[142] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 270.
[143] English Dramatic Companies, i, 230.
[144] Malone, Variorum, iii, 59; cf. Chalmers's Supplemental Apology, p. 213, note y. Murray gives the date incorrectly as 1623.
[145] Murray, English Dramatic Companies, i, 237, note 1.
[146] Malone, Variorum, iii, 54, note 2.
[147] See Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, iii, 164, from which the notice was quoted by Ordish, Early London Theatres, p. 106.
[148] From this notion of privacy, I take it, arose the term "private" theatre as distinguished from "common" or "public" theatre. The interpretation of the term suggested by Mr. W.J. Lawrence, and approved by Mr. William Archer, namely, that it was a legal device to escape the city ordinance of 1574, cannot be accepted. The city had no jurisdiction over the precinct of Blackfriars, nor did Farrant live in the building.
[149] This was enclosed with brick walls, and the greater part used as a wood-yard. This yard was later purchased by James Burbage when he secured the frater for his playhouse. The kitchen, shed, and stairs, built on the eastern part, were sold to Cobham.
[150] By an error in the manuscript this reads "fifty"; but the rooms are often described and always as "forty-six" feet in length; moreover, the error is made obvious by the rest of the lease.
[151] The breadth is elsewhere given as twenty-six, and twenty-seven feet.