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Records of players in the Parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate

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G. E. Bentley
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The parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate is a most important one in the history of the early English drama. Within its confines and some five minutes walk to the north of the parish church stood the Fortune theatre, whose ancient site is still marked by the Playhouse Yard running between Golden Lane and White-cross Street. There are Elizabethan aspects to the parish still. One cannot elbow his way through the grimy crowds of White-cross Street Market and hear the occasional “Buy, buy, buy!” and the commoner “They're love-ly! They're love-ly!” and watch the haggling over fish and peepshows and lace and panaceas without thinking of earlier days.

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PMLA , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 1929 , pp. 789 - 826
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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References

Note 1 in page 789 See J. Q. Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses, 1917.

Note 2 in page 789 Survey of London, Everyman edition, p. 383.

Note 3 in page 789 Malcolm, Londinium Redivivium, 1803, II, 38.

Note 4 in page 789 The Bodleian MS. which Sir Edmund Chambers describes (Elizabethan Stage, II, 295) and to which he refers so frequently in his chapter on the actors.

Note 5 in page 789 The present church was built after the fire in 1545, though it incorporates a little of the 14th-century building. It is, of course, chiefly famous as the burial place of Milton, though its registers treasure a remarkable list of famous names—John Foxe, Sir Martin Frobisher, John Speed, Oliver Cromwell, Daniel Defoe.

Note 6 in page 790 Fortunately for me, I was not interested in the Restoration. In 1665 the burials alone almost fill a folio volume. On one day in this year they reached 165.

Note 7 in page 790 Many of these were not in Collier's MS., but I have made no attempt to distinguish which Collier found and which he missed.

Note 8 in page 790 Malcolm's Londinium Redivivium, II, 303-4, mentions the names of some of the actors in the St. Giles registers, but he does not give the entry, seldom the date, and so often garbles both name and date that I have generally omitted references to this book.

Note 9 in page 790 Exclusive of about a dozen items concerning unknown actors published in my article in Mod. Lang. Notes. XLIV, 368-372.

Note 10 in page 790 Sir Edmund particularly mentions his reluctance in following Collier instead of the original records. His wisdom in simply mentioning the results of Collier's search, rather than quoting his “quotations” of the registers has been amply demonstrated in the course of my work with Collier's MS. and the St. Giles registers.

Note 11 in page 791 Murray, J. T., English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642, 1910.

Note 12 in page 791 Historia Histrionica (Dodsley, XV, 406 and 409).

Note 13 in page 791 See Mrs. Stopes in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, XLVI, (1910). (L. C. 5/134 p. 431.) In this article, Mrs. Stopes mentions her laborious task of correcting all her references at the Public Record Office. Since she wrote, all the cataloging of the Lord Chamberlain's Papers has again been changed. For this reason I have given the present P. R. O. press mark for each document I have used. I hope that official irony is not lying in wait for me too. Perhaps it should be mentioned here that many of Mrs. Stopes' transcriptions in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch are incomplete and inaccurate.

Note 14 in page 792 Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925), 521.

Note 15 in page 792 See Murray, op. cit., II, 386.

Note 16 in page 792 Bishop of London, Marriage Licenses (Harl. Soc. Pubs., XXVI, 218).

Note 17 in page 792 Mentioned but not quoted by Chambers, Eliz. Stage, II, 301.

Note 18 in page 792 Murray, op. cit., II, 400.

Note 19 in page 792 G. F. Warner, Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Muniments of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, p. 237.

Note 20 in page 793 Cal. State Papers Dom., 1625-6, p. 543.

Note 21 in page 793 Murray, op. cit., I, 279.

Note 22 in page 793 Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925) 519.

Note 23 in page 793 Materialen zur Kunde des alteren engl. Dramas, XXX (1910).

Note 24 in page 793 Op. cit., II, 301.

Note 25 in page 794 Collier, Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare, p. 264, has printed these two entires, though inaccurately.

