Note 971 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY

Payments to travelling companies appear in the household accounts of the Earl of Rutland at Belvoir (Rutland MSS. iv. 260), the Earl of Cumberland at Skipton Castle (Murray, ii. 255), the Duchess of Suffolk at Grimsthorpe (Ancaster MSS. 459), Sir George Vernon at Haddon Hall (G. Le B. Smith, Haddon, 121), Lord North at Kirtling (Murray, ii. 295), the Earl of Derby at Lathom House, New Park, and Knowsley Hall (Murray, ii. 296), the Shuttleworths at Smithills and Gawthorpe Hall (Murray, ii. 393), and Francis Willoughby at Wollaton (Middleton MSS. 421). In A Mad World, my Masters, v. 1, 2, characters shamming to be Lord Owemuch's players come to Sir Bounteous Progress's, and perform The Slip, until they are interrupted by a constable.