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 in his presence'. According to Fuller (Worthies, iii. 139) Tarlton was born at Condover in Shropshire, and kept his father's swine there, until a servant of the Earl of Leicester, struck with his witty replies, brought him to Court. On the other hand, in the ''Three Lords and Three Ladies of London'' (1590), by his fellow Robert Wilson, Simplicity produces his picture, and says he was 'a prentice in his youth of this honorable city: when he was yoong he was leaning to the trade waterbearing: I wis he hath tossed a tankard in Cornehil er now' (sign. ^v). Halliwell (xxx) has collected a large number of allusions to Tarleton and his humours, lasting well into the middle of the seventeenth century. Taverns were named after him, and one is said to have still stood in Southwark in 1798. Much of the action of W. Percy's Cuck-Queanes and Cuckolds Errants (q. v.) takes place at the Tarlton Inn, Colchester, of which he is said to have been the 'quondam controller and induperator'. Tarlton himself speaks the prologue to the play. George Wilson, The Commendation of Cockes and Cock-fighting (1607), records that on 4 May 1602 there fought at Norwich 'a cocke called Tarleton, who was so intituled, because he alwayes came to the fight like a drummer, making a thundering noyse with his winges, which cocke fought many batels with mighty and fierce adversaries'.

TAWYER, WILLIAM. At M. N. D. v. 1. 128, F_{1} has the s. d. 'Tawyer with a Trumpet before them'. The St. Saviour's burials give in June 1625, 'William Tawier, M^r Heminges man'.

TAYLOR, JOHN. Choir Master at St. Mary's, Woolnoth, 1557; at Westminster, 1561-7.

TAYLOR, JOSEPH, is conjectured by Collier to be the Joseph Taylor who was baptized at St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe in Blackfriars on 6 February 1586, the Joseph Taylor who married Elizabeth Ingle, widow, at St. Saviour's, Southwark, on 2 May 1610, and the Joseph Taylor who is shown by the Southwark token-books as dwelling in 'M^r Langley's new rents, near the playhouse' during 1607, in Austen's Rents during 1612 and 1615, as 'gone' in 1617, and as dwelling 'near the playhouse' in 1623 and 1629, 'on the Bankside' in 1631, and in Gravel Lane during 1633. 'Joseph Taylor, player,' is entered in the St. Saviour's registers as the father of Elsabeth (bapt. 12 July 1612), Dixsye and Joseph (bapt. 21 July 1614), Jone (bapt. 11 January 1616), Robert (bapt. 1 June 1617), and Anne (bapt. 24 August 1623). On the other hand, a Joseph Taylor, not improbably a player, was living in Bishopsgate near the Spittle in 1623 (J. 347). He was a member of the Duke of York's company in 1610, but left them without the consent of his fellows for the Lady Elizabeth's in 1611, and thereby involved himself during the same year in a lawsuit with John Heminges. He is in the actor-lists of The Honest Man's Fortune (1613) and of The Coxcomb, as played by the Lady Elizabeth's men about the same date, and is also named in the text of their Bartholomew Fair (1614). There seems to have been some sort of amalgamation between the