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the Thames (cf. ch. iv). Presumably he represented Amphion, 'a grave and judicious Prophet-like personage', and Rice Corinea.

BURGES, ROBERT. A 'player' buried at St. Bennet's, Gracechurch, 14 April 1559 (B. 251).

CANDLER, JAMES. Leader of a company at Ipswich, 1569-70 (Hist. MSS. ix. 1. 248).

CARIE (GARY), GILES. Revels, 1609; Lady Elizabeth's, 1611, 1613.

CARLETON, NICHOLAS. Paul's, >1582.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM. Lady Elizabeth's, 1611; Charles's, 1619, 1625. He was apparently porter at the Marshalsea in 1623 (J. 347).

CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM. Admiral's-Henry's, 1598-1622 (H. ii. 247). He lived at the upper end of White Cross Street in 1623 (J. 347).

CASTLE, THOMAS. A 'player', whose son Nicholas and daughter Hester were baptized at St. Giles's on 9 October 1608 and 15 April 1610 (B. 262).

CATTANES. Worcester's, 1602 (H. ii. 248).

CAVALLERIZZO, CLAUDIO. Italians, 1576 (?).

CHAPPELL, JOHN. Chapel, 1600-1.

CHESSON, THOMAS. Oxford's (?), 1580.

CLARK, SILL. Prince's, 1603< >1641.

CLARKE, ROBERT. A 'player' whose son Ezekiel was buried at St. Giles's, 7 November 1617 (B. 268).

CLARKE, THOMAS. Leicester's, 1572.

CLAY, NATHANIEL. Anne's, 1618; Chamber of Bristol, 1618.

CLEMENT, WILLIAM. London player, 1550 (App. D, No. v).

CLIFTON, THOMAS. Kidnapped for Chapel, 1600.

COBORNE, EDWARD. A 'player' whose son John was baptized at St. Giles's on 23 Nov. 1616. Of other family entries, 1613-25, some are for Edward Coborne 'gentleman' (Bodl.). He may be identical with Colbrand.

COKE, RICHARD. Interluders, 1547-56.

COLBRAND, EDWARD. Palsgrave's, 1610-13.

COLE. Paul's, 1599.

COLMAN, WILLIAM. Chapel, 1509.

CONDELL, HENRY, has been conjectured to be the 'Harry' cast for Ferrex and a Lord in the 'plot' of The Seven Deadly Sins, as played by Strange's or the Admiral's about 1590-1. The first definite notice of him is in the cast of Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, as played by the Chamberlain's men in 1598. Thereafter he appears in all formal lists of the Chamberlain's and King's men, up to the Caroline patent of 1625, including the list in the First Folio of 1623, of which, with Heminges, he acted as editor. He is also in all the casts up to The Humourous Lieutenant (c. 1619). About this date he presumably ceased to play; his part of the Cardinal in The Duchess of Malfi had passed to Richard Robinson by 1623. The fact that he took this part somewhat discredits the conjecture of John Roberts (Answer to Pope, 1729) that he was a comedian; nor can the statement of the same writer that he was a printer be verified. He is staged with other members of the company in Marston's Malcontent (1604), and appears