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Note: search under ‘London and Environs’; ‘Playing Companies’; ‘Playhouses’; and ‘Stage Characters’ for individual entries appropriate to those categories.

Abell, William (alderman), 586 Andrews, Richard (player), 245 Abuses, 318 Anglin, Jay P., ‘The Schools of Defense’, Acton, Mr (justice of the peace), 158 296 Actors. See Players Anglo, Sydney, 20; ‘Court Festivals’, 291 Adams, John (player), 300 Annals of England. See Stow, John Adams, Joseph Quincy, Shakespearean Playhouse, Anne, Queen, 119, 122, 125, 513–14, 561, 562, 550n, 597n, 626n; Dramatic Records of Sir 564, 580, 625, 630–1; her company of Henry Herbert, 581, 582, 582n players, see Playing Companies Admiral, Lord. See Lord Admiral Apothecaries, 388, 501 Admiral’s players. See Playing Companies Arber, Edward, 192 Aesop, 171 Archer, George (rent gatherer), 611n Agrippa, Henry Cornelius (writer), 159 Arches, Court of the, 292, 294n, 312 Alabaster, William (playwright), 650 Ariosto, Ludovico, I Suppositi, 297n Aldermen of London. See London Armin, Robert (player and writer), 123, 196, Alderson, Thomas (sailor), 643 197, 198; Foole vpon Foole, 411–12 All Hallowtide, 100 Army Plot, The, 625, 636 All Saints Day, 35 Arthur, Thomas (apprentice player), 275–7 Allen, Giles, 330–2&n, 333–6&n, 340, 343–4, Arundel, Earl of (Henry Fitzalan, twelfth Earl), 346–7, 348, 352, 355, 356–7, 367–72, 372–5, 73, 308; his company of players, see Playing 376–8&n, 378–83, 383–4, 384–5, 385–6&nn, Companies 386–7, 411 Ash Wednesday, 169 Allen, Sarah, 333–6, 340, 367, 372–5 Ashborne, Edward (musician or stage Alleyn, Edward (player), 13, 65, 80, 106, 107, attendant), 258–9 124, 155, 171, 172, 177, 190, 191, 216–17, Ashley, Sir Anthony, 547–50&n, 560&n, 561 220–21, 245, 277–8, 281, 282, 289, 328, Astington, John, 209 413–14, 419, 422–3, 436 485, 531–2, 533–4, Astley, Sir John, 128, 148 534–7, 537–9&n, 539–40, 541, 541–2, Atkin, Mr (of Norwich), 248 544–5&n, 595–7, 600, 603, 604, 638–9, 640, Atkins, John (occupier of the cockpit in Drury 641n, 642; his Diary, 436, 546n; his portrait, Lane before 1616), 627 279 Atkins, John (scrivener), 607, 611n, 612 Alleyn, Joan (wife of Edward), 13, 277–8, 419, Atlas, 183 485, 531, 595; her portrait, 280 Attorney General, 314–5, 316, 582–3, 586 Alleyn, John (player), 348–9, 350n, 361–2 Audiences and auditoria, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, Alvechurch (Worcestershire), 136 22, 46, 60, 76, 84, 85, 92, 116, 122, 135, 137, Amsterdam, 609 139, 149 Anatomy of Abuses (Stubbes), 166 Audley, Tobias, 582 Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 185 Augustus (Roman emperor), 171 Andrews (Androwes), George (silk weaver, Austen, George, 507n playhouse investor), 269–71, 548–9, 353–9 Ayloﬀ, Mr (lawyer), 479, 483, 484

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B., G. (writer), A Fig for the Spaniard, 303 Beaven, William (builder), 648 Backwell, 54–60 Becher, Sir William, 524 Bacon, Anthony, 303–4 Becmann, J. C., Accessiones Historiae Anhaltinae, Bacon, Francis (lawyer), 239, 303, 387 440 Bacon, Lady Anne, 303–4 Bedford, Earl of (Francis Russell, fourth earl), Bacon, Sir Edmund, 499, 562 528 Bagnall, Richard, 460 Bedingfield, Anne, 569n Baker, Philip, 346–7 Bedingfield, ?Christopher, 569n Baker, Richard (writer), 189 Bedingfield, Daniel, 228 Baldwin, T.W., Organization and Personnel of the Bee, William (player), 257–8 Shakespearean Company, 612n Beeston, Robert (player), 253 Bale, John (playwright), 21, 24, 33 Beeston alias Hutchinson: Alice, 672 Ballads, songs and rhymes, 24, 34, 50, 52 Beeston, Christopher (player), 125, 128, 129, Banbury (Oxfordshire), 145 175, 194, 198, 253, 405, 406n, 579, 623, 625, Banister, Margery, 406n 626–7&n, 628n, 630–1, 632–3, 633, 635, 651, Bankes, Jerome, 590n 658, 664 Banks, one (horseman), 301 Beeston, Elizabeth, 625–6, 633–4, 636, 636–7&n Barbon, Hugh (pursuivant), 385 Beeston, William, 625–6, 633, 633–4, 634–5, Barclays Bank. See London 636, 636–7&n, 651, 653, 654–5&n, 658–60, Barker, Alexander (player), 144 662–4, 670–4&n Barker, Richard, 119 Bel Savage Inn. See Playhouses Barlow, Graham F., ‘Wenceslas Hollar’, 626nn Bell Inn. See Playhouses Barne, John, 100 Bendbowe, Thomas (clergyman), 306 Barnes, Lord, 73 Benfield, Robert (player), 221–8, 525–6, 621, Barnes, Thomas (pretended player), 189 645 Barnet (Hertfordshire), 589 Benger, Sir Thomas, 69, 70 Barry, Lording (playwright, playhouse investor), Bentley, G.E., The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, 269–71, 547–9, 552, 553–9; Ram Alley, 547 406n, 416n, 418n, 440n, 450n, 503n, 504nn, Bartholomew (alias Heath), Edward, 136 514&n, 522&n, 525n, 527, 528, 534, 544, Bartholomewtide, 80 569n, 570n, 583, 586n, 597nn, 597, 603, 604, Baskervile, Susan. See Greene, Susan 605, 610n, 613, 615, 616, 621&n, 622n, Basle (Switzerland), 412, 497 626nn, 628, 630, 631, 640n, 641, 642, 643n, Bateman, Stephen (clergyman and writer), 325 644, 645, 646, 652nn, 654, 655, 657, 664, Bath, 188 667, 670 Baumfeld, John (of Somerset), 197 Bentley, John (player), 172, 176, 246–50, 300 Bavande, William (writer), 158, 164n Bergomasks, 93 Bawcutt, N. W., ‘Documents’, 652&n, 664, 670 Berkeley, Lord, 73, 92, 141; his company of Baxter, John, 600 players, see Playing Companies Baxter, Richard (player), 259, 581&n Berkshire, 390 Baxter, Robert (player), 219 Berry, Herbert, The Boar’s Head Playhouse, 308n, Bear-baiting, 84, 86–7, 88, 112, 124, 136, 220n, 456, 458, 459, 461, 463n, 463, 464, 475, 476, 305 449. See also Beargarden, Paris Garden, 477, 478, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, Hunks, and (under Playhouses) Hope 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492; ‘Chambers, the Beargarden, The, 426n, 432n, 446, 595, 597, Bull, and the Bacons’, 303; ‘First Public 598–9, 601. See also (under Playhouses) Hope Playhouses’, 290n, 291; ‘Folger Ms. V.b.275’, Bears and Beasts, Master of the King’s, 13 529, 605, 622, 637n, 646, 670; ‘A Handlist of Bearwards, 62 Documents About the Theatre in Shoreditch’, Beauchamp, Lord; his company of players, see 298; ‘Miltons and the Blackfriars Playhouse’, Playing Companies 504n; The Noble Science, 296, 340, 409; Beaumont, Francis (playwright), 529; (and with ‘Richard Vennar, England’s Joy’, 447; John Fletcher:) A King and No King, 669; ‘Sebastian Westcott’, 317n; Shakespeare’s Knight of the Burning Pestle, 568–9; The Playhouses, 332, 363n, 440n, 450, 495n, Scornful Lady, 646; Wit Without Money, 588, 496&nn, 508, 509n, 517, 527, 528, 610&nn, 590n, 633 611nn, 612, 616, 619, 620, 621, 622n;

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‘Shylock, Robert Miles, and Events at the Boleyn, Ann, 17, 48 Theatre’, 358n; ‘The View of London from the Bonds and ﬁnes, 50, 57–8, 74, 75, 76, 90, North’, 406n; ‘Where was the Playhouse in 118–19, 128, 131, 133–5, 139, 142–3, 144 which the Boy Choristers of St Paul’s Bonetti, Rocco (fencer), 389–90n, 390&n, 505 Performed Plays?’ 307n, 313 Book of Common Prayer, 34, 50 Best, George (merchant), 529 Books and Booksellers, 17, 23, 24, 36, 40, 50–3, Best, John (grocer), 626–7 87 Best, Katherine, 627&n Bordinat, Philip, ‘A New Site for the Salisbury Bestney, Nicholas the elder (judge), 543, 544 Court Theatre’, 652n Bestney, Nicholas the younger, 544 Borne, Mr (lawyer), 366 Bett, Henry (lawyer), 349–50, 351, 358, 386n Borne, Gilbert (butcher), 543 Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), 515n Borne, William, 101 Bietenholz, Peter, 416n Boston (Lincolnshire), 73 Bill posters and posting, see Playing Companies; Bothan, William (carpenter), 348 Playbills Boulton, Peter (servant), 466–9&n, 471–2, Bill, John (the King’s printer), 529&n 471–2, 474–5 Billingsley, Sir Henry, 175 Bowde, Simon (Mayor of Norwich), 252 Binden, Viscount, 73 Bowen, Alice. See Beeston, Alice Bing, Dr. (of Cambridge), 250 Bowen, Thomas (mercer), 672 Bingham, John (sadler), 496 Bower, Richard (musician, Master of the Bingley, George, 451 Chapel), 262, 395 Binz, Gustav, ‘Londoner Theater und Bowler, Mr, 100 Schauspiele’, 412, 497 Bowling alleys, 408 Birch, George (carrier), 232 Bowman, Francis (printer), 656 Birch, Thomas, Court and Times of James the Box, Edward, 435&n First, 499 Boxley Abbey (Kent), 297 Birche, John (player), 234 Boy players. Companies of, 155; as apprentices to Bird, William, alias Borne (player), 197, 211–16, adult players, 155; wearing women’s 220–21, 438, 442–6, 544, 640 garments, 165, 176. see also John Chappell; Bird, Theophilus (player), 670–1, 673 Thomas Clifton; Abel Cooke; Thomas Grymes; Biron, Charles, Duke of, 126 Thomas Holcombe; John Honyman; John Bishop. See Byshop Motteram; Salomon Pavy; Philip Pykman; Bishop of London, 46, 54 John Thompson; Alvery Trussell Bishop, Richard, 453–4, 471, 473–4, 475n, 475, Brackenburye, Richard, 333 476n, 477, 490 Brader, one (ironmonger), 428–9 Blackfriars. See Playhouses; See London Bradley, Richard, 544 Blagrave, Dorothy, 632–3 Bradshaw, one (carpenter), 291 Blagrave, Sir Thomas, 70 Bradshaw, Mr, his Rents on the Bankside, 196 Blagrave, William (deputy Master of the Revels), Bradshaw, Charles, 505–6 605, 616, 625, 632, 649–51, 652, 653, 653–4, Bradstreet, John (player), 258 671, 674n Brayne, John (grocer, playhouse investor), 290, Blakewell, William (Lord Mayor of London), 42, 294, 298, 330–1, 336, 337–9, 340, 341, 44–5, 54–60, 63–4, 73–7, 80–4, 93–9 342–3, 344–5&n, 348–9, 349–50, 351–2, Blinkinsop, John (fencer), 340 352–5, 355–6&n, 357, 358–9, 361, 363, Bloom, Margery (of Norwich), 248 365&n, 366, 372–5, 386n, 405, 411, 493, 501, Bloom, Thomas (of Norwich), 248–9 610 Bluett, Henry, 500 Brayne, Katherine, 331, 364–5&n Boar’s Head Inn. See Playhouses; see London Brayne, Margaret, 298, 330–1, 336, 338, 340, Boderie, Antoine de la (French ambassador), 342–3, 345n, 348, 349–50, 351–2, 352–5, 515n 355–6, 357, 357–8, 358–63&n, 364–5&n, Bodley, John (later Sir John), 607–8, 610–11, 372–5 617–18 Brend, Matthew (later Sir Matthew), 223, 450, Bohemia, King and Queen of. Their company of 494, 607–9, 610n, 610–1, 612, 616–19, 620–1, players, see Playing Companies 621–2, 622&n

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Brend, Nicholas, 493–4, 496n, 497, 607, 611, Buckhurst, Lord (Robert Sackville, second lord), 618 270, 553–4, 557n, 560n Brend, Thomas (Nicholas Brend’s father), 493, Buckingham, Duke of (George Villiers, first 497 Duke), 643 Brend, Thomas (Sir Matthew Brend’s son), 622 Buklank, Alexander (musician or stage Brewe, Patrick (goldsmith), 533 attendant), 258–9 Brewyn, Ralph (butcher) 543 Bull Inn. See Playhouses Brian, Edward (feltmaker), 569 Bull-baiting, 84, 122, 136 Bride-Oak, Ralph (writer), 586 Buller, Richard (of Norwich), 257 Bridewell prison, 562 Burbage, family of, 155 Bridgwater, Somerset, 287 Burbage, Cuthbert (businessman), 221–8, 289, Brief Description of the notorious Life of . . . 295, 320, 330, 331–2, 333, 343, 345n, 346–7, Doctor Lambe, 642 352–5, 355–7&n, 358–63&n, 364, 365, 366–7, Brigham, Mark, 545, 640 367–72, 372–5, 376–8&n, 378–83, 383–4, Bristol (City of), 118–19, 289; Guildhall, 118–19 384–5, 385–6&nn, 386–7, 405, 411, 493–4, British Library, 626n; Map Room, 550n 496n, 497, 502–3, 516, 522, 525n, 526, 607, British Museum, 548, 550n; Print Room, 550n 609, 621; his sisters, 222; his son William, Brome, Alexander (writer), 606n 226 Brome, Richard (playwright), 625, 650–1, Burbage, Ellen (wife of James), 357–8, 360–3, 657–64, 667. The Court Beggar 634–5; Five 374, 377–8, 386n New Plays, 646–7; Sparagus Garden, 650, 660 Burbage, James (joiner, player), 63, 92, 127, 204, Bromvill, Peter (acrobat), 446–7 206, 226, 289, 290, 298, 305, 330–1, 332&n, Brooke, Robert, 65 333–7&n, 337–9, 340, 341, 342–3, 343–4, Broughton, Rowland, 234–5 344–5&n, 346, 346–7, 348, 348–9, 350, 351, Browker, Hugh (prothonotary), 439&n 351–2, 352–5, 355–7&nn, 358, 358–63&n, Brown, Edmund (of Norwich), 247, 249–50 364, 365, 365–6, 366–7, 367–72, 372–5, 377, Brown, Henry (of Norwich), 246–50 378–83, 385–6&nn, 410, 411, 493, 501–2, Browne, one (servant), 345 504n, 504, 506–7&nn, 507–8, 526, 610 Browne, Edward (player), 245, 251 Burbage, Richard (player), 173, 191, 194, 196, Browne, John (player), 234 197, 199, 201, 227, 289, 328, 332, 352–5, Browne, Robert (player, Worcester’s, Admiral’s), 357–8, 360–2, 371, 376–7, 385, 386n, 411, 245, 258 423, 493–4, 496n, 497, 499, 502–3, 508, Browne, Robert (player, of the Boar’s Head, d. 508–9, 513, 515–16, 517n, 519, 520–1, 522n, 1603), 105–6, 109, 453–5, 456–8&nn, 459&n, 526, 607, 609; his portrait, 184; funeral elegy, 460, 461–2, 463n, 464, 465n, 475, 476n, 181 477n, 477–8, 478–9, 470–80, 480–1&n, Burbage, William, 503, 525n, 529, 609 481–2, 483, 483–4, 484–5, 487, 488, 490, Burbage, Winifred (wife of Richard), 226, 497, 492 503, 525n, 526, 609, 621 Browne, Robert (player, of Whitefriars et al., Burghley, Lord (William Cecil, first Lord, Lord alive in 1610), 105–6, 245, 258, 561&n Treasurer), 70, 87, 92–3, 105, 108–9, Browne, Susan. See Greene, Susan 111–13, 250, 302, 311, 331, 337, 345–6, Browne, William (cooper), 487, 491&n 356&n, 440 Browme, William (player), 629 Burgram, John. See Bingham, John Browning, John, 137 Burt, Thomas (dyer), 495 Brownstein, Oscar, ‘A Record of London Inn- Burton, Robert (writer), 185 Playhouses’, 296 Buttermore, William (carpenter), 291 Bruskett, Thomas, 505, 508 Byland, Ambrose (musician or stage attendant), Bryan, George (player), 192 258–9 Bucer, Martin, 37, 38 Byron, Duke de, 515n Buchell, Arend van, 437, 441 Byshop, Barbara, 365n Buck, Paul (player?), 321, 329 Byshop, Nicholas, 360–2, 365n Buck, Sir George (Master of the Revels), 271–2 Buckhurst, Lord (Thomas Sackville, first lord), C., I., A Pleasant Comedy Called the Two Merry 557n Milkmaids, 580

