[2] All historians of the drama have confused this great carriers' inn with the Boar's Head in Eastcheap made famous by Falstaff. The error seems to have come from the Analytical Index of the Remembrancia, which (p. 355) incorrectly catalogues the letter of March 31, 1602, as referring to the "Boar's Head in Eastcheap." The letter itself, however, when examined, gives no indication whatever of Eastcheap, and other evidence shows conclusively that the inn was situated in Whitechapel just outside of Aldgate.
[3] See especially The Acts of the Privy Council and The Remembrancia of the City of London.
[4] There is some error here. The city had no jurisdiction over Whitefriars, or Blackfriars either; but there was a playhouse in Blackfriars at the time, and it was suppressed in 1584, though not by the city authorities. Possibly Reulidge should have written "Whitechapel."
[5] The Remembrancia shows that the inn-playhouses remained for many years as sharp thorns in the side of the puritanical city fathers.
[6] Grosart, Nash, i, 179.
[7] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, vi, 168.
[8] W. Rendle, The Inns of Old Southwark, p. 235.
[9] A. Feuillerat, Documents Relating to the Office of the Revels in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, p. 277.
[10] Burbage v. Brayne, printed in C.W. Wallace, The First London Theatre, pp. 82, 90. Whether Burbage was going to the Cross Keys as a spectator or as an actor is not indicated; but the presumption is that he was then playing at the inn, although he was proprietor of the Theatre.
[11] Arber's English Reprints, p. 40.