Viewing Person Record:
Sir Henry Herbert
Role(s)
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Star Chamber, 'Widow Waking' case: Thomas Dekker deposes
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Requests, Salisbury Court vs Brome: Richard Brome responds to the charges
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Chamberlain's Office, 'Sharers' Papers': John Shanks receives satisfaction for his shares
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Royal company players are sworn Grooms of the Chamber and William Beeston resumes governorship of the Phoenix/Cockpit
- Master of the Revels
- Event: King's Revels Company perform three plays at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert sends four players to join the Salisbury Court company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Doctor Lamb and the Witches' is licensed with additions for Salisbury Court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A citizen objects to the second part of 'The City Shuffler'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Henry Herbert imprisons a man for lending a church robe to the players at Salisbury Court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Richard Heton drafts a patent for Queen Henrietta Maria's company and states his further intentions
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Theatres close because of the plague
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Master of the Revels receives income from his shares in Salisbury Court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Dido and Aeneas' is licensed to Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Spanish Purchase' is licensed to the Salisbury Court company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Love Sick Courtier' is licensed for Salisbury Court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Arcadian Shepherdess' is licensed for Salisbury Court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Brome's 'The Florentine Friend' is licensed to Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Master of the Revels receives payment from a benefit performance of 'Hannibal and Scipio'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men and Prince Charles' Men are allowed cloth to wear in King James' funeral procession
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Theatres close because of the plague
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Prince Charles' Men perform several plays at court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Star Chamber, 'Widow Waking' case: Garfield deposes
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Widow's Prize' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men pending revision
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Madcap' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Four Sons of Amon' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Fair Foul One' is licensed to a Company of Strangers and performed at the Red Bull
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'A Fault in Friendship' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Crafty Merchant' is licensed to the Lady Elizabeth's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Peaceable King' is licensed for the Prince's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Welsh Traveller' is licensed for the Revels Company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A fencing prize is played at the Red Bull
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Day and Dekker's 'The Belman of Paris' is licensed for Prince Charles' Men at the Red Bull
- Master of the Revels
- Event: John Day's 'The Honest Citizen' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: John Webster's 'A Cure for a Cuckold' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Devil and the Collier,' parts 1 and 2 are licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'New World in the Moon' licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Massinger's 'History of William Longsword' is licensed to the Red Bull
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Hogshead' is licensed to Prince Charles' Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Fortune and Red Bull exchange companies
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Clifton's 'The Noble Thief' is licensed to the company at the Red Bull
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Mad for a Head' is licensed to the Red Bull Company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Youth's Figaries' is licensed to the Red Bull Company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A competing version of 'Keep the Widow Waking' is licensed for another company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'A Late Murder of a Son upon the Mother' by Ford and Webster is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Blagrave and Beeston petition the Master of the Revels for the return of Stephen Hammerton
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Massinger's 'The Renegado' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Master of the Revels receives payment from the Cockpit company for allowing playing during Lent
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Massinger's 'The Noble Bondman' is licensed to the Queen of Bohemia's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Cockpit company performs 'The Gipsy' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Massinger's 'The Parliament of Love' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Christopher Beeston is commanded to assemble a boy company for a same-day performance
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A revised 'The Night Walker' is licensed to Queen Henrietta Maria's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Henry Herbert sells a play to Christopher Beeston, and receives payment for licensing it and a pair ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Hymen's Holiday' is performed at court
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert lists the chief players at the Phoenix
- Master of the Revels
- Event: French Players perform at court and are allowed to play at the Cockpit/Phoenix during Lent
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Match Me in London' is licensed to the Lady Elizabeth's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Valiant Scholar' is licensed to the Lady Elizabeth's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Shirley's 'The School of Compliment' is licensed to the Cockpit Company as 'Love Tricks'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Davenport's 'The City Nightcap' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Heywood's 'The Captive' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Dekker and Ford's 'Sun's Darling' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Ford's 'The Lady's Trial' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Henry Herbert confiscates 'The Martyred Soldier' from the Lady Elizabeth's Men at the Cockpit
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Martyred Soldier' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men after Herbert takes it from Lady Elizabeth's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Escapes of Jupiter' is allowed to another company despite having belonged to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Dekker's 'The False Alarm' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Princely Lovers' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Challenge' is allowed, after having been performed without a license at the Cockpit
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Cox's 'The Noble Revels' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Chevaliers' is licensed to the Cockpit company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Queen Henrietta Maria's Men avoid punishment for impersonating courtiers in 'The Ball'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: William Heminges' 'The Coursing of the Hare' is licensed for the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Masque' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Gunnell's 'The Hungarian Lion' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Rowley's 'A Match or No Match' is licensed for the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Bonen's 'Two Kings in a Cottage' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Rowley's 'A Hardship for Husbands' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Rowley's 'A Tragedy of Richard the Third, or The English Prophet' is licensed for the Palgrave's Men ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Angel King' is licensed for the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Fair Star of Antwerp' is licensed for the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Honour in the End' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Whore in Grain' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Drue's 'The Duchess of Suffolk' is licensed - with revisions - to the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Gunnell's 'The Way to Content all Women' is licensed for the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert allows the Fortune company to add scenes to an old play and advertise it as a ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Humours of Rome' is licensed for the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Woman Monster' is licensed to the Fortune's company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'A Queen and No Queen' is licensed to the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Seven Stars' is licensed to the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Moorfields' is licensed to the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Messanissa' is licensed to the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A rope-dancer performs at the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Troublesome Statesman' is licensed to the Palsgrave's Men at the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Doge and the Dragon' is licensed for the Fortune company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Drue's 'Love Me or Love Me Not' is licensed for the Palsgrave's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A French company is allowed to play at the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Plantation of Virginia' is licensed for a company at the Curtain pending revisions
