SMITH, JOHN. Revels, 1609.
SMYGHT, WILLIAM. A ‘player’ who witnessed a loan from Philip to Francis Henslowe on 1 June 1595 (H. i. 6; ii. 312).
SOMERSET, GEORGE. Admiral’s, 1601–2. See also John Wilson.
SOUTHEY, THOMAS. Interluders, 1547–56.
SOUTHYN, ROBERT. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).
SPENCER, GABRIEL. Chamberlain’s (?), 1597; Pembroke’s, 1597; Admiral’s, 1598. He was slain by Ben Jonson (cf. ch. xxiii) on 22 September 1598, and was buried on the next day but one at St. Leonard’s, where the register records him as from Hogge Lane (Collier, Actors, xxii). On 3 December 1596 a coroner’s inquest found that he had himself slain James Feake with a rapier in the house of Richard East, barber, in St. Leonard’s (Jeaffreson, i. xlv, 234). Henslowe sometimes describes him merely as ‘Gabriel’, and under this name Heywood praises him (H. ii. 312).
SPENCER, JOHN. Germany, 1605–23. He was known by the clown-name of Hans Stockfisch.
SQUIRE, LAWRENCE. Master of Chapel, 1486–93.
STEVENS, THOMAS. Denmark-Germany, 1586–7.
STOKEDALE, EDMUND. A London player in 1550 (cf. App. D, No. v).