Note 26 in page 794 See Chambers, op. cit., II, 251.

Note 27 in page 794 Collier, Mem. Act., pp. 262-4.

Note 28 in page 794 Op. cit., II, 303.

Note 29 in page 794 Leslie Hotson, Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, 1928. p. 32.

Note 30 in page 794 Ibid., p. 34.

Note 31 in page 794 T. W. Baldwin, The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company, 1927, pp. 183-4.

Note 32 in page 795 Murray, op. cit., II, 356.

Note 33 in page 795 MS Bodleian.

Note 34 in page 796 Dr. Boas in Fortnightly Review, CXVII. (1925).

Note 35 in page 796 See Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 371.

Note 36 in page 797 See Hotson, op. cit., Chap. 1.

Note 37 in page 797 See Dr. Boas, Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925) 519, and Hotson,. op. cit., pp. 7 and 53.

Note 38 in page 797 Fortnightly Review above.

Note 39 in page 797 Murray, op. cit., I, 226.

Note 40 in page 798 Chambers, op. cit., II, p. 247.

Note 41 in page 798 Murray, op. cit., I, p. 236.

Note 42 in page 798 Murray, op. cit., I, p. 237.

Note 43 in page 798 Wallace in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Vol. 46, 1910, pp. 345-50.

Note 44 in page 798 See Chambers, op. cit., II, 310.

Note 45 in page 798 Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925), 519.

Note 46 in page 798 J. Q. Adams, The Dramatic Records of Sir Henry Herbert, 1917, p. 37.

Note 47 in page 798 Murray, op. cit., I, 279 and 281.

Note 48 in page 799 See Catalogue of the Pictures in the Gallery of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, 1926.

Note 49 in page 799 Chambers, op. cit., II, 310.

Note 50 in page 799 Ibid.

Note 51 in page 799 Adams, Dram. Records, pp. 74 and 75.

Note 52 in page 799 See my article, Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 1928.

Note 53 in page 799 Wallace in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, XLVI (1910).

Note 54 in page 799 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 371.

Note 55 in page 800 Adams, Dram. Records, pp. 74 and 75.

Note 56 in page 800 Chambers, op. cit., II, 310, has mentioned but not copied this entry.

Note 57 in page 800 Murray, op. cit., I, 209 and 211.

Note 58 in page 800 Op. cit., II, 310.

Note 59 in page 800 See Hoson, op. cit.

Note 60 in page 801 Chambers (op. cit., II, 313) gives the spellings Downton, Dowton, Douton, Douten, Dowghton, Denygten and Doubton.

Note 61 in page 801 See Chambers, op. cit., II, 313, and Henslowe's Diary, ed. Greg. II, 262 and 265, and Warner, op. cit., p. 193

Note 62 in page 801 See my article, Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 1928.

Note 63 in page 801 Harleian Soc. Pub., XXVI, 27.

Note 64 in page 802 Mentioned but not quoted, Londinium Redivivium, II, 304.

Note 65 in page 802 Henslowe Papers, ed. Greg, pp. 27-8.

Note 66 in page 802 Mrs. Stopes in Shakespeare Jahrbuch, XLVI (1910). (L. C. 5/132, p. 297.)

Note 67 in page 802 See Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 370.

Note 68 in page 802 Murray, op. cit., I, 133.

Note 69 in page 802 Ibid., II, 103.

Note 70 in page 802 Dr. Boas, Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925).

Note 71 in page 803 Murray, op. cit., I, 266.

Note 72 in page 803 Fortnightly Review, CXVII, 519.

Note 78 in page 803 Murray, op. cit., I, 281.

Note 74 in page 803 Ibid., I, 209.

Note 75 in page 803 Variorum, III, 59.

Note 76 in page 803 Warner, op. cit., pp. 169, 181 and 188.

Note 77 in page 804 Wallace, Shakespeare Jahrb. XLVI, (1910).

