[561] Printed in The Academy, October 28, 1882, p. 314. As to "Mr. Godfrey" see Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), iii, 102.
[562] The Remembrancia, p. 478. Quoted by Ordish, Early London Theatres, p. 241.
[563] British Museum Additional MSS. 5750; quoted by Cunningham, Handbook of London (1849), i, 67.
[564] The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, viii, 59.
[565] James Peller Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 (London, 1811), p. 425.
[566] The earliest advertisement of the Bear Garden at Hockley-in-the-hole that I have come upon is dated 1700. For a discussion of the sports there see J.P. Malcolm, Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century (1808), p. 321; Cunningham, Handbook of London, under "Hockley"; W.B. Boulton, Amusements of Old London, vol. i, chap. i.
[567] Ordish (Early London Theatres, p. 242) is mistaken in thinking that the old building was converted into a glass house. He says: "The last reference to the Hope shows that it had declined to the point of extinction," and he quotes an advertisement from the Gazette, June 18, 1681, as follows: "There is now made at the Bear Garden glass-house, on the Bankside, crown window-glass, much exceeding French glass in all its qualifications, which may be squared into all sizes of sashes for windows, and other uses, and may be had at most glaziers in London." From Strype's Survey it is evident that the glass house was in Bear Garden Alley, but not on the site of the old Bear Garden.
[568] Nathaniel Field, the leading actor at Whitefriars, published A Woman is a Weathercock in 1612, with the statement to the reader: "If thou hast anything to say to me, thou know'st where to hear of me for a year or two, and no more, I assure thee." Possibly this reflects the failure of the managers to renew the lease; after 1614 Field did not know where he would be acting. But editors have generally regarded it as meaning that Field intended to withdraw from acting.
[569] Malone, Variorum, iii, 52.
[570] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 277. For the location of Puddlewharf see the [map of the Blackfriars precinct] on page [94].