Note 879 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY
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Murray, ii. 77, gives records of seventy-nine 'Lesser Men's Companies', many of which appear at one town only, while all have a narrow range. Naturally the names of the great nobles carried weight over a wider area. The players in Ratseis Ghost (Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 326) 'denied their owne Lord and Maister, and used another Noblemans name'.