n inches square."[545]

5. To "make two boxes in the lowermost story, fit and decent
for gentlemen to sit in," and in the rest of the galleries
"partitions between the rooms as they are in the said
playhouse called the Swan."

6. To construct "a stage, to be carried and taken away, and
to stand upon tressels, good, substantial, and sufficient
for the carrying and bearing of such a stage."

7. To "build the heavens all over the said stage, to be
borne or carried without any posts or supporters to be fixed
or set upon the said stage."

8. To equip the stage with "a fit and convenient
tyre-house."

9. To "build two staircases without and adjoining to the
said playhouse ... of such largeness and height as the
staircases of the said playhouse called the Swan."

10. "To new build, erect, and set up the said bull-house and
stable ... of that largeness and fitness as shall be
sufficient to keep and hold six bulls and three horses."

11. "To new tyle with English tyles all the upper roof of
the said playhouse ... and stable."

12. To have the playhouse finished "upon or before the last
day of November," 1613.

[Footnote 544: The contract is printed in full in Greg, _Henslowe
Papers_, p. 19.]

[Footnote 545: The height is given for the first story only. We may
assume that the middle and uppermost stories were of diminishing
heights, as in the case of the Fortune Playhouse, in which the
galleries were respectively twelve, eleven, and nine feet in height.]

For all this Katherens was to receive the sum of L360; but since
Henslowe and Meade supplied a large share of the lumber and other
materials, the total cost of the building may be estimated as not less
than L600.

When completed, the new playhouse was appropriately christened "The
Hope."

It has been generally assumed that a picture of the Hope is given in
Visscher's _View of London_, published in 1616; but this, I think, is
exceedingly doubtful. In drawing the Bankside, Visscher rather
slavishly copied the Agas map of 1560, inserting a few new
buildings,--notably the playhouses,--and it is virtually certain that
he represented the "Bear Garden" (so he distinctly calls it) and the
Globe as they were before their reconstruction.[546] The first
representation of the Hope is to be found in Hollar's splendid _View
of London_ published in 1647 (see page 326