BLACKFRIARS THEATRE BUILDING 41 
eihese by their adaptation for the purpose must have served for 
a the lodgings of the Children of the Chapel who, as shown later, 
were boarded, lodged, and instructed at the theatre under the su- 
pervision of Henry Evans.* Evans and his wife had residence in 
“one or two rooms”® in the building,—doubtless the two on the 
third floor fronting Pipe Office Yard. 
In the Great Hall, galleries* and lords’ rooms® or private boxes 
heel SP ee, Aa 
ma 
with lock and key® were built around the sides. 
lease; e. g., “All that great Hall 
or Rome w"™ the roomes over the 
_same.’—Evans vs. Kirkham, G.-F., 
211. 
“Whereas Richard Burbage . 
hath leased and to farme letten 
vnto henrye Evans all that greate 
_ hall or Roome with the roomes ouer 
the same in the said indenture men- 
cioned.”—The 2007. bond of Evans 
to Kirkham ef al. in one of the doc- 
uments which I recently discovered. 
Cf. infra, 927. 
That the “roomes ouer the same” 
were of little use except in connec- 
tion with the theatre is shown by 
the Plea of Burbage and Hemings 
in the suit of Kirkham vs. Painton, 
G.-F., 2284. 
*Infra, 71, 73ff, 98ff, 105ff. 
*If the new roof was given a 
pitch similar to that of the north 
section, there would have been a 
space at least 66 feet long and about 
32 feet wide to divide into rooms. 
Allowing a hall of 6 feet, the re- 
maining space would have made 
twelve rooms, each 11x13 feet. 
With two in each room, this would 
have accommodated twenty-four 
boys,—approximately the number 
required in most of the plays pre- 
sented by the Children of the Chapel 
maintained at the Blackfriars. (Cf. 
imfra, 75). 
“|. . one or two roomes where- 
in your subiect then inhabited.”— 
Evans vs. Kirkham, G.-F., 211c. 
“Galleries are’ mentioned in dif- 
ferent documents that I have re- 
cently brought to light; e. g., 
tocius illius magnae Aulae 
vel. loci anglice Roome cum locis 
-forde’s 
No published 
anglice roomes supra eadem... 
cum Theatro anglice a Stage por- 
ticibus anglice Galleryes et sedilibus 
de quantitate specificata in scedula 
ad inde annexata” &c—Cf. supra, 
36°. 
As Ben Jonson was writing for 
no other company than the Children 
of the Chapel during 1600-1601, the 
following can but refer to incidents 
at Blackfriars. Also every identi- 
fiable reference in Satiromastix to 
Jonson as a playwright is to his 
Poetaster, played first at Blackfriars 
ca. April, 1601. 
Horace [Jonson] is made to 
swear, “You shall not sit in a gal- 
lery when your comedies and inter- 
ludes have entered their actions and 
there make vile and bad faces at 
every line,’ &c.—Thomas Dekker, 
Satiromastix (ed. T. Hawkins, Ori- 
gin of the English Drama, 1773), 
TU, 193. 
See further infra, 42. 
*Horace [Jonson] is _ further 
sworn, “You must forswear to ven- 
ture on the stage when your play i 1s 
ended, and to exchange court’sies 
and complements with gallants in 
the lord’s rooms, to make all the 
house rise up in.arms and to cry,— 
That’s Horace, that’s he, that’s 
he.” —Ibid. 
°“A little Pique happened be- 
twixt the Duke of Lenox and the 
Lord Chamberlain about a Box -at 
a new Play in the Black Fryars, of 
which the Duke had got the Key.”— 
Letter from Rev. G. Garrard dated 
Jan. 25, 1635, in The Earl of Straf- 
Letters and Dispatches 
(1739), I, 511. Quoted also, but 
inexactly, in E. Malone, op. cit., III, 
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