Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hoffe with sylver paines.

Item, j payer of cloth of fylver hoffe with fatten and fylver panes.

Item, Tamberlynes cotte, with coper lace.
Item, j read clock with white coper lace.
Item, read clocke with read coper lace.
Item, j fhorte clocke of taney fatten with fleves.
Item, j fhorte clocke of black fatten with fleves.
Item, Labefyas clocke, with gowld buttenes.
Item, j peyer of read cloth hoffe of Venefyans,
with fylver lace of coper.

Item, Valteger robe of rich tafitie.

Item, Junoes cotte.

Item, j hode for the wech [witch].

Item, j read ftamel clocke with whitte coper

lace.

Item, j read ftamel clocke with read coper lace. Item, j cloth clocke of ruffete with coper lace, called Guydoes clocke.

Item, j fhort clocke of black velvet, with fleves faced with fhagg.

Item, j fhort clocke of black vellet, faced with white fore [fur].

Item, j manes gown, faced with whitte fore.
Item, Dobes cotte of cloth of fylver.
Item, j payer of pechecoler Venefyones uncut,
with read coper lace.

Item, j read fcarllet clocke with sylver buttones.
Item, j longe black velvet clock, layd with brod

lace black.

Item, j black fatten fewtte.

Item, j blacke velvet clocke, layed with twyft lace blacke.

Item, Perowes fewt, which Wm. Sley were. Item, j payer of pechcoler hofle with fylver corlled panes.

Item, j payer of black cloth of fylver hoffe, drawne owt with tufed tafittie.

Item, Tamberlanes breches, of crymfon vellvet. Item, j payer of fylk howse with panes of fylver corlled lace.

Item, j Faeytone fewte.

Item, Roben Hoodes fewtte

Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hose with gowld corlle panes.

Item, j payer of rowne hoffe buffe with gowld lace.

Item, j payer of mows [moufe] coller Venefyans with R. brode gowld lace.

Item, j flame collerde dublet pynked.

Item, J

blacke fatten dublet, layd thyck with blacke and gowld lace.

Item, j carnacyon dubled cutt, layd with gowld

lace.

Item, j white fatten dublet, faced with read tafetie.

Item, j grene gyrcken with fylver lace.
Item, j black gyrcken with fylver lace.
Item, j read gyrcken with sylver lace.
Item, J read Spanes [Spanish] dublett ftyched.
Item, j peche coller fatten caffe.

Item, Tafoes robe.

Item, j murey robe with fleves.

Item, j blewe robe with fleves.

Item, j oren taney [orange tawny] robe with fleves.

Item, j pech collerd hallf robe.

Item, j lane [long] robe with spangells.

Item, white & orenge taney fcarf, fpangled.
J
Item, Dides [Dido's] robe.

Item, iij payer of balles.

Item, j white tafitie fherte with gowld frenge.

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Item, the fryers truffe in Roben Hoode.
Item, j littell gacket for Pygge [Pfyche].
Item, jwomanes gown of cloth of gowld.
Item, j orenge taney vellet gowe [gown] with
fylver lace, for women.

Item, j black velvet gowne ymbradered with gowld lace.

Item, j yelowe fatten gowne ymbradered with fylk & gowld lace, for women.

Item, j greve armer.

Item, Harye the v. velvet gowne.

Item, j payer of crymfon fatten Venyfiones, layd with gowld lace.

Item, j blew tafitie fewte, layd with sylver lace. Item, j Longefhankes feute.

Item, j orange coller fatten dublett, layd with gowld lace.

Item, Harye the v. fatten dublet, layd with gowld lace.

Item, j Spanes caffe dublet of crymfon pyncked. Item, j Spanes gearcken layd with fylver lace. Item, wattfhode [watchet] tafitie dublet for a boye.

J

Item, ij payer of baffes, j whitte, j blewe, of fafnett.

Item, j freyers gowne of graye.

A Note of all fuche boockes as belong to the Stocke, and fuch as I have bought fince the 3d of March, 1598.

A Note of all fuche goodes as I have bought for the Companey of my Lord Admiralls men, fence the 3 of Aprell, 1598, as followeth:

Bowght a damafke cafock garded with

Bowght a payer of paned rownd hosse of cloth whiped with fylk, drawne out with tafitie,

Bowght j payer of long black wollen

Bowght j black fatten dublett

Bowght j payer of rownd howffe paned 4 15 0

Bowght a robe for to goo invifibell

Bowght a gown for Nembia

Bowght a dublett of whitt fatten layd
thicke with gowld lace, and a payer
of rowne pandes hoffe of cloth of
fylver, the panes layd with gowld lace]
Bowght of my fonne v fewtes
Bowght of my fonne iiij fewtes

700

20

17 0

In the folio manufcript already mentioned I have found notices of the following plays, and their feveral authors:

Oct. 1597. The Cobler.

Dec. 1597. Mother Redcap, by Anthony Mundy,"

Jan. 1597-8.

Feb.

1577-8.

and Michael Drayton.

Dido and Eneas.

Phaeton, by Thomas Dekker.*
The World runs upon Wheels, by G.
Chapman.

The first part of Robin Hood, by Anthony
Mundy.'

"The beft for comedy amongst us bee, Edward Earle of Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde, Maifter Rowleye, once a rare fcholler of learned Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, Maifter Edwardes, one of her Majefties chappell, eloquent and witty John Lilly, Lodge, Gafcoyne, Greene, Shakspeare, Thomas Nafhe, Anthony Mundye our beft plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilfon, Hathway, and Henry Chettle." Wits Treafury, being the Second Part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis Meres, 1598, p. 283. The latter writer, Henry Chettle, is the perfon whofe teftimony with refpect to our poet's merit as an actor has been already produced. Chettle, it appears, wrote fingly, or in conjunction with others, not less than thirty plays, of which one only (Hoffman's Tragedy) is now extant.

In the following month I find this entry:

"Lent unto the company, the 4 of Febreary 1598, to discharge Mr. Dicker owt of the cownter in the powltrey, the fome of fortie fhillinges, I fay dd [delivered] to Thomas Downton, xxxx s.”

In a fubfequent page is the following entry: "Lent unto Robarte Shawe, the 18 of Novemb. 1598, to lend unto Mr.