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men petition the Master of Revels to prohibit another company's witch play until their own ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Wallenstein, Duke of Fridland' is licensed to the Globe
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses Fletcher and Rowley's 'The Maid in the Mill' for the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Fletcher's 'A Wife for a Month' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Middleton's 'A Game of Chess' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Rowley's 'The Bee' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Shirley's 'Rosanio, or Love's Victory' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Shirley's 'The Politique Father' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Massinger's 'The Fair Anchoress of Pausilippo' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: D'Avenant's 'The Spanish Lovers' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Merry Marriage' is licensed to the Fortune Company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Foolish Ambassador' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Fletcher's 'The Wandering Lovers' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A Dutchman performs at the Globe
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A Dutch vaulter performs at the Globe
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Fletcher's 'The Devil of Dowgate' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses a camel show
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Hope plays host to a fencing tournament
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The license for Middleton's 'More Dissemblers Besides Women' is renewed for the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Shank's Ordinary' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Honest Man's Fortune' is relicensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Parricide' is allowed to the Prince's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sunn's 'The Protector' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses an additional scene for 'The Virgin Martyr'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Ford and Dekker's 'The Bristowe [Bristol] Merchant' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Shakerley Marmion's 'Country Gentleman' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Killigrew's 'Claricilla' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Davenport's 'The Court and the Country' is licensed
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'The Jewel' is licensed to the Fortune
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Habington's 'Queen of Aragon' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Queen of Aragon' is performed at Whitehall by the Lord Chamberlain's family servants
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Cavendish's 'The Variety' is licensed with reformations by Shirley
- Master of the Revels
- Event: 'Fatal Friendship' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Rowley's 'Fool without Book' is licensed pending revisions
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Young Men of the Strand are allowed to perform 'The Resolute Queen' for one night only
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Denham's 'The Sophy' is licensed to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert issues a £1 warrant in payment to the 'Musitions of the king's company'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert receives the Lenten allowance from 'Mr Hemminges'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert receives £3 from 'Mr Hemmings' for a 'courtesie done him about their Blackfriers hous'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Fletcher's 'The Noble Gentleman' for the Blackfriars
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Fletcher's 'The Fair Maid of the Inn,' performed at the Blackfriars
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses Davenport's 'The History of Henry the First' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert the benefit of a summer's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert for the benefit of a winter's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert receives £13 from the King's Men for the benefit of a winter's day, 'taken ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert for the benefit of a winter's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert for the benefit of a winter's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men award the Master of Revels the benefit of two days a year, one in ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert for the benefit of a winter's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Queen Henrietta Maria sees Massinger's The Tragedy of Cleander at the Blackfriars
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses Masssinger's 'Alexius, or, The Chaste Lovers' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert accepts the benefit of a summer's day from the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Sir Henry Herbert for the restoration of their liberty post-plague
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Herbert for benefit of a summer's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert re-licenses 'an olde playe called Winter's Tale' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men pay Herbert for benefit of a summer's day
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses 'The Loyal Subject' for the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Red Bull Company is not allowed to perform Shakespeare's plays
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men submit an apology for their disobedience against the Master of the Revels
- Master of the Revels
- Event: John Lowin pays Sir Henry Herbert for 'his pains' over a Massinger play
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert allows 'The King and the Subject,' with alterations
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert identifies the passage in Massinger's 'The King and the Subject' rejected by Charles I
- Master of the Revels
- Event: A reference to 'Love Yields to Honour' offers what Malone suggests is the earliest account of Henrietta ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert licenses 'The Corporal' for the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men allow Essex's Men to perform 'The Corporal'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert accepts £3 as a New Year's gift from the King's Company
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert accepts £2 as a Lenten gift from 'Mr Hemings'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert accepts £2 as a New Year's gift from the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Roman Actor' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Judge' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Picture' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'Minerva's Sacrifice' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Emperor of the East' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'Believe As You List' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The City Madam' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Guardian' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Tragedy of Cleander' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'A Very Woman' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Orator' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Bashful Lover' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The King and the Subject' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses Massinger's 'The Fair Anchoress of Pausilippo' to the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'The Maid in the Mill' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'More Dissemblers Besides Women' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'The Wandering Lovers' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'Rule a Wife and Have a Wife' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'Rule a Wife and Have a Wife' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'the First part of Sir John Falstaff' at Whitehall
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'The Maid in the Mill' at St. James Palace
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men perform 'The Faithful Shepherdess' at Denmark House
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Privy Council writes to Secretary Conway on the matter of Middleton's 'A Game at Chess'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The King's Men 'silenste' and Middleton sought for 'A Game at Chess' controversy: John Woolley
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Herbert renews 'Love's Pilgrimage' for the King's Men
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert cleans up 'The Tamer Tam'd,' but advises that 'ould' plays need to be carefully ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert licenses 'The Night Walkers'
- Master of the Revels
- Event: The Queen sees Carlell's 'The Spartan Ladies' at the Blackfriars
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert sends a warrant to the Kings Men to prevent them from performing 'The Tamer ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Herbert sends a note to the King's Men's bookkeeper, requesting that he 'purge ther parts, as ...
- Master of the Revels
- Event: Sir Henry Herbert notes that he has received an apology from the King's Men in the matter ...
- leaseholder
- Event: The Earl of Dorset leases land for a playhouse: Sir George Gresley's letter
- playhouse sharer
- Event: A petition is made to the Earl of Dorset concerning the lease of Salisbury Court
Active Dates
- Dates
- From: circa 1619 To: 11 September 1640
Other info
- Notes
- Master of the Revels