=Richard Knolles= (154- -1610).
[93]<The> author of the battaile of Lepanto[94] <was> hangd at Tyburne;
he was reduced to such necessity.
The lord Burleigh, when he read <Richard> Knolls' Turkish history was
particularly extremely pleased at the discription of the battail of
Lepanto; sent for Knolles, who told him an ingeniose young man came
to him, hearing what he was about, and desired that he might write
that, having been in that action. I thinke he has taught schoole about
Sandwych.
My lord hunted after him, and traced him from place to place, and at
last to Newgate. He was hanged but a 14 night before. He unluckily lost
a good opportunity of being preferred--<from> Mr. Smyth, Magd. Coll.
=John Lacy= (16-- -1681).
[95]John Lacy, player, of the King's house, borne at ... neer Doncaster
in Yorkshire. Came to London to the ... playhouse, 1631. His master
was.... Apprentice (as were also ... and Isaac) to Mr. John Ogilby.
B. Jonson tooke a note of his Yorkshire words and proverbes for his
_Tale of a Tub_, several 'Gad kettlepinns!'
1642 vel 3, lievetenant and quartermaster to the lord Gerard[96]. Vide
Dr. Earles' Character of a Player.
He was of an elegant shape, and fine[97] complexion.
His majestie (Charles IIᵈ) haz severall pictures of this famous
comoedian at Windsore and Hampton Court in the postures of severall
parts that he acted, e.g., Teag, Lord Vaux, the Puritan.
He dyed of.... He made his _exit_ on Saturday September 17th 1681, and
was buryed in the farther churchyard of St. Martyn's in the fields on
the Monday following, aged....
_Scripsit_ these comoedies: that is to say,
...
...
=Edward Lane= (1605-1685).
[98]Edward Lane, who wrote against ... Du Moulin[P]: the title of his
booke is ..., London, printed for W. Crooke, A.D....