[651] Printed in Malone, Variorum, iii, 243, and Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents, p. 85. The language clearly indicates that Beeston was to reconvert the building into a theatre.
[652] Cunningham, The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 103.
[653] Malone, Variorum, iii, 257; Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents, p. 27.
[654] By Philip Massinger.
[655] The subsequent history of Salisbury Court is traced in the legal documents printed by Cunningham. Beeston lost the property, and Fisher and Silver erected nearer the river a handsome new playhouse, known as "The Duke's Theatre," at an estimated cost of £1000.
[656] Edition of 1808, iv, 434. See also Stow's Chronicle, under the year 1581.
[657] This had once already, on Shrove Tuesday, 1604, been used for a play. The situation and ground-plan of the "Great Hall" are clearly shown in Fisher's Survey of the palace, made about 1670, and engraved by Vertue, 1747.
[658] Stow's Annals, continued by Edmund Howes (1631), p. 891.
[659] John Nichols, The Progresses of James, ii, 162.
[660] Shakespeare writes (Henry VIII, iv, i, 94-97):