[351] Birch, Court and Times of James the First, i, 60; quoted by E.K. Chambers, in Modern Language Review, iv, 158.
[352] Possibly an aftermath of the King's displeasure is to be found in the cancellation of Giles's long-standing commission to take up boys for the Chapel, and the issuance of a new commission to him, November 7, 1606, with the distinct proviso that "none of the said choristers or children of the Chapel so to be taken by force of this commission shall be used or employed as commedians or stage players." (The Malone Society's Collections, i, 357.)
[353] From the report of the French Ambassador, M. de la Boderie, to M. de Puisieux at Paris, Ambassades de Monsieur de la Boderie en Angleterre, 1750, iii, 196; quoted by E.K. Chambers in Modern Language Review, iv, 158.
[354] The name of this play is not known; probably the King was satirized in a comic scene foisted upon an otherwise innocent piece. Mr. Wallace, in The Century Magazine (September, 1910, p. 747), says: "From a document I have found in France the Blackfriars boys now satirized the King's efforts to raise money, made local jokes on the recent discovery of his silver mine in Scotland, brought him on the stage as drunk, and showed such to be his condition at least three times a day, caricatured him in his favorite pastime of hawking, and represented him as swearing and cursing at a gentleman for losing a bird." I do not know what document Mr. Wallace has found; the French document quoted above has been known for a long time.
[355] Fleay, op. cit., pp. 221-22.
[356] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, pp. 83, 97.
[357] Ibid., p. 87.
[358] Ibid., p. 90.
[359] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 97.
[360] Twenty-one years was a very common term for a lease to run; but in this case, no doubt, it was intended that the lease of Blackfriars should last as long as the lease of the Globe, which then had exactly twenty-one years to run.