150 
Instead of having any relation to Puritanism, these instances . 
rather exemplify the action of officials in the one case in carrying — 
out the will of Elizabeth and the very different will of James in — 
the other. 
I suppose Elizabeth in affairs generally felt the need of taking © 
This she generally did by steering 
Incidental traces of such seem evident in the quiet 
Puritanism into account. 
around it. 
CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
nature of her permissions for establishing and conducting Black- 
friars,” and again in the disposition of the consequent Clifton 4 
affair.® 
But the causes of the Queen’s official attitude toward the the- 
atres lay not in Puritanism, but in her own purposes. 
Elizabeth, always a patron and lover of the drama,* had some > 
definite notion of what the theatre should be. 
ness nor the incompleteness with which her notion was executed 
by officials, but her purpose therein is the point of main concern 
in this consideration. 
Upon the numerous public theatres, particularly those of sec- 
ond-rate sort, the Queen looked with no more favor than did the 
City.® 
In E. Malone, An Inquiry &c. 
(1797), 215; J. O. Halliwell-Phil- 
lips, op. cit., I, 310. Original MS. 
in Dulwich College. See also G. F. 
Warner, Catalogue of the Manu- 
scripts and Muniments of Alleyn’s 
College of God’s Gift at Dulwich 
(1881), 26-27, showing J. P. Col- 
lier’s forgeries in this document as 
printed in his New Facts Regard- 
ing Shakespeare (1835). 
In this act of 1604 the Privy 
Council specifically commands the 
Lord Mayor and the Magistrates to 
allow the Globe, Fortune, and Cur- 
tain unrestrained liberty, expressly 
mentioning and revoking the re- 
strictive and suppressive orders of 
1600-1601 thus :—‘‘without any lett 
or interruption in respect of any 
former Letters or Prohibition here- 
tofore written by us to your Lord- 
ship,” &c. 
Blackfriars is here not men- 
tioned, because it was not included 
in the famous orders of 1600-1601. 
The Lord Mayor and aldermen attempted reformation by 
See further complete work, vol. 
Et infra, 152-53, 156, 160-61*. 
*Some of the complaints against 
the theatres originated with the 
church. Which however was a long 
ways from Puritanism. But the 
church of St. Saviors in Southwark, 
the district in which most of the 
public theatres then were, in 1600 
accepted them as fixed institutions, 
and sought to use them as means 
of church support through tithes. 
—See extracts from Parish-regis- 
ters, in Chalmers, Farther Account, 
&c., in op. cit., III, 452. Cf. sup., 4. 
* Supra, 0-71. 
° Supra, 81-83; infra, 159. 
‘Even in her school- days she 
translated a part of one of Seneca’s 
dramas into blank-verse,—the first 
example of blank-verse in the 
eae ee 
Mt forasmuch as it is man- 
ifestly ‘knowen and graunted 
that the multitude of the saide 
houses and the mys-government of 
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264, 
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