[371] Collier, History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), i, 455.
[372] The Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1633, p. 293. The report of the commissioners in full, as printed by Collier in New Facts (1835), p. 27, and again in History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), i, 477, is not above suspicion, although Mr. E.K. Chambers is inclined to think it genuine. According to this document the actors estimated the property to be worth £21,990, but the committee thought that the actors might be persuaded to accept £2900 13s. 4d.
[373] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 99; 387.
[374] The Earl of Strafforde's Letters (Dublin, 1740), i, 175.
[375] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 388.
[376] The Earl of Strafforde's Letters (Dublin, 1740), i, 511.
[377] The Herbert MS., Malone, Variorum, iii, 167.
[378] See The Academy, 1882, xxii, 314. Exactly the same fate had overtaken the Globe ten years earlier.
[379] That even James Burbage is to be put in this class cannot be disputed.
[380] Cuthbert Burbage in 1635 says: "The players that lived in those first times had only the profits arising from the doors, but now the players receive all the comings-in at the doors to themselves and half the galleries from the housekeepers." (Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 317.)