Admiral in 1589. He died about May 1596, being then of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and left a widow Margaret and son John. Presumably he was the Admiral's player. But there was also an Allen family of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, one of whom, John, was a player. Here a John was baptized on 17 October 1570, a Lowin, son of John, baptized on 15 December 1588, a Joan buried on 13 May 1593, and a John on 18 May 1593. On 26 July 1596 is this curious baptismal entry: 'Bennett, reputed daughter of J^{no} Allen, which J^{no} went with S^r Fr. Drake to the Indians in which time the child was got by a stage-*player.' Finally, on 18 October 1597, 'Jone uxor Joh^{is} Allen player was buried with a still born child' (H. ii. 239; Bodl.)
ALLEYN, RICHARD. Queen's, (?) 1594; Admiral's, 1597-1600. His daughters Anna and Elizabeth were baptized at St. Saviour's, Southwark, on 13 May 1599 and 17 May 1601 respectively. Here he is traceable in the token-books during 1583-1601, and was buried on 18 November 1601, leaving a widow (Rendle, Bankside, xxvi; H. ii. 239; Bodl.).
ALLEYN (ALLEN), RICHARD. Revels, 1609; Lady Elizabeth's, 1613.
ANDREWE, HENRY. Chapel, 1509.
ANDREWES, RICHARD. Worcester's, 1583.
ANDROWES, GEORGE. Whitefriars lessee, 1608.
APILEUTTER, CHRISTOPHER. Germany, 1615.
ARCHER, RICHARD. Vide Arkinstall.
ARCHER? (ARZSCHAR, ERTZER), ROBERT. Germany, 1608-16.
ARKINSTALL, JOHN. A common player of interludes under licence, with Richard Archer, Barker, and Anthony Ward as his fellows. He was at Hastings on 25 March 1603, and on 30 March laid an information of the proclamation of Lord Beauchamp as king by Lord Southampton (Hist. MSS. xii. 4. 126).
ARMIN, ROBERT, is said to have been apprentice to a goldsmith in Lombard Street, and to have been encouraged as a 'wag' by Tarlton (ob. 1588), who prophesied that he should 'enjoy my clownes sute after me'. He 'used to' Tarlton's plays, and in time became himself a player 'and at this houre performes the same, where, at the Globe on the Banks side men may see him'.[1] But his earliest reputation was as a writer. He wrote a preface to A Brief Resolution of the Right Religion (1590) and probably other things now unknown, for he is referred to as a son of Elderton in Nashe's Foure Letters Confuted of 1592 (Works, i. 280). R. A. wrote verses to Robert Tofte's Alba (1598), and R. A. compiled England's Parnassus (1600); the latter is generally taken to be Robert Allot. The first dramatic company in which Armin can be traced is Lord Chandos's men. In an epistle to Mary, widow of William Lord Chandos (1594-1602) prefixed to his kinsman Gilbert Dugdale's True Discourse of the Practises of Elizabeth Caldwell, &c. (1604), he says, 'Your good honor knowes Pinck's poor heart, who
- ↑ Tarlton, 22, 'How Tarlton made Armin his adopted sonne, to succeed him'. The earliest extant edition of Tarlton's Jests is that of 1611, but the Second Part, here quoted, was entered in S. R. on 4 Aug. 1600.
