Out of this heterogeneous property Burbage was confronted with the problem of making a playhouse. Apparently he regarded the Parliament Chamber as too low, or too inaccessible for the purposes of a theatre; this part of his property, therefore, he kept as a lodging, and for many years it served as a dormitory for the child-actors. The Duchy Chamber building, being small and detached from the Frater building, he reserved also as a lodging.[295] In the Hall and the Parlor, however, he saw the possibility of a satisfactory auditorium. Let us therefore examine this section of the Frater building more in detail, and trace its history up to the time of the purchase. [Footnote 295: This may have contained the two rooms in which Evans lived, and "the schoolhouse and the chamber over the same," which are described (see the documents in Fleay's _A Chronicle History of the London Stage_, p. 210 ff.) as being "severed from the said great hall." In another document this schoolhouse is described as "schola, anglice _schoolhouse_, ad borealem finem Aulae praedictae." (Wallace, _The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars_, p. 40.)] The Parlor was described as "a great room, paved," and was said to have been "used and occupied by the friars themselves to their own proper use as a parlor to dine and sup in."[296] Sir John Portynary, whose house adjoined the Duchy Chamber, tells us that in 1550, when King Edward granted the Blackfriars property to Cawarden, "Sir Thomas Cawarden, knight, entered into the same house in the name of all that which the King had given him within the said friars, and made his lodging there; and about that time did invite this examinant and his wife to supper there, together with diverse other gentlemen; and they all supped together with the said Sir Thomas Cawarden, in the same room [the Parlor] where the said school of fence is now kept, and did there see a play."[297] [Footnote 296: Feuillerat, _Blackfriars Records_, pp. 43, 47, 48.] [Footnote 297: _Ibid._, p. 52.] Later Cawarden leased the Parlor to a keeper of an ordinary: "One Woodman did hold the said house where the said school of fence is kept, and another house thereby of Sir Thomas Cawarden, and in the other room kept an ordinary table, and had his way to the same through the said house where the said school of fence is kept."[298] [Footnote 298: _Ibid._, p. 51.] In 1563 William Joyner established in the rooms the school of fence mentioned above, which was still flourishing in 1576.[299] [Footnote 299: Feuillerat, _Blackfriars Records_, p. 121.]