Alleyn’s memorandum book (DC: MS VIII) consists of miscellaneous notes. Of particular interest regarding previous holders of the Bear Garden lease at the Bell and Cock is the undated list of ‘wrightings’ below. The manuscript runs from 1594-1616 and the editors here consider that the list was made in the context of the suit of John Henslowe v. Henslowe, Alleyn and Cole (1615-16), when Alleyn was instructed to bring leases and other evidences into the court of Chancery. See Appendix 4, 1b, d, e, h-j.
Despite a focused search for all thirty-three deeds at The National Archives and Dulwich College Archive, only a few have been located and most may not have survived.
ff 43v-4v
The wrightings of the beargarden
1 Ione Payne to wistoe the ratification
2 Ione Paynes lease to Bruer of the house
3 Glouer to wistoe the assighnment of the ner garden
4 wistoes sayle to napton of Paynes lease
5 onother Indenture of wistoes to napton/ with a sedule anixed
6 wistoes indenture of ratificatione/
7 Iohn Bruer to Iohn Napton the assighnement of his house
8 from napton to gape and diges
9 from napton to diges of convayance of the house
10 diges and gape to pope
11 diges to pope convayance of the house
12 Iohn napton to pope/
13 Iohn napton to pope of the house
14 Glouer to pope for a post
15 david Watson to pop/
16 Ballardes lease to pope
17 morgin pope & Edward boes
18 Rafe boes & Edward boes to morgin pope |
19 Ballardes lease/
<..> pope to hayes his poledeede
1 hayes to Burnabie
2 Rafe Boes & Edward boes to burnabie
3 a lease ffrom moltus to Burnabie
4 watsons lease to Burnabie
5 Keyeses lease to Burnabie
6 Burnabie to Edward Alleyn/
7 ageyne Burnabie to Edward Alleyn/
8 Burnabie to Edward Alleyn/
9 Burnabie & hayes to Edward Alleyn
30 a discharge of deputationes by Burnabe/
31 Edward Alleyn to Philop Hinslow
32 Edward Alleyn to Phillop Hinslow/
33 Iacobs meades
lease/
Bonnds
1 a bond of wistoes for Couenantes of 200 li.
2 pope to hayes in 200 li.
3 napton to pope A 100 markes
4 Burnabie to Alleyn ‸⸢in⸣ 40 poundes
5 Burnabie to Alleyn in a 100 poundes |
6 Burnabie to Alleyn in 200 poundes
7 Burnabie to Alleyn in 300 poundes
8 Hinslow to Alleyn in 500 poundes
9 Hinslow to Alleyn in 500 poundes
10 Iacob meade in 300 poundes
For references to some of these 'writings' or deeds see in particular: Thomas Stone's Lease of a Plot in the old Bear Garden to Richard Ballard, 1578; Court of Requests: Edward Bowes v. John Digges and John Gape, 1584; John Bixon's Assignment of Lease to Morgan Pope, 1587; Assignment of Barge, Bell and Cock Lease by John White to John Malthouse, 1588/9; David Watson's Lease of a Plot next to the Bear Garden to Thomas Burnaby, 1590; and Thomas Burnaby's Lease of the Bear Garden to Richard Reve, 1590.
For an image of the original manuscript, see Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.
For an abstract of this record and details of its transcription in other printed sources, see the related EMLoT event and associated records.
Record title: Alleyn's Writings of the Bear Garden
Repository: Dulwich College
Shelfmark: MS VIII
Repository location: Dulwich
1594-1616; English; paper; i + 165 + i; 160mm x 100mm; numbered in a modern hand 1-4 (+6 unnumbered blanks), 5-3 (+54 unnumbered blanks), 34-8 (+2 unnumbered blanks), 39-48 (+103 unnumbered blanks), 48-62 (ff 48-62 are at end of volume, text started at both ends, rotated at end of volume but folio numbers remain in top right corner); good condition; 19th-c. brown leather binding finished with a border of a mitred gilded fillet of 5 lines, 6 gilded panels on spine, with title: 'DULWICH COLLEGE. | MEMORANDUM BOOK OF EDW. ALLEYN. | 1594-1616. |M S. VIII.'