Bristow Merchant
John Ford & Thomas Dekker (1624)
Historical Records
The Office-Book of Sir Henry Herbert
J. O. Halliwell-Phillips transcribed a number of Sir Henry Herbert's licensing records and compiled them in various scrapbooks now held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Amongst them is the following transcription of plays from September 1624, which includes:
For the P: comp: A new P. call: The Bristow Marchant writt: by Forde & Decker 22 Oct 1624 1 li.
- (Folger Shakespeare Library, MS W.b.156 ("Fortune"), p149. Reproduce by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library; see also Bawcutt, 156)
Theatrical Provenance
Palsgrave's Company at the Fortune
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