APPENDIX B
COURT PAYMENTS
The body of this appendix contains extracts from the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber and the Office of Revels, in which expenditure on plays or masks at court is recorded. But in view of the importance of these documents as sources for the history of court entertainment, it will be well to add something about their general nature and state of preservation to what has already been said about the procedure of the Treasurer of the Chamber in ch. ii and that of the Revels Office in ch. iii.
THE AUDIT OF HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS
Most, but not all, of the accounts preserved are records of audit. There is, unfortunately, no systematic history of the Audit Office; but the somewhat scrappy notices in F. S. Thomas, The Ancient Exchequer of England (1848), and H. Hall, Studies in English Official Historical Documents (1908), and A Formula Book of English Official Historical Documents, Part II (1909), may be supplemented for the Tudor period by the valuable study of M. D. George, The Origin of the Declared Account (1916, E. H. R. xxxi. 41). The Record Office series of Lists and Indexes includes lists of Declared Accounts (ii) and Exchequer Accounts (xxxv). Normally the auditing of royal expenditure was a function of the mediaeval Exchequer. The procedure was for the officer charged with incurring expenditure to appear as accountant before the Auditor-Baron and his Clerk, and produce detailed statements, known as ‘particulars’, together with vouchers for sums already spent out of any ‘imprest’ or advance that had been made to him, and the warrants under which his expenditure was authorized. From these the Exchequer officers prepared a ‘compotus’ or balance sheet, signed it, when the balance was settled, as a record that the accountant was ‘quietus’ or quit from debt to the Crown, and passed it through the King’s Remembrancer to the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, in whose office it was enrolled by the Clerk of the Pipe on the roll of ‘foreign’ or non-revenue accounts. It was then returned to the King’s Remembrancer, who kept it, with the particulars and vouchers as subsidiary documents. It was a lengthy and cumbrous process. Moreover, the Lord Treasurer, like the Lord Chancellor, was one of the high officers of state whose functions came at an early date under the control of the barons, and the same motives, which led the sovereign (cf. ch. ii) to develop in the Wardrobe and Chamber an executive machinery independent of the Lord Chancellor, also led him to desire that his more private expenditure should be withdrawn from the survey of the Exchequer. Thus we find the Treasurer of the Chamber accountable (cf. ch. ii) at the end of the fifteenth century to the King alone, and in the mid-sixteenth century to the Court of Surveyors or to ad hoc auditors specially appointed by the King or the Privy Council. When the Court of Augmentations absorbed the Court of Surveyors in 1553, its establishment included two Auditors of Prests, and although this court was itself merged in the Exchequer under Mary, the more up-to-date methods of auditing were continued by Elizabeth’s appointment in 1560, as themselves Exchequer officers, of two ‘Auditores de lez Prestes et Compotorum forinsecorum nostrorum’. The main difference between the methods of the Auditors of the Prests and that of the Auditor-Baron appears to have been that the personal appearance of the accountant was no longer necessary, who now himself prepared in duplicate a balance sheet known as his Original Account, or Book of Account, of which one copy was signed after examination and returned to him as evidence of his quittance, while the other was kept by the Auditors, who based upon it a summary known as the Declared or Recorded Account, which took the place of the old Compotus. This also was in duplicate. Apparently the Auditors kept one copy, on paper, and sent another, on parchment, for preservation, as of record, in the Pipe Office. I understand Miss George, however, to think that the accountant was entitled to the paper copy, if he chose to pay a fee for it, which he very often did not. The amount of detail taken into the Declared Account from the Original Account varied for different offices. The Revels Declared Accounts are very summary; those of the Treasurer of the Chamber, at any rate as regards play-payments, practically duplicates of the Original Accounts, except that, unfortunately, the names of plays, which sometimes appeared in the Original Accounts, are usually omitted. The Auditors also kept the subsidiary documents submitted with the Original Account, and became involved in a controversy, recorded in T. Fanshawe, The Practice of the Exchequer Court (1658), with the King’s Remembrancer, who claimed that they should come to him. The King’s Remembrancer did apparently see the Declared Account on its way to the Pipe Office, and enrolled it, or a further summary of it. About 1603 all the Household accounts appear to have gone before the Auditors of the Prests, except those of the Cofferer, which still followed the old course of the Exchequer. The procedures here described explain the provenance of such Household accounts as belong to the official repositories now united in the Record Office; some others, preserved there or elsewhere, come from the private archives of the accountants themselves, being either the audit duplicates supplied to them, or office copies and drafts of their own Original Accounts, or the journals, pay books, and ledgers from which these were prepared.
CHAMBER ACCOUNTS
The following accounts appear to be extant.
(a) Mediaeval Period.
A few accounts and subsidiary documents of the reigns of Edward II, Edward III, and Richard II are included in the Foreign Accounts on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer (P. R. O. Lists and Indexes, xi. 108, 109), and in the Exchequer Wardrobe and Household Accounts (L. and I. xxxv. 376, 379, 380, 382, 386, 391, 392, 396, 540). The earliest are described, with extracts, by J. C. Davies, The First Journal of Edward II’s Chamber (E. H. R. xxx. 662).
(b) Early Tudor Period.
A number of accounts passed from the Augmentation Office to the Exchequer and were amalgamated in 1839 with others from the office of the King’s Remembrancer in a series of Exchequer Accounts, Various. Here they are numbered 413 to 427. They are mainly accounts of revenue and subsidiary documents, but a few accounts of payments presented to the Record Office by the Trevelyan family have been added to the series, and with them are listed as Wardrobe and Household Accounts (L. and I. xxxv) some other payment accounts from the Miscellaneous Books of the Treasury of Receipt of the Exchequer, and one from the Miscellaneous Books of the Court of Augmentations. Other payment accounts are in the British Museum and in unofficial collections. It may be the case, as Newton, 359, suggests, that these or some of them were abstracted from the Records by officials of antiquarian tastes, but it must be remembered that duplicates even of audited accounts were often kept by the accountants. These accounts are generally known as The King’s Books of Payments. The following can be traced:
i. Accounts of John Heron.
Three Books of Payments, for 1505–9, 1509–18, and 1518–21 respectively, with many royal signatures by way of audit, are now in the P. R. O. (Misc. Books of Treasury of Receipt, 214, 215, 216). The contents of the Henry VIII books are abstracted in Brewer, ii. 1441; iii. 1533. There must once have been an earlier book, for Collier, i. 49, 52, 76, gives extracts from one for 1492–1505, which he describes as ‘formerly in the Chapter-house, Westminster’, as well as from the three now extant, which he describes as ‘in the Chapter-house’. Possibly this was Addl. MS. 21480, which has been traced back (Newton, 359) through the hands of Craven Ord (a friend of Collier) and Thomas Astle to those of Peter Le Neve, a Deputy-Chamberlain of the Exchequer. But Addl. MS. 21481, which also came from Le Neve, is a duplicate of the R. O. books for 1505–18, and therefore Addl. MS. 21480 may only have been a duplicate of the missing volume. Both the Addl. MSS. contain the royal signatures. Craven Ord made some extracts which are now Addl. MSS. 7099, 7100, and to these those supplied by Astle to R. Henry, History of Great Britain, vi (1793), app., and those in S. Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1831), 85, owe their origin. Collier, i. 49, also cites a small book for 1501–2 kept (perhaps under Heron) by one Robert Fowler, which refers to parallel payments made by Thomas Trollop.
ii. Accounts of Brian Tuke.
A book signed monthly by Henry VIII, with some entries from 31 Dec. 1528 to 30 June 1529, but mainly covering the period from 17 Nov. 1529 to 29 Dec. 1532, was printed by N. H. Nicolas from a MS. then in his possession as The Privy Purse Expenses of Henry the Eighth (1827) and misdescribed as an account of the Treasurer of the Household. Presumably this MS. is identical with that owned by Sir O. Bridgeman in 1634 and now Addl. MS. 20030. It overlaps with an account for 1 Oct. 1528 to May 1531, presented by Sir W. C. Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (Exchequer Accounts, Various, 420/11); extracts are given in Trevelyan Papers (C. S.), i. 136, and an abstract in Brewer, v. 303. Collier, i. 116, and Nicolas (ut supra), xxviii, give extracts from an account for Feb. 1538 to June 1541 in the possession of the Royal Society, presumably a duplicate of the account for the same period in Arundel MS. 97, incorrectly catalogued by the B.M. as an account of the Treasurer of the Household, and abstracted in Brewer, xiii. 2. 524; xiv. 2. 303; xvi. 178, 698. An account for May to Sept. 1542 in Stowe MS. 554 is abstracted in Brewer, xvii. 474. Collier, i. 117, gives extracts from an account for 1543–4 in Craven Ord’s collection.
iii. Accounts of William Cavendish.
Account for 31 March 1547 to 31 Sept. 1549, of which extracts are given in Trevelyan Papers, i. 191, ii. 13, were presented by Sir W. C. Trevelyan to the P. R. O. (Exchequer Accounts, Various, 426/5, 6). Misc. Exch. Augm. 439 for 1547–8 is referred to by Newton, 359, as a Chamber account, and is presumably a duplicate.
iv. Account of Edmund Felton.
A Declared Account for 1 Apr. to 31 Dec. 1557 is in D. A. Pipe Office, 541. Stopes, Hunnis, 145, cites a ‘Compotus Marie Rither and Edmond Felton’ for 5 and 6 Edw. VI (Queen’s Remembrancia, 77/5) as a Chamber Account. It is doubtless a Cofferer’s Account.
(c) Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods.
i. Accounts in P. R. O.
The P. R. O. contains Chamber Accounts in four forms. Original Accounts, as submitted for audit, are in Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3/127–9. These are no doubt the ‘very incomplete’ set from which extracts are given by Cunningham, xxvii. So far as play-payments are concerned, they do not appear to be more detailed than the Declared Accounts annually drawn up from them by the auditors, of which there are duplicate sets, both nearly complete, belonging respectively to the Audit Office and to the Pipe Office in the Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer’s Department of the Exchequer. They cover the terms of office of Mason (1558–66), Knollys (1566–70), Heneage (1570–95), Killigrew (1595–6), and Stanhope (1596–1617). From the Pipe Office series I supplemented Cunningham’s extracts in M. L. R. ii (1906), 1; iv (1909), 153, and give a complete record of play-payments below. The payments are also given for 1558–85 from the Audit Office series in Wallace, i (1912), 210, and very imperfectly from the Pipe Office series for 1559–97 in Stopes, Hunnis, 318. Finally, there are Enrolled Accounts in the King’s Remembrancer’s Department (Scargill-Bird1, liv). A single book for 1569–70 is in the same Department (Exchequer Accounts, Various, 430/15). It appears to be an office book, and has some original signatures by way of receipts for payments.
ii. Accounts in British Museum.
Harl. 1641 and 1642 are duplicates of Heneage’s accounts for 1585–6 and 1593–4 as prepared for audit. Harl. 1644 is an office book, 1581–3, containing signatures by way of receipts for wages and the like.
iii. Accounts in Bodleian.
Rawlinson MS. A. 204, ff. 212, 269, contains duplicates of Stanhope’s accounts for 1604–5 and 1610–11 as prepared for audit, and Rawlinson MSS. A. 239 and 240 (formerly Pepys MSS. 78 and 79) are similar duplicates of his accounts for 1612–13 and 1616–17. They are possibly office drafts, with some notes by a checking officer or an auditor, but are not signed either by accountant or auditors. Occasionally they are slightly more detailed as regards play entries than the Declared Accounts. Thus in 1610–11 and 1612–13 they give some dates of performances instead of the mere number for the season, and in 1612–13 they even give the titles of the plays. Extracts of these titles are given in Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 87, and N. S. S. Trans. (1875–6) 419, and more completely below. Similar entries are given by P. Cunningham in Sh. Soc. Papers, ii. 123, not direct from the manuscript, but from notes taken therefrom by Vertue and Oldys. These had passed, in the case of the Oldys notes through Percy, to Steevens, and from him to Hazlewood, who had copied them, as Oldys and Steevens had done, into an interleaved Langbaine. Malone had already used Vertue’s notes.
I should add that many ‘declarations’ or memoranda on the business of the Treasurer of the Chamber and the state of his finances from time to time are to be found in the Domestic State Papers, in Lansdowne and other B.M. MSS., and in a volume (Lord Steward’s Misc. 301) collected by Sir J. Caesar.
