36 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
not to greater size of auditorium, but to superior accommodations 
_ and higher prices in entertaining a more select and exclusive set 
of patrons. The Blackfriars as we shall see was not so large as 
the Globe, though of greater size than seems generally believed. 
It was the standard for Whitefriars (ca. 1604), and the model 
in form and size for the Cockpit (ca. —?; rebuilt as Phoenix, 
1617), and for Salisbury Court theatre (1629).”. 
The above comparisons give us general conceptions. Materials 
at hand enable us to determine with some definiteness the size of 
the Blackfriars building and essential features of its exterior at 
the date of purchase, as also the interior arrangement of rooms, 
the extent of alterations made by the Burbages, the exact square 
dimensions of the ‘Great Hall’ used as the theatrical auditorium, 
the location of the stage, and the general features of arrangement 
of both auditorium and stage. The evidences are in the Deed to 
Burbage,®? the numerous suits at law by Henry Evans, Edward 
Kirkham, and their associates against each other,* Clifton’s com-- 
plaint in the Court of Star Chamber against Evans et al.,> docu- 
ments concerning Salisbury Court theatre,° and contemporary 5 
plays. 
theire Companye contynewed playes _* Printed in Halliwell-Phillips, op. , 
and Interludes in the said great cit., I, 299-301. a 
Hall in the ffryers, that they gott “These suits take rank among the ; 
& as yet dothe, more in one Winter chief records of the Elizabethan- 
in the said great Hall by a thou- Jacobean stage. Two of them, con- 
sand powndes then they were vsed taining eleven documents, were dis- ; 
to gett in the Banckside.”—Kirk- covered by the late Mr. James 
ham’s Replication in Kirkham vs.  Greenstreet, and printed in extenso 4 
Evans et al., Court of Chancery, in F. G. Fleay, op. cit., 210-51. 
1612, Public Record Office. Printed [Later references, “G-F.”] 
from the transcript of James Green- Twelve additional suits—contain- 
street, the discoverer, in F.G. Fleay, ing bills, pleas, answers, replica- 
A Chronicle History of the London _ tions, depositions, bonds, and articles 
Stage (1890), 248. of agreement—belong among the 
1See “Children of the King’s treasures of my own researches, and 
Revels at Whitefriars,’ in forth- will appear in extenso in my forth- 
coming work, vol. I. coming work, vol. III. Occasional 
2“They [Blackfriars, Cockpit, quotations are made from them in 
and Salisbury Court] were all three the present work. 
built almost exactly alike for form °Greenstreet’s transcript in Fleay, 
and bigness.”—James Wright, His- op. cit., 127-32. [Referred to here- 
toria Histrionica (1699), in Haz- after as “G-F.”] 
litt’s Dodsley, Old Plays (1876), *Published by Peter Cunningham 
XV, 408. [But Wright is not quite in The Shakespeare Society's Papers 
exact here. See infra, 39°]. (1849), IV, 91-108. 
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