Nicholas Skeres

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Nicholas Skeres (also Skyers ) was a late 16th century English historical figure and a spy.

Little information is available about him. According to Phelippes , an experienced decipherer and secretary of Francis Walsingham , he belonged to the state network ( knot ) of the Babington conspiracy , but probably played a minor role there and is also counted among the agents and spies around Robert Poley . The character traits of historians mark him negatively. (Cutpurse and masterless men, ruffian, shoody rascal, gentleman swindler, and to Leslie Hotson , EK Chambers and others). He is said to have been a partner of Ingram Frizer as a moneylender and to have served the Earl of Essex (1566-1601). Besides Robert Poley and Ingram Frizer, he became known for his presence as one of the three witnesses at the death of Christopher Marlowe .

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  • Cal. Scot. Papers, VIII, p. 584
  • Ethel Seaton: Marlowe, Robert Poley, and the Tippings . In: The Review of English Studies . 1929
  • S. Boas: Marlowe and His Circle: A Biographical Survey . In: The Review of English Studies . 1931
  • Eugénie de Kalb: Robert Poley's Movements as a Messenger of the Court, 1588 to 1601 . In: The Review of English Studies . 1933
  • Julia Norton McCorkle: Nicholas Skeres, Elisabethan Gentleman Swindler . Presentation 1939 Univ. Southern California
  • Lane Furdell: The Death of Christopher Marlowe . In: Sixteenth Century Journal . 1996
personal data
SURNAME Skeres, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skyers, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION english spy
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century