[1012] Variorum, iii. 484, from P. C. C.
[1013] Collier, iii. 447.
[1014] Henslowe, i. 152; Henslowe Papers, 61.
[1015] Collier, iii. 451.
[1016] Variorum, iii. 214.
[1017] Collier, iii. 443.
[1018] Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 313.
[1019] Mediaeval Stage, i. 383; ii. 184, 190, 380. It is, of course, doubtful whether the ‘theatrum nostrae civitatis’ at Exeter was permanent.
[1020] Ordish, 12, attempts to affiliate the ring type of baiting-place and theatre to Roman amphitheatres, Cornish ‘rounds’, and other circular places used for mediaeval entertainments. But a ring is so obviously the form in which the maximum number of spectators can see an object of interest, that too much stress must not be laid upon it as an evidence of folk ‘tradition’.
[1021] Cf. ch. xviii.