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"ARTICLES of agreement, indented, made and agreed upon, this fourthe day of June, in the 14 yeare of the reigne of our fouveraigne lord Kinge Charles the Second, and in the yeare of our Lord 1662, betweene Sir Henry Herbert of Ribsford in the county of Worcester, knight, of the one part, and Thomas Killegrew of Couent Garden, Efq. on the other parte, as followethe:

Imprimis, It is agreed, that a firme amity be concluded for life betweene the faid Sir Henry Herbert and the faid Thomas Killegrew.

Item, The faid Thomas Killegrew doth for himselfe couenant, promife, grant, and agree, to paye or caufe to be pay'd unto Sir Henry Herbert, or to his affignes, on or before the fourthe day of Auguft next, all monies due to the faid Sir Henry Herbert from the Kinge and Queens company of players, called Mychaell Mohun, William Winterfhall, Robert Shaterell, William Cartwright, Nicholas Burt, Walter Clunn, Charles Hart, and the rest of that company, for the new plaies at fortie fhillings a play, and for the old reuiued plaies at twentie fhillings a play, they the faid players haue acted fince the eleuenthe of Auguft, in the yeare of our Lord, 1660.

Item, The faid Thomas Killegrew, Efq. doth for himselfe couenant, promife, grante, and agree, to paye or caufe to be pay'd unto the faid Sir Henry Herbert, or to his affignes, on or before the fourthe day of Auguft next, fuch monies as are due to him for damages and loffes obteyned at law ag. Michaell Mohun, William Winterfhall, Robert Shaterell, William Cartwright, Nicholas Burt, Walter Clunn, and Charles Hart, upon an action of the cafe brought by the said Sir Henry Herbert in the courte of Comon Pleas ag. ye faid Mychael, Mohun, William Wintershall, Robert Shaterell,

William Cartwright, Nicholas Burt, Walter Clunn, and Charles Hart, wherupon a verdict hath been obtayned as aforefaid ag. them. And likewife doe promife and agree that the coftes and charges of fuite upon another action of the cafe brought by the faid Sir Henry Herbert, ag.t the faid Mychael Mohun & ye reft of ye players aboue named, fhall be alfo payd to the faid Sir Henry Herbert or to his affignes, on or before the faid fourthe day of Auguft next.

"Item, The faid Thomas Killegrew doth for himfelfe couenant, promife, grante, and agree, that the faid Michaell Mohun and the reft of the Kinge and Queenes company of players fhall, on or before the faid fourthe day of Auguft next, paye or caufe to be pay'd unto the faid Sir Henry Herbert, or to his affignes, the fum of fiftie pounds, as a prefent from them, for his damages fufteyned from them and by their means.

Item, That the faid Thomas Killigrew, Efq. doth couenant, promife, grante, and agree, to be aydinge and affiftinge unto the faid Sir Henry Herbert in the due execution of the Office of the Reuells, and neither directly nor indirectly to ayde or affifte Sir William Dauenant, Knight, or any of his pretended company of players, or any other company of players to be rays'd by him, or any other company of players whatfoever, in the due execution of the faid office as aforefaide, foe as ye ayd foe to bee required of ye faid Thomas Killegrew extend not to ye filencing or oppreffion of ye faid King and Queenes company.

"And the faid Sir Henry Herbert doth for himfelfe couenant, promife, grante, and agree, not to moleft ye faid Thomas Killegrew, Efq. or his heirs, in any fuite at lawe or otherwife, to the preiudice of the grante made unto him by his Ma.tie, or to

disturbe the receiuinge of ye profits aryfing by contract from the Kinge and Queens company of players to him, but to ayde and affifte the faid Thomas Killegrew, in the due execution of the legall powers granted unto him by his Ma.tie for the orderinge of the faid company of players, and in the levyinge and receiuinge of ye monies due to him the faid Thomas Killegrew, or which fhall be due to him from ye faide company of players by any contract made or to be made between them or amongst the fame; and neither directly nor indirectly to hinder the payment of ye faid monies to be made weekly or otherwife by ye faid company of players to ye faid Thomas Killegrew, Efq. or to his affignes, but to be ayding and affiftinge to the faid Thomas Killegrew, Efq. and his affignes therein, if there be caufe for it, and that the faid Thomas Killegrew defire it of ye faid Sir Henry Herbert.

