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familiar with the status and conduct of that theatre could have 
_ been prevented in the fifth act from thinking of the Star Chamber 
- case thus recently aimed at their playhouse. 
The effect of the decree was to inhibit the Blackfriars under 
Evans’s management, absolutely prohibiting his use of the Chil- 
dren of the Chapel in future. It did not shut up the theatre nor 
prohibit the Queen’s Children from being employed in plays at 
Blackfriars thereafter, under a new management. Nor did it in 
any way affect Gyles in his official position, which he continued 
to hold the rest of his life. The Queen’s Court seems to have 
found no fault in him, and he continued thereafter as formerly 
to supply the children of her Majesty’s Chapel for both singing | 
and acting. His furnishing of the children as actors and singers 
at Blackfriars was upon this and numerous other evidences within 
the powers of his Commission. 
Nor did the decree affect the Yeomen of the Revels, Ed. Kirk- 
ham, who as official of the Queen had furnished apparel and dis- 
bursed money weekly for the maintenance of the Boys at Biack- 
friars; for he continued to do the same throughout the rest of 
Elizabeth’s reign, and even became a partner in the management 
and sharer in the profits? 
In the judgment of the Court Evans alone had transgressed 
his privileges and abused the trust reposed in him. 
Certain other phases of the Clifton case and the Queen’s atti- 
tude in it will be taken up later.? 
* Infra, 87-94. *Infra, 126, 159. 
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