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in these Registers, and in those of St. Bo- tolph without Aldersgate, but none of them at present can be identified as related to the dramatist. " Christopher Monday, ser- vant w fc Stephen Atkingson, Cowper," buried at St. Giles's in 1604, and Anthony Maundy, who was married at St. Botolph's, in 1653, to Elizabeth Hinson, were possibly of the same family.

Anthony Munday the dramatist's son and two of his daughters were living and married in March, 1628/9. Anne, the youngest daughter, is not mentioned in her father's will, and so was probably dead.

The writer in the ' D.N.B.' suggests that Anthony's son Richard was " perhaps Richard Munday the painter-stainer, whose heraldic labours are recorded in the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. (1529-1577)."

The records of the Drapers' Company prove this to have been so. The following entry occurs in the Freedom List and in the Quarterage Book for the year 1612 :

" Mundaye Richard filius Munday Anthony per patrimonium. A Paynterstayner by S* Buttolphe without Aldersgate."

Of this Richard little is known. The Registers of St. Botolph without Aiders- gate do not contain any entries relating to him. He was living in 1634, when he lent Harl. MS. 1531 to George Owen, York Herald, for the visitation of co. Beds in that year. It is stated in the ' Index ' ^to the Harl. MSS. that an heraldic book (No. 1530) was "written and tricked by Mr. Giles Campion the Painterstainer, into whose hands the books of Mr. Richard Munday came.'''

Anthony Munday's will (transcribed from the original, which varies somewhat from the official copy in the books at Somerset House) is sufficiently interesting to be quoted verbatim. It is noteworthy that he here spells his own name " Mundy," in distinc- tion to " Munday," which is the form on the title-pages of all his publications. The MS. of his play ' John a Kent and John a Cumbar,' however, follows the form in the will. Francis Meres, writing in 1595, refers to " Anthony Mundye, our best plotter."

" In the name of God Amen I Anthoney Mundy Citizen and Draper of London beinge verie weake and feeble but sound and secure both in mynd & Soule I hartely thancke my Lord God for it, Doe thus ordaine this my last Will and Testament, First, and the most materiall thinge to be remem- bred, I give and comend my Soule to God that made it, to my blessed Savour that Redeemed it, and to the blessed Spirit that sanctified it, trust- ing in this sacred Trinitie, to have a happie resur- rection at the latter day. Next, whatsoever I

enjoye in this world is whollie my deare and loveinge wifes, as being at the first her owne r And I fayleinge of such fortunes (amountinge to Fortie or fiftie poundes yearlie) w h here to fore maintayned me and my former Charge sub- stancially, and whereof I made her a perticuler promise, I have the greater reason to deprive- her of nothinge, but if it were a Thousand tymes- more then it is, I doe t hi nek all to little for her Creatinge her my said wife Gillian my sole and absolute Executrix, and referinge my funeral! affaires whollie to her disposicon, not doub tinge but shee will see them effectuallie performed in. what place soever. As for my Sonne Richard Mundy, and my two daughters Elizabeth and Pricilla, being all married haveing had their severall portions already in bountyfull manner, and not knoweinge in what poore condition I married with this my present wife (haveing& indeed deceaved myselfe and her to benefitt them) their expectation from me can be nothinge, because they live in as good (if not better estate) then I did. Nevertheless, to shewe that I forgot t them not, I have allowed my Wife Twelve pence apeece for each of them, which they maye take as a love token rather then in any respect of need they have. And thus expectinge when my happie dissolucon shall be, and to be laid in the bedd of death for perpetual repose, I end with my blessed Saviour's wordes on the Crosse : In Manu tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum. Dated the Nyneteenth day of March Anno D'ni 1628. An: Mundy. Sealed delivered published and declared the daie and yeare abovesaid by the said Anthony Mundy for and as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us Tho: Griff yn,, S cr, & William Vintner."

According to the parish register Anthony Munday was buried in the church of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, on 9 Aug., 1633. The entry is as follows :

9 th day of August."
 * ' Anthony Munday haberdasher buried the-

His will was proved five days later (in the Commissary Court, of London) by his widow, Gillian Munday.

The monument erected to his memory in the church of St. Stephen was destroyed in the Fire of London, but the lengthy epi- taph which eulogizes him as an antiquary rather than as a dramatist is recorded in Stow's ' Survey ' of 1633, an earlier edition of which Munday had himself edited and contributed to. This monument must have been erected within five months of Munday's death to be noted in the ' Survey ' of 1633. If the inscription is correctly quoted, it erred in giving 10 Aug. as the date of death.

Sir John Mundy (Lord Mayor of London in 1522, d. 1537) is stated in some pedigrees to have had a son Christopher, but he does not name him in his will. The only known relative of Anthony Munday, with the exception of his father, his second wife, and his children, is one William Hall, who wrote-