Master of the Revels

The list of Masters of the Revells, communicated by Dr. Rimbault in your last number, p. 143., does not answer a Query, which I entertained some months ago, with reference to the following passage from the Common-place Book of Charles, Duke of Dorset (the poet), printed in the *Gentleman's Magazine* for January, 1849:— "Master of the Revells.—Sir Henry Herbert, in a tryal he had with my father to prove the antiquity of the Master of the Revells office, produced a very old man, who deposed that a long time since a smal company of players represented a cobler and his daughters upon the stage; th…