26 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
portant place it passes. 
turn, a few steps farther on, is continued as Ireland Yard, which 
probably was the north boundary of the residence property Shake- 
speare purchased here in 1613,1 and takes its name apparently 
from William Ireland who then occupied the house.* 
Within the fifty years next succeeding Sir Thomas Cawarden’s 
acquisition of the precinct, the immediate environs of the Black- 
friars theatre site had hecome one of the most aristocratic resi- 
dence districts of London. Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, Queen 
Elizabeth’s Chamberlain of the Household, had his mansion here. 
His son, Sir George Carey, who upon the death of Sir Henry 
succeeded to the title of Lord Hunsdon and in the following year, 
1597, became also Lord Chamberlain,? had his residence adjoin- 
ing the south wall of the theatre. The gate to his mansion ad- 
joined the south entrance to the theatre, and both opened out of 
the same passage-way.* Sir William More of Loseley owned a 
house on Playhouse Yard (then called Pipe-Office Yard), almost 
opposite the north entrance to the theatre. It was occupied by 
Lord Cobham,® who during a part of the first year of the the- 
atre’s history was Lord Chamberlain. Elizabeth Dowager Lady 
Russell resided near. Queen Elizabeth was frequently enter- 
tained in the neighborhoed at noble marriages, great dinners, 
elaborate masques, &c., particularly at Lord Cobham’s and Lord 
Hunsdon’s; and at least once, possibly oftener, at a play in Black- 
friars theatre.°® 
So in the present case, this passage in ~ 
knight, on the north parte.”—His- 
torical MSS. Com., op. cit. (1879), 
659. 
*See article in connection with 
the three newly discovered Chan- 
cery documents involving Shake- 
speare as plaintiff in 1615 concern- 
ing his Blackfriars house, published 
in extenso by me in The Standard 
(daily), London, Wed., Oct. 18, 
1905;) ps5; cols =s: 
*Cf. also J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, 
Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare 
(9th ed. 1890), II, 246. 
*Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, 
died July 22, 1596. His son George 
was appointed to the office of Lord 
Chamberlain Sunday, April 17, 1597. 
William Brooke, Lord Cobham, was 
Lord Chamberlain in the interval 
until his death, 7. e., from Sunday, 
August 8, 1596, to March 5, 1597.— 
See original entries of the Clerk in 
Registers of the Privy Council, pre- 
served at Whitehall, London, ad 
loc., or the same in Acts of the 
Privy Council (ed. J. R. Dasent), 
XXV,. 45 MXVII, 505 KV Eee 
Cf. also Halliwell-Phillips, op. cit., 
I, 366c, and F. G. Fleay, A Chron- 
icle History of the London Stage 
(1890), 134. 
‘Deed to James Burbage, 1596, 
in Halliwell-Phillips, op. cit., I, 
300a. 
*Tbid., I, 301a. 
°Cf. infra, 95-97. 
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