l of England
bearing date the six and twentieth day of March last past
before the date of these presents, did give and grant unto
the said William Davenant, his heirs, executors,
administrators, and assigns full power, license, and
authority that he, they, and every of them, by him and
themselves and by all and every such person or persons as he
or they shall depute or appoint, and his and their laborers,
servants, and workmen, shall and may lawfully, quietly, and
peaceably frame, erect, new build, and set up upon a parcel
of ground lying near unto or behind the Three Kings Ordinary
in Fleet Street in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West,
London, or in St. Bride's London, or in either of them, or
in any other ground in or about that place, or in the whole
street aforesaid, already allotted to him for that use, or
in any other place that is or hereafter shall be assigned
and allotted out to the said William Davenant by the Right
Honorable Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshall
of England, or any other His Majesty's Commissioners for
Building, for the time being in that behalf, a theatre or
playhouse with necessary tiring and retiring rooms and other
places convenient, containing in the whole forty yards
square at the most, wherein plays, musical entertainments,
scenes, or other the like presentments may be presented by
and under certain provisors or conditions in the same
contained, as in and by the said letters patents, whereunto
relation being had more fully and at large, it doth and may
appear.

Now this indenture witnesseth, and the said William Davenant
doth by these presents declare, His Majesty's intent,
meaning at and upon the granting of the said license was and
is that he, the said William Davenant, his heirs,
executors, administrators nor assigns should not frame,
build, or set up the said theatre or playhouse in any place
inconvenient, and that the said parcel of ground lying near
unto or behind the Three Kings Ordinary in Fleet Street in
the said Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, London, or in
St. Bride's, London, or in either of them, or in any other
ground in or about that place, or in the whole street
aforesaid, and is sithence found inconvenient and unfit for
that purpose, therefore the