REVELS ACCOUNTS
The following accounts appear to be extant:
(a) Early Tudor Period.
(i) Accounts of Richard Gibson.
Brewer, ii. 1490; iii. 35, 1548; iv. 418, 837, 1390, 1392, 1415, 1603, 3073, gives abstracts of a series of accounts, ranging from 1510 to 1530, some or all of which are presumably taken from Miscellaneous Books of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer, 217, 228, 229.
(ii) Accounts of John Bridges.
It appears from extracts given by Kempe, 69, that some accounts of John Bridges between 1539, when he became Yeoman of the Revels, and 1544, when Cawarden became Master, are at Loseley.
(iii) Accounts of Sir Thomas Cawarden.
Many of these are at Loseley, often in more than one copy. Kempe, 69, gives a few extracts for the last years of Henry VIII, and the most important documents for the next three reigns, ranging from 1547 to 1559; are printed by A. Feuillerat in Materialien, xxi and xliv, with accompanying warrants and other subsidiary documents. From 1547 to 1550 the accounts are mainly office copies of ‘particular’ books, setting out the details and cost of each individual revel, airing, or the like; but for 1550–55, and again for 1555–9, the ‘particular paye bookes’ are brought together with summaries in two great ‘Certificates’ (Loseley MSS. 62 and 63), which relate to the Tents as well as the Revels. The second of these includes, as well as money accounts, inventories of the office stuff and notes of its employment in masking and other garments during 1555–60, and a similar record for 1550–5 is in Loseley MS. 112. These Certificates, although signed by the Clerk, Clerk Controller, and Yeoman, are not audited. Probably they are office copies of Original Accounts prepared for audit.
(b) Elizabethan Period.
Eleven Original Accounts of the Masters or Acting Masters of the Revels, with annotations by the Auditors, are in R. O. Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907 (formerly 1213). They relate to the periods: (i) Feb. 1571–May 1572; (ii) June 1572–Oct. 1573; (iii) Nov. 1573–Feb. 1574; (iv) March 1574–Feb. 1575; (v) March 1576–Feb. 1577; (vi) Feb. 1578–Oct. 1579; (vii) Nov. 1579–Oct. 1580; (viii) Nov. 1580–Oct. 1581; (ix) Nov. 1582–Oct. 1583; (x) Nov. 1584–Oct. 1585; (xi) Nov. 1587–Oct. 1588. It will be seen that a regular annual system, starting with the opening of the season for revels at All Saints in each year, was ultimately adopted. All these accounts were printed in P. Cunningham, Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court (1842, Sh. Soc.), but (ii) imperfectly and (xi) from an unaudited duplicate in the same bundle. These vagaries are corrected in the text of Feuillerat (1908, Materialien, xxi), who also gives an account for Nov. 1587–Oct. 1589 from Lansd. MS. 59, f. 38, which in part duplicates (xi), and much illustrative matter, including an estimate in some detail of the expenditure from Christmas 1563 to Shrovetide 1565 from S. P. Dom. Eliz. xxxvi. 22. The Audit Office series of Declared Accounts for the Revels is imperfect, but contains two, printed by Feuillerat, for the years 1581–2 and 1583–4, for which there are no Original Accounts. The Pipe Office series appears to be complete.
(c) Jacobean Period.
There are only two Original Accounts, for 1604–5 and 1611–12, which are printed by Cunningham. The Pipe Office Declared Accounts are complete. I have not examined those of the Audit Office. The Original Accounts for 1604–5 and 1611–12, and especially the former, have been the subject of a good deal of controversy. The facts are as follows. They were printed in 1842 by Peter Cunningham, then a clerk in the Audit Office, who described them as a separate discovery from the Elizabethan bundle, which he also printed. Twenty-six years afterwards, in 1868, he attempted to sell them to the British Museum, stating that he had found them some thirty years before ‘under the vaults of Somerset House—far under the Quadrangle in a dry and lofty cellar, known by the name of the “Charcoal Repository”’. Their official character was realized, and they were sent to the Record Office, and placed amongst the papers known as Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 908 (formerly 1214), with a note that Mr. E. A. Bond, Keeper of the Manuscripts in the British Museum, ‘saw reasons for doubting the genuineness of one, at least, of these papers, from the peculiar character of the writing and the spelling’. It is probable that Bond had in mind, wholly or mainly, the play-list of the 1604–5 book, which does use some spellings, such as ‘Shaxberd’ and ‘aleven’, which are unusual although by no means unparalleled, and is, moreover, in a style of handwriting sufficiently different from the rest of the document to have at first sight a suspicious air. But it is an integral part of the book, occupying ff. 2, 2v of its three small folio sheets, with other matter both on ff. 1, 1v, and on ff. 5, 5v, which form the second half of its sheet, and therefore, if a forged insertion, it occupies a long blank conveniently left by the original scribe just where, according to Revels practice, such a list ought to come. Bond’s scepticism was shared by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, and although the grounds of it did not extend beyond the play-list in the 1604–5 account, the acceptance of this as a forgery naturally reflected some suspicion upon the corresponding list for 1611–12. The position, however, called for some reconsideration when, in A Note on Measure for Measure (1880) and subsequently in the fifth edition (1885) of his Outlines (ed. 9, ii. 163, 309), Halliwell-Phillipps called attention to evidence that Malone, at some date before his death in 1812, and therefore before Cunningham was born, was acquainted at least with the substance of the 1604–5 list. The Bodleian contains a number of Malone’s note-books, which are believed to have been purchased from Mr. Rodd, a London bookseller, in 1838, and contain material collected after the issue of Malone’s Shakespeare of 1790 with a view to a second edition ultimately produced by Boswell in 1821. With them were a bundle of loose scraps, which have since been mounted and bound as a supplementary volume. One of these scraps (Malone MS. 29, f. 69v) consists of a list of plays headed ‘1604 & 1605 Edd. Tylney’, which substantially agrees with the list in the Revels book, even to the unusual spelling ‘Shaxberd’, although it is clearly not a transcript of the Revels list, but merely an abstract of this, or a similar document, in an unknown hand other than Malone’s. One of the plays named in the Revels book, The Spanish Maze of Shrove Monday, is omitted. No use of the scrap had been made by Boswell, although he prints (Variorum, iii. 360) extracts made by Malone from the Elizabethan Revels books, together with a letter of 7 Nov. 1591 from Sir William Musgrave, of the Audit Office, inviting Malone to inspect them, and an official memorandum on the ‘State of the Books of Accounts and Records of the Master of the Revels, still remaining in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts in 1791’. It is, I think, inconceivable that, if the Jacobean as well as the Elizabethan books had then been discovered, no reference should have been made to them either by Musgrave or Malone, and the most probable explanation of the Bodleian scrap is that the Jacobean books turned up later, and that an abstract of the 1604–5 list was then prepared for the use of Malone. It is true that in that case the Jacobean books would naturally have been added to the ‘proper presses’ which Musgrave says that he had provided for the Elizabethan ones, whereas Cunningham found the two sets apart. But as Cunningham also says that he had redeemed the Elizabethan bundle from ‘a destructive oblivion’, it is possible that Musgrave’s successors had been neglectful. Moreover, although the 1604–5 list does not appear in the 1821 Variorum, it is difficult to see on what other grounds Malone can have stated of Othello (Variorum, ii. 404), ‘We know that it was acted in 1604’. Probably, indeed, he had seen the list, before he abandoned in a note of 1800 to Dryden’s Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy his earlier opinion that Othello was one of Shakespeare’s latest plays. Further, there is similar indirect evidence that he had also come across the 1611–12 list. In 1808 he privately printed and in 1809 published an Account of the ... Tempest, written ‘some years ago’. The chief object of this was to fix an inferior date by Shakespeare’s use of a pamphlet of 1610. The superior date he took for granted, saying (p. 31) ‘That it was performed before the middle of 1611, we have already seen’, and adding the foot-note ‘Under a former article’. There was no former article, but in the preface Malone describes the essay as making ‘a part of the Disquisition concerning the order of the plays in an enlarged form’, and no doubt the former article would have been included in the disquisition, had Malone ever completed his own work. Boswell, reprinting the essay in Variorum, xv. 414, altered the foot-note to refer to the essay on the Chronological Order of Shakespeare’s Plays in ‘vol. i’. This is in fact in vol. ii, but though Boswell here states (ii. 465) that there is evidence that the Tempest ‘was produced in 1611’, he does not give any evidence beyond the pamphlet of 1610. Probably he did not know everything that Malone knew. But how did Malone arrive at ‘the middle of 1611’, since the 1604–5 list does not take us beyond 1 Nov. 1611? I suppose he assumed that public production preceded performance at court. Later in the essay (Variorum, xv. 423) he says that the play ‘had a being and a name in the autumn of 1611’.
Since Halliwell-Phillipps’s discovery the prevalent view, suggested by him, has been that if the lists, or at any rate that of 1604–5, are forged, the forger had before him a genuine original. More recently, however, the matter has been fully investigated by Mr. Ernest Law, who stimulated the Record Office to a minute examination of the 1604–5 document, including chemical and microscopical tests of the ink conducted by Professor J. J. Dobbie at the Government Laboratories. As a result, Mr. Law’s own view that the list is genuine is confirmed by such high palaeographical authorities as Sir George Warner of the British Museum and Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, Mr. Scargill-Bird, and other officers of the Record Office, as well as by Professor Feuillerat, than whom no one knows the Revels documents better, and Professor Wallace. Mr. Law set out the evidence and the whole history of the case in Some Supposed Shakespeare Forgeries (1911). His view was controverted in a review and a number of subsequent communications in the Athenaeum for 1911 (i. 638; ii. 101, 131, 421) and 1912 (i. 469, 654; ii. 142) by a writer using the signature ‘Audi Alteram Partem’, whose rather amazing contentions Mr. Law disposed of in the same periodical (1911, ii. 297, 324, 388; 1912, i. 390, 470) and in More about Shakespeare Forgeries (1913). A recent controversy between Mrs. C. C. Stopes, Mr. Law, and Sir E. M. Thompson (T. L. S. 2, 23, 30 Dec. 1920; 27 Jan., 10, 24 Feb. 1921) has led to no different result.
I do not think that, in view of the palaeographical investigation, it is any longer possible to reject the genuineness of the 1604–5 list, and although that of 1611–12 has not been so minutely tested, it is pretty obviously of a piece with the ‘Book’ of which it forms a part, and had it stood alone, probably no suspicion would have fallen upon it. In fact, it would really be more plausible—although this also is not in the least plausible—to take the whole documents as forgeries, than to take the lists as forged insertions in genuine accounts.
It must be added that there are some singular things about the substance of the books, with which Mr. Law does not seem to me quite to grapple. On the whole, that of 1604–5 is rather less perplexing than that of 1611–12. But the scribe has been oddly confused about his dates. On f. 1v he has written ‘iijo’, instead of ‘ijo’ for the regnal year. And at the top of f. 2 he has apparently written ‘1605’ and then corrected it to ‘1604’. The Queen’s Revels are called by their obsolete name of ‘The Boyes of the Chapell’, which is odd in an official document, but so they are, much later, in the Treasurer of the Chamber’s account for 1612–13. It is more important that, while the Treasurer of the Chamber records payments for two plays to the Queen’s Revels, one on 1 Jan. and the other on 3 Jan., the Revels list omits the play on 3 Jan. altogether, and instead records a performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost by the King’s men ‘betwin Newers Day and Twelfe Day’. No complete explanation of this is possible. The most that can be said is that there is independent evidence of a performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost in Jan. 1605, but at a date after and not before Twelfth Night. This is derived from two letters. The first is from Sir Walter Cope to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, preserved at Hatfield (Hist. MSS. iii. 148) and printed by Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 83:
‘I have sent and bene all thys morning huntyng for players juglers and such kinde of creaturs, but fynde them harde to fynde; wherfore, leavinge notes for them to seeke me, Burbage ys come, and sayes ther ys no new playe that the Quene hath not seene, but they have revyved an olde one cawled Loves Labore lost, which for wytt and mirthe he sayes will please her excedingly. And thys ys apointed to be playd tomorowe night at my Lord of Sowthamptons, unless yow send a wrytt to remove the corpus cum causa to your howse in Strande. Burbage ys my messenger ready attendyng your pleasure.’
