[321] Father Hubbard's Tales (ed. Bullen, viii, 77).
[322] Jonson, Epigrams, cxx, An Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy, a Child of Queen Elizabeth's Chapel.
[323] Diary, August 18, 1660.
[324] The Diary of the Duke of Stettin-Pomerania, printed in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1890). The diary was written by the Duke's tutor, Gerschow, at the express command of the Duke.
[325] It is hard to believe Mr. Wallace's novel theory that the Children of the Chapel were subsidized by Elizabeth, as presented in his otherwise valuable The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars. Burbage and Heminges knew nothing of such a royal patronage at Blackfriars (see Fleay, op. cit., p. 236), nor did Kirkham, the Yeoman of the Revels (ibid., p. 248). Kirkham and his partners spent £600 on apparel, etc., according to Kirkham's statement.
[326] The Children were acting light comedies such as Cynthia's Revels; the Lord Chamberlain's Men were acting Hamlet.
[327] Shakespeare's troupe is known to have been traveling in the spring of 1601.
[328] Cf. Middleton's Father Hubbard's Tales, already quoted, "a nest of boys." Possibly the idea was suggested by the fact that the children were lodged and fed in the building.
[329] The full complaint is printed by Fleay, op. cit., p. 127.
[330] Ibid., pp. 244-45.