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 1602 he had a loan from Henslowe, and during the winter of 1602-3 he was certainly one of Worcester's men. The dates do not lend support to the suggestion of Fleay, ii. 20, that he had already in 1599-1600 been at the Rose with Pembroke's men. After the end of Elizabeth's reign he is not traceable, and he is mentioned as dead in Heywood, Apology (c. 1608), and dead or retired in Dekker, Gull's Hornbook (1609), 11, 'Tarlton, Kemp, nor Singer, nor all the litter of fools that now come drawling behind them, never played the clown more naturally.' A William Kempe is recorded in token-books of St. Saviour's, Southwark, as living in Samson's Rents in 1595, 1596, 1598, and 1599, in Langley's New Rents in 1602, and later near the old playhouse (Collier, iii. 351, and Bodl.; Rendle, Bankside, xxvi). Collier, but not Rendle, gives the date '1605' for the last entry, probably with a view to supporting his notice of Kempe, as playing with Armin at the Blackfriars (q.v.) in 1605, which is doubtless a fabrication. On the other hand, though the date is plausible, the notice of 'Kempe a man' as buried at St. Saviour's on 2 November 1603 (Rendle, xxvii) is not so worded as to be absolutely conclusive. The name was a common one, and Collier, Actors, xxxvi, gives notices of it from other parishes. In T. Weelkes, Ayres on Phantasticke Sprites (1608), it is said of Kempe that 'into France He took pains to skip it'. His visit to Venice and meeting with Sherley are dramatized in Travels of Three English Brothers (1607) and apparently misdated after the Englands Joy of November 1602. Finally, an epitaph upon him is in R. Braithwaite, Remains after Death (1618), sig. 8^v, which suggests that he died not long after his morris. KENDALL, THOMAS. Blackfriars manager, 1602; Revels patentee, 1604. He died in 1608. KENDALL, WILLIAM. Admiral's, 1597-8; Henry's-Palsgrave's, >1614. His son John was baptized at St. Saviour's, Southwark, on 5 January 1615 (Bodl.). KEYSAR, ROBERT. Revels manager, 1606-10 (?); Blackfriars lessee, 1606-8. To him was written the epistle to K. B. P.

KING, ARTHUR. Berkeley's, 1581.

KING, THOMAS. Denmark-Germany, 1586-7.

KINGMAN (KINGSMAN), PHILIP. Germany, 1596; Porter's Hall patentee, 1615. 'M^r Kyngman the elder' was a witness for Henslowe on 16 April 1599 (H. i. 205).

KINGSMAN, ROBERT. Germany, 1599, 1601; afterwards a tradesman in Strassburg, 1606 (?), 1618, 1626.

KIRCK (KIRCKMANN), JOHN. Denmark, 1579-80.

KIRKHAM, EDWARD. Chapel manager, 1602; Revels patentee, 1604-6. He is probably the Yeoman of the Revels (cf. ch. iii).

KITE, JOHN. Gentleman of Chapel, 1508; afterwards Abp. of Armagh.

KNAGGES, RICHARD. Of Moorsham, Yorks, unlicensed player, 1612 (cf. ch. ix, p. 305).

KNELL, WILLIAM (?). Queen's, >1588. A Rebecca, widow of William Knell, married John Heminges (q.v.), 10 March 1588.