On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed by Ingram Frizer (the business agent of Thomas Walsingham, who was the cousin of spymaster Francis Walsingham), in the company of two con artists, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley, at a lodging house in Deptford, outside London, where they had spent most of the day and where, it was alleged, a fight had broken out between them over the bill.