_The Gentle Craft, A most merry and pleasant History, not altogether vnprofitable, nor any way hurtfull: very fit to passe away the tediousnes of the long winters euenings_, in Two Parts, 1598, 4to., is probably the first edition, for the following entry in the Stationers' Books seems to relate to it: "19^o Octobris [1597] "Raphe Blore Entred for his copie vnder thande } of Mr. Dix and Mr. Man a booke } vi^d." called The gentle crafte intreatinge } of Shoomakers.... } (_Liber_ C. fol. 25.) Verses of various kinds are inserted in these novels. P. 21, l. 7, one whose imployment for the Pageant was vtterly spent, he being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre.]--An allusion to Anthony Munday. During a long life he figured in various capacities,--as a player, an apprentice to Allde the printer, a retainer of the Earl of Oxford, a Messenger of her Majesty's Chamber, Poet to the City, dramatist, writer in verse and prose, and draper. He also excited considerable attention, and drew much trouble on himself, by his efforts in detecting the treasonable practices of the Jesuits. According to the inscription on his monument in the church of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, he died in his 80th year, August 10th 1633. (Stow's _Survey_, B. iii. 61. ed. 1720.) For a fuller account of Munday and his writings, see Chalmers's _Biog. Dict._, Collier's _Supplementary volume to Dodsley's Old Plays_, Warton's _Hist. of Engl. Poet._, iii., 290, _seq._ ed. 4to., _Ritson's Bibl. Poet._, and Lowndes's _Bibl. Man._ His _Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington_, and _Death of Robert_, &c. (in the latter of which, if not in the former, he was assisted by Chettle) are reprinted by Mr. Collier in the volume just mentioned; his _English Romayne Life; Discovering the Lives of the Englishmen at Rome, the orders of the English Seminarie, &c._ and his _Banquet of daintie Conceits, &c._ may be found in _The Harl. Miscell._ VII. 136, IX. 219, ed. Park; his _Triumphes of Reunited Britania_, _Metropolis Coronata_, and _Crysanaleia, the Golden Fishing_, are included in Nichols's _Prog. of K. James_, i. 564, iii. 107, 195; and extracts from his translations of various romances are given in Sir E. Brydges's _Brit. Bibl._ i. 225, 135, ii. 561. Gifford thinks it probable that most of the annual pageants from 1591 to the death of Elizabeth were produced by Munday (Note on B. Jonson's _Works_, vi. 328). Though Kemp declares here that his "imployment for the pageant was utterly spent," yet Anthony furnished the city shows for 1605, 1611, and (in spite of an attack made on him by Middleton in 1613--see my ed. of Middleton's _Works_, v. 219, note), for 1614, 1615, and 1616.