[571] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 277.
[572] Ibid., p. 373.
[573] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 373.
[574] Ibid.
[575] See the [chapter] on "The Hope."
[576] I can find no further reference to the Puddlewharf Theatre either in the Records of the Privy Council or in the Remembrancia of the City. Collier, however, in his History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), i, 384, says: "The city authorities proceeded immediately to the work, and before three days had elapsed, the Privy Council was duly and formally made acquainted with the fact that Rosseter's theatre had been 'made unfit for any such use' as that for which it had been constructed." Collier fails to cite his authority for the statement; the passage he quotes may be found in the order of the Privy Council printed above.
[577] Its exact position in Drury Lane is indicated by an order of the Privy Council, June 8, 1623, concerning the paving of a street at the rear of the theatre: "Whereas the highway leading along the backside of the Cockpit Playhouse near Lincolns Inn Fields, and the street called Queens Street adjoining to the same, are become very foul," etc. (See The Malone Society Collections, i, 383. Queens Street may be readily found in Faithorne's Map of London.) Malone (Variorum, iii, 53) states that "it was situated opposite the Castle Tavern." The site is said to be marked by Pit Court.
[578] Stow's Annals (1631), p. 1004.
[579] Some scholars have supposed that the playhouse, when attacked by the apprentices in 1617, was burned, and that the name "Phœnix" was given to the building after its reconstruction. But the building was not burned; it was merely wrecked on the inside by apprentices.
[580] Continuation of Stow's Annals (1631), p. 1026.