(2) Elizabeth, d. of Sir Richard Morison and wid. of William Norreys, after 1579; Kt. 29 Sept. 1553; succ. as 2nd Earl, 16 Jan. 1585; ob. 29 Sept. 1616.
Players serving the Lord Admiral were at Winchester in
1566-7. A company under the name of the Earl of Lincoln and
led by Laurence Dutton played at Court during the Christmas
of 1572-3, and a company under that of Lord Clinton, and also
led by Dutton, in Herpetulus the Blue Knight and Perobia
on 3 January 1574, and on 27 December 1574 and 2 January
1575. For 1574-5 they rehearsed three plays, one of which
was Pretestus. Probably these are the same company
transferred by the Lord Admiral to his son. Dutton was with
Sir Robert Lane's men in 1571-2 and with the Earl of Warwick's
in 1575-6. The whole company may have taken service
with Lincoln instead of Lane as a result of the statute of
1572 (App. D, No. xxiv), but it does not seem to have been
altogether absorbed in Warwick's, as Lord Clinton's men are
found at Southampton on 24 June 1577, when they were six
in number, at Bristol in July, and at Coventry in 1576-7.
A later company under the name of the Earl of Lincoln
has a purely provincial record in 1599-1604. There is an
isolated notice at Norwich in 1608-9.
viii. THE EARL OF WARWICK'S MEN
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd s. of John, 1st Duke of Northumberland;
nat. c. 1528; m. (1) Anne Whorwood, (2) Elizabeth Talboys, c. 1553,
(3) Anne, d. of Francis, Earl of Bedford, 11 Nov. 1565; Master of
Ordnance, 12 Apr. 1560; Earl of Warwick, 26 Dec. 1561; Chief
Butler of England, 4 May 1571; Privy Councillor, 5 Sept. 1573;
ob. 20 Feb. 1590.
Dudley seems to have had players in London in January
1562, when they were rewarded by the Duchess of Suffolk.[1]
They are also found in 1559-64 at Oxford, Gloucester, Bristol,
Plymouth, Winchester, Dover, Canterbury, and Norwich.
Their only Court performances upon record were two during
the Christmas of 1564-5. In 1564-5 they were apparently
at Canterbury.[2]
After an interval of ten years there are Warwick's men at Court on 14 February 1575 and also at Stratford in the course of 1574-5, at Lichfield between 27 July and 3 August during the progress,[3] and at Leicester before 29 September 1575. At the following Christmas they gave three plays at Court,