Note 78 in page 804 See Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 372.

Note 79 in page 805 Variorum, III, 59.

Note 80 in page 805 Op. cit., I, 215-16.

Note 81 in page 805 Ibid., I, 172.

Note 82 in page 805 Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925).

Note 83 in page 805 Warner, op. cit., Variorum, III, 66, Hotson, op. cit., p. 52.

Note 84 in page 805 Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses, pp. 368-74.

Note 85 in page 806 Adams, Dramatic Records, pp. 26, 28 and 30.

Note 86 in page 806 Hotson, op. cit., p. 52.

Note 87 in page 806 See D. N. B.

Note 88 in page 806 Mrs. Stopes in Shakespeare Jahrb. XLVI (1910). (L. C. 5/132, p. 297.)

Note 89 in page 806 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 371.

Note 90 in page 806 Mrs. Stopes in Shakes. Jahrb. XLVI, (1910). (L. C. 5/134, p. 88).

Note 91 in page 807 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 372.

Note 92 in page 807 Dodsley, XV, 404.

Note 93 in page 807 This, of course, is not the only example of a player who had another craft as well. Other prominent ones at St. Giles were John Shank and Andrew Cane.

Note 94 in page 807 Murray, op. cit., II, 357.

Note 95 in page 807 Ibid., p. 8.

Note 96 in page 807 Murray, op. cit. I, 172 and Mrs. Stopes in Shakes. Jahrb., XLVI, (1910). (L. C. 5/134, pp. 124 and 142.)

Note 97 in page 807 Variorum, III, 167.

Note 98 in page 808 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 371.

Note 99 in page 808 He is not, of course, the only man to be known both as an actor and a musician. See Edward Minshaw below and Thomas Heywood, Thomas Downton and Thomas Marbeck in Times Literary Supplement, 15 November 1928.

Note 100 in page 808 Mentioned but not quoted Londinium Redivivium, II, 304.

Note 101 in page 808 Op. cit., p. 151.

Note 102 in page 809 Ibid., p. 222.

Note 103 in page 809 See Chambers, op. cit., II, 324.

Note 104 in page 809 Chambers, op. cit., II, 324.

Note 105 in page 809 Murray, op. cit., I, 209.

Note 106 in page 809 Warner, op. cit., pp. 36-7.

Note 107 in page 810 Chambers, op. cit., II, 324, mentions.

Note 108 in page 810 Collier, Mem. Act., says that Humphrey son of John Jeffes was baptized at St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, 16 June 1583.

Note 109 in page 810 See Times Lit. Suppl., 15 November, 1928.

Note 110 in page 810 Murray, op. cit., II, 343.

Note 111 in page 810 Chambers, op. cit., II, 324, following Collier, has grossly misquoted these entries.

Note 112 in page 810 Ibid, II, 86.

Note 113 in page 810 Ibid, II, 87.

Note 114 in page 810 Ibid, II, 107.

Note 115 in page 810 Ibid, II, 324.

Note 116 in page 811 Op. cit., pp. 167-76. For his career after the Restoration, see Mr. Hotson's pamphlet George Jolley, Actor-Manager and Allardyce Nicoll's Restoration Stage, pp. 270-79.

Note 117 in page 811 See Baldwin, op. cit., chap. I.

Note 118 in page 811 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 371.

Note 119 in page 811 Hotson, op. cit., p. 21.

Note 120 in page 811 Chambers, op. cit., II, 328, mentions.

Note 121 in page 811 See H. N. Hillebrand, The Child Actors, 1926, p. 240.

Note 122 in page 811 Murray, op. cit. II, 239.

Note 123 in page 811 Murray, op. cit., I, 361.

Note 124 in page 811 Murray, op. cit., II, 345, and Malone Society Collections, 1910, p. 284.

Note 125 in page 811 See Times Lit. Suppl., 15 November, 1928.

