[700] La Melise, ou Les Princes Reconnus, by Du Rocher, first acted in Paris in 1633; see The Athenæum, July 11, 1891, p. 73; and cf. ibid., p. 139.
[701] "Housekeepers" were owners, who always demanded of the players as rental for the building a certain part of each day's takings. The passage quoted means that the housekeepers allowed the French players to receive all money taken on the two sermon days of the first week, and after that exacted their usual share as rental for the building.
[702] That is, Passion Week, during which time the English companies were never allowed to give performances.
[703] This must be an error, for Easter Monday fell on March 30.
[704] Le Trompeur Puni, ou Histoire Septentrionale, by Scuderi.
[705] Wednesday was the 15th.
[706] Alcimedon, by Duryer.
[707] Malone, Variorum, iii, 121, note.
[708] This clause I insert from Mrs. Stopes's notes on the Lord Chamberlain's records, in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xlvi, 97.
[709] I have chosen to reproduce the record from Chalmers's Apology, p. 506, note s, rather than from Mrs. Stopes's apparently less accurate notes in the Shakespeare Jahrbuch, xlvi, 97.