f 5v (December)
What The Bear garden Cost
me.
for my owne part
°in december 1594°
| l. | |
| first to mr burnabye | 200 |
| Then for the patten | 250 |
| some is 450 |
°I held itt 16 year &°
Receyued
<.>60 l. per anum
which is 960 l.
| sowld itt to my father Hinchloe in februarie 1610 for |
580 l. |
Also in Alleyn's memorandum book, and of particular interest regarding the Bear Garden lease at the Bell and Cock, is the list of 'The wrightings of the bear garden'; see Appendix 2, Alleyn's Writings of the Bear Garden, Early 17th Century. Further items of Alleyn's memorandum book are transcribed in Collier, Alleyn Papers, pp xiii–xix; Greg, Henslowe Papers, p 108; and Foakes, Diary, p 302.
For an abstract of this record and details of its transcription in other printed sources, see the related EMLoT event.
Record title: Edward Alleyn's Memorandum Book
Repository: Dulwich College
Shelfmark: MS VIII
Repository location: Dulwich
The contents of Alleyn's memorandum book consist of miscellaneous notes, including the purchase of Dulwich manor and the building cost of the Fortune Playhouse. Also included is this extract giving the costs of the purchase of the Bear Garden from Thomas Burnaby in 1594 and of its sale to Philip Henslowe in 1610.
For an image of the original manuscript, see Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.
1594-1616; English; paper; i + 165 + i; 160mm x 100mm (text area variable); 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.'