276 Charles William Wallace 
brought in Requests by Burbage for relief against him in 1600, and the 
Court forbade Allen ever again to bring suit in any Court for the tearing 
down of the Theatre. This decree fell on Oct. 18, 1600, as recited in the 
Answer of the Burbages in the present suit. Then almost immediately, in 
the next term, Hilary, 1601, Allen sued Burbage in the King’s Bench on 
the same matter under the subterfuge of breach of contract. This, too, 
could not but fail. Still determined on his course of annoyance and 
possible ruin to the new Globe theatre and the Burbage-Shakespeare com- 
pany there, Allen next brought the following suit in Star Chamber, in 
November, 1601, still on the same matter, but under the shifted charges 
of riot, perjury, &c. This continued nearly to the close of 1602. That it 
likewise failed, finally ending Allen’s litigation, is sufficiently indicated by 
Sir Francis Bacon’s opinion upon it, quoted in the Demurrer of Hudson 
and Osborne, 12 June, 1602. The final decree is lost. 
This suit was found by Halliwell-Phillipps, who quoted extracts from 
it in his Outlines, I, 360-61, 372. In a long uninformed article in the 
Athenaeum, Oct. 16, 1909, Mrs. Stopes, after using Halliwell-Phillinps, 
declared that he had not seen the pleadings in this suit, and claimed them 
as her “discovery”—only one of several claims by her to discoveries 
known to scholars. ] 
BILL 
[Date, in dorso:] 
Lune vicefino Tercio 
Novembris Anno xliiijt® 
Elizabethe Regine 
William Mill 
To the Queenes moft excellent Ma‘®: ./ 
In moft humble wyfe complayninge fheweth vnto your moft .Ex- 
cellent Mat®: your highnes obedient and faythfull Subiect Gyles 
Allein of Hafeleigh in your highnes Countye of Effex gentleman 
That wheras your fayd fubiect together w Sara his wyfe did 
heretofore by their Indenture bearinge date the thirteenth daye 
of Aprill in the eighteenth yeere of your highnes Raigne demife 
vnto one James Burbage late of London Joyner certen howfeing 
and voyde Groundes lyeing and being in Hollywell in the Countye 
of Middlesex for the Terme of one and twentye yeeres then next 
following for the yeerelye Rente of foureteene powndes, wherin 
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