Realme or Domynion of Wales without lawfull Lycence or Warrant so to do, that in every such case such Offence shalbe Felony, and the Party offending therein suffer Death as in case of Felony.
[§ 10.] Reserves privileges of John Dutton.
cxiv.
[1598, Feb. 19. Privy Council Minute, printed Dasent, xxviii. 327.]
A letter to the Master of the Revelles and Justices of Peace of
Middlesex and Surrey. Whereas licence hath bin graunted unto two
companies of stage players retayned unto us, the Lord Admyral and
Lord Chamberlain, to use and practise stage playes, whereby they
might be the better enhabled and prepared to shew such plaies before
her Majestie as they shalbe required at tymes meete and accustomed,
to which ende they have bin cheefelie licensed and tollerated as aforesaid,
and whereas there is also a third company who of late (as wee
are informed) have by waie of intrusion used likewise to play, having
neither prepared any plaie for her Majestie nor are bound to you,
the Masters of the Revelles, for perfourming such orders as have bin
prescribed and are enjoyned to be observed by the other two companies
before mencioned. Wee have therefore thought good to require
you uppon receipt heereof to take order that the aforesaid third
company may be suppressed and none suffered heereafter to plaie
but those two formerlie named belonging to us, the Lord Admyrall
and Lord Chamberlaine, unles you shall receave other direccion from
us. And so, &c.
cxv.
[1598, May 1. Abstract from Vestry records of St. Saviour's, Southwark,
by W. Rendle, Bankside, vi, in Harrison, ii, App. i.]
It had been ordered, May 1, 1598, that Mr. Langley's new buildings
shall be viewed—they were near to the Paris Garden play-house—and
that Mr. Henslowe and Jacob Meade shall be moved for money
for the poor on account of the play-houses.
cxvi.
[1598, July 19. Extract from Vestry records of St. Saviour's, Southwark,
printed in Variorum, iii. 452, and by W. Rendle, Bankside, v, in
Harrison, ii, App. i.]
It is ordered at this vestrye that a petition shal be made to the
bodye of the councell concerninge the play houses in this pareshe,
wherein the enormeties shal be showed that comes therebye to the
pareshe, and that in respect thereof they may be dismissed and put
down from playing, and that iiij or ij of the churchwardens, Mr. Howse,
Mr. Garlonde, Mr. John Payne, Mr. Humble, or ij of them, and
Mr. Russell and Mr. Ironmonger, or one of them, shall prosecute the
cause with a collector of the Boroughside and another of the Bankside.
