[481] Discovered by Stevens, and printed in Malone, Variorum, iii, 55, note 5. Mr. W.J. Lawrence, Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (1914), p. 314, says that the date of this advertisement is 1660. But the same advertisement is reprinted by H.R. Plomer in Notes and Queries (series x), vi, 107, from The Kingdom's Intelligencer of March 18, 1661.
[482] Young, The History of Dulwich College, ii, 265.
[483] Collier, The Alleyn Papers, p. 101. I am aware of the fact that there are references to later incidents at the Fortune (for example, the statement that it was visited by officers in November, 1682, in an attempt to suppress secret conventicles that had long been held there), but in view of the unimpeachable documentary evidence cited above (in 1662 the College authorities again refer to it as "the late ruinous and now demolished Fortune playhouse"), we must regard these later references either as inaccurate, or as referring to another building later erected in the same neighborhood. The so-called picture of the Fortune, printed in Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata, and often reproduced by modern scholars, cannot possibly be that of the playhouse erected by Alleyn. For an interesting surmise as to the history of this later building see W.J. Lawrence, Restoration Stage Nurseries, in Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (1914), p. 301.
[484] This playhouse is not to be confused with the famous Bull Tavern in Bishopsgate Street, for many years used as a theatre.
[485] These statements are based upon the Woodford v. Holland documents, first discovered by Collier, later by Greenstreet, and finally printed in full by Wallace, Three London Theatres.
[486] Sir Sidney Lee (A Life of William Shakespeare, p. 60) says that the Red Bull was "built about 1600." He gives no evidence, and the statement seems to be merely a repetition from earlier and unauthoritative writers.
[487] The original warrant is preserved at Dulwich, and printed by Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 61. Cf. also Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council, xxxii, 511.
[488] Raven's Almanack (1609); Dekker's Works (ed. Grosart), iv, 210.
[489] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 265.
[490] Wallace, Three London Theatres, p. 18.