[411] These interesting facts were revealed by Mr. Wallace in the London Times, April 30 and May 1, 1914.
[412] Did he increase the amount of the rental to £25 per annum? The rent paid for the Blackfriars was £40 per annum; in 1635 the young actors state that the housekeepers paid for both playhouses "not above £65."
[413] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 60.
[414] Works (1630), p. 31; The Spenser Society reprint, p. 515.
[415] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 61.
[416] Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, i, 316. This evidence seems to me unimpeachable. I should add, however, that Mr. Wallace considers the estimate "excessive," and says that he has "other contemporary documents showing the cost was far less than £1400." (The London Times, October 2, 1909.)
[417] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 61. There is, I think, no truth in the statement made by the inaccurate annotator of the Phillipps copy of Stow's Annals, that the Globe was built "at the great charge of King James and many noblemen and others." (See The Academy, October 28, 1882, p. 314.) The Witter-Heminges documents sufficiently disprove that. We may well believe, however, that the King and his noblemen were interested in the new building, and encouraged the actors in many ways.
[418] Wallace, Shakespeare and his London Associates, p. 70.
[419] I see no reason to accept Mr. Wallace's suggestion (The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars, p. 34, note 7) that "it seems questionable, but not unlikely, that the timber framework was brick-veneered and plastered over." Mr. Wallace mistakenly accepts Wilkinson's view of the second Fortune as genuine.
[420] Rendle, Bankside, p. xvii.