ABSTRACT
FROM January 14th, 1634, when the King and Queen witnessed A Tale of a Tub, to August 6th, 1637, when Jonson died, the personal glimpses are few. The King, in September, 1634, commanded the City aldermen to restore his pension as City chronologer. On New Year’s Day and on the King’s birthday, 1635, the poet expressed his gratitude to King Charles for the last time. On November 20th of the same year he lost his only surviving son, for whom he had secured the reversion of his post as Master of the Revels not yet inherited from Sir John Astley.
