Truth's Supplication to Candlelight

Thomas Dekker (1600)

Historical Records

Henslowe's Diary

F. 67 (Greg I.117)

Lent vnto Thomas towne the 18 of Janewary 1599

to lend thomas dickers in earneste of a playe Boocke

called trewghtes [c]suplication to candelighte some of ... xx^s

                                                        ^{as may a pere}

Lent vnto Thomas dickers at the apoyntment

of the company the 30 of Janewary 1599 in erneste

of a Boocke called trewth suplication to candelithe

R[d] by w^m harton for hime ... xx^s

F. 30^v (Greg I.58)

Receiued by me william Haughton for the vse

of Thomas dickers on the 30^th. of Januarie

the some of ... 20^s

Jn parte of payement for the booke of truths

supplycation to candle light

Fragment in the collection of the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle

Foakes, Henslowe's Diary, 2nd ed.

                        18. die Januarij. 1599

<R>eceaved by mee Thomas Dekker at the handes of M^r

<Ph>illip Hynchlow the Somme of twenty Shillinges in ernest

<of> a play Called Truethes supplication to Candle-light

                               By mee Thomas Dekker

wittnes

thomas towne

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Keywords

Thomas Dekker

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