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circumstances indicate a possibility of twice a week. But they 
are insufficient for a final conclusion. The Queen attended the 
_ 
theatre on a Tuesday,—29 Dec., 1601,\—the Duke-of Stettin on 
a Saturday,—Sept. 18, 1602.2. The fact that Kirkham and part- 
ners in the 50/. bond of April 20, 1602, agreed to pay Evans eight 
shillings “everye weeke weekly on Saturdaye . . . when & 
soe often as anye enterludes plaies or showes shalbe playde vsed 
_ showed or published in the greate hall’’* &c., indicates Saturday 
_as a day for acting. The same document from which the above 
is quoted declares that a play or interlude was presented there 
Saturday, 16 June, 1605,* and indicates Saturday as the regular 
time for both acting and payment, from date of the contract. 
This fixes Saturday as one regular day of the week for acting, but 
does not settle it as the only day. The purpose in the 1600 and 
1601 orders emanating from Elizabeth to suppress all public the- 
atres but the Globe and Fortune, and to restrict these to playing 
_ but twice a week looks like the attempt at a leveling process in 
number of representations as well as in other features, in con- 
formity with the Queen’s fixed purposes as carried out in the pri- 
vate establishment of Blackfriars.® 
Supra, 95. gliae secundo quoddam ludicrum 
*Supra, 106. anglice an interlude lusum fuit in 
5 Supra, 102°. praedicta magna Aula.”—Cf. docu- 
“Super, diem sabbati existentem ment im extenso, in complete work, 
sextumdecimum diem Junij Anno vol. IIL. 
regni domini Jacobi nunc Regis An- °See infra, chapter XII, entire. 
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