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 DRUSIANO. Vide.

DUKE, JOHN. Strange's (?), 1590-1; Chamberlain's, 1598; Worcester's-Anne's, 1602-9. Four children were baptized at St. Leonard's, where he lived in Holywell Street, from July 1604 to January 1609 (H. ii. 265; Collier, Actors, xxxi).

DULANDT (DOWLAND?), ROBERT. Musician in Germany, 1623.

DUTTON, EDWARD. Admiral's, 1597, with a boy 'Dick'. Children of his were baptized at St. Saviour's during 1600-2 (B. 326).

DUTTON, JOHN. Warwick's, 1575-6; Oxford's, 1580; Queen's, 1583, 1588-91. Lincoln's Inn paid him for musicians in 1567-8 (Walker, i. 362). There are family records of a John Dutton at St. Botolph's, who is called 'player' in the entry of a daughter Elizabeth's baptism of 3 July 1586 (B. 328).

DUTTON, LAURENCE. Lane's, 1571-2; Clinton's, 1572-5; Warwick's, 1575-6; Oxford's, 1580; Queen's, 1589-91. It is curious that a John and a Laurence Dutton also appear as Court Messengers. I find a payment on 23 May 1578 to John for carrying letters to Antwerp (Pipe Office, Chamber Declared Account 541, m. 211^v), and Laurence was paid for 'sondry jorneys' in 1561-2 (ibid. m. 39) and was during 1576-82 one of the regular Messengers of the Chamber in attendance on the Privy Council (Dasent, ix. 223, x. 223, 228, xi. 437, xii. 23, xiii. 135, 392, etc.). The 'Edward' Dutton of the last entry may be an error. In 1592 the Council (xxii. 493) recommended John the son of Laurence who had 'of long tyme served her Majestie' as Messenger, for admission as a Queen's Scholar at Westminster. But this Laurence can hardly have been the actor, for he was acting as Messenger on 20 May 1580, while the affray for which Laurence the actor had been committed to the Marshalsea on 13 April was still uninquired into. Somewhat earlier a Thomas Dutton was employed as a post between Edward VI's Council and Thomas Gresham in Antwerp, and was Gresham's agent in Hamburg, c. 1571 (Burgon, Gresham, i. 109; ii. 421). It is easier again to conjecture than to prove a connexion between the actors and the house of Dutton of Dutton, which had a hereditary jurisdiction over minstrelsy in Cheshire (cf. ch. ix), although in this the names John and Laurence both appear. It is perhaps an accident that two of the recorded visits of the Queen's men to Lord Derby's northern seats in 1588-90 synchronize with visits by a Mr. Dutton (Murray, ii. 296).

ECCLESTONE, WILLIAM, appears as a King's man in the casts of The Alchemist (1610) and Catiline (1611). Mr. Fleay's statement that he joined the company from the Queen's Revels in 1609 rests upon a confusion with Field. In 1611 he became a member of the Lady Elizabeth's men, but left them in 1613 after playing in ''The Honest Man's Fortune'' during that year. He returned to the King's, and his name is found in the official lists of the company for 1619 and 1621 and in most of the casts of their plays, from Bonduca in 1613-14 to The Spanish Curate in 1622, as well as in the First Folio list of performers in Shakespeare's plays. Nicholas Tooley forgave him a debt