[710] Should we place a comma after "Josias"? That "Josias Floridor" was the leader of the troupe we know from two separate entries; cf. Chalmers, Apology, pp. 508, 509.
[711] Malone, Variorum, iii, 122, note.
[712] Act ii, Scene i. This passage is pointed out by Lawrence, The Elizabethan Playhouse, p. 137.
[713] Stopes, op. cit., p. 98, Chalmers, Apology, p. 509.
[714] The Fortune was only eighty feet square, but the stage projected to the middle of the yard. Davenant probably wished to provide for an alcove stage of sufficient depth to accommodate his "scenes."
[715] That is, he may give his "musical presentments," etc., either at the hours when he was accustomed to give plays, or after his plays are ended. This does not necessarily imply evening entertainments.
[716] Cunningham, The Whitefriars Theatre, in The Shakespeare Society's Papers, iv, 96.
[717] See the [chapter] on the Second Blackfriars.
[718] That he did not actually surrender the patent is shown by the fact that he claimed privileges by virtue of it after the Restoration; see Halliwell-Phillipps, A Collection of Ancient Documents, p. 48.