Note 528 — BOOK V PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
Reading edition
Arber, iii. 690; Pollard, Sh. F. 23, ‘From 19o Elizabethe [1576–7] till the Starre-chamber Decree 28o Elizabeth [1586], many were licensed by the Master and Wardens, some few by the Master alone, and some by the Archbishop and more by the Bishop of London. The like was in the former parte of the Quene Elizabeth’s time. They were made a corporacon but by P. and M. Master Kingston, ye now master, sayth that before the Decree the master and wardens licensed all, and that when they had any Divinity booke of muche importance they would take the advise of some 2 or 3 ministers of this towne’.