of, ii. 55. - - Whitefriars playhouse, ii. 515–17. - - Wild men. _See_ Woodwoses. - - ‘Windows’, iii. 42, 58, 95, 98, 116, 119, 153. - - Windsor chapel, children of, ii. 61–4. - - ‘Wings’, iii. 100. - - Withdrawing Chamber, i. 14. - - _Wits_ engraving, ii. 519. - - Women on stage, i. 371; iii. 296. - - Woodcuts in plays, iii. 210, 322, 328; iv. 20. - - ‘Woodwoses’, i. 123–4, 135, 194; iv. 65, 66. - - Worcester’s men, ii. 220–9. - - Works, office of, i. 49, 80, 90, 211, 226. - - - Y - - ‘Yard’, ii. 527. - - Yeomen of Chamber, i. 44; - of Crown, i. 47; - of Guard, i. 47, 63; - of Revels, i. 72, 94. - - Yeomen Ushers of Chamber, i. 45, 47, 69; iv. 353. - - ‘Young minstrels’, ii. 13, 31–2. - - Z - - _Zoglia_ (lintle), iii. 21. - - - PRINTED IN ENGLAND - AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] _P. C._ (Nov. 22, 24); Machyn, 179; Lettenhove, i. 300. - -[2] Machyn, 180; Burghley, _Diary_. - -[3] _P. C._ (Dec. 4, 5); Machyn, 180; Stowe, _Annales_. - -[4] _P. C._ (Dec. 22, 23); _V. P._ vii. 2. - -[5] Cf. ch. v. - -[6] _P. C._ (Jan. 14); _V. P._ vii. 11; Machyn, 186; Stowe, -_Annales_. - -[7] Machyn, 186; Stowe, _Annales_; cf. ch. xxiv. - -[8] Machyn, 186; Nichols, i. 60; from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._, 863; -_V. P._, vii. 11. - -[9] Machyn, 187; _V. P._ vii. 18. - -[10] Machyn, 191. - -[11] _S. P. D._ - -[12] Machyn, 196; _V. P._ vii. 80. - -[13] Machyn, 196. - -[14] _V. P._ vii. 84; Lettenhove, i. 522. - -[15] Machyn, 198; _V. P._ vii. 91; cf. chh. i, v. - -[16] Machyn, 198. - -[17] _Sp. P._ i. 79. - -[18] Machyn, 201. - -[19] Machyn, 202. - -[20] _C. A._; Machyn, 203. - -[21] Machyn, 203. - -[22] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; _Sc. P._ (July 28, Aug. 7); _Sadler Papers_ -(Aug. 8); Burghley, _Diary_; Machyn, 204, 206. - -[23] _Procl._ 513; Machyn, 206. - -[24] _C. A._; _Procl._ 514; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 16; _S. P. D._ (Aug. -23); Machyn, 207 (app. Aug. 15 in error); Nichols, i. 75; Feuillerat, -_Eliz._ 105. Quadra (Aug. 18, _C. D. I._ lxxxvii. 231), ‘Los -Embajadores de Suecia se van muy quejosos y agraviados porque creo que -ha llegado á su noticia que burlaban en Palacio dellos, y la Reina -mejor que los demás’ hardly bears out the interpretation of M. A. S. -Hume, _Courtships of Elizabeth_, 32, that the ridicule was in a mask. - -[25] _Sp. P._ i. 98; _Sadler Papers_, i. 462. - -[26] Machyn, 216. - -[27] Machyn, 221, ‘the plaers plad suche matter that they wher -commondyd to leyff off, and contenent the maske cam in dansyng’. - -[28] Machyn, 221. - -[29] Machyn, 230. - -[30] Machyn, 231. - -[31] _C. A._; Machyn, 232. - -[32] Machyn, 233. - -[33] Machyn, 234; Lodge^1, i. 313. - -[34] _Procl._ 525. - -[35] _C. A._ - -[36] Machyn, 241; Parker, 120; _Sc. P._ i. 459. - -[37] Machyn, 241; _Sc. P._ i. 459. - -[38] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23, 27); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 22, 27, 28); -_Sc. P._ i. 475; Machyn, 241; Wright, i. 43; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 50, -142; Howard, 215; _V. H. Hants_, iii. 531. - -[39] _S. P. D. Addl._; Lodge, i. 423. - -[40] _Procl._ 529; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 30). - -[41] _C. A._ - -[42] _S. P. F._ (Nov. 10, 25). - -[43] _C. A._; _Hardwicke Papers_, i. 163; _Hatfield -MSS._ xiii. 62. - -[44] _C. A._ - -[45] Christopher Playter to Mr. Kytson (J. Gage, _Hist. of Hengrave_, -180), ‘at the corte new plays, which lasted almost all night--the name -of the play was huff-suff-and ruff, with other masks, both of ladies -and gents’. The only date is ‘21 Feb.’, but the year can be fixed by -references in the letter to the masters of fence at court, and to -_Procl._ 538 and 541 of this winter. - -[46] Machyn, 251. - -[47] Machyn, 250. - -[48] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 26, 29). - -[49] Machyn, 261; _Sp. P._ i. 208. - -[50] Nichols, i. 92, from Cofferer’s Account in _Cott. MS. Vesp._ C. -xiv; _C. A._; Works Account in _Lansd. MS._, 5; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 9, -11); _S. P. F._ (July 15, 21; Aug. 16, 17, 27; Sept. 10, 17); _Sc. P._ -(July 13; Aug. 16; Sept. 3, 17); _Procl._ 547–50; Rymer (July 27); -Machyn, 263, 267; Parker (Aug. 9, 12, 22); Wright, i. 67, 68, 69, 71; -Hardwicke, i. 174; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 752; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 69; cf. -M. Christy in _Essex Review_, xxvi. 115, 181. - -[51] Fleay, 62, suggests a revival of Bale’s _Kinge Johan_, the MS. of -which was found at Ipswich. - -[52] Machyn, 267; Nichols, i. 103. - -[53] Machyn, 270; Brantôme, i. 312; cf. ch. v. - -[54] Parker, 156; Wallace, ii. 65. - -[55] Machyn, 273. - -[56] Machyn, 275. - -[57] Machyn, 276. The word ‘played’, after ‘Sesar’, appears to be in a -modern hand; cf. Wallace, i. 200. - -[58] Machyn, 276. - -[59] Machyn, 277. - -[60] _Sp. P._ i. 243; Machyn, 284. Dasent, vii. 238, has a reference to -this as ‘a tyme of progresse begonne’, but there was no real progress; -cf. Somers to Throckmorton (Aug. 29, _S. P. F._ v. 269), ‘The Queen -has all this summer kept herself here, without accustomed progress or -hunting pleasures, to attend to that whereof she shall have honour’. -On the unrealized plans for a meeting with Mary of Scots and the mask -devised, cf. ch. v. - -[61] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 16); _S. P. F._ (Sept. -19). - -[62] _C. A._ - -[63] Machyn, 295. - -[64] _S. P. D. Addl._ (Dec. 14); _S. P. F._ (Dec. 14); -_Procl._ 572. - -[65] Machyn, 309. - -[66] _C. A._; _Procl._ 578, 579; _Rutland MSS._ (June -30); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 2); Parker, 184 (Aug. 1). - -[67] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 4); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 4). - -[68] _C. A._ - -[69] Francis to Sir Thos. Chaloner (Froude, vii. 92), ‘Regina tota -amoribus dedita est venationibusque, aucupiis, choreis et rebus -ludicris insumens dies noctesque’. - -[70] Wright, i. 171, 172 (Apr. 23); _S. P. D._ (May 5); _S. P. F._ (May -5). - -[71] Cf. ch. v. - -[72] _Sp. P._ i. 366. - -[73] _S. P. D._ (June 30); _Sp. P._ i. 368. - -[74] _Sp. P._ i. 367, 385; Parker, 219; Burghley, _Diary_. - -[75] Burghley, _Diary_. - -[76] _S. P. D. Addl._ (July 16). - -[77] _Procl._ 597; _Sp. P._ i. 368. - -[78] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3202; _P. C._; _Procl._ -598; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 1, 8; Sept. 11); _Sp. P._ i. 373, 374, 376, -379; Stowe, _Annales_; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 756; Nichols, i. 151, from -Cambridge MSS.; Lysons, _Magna Britannia_, i. 143, 496, 571, 627, from -Lord Hampden’s MSS. (year uncertain); Bridges, _Northants_, i. 431 -(misdated 1563). - -[79] For Cambridge plays cf. ch. iv. - -[80] For mask at Hinchinbrook cf. ch. v. - -[81] _Sp. P._ i. 376, 379. - -[82] _Sp. P._ i. 381. - -[83] _C. A._ - -[84] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 218; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 9). - -[85] _Sp. P._ i. 403. - -[86] _Sp. P._ i. 404. - -[87] Cf. ch. v. - -[88] _Sp. P._ i. 428. - -[89] _C. A._; _Lambeth_. - -[90] _C. A._; Burghley, _Diary_; Wright, i. 198. - -[91] Stowe, _Annales_ (June 24); _Sp. P._ i. 442. - -[92] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 446; _Procl._ 611; -_P. C._ (July 15). - -[93] _Sp. P._ i. 446, 451; cf. ch. v. - -[94] _Martin’s_, 222. - -[95] _Sp. P._ i. 465; _Pepys MSS._ 67. - -[96] _C. A._ - -[97] _Martin’s_, 222; _Sp. P._ i. 475. - -[98] _C. A._ - -[99] _Sp. P._ i. 487, 494. - -[100] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; _P. C._ (Oct. 29, Nov. 2). - -[101] _C. A._; Leland, _Collectanea_, ii. 666. - -[102] _V. P._ vii. 374. - -[103] _Martin’s_, 228; _Sp. P._ i. 523. - -[104] _Sp. P._ i. 526. - -[105] Cf. ch. v. - -[106] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 564. - -[107] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; cf. ch. v. - -[108] _C. A._; _Pipe Office D. A._ (_Works_), 3203; Works Account in -_Rawl. MS._, A. 195^c; _S. P. D._ (July 21); _S. P. F._ (July 29, -Aug. 30, Sept. 8); _Sp. P._ i. 568, 571, 574, 577, 578; _Margaret’s_; -_Martin’s_; Shaw, ii. 72; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 762 (Aug. 3, 5); -_Middleton MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._), 528; Stowe, _Annales_; Burgon, -_Gresham_, ii. 155, 212; Nichols, i. 192, 197, 199*, 206, 247, from -Coventry records, &c.; Plummer, _Elizabethan Oxford_, 115, 175, 191, -198, 205; Boas, 385. - -[109] At the entry to Coventry the Corpus Christi pageant of the -Tanners stood at St. John’s Church, the Drapers at the Cross, the -Smiths at Little Park Street End, the Weavers at Much Park Street -(H. Craig, _Two Coventry C. C. Plays_, xxi, 106). The date is -sometimes given as 1565 or 1567 in error. - -[110] For the Oxford plays cf. ch. iv. - -[111] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10); _Sp. P._ i. 580. - -[112] _D. A._ (_Works_). - -[113] _S. P. F._ (Sept. 10, 17). - -[114] _Martin’s_, 229; _Sp. P._ i. 582. - -[115] _Sp. P._ i. 609. - -[116] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 232; _Sp. P._ i. 609, 610, -612, 613. - -[117] Shaw, ii. 73. - -[118] _Sp. P._ i. 633: ‘The hatred that this Queen has of marriage is -most strange. They represented a comedy before her last night, until -nearly one in the morning, which ended in a marriage, and the Queen, as -she told me herself, expressed her dislike of the woman’s part.’ - -[119] _Sp. P._ i. 644. - -[120] _Sp. P._ i. 661. - -[121] _Sc. P._ ii. 373; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764. - -[122] _C. A._ (‘Mr. Kyrres’). - -[123] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 764; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 20, -24); _Sc. P._ (Aug. 29); _Sp. P._ i. 672; Kempe, 265. - -[124] _Sp. P._ i. 672. - -[125] _Sp. P._ i. 679. - -[126] _Sp. P._ i. 690; _Martin’s_, 234. - -[127] Nichols, i. 266, from _Privy Purse Acct._ - -[128] _C. A._ - -[129] _Sp. P._ ii. 21; _Martin’s_, 239. - -[130] _C. A._; _Parker Letters_ (July 7); Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P. -F._ (July 11); _C. D. I._ xc. 98, ‘Vino por el rio hasta Reder’; -the translation ‘Reading’ in _Sp. P._ ii. 50 is absurd; it might be -Knightrider St. - -[131] _C. A._; Works Account in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^e; Burghley, -_Diary_; _S. P. D._ (July 30, Aug. 8); _S. P. F._ (July 22, Aug. 21, -27); _Sc. P._ (July 22, Aug. 14); _Sp. P._ ii. 54, 57, 64, 71, 72, 74; -_Syd. P._ i. 36; _Procl._ 628, 629; Shaw, ii. 73. - -[132] _Sp. P._ ii. 73. - -[133] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 3); Burghley, _Diary_ (Oct. 20). - -[134] La Mothe, i. 203. - -[135] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 149; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 124 (May 10); -Nichols, i. 257 (May 9). The May 11 of La Mothe, i. 373, must be an -error. - -[136] Cf. ch. iv. - -[137] _Sp. P._ ii. 178, 180. The July 27 or 28 of La Mothe, ii. 100, -133, 138, must again be an error. - -[138] Sp. P. ii. 182. - -[139] C. A.; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _S. P. F._ (Sept. -4) _Sc. P._ (Aug. 12, 20); _Sp. P._ ii. 189, 191; _P. C. Wales_ (Aug. -22); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 418, 421, 435; Camden, 420; -Nichols, i. 261; _Finch MSS._ (Aug. 9); _V. H. Surrey_, iii. 383; -Lodge, i. 480, 482, 483, 485; La Mothe, ii. 196, 218, 223, 229, 237. - -[140] Lodge, i. 483, 485; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 24); _Parker Letters_ -(Sept. 24). - -[141] Cf. ch. i. - -[142] _C. A._ - -[143] _Sp. P._ ii. 228; _Sadler Papers_ (Jan. 18). - -[144] _Sp. P._ ii. 239. - -[145] _P. C._ (June 18, 20). - -[146] _C. A._; Works Accounts in _Rawl. MS._ A. 195^c; _P. C._; _S. P. -D._ (Sept. 25); _S. P. F._ (Aug. 8; Sept. 7, 26); _Procl._ 657, 658; -_Finch MSS._ (_Hist. MSS._); Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ i. 481; -Wiffen, i. 474; Digges, 5; Shaw, ii. 74; La Mothe, iii. 240, 246, 258, -264, 289. - -[147] La Mothe, iii. 317; _P. C._ (Sept. 30). - -[148] _P. C._ (Nov. 6, 7). - -[149] _P. C._ (Jan. 14, 19); La Mothe, iii. 434. - -[150] Holinshed, iii. 1224; La Mothe, iii. 443, 450, 454; _Margaret’s_, -18. - -[151] _P. C._ (Jan. 29). - -[152] _Sp. P._ ii. 295; _Rutland MSS._ i. 91. - -[153] _P. C._ (March 31); Stowe, _Annales_ (Apr. 2). - -[154] _Lambeth._ - -[155] La Mothe, iv. 94; Rimbault, 160. - -[156] Holinshed, iii. 1225; Nichols, ii. 334, from Segar; _Arch_, -lxiii. 47; _Arch. Journal_, lv. 315; lxi. 305; Clephan, 171, from -_Ashm. MSS._ 837, 845; La Mothe, iv. 88, 95. - -[157] Digges, 108. - -[158] _Lambeth._ - -[159] _P. C._ (July 7); _S. P. F._ (July 8). - -[160] _C. A._; La Mothe, iv. 206; _Kingston_. - -[161] _C. A._; _P. C._; _C. D. I._ xc. 492; Burghley, _Diary_; -_Hatfield MSS_. i. 516; v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 95; Wright, i. 393; -Lodge, i. 525, 527; La Mothe, iv. 245; Digges, 134, 138; Shaw, ii. 75; -Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111; Nichols, i. 280; cf. M. Christy in _Essex -Review_, xxvi. 115, 181. - -[162] _Rutland MSS._ i. 96. - -[163] La Mothe, iv. 245; _Wandsworth_. - -[164] _C. A._, _P. C._ - -[165] _Sp. P._ ii. 355; _S. P. F._ (Dec. 15, 16); _Procl._ 663 (Jan. -3). I think the _P. C._ entries of Greenwich for Dec. 25, 31 must be -errors. - -[166] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _Rutland MSS._ i. 94–96; La Mothe, iv. -319; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. The wedding was originally planned for Theobalds -in Sept. (Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 111). - -[167] La Mothe, iv. 319, 321; _Sp. P._ ii. 358. Possibly Elizabeth -was also at the weddings of Lords Dudley and Paget this week. - -[168] La Mothe, iv. 424. - -[169] La Mothe, iv. 447. - -[170] _Sp. P._ ii. 393. - -[171] _Martin’s_, 268. - -[172] Nichols, i. 305 (dating June 14), from _Lambeth MS._ 959; ii. -335. from Segar. - -[173] _Martin’s_, 268. - -[174] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 31); _S. P. D._ (Aug. 10); _S. P. F._ -(Aug. 22); _Procl._ 676; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; _Select Committee -on Public Records_ (1800), 174; _Sp. P._ ii. 399, 413, 417; _Hatfield -MSS._ v. 69, xiii. 110; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 773; _Finch MSS._ (Sept. -16); La Mothe, v. 47, 59, 63, 65, 76, 77, 79, 84, 89, 91, 92, 99, 122, -134; L. Howard, 195; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii. 261; 1 Ellis, ii. 265; -Lodge, i. 540, 542, 548, 549; Strype, _Sir T. Smith_, 121; _Zurich -Letters_, ii. 211; Digges, 228–65; Nichols, i. 309, from _Warwick -Corporation MSS._, with errors. - -[175] At Kenilworth were ‘such princely sports as could be devised’ -(Nichols, i. 318, from Warwick _Black Book_). - -[176] At Warwick on Aug. 17 were a country dance and a show of -fireworks (ibid.). - -[177] Digges, 260, 263. - -[178] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 28; _Sp. P._ ii. 435; La Mothe, v. -200. - -[179] _Martin’s_, 272 (Feb. 27, 28, in error?); Digges, 328 (Jan. 29); -_P. C._ (Feb. 3); Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 171. - -[180] _C. A._; _P. C._; La Mothe, v. 262, 267, 270; _Sp. P._ ii. 467; -Wright, i. 466; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70 (misdated); Nichols, i. 378. - -[181] Nichols, i. 332, 378, 548, from M. Parker, _Matthaeus_, -Dering MS., and local archives; _C. A._; _P. C._; W. D. -Cooper, _Winchelsea_, 107, and in _Sussex Arch. Coll._ v. -190, from _Acct._ of Controller of Household and local archives; -Denne, _Bibl. Top. Brit._ xlv. 211; Parker Corres. 