The Four Prentices of London is an Elizabethan play by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Heywood, thought to have originated c. 1592.
[1] The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 19 June 1594, under the title Godfrey of Bouillon and the Conquest of Jerusalem, but was not published until 1615.
The old Earl of Boloigne has four sons, Godfrey, Guy, Charles, and Eustace, who are all apprentices due to his loss of his earldom by a usurper.
A Captain enrolls the four apprentices in a crusade led by Robert, Duke of Normandy, King William's son.
Guy is united with the King of France's daughter and Tancred with the apprentices' sister Bella Franca.
Heywood's play provided the primary target of the satire in Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607).