Viewing Venue Record: St Paul's (I)

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• Queen Elizabeth grants Sebastian Westcott license to impress boys in the service of St Paul's choir
• A chorister of St Paul's is kidnapped
• The Children of Paul's perform at Hatfield House for Princess Elizabeth
• Sebastian Westcott is found guilty of keeping plays
• Thomas Giles is licensed to impress boys for the choir of St Paul's
• The Children of Paul's perform at Nonsuch palace for the Queen
• Plays cost 4d at St Paul's, 2d at the Theatre
• Stephen Gosson refers to Cupid and Psyche as a play performed at St Paul's
• Plays are no longer being performed at Paul's: Thomas Nash
• A lost ballad refers to a musical performance for the Queen by the St Paul's child bishop
• Thomas Tusser remembers his days as a choir boy at St Paul's
• The clergy and scholars of St Paul's petition the King to prevent 'unexpert People' from putting on a play
• The register of Archbishop John Whitgift lists the choristers of St Paul's by name
• The visitation book of Bishop Edwin Sandys lists the choristers by name
• The Master of the Almonry receives 7d a week to provide for the choristers
• Sebastian Westcott is reappointed Almoner of St Paul's
• The vicars choral are granted a lease on certain cathedral properties
• Thomas Giles is appointed Master of the Choristers
• The visitation book of Bishop Edmund Grindal records the names of the choristers
• The manuscript play The Argument of Meleager is attributed to the Children of Paul's
• The printer's address to the reader in Lyly's Endymion suggests that St Paul's playhouse is closed
• Leases from 1582 and 1593 help to locate the Almonry House on the cathedral property
• The St Paul's Almonry House was on the south side of the Cathedral
• The St Paul's almonry appears for the first time in a cathedral lease
• Details from the St Paul's almonry leases offer insight into the layout of the buildings on the cathedral property
• The Children of Paul's and the Children of the Chapel performed Alexander and Campaspe on Twelfth Night
• William Creeke's lease on rooms in the almonry offers insight into the location of the playhouse
• The Children of Paul's perform at court
• The Lord Mayor of London asks Burghley to forbid plays at playhouse in the liberties and in the city
• The Privy Council orders theatres closed because of the plague
• The Privy Council orders playhouses reopened following the plague
• The Lord Mayor protests the Privy Council's request to lift the ban on holiday evening plays
• Only certain companies are permitted to play in London: Privy Council
• The Martin Marprelate controversy has produced comedies
• The Privy Council asks the Lord Mayor of London to lift the ban on holiday evening playing, and to appoint a play censor
• Richard Rawlidge's "A monster late found out and discovered" refers to early London playhouses suppressed by the authorities
• To avoid conflict with traditional bear-baiting days, plays are banned Sundays and Thursdays
• Multitudes flock to London's lewd playhouses
• Fleetwood assures Burghley that playhouses are closed during the plague
• The plague threatens: Theatres must close until Michaelmas
• The Lord Mayor of London writes to the Privy Council concerning the restraint of spectacles
• The Lord High Treasurer writes to the Lord Mayor about Sunday performances
• Sebastian Westcott makes his will
• An rental from 1526 describes the location of the almonry's southern tenement
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• The title-page of Dekker's Satiromastix claims the play was performed by the Chamberlain's Men and the Children of Paul's
• Sebastian Westcott is appointed Almoner of St Paul's