22 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
hall, companies of actors in masques and interludes or plays 
chiefly for performances at Court,’ and occasionally also for sim- 
ilar diversions at the houses of noblemen.? 
After thus using the building for three years, Edward VI made 
Sir Thomas Cawarden a present of the entire Blackfriars pre- 
cinct not already donated to other favorites—the two churches, 
the cloisters, the priory houses, shops, residences, and lands,— 
by letters patent dated at Westminster March 12, 1549-[50].3 
Not long afterwards, the office of the Revels and all the King’s 
theatrical properties were removed to St. John’s, Jerusalem, 
where they remained until ca. 1607.* 
of his appointment, dated March 
11, 1545-[6], are printed in extenso 
in Thomas Rymer, Foedera, XV, 
62; original at Loseley House, and 
noted in Hist. MSS. Com., op. cit., 
602b-603a. 
Recently Dr. Rudolf Brotanek, 
Die Englischen Maskenspiele (Wie- 
ner Beitrage zur Englischen Phi- 
lologie, ed. Dr. J. Schipper, XV), 
99, 110-11, has shown that two 
men were Cawarden’s predecessors, 
—Harry Wentworth, 1510, and Sir 
Henry Guildford, 1514. Dr. Bro- 
tanek’s source of information is, 
Letters and Papers, foreign and do- 
mestic, of the reign of Henry VIII, 
arranged and catalogued by J. S. 
B[rewer] (4 vols. 1862), II, 1492, 
I, 958, I, 7187. 
*See documents at  Loseley 
House; referred to in Hist. MSS. 
Com., op. cit., 602-15, passim. 
*Idem, 597a; 608b. Here for ex- 
ample, 20 May, 1553, the Earl of 
Northumberland, presuming upon 
the custom, begs Sir Thomas Ca- 
warden to prepare or “apoynt out 
a couple of fayre maskes, oon of 
men and another of women” for 
presentation the following Thurs- 
day at a triple wedding,—a daugh- 
ter of the house of Northumberland 
with the Lord of Suffolk’s son, an- 
other daughter with Lord Hastings, 
and one of the Lord of Suffolk’s 
daughters with the Earl of Pem- 
broke’s son. 
Also idem, 614a. 18 July, 1558. 
Thomas Coppley' entreats Sir 
Thomas Cawarden of his courtesy 
to “lend the vse of one of” his 
“maskes” for the domestic celebra- 
tion of the writer’s marriage. 
°See Deed to James Burbage, in 
Halliwell-Phillips, op. cit., I, 301c; 
also Repert. Orig. MS. (Brit. 
Mus.), III, 127b. See farther Let- 
ter-Book Z, fol. 23b (Guildhall Rec- 
ord Office, City archives of Lon- 
don). This date, in the document . 
on the “Liberties”’ of Blackfriars 
published in Stowe, op. cit. (1633), 
376b, is stated thus: “in his Letters 
Patents dated the 12. day of May” 
&c.- “May” is certainly error for 
“March,” which is given in all the 
other records. The present docu- 
ment, for example, (in Letter Book 
Z, fol. 23b) gives it, “by his lettres 
patentes dated at westminster the 
xij" of Marche, in the fourth yeare 
of his Reigne.” This valuable his- 
torical document, dated January 27, 
1579, has never been printed. See 
further, infra, 154’. 
*See Privy Seal from James I 
to Edmund Tilney, Master of the 
Revels, for allowance of 201. yearly 
for rent of “a house convenient for 
the Execution of the Office of o* 
Revelles” dated “at o” Pallace of 
Westm’ the eight and Twentith 
daie of December in the ffifte 
yeere of o” Raigne” &c. [=28 Dec. 
1607]. The document is preserved 
in the Public Record Office and has 
not, I believe, been printed. I have 
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