[22] The Remembrancia, The Malone Society's Collections, i, 85.

[23] They had to use the Rose nevertheless; see page [158].

[24] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 265.

[25] So the Lord Mayor characterized playgoers; see The Remembrancia, in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 75.

[26] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 164.

[27] The Remembrancia, in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 69.

[28] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, viii, 131, 132.

[29] For the complete document see W.C. Hazlitt, The English Drama and Stage, p. 27.

[30] I emphasize this point because the opposite is the accepted opinion. We find it expressed in The Cambridge History of English Literature, vi, 431, as follows: "Certain players, finding the city obdurate, and unwilling to submit to its severe regulations, began to look about them for some means of carrying on their business out of reach of the mayor's authority," etc.

[31] Deposition by Robert Myles, 1592, printed in Wallace's The First London Theatre, p. 141.