papers at Dulwich
College, supplies us with some very exact details of the size and
shape of the building. Although the document is long, and is couched
in the legal verbiage of the day, it will repay careful study. For the
convenience of the reader I quote below its main specifications:[444]

_Foundation._ A good, sure, and strong foundation, of piles,
brick, lime, and sand, both without and within, to be
wrought one foot of assize at the least above the ground.

_Frame._ The frame of the said house to be set square, and
to contain fourscore foot of lawful assize every way square
without, and fifty-five foot of like assize square every way
within.

_Materials._ And shall also make all the said frame in every
point for scantlings larger and bigger in assize than the
scantlings of the said new-erected house called the Globe.

_Exterior._ To be sufficiently enclosed without with lath,
lime, and hair.

_Stairs._ With such like stairs, conveyances, and divisions,
without and within, as are made and contrived in and to the
late erected playhouse ... called the Globe.... And the
staircases thereof to be sufficiently enclosed without with
lath, lime, and hair.

_Height of galleries._ And the said frame to contain three
stories in height; the first, or lower story to contain
twelve foot of lawful assize in height; the second story
eleven foot of lawful assize in height; and the third, or
upper story, to contain nine foot of lawful assize in
height.

_Breadth of galleries._ All which stories shall contain
twelve foot of lawful assize in breadth throughout. Besides
a jutty forward in either of the said two upper stories of
ten inches of lawful assize.

_Protection of lowest gallery._ The lower story of the said
frame withinside ... [to be] paled in below with good,
strong, and sufficient new oaken boards.... And the said
lower story to be also laid over and fenced with strong iron
pikes.

_Divisions of galleries._ With four convenient divisions for
gentlemen's rooms, and other sufficient and convenient
divisions for two-penny rooms.... And the gentlemen's rooms
and two-penny rooms to be ceiled with lath, lime, and hair.

_Seats._ With necessary seats to be placed and set, as well
in those rooms as throughout all the rest of the