es to help him secure damages. In the
forenoon he sent the following letter, now somewhat defaced by time,
to Baxter:

Mr. Blackster [_sic_]. So it is that upon Monday last it ...
to be upon your stage, intending no hurt to any one, where I
was grievously wounded in the head, as may appear; and in
the surgeon's hands, who is to have x_s._ for the cure; and
in the meantime my Master to give me maintenance ... [to my]
great loss and hindrance; and therefore in kindness I desire
you to give me satisfaction, seeing I was wounded by your
own hand ... weapon. If you refuse, then look to yourself
and avoid the danger which shall this day ensue upon your
company and house. For ... as you can, for I am a
feltmaker's prentice, and have made it known to at least one
hundred and forty of our ... who are all here present, ready
to take revenge upon you unless willingly you will give
present satisfaction. Consider there ... think fitting. And
as you have a care for your own safeties, so let me have
answer forthwith.[499]

[Footnote 498: The name is also given, incorrectly, as Richard Gill.]

[Footnote 499: Jeaffreson, _Middlesex County Records_, II, 165-66;
175-76.]

Baxter turned the letter over to the authorities of Middlesex (hence
its preservation), who took steps to guard the playhouse and actors.
The only result was that prentices "to the number of one hundred
persons on the said day riotously assembled at Clerkenwell, to the
terror and disquiet of persons dwelling there."

On July 8, 1622, the Red Bull Company secured a license "to bring up
children in the quality and exercise of playing comedies, histories,
interludes, morals, pastorals, stage-plays and such like ... to be
called by the name of the Children of the Revels."[500] The Children
of the Revels occupied the Red Bull until the summer of the following
year, 1623, when they were dissolved. The last reference to them is in
the Herbert Manuscript under the date of May 10, 1623.[501]

[Footnote 500: Malone, _Variorum_, III, 62; The Malone Society's
_Collections_, I, 284.]

[Footnote 501: Chalmers, _Supplemental Apology_, p. 213.]

In August, 1623, we find the Red Bull occupied by Prince Charles's
Men,[502] who, after the dissolution of the Revels Company, had moved
thither from the less desirable Curtain.

[Footnote 502: _Ibid._, pp. 213-14.]

Two years later, in 1625, Prince Cha