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Cadewell, John, 138–9 Chamber, Treasurer of the, 262, 317 Cadmus, king of Thebes, 168 Chamberlain, John, 610; Letters, 447, 448, 545, Cadwood, John, 51–2 546, 604, 613, 615, 628 Calfhill, Mr, 55 Chamberlain, Lord. See Lord Chamberlain Calvert, Francis (fencer), 340, 410 Chambers, E.K., The Elizabethan Stage, 42–3, Calvin, John, 33, 37, 85 308n, 312, 328, 389nn, 395n, 406n, 412n, Cambridge (City of), 11, 12, 17, 21, 24–9, 37, 449n, 511, 514n, 514, 515n, 525n, 528, 542n, 112–16, 142, 295; Guildhall, 142 550nn, 560n, 561n, 562 605, 605, 612n, Cambridge (University), 161; St John’s College, 622n, 646; William Shakespeare, 515 173 Chambers, George, 265 Camden, William, Annales Ab Anno 1603 ad Chambers, Richard, 265 Annum 1623, 628n Chambers, William (musician or stage Campion, Thomas, 8 attendant), 258–9 Cane, Andrew (player and goldsmith), 155, 584, Chancery, Court of, 331, 351, 352, 357, 585–6&n, 589n, 644–5, 650 358–63&n, 365, 365–6, 366–7, 375, 386, Canterbury (City of), 21, 23, 44, 45, 117, 135, 389nn, 454–5, 463–4, 465, 471, 476–7, 137–8, 141, 149, 161; Guildhall, 117–18; 477–8, 480, 481–2, 482–3, 484, 507n, 518, Fuller, John (Mayor), 44–5 520, 521, 559, 573–5, 578–9, 594, 651, 670, Canterbury Cathedral, Dean and Chapter of, 674&n 320, 321, 322, 327, 329 Chandos, Lord, 117, 141; his company of Canterbury, Archbishop of, 3, 52, 53, 94–8, 104, players, see Playing Companies 137–8, 311, 312. See also Thomas Cranmer, Chapel Royal, 388, 502; Master of the, see John Whitgift Richard Bower; Richard Edwards; Richard Cardwell, E., 52–3 Farrant; Nathaniel Giles Carew, Dr Matthew (master in Chancery), Chapels, 49 477&n, 482, 483 Chapman, George (playwright), 126, 307, Carew, George (master in Chancery), 477&n, 314–16&n; The Old Joiner of Aldgate, 483 314–16&nn; The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Carew, Thomas (the poet), 477n, 503n Chrles Duke of Byron, 515&n Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon. See Hunsdon Chapman, Henry (writer), Thermae redivivae, Carey, Sir George, 505 644 Carlell, Lodowick (playwright), Arviragus and Chapmen, 62 Felicia (part 2), 528 Chappell, John (imprest boy player), 265 Carleton, Alice, 613 Charles Lewis, Prince (son of Princess Carleton, Dudley (later Sir Dudley), 447, 448, Elizabeth), 528 545, 546, 604, 615, 628–8 Charles, Prince, later King Charles I, 5, 120, Carlisle, 61 121–2, 125, 127, 128–32, 187, 318, 418, 514, Carpenters, 22, 290, 291; Records of the 524–5, 528, 597, 617, 620n, 635–6, 643, 645, Worshipful Company of Carpenters, 291 665–7, 670; his company of players, see Carte, Thomas, Collection of Original Letters and Playing Companies Papers, 606n Charles, Prince, later King Charles II, 6, 149, Cartwright, William, the elder (player), 221, 544 487, 655; his company of players, see Playing Cartwright, William, the younger (player), Companies 657–64 Chassereau, Peter (clergyman), 404–5 Carver, James (sailor), 643 Chatsworth House (Derbyshire), 440n Carver, William (musician or stage attendant), Cheshire, 111, 117 258–9 Chester, Bishop of, 111 Catchmay, Thomas, 405 Chester (City of), 17–20, 41, 64–8; Hankey, John Catholic League, 78 (Mayor), 65, 67–8; Hardware, Henry (Mayor), Cato, Marcus Porcius, 176, 187 67–8; Savage, Sir John (Mayor), 66, 68 Cawarden, Sir Thomas, 32, 69 Chesterton (Cambridgeshire), 112–13, 116 Cecil, Robert. See Salisbury, Earl of Child, Mr, 524 Cecil, William. See Burghley, Lord Children of Paul’s, 306–7, 308&n, 309–10, 312, Censorship, 4, 17, 35, 40, 44, 48–9, 51, 126–7 313, 314, 316, 317, 389, 502, 547

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Children of the Chapel Royal, 310, 388–9, 394, College of Arms, 42–3 394–5, 402, 502, 509–11, 512, 514&n, 517, College of God’s Gift. See Dulwich College 518, 526; see also Children of the Queen’s Collier, John Payne, 34, 198, 507; History, 317, Revels 507; New Facts, 525n; Works of William Children of the King’s Revels, 547–9, 553–5, 558, Shakespeare, 528, 605, 622&n, 636, 646, 670 559–60 Collins, Jeﬀrey (musician or stage attendant), Children of the Queen’s Revels (also called 258–9 Children of the Revels, of Blackfriars, and of Collinson, William (sailor), 643 Whitefriars), 307, 318, 512, 512–13, 514–5&n, Collyns, Nicholas (judge), 413 515, 517, 519&n, 520, 547, 549, 560, 561, 562, Comedies, 23, 37, 71, 74, 75, 76, 95, 118, 123, 563n 127–8, 146 Children of the Revels to Queen Anne, 417–18 Commedia dell’arte, 63, 172n, 416n China, Thomas, 313 Common Council, Court of. See London Cholmley, John (grocer), 419, 422, 423–5, 426 Common Pleas, Court of, 395, 396–400&n, 439, Choner, John, 138 454–5, 464n, 476, 484, 674 Christchurch (Hampshire), 127 Compass braces (in a playhouse), 293 Christian IV, King of Denmark, 318 Condell, Elizabeth (wife of Henry), 222–3, 609 Christmas, 1, 82, 83, 103, 105, 109 Condell, Henry (player), 123, 194, 196, 197, 198, Church of England, 309 200–3, 226–7, 494, 497&n, 502–3, 516, 526, Churchill, Ellis, 282 607, 612&n Churchill, John, 282 Constables, 35, 36, 40, 56–7, 113–14, 138–9 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 158, 163, 176, 182, 190, Cooke, Abel (boy player), 268–9 341 Cooke, Alexander (player), 196, 198 Cioli, Andrea (secretary of state at Florence), Cooke, Alice, 268–9 415 Cooke, Lionel (player), 300 Civil War, 1, 6, 130, 132, 133, 138, 149 Cooke, Thomas (player), 245, 251 Clapham, A. W., ‘The Topography of the Cooke, William (haberdasher, playhouse Carmelite Priory of London’, 548, 550n investor), 269–71, 547–9, 551–2&n, 554–9 Clark, Robert (musician or stage attendant), Cope, Walter, 331, 356&n 258–9 Cornishe, John, 495 Clarke, Thomas (player), 206 Cornwall, 569 Clay, Henry (musician or stage attendant), Cornwall, Duke of, 123 258–9 Corpus Christi, feast of, 1, 33, 41, 48–9, 61, 64–5, Clay, Nathaniel (player), 274 110, 153 Clayton, Richard (player), 641 Costumes, 443–6, 515, 519&n, 520, 522n, 546, Clerke, William (carpenter), 348, 363, 386n 553–5, 588–9, 590&n, 628–9, 631, 634, 669 Clifton, Henry (of Norfolk), 264–7, 510–11 Court, The Royal (at Whitehall), 306–7, 320, Clifton, Sir Gervaise, 527 346, 400, 417, 492, 515, 560 Clifton, Thomas (imprest boy player), 264–7, Court of Aldermen. See London 510–11 Court of the Arches, 292, 294n, 312 Clough, George, 351–2 Court of Common Council. See London Cobb, Richard, 113 Courts of Law. See Common Pleas, King’s Bench, Cobham, Lord (William Brooke, seventh lord), Marshalsea, Requests, Star Chamber 388, 390&n, 390–1, 398, 506 Coventry (City of), 41, 69, 117, 137, 149 Cocke, John (writer), 179, 180 Cowel, John, A Law Dictionary, 349n Cockpit. See Playhouses Cowley, Richard (player), 123, 196, 197, 198, Cokayne, Sir Aston (writer), verses for Brome’s 278 Five New Plays, 646–7 Cox, Robert (player), 567, 589n Coke, Sir Edward, 137 Cox, Samuel, 168 Coke, Stephen, 428 Cranage, Thomas, 326 Cole, M. J., ‘A New Account of the Burning of Crane, John, 27 the Globe’, 499 Cranmer, Thomas (Archbishop of Canterbury), Colfoxe, Ewan (weaver), 333 2–3, 18, 20–1, 33, 37

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Crashaw, William, Sermon Preached at the Crosse, Widow Waking, 583–3; Raven’s Almanack, 568; 308n Work for Armourers, 568 Crime, immorality and corruption of youth, 30, DeLaune, William (physician), 504 53, 73–4, 87, 95–6, 99–100, 111 Denmark, 125, 564 Crofts, Jack, 528 Derby, Earls of, 73 Crofts, Will, 528 Derby, Earl of (Ferdinando Stanley, fifth Earl). Cromes, one (broker), 657 His company of players. see Playing Cromwell, Thomas, Lord Chancellor, 2, 21–2 Companies Crosfield, Thomas (academic), 584; Diary, 584, Derby, Earl of (William Stanley, sixth Earl). His 613–14 company of players. see Playing Companies Cross Keys Inn. See Playhouses Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of, 105 Cross, Robert, 145 Description of England (Harrison), 194 Crosse, Samuel (player), 176 Deuteronomy, 176 Crowe, Thomas (of Norwich), 250 Devon, 40–1 Crown, The (i.e. the government), 405, 448, Devonshire, Earl of (Charles Blount, first earl), 597 568 Croydon Palace, 312 DeWitt, Joannes. See Witt, Joannes de Cuckow, Mr (carpenter?), 459 Dice, Wine, and Women, 569 Cuckow, Richard, 327 Dicing houses, 304 Cumber, John (player), 239–41, 628, 630–1 Digby, John, 527 Cunningham, Peter. Extracts, 317; ‘The Digby, Lord (Robert Digby, first baron), 528 Whitefriars Theatre, the Salisbury Court Digby, Sir Kenelm, 673 Theatre, and the Duke’s Theatre’, 550&n, 652, Digges, Leonard (writer), commendatory poem 664, 670 for Shakespeare’s Poems, 503n Cupid and Psyche (the story), 630 Ditcher, Thomas (merchant tailor), 495 Curtis, Thomas (glazier), 230, 233 Divine Services. See Feast Days; Sabbatarians; Sundays Daborne, Robert (playwright), 219, 561&n Dodderidge, Mr (justice in Chancery), 185 Dancaster, Thomas (shoemaker), 333 Dorset, Countess of (Frances Sackville, wife of Daniel, John, 119, 272–4 the fifth earl), 673 Daniel, Samuel (writer), 8, 119, 125, 271, 512, Dorset, Earl of (Thomas Sackville, first earl), 514, 518–19 557n Dankerts, Cornelius (map-maker), London, 622 Dorset, Earl of (Robert Sackville, second earl), Davenant, William (playwright), 121, 128–30, 270, 553–4, 557n, 560n 447, 625–6, 634–6, 647; Britannia Dorset, Earl of (Edward Sackville, fourth earl), Triumphans, 440n; The Just Italian, 503n; News 649–51, 652, 653, 654, 665, 671–4 from Plymouth, 614; The Playhouse to be Let, Dorset, Earl of (Richard Sackville, fifth earl), 590–1; Works, 590, 613 651, 654, 671–4&n David, John (fencer), 299–300 Dorset, Marquis of, 37 Davies, James (master of the royal animals), 597 Dotridge, Alice, 333 Davies, Thomas, 597 Downton, Thomas (player), 211–17, 251, 438, Daviges, Jeffrey (servant), 550 442–6, 541–2 Davis, Richard, 136 Dragon, John, 333 Davy, Elizabeth (of Norwich), 248 Drake, Stephen and William (of Norwich), 250 Davy, Robert (of Norwich), 246–9 Drayton, Michael (playwright, playhouse Dawd, Mr (of Norwich), 249 investor), 269–71, 547–9, 553–9; (with Dawes, Robert (player), 219, 282–4, 600 Richard Hathaway, Anthony Munday, Robert Day, John (playwright), 126, 239; Isle of Gulls, Wilson) Sir John Oldcastle, 434 514, 547 Drew, John (groom to Prince Charles), 417 Dekker, Thomas (playwright), 307, 434, 514n, Drolls, 567, 589&n 582–3; (with John Day) The Bellman of Paris, Dudley, Robert. See Leicester, Earl of 582&n; (with John Webster, William Rowley, Duke of Holstein. See Holstein, Duke of John Ford) The Late Murder . . . or Keep the Duke of Lennox. See Lennox, Duke of

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Duke, John (player), 142, 194, 252, 253, 479–80, Essex, Earls of, 73 481–2 Essex, Earl of (Robert Devereux, second Earl), Dulwich College, 13, 327, 419, 531, 595, 600, 301 639, 647–8 Essex, Earl of (Robert Devereux, third Earl), Dun, John (fencer), 448 527n; his rebellion, 195 Duncalf, Henry, 509 Essex, Countess (Elizabeth, wife of the third Dutton, John (weaver, player), 234–5, 300, 320 earl), 527&n Dutton, Lawrence (weaver, player), 113, 234–5, Essex, Captain Charles, 527&n 320 Evans, Mrs. (wife of Henry), 515 Dyott, Anthony (lawyer), 575, 593 Evans, Henry, 226, 261, 264–7, 389, 395, 397–400&n, 400–1, 402&n, 502, 508–9, Earle, John (writer), 186 509–11, 511–13, 514, 515, 515–16, 517n, Earthquake (1580), 341 517–21&n, 522nn, 526 Easement? (‘Esore’) at the Theatre and Curtain, Evans, Thomas, 502, 516 348–9, 359, 411 Evers, Lord (President of Wales), 140 Easter, 1 Excommunication, 49, 61, 136 Eccles, Mark, ‘Elizabethan Actors’, 486; ‘Martin Exeter (City of); Jurdain, Ignatius (Mayor), 273 Peerson and the Blackfriars’, 512n, 514&n, 519n F., T., News from the North, 341n, 408 Ecclesiastical Commissions, 4, 44, 52, 53, 64, Fairs and fairgrounds, 1, 7, 149 68–9, 78, 94 Farley, Henry (writer), St Pavles-Church her Bill Ecclesiastical Courts, 46, 136, 139 for the Parliament, 604 Ecclestone, William (player), 219 Farrant, Anne (wife of Richard), 261, 389&n, Edgerton, Ralph, 141 391–3, 393–4, 395, 395–6, 396–400, Edgill, Roger (feltmaker), 581 400–1&nn, 401–2&n, 403 Edmonds, John (player), 274 Farrant, Richard (musician, Master of the Edric, 187 Chapel), 260–62, 388–9, 390, 390–3, 393–4, Edward III, King, 447 395, 397–400&n, 400–1, 402, 403 Edward VI, King, 3, 10–11, 33–7, 39–40, 48, 50 Faulkner, Thomas, 643 Edwardes, John, 406n Favor, John, 505–6 Edwardes, Richard (musician, Master of the Feast Days. See Holy Days; Sunday; All Chapel), 262, 395 Hallowtide; All Saints; Bartholomewtide; Egerton, Sir Thomas (lord keeper), 263, 482 Christmas; Corpus Christi; Easter; Epiphany; Eisermann, Hans (writer), 158 Lammas; Lent; May Day; Michaelmas; Eliot, Tom, 528 Pentecost; Shrovetide; Whitsun Elizabeth (Tudor), Princess, later Queen of Feats of activity. See Games England, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 48–119, 120, 122, Feltmakers (apprentice), 581 124, 133, 137, 142, 145–6, 149, 304, 308, Fencers and fencing prizes. See Games 309, 310, 312, 318, 341, 376, 379, 394 401&n, Fenner, Mr (justice in King’s Bench), 195 403, 423, 444, 446–7, 455, 466–8, 470–2, Fennor, William, 601–2 474, 475, 493, 511&n, 537–9. Household Fenton, Geoﬀrey (writer), 159, 162, 164n Accounts of Princess Elizabeth, 308. Her Ferrarius, Joannes (writer), 158 company of players, see Playing Companies Feyerabend, Karl, ‘Zu K.H. Schaible’s Elizabeth (Stuart), Princess, later Queen of Geschichte’, 498 Bohemia, 528; her company of players, see Field, John (writer), A Godly Exhortation, 341n Playing Companies Field, Nathan (player), 217–19, 226, 265, 600, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, 105 603&n Ellam, Bryan (carpenter), 348, 363, 364, 386n Figueiro, Vasco (writer), The Spaniards English, John, 1 Monarchie, 303 Epictetus, 159 Fines. See Bonds Epiphany, 1 Finett, Sir John, 228 Essex (County of), 41, 44, 61, 385, 452; Lord Fire, the great ﬁre of London (1666), 296 Lieutenant of, 44 Fisher, Edward (carpenter), 655

