Rosseter's lease of the building was to expire in the following year. He seems to have made plans--possibly with the assistance of Henslowe--to erect in Whitefriars a more suitable playhouse for the newly organized company; at least that is a plausible interpretation of the following curious entry in Sir George Buc's Office Book: "July 13, 1613, for a license to erect a new playhouse in Whitefriars, &c. L20."[537] But the new playhouse thus projected never was built, doubtless because of strong local opposition. Instead, Henslowe erected for the company a public playhouse on the Bankside, known as "The Hope." [Footnote 537: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 52.] In March, 1614, at the expiration of one year, Rosseter withdrew from his partnership with Henslowe. On December 25, 1614, his lease of the Whitefriars expired, and he was apparently unable to renew it. Thereupon he attempted to fit up a private playhouse in the district of Blackfriars, and on June 3, 1615, he actually secured a royal license to do so. But in this effort, too, he was foiled.[538] [Footnote 538: See the chapter on "Rosseter's Blackfriars." The documents concerned in this venture are printed in The Malone Society's _Collections_, I, 277.] After this we hear little or nothing of the Whitefriars Playhouse. Yet the building may occasionally have been used for dramatic purposes. Cunningham says: "The case of Trevill _v._ Woodford, in the Court of Requests, informs us that plays were performed at the Whitefriars Theatre as late as 1621; Sir Anthony Ashley, the then landlord of the house, entering the theatre in that year, and turning the players out of doors, on pretense that half a year's rent was yet unpaid to him."[539] I have not been able to examine this document. Neither Fleay nor Murray has found any trace of a company at Whitefriars after Rosseter's departure; hence for all practical purposes we may regard the Whitefriars Playhouse as having come to the end of its career in 1614. [Footnote 539: _The Shakespeare Society's Papers_, IV, 90. The document printed by Collier in _New Facts Regarding the Life of Shakespeare_ (1835), p. 44, as from a manuscript in his possession, is, I think, an obvious forgery.] CHAPTER XVI THE HOPE On August 29, 1611, Henslowe became manager of the Lady Elizabeth's Men. Having agreed among other things to furnish them with a playhouse,[540] and no longer being in possession of the Rose, he rented the old Swan and maintained them there throughout the year 1612. [Footnote 540: The agreement has been lost, but for a probably similar agreement, made with the actor Nathaniel Field, see Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, p. 23.]