John Wright. [Dedication by Barnabe Barnes to Sir William Herbert and Sir William Pope; Prologue with dumb-show and Epilogue.] Extracts by A. B. Grosart in Barnes's Poems (1875), and editions by R. B. McKerrow (1904, Materialien, vi) and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F. T.)—Dissertation: A. E. H. Swaen, G. C. Moore Smith, and R. B. McKerrow, Notes on the D. C. by B. B. (1906, M. L. R. i. 122). DAVID, LORD BARRY (1585-1610). David Barry was the eldest son of the ninth Viscount Buttevant, and the 'Lo:' on his title-page represents a courtesy title of 'Lord', or 'Lording' as it is given in the lawsuit of Androwes v. Slater, which arose out of the interest acquired by him in 1608 in the Whitefriars theatre (q.v.). Kirkman's play-lists (Greg, Masques, ci) and Wood, Athenae Oxon. ii. 655, have him as 'Lord' Barrey, which did not prevent Langbaine (1691) and others from turning him into 'Lodowick'.—Dissertations: J. Q. Adams, Lordinge (alias Lodowick) Barry (1912, M. P. ix. 567); W. J. Lawrence, The Mystery of Lodowick Barry (1917, University of North Carolina Studies in Philology, xiv. 52).
Ram Alley. 1607-8
S. R. 1610, Nov. 9 (Buck). 'A booke called, Ramme Alley, or merry trickes. Robert Wilson (Arber, iii. 448).
1611. Ram-Alley: Or Merrie-Trickes. A Comedy Diuers times here-to-fore acted. By the Children of the Kings Reuels. Written by Lo: Barrey. G. Eld for Robert Wilson. [Prologue and Epilogue.]
1636; 1639.
Editions in Dodsley^4 (1875, x) and by W. Scott (1810, A. B. D. ii) and J. S. Farmer (1913, S. F. T.).
Fleay, i. 31, attempts to place the play at the Christmas of 1609, but it is improbable that the King's Revels ever played outside 1607-8. Archer's play-list of 1656 gives it to Massinger. There are references (ed. Dodsley, pp. 280, 348, 369) to the baboons, which apparently amused London about 1603-5 (cf. s.v. Sir Giles Goosecap), and to the Jacobean knightings (p. 272).
FRANCIS BEAUMONT (c. 1584-1616).
Beaumont was third son of Francis Beaumont, Justice of Common Pleas, sprung from a gentle Leicestershire family, settled at Grace Dieu priory in Charnwood Forest. He was born in 1584 or 1585 and had a brother, Sir John, also known as a poet. He entered Broadgates Hall, Oxford, in 1597, but took no degree, and the Inner Temple in 1600. In 1614 or 1615 he had a daughter by his marriage, probably recent, to Ursula Isley of Sundridge Hall, Kent, and another daughter was born after his death on 6 March 1616. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Beaumont contributed a humorous grammar lecture (preserved in Sloane MS. 1709, f. 13; cf. E. J. L. Scott in Athenaeum for 27 Jan. 1894) to some Inner Temple Christmas revels of uncertain date. This has allusions to 'the most plodderly plotted shew of Lady Amity'
