Viewing Event Record: Chancery, Browne vs Woodliffe and Langley: Marsh answers

Abstract

Robert Browne sues Oliver Woodliffe and Richard Langley in Chancery Court. Marsh answers Browne's interrogatories: in Autumn 1601, Francis Langley broke in to the playhouse with his gang, some of whom threatened to kill anyone who resisted them. One of the company had a halberd or similar weapon, with which he almost injured Marsh in the thigh. Marsh specifies that there were galleries in the Boar's Head over the stage (presumably to the side) and at one end of the stage.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 25 July 1603 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: Autumn 1601 (Source of claim: original)

Venues

Name
Boar's Head

People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Langley, Richard defendant
Woodliffe, Oliver defendant
Marsh, John deponent carpenter
Browne, Robert (III) plaintiff
Langley, Francis playhouse inhabitant

Event Type

  • court case
  • playhouse business
  • public disturbance