40 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
make it adaptable to the new uses. The lower room just west of 
the main entrance and the room just above it were still kept for 
residence purposes, and were reserved by Richard Burbage in 
making the later lease of the premises to Evans.1_ The other west 
lower room was converted into “the Scholehouse”? where the 
Children of the Chapel maintained at Blackfriars as actors were 
taught various subjects, including those of the Grammar school.® 
The room immediately above was later made into a dining-room 
or commons for the boy-actors by Henry Evans, the lessee, at his 
own expense.* 
The south section underwent a thorough transformation. The 
two stories were converted into the auditorium called “the great 
Hall or Room,’® which was separated from “the Scholehouse” 
and dining-room above® by the stone wall’ between the two sec- 
tions of the building. The roof was changed, and rooms, prob- 
ably of the usual dormer sort, were built above the Great Hall.® 
bage in the Globe-Blackfriars Share- 
Papers of 1635. In Halliwell-Phil- 
lips, op: ctt« 1, 317. 
*See supra, 36%. 
*“A certen roome, called the 
Scholehouse, and a certen chamber 
over the same.”—Evans’s Bill of 
Complaint in Evans vs. Kirkham, 
G.-F., 213c. These same two rooms 
are mentioned over and over in the 
documents discovered by both Mr. 
Greenstreet and myself. In one of 
the latter, for example, “the schoole- 
howse”’ is definitely located as 
“schola anglice schoolehowse ad 
borealem finem Aulae praedictae.” 
°See Diary of the Duke of Stet- 
tin, infra, 106-7, 113-25. 
‘Evans speaks of the chamber 
over “the Scholehouse” as “made 
fitt by your oratour, at his owne 
proper costs and chardges, to dyne 
and supp in.”—Evans’s Bill of Com- 
plaint in Evans vs. Kirkham, G.-F., 
214b. 
*See documents in G.-F., 211a, 
215c, 223c, 227b, 228c, 230a, 2330, 
239c, &c. The same appears with 
equal frequency in my more recent 
discoveries referred to supra, 36%. 
we" said scholehouse and cham- 
ber over the same were seuered from 
the said great hall.”—Evans vs: 
Kirkham, G.-F., 214). 
"See Deed (op. cit., 
scribing the vault under the north 
entrance-hall with a great stone 
wall on the south side of it. The 
different height and method of 
roofing of each section indicates 
this wall extended from the vaults 
to the roof. Also, if it had not been 
for this stone wall in the way, the 
auditorium would doubtless have 
been made larger. 
*The deed to Burbage (u. S., 
17°) minutely describes and lo- 
cates every part of the building, 
except the space to the east of the 
rooms occupied on the first floor 
by. Thomas Bruskett (cf. supra, 
38', 38°). The stairs in the north 
section led up into the gabled garret. 
The stone stairway out of “the 
seaven greate upper romes” ran di- 
rectly up to the leads of the flat 
roof of the south section. There 
were no \rooms above the second 
story of this auditorium section 
then. But when the building was 
finally remodeled into a theatre and 
Evans leased it, there were. They 
are mentioned in the lawsuits nu- 
merous times in connection with the 
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