Thomas Cardell or Cardall (died 1621) was a musician and dancing master specialising in playing the lute who served Elizabeth I and Anne of Denmark.
[1] Cardell joined the court of Queen Elizabeth in 1574, as dancing master and lutenist, in the place of the Italian musician Jasper Gaffoyne.
[5] The Earl of Rutland gave £3 to "Mr Cardewell" and 10 shillings to his boy as a New Year's Day gift in 1599 for teaching his sister Elizabeth Manners to dance.
Cardell attended Anne and her daughter Princess Elizabeth in their progress to the west of England for 109 days during the plague in the autumn of 1603.
[13] An account book, written by Anne Livingstone, Countess of Eglinton, or Elizabeth herself, details expenses in the Princess' household.
[19] In 1640 the role of Thomas Cardell as a dancer at Queen Elizabeth's court was evoked in a play by William Cavendish and James Shirley, The Varietie, by a character called "Manly" who danced an old fashioned volta in vintage costume.