The letter is undated, but endorsed ‘1604’. Cecil’s title was Viscount Cranborne from 20 Aug. 1604 to 4 May 1605. A second letter, from Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain on 15 Jan. 1605 (S. P. D. Jac. I, xii. 13) gives within near limits the date of the performance. Carleton says,
‘It seems we shall have Christmas all the yeare and therefore I shall never be owt of matter. The last nights revels were kept at my Lord of Cranbornes, where the Q. with the D. of Holst and a great part of the Court were feasted, and the like two nights before at my Lord of Southamptons. The Temples have both of them done somewhat since Twelftide but nothing memorable, save that it was observed on Friday last at night the greatest part of the femal audience was the sisterhoode of Blackfriers.’
Mr. Law (More about S. F. 50) rightly rejects the suggestion of ‘Audi Alteram Partem’ that the ‘last night’ referred to was necessarily 14 Jan., the night before the date of Carleton’s letter; but I think he is wrong in taking it as the last night of Christmas. This, of course, was traditionally Twelfth Night, the day in 1605 of Jonson’s Mask of Blackness. But surely Carleton’s whole point lies in the exceptional prolongation of the Christmas festivities of this year beyond Twelfth Night, and I feel clear that all the revels he here refers to fell between 6 and 15 Jan. On 7 and 8 Jan. came Hen. V and E. M. O. Putting the facts together, we get a performance, either at Southampton’s house or Cranborne’s, between 8 and 15 Jan. of Love’s Labour’s Lost, which the Queen had not seen before. It is not therefore at all likely that there had been another performance of the same play at court between 1 and 6 Jan. It is true that the Queen might by some accident have missed such a performance. But that would not have prevented the Treasurer of the Chamber from paying for it, whereas he would not pay for a performance ordered as part of an entertainment given by Southampton or Cranborne. Nor would it have been the duty of the Revels Office to attend such a performance, which makes it rather mystifying that they should have confused it with the second Queen’s Revels performance at court some days earlier, which it would have been their duty to attend. The vagueness of the phrase ‘betwin Newers Day and Twelfe Day’, suggesting that the list was prepared retrospectively from memory, when the account was made up in the autumn of 1605, may perhaps help to explain an error. On the other hand, a forger, presumably knowing nothing of Cope’s letter, which first came to light in 1872, could hardly have guessed at a revival of Love’s Labour’s Lost in 1605.
The discrepancies between the Revels list of 1611–12 and the corresponding accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber are rather numerous. The Revels list records thirteen plays from 1 Nov. to 25 Feb. ‘before the Kinges Maiestie’, including two which, although, I suppose, ordered for the King, were in fact only given before the Queen and Prince. The Treasurer paid for only ten plays as before the King, and for many others before the younger members of the royal family only, with which the Revels would not normally be concerned. The two records agree as to 1 and 5 Nov., 26, 27, and 29 Dec., and 2, 23, and 25 Feb. On 28 Dec. the Treasurer notes a play by the Prince’s men which the Revels list does not. On 1 Jan. the Revels list notes a play by the King’s men, which the Treasurer does not. The play on 5 Jan. is assigned by the Treasurer to the King’s men, and by the Revels list to the Whitefriars. The plays on 12 and 13 Jan. appear from the Revels list to have been joint performances by the King’s and Queen’s men, but the Treasurer notes the play on 12 Jan. only, assigns that to the Duke of York’s men, and refers to Henry but not to the Queen as present. He also paid for one play by the King’s men before Henry, of which he does not give the date, and which may be that of 13 Jan. Both records note a play by the Duke of York’s men on 24 Feb., but while the Revels list does not indicate that James was absent, the Treasurer treats the performance as one before the royal children only. I do not know that all this is beyond the blundering of the clerks concerned, especially perhaps the Clerk of the Revels, at a time when the functions of the office in relation to court plays had become trivial. On the other hand, I am not clear that plays ordered by the Queen and paid for out of her privy purse, instead of by the Treasurer of the Chamber, may not sometimes have been produced under Revels Office auspices; if so, some of the discrepancies might be thus accounted for. But obviously the facts necessitate some caution in the use of the 1611–12 list.
ABSTRACT OF PAYMENTS
I now give in tabular form an abstract of all entries in the Chamber and Revels accounts, which enable us to establish the succession of court performances during 1558–1616. These are arranged under years running from Michaelmas to Michaelmas. Four columns are devoted to the Chamber Accounts. Col. 1 records the dates of the performances, as recorded in the Declared Accounts. Any correction or closer information as to date derivable from other sources is added in square brackets. For the Jacobean period I also show the personages before whom the performances were given, K. standing for James, Q. for Anne, H. for Henry, C. for Charles, E. for the Princess Elizabeth, and F. for the Elector Palatine. Col. 2 contains the verbatim descriptions in the accounts of the companies performing and their payees, and in a very few cases of the nature of the performances. A few miscellaneous entries are inserted in this column. Probably an exhaustive examination of the records of the subordinate royal households during 1603–16 might enable a few additions to be made. It is also possible that an occasional play, perhaps on a progress, may have been rewarded out of the Privy Purse. But the main series of performances provided for the regular winter ‘solace’ of the sovereign appears to be fairly complete. Col. 3 shows the amounts of the rewards. Col. 4 adds the dates of the warrants for payment as given in the Declared Accounts and in brackets the places where they were made out, W. for Westminster, H. for Hampton Court, G. for Greenwich, R. for Richmond, J. for St. James’s, Wi. for Windsor. I add references to the parallel extracts of Cunningham from the Original Chamber Accounts (C.), and to the notes of the signing of warrants in the Privy Council Register (D.) where these exist. A fifth column, for certain years, adds the relevant extracts from such Revels Accounts as survive. The references are to Feuillerat’s edition. Any discrepancies of importance between Chamber, Privy Council, and Revels records are dealt with in foot-notes. The variant dates of warrants in the ill-kept Privy Council Register are not important.
| Chamber Accounts. | Revels Accounts. | ||||
| Performance. | Payees. | Amount. | Warrant. | ||
| =1558–60= (Pipe Office, Declared Accounts, Roll 541, mm. 17, 22). | |||||
| — | ‘Quenes ... enterlude players for her hyghnes accustomed rewarde dewe vnto them at Newe yeres tyde.’ | £6 13s. 4d.[779] | F. 34 (1555–60). ‘ffurnisshinge a pley by the children of the Chapple.’ | ||
| — | ‘to players of enterludes.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | F. 79 (1558–9). ‘playes and other pastymes sett forthe and shewen in her Maiesties presence.’ | ||
| =1560–1= (D. A. 541, m. 28). | |||||
| Xmas. | ‘Lorde Robte Dudleyes players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 21 Jan. (W.); C. xxvii. | ||
| Xmas. | ‘Sebastiane Westcott Mr of the Children of Polles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 21 Jan. (W.); C. xxvii. | ||
| =1561–2= (D. A. 541, m. 37). | |||||
| Xmas. | ‘Lorde Robert Dudeleys playorrs.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 6 Jan. | ||
| Xmas. | ‘Sebestiane Westcote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 6 Jan. | ||
| — | ‘Sebastiane Westecote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 Mar. (W.); C. xxvii. | ||
| =1562–3= (D. A. 541, m. 47). | |||||
| Xmas. | ‘playores of the Lorde Robte Duddeley.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Jan. (W.); C. xxviii; D. vii. 134. | ||
| Xmas. | ‘M. of the children of Poles.’[780] | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Jan. (W.); C. xxviii; D. vii. 134. | ||
| =1563–4= (no entry in D. A.). | |||||
| F. 116. ‘Charges agaynst Cristmas and Candelmas ffor iij plays at Wyndsor.’[781] | |||||
| =1564–5= (D. A. 541, m. 67). | |||||
| Xmas (2 plays). | ‘therle of Warwickes players.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 18 Jan. (W.); C. xxviii; D. vii. 187. | ||
| Xmas. | ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d.[782] | 18 Jan. (W.); C. xxviii; D. vii. 187. | F. 117. ‘in Ienevery ffor cayrtene playes by the gramar skolle of Westmynster and the childerne of Powles.’ | |
| 2 Feb | ‘Sebastian Westcott Mr of the Children of Poles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 Mar. (W.); C. xxviii; D. vii. 204. | ||
| F. 116. ‘Cristmas ... ffor a maske and a showe and a play
by the childerne of the Chaple.’ [In margin] ‘Edwardes tragedy’. |
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| F. 117. ‘The xviijth of februerie ... for a play maid by Sir Percivall Hartts sones with a maske of huntars and diuers devisses and a rocke or hill ffor the ix musses to singe vppone with a vayne of sarsnett dravven vpp and downe before them.’ | |||||
| F. 117. ‘Shroftid [4–6 March] ... new and diuers showes
made by the gentillmen of Greys Ine.’ [In margin] ‘Gentillmenne of ye Innes of Court. Diana, Pallas.’ |
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| =1565–6= (D. A. 541, m. 76). | |||||
| Xmas (3 plays) | ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the Children of Powles ... for two seūall playes ... at the Courte ... and one other also before her Matie at the Ladye Cecilias Lodging at the Savoye.’ | £20 | 3 Jan. (W.). | ||
| =1566–7= (D. A. 541, m. 92). | |||||
| Xmas (2 plays) | ‘Sebastyan Westcote Mr of the children of Powles.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 11 Jan. (W.); D. vii. 322 (12 Jan.). | ||
| Shrovetide (9–11 Feb.). | ‘John Taylor Mr of the Children of Westmr.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 13 Feb. (W.); D. vii. 327. | ||
| Shrovetide (9–11 Feb.) [11 Feb.].[783] | ‘Richarde Farraunte Mr of the children of Windsore.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 16 Feb.; D. vii. 331 (W. 17 Feb.). | ||
| =1567–8= (D. A. 541, mm. 102–3). | |||||
| Xmas. | ‘John Tailer Mr of the Children at Westmr.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Jan. (W.). | F. 119. ’ theis playes Tragides and Maskes ... viz. ... seven
