[33] See The Remembrancia, p. 274; Stow, Survey. The Corporation of London held the manor on lease from St. Paul's Cathedral until 1867.
[34] Doubtless, too, Burbage was influenced in his choice by the fact that he had already made his home in the Liberty of Shoreditch, near Finsbury Field.
[35] For a detailed history of the property from the year 1128, and for the changes in the ownership of Alleyn's portion after the dissolution, see Braines, Holywell Priory.
[36] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 365. The suit concerns the Curtain property, somewhat south of the Alleyn property, but a part of the Priory.
[37] I have based this map in large measure on the documents presented by Braines in his excellent pamphlet, Holywell Priory.
[38] For proof see Braines, op. cit.
[39] The original lease may be found incorporated in Alleyn v. Street, Coram Rege, 1599-1600, printed in full by Wallace, The First London Theatre, pp. 163-80, and again in Alleyn v. Burbage, Queen's Bench, 1602, Wallace, op. cit., pp. 267-75. The lease, I think, was in English not Latin, and hence is more correctly given in the first document; in the second document the scrivener has translated it into Latin. The lease is also given in part on page [187].
[40] This part of the property was claimed by the Earl of Rutland, and was being used by him. For a long time it was the subject of dispute. Ultimately, it seems, the Earl secured the title, as he had always had the use of the property. This probably explains why Burbage did not attempt to erect his playhouse there.
[41] The document by error reads "brick wall" but the mistake is obvious, and the second version of the lease does not repeat the error. This clause merely means that the ditch, not the brick wall, constituted the western boundary of the property.