[52] Wallace, op. cit., p. 136.
[53] Brayne v. Burbage, 1592. Printed in full by Wallace, op cit. p. 141.
[54] Wallace, op. cit., pp. 213, 217, 263, 265, et al.
[55] Wallace, op. cit., pp. 137, 141, 142, 148, 153.
[56] Alleyn v. Burbage, Star Chamber Proceedings, 1601-02; printed by Wallace, op. cit., p. 277.
[57] Myles v. Burbage and Alleyn, 1597; printed by Wallace, op. cit., p. 159; cf. pp. 263, 106, 152.
[58] See Wallace, op. cit., p. 277.
[59] This agrees with the claim of Brayne's widow.
[60] Wallace, op. cit., p. 120.
[61] Mr. E.K. Chambers (The Mediæval Stage, i, 383, note 2; ii, 190, note 4) calls attention to a "theatre" belonging to the city of Essex as early as 1548. Possibly the Latin document he cites referred to an amphitheatre of some sort near the city which was used for dramatic performances; at any rate "in theatro" does not necessarily imply the existence of a playhouse (cf., for example, op. cit., i, 81-82). There is also a reference (quoted by Chambers, op. cit., ii, 191, note 1, from Norfolk Archæology, xi, 336) to a "game-house" built by the corporation of Yarmouth in 1538 for dramatic performances. What kind of house this was we do not know, but the corporation leased it for other purposes, with the proviso that it should be available "at all such times as any interludes or plays should be ministered or played." Howes, in his continuation of Stow's Annals (1631), p. 1004, declares that before Burbage's time he "neither knew, heard, nor read of any such theatres, set stages, or playhouses as have been purposely built, within man's memory"; and Cuthbert Burbage confidently asserted that his father "was the first builder of playhouses"—an assertion which, I think, cannot well be denied.