Bird (q.v.) of the Prince's men. Presumably the Webbs were his brothers-in-law, in which case his wife was obviously not a Woodward. There are legacies of £5 to 'the hyred men of the company which I am of', of 30s. pieces to his 'fellows' William Shakespeare and Henry Condell, and his 'servant' Christopher Beeston, of 20s. pieces to his 'fellows' Laurence Fletcher, Robert Armin, Richard Cowley, Alexander Cook and Nicholas Tooley, of silver bowls to John Heminges, Richard Burbadge, and William Sly, and of £20 to Timothy Whithorne. Samuel Gilburne, 'my late apprentice' is to have 40s. and 'my mouse colloured velvit hose and a white taffety dublet, a blacke taffety sute, my purple cloke, sword, and dagger, and my base viall'. James Sands 'my apprentice' is to have 40s. and 'a citterne, a bandore and a lute'. The widow is appointed executrix, but if she re-marries she is to have 'no parte or porcion of my goods or chattells', and is to be replaced by the overseers of the will, Heminges, Richard Burbadge, Sly, and Whithorne. After proving the will on 13 May 1605, the widow did in fact re-marry, with John Witter, and it was proved again by John Heminges on 16 May 1607. His share in the Globe was subsequently the subject of litigation.[1] Heywood (c. 1608) praises his deserts with those of other dead actors.
PICKERING, JAMES. Mason of Bowlby, Yorks, unlicensed player, 1612 (cf. ch. ix, p. 305).
PLUMMER, JOHN. Master of Chapel, 1444-55.
POKELEY, RICHARD. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).
POLE. Gate-keeper at Paul's, 1582.
POPE, THOMAS, was one of the English players, who visited Denmark and Germany in 1586 and 1587. He is in the 1593 list of Strange's men and played as 'Mr. Pope' for them or the Admiral's in 2 Deadly Sins about 1590-1. He joined the Chamberlain's men, probably on their foundation in 1594, was joint payee for them with Heminge from 1597-9, and appears in the actor-lists of 1598 and 1599. On 30 August 1598, William Bird borrowed 10s. of Henslowe, 'to folowe the sewt agenst Thomas Poope'.[2] In 1600 he is mentioned, with Singer of the Admiral's, by Samuel Rowlands in The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-Vein, sat. iv:
What meanes Singer then,
And Pope, the clowne, to speak so boorish, when
They counterfaite the clownes upon the Stage?
He had an original fifth share of a moiety of the Globe, increased to a fourth on the retirement of Kempe. But he does not appear in the lists of the King's men, and had therefore probably retired by 1603. On 22 July of that year he made his will, which was proved on 13 February 1604.[3] He leaves his interests in the Globe and Curtain to Mary Clark, alias Wood, and Thomas Bromley, and legacies to Robert Gough and John Edmans. He mentions the house in South-*
