[262] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, XXVII, 338.
[263] Langley sued these actors on their bond to him of £100 to play only at the Swan; see the documents printed by Mr. Wallace. Ben Jonson also joined Henslowe's forces at the Rose, as did Anthony and Humphrey Jeffes, who were doubtless members of the Pembroke Company.
[264] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, xxviii, 327.
[265] After the order of February 19, when the "intruding company" was driven out, and before September 7 when Meres's Palladis Tamia was entered in the Stationers' Registers.
[266] Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, xxx, 327.
[267] Ibid., 395.
[268] For this and other details as to the subsequent history of the property see Wallace, Englische Studien, xliii, 342; Rendle, The Antiquarian Magazine, vii, 207; and cf. the [map] on page [163].
[269] Many writers, including Mr. Wallace, have confused this Richard Vennar with William Fennor, who later challenged Kendall to a contest of wit at the Fortune. For a correct account, see T.S. Graves, "Tricks of Elizabethan Showmen" (in The South Atlantic Quarterly, April, 1915, xiv) and "A Note on the Swan Theatre" (in Modern Philology, January, 1912, ix, 431).
[270] From the broadside printed in The Harleian Miscellany, x, 198. For a photographic facsimile, see Lawrence, The Elizabethan Playhouse (Second Series), p. 68.
[271] Letters Written by John Chamberlain, Camden Society (1861), p. 163; The Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1601-1603, p. 264. See also Manningham's Diary, pp. 82, 93.