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Fisher, John (barber surgeon), 640 Fulsis, Alexander, 569 Fisher, John, intro. to A Collection of Early Maps Furnivall, F.J., 194 of London, 624, 626n Fishpole, William (tailor), 231 Gaedertz, K. T., Zur Kenntniss der altenenglischen Fitz-Geoffrey, Henry, ‘Notes from Black-Fryers’, Bühne, 410, 441 503n, 509n Gair, Reavley, ‘The Conditions of Appointment Flaskett, John (stationer), 314–15 for Masters of Choristers at Paul’s’, 308n; Fleay, F.G., Chronicle History, 508, 509, 511, 517 Children of Paul’s, 308n Flecknoe, Richard (writer), Miscellania, 528–30; Galli, Antimo (an Italian), 415–16 ‘A Short Discourse of the English Stage’, 305 Games, 43, 89, 112, 116, 139; Archery, 30, 87; Fleetwood, Edward, 111 Bowling, 84; Feats of activity (acrobatics, Fleetwood, Sir Miles, 527n juggling, rope-dancing, tumbling, vaulting), Fleetwood, William (recorder of London), 100, 62, 148; Fencing and fencing prizes, 62, 82, 337, 345–6 86, 92, 148, 296, 297, 305, 340, 406, 409, Fleming, Mrs., 418 418, 435–6, 439, 450&n, 581, 591, 605, 614, Fleming, Sir Daniel, 647 645; Football, 81 Fletcher, John (playwright), 529; Cupid’s Gardens, 49, 54, 58 Revenge, 633; (and with Francis Beaumont:) A Gardiner, John, 338&n, 353–4 King and No King, 669; Knight of the Burning Gardiner, Samuel (writer), Doomes-Day book, 341 Pestle, 568–9; The Scornful Lady, 646; Wit Gardiner, S.R., History of England, 636 Without Money, 588, 590n, 633 Gardiner, Stephen (Bishop of Winchester), 25–6, Fletcher, Lawrence (player), 123, 196, 197, 198 27–9, 34, 57, 69, 157–8 Fletcher, Richard (fencer), 409 Gardiner, William, 100–1 Fletcher, Richard (pewterer), 413 Gardner, H.C., 69 Florio, John (writer), First Fruites, 298 Garfield, John, The Wandring Whore Continued, Foakes, R.A., 13, 91 418 Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.), Gargano, G.S., Scapigliatura Italiana a Londra, 415 417, 450n, 581, 582, 626n Garland, John (player), 300, 486n Football. See Games Garnett, William (gardener), 333 Ford, John (playwright), 582–3 Garrard, George (clergyman), 525, 528 Form of Christian Policy, A (Fenton), 159 Garrell, William, 640 Fortescue, Sir John, 267, 511 Garrett, John (cloth-worker), 533 Foscarini, Antonio (Venetian ambassador), Gascoigne, George, The Glasse of Government, 415–16 297; The Supposes, 297n Foster, Alexander (player), 256 Gascoyne, William (musician or stage Foster, Francis (constable), 643 attendant), 258–9 Four Inns, The, 295–6, 298, 304–5, 340, 452. See Gawdy, Philip, 277 also (under Playhouses) the Bell, Bel Savage, Gayton, Edmund (writer), Pleasant Notes upon the Bull, the Cross Keys Don Quixot, 644 Four Mills (in Bromley, ?Kent), 294n Gennatt, Jarvis (minstrel), 144 Fowler, Richard (player), 221, 544, 644–5 Gerard, Sir Charles, 139 Fowler, Thomas, 100 Germany, 17, 105, 126, 135, 440 Foxe, John, 22 Gerrard, John, 518–19 Foxley, Alexander (tipstaff), 464, 466–72, 474–5 Gerry, one (of Whitefriars playhouse), 550 France, 126, 135, 440, 515; King of, 447; Queen Gilburne, Samuel (player), 198 of, 515&n; Ambassador of, 653. See also Giles, Nathaniel (Master of the Chapel), 264–7, Boderie, Antoine de la 502, 509–11, 512 Francis, John, 313 Giles, Thomas (Master of the Children of Paul’s), Franke, Robert (sailor), 643 262–3, 265 Freeman, Henry, 136 Gill, family of, 533–4 Fryer, Robert (goldsmith), 57 Gill, Alexander (writer), 644 Fryne, John (feltmaker), 569 Gill, Daniel the elder, 533 Fuller, John (Mayor of Canterbury), 44–5 Gill, John (or Richard) (feltmaker), 581&n

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Gill, Richard (apprentice scrivener), 581&n Griffin, Mr, 218–19 Glean, Mr (alderman of Norwich), 255 Griggs, John (carpenter), 278, 419, 424, 428–30 Gloucester, 144 Grimes, one (showman), 605 Gnatho, 166 Grindal, Edmund (Bishop of London, later Goburne, John (merchant tailor), 371–2, 378 Archbishop of York), 53, 55, 64–6 Godfrey,Thomas (master of the royal animals), Grocers, 97 597, 605, 606n Gryffyn, William (vintner), 419, 423n Goffe, Thomas (barber-surgeon, player, Grymes, Thomas (imprest boy player), 265 playwright), 234–5; The Careless Shepherdess, Guildhall, London. See London 668 Guildhalls, Provincial, 7, 110, 121, 123, 141–3, Golding, Percival, 518 145–7. See also Bristol; Cambridge; Goldsmith, Clement (lawyer), 575, 593 Canterbury; Leicester; Liverpool; Worcester Gomme, Laurence, ‘The Story of London Maps’, Guilds. See Apothecaries; Carpenters; 426 Feltmakers; Grocers; Ironmongers; Mercers; Gondomar, Sarmiento de Acuña, Count Merchant Taylors; Stationers (Spanish ambassador), 127, 545, 610, 615 Guilpin, Everard (writer), Skialetheia, 375, Goodman, Nicholas, Holland’s Leaguer, 450, 605, 411–12, 433 613–14 Gunnell, Richard (player), 220–1, 544, 638, 640, Goodwen, John (fencer), 410 649–51, 652&n, 653, 653–4, 660, 671, 674n Gorge, Sir Edward, 563n Gwalter, William (innholder), 640 Gorhambury (Hertfordshire), 303 Gyles, John, 313 Gosse, George (apprentice notary public), 339 Gyles, Thomas, 307, 309, 313 Gosson, Stephen (writer), 161, 162, 164, 295, 340; Catiline’s Conspiracies, 341; Plays Confuted H., L., This World’s Folly, 415–16 in five Actions, 308n, 394; Schoole of Abuse, Haaker, Ann, ‘The Plague, the Theatre, and the 299, 340–1 Poet’, 657 Gouge, William (clergyman), 522 Haddington, Lord, 126 Gough, Alexander (player), 259 Hadley (Suffolk), 110 Gough, Robert (player), 195, 199 Hall, Joseph (writer), 167 Grace, Frank (player), 220–1, 544 Hall, Norman L., ‘The Court of Husting’, 389n Grace, Richard (player), 641 Halliwell (later Halliwell-Phillipps), James O., Grafton, Richard, 35–6 21–22; Outlines, 406nn, 507n, 507, 522, 525; Gray, Patrick (sailor), 643 Scrapbooks (at the Folger), 417–18, 450n, 581, Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit, 169 582, 605, 616 Greene, John (writer), 178 Hammond, Mr, his Rents near Houndsditch, Greene, Robert (writer), 11, 169, 171; Friar Bacon 193 and Friar Bungay, 431, 589; Orlando Furioso, Hancock, Ralph (printer), 192–3 431 Hankey, John (Mayor of Chester), 65, 67–8 Greene, Susan (formerly Browne and later Hanley, Richard (player), 259 Baskervile), 185, 406, 485, 629 Hanmer, Randall (scrivener), 552 Greene, Thomas (player), 142, 252–3, 405–6, Harberte, Thomas (girdler), 405, 407 416, 485–6, 579 Hardman, William, 138–9 Greenstreet, James, ‘Documents Relating to the Hardware, Henry (Mayor of Chester), 67–8 Players’, 629; ‘The Red Bull Playhouse’, 593; Harington, Sir John, Metamorphosis of Ajax, 345 The Whitefriars Theatre in the Time of Harries, William (porter), 405 Shakespeare, 553 Harris, Mr (Serjeant, a lawyer), 357 Greenwell, Nicholas, 27 Harrison, George (notary public), 365n Greenwood, C. and J., Map of London, 440n Harrison, Gregory, 138 Greg, W.W., A Bibliography of the English Printed Harrison, Joan, 333 Drama, 440n Harrison, Thomas, 294n Gresley, Sir George, 653 Harrison, William (writer), 194, 245, 251 Greville, Curtis (player), 657–64 Hart, William (player), 259 Grey, Lady Jane, 39 Harvey, Gabriel, 312; ‘An advertisement for

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Papp-Hatchett and Martin Mar-prelate’, 426–31, 431–2, 433, 433–4, 435–6, 439, 310–11&nn; Letter Book, 341 443–5, 531–2, 534–7, 539–40, 541–2, 544, Harvie, Edward (fencer), 340 549, 550n, 595–7&n, 597–601, 603&n, 604, Hasell, George (player), 244–5 638; Diary, 327–8, 419, 423, 426, 431, 433, Hassler, Conrad, Die Reisen des Samuel Kiechel, 434, 534, 537, 539n, 539–40, 597n 410 Hentzner, Paul (German tourist), Itinerarium Hatcher, John (Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, 446n University), 250–1 Herbert, Sir Henry (Master of the Revels), Hatfeld-Bradock (Essex), 41 127–8, 144, 185, 228, 257–9, 417–18, 436, Hathaway, Richard (playwright), 238 583, 625, 649, 652n, 654, 656, 663; his Oﬃce Hatton, Mr (justice in Chancery), 185 Book, 416–17, 417–18, 435–6, 450&n, 526, Hatton, Sir Christopher, 168, 346&n 563n, 581&n, 582&nn, 584, 587, 605, 616, Haughton, William (playwright), 239 631, 632–3, 634, 656, 657. See also Revels, Haukins, William (barber), 413 Master of the Hawkins, Alexander, 509, 511–14, 515&n, Hercules, 495n 517–18, 521&nn, 522nn Hercules, twelve labours of, 170 Hawkins, Margaret, 521 Hereford, 33, 136 Hayrick, Thomas, 141–2 Heresy, 17, 35, 37, 41, 42, 46–7, 48, 49, 50, 62 Hazeleigh (Essex), 331, 376 Herne, John the elder, 649, 651, 652–3, 670n, Heath, John (writer), 415, 498 671–2, 674n Heather, Edward (headborough), 643 Herne, John the younger, 651, 670n, 671–3, Helme, Thomas (scrivener), 581n 674n Heminges, John (player), 192, 194, 196, 197, Heron, John (treasurer of the King’s chamber), 199, 200–3, 222, 226–7, 493–4, 496n, 497, 291 502, 516, 521, 522n, 526, 584, 607, 609, Heton, Elizabeth, 654 611–12&n, 612–13 Heton, Richard (playhouse manager), 651, Heminges, William, 224–5, 526, 609 657–64, 664–7 Henrietta Maria, Queen, 528, 649, 653, 665–6; Hewet, one (martyr), 22–3 her company of players, see Playing Heywood, John (writer), 306, 308 Companies Heywood, Richard (lawyer), 292 Henry the Fifth. See (under Plays) The Famous Heywood, Thomas (playwright, player), 175, Victories of Henry V 178, 200, 239–41, 253, 479–80, 481–2, 566, Henry VI, King of England, 33–7 passim, 48, 50 579; An Apology for Actors, 200, 297n; The Henry VII, King of England, 1, 48; his company English Traveller, 641–2; (with Richard Brome) of players, see Playing Companies The Late Lancashire Witches, 609, 619–20&n; Henry VIII, King of England, 1–2, 5, 17–62 Loves Maistresse, 620–30 passim, 31, 33–4, 39, 48, 62, 69–70, 73, 499; Hicks, Richard (grocer,yeoman of the Queen’s his funeral, 157; his company of players, see guard), 320, 321&n, 322, 323–6, 327, 405, Playing Companies 408 Henry, Prince (son of King James), 5, 120, 125, Hill, James, 172 318, 487; his company of players, see Playing Hill, John (arbitrator), 338–9, 357, 373 Companies Hillebrand, Harold N., ‘Sebastian Westcote’, Henshew, Mr (clergyman), 303–4 309; Child Actors, 317, 511, 512n, 514, 517, Henslowe Papers (ed. Foakes), 534, 597, 646 550n, 559 Henslowe Papers (ed. Greg), 423, 532n, 533, 534, Hills, John (property holder in Newington), 322 537, 540, 541, 542, 544, 545n, 597, 600, Historical Manuscripts Commission Reports, 639n, 640&n, 641, 646, 648 313, 401n, 568, 632, 646 Henslowe, Agnes, 277–8, 532, 540, 544 Histrio, histriones, 160, 189, 192 Henslowe, Francis, 435 Histriomastix, the Players’ Scourge (Prynne), 187 Henslowe, Philip (dyer, ﬁnancier), 13, 80, 84, 91, Hobbes, Thomas (player), 259 100–1, 105–6, 108–9, 124, 167, 213, 215, Hobson, Thomas (carrier), 295 216–17, 218–20, 235–9, 255, 277–8, 281, Hodskyns, Richard (writer), Keep the Widow 282–4, 289, 328&n, 419, 422–3&n, 423–5, Waking (ballad), 582

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Holcombe, Thomas (boy player), 225 Husting, Court of. See London Holebrook, Thomas, 138–9 Hutton, Dr. (Dean of York), 64, 69 Holinshed, Raphael, 50 Huxton (Suffolk), 22 Holland’s Leaguer (a brothel), 450, 605 Hyde, John (grocer), 331, 340, 342, 344–5&n, Holland, Earl of (Henry Rich, first earl), 528 351–2, 358n, 359, 373–4 Holland, Aaron, 564–6, 567nn, 568, 570–9&nn, Hyde, Mrs. (wife of John), 344, 352, 355–7&nn 582, 592–4&nn Hyde, Ralph, intro. to a reprinting of Ogilby and Holland, John (player), 191 Morgan’s Large and Accurate Map, 626n Holland, Thomas (of Norwich), 247, 249 Hyemarsh, John, 406n Hollar, Wenceslas (graphic artist), ‘The Great Hygiene and infections diseases, 49, 54, 60, Map’, 624–5, 626n; ‘Long Bird’s-Eye View’, 86–7, 100, 107, 114; see also Plague 596, 608–10 Hynd, John, 298 Holstein, Duke of (Ulric Oldenburg), 564, 568; his company of players, see Playing Ibotson, Richard (inn-holder), 298 Companies Ieronimo (fencer), 302–3 Holt, James (player), 239–41, 253 Immorality. See Crime; Lewd Persons Holy Days, 1, 20, 30, 42, 55, 57, 73, 75, 80, 83, Inge, Richard, 141 112, 136 Ingleby, C.M., 181 Home, Sir George (Knight of the Wardrobe), Ingram, William, 290, 308n, 321; The Business of 196 Playing, 321, 322, 326n, 327, 329, 348n, Honingborne, Margaret (wife of Peter), 324 365n, 406n; A London Life in the Brazen Age, Honingborne, Peter, 320, 321, 323–6, 327 440nn; ‘The Playhouse as an Investment’, Honyman, John (boy player), 225 550&n, 551, 553, 562n, 567n; ‘The Playhouse Hoppdale, William (carpenter), 459n, 459 at Newington Butts’, 321 Horne, William (Master of the Grocer’s Inns, taverns and their keepers, 11, 54, 56, 57, Company), 97 59, 73, 74, 75, 76, 86, 90, 107, 108, 118, 121, Hotson, Leslie, The Commonwealth and 138–9; The Four Inns, 295–6, 298, 304–5, Restoration Stage, 406n, 567&n, 570, 589n, 340, 452. See also (under Playhouses) Bell, Bel 597n, 606n, 626&nn, 633, 636–7, 654 Savage, Bull, Cross Keys Household Order Books, 17 Inns of Court. See London Howard, Lord (Charles Howard, first Lord Interludes, 9, 10, 17, 21, 30–2, 34–6, 40–1, 42, Howard of Effingham). See Admiral, Lord 43, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 58–60, 71, 74, 76, 78, Howe, Agnes, 314–15 82, 88, 90, 94, 116, 118, 122, 127, 131, 132–5, Howe, John (verger in St Paul’s cathedral), 313 136 Howes, Edmund (writer), 208, 329, 605, 627n, Ipswich (Suffolk), 18 628n, 642 Ireland, 525, 528 Howland, Dr (of Cambridge), 250 Ireland, Thomas, 138 Hudson, Richard (carpenter), 363&n, 364, Ironmongers, 85 385–6&n Isburd, Godfrey (haberdasher), 534 Hunks, Harry (a bear), 597n Islipp, Adam (stationer), 640 Hunks, Tom (a bear), 597n Italian stage players, 63 Hunnis, William (musician), 260–1, 388–9&n, Italy, 526; Italian Renaissance, 10 394, 395, 395–6, 396–400&nn, 400&n, 402&n, 502 Jackson, Edward, 640 Hunsdon, Lord (Henry Carey, first Lord), 73, Jackson, George (of Norwich), 249 80–1, 304, 346, 389–90n, 504, 507–8, 529n, Jacob, Thomas, 585 537; his company of players, See Playing James I, King, 11, 13, 49, 72–3, 85, 120–31 Companies passim, 133, 135, 318, 448, 479, 511, 513, 514, Hunt, John (master in Chancery), 477&n 514–15, 517, 519, 520, 521, 523, 549, 560, Huntingdon, Earl of, 66 561, 567n, 597, 600, 601, 622&n, 639; his Huntington Library (San Marino, California), company of players, see Playing Companies 593 James VI, King of Scotland, 5, 85 Hussey, Thomas, 627n, 636 James, Duke of York, 6, 149

