On January 9, 1616, Henslowe, so long associated with the company and the Fortune, died; and a year later his widow, Agnes, followed him. As a result the entire Fortune property passed into the hands of Alleyn. But Alleyn, apparently, did not care to be worried with the management of the playhouse; so on October 31, 1618, he leased it to the Palsgrave's Men for a period of thirty-one years, at an annual rental of L200 and two rundlets of wine at Christmas.[455] [Footnote 455: Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, p. 27; Young, _The History of Dulwich College_, II, 260.] On April 24, 1620, Alleyn executed a deed of grant of lands by which he transferred the Fortune, along with various other properties, to Dulwich College.[456] But he retained during his lifetime the whole of the revenues therefrom, and he specifically reserved to himself the right to grant leases for any length of years. The transference of the title, therefore, in no way affected the playhouse, and Alleyn continued to manage the property as he had been accustomed to do in the past. [Footnote 456: The deed is printed by Young, _op. cit._, I, 50. The Fortune property, I believe, is still a part of the endowment of the college.] His services in this capacity were soon needed, for on December 9, 1621, the Fortune was burned to the ground. Alleyn records the event in his _Diary_ thus: "_Memorandum._ This night at 12 of the clock the Fortune was burnt." In a less laconic fashion John Chamberlain writes to Sir Dudley Carleton: "On Sunday night here was a great fire at the Fortune in Golding-Lane, the fairest playhouse in this town. It was quite burnt down in two hours, and all their apparel and playbooks lost, whereby those poor companions are quite undone."[457] [Footnote 457: Birch, _The Court and Times of James the First_, II, 280. Howes, in his continuation of Stow's _Annals_ (1631), p. 1004, attributes the fire to "negligence of a candle," but gives no details.]