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Thomas Belt (Belte) was a boy player when he appears in the plot of [[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|"The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins"]]. Records of the Company of Grocers reveal that Belt was apprenticed to John Heminges, not only a guildsman but a leading player in the company of the Chamberlain's men. Belt was bound on 12 November 1595 for a term of nine years (Kathman, "Freemen and Apprentices," p. 8). Kathman suggests that Belt "may have been the son of a Norwich city wait (i.e., a municipal musician) of the same name who with his wife and children was expelled from Norwich on 16 November 1594, almost exactly a year before Heminges bound Belte" (p. 8)             
Thomas Belt (Belte) was a boy player when he appears in the plot of [[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|"The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins"]]. Records of the Company of Grocers reveal that Belt was apprenticed to John Heminges, who was not only a guildsman but a leading player in the company of the Chamberlain's men. Belt was bound on 12 November 1595 for a term of nine years (Kathman, "Grocers," p. 8). Kathman suggests that Belt "may have been the son of a Norwich city wait (i.e., a municipal musician) of the same name who with his wife and children was expelled from Norwich on 16 November 1594, almost exactly a year before Heminges bound Belte" ("Grocers," p. 8).              
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'''Roles'''
'''Roles'''


Servant ("Induction"), Panther ("Lechery") in [[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|"The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins"]]<br>
Servant ("Induction"), Panthea ("Lechery") in [[Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The|"The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins"]]<br>
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Thomas Belt (Belte) was a boy player when he appears in the plot of "The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins". Records of the Company of Grocers reveal that Belt was apprenticed to John Heminges, who was not only a guildsman but a leading player in the company of the Chamberlain's men. Belt was bound on 12 November 1595 for a term of nine years (Kathman, "Grocers," p. 8). Kathman suggests that Belt "may have been the son of a Norwich city wait (i.e., a municipal musician) of the same name who with his wife and children was expelled from Norwich on 16 November 1594, almost exactly a year before Heminges bound Belte" ("Grocers," p. 8).


Roles

Servant ("Induction"), Panthea ("Lechery") in "The Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins"


Works Cited

Kathman, David. "Reconsidering The Seven Deadly Sins, Early Theatre 7.1 (2004). 13-44.
— — — "Grocers, Goldsmiths, and Drapers: Freemen and Apprentices in the Elizabethan Theater," Shakespeare Quarterly 55.1 (2004): 1-49.

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