"And the faid Sir Henry Herbert doth for himfelfe couenant, promife, grante, and agree, upon the performance of the matters which are herein. contayned, and to be performed by the faid Thomas Killegrew, accordinge to the daies of payment, and other things lymited and expreffed in thefe articles, to deliver into the hands of ye faid Thomas Killegrew the deede of couenants, fealed and deliuered by the faid Mychaell Mohun and ye others herein named, bearing date the 11 Auguft, 1660; to be cancelled by the faid Thomas Killegrew, or kept, as he fhall thinke fitt, or to make what further advantage of the fame in my name or right as he shall be advised." 8

8 On the back of this paper Sir Henry Herbert has written-"Copy of the Articles fealed and delivered the 5th June, 62, between Sir H. H. and Thomas Killegrew. Bonds of 5000l. for the performance of covenants."

The actors who had performed at the Red Bull, acted under the direction of Mr. Killigrew during the years 1660, 1661, 1662, and part of the year 1663, in Gibbon's tennis-court in Vere-street, near Clare-market; during which time a new theatre was built for them in Drury Lane, to which they removed in April 1663. The following lift of their ftock-plays, in which it is obfervable there are but three of Shakspeare, was found among the papers of Sir Henry Herbert, and was probably furnished by them foon after the Restoration.

"Names of the plays acted by the Red Bull actors.

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Downes the prompter has given a lift of what he calls the principal old ftock plays acted by the king's fervants, (which title the performers under Mr. Killegrew acquired,) between the time of the Restoration and the junction of the two companies in 1682; from which it appears that the only plays of Shakspeare performed by them in that period, were K. Henry IV. P. I. The Merry Wives of Windfor, Othello, and Julius Cefar. Mr. Hart reprefented Othello, Brutus, and Hotfpur; Major Mohun, Iago, and Caffius; and Mr. Cartwright Falstaff. Such was the lamentable tafte of thofe times that the

plays of Fletcher, Jonfon and Shirley were much oftner exhibited than thofe of our author. Of this the following lift furnishes a melancholy proof. It appears to have been made by Sir Henry Herbert in order to enable him to ascertain the fees due to him, whenever he should establish his claims, which however he never accomplished. Between the play entitled Argalus and Parthenia, and The Loyal Subject, he has drawn a line; from which, and from other circumstances, I imagine that the plays which I have printed in Italicks were exhibited by the Red Bull actors, who afterwards became the king's fervants.

1660. Monday the 5 Nov.
Tuesday the 6 Nov.
Wenfday the 7 Nov.
Thursday the 8 Nov.

Friday the 9 Nov.

Saturday the 10 Nov.
Tufday the 13 Nov.
Thursdaythe 15 Nov.
Friday the 16 Nov.
Saterday the 17 Nov.
Monday the 19 Nov.
Tufday the 20 Nov.
Wenfday the 21 Nov.
Thursday the 22 Nov.
Friday the 23 Nov.
Saterday the 24 Nov.
Monday the 26 Nov.
Thursdaythe 29 Nov.
Saterday the 1 Dec.
Monday the 3 Dec.

Wit without money.
The Traytor.
The Beggars Bushe.
Henry the Fourth.
[First play acted at the
new theatre.]
The Merry Wives of
Windfor.
The Sylent Woman.
Love lies a bleedinge.
Loves Cruelty.
The Widow.
The Mayds Tragedy.
The Unfortunate Lovers.
The Beggars Bufhe.
The Scornfull Lady.
The Traytor.
The Elder Brother.
The Chances.
The Opportunity.
The Humorous Lieutenant.
Clarecilla.

A Kinge and no Kinge.

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