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lowe's allowing Alleyn residence at the Bear Garden in South- 

 wark. But there can be little doubt that the payment of rent 

 had been similarly offset from the very beginning of the lease 

 in 1601. 



The suggestions in the document concerning unknown features 

 of the Bear Garden, Alleyn's long residence there, and the later 

 relations to William Henslowe, brother and part legatee of 

 Philip, may turn out to be more than merely interesting. I 

 choose to present at present only this one out of a series of docu- 

 ments relating to the same persons and theatres. All emit an 

 occasional glimmer of light, and in due course shall be published. 



ALLEYN VS. HENSLOWE. 



Court of Requests Proceedings, uncalendered, James I. 

 [1624.] 



alleyn's bill. 



[Bill only. Crumpled and stained, but legible.] 



[Date of filing, in dorso] xxxj die Januarij Anno Rni 

 Regis Iacobi [Angl] fr et hibnie xxj°, et Scotie lvij 



Defend vocef per nunc Camer 



To the Kinges most excellent 

 Ma tie 



In most humble wise Complayninge sheweth to your most 

 excellent Ma tie your trewe ffaithfull and obedient subiecte and 

 servaunt Edward Allen of Dullwich in your highenesse Countie 

 of Surrey Esquire. That wheare as in or aboute the eight yeare 

 of your Ma tes most happie and prosperouse raigne over this your 

 highenesse Realme of England theare was Covenaunt Contract 

 Conclusion and agreement made betweene one Phillippe Hens- 

 lowe late whiles hee lived of the parish of S l Saviours in the 

 said Countie of Surrey Esquire deceased and your subiecte that 

 one yearelie rent of eighte poundes dewe and payeable to your 

 subiecte his executors and assigns by the said Phillipp Henslowe 

 for the tearme of ffoure and Twentie yeares then to come and 

 yett vnexpired for the moyetie of a house Comonlie Called the 



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