[1287] Dr. Wallace says that all these records were made by the Commissioners ‘in dealing with the property of Brend and others on the north side’ of Maiden Lane. But there is no reference to ‘the north side’ in the actual record. Bingham had, and Sellers may have had, more than one plot in the neighbourhood.
[1288] Cf. p. 379.
[1289] R. I. B. A. Journal, 3rd series, xvii. 26.
[1290] Halliwell-Phillipps (Calendar of Shakespeare Rarities, 81) had a document of 1653 concerning a sewer ‘in Maide Lane nere the place where the Globe play-house lately stood’, which he considered as establishing the exact locality of the theatre. It is probably now in America.
[1291] Cf. p. 436.
[1292] I ought not to have suggested in The Stage of the Globe, 356, that the first Globe might have been rectangular.
[1293] Variorum, iii. 67.
[1294] Henslowe Papers, 14; Henslowe, ii. 56.
[1295] Henslowe Papers, 16.
[1296] Ibid. 25.