A Projector in Richard Brome's 'The Court Beggar' suggests, 'A new project / For buylding a new Theatre or Play-house / Upon the Thames on Barges or flat boats / To helpe the watermen out of the losse / They've suffer'd by Sedans; under which project / The subject groanes, when for the ease of one / Two abler men must suffer; and not the price, / Or price of Horse-flesh or Coach-hire abated. / This shall bring flouds of gaine to th'watermen / Of which they'l give a fourth of every fare / They shall boord at the floating Theatre, / Or set ashore from thence, the Poets and Actors / Halfe of their first yeares profits.'