[7] The Globe was the summer theatre, the Blackfriars the winter theatre--the same company playing much at both. The hour for opening in Elizabeth’s time was usually one o’clock. Dekker (_Horne Booke_, 1609) names three as the hour; and doubtless there were occasions when--in the private theatres--plays began after nightfall. Fletcher and Shakespeare were at the head of what was called the Lord Chamberlain’s Company. By license of James I. (1603) this virtually became the King’s Company. [8] Gosson was an Oxford man; b. 1555: d. 1624. [9] Among the more important names were those of Bishop Andrewes (of Winchester, friend of Herbert, and Dr. Donne)--famous for his oriental knowledges: Bedwell (of Tottingham), a distinguished Arabic scholar: Sir Henry Savile, a very learned layman, and warden of Merton College: Rainolds, representing the Puritan wing of the Church, and President of Corpus Christi, Oxford; and Chaderton, Master of Emmanuel, and representing the same wing of the Church from Cambridge. [10] John Donne, son of a London merchant, b. 1573, and d. 1631. There is a charming life of him by Izaak Walton. The Grosart edition of his writings is fullest and best. [11] From his poem of _Nosce Teipsum_, published in 1599. John Davies b. in Wiltshire about 1570, and d. 1626. [12] Dr. Shedd (_Addenda_ to Lange’s _Matthew_) says--“Probably it was the prevailing custom of the Christians _in the East_, from the beginning to pray the Lord’s Prayer, with the Doxology.” It certainly appears in earliest Syriac version (_Peschito_, so called, of second century). It does not appear in the Wyclif of 1380. It will be found, however, in the Tyndale of 1534--which I am led to believe is its first appearance in an accredited English translation. [13] The allusion is to the Harts, whose ancestress was Shakespeare’s sister Joan. A monumental record in Trinity Church, Stratford, reads thus: “In memory of Thomas Hart, who was the fifth descendant in a direct line from Joan, eldest daughter of John Shakespeare. He died May 23, 1793.” A son of the above Thomas Hart “followed the business of a butcher at Stratford, where he was living in 1794.” Still another Thomas Hart (eighth in descent from Joan) is said to be now living in Australia--the only male representive of that branch of the family. [14] Susanna, the eldest, baptized 1583; Hamnet and Judith (twins), baptized 1585. In 1596 Hamnet died; in 1607 Susanna married Dr. Hall; and in 1616 (year of Shakespeare’s death) Judith married Quiney, vintner. [15] His father died in 1601, and his mother in 1608.