As a result Shank was directed to transfer one share in each house to the petitioners. He, however, complained that he could not get satisfactory terms from them, and that they restrained him from the stage. The Cripplegate register records Shank's burial on 27 January 1636.[1] James Wright calls him a 'comedian',[2] and the following
verses, signed W. Turner, and quoted by Collier from Turner's Dish of Stuff, or a Gallimaufry, may perhaps be taken as confirming this[3]:
That's the fat fool of the Curtain, And the lean fool of the Bull: Since Shancke did leave to sing his rhimes, He is counted but a gull: The players on the Bankside, The round Globe and the Swan, Will teach you idle tricks of love, But the Bull will play the man.
The verses are dated 1662, but the theatres named indicate a much earlier date. SHAW (SHAA, autograph), ROBERT. Chamberlain's (?), 1597; Pembroke's, 1597; Admiral's, 1597-1602. John, son of Robert Shaw, 'player', was baptized on 10 April 1603, at St. Saviour's, and Robert Shaw, 'a man', buried on 12 September 1603 (H. ii. 309; Bodl.). SHEALDEN. A 'player', who witnessed a loan for Henslowe on 24 August 1594 (H. i. 76). SHEPARD. Paul's door-keeper, 1582. SHEPPARD, WILLIAM. A 'player', whose son Robert by his wife Johane was baptized at St. Helen's, 26 November 1602. SIBTHORPE, EDWARD. Whitefriars lessee, 1608. SIMPSON, CHRISTOPHER. Shoemaker of Egton, Yorks, recusant and unlicensed player in 1610-12 (cf. ch. ix, p. 305). SIMPSON, CUTHBERT. Of Egton, recusant and unlicensed player, 1616 (ibid.). SIMPSON, JOHN. Of Egton, recusant and unlicensed player, 1616 (ibid.). SIMPSON, RICHARD. Of Egton, recusant and unlicensed player, 1616 (ibid.). SIMPSON, ROBERT. Shoemaker of Staythes, Yorks, recusant and unlicensed player, 1612, 1616 (ibid.). SINCLER (SINKLO, SINCKLO), JOHN. Strange's (?), 1590-1; Pembroke's (?), 1592-3; Chamberlain's, 1594 (?)-1604. SINGER, JOHN. Queen's, 1583, 1588; Admiral's, 1594-1603. He became an ordinary Groom of the Chamber in 1603. A John Singer in 1571 owed money to a Canterbury citizen, who had also debts from players (H. R. Plomer in 3 Library, ix. 253). Children of John Singer, 'player', appear in the St. Saviour's register from 1 August 1597 to 5 October 1609, and his name is in the token-books from 1596 to 1602 (Bodl.). The Quips upon Questions (1600) of Armin (q. v.) has been ascribed to Singer in error. Rowlands couples him as a clown with Pope (q. v.) in 1600, and Dekker, Gull's Horn Book