Note 126 in page 812 Mem. Act., p. 165.

Note 127 in page 812 See Baldwin, op. cit., pp. 178-81 and 184.

Note 128 in page 812 Chambers, op. cit., II, 328.

Note 129 in page 812 For his long residence in Southwark, see Chambers, op. cit., II, 328, and Times Lit. Suppl., 15 November, 1928.

Note 130 in page 812 See Hotson, op. cit., p. 32.

Note 131 in page 812 I first found this record in Collier's Bodleian MS and then checked it from the registers at St. Clement Danes.

Note 132 in page 813 Chambers, op. cit., II, 150.

Note 133 in page 813 Hotson, op. cit., p. 52.

Note 134 in page 813 Henslowe's Diary, ed. Greg, I, 84.

Note 135 in page 813 Warner, op. cit., pp. 189, 192.

Note 136 in page 813 Henslowe Papers, ed. Greg, pp. 28-30 and 112.

Note 137 in page 813 Warner, op. cit., p. 190.

Note 138 in page 814 Patent 1610, Agreement with Alleyn and Meade 1615/16, summoned before Privy Council 1616, Palsgrave's letter to Alleyn 1616(?) Inner Temple Mask 1618/19, Cloak order 1625.

Note 139 in page 814 Murray, op. cit., I, 237.

Note 140 in page 814 Mrs. Stopes in Shakespeare Jahrb., XLVI, (1910). (L. C. 5/134, p. 394).

Note 141 in page 815 Murray, op. cit., I, 358.

Note 142 in page 815 Chambers, op. cit., II, 245.

Note 143 in page 815 Miss Denkinger in PMLA, XLI, 104.

Note 144 in page 815 Wallace in Shakes. Jahrb., XLVI, (1910).

Note 145 in page 815 Murray, op. cit., I, 172.

Note 146 in page 815 Mrs. Stopes in Shakes. Jahrb., XLVI, (1910). (L. C. 5/134, p. 124.)

Note 147 in page 816 Shakes. Soc. Papers, IV, 110.

Note 148 in page 816 Murray, op. cit., I, 209.

Note 149 in page 816 Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, II, 170.

Note 150 in page 816 Wallace, Shakes. Jahrb., XLVI, (1910).

Note 151 in page 817 Murray, op. cit., I, 266.

Note 152 in page 817 Ibid, I, 277 and Fortnightly Review. CXVII, (1925).

Note 153 in page 817 Hotson, op. cit., p. 26.

Note 154 in page 817 Op. cit., pp. 65 and 66.

Note 155 in page 817 Adams, Dram. Records, p. 74.

Note 156 in page 817 Published Collier, Mem. Act., p. 272.

Note 157 in page 817 Fortnightly Review, CXVII, 519.

Note 158 in page 817 Murray, op. cit., I, 279.

Note 159 in page 817 Ibid, I, 281.

Note 160 in page 817 Op. cit., p. 52.

Note 161 in page 817 Adams, Dram. Records, pp. 24-7.

Note 162 in page 818 Published by Collier, Mem. Act., p. 223.

Note 163 in page 818 Op. cit., p. 58.

Note 164 in page 818 Mem. Act., p. 233.

Note 165 in page 818 Op. cit., III, 473.

Note 166 in page 818 Ibid., II, 337.

Note 167 in page 818 Mentioned but not quoted in Chambers, op. cit., II, 337.

Note 168 in page 819 Chambers, op. cit., II, 338, Collier, Mem. Act., xiv.

Note 169 in page 819 Mentioned in Chambers, op. cit., II, 338.

Note 170 in page 820 Collier, Mem. Act., has listed about half of these entries, generally inexactly.

Note 171 in page 820 Halliwell-Phillipp's Outlines, I, 314.

Note 172 in page 820 Murray, op. cit., I, 209.

Note 173 in page 820 Ibid, p. 211.

