[190] Gee, 230, in a list of deprived clergy from N. Sanders, De Visibili Monarchia (1571), 688, ‘Magistri Musices ... Prestonus in oppido Vindelisoriensi’. Can this Preston be the playwright (cf. ch. xxiii)?
[191] Rimbault, 1; Stopes, Shakespeare’s Environment, 243.
[192] Ashm. MS. 1132, f. 165a.
[193] Rimbault, 2.
[194] M. L. R. (1906), ii. 6.
[195] Cf. ch. xvii (Blackfriars).
[196] Cf. App. B.
[197] Rimbault, 3; H. M. C., Hatfield MSS. ii. 539.
[198] Rimbault, 182; Musical Antiquary, i. 30; 10 N. Q. v. 341. A Christ Church, Oxford, MS., dated 1581, assigns to Farrant (cf. ch. xxiii) a possibly dramatic lament of Panthea for the death of Abradates, beginning ‘Ah, ah, alas ye salt sea Gods’. This is assigned to Robert Parsons by Addl. MSS. 17786–91, which assign to Farrant a song which may come from a play in which Altages is a character. The writer in the Musical Antiquary thinks that a lament for Guichardo (not from either of the known Gismund texts) in the Ch. Ch. MS. is much in Farrant’s style.
[199] Ashmole, Antiquities of Berks (ed. 1723), iii. 172; cf. p. 41.