MASON, JOHN. Whitefriars lessee, 1608, and dramatist.
MASSEY (MASSYE), CHARLES. Admiral's-Henry's-Palsgrave's, 1597->1635 (?); Fortune lessee, 1618->1635; and dramatist (cf. ch. xxiii). He is probably the Charles Marcy or Mercy, variously described as 'player', 'gentleman', and 'yeoman' in the registers of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, from 30 December 1610 to 20 July 1625. He died before 6 December 1635, leaving a widow Elianor, and had a cousin Ned Collins (H. ii. 296; Bodl.).
MAXE, ROBERT. Chapel, 1509->1513.
MAY, EDWARD. Interluders, 1494-1503.
MAY, NATHAN. Licensee for 2 King's Revels, 1615. Possibly the name, as given in Murray, ii. 340, may be a mistake for Clay (q.v.).
MAYLER, GEORGE. Interluders, 1525-40.
MEADE, JACOB. Keeper of the Bears, by 1599, and partner with Henslowe in the Bear Garden and Hope. He was buried at St. Saviour's on 9 July 1624 (Bodl.).
MELYONEK, JOHN. Master of Chapel (?), 1483-5.
MERYELL, HENRY. Chapel, 1509.
MILS (MYLLES), TOBIAS. Queen's, 1583. Heywood notes him as before his time. He was buried as 'one of the Queenes Maiesties players' at St. Olave's, Southwark, on 11 July 1585, and his sons William and Toby were baptized on 3 January 1584 and 5 September 1585 (Bodl.). Probably, therefore, 'one Myles, one of my lord of Summersettes players', whose testimony to the value of Bath waters for the gout is cited in a hydropathic treatise of 1557 (Collier, i. 139), was of an older generation. Somerset was beheaded on 22 January 1552. Robert Cecil had a Secretary Milles, whose son Tobias was buried at Chelsea on 9 April 1599 (R. Davies, Chelsea Old Church, 296).
MOON, PETER. Payee for a company of players at Ipswich, 1562 (Murray, ii. 287).
MOORE, JOSEPH. Lady Elizabeth's, 1611; 1616-29. He lived at the Harrow in Barbican in 1623 (Murray, i. 252; J. 347).
MOTTERAM, JOHN. Chapel, 1600-1.
MUFFORD, JOHN. Beauchamp's, 10 June 1590 (Murray, ii. 337).
MULCASTER (MONCASTER), RICHARD. Head Master of Merchant Taylors, 1561-86; of St. Paul's Grammar School, 1596-1608.
MUNDAY, ANTONY. A player before 1582, according to a contemporary pamphlet, possibly with Oxford's, whose 'servant' he was in 1580, and dramatist (cf. ch. xxiii).
NASION. Paul's chorister, >1582.
'NED.' Musician (?) in Summer's Last Will and Testament, prol. 7.
'NED.' Strange's (?), 1590-1.
NETHE, JOHN. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).
NETHERSALL, JOHN. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).
NEWARK, WILLIAM. Master of Chapel, 1493-1509.
NEWMAN, JOHN. Blackfriars lessee, 1581-3.
NEWTON, JOHN. Charles's, 1610, 1616, 1619, 1625.
'NICK.' Admiral's, 1601-3. See also Tooley.