playes, the firste namede as playne as canne be, The
seconde the paynfull plillgrimage, The thirde Iacke and Iyll,
The forthe sixe fooles, The fiveth callede witte and will,
The sixte callede prodigallitie, The sevoenth of Orestes and
a Tragedie of the Kinge of Scottes, to ye whiche belonged
diuers howses, ... as Stratoes howse, Gobbyns howse, Orestioes
howse Rome, the Pallace of prosperitie Scotlande and a
gret Castell one thothere side.’[784] F. 123. ‘Revelles vppon Shrovesonday and Shroftuisday at nighte.’ |
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| Xmas (2 plays). | ‘The Lord Ryches Plaiers.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 11 Jan. (W.). | ||
| Xmas (2 plays). | ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 13 Jan. (W.). | ||
| Shrovetide (29 Feb.-2 Mar.). | ‘William Hunnys Mr of the Children of the Quenes Mates Chappell ... for ... a Tragedie’. | £6 13s. 4d. | 3 Mar. (W.). | ||
| Shrovetide. | ‘Richarde Ferrante Mr of the children of Windesore.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 1 Mar. (W.). | ||
| =1568–9= (D. A. 541, m. 113). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘the Lorde Riches players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 28 Dec. (H.); C. xxix. | ||
| 1 Jan. | ‘Sebastian Westecote mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 2 Jan.; C. xxix. | ||
| 22 Feb. | ‘Richard Ferraunte Scole mr of the Children of Windesore.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 25 Feb. (W.); C. xxix. | ||
| =1569–70= (D. A. 541, m. 115). | |||||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Richarde Ferrante Schole mr to the Children of Windesore.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 2 Jan. (Wi.); C. xxix. | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Willm Hun̄ys mr of the children of her mates Chappell.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Jan. (Wi.); C. xxix. | ||
| 5 Feb. | ‘the Lorde Riches playores.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Feb. (H.); C. xxix. | ||
| =1570–1= (D. A. 541, m. 127). | |||||
| 28 Dec. | ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 22 Feb. | ||
| Shrovetide (25–7 Feb.) (3 plays). | ‘Willm̄ Honnyes, Richarde Farraunte and Sebastian Westcote Mrs of the Children of the Q mates Chapple Royall Windsore and Powles.’ | £20 | 28 Feb. | ||
| =1571–2= (D. A. 541, m. 137). | |||||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Lawrence Dutton and his fellowes.’[785] | £6 13s. 4d. | 5 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 61 (12 Jan.). | F. 144. ‘Lady Barbara showen on Saint Iohns day at nighte by Sir Robert Lanes Men.’ | |
| 28 Dec. | ‘Sebastian Westcott Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 62 (12 Jan.). | ‘Effiginia A Tragedye showen on the Innosentes daie at nighte by the Children of Powles.’ | |
| 1 Jan. | ‘Richard Farrant gent Mr of the Children of Windsor.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 5 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 62 (12 Jan.). | ‘Aiax and vlisses showen on New Yeares daie at nighte by the Children of Wynsor.’ | |
| 6 Jan. | ‘Willm̄ Hunnys Mr of the childer of the Chappell.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | N.D.; D. viii. 62 (12 Jan., ‘John’ Hunnis). | ‘Narcisses showen on Twelfe daye at Nighte by the Children of the Chappell.’ | |
| 17 Feb. | ‘John Greaves and Thomas Goughe servauntes to Sr Robt. Lane Knighte.’[786] | £13 6s. 8d. | 26 Feb. (W.); D. viii. 71 (29 Feb.). | ‘Cloridon and Radiamanta showen on Shrove sundaye at Nighte by Sir Robert Lanes Men.’ | |
| 19 Feb. | ‘John Billingesley.’[787] | £13 6s. 8d. | 22 Feb. (W.); D. viii. 71 (29 Feb.). | ‘Paris and Vienna showen on Shrovetewsdaie at Nighte by the Children of Westminster.’ | |
| =1572–3= (D. A. 541, m. 150). | |||||
| Xmas (3 plays). | ‘Therle of Leic. players.’ | £30, ‘videlt. for eūye playe vjl xiijs iiijd and for a more rewarde by hir Mates owne comaundemt xl In all xxxl.’ | 1 Jan. (H.). | F. 174. Scattered entries refer to all these companies except
Sussex’s and to— ‘the play of Cariclia’, ‘Theagines’, ‘the picture of Andromadas’, ‘the monster’, ‘the playe of fortune’. |
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| 1 Jan. | ‘Richarde Farrante Mr of the children at Wyndesore.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 2 Jan. (H.). | ||
| — | ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the Children of Polles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Jan. (H.). | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Elderton and the Children of Eyton.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Jan. (H.). | ||
| — | ‘Therle of Sussex players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Feb. | ||
| — | ‘Laurence Dutton srunte to therle of Lincoln.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Feb. | ||
| 3 Feb. | ‘Mr Moncaster.’ | £20, ‘vjl xiijs iiijd and for a more rewarde by her Mates owne comaundemt xiijl vjs viijd.’ | 10 Feb. | ||
| =1573–4= (D. A. 541, mm. 165–6). | |||||
| Xmas (2 plays) [26, 28 Dec.] | ‘Therle of Leicestres players.’ | £20, ‘xiijl vjs viijd and by waye of speciall rewarde for theyre chardges cunyng[788] and skill shewed therein vjl xiijs iiijd.’ | 9 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 177 (8 Jan.). | F. 193. ‘Predor: & Lucia, played by Therle of Leicesters servauntes
vpon Saint stevens daye.’ ‘Mamillia, playde by therle of Leicesteres seruauntes on Innosentes daye.’ |
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| 27 Dec. | ‘Sebastian Westcote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 178. | ‘Alkmeon, played by the Children of Powles on Saint Iohns daye.’ | |
| 1 Jan. | ‘Willm̄ Elderton.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 10 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 178. | ‘Truth, ffaythfullnesse, & Mercye, playde by the Children of Westminster for Elderton vpon New yeares daye.’ | |
| 3 Jan. | ‘Laurence Dutton and the rest of his Fellowes sruntes to the L Clinton.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 11 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 178 (10 Jan.). | ‘Herpetulus the blew knighte & perobia playde by my Lorde Klintons servantes the third of Ianuary.’ | |
| 6 Jan. | ‘Richarde Ferant Scholemr.’ | £10, ‘vjl xiijs iiijd and in respecte of his chardges coming hyther lxvjs viijd.’ | 10 Jan. (W.); D. viii. 178. | ‘Quintus ffabius played by the Children of Wyndsor ffor Mr ffarrant on Twelfe daye.’ | |
| 2 Feb. 23 Feb. |
‘Richarde Moncaster.’ | £26 13s. 4d., ‘xiijl vjs viijd and further her Mates speciall rewarde for suche costes and chardges as he was at for the same xiijl vjs viijd.’ | 18 Mar. (G.); D. viii. 210. | F. 206. ‘ffor Candellmas ... Timoclia at the sege of Thebes
by Alexander showen ... by Mr Munkesters Children.’ F. 213. ‘Percius & Anthomiris playde by Munkesters Children on Shrovetewsdaye.’ |
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| 21 Feb.[789] | ‘Therle of Leic his plaiers.’ | £10, ‘vjl xiijs iiijd and forther by waye of her highnes rewarde for suche chardges as they had furniture of bene at for the the same lxvjs viijd.’ | 22 Feb. (H.); D. viii. 198. | ‘Philemon & Philecia play by the Erle of Lecesters men on
Shrove Mundaye.’ F. 227. ‘Italyan Players at Wynsor & Reding ... the xvth of July 1574.’ |
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| =1574–5= (D. A. 541, m. 178). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘Therle of Lecesters players.’ | £10. | 9 Jan.; C. xxx. | F. 239. 27 Dec. ‘gloves for my Lord of Lesters boyes yt plaied
at the coorte.’ F. 244. 25 Dec. ‘my Lord of Leicesters menns playe.’ |
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| 1 Jan. | ‘the Erle of Leic’ players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 Jan.; C. xxx. | F. 239. 1 Jan. ‘chymney sweepers in my Lord of Leycesters mennes playe & for mosse & styckes.’ | |
| 27 Dec. | ‘the lord Clynton players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 11 Jan.; C. xxx. | F. 244. 27 Dec. ‘the Duttons playe.’ | |
| 2 Jan. | ‘the lord Clinton players.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 11 Jan.; C. xxx. | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Richard Farrante mr of the children of the chapell of Wyndsor.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 23 Jan. (H.); C. xxx. | F. 244. ‘King Xerxces syster in ffarrantes playe, ... cariage ... for the playe ... on twelfe nighte.’ | |
| 2 Feb. | ‘Sebastian Westecote Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 16 Feb.; C. xxxi. | ||
| 13 Feb. | ‘William Hunys mr of the children of her mates Chappell.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 16 Feb. (R.); C. xxxi. | F. 244. 13 Feb. ‘Mr Hvnnyes his playe.’ | |
| 13 Feb. [15 Feb.?]. | ‘Richarde Moncaster.’ | £13 6s. 8d., ‘vjl. xiijs. iiijd and for a reward gyven by her heignes vjl. xiijs. iiijd’. | 17 Feb. (R.). | [F. 238. The following rehearsals took place: 14 Dec. ‘my Lord Chamberlens players did show the history of Phedrastus & Phigon and Lucia together.’ 18 Dec. ‘my Lord of Leicesters menne showed theier matter of Panecia.’ 20 Dec. ‘my lord Clyntons players rehearsed a matter called Pretestus.’ 21 Dec. ‘the showed ij other playes.’] |
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| 13 Feb. [14 Feb.].[790] | ‘Therle of Warwickes players.’ | £10. | 16 Feb. (R.); C. xxxi. | ||
| =1575–6= (D. A. 541, mm. 195–6). | |||||
| 26 Dec. |
‘John Dutton, Lawrence Dutton, Jerome Savage, etc. Thearle of Warwickes players.’ | £20. | 2 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 68. | ||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Richard Farraunt Mr of the children of the Chappell at Wyndsore.’ | £10. | 30 Dec. (H.); D. ix. 67 (29 Dec.). | ||
| 28 Dec. | ‘Thearle of Leicestre players.’ | £10. | 30 Dec. (H.); D. ix. 68 (29 Dec.) | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Sebasten Westcott Mr of the children of Powles.’ | £10. | 7 Feb. (H.); D. ix. 71 (7 Jan.). | ||
| 2 Feb. | ‘John Adams and the rest of my Lorde Chamberlaynes servaunt players.’ | £10. | 4 Feb. (H.); D. ix. 81 (— Jan.). | ||
| 27 Feb. | ‘Alfruso Ferrabolle and the rest of the Italyan players.’ | £10. | 12 Mar. (W.). | ||
| 4 Mar.?[791] | ‘to —— Burbag and his company Servauntes to thearle of Leicester.’ | £10. | 14 Mar. (W.). | ||
| 5 Mar.[792] | ‘Lawraunce Dutton and the rest of his company Servauntes to thrighte honourable Thearle of Warwicke. | £10. | 8 Mar. (W.); D. ix. 95 (11 Mar.). | ||
| 6 Mar. | ‘Richard Moulcastre to hime.’ | £10. | 11 Mar. (W.); D. ix. 94. | ||
| [Sept.-Oct.] | ‘Richarde Farrant, Mr of the Children of her Mates chappell of Winsore viz. for the chardges of xv of the singinge men of the said chappell and sixe of the children repayringe thither to Readynge at her mates laste being there.’ | — | 11 Nov. 1577. | ||
