'Othello'--on November 1, and of
'Measure for Measure' on December 26.
Printed in Peter Cunningham's
'Extracts from the Accounts of the
Revels at Court' (pp. 203-4),
published by the Shakespeare Society
in 1842. Doubtless based on Malone's
trustworthy memoranda (now in the
Bodleian Library) of researches among
genuine papers formerly at the Audit
Office at Somerset House. {369a}
1607. Notes of performances of 'Hamlet' and
'Richard II' by the crews of the
vessels of the East India Company's
fleet off Sierra Leone. First
printed in 'Narratives of Voyages
towards the North-West, 1496-1631,'
edited by Thomas Rundall for the
Hakluyt Society, 1849, p. 231, from
what purported to be an exact
transcript 'in the India Office' of
the 'Journal of William Keeling,'
captain of one of the vessels in the
expedition. Keeling's manuscript
journal is still at the India Office,
but the leaves that should contain
these entries are now, and have long
been, missing from it.
1609 (January 4). A warrant appointing Robert Daborne,
William Shakespeare, and others
instructors of the Children of the
Revels. From the Bridgewater House
MSS. first printed in Collier's 'New
Facts,' 1835.
1609 List of persons assessed for poor
(April 6).