Viewing Venue Record: Swan

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• Alexander Walsh, a fruiterer, is the Swan's current tenant
• A recent fencing match at the Swan ends badly: John Chamberlain [letter]
• William Fennor, a charlatan, advertises and sells tickets to a fake performance: John Chamberlain
• Requests, Pembroke's Men vs Francis Langley: Langley answers the players' charges
• Requests, Pembroke's Men vs Francis Langley: Langley is ordered to stay his suit
• A French tumbler is allowed to perform at the Swan
• The Privy Council takes action over the performance of the Isle of Dogs
• Henslowe and Meade contract with Katherens to build the Hope theatre
• The lord mayor of London asks Burghley to stop construction of a new theatre and close all existing theatres
• The Swan pays £4 6s 8d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• The 'players' pay £3 19s 4d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• St Saviour's drafts a petition to the Privy Council to have the local playhouses put down
• St Saviour's is to collect tithes from the local playhouses
• The Swan hosts an extempore versifying contest
• The title-page of Thomas Middleton's 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' claims the play was performed at the Swan
• The players have abandoned the Bankside theatres for Middlesex: John Taylor
• Moll Frith -- Dekker and Middleton's 'Roaring Girl' -- tells of a robbery at the Swan
• John Taylor ridicules William Fennor for his production of 'England's Joy' at the Swan
• Francis Langley aquires the manor of Paris Garden for £850
• Chancery, Langley vs Browker: Jane Langley states her case
• The bridge by the mill at Paris Garden is decayed; Francis Langley is to see that it is repaired
• Paris Garden inhabitants may not rent out lodgings without official permission
• The riverside environs of Paris Garden are dark and 'shadowed with trees'
• The millstream and pond neighbouring the prospective Swan site have a tendency to overflow
• The St Saviour's token books refer to Francis Langley's new tenements 'neare the playhouse'
• The banks of the millstream at Paris Garden are collapsing; those responsible for the upkeep of the manor must take action
• The vestry of St Saviour's is to review Francis Langley's new tenements, and to solicit tithes from local playhouse owners
• The playing restraint imposed in the wake of the performance of the Isle of Dogs is lifted
• Henslowe loans 10s to the imprisoned Thomas Nashe
• Henslowe lends Thomas Nashe 20s to continue writing the Isle of Dogs
• A stage direction in 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' -- possibly performed at the Swan -- refers to a 'music room'
• 'Holland's Leaguer' (the pamphlet) names the open-air theatres visible from the eponymous brothel
• Paul Hentzner, a traveller in England, reports on London's theatrical scene
• The Swan hosts a fencing prize
• Playhouses proliferate: only the Fortune and Globe are to be allowed
• Plays are banned, and the Curtain and Theatre are to be pulled down
• London has four 'amphitheatres'
• A German prince mentions four active theatres in London
• The lord mayor and aldermen of London ask the privy council to ban plays and playing
• The Privy Council repeats an order to limit London playhouses
• The Middlesex Justices of the Peace ban dances and jigs at plays
• The Privy Council restrains playing spaces, troupes and performance times
• A summary of theatres built in London: Edmund Howes
• Jonson refers to the Privy Council order restraining plays in his 'Poetaster'
• Thomas Platter -- a Swiss traveller -- visits the Theatre, Cockpit and Bear Garden
• Requests, Pembroke's Men vs Francis Langley: The players state their case
• A version of John Norden's London map includes views of the Bear Garden, the Globe and Swan, and the Rose mislabelled as 'The Stare'
• The panoramic view of London in Norden's 1600 map depicts all four Bankside theatres as polygonal
• A character in Dekker's 'Satiromastix' claims to have played 'Zulziman' at Paris Garden
• A prospective order from the Privy Council is to prohibit all manner of public entertainment in London, Middlesex and Surrey
• The Swan pays £5 3s 4d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• The Swan pays £5 5s to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• The Swan pays £3 10d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• The Swan pays 9s 3d to the Overseers of the Poor of Paris Garden
• 'England's Joy' was first acted at the Swan
• Chancery, Chute vs Langley: A deposition corrects the claim that Langley bought the Paris Garden property from Thomas Cure the elder
• Tidal water from the millpond at Paris Garden often overflows the groundwork and floodgates
• The millpond at Paris Garden floods the surrounding houses, grounds and highways
• A recent fencing match at the Swan ends badly: John Manningham
• The Surrey and Kent Commissioners of the Sewers summon Francis Langley for having failed to repair the mill bridge
• Johannes de Witt sketches the Swan in a letter to his friend, Arend van Buchell
• Gilbert Katharens and John Browne plan for the construction of the Hope theatre
• Richard Topcliffe reports to Cecil on 'the seditious play called The Isle of Dogs'
• Henslowe loans William Bird one pound to pay for his arrest by Langley
• Nathan Field seeks bail from Philip Henslowe
• Requests, Pembroke's Men vs Francis Langley: The players reply
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Richard Langley deposes
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Hannibal Gammon deposes
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Thomas Walker deposes
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Richard Johnson deposes
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Thomas Jadwin responds
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: John Turner responds
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Smithes deposes
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: George Cure answers
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Browker responds
• Chancery, Jane Langley vs Hugh Browker: Richard Bury responds
• Requests, King's Men vs Brend: Standish, Seagood and Archer depose
• Requests, King's Men vs Brend: Witnesses depose for the King's Men
• The privy council advises London authorities to restrict playhouses and other venues when the plague threatens