1. David Bergeron, ‘Pageants, Politics, and Patrons’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 6 (1993), 139–52: p. 142. James Knowles has critiqued such an ‘unsophisticated’ way of understanding civic pageantry: see ‘The Spectacle of the Realm: Civic Consciousness, Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Modern London’, in J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring, eds, Theatre and Government under the Early Stuarts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 157–89: p. 157.
2. David Bergeron, ‘Actors in English Civic Pageants’, Renaissance Papers (1973), 17–28: pp. 21–2. Boy actors from the children’s companies also performed in this entertainment. Revisiting his theatre days, Munday called upon John Lowin, then a well-known actor in the King’s Men and a member of the Goldsmiths himself, to perform the important speaking role of ‘Leofstane’ in the Goldsmiths’ Show of 1611.
3. See Anthony Munday, Chruso-thriambos. The Triumphs of Gold, ed. J. Pafford (London: J. Pafford, 1962), pp. 13, 54;
4. Emma Denkinger, ‘Actors’ Names in the Registers of St Botolph Aldgate’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 41 (1926), 91–109: pp. 96–7;
5. and David Bergeron, ed., Pageants and Entertainments of Anthony Munday: A Critical Edition (New York and London: Garland, 1985), p. 68.