| =1576–7= (Audit Office, Declared Accounts, Roll xv, Bundle 382) [Pipe Office missing]. | |||||
| Xmas holidays. [26 Dec.] | ‘Therle of Warwickes players.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 20 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 270. | F. 256, 269. ‘The Paynters Daughter ... on St Stevens
daie ... by therle of Warwickes seruauntes ... the Duttons plaie.’ F. 256. ‘Toolie ... on St. Iohns daie ... by the Lord Howardes seruantes.’ F. 256. ‘The historie of the Collyer ... on the Sundaie folowing [30 Dec.] ... by th’ erle of Leicesters men.’ F. 266. ‘ffor cariadge ... for the Earle of Leicesters to the court 28o Decembris.’ F. 266. ‘for that their [Leicester’s?] plaie was deferred until the Sundaie folowing [30 Dec.].’[793] F. 256. ‘The historie of Error ... on Newyeres daie ... by the Children of Powles.’ F. 256. ‘The historye of Mutius Sceuola ... on Twelf daie ... by the Children of Windsore and the Chappell.’ F. 256. ‘The historye of the Cenofalles ... on Candelmas daie ... by the Lord Chamberleyn his men.’ F. 270. ‘The Historie of the Solitarie Knight ... on Shrove-sundaie ... by the Lord Howardes seruauntes.’ F. 270. ‘The Irisshe Knyght ... on Shrovemundaie ... by the Earle of Warwick his seruauntes.’ F. 270. ‘The historye of Titus and Gisippus ... on Shrove-tuysdaie ... by the Children of Pawles.’ F. 277. Probably for a rehearsal, ‘the cariadge of the partes of ye well counterfeit from the Bell in Gracious strete to St. Iohns to be performed for the play of Cutwell.’ |
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| 27 Dec. | ‘the Lord Howardes players.’ | £10. | 12 Jan. (H.). | ||
| Xmas holidays. [30 Dec.] | ‘Therle of Leicesters players.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 20 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 270. | ||
| Xmas holidays [1 Jan.] | ‘Sebastian Westcote mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 20 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 270. | ||
| Xmas holidays. [6 Jan.] | ‘Richard Farrante mr of the children of the Chappell.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 20 Jan. (H.); D. ix. 270. | ||
| 2 Feb. | ‘Therle of Sussexes players.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 3 Feb. (H.); D. ix. 280. | ||
| 17 Feb. | ‘The Lord Howardes players.’[794] | £10. | 20 Feb. (W.); D. ix. 293 | ||
| 18 Feb. | ‘Therle of Warwikes players.’ | £10. | 20 Feb. (W.); D. ix. 293 | ||
| 17 Feb. [9 Feb.][795] | ‘Sebastian Westcote.’ | £10. | 20 Feb. (W.); D. ix. 293. | ||
| April. | ‘Durham Place (an Italian playe their done before her mates Privy Council).’ | N.D. [‘Apparelling charge.’] | |||
| =1577–8= (D. A. 541, mm. 209–12). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘The Earle of Leicesters seruantes.’ | £10.[796] | 9 Jan. (H.); D. x. 138. | ||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Richarde Farrante mr of the children of her mates chappell.’ | £10. | 20 Jan. (H.). | ||
| 8 Dec. | ‘The Earle of Warwickes players.’ | £10. | 12 Jan. (H.). | ||
| 30 Dec. | ‘Sebastian Westcott.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (H.). | ||
| 5 Jan.[797] | ‘The Lorde Howarde baron of Effingham his players.’ | £10. | 9 Jan. (H.); D. x. 138. | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Earle of Warwickes players.’ | £10. | 12 Jan. (H.). | ||
| 2 Feb. | ‘The Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 15 Mar. (G.), in duplicate; D. x. 185 (14 Mar.). | ||
| 9 Feb. | ‘The Earle of Warwickes players.’ | £10. | 18 Feb. (H.). | ||
| 11 Feb. | ‘The Countes of Essex players.’ | £10. | 14 Feb. (H.). | ||
| (11 Feb.) | ‘The Earle of Leicesters players.’ | £6 13s. 4d., ‘for makinge their repaire to the Courte wth their whole company and furniture to presente a playe before her matie uppon Shrove-tuesdaye at nighte in consideracon of their chardgies for that purpose although the plaie by her maties comaundement was supplyed by others.’ | 18 Feb. (H.). | ||
| — | ‘for a mattres hoopes and boardes with tressells for the Italian Tumblers.’ | — | N.D. [‘Apparelling charge’] | ||
| =1578–9= (d. a. 541, m. 222). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘Therle of Warwicke srauntes.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘An Inventyon or playe of the three Systers of Mantua ... on St Stephens daie ... by thearle of Warwick his servauntes.’ | |
| 28 Dec. | ‘ye lord Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘An history of the creweltie of A Stepmother ... on Innocentes daie ... by the Lord Chamberlaynes servauntes.’ | |
| 6 Jan. | ‘ye sayd lord Chamblaynes srauntes.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘The historie of the Rape of the
second Helene ... on Twelf daie.’ F. 299. 6 Jan. ‘my Lord Chamberleynes players second plaie.’ |
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| 1 Jan.[798] | ‘ye Mr of ye Children at Pawles.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘A Morrall of the marryage of Mynde and Measure ... on the sondaie next after Newe yeares daie ... by the children of Pawles.’ | |
| 4 Jan. | ‘Therle of Leicestres players.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘A pastorell or historie of A Greeke maide ... on the sondaie next after Newe yeares daie ... by the Earle of Leicester his servauntes.’ | |
| 6 Jan. [27 Dec.][799] |
‘Mr Ferraunte Mr of the Children of her Mates chappell.’ | £10. | 16 Jan.; D. xi. 21 (R.). | F. 286. ‘The historie of —— ... on St Iohns daie ... by the
children of the Quenes maiesties chappell.’ F. 298. 27 Dec. ‘for cariage of the stuffe that served the plaie for the children of the chappell to the courte and back agayne.’ |
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| (2 Feb.) | ‘Jerome Savage and his companye srauntes to Therle of Warwickes.’ | £6 13s. 4d., ‘in consideracon of a playe wch was in readynes to have bene presented before her Matie on Candlemas night last paste’. | 11 Mar.; D. xi. 81 (W. 18 Mar.). | F. 303. ‘The history of —— provided to have ben shewen ... on candlemas daie ... by the Earle of Warwickes servauntes.... Being in redines at ye place to have enacted the same. But the Quenes maiestie wold not come to heare the same and therefore put of.’ | |
| 1 Mar. | ‘therle of Warwickes srauntes.’ | £10. | 13 Mar.; D. xi. 75 (W.). | F. 303. ‘The history of the Knight in the Burnyng Rock ... on shrovesundaie ... by the Earle of Warwickes servauntes.’ | |
| 2 Mar. | ‘Richarde Ferrante Mr of the children of her mates chapell.’ | £10. | 12 Mar.; D. xi. 70 (W.). | F. 303. ‘The history of Loyaltie and bewtie ... on Shrove monday ... by the children of the Quenes maiesties chappell.’ | |
| 3 Mar.[800] | ‘ye lorde Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 13 Mar.; D. xi. 75 (W.). | F. 303. ‘The history of murderous mychaell ... on shrove-tuesdaie ... by the Lord Chamberleynes servauntes.’ | |
| =1579–80= (D. A. 542, m. 8). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘the Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 25 Feb. (W.); D. xi. 377 (25 Jan.). | F. 320. ‘A history of the Duke of Millayn and the Marques of Mantua ... on St Stephens daie ... by the lord Chamberlaynes seruauntes.’ | |
| 27 Dec. | ‘Richarde Farrant mr of the children of her Mates Chappell.’ | £10. | 25 Jan. (W.); D. xi. 377. | F. 320. ‘A history of Alucius ... on St Iohns daie ... by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell.’ | |
| 1 Jan. | ‘ye players of the Erle of Warwicke.’ | £10. | 25 Jan. (W.); D. xi. 377. | F. 320. ‘A history of the foure sonnes of ffabyous ... on Newe Yeares daie ... by the Earle of Warwickes servauntes.’ | |
| 3 Jan. | ‘Sebastian Westcote master of the children of the Churche of St Paules.’ | £10. | 25 Jan. (W.); D. xi. 377. | F. 321. ‘The history of Cipio Africanus ... the sondaye night after newe yeares daie ... by the Children of Pawles.’ | |
| 6 Jan. | ‘the players of the E of Leicester.’ | £10. | 25 Jan. (W.); D. xi. 377. | F. 321. ‘The history of —— ... on Twelve-daye ... by the Earle of Leicesters seruauntes.’ | |
| 15 Jan. | ‘the Lorde Straunge his Tumblers ... in consideracon of certen feates of Tumblinge by them done before her Matie.’ | £10. | 25 Jan. (W.); D. xi. 377. | ||
| 2 Feb. | ‘the L. Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 23 Feb. (W.); D. xi. 398. | F. 321. ‘The history of Portio and demorantes ... on Candlemas daie ... by the Lord Chamberleyns seruauntes.’ | |
| 16 Feb. | ‘the saide L. Chamberlaynes players.’ | £10. | 23 Feb. (W.); D. xi. 398. | F. 321. ‘The history of Serpedon ... on Shrovetwesdaye ... by the lord Chamberleyns seruauntes.’ | |
| 14 Feb. | ‘the players of the Erle of Derbye.’ | £10. | 23 Feb. (W.); D. xi. 398. | F. 321. ‘The history of the Soldan and the Duke of ——
... on Shrovesondaye ... by the Earle of Derby his seruauntes.’ [F. 326. ‘Examynynge and rehersinge of dyuers plaies and choise makinge of x of them to be showen before her Maiestie.’ In addition to the 8 above were the tumbling and F. 320. ‘A historye of —— provided to haue bene shewen ... on Innocentes daie ... by the Earle of Leicesters seruauntes being in readynes in the place to haue enacted the same.... But the Queenes Maiestie coulde not come forth to heare the same/therefore put of.’] |
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| =1580–1= (D. A. 542, m. 21). | |||||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Therle of Sussex srauntes.’ | £10. | 14 Jan. (W.); D. xii. 321 (30 Jan.). | F. 336. ‘The Earle of Sussex men. A storie of —— ... on St Iohns daie.’ | |
| 1 Jan. | ‘Therle of Darbyes players.’ | £10. | 20 Jan. (W.); D. xii. 321 (30 Jan.). | F. 336. ‘The Earle of Derbies men. A storie of —— ... on newe yeres daye.’ | |
| 6 Jan.[801] | ‘Sebastian Wastcote mr of the children of Powles.’ | £10. | 18 Jan. (W.); D. xii. 321 (30 Jan.). | F. 336. ‘The children of Pawles. A storie of Pompey ... on twelf nighte.’ | |
| 2 Feb. | ‘the Lorde Chamblaynes players.’ | £10. | 13 Feb. (W.); D. xii. 330 (14 Feb.). | F. 336. ‘The earle of Sussex men. A storie of —— ... on Candlemas daie.’ | |
| 5 Feb. (W.) | ‘the Mr of the Children of the Chappell.’ | £10. | 14 Feb. (W.); D. xii. 330. | F. 336. ‘The children of the Quenes maiesties chappell. A storie of —— ... on shrove-sondaie.’ | |
| 7 Feb. | ‘Therle of Leiscesters players.’ | £10. | 14 Jan. (W.); D. xii. 330 (14 Feb.). | F. 336. ‘The Earle of Leicesters men. A storie of —— ... on shrove-tuesdaie.’ | |
| 26 Dec. | ‘to them [Leicester’s] more.’ | £10. | 14 Jan. (W.); D. xii. 321 (30 Jan.). | F. 336. ‘The Earle of Leicesters men. A Comodie called delighte ... on St Stephens daie.’ | |
| =1581–2= (D. A. 542, mm. 32–3; Harl. MS. 1644, ff. 78v, 80v, 81v). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘the Mr of the Children of Powles.’ | £10. | 14 Apr. (W.); D. xiii. 393 (G.). | F. 345. Table II, ‘v playes’. | |
