[762] Mentzel, 23.
[763] Cf. vol. i, p. 343.
[764] Sh.-Jahrbuch, xxi. 247.
[765] Archiv, xiv. 116.
[766] Mentzel, 25.
[767] Henslowe, i. 29.
[768] Cohn, xxxiii, xxxviii; Goedeke, ii. 519; Herz, 8. A conventional clown, variously called ‘Jahn Clam’, ‘Jahn Posset’, ‘Jahn der Engelländische Narr’, &c., also appears in plays, from 1596 onwards, by Jacob Ayrer of Nuremberg, who has other debts, including the ‘jig’, to the English players (Cohn, lxi; Goedeke, ii. 545).
[769] Sh.-Jahrbuch, xxiii. 103.
[770] Archiv, xii. 320; xiii. 316; xiv. 118; xv. 115; Mentzel, 26, 37. Herz, 34, points out that about this date the Duke of Brunswick’s Ehebrecherin and Vincentius Ladislaus were played in Frankfort, probably by these men. They are referred to at length by Marx Mangoldt, Markschiffs-Nachen (1597), in a passage beginning:
Da war nun weiter mein Intent,