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Jarman, Anthony (carpenter), 638–9, 640, 641n Killigrew, Thomas, 567 Jeaffreson, J.C., Middlesex County Records, 341, King and Queen of Bohemia, their company of 413, 543, 569, 581&n, 585, 642 players. See Playing Companies Jeffes, Humfrey (player), 144–5, 254 King and Queen’s Young Company of players. Jobber, Richard, 551–2 See Playing Companies Johnson, Henry (silk weaver), 347, 370–1, 377 King of Denmark’s Welcome, The, 318 Johnson, John (tipstaff), 464, 466–72, 474–5 King’s Bench Prison, 527 Johnson, Peter, 505–6 King’s Bench, Court of, 290, 291, 317, 332, 344, Johnson, William (player), 206, 300 355, 376, 378, 379, 382, 383–4, 386–7, 453–4, Jonas, Maurice, Shakespeare and the Stage, 550, 465, 471–2, 474, 475, 477, 518, 519, 520, 561 556–7, 559, 575, 577–8, 579n, 593–4 Jones, Inigo (architect), 8–9, 11, 125, 440n, King’s Revels, men and boys of the. See Playing 623–4 Companies Jones, Mary. See Young, Mary Kingdom’s Weekly Intelligencer, The, 587, 645, Jones, Richard (player), 101, 211–16, 235, 245, 669 258, 438, 442–6, 561&n, 562 Kingman, Philip (player), 562, 563n Jones, William, 654 Kingsford, C.L., ‘Paris Garden and the Bear- Jonson, Ben (playwright, player), 8–10, 11, 80, baiting’, 597n 92, 95, 101–2, 104, 121, 125–6, 178, 194, 241, Kirchmayer, Thomas (playwright), 24–5 267–8, 307, 314, 447, 586, 596, 602, 644n; Kirke, Elizabeth, Lady. See Beeston, Elizabeth kills Gabriel Spencer, 281–2. Bartholomew Kirke, Sir Lewis, 636–6 Fair, 596, 602&n; Catiline, 11; ‘Execration Kirkham, Edward, 120–1, 307, 317, 511&n, upon Vulcan’, 500; Magnetic Lady, 644; The 512–14, 515, 517–21&nn, 522nn Works of Benjamin Jonson, 194, 499, 602 Kirkham, Henry (publisher), 302, 308n Jordan, Israel (moneylender), 454, 461, 465n Kirkman, Francis, The Wits, 565, 567&n Jordan, William, (a beggar child), 522n Knee, Edmund (of Yelverton), 248 Journals of the House of Commons, 597n Knell, William (player), 172, 176 Joyner, William (fencer), 410 Knevett, Mr, 175 Juby Frances, 638, 640 Knight Marshal, 399 Juby, Edward (player), 220–1, 544, 638 Knight, Anthony (musician or stage attendant), Jugg, Richard, 51–2 258–9 Jugglers. See Games Knight, Edward (musician or stage attendant), Jurdain, Ignatius (Mayor of Exeter), 273 258–9 Jusserand, J.J., ‘Ambassador La Boderie’, 515n Knights Templar, 448&n Justices of the Peace. See Magistrates Knollys, Baron, 73 Knowles, John, 495 Kahrl, Stanley, 41 Kyrby, Richard (carpenter), 291 Katherens, Gilbert (carpenter), 595, 598–600 Katherine of Aragon, Queen, 17, 39 Lactantius, 160 Keavall, George (notary), 234–5 Lake, Sir Thomas, 126, 273, 515&n Kemp, William (player), 173, 176, 191, 194, 204, Lamb, John, 29 493–4, 496n; his picture, 174. Kemp’s Nine Lambarde, William (writer), A Perambulation of Days’ Wonder, 174 Kent, 297, 304–5 Kendall, Mrs (wife of Thomas), 518 Lambe, Dr John (astrologer), 642–3 Kendall, Thomas (haberdasher), 268, 512–14, Lammas, 22 515, 517–19, 521n Lancashire, 111, 115, 117, 138, 141, 619, 620n Kennard, Isaac (fencer), 296, 409–10 Lancaster, Duchy of, 111, 112 Kent, 41, 44, 61 Lane, Richard (lawyer), 387, 622&n Kerrie, Edmund (of Norwich), 246–7 Lane, William (lawyer), 622n Keysar, Robert (goldsmith), 318–19, 515, 519, Laneham, John (player), 176, 206, 300, 409 520, 521, 549, 560, 561&n Langbaine, Gerard, Account of the English Kiechel, Samuel (German tourist), 332, 410 Dramatick Poets, 567&n, 655–6 Kilby, William (of Pockthorpe), 246 Langham, Thomas (fishmonger), 533

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Langley, Francis (draper, playhouse owner), Ling, Nicholas, printer, 174 102–3, 104, 211–16, 432&n, 438–9, 440, Lipsius, Justus (Flemish writer), 171 441–6&n, 447, 453–5, 463n, 463–4&n, Liverpool (Lancashire), 117, 141, 289; Guildhall, 464–75&nn, 476n, 476, 476–7&n, 477–8, 117 478–9, 480–1&n, 482, 485, 488, 490, 547 Livery, 1, 5, 43, 48, 61 Langley, Richard, 453–5, 463–4, 476, 476–7, Livery Companies. See Apothecaries; Carpenters; 477–8, 479, 480&n, 482–3, 483–4, 484&n, Feltmakers; Grocers; Ironmongers; Mercers; 485 Merchant Taylors; Stationers Langworth, Arthur, 281 Livery Halls, 1, 49, 97–8, 121, 140 Lanman, Henry, 348–9, 350n, 359, 405, 408, Lockwood, Doctor, 27 411 Lodge, Sir Edmund, 42–3 Late Will and Testament of the Doctors Commons, Lodge, Thomas (writer), 11, 161 586–7 Loengard, Janet, ‘An Elizabethan Lawsuit’, 291 Laughing Mercury, The, 587 London, Bishop of, 46, 54 Laune, William de (physician), 504 London: Aldermen, Court of, 31, 32, 42, 50–51, Law Courts. See Common Pleas, King’s Bench, 53, 54, 56, 58, 60, 74, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 300; Marshalsea, Requests, Star Chamber Abell, William (alderman), 586; Chamber of, Law Schools, London. See Inns of Court 30–1, 534; Common Council, Court of, 4, Lawrence, W.J., ‘New Facts’, 631, 655–6 35–6, 40, 55–6, 71, 74, 76, 78, 85, 97, 99, 309; Leake, Robert, 527 Corporation of, 522–3; Husting, Court of, Lee, Mr (timberman), 430 389&n, 395, 397, 400, 401n, 402&n, 551; Lord Lee, Robert (player), 239–41, 253 Mayor, 299, 302, 304, 310, 311–12, 326, 336, Leeke (or Leke), Sir Francis, 42–3 337, 342, 346, 402n, 407, 414, 426, 440, 455, Legg, Dr Thomas (master in Chancery), 365 481, 486, 508, 522–5, 588, 628, 670. See also Legge, Dr. (of Cambridge), 250 William Blakewell; John Swinnerton; Lord Leicester (City of), 136, 140–2, 487; Guildhall, Mayor’s court, 230; Recorder of London, 136, 140–2 402&n; Sheriff’s Court, 275. see also Sheriffs Leicester, Earl of (Robert Dudley, first earl), 61, London and environs: City of, 4, 6, 7, 11, 30–1, 63, 70, 71, 76–7, 80–1, 90–1, 140–1, 204–7, 32, 44, 48, 53–61, 63, 67, 71–8, 79, 81–103, 260–1, 389, 394&n; his portrait, 207; his 104–10, 112, 120–4, 126–8, 130, 132, 134, company of players, see Playing Companies 142, 143, 145, 146, 287, 298, 299–301, 302, Leigh (Worcestershire), 137 304, 305, 310, 311, 315, 318, 320, 321, 324, Leigh, Sir Thomas, 407 326–7, 330, 336, 339, 345n, 371, 385, 388, Lennox, Duke of (James Stuart, fourth duke), 5, 389n, 394, 395, 396–7, 403, 404–6, 408, 410, 120–1, 123–4, 528; his company of players, 411, 413, 419, 437, 440, 442, 444, 446n, 452, see Playing Companies 485, 486, 498, 501, 504, 508, 510, 514, 523, Lent, 26, 77, 79, 80, 85–91, 104, 107, 111, 121, 531, 533, 534, 538&n, 542, 544, 545, 547, 137–8, 139, 180, 181, 183, 187, 188 550n, 553, 561, 562, 564, 569, 585, 589, 599, Leominster (Herefordshire), 136 602n, 620n, 623, 625, 628, 631, 636, 638, Lewd persons, plays and treatises, 43, 44, 45, 57, 643, 649, 658, 661; Aldgate, 290, 455, 472; 78, 99, 100, 102, 112 Anchor Terrace, 493, 607, 610; Arches, Court Lewis Frederick, Prince (of Württemberg), 498 of the, 292, 294n, 312; Aylesbury Street, Lewis, C.T. and C.S. Short, A Latin Dictionary, 567n; Bankside, 99, 102, 107, 327–8, 377, 655n 414, 419, 424, 437, 439, 440, 443, 446, 447, Lewyn, Mr, 168 449, 451, 493, 499–500, 534, 537, 539, 595, Licensing Commission, 49–50, 80, 92, 93–8 602, 603, 605, 607, 609, 613, 614; Barclays Lichfield, Leonard (printer), 656 Bank in Lombard Street, 295; Barnard’s Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 336 Castle, 405; Bear Gardens, 595; Beargarden Lightmaker, Mr (brewer), 671, 673 Square, 597; Bel Savage Inn, 295–7, 299, Lilley, John (of Worcestershire), 136–7 302–3, 304, 305, 330; Bell Inn, 295–6, 297, Lincoln’s Inn. See London. Records of the 300, 301, 304; Bermondsey, 329; Bishopsgate, Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, 627 296, 303, 363, 411n, 413, 441; Bishopsgate Lincoln, 41 Street, 295, 300, 303–4, 305, 411n;

Index 699

Blackfriars, 92, 121, 123, 124, 126–7, 221–8, 504; Holywell Lane, 404, 406n, 408, 418; 259–61, 264–7, 268–9, 305, 329, 388, 390&n, Holywell Priory, 330, 376, 404–5, 407; 393, 394, 403, 487, 502, 507, 508–9, 513, 514, Hopton Street, 437; Horseshoe Alley or Court 516, 524, 525n, 529, 530, 547, 550n, 562, 656; (Bankside), 192, 196; Houndsditch, 193; Blackfriars (the convent), 388, 390, 396, 501, Hoxton Fields, 281; Hunsdon House, 529n; 504, 506; Blackfriars Gate, 525; Blackfriars Inns of Court, 3, 11, 187, 627; Islington, 46, Lane, 501; Blackfriars Stairs, 391; Boar’s Head 589; Kemble Street, 623; King’s Bench Prison, Inn, 452, 494 (see also Playhouses); Bouverie 527; King’s Mews, 588&n; Kingsland leper Street, 547; Bread Street, 435; Bridewell, 175, house, 417&n; Lambeth Palace, 43; 252, 562; Bull Inn, 295–6, 298, 300, 301, 304, Leadenhall, 299; Liberties, 54, 79, 91, 118, 305; Bullhead Alley (Bankside), 192; Cannon 133, 145; Limeburner Lane, 295; Lincoln’s Street, 605; Carmelite Priory, See Whitefriars Inn, 187, 447, 623, 627, 646, 649; Lincoln’s Priory; Carmelite Street, 547, 649; Carter Inn Fields, 628; Lombard Lane, 550n; Lane, 525; Charing Cross Road, 73; Cheap Lombard Street, 295; London Bridge, 311n, (Ward of), 292; Cheapside, 56, 312, 405; 320, 329, 437, 607; London College of Christ Church, 510; Christ Church grammar Fashion, 330; London Wall, 295, 388, 531, school, 265; Clerkenwell, 124, 486, 564; 547; Long Lane, 657; Ludgate, 295, 302, 504, Clerkenwell Green, 567n; Clink Liberty 506, 522, 524–5; Ludgate Hill, 295, 296n, (Bankside), 91, 192, 426; Cockpit Alley, 304, 388, 501; Ludgate Prison, 276; Lurklane 623–4; Codpiece Row (i.e., Town’s End Lane), (Newington, Surrey), 320, 322; Marshalsea 630&n; Coleman Street, 303; Compton Street, Prison, 292, 468, 472, 635, 657; Maiden (or 567n; Curtain Close (the estate), 405, 407–8, Maid) Lane, 414, 419, 424, 426, 435, 493, 416; Curtain House (or Lodge? or Court?), 496, 595, 607, 610n, 622; Martlett Court, 623; 404–5, 406n, 407; Curtain Road, 330, 404; Merchant Taylors’ School, 260; Middlesex Denmark House, 439; Dorset Garden, 672–3; Street, 452; Mile End, 290, 291, 292; Milk Dorset House, 649, 651, 652–3, 665–6, 671; Street, 407; Moorﬁelds, 79, 108; New Inn Drury Lane, 623–6, 628–9, 631, 634, 635, Yard, 330; New Kent Road, 320; Newgate, 637, 660, 669; Drury Lane Theatre, 626; 346; Newgate Prison, 62, 162, 524; Elephant and Castle (tavern), 320; Essex Newington (Surrey), 320, 321, 322, 325, 326, House, 653; Farringdon Without (Ward of), 329; Newington Butts (Surrey), 81, 83, 320, 649, 652; Finsbury, 91, 106; Finsbury Fields, 323; Nightingale Lane, 106; Norton Folgate, 229, 336, 339, 538; Finsbury, Lordship of, 411n; Old Bailey, 294n, 295; Old Jewry, 336; 538–9; Fleet Conduit, 524–5; Fleet Street, 125, Old Kent Road, 311n, 329; Old Street, 531; 130, 547–9, 550n, 562, 649, 665; Fleetbank Palmerston House in Bishopsgate Street, 295; House, 652n; Fortune Street, 531, 638, 648; Park Street, See Maiden Lane; Paris Garden Friday Street, 552; Frying Pan (Southwark), Stairs, 437, 448; Paul’s Churchyard and 428–9; George Inn (Whitechapel), 331, Cross, 68, 87; Peabody Housing Estate, 623; 351&n, 353–4, 365n; George, sign of the Petticoat Lane, 452; Playhouse Yard (Shoreditch), 371; Golden (or Golding) Lane, (Blackfriars), 501; Playhouse Yard (St Giles 221, 414, 487, 531, 533, 534, 537, 539, 541, Cripplegate), 531, 638, 648; Pleydell Court, 544, 545, 546, 638–9, 640, 641, 642, 646, 550n; Porter’s Hall (Blackfriars), 562; Prince’s 647–8&n, 669; Goulston Street, 452; Arms, 439, 450n; Princes Street, 623; Ram Gracechurch Street, 295, 297, 298, 300, 301, Alley, 547; Red Lion Farmhouse (Middlesex), 304; Great Queen Street, 623; Greenwich, 290, 291, 292, 293, 501; Redcross Street, 537; 129, 391, 396; Greenwich Palace, 312, 318; Rose Alley, 419, 424, 426; ‘The Little Rose’ Grub Street, 543; Guildhall, 4, 7, 55, 56, 59, (plot of land), 419, 423, 424, 434; Rose and 73, 76, 78–9, 81, 85, 92, 97, 98, 109, 124, 145, Crown, 534; Rose Court (a building), 419; 299, 389, 401n; Halcrow Street, 290; Salisbury Court, 649, 652n, 652–3, 654, 655, Hampton Court (Middlesex), 607; Hayward’s 657, 670n, 672–3; Sampson House, 437; Place, 564, 567n; Hewett Street, 404; Hog Shoreditch, 31, 92, 110, 281–82, 295, 320, Lane, 452, 492n; Holland’s Leaguer (Bankside 330, 331, 337, 358–9, 363, 371, 406n, 418, brothel), 450, 605; Holywell, 333, 336, 340, 486, 497, 509, 630&n; Shoreditch High 341, 356, 358, 363, 364, 372, 409–10, 414, Street, 330, 404, 411n, 417&n; Smithﬁeld, 47,

