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 Loyalty and Concord, Ambition, Commonwealth, Science and Labour, Richard the Second, Jack Straw, and Commonwealth again, representing Sir William Walworth, who was evidently the chief subject of the pageant.

Edition by W. C. Hazlitt (1886, Antiquary, xiii. 54).—Dissertation: R. Withington, The Lord Mayor's Show for 1590 (1918, M.L.N. xxxiii. 8). ALEXANDER NEVILLE (1544-1614). Translator of Seneca (q.v.). THOMAS NEWTON (c. 1542-1607). Translator of Seneca (q.v.). RICHARD NICCOLS (1584-1616?). This writer of various poetical works and reviser in 1610 of The Mirror for Magistrates may have been the writer intended by the S. R. entry to Edward Blount on 15 Feb. 1612 of 'A tragedye called, The Twynnes tragedye, written by Niccolls' (Arber, iii. 478). No copy is known, and it is arbitrary of Fleay, ii. 170, to 'suspect' a revival of it in William Rider's The Twins (1655), which had been played at Salisbury Court. HENRY NOEL (ob. 1597). A younger son of Andrew Noel of Dalby on the Wolds, Leicestershire, whose personal gifts and extravagance enabled him to make a considerable figure as a Gentleman Pensioner at Court. He may have been a fellow author with Robert Wilmot (q.v.) of Gismond of Salerne, although he has not been definitely traced as a member of the Inner Temple, by whom the play was produced. THOMAS NORTON (1532-84). Norton was born in London and educated at Cambridge and the Inner Temple. In 1571 he became Remembrancer of the City of London, and also sat in Parliament for London. Apparently he is distinct from the Thomas Norton who acted from 1560 as counsel to the Stationers' Company. He took part in theological controversy as a Calvinist, and was opposed to the public stage (cf. App. D, No. xxxi). In 1583 he escaped with some difficulty from a charge of treason. His first wife, Margaret, was daughter, and his second, Alice, niece of Cranmer. Ferrex and Porrex, or Gorboduc. 28 Jan. 1562

S. R. 1565-6. 'A Tragdie of Gorboduc where iij actes were Wretten by Thomas Norton and the laste by Thomas Sackvyle, &c.' ''William Greffeth'' (Arber, i. 296).

1565, Sept. 22. The Tragedie of Gorboduc, Where of three Actes were wrytten by Thomas Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas