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Who were Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley at the Deptford lodging house?
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Christopher Marlowe
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.
At the lodging house in Deptford on May 30, 1593, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley were present in the company of Christopher Marlowe and Ingram Frizer. Both Skeres and Poley are identified as con artists who had spent most of the day with the poet before he was killed by Frizer during an alleged dispute over the bill.12