Shakespearean Playhouses / A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

by Joseph Quincy Adams

[42] Quoted from Burbage v. Alleyn, Court of Requests, 1600, Wallace, op. cit., p. 182. I have stripped the passage of some of its legal verbiage.

[43] Quoted from Burbage v. Alleyn, Court of Requests, 1600, Wallace, op. cit., p. 182.

[44] That is, about £80.

[45] Wallace, op. cit., p. 134; cf. p. 153.

[46] Wallace, op. cit., p. 151. Cuthbert Burbage declared in 1635: "The Theatre he built with many hundred pounds taken up at interest." (Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 317.)

[47] The name is often spelled "Braynes."

[48] Wallace, op. cit., p. 109.

[49] See Wallace, op. cit., pp. 139 seq.

[50] That is, half-interest.

[51] Wallace, op. cit., p. 40.