Acquittance for the Bear Garden

Dulwich College: MS VII

f 151 (11 April)

Receuid of mr henslow the xjth daye of aperill 1602 the some of tenpovnds dew to me at our lady abouffwrytten for that quarter then dew to me for Rent

(signed) Iohn Dorington

  • Endnote

    This entry is reversed, foliated 102v from the back of the MS.

  • Document Description

    Record title: Acquittance for the Bear Garden
    Repository: Dulwich College
    Shelfmark: MS VII
    Repository location: Dulwich

    The lucrative commission of £40 a year was paid to John Dorrington, master of Bears, Bulls and Mastiff Dogs from 1598-1604, for license to bait at the Bear Garden. This acquittance of 1602 is in Henslowe's diary, DC: MS VII, f 151, but not included in Foakes' edition. A similar acquittance, dated 1 January 1601/2, is transcribed from DC: MS II, single sheet; see Richard Lefwicke's Acquittance for the Bear Garden.

    For an image of the original manuscript, see the Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.

    1576-81 (mining accounts), 1591/2–1609; English; paper; ii + 238 + ii (modern); 295mm x 190mm; 19th-c. pencil foliation 1–126 (126 blank, followed by 5 unnumbered blanks, the last one a duplicate 126, cancelled), 127-238 from the front (older erratic ink foliation from the end of the MS, reversed and mostly used by John Henslowe); carefully conserved and repaired, some frayed or torn leaves, some partly cut out or removed entirely; 19th-c. brown leather binding with gilt rules and title on spine within ruled boxes: 'DULWICH | COLLEGE. | DIARY | OF | PHILIP HENSLOWE. | 1592–1609. | MS. VII.'

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