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royal expense as the combined evidences abundantly show. Even 
_ the expense for the rental of the building was provided for, not 
$ specifically, but generally, by the granted privilege of private gain 
to the management. 
_ The maintenance of a player company and the furnishing of 
apparel was the chief expense in theatrical business. With these 
_ provided, not only expense free but under royal patronage, and 
_ with no charges to be met by the management except the minor 
sum of rental and repairs, there is little wonder that the Queen 
is regarded as “establishing” this theatre. Her part in it amounts 
to nothing less. 
The results that arose immediately out of this theatrical estab- 
lishment,—the Queen’s official acts in carrying out her purposes, 
the City’s opposition, the unfriendly attitude of the public the- 
atres, the championship of their cause in Hamlet, as also the ori- 
gin of certain theatrical modes and customs,—are reflexively con- 
tributive to a knowledge of the Queen’s relations to Blackfriars, 
and are discussed in succeeding chapters. 
“which after was leased out to 
the Blackfrya™*.”—/Jdem, 27 Jan., 
1617, on suppression of the same 
theatre. Cf. ut praeantea cit. 
“A common  playhowse then 
[1596, Nov.] preparing to be 
erected there.”—City’s order to sup- 
press Blackfriars (1618-[19]), 1 
Halliwell-Phillips, op. cit., I, 311. 
“to errecte, sett vpp, furnish and 
maynteyne a play house or place in 
the Blacke-fryers.”—Clifton’s Com- 
plaint in Court of Star Chamber 
(1601), supra, 101°. 
“lett the said Playhowse vnto 
Henrye Evans, ... whoe intended 
then [1. ¢., when lease was made] 
presentlye to erect or sett _vpp a 
- Companye of boyes ... in the 
same.”’—Burbage’s Answer (1612), 
supra, 57". 
“except the said Evans could 
erect & keepe a companye of Play- 
inge boyes.”—I dem, supra, ibid. 
one Evans that first sett up the 
boyes commonly called the Queenes 
Majesties Children of the Chap- 
pell.”—Globe-Blackfriars Share-pa- 
pers of 1635 in Halliwell-Phillips, 
op. ,cit., I, 317. 
“to erect a company for refpre- 
sentation of tragedies.”—Patent to 
George Jolly (Dec. 24, 1660) in E. 
Malone, op. cit., III, 252. 
Gerschow’s “erbauet” is a cor- 
rect translation of “set up” or 
“erect” in either the literal sense, 
or with the meaning of “cause to 
be erected or set up,” “found,” “es- 
tablish.” His use of the word 
doubtless arises from _ translating 
“erect” or “set up” in the English 
source of his information (2. e., 
talk with officials or others) used 
in the sense of “establish.” 
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