[102] The Black Booke, 1604.

[103] Wallace, op. cit., p. 101.

[104] Greg, Henslowe's Diary, ii, 83. The Admiral's Men were reorganized in 1594, and occupied the Rose under Henslowe's management.

[105] For other but unimportant references to the Theatre see The Malone Society's Collections, vol. i: disorder at, October, 1577, p. 153; disorder at, on Sunday, April, 1580, p. 46; fencing allowed at, July, 1582, p. 57; fencing forbidden at, May, 1583, p. 62; to be closed during infection, May, 1583, p. 63; complaint against, by the Lord Mayor, September, 1594, p. 76. And see Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 363, for a special performance there by a "virgin," February 22, 1582.

[106] The site is probably marked by Curtain Court in [Chasserau's survey of 1745], reproduced on page [79].

[107] Ed. by J.O. Halliwell, for The Shakespeare Society (1844), p. 105.

[108] The Rose and the Red Bull derived their names in a similar way from the estates on which they were erected.

[109] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 364.

[110] Tomlins, Origin of the Curtain Theatre, and Mistakes Regarding It, in The Shakespeare Society's Papers (1844), p. 29.

[111] J.D. Wilson, The Cambridge History of English Literature, vi, 435, says that this sermon was "delivered at Paul's cross on 9 December, 1576 and, apparently, repeated on 3 November in the following year." This is incorrect; White did preach a sermon at Paul's Cross on December 9, but not the sermon from which this quotation is drawn.