Viewing Event Record: Requests, King's Men vs Brend: The bill of complaint

Abstract

In the Court of Requests suit between the King's Men and the owner of the property of the Globe playhouse, Sir Matthew Brend, the King's Men and their counsel submit a bill of complaint outlining their claims regarding the renewal of the playhouse lease. They recount the terms of the original lease with Nicholas Brend and the cost of building the first Globe, which they claim was 'One Thowsand pounds of lawfull English money at the least.' They further describe how the playhouse was 'by Casualty of fire vtterly ruinated burnt downe and Consumed.' The young Matthew Brend had agreed at the time to extend the terms of the lease by six years to 'inhable and incourage' the lessees to rebuild the structure. This extension, drafted by Brend's uncle Sir John Bodley, also contained a provision to renew the lease, at the charge of ten pounds, when 'Sr Mathewe Brend hath accomplished his age of one and Twenty yeeres.' Burbage and the other plaintiffs now claim that Brend 'doth threaten when the said lease made by the said Sr John Bodley is ended to dispossesse' them of the property.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 28 January 1632 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: 28 January 1632 (Source of claim: original)

Venues

Name
Globe (II)
Name
Globe (I)

Troupes

Name
King's Men (1625-1642)

People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Burbage, Richard deceased
Brend, Nicholas deceased
Bodley, John guardian
Brend, Matthew landlord defendant
Shakespeare, William lessee
Phillips, Augustine lessee
Pope, Thomas lessee
Kemp, William lessee
Condell, Henry lessee
Burbage, Cuthbert plaintiff
Robinson, Richard plaintiff
Robinson, Winifred plaintiff
Heminges, William plaintiff
Heminges, John plaintiff
Lowin, John plaintiff
Taylor, John plaintiff
Maunsell, Samuel plaintiff's counsel
Burte, Thomas tenant
Morris, Isbrand tenant
Roper, Lactantius tenant
Roberts, John tenant
Ditcher, Thomas tenant
Zinzan, Margaret witness
Strelly, Henry witness

Event Type

  • company business
  • company context
  • court case
  • playhouse business
  • playhouse context

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