| 28 Dec. | ‘the Servauntes of the Lorde Straunge ... for certen feates of activitie shewed her Matie.’ | £10. | 21 Jan. (W.); D. xiii. 311. | ||
| 31 Dec. 27 Feb. |
‘the Mr of the Children of her mates Chappell.’ | £20. | 1 Apr. (G.); D. xiii. 374. | ||
| =1582–3= (D. A. 542, mm. 44–5). | |||||
| 26 Dec. (Wi.) | ‘William Hunnys the mr of the children of the chappell.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 349. ‘A Comodie or Morrall devised on A game of the Cardes ... on St Stephens daie ... by the Children of her maiesties Chapple.’ | |
| 27 Dec. (Wi.) | ‘the Seruauntes of the Lorde of Hunsdon.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 349. ‘A Comodie of Bewtie and Huswyfery ... on St Iohns daie ... by the lord of Hundesdons servauntes.’ | |
| 30 Dec. (Wi.) | ‘the Seruauntes of Thearle of Darby.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 349. ‘A Historie of Loue and ffortune ... on the sondaie ... next before newe yeares daie ... by the Earle of Derbies servauntes.’ | |
| 1 Jan. (Wi.) | ‘John Simons ... for showinge c̄ten ffeates of actiuitye and Tomblinge.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 349. ‘Sundrey feates of Tumbling and Activitie were shewed before her maiestie on Newe yeares daie at night by the Lord Straunge his servauntes.’ | |
| 6 Jan. (Wi.) | ‘the Seruauntes of the Lorde Chamberlayne.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 350. ‘A historie of fferrar ... on Twelf daie ... by the Lord Chamberleynes servauntes.’ | |
| 10 Feb. (R.) | ‘The Seruantes of Thearle of Lecester.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 350. ‘A historie of Telomo ... on Shrovesondaie ... by the Earle of Leicesters servauntes.’ | |
| 12 Feb. (R.) | ‘Richarde Mulcaster ... wth his Scholers.’ | £10. | 17 Feb. (R.). | F. 350. ‘A historie of Ariodante and Geneuora ... on Shrove-tuesdaie ... by mr Mulcasters children.’ | |
| =1583–4= (D. A. 342, m. 56). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 29 Dec. 3 Mar. |
‘her mates servauntes.’ | £20. | 12 Mar. (W.), paid 9 May. | F. 362. Table III, ‘vj histories, one Comedie.’ | |
| 6 Jan. 2 Feb. |
‘the master of the children of her mates Chappell.’ | £15. | 12 Mar. (W.), paid 29 Mar. | ||
| 1 Jan. 3 Mar. |
‘the Erle of Oxforde his servauntes ... paide to Johon Lilie.’ | £20. | 12 Mar. (W.), paid 25 Nov. | ||
| =1584–5= (D. A. 542, mm. 66–8). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 3 Jan. 6 Jan. 23 Feb. |
‘Robte Willson to thuse of him selfe and the rest of her mates players.’ | £40. | 14 Mar. (G.). | F. 365. ‘A pastorall of phillyda & Choryn ... by her highnes
servauntes on St Stephens daie.’ ‘The history of felix & philiomena ... by her maiesties servauntes on the Sondaie next after newe yeares daye.’ ‘An inuention called ffiue playes in one ... on Twelfe daie ... by her highnes servauntes.’ ‘An inuention of three playes in one prepared to haue ben shewed ... on Shroue Sondaye ... by her maiesties servauntes. ... But the Quene came not abroad that night.’ ‘An Antick play & a comodye ... on Shrouetewsdaie ... by her maiesties servauntes.’ |
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| 27 Dec. | ‘Henry Evans ... for one play ... by the children of Therle of Oxforde.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 7 Apr. (G.). | F. 365. ‘The history of Agamemnon & Vlisses ... by the Earle of Oxenford his boyes on St Iohns daie.’ | |
| 1 Jan. | ‘John Symons and other his fellowes Servantes to Therle Oxforde ... for ... feates of actiuitye and vawtinge.’ | £10. | 14 Mar. (G.). | F. 365. ‘Dyuers feates of Actyuytie were shewed and presented ... on newe yeares daye ... by Symons and his fellowes.’ | |
| =1585–6= (D. A. 542, m. 79; Harl. MS. 1641, ff. 20v, 21). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘her Mates players.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (G.). | ||
| 27 Dec. | ‘the Servantes of the lo admirall.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (G.). | ||
| 1 Jan. | ‘her Mates players.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (G.). | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘the Servantes of the lo: admirall and the lo Chamblaine.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (G.). | ||
| 9 Jan. | ‘John Symondes and Mr Standleyes Boyes ... for Tumblinge and shewinge other feates of activitie.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. (G.) | ||
| 13 Feb. | ‘her mates players.’ | £10. | 28 Feb. (G.); D. xiv. 20 (6 Mar.). | ||
| =1586–7= (D. A. 542, m. 94). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 1 Jan. 6 Jan. 28 Feb. |
‘the Quenes mates players.’ | £40. | 18 Mar. (G.). | ||
| 27 Dec. | ‘the Erle of Lecesters players.’ | £10. | 31 Mar. (G.). | ||
| 26 Feb. | ‘Thomas Giles mr of the Children of Paules.’ | £10. | 9 Apr. (G.); D. xv. 24. | ||
| =1587–8= (D. A. 542, mm. 108, 115). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 6 Jan. 18 Feb. |
‘the Queenes mates players.’ | £20, ‘for their chardges and paines as also by waye of her mates rewarde for geving their attendaunce in recitinge and playing certein playes and enterludes before her matie‘. | 20 Mar. (G.); D. xv. 425. | F. 378, 388. ‘vij playes besides feattes of Activitie and other shewes by the Childeren of Poles. her Maiesties owne servantes & the gentlemen of Grayes In.’ | |
| 28 Dec. | ‘John Simons ... for certein feates of actiuitie by him and his Companie.’ | £10. | 6 Mar. (G.). | ||
| 1 Jan. 2 Feb. |
‘Thomas Giles mr of the children of Powles.’ | £20. | 29 Feb. (G.). | ||
| =1588–9= (D. A. 542, mm. 125–6). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 9 Feb. |
‘the Quenes Mats Players.’ | £20. | 16 Mar. (W.); D. xvii. 109. | F.388. ‘at Christmas Newyearstide & Twelftide there were shewed presented & enacted before her highnes ffyve playes & ... at Shrovetide there were shewed & presented before her twoe plaies All which playes were enacted by her Maiesties owne servantes the children of Paules & the Lord Admiralls men besides sondry feates of actyvity tumbling and Matichives.’... F. 390, ‘a paire of fflannell hose for Symmons the Tumbler’. | |
| 27 Dec. 1 Jan. 12 Jan. |
‘Tho Gyles mr of the children of Powles.’ | £30. | 23 Mar. (W.); D. xvii. 115. | ||
| 29 Dec. 11 Feb.[802] |
‘the Lorde Admyrall his players ... for twoe Enterludes or playes ... and for showinge other feates of activity and tumblinge.’ | £20. | 29 Feb. (W.); D. xvii. 90. | ||
| =1589–90= (D. A. 542, m. 142). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 1 Mar. |
‘John Dutton and John Lanham her mates Sruantes for themselves and their companie.’ | £20. | 15 Mar.; D. xviii. 420. | ||
| 28 Dec.[803] | ‘the Servauntes of the Lorde Admirall ... for shewinge certen feates of activities | £20. | 10 Mar. (G.); D. xviii. 410. | ||
| 3 Mar. | ‘the servauntes of the Lorde Admirall ... for playinge.’ | ||||
| ‘Christide.’ [28 Dec.][804] 1 Jan. 6 Jan. |
‘Thomas Giles mr of the children of Powles.’ | £30. | 10 Mar.; D. xviii. 410 (G.). | ||
| =1590–1= (D. A. 542, m. 155). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 3 Jan. 6 Jan. 14 Feb. |
‘Lawrence Dutton and John Dutton her mates players & there companye.’ | £40. | 7 Mar.; C. xxxii; D. xx. 327 (G., 5 Mar.). | ||
| 1 Jan. | ‘John Laneham and his companye her mates players.’ | £10. | 7 Mar.; C. xxxii; D. xx. 328 (G., 5 Mar.). | ||
| 27 Dec. 16 Feb. |
‘George Ottewell and his companye the Lorde Straunge his players for [plays] ... and for other feates of Activitye then also done by them.’[805] | £20. | 7 Mar.; D. xx. 328 (G., 5 Mar.). | ||
| =1591–2= (D. A. 542, m. 168). | |||||
| 26 Dec. | ‘ye Queenes mates players.’ | £10. | 29 Feb. (W.); D. xxii. 286 (27 Feb.). | ||
| 7 Dec. 8 Dec. 1 Jan. 9 Jan. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. |
‘yee seruantes of ye lo: Straunge.’ | £60. | 24 Feb. (W.); D. xxii. 264 (20 Feb.). | ||
| 2 Jan. | ‘ye servauntes of ye Earle of Sussex.’ | £10. | 20 Feb. (W.); D. xxii. 264. | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘ye servauntes of ye Erle of Hartford.’ | £10. | 28 Feb. (W.); D. xxii. 263 (20 Feb.). | ||
| =1592–3= (D. A. 542, m. 181). | |||||
| 26 Dec.[806] 6 Jan. |
‘the servantes of the Erle of Pembroke.’ | £20. | 11 Mar. (J.); D. xxiv. 113. | ||
| 27 Dec. 31 Dec. 1 Jan. |
‘Servantes of the Lorde Strange.’ | £30. | 7 Mar. (J.); D. xxiv. 102. | ||
| =1593–4= (D. A. 542, m. 194: Harl. MS. 1642, f. 19v). | |||||
| 6 Jan. | ‘her Mates players.’ | £10. | 31 Jan. | ||
| =1594–5= (D. A. 542, m. 208). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 28 Dec. [27 Dec.?][807] |
‘To Willm̄ Kempe Willm̄ Shakespeare & Richarde Burbage seruantes to the Lord Chamƃleyne vpon the councelles warrt dated at Whitehall xvto Martii 1594 for twoe seuerall comedies or Enterludes shewed by them before her Matie in xpmas tyme laste paste vizd vpon St Stephens daye & Innocentes daye xiiil vjs viijd and by waye of her mates Rewarde vjl xiijs iiijd.’ | £20. | 15 Mar. (W.). | ||
| 28 Dec. 1 Jan. 6 Jan. |
‘Edwarde Allen, Richarde Jones & John Synger, seruaunts to the Lord Admyrall.’ | £30. | 15 Mar. (W.). | ||
| =1595–6= (D. A. 543, m. 12). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 27 Dec. 28 Dec. 6 Jan. 22 Feb. |
‘John Hemynge and George Bryan srvuantes to the late Lorde Chamƃlayneand now srvuantes to the Lorde Hunsdon.’ | £50. | 21 Dec. 1596 (W.). | ||
| 1 Jan. 4 Jan. 22 Feb. 24 Feb. |
‘Edwarde Allen and Martyn Slater seruauntes to the Lorde Admyrall.’ | £40. | 13 Dec. 1596 (W.). | ||
| =1596–7= (D. A. 543, m. 25). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 27 Dec. 1 Jan. 6 Jan. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. |
‘Thomas Pope & John Hemynges servauntes to the Lord Chambleyne.’[808] | £60. | 27 Nov. 1597 (W.); D. xxviii. 151. | ||
| =1597–8= (D. A. 543, m. 39). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 1 Jan. 6 Jan. 26 Feb. |
‘John Heminges and Thomas Pope servauntes to the Lorde Chamƃleyne.’ | £40. | 3 Dec. 1598 (W.); D. xxix. 324. | ||
| 27 Dec. 28 Feb. |
‘Roƃte Shawe and Thomas Downton servauntes to the Erle of Nottingham.’ | £20. | 3 Dec. 1598 (W.); D. xxix. 325. | ||
| =1598–9= (D. A. 543, m. 55). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 1 Jan. 20 Feb. |
‘John Heminges and Thomas Pope servantes vnto the Lorde Chamberleyne.’ | £30. | 2 Oct. 1599 (N.); C. xxxii. | ||
| 27 Dec. 6 Jan. 18 Feb. |
‘Robert Shawe and Thomas Downton servauntes to Therle of Nottingham.’ | £20. | 2 Oct. 1599 (N.). | ||
| =1599–1600= (D. A. 543, m. 57). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 6 Jan. 3 Feb. |
‘John Hemynge servaunt to the Lorde Chamberlaine.’ | £30. | 17 Feb. (R.); C. xxxiii; D. xxx. 89 (18 Feb.). | ||
| 27 Dec. 1 Jan. |
‘Robert Shawe servaunt to Therle of Nottingham.’[809] | £20. | 18 Feb. (R.); C. xxxiii; D. xxx. 89. | ||
