[611] Stopes (op. cit.) dates this June 5, but Collier, Malone, and Chalmers all give June 27, and Mrs. Stopes is not always quite accurate in such matters.
[612] Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), ii, 32, note 1.
[613] John Parton, Some Account of the Hospital and Parish of St. Giles in the Fields, p. 235.
[614] Hazlitt's Dodsley, xv, 409.
[615] See The Academy, October 28, 1882, p. 314. The soldiers here mentioned also "pulled down on the inside" the Fortune playhouse.
[616] For a discussion of Davenant's attempts to introduce the opera into England, see W.J. Lawrence, The Elizabethan Playhouse (Second Series), pp. 129 ff.
[617] Malone, Variorum, iii, 93; Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), ii, 48.
[618] For his troubles with the Master of the Revels see Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents, p. 26.
[619] Parton, op. cit., p. 236.
[620] Malone, Variorum, iii, 244 ff.