Viewing Venue Record: Blackfriars (I)

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• Anne Farrant has taken her case to the Privy Council: Sir John Wolley to William More
• Sir William More drafts his own version of the Farrant controversy
• Anne Farrant appeals to Sir Francis Walsingham for help in reclaiming the Blackfriars lease
• Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: Anne Farrant responds to Hunnis and Newman's complaint
• Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: William Hunnis and John Newman reply to Anne Farrant
• Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: Hunnis and Newman countersue Anne Farrant
• Requests, Hunnis and Newman vs Farrant: William Hunnis and John Newman must meet with their counsel to discuss Anne Farrant's charges
• Richard Farrant's will stipulates that the Blackfriars lease should go to his wife, Anne Farrant
• Common Pleas, Farrant vs Hunnis and Newman: Anne Farrant sues William Hunnis and John Newman for a 100l bond on the Blackfriars sub-lease
• Anne Farrant pleads with William More for permission to sublet the Blackfriars property
• Richard Farrant writes to Sir William More about the house in the Blackfriars
• Sir William More leases the Blackfriars property to Richard Farrant
• The Blackfriars is one of the London playhouses where comedies are performed: Stephen Gosson
• Sir Thomas Cawarden responds to a complaint by the Blackfriars inhabitants that he has defaced the parish church
• Lord Cobham buys a mansion house on the Blackfriars estate
• Thomas Cawarden's land grant prompts a survey of the Blackfriars property
• Sir Henry Neville leases the Blackfriars tenement
• Sir Thomas Cawarden sells one of the Blackfriars tenements to Lord Cobham
• Lord Cobham has not paid his rent on the Blackfriars tenements
• Lord Cobham leases parts of the Blackfriars property from William More
• Sir George More sells parts of the Blackfriars estate
• William Hunnis plans to use the Blackfriars as a performance space for the Children of the Chapel
• Multitudes flock to London's lewd playhouses
• King's Bench, Rastell and Kirkham vs Hawkins: Rastell and Kirkham state their case
• Jonson refers to the Privy Council order restraining plays in his 'Poetaster'
• 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 Privy Council asks the Lord Mayor of London to lift the ban on holiday evening playing, and to appoint a play censor
• The Lord Mayor protests the Privy Council's request to lift the ban on holiday evening plays
• Fleetwood assures Burghley that playhouses are closed during the plague
• Watermen' fares across the Thames
• 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
• The inhabitants of the Blackfriars object to plans for a new playhouse
• Thomas Cawarden's lease on the Blackfriars provides details of the property