[92] Such a license would include also permission to act in the provinces. This latter was soon needed, for shortly after their organization the Queen's Men were driven by the plague to tour the provinces. They were in Cambridge on July 9, and probably returned to London shortly after. See Murray, English Dramatic Companies, i, 8.
[93] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 66.
[94] Lord Hunsdon, on October 8, 1594, requested the Lord Mayor to permit the Chamberlain's Men "to play this winter time within the city at the Cross Keys in Gracious Street." See The Malone Society's Collections, i, 67.
[95] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 170, 172.
[96] The letter is printed in full in The Malone Society's Collections, i, 164.
[97] This could not have been Hide, as usually stated. Hide had nothing to do with the management of the Theatre, and was not "my Lord of Hunsdon's man." Hide's connection with the Theatre as sketched in this chapter shows the absurdity of such an interpretation of the document.
[98] Wallace, op. cit., p. 11.
[99] Murray, English Dramatic Companies, i, 321.
[100] Tarlton's Jests, ed. by J.O. Halliwell, p. 16. Tarleton died in 1588.
[101] Wallace, op. cit., pp. 101, 126.