Note 576 — Chapter XVII

I can find no further reference to the Puddlewharf Theatre either in the Records of the Privy Council or in the Remembrancia of the City. Collier, however, in his History of English Dramatic Poetry (1879), i, 384, says: "The city authorities proceeded immediately to the work, and before three days had elapsed, the Privy Council was duly and formally made acquainted with the fact that Rosseter's theatre had been 'made unfit for any such use' as that for which it had been constructed." Collier fails to cite his authority for the statement; the passage he quotes may be found in the order of the Privy Council printed above.