In the summer of 1598[265] it was used by Robert Wilson for a contest in extempore versification. Francis Meres, in his _Palladis Tamia_, writes: "And so is now our witty Wilson, who for learning and extemporall wit in this faculty is without compare or compeere, as, to his great and eternal commendations, he manifested in his challenge at the Swan on the Bankside." [Footnote 265: After the order of February 19, when the "intruding company" was driven out, and before September 7 when Meres's _Palladis Tamia_ was entered in the Stationers' Registers.] On May 15, 1600, Peter Bromvill was licensed to use the Swan "to show his feats of activity at convenient times in that place without let or interruption."[266] The Privy Council in issuing the license observed that Bromvill "hath been recommended unto Her Majesty from her good brother the French King, and hath shewed some feats of great activity before Her Highness." [Footnote 266: Dasent, _Acts of the Privy Council_, XXX, 327.] On June 22, 1600, the Privy Council "with one and full consent" ordered "that there shall be about the city two houses, and no more, allowed to serve for the use of the common stage plays; of the which houses, one [the Globe] shall be in Surrey ... and the other [the Fortune] in Middlesex."[267] This order in effect merely confirmed the order of 1598 which limited the companies to two, the Admiral's and the Chamberlain's. [Footnote 267: _Ibid._, 395.] Early in 1601 Langley died; and in January, 1602, his widow, as administratrix, sold the Manor of Paris Garden, including the Swan Playhouse, to Hugh Browker, a prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas. The property remained in the possession of the Browker family until 1655.[268] [Footnote 268: For this and other details as to the subsequent history of the property see Wallace, _Englische Studien_, XLIII, 342; Rendle, _The Antiquarian Magazine_, VII, 207; and cf. the map on page 163.]