| 3 Feb. [5 Feb.][810] |
‘Robert Browne servaunt to Therle of Darby.’ | £10. | 18 Feb. (R.); D. xxx. 89. | ||
| =1600–1= (D. A. 543, m. 69). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 6 Jan. 24 Feb. |
‘John Hemynges and Richarde Cowley servunts to the Lord Chamƃleine.’ | £30. | 31 Mar. (W.); C. xxxiii; D. xxxi. 217 (11 Mar.). | ||
| 28 Dec. 6 Jan. 2 Feb. |
‘Edwarde Allen servaunte to the Lord Admyrall.’ | £30. | 31 Mar. (W.); C. xxxiii. | ||
| 1 Jan. 6 Jan. |
‘Roƃte Browne.’ | £20. | 31 Mar. (W.). | ||
| 1 Jan. | ‘Edwarde Peers Mr of the children of Poules.’ | £10. | 24 June (G.); D. xxxi. 453. | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Nathanyell Gyles mr of the children of the Chapple, for a showe wth musycke and speciall songes p’pared for the purpose.’ | £5. | 4 May (W.); C. xxxiii. | ||
| 22 Feb. | [the same] ... ‘for a play’. | £10. | |||
| =1601–2= (D. A. 543, m. 83). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 27 Dec. 1 Jan. 14 Feb. |
‘John Hemyng servaunte to the Lord Chamberleyne.’ | £40. | 28 Feb. (R.). | ||
| 27 Dec. | ‘Edward Allen servaunt to the Lord Admyrall.’ | £10. | 28 Feb. (R.). | ||
| 3 Jan. | ‘William Kempe and Thomas Heywoode servauntes to Therle of Worcester.’ | £10. | 28 Feb. (R.). | ||
| 6 Jan. 10 Jan. 14 Feb. |
‘Nathanyell Gyles Mr of the Children of her Mates Chappell.’ | £30. | 7 Mar. (R.). | ||
| =1602–3= (D. A. 543, mm. 95, 97). | |||||
| 26 Dec. 2 Feb. |
‘John Hemynges and the rest of his companie servauntes to the Lorde Chamberleyne.’ | £20. | 20 Apr. (W.); C. xxxiv. | ||
| 27 Dec. 6 Mar. — |
‘Edwarde Allen servaunte to the Lorde Admyrall and the reste of his companie.’ | £30. | 22 Apr. (W.); C. xxxiv. | ||
| 1 Jan. | ‘Edward Peirs mr of the Children of Paules.’ | £10. | 31 May (G.). | ||
| 6 Jan. | ‘Martyn Slater and his fellowes servauntes to the Erle of Hertforde.’ | £10. | 20 Apr. | ||
| — | ‘John Hassett ... for presentinge and makinge shewe before his highnes of his skyll in vaultinge wch he performed wth his mates good lykinge.’ | £10. | 29 July (H.). | ||
| =1603–4= (D. A. 543, m. 115–17). | |||||
| 2 Dec. (K.) | ‘John Hemyngs one of his mates players ... for the paynes and expences of himself and the rest of the company in comming from Mortelake in the countie of Surrie unto the courte aforesaid [at Wilton] and there p’senting before his matie one playe.’ | £30. | 3 Dec. (Wilton); C. xxxiv. | ||
| 26 Dec. (K.) 27 Dec. (K.) 28 Dec. (K.) 30 Dec. (H.) 1 Jan. (K.) 1 Jan. (H.) |
‘John Hemynges one of his mates players.’ | £53. | 18 Jan. (H.); C. xxxv. | ||
| 2 Jan. (H.) 13 Jan. (H.) |
‘John Duke one of the Queenes mates players.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 19 Feb. (W.); C. xxxv. | ||
| 4 Jan. (H.) 15 Jan. (H.) 21 Jan. (K.) 22 Jan. (H.) |
‘Edward Allen and Edward Juby two of the Princes Players.’ | £30. | 19 Feb. (W.); C. xxxv. | ||
| ‘Richard Burbadg one of his mates comedians ... for the mayntenaunce and releife of himselfe and the rest of his company being prohibited to p’sente any playes publiquelie in or neere London by reason of greate perill that might growe through the extraordinary concourse and assemble of people to a newe increase of the plague till it shall please God to settle the cittie in a more p’fecte health by way of his maties free gifte.’ | £30. | 8 Feb. (H.); C. xxxv. | |||
| 2 Feb. (K.) 19 Feb. (K.) |
‘John Hemynges one of his mates players.’ | £20. | 29 Feb. (W.); C. xxxvi. | ||
| 20 Feb. (K.) | ‘Edward Jubie to the use of himselfe and the rest of his company servauntes to the prince.’ | £10. | 17 Apr. (W.); C. xxxvii. | ||
| 20 Feb. (K.) | ‘Edward Pearce mr of the children of Powles.’ | £10. | 17 Apr. (W.). | ||
| 21 Feb. (K.) | ‘Edward Kircham mr of the children of the Queenes Mates
Revells.’ [Apparelling Charges] ‘To Augustine Phillippes and John Hemynges for thallowaunce of themselves and tenne of theire ffellowes his mates groomes of the chamber, and Players for waytinge and attendinge on his mates service by co[~m]aundemente vppon the Spanishe Embassador at Som’sette howse the space of xviij dayes vizd from the ixth day of Auguste 1604 vntill the xxvijth day of the same as appeareth by a bill thereof signed by the Lord Chamƃlayne. xxjli. xijs.’ ‘To Thomas Greene for thallowaunce of hymselfe and tenne of his ffelowes groomes of the chamber and the Queenes Players for waytinge and attendinge vppon Countye Arrenbergh and the reste of the comyssioners at Durham howse by co[~m]aundmente the space of eighteene dayes vizd from the ixth of Auguste 1604 vntill the xxvijth of the same as appeareth by a bill thereof signed by the Lord Chamberlayne. xixli, xvjs.’ |
£10. | 30 Apr. (W.); C. xxxvii. | ||
| Chamber Accounts. | Revels Accounts.[811] | |||||||
| Performance. | Payees. | Amount. | Warrant. | Bodl. Malone MS. 29, f. 69v. | Cunningham, 203; Halliwell-Phillipps, ii. 162; Law, Sh. Forgeries, xvi; Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907. | |||
| =1604–5= (D. A. 543, mm. 136–8; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204). | ||||||||
| 1604 & 1605 Edd. Tylney |
The Plaiers. | 1604. | The Poets wch mayd the plaies. | |||||
| 1 Nov. (K.) 4 Nov. (K.) 26 Dec. (K.) 28 Dec. (K.) 7 Jan. (K.) 8 Jan. (K.) } |
‘John Hemynges one of his Mates players.’ | £60. | 21 Jan. (W.); C. xxxvi. | Sunday after Hallowmas—Merry Wyves of Windsor perfd. by the K’s players. | By the Kings matis plaiers. | Hallamas Day being the first of Nouembar A play in the Banketinge house att Whithall called The Moor of Venis. | ||
| Hallamas—in the Banquetting hos at Whitehall the Moor of Venis—perfd. by the K’s players. | By his Matis plaiers. | The Sunday ffollowinge A Play of the Merry Wiues of Winsor. | ||||||
| On St Stephens Night—Mesure for Mesur by Shaxberd—perfd. by the K’s players. | By his Matis plaiers. | On St Stiuens Night in the Hall A Play caled Mesur for Mesur. | Shaxberd. | |||||
| On Innocents Night Errors by Shaxberd—perfd. by the K’s players. | By his Matis plaiers. | On Inosents Night The Plaie of Errors. | Shaxberd. | |||||
| 23 Nov. (Q.) 24 Nov. (H.) |
‘Edward Jubie one of the princes plaiors.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 10 Dec. (W.); C. xxxvii. | On Sunday following “How to Learn of a Woman to wooe by Hewood, perfd. by the Q’s players. | By the Queens Mattis plaiers. | On Sunday ffollowinge A plaie cald How to Larne of a woman to wooe. | Hewood. | |
| 30 Dec. (K.) | ‘John Duke one of the Quenes Ma{tes} plaiers.’ | £10. | 19 Feb.; C. xxxvi. | |||||
| 1 Jan. (K.) 3 Jan. (K.) |
‘Samuell Daniell and Henrie Evans ... for ... the Quenes Ma{tes} Children of the Revells.’ | £20. | 24 Feb. (W.); C. xxxvi. | On New Years Night—All fools by G. Chapman perfd. by the Boyes of the Chapel. | The Boyes of the Chapell. | On Newers Night A playe cauled: All Foulles. | By Georg Chapman. | |
| 14 Dec. (H.) 19 Dec. (H.) 15 Jan. (H.) 22 Jan. (H.) 5 Feb. (H.) 19 Feb. (H.) |
‘Edward Jubie one of the princes plaiers.’ | £40. | 22 Feb.; C. xxxvi. | bet New yrs day & twelfth day—Loves Labour lost perfd. by the K’s plrs. | By his Matis plaiers. | Betwin Newers Day and Twelfe day A Play of Loues Labours Lost. | ||
| On the 7th Jan. K. Hen. the fifth perfd. by the K. prs. | By his Matis plaiers. | On the 7 of January was played the play of Henry the fift. | ||||||
| On 8th Jan.—Every one out of his humour. | By his Matis plaiers. | The 8 of January A play cauled Euery on out of his Umor. | ||||||
| On Candlemas night Every one in his humour. | By his Matis plaiers. | On Candelmas night A playe Euery one In his Umor. | ||||||
| 2 Feb. (K.) 10 Feb. (K.) 11 Feb. (K.) 12 Feb. (K.) |
‘John Heminges one of his Mates plaiers.’ | £40. | 24 Feb.; C. xxxvii. | On Shrove Sunday ‘the Marchant of Venis’ by Shaxberd—perfd. by the K’s Prs.—the same repeated on Shrove tuesd. by the K’s Commd.’ | The Sunday ffollowing A playe provided and discharged. | |||
| By his Matis plaiers. | On Shrousunday A play of the Marthant of Venis. | Shaxberd. | ||||||
| Feb. (K.) | ‘The same John Heminges.’ | £10. | 28 Apr.; C. xxxvii. | By his Matis plaiers. | On Shroumonday A Tragidye of The Spanishe Maz. | |||
| By his Matis players. | On Shroutusday A play cauled the Martchant of Venis againe com̃ anded By the Kings Matie. | Shaxberd. | ||||||
| =1605–6= (D. A. 543, mm. 163, 176). | ||||||||
| 27 Dec. (K.) | ‘John Duke one of the Queenes Mates players.’ | £8 6s. 8d. | 30 Apr.; C. xxxviii. | |||||
| Xmas and since (K. 10 plays) |
‘John Hemynges one of his Mates players.’ | £100. | 24 Mar.; C. xxxviii. | |||||
| 1 Dec. (H.) 30 Dec. (H.) 1 Jan. (K.) 4 Jan. (H.) 3 Mar. (K.) 4 Mar. (K.) |
‘Edward Jubie one of the Princes players.’ | £50. | 30 Apr.; C. xxxviii. | |||||
| —(H. C. 2 plays) |
‘Edward Kirkham one of the Mres of the Childeren of Pawles.’ | £16 13s. 4d. | 31 Mar.; C. xxxviii. | |||||
| 2 plays at G. [July-Aug. 1606] 1 play at H. [7 Aug. 1606] |
(K. and K. of Denmark) |
‘John Heminges one of his Mates Players.’ | £30. | 18 Oct.; C. xxxviii. | ||||
| =1606–7= (D. A. 543, m. 177). | ||||||||
| 26 Dec. (K.) 29 Dec. (K.) 4 Jan. (K.) 6 Jan. (K.) 8 Jan. (K.) 2 Feb. (K.) 5 Feb. (K.) 15 Feb. (K.) 27 Feb. (K.) |
‘John Heminges one of his Mates Players.’ | £90. | 30 Mar.; C. xxxix. | |||||
| 28 Dec. 13, 24, 30 Jan. 1, 11 Feb. |
‘Edwarde Jubye one of the princes players.’ | £60. | 28 Feb.; C. xxxviii. | |||||
| =1607–8= (D. A. 543, mm. 195–6). | ||||||||
| 26 Dec. (K.) 27 Dec. (K.) 28 Dec. (K.) 2 Jan. (K.) 6 Jan. (K. 2 plays) 7 Jan. (K.) 9 Jan. (K.) 17 Jan. (K. 2 plays) 26 Jan. (K.) 2 Feb. (K.) 7 Feb. (K.) |
‘John Hemynges one of his Maties Players.’ | £130. | 8 Feb. ‘1608’; C. xxxviii (1607’). | |||||
| 19 Nov. 30 Dec. 3 Jan. 4 Jan. |
(K. H.) |
‘Edward Juby one of the Princes Players.’ | £40. | 8 May; C. xxxix. | ||||
| ‘John Hassett & Caleb Hassett ... for feates of activitie by them performed upon a vaughting horse.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 23 Sept. | ||||||
| =1608–9= (D. A. 543, m. 214). | ||||||||
| Xmas. (K. Q. H. C. 12 plays) |
‘John Hemynges one of his mates plaiers.’ | £120. | 5 Apr.; C. xxxix. | |||||
| — (K. H. 5 plays) |
‘Thomas Greene one of the Queenes Mates plaiers.’ | £50. | 5 Apr. | |||||
| — (K. H. 3 plays) |
‘Edwarde Jubye one of the Princes Players.’ | £30. | 5 Apr.; C. xxxix. | |||||
| Xmas. (K. 2 plays) |
‘Roƃte Keyser ... for ... plaies ... by the Children of the blackfriers.’ | £20. | 10 Mar. (W.). | |||||
| 4 Jan. (H.) | ‘the same Roƃte Keyser ... for one play presented by the Children of the blackfriers before his highnes in the Cockpitt at Whitehall.’ | £10. | 10 Mar. | |||||
| — — | ‘John Hemynges one of his mates plaiers ... by way of his mates rewarde for their private practise in the time of infecc̄on that thereby they mighte be inhabled to performe their service before his Matie in Christmas hollidaies 1609.’ | £40. | 26 Apr.; C. xxxix. | |||||
