[541] Daborne writes to Henslowe on June 5, 1613: "The company told me you were expected there yesterday to conclude about their coming over ... my own play which shall be ready before they come over." This, I suspect, refers to the moving of the company to the Swan for the summer. (See Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 72.) That Henslowe was manager of a "private" house in 1613 is revealed by another letter from Daborne, dated December 9, 1613. (See Greg, ibid., p. 79.)
[542] Bartholomew Fair, v, iii. The part of Littlewit was presumably taken by Field himself.
[543] Malone, Variorum, iii, 52.
[544] The contract is printed in full in Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 19.
[545] The height is given for the first story only. We may assume that the middle and uppermost stories were of diminishing heights, as in the case of the Fortune Playhouse, in which the galleries were respectively twelve, eleven, and nine feet in height.
[546] The Merian View of London, published in 1638 at Frankfort-am-Main, is merely a copy of the Visscher view with the addition of certain details from another and earlier view not yet identified. It has no independent value. The View of London printed in Howell's Londinopolis (1657), is merely a slavish copy of the Merian view. Visscher's representation of the Bear Garden does not differ in any essential way from the representation in Hondius's View of 1610. For a fuller discussion see pages [126], [146], [248].
[547] Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 88; cf. p. 125, where animal-baiting is said to be used "one day of every four days"—a possible error for "fourteen days." In the manuscript notes to the Phillipps copy of Stow's Survey (1631), we are told that baiting was used at the Hope on Tuesdays and Thursdays; but the anonymous commentator is very inaccurate.
[548] The Rose Playhouse was likewise affected. Dekker, in Satiromastix, iii, iv, says: "Th'ast a breath as sweet as the Rose that grows by the Bear Garden."
[549] Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 87. The articles of agreement between Henslowe and Meade and the company, are printed by Greg on page 23.
[550] Works, Folio of 1630; The Spenser Society's reprint, p. 307.