f 21v (28 September)
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ye Comission wase sate one this Daye att ye bear garden Dined att ye bull Head with mr bromefeeld & tuchborn wine first att bear garden 8d diner 5s 6d...
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Robert Bromfield, of Southwark, was a woodmonger, overseer of Phillips Henslowe's will, vestryman and churchwarden of St Saviour's, and MP for Southwark, 1621–4 (HPO).
In the dispute between the Attorney General and William Henslowe and Jacob Meade, related by Alleyn, Letters Patent of 25 June 1618 had ordered a Commission to survey the boundaries of the Bear Gardens and call witnesses. Bromfield and Tichborne, both associates of Alleyn, were two of the commissoners appointed. See Appendix 4: V. e and see Introduction: History of Properties, Edward Alleyn vs. William Henslowe and Jacob Meade, 1617-26
Record title: Edward Alleyn's Diary and Account Book
Repository: Dulwich College
Shelfmark: MS IX
Repository location: Dulwich
Since Alleyn did not die until 25 November 1626 and was buried at Dulwich on 27 November, he probably started and continued this practice in further books, which do not survive. The 'diary,' really an account book, was first transcribed in Young, Dulwich College, vol 2, pp 51-255, and extracted in Warner, Catalogue, pp 165-95.
All notes to Alleyn's activities directly relevant to the Bear Garden in Southwark have been included here.
For a fresh transcription, with introduction and glossaries, and an image of the original manuscript, see Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.
29 September 1617-1 October 1622; English; paper; 62 leaves; modern pencil foliation; ruled in columns for day of the month, entry, and £ s d, ruled header at the top gives the month and year; original vellum cover bound in at the beginning of the volume (on the inner side is a lease from Edward Alleyn to William Penfold, of a wharf in St Mary Overy, dated 1603).