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London and environs (cont.) Lord Derby, his company of players. See Playing 529, 564, 596, 602&n; Southwark, 46, 110, Companies 123, 126, 157, 320, 322, 326, 328, 332, 419, Lord Rich, his company of players. See Playing 423, 424, 426, 428–9, 437, 440, 493, 495, Companies 497, 531, 534, 595, 598, 605, 607, 622; Lord Strange, his company of players. See Southwark Bridge Road, 493, 607; St James’s Playing Companies Palace, 580, 633; St John of Jerusalem (Priory Lord Vaux, his company of players. See Playing of), 297&n; St John Street, 564, 566, 567n, Companies 569–70, 571, 581, 584, 588, 589; St Paul’s Lorkin, Thomas, 499 Chain, 524; St Paul’s Churchyard (a street), Loseley (Surrey), 390, 397, 504 306, 524, 525; St Paul’s Cross, 308n; St Low Countries, 41 Swithin’s Lane, 405; Stark’s House, See Red Lowin, John (player), 196, 210, 222–3, 503, 526, Lion Farmhouse; Stepney, 487; bailiff of, 484; 616, 645 Stepney Way, 290; Temple, The, 369, 448, Ludwig, Prince (of Anhalt-Cöthen), 304, 438, 547, 575; Temple Bar, 623; Temple Church, 440–1 448n; Temple Lane, 547; Thames Street, 596, Luther, Martin, 17 599; Thames (river), 305, 320, 322n, 388, 391, Lyddiat, Ralph, 136–7 419, 422, 424, 437, 446n, 448n, 449, 493, Lyffe, John (carpenter), 291 497, 499, 506, 524, 547–8, 595, 596, 602n, Lyly, John (writer), 93, 307, 310, 389&n, 402; 604, 607, 649; Tower of London, Lieutenant Campaspe, 395; Endymion, 312; Mother of the, 336; Tudor Street, 649, 652n; Turnbull Bombie, 312; Pappe with an hatchet, 307, or Turnmill Street, 630&n; Walworth Road, 310–11&n; Sapho and Phao, 395 320; Wapping, 629; Water Lane (Blackfriars), Lynsey, John (butcher), 543 391–3; Water Lane (Whitefriars), 547, 649, 653; West End, 623; Westminster, 471, 557, Machiavelli, Niccolò, 303 623; Westminster Hall, 501, 588; Machyn, Henry, 46; his Diary, 308 Whitechapel, 290, 292, 293, 351, 352, 353–4, Madox, Richard, 343 364, 365n, 452, 455, 456, 475, 476n, 485, Madrid, 615 486, 582; Whitechapel High Street, 452; Magistrates, 4, 35, 43–4, 48, 51, 62–3, 68, 70, Whitechapel Road, 290; Whitecross Street, 77–8, 81, 84–5, 87, 88–90, 99, 103, 104, 108, 221, 531, 533, 538, 541, 543, 545, 638, 640, 110–11, 112, 115, 121, 124, 132, 133, 138–9 643, 647–8; Whitefriars, 305&n, 547–8, Mago, John (carpenter), 454, 459, 460–1&n, 550&n, 554, 560, 561, 562, 563n, 655; 463n, 475, 476n, 480–1&n, 483, 488–9, 491, Whitefriars Priory, 547, 553, 562; Whitefriars 492 Street, 547, 649, 652n; Whitehall, 410, 669; Mago, William (musician or stage attendant), Wild Street, 623–5 258–9 Longe, Jane, 407 Mails, Mrs. (prostitute?), 418 Longe, Maurice (cloth-worker), 405, 407 Mainwaringe, Thomas, 451 Longe, William (cloth-worker), 405, 407 Maitland, William, History of London, 646 Lord Admiral (Charles Howard, Lord Howard of Malcolm, J.P., Londinium Redivivum, 313 Effingham and Earl of Nottingham), 73, 80, Maller, George (glazier), 275–7 84, 90, 91, 92, 93, 102–5, 106, 107, 109, 120, Malone Society Collections, 310, 390, 393n, 123, 258, 346&n, 537–8; his company of 408–9, 416, 440, 504, 511, 522, 525n, 525, players, see Playing Companies 562, 580, 585, 586n, 621, 628&n, 632–3, 634, Lord Arundel, his company of players. See 636 Playing Companies Malone, Edmond, 236, 417, 418, 435–6, 534, Lord Chamberlain, 5, 48, 70, 75–6, 83–104, 107, 631, 655–6; Plays and Poems of William 109–10, 117, 120–3, 126, 143–4, 147–8, 210, Shakespeare, 416–17, 418, 432, 434, 450, 495n, 221, 224, 226n, 227, 254, 257, 259, 486, 507, 526, 534, 563n, 584, 587, 597, 600, 603, 631, 512, 515, 521n, 525–6, 528, 609, 621, 633, 632, 634, 657 634, 635; his company of players, see Playing Man in the Moon, The, 587 Companies Manchester, 289 Lord Chancellor, 251, 342, 361 Manne, Robert, 407–8 Lord Chief Justice, 447, 474, 520, 578 Manningham, John, The Diary, 448n

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Marcon, Thomas (of Norwich), 256 Mercurius Fumigosus, 587, 590nn Margrave, Richard (sailor), 643 Mercurius Melancholicus, 646n, 669n Marlowe, Christopher (playwright), 11, 13, 161; Mercurius Pragmaticus, 589n, 644, 669n Doctor Faustus, 303, 591; The Jew of Malta, Mercurius Publicus, 646 328, 431, 432; Massacre at Paris (The Guise), Mercurius Veridicus, 645 432 Meres, Francis (writer), 167; Palladis Tamia, 446 Marmion, Shakerley, Holland’s Leaguer, 450 Merry, Edward, 505 Marprelate, Martin (pseudonym), 92–3, 260, Michaelmas, 79, 81, 82, 113 307, 310–11&n, 357, 409 Microcosmography (Earle), 186 Marsh, John (carpenter), 461n, 463n, 480–1&n, Middlesex, 63, 76–86, 88–9, 99–101, 103, 104, 483, 492 106, 110–11, 121, 132, 133, 336, 340, 364, Marshall, Charles (player), 144, 254 404, 407, 449, 452, 456, 472, 498, 504, 509, Marshalsea, Court of the, 453–4, 464, 467–8, 531, 533, 538&n, 541, 544, 545, 564, 571, 581, 470–5&n 585, 638; Justices of, 414, 440, 486, 537–9, Marshalsea, Marshal of the (i.e., marshal of the 543, 642, 645, 646n royal household), 292, 467, 470, 472 Middlesex, Earl of (Lionel Cranﬁeld, third earl), Marston, John (playwright), 11, 126, 127, 128, 672 167, 307, 512, 515n, 519&n; Antonio and Middleton, Thomas (playwright), 127, 128, 307; Mellida, 308n; The Dutch Courtesan, 509n; Jack (with William Rowley) The Changeling, 631; A Drum’s Entertainment, 313; What You Will, Chaste Maid in Cheapside, 448–9; The Family of 314; Scourge of Villainy, 375, 411–12 Love, 547–8; A Game at Chess, 609, 615–16; Martyrs, 2, 3, 22, 37, 46–7 Inner Temple Masque, 629–30; (with Thomas Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, 49, 61–3, 78 Dekker) The Roaring Girl, 448–9, 542–3; (with Mary Tudor, Queen, 1, 3, 10–11, 37, 39–47 William Rowley) The World Tossed at Tennis, passim, 48, 78; as Princess 39 439 Maskewe, Mr, 65 Miles, Ralph, 338–9, 350, 355, 362–3 Mason, John (playwright, playhouse investor), Miles, Robert (goldsmith), 298, 331, 338–9, 269–71, 547–9, 552, 554–9; The Turk, 547 349–50, 351, 353–4, 355, 357–8, 358–63, Massey, Charles (player), 221, 542&n, 544, 638, 364–5&n, 365–6, 366–7, 372–5 640 Milles, Thomas (butcher), 491 Massey, George (merchant tailor), 641n Mills, Tobias (player), 176, 300 Massinger, Philip (playwright), 129, 185; The Milton, John (poet), 295 Great Duke, 631 Milward, Agnes. See Howe, Agnes Mastock, ?Mr (a gentleman of the Earl of Milward, John (Dr. of Civil Law), 314–16&nn Dorset), 673 Minstrels, 20, 62, 144 Mathewes, William (fencer), 410 Mirror of Monsters, A (Rankins), 167 Maulkin, 161 Mithridate, 180 May Day games and plays, 22, 93, 112, 131 Momus, 498 May, Edward (player), 657–64 Montgomery, Earl of (Philip Herbert, ﬁrst earl), May, Randolph (painter), 343–4 515 Mayler, George (merchant tailor, player), 153, Moore, Joseph (player), 189, 252, 256 232 Moot-halls. See Guildhalls, provincial Mayne, Jasper (writer), 586 More, Joseph, 144 Mayor’s plays, 287 More, Richard (carpenter), 291 Meade, Jacob (waterman), 217–18, 282–84, More, Sir Thomas, 232n 432&n, 595–6, 597–600, 600–1, 603 More, Sir William, 260–1, 388–9&nn, 390&n, Medea, 412 390–3&n, 393–4, 395, 397–400, 400–1&nn, Medley, Robert, 408 401–2&n, 403, 501, 504, 506–7&nn Medwall, Henry (playwright), 2 More, William (of Worcestershire), 136–7 Mellon Collection (Yale University), 597n Morecroft, Robert (of Lincoln), 225 Mercers, 97–8 Morely, Baron, 144 Merchant Taylors, 97–8 Morgan, William, London &c, Actually Survey’d, Mercurius Democritus, 587 440n, 567&n; see also John Ogilby Mercurius Elencticus, 636–7 Morris dances, 112

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Morris, Edward (embroiderer), 405 Noone, Henry, 175 Morris, Isbrand (dyer), 494 Norfolk, 61, 82, 100 Morrison, Sir Richard, 20–1 Norfolk, Duke of, 22, 61–2, 73 Mortlake (Surrey), 198, 200 Norman, Philip, ‘Accounts of the Overseers of Motteram, John (imprest boy player), 265 the Poor’, 440n; Accounts of the Overseers of Mount Tabor (Willis), 243 the Poor, 448–9, 450&n Mounteagle, Lord, 195 Normanton, Earl of, 73 Mountjoy, Lady (Katherine Blount), 407 North, Lord, 113, 116 Mountjoy, Lord (James Blount, sixth lord), 407 Northbrooke, John (clergyman), A Treatise Moxlay, Nicholas (apprentice notary public), wherein Dicing, Dauncing, Vaine playes, etc., 458, 462 160, 337, 408 Mucklowe, William (fencer), 296 Northern Rebellion, 48, 61, 69 Mufford, John (player), 251 Northumberland, Duke of, 39 Mulcaster, Richard (Headmaster of Merchant Norton, Thomas (playwright), 52 Taylors’ School), 260, 265 Norwich (City of), 61, 82, 145–7, 149, 413; Munday, Anthony (writer), 162 Bowde, Simon (Mayor), 252; White Horse Inn, Murray, Mr W., 129 251n, 253n, 256 Musgrave, Thomas (fencer), 450n Nottingham (City of), 6, 9, 20 Nottingham, Earl of (Charles Howard, first earl). Nabbes, Thomas (writer), Covent Garden, See Lord Admiral 620–30; Microcosmus, 667; Tottenham Court, Nottingham, Sheriff of, 20 654 Nykóping, Sweden, 172 Napton, John, 426 Nashe, Thomas (writer), 9–10, 80, 92–3, 95, 101, Oaths, 128–129, 131 102, 104, 171, 307, 310–311&n, 439; Have Ogilby, John and William Morgan, A Large and with you to Saffron Walden, 312; (with Ben Accurate Map of the City of London, 296n, 489, Jonson and others) Isle of Dogs, 439, 441; The 567&n, 626n May-game of Martinisme, 307; Martins Months Old Comedy, 310 Minde, 357, 408–9; Returne of the renowned Orange, Prince of (Frederick Henry of Nassau), Caualiero Pasquill of England, 310; Summer’s 528 Last Will and Testament, 312 Ordinances, Bristol, 118–119; London, 132–5 Nelson, Alan, 29 Ormond, Duke of, 527 Nero, 190 Ormskirk (Lancashire), 139 Nestor, 206 Orrell, John, ‘Building the Fortune’, 532n; Netherlands, The, 41, 440, 528 Theatres of Inigo Jones and John We bb , 626n Nevill, Thomas, 370 Osborne, Thomas (carpenter), 348, 386&n Neville, Sir Henry, 390, 391, 401–2&n Osborne, Thomas (of Kirby Bidon), 248 New and Choice Characters of Several Writers Ostler, William (player), 226, 494 (Overbury), 180 Otto, Prince (of Hesse-Cassel), 499 New Windsor (Berkshire), 390 Outlawe, Henry, 514, 518 Newcastle, Marquess of (William Cavendish, Overbury, Sir Thomas, 180, 186 first marquess), 487 Ovid, 177, 446 Newhall, William (Town Clerk of Chester), Oxford (City of), 11, 12, 17, 20, 27, 30, 36, 40, 18–19 51, 69–70, 311, 317, 584 Newman, John, 389&n, 394, 395, 395–6, Oxford, Earl of (Edward de Vere, seventeenth 396–400&nn, 400&n, 402&n earl), 90, 92, 105, 109–10, 389, 402, 481; his Newmarket (Cambridgeshire), 129 company of players, see Playing Companies Newton, Samuel, 418 Oxford, University of, 161 Nichols, John Gough, 46 Oxford English Dictionary, 393n, 499, 589n, 655n Nicoll, William (notary public), 336, 337–9&n Nixon, Anthony, Three English Brothers, 569 Packer, John, 271–2 Noble, Thomas (fencer), 409 Pacolet (fabulous horse), 181 Nonsuch Palace (Surrey), 308 Pageants, 1, 131

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Paget, Sir William, 34, 157 Paul’s, Master of the Children of: See Thomas Painton, Edward, 521 Giles; Edward Pearce Painton, Margaret. See Hawkins, Margaret Pavy, Salomon (imprest boy player), 265, 267–8 Pallant, Robert (player), 191, 219, 253, 258–9 Payne, Anthony, 573–4, 592 Palsgrave (Count Palatine), his company of Payne, Peter (butcher), 405 players. See Playing Companies Payne, Richard (girdler), 405 Paman, Henry (of Norwich), 146, 256 Payne, Robert, 513–14 Papal Bulls, 48, 49, 61; Papal Legate, 41; Papal Peace, disturbances of, 18, 35–6, 41, 43, 44, 53, Supremacy, 1, 3 73, 76, 77, 79, 80, 87, 88, 89, 92–93, 116, 138, Paris Garden, Manor of, 212, 437–9&nn, 442, 148–9 447, 448, 448–9, 598; bear baiting there, 87, Pearce (Peers), Edward (musician, Master of the 297, 305, 604 Children of Paul’s), 265, 307, 308n, 315, Parishes: St Alban, Wood Street, 385; St Andrew 316&n, 317, 318–19 Undershaft, 543; St Anne Blackfriars, 508, Peckham, Edmund, 343–4 522n, 522–3; St Bartholomew the Great, 510; Pedel, Abraham (player), 641 St Botolph without Aldgate, 193, 194; St Bride Pedlars. See Vagrants Fleet Street, 550, 649, 652, 657; St Clement Peele, George (playwright), 11, 431 Eastcheap, 543; St Dunstan in the West, 549, Peers, Edward. See Pearce 550, 561; St Giles in the Fields, 623; St Giles Peerson, Martin (musician), 512 without Cripplegate, 216, 413, 487, 531, 533, Pembroke, Earl of, 9, 101–2, 104, 108, 144, 226, 534, 538, 541, 545, 638; St James, Clerkenwell, 254; his company of players, see Playing 544, 568, 571; St Leonard Shoreditch, 208, Companies 406n, 407, 509; St Mary Matfellon, see (under Pembroke and Montgomery, Earl of, 210, 221, London) Whitechapel; St Mary le Bow, 312; St 224, 259 Mildred, Bread Street, 419, 423n, 423, 434; St Penn, William (player), 259 Olave Southwark, 326, 598; St Saviour Penry, John (Martin Marprelate?), 311n Southwark, 88, 195, 197, 212, 216, 282, 423, Pentecost, 34 424, 426, 432, 436, 446, 495, 497, 534, 598, Pepys, Elizabeth, 591 610n, 622; St Stephen Coleman Street, 195 Pepys, Samuel, 590–1; Diary, 590 Park, The (Bishop of Winchester’s estate, Percy, Sir Jocelyn, 195 Southwark), 495 Percy, William (writer), 317 Parker, Matthew, 25–9 Perfect Account of the Daily Intelligence, A, 590n Parliament, 503, 587, 588, 596, 610, 622, 625, Perfect Diurnal, A, 587 636, 644, 645–6&n, 651, 669, 674n; House of Perfect Occurrences, 587, 646n, 669 Commons, 588; House of Lords, 588, 632; Perkin, John (player), 206 members of, 644 Perkins, Richard (player), 239–41, 253, 434, Parliament, Acts of: Advancement of True 628, 630–1, 657–64 Religion (1543), 23–5, 26, 33; Chantries Perry, William (player), 144, 254, 417–18 (1549), 33; Punishment of Beggars, Rogues Pershore (Worcestershire), 136 and Vagabonds (1531), 48, 62–3, 79, 81, 103, Philip II, King of Spain, 3, 39, 40 120, 131, 133, 139–40; Royal Supremacy Philips, Mr (Master, musician?), 308&n (1531–36), 40, 48, 53; Suppression of Plays Phillips, Augustine (player), 123, 176, 191–203, and Playhouses (1647–8), 132–5; Uniformity 226, 493–4, 496n, 497; his brothers James of Service and Administration of the Webb and William Webb, 198; his daughter Sacraments (1549), 34, 40, 50. See also Anne, 194, 198; his daughter Elizabeth, 199; Statutes of the Realm his daughter Magdalen, 192, 198; his Parr, William (player), 144, 221, 254, 544 daughter Rebecca, 193, 198; his Jig of the Parson, John, 640 Slippers, 193; his mother Agnes Bennett, 198; Paston, Sir William, 247–50 his nephews Miles Borne and Phillips Borne, Pateson, William (player), 245 198; his sister Elizabeth Gough, 195, 198; his Patrick, William (musician or stage attendant), sister Margery Borne, 197n, 198; his son 258–9 Augustine, 197; his wife Anne, 194, 198, 199, Patteson, John, 365n 200–03

