Request from Samuel Rowley to Philip Henslowe to pay John Daye [manuscript], [1601].
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Digital reproduction of Folger Shakespeare Library MS X.d.261
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Title
Request from Samuel Rowley to Philip Henslowe to pay John Daye [manuscript], [1601].
Description
1 leaf ; 202 x 100 mm
Associated name
Rowley, Samuel, -1624, author.
Henslowe, Philip, -1616.
Willsone, John, active 1601.
Alleyn, Edward, 1566-1626.
Dorrington, John, -approximately 1604.
Henslowe, Philip, -1616.
Willsone, John, active 1601.
Alleyn, Edward, 1566-1626.
Dorrington, John, -approximately 1604.
Summary
Request in the autograph of Rowley to pay John Daye 30 shillings for the third part of Tom Strowde. Also includes notes, many in the hand of Henslowe, relating to purchases of playbooks, bits of legal formulae and other scribbles including names Philip Henslowe, Dorington, John Willston, Alleyn.
Note
Addressed to: Mr. hincheloe.
Historical background
Third part of Tom Strowde, (i.e. The blind beggar of Bednal Green with the merry humor of Tom Strowd).
Publications about material
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 81-84.
For a discussion of this fragment, once probably part of the Henslowe papers at Dulwich College, see Greg's Henslowe Papers.
For a discussion of this fragment, once probably part of the Henslowe papers at Dulwich College, see Greg's Henslowe Papers.
Provenance
Possibly from Henslowe-Alleyn papers at Dulwich College (see Pen's excellencie).
Source of acquisition
Acquired in 1904.
Exhibited
Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.
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Digital reproduction of Folger Shakespeare Library MS X.d.261
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Call number
X.d.261
Folger-specific note
Formerly Folger MS 296. Photograph copy in W.a.124
Folger accession
cs296