Abel Kitchin

[2] A seat was built for her at Canon's Marsh near the Cathedral, where on 7 June she watched a staged battle at the confluence of the Avon and Frome, fought between an English ship and two Turkish galleys.

The entertainment at Bristol was described in verse by Robert Naile, who mentions the Turks were played by sailors, "worthy brutes, who oft have seen their habit, form and guise".

[6] His children included; A London lawyer, Richard Kitchin of Clifford's Inn, who died in 1604, left Abel Kitchen a house in Skipton.

Richard Kitchin stood surety for Christopher Marlowe in October 1589 when the writer was a prisoner in Newgate, and he frequented the Mermaid Tavern.

[8] The second oldest bronze nail (a pedestal table where bargains were made) at The Exchange, Bristol, was a gift from Robert Kitchin, merchant and former mayor, by his will of September 1594.