[212] Possibly the fact that Burbage had just secured control of the Curtain, and hence had a monopoly of playhouses, was one of the reasons for a new playhouse.
[213] The deed of partnership is preserved among the Henslowe papers at Dulwich College. For an abstract of the deed see Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 2. Henslowe seems to have driven a good bargain with Cholmley.
[214] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, xv, 271.
[215] Discovered by Mr. Wallace and printed in the London Times, April 30, 1914.
[216] The circular building pictured in these maps has been widely heralded as the First Globe, but without reason; all the evidence shows that it was the Rose. For further discussion see the chapters dealing with the [Bear Garden], the [Globe], and the [Hope]. In the Merian View, issued in Frankfort in 1638, the Bear Garden and the Globe, each named, are shown conspicuously in the foreground; in the background is vaguely represented an unnamed playhouse polygonal in shape. This could not possibly be the Rose. Merian's View was a compilation from Visscher's View of 1616 and some other view of London not yet identified; it has no independent authority, and no value whatever so far as the Rose is concerned.
[217] If we may believe Johannes de Witt, the Rose was "more magnificent" than the theatres in Shoreditch. See page [167].
[218] Ordish, Early London Theatres, p. 155; Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art, p. 58. Mr. Wallace's discovery of a reference to the Rose in the Sewer Records for April, 1588, quite overthrows this hypothesis.
[219] This seems unlikely. At the beginning of Henslowe's Diary we find the scrawl "Chomley when" (Greg, Henslowe's Diary i, 217); this was written not earlier than 1592, and it shows that Cholmley was at that time in Henslowe's mind.
[220] Greg, Henslowe's Diary, i, 7.
[221] For a list of their plays see Greg, Henslowe's Diary, i, 13 ff.