[Footnote 534: Wallace, _Shakespeare and his London Associates_, p. 95.] By this means Rosseter disposed of the competition of the Paul's Boys. But, although he secured a monopoly on child-acting, he failed to secure a monopoly on private playhouses, for shortly after he had sealed this bargain with Pierce, the powerful King's Men opened up at Blackfriars. Rosseter promptly requested them to pay half the "dead rent" to Pierce, which they good-naturedly agreed to do. In 1613 Whitefriars was rented by certain London apprentices for the performance "at night" of Robert Taylor's _The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl_. The episode is narrated by Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Sir Edmund Bacon: On Sunday last, at night, and no longer, some sixteen apprentices (of what sort you shall guess by the rest of the story) having secretly learnt a new play without book,[535] entitled _The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl_, took up the Whitefriars for their theatre, and having invited thither (as it should seem) rather their mistresses than their masters, who were all to enter _per buletini_ for a note of distinction from ordinary comedians. Towards the end of the play the sheriffs (who by chance had heard of it) came in (as they say) and carried some six or seven of them to perform the last act at Bridewell. The rest are fled. Now it is strange to hear how sharp-witted the city is, for they will needs have Sir John Swinerton, the Lord Mayor, be meant by the Hog, and the late Lord Treasurer by the Pearl.[536] [Footnote 535: Miss Gildersleeve, in her valuable _Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama_, p. 112, says: "Just what is the meaning of 'a new Play without Book' no one seems to have conjectured." And she develops the theory that "it refers to the absence of a licensed play-book," etc. The phrase "to learn without book" meant simply "to memorize."] [Footnote 536: _Reliquiae Wottonianae_ (ed. 1672), p. 402. The letter is dated merely 1612-13. In connection with the play one should study _The Hector of Germany_, 1615.] Apparently the Children of the Queen's Revels continued successfully at Whitefriars until March, 1613. On that date Rosseter agreed with Henslowe to join the Revels with the Lady Elizabeth's Men then acting at the Swan. The new organization, following the example of the King's Men, used Whitefriars as a winter, and the Swan as a summer, house. Thus for a time at least Whitefriars came under the management of Henslowe.