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Phillips, Edward (of St Saviour’s parish), 195 Joseph Moore; John Motteram; John Mufford; Phillips, John (writer), Sportive Wit, 590n William Ostler; Robert Pallant; William Parr; Pickering, Sir John (Lord Keeper), 365–6 William Pateson; Salomon Pavy; Abraham Pierce Pennilesse his Supplication to the Devil Pedel; William Penn; John Perkin; Richard (Nashe), 171 Perkins; William Perry; Augustine Phillips; Pig, John (player), 236 John Pig; Thomas Pollard; Thomas Pope; Pilgrimage of Grace, 22 Thomas Powlton; Richard Price; Philip Pinnocke, Thomas, 585 Pykman; Timothy Reade; Gilbert Reason; Pipe Office, 504–7&n John Redman; Ralph Reeve; William Robins; Plague, 49, 54, 55, 59, 60, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80–85, Richard Robinson; William Rowley; Thomas 86, 87, 89, 107, 111, 112, 116, 123, 135, 141, Sackville; James Sands; Jerome Savage; Robert 299, 326–8, 336, 406, 408, 414, 431, 434, Shaa; William Shakespeare; John Shanks; 455, 486, 503, 507, 548, 552, 555, 560, 632–3, William Sherlock; John Sinckler; John Singer; 649, 658, 661–4, 664–6, 667 Martin Slater; William Sly; Matthew Smith; Platter, Thomas (Swiss tourist), 412–13, 497 Gabriel Spencer; William Stratford; John Players (in general), 207–8, 287, 299, 305, Sumpner; Elliard Swanston; Thomas 306–7, 308n, 311–12, 317, 326–7, 341, 395, Swinnerton; Richard Tarlton; Joseph Taylor; 409, 449, 531; as caterpillars, 162; as drones, Nicholas Tooley; John Towne; Thomas Towne; 178; as hypocrites, 179; Italian, 63; to be burnt John Townsend; William Trig; Alvery Trussell; through the ear with a hot iron, 161; wearing James Tunstall; Anthony Turnor; John women’s garments, 165 Underwood; Francis Wambus; William Players. See John Adams; Edward Alleyn; John Wilbraham; Robert Wilson; Ellis Worth; John Alleyn; Richard Andrews; Robert Armin; Younge Thomas Arthur; Alexander Barker; Thomas Playhouses Barnes; Richard Baxter; Robert Baxter; Admissions and local taxes, 3–4, 6, 90–1 William Bee; Christopher Beeston; Robert Demolition, threats of, 9, 92, 99, 100–3, 104, Beeston; Robert Benfield; John Bentley; John 111, 133–5 Birche; Theophilus Bird; William Bird; John Private (in general), 287–8, 318, 409, 519; Bradstreet; Edward Browne; John Browne; stage, 288, 544; tiring-house, 288; pit, Robert Browne; William Browme; George 288; galleries, 288; boxes, 288; sitting on Bryan; Paul Buck; James Burbage; Richard stage, 514&n Burbage; Andrew Cane; William Cartwright; Public (in general), 287–8, 315, 332, 339, 341, John Chappell; Thomas Clarke; Nathaniel 405–6, 408–9, 542, 544, 566; yard, 287–8, Clay; Richard Clayton; Thomas Clifton; Henry 413; galleries, 287, 410, 413; stage, 288, Condell; Abel Cooke; Alexander Cooke; Lionel 413; tiring-house, 287; stage machinery, Cooke; Thomas Cooke; Richard Cowley; 288; lighting, 288, 492; sitting on stage, Robert Cox; Samuel Crosse; John Cumber; 514&n Robert Dawes; Thomas Downton; John Duke; Playhouses (London and environs): John Dutton; Lawrence Dutton; William Bear Garden, 87, 92, 124, 281 (see also Ecclestone; John Edmonds; Nathan Field; Hope) Lawrence Fletcher; Alexander Foster; Richard Bel Savage Inn, 295–7, 299, 302–3, 304, 305, Fowler; John Garland; Samuel Gilburne; 330 Thomas Goffe; Alexander Gough; Robert Bell Inn, 295–6, 297, 300, 301, 304 Gough; Frank Grace; Richard Grace; Thomas Blackfriars (the first playhouse), 288, 306, Greene; Curtis Greville; Thomas Grymes; 307, 330, 388–403, 501, 507n, 508n Richard Gunnell; Richard Hanley; William Blackfriars (the second playhouse), 288, 305, Hart; George Hasell; John Heminges; Thomas 306, 307, 318, 319, 501–30, 549, 560, 609, Heywood; Thomas Hobbes; John Holland; 614, 616, 621, 623, 629, 633, 644, 645, 649, James Holt; Humfrey Jeffes; William Johnson; 655n; sharers in, 502–3, 519, 521, 525n, Richard Jones; Ben Jonson; Edward Juby; 525–6 William Kemp; Philip Kingman; William Boar’s Head, 45, 92, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, Knell; John Laneham; Robert Lee; John 124, 307, 406, 414, 438, 452–92, 494, 498, Lowin; Charles Marshall; Charles Massey; 564, 569n Edward May; George Mayler; Tobias Mills; Bull Inn, 295–6, 298, 300, 301, 304, 305

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Cockpit, 125, 240, 288, 405, 580&n, 623–37, Whitefriars, 121, 122, 125, 260, 307, 319, 419, 649, 651, 655n, 658, 660, 662, 665, 669 448, 487, 515, 519, 547–63, 564, 595, 649 Cross Keys Inn, 93, 295–6, 298, 301, 302, Playhouses (Provincial) 304 Bristol: Redcliffe Hill (1631–2 to 1640), 119; Curtain, 81, 92, 99, 100, 105, 107, 108, 109, Wine Street (1604–5 to 1628–9), 119 124, 160, 296, 298, 332n, 337, 339, 345–6, Norwich: White Horse Inn, 146 348–9, 350, 375, 404–18, 433, 434, 441, Playing Companies, general 441n, 486, 487, 498, 539&n, 564, 569n, Amateur, 4, 8, 48–9, 61, 69, 125–6 570, 582 Boys: General, 110, 123; Chapel Royal, 260–1, Drury Lane, 626 264–7; King’s Revels, 121, 124, 269–71; Fortune (the first playhouse), 13, 80, 90, 91, Paul’s, 260, 261; Queen’s Chamber at 106, 107, 216–17, 220–1, 295, 413–14, 415, Bristol, 119, 271–4; Queen’s Chapel, 226; 419, 423, 449, 481, 487, 493–4, 498, 509n, Queen’s Revels, 121, 124, 125, 126–7, 144, 531–46, 570, 580n, 595, 597n, 597, 628n, 217–18, 240, 254, 260, 268–9 638–9, 642 Men: Managers, 78, 88, 89–90, 98, 109; Fortune (the second playhouse), 288, 567, Patents, 96, 119, 120, 124, 125, 126, 130–1, 583, 584, 586–7&n, 626n, 638–48, 668, 135, 140; Performances at night, 57–8, 86, 669 117–19, 137, 142–3; Playbills and bill Globe (the first playhouse), 90, 106, 107, 123, posting, 6, 31, 77, 81–2, 90, 114, 146; 295, 332, 376, 406, 412, 414, 415, 432, 433, Players paid ‘not to play’, 119, 121, 135, 436n, 437, 439&n, 449, 481, 493–500, 521, 140–1, 143, 147, 149; Players’ economy, 523, 525, 531–2, 534–6, 595, 607, 609–10, 82–3, 84, 114; Playmakers, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 611–12; sharers in, 493–4, 495, 497, 17, 41, 45, 71, 98, 104, 109, 121 502–3, 607–9, 610n, 613, 621 Playing Companies Globe (the second playhouse), 200–3, 221–28, Admiral, Lord, 84, 90, 91, 92, 93, 102, 103, 288, 439, 450, 493–4, 567, 596, 605, 104, 105, 120, 123, 178n, 191, 236–8, 251, 607–22, 645; sharers in, 607–9, 610–11, 258, 277, 302, 321, 328, 332, 361–2, 410, 611–12, 612–13&n, 616–19, 620–1, 423, 431–2, 433, 481, 532, 537–9, 621–2&n 539–40 Hope, 124, 419, 437&n, 448, 449, 450, 487, Anne, Queen, 122, 123, 140–3, 185, 239–41, 534, 595–606, 607, 643 253–4, 406, 414, 415, 416, 455, 486, 486–7, Newington Butts, 81, 83, 320–9, 330, 388, 495n, 564, 566, 568–9, 579, 580, 581, 623, 405, 431 625, 627, 627–8&n, 629, 630, 630–1. See Phoenix. See Cockpit also Revels; Palsgrave Red Bull, 124, 125, 288, 299, 303, 307, 406, Arundel, Earl of, 345–6, 406 414, 416, 417, 486, 547, 549, 564–94, 603, Beauchamp, Lord, 251 623, 627–8&nn, 629, 646, 660, 668, 669 Berkeley, Lord, 92, 141, 252 Red Lion, 287, 290–4, 330 Bohemia, King and Queen of, 639 Rose, 13, 80, 84, 92, 101, 103, 106, 107, 109, Bohemia, Queen of, 189. See also Elizabeth, 211, 213, 327–8, 419–36, 437, 439, 441, Princess 441n, 441, 443–5, 446, 449, 450, 455, 481, Chamberlain, Lord, 80, 103, 104, 106, 107, 493, 531–2, 537, 539, 539–40, 595 109, 120, 178n, 195, 204, 296, 304, 310, Salisbury Court, 125, 288, 583, 584, 625, 629, 321, 332, 375, 406, 411–12, 412, 423, 431, 633, 637, 646&n, 649–74 433, 438, 481, 493–4, 497, 498, 502, 507 Swan, 11, 92, 102–3, 104, 105, 108, 124, Chandos, Lord, 117, 252 211–26, 295, 411, 422, 432n, 437–51, 453, Charles, Prince, later King Charles I, 124, 128, 509n, 595, 598–9, 605 140, 141–3, 253–4, 259, 406, 416–17, 439, St Paul’s, 120–1, 306–19, 330, 395, 515, 519, 450&n, 455, 486–7&n, 503, 566, 580, 582, 547, 564 583n, 584, 596, 603, 609, 614, 616, 619, Theatre, 81, 92, 99, 100, 103, 105, 160, 226, 620–1, 625, 630–1, 639, 645, 669 290, 295, 296, 298, 299, 300, 305, 311, Charles, Prince, later King Charles II, 566, 320, 330–87, 388, 404–6, 408–9, 410, 411, 584, 585–6, 587, 589n, 639, 644–5, 650, 411–12, 438, 441, 441n, 493, 497, 501, 652n, 660, 665 504n, 532, 610, 621 Derby, Earl of (fifth earl), 328, 332

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Playing Companies (cont.) (Tomkis), 570; Antonio and Mellida (Marston), Derby, Earl of (sixth earl), 105, 108–9, 111–12, 308n; Arviragus and Felicia (Carlell), 528; 140, 307, 313, 453–5 Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 602; The Battle of Elizabeth, Princess (Lady Elizabeth’s players), Alcazar (Peele), 431; Bellendon (or Belin Dun) 124, 137, 142, 145–7, 149, 189, 217–18, (Anon), 328, 432; The Bellman of Paris (Dekker 252, 255–58, 260, 448–9, 450n, 549, 596, & Day), 582&n; Black Batman (Chettle et al.), 600, 601–2, 603&n, 625, 626, 631 238; Black Joan (Anon), 238; The Blacksmith’s Elizabeth, Queen, 92, 96, 177nn, 204, 208, Daughter (Anon), 341; Bourbon (Anon), 238; 244, 246–50, 295–6, 300, 301, 332, 345–6, Britannia Triumphans (Davenant), 440n; 409, 410 Campaspe (Lyly), 395; The Careless Shepherdess Essex, Earl of, 310 (Goﬀe), 668; Catiline (Jonson), 11; Catiline’s Henrietta Maria, Queen, 625, 626, 631, Conspiracies (Gosson), 341; The Changeling 632–3, 651, 657–64, 664–7 (Middleton & Rowley), 631; A Chaste Maid in Henry VII, King, 1 Cheapside (Middleton), 448–9; The Cobbler of Henry VIII, King, 2, 48, 275 Queenhithe (Anon), 238; The Conquest of the Henry, Prince, 123, 414, 487, 532 Indies (Day et al.), 238; The Conspiracy and Holstein, Duke of, 568 Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Biron (Chapman), Hunsdon, Lord, See Lord Chamberlain 126; The Coronation (Shirley? Fletcher?), James, King, 122, 123, 127, 140, 196, 204, 629–39; The Court Beggar (Brome), 634–5; The 210, 221–8, 307, 318–19, 414, 449, 494, Creed Play (York), 33, 64; Cupid and Psyche 498, 499, 502–3, 515–16, 519, 520, 523, (Anon), 307, 395; Cupid’s Whirligig 525&n, 584, 609, 610n, 613–14, 615 (Sharpham), 547; Cutlack (Anon), 328, 432; King’s Players. See Red Bull company Cutwell (Anon), 297; The Devil’s Dam King’s Revels, men and boys of the, 639, (Haughton), 434; Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 649–51, 653, 656, 657–8, 660 13, 303, 591; Doctor Lambe and the Witches King and Queen’s Young Company, 625, (Anon), 643&n; The Doubtful Heir (Shirley), 632–3, 633–4, 635, 660, 662 614; The Dutch Courtesan (Marston), 509n; Leicester, Earl of, 78, 90, 205–6, 250, 310, 332, Eastward Ho! (Chapman, Jonson, Marston), 341 126; Endymion (Lyly), 312; The English Lennox, Duke of, 123–4, 455, 486&n Traveller (Heywood), 641–2; Epicoene, or The Nottingham, Earl of. See Admiral, Lord Silent Woman (Jonson), 11; Every Man in His Oxford, Earl of, 90, 92, 109, 157, 250–1, Humour (Jonson), 194; Every Man Out of His 320–1, 332 Humour (Jonson), 194; Play of the Fall Palsgrave (Count Palatine), 144, 220, 254, (Norwich Grocers), 61; The Family of Love 532, 544, 545, 546, 638–9, 641 (Middleton), 547–8; The Famous Victories of Pembroke, Earl of (Henry Herbert, second Henry V (Anon), 301; Five New Plays (Brome), earl), 101, 102, 105, 108, 211–16, 423, 434, 646–7; Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (Greene), 438–9, 441, 442–6, 540 431, 589; Friar Spendleton (Anon), 238; ‘Friars’ Red Bull company, 566, 584, 587, 639 (Anon), 415; A Game at Chess (Middleton), Revels, 580, 581&n, 582 127, 609, 615–16; God’s Promises (Bale), 21; Rich, Lord, 341 Godwin (Chettle et al.), 238; Gorboduc Strange, Lord, 191–2, 278, 296, 302, 321, (Sackville & Norton), 52; The Great Duke 327–8, 332, 422–3, 431 (Massinger), 631; The Guise (Marlowe), 432; Vaux, Lord, 341 Hamlet (the ur-Hamlet), 328; Hamlet Warwick, Earl of, 310, 320, 332, 341 (Shakespeare), 495n, 502; Hardicanute Worcester, Earl of, 244–5, 251, 423, 434, (Anon), 238; Harry of Cornwall (Anon), 278, 454–5, 479–80, 480–1, 481–2, 484, 485–6 431; Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 139, 494, Playing: arguments against, 155; as ornament to 499–500; Hester and Ahasuerus (Anon), 328; the City, 177; on Sundays, 162; restraint of Hieronimo (Kyd), 13; The Hog Hath Lost His (1597), 211–16 Pearl (Tailor), 562; The Humours (Anon), 238; Plays, 327, 328n, 408–9, 410, 413; Alexander and Inner Temple Masque (Middleton), 629–30; The Lodowick (Anon), 238; Alice Pierce (Anon), Isle of Dogs (Nashe, Jonson et al.), 9–10, 80, 237–8; All is True, see Henry VIII; Albumazar 92, 95, 101, 102, 104, 439, 441; The Isle of

