Agnes Howe, a London heiress, promised marriage to three men, but then married a fourth. John Flaskett, one of her scorned suitors, commissioned George Chapman to write a scurrilois play about the scandal as a means of pressuring Howe into honouring her promise to him. The play was bought for and produced at St Paul's; its performance sparked a series of lawsuits. Chapman replies to the interrogatories. He concedes that he knew of the lawsuit between John Flaskett and John Milward concerning Agnes Howe, and admits that he made a play called The Joiner of Aldgate. He contends that he made the play of his own invention, nor did he see it performed, but agreed to sell it to Woodford when approached by him. He heard that Milward had asked that the play be stopped for four or five days, but did not know that it had been prohibited from being staged.