There is no indication of galleries, unless some marks on the angles of the front wall of the balcony may be interpreted without too much license into the footings of piers or posts to carry one; the total interior height shown in the elevation from what I have assumed to be the floor of the pit to the ceiling being only twenty-eight feet, there would hardly have been room for more than one. The only staircases which could have served it are at the rear of the building in the corners behind the stage wall.... The general dimensions would appear to be: Total width of the auditorium 58 ft. Total width of the pit 36 ft. Total width of the front stage or "apron" 35 ft. Total depth of the stage from the railing to the centre of the _proscenium_ 16 ft. The entire building is 58 feet square inside, cut to an octagon of 28 feet each side. Height from floor to ceiling 28 ft. Height from stage to ceiling about 23 ft. 6 in. The lower order of the _proscenium_ 10 ft. 6 in. The upper order of the _proscenium_ 9 ft. 6 in. The scale on the drawing may not be absolutely correct, as measured by it the side doors of the _proscenium_ are only five feet high and two feet nine inches wide: this, however, may be an error in the drawing, since we have it on very good authority that Inigo Jones designed without the use of a scale, proportioning his various members by his exquisitely critical eye alone, subsequently adding the dimensions in writing. [Footnote 668: Reprinted here by the kind permission of Mr. Bell and the editors of _The Architectural Record_.] I record below some of the references to the Cockpit which I have gathered from the Herbert Manuscript and the Office-Books of the Lord Chamberlain. The earliest payment for plays there, it will be observed, is dated March 16, 1633. Abundant evidence shows that the actors gave their performance in the Cockpit at night without interfering with their regular afternoon performance at their playhouses, and for their pains received the sum of L10. If, however, for any reason they "lost their day" at their house they were paid L20. 1633. March 16. Warrant to pay L270 to John Lowen, Joseph Taylor, and Eilliard Swanston, His Majesty's Comedians, for plays by them acted before His Majesty, viz.--L20 for the rehearsal of one at the Cockpit, by which means they lost their afternoon at their house....[669] 1634. _Bussy d'Amboise_ was played by the King's Players on Easter-Monday night, at the Cockpit-in-Court.[670] 1634. The _Pastorall_ was played by the King's Players on Easter-Tuesday night, at the Cockpit-in-Court.[671]