Note 990 — XI THE ACTOR'S ECONOMICS
Reading edition
C. Severn, Diary of John Ward (c. 1661-3), 183, 'I have heard that Mʳ. Shakespeare ... in his elder days lived at Stratford: and supplied the stage with 2 plays every year, and for itt had an allowance so large, that hee spent att the rate of a 1,000l a year, as I have heard'; Aubrey, ii. 226, 'I thinke I have been told that he left 2 or 300 li per annum there and thereabout [i.e. at Stratford] to a sister'.