The earliest representation of the building is probably to be found in the Delaram _View of London_ (opposite page 246), set in the background of an engraving of King James on horseback. This view, which presents the city as it was in 1603 when James came to the throne, shows the Bear Garden at the left, polygonal in shape, the Rose in the centre, circular in shape, and the Globe at the right, polygonal in shape. It is again represented in Visscher's magnificent _View of London_, which, though printed in 1616, presents the city as it was several years earlier (see page 253). The Merian _View_ of 1638 (opposite page 256) is copied from Visscher, and the _View_ in Howell's _Londinopolis_ (1657) is merely a slavish copy of Merian; these two views, therefore, so far as the Globe is concerned, have no special value.[399] [Footnote 399: The circular playhouse in Delaram's _View_ is commonly accepted as a representation of the First Globe, but without reason. The evidence which establishes the identity of the several playhouses pictured in the various maps of the Bankside comes from a careful study of the Bear Garden, the Hope, the Rose, the First Globe, the Second Globe, and their sites, together with a study of all the maps and views of London, considered separately and in relation to one another. Such evidence is too complicated to be given here in full, but it is quite conclusive.] [Illustration: THE FIRST GLOBE From an old drawing in an extra-illustrated copy of Pennant's _London_ now in the British Museum. Apparently the drawing is based on Visscher's _View_.] The cost of the finished building is not exactly known. Mr. Wallace observes that it was erected "at an original cost, according to a later statement, of L600, but upon better evidence approximately L400."[400] I am not aware of the "better evidence" to which Mr. Wallace refers,[401] nor do I know whether the estimate of L400 includes the timber and materials of the old Theatre furnished by the Burbages. If the Theatre of 1576 cost nearly L700, and the second Globe cost L1400, the sum of L400 seems too small. [Footnote 400: The London _Times_, October 2, 1909.] [Footnote 401: Possibly he gives this evidence in his _The Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars_, p. 29, note 4.] Nor do we know exactly when the Globe was finished and opened to the public. On May 16, 1599, a post-mortem inquisition of the estate of Sir Thomas Brend, father of Sir Nicholas, was taken. Among his other properties in Southwark was listed the Globe playhouse, described as "vna domo de novo edificata ... in occupacione Willielmi Shakespeare et aliorum."[402] From this statement Mr. Wallace infers that the Globe was finished and opened before May 16, 1599. Though this is possible, the words used seem hardly to warrant the conclusion. However, we may feel sure that the actors, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, had moved into the building before the end of the summer.