Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the RestorationAdams, Joseph Quincy
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Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
Adams, Joseph Quincy
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625; Theaters -- England -- London -- History
All that parcel of ground just recently before enclosed and
made into four separate garden plots, recently in the tenure
and occupation of Thomas Burt and Isbrand Morris, diers, and
Lactantius Roper, salter, citizen of London, containing in
length from east to west two hundred and twenty feet in
assize or thereabouts, lying and adjoining upon a way or
lane there on one [the south] side, and abutting upon a
piece of land called The Park[386] upon the north, and upon
a garden then or recently in the tenure or occupation of one
John Cornishe toward the west, and upon another garden plot
then or recently in the tenure or occupation of one John
Knowles toward the east, with all the houses, buildings,
structures, ways, easements, commodities, and appurtenances
thereunto belonging.... And also all that parcel of land
just recently before enclosed and made into three separate
garden plots, whereof two of the same [were] recently in the
tenure or occupation of John Roberts, carpenter, and another
recently in the occupation of one Thomas Ditcher, citizen
and merchant tailor of London ... containing in length from
east to west by estimation one hundred fifty and six feet of
assize or thereabouts, and in breadth from the north to the
south one hundred feet of assize by estimation or
thereabouts, lying and adjoining upon the other side of the
way or lane aforesaid, and abutting upon a garden plot there
then or recently just before in the occupation of William
Sellers toward the east, and upon one other garden plot
there, then or recently just before, in the tenure of John
Burgram, sadler, toward the west, and upon a lane there
called Maiden Lane towards the south, with all the
houses....
[Footnote 385: The lease is incorporated in the Heminges-Osteler
documents, which Mr. Wallace has translated from the Anglicized Latin.
The original Latin text may be found in Martin, _The Site of the Globe
Playhouse of Shakespeare_, pp. 161-62. Since, however, that text is
faultily reproduced, I quote Mr. Wallace's translation.]
[Footnote 386: What is meant by "The Park" is a matter of dispute.
Some contend that the Park of the Bishop of Winchester is meant; it
may be, however, that some small estate is referred to. In support of
the latter contention, one might cite Collier's _Memoirs of Edward
Alleyn_, p. 91. Part of the document printed by Collier may have been
tampered with, but there is no reason to suspect the two references to
"The Parke."]
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