Kempe decided to withdraw from the enterprise. He had to
dispose of his share to the other parties in the "joint tenancy,"
Shakespeare, Heminges, Phillips, and Pope, who at once divided it
equally among themselves, and again went through the process necessary
to place that share in "joint tenancy." After the retirement of Kempe,
the organization, it will be observed, consisted of six men, and the
shares were eight in number, owned as follows: Richard Burbage and
Cuthbert Burbage, each two shares, Shakespeare, Heminges, Phillips,
and Pope, each one share.

[Illustration: A PLAN OF THE GLOBE PROPERTY

Based on the lease and on other documents and references to the
property.]

The tract of land on which the new playhouse was to be erected is
minutely described in the lease[385] as follows:

All that parcel of ground just recently before enclosed and
made into four separate garden plots, recently in the tenure
and occupation of Thomas Burt and Isbrand Morris, diers, and
Lactantius Roper, salter, citizen of London, containing in
length from east to west two hundred and twenty feet in
assize or thereabouts, lying and adjoining upon a way or
lane there on one [the south] side, and abutting upon a
piece of land called The Park[386] upon the north, and upon
a garden then or recently in the tenure or occupation of one
John Cornishe toward the west, and upon another garden plot
then or recently in the tenure or occupation of one John
Knowles toward the east, with all the houses, buildings,
structures, ways, easements, commodities, and appurtenances
thereunto belonging.... And also all that parcel of land
just recently before enclosed and made into three separate
garden plots, whereof two of the same [were] recently in the
tenure or occupation of John Roberts, carpenter, and another
recently in the occupation of one Thomas Ditcher, citizen
and merchant tailor of London ... containing in length from
east to west by estimation one hundred fifty and six feet of
assize or thereabouts, and in breadth from the north to the
south one hundred feet of assize by estimation or
thereabouts, lying and adjoining upon the other side of the
way or lane aforesaid, and abutting upon a garden plot there
then or recently just before in the occupation of William
Sellers toward the east, and upon one other garden plot