[301] Wallace, The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, p. 39, note 1.
[302] Mr. Wallace, The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, p. 42, quotes from the Epilogue to Marston's The Dutch Courtesan, acted at Blackfriars, "And now, my fine Heliconian gallants, and you, my worshipful friends in the middle region," and adds that the "reference to 'the middle region' makes it clear there were three" galleries. Does it not, however, indicate that there were only two galleries?
[303] See the documents printed in Fleay's A Chronicle History of the London Stage, pp. 211, 215, 240, etc. Mr. Wallace, however (The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, p. 40 ff.), would have us believe that an additional story was added: "the roof was changed, and rooms, probably of the usual dormer sort, were built above." I am quite sure he is mistaken.
[304] Cf. Playhouse Yard in the London of to-day.
[305] The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, p. 43, note 3.
[306] The Diary of the Duke of Stettin-Pomerania, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1892), vi, 26.
[307] For the full document see Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 304. For the date, see The Malone Society's Collections, i, 91.
[308] Shortly after this he was appointed Lord Chamberlain, under which name his troupe was subsequently known.
[309] Petition of 1619, The Malone Society's Collections, i, 91.
[310] The constables and other officers in the Petition of 1619 say: "The owner of the said playhouse, doth under the name of a private house ... convert the said house to a public playhouse." (The Malone Society's Collections, i, 91.)