Shakespearean Playhouses / A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

by Joseph Quincy Adams

[601] On May 10 Beeston was paid for "two plays acted by the New Company." See Stopes, "Shakespeare's Fellows and Followers," in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xlvi, 99.

[602] Herbert Manuscript, Malone, Variorum, iii, 240.

[603] The Malone Society's Collections, i, 392.

[604] The Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1636-1637, p. 254.

[605] Ibid., 1637, p. 420.

[606] Malone, Variorum, iii, 240.

[607] He is referred to as their Governor on August 10, 1639; see Malone, Variorum, iii, 159.

[608] Malone, Variorum, iii, 241.

[609] Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), ii, 32; Stopes, op. cit., p. 102.

[610] Malone, Variorum, iii, 241. Herbert did not forget Beeston's insubordination, and in 1660, in issuing to Beeston a license to use the Salisbury Court Playhouse, he inserted clauses to prevent further difficulty of this kind (see Variorum, iii, 243).