ff [1–1v]
Inprimis I demaund ye rentes due vnto me since my mothers decease
2 ye stock off bears bulls doggs & other things apertayning to ye personall estate of Phillip Henslowe nott by hym bequeathed
3 60 li. per annum for ye vse of my Comision for so Longe as ye said Iacob hath vsed ye same
ye rentes accrew by 2 Leases ye one from Phillip Henslowe ye
other from annis Henslowe & my selfe. ye rentes
dwe by bothe these Leases att mydsomer
<.> next is 200 li.
in ye Leas sett by
Nowe Iacobs answer to this can be but yat he paid ye said rentes wher he thought in His Consienc they were dwe but ye trweth is for to gayne to hym self a firme Leas for 21 years for yat booth ye other Leases ‸⸢wear⸣ with condicions & Lymitacions & Iacob Entred into on bond of 300 li. for performonce of covenauntes. & an other bond & another bond of 200 li. to stand to an arbitrement
For ye stock yat is playly sett downe in a sedule which Iacob is to make good in his first Lease & when my mother Lett hym ye other moyety we wear about to frame a new sedule: but after considering yat by ye first Lease & sedule he was charged with such a stock & now in ye second Lease ‸⸢y⸣ whole state demised vnto hym we forbare to make any new sedule ye first being still in forsse. but some small cubbs which weare bread vp betwixt my father & hym as a surplusage of ye stock I Receyued mony for my mothers part & so likewise of some hoggs.|
nowe his answer wilbe for ye stock. yat ye are
⸢wear⸣ all dead before my father dyed or yat he hath
allredy paid for them or some such like.
for ‸⸢ye⸣
iiiij 60 li. per annum for my Comission he will saye
ther is more then yat owing me off ye Court in fees & rewardes
acording to his Covenaunt:
Lett yat apere & I shalbe satisfied allthoug Receue itt I
never receue itt.
but yat allowances must amount to aboue 60 s. per annum
besides ye my ‸⸢masters⸣ fee of 14 s. per diem in respeckt
ther was 60 li. allwayes paid & allowed for ye Comission by ye farmer
theroff many years agoe who never had any thing to doe with ye
fe 14 s. per dye
3 yeeres
Entries in Alleyn's diary illustrate, perhaps, the progress towards an eventual settlement between Alleyn and Meade negotiated between April and September 1619. See f 31v, 25 April 1619, when Alleyn met Jacob and spent 7s at dinner with arbitrators; f 36v, 21 July 1619, when Alleyn met one of his lawyers, Mr Adey, for 'His advise about Jacob,' and finally f 38v, 22 September 1619 'I dind wt Jacob, mr Adye and mr foster & wee Concluded our matters both wth Hym & Tho. Angell: blessed be ye god off peac.'
Record title: Edward Alleyn's Statement of Matters in Dispute with Jacob
Meade
Repository: Dulwich College
Shelfmark: MS II
Repository location: Dulwich
These notes about the issues in dispute relative to rents and leases of the Bear Garden, and the stock of animals with Henslowe's partner in the Hope/Bear Garden, Jacob Meade, are in Alleyn's hand. Although the document is undated, it clearly postdates the death of Agnes Henslowe, Alleyn's mother-in-law, in early April 1617; see Honigmann and Brock, Playhouse Wills, p 105. It also postdates Meade's agreement on 29 June 1617 to lease the Bear Garden from William Henslowe instead of Alleyn; see Appendix 4: VIII. a. The notes themselves may have been preparation for Alleyn's petition addressed to the earl of Pembroke, lord chamberlain of the household, and presented to him probably in the summer of 1617; see Petition to William Herbert from Edward Alleyn in answer to a petition against him relating to the baiting of bears.
For an image of the original manuscript, see Ioppolo, Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project.
undated; English; paper; bifolium, written on ff [1-1v] only; originally unnumbered; 275mm x 167mm; endorsed on f [2v]: Jacob Meade. Now mounted on a modern guard and bound with other documents in a 19th-c. brown cloth binding with gold tooling, title on spine: 'DULWICH | COLLEGE. | ALLEYN | PAPERS. | VOL.II. | BEAR | GARDEN | 1598–1626. Foliated 78–9 in pencil by Warner and cited on p 81 of his Catalogue.