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Gulls (Day), 126; Jack Drum’s Entertainment and Testament (Nashe), 312; Tamburlaine (Marston), 313; The Jew (Anon), 299; The Jew (Marlowe), 13; The Taming of a Shrew (Anon), of Malta (Marlowe), 237, 328, 431, 432; John 328; The Temptation of our Lord (Bale), 21; of Gaunt (Anon), 238; Julius Caesar Tethys’ Festival (Daniel), 125; Three Ladies of (Shakespeare), 412, 497; The Just Italian London (Wilson), 329; The Three Lawes (Bale), (Davenant), 503n; Keep the Widow Waking, see 21; Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 328; Late Murder; A King and No King (Beaumont & Torismond (Anon), 271; The Travels of The Three Fletcher), 669; The King and the Subject English Brothers (Day, Rowley, Wilkins), 569; A (Massinger), 129; Knavery in all Trades Triplicity of Cuckolds (Anon), 238; Two Merry (?Tatham), 644; The Knight of the Burning Milkmaids (?Cumber), 580; Twelfth Night Pestle (Beaumont & Fletcher), 568–9; Kyng (Shakespeare), 503n; Vayvode (Anon), 238; A Johan (Bale), 21; Ladies A Second Time Vision of the Tudor Goddesses (Daniel), 125; The Assembled in Parliament (Anon), 645–6&n; The We dding (Shirley), 631–2; The Welshman’s Prize Late Lancashire Witches (Heywood & Brome), (Anon), 238; What You Will (Marston), 314; 609, 619–20&n; The Late Murder . . . or Keep The White Devil (Webster), 125; The Whore New the Widow Waking (Dekker, Ford, Rowley, Vamped (Anon), 585–6; Wit Without Money Webster), 583–3; Like unto Like (Anon), 434; (Beaumont & Fletcher), 588, 590n, 633; The Love and Riches (Rastell), 229; Loves Maistresse Witch of Islington (Anon), 101; The Witts (Heywood), 620–30; The Madman’s Morris (Davenant), 128, 129; A Woman will Have her (Anon), 238; A Masque of Blackness (Jonson), Will (Anon), 238; The World Tossed at Tennis 125; The Massacre at Paris (Marlowe), 432; (Middleton & Rowley), 439 Messallina (Richards), 650; Mother Bombie Plays Confuted in Five Actions (Gosson), 164 (Lyly), 312; Much Ado About Nothing Plevy, Humphrey, 487, 491 (Shakespeare), 503n; ‘Muly Mollocco’ (Peele)), Plutarch, 159 431; The Muses’ Looking Glass (Randolph), Pole, Cardinal Reginald, 3, 41 656; The New Inn (Jonson), 241; News from Poley, Henry, 456, 457 Plymouth (Davenant), 614; Oberon (Jonson), Poley, Jane, 456, 457, 487 125; Orlando Furioso (Greene), 431; Othello Poley, Sir John, 487 (Shakespeare), 498; Pammachius Polish Ambassador, 104 (Kirchmayer), 24–5; Pater Noster Play (York), Pollard, Thomas (player), 221–8, 525–6, 621, 64–5; Patient Grissell (Philip), 308n; Phaeton 645 (Anon), 238; Pierce of Winchester (Anon), 238; Pooley, Richard, 405 The Pilgrimage to Parnassus (Anon), 173; Pooly, Margaret, 506 Playhouse to be Let (Davenant), 590–1; Ptolemy Pope, the, 1, 2, 18–19, 20–1, 27–8, 61, 62 (Anon), 299; The Puritan (Anon), 308n; Pope, Mr, 434 Pythagoras (Anon), 238; The Ranger’s Comedy Pope, Morgan, 426 (Anon), 432; Redcap (Anon), 238; Respublica Pope, Thomas (player), 176, 191–2, 194, 200, (Udall), 41; The Return from Parnassus (Anon), 278, 405, 412n, 493–4, 496n 173; Richard II (Shakespeare), 195; The Roaring Popham, Sir John (Lord Chief Justice), 195 Girl (Middleton & Dekker), 448–9, 542–3; Porphyry, 190 ‘Roaring Rimer’ (Anon), 570; The Roman Actor Porter, Endymion, 128–9 (Massinger), 185; Romeo and Juliet Pory, John (writer of newsletters), 527&n (Shakespeare), 375, 412; Roxana (Alabaster), Powle, Mr (of Norwich), 253 650; Sacrament, Croxton Play of the, 33; Powlton, Thomas (player), 245 Samson (Anon), 290, 291; Sapho and Phao Praemunire, 178 (Lyly), 395; The Scornful Lady (Beaumont & Price, Richard (player), 221, 544, 638, 640 Fletcher), 646; The Scourge of Villainy Price, William (groom to Prince Charles), 417 (Marston), 375, 411–12; Sejanus (Jonson), 11, Pride, Col. Thomas (sheriﬀ of Surrey), 605, 606n 196; The Seven Deadly Sins (Anon), 191; The Six Prince Charles, his company of players. See Ye o men of the West (Day & Haughton), 239; Playing Companies The Spanish Contract (Anon), 146–7, 256; The Prince Henry, his company of players. See Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), 431; The Sparagus Playing Companies Garden (Brome), 650, 660; Summer’s Last Will Printers. See Stationers

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Prisons: See (under London) Bridewell; King’s Rebellion, 17, 41, 44; see also Northern Bench; Ludgate; Marshalsea; Newgate Rebellion Privy Council, 9, 17, 28, 34, 36, 37, 39, 45–6, 49, Red Lion Inn, Norwich, 246–50 57, 61, 63, 67–8, 70, 71, 76, 78–9, 80–4, Redman, John (stationer, player), 153, 233 86–90, 92, 99–103, 105–10, 111–13, 120–1, Reed, Oliver, 113 127, 137, 140, 141, 144–7, 211, 266, 273, 301, Reeve, Oliver, 113–14 302, 304, 307, 309, 310, 311, 326–8, 336, Reeve, Ralph (player), 562, 563n 346, 375, 403, 408, 409, 410, 411, 413–14, Refutation of the Apology for Actors, 178 414, 426, 431, 432, 438–9, 440, 441, 446–7, Rendle, William, 194; ‘The Bankside, 455–6, 468, 472–4, 481, 486, 498, 507–8, Southwark, and the Globe Playhouse’, 432, 511, 515&n, 523–5, 537–9&nn, 562, 563n, 440n 564, 568, 585–6, 615, 619, 610n, 627, 628n, Renton, Mr (fencer), 450n 632–3; Queen Henrietta Maria’s, 627 Requests, Court of, 313, 324, 332, 346, 367, Privy Seal, writs of, 324, 374, 379, 396, 446, 577 372–5, 376, 378, 379–81, 383–4, 384–5, Proclamations, Royal, 3, 34–7, 39–41, 50–2, 55, 395–6, 386–7, 396–400, 401n, 439, 441, 443, 110, 120, 122–3, 130, 136; Civic (London), 30, 445–6, 450–1, 455, 478, 480, 519, 551, 560, 59; Civic (Provincial), 18–19 574–8, 592–4, 616–18, 620, 621, 622n, 628n, Proscenium-arch theatres, 288, 501 641 Proteus, 180 Return from Parnassus, The, 173 Prynn, John (broker), 340 Revels, Oﬃce of the, 5, 32, 48–50, 69–71, Prynne, William (writer), 187, 190, 303; Histrio- 297&n, 635; Master of the, 5, 32, 63, 69–70, mastix, 303, 526–7, 583, 655–6 74, 83, 93–8, 103, 104, 106, 109, 110, Puckering, Sir Thomas, 499, 653 120–121, 124, 127–128, 129, 140, 145, Pudding, John (or Jack) (a name for an 146–147, 148, 194, 196, 206, 270, 302, undistinguished performer?), 647, 669, 670n 311–12, 316, 328n, 426, 492, 526, 549–50, Puppets, 60 554, 555, 562&n, 582, 582–3, 584, 616, 625, Purfett, Edward (feltmaker), 569 635–6, 649, 653, 656, 657, 666. See also Puritans, 5, 6, 53, 60, 85, 111, 112, 121, 133, 135, William Blagrave; Sir George Buck; Sir Henry 137 Herbert; Edmund Tilney Pykman, Philip (imprest boy player), 265 Revels, Royal, 180, 181 Reynolds, John (carpenter), 290, 291–4 Queen Anne, her company of players. See Reyson, Alexander (fencer), 410 Playing Companies Rhineland, The, 498n Queen Elizabeth, her company of players. See Rhodes, John (musician or stage attendant), Playing Companies 258–9, 626&n, 636 Queen Henrietta Maria, her company of players. Rich, Richard, Lord, 41–2, 44–5; his company of See Playing Companies players, see Playing Companies Queen’s College, Oxford, 584 Richards, Hugh (inn-holder), 333 Richards, Nathaniel (playwright), Messallina, Raine, Angelo, Yo rk C ivic Records, 309 650 Ramsay, martyr, 22–3 Richmond Palace (Surrey), 586n Randolph, Thomas (writer), The Muses’ Looking Ridolﬁ, Roberto, 62 Glass, 649, 655–6; Poems, with the Muses’ Rimbault, Edward F., ‘Salisbury Court Theatre’, Looking Glass, 586–7 653 Rankins, William (writer), 167; A Mirror of Riots and other malefactions at playhouses, 341, Monsters, 341n, 408–9 342, 345, 413, 431, 466–72, 522–3, 527–8, Rastall, William, 512–14, 515, 517–9, 521n 543–4, 569–70, 581, 585, 628–9&n, 642–3, Rastell, John (printer, playwright), 229–33; his 644, 657 wife, 232 Robertes, John (carpenter), 495 Rawlidge, Richard, A Monster Late Found Out and Roberts, Owen (carpenter), 464, 466–70, 490 Discovered, 304–5, 550n Robins, William (player), 239–41 Reade, Timothy (player), 657–64, 668, 669 Robinson, Humphrey, 647 Reason, Gilbert (player), 144, 253–4 Robinson, James, 264–7, 502, 509–11, 512

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Robinson, John, occupied in 1600 part of the Saint. See Parishes building in which the second Blackfriars Salisbury (City of), 22, 24, 30–1 playhouse was, 508; in 1640 an owner of the Salisbury, Earl of (Robert Cecil, first earl), 26, Salisbury Court playhouse, 657–64 515, 537, 562 Robinson, Richard (player), 223, 503, 609 Salvianus (bishop of Massilia), 162 Robinson, Winifred. See Burbage, Winifred Sampson, Martin W., ‘Interior of the Fortune’, Rocque, John, A Plan of the Cities of London and 542 Westminster, 440n, 567&n, 626n Samwell, Rebecca, 453–4, 468, 469n Roderick, 434 Samwell, Richard the elder, 104–5, 106, 452–4, Rodes, Walter (carpenter), 460, 461n, 489–90, 456n, 456–8, 458–9, 459–61&n, 461–3&n, 491 463, 464–75&nn, 477n, 478, 487, 488, 489, Rolls Chapel (Chancery Lane, London), 366 490, 491, 492 Rolls, Master of the, 336, 337 Samwell, Richard the younger, 453–4, Rope dancing, 446–7, 567, 589&n, 604, 614, 456–8&nn, 458–9, 460–1&n, 461–2, 465n, 646, 669 466–8, 470–4, 478, 490, 492 Roper, Lactantius (salter), 495 Samwell, Winifred, 453–4, 468, 472–5 Roper, Richard (baker), 534 Sanders, William (musician or stage attendant), Roscius (Roman actor), 171, 176, 177, 182, 183, 258–9 190 Sandes, Henry (manager), 144 Rose, John, 60 Sandford, James (writer), 159 Rosenfeld, Sybil, ‘Unpublished Stage Sands, James (player), 198 Documents’, 653 Satirical Essays Characters and Others (Stevens), Ross, Mr (of Norwich), 257 179 Rosse, Rowland (servant), 472, 474 Saunders Mr (sergeant at mace), 298 Rosseter, Philip (musician), 124, 217, 218–19, Savage, Jerome (player), 320, 321, 322–6 515, 519, 549, 560, 561, 562, 563n Savage, Sir John (Mayor of Chester), 66, 68 Rowley, Samuel (playwright), 238–39, 491 Savage, Ralph, 583&n Rowley, William (player and writer), 417, 582–3; Saviolo, Vincentio (fencer), 302–3 All’s Lost by Lust, 591; (with John Day and Saxfield, Thomas (player), 258 George Wilkins) Travels of The Three English Scenery, stage, 8, 12, 125, 130, 149 Brothers, 410–11, 569 School of Abuse, The (Gosson), 161 Royal Household, 395 Scotland, 120, 123, 126, 498n, 515&n Royal Navy, 642–3 Scott, Mr (lawyer), 357, 365, 375 Ruddoke, William (carpenter), 291 Scott, Bartholomew, 100–1 Ruff (or Rough), Sir John, 46–7 Scott, Master Cuthbert, 25, 27–9 Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Scroop, Baron, 73 Poems and Songs, 606n Sebeck, Henry, 144 Russell, Hugh (lawyer), 292 Sebright, William, 77–8 Russell, John, 545&n, 640 Second and Third Blast of Retrait from Plays and Russian Ambassador, 104 Theatre, 162 Rye, W.B., England as Seen by Foreigners, 498&n Sedgewick, Obadiah (preacher), 637 Rylence, Randle, 138–9 Sedition, rumours and slanders, 3, 26, 35, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49, 53, 62, 73, 74, 76 Sabbatarians, 111, 118, 122, 138 Sellenger’s Round, 173 Sabbath, profanation of, 166 Sellers, William, 495 Sack Full of News, A, 455–6 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, 185 Sackford, Henry (master of the tents and keeper Sessions of oyer and terminer (for Midlesex and of the privy purse), 398&n London), 346, 447, 543, 569, 582, 643 Sackville family. See Buckhurst, Lords Sewers (for water runoff), 320, 322&n; Surrey Sackville, Thomas (playwright), 52 and Kent Commissioners for, 322, 327, 329, Sackville (Saxfield), Thomas (player), 258 426, 435 Sacraments, 26, 33, 69; see also Act of Seymour, Edward, duke of Somerset, the Lord Uniformity Protector, 3, 33, 36, 158

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Shaa (or Shaw), Robert (player), 77–8, 211–16, Slater (Slatier), Martin (ironmonger, player), 438, 442–6 120–1, 143–4, 253–4, 269–71, 274, 549, Shake-scene, 171 553–9, 564, 566, 567n, 568 Shakespeare, the Man and the Book, 181 Sly, William (player), 122–3, 176, 194, 196, 197, Shakespeare, William (playwright, player), 123, 199, 200–1, 238, 494, 502, 516 191, 194, 196, 197, 198, 226, 289, 438, 493–4, Smalepeece, Thomas, 389, 399&n, 401 496n, 497, 502, 508, 516, 526, 529, 584, 607, Smarte, Richard (carpenter), 291 611, 667. Hamlet, 495n; Henry VIII, 494, Smith, Mr, 560 499–500; Julius Caesar, 412, 497; Othello, 498; Smith, Henry (merchant tailor), 507n Romeo and Juliet, 375, 412; Poems, 503n; Titus Smith, Henry (occupier of a shop near the Andronicus, 328 second Fortune), 640 ‘Shakespeare’s Globe’ (London), 494 Smith, Irwin, Blackfriars Playhouse, 389–90nn, Shanks, John (player), 222–4, 228, 503, 526 390&n, 393nn, 503n, 504, 507, 508&n, 509, Shapiro, I.A., ‘The Bankside Theatres: Early 510nn, 511, 514&n, 515, 517n, 517, 522n Engravings’, 440n Smith, John (fishmonger), 627–8&n, 630–1 Sharers’ Papers, 221–8 Smith, John (of Lancaster), 138–9 Sharpe, Lewis, The Noble Stranger, 654 Smith, Judith (fiancée of Thomas Brend), 622 Sharpham, Edward, Cupid’s Whirligig, 547 Smith, Judith Lady (née Lytton), 615 Shaw, John (butcher), 543 Smith, Logan Pearsall, Life and Letters of Sir Sheffield, Baron, 73 Henry Wotton, 499 Shepherd, George, 639, 647n Smith, Matthew (player), 584, 644–5 Shepherd, William, 199 Smith, Thomas (of Cambridge), 25–6 Sherburne, Edward, 628n, 629 Smith, Dr Thomas (of Cumberland), 647 Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, 342, 346, 361, Smith, Wentworth, The Hector of Germany, 402&n, 482, 483n, 562, 588, 593, 669; of 415–16 Surrey, 588, 605. See also Magistrates Smyth, Richard (fencer), 340, 367n Sherlock, William (player), 626&n, 657–64 Smyth, William, 347, 376–8 Shermons (of Carpenter’s Hall), 22–3 Snelling, William (carpenter), 291 Shirley, James (playwright), 625; The Coronation Sneyd, William, 18–19 (or by John Fletcher?), 629–39; The Doubtful Sodomites, 176 Heir, 614; The Wedding, 631–2 Solomon, 190 Shrewsbury, 405 Some, Robert, 112–13 Shrewsbury, Earl of, 42–3, 205 Somerset, Duke of (Edward Seymour), the Lord Shrove Tuesday, 180, 187 Protector, 3, 33, 36, 158 Shrovetide, 25, 41, 57, 79, 83, 103, 105, 109, Sophocles, 29 169 Spain (the Spanish ambassador), 61, 127, 604. Sibdall, Henry, 455, 484 See also Gondomar, Count Sibthorpe, Edward (playhouse investor), 269–71, Spanish Armada, 78 547, 552, 554–9 Sparkes, Thomas (merchant tailor), 640 Sidney, Sir Philip, 11 Spartans, 179n Sidonius, Antipater, 446 Speed, Nathaniel, 657–64 Silver, George (fencer), 302–3; Paradoxes of Spencer, Gabriel (player), 102, 176, 200, 211–16, Defence, 302–3 438, 442–6; his death, 281–2 Silver, Thomas (carpenter), 655 Spencer, Richard, 22–3 Silver, Toby (fencer), 302–3 Spiller, Sir Henry, 524 Sinckler, John (player), 191 Spyke, Mr (schoolmaster), 265 Singer, John (player), 176, 200, 246, 300 St. See Parishes Sir John Mandeville, 431 St Mary of the Arches. See Court of the Arches Sisson, C.J., Lost Plays, 314, 582; ‘Keep the St Paul’s Cathedral, 304, 306, 312, 313, 525, Widow Waking’, 582; ‘The Red Bull 529, 604; almonry, 306, 313; choir school, Company’, 579 306, 308; cloisters, 306, 389; grammar Skelton, John, 2 school, 306 Skevington, Richard, 100–1 St Paul’s, Dean of, 309–10

