THE OFFICE OF THE MASTER OF THE REVELS

Your esteemed correspondent, "J.G.N.," asks (p. 158.) for the meaning of the letters "C.K.M.R." and "T.S." appended to the passage he quotes from the *Common-place Book* of Charles, Duke of Dorset. I think I can tell him. "C.K.M.R." stands for *Charles Killegrew*, Master of the Revells; and "T.S." means *Thomas Skipwith*, one of the patentees of Drury Lane Theatre, who died in 1710. Sir Henry Herbert died in 1673; and his successor in the office was Thomas Killegrew. This person had previously been Sir Henry's deputy; and I am in possession of a curious list of MS. instructions, "the heads of…