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 all the Triumphs showne in honour of his Royall Creation. ''Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer.'' [Middleton's name follows the account of the 'entertainment'.]

ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY (c. 1556-c. 1610).

A Scottish poet (cf. D. N. B.) who has been suggested as the author of Philotus (cf. ch. xxiv).

ROGER MORRELL (c. 1597).

Possibly the author of the academic Hispanus (cf. App. K).

RICHARD MULCASTER (c. 1530-1611).

A contributor to the Kenilworth entertainment (cf. ch. xxiv, C). For his successive masterships of Merchant Taylors and St. Paul's, see ch. xii.

ANTHONY MUNDAY (c. 1553-1633).

Anthony was son of Christopher Munday, a London Draper. He 'first was a stage player' (A True Report of M. Campion, 1582), but in Oct. 1576 was apprenticed for eight years to John Allde, stationer. Allde went out of business about 1582, and Munday never completed his apprenticeship, probably because his ready pen found better profit in the purveyance of copy for the trade. He began by a journey to Rome in 1578-9, and brought back material for a series of attacks upon the Jesuits, to one of which A True Report of M. Campion is an answer. According to the anonymous author, Munday on his return to England 'did play extempore, those gentlemen and others whiche were present, can best giue witnes of his dexterity, who being wery of his folly, hissed him from his stage. Then being thereby discouraged, he set forth a balet against playes, but yet (o constant youth) he now beginnes againe to ruffle upon the stage'. For the ballad there is some corroborative evidence in a S. R. entry of 10 Nov. 1580 (cf. App. C, No. xxvi), which, however, does not name Munday, and it is a possible conjecture that he also wrote the Third Blast of Retrait from Plaies issued in the same year (cf. App. C, No. xxvii). If so, he was already, before 1580, doing work as a playwright; but of this, with the doubtful exception of the anonymous ''Two Italian Gentlemen'' (q.v.), there is no other evidence for another fifteen years. His experiences as an actor may have been with the company of the Earl of Oxford, whose 'servant' he calls himself in his ''View of Sundry Examples'' (1580). From 1581 he was employed by Topcliffe and others against recusants, and as a result became, possibly by 1584 and certainly by 1588, a Messenger of the Chamber. He still held this post in 1593, and was employed as a pursuivant to execute the Archbishop of Canterbury's warrants against Martin Marprelate in 1588. J. D. Wilson (M. L. R. iv. 489) suggests that he may also have taken a hand in the literary and dramatic controversy, as 'Mar-Martin, John a Cant: his hobbie-horse', who 'was to his reproche, newly put out of the morris, take it how he will; with a flat discharge for euer