As the Elector Palatine's men the company played at Court during the winter of 1613-14, twice before James and once before Charles. They were amongst the companies which performed irregularly in the Lent of 1615, and Humphrey Jeffes and Thomas Downton were summoned before the Privy Council to account for their misdoing. One of the irregular licences condemned by the Lord Chamberlain on 16 July 1616 was an exemplification of the patent of 1613, taken out by Charles Marshall, Humphrey Jeffes, and William Parr for provincial purposes.
xx. THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S (LORD HUNSDON'S) AND
KING'S MEN
Henry Carey, s. of William Carey and Mary, sister of Anne Boleyn;
nat. c. 1524; cr. 1st Lord Hunsdon, 13 Jan. 1559; m. Anne, d. of
Sir Thomas Morgan; Warden of East Marches and Governor of
Berwick, Aug. 1568; Lord Chamberlain, 4 July 1585; lived at
Hunsdon House, Herts., and Somerset House, London; ob. 22 July
1596.
George Carey, s. of Henry, 1st Lord Hunsdon; nat. 1547; Kt. 18 May 1570; m. Elizabeth, d. of Sir John Spencer of Althorp; Captain-General of Isle of Wight, 1582; succ. as 2nd Baron, 22 July 1596; Lord Chamberlain, 17 Mar. 1597; lived at Carisbrooke Castle, Hunsdon House, Drayton, and Blackfriars; ob. 9 Sept. 1603.
A company of Lord Hunsdon's men was at Leicester in
the last three months of 1564, at Norwich and Maldon in
1564-5, at Plymouth before Michaelmas in 1565, at Canterbury
in the autumn of 1565, at Gloucester and Maldon in
1565-6, at Bristol in July 1566, and at Canterbury in the
spring of 1567. Another makes its appearance at Ludlow
on 13 July 1581, and at Doncaster in 1582. In the winter
Lord Hunsdon was apparently deputy for the Earl of Sussex
as Lord Chamberlain, and took occasion to bring his men to
Court, where they acted Beauty and Housewifery on 27 December
1582. They did not again appear at Court, but when
plays were temporarily suppressed on 14 June 1584 the
owner of the Theatre, presumably James Burbadge, made
a claim to be Lord Hunsdon's man. Meanwhile 'my L. Hunsdouns
and my Lords Morleis players being bothe of one
companye' are recorded at Bristol in March 1583, and Lord
- [Footnote: ed. Spenser Soc. 314). The 1659 print of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal
Green has at l. 2177, 'Enter . . . Captain Westford, Sill Clark'. The title-page professes to give the play as acted by the Prince's men, but whether Clark was an actor of 1603-12 or not must remain doubtful.]
