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34 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
burned down? and the new Globe erected? by the shareholders? 
in its place at a cost of 1400/.4 Although begun in 1613 it was 
not completed until the spring of 1614,° nearly a year after the 
fire.® 
The reason for the extraordinary expense and the longer 
time required for construction was that the building was erected 
much more substantially’ and fitted out in a manner superior to all 
*Burned 29 June, 1613. For de- 
tails, see a letter from John Cham- 
berlain, 8 July, 1613, in Malone, op. 
cit., 69; Sir Henry Wotton, Rel- 
iquae Wottoniae (1685), 425; John 
Stowe (continued by E. Howes), 
Annales or a General Chronicle 
(1631), 1004; “A Sonnet on the pit- 
iful Burning of the Globe Playhouse 
in London,” in J. P. Collier, His- 
tory of English Dramatic Poetry 
and the Stage (1831), I, 387; 
printed also from another MS. in 
Halliwell-Phillips, op. cit., I, 310-11. 
The least known but one of the 
most nearly contemporary of these 
accounts is a letter from Rev. 
Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas 
Puckering the next day after the 
fire, 30 June, 1613, in [Thomas 
Birch], The Court and Times of 
James I (1848), I, 253. 
*For the statement in an early 
record, but on an unknown basis, 
that the Globe was “now built vp 
again in the yeare 1613 at the great 
charge of King Iames, and many 
Noble men and others,’ see The 
Academy, loc. cit. 
*For a list of the shareholders 
and their shares at this time,—and 
from the beginning of the Globe,— 
see the long and valuable documents 
on Shakespeare, and the Globe and 
Blackfriars theatres, which I dis- 
covered some time ago and shall as 
soon as possible make known in a 
separate publication. 
4See Answer of John Shanks in 
the Globe-Blackfriars Share-papers 
of 1635, in Halliwell-Phillips, op. 
ctt., I, 316a. 
be... And. the. next ‘spring 
11614] it was builded in farre fairer 
maner then before.’—John Stowe 
(continued by E. Howes), Annales 
or a General Chronicle (1631), 1004. . 
The MS. notes in the copy of this 
edition at Thirlestone House (u. s., 
33°) declare that the Globe was 
burnt down in 1612 and rebuilt in 
1613. But those notes are inaccu-. 
rate in dates and data, and can be 
accepted only when confirmatory of 
other evidence. 
“It had but recently been opened 
when Chamberlain wrote Mrs. 
Carleton (u. 4, 35"), just a year 
and a day after the fire. 
‘The new Globe required nearly 
two to four times as long in con- 
struction as any former public the- 
atre,—the Fortune contract (u. s., 
29°) calling for six and one-half 
months and the Hope three months. 
It cost nearly three times as much 
as any of them. These items indi- 
cate a better sort of material or bet- 
ter workmanship or both. 
The Fortune theatre, the sharp 
rival of the Globe, was, after the 
1621 fire, rebuilt with a brick veneer 
(cf. The Academy, u. s., “And built 
againe with brick worke on the out- 
side in y° yeare 1622”), possibly in 
continuation of the long emulation. 
An official return, 1634 (W. 
Rendle, New Shak. Soc. Pub., 1878, 
App. I, xvii), declares “The Globe 
playhouse nere Maide lane built by 
the Company of Players with tim- 
ber about 20 yeares past uppon an 
old foundacion.” This seems to 
preclude any notion of brick-work — 
in the Globe above the foundation. 
But Wilkinson, who published, 1819 
(op. cit.), the famous view of the 
plastered brick-veneered facade of 
the second Fortune (Shepherd del., 
1811, Wise sculp.), then still stand- 
ing, engraved also in the same 
work, from Visscher, a view of the 
new Globe, showing brick-work in 
the key-stone arches over the win- 
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