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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the malignity pared away, this can mean but one thing, --that the establishment and furnishing of the theatre and the maintenance of the Children taken there was under official sanction. Other declarations in Clifton's Complaint are cited elsewhere1 as showing the unwitting admission of the same fact. Kirkham's intimate and official connection with the Blackfriars theatre prior to 1602 explains why after the Star Chamber Decree he and associates, having apparently secured concessions to themselves, came to Evans and ernestly labored wth and entreated him that he... would suffer them to have and enioye some part of the demised premises wherevppon it was agreed and concluded. 2 The 50 /. bond referred to in Evans's paragraph was an essential part of this agreement and conclusion as a guarantee for the payment of the eight shillings. The ''eight shillings provision is important here not for itself, but insofar as it shows, the ordering of the boys after the 1602 Articles. This comes out more clearly in Evans's paragraph than in the bond itself, which is here inserted.3 1 Supra, 79-81; infra, 126. ten when & soe often as anye en 2 See supra, 881. terludes plaies or showes shalbe 3 (The more difficult abbrevia-playde vsed showed or published in tions to put into type are expanded the greate hall and other the into italics.) The suit in which Roomes scituat in the Blackfriers this document is enrolled occurred london or any parte thereof menunder James L Hence the date is cioned to be demysed by one Richgiven as yicesimq die Aprilis Anno ard Burbage gentiteman to the withregni domznae Elizabeth nuper Re-in named Henry Evans in and by ginoe Angliae quadragesimo quar-one Indenture of lease be...

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