GIBSON, RICHARD. Interluders, 1494-1508; afterwards Yeoman of the Revels.
GILBURNE, SAMUEL, is recorded in the First Folio list of performers in Shakespeare's plays. All that is known of him beyond this is that Augustine Phillips left him as his 'late apprentice' in his will of 1605 the sum of 40s., various garments, and a bass viol. Collier's inference that he could play on the viol is a fairly harmless example of biographical conjecture.[1] The identification of him with the 'b[oy?] Sam' of the 'plot' of The Dead Man's Fortune, a play probably belonging to the Admiral's, and of a date not later than 1591, is more dangerous.[2]
GILES, NATHANIEL. Master of Windsor Choir, 1595-1634; Master of Chapel, 1597-1634.
GILES, THOMAS. Master of Paul's, 1585-1590 <; Instructor in Music to Henry, 1606, and Charles, 1613.
GOODALE, BAPTISTE. 'Ghost-name' (?) in Queen's list (1589) forged by Collier, New Facts, ii.
GOODALE, THOMAS. Berkeley's, 1581; Strange's (?), 1590-1; Chamberlain's (?) at date of Sir Thomas More (cf. ch. xxiv). If he is the Thomas Goodale, mercer, who entered with John Alleyn and Robert Lee into a bond to Edward Alleyn on 18 May 1593 (H. ii. 295, from Dulwich MS. iv. 29), he was not improbably connected with the Admiral's >1590.
GOUGHE or GOFFE, ROBERT, was probably the 'R. Go.' entered in the 'plot' of The Seven Deadly Sins, as playing Aspasia in Sloth for the Admiral's or Strange's men about 1590-1. Probably he belonged at an early date to the King's men. He is a legatee in Thomas Pope's will of 22 July 1603, and witnessed that of Augustine Phillips on 4 May 1605, in which Phillips names a sister Elizabeth Goughe, doubtless the Elizabeth recorded in the register of St. Saviour's, Southwark, as marrying Robert Gough on 13 February 1603. The token-books of St. Saviour's indicate Gough's residence in Hill's Rents during 1604, Samson's Rents during 1605 and 1606, and Austin's Rents in 1612-22; and the registers, which generally call him a 'player', record his children Elizabeth (bapt. 30 May 1605), Nicholas (bapt. 24 November 1608), Dorothy (bapt. 10 February 1611, bur. 12 January 1613), Alexander (bapt. 7 August 1614), and his own burial on 19 February 1624.[3] His son Alexander became in his turn a player. A stage-direction to l. 1723 of The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611) shows that he played Memphonius. He also played Leidenberch in Sir John von Olden Barnevelt in 1619, and appears in the official lists of the King's men for 1619 and 1621 and in the First Folio list of performers in Shakespeare's plays.
GOUGHE, THOMAS. Lane's, 1572.
GRACE, FRANCIS. Henry's-Palsgrave's, 1610-22. He lived at George Alley, Golden Lane, in 1623 (J. 347).
GRAUNGER, JOHN. Chapel, 1509.
