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Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hoffe with sylver

paines.

Item, j payer of cloth of fylver hosse with fatten

and fylver panes.

Item, Tamberlynes cotte, with coper lace.
Item, j read clock with white coper lace.
Item, j read clocke with read coper lace.
Item, j shorte clocke of taney satten with sleves.
Item, j shorte clocke of black satten with sleves.
Item, Labefyas clocke, with gowld buttenes.
Item, j peyer of read cloth hoffe of Venesyans,

with sylver lace of coper.

Item, Valteger robe of rich tafitie.
Item, Junoes cotte.

Item, j hode for the wech [witch].

Item, j read stamel clocke with whitte coper

lace.

Item, j read stamel clocke with read coper lace.

Item, j cloth clocke of ruffete with coper lace,

called Guydoes clocke.

Item, j short clocke of black velvet, with fleves

faced with shagg.

Item, j short 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 Venesyones uncut,

with read coper lace.

Item, j read scarllet 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 sewt, which Wm. Sley were.

Item, j payer of pechcoler hofle with sylver corl

led panes.

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

Item, Tamberlanes breches, of crymson vellvet.

Item, j payer of fylk howse with panes of sylver

corlled lace.

Item, j Faeytone sewte.

Item, Roben Hoodes sewtte

Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hose with gowld

corlle panes.

Item, j payer of rowne hosse buffe with gowld

lace.

Item, j payer of mows (mouse) coller Venesyans

with R. brode gowld lace.

Item, j flame collerde dublet pynked.

Item, j blacke satten dublet, layd thyck with

blacke and gowld lace.

Item, j carnacyon dubled cutt, layd with gowld

lace.

Item, j white satten dublet, faced with read

tafetie.

Item, j grene gyrcken with sylver lace.

Item, j black gyrcken with sylver lace.

Item, j read gyrcken with sylver lace.

Item, j read Spanes [Spanish] dublett styched.

Item, j peche coller satten casse.

Item, Tafoes robe.

Item, j murey robe with sleves.

Item, j blewe robe with sleves.

Item, joren taney [orange tawny] robe with

fleves.

Item, j pech collerd hallf robe.

Item, j lane [long] robe with spangells.

Item, j white & orenge taney scarf, spangled.

Item, Dides [Dido's] robe.

Item, iij payer of basses.

Item, j white tafitie sherte with gowld frenge.

VOL. II.

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Item, the fryers trusse in Roben Hoode.
Item, j littell gacket for Pygge [Psyche].
Item, j womanes gown of cloth of gowld.

Item, j orenge taney vellet gowe [gown] with

sylver lace, for women.

Item, j black velvet gowne ymbradered with

gowld lace.

Item, j yelowe satten gowne ymbradered with

fylk & gowld lace, for women.

Item, j greve armer.

Item, Harye the v. velvet gowne.

Item, j payer of crymson satten Venyfiones, layd

with gowld lace.

Item, j blew tafitie sewte, layd with sylver lace. Item, j Longeshankes seute.

Item, jorange coller satten dublett, layd with

gowld lace.

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

lace.

Item, j Spanes caffe dublet of crymson pyncked. Item, į Spanes gearcken layd with sylver lace. Item, j wattshode (watchet] tafitie dublet for a

boye.

Item, ij payer of basses, 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.

Black Jonne
The Umers.
Hardicanewtes.
Borbonne.
Sturgflaterey
Brunhowlle.

Cobler quen hive.
Frier Pendelton.

Alls Perce.

Read Cappe.
Roben Hode, 1.
Roben Hode,
Phaeyton.

2.

Treangell cockowlls. Goodwine.

Woman will have her will.
Welchmans price.
King Arthur, life and death.
I pt of Hercules.
2 pte of Hercoles.
Pethagores.

Focaffe.

Elexsander and Lodwicke. Blacke Battman.

2 p. black Battman. 2 pt of Goodwine.

Mad mans morris. Perce of Winchester.

Vayvode.

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 damaske casock garded with

velvett

Bowght a payer of paned rownd hoffe

of cloth whiped with sylk, drawne out with tafitie,

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2000

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Bowght of my fsonne v sewtes
Bowght of my fonne iiij fewtes

In the folio manuscript 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.

9" The best for comedy amongst us bee, Edward Earle of Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde, Maister Rowleye, once a rare scholler of learned Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, Maister Edwardes, one of her Majesties chappell, eloquent and witty John Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, Shakspeare, Thomas Nashe, Anthony Mundye our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilfon, Hathway, and Henry Chettle." Wits Treasury, being the Second Part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis Meres, 1598, p. 283. The latter writer, Henry Chettle, is the person whose 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 shillinges, I say dd [delivered] to Thomas Downton, xxxxs."

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

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