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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 992 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS

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Lee, 285, citing (a) manuscript notes by Ralph Brooke on William Dethick's grants of arms, in which both Shakespeare and Cowley appear in a list of persons given arms on false pretences, and (b) a manuscript Discourse of the Causes of Discord amongst the Officers of Arms by William Smith, Rougedragon, 'Phillipps the player had graven in a gold ring the armes of Sʳ Wᵐ Phillipp, Lord Bardolph, with the said L. Bardolphs cote quartred, which I shewed to Mʳ York [Brooke, York Herald] at a small gravers shopp in Foster Lane.... Pope the player would have no other armes but the armes of Sʳ Tho. Pope, Chancelor of yᵉ Augmentations'.

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