This plot, one hundred and forty feet in length by forty-two in breadth, was small for its purpose, and the playhouse must have covered all the breadth and most of the length of the leased ground;[625] there was no actual need of leaving any part of the plot vacant, for the theatre adjoined the Court, and "free ingress, egress, and regress" to the building were stipulated in the lease "by, through, and on any part of the Court called Salisbury Court." [Footnote 625: The Blackfriars auditorium was sixty-six feet in length and forty-six feet in breadth.] At once Gunnell and Blagrove set about the erection of their playhouse. They may have utilized in some way the "great barn" which occupied most of their property; one of the legal documents printed by Cunningham contains the phrase: "and the great barn, which was afterwards the playhouse."[626] If this be true--I think it very doubtful--the reconstruction must have been thorough, for Howes, in his continuation of Stow's _Annals_ (1631), speaks of Salisbury Court as "a new, fair playhouse";[627] and in all respects it seems to have ranked with the best. [Footnote 626: Cunningham, _The Shakespeare Society's Papers_, IV, 104. In his _Handbook for London_ Cunningham says that the Salisbury Court Playhouse "was originally the 'barn.'"] [Footnote 627: _Annals_ (1631), p. 1004. In 1633 Prynne (_Histriomastix_) refers to it as a "new theatre erected."] We know very little of the building. But Wright, in his _Historia Histrionica_, informs us that it was "almost exactly like" the two other private houses, the Blackfriars and the Cockpit: _True._ The Blackfriars, Cockpit, and Salisbury Court were called private houses, and were very small to what we see now. The Cockpit was standing since the Restoration, and Rhodes' company acted there for some time. _Love._ I have seen that. _True._ Then you have seen the other two in effect, for they were all three built almost exactly alike for form and bigness.[628] [Footnote 628: Collier, _The History of English Dramatic Literature_ (1879), III, 106, thought that Salisbury Court was a round playhouse, basing his opinion on a line in Sharpe's _Noble Stranger_ acted at "the private house in Salisbury Court": "Thy Stranger to the Globe-like theatre."] In spite of what Wright says, however, there is some reason for believing that Salisbury Court was smaller than the other two private houses. The Epilogue to _Totenham Court_ refers to it as "my little house"; and the Epistle affixed to the second edition of _Sir Giles Goosecappe_ is said to convey the same impression of smallness.[629] [Footnote 629: I have not been able to examine this. In the only copy of the second edition accessible to me the Epistle is missing.]