436, 437, -441, 475; _Arch. Cantiana_, vi. 43; ix. 235; xi. 199; _Zurich -Letters_, ii. 221; _S. P. F._ (Sept. 15); Lodge, ii. 33; Shaw, -ii. 75; La Mothe, v. 412; 1 Ellis, ii. 267. - -[182] There was a reception at Orpington by a Nymph as Genius of the -house, and a sea-fight in a bark (Hasted, i. 134). - -[183] A mock sea-fight was shown at Sandwich on Sept. 1 (Nichols, i. -337, from town archives). - -[184] There was a mask of Mariners at Canterbury on Sept. 7 -(Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 183). - -[185] Nichols, i. 351; La Mothe, v. 412. - -[186] _C. A._ - -[187] La Mothe, v. 454; _P. C._ (Nov. 25, 28, 29). - -[188] _Martin’s_, 273; _P. C._ (Dec. 19, 21). - -[189] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 8. - -[190] Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 34. - -[191] La Mothe, vi. 39. - -[192] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Lambeth_; Nichols, i. 325 (misdated), 384. - -[193] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; La Mothe, vi. 167. - -[194] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[195] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Burghley, _Diary_; _S. P. -D._ (Aug. 15); _S. P. F._ (July 18, 30; Aug. 10, 11; Sept. 15); _Zurich -Letters_, ii. 258; A. Hall, _Life_, 57; Shaw, ii. 75, 76; Lodge, ii. -43; La Mothe, vi. 197, 229; Nichols, i. 321 (misdated 1572), 379, 392, -408; R. H. Gretton, _Burford Records_, 415; cf. E. Green in _Proc. Bath -Field Club_, iv. 105. - -[196] For _Bristol Entertainment_ cf. ch. xxiv. - -[197] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[198] Ibid. - -[199] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[200] Some particulars of this winter’s revels appear to be in _S. P. -D. Eliz._ ciii. 54.] - -[201] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 241 (Feb. 2); _P. C._ (Feb. 6). - -[202] Lysons, i. 381; Dee, _Compendious Rehearsal_ (ed. Hearne), 516. - -[203] _P. C._ (March 21, 23, 25); _Martin’s_, 284. - -[204] _C. A._ - -[205] _Martin’s_, 284. - -[206] Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 84. - -[207] _C. A._; _P. C._; _P. C. Wales_ (June 13, Aug. 17); _S. P. D._ -(Aug. 21; Sept. 4, 12; Oct. 6); _S. P. F._ (July 12, Aug. 29, Sept. 4, -7); _Procl._ 693, 696; _Sp. P._ ii. 492, 498; La Mothe, vi. 437, 442, -444, 487, 495, 498, 502; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 776; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. -99, 107, 108, 112, 116; v. 70; xiii. 142; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland -MSS._ i. 104, 105; _Middleton MSS._ 538; Shaw, ii. 76; _Sydney Papers_, -i. 71; Wright, ii. 11, 16; Devon, i. 119; _Wilts. Arch. Mag._ xviii. -261; _Kenilworth Entertainments_ (cf. ch. xxiv); Nichols, i. 417, 529, -533, from local archives. - -[208] For Kenilworth entertainments cf. chh. iv, xxiv. - -[209] Warwick’s players were at Lichfield (cf. ch. xiii). - -[210] There were pageants by Ralph Wyatt and Thomas Heywood at the -Cross and St. Ellen’s Church, Worcester (Nichols, i. 537). - -[211] Cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee. - -[212] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[213] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ ii. 515. - -[214] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[215] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[216] Walsingham, _Diary_; Shaw, ii. 77. - -[217] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 134. - -[218] _P. C._ - -[219] _C. A._ - -[220] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[221] _P. C._ (July 22, 23). - -[222] _C. A._, apparently (_Sp. P._ ii. 531) a false start for the -progress. - -[223] _C. A._; _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 6, 12); -_S. P. F._ (Sept. 6); _Sp. P._ ii. 533; _Procl._ 708; _Syd. P._ i. 392; -_Hatfield MSS._ ii. 133; Kempe, 490; Lodge, _App._ 38, 39; cf. App. B. - -[224] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[225] Ibid. - -[226] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Martin’s_, 297. - -[227] _C. A._ - -[228] _P. C._ (Apr. 27–29); Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 6); -_Martin’s_, 297 (Apr. 26 in error). - -[229] _Martin’s_, 297. - -[230] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 14); Birch, i. 12; Nichols, ii. 55, from -_Birch MS._ 4100; Shaw, ii. 78; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 779; _Hatfield MSS._ -v. 70; Walsingham, _Diary_ (May 25). - -[231] Wiffen, i. 508. - -[232] _C. A._ - -[233] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[234] _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 157. - -[235] Ibid. - -[236] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[237] _P. C._; Walsingham, _Diary_: _Finch MSS._ (Sept. 4); Lodge, ii. -91. - -[238] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[239] _C. A._ - -[240] _C. A._; _S. P. F._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[241] _C. A._ - -[242] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[243] _C. A._ A lost device and play at Osterley by Churchyard (cf. ch. -xxiii) may belong to this visit. - -[244] Walsingham, _Diary_; _Fulham_; Nichols, ii. 92. - -[245] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[246] _S. P. F._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[247] _Sp. P._ ii. 576, 581. - -[248] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (May 8, 9, 10); _S. P. F._ (May 6, 15); -Walsingham, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _Sp. P._ ii. 582; Lodge, -ii. 99. Sidney’s _May Lady_ entertainment may belong to this Wanstead -visit or to that of 1579 (cf. ch. xxiii). For Italian tumblers in -1577–8, cf. App. B. - -[249] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _S. P. F._ (May 16). - -[250] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Procl._ 724; _S. P. D._ (July 11, 14, 17; -Sept. 2, 21); _Sp. P._ ii. 607, 610; Shaw, ii. 78, 79; Haynes-Murdin, -ii. 780; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 190, 192; xiii. 160; _Sydney Papers_, -i. 270; Hatton, 93; Lodge, ii. 119; Kempe, 248 (misdated?); -_Archaeologia_, xix. 283; Cullum, _Hawsted_, 130; Hollingsworth, -_Stowmarket_, 128; Nichols, ii. III sqq., from local archives; -_Entertainments_ by Churchyard and Garter (cf. ch. xxiv). - -[251] Speeches and verses sent from Cambridge to Audley End are in G. -Harvey, _Gratulationes Valdinenses_ (1578). - -[252] A. G. H. Hollingsworth, _Hist. of Stowmarket_ (1844), 128, 130, -says that players from Ipswich under John Corke were employed. - -[253] For devices at Kenninghall, Norwich, and Hengrave, cf. -_Entertainments_ by Churchyard and Garter (ch. xxiv). Blomefield, -vii. 214, prints from _Harl. MS._ 890, f. 282, verses given at -Norwich with a pair of golden spurs by William (Edward?) Downes of -Earlham. - -[254] Dee, 5; _S. P. D. Addl._ (Sept. 25); _P. C._ (Sept. 26). - -[255] _C. A._ - -[256] _Sp. P._ ii. 627, 630. - -[257] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Jan. 20, 22). - -[258] _C. A._; _Procl._ 735. - -[259] _C. A._ - -[260] Devereux, i. 170; Lodge, ii. 140, 146, ‘There was never any of -his cote that was able to brag of the like entertainment’. - -[261] Lodge, ii. 146, ‘prettier than it happened to be performed’; -_Sp. P._ ii. 655, ‘a grand ball, in which there were comedies and many -inventions’. In the previous August (_Sp. P._ ii. 607) Oxford had -declined a request of the queen to dance before Alençon’s agents, ‘as -he did not want to entertain Frenchmen’. - -[262] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 310; _Sp. P._ ii. 669, 679. - -[263] _Martin’s_, 310; _Sp. P._ ii. 681. - -[264] _Martin’s_, 310; _Lambeth_ (June 2 in error). - -[265] _P. C. Wales_, 192; Stowe, _Annales_. - -[266] _S. P. F._ xiv. 46, 49; _V. P._ vii. 609, 611, 612, 614; _Sp. P._ -ii. 690, 694; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 293. - -[267] _P. C._; Shaw, ii. 79. - -[268] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13, 27); _Sp. P._ ii. 697; -_Hatfield MSS._ (Sept. 17); _Procl._ 740; cf. M. Christy in _Essex -Review_, xxvi. 115, 181. But Nichols, ii. 285, has clearly used _two_ -abandoned ‘gests’. - -[269] _P. C._ (Oct. 2). - -[270] _Martin’s_, 311; _P. C._ (Dec. 21, 23). - -[271] _C. A._ - -[272] _C. A._; _P. C._ (May 26, 29); Lysons, i. 297. - -[273] _C. A._ - -[274] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 11); Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[275] _C. A._ - -[276] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[277] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 340. - -[278] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[279] Dee, 9. - -[280] Dee, 9. - -[281] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ cl. 62 (app. misdated 1581). - -[282] _Martin’s_, 321; Dee, 10. - -[283] _M. S. C._ i. 181; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 199; Nichols, ii. 334, -from Segar; Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 336, noting devices in the ‘meane -season’ between challenge and tilt. - -[284] _Martin’s_, 329. - -[285] _C. A._; _Sp. P._ iii. 95, 101; Nichols, ii. 303. - -[286] _Martin’s_, 329. - -[287] _S. P. F._ xv. 82, 115, 144, 202; _Sp. P._ iii. 110, 131; _V. -P._ viii. 2–15; Walsingham, _Diary_; Wright, ii. 134; _Remembrancia_, -487. On Apr. 6 the Queen was only thinking ‘whether there are any new -devices in the joust, or where a ball is to be held, or what beautiful -women are to be at court’ (_Sp. P._ iii. 91). - -[288] Cf. chh. iv, xxiv. - -[289] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[290] _Sp. P._ iii. 141, 144. - -[291] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[292] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 200; _Rutland MSS._ i. 127. - -[293] _C. A._ - -[294] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; _Rutland MSS._ i. -127. - -[295] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201. - -[296] Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[297] _S. P. F._ xv. 357; _Sp. P._ iii. 203; _V. P._ -viii. 21. - -[298] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 13; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201. - -[299] _Sp. P._ iii. 222; Clephan, 132, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, ff. -164, 167; _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 201. - -[300] _S. P. F._ xv. 442, 453, 473, and _V. P._ viii. 26, note the -princely entertainment of Anjou. - -[301] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 344 (table); Nichols, ii. 336, from Segar. - -[302] _C. A._ - -[303] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Feb. 1); Holinshed, iii. 1330; Walsingham, -_Diary_; _Sp. P._ iii. 280, 282; _Hatfield MSS._ ii. 500; _S. P. -F._ xv. 444 (misdated), 484, 485; _V. P._ viii. 29. Apparently the -Sandwich and Dover stages are for Anjou only, and Elizabeth remained at -Canterbury Feb. 5–13. - -[304] Walsingham, _Diary_; _P. C._ (Feb. 18). - -[305] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; _S. P. D._ clv. 54; 3 Ellis, iv. -43; cf. ch. vii. - -[306] _C. A._ - -[307] _C. A._ - -[308] _Sp. P._ iii. 375. - -[309] _Rutland MSS._ i. 136; Shaw (May 22). - -[310] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 203; Hatton, 255; Lysons, i. 297. - -[311] _C. A._ - -[312] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 12, 17). - -[313] _C. A._ - -[314] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[315] _C. A._; Walsingham, _Diary_. - -[316] _C. A._ - -[317] _C. A._; _S. P. D. Addl._ (Jan. 12); Peck, 131 (Jan. -18). - -[318] Walsingham, _Diary_; Dee, 18; _Lambeth_. - -[319] _C. A._ - -[320] Lodge, app. 46; _Rutland MSS._ i. 149. - -[321] _C. A._; Dee, 20; _Lambeth_. - -[322] _Sp. P._ iii. 474. - -[323] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 70; xiii. 229; _Rutland MSS._ i. 150, -151; Birch, i. 37. - -[324] _C. A._ - -[325] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (July 29, 30); _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_; -Dee, 21; _Finch MSS._; Hatton, 346. - -[326] _C. A._; Kempe, 269; _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v. 193; _S. P. D._ -clxi. 15. - -[327] _C. A._ - -[328] _C. A._ - -[329] _Martin’s_, 349; _Margaret’s_; _S. P. I._ (Oct. -14). - -[330] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 349; _Remembrancia_, 407, ‘for her private -recreation, to take the air abroad’. - -[331] _Martin’s_, 350. - -[332] Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Philip Earl of Arundel_, 22. - -[333] Shaw, ii. 82. - -[334] _S. P. F._ (Apr. 20); Peck, 149 (May 2). - -[335] _C. A._; _S. P. D._; Shaw; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 35. - -[336] _S. P. F._ (July 17); Hatton, 382 (July 21). - -[337] _C. A._; Hatton, 388; Peck, 154. - -[338] _C. A._ - -[339] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 246. - -[340] _Sc. P._ (Oct. 6); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 10). - -[341] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ xix. 92 (misdated Oct. 5?). - -[342] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_. - -[343] 2 _R. Hist. Soc. Trans._ ix. 258. - -[344] Ibid. 262; Clephan, 171, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ 845, f. 168. - -[345] _C. A._; Duke of Norfolk, _Life of Earl of Arundel_, 193, puts -this or another visit after the Earl’s committal to the Tower on 25 -Apr. 1585. - -[346] Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 365. - -[347] Ibid.; _Martin’s_, 371; _S. P. I._ (Feb. 8); _S. P. F._ (Feb. 12). - -[348] _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 556. - -[349] _C. A._ - -[350] _Margaret’s_; Stowe, _Annales_ (March 29). - -[351] _C. A._; Hatton, 416. - -[352] _C. A._ - -[353] Hatton, 426. - -[354] _C. A._; Shaw, ii. 83; Nichols, ii. 427. - -[355] Cf. ch. xxiii (Lee). - -[356] _Lambeth._ - -[357] Hatton, 406 (July 20); _S. P. D._ (July 24). - -[358] Lysons, i. 297. - -[359] _C. A._; _S. P. F._ (Aug. 25). - -[360] _C. A._ - -[361] _Sc. P._ (Sept. 26); Nichols, ii. 440 (Oct. 1). - -[362] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 183; _Margaret’s_. - -[363] _Martin’s_, 374; _Lambeth_. - -[364] _Lambeth._ - -[365] _Lambeth._ - -[366] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 178; _Rutland -MSS._ i. 199. - -[367] _C. A._ - -[368] _C. A._; Nichols, ii. 460, from speech of Mayor of Windsor. - -[369] _C. A._ - -[370] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 182. - -[371] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 386; _Lambeth_. - -[372] Nichols, ii. 529, from private MS. - -[373] _C. A._; Dasent, xv. 59, 64; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 249. - -[374] _P. C._ (May 2). - -[375] _C. A._ - -[376] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 215 (May 25); _P. C._ -(May 29). - -[377] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (July 16, 18); _Rutland MSS._ i. -222; _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 270; v. 71; Devon, i. 187; Goodman, ii. 1. - -[378] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 20). - -[379] _P. C._ (Sept. 19, 24). - -[380] _Martin’s_, 397; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; Gawdy, 18. - -[381] Gawdy, 25; Shaw. - -[382] Gawdy, 25. - -[383] _Foljambe MSS._ 28; Gawdy, 25, 29; _Sc. P._ (Dec. 2). - -[384] _Rutland MSS._ i. 232; _Hist. MSS._ vii. 520. - -[385] _Rutland MSS._ i. 234. - -[386] _C. A._; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Rutland MSS._ i. 236, 237. - -[387] Cf. ch. xxiii (Churchyard). - -[388] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Apr. 12, 16); Wright, ii. 370. - -[389] _C. A._; Gawdy, 35. - -[390] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 7, 8); _Margaret’s_; -_Lambeth_. - -[391] _C. A._; _P. C._ (July 28, 29); _Rutland MSS._ i. 253; _Lambeth_; -_Margaret’s_. - -[392] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 387, 389; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; M. -Christy in _E. H. R._ xxxiv. 43, quoting J. Aske, _Elizabetha -Triumphans_, and T. Deloney, _The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at -Tilbury_ (cf. ch. xxiv). - -[393] _Sp. P._ iv. 419. - -[394] Ibid. - -[395] _P. C._ (Oct. 26); _S. P. D._ (Oct. 23, 26); -_Margaret’s_ (Oct. 15 in error). - -[396] _Sp. P._ iv. 487 (Nov. 8); Arber, ii. 506; Nichols, ii. 544. - -[397] _P. C._ (Nov. 17). - -[398] _Sp. P._ iv. 494; Arber, ii. 508. - -[399] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Sp. P._ iv. 494; -Arber, ii. 508. - -[400] _Martin’s_, 407; _P. C._ (Dec. 1). - -[401] _Sp. P._ iv. 504; _S. P. D._ (Dec. 19); _Margaret’s_. - -[402] _C. A._ - -[403] Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 411; Arber, v. lxxvii. - -[404] _Martin’s_, 411; _Margaret’s_; _Lambeth_; _Fulham_; Lodge, -ii. 368, 375, ‘whilst she is there may be moved to her but matter -of delight and to content her, which is the only cause of her going -thither’. - -[405] _Margaret’s._ - -[406] _C. A._; Lodge, ii. 379; _Margaret’s_. - -[407] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 10); _Hatfield MSS._ iii. 427; xiii. 416 -(Aug. 10, 16). - -[408] _C. A._ - -[409] Dasent, xviii. 