[205]My brother Tom searcht the register of Wilton from the beginning and talk't with old men. Philip Massinger was not buried there; but his wife dyed at Cardiffe in Wales, to whom the earl of Pembroke payd an annuity.
[206]This day I searched the register of St. Saviour's, Southwark, by the playhouse then there, vulgo St. Mary's Overy's; and find Philip Massinger buryed March 18th, 1639. I am enformed at the place where he dyed, which was by the Bankes side neer the then playhouse, that he was buryed about the middle of the Bullhead-churchyard—i.e. that churchyard (for there are four) which is next the Bullhead taverne, from whence it has its denomination. He dyed about the 66th yeare of his age: went to bed well, and dyed suddenly—but not of the plague.
Thomas May (1595-1650).
[207]He stood candidate for[208] the laurell after B. Jonson; but Sir William Davenant caried it—
manet alta mente repostum,
perhaps.
A great acquaintance of Tom Chaloner. Would, when inter pocula, speake slightingly of the Trinity.
Shammed[209].
Amicus: Sir Richard Fanshawe. Mr. <Emanuel> Decretz heard (was present at) the debate at their parting before Sir Richard went to the king, where both camps were most rigorously banded[210].