[249:C] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. p. 25, note 3.
[250:A] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. p. 26, note.
[250:B] Ibid. vol. xviii. p. 130, 131.
[250:C] Ibid. vol. xviii. p. 131. note 7.
[250:D] Poetaster, 1601, vide Ben Jonson's Works, fol. edit. of 1640, vol. i. p. 267.
[251:A] Apology for Actors, 1612.
[251:B] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. xi. p. 307.
[251:C] Vide Malone's note in Reed's Shakspeare, vol. xi. p. 307.
[251:D] By the statute of the 39 Eliz. any baron of the realm might license a company of players; but by the statute of first James I. "it is declared and enacted, that from thenceforth no authority given, or to be given or made, by any baron of this realm, or any other honourable personage of greater degree, unto any interlude players, minstrels, jugglers, bearward, or any other idle person or persons whatsoever, using any unlawful games or plays, to play or act, should be available to free or discharge the said persons, or any of them, from the pains and punishments of rogues, of vagabonds, and sturdy beggars, in the said statutes (those of Eliz.) mentioned."
[252:A] A character in Gammar Gurtons Needle, says Mr. Strutt, a comedy supposed to have been written A. D. 1517, declares he will go "and travel with young Goose, the motion-man, for a puppet-player."[252:E] This reference, however, is inaccurate, for after a diligent perusal of the comedy in question, no such passage is to be found.