[12] See The Malone Society's Collections, i, 55-57.
[13] See The Remembrancia, in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 66.
[14] C.W. Wallace, The First London Theatre, p. 11.
[15] MS. Sloane, 2530, f. 6-7, quoted by J.O. Halliwell in his edition of Tarlton's Jests, p. xi. The Bell Savage seems to have been especially patronized by fencers. George Silver, in his Paradoxe of Defence (1599), tells how he and his brother once challenged two Italian fencers to a contest "to be played at the Bell Savage upon the scaffold, when he that went in his fight faster back than he ought, should be in danger to break his neck off the scaffold."
[16] First printed in 1611; reprinted by J.O. Halliwell for The Shakespeare Society in 1844.
[17] MS. Sloane, 2530, f. 6-7, quoted by Halliwell in his edition of Tarlton's Jests, p. xi. There is some difficulty with the date. One of the "masters" before whom the prize was played was "Rycharde Tarlton," whom Halliwell takes to be the famous actor of that name; but Tarleton the actor died on September 3, 1588. Probably Halliwell in transcribing the manuscript silently modernized the date from the Old Style.
[18] Lansdowne MSS. 60, quoted by Collier, History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), i, 265.
[19] The Remembrancia, The Malone Society's Collections, i, 73.
[20] See W. Rendle, The Inns of Old Southwark, p. 236.
[21] The passage does not appear in the earlier edition of 1576, though it was probably written shortly after the erection of the Theatre in the autumn of 1576.