sig liii verso col 1 (The Globe and Fortune playhouses burned with other things of note)
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And about foure yeeres after, a fayre strong new built Play-house, neere Gouldinglane, called the Fortune, by negligence of a candle, was cleane burnt to the ground, but shortly after, rebuilt farre fairer. In the yeare one thousand sixe hundred twenty nine, there was builded a new faire Play-house, neere the white Fryers. And this is the seauenteenth Stage, or common Play-house, which hath beene new made within the space of threescore yeeres within London and the Suburbs, viz.
Fiue Innes, or common Osteryes turned to Play-houses, one Cock-pit, S. Paules singing Schoole, one in the Black-fryers, and one in the White-fryers, which was built last of all, in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred twentynine, all the rest not named, were erected only for common Play-houses, besides the new built Beare garden, which was built as well for playes, and Fencers prizes, as Bull Bayting besides, one in former time at Newington Buts; Before the space of threescore yeares aboue-sayd I neither knew heard nor read of any such Theatres, set Stages, or Play-houses, as haue beene purposely built within mans memory.
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The pagination is confused: after page 1014, a second page numbered 1003 is followed by 104, that is, for 1004. The signatures are therefore more reliable. Stowe's account of the burning of the Globe in 1613 immediately precedes this section. The Globe burnt down on 29 June 1613, so the burning of the Fortune is placed here around or after 1617 ('four years after'); it was, in fact, December 1621.
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: Howes' Continuation of Stow's
Annales
Publication: STC
Publication number: 23340
John Stow (1525–1605) was one of England's best-known
contemporary historians and chroniclers. According to C.L.
Kingsford, he was 'the first English historian to make systematic
use of the Public Records for the purpose of his work'; see
English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth
Century (Oxford, 1913), 266. He had an extensive
collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, many now
included in the Harley collection at the British Library. His
Annales of England was first published in 1592
(STC: 23334), covering English history from the
earliest times to Elizabeth's reign. Several more continuations
followed, Stow's final edition appearing in 1605
(STC: 23337).
The chronicler Edmund Howes
(fl. 1602–31) continued Stow's work, starting circa 1602 by extending The Abridgement or Summarie
of the English Chronicle (1607). He published his first
continuation of the Annales in 1615
(STC: 23338), including his earliest account of
the burning of the Globe. The final version of the
Annales was published in 1632
(STC: 23340), updating his account of playhouses in
London. See further Christian DeCoursey, 'Howes, Edmund (fl.
1603–1631), chronicler,' ODNB, accessed 12 December
2022.
ANNALES, | OR, | A GENERALL | CHRONICLE | OF | ENGLAND.| Begun by IOHN STOW: | CONTINVED AND | Augmented with matters For-| raine and Domestique, Aunci- | ent and Moderne, vnto the ende of this | present yeere, 1631. | By EDMVND HOWES, Gent. | LONDINI | Impensis RICHARDI | MEIGHEN, | 1631 |. STC: 23340. The publication date is corrected to 1632 on the final page of the work.