| =1609–10= (D. A. 543, mm. 233–5). | ||||||||
| ‘before xρmas and in the tyme of the holidayes and afterwardes.’ |
(K. Q. H. C. E. 13 plays) |
‘John Heminges one of the Kinges Mates players.’ | £130 | 2 Mar. (W.). | ||||
| — (K. H. 5 plays) |
‘Roberte Keysar ... in the behalfe of himselfe and the reste of the Children of the Whitefryars.’ | £50. | 10 May (W.). | |||||
| 27 Dec. (K.) | ‘Thomas Greene one of the Queene Mates players.’ | £10. | 31 Mar. (W.). | |||||
| 26 Dec. (K.) 28 Dec. (K.) 7 Jan. (K.) 18 Jan. (K.) |
‘Edwarde Jubye one of the Princes Players.’ | £40. | 10 Mar. (W.). | |||||
| 9 Feb. (C. E.) | ‘the sayd William Rowley.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 20 Jan. 1613; C. xlii. | |||||
| — — | ‘John Heminges ... for himselfe and the reste of his companie beinge restrayned from publique playinge wthin the citie of London in the tyme of infecc̄on duringe the space of sixe weekes in which tyme they practised pryvately for his mates service.’ | £30. | 10 Mar.; C. xl. | |||||
| =1610–11= (D. A. 543, mm. 249, 250, 267; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 204). | ||||||||
| — (K. Q. H. 15 plays) |
‘John Hemynges one of the Kinges players.’ | £150. | 12 Feb.; C. xl. | |||||
| 10 Dec. (H. 3 plays) 27 Dec. (K.) |
‘Thomas Greene one of the Quenes players ... for three seuerall playes before the Kinges Matie and the prince’ (D. A.); ‘for presentinge three severall playes before the princes highnes vppon the xth of Decemb: and St Johns daye at night 1610 before the Kinges Matie’ (Rawl. MS.). | £30. | 18 Mar.; C. xl. | |||||
| 19 Dec. 28 Dec. 14 Jan. 16 Jan. |
(K.) | ‘Edwarde Jubye one of the Princes players. | £40. | 20 Mar.; C. xl. | ||||
| 12 Dec. (C. E.) 20 Dec. (C. E.) 15 Dec. (C. E.) |
‘the sayd William Rowley.’ | £20. | 20 Jan. 1613 (W.); C. xlii. | |||||
| [Cunningham, xiii, from Privy Purse Accounts of Henry.] ‘For makinge readie the Cocke pitt fower seuerall tymes for playes by the space of fower dayes in the month of December 1610.’ |
£2 10s. 8d. | |||||||
| Chamber Accounts. | Revels Accounts.[812] | ||||
| Performance. | Payees. | Amount. | Warrant. | Cunningham, 210, from Audit Office, Accounts Various, 3, 907. |
|
| =1611–12= (D. A. 543, mm. 267–8). | |||||
| 31 Oct. (K.) 1 Nov. (K.) 5 Nov. (K.) 26 Dec. (K.) 5 Jan. (K.) 23 Feb. (K.) |
‘John Heminges ... for ... the Kinges Mates servauntes and players.’ | £60. | 1 June; C. xl. | By the Kings Players: |
Hallomas nyght was presented att Whithall before ye Kinges Matie a play called the Tempest. |
| The Kings players: | The 5th of Nouember: A play called ye winters nightes Tayle. | ||||
| The Kings players: | On St Stiuenes night A play called A King no King. | ||||
| 9 Nov. (H. C.) 19 Nov. (H. C.) 16 Dec. (H. C.) 31 Dec. (H. C.) 7 Jan. (H. C.) 15 Jan. (H. C.) 9 Feb. (H. C.) 20 Feb. (H. C.) 28 Feb. (H. C.) 3 Apr. (H. C.) 16 Apr. (H. C.) |
‘the sayd John Heminges.’ | £80.[813] | 1 June; C. xii. | The Queens players: The Princes players. The Kings players. The Childern of Whitfriars. |
St John night A play called the City Gallant. The Sunday followinge A play called the Almanak. On Neweres night A play called the Twiñes Tragedie. The Sunday following A play called Cupids Reueng. |
| 9 Feb. (H. C. E.) 20 Feb. (H.) 28 Mar. (E.) 26 Apr. (H. C. E.) |
‘the sayd John Heminges.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 1 June; C. xli. | By the Queens players and the Kings Men. | The Sunday following [Twelfth Night] att Grinwidg before the Queen and the Prince was playd the Siluer Aiedg: and ye next night following Lucrecia. |
| 27 Dec. (K. Q.) 2 Feb. (K. Q.) |
‘Thomas Greene ... for ... the Queenes Mates servauntes.’ | £20. | 18 June; C. xli. | By the Queens players. | Candelmas night A play called Tu Coque. |
| 21 Jan.[814] (H. E.) 23 Jan. (H. E.) |
‘the sayd Thomas Greene’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 18 June; C. xli | By the Kings players. | Shroue Sunday: A play called the Noblman. |
| 28 Dec. (K.) 29 Dec. (K.) |
‘Edward Juby ... for ... the Prince highnes servauntes.’ | £20. | 18 June; C. xli. | By the Duck of Yorks players. | Shroue Munday: A play called Himens Haliday. |
| 7ensp;5 Feb. (H.) 29 Feb (H.) |
‘the sayd Edward Juby.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 18 June; C. xlii. | By the Ladye Elizabeths players. | Shrove Tuesday A play called the proud Mayds Tragedie. |
| 11 Apr. ‘last past’ (E.) |
‘Edward Jubye ... for ... the Prynce Palatynes Servants.’[815] | £6 13s. 4d. | 31 Mar. 1613; C. xlii. | ||
| 25 Feb. (K.) | ‘Alexander Foster ... for ... the Ladye Eliz. servauntes and players ... for ... the proud Mayde.’ | £10. | 1 Apr.; C. xl. | ||
| 19 Jan. (H. E.) 11 Mar. (H. E.) |
‘the sayd Alexander Foster.’ | £13 6s. 8d. | 1 Apr.; C. xl. | ||
| 12 Jan. (H. C. E.) 28 Jan. (H. C. E.) 13 Feb. (H. C. E.) 24 Feb.[816] (H. C. E.) |
‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Duke of Yorkes Servauntes and Players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 20 June (W.); C. xlii. | ||
| [Cunningham, xiv, from Privy | Purse Accounts of Henry.] | ||||
| ‘For makeinge readie the Cockepitt for a playe by the space of twoe dayes in the month of December 1611.’ | £1 14s. 4d. | ||||
| ‘For makinge readie the Cockepitt for playes twoe severall tymes by the space of ffower dayes in the monethes of January and February 1611.’ | £3 10s. 8d. | ||||
| =1612–13= (D. A. 544, m. 14; Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A. 239, ff. 46v-48). | |||||
| 8 June. | ‘John Hemynges ... for ... the kinges Mates Players for presentinge a playe before the Duke Savoyes Ambassadoes’; Rawl. MS. ‘a playe ... called Cardenna’. | £6 13s. 4d. | 9 July; C. xliii. | ||
| — (C. E. F., 14 plays) | ‘To him [Hemynges] more’; Rawl. MS. ‘fowerteene severall playes, viz: one playe called ffilaster, One other called the knott of ffooles, One other Much adoe aboute nothinge, The Mayeds Tragedy, The merye dyvell of Edmonton, The Tempest, A kinge and no kinge, The Twins Tragedie, The Winters Tale, Sir John ffalstaffe, The Moore of Venice, The Nobleman, Caesars Tragedye, And on other called Love lyes a bleedinge’. | £93 6s. 8d. | 20 May; C. xliii. | ||
| — (K., 6 plays) | ‘the sayd John Heminges’; Rawl. MS. ‘Sixe severall playes, viz: one play called a badd beginininge makes a good endinge, One other called ye Capteyne, One other the Alcumist. One other Cardenno, One other the Hotspur, And one other called Benedicte and Betteris’. | £60. | 20 May; C. xliii. | ||
| 2 Mar.[817] (C. E. F.) 10 Mar. (C. E. F.) |
‘Willm̄ Rowley ... for ... the Prynces servantes’; Rawl. MS. ‘One called the first parte of the Knaues ... And one other playe called the second parte of the Knaues’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 7 June; C. xlii. | ||
| 25 Feb. (C. E. F.) 1 Mar. (C. E. F.) |
‘Josephe Taylor ... for ... the Ladie Elizabeth hir servantes’; Rawl. MS. ‘one playe called Cockle de moye ... and one other called Raymond Duke of Lyons’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 28 June; C. xliii. | ||
| — (C. E. F.) [2 or 3 Nov.?] |
‘Phillip Rosseter for ... a play by the Children of the Chappell’; Rawl. MS. ‘for ... the Children of the Queens Majestys Revels, for ... a Commedye called the Coxcombe’. | £6 13s. 4d. | 24 Nov.; C. xlii. | ||
| 9 Jan. (C. E. F.) 27 Feb. (C. E. F.) |
‘To him more ... for ... two other playes by the Children of the Chappell’; Rawl. MS. ‘one called Cupidds revenge, and the other called the Widdowes Teares’. | £13 6s. 8d. | 31 May; C. xlii. | ||
| 1 Jan. ‘1613’ (K.) |
‘The sayd Phillip Rosseter ... for ... a play by the said Children’; Rawl. MS. ‘called Cupides Revenge’. | £10. | 31 May. | ||
| [Sullivan, 139, from Accounts of Elizabeth 29 Sept. 1612 to 25 March 1613 in Exchequer of Receipt Misc., Bundle 343.] | |||||
| — [Oct. 20?][818] |
‘To her gracs plaiers for acting a Comedie in the Cocke pitt wch her highnes lost to Mr Edward Sackvile on a wager.’ | £5. | |||
| =1613–14= (D. A. 544, m. 29). | |||||
| 4 Nov. (C.) 16 Nov. (C.) 10 Jan. (C.) 4 Feb. (C.) 8 Feb. (C.) 10 Feb. (C.) 18 Feb. (C.) ‘1614’. |
‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes his Mates servaunts the Players.’ | £46 13s. 0d.[819] | 21 June; C. xliii. | ||
| 1 Nov. (K.) ‘1614’. 5 Nov. (K.) 15 Nov. (K.) 27 Dec. (K.) 1 Jan. (K.) 4 Jan. (K.) 2 Feb. (K.) 6 Mar. (K.) 8 Mar. (K.) |
‘the said John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes.’ | £90. | 21 June; C. xliii. | ||
| 24 Dec.[820] (K.) 5 Jan. (K.) |
‘Robƃte Lee and the rest of his fellowes the Queenes Mates servauntes the Playiers.’ | £20. | 21 June (W.); C. xliii. | ||
| 25 Jan. (K.) | ‘Joseph Taylor for himselfe and the rest of his fellowes servaunts to the Lady Eliz’ her grace ... for presenting ... a Comedy called Eastward howe.’ | £10. | 21 June (W.); C. xliv. | ||
| 12 Dec. (C.) | ‘To him [Taylor] more ... for presenting ... a comedy called the Dutch Curtezan.’ | £6 13s. 4d. | 21 June (W.); C. xliv. | ||
| =1614–15= (D. A. 544, mm. 47, 48, 65).[821] | |||||
| — (K. 8 plays) | ‘John Hemynges ... in the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowes the Kinges mates players.’ | £80. | 19 May; C. xiii (19 May ‘1613’). | ||
| — (K. 3 plays) | ‘Roberte Leigh.’[822] | £30. | 25 Apr. (W.). | ||
| — (K. 2 plays) (C.) | ‘Edward Juby in the behalfe of himselfe and the reste of his fellowes the Palsgraves players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 15 Apr. | ||
| — (C. 6 plays) | ‘Willm̄ Rowley one of the Princes players.’ | £43 6s. 8d. | 17 May. | ||
| 1 Nov. (K.) | ‘Nathan ffeilde in the behalfe of himselfe and the rest of his fellowes ... for ... Bartholomewe Fayre.’ | £10. | 11 June; C. xliv. | [Pipe Office D. A. (Revels), 2805.] ‘Canvas for the Boothes and other necessaries for a play called Bartholmewe Faire.’ |
|
| =1615–16= (D. A. 544, mm. 66, 77). | |||||
| Between 1 Nov. and 1 Apr. (K. Q. 14 plays) | ‘John Heminges and the rest of his fellowes the Kings Mates Players.’ | £140. | 24 Apr. 1617.[823] | ||
| — (K. 4 plays) | ‘Roberte Lee and his fellowes the Queenes Mates Servauntes.’ | £40. | 20 May (G.). | ||
| — (C. 4 plays) | ‘Alexander Foster one of the Princes highnes Players.’ | £26 13s. 4d. | 29 Apr. (W.). | ||
| [A. F. Westcott, New Poems of James I, lxxii, from Accounts of Anne for Apr. 1615–Jan. 1616.] | |||||
| 17 Dec. (Q.) | ‘Ellis Worth one of her Mates plaiers for so much paid vnto him in the behalfe of himselfe and the rest of his fellowes of that companie for one plaie acted before her matie [at] Queenes Court.’ | £10. | 7 Jan. | ||
| 21 Dec. (Q.) | ‘John Heminge one of the Kinge Mates plaiers for so much paid vnto him in the behalfe of himselfe and the reste of his fellowes of that companie for one plaie acted before her Matie at Queenes Court.’ | £10. | 22 Jan. | ||