[551] Fennor is not to be confused (as is commonly done) with Vennar (see p. 177). Such wit-contests were popular; Fennor had recently challenged Kendall, on the Fortune Stage.
[552] John Taylor's Works, Folio of 1630, p. 142; The Spenser Society's reprint, p. 304.
[553] Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 89.
[554] Ibid., pp. 86, 89.
[555] Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, p. 127; Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 91.
[556] Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, p. 127.
[557] My interpretation of the relation of Henslowe to Prince Charles's Men differs from the interpretation given by Fleay and adopted by Greg and others. For the evidence bearing on the case see Fleay, Stage, pp. 188, 262; Greg, Henslowe's Diary, ii, 138; Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 90, note; Chambers, Modern Language Review, iv, 165; Cunningham, Revels, p. xliv; Wallace, Englische Studien, xliii, 390; Murray, English Dramatic Companies.
[558] Greg, Henslowe Papers, p. 93. Cf. also the [chapter] on "Rosseter's Blackfriars."
[559] Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), iii, 102; Ordish, Early London Theatres, p. 237.
[560] Arthur Tiler, St. Saviour's, p. 51; Reed's Dodsley, ix, 175.