[1022] Henslowe Papers, 90, 93; cf. ch. xiii (Prince Charles's).
[1023] Henslowe Papers, 67, 70.
[1024] Henslowe, ii. 19.
[1025] Similar methods were employed by Henslowe's rival, Francis Langley, at the Swan (q.v.) in 1597. He provided apparel for a company, and was allowed for it out of their 'moytie of the gains for the seuerall standinges in the galleries of the said howse which belonged to them'. Having quarrelled with the company before he was completely reimbursed, he kept the apparel. He took individual bonds to play with him for three years, released some of the company from their bonds, and sued the rest, who could not play without their fellows, for breach of contract.
[1026] J. Hall, Virgedemiarum (1597), i. 3, appears to satirize performances by amateurs 'upon a hired stage'; cf. p. 361.
[1027] Similarly in Keysar v. Burbadge (1610) the pleadings of Robert Keysar grossly exaggerated the profits of the Blackfriars.
[1028] Cf. ch. vii.
[1029] Cf. App. B.
[1030] Variorum, iii. 266.
[1031] Lee, 315; cf. A. Thaler, Shakespeare's Income (S. P. xv. 82), who halves Lee's estimate.