Note 174 in page 820 Halliwell Phillipp's Outlines, I, 312;Murray, op. cit., I, 277.

Note 175 in page 820 Collier, Mem. Act., p. 275; Chambers, op. cit., II, 339; Baldwin, op. cit., p. 188.

Note 176 in page 820 Adams, Dram. Records, p, 27.

Note 177 in page 820 Chambers, op. cit., II, 338.

Note 178 in page 820 Stopes, Shakes. Jahrb. XLVI, (1910). (L.C. 5/134, p. 426).

Note 179 in page 821 Murray, op. cit., I, 172.

Note 180 in page 821 For a discussion of his roles see Baldwin, op. cit., 184-5 and 219-21.

Note 181 in page 821 Londinium Redivivium, II, 376. But this book is so inaccuarte about parish registers that its entries do not mean a great deal until checked.

Note 182 in page 821 Chambers, op. cit., II, 340.

Note 183 in page 821 Both parenthetical items appear thus in the registers themselves.

Note 184 in page 821 Op. cit., pp. 251-3.

Note 185 in page 822 Murray, op. cit., I, 172.

Note 186 in page 822 Chambers, op. cit., II, 245; Murray, op. cit., I, 234.

Note 187 in page 822 Murray, op. cit., I, 218.

Note 188 in page 822 Warrant of this date shown at Norwich in 1637/8; Murray, op. cit., II, 358 and 372.

Note 189 in page 822 Warrant to swear servants to Prince Charles; Stopes, Shakes. Jahrb. XLVI (1910). (L.C. 5/132, p. 297).

Note 190 in page 822 Crosfield's Diary, Boas in Fortnightly Review, CXVII (1925).

Note 191 in page 822 1631 warrant of unnamed company shown at Norwich; Murray, op. cit., II, 358.

Note 192 in page 822 See Baldwin, op. cit., Chap. I.

Note 193 in page 822 Mentioned Londinium Redivivium, II, 304.

Note 194 in page 823 Wallace, Shakes. Jahrb. XLVI (1910).

Note 195 in page 823 Hotson, op. cit., p. 52.

Note 196 in page 823 Murray, op. cit., I, 266.

Note 197 in page 823 Variorum, III, 240.

Note 198 in page 823 Dodsley, XV, 411.

Note 199 in page 823 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV.

Note 200 in page 823 See Murray, op. cit., I, 259.

Note 201 in page 823 This disproves Mr. Baldwin's contention, op. cit., p. 60, that his disappearance from the King's casts after 1629 was due to his death from the plague in 1630.

Note 202 in page 823 Murray, op. cit., I, 172.

Note 203 in page 824 See Collier, Mem. Act., p. 238.

Note 204 in page 824 Ibid.

Note 205 in page 824 See Chambers, op. cit., II, 348.

Note 206 in page 824 Published Mod. Lang. Notes, XLIV, 372.

Note 207 in page 824 Murray, op. cit., II, 386.

Note 208 in page 825 Murray, op. cit., I, 279; Fortnightly Review, CXVII, 314-24.

Note 209 in page 825 Published Chambers, op. cit., II, 350. The parenthetical note occurs in the registers.

Note 210 in page 825 The identity and number of Robert Wilson's is somewhat involved; see the discussion by Chambers, op. cit., II, 349, 350.

Note 211 in page 825 Murray, op. cit., II, 249.

Note 212 in page 825 Adams, Dram. Records, p. 23.

Note 213 in page 825 PMLA, XLI, 107.

Note 214 in page 825 Mentioned Chambers, op. cit., II, 350.

Note 215 in page 825 Ibid, p. 237.

Note 216 in page 825 Murray, op. cit., I, 192; Adams, Dram. Records, p. 63.

Note 217 in page 826 Murray, op. cit., I, 218.

Note 218 in page 826 Ibid., II, 358.

Note 219 in page 826 Harleian Soc. Pub., XXVI, 160.