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 1595. He was Gabriel Spencer's 'man' in 1598, and concerned in financial transactions with Henslowe during 1598-1601. He may be the same Richard Bradshaw who had a provincial company, with a licence to which his title was dubious, in 1630-33 (H. ii. 245; Murray, ii. 42, 106, 163).

BRADSTREET, JOHN. Germany, 1592-7, 1604. He ob. in 1618.

BRETTEN, WILLIAM. Chapel, >1546.

BRISTOW, JAMES. Augusten's boy, 1597; Admiral's, 1597-1602 (H. ii. 245).

BROMEHAM. Paul's, >1582.

BROWNE, EDWARD. Worcester's, 1583; Admiral's, 1602. He was a witness for Henslowe in 1599 (H. ii. 246).

BROWNE, JOHN. Interluders, 1551-63.

BROWNE, JOHN. Revels (?), 1608.

BROWNE, ROBERT. Worcester's, 1583; Holland, 1590; Germany, 1592-3, 1594 (?)-9; Derby's, 1599-1601; Germany, 1601-7; Revels patentee, 1610; Germany, 1618-20. His wife and family died at Shoreditch in the plague of 1593, but a son Robert and daughter Elizabeth were baptized at St. Saviour's on 19 October 1595 and 2 December 1599. On 11 April 1612 he wrote to Alleyn from Clerkenwell (H. P., 37, 63; B. 229; Rendle, Bankside, xxvi).

BROWNE, WILLIAM. Anne's, c. 1616.

BROWNE. It is not safe to identify the Browne whom Henslowe paid to 'feach' for the Admiral's in 1596 (H. i. 45), or the 'old Browne' who, as well as Edward, played in 1 Tamar Cham for the Admiral's in 1602 (H. P. 148), or 'Browne of the Boares head' who, according to Alleyn's wife on 21 Oct. 1603, 'is dead & dyed very pore, he went not into the countrye at all' (H. P. 59). The last may be the man whose widow married Thomas Greene (q.v.).

BRYAN, GEORGE, was one of the English company which visited Helsingör in Denmark and Dresden in Germany during 1586-7. He is one of the three actors distinguished as 'Mr.' in the plot of Tarlton's The Seven Deadly Sins as played by Strange's or the Admiral's about 1590-1, and is named in the Privy Council warrant for the travelling of Strange's in 1593. He was payee for the Chamberlain's men on 21 December 1596, but is not in the Every Man in his Humour actor-list of 1598 or traceable at any later date amongst the Chamberlain's or King's men. Probably he left to take up duty as an ordinary Groom of the Chamber, as he is found holding this post at Elizabeth's funeral in 1603 and still held it (Chamber Accounts) in 1611-13. His son George was baptized at St. Andrew's Wardrobe on 17 February 1600. He is in the Folio list of actors in Shakespeare's plays.

BUCKE, PAUL. A 'player' whose d. Sara was buried on 23 July 1580 and his bastard son Paul buried on 23 July 1599 at St. Anne's (B. 237). It is apparently his name which, for whatever reason, appears at the end of Wilson's Three Ladies of London (1584). 'Paule Bucke's praier for Sir Humfrey Gilberte' was entered in S. R. on 17 July 1578.