[Footnote 141: Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, p. 61; Dasent, _Acts of the Privy Council_, XXXII, 511.] But the Queen's Men were probably dissatisfied with the Curtain. It was small and antiquated, and it must have suffered by comparison with the more splendid Globe and Fortune. So the Queen's players had built for themselves a new and larger playhouse, called "The Red Bull." This was probably ready for occupancy in 1605, yet it is impossible to say exactly when the Queen's Men left the Curtain; their patent of April 15, 1609, gives them permission to act "within their now usual houses called the Red Bull, in Clerkenwell, and the Curtain in Holywell."[142] It may be that they retained control of the Curtain in order to prevent competition. [Footnote 142: The Malone Society's _Collections_, I, 270.] What company occupied the Curtain after Queen Anne's Men finally surrendered it is not clear. Mr. Murray is of the opinion that Prince Charles's Men moved into the Curtain "about December, 1609, or early in 1610."[143] [Footnote 143: _English Dramatic Companies_, I, 230.] In 1613 "a company of young men" acted _The Hector of Germany_ "at the Red Bull and at the Curtain." Such plays, however, written and acted by amateurs, were not uncommon, and no significance can be attached to the event. In 1622, as we learn from the Herbert Manuscripts, the Curtain was being occupied by Prince Charles's Servants.[144] In the same year the author of _Vox Graculi, or The Jack Daw's Prognostication for 1623_, refers to it thus: "If company come current to the Bull and Curtain, there will be more money gathered in one afternoon than will be given to Kingsland Spittle in a whole month; also, if at this time about the hours of four and five it wax cloudy and then rain downright, they shall sit dryer in the galleries than those who are the understanding men in the yard." [Footnote 144: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 59; cf. Chalmers's _Supplemental Apology_, p. 213, note _y_. Murray gives the date incorrectly as 1623.] Prince Charles's Men did not remain long at the Curtain. At some date between June 10 and August 19, 1623, they moved to the larger and more handsome Red Bull.[145] After this, so far as I can discover, there is no evidence to connect the playhouse with dramatic performances. Malone, who presumably bases his statements on the now lost records of Herbert, says that shortly after the accession of King Charles I it "seems to have been used only by prize-fighters."[146] [Footnote 145: Murray, _English Dramatic Companies_, I, 237, note 1.] [Footnote 146: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 54, note 2.]