Strype on page 62, and a still better picture may be found in J.T. Smith's _The Antiquities of Westminster_. The Royal Cockpit in Dartmouth Street survived until 1816, when it was torn down. Hogarth, in his famous representation of a cock-fight, shows its interior as circular, and as embellished with the royal coat of arms. Another interesting picture of the interior will be found in Ackermann's _The Microcosm of London_ (1808). It is needless to add that this building had nothing whatever to do with the theatre royal of the days of King Charles.] CHAPTER XXI MISCELLANEOUS I WOLF'S THEATRE IN NIGHTINGALE LANE, NEAR EAST SMITHFIELD In Jeaffreson's _Middlesex County Records_ (I, 260), we find the following entry, dated April 1, 1600: 1 April, 42 Elizabeth.--Recognizance, taken before Sir John Peyton knt., Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Thomas Fowler, Tobias Woode, Edward Vaghan and Henry Thoresby esqs., Justices of the Peace, of John Wolf, of Eastsmithfield, co. Midd., stationer, in the sum of forty pounds; The condition of the recognizance being "that, whereas the above-bounden John Wolf hath begun to erect and build a playhouse in Nightingale Lane near East Smithfield aforesaid, contrary to Her Majesty's proclamation and orders set down in Her Highness's Court of Starchamber. If therefore the said John Wolf do not proceed any further in building or erecting of the same playhouse, unless he shall procure sufficient warrant from the Rt. Honourable the Lords of Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council for further ... then this recognizance to be void, or else to remain in full force."