There is a notable gap in our knowledge of Marmion's career between, roughly, 1624 and I629. On I I July of the latter year, a criminal indictment was brought against him by the Middlesex Grand Jury, charging the dramatist-to-be with having assaulted one Edward Moore in 'the highway of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields co. Midd.' and having given him 'on the left part of his head a serious wound of which he has languished from the said I Ith July to the day of the taking of this inquisition, to wit, I September' [I629].1 W. W. Greg, who examined the records of the case, which are preserved at the Guildhall Library, noted that Marmion apparently did not appear, thus forfeiting his bail, posted at forty pounds. The dramatist's father put up twenty pounds of the bail money and one Richard Browne a like amount. The Bill of i September I629, Greg noted, is marked 'extra' in the margin, which he tells us means still at large.2 In the Middlesex indictment, Marmion is described as 'late of the said parish [that is, St Giles's] gentleman' and he may have been resident in that parish, a notoriously disreputable one, for some time. It need only be noted in passing that his three known plays reveal a considerable familiarity with the low life of the London suburbs. However, the point that I wish to make is that on the basis of new evidence, it is unlikely that the Middlesex criminal indictment was an isolated incident, for Marmion may already have been an outlaw as early as I624. A rapid summary of the few known facts about Marmion, barring those of birth and early education, will serve to prelude the new criminal charge. For these facts we are almost entirely dependent on Anthony a Wood, who informs us, in the augmented life of Marmion published in the second edition of the Athenae Oxonienses of 1721, that the dramatist became 'a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. [Oxford] in 1617'.3 There is no record of his admittance at this date, but Wood's statement is in all likelihood based on the fact that Marmion's caution money was received on 28 April I6i6.4 Upon matriculation from Wadham College, he subscribed to the Thirty-Nine Articles on I6 February I621, spelling his name 'Shakerly Marmion' in a graceful Italian hand.5 His B.A. is dated I March I622 and his M.A. 7 July I624.6 The editor of The Registers of Wadham College, R. B. Gardiner, tells us that