When young Matthew Brend came of age he recovered possession of the Globe property by a decree of the Court of Wards. Apparently he accepted the lease executed by his uncle and guardian, Bodley, by which the actors were to remain in possession of the Globe until December 25, 1635; but in 1633 he sought to cancel the lease he himself had executed as a minor, by which the actors were to remain in possession until 1644. His purpose in thus seeking to gain possession of the Globe was to lease it to other actors at a material increase in his profits.[424] Naturally the owners of the Globe were alarmed, and they brought suit in the Court of Requests. In 1635, one of the sharers, John Shanks, declares that he "is without any hope to renew" the lease; and he refers thus to the suit against Brend: "When your suppliant purchased his parts [in 1634] he had no certainty thereof more than for one year in the Globe, and there was a chargeable suit then pending in the Court of Requests between Sir Mathew Brend, Knight, and the lessees of the Globe and their assigns, for the adding of nine years to their lease in consideration that their predecessors had formerly been at the charge of L1400 in building of the said house."[425] The lessees ultimately won their contention, and thus secured the right to occupy the Globe until December 25, 1644--a term which, as it happened, was quite long enough, for the Puritans closed all playhouses in 1642. [Footnote 424: Wallace, "Shakespeare and the Globe," in the London _Times_, April 30 and May 1, 1914.] [Footnote 425: The Petition of the Young Actors, printed by Halliwell-Phillipps, _Outlines_, I, 312. Mrs. Stopes, in _Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage_, p. 129, refers to a record of the suit mentioned by Shanks, dated February 6, 1634.] What disposition, if any, the sharers made of the Globe between 1642 and 1644 we do not know. But before the lease expired, it seems, Brend demolished the playhouse and erected tenements on its site. In the manuscript notes to the Phillipps copy of Stow's _Annals_, we find the statement that the Globe was "pulled down to the ground by Sir Mathew Brend, on Monday the 15 of April, 1644, to make tenements in the room of it";[426] and the statement is verified by a mortgage, executed in 1706, between Elizabeth, the surviving daughter and heir of Thomas Brend, and one William James, citizen of London. The mortgage concerns "all those messuages or tenements ... most of which ... were erected and built where the late playhouse called the Globe stood, and upon the ground thereunto belonging."[427] [Footnote 426: Printed in _The Academy_, October 28, 1882, p. 314. Should we read the date as 1644/5?] [Footnote 427: William Martin, _The Site of the Globe_, p. 171.]