dignity of the 'Mr.', W. Kendall, Jeames, who was possibly Henslowe's apprentice James Bristow and possibly Jones's boy of the same name, and Dob, who was probably the Dobe of the 1598 inventory. The remaining names, all of which are new, are those of W. Cartwright, who, however, had witnessed a loan for Henslowe as far back as 21 April 1598,[1] Dick Jubie, Ro. Tailor, George Somerset, Tho. Drum, [Thomas] Parsons, Harry, and the 'boys' of Mr. Allen and Mr. Towne. The only important woman's part, that of Callipolis, is assigned by the 'plot' to Pisano, which does not look like an actor's name and may be a mistake. The services of Bristow were evidently leased out by Henslowe to the company or some one of its members, at a rate of 3s. a week. Antony Jeffes paid two weeks' arrears 'for my boyes Jeames wages' in August 1600, and Henslowe charged the company £6 10s. on the same account in the following February.[2] Another boy attached to the company about the same time must have been 'Nick', for whom hose 'to tumbell in be fore the quen' were bought on 25 December 1601. Hugh Davis, for the mending of whose tawny coat 'which was eatten with the rattes' 6s. 7d. was paid in November 1601, was perhaps a hired man. A list of the responsible members of the company is attached by Henslowe to a reckoning cast between 7 and 23 February 1602. They were then 'John Singer, Thomas Downton, William Byrd, Edward Juby, Thomas Towne, Humphrey Jeffs, Anthony Jeffs, Samuel Rowley, and Charles Massy'.[3] A note is added that £50 had been advanced 'to geve vnto Mr. Jonnes & Mr. Shaw at ther goinge a waye'. This departure must have been quite recent. Shaw had been agent for the company on the previous 21 January, and the list of continuing members is in fact in his handwriting. The last instalment of Jones's private debt had been paid off on 1 November. His three years' agreement with Henslowe had expired at Michaelmas 1600. Richard Alleyn must have died in September 1602, for on the 19th of that month his widow borrowed £5 10s. to take her mantle and sheet and face-cloth out of pawn.[4] Neither Shaw nor Jones nor Richard Alleyn is in the plot of 1 Tamar Cham, which may reasonably be assigned to a date in the vicinity of the purchase of the book from Alleyn on 2 October 1602. This is of interest, partly because it is complete, and partly because there was a procession in the play, and the number of supernumeraries required must have tried the resources
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