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St Rumwald. See Boxley Abbey (Kent) Stow, John (writer), 208; Annales, 329, 605, St Thomas à Waterings (London), 93, 311&n, 627n, 628n, 641–2 329&n Strafford, Earl of (Thomas Wentworth, first Stafford, Lord, 73, 140 earl), 525, 528; Strafforde’s Letters and Stage characters: Adam, 542–3; Alice Pierce, Dispatches, 522, 527 237; Apuleius, 630; Argus, 237; Bacon, Friar, Strange, Lord (Ferdinando Stanley), 84, 92–94, 589; Beatrice, 503n; Belin Dun, 237; Benedick, 328; his company of players, see Playing 503n; Bird, 656; Bolt, 668; Boy, 569; Branholt, Companies. See also Derby, fifth Earl of 236; Candlemas, 630; Cerberus, 237; Citizen, Strangwick, Sir John, 528 569; Cupid, 237; Dauphin, 237; Delphrigus, Strasbourg, 50 170; Dido, 237, 238; Doctor Almanack, 630; Stratford, William (player), 221, 544, 641 Domitia, 185; Eve, 237; Flowerdew, 656; Friar Strayles, Anthony (servant), 466–71&n Tuck, 20; Gentlemen, 644; Guido, 237; Streatham, 13, 72–3 Hamlet, 182, 495n; Hercules, 236; Hieronimo, Street, Peter (carpenter), 332, 376–8, 379, 382, 173, 182; Juno, 237; King Henry V, 236, 238; 493–4, 531–2, 534–7, 537, 541 Lady Frampul, 241; Landlord, 668; Lear, 182; Strong, S.A., A Catalogue of Letters, 487 Longshanks, 236; Mahomet, 237; Maid Strype, John, 42–43 Marian, 20, 93; Malvolio, 503n; Mercury, 237; Stuart, Henry, Prince of Scotland, 123 Merlin, 236; Midas, 630; Moor, 237; Neptune, Stuart, Ludovic. See Lennox, Earl of 236, 237; Othello, 182; Pantaloon, 171; Paris, Stubbes, Philip (writer), The Anatomy of Abuses, 185; Don Pedro (King of Spain), 129; Phaeton, 166, 341n, 408 237; Philomusus, 173; Pierrot, 238; Prudence, Sturgis, Mr, 563n 241; Ralph, 569; Robin Hood, 20, 236, 237; Styll, Dr (of Cambridge), 250 Rosencrantz, 495n, 502; Sardanapalus, 191; Suckling, Sir John (poet), 447, 527, 636 Scrivener, 602; Shrovetuesday, 630; Sophy of Suffolk (county), 24, 28, 30, 61, 82 Persia, 569; Spruce, 668; Studioso, 173; Suffolk, Duke of, 22, 73 Tamburlaine, 237, 238; Tantalus, 237; Tasso, Suffolk, Earl of (Thomas Howard, first earl), 237; Thrift, 668; Sir Alexander Wengrave, 486 542–3; Whore, 171; Will Summers, 236; Zany, Suffolk, High Sheriff of, 110 171 Sumpner, John (player), 657–64 Stage players. See Players; see individual names Sumpter, Simon (of Norwich), 250 Stanhope, Dr Edward (master in Chancery), Sundays, 30–32, 42, 46, 49, 54, 57–9, 60, 73, 365 75, 76, 79, 83, 84, 85–91, 107, 111, 112–13, Stanhope, Sir John (treasurer of the chamber), 117–18, 120, 122, 131, 136, 142 493 Suppression of plays and playhouses, 132–5 Star Chamber, Court of, 44–5, 187, 267, 314, Surrey, 76, 78, 79, 81, 83–4, 88–9, 106, 111, 121, 376&n, 386n, 387, 454, 464, 466, 471–2, 123, 132, 133, 311n, 320, 322, 323, 326–7, 510–11, 512, 527&n, 528, 582–3 329, 390, 397, 424, 451, 495, 497, 498, 504, Stationers, 35–36, 40, 52, 129, 192 523, 534, 598, 602; Justices of, 326–7, 414, Statute for the punishment of vagabonds (1572), 426, 440, 446–7; Sheriffs of, 588, 605 161 Sussex, Earl of, 251 Statutes of the Realm, 9, 30, 41, 43, 50, 52, 53, Sutton, one, 402 63, 103, 110, 131, 135, 139, 140. See also Acts Swanston, Elliard or Eyllaerdt (player), 6, 221–8, of Parliament; Ordinances 525–6, 621, 645 Stavely, William (lawyer), 482 Sweden, 135 Stavorton, Mr (lawyer), 482, 484 Sweete, Robert, 569 Stevens, John (writer), 179 Swinnerton, Sir John (lord mayor), 562 Steward, Walter, 527n Swinnerton, Thomas (player), 143–4, 253–4, Stockwood, John (clergyman), A Sermon 570–2, 592 Preached at Paules Crosse, 298, 339 ‘Swobber’ (a jig), 589n Stone, Philip, 570–5, 577–8, 579n, 592–4 Sydenham, Sir Edward, 597 Stoughton, Robert (butcher), 333 Sydney, Sir Robert, 313 Stourbridge Fair, 589 Sylvester, William (carpenter), 290–1

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Symonds, Thomasin, 423 Towne, Thomas (player), 542n Synger, John (player), 176, 200, 246, 300 Townsend, John (player), 147, 256–8 Towse, William (lawyer), 484 Talpin, Jean (writer), 159 Toyer, William (musician or stage attendant), Tarbuck, John, 561&n 258–9 Tarlton, Richard (player), 172, 176, 200, Tragedies, 25–9, 37, 71, 74, 75, 76, 95, 114, 118, 246–50, 296, 300, 301–2, 345; his picture, 123 209 Trained bands (of London), 290, 645 Tatham, John (writer), Fancies Theater, 587; Transcript of the Registers of the Company of (?) Knavery in all Trades, 644 Stationers, 302 Taylor, John (the water poet), 435&n, 449, 596, Treasurer of the Chamber, 262, 317 601; All the Workes, 436, 449; Bull, Beare, and Treatise Wherein Dicing, Dancing, Vain Plays [etc] Horse, 597n; A Cast Over the Water, 601; are Reproved (Northbrooke), 160 Taylor’s Revenge, 601–2; Taylors Water-work, Trevell, Susan, 549, 560 613; The True Cause of the Watermen’s Suit, Trevell, William (chandler, playhouse investor), 436, 449 269–71, 547–50&n, 551–2&n, 554–9, Taylor, Joseph (player), 185, 210, 219, 222–3, 559–60 503, 526, 645 Trewe, Andrew, 65 Taylor, Roger (latten founder), 233 Trig, William (player), 259 Tedcastle, William, 569 Trinity Hall, Worcester, 143 Terence, 297n Trussell, Alvery (imprest boy player), 265 Tey, Paul (legal official), 641 Tucker, Leonard, 172 Thalia (muse of comic poetry), 412 Tuckfield, Thomas (musician or stage Theatrum Redivivum (Baker), 189 attendant), 258–9 Thebes in Greece, 168 Tunstall, James (player), 235–6, 245, 251, 362 Thomas, David, 7, 149 Turner, John (fencer), 448 Thompson, John (boy player), 225 Turner, Olga. See Edward M. Wilson Thompson, Richard (silk weaver), 320, 322 Turner, Richard (arbitrator), 338–9, 357, 373 Thomson, William, 353–4 Turnor, Anthony (player), 657–64 Thorndon (Suffolk), 28 Twyne, Thomas (writer), Physic for Fortune, Thorpe, Sir Simond, 73 341n; Physic against Fortune, 408 Thurles, Lord (James Butler), 527 Tyndale, William, 24 Thurston, Nicholas (of Norwich), 249 Tilney, Agnes, 73 Udall, Nicholas (playwright), 41 Tilney, Edmund (Master of the Revels), 5, 13, Underhill, Nicholas (musician or stage 70–3, 78–9, 82–3, 75, 98, 103, 108, 110–11, attendant), 258–9 148–9, 208, 244–5 Underwood, John (player), 226, 405, 503 Tilney, Frederick, 73 Upstart crow, 171 Tilney, Hugh, 73 Ussher, James (archbishop of Armagh), 646 Tilney, Sir Philip, 73 Utrecht, University of, 437, 441 Tilte, Oliver, 344 Tindall, Nathaniel (matricide), 582 Vagrants (Pedlars, tinkers and wanderers), 48, Tobacco, 180 53, 62, 81, 115, 133, 144 Tomkis, Thomas (writer), 570 Van Buchell, Arend, 437, 441 Tomlins, Thomas E., ‘Origin of the Curtain Van Dyke, Sir Anthony, 528 Theatre’, 406nn, 407 Vanity and Uncertainty of Arts and Sciences, The Tooke, John, 282 (Agrippa), 159 Tooley, Nicholas (player), 198 Vaughan, James (financier), 485 Topcliffe, Richard, 101–2 Vaughan, Susan. See Woodliffe, Susan Torrismount, 555 Vaulters in playhouses, 616 Touching the Good Ordering of a Commonweal Vaux, Lord, his company of players. See Playing (Ferrarius), 158 Companies Towne, John (player), 300 Venice, 564; Teatro San Cassiano, 130

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Vennar, Richard (writer), 438, 447&n; An Weekly Account, The, 641 Apology, 447n; England’s Joy, 447; The Plot of Weekly Intelligencer, The, 587 the Play Called England’s Joy, 447n Weeks, Richard, 500 Vernon, George (musician or stage attendant), Wendey, Doctor, 27 258–9 Wentworth, Lord (Thomas Wentworth, second View of the Cittye of London from the North lord), 336; see also Strafford, Earl of towards the Sowth, The, 406 West Molesey (Surrey), 607 Vigerous, Robert, 369–70 Westcott, Sebastian (musician), 306, 308–9 Vox Graculi, 416–17, 641 Weston, Doctor, 31 Vulcan, 500 Westwood, Jonas, 627 Wharton, Mr (Duke of Norfolk’s Comptroller), W., T. (clergyman), A Sermon Preached at Pawles 22 Crosse, 337 Whaston, Thomas, 324, 326 Wade, William (clerk of the privy council), 403 Wheatley, H.B., London Past and Present, 311n Waintworth, John, 569n Wheeler, Henry, 674 Wakefield (Yorkshire), 41, 64, 69 Wheeler, John, 313 Wales, President of, 140 Whitaker, Lawrence, 524 Wales, Prince of, 33, 127, 147 White, Margaret, 175 Walford, John, 487, 491 White, Rowland, 313 Walker, Thomas (petticoat maker), 605 Whitgift, John (Archbishop of Canterbury), Wallace, Charles W., 401, 495n, 509n; Advance 95–96; see also Canterbury, Archbishop of Sheets, 495, 515; ‘Children of the Chapel’, Whithorne, Timothy, 199, 201 309, 511; Evolution of the English Drama, Whitsun, 1, 18, 65–8, 69, 110 390&n, 393, 394, 395, 396, 400, 401, 403 Whreste, Henry (carpenter), 291 504; First London Theatre, 298, 300, 300, Wickham, Glynne, ‘“Heavens”, Machinery, and 301, 302, 332, 333, 336, 337, 338, 339n, 340, Pillars in Early Playhouses’, 423n 342, 343, 344, 345n, 346, 348, 349, 350&n, Wigan (Lancashire), 111, 139 351, 352, 355&n, 356n, 357, 358, 363, 364, Wigan, Master Doctor, 27 365, 366, 367&n, 372, 375, 376&n, 378, 383, Wigpitt, Thomas (bricklayer), 638–9, 640, 641n 384, 385, 386&nn; ‘New Light on Wikland, Erik, 172 Shakespeare’, 496; ‘Shakespeare and his Wilbraham, William (player), 636, 657–64 London Associates’, 318, 495n, 509, 515, 517, Wildigge, William, 138–9 612&n; ‘Shakespeare and the Globe’, 434; Wile, John, 138–9 ‘Shakespeare in London’, 495n; Wilkins, George. See Rowley, William ‘Shakespeare’s Money Interest’, 495n; ‘The Wilkins, Thomas, 408 Swan Theatre and the Earl of Pembroke’s Wilkinson, John (plasterer), 230, 233 Servants’, 441; ‘Three London Theatres’, Wilkinson, Richard, 407 567n, 593, 594&n, 627, 628n, 630 Wilkinson, Robert, Londina Illustrata, 647n Walmesley, Thomas (judge), 484 Wilkinson, Thomas, 408 Walshe, Alexander (fruiterer), 439, 448 William of Malmsbury, 187 Walsingham, Sir Francis (secretary of state), Williams, Elizabeth (née Carleton), 613 86–7, 90, 164, 172, 208, 229–33, 400–1 Williams, R.F., Court and Times of Charles I, 653 Walter, Mr (lawyer), 375, 383–4 Williams, Thomas (feltmaker), 569 Wambus, Francis (player), 146–9, 255–8 Willis, R (writer), 243 Wanamaker, Sam, 494 Willoughby, Lord (Peregrine Bertie, ninth lord), Warrington (Lancashire), 138–9 538 Warwick, Earl of (Ambrose Dudley, first Earl), Willys, Edward (servant), 461n, 468, 471, 92, 299–300; his company of players, see 473–4, 475n, 490, 491 Playing Companies Wilson, Dr, 31 Watermen (of London), 327–8, 449 Wilson, Dr Thomas (a master of Requests), 309 Waucklen, John, 36 Wilson, Edward M., (with Olga Turner) ‘The Webster, John (playwright), 125, 181, 307, Spanish Protest Against A Game at Chesse’, 582–3 615–16

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Wilson, F.P., ‘Marston, Lodge, and Constable’, 470–2, 474, 476, 476–7&n, 477–8, 478–9&n, 515n 480, 482–3, 483–4&n, 484&n, 484–5, 487, Wilson, George, 657 488, 489, 490, 491, 492 Wilson, Henry (musician or stage attendant), Woodliffe, Susan, 454, 456&n, 457–8, 459, 462, 258–9 463, 464–6, 468–70, 472, 478, 485 Wilson, Robert (playwright, player), 176, 204, Woodward, Elizabeth, 277 206, 208, 300, 446; Three Ladies of London, Woodward, Joan. See Alleyn, Joan 329 Woolfe, Nicholas, 119 Winchester, Bishop of, 600; Stephen Gardiner, Worcester (City of), 143; Guildhall, 143 25–26, 27–29, 34, 57, 69, 157–8 Worcester College, Oxford, 623 Winchester, Marquis of, 73 Worcester, Earl of (Edward Somerset, fourth Windsor Castle, choristers in the chapel of, earl), 109, 120, 123, 481; his company of 388 players, see Playing Companies Wintersall, Williams, 654 Worcestershire, 136–7 Wit and Drollery, 597n Wormleighton, Ralph (lawyer), 576, 593, 594n Witchcraft, 619–20&n Worth, Ellis (player), 185, 584, 628, 630–1, Withens, Robert (vintner), 419 644–5 Wither, George (writer), Abuses Stript and Whipt, Wotton, John, 337 415&n, 570; Epigrams, 415&n Wotton, Sir Henry, 499; Letters, 499, 562 Withers, Henry, 451 ?Wright, James, Historia Histrionica, 567&n, 641, Witt, Johannes de (Dutch tourist), 11, 304, 332, 655n 410, 437–8, 441, 615 Wrothe, Robert, 100 Witter, John, 199, 200–3, 611–12 Wurmsser, Hans Jacob, 498n Wolf, John, 106 Wynsdon, Mr (of Norwich), 247–50 Wolleston, Thomas, 453, 473–4, 475, 476n Wolley, Sir John, 403 York, Archbishop of. See Grindal, Edmund Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 18, 499 York, City of, 21, 44, 61, 64, 142, 309 Women on stage in playhouses, 343, 584, 632 York, James, Duke of, 6 Wood, Thomas, 405 Young, Mary, 654 Woodball, Robert (of Maidstone), 254 Young, Mr, 93–4 Woodford, Thomas (financier), 307, 308n, 313, Young, Richard (justice of Middlesex), 302 315&n, 316, 317, 547–9, 550, 553, 557, Young, William, History of Dulwich College, 434, 559–60, 561, 562, 564–6, 567nn, 570–9&nn, 546, 639n 592–4&n Younge, John (player), 657–64 Woodliffe, Oliver (haberdasher, playhouse speculator), 105, 106, 452–5, 456&n, 456–8, Zeale (character). See Farley, Henry 459–61, 461–3&n, 463–4&n, 464–7&nn, Zuccaro, Federigo (Italian artist), 207