i. 326) 'denied their owne Lord and Maister, and used another Noblemans

name'.]

[Footnote 880: The showman of the royal ape in Taylor's _Wit and Mirth_ (cf. p. 267) wears 'a brooch in his hat, like a tooth drawer, with a Rose and Crowne, and two letters'.]

[Footnote 881: Harington, _Metamorphosis of Ajax_ (1596), 135, 'I will neither end with sermon nor with prayer, lest some wags liken me to my L. (____) players, who when they have ended a bawdy comedy, as though that were a preparative to devotion, kneel down solemnly, and pray all the company to pray with them for their good Lord and master'; _A Mad World, my Masters_, v. ii. 200, 'This shows like kneeling after the play; I praying for my good lord Owemuch and his good countess, our honourable lady and mistress'. This prayer might be combined with one for the Sovereign and estates; cf. chh. xviii, xxii.]

[Footnote 882: Cf. ch. xiii (Interluders).]

[Footnote 883: _R. O. Lord Chamberlain's Records_, ii. 4 (4).]

[Footnote 884: _N. S. S. Trans._ (1877-9), 15*, from _Lord Chamberlain's Records_, vol. 58_a_, now ii. 4 (5).]

[Footnote 885: Sullivan, 250; C. C. Stopes in _Sh.-Jahrbuch_, xlvi. 92; from _Lord Chamberlain's Records_, ii. 48; v. 92, 93. I am not sure whether the velvet was for a 'cap' or a 'cape'.]

[Footnote 886: Sullivan, 253; cf. vol. i, p. 52.]

[Footnote 887: Stopes (_supra_). I find a confirmatory note to a Household list of 1641 in _Lord Chamberlain's Records_, iii. 1, 'Note that _th_e Companyes of Players under the Titles of the Kings, Queenes, Qu_eene_ of Bohemia, Prince & Duke of Yorke are all of them sworne Groomes of the Chamber in ord_inary_ w_i_thout fee'. I cannot accept Miss Sullivan's theory that 'without fee' means that the players did not have to buy their places.]

[Footnote 888: Cf. App. C, Nos. xvii, xxxi.]

[Footnote 889: Platter in 1599 (cf. ch. xvi, introd.) says that plays were given 'alle tag vmb 2 vhren nach mittag'. T. S. Graves, in _E. S._