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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY 20, 1907.

1618. 10*. given to the earl of Sussex his plaiers.

1619. 12 April the Jury presented - Moore, .gent., and others of the company of Princess Eliza- .beth s players, because when they prolonged "ther playes vntill xi of the clocke in the Blue-Boore in "Maldon, Mr. Baylyff coming and requesting them to breake off ther play so that the companye might departe," they called Baylyff Frauncis " foole," " to the great disparagement of the government " of the borough.

1620. 0-5. to the Prince's players coming to this towne this year.

1621. 25 March, 20s. to the Prince's players. 25 August, 10*. to the Prince's players.

1622. Maldon documents, bundle 405, No. x., is a long letter from Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamber- lain, about abuses " committed by diverse and sundry companyes of stage-players," &c.

1622. 6s. 8d. to the King's majestie's players coming to the town this year.

1623. 30-5. given at severall times to the King's maiestie's players coming to the town this year.

For wine and sugar given to Mr. Daynes and - other gentlemen when his scholars did last act a comedy in the grammar schple, 2s. 2d.

1624. 20*. given to the Prince's players comming to the towne this yere.

20*. likewise given to the players of the Lady Elizabeth comming to the towne this yere.

1625. 11s. given unto the players of the now kinge his father (our then Sovereign lord) livinge, when they came unto the towne in the begininge of the yere.

10*. in like sort given unto the players of the said late kinge deceased, comminge unto the towne whilst yet he lived.

1626. 10*. given unto his maiestie's players this yere at there commyng to towne and proferinge to playe here.

1630. To the King's majesty's players, 6s.

1635. vs. given by like [i.e., the bailiffs'] appoint- mant to players that called themselves Children of his Maiestie's revells.

And vis. viiicZ. by Mr. Bailiffs' appointment given to players this yeere not to shewe their playes in this towne.

A. CLARK.

Great Leighs Rectory, Chelmsford.

PYKE OR PIKE FAMILIES OF LONDON AND GREENWICH.

AMONG the earliest recorded references to the family of Pyke in London is, perhaps, the will of Alexander Pyke, dated at London, " Monday next after the Feast of St. Kathe- rine, Virgin [25 Nov.], A.D. 1329," Roll 58 (116). The testator made bequests: "to A vice his wife his capital tenement in the parish of St. Dunstan [East], London, for life ; remainder to Nicholas and John his sons " (cf. ' Calendar of Wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, 1258-1688,' London, 1889, part i. p. 362). The surname Pyke is, however, of much earlier occurrence in other parts of England.

The present note deals chiefly with the family or families so named who resided in

or near London during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We find in ' The Visitation of London, 1634 and 1635,' printed for the Harleian Society, 1883 (vol. ii. p. 183), a pedigree of one Edward Pyke, dyer, of Queenhithe Ward, London, living 1634, descended from Phillip Pyke, of Banwell, Somerset. Edward Pyke had issue living in 1634 : Michaell, Jheremiah, Nathaniell, and Anne (ibid.).

There is a will of one Michael Pyke, of Cranley, Surrey, clerk, dated 20 Feb., 1681 ; proved 10 Oct., 1680 (P.C.C., Reg. Cottle, 120), which mentions :

"daughter, Dorothy Pery, wife of Capt. William Pery, of Thorpe, Surrey; daughter Eliz. Atfeild, wife of Ambrose Atfeild, of St. Leonard, Shore- ditch, D.D. ; daughter Mary Trotman, wife of Edward Trotman ; sister-in-law Anne Hoult, sister of my late wife. Messuages in Gunpowder Alley and in Boweshead Alley, London. Five pounds to poor of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch."

"Ambrose Atfeild was vicar of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, from Mar. 1, 1665/6, to 1683, and rector of St. Mary, Somerset, Oct. 21, 1676, to 1683. He died Mar. 11, 1683/4. His will is in register Hare, fp. 37. Michael Pike, clerk, was patron of the living of St. Mary, Somerset."

Edward Trotman, of Hackney, Middlesex, gent., and Mary Pike, of St. Leonard', Shoreditch, were licensed to marry 4 July, 1676 (cf. Harl. Soc., vol. xxiii. p. 256).

Edmund Pyke, of St. Leonard's, East- cheap, London, draper, aged twenty-four, and Hanna Hopkinson, of St. Mary, Wool- church, were granted a marriage licence 24 Feb., 1679/80 (ibid., vol. xxx. p. 23). Perhaps the bridegroom was related to the Edmund Pyke, of London, haberdasher, who, with others, in 1653-4, participated in a " draw for a barony " (Decies) in county Waterford, Ireland (cf. 10 S. vi. 207).

"Richard Pyke, Senr., of All Hallowes Stayn- ings, Lond., poulterer, widr., abt. 67, and Judith Harvey, of the Armitage Bridge, Lond., wid., abt. 62, were licensed to marry Dec. 19, 1674, at St. Olave's, Hart St., Lond." Cf. Harl. Soc., vol. xxiv. p. 131.

This Richard Pyke, sen., was probably the father (by a previous marriage) of Richard Pyke, poulterer, of the same parish, whose daughter married Francis Halley, a first ousin of Dr. Edmond Halley, the second Astronomer Royal of England (cf. 10 S. v. 266 ; vii. 264). The will of the younger Richard follows :

"Richard Pyke, late citizen and poulterer of London, and now of Chelmsford, Essex ; to dau. Jane, wife of Edward Day; to son William Pyke; to granddaughters Mary Bland and Jane Day; grandson Richard Jones. Residue to son William Pyke. Dated Nov. 18, 1726 ; proved Dec. 2, 1726." Ex Commissary Court of London ; Essex and Herts, 1726, folio 271, wills.