are lyklie to ensue to all the inhabitantes, and the offence that would be to her Majestie, havinge heretofore given sufficient notice unto you of the great myslyke her Highnes hath of those publicke and vayne buildinge[s] for soche occacions that breed increase of base and lewde people and divers other disorders. Therefore wee require you not to faile forthwith to take order that the foresaid intended buildinge maie be staied, and yf any be begone, to see the same quite defaced. So, &c.
cxix.
[1600, March 28. 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 that the churchwardens shall talk with the players
for tithes for their playhouses within the liberty of the Clinke, and
for money for the poore, according to the order taken before my
lords of Canterbury and London and the Master of the Revels.
cxx.
[1600, April 1. Abstract of entry in Roll of the General Sessions of
the Peace for Middlesex, printed by J. C. Jeaffreson, Middlesex County
Records, i. 260. The proclamation referred to must, I suppose, be the old
one of 1559 (No. x). I do not know of any Star Chamber order about
plays, but it is quite possible that one was made in 1597, and not recorded
in the Council Registers, as the Star Chamber had its own Clerk, distinct
from those of the Privy Council.]
Recognizance . . . of John Wolf of Eastsmithfield, co. Midd.
Stationer, in the sum of forty pounds; The condition of the recognizance
being 'that, whereas the abovebounden John Wolf hathe
begun to erecte and builde a Playhowse in Nightingale Lane near
East Smithefeilde aforesaid contrary to Her Majesties proclamacion
and orders sett downe in Her Highenes Court of Starrchamber. If
therefore the said John Wolf do not proceede anie further in buildinge
or erectinge of the same playhowse, unless he shall procure sufficient
warrant from the Rt. Honourable the Lords of Her Majesties most
honourable Privye Councill for further . . . then this recognizaunce
to be void or els to remaine in full force.'
cxxi.
[c. 1600, April. Certificate of the Inhabitants of Finsbury to the Privy
Council, printed by W. W. Greg, Henslowe Papers, 50, from Dulwich MS.
i. 28; also by Collier, Alleyn Memoirs, 58.]
To the righte honorable the Lordes and others of her maiesties most honorable privie Councell:
In all humblenes, wee the Inhabitantes of the Lordshipp of Fynisburye,
within the parrishe of St. Gyles without Creplegate, London,
doe certifie vnto your honnours, That wheare the Servantes of the
