[605] W. Cory (Letters and Journals, 168) was told on a visit to Wilton in 1865 that a letter existed there, naming Shakespeare as present and the play as As You Like It; but the letter cannot now be found.
[606] Marston, Malcontent, Ind. 82.
[607] Bullen, Middleton, viii. 36, ‘Give him leaue to see the Merry Deuil of Edmonton or A Woman Killed with Kindness’.
[608] N. S. S. Trans. (1877–9), 15*, from Lord Chamberlain’s Records, vol. 58a, now ix. 4 (5); cf. Law (ut infra), 10. Collier, Memoirs of Alleyn, 68, printed a list headed ‘Ks Company’ from the margin of the copy of the Privy Council order of 9 April 1604 at Dulwich. This is a forgery. To the nine genuine names Collier added those of Hostler and Day. The former joined the company some years later, the latter never; cf. Ingleby, 269.
[609] App. B; cf. E. Law, Shakespeare as a Groom of the Chamber (1910), and the Spanish narrative in Colección de Documentos inéditos para la historia de España, lxxi. 467.
[610] Cf. ch. x.
[611] For the exact dates and the difficult critical questions raised by the records, cf. App. B.
[612] Cf. App. B.
[613] Clode, Early Hist. of Merchant Taylors, i. 290, ‘To Mr Hemmyngs for his direccion of his boy that made the speech to his Maiestie 40s, and 6s given to John Rise the speaker’; cf. ch. iv.
[614] Cf. ch. x.