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Invisible Evidence: Finding Musicians in the Archives of the Inns of Court, 1446–1642

The archives of the Inns of Court have been described as ‘a historical no-man's land’, occasionally dipped into only by ‘antiquaries’ on the one hand and ‘domestic chroniclers’ on the other. To these two categories might be added theatre-historians and musicologists, since we have long known that many of the leading playwrights of the Tudor-Stuart period were members of the Inns, and that their colleagues there were prodigious consumers as well as producers of music, dance and drama. Yet it has been difficult to reach any accurate conclusions about the archival evidence in the Inns because it has never been published in editions that are both reliable and complete.