The Globe, the glory of the Bank, Which, though it were the fort of the whole parish, Flanked with a ditch, and forced out of a marish, I saw with two poor chambers taken in, And razed ere thought could urge this might have been! See the world's ruins! nothing but the piles Left--and wit since to cover it with tiles.[410] [Footnote 410: _An Execration upon Vulcan._] The players were not seriously inconvenienced, for they could shift to their other house, the Blackfriars, in the city. The owners of the building, however, suffered a not inconsiderable pecuniary loss. For a time they hesitated about rebuilding, one cause of their hesitation being the short term that their lease of the ground had to run. Possibly a second cause was a doubt as to the ownership of the ground, arising from certain transactions recorded below. In October, 1600, Sir Nicholas Brend had been forced to transfer the Globe estate, with other adjacent property, to Sir Matthew Brown and John Collett as security for a debt of L2500; and a few days after he died. Since the son and heir, Matthew Brend, was a child less than two years old, an uncle, Sir John Bodley, was appointed trustee. In 1608 Bodley, by unfair means, it seems, purchased from Collett the Globe property, and thus became the landlord of the actors. But young Matthew Brend was still under age, and Bodley's title to the property was not regarded as above suspicion.[411] [Footnote 411: These interesting facts were revealed by Mr. Wallace in the London _Times_, April 30 and May 1, 1914.] [Illustration: MERIAN'S VIEW OF LONDON A section from Merian's _View_, showing the Bankside playhouses. This _View_, printed in Ludvig Gottfried's _Neuwe Archontologia Cosmica_ (Frankfurt am Mayn, 1638), represents London as it was about the year 1612, and was mainly based on Visscher's _View_, with some additions from other sources.] Four months after the burning of the Globe, on October 26, 1613, Sir John Bodley granted the proprietors of the building a renewal of the lease with an extension of the term until December 25, 1635.[412] But a lease from Bodley alone, in view of the facts just indicated, was not deemed sufficient; so on February 14, 1614, Heminges, the two Burbages, and Condell visited the country-seat of the Brends, and secured the signature of the young Matthew Brend, and of his mother as guardian, to a lease of the Globe site with a term ending on December 25, 1644. [Footnote 412: Did he increase the amount of the rental to L25 per annum? The rent paid for the Blackfriars was L40 per annum; in 1635 the young actors state that the housekeepers paid for both playhouses "not above L65."]