_The Knight of the Burning Pestle_ was written and first acted between June 29, 1607 and April 1, 1608. The upper limit is fixed, as Boyle has indicated,[196] by the mention, in Act IV, 1, 46, of an incident in _The Travails of Three English Brothers_, "let the Sophy of Persia come and christen him a childe," concerning which the 'Boy' remarks, I, 48-50, "that will not do so well; 'tis stale; it has been had before at the Red Bull." The Red Bull, Clerkenwell, had been occupied by Queen Anne's Men (whose plays Beaumont is especially ridiculing), since 1604.[197] _The Travails_ was written hurriedly by Day, Rowley, and Wilkins after the appearance, June 8, 1607, of a tract by Nixon, on the adventures of the three Shirleys, and was performed June 29, by the Queen's Men.[198] _The Travails_ dealt with a matter of ephemeral interest, and would not long have held the public. It is, therefore, likely that the allusion to it in _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_ was written shortly after June 29. Since the play, according to its first publisher, took eight days to write, we cannot assign any date earlier than, say, July 10, 1607, for its first performance. The lower limit is determined by the certainty that _The Knight_ was played by the Queen's Revels' Children at Blackfriars; and that they ceased to act there as an independent company some time in March 1608. The play belonged in 1639 to Beeston's Boys, who had it with four others of Beaumont and Fletcher from Queen Henrietta's Men. None of these five plays had ever been played by the King's Company; it is likely that they had come to the Queen Henrietta's from the Lady Elizabeth's Men with whom the Queen's Revels' Children had been amalgamated in 1613.[199] One of these plays, _Cupid's Revenge_, had certainly come down from the Queen's Revels' Boys in that way.