federates, abusing the authority and trust by Your
Highness to him, the said Nathaniel Giles, and his deputy or
deputies, by Your Highness's said letters patents given and
reposed, hath, sithence Your Majesty's last free and general
pardon, most wrongfully, unduly, and unjustly taken diverse
and several children from diverse and sundry schools of
learning and other places, and apprentices to men of trade
from their masters, no way fitting for Your Majesty's
service in or for your Chapel Royal, but the children have
so taken and employed in acting and furnishing of the said
plays and interludes, so by them complotted and agreed to
be erected, furnished, and maintained, against the wills of
the said children, their parents, tutors, masters, and
governors, and to the no small grief and oppressions [of]
Your Majesty's true and faithful subjects. Amongst which
numbers, so by the persons aforesaid and their agents so
unjustly taken, used and employed, they have unduly taken
and so employed one John Chappell, a grammar school scholar
of one Mr. Spykes School near Cripplegate, London; John
Motteram, a grammar scholar in the free school at
Westminster; Nathaniel Field, a scholar of a grammar school
in London kept by one Mr. Monkaster;[318] Alvery Trussell,
an apprentice to one Thomas Gyles; one Phillipp Pykman and
[one] Thomas Grymes, apprentices to Richard and George
Chambers; Salmon Pavy,[319] apprentice to one Peerce; being
children no way able or fit for singing, nor by any the said
confederates endeavoured to be taught to sing, but by them,
the said confederates, abusively employed, as aforesaid,
only in plays and interludes.[320]

[Footnote 316: _Ibid._, p. 234. Note that Evans is not to "continue" a
troupe there, as Fleay and Wallace believe, but to "erect" one.]

[Footnote 317: Possibly Robinson and the "others" were merely
deputies.]

[Footnote 318: Field became later famous both as an actor and
playwright. His portrait is preserved at Dulwich College.]

[Footnote 319: Salathiel Pavy, whose excellent acting is celebrated in
Jonson's tender elegy, quoted in part below.]

[Footnote 320: Star Chamber Proceedings, printed in full by Fleay,
_op. cit._, p. 127.]

In spite of the obvious animosity inspiring Clifton's words, we get
from his complaint a clear notion of how Evans and