[1578, Dec. 23. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register in Dasent, x. 435.]
A letter to the Lord Maiour and the Justices of Middlesex and
Surrey requiring them to suffer the exercise of playes within the
Cittie of London and without the Liberties, and to have regarde that
suche orders as are prescribed for the stayeng of thinfection maie be
duelie observed, so as ther growe no hurte unto the sounde in their
publicque assemblies.
[1578, Dec. 24. Privy Council Minute, printed in Dasent, x. 436.]
A letter to the Lord Maiour, &c, requiring him to suffer the Children
of her Majesties Chappell, the servauntes of the Lord Chamberlaine,
therle of Warwicke, the Erle of Leicester, the Erle of Essex and the
Children of Powles, and no companies els, to exercise playeng within
the Cittie, whome their Lordships have onlie allowed thereunto by
reason that the companies aforenamed are appointed to playe this
tyme of Christmas before her Majestie.
[1579, March 13. Minute of Privy Council, printed from Register in
Dasent, xi. 73.]
To the Lord Maiour of London to take order within the Cittie and
in all other places within his jurisdiccion that there be no plaiers
suffered to plaie during this tyme of Lent, untill it be after the Ester
weke; and also to advertise their Lordships whose plaiers they be,
and in what places they have plaied since the begynnyng of this
Lent, and that this order may be observed hereafter yerelie in the
Lent tyme &c.
To the Justices of Peace in Midlesex to forbidd all maner of plaiers in the Suburbs of London and other places neare adjoyning to the same, that they do not in any wise exercise the same during this tyme of Lent, and that this order may be observed hereafter yerelie during the tyme of Lent, &c.
[1580, Feb. 21. Indictment of Middlesex jury, printed by J. C. Jeaffreson,
Middlesex County Records, ii. xlvii.]
Midd. ss. Juratores pro domina Regina presentant quod Johannes
Braynes de Shorditche in comitatu Middlesexie yoman et Jacobus
Burbage de eadem yoman xxi^{mo} die Februarii anno regni Elizabethe
Dei gracia Anglie Francie et Hibernie Regine fidei defensoris &c.
xxii^{do} et diuersis aliis diebus et vicibus antea et postea congregauerunt
et manutenuerunt illicitas assemblaciones populi ad audienda et
spectanda quedam colloquia siue interluda vocata playes or interludes
per ipsos Johannem Braynes et Jacobum Burbage et diuersas alias
personas ignotas exercitata et practicata apud quendam locum vocatum
the Theatre in Hallywell in comitatu predicto Racione cuius
