1922 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL AT BLACKFRIARS 
i77*; placed on_ public-theatre 
level, 74, 183; contract for em- 
ployment of, 80°. 
Children of the Revels to the Queen 
at Whitefriars, period of, 1, 13, 
16; managers of, as founders of 
German theatre, 110°; and Philip 
Rossiter, 117°; musical entertain- 
ments by, 117’, 121. 
Children of St. Paul’s. See Paul’s 
Boys. 
Choristers. See Chapel, Children, 
Commission, Elizabeth. 
Chronology, of Blackfriars plays, 
xi, xii, 75, 114°-18; of events and 
plays, in stage-quarrel, xi, xii, 
.169°-72. See play-titles under 
Chapman, Dekker, Jonson, Mars- 
ton, Shakespeare. 
Church, in evolution of private the- 
atre, 5°. See Paul’s. 
City of London, contention of, with 
. Crown, over Blackfriars, x, xi, 
20-211, 53, 54, 152-54, 156, 159, 
160, 161°-62; order of, to sup- 
press. Blackfriars, 17°, 53°, 154°, 
161°; false statement of, concern- 
ing Privy Council order against 
Blackfriars, 53-54; opposition of, 
to Elizabeth’s theatrical purposes, 
129, 149-62; requests by, for priv- 
ilege to suppress theatres, 149, 
152, 154, 155, 156, 160; neglects 
execution of Queen’s orders, 149, 
153, 154, 155, 156, 161‘; 161'-62; 
methods of theatrical reformation 
by, 150-51, 153; insincerity of, 
151, 153, 159, 160, 161-62; alli- 
ance of, with theatres, against 
Blackiriars) §154, 0153-55) 15675%6 
158-62; political chess-game of, 
153-54, 160, 161°-62; suppresses 
Rossiter’s Blackfriars theatre, 
154°, 161°; connection of, with 
Clifton’s Complaint, 159,.160. See 
Elizabeth, Reformation. 
Clifton’s Complaint in Star Cham- 
ber, against Blackfriars, 36, 70, 
Wil, t3a-74, (77-83) 84-7 1004 109, 
102;°.113-14* 115). 126. A28°% 159, 
160, 180; purpose of, 73-74, 79, 
82, 126, 159; date of, 777-78, 79, 
84; historical unreliability of, 79, 
80, 100-1, 1017-2, 113-144, 115, 126, 
128°, 180; Puritanism in, 79, 126, 
150, 159; disproof of charges by, 
306 
in favor of, 81- “83, 159; "ane “ea 
decree for, 84-87°, 159; furthers — 
City’s opposition to Elizabeth, 4 
159, 160; false pretenses of, 159. 
See Decree, Elizabeth, Evans, : 
Star Chamber. 
Cockpit, the, modeled after Blackail 
friars, 8, 18°, 36, 39°, 43°, 141; date 7 
ofS 9; as private theatre, 8,)4 
130°; music at, 10*; size of, 36, a 
39%, 43°, 141; stage of, 43; sitting — 
on stage of, 44, 130, 136, 141; 
Queen Henrietta attends, on; loci 
cation of, 153°. ‘ 
Comfort in theatres, required ‘andl ; 
provided, 8, 34-35, 35*, 50-51, 51, 
52. , 
Commission to take up Children, to — 
Edwards, x, 65°; to Hunnis, x, | 
65, 66°, 70; to Nathaniel Gyles, 
> Se le 53, 57, 60'-62, 65, 66, 68, ie 
71, 73-74, 77-83, 84, 99, 101, 102, 
113, 114, 126, 127, 152; precedents _ 
for, to Gyles, 62-70; interpreta-_ 
tion of Gyles’s, in practice, 70-72, 
73-76, 77-83, 95-97, 106-7, 127, 
152, 155-62, 175; to Abingdon, — 
62'; to Banester, 62°; to Melyonek, 4 
62°; to Cofnysh, 63; to Crane, — 
63; to Van Wilder, 63°; to ve 
63°, 64; to [unnamed], 64°; to- 
Thomas Gyles, 677; to Nathaniel 
Gyles, at Windsor, 68°... Seem 
Blackfriars, Children, Elizabeth, — 
Gyles. 
“Common.” See “Public.” q 
Companies, theatres, and poets, re- 
lated to Blackfriars, x-xi, xii, 133, 
140, 158, 165-66", 167, 168, 169-72, 
178-81. 
Comparative view of theatre arama 
tures, ix, 28-54. See Stage, The- — 
atre. 
Concert, as musicale or “showe,” 
exclusive of drama, by Bical 
friars Boys, 5, 9, 10, 106-7, 113, 
115, 117-18, 121: Blackfriars as — 
source of popularity of, °117'; in- 
fluence of, 117', 121; first collec- — 
tions. of music. for, 117) = Seem 
Music. M 
Concert-music, first collections of, 
and Blackfriars, 117°. 
Construction. See 
view. 
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Comparative — 
