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 between 1604 and 1609. But the question of personnel is not really quite so simple as this, since the members of a company under a trade agreement were not always the same as those named in the authority under which it performed. Before discussing this complication, it will be simplest first to set out separately the notices of the Queen's men, which have been preserved in London and in provincial records respectively.

Queen's men played at Court on 30 December 1605, in Heywood's How to Learn of a Woman to Woo, which is not extant. They played also on 27 December 1606. For both years their payee was, as in 1604, John Duke. During 1607 Dekker and Webster's Sir Thomas Wyatt and Day, Wilkins, and Rowley's Travels of Three English Brothers were printed with their name on the title-pages. The latter play, according to the entry of 29 June 1607 in the Stationers' Register, was acted at the Curtain. But it is shown by a passage in ''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'' to have been also on the stage of the Red Bull. In this house Thomas Swinnerton, one of the men named in the patents, acquired an interest between 24 March 1605 and 23 March 1606, and all the evidence is in favour of a continuous sojourn of Queen's men there until 1617. The first quarto of Heywood's ''A Woman Killed with Kindness'', also printed in 1607, does not bear their name, but it is on that of the 'third edition' of 1617. They are not named as playing at Court during the winter of 1607-8, but in the course of 1608 Heywood's Rape of Lucrece was printed, as played by them at the Red Bull. They gave five plays at Court in the winter of 1608-9, one on 27 December 1609, three on 10 and one on 27 December 1610. Heywood's Golden Age was printed, as played by them at the Red Bull, in 1611. The Court records of 1611-12 are a little confused. But they appear to have played Cooke's ''City Gallant on 27 December, his Tu Quoque'', which is in fact the same play, on 2 February, to have joined with the King's men in performances of Heywood's Silver Age and Rape of Lucrece on 12 and 13 January, and to have played unnamed pieces on 21 and 23 January. From 1609 to 1612 their payee was Thomas Greene. Webster's White Devil and Dekker's If It be not Good, the Devil is in It, were printed as theirs in 1612, the former with a laudation of the acting of 'my freind Maister Perkins', the latter as played at the Red Bull. They did not play at Court during the winter of 1612-13, but did on 24 December 1613 and 5 January 1614. Tu Quoque was printed as theirs in 1614. In the winter of 1614-15 they gave three plays at Court. Heywood's