The author of the anti-Martinist pamphlet 'Pap with an Hatchet' (possibly John Lyly) offers insight into the cost of playgoing in sixteenth-century London. Commenting on the Martinist agitators, the author notes it would be a 'fine tragedie' if 'he that seeks to pull down those that are set in authority above him should be hoisted upon a tree above all other.' A marginal note opposite the passage observes that: '[i]f it be showed at Paul's, it will cost you 4d; at the Theatre 2d; at St Thomas à Waterings nothing.' St Thomas a Waterings was a site for public executions.