Links of the Percys to Shakespeare actors - Kemp and Burbage

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Thomas Burbage, a nephew

and servant of Henry Percy,
9th Earl of Northumberland

(Royal Historical Society,
Household Papers of Henry Percy xxv and 150)

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Robert Percy,

a player,

went to Denmark with William Kemp
in 1586

to enter the service of
Frederick II at Elsinore.

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Notes -

is Robert Percy in the same Percy family? -
not at all likely that there were two different Percy families.

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Is Thomas Burbage really a nephew of Henry Percy? -
at any rate, he is a servant -
and the name Burbage is only one family -
the famous acting Burbages.

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