[641] English Dramatic Companies, i, 221.
[642] Richard Heton, "Instructions for my Pattent," The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 96.
[643] We find a payment to Richard Heton, "for himself and the rest of the company of the players at Salisbury Court," for performing a play before his Majesty at Court, October, 1635. (Chalmers's Apology, p. 509.) Exactly when he took charge of Salisbury Court I am unable to learn.
[644] Cunningham, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 96.
[645] Malone, Variorum, iii, 240.
[646] For certain troubles at Salisbury Court in 1644 and 1648, see Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), ii, 37, 40, 47.
[647] William Beeston was the son of the famous actor Christopher Beeston, who was once a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later manager of the Fortune, and finally proprietor of the Cockpit. In 1639 William had been appointed manager of the Cockpit Company. (See pages [358] ff.)
[648] That is, stripped of its benches, stage-hangings, and other appliances for dramatic performances.
[649] The manuscript entry in Stow's Annals. See The Academy, October 28, 1882, p. 314. On the same date the soldiers "pulled down on the inside" also the Phœnix and the Fortune.
[650] Cunningham, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 103.