76 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
to 1601. As young Thomas Clifton did not act, we can count but — 
thirteen known members. But Clifton does not pretend to name 
ali, and Jonson names only the principal actors in Cynthia’s 
Revels? and Poetaster.® 
All the boys here named, as well as those not named, were at 
the time of their impressment probably from nine to thirteen 
years of age.* 
*The list given by Clifton (cf. 
infra, 80°): John Chappell, John 
Motteram, Nathan ffield, Alvery 
Trussell, Phillipp Pykman, Thomas 
Grymes, Salmon Pavey, Thomas 
Clifton. 
“The principall Comoedians 
were, 
Nat. Field. Ioh. Vnderwood. 
Sal. Pavy. | Bob Baxter. 
Tho. Day. Toh. Frost.” 
—The Works of Beniamin Jonson 
(1616). 
"In the Poetaster list (idem), 
Baxter and Frost are replaced re- 
spectively by “Wil. Ostler” and 
“Tho. Marton.” The rest are the 
same. 
*This is the usual age of boy- 
choristers. Clifton gives the age 
of his son as about thirteen at the 
time of impressment in 1600. Field 
(1587-1633) was then thirteen. 
Underwood, Ostler, and the boys 
mentioned by Clifton as taken up — 
‘from the various Grammar-schools 
and apprenticeships were also prob- — 
ably ten or over at taking up. Jon- © 
son’s tender epigram on Sal. Pavy, © 
who died apparently soon after act- 
ing in Poetaster, indicates he must — 
have been near the age of his fel- — 
lows. 
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