Thus, in 1652, Beaumont and Fletcher's "Wild Goose Chase" was printed in folio, "for the public use of all the ingenious, and the private benefit of John Lowin and Joseph Taylor, servants to his late Majesty, and by them dedicated to the honoured few lovers of dramatic poesy: wherein they modestly intimate their wants, and that with sufficient cause, for whatever they were before the wars, they were afterwards reduced to a necessitous condition." Pollard, possessed of some means, withdrew to his relatives in the country, and there ended his days peacefully.
Perkins and Sumner lodged humbly together in Clerkenwell, and were interred in that parish.

None of these unfortunate old actors lived to see the re-opening of the theatres or the restoration of the monarchy.
But one actor is known to have sided with the Parliament and against the King.

He renounced the stage and took up the trade of a jeweller in Aldermanbury.

This was Swanston who had played Othello, and had been described as "a brave roaring fellow, who would make the house shake again." "One wretched actor only," Mr.Gifford writes, in the introduction to his edition of Massinger, "deserted his sovereign." But it may be questioned whether Swanston really merited this reprehension.

He was a Presbyterian, it seems, and remained true to his political opinions, even though these now involved the abandonment of his profession.