Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hoffe with sylver paines. Item, j payer of cloth of fylver hosse with fatten and fylver panes. Item, Tamberlynes cotte, with coper lace. with sylver lace of coper. Item, Valteger robe of rich tafitie. Item, j hode for the wech [witch]. Item, j read stamel clocke with whitte coper lace. Item, j read stamel clocke with read coper lace. Item, j cloth clocke of ruffete with coper lace, called Guydoes clocke. Item, j short clocke of black velvet, with fleves faced with shagg. Item, j short clocke of black vellet, faced with white fore [fur]. Item, j manes gown, faced with whitte fore. Item, j payer of pechecoler Venesyones uncut, with read coper lace. Item, j read scarllet clocke with sylver buttones. Item, j longe black velvet clock, layd with brod lace black. Item, j black fatten fewtte. Item, j blacke velvet clocke, layed with twyft lace blacke. Item, Perowes sewt, which Wm. Sley were. Item, j payer of pechcoler hofle with sylver corl led panes. Item, jpayer of black cloth of fylver hoffe, drawne owt with tufed tafittie. Item, Tamberlanes breches, of crymson vellvet. Item, j payer of fylk howse with panes of sylver corlled lace. Item, j Faeytone sewte. Item, Roben Hoodes sewtte Item, j payer of cloth of gowld hose with gowld corlle panes. Item, j payer of rowne hosse buffe with gowld lace. Item, j payer of mows (mouse) coller Venesyans with R. brode gowld lace. Item, j flame collerde dublet pynked. Item, j blacke satten dublet, layd thyck with blacke and gowld lace. Item, j carnacyon dubled cutt, layd with gowld lace. Item, j white satten dublet, faced with read tafetie. Item, j grene gyrcken with sylver lace. Item, j black gyrcken with sylver lace. Item, j read gyrcken with sylver lace. Item, j read Spanes [Spanish] dublett styched. Item, j peche coller satten casse. Item, Tafoes robe. Item, j murey robe with sleves. Item, j blewe robe with sleves. Item, joren taney [orange tawny] robe with fleves. Item, j pech collerd hallf robe. Item, j lane [long] robe with spangells. Item, j white & orenge taney scarf, spangled. Item, Dides [Dido's] robe. Item, iij payer of basses. Item, j white tafitie sherte with gowld frenge. VOL. II. Hh Item, the fryers trusse in Roben Hoode. Item, j orenge taney vellet gowe [gown] with sylver lace, for women. Item, j black velvet gowne ymbradered with gowld lace. Item, j yelowe satten gowne ymbradered with fylk & gowld lace, for women. Item, j greve armer. Item, Harye the v. velvet gowne. Item, j payer of crymson satten Venyfiones, layd with gowld lace. Item, j blew tafitie sewte, layd with sylver lace. Item, j Longeshankes seute. Item, jorange coller satten dublett, layd with gowld lace. Item, Harye the v. fatten dublet, layd with gowld lace. Item, j Spanes caffe dublet of crymson pyncked. Item, į Spanes gearcken layd with sylver lace. Item, j wattshode (watchet] tafitie dublet for a boye. Item, ij payer of basses, j whitte, j blewe, of fafnett. Item, j freyers gowne of graye. A Note of all fuche boockes as belong to the Stocke, and fuch as I have bought fince the 3d of March, 1598. Black Jonne Cobler quen hive. Alls Perce. Read Cappe. 2. Treangell cockowlls. Goodwine. Woman will have her will. Focaffe. Elexsander and Lodwicke. Blacke Battman. 2 p. black Battman. 2 pt of Goodwine. Mad mans morris. Perce of Winchester. Vayvode. A Note of all fuche goodes as I have bought for the Companey of my Lord Admiralls men, fence the 3 of Aprell, 1598, as followeth: Bowght a damaske casock garded with velvett Bowght a payer of paned rownd hoffe of cloth whiped with sylk, drawne out with tafitie, Bowght j payer of long black wollen stockens, } Bowght j black satten dublett Bowght a dublett of whitt fatten layd thicke with gowld lace, and a payer of rowne pandes hoffe of cloth of sylver, the panes layd with gowld lace 700 2000 17 Bowght of my fsonne v sewtes In the folio manuscript already mentioned I have found notices of the following plays, and their feveral authors: Oct. 1597. The Cobler. Dec. 1597. Mother Redcap, by Anthony Mundy, Jan. 1597-8. Feb. 1577-8. and Michael Drayton. Dido and Eneas. Phaeton, by Thomas Dekker.* The World runs upon Wheels, by G. Chapman. The first part of Robin Hood, by Anthony 9" The best for comedy amongst us bee, Edward Earle of Oxforde, Doctor Gager of Oxforde, Maister Rowleye, once a rare scholler of learned Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, Maister Edwardes, one of her Majesties chappell, eloquent and witty John Lilly, Lodge, Gascoyne, Greene, Shakspeare, Thomas Nashe, Anthony Mundye our best plotter, Chapman, Porter, Wilfon, Hathway, and Henry Chettle." Wits Treasury, being the Second Part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis Meres, 1598, p. 283. The latter writer, Henry Chettle, is the person whose teftimony with refpect to our poet's merit as an actor has been already produced. Chettle, it appears, wrote fingly, or in conjunction with others, not less than thirty plays, of which one only (Hoffman's Tragedy) is now extant. * In the following month I find this entry: "Lent unto the company, the 4 of Febreary 1598, to discharge Mr. Dicker owt of the cownter in the powltrey, the fome of fortie shillinges, I say dd [delivered] to Thomas Downton, xxxxs." 3 In a subsequent page is the following entry: "Lent unto Robarte Shawe, the 18 of Novemb. 1598, to lend unto Mr. |