[511] Cited by C.H. Firth, in Notes and Queries, August 18, 1888, series vii, vol. vi, p. 122.
[512] Ibid.
[513] Hazlitt, The English Drama and Stage, p. 69.
[514] The Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1655, p. 336.
[515] For a further account of this episode see Mercurius Fumigosus, No. 69.
[516] Cf. Wright, Historia Histrionica, p. 412; and for the general history of the actors at the Red Bull during this period see the Herbert records in Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents.
[517] After November 8, 1660, they acted also in Gibbon's Tennis Court in Clare Market, which they had fitted up as a theatre; see Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents, p. 34.
[518] See Pepys' Diary, April 25, 1664.
[519] Whitefriars passed under city control in 1608 by grant of King James I, but certain rights remained, notably that of sanctuary. This has been celebrated in Shadwell's play, The Squire of Alsatia, and in Scott's romance, The Fortunes of Nigel.
[520] Prynne, in Histriomastix (1633), p. 491, quotes a passage from Richard Reulidge's Monster Lately Found Out and Discovered (1628), in which there is a reference to a playhouse as existing in Whitefriars "not long after" 1580. By "playhouse" Reulidge possibly meant an inn used for acting; but the whole passage, written by a Puritan after the lapse of nearly half a century, is open to grave suspicion, especially in its details. Again Richard Flecknoe, in A Short Discourse of the English Stage (1664), states that the Children of the Chapel Royal acted in Whitefriars. But that he confused the word "Whitefriars" with "Blackfriars" is shown by the rest of his statement.