To make his playhouse Burbage removed all the partitions in the Middle Rooms, and restored the Parlor to its original form--a great room covering the entire breadth of the building, and extending fifty-two feet in length from north to south. To this he added the Hall at the north, which then existed as two rooms in the occupation of Peter Johnson. The Hall and Parlor when combined made an auditorium described as "per estimacionem in longitudine ab australe ad borealem partem eiusdem sexaginta et sex pedes assissae sit plus sive minus, et in latitudine ab occidentale ad orientalem partem eiusdem quadraginto et sex pedes assissae sit plus sive minus."[301] The forty-six feet of width corresponds to the interior width of the Frater building, for although it was fifty-two feet wide in outside measurement, the stone walls were three feet thick. The sixty-six feet of length probably represents the fifty-two feet of the Parlor plus the breadth of the Hall. [Footnote 301: Wallace, _The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars_, p. 39, note 1.] The ceiling of these two rooms must have been of unusual height. The Infirmary, which was below the Parliament Chamber at the south, was three stories high; and the windows of the Parlor, if we may believe Pierce the Ploughman, were "wrought as a chirche": An halle for an heygh kinge . an household to holden, With brode bordes abouten . y-benched well clene, With windowes of glas . wrought as a chirche. [Illustration: REMAINS OF BLACKFRIARS This remnant of the old monastery was discovered in 1872 on the rebuilding of the offices of _The Times_. It illustrates the substantial character of the Blackfriars buildings, and may even be a part of the old Frater, for _The Times_ occupies that portion of the monastery. The windows of the Frater, according to Pierce the Ploughman, were "wrought as a chirche." (From a painting in the Guildhall Museum.)] As a result Burbage was able to construct within the auditorium at least two galleries,[302] after the manner of the public theatres. The Parliament Chamber above was kept, as I have stated, for residential purposes. This is why the various legal documents almost invariably refer to the playhouse as "that great hall or room, with the rooms over the same."[303] [Footnote 302: Mr. Wallace, _The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars_, p. 42, quotes from the Epilogue to Marston's _The Dutch Courtesan_, acted at Blackfriars, "And now, my fine Heliconian gallants, and you, my worshipful friends in the middle region," and adds that the "reference to 'the middle region' makes it clear there were three" galleries. Does it not, however, indicate that there were only two galleries?]