102 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
in harmony with all other evidences. Clifton says here that under 
color of the Commission to Gyles the theatre was set up, fur- 
nished, and maintained. With the malignity pared away, this 
can mean but one thing,—that the establishment and furnishing 
of the theatre and the maintenance ef the Children taken there 
was under official sanction. 
Other declarations in Clifton’s Complaint are cited elsewhere? 
as showing the unwitting admission of the same fact. 
Kirkham’s intimate and official connection with the Blackfriars 
theatre prior to 1602 explains why after the Star Chamber De- 
cree he and associates, having apparently secured concessions to 
themselves, came to Evans and “ernestly labored w* and en- 
treated” him “that he . . . would suffer them to have and enioye 
some part of the demised premises wherevppon it was agreed and 
concluded.” 
The 50/. bond referred to in Evans’s paragraph was an essen- 
tial part of this “agreement and conclusion” as a guarantee for 
the payment of the “eight shillings.” The “eight shillings” pro- 
vision is important here not for itself, but insofar as it shows the 
“ordering” of the boys after, the 1602 Articles. This comes out 
more clearly in Evans’s paragraph than in the bond itself, which 
is here inserted.? 
*Supra, 79-81; infra, 126. 
“See supra, 88°. 
*(The more difficult abbrevia- 
tions to put into type are expanded 
into italics.) The suit in which 
this document is enrolled occurred 
under James I. Hence the date is 
given as “vicesimo die Aprilis Anno 
regni dominae Elizabeth nuper Re- 
ginge Angliae quadragesimo quar- 
to,’—the day on which the Articles 
and the 200/. bond (supra, 88-92) 
were signed. 
The Condicion of this obligacion 
ys suche That yf the within bound- 
en William Rastell Edwarde Kirk- 
ham and Thomas Kendall or any 
of them theire or any of theire ex- 
ecutors administrators or assignes 
everye weeke weekly on Saturdaye 
duringe the space of fifteene yeres 
next ensuinge the date within writ- 
ten when & soe often as anye en- 
terludes plaies or showes_ shalbe 
playde vsed showed or published in 
the greate hall and. other the 
Roomes scituat in the Blackfriers 
london or any parte thereof men- 
cioned to be demysed by one Rich- 
ard Burbage gentleman to the with- 
in named Henry Evans in and by 
one Indenture of lease bearinge date 
the second daye of September in 
the twoe & fortith yere of the raigne 
of our Souereigne ladye Elizabeth 
the Queenes Maiestie that nowe ys 
or els where by the children or any © 
called by the name of the children 
of the queenes Maiestes Chappell 
or by any other children which by 
the consent of the sayde Willzam 
Edward Thomas Henrie and one 
Alexander Hawkins gentleman 
theire executors or Administrators 
or any three of them wherof the 
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