1635. 10 May. A warrant for L30 unto Mons. Josias Floridor, for himself and the rest of the French players for three plays acted by them at the Cockpit.[672] 1635. 10 Decemr.--A warrant for L100 to the Prince's Comedians,--viz. L60 for three plays acted at Hampton Court, at L20 for each play, in September and October, 1634. And L40 for four plays at Whitehall and [_query_ "at"] the Cockpit in January, February, and May following, at L10 for each play.[673] 1636. The first and second part of _Arviragus and Philicia_ were acted at the Cockpit before the King and Queen, the Prince, and Prince Elector, the 18 and 19 April, 1636, being Monday and Tuesday in Easter week.[674] [Footnote 669: Lord Chamberlain's Office-Book, C.C. Stopes, "Shakespeare's Fellows and Followers," Shakespeare _Jahrbuch_, XLVI, 96.] [Footnote 670: Herbert MS., Malone, _Variorum_, III, 237.] [Footnote 671: Herbert MS., Malone, _Variorum_, III, 237.] [Footnote 672: Lord Chamberlain's Office-Book, Chalmers's _Apology_, p. 508.] [Footnote 673: _Ibid._, p. 509.] [Footnote 674: The Herbert MS., Malone, _Variorum_, III, 238.] Other similar allusions to performance in the Cockpit might be cited from the Court records. One more will suffice--the most interesting of all, since it shows how frequently the little theatre was employed for the entertainment of the royal family. It is a bill presented by the Blackfriars Company, the King's Men, for Court performances during the year 1637. This bill was discovered and reproduced in facsimile by George R. Wright, F.S.A., in _The Journal of the British Archaeological Association_ for 1860; but it was wholly misunderstood by its discoverer, who regarded it as drawn up by the company of players that "performed at the Cockpit in Drury Lane." He was indeed somewhat puzzled by the reference to the Blackfriars Playhouse, but met the difficulty by saying: "There can be little doubt that the last-named theatre was lent for the occasion to the Cockpit Company," although he suggests no reason for this strange borrowing of a theatre by a troupe that possessed a house of its own, and much nearer the Court, too. It did not even occur to him, it seems, to inquire how the Cockpit Company secured the plays which we know belonged to Shakespeare's old company. Because of these obvious difficulties scholars have looked upon the document with suspicion, and apparently have treated it as a forgery.[675] But that it is genuine is indicated by the history of "The Cockpit-in-Court" as sketched above, and is proved beyond any question by the fact that the Office-Book of the Lord Chamberlain shows that the bill was paid: