[361] Shortly after this agreement had been made William Slye died, and his executrix delivered up his share to Richard Burbage "to be cancelled and made void." See the Heminges-Osteler documents printed by Mr. Wallace in the London Times, October 4, 1909. In 1611 Burbage let William Osteler have this share.

[362] The method is clearly explained in the documents of 1635 printed by Halliwell-Phillipps, in Outlines, i, 312.

[363] See Wright, Historia Histrionica, Hazlitt's Dodsley, xv, 406.

[364] Malone, Variorum, iii, 71.

[365] Act iii, scene iv. Cf. also Webster's Preface to The White Devil, acted at the Red Bull about 1610.

[366] Fleay, A Chronicle History of the London Stage, p. 248.

[367] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 91.

[368] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 311.

[369] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 281.

[370] Ibid., i, 282.