I do now lodge)', of 'my late Mr. Richard Burbadge deceased', and of 'my good friend Mr. Henry Condell', and to Joseph Taylor, and remissions of debt to John Underwood and William Ecclestone, but not to Richard Robinson, he ends by making Burbadge and Condell his executors and residuary legatees. By a codicil of the same date, signed as Nicholas Wilkinson alias Tooley, he guards against any danger of invalidity due to his failure to use the name of Wilkinson.[1] Presumably, therefore, Wilkinson, and not Tooley, was his original name. The name of Tooley was fairly common in London, and more than one Nicholas Wilkinson has been traced. He may have been the Nicholas, son of Charles Wilkinson, baptized at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 3 February 1575.[2] There seems no reason to connect him with a Nicholas Tooley found on the Warwickshire muster-book in 1569.[2] His reference to Richard Burbadge as his 'master' suggests that he was his apprentice. It is tempting, but arbitrary, to identify him with the 'Nick' who played with Strange's men in 2 Seven Deadly Sins about 1592, or the 'Nycke' who tumbled before Elizabeth for the Admiral's in 1601 and is commended by Joan to Edward Alleyn on 21 October 1603.[3] The register of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, records the burial of 'Nicholas Tooley, gentleman, from the house of Cuthbert Burbidge, gentleman', on 5 June 1623.[4]
TOTTNELL, HARRY. A 'player' whose daughter Joan was baptized at St. Saviour's on 20 March 1591 (Bodl.).
TOWNE, JOHN. Queen's, 1583, 1588, 1594-7. Greg (H. ii. 315) rather arbitrarily suggests that Henslowe's note of him as a witness to a loan to Francis Henslowe of the Queen's on 8 May 1593 (H. i. 4) is by an error for Thomas (q. v.).
TOWNE, THOMAS. Admiral's-Henry's, 1594-1610. His name is in a s. d. to 1 Honest Whore (1604). Alleyn's papers record a widow Agnes. Towne's name is in the Southwark token-books during 1600-7, and Thomas Towne 'a man' was buried on 9 August 1612. Towne's will of 4 July 1612 names his wife, whom he calls Ann, and his brother John, of Dunwich in Suffolk ('if he be still living') and leaves £3 to his fellows Borne, Downton, Juby, Rowley, Massey, and Humphrey Jeffes, 'to make them a supper when it shall please them to call for it' (H. ii. 316; Bodl., citing will in P. C. C.).
TOWNSEND, JOHN. Lady Elizabeth's, 1611, 1616-32 (?); for his later career, cf. Murray, i. 252-60; ii. 8.
TOY. The performer of Will Summer in Summer's Last Will and Testament.
TREVELL, WILLIAM. Whitefriars lessee, 1608, 1621.
TRUSSELL, ALVERY. Chapel, 1600-1.
TUNSTALL (DONSTALL, DONSTONE), JAMES. Worcester's, 1583; Admiral's, 1590-1, 1594-7. Guilpin, Skialetheia (1598), refers to him in conjunction with Alleyn (q. v.). The variation in his name is made more, rather than less, puzzling by the baptism at St. Botolph's of Dunstone Tunstall on 20 August 1572 (H. ii. 261).
