[Footnote 481: Discovered by Stevens, and printed in Malone, _Variorum_, III, 55, note 5. Mr. W.J. Lawrence, _Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_ (1914), p. 314, says that the date of this advertisement is 1660. But the same advertisement is reprinted by H.R. Plomer in _Notes and Queries_ (series X), VI, 107, from _The Kingdom's Intelligencer_ of March 18, 1661.] No one seems to have cared to lease the property; so on March 16, following, the materials of the building were sold to one William Beaven for the sum of L75;[482] and in the records of the College, March 4, 1662, we read that "the said playhouse ... is since totally demolished."[483] [Footnote 482: Young, _The History of Dulwich College_, II, 265.] [Footnote 483: Collier, _The Alleyn Papers_, p. 101. I am aware of the fact that there are references to later incidents at the Fortune (for example, the statement that it was visited by officers in November, 1682, in an attempt to suppress secret conventicles that had long been held there), but in view of the unimpeachable documentary evidence cited above (in 1662 the College authorities again refer to it as "the late ruinous and now demolished Fortune playhouse"), we must regard these later references either as inaccurate, or as referring to another building later erected in the same neighborhood. The so-called picture of the Fortune, printed in Wilkinson's _Londina Illustrata_, and often reproduced by modern scholars, cannot possibly be that of the playhouse erected by Alleyn. For an interesting surmise as to the history of this later building see W.J. Lawrence, _Restoration Stage Nurseries_, in _Archiv fuer das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen_ (1914), p. 301.] CHAPTER XIV THE RED BULL The builder of the Red Bull Playhouse[484] was "one Aaron Holland, yeoman," of whom we know little more than that he "was utterly unlearned and illiterate, not being able to read."[485] He had leased "for many years" from Anne Beddingfield, "wife and administratrix of the goods and chattles of Christopher Beddingfield, deceased," a small plot of land, known by the name of "The Red Bull." This plot of land, which contained one house, was situated "at the upper end of St. John's Street" in the Parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, the exact location being marked by "Red Bull Yard" in Ogilby and Morgan's _Map of London_, printed in 1677. The property was not much more distant from the heart of the city than the Fortune property, and since it could be easily reached through St. John's Gate, it was quite as well situated for dramatic purposes as was the Fortune. [Footnote 484: This playhouse is not to be confused with the famous Bull Tavern in Bishopsgate Street, for many years used as a theatre.] [Footnote 485: These statements are based upon the Woodford _v._ Holland documents, first discovered by Collier, later by Greenstreet, and finally printed in full by Wallace, _Three London Theatres_.]