Doubtful Entertainment
For the ascription to Peele of a Theobalds entertainment in 1591, see s.v. Cecil.
JOHN PENRUDDOCK (c. 1588).
The Master ‘Penroodocke’, who was one of the directors for the Misfortunes of Arthur of Thomas Hughes (q.v.) in 1588, was presumably John Penruddock, one of the readers of Gray’s Inn in 1590, and the John who was admitted to the inn in 1562 (J. Foster, Admissions to Gray’s Inn).
WILLIAM PERCY (1575–1648).
Percy was third son of Henry Percy, eighth Earl of Northumberland, and educated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford. He was a friend of Barnabe Barnes, and himself published Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (1594). His life is obscure, but in 1638 he was living in Oxford and ‘drinking nothing but ale’ (Strafford Letters, ii. 166), and here he died in 1648.
PLAYS
[MS.] Autograph formerly in collection of the Duke of Devonshire, with t.p. ‘Comædyes and Pastoralls ... By W. P. Esq.... Exscriptum Anno Salutis 1647’. [Contains, in addition to the two plays printed in 1824, the following:
Arabia Sitiens, or A Dream of a Dry Year (1601).
The Aphrodysial, or Sea Feast (1602).