329 (Sept. 26); _Rutland MSS._ i. 276 (Sept. 27). - -[410] Cf. ch. v. - -[411] _Martin’s_, 413; _Margaret’s_. - -[412] _C. A._ - -[413] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 414; _Margaret’s_. - -[414] _Martin’s_, 422; _P. C._ (Jan. 25). - -[415] _Martin’s_, 422. - -[416] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Procl._ 825; _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_; Lodge, -app. 83. - -[417] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 52 (July 28); _P. C._ (Aug. 6). - -[418] _C. A._ - -[419] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 30); _P. C._ (Aug. 31); _Rutland -MSS._ i. 283; Lodge, app. 83. - -[420] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 6). - -[421] _C. A._ - -[422] _C. A._; Dasent, xx. 71, 75 (Nov. 8, 15); Lodge, ii. 422. - -[423] Lodge, ii. 419; cf. ch. xxiii (Lee). - -[424] _C. A._ - -[425] Lodge, ii. 419 (Nov. 20), ‘secretly, as she thought’, to meet the -French ambassador, Viscount Turenne. - -[426] Lodge, ii. 420; _P. C._ (Nov. 22); Dee, 36 (Nov. 20 in error). - -[427] Dee, 37. - -[428] _Syd. P._ i. 317; _Martin’s_, 430; _Margaret’s_. - -[429] _C. A._; _P. C._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 796; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. -108, 115; v. 71; _Rutland MSS._ i. 291; Wright, ii. 412. - -[430] Lodge, app. 68. Probably she did not go, as the letter refers to -a plot to murder her there. - -[431] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; Burghley, _Diary_. - -[432] _C. A._; _P. C._; Burghley, _Diary_; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; iv. -136; vi. 238; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 1, 2, 5, 31); Rymer, xvi. 109, 116–23; -Kempe, 270, 305; G. C. Williamson, _Earl of Cumberland_, 77; _Procl._ -836; Nichols, iii. 96, 99; cf. W. D. Cooper in _Sussex Arch. Colls._ v. -176, 196, with some doubtful localities. - -[433] For _Cowdray Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[434] For _Elvetham Entertainment_, cf. chh. iv, xxiv. - -[435] Burghley, _Diary_. - -[436] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 144 (Oct. 4); _P. C._ (Oct. 7). - -[437] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 15); Burghley, _Diary_. - -[438] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Nov. 20). - -[439] _C. A._; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of Cumberland_, 108. - -[440] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 187; xiii. 465; _P. C._ (Apr. 12, -15, 16); _Margaret’s_. - -[441] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 465. - -[442] _Lambeth._ - -[443] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 220. - -[444] _C. A._; _P. C._; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 224, 226, 227; xiii. 466; -_S. P. D._ (Aug. 13, Sept. 6); _Procl._ 851–3; Shaw; Lodge, app. 69, -70; Birch, i. 79; _Rutland MSS._ i. 302; Rye, 11–14; _Finch MSS._ -(Sept. 15); Nichols, _Illustrations_, 135; Plummer, _Elizabethan -Oxford_, 249, 261; Boas, 252. - -[445] For _Bisham Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[446] For a possible entertainment at Ramsbury, cf. ch. xxiii (Mary -Herbert). - -[447] For _Sudeley Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[448] For _Woodstock_ (or _Ditchley_) _Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiii, -s.v. Lee. - -[449] For Oxford plays, cf. ch. iv. - -[450] For _Rycote Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[451] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 466. - -[452] Gawdy, 67. - -[453] _C. A._ - -[454] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 451. - -[455] _Martin’s_, 451; _P. C._ (Feb. 7, 8, 11, 12, 14); Dee, -43. - -[456] _Martin’s_, 451. - -[457] Ibid. - -[458] Gawdy, 67. - -[459] _Martin’s_, 452. - -[460] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 452; _P. C._ (May 6, 13, 14); _S. P. D._ -(May 9); _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 309 (May 5). - -[461] _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 319 (May 22). - -[462] _C. A._; _Procl._ 861; _P. C._ (June 24). - -[463] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Aug. 1, 4). - -[464] _C. A._ - -[465] Carey, _Memoirs_, 32; Clephan, 133, from _Bodl. Ashm. MS._ -1109, f. 154^v; Arber, ii. 640; G. C. Williamson, _George Earl of -Cumberland_, 121. - -[466] _C. A._; Birch, i. 137. - -[467] Birch, i. 146. ‘Mr. [Anthony] Standen was at the play and dancing -on twelfth-night, which lasted till one after midnight, more by -constraint than by choice, the earl of Essex having committed to him -the placing and entertaining of certain Germans. The queen appeared -there in a high throne, richly adorned, and “as beautiful”, says he, -“to my old sight, as ever I saw her; and next to her chair the earl, -with whom she often devised in sweet and favourable manner”.’ - -[468] _Hatfield MSS._ xiii. 506; _Martin’s_, 462. - -[469] _C. A._; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804; _Hatfield MSS._ iv. 539, 552, -558; v. 71; _Martin’s_; Dee, 49; _Rutland MSS._ i. 320; Wright, ii. -433; J. H. Lloyd, _Highgate_, 225, from _Frere MS._ (misdated 1593); -Gawdy, 85. - -[470] _Hatfield MSS._ v. 71; xiii. 507; Haynes-Murdin, ii. 804. - -[471] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 1; xiii. 508. - -[472] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 31); _Sc. P._ (Oct. 25). - -[473] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 19; _Martin’s_ (misdated Oct.). - -[474] _C. A._; Arber, ii. 664. - -[475] _Martin’s_, 465; _Rutland MSS._ i. 324. - -[476] Dee, 51. - -[477] _C. A._; _S. P. I._ (Dec. 8). - -[478] _Martin’s_, 465. - -[479] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_. - -[480] _Martin’s_, 471; cf. my paper on _The Occasion of A Midsummer -Night’s Dream_ in _Sh. Homage_, 154. I there thought that the wedding -must have been at Burghley House, but I now find that _C. A._ confirms -Stowe in placing it at Greenwich, and must suppose that, after the -ceremony, Elizabeth accompanied the bridal pair to Burghley House. If -_M. N. D._ was produced, it may have been at either place. - -[481] _C. A._; Nichols, iii. 38; _Hatfield MSS._ v. 121. - -[482] _C. A._; _Rutland MSS._ i. 326; _Hatfield MSS._ v. -135, 138. - -[483] Cf. ch. xxiv. - -[484] _C. A._; _Gesta Grayorum_, 68. - -[485] _Martin’s_, 472. - -[486] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 344; Lodge, app. 78; _Martin’s_, 472. - -[487] _C. A._ - -[488] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Oct. 19); Birch, i. 311. - -[489] _Syd. P._ i. 357. - -[490] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ i. 365 (misdated Nov. 25 for 15); _Martin’s_, -473. - -[491] _C. A._ - -[492] _Syd. P._ i. 366, 369, 371; _Martin’s_, 473. - -[493] _Syd. P._ i. 376. - -[494] _Syd. P._ i. 380; _Martin’s_, 474. - -[495] _Syd. P._ i. 382. - -[496] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Dec. 28); _Syd. P._ i. 384; _Martin’s_, 474. - -[497] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 483; _P. C._ (Apr. 4). - -[498] _Martin’s_, 483. - -[499] _C. A._ - -[500] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 5, 6; _Martin’s_, 488; _Margaret’s_. - -[501] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ vi. 425; Birch, ii. 173 (Oct. 13). - -[502] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 465. - -[503] _C. A._; cf. ch. xxiii (Bacon). - -[504] _Martin’s_, 488. - -[505] _Syd. P._ ii. 17; _Fulham_. - -[506] Lysons, i. 297. - -[507] _Martin’s_, 496. - -[508] _C. A._; Wright, ii. 477 (July 20); _Hatfield MSS._ vii. 306 -(July 22). - -[509] _C. A._; _P. C._; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 13); _Hatfield MSS._ vii. -361, 370, 378; _Rutland MSS._ i. 342, 343; iv. 209; Stowe, _Annales_; -Stiffkey, 141; Carey, _Memoirs_, 51; 1 Ellis, ii. 274. - -[510] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 21). - -[511] _P. C._; _Martin’s_, 497. - -[512] _C. A._ - -[513] Cf. ch. v. - -[514] _Martin’s_, 514; _Rutland MSS._ i. 345 (May 1). - -[515] _Martin’s_, 515. - -[516] _C. A._ - -[517] _C. A._ - -[518] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Sept. 13); Chamberlain, 19; Lysons, -i. 257. - -[519] _C. A._ - -[520] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 20. - -[521] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Martin’s_, 516; Chamberlain, 29. - -[522] Chamberlain, 29. - -[523] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 522; _Rutland MSS._ i. 351. - -[524] _Martin’s_, 523; _P. C._ (Apr. 2, 3, 4). - -[525] Henslowe, i. 104. - -[526] Chamberlain, 52; Nichols, iii. 467. - -[527] _C. A._ - -[528] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 57; _Lambeth_. - -[529] Chamberlain, 57. - -[530] _Syd. P._ ii. 118. - -[531] _Procl._ 903. - -[532] _S. P. D._; _Syd. P._ ii. 119. - -[533] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 129, 130. - -[534] _C. A._ - -[535] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 141; _Martin’s_, 525; _Margaret’s_; Stowe, -_Annales_. - -[536] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 142. - -[537] Devereux, ii. 92. - -[538] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 149; Winwood, i. 137; -_Martin’s_, 525. - -[539] _Syd. P._ ii. 155 (Jan. 5): ‘Her Majestie is in very good health, -and comes much abroad these holidayes; for almost every night she is in -the presence, to see the ladies dawnce the old and new country dawnces, -with the taber and pipe.’ - -[540] _Syd. P._ ii. 161. - -[541] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Apr. 13, 20). - -[542] _Hatfield MSS._ x. 139 (May 5), ‘The Queen would fain hear the -French gentleman sing and play who is so much commended, and saith if -she had been put in mind or could yet tell how to do it, she would -see the gentleman who danced on the rope and is so cunning in those -voltiges’; _Syd. P._ ii. 194 (May 12), ‘Her Maiestie is very well; this -day she appointes to see a Frenchman doe feates upon a rope in the -Conduit court. To morrow she hath comanded the beares, the bull, and -the ape, to be baited in the tilt-yard. Upon Wednesday she will have -solemn dawncing.’ On Peter Bromvill, cf. App. D, No. cxxiii. - -[543] _Syd. P._ ii. 201. - -[544] Cf. ch. v. - -[545] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 208. - -[546] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 210. - -[547] _Syd. P._ ii. 210. - -[548] Nichols, iii. 489. - -[549] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 23); _Syd. P._ ii. 208–213. - -[550] _Syd. P._ ii. 213. - -[551] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 213. - -[552] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 213, 214. - -[553] _Syd. P._ ii. 215. - -[554] _C. A._ - -[555] _C. A._; _Syd. P._ ii. 217; Chamberlain, 89. - -[556] _C. A._; Stowe, _Annales_; _Margaret’s_. - -[557] _C. A._; Winwood, i. 271, 274; Gawdy, 103, 105; cf. ch. xxiii -(Clifford). - -[558] _Hatfield MSS._ x. 406. A visit of 1600 to Baynard’s Castle (Sir -Robert Sydney) described in Harrington, i. 312, must fall between Nov. -13 and the Essex outbreak of 8 Feb. 1601, as Sydney was abroad earlier -in 1600. - -[559] Chamberlain, 97. - -[560] _Martin’s_, 546; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 543, ‘There is a great gest -expected to come a maying hither. I wish your leisure and disposition -may serve for maying’. - -[561] _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 185. - -[562] _Martin’s_, 546. - -[563] _Lambeth._ - -[564] _C. A._ - -[565] _C. A._; _Lambeth_; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 328, 329. - -[566] _C. A._ - -[567] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 332; Chamberlain, 118; _S. P. D._ -(Sept. 19). - -[568] _C. A._; _P. C._; Shaw; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 27; Sept. 1, 19, 23); -Stowe, _Annales_, 797; Chamberlain, 117; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 381, 392, -394; _Carew-Cecil Corres._ 95; Goodman, ii. 22; _Remembrancia_, 286; -_Rutland MSS._ i. 379, 380; _Egerton Papers_, 328. - -[569] Chamberlain, 117, ‘Mr. Controller made great chere, and -entertained her with many devises of singing, dauncing, and playing -wenches, and such like’; _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 362 (J. Herbert--R. -Cecil), ‘Her Majesty, God be praised, liketh her journey, the air -of this soil and the pleasures and pastimes shewed her in the way, -marvellous well’. - -[570] _Rutland MS._ i. 380. - -[571] _C. A._; _P. C._ (Oct. 25); _Margaret’s_; _Martin’s_, 548. - -[572] _C. A._ - -[573] Chamberlain in _S. P. D._ cclxxxii, 48, ‘There has been such a -small court this Christmas that the guard were not troubled to keep -doors at the plays and pastimes’. - -[574] _Hatfield MSS._ xi. 544. - -[575] _S. P. D._ _Eliz._ cclxxxii. 48, ‘The Q: dined this day priuatly -at my L^d Chamberlains; I came euen now from the Blackfriers, where I -saw her at the play with all her _candidae auditrices_’; cf. ch. xiii -(Chamberlain’s) and _M. L. R._ ii. 12. - -[576] _C. A._; _Martin’s_, 558; _Lambeth_ (misdated 1602/3). - -[577] _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 99. - -[578] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 126; _Lambeth_. - -[579] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 133. Lord Cumberland’s May Day show of -horsemen (cf. ch. xxiii) may belong to this year, or less probably 1601. - -[580] _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 140; Chamberlain, 133. - -[581] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 226. - -[582] _C. A._; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 4, 6, 7); _Martin’s_; FULHAM; HATFIELD -MSS. xii. 302, 305, 358; Lodge, ii. 552, 554; _Egerton Papers_, 340; -Winwood, i. 429; Chamberlain, 150. - -[583] For _Harefield Entertainment_, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[584] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 6, 15). - -[585] _C. A._ - -[586] _C. A._; cf. Chamberlain, 152. - -[587] Chamberlain, 157. - -[588] _C. A._; Chamberlain, 162; _Martin’s_, 561. - -[589] _C. A._; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 438, 459; Chamberlain, -163. - -[590] Chamberlain, 167; _Hatfield MSS._ xii. 507, 560, 568; cf. ch. -xxiii (Cecil). - -[591] Chamberlain, 169. - -[592] Chamberlain, 172, ‘The court hath flourisht more then ordinarie’, -with ‘many playes’; _Syd. P._ ii. 262, ‘M^{rs}. Mary [Fitton] upon S^t. -Steuens day in the afternoon dawnced before the Queen two galliards -with one M^r. Palmer, the admirablest dawncer of this tyme; both were -much commended by her Majestie; then she dawnced with hym a corante’. - -[593] Chamberlain, 174. - -[594] _C. A._; Lysons, i. 297; Chamberlain, 174; _Martin’s_, 567. - -[595] _Contemporary Prints_ (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, _Annales_; Camden; -Nichols, iii. 306; iv. 1054; Shaw; 1 Ellis, iii. 71, 75; _Procl._ 943, -944; _S. P. D._ (Apr. 21, 22, 25, 29; May 10); Hawarde, 180; _Egerton -Papers_, 369. - -[596] At Worksop were huntsmen in green with a woodman’s speech -(Nichols, i. 86, from printed description). - -[597] For an abandoned entertainment at Bishopsgate, cf. ch. xxiv -(Dekker, _Coronation Entertainment_). - -[598] Stowe, _Annales_; Shaw; Hawarde, 181. - -[599] Hawarde, 181. - -[600] Hawarde, 182; Shaw; Gawdy, 132. - -[601] Shaw; 2 Ellis, iii. 201, ‘having vewed all his housese’. - -[602] Green, 4, from _Account_ of Marmaduke Darrell; Nichols, i. 189; -iv. 1056, and _Leicestershire_, i. 417; iii. 589; Kelly, _Progresses_, -318; _Middleton MSS._ 463; Wiffen, ii. 70; 1 Ellis, iii. 73; Lodge, -App. 108. - -[603] For entertainment at Althorp, cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson). - -[604] Lodge, iii. 15; 1 Ellis, iii. 81; Shaw; Gardiner, i. 113. - -[605] There were ‘speeches and delicate presents’ at Grafton (Wiffen, -ii. 71). - -[606] Wiffen, ii. 71; Shaw. - -[607] _S. P. D._ (July 13); _Procl._ 965. - -[608] Stowe, _Annales_; V. P. x. 74. - -[609] Stowe, _Annales_; _V. P._ x. 75. - -[610] _V. P._ x. 74. - -[611] Nichols, i. xi, 250 (from gests in B.M. _Cole MS._ xlvi. 324); -iv. 1059; _S. P. D._ (Aug. 17, 22, 31; Sept. 11, 15); _Procl._ 969–71 -Shaw; Bradley, ii. 180–3; Hawarde, 272; Lodge, iii. 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, -34 (‘our _camp volant_, which every week dislodgeth’), 38, App. 108, -109, 115; _V. P._ x. 83. - -[612] Lodge, iii. 34, 36, 41. - -[613] Bradley, ii. 190 (Arabella Stuart to Lord Shrewsbury), ‘There was -an interlude, but not so ridiculous, as ridiculous as it was, as my -letter’. - -[614] Cf. ch. v. - -[615] Shaw; Beaumont in _King’s MS._ cxxiv, f. 174^v. - -[616] Lodge, iii. 58; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 20); _Procl._ 974 (Oct. 24). - -[617] Nichols, iv. 1059; _S. P. D._ (Nov. 1). - -[618] _S. P. D._ (Dec. 21). - -[619] Bradley, ii. 195, ‘It is said there shall be 30 playes’, 199; -_Wilbraham’s Journal_ (_Camd. Misc._ x), 66, ‘manie plaies and dances -with swordes.’ One of the King’s men’s plays was _Fair Maid of Bristow_. - -[620] Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, _Twelve Goddesses_). - -[621] Law, _Hampton Court_, ii. 11. - -[622] _Margaret’s._ - -[623] Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), ‘Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde -before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow’. - -[624] _V. P._ x. 139. - -[625] Stowe, _Annales_. - -[626] Cf. ch. xxiv. - -[627] Arber, iii. 257. - -[628] Shaw; cf. ch. xxii (Jonson). - -[629] Shaw (May 30, June 2). - -[630] Shaw. - -[631] Shaw (July 3); _S. P. D._ (July 4). - -[632] _Procl._ 995; _S. P. D._ (July 14, 18); Shaw; _V. P._ x. 171. - -[633] _S. P. D._ (July 28, 29, 30; Aug. 2, 6); Shaw; _V. P._ x. 171; -Lodge, App. 115. - -[634] 2 Ellis, iii. 207; _Egerton Papers_, 395. - -[635] _C. D. I._ lxxi. 483; Rye, 117; E. Law, _Shakespeare as a Groom -of the Chamber_; _V. P._ x. 175; _Gawdy MSS._ 95; Winwood, ii. 26; cf. -App. B. - -[636] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 6); Winwood, ii. 26; _Gawdy MSS._ 95; Warton, -_Hist. of Kiddington_ (1815), 58; Shaw. - -[637] _Procl._ 1001; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 16, 20). - -[638] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 33. - -[639] _Gawdy MSS._ 96. - -[640] Stowe, _Annales_, 823; Carey, _Memoirs_, 83. - -[641] _Gawdy MSS._ 97; _Margaret’s_. - -[642] This is probably the play which concluded an entertainment by the -Spanish ambassador to the Duke of Holst (Winwood, ii. 44; Sullivan, -26). Carleton says, ‘After Dinner he came home to us, with a Play and a -Banquett’. - -[643] Cf. App. B (introd.). - -[644] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson, _Blackness_). - -[645] Winwood, ii. 51; _S. P. D._ (March 6). - -[646] Winwood, ii. 54. - -[647] _V. P._ x. 234. - -[648] Lodge, iii. 162. - -[649] Stowe, _Annales_. - -[650] _S. P. D._; Winwood, ii. 81. - -[651] Stowe, _Annales_. - -[652] Leland, _Collectanea_, ii. 626, from gests; Nichols, i. 517, -apparently from abandoned gests (Lodge, App. 97, 99), 518, 560; -_Procl._ 1015, 1016; _S. P. D_. (July 26, Aug. 5); _V. P._ x. 265; Shaw -(July 27); Winwood, ii. 99, 107; Lodge, iii. 171; Warton, _Life of -Sir T. Pope_ (1772), 413; _Reliquiae Hearnianae^2_, ii. 68 (misdated -1608); and for Oxford, Camden, _Annales_; Nichols, i. 530, iv. 1067, -from description of Philip Stringer in _Harl. MS._ 7044; A. Nixon, _The -Oxford Triumph_ (1605); I. Wake, _Rex Platonicus_ (1607); A. Wood, -_Annals_; _S. P. D. Addl._ xxxvii. 66, 67; _V. P._ x. 270; Winwood, ii. -140. - -[653] For plays at Oxford, cf. chh. iv, vii. - -[654] Nichols, i. 518, 560, from _Marlow Accts._ - -[655] _S. P. D_. (Sept. 10); Winwood, ii. 132. - -[656] _Rutland MSS._ i. 396. - -[657] Stowe, _Annales_, 882; _Procl._ 1030; _V. P._ x. 332; Winwood, -ii. 204; _Margaret’s_. - -[658] _V. P._ x. 332; Winwood, ii. 205. - -[659] Winwood, ii. 205. - -[660] _Margaret’s._ - -[661] Cf. ch. iv. - -[662] _S. P. D._ (July 16); Shaw (July 15); Nichols, ii. 53, from -Drummond (app. a day out). - -[663] Nichols, ii. 54; iv. 1072, from prints (cf. ch. xxiv); Stowe, -885; Harington, i. 348; Boderie, i. 223, 226, 241, 259, 283, 297; _V. -P._ x. 379, 383, 386, 391; Winwood, ii. 247; Birch, i. 65. - -[664] Cf. ch. v. - -[665] _King of Denmarkes Welcome_, 16, ‘On Wednesday at night, the -Youthes of Paules, commonlye cald the Children of Paules, plaide before -the two Kings, a playe called _Abuses_: containing both a Comedie and -a Tragedie, at which the Kinges seemed to take delight and be much -pleased’. - -[666] Shaw (Aug. 17). - -[667] _Procl._ 1037; Shaw. - -[668] Lodge, iii. 184. - -[669] _Procl._ 1039; Shaw. - -[670] Boderie, ii. 144. - -[671] Boderie, ii. 253; _V. P._ x. 501. - -[672] Boderie, ii. 247, 264, ‘Et à la fin d’icelui se présenta une -Tragédie d’Enée et de Didon, qui les tint jusques à deux heures après -minuit’. - -[673] Stowe, _Annales_, 890; _V. P._ x. 8; Nichols, ii. 133. - -[674] Cf. ch. iv. - -[675] _S. P. D._; _Margaret’s_; Shaw; _Procl._ 1044; Birch, i. 68 -(misdated), ‘The King went home yesterday’. - -[676] _S. P. D._; _Procl._ 1046; Shaw; Winwood, ii. 328; Rymer, xvi. -664; Hunter, _Hallamshire_, 95. - -[677] _S. P. D._ - -[678] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 344; Lodge, app. 102. - -[679] Nichols, ii. 155; _V. P._ xi. 59. - -[680] Birch, i. 69. - -[681] Boderie, iii. 195. - -[682] Shaw; Winwood, ii. 403. - -[683] _Margaret’s._ - -[684] Birch, i. 76; _Procl._ 1063–4; _S. P. D._ (July 14, 18, 20, 24; -Aug. 10); Rymer, xvi. 673; Lodge, App. 126; Shaw; Nichols, ii. 203. - -[685] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 28). - -[686] _Procl._ 1065; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 17). - -[687] _Procl._ 1066; _S. P. D._ (Oct. 21). - -[688] Birch, i. 85 (Jan. 3), ‘a dull and heavy Christmas hitherto’. - -[689] _V. P._ xi. 243, 246. - -[690] Birch, i. 92. - -[691] Stowe, _Annales_. - -[692] Birch, i. 96 (misdated Apr. 6). - -[693] _Procl._ 1077, 1078, 1079. - -[694] Stowe, _Annales_. - -[695] _Margaret’s._ - -[696] Lodge, iii. 261. - -[697] _S. P. D._ (July 26, Aug. 15, 20); Lodge, iii. 267, 268; Shaw -(Aug. 2, 13, misdated?); Nichols, ii. 263; Hutchins, _Dorset_, iii. 381. - -[698] _S. P. D._ (Aug. 31). - -[699] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 1, 7). - -[700] _Margaret’s._ - -[701] Cf. ch. xxiii (Jonson). - -[702] At St. James’s, 10 p.m., after a supper by Henry to the players -at barriers (_Arch._ xii. 258). - -[703] Nichols, ii. 287; _V. P._ xi. 453, 460. - -[704] Nichols, ii. 307; Stowe, _Annales_, 895. - -[705] Cf. ch. xxiv. - -[706] Cf. ch. xxiv. - -[707] Ibid. - -[708] _Arch._ xii. 258. On June 10 a newswriter (Winwood, iii. 182) -says, ‘As often as he can he absents himself from the town, yet is -quickly fetched again on every occasion, which much troubles him’. - -[709] _Procl._ 1095; _S. P. D._ (July 29; Aug. 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 19, 23; -Sept. 2); Rymer, xvi. 703, 704; Nichols, ii. 364, and _Illustrations_, -135; Birch, i. 131; Winwood, iii. 201, 213; _Rutland MSS._ i. 423; _V. -P._ xii. 26, 41; Hearne, _Reliquiae^2_, ii. 69. - -[710] _Rutland MSS._ i. 423; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 2). - -[711] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 8, 18). - -[712] _Margaret’s._ - -[713] _S. P. D._ - -[714] Ibid. - -[715] _Procl._ 1115; _S. P. D._; Nichols, iv. 1083. - -[716] _Procl._ 1117. - -[717] _S. P. D._ (Oct. 31). - -[718] There is some doubt as to the dates of this winter’s plays; cf. -p. 140. - -[719] Cunningham, 211. - -[720] Ibid. - -[721] Ibid. - -[722] Ibid.; Birch, i. 133 (Jan. 29), ‘The prince went on Saturday to -Royston, called thither from his martial sports of tilt, tourney, and -barrier, which he followed so earnestly, that he was every day five or -six hours in armour. The rest of the time was spent in---- and every -night a play, in all which exercises the Lord Cranbourne attended him, -keeping an honourable table all the while they were at Greenwich, -and grows daily into his favour.’ The plays of Jan. 12 and 13 were -certainly and those of Jan. 15, 19, 21, almost certainly at Greenwich. -An extant challenge to tilt of 1612 (Clephan, 133, 176, from _Harl. -MS._ 4888) may be of this period. - -[723] Birch, i. 137. - -[724] _V. P._ xii. 329; Cunningham, 211. - -[725] _V. P._ xii. 349. - -[726] Birch, i. 169, 174 (June 17, ‘The King has been coming and going -to Eltham all the last week’), 181; Shaw (June 3). - -[727] Birch, i. 187. - -[728] Nichols, ii. 450 (from records at Leicester and Nottingham); iv. -1083; Kelly, _Progresses_, 344 (from Leicester gests); _S. P. D._ (July -23, 26, 28); _Procl._ 1123; Rymer, xvi. 724; Shaw; Birch, i. 188, 189, -197; Winwood, iii. 384. - -[729] Birch, i. 197, ‘The prince made the king an entertainment, with -some devices, at Woodstock’. - -[730] _Procl._ 1124; _S. P. D._ (Sept. 24). - -[731] Winwood, iii. 403; Birch, i. 198; _V. P._ xii. 443; cf. ch. xxiv -for descriptions of visit and wedding. - -[732] Birch, i. 198 (cf. App. B). - -[733] Winwood, iii. 406. - -[734] Birch, i. 201; Winwood, iii. 406. - -[735] Ibid. - -[736] Cf. App. B. - -[737] Winwood, iii. 421; _V. P._ xii. 473. - -[738] Birch, i. 229; Wood, _Annals_, ii. 315. - -[739] Birch, i. 238; _Rutland MSS._ iv. 494; Arber, iii. 518. - -[740] Stowe, 1007; Nichols, ii. 611. - -[741] Nichols, ii. 628, 643; Wotton, ii. 20, 22, 29; Winwood, iii. 454, -461; Birch, i. 243. - -[742] For entertainment at Caversham, cf. ch. xxiii (Campion). - -[743] For entertainment at Bristol, cf. ch. xxiv. - -[744] For entertainment at Bishop’s Cannings, cf. ch. xxiii (Ferebe). - -[745] Wotton, ii. 25 (misdated). - -[746] _S. P. D._ (July 1, 3, 4); Shaw. - -[747] Winwood, iii. 468. - -[748] _S. P. D._ (July 19); _Remembrancia_, 290; Birch, i. 261. - -[749] _S. P. D._ (July 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 31); Birch, i. 257; Winwood, -iii. 461, 475; _Egerton Papers_, 462. - -[750] Birch, i. 257, 275; _V. P._ xiii. 36; _Hist. MSS._ i. 107; -_Journal of Arch. Ass._ xvi. 319. For entertainment at Wells, cf. ch. -iv. - -[751] Birch, i. 269. - -[752] _S. P. D._ (Sept. 9); Birch, i. 275. - -[753] _S. P. D._; Wotton, ii. 35. - -[754] Cf. ch. xxiii (Middleton). - -[755] Cf. ch. xxiv. - -[756] Nichols, ii. 754. - -[757] Nichols, ii. 759, from _Harl. MS._ 5171. - -[758] Shaw; Wotton, ii. 39; Nichols, iii. 6. - -[759] _C. A._; _Procl._ 1145. - -[760] Birch, i. 329. - -[761] Nichols, iii. 10, from gests at Leicester; _S. P. D._ (July 14, -18, 21, 22); Shaw; Stowe, _Annales_, 1012; Birch, i. 333, 339; Camden, -_Annales_; _Procl._ 1147, 1148. - -[762] Birch, i. 339; _V. P._ xiii. 166. - -[763] Stowe, 1012. - -[764] Birch, i. 341, 342; Stowe, 1012. - -[765] Nichols, iii. 20; Kelly, _Progresses_, 360; Birch, i. 343; Shaw -(Aug. 25); Wood, _Annals_, ii. 319; _Egerton Papers_, 464. - -[766] Birch, i. 346. - -[767] Birch, i. 290, ‘They have plays at least every night, both -holidays and working days, wherein they show great----, being for the -most part such poor stuff, that instead of delight, they send the -auditory away with discontent. Indeed, our poets’ brains and inventions -are grown very dry, insomuch that of five new plays there is not one -pleases, and therefore they are driven to furbish over their old, -which stand them in best stead, and bring them most profit’ (John -Chamberlain). - -[768] Nichols, iii. 41. - -[769] For plays at Cambridge in March and May, see chh. iv, vii. - -[770] Birch, i. 358. - -[771] _S. P. D._ - -[772] _S. P. D._ (July 3, 5); Shaw. - -[773] Birch, i. 368. - -[774] Camden, _Annales_; _S. P. D._ (July 23, 26, 28–31); Shaw; Birch, -i. 369; Nichols, iii. 97. - -[775] Birch, i. 369. - -[776] Nichols, iii. 104. - -[777] Birch, i. 395, 397; cf. ch. iv, App. K (_Susenbrotus_). - -[778] Birch, i. 394; _Rutland MSS._ iv. 508. - -[779] This payment was by warrant of the Lord Chamberlain. - -[780] P. C. Acts name Westcote. - -[781] On the unrewarded plays of 1563–4 and 1564–5, cf. ch. vii. - -[782] In P. C. Acts, by an obvious error, £7 13_s._ 8_d._ - -[783] P. C. Acts specify ‘Shrove Tuesday’. - -[784] Apparently one play was unrewarded. - -[785] P. C. Acts describe the company as Lane’s, and put the -performance 26 Dec., Windsor 27 Dec., and Paul’s 1 Jan. - -[786] P. C. Acts give payees as ‘Lawrence Dutton and his fellows’. -Wallace, i. 213, states in error that this and the next payment are not -in _D. A._ - -[787] P. C. Acts give payee as ‘----, Master of the Children of -Westminster’. - -[788] Wallace, i. 215, reads ‘cumyng’ in error. - -[789] In view of the date in the warrant, the ‘Monday’ of the Revels -Accounts should clearly be ‘Sunday’. - -[790] The _D. A._ give all three plays on Shrove Sunday, but Cunningham -has Shrove Monday for Warwick’s and omits Muncaster’s, which may have -been on the Tuesday, although two plays were sometimes given on the -same night. - -[791] The _D. A._ give Sunday before Shrovetide, which might mean -either Shrove Sunday (Mar. 4) or the preceding Sunday (Feb. 26). - -[792] P. C. Acts name John Dutton, as well as Lawrence, and put -Muncaster’s play on Sunday. It is safer to follow _D. A._ - -[793] As the entry stands, it should refer to Warwick’s, but I think it -probably does refer to Leicester’s. - -[794] P. C. Acts have Chamberlain’s for Howard’s. - -[795] As two plays on one night are exceptional, it is safer to follow -the Revels Account. - -[796] The £10 payment has now become normal, but to the end of the -reign is stated, usually but not invariably, as made up of £6 13_s._ -4_d._ with a ‘more’ sum of £3 6_s._ 8_d._, by way of Her Majesty’s -‘rewarde’, ‘speciall rewarde’, or ‘further liberalitie and rewarde’. - -[797] The Pipe Office _D. A._ date Sunday, Jan. ‘firste’. Jan. 5 -was Sunday; the ‘fifte’ of A. O. (Wallace, i. 220) is right. - -[798] Presumably the Revels Accounts put this play on 4 Jan. in error. - -[799] The 27 Dec. of Revels Accounts is preferable. - -[800] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday for the Chamberlain’s as well as -Warwick’s. - -[801] Both the ‘Twesday’ of the Pipe Office and the ‘Tewsday’ of the -Audit Office (Wallace, i. 223) _D. A._ are doubtless errors for -‘Twelfday’. P. C. Acts have ‘Twelfte Daye’. - -[802] P. C. Acts give Shrove Sunday (Feb. 9). - -[803] P. C. Acts give 23 Dec., obviously in error. - -[804] So P. C. Acts. - -[805] P. C. Acts do not name Ottewell, and call the company the -Admiral’s. - -[806] P. C. Acts give 27 Dec. - -[807] Cf. p. 56. - -[808] Dasent reads ‘Flemings’. - -[809] P. C. Acts have ‘John’ Shawe. - -[810] So P. C. Acts. - -[811] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 136. - -[812] For a discussion of these entries, cf. p. 140. - -[813] The payment is for 12 plays; one date [13 Jan.?] is obviously -omitted. - -[814] Cunningham gives the date as 16 Jan. - -[815] This item is entered in Account for 1612–13; _Rawl. MS_. -gives the date. - -[816] Cunningham gives this date as 18 Feb. - -[817] The dates of the Prince’s, Lady Elizabeth’s, and Revels plays are -given by _Rawl. MS._ but not _D. A._ - -[818] This is probably the play of 20 Oct. in the Cockpit to which -(Birch, i. 198) Elizabeth invited Frederick. - -[819] Both _D. A._ and Cunningham, xliii, have the error for £46 13_s._ -4_d._ Both records also date the King’s men’s plays of this winter as -‘1614’ instead of ‘1613’. - -[820] So _D. A._, but Cunningham’s 28 Dec. is more probable. - -[821] Henceforward play payments are by warrant from Lord Chamberlain, -not Privy Council; cf. ch. vii. - -[822] This item is entered in the Account for 1615–16. - -[823] This item is entered in the Account for 1616–17. - -[824] errant. _Om._ A. B has marginal note ‘_Erratum_ in the last -impression’. - -[825] B adds in margin, King Agesilaus teaches the respect due to -common players in his answere to Callipides, who being a presumptious -excellent actor; & thinking himself not graced enough by the kings -notice, as the king passed along, doth sawcily interrupt him thus; -_doth not your grace know me?_ _Yes_, said the king, _thou art -Calipides the Player_. - -[826] Hee ... goodnes. A, If hee cannot beleeue, hee doth coniecture -strongly; but dares not resolue vpon particulars. - -[827] _Epilogue._ A adds: ‘vnlesse he be prevented’. - -[828] B, in margin, Iuxta Plautinum illud Collybisci: quin aedepol -conductior sum quam tragaedi aut comici. - -[829] When ... eccho. _Om._ A. - -[830] sawsie rude. A, lying. - -[831] glaunce. A, glaunces. - -[832] hath. A, hath once. - -[833] To ... infected. _Om._ A. - -[834] Reproofe ... blushing. _Om._ A. - -[835] When ... _board_. _Om._ A. - -[836] also. A, enough. - -[837] commonwealth. A, common-wealths. - -[838] Painting ... _Revells_. _Om._ A. B, in margin, I would haue the -correcting Pedant goe study _Logicke_. - -[839] title. A, denomination. - -[840] Yet ... number. _Om._ A. - - -Transcriber’s Notes: - -1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been -corrected silently. - -2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the -original. - -3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have -been retained as in the original. - -4. Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r. or -X^{xx}. - -5. Italics are shown as _xxx_. - -6. Bold print is shown as =xxx=. - -7. In some cases a letter with a macron has been written as m¯ with a -straight upper bar to the right of the letter. 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