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The quarrel was about a girl of the town. The parish record bears the entry, "Christopher Marlowe, slain by ffrancis Archer, the 1 of June 1593." M. is the father of the modern English drama, and the introducer of the modern form of blank verse. In imagination, richness of expression, originality, and general poetic and dramatic power he is inferior to Shakespeare alone among the Elizabethans.
"for a Tar Barrell and Syder." In the same year an itinerant beggar seems to have won alms from the authorities under a false ticket: "Given ffrancis Browne by consent who brought a Let pas by that name, but afterwards his name apeared to bee ffrancis Jackson 1s. 0d. "Pd. the Cryer to whip him and for thongs 1s. 1d."
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