[182] Sir Sidney Lee (Shakespeare's England, ii, 428) says that one of the amphitheatres was erected in 1526. I do not know his authority; he was apparently misled by one of Rendle's statements. Neither of the amphitheatres is shown in Wyngaerde's careful Map of London made about 1530-1540; possibly they are referred to in the Diary of Henry Machyn under the date of May 26, 1554. The old "Bull Ring" in High Street had then disappeared, and the baiting of bulls was henceforth more or less closely associated, as was natural, with the baiting of bears.
[183] Stow, Annals (ed. 1631), p. 696.
[184] Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses (ed. Furnivall), p. 179.
[185] A Godly Exhortation by Occasion of the Late Judgement of God, Shewed at Paris-Garden (London, 1583). Another account of the disaster may be found in Vaughan's Golden Grove (1600).
[186] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 65.
[187] What became of the other amphitheatre labeled "The Bull Baiting" I do not know. Stow, in his Survey, 1598, says: "Now to return to the west bank, there be two bear gardens, the old and new places, wherein be kept bears, bulls, and other beasts to be baited."
[188] For a fuller discussion of these various maps and views see pages [146], [248], and [328]. [Norden's map of 1594] (see page [147]) merely indicates the site of the building.
[189] For such a history the reader is referred to Ordish, Early London Theatres; Greg, Henslowe's Diary, ii, and Henslowe Papers; Young, The History of Dulwich College; Rendle, The Bankside, and The Playhouses at Bankside.
[190] No. 108, August, 1694. Quoted by J.P. Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 (London, 1811), p. 433.
[191] The original manuscript of this narrative, in Spanish, is preserved in the British Museum. I quote the translation by Frederick Madden, in Archæologia, xiii, 354-55.