@article {3166887, title = {Beware the Cat: Gregory Stremer\&$\#$39;s Westminster Connection}, journal = {Notes and Queries}, volume = {70}, year = {2023}, pages = {243-246}, abstract = {Archival discoveries reported in\ Notes and Queries\ in the past two years have identified the {\textquoteleft}M Streamer{\textquoteright} who narrates most of William Baldwin{\textquoteright}s prose satire\ Beware the Cat\ (1561) with the real historical figure of Gregory Stremer, contradicting a long-held belief that Baldwin{\textquoteright}s narrator was a fiction.The present note sheds another glint of light on Stremer{\textquoteright}s London life. It further establishes him as a living person rather than a confection, and suggests that a connection to Westminster is possible after all, perhaps on precisely the {\textquoteleft}semi-formal or independent basis{\textquoteright} that Parsons conjectures.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjad086}, author = {Lazarus, Micha} }