Viewing Event Record: According to a holograph note in an early edition of 'A Game at Chess,' the players claimed to have taken in £1500 before the play was suppressed

A note in an early hand found in a copy of the second quarto edition of Thomas Middleton's 'A Game at Chess' observes that the actors claimed to have taken in £1500 before the play was suppressed and the 'chiefe actors' and Middleton imprisoned. It records an allegedly successful verse petition imploring King James for freedom.