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 to his son William. Professor Wallace states that in 1616 Thomasine Ostler was involved in another law-suit with Walter Raleigh, son of Sir Walter, and obtained a verdict of £250 against him for insult and slander. One way and another, Heminges seems to have acquired a considerable financial interest in the Globe and Blackfriars. He had an original seventh of a moiety of the Globe lease in 1599, and an original seventh of the Blackfriars lease in 1608. But as executor to Phillips (q.v.) and otherwise he had opportunities of adding to these holdings. The Sharers Papers show that at his death he had four sixteenths of the Globe and probably two eighths of the Blackfriars; and these, or some of them, he had enjoyed 'thirty yeeres without any molestacion, beeing the most of the sayd yeeres both player and houskeeper, and after hee gave over playing diverse yeeres'. In Witter v. Heminges and Condell he is described as being in 1619 of 'greate lyveinge wealth and power'. The playhouse shares seem to have been the chief part of the property left by his will. They passed to William Heminges as his executor. He seems to have gradually disposed of them, first selling one share in the Globe by arrangement with the company to Taylor and Lowin, and later, by transactions which some of his fellows resented, one share in each house to John Shank during 1633 for £156, and the remaining shares also to John Shank during 1634, for £350. He was then in difficulties, and Shank disbursed additional small sums to him in prison. It was these sales to Shank which brought about the petition to the Lord Chamberlain recorded in the Sharers Papers.

HENSLOWE, FRANCIS. Queen's, 1594; Lennox's, 1605. He was son of Richard and nephew of Philip Henslowe, and various entries in the diary and other Dulwich MSS. record his imprisonments, more than once on criminal charges, his employment during 1593-4 in his uncle's pawnbroking, and his loans, one of which on 1 June 1595 was of £9 'to laye downe for his hallfe share with the company which he dothe playe with all' (H. i. 6), conceivably, as Dr. Greg suggests, some company other than the Queen's, in which he had already acquired a half share in 1594. He dwelt in the Clink in 1594, took a house called the Upper Ground on Bankside in 1597, and was of St. George's, Southwark, in 1606, in which year, between 30 March and 6 October, both he and his wife died (H. ii. 277).

HENSLOWE, PHILIP. Owner of Rose, Fortune, Hope, and perhaps lessee of Whitefriars; cf. ch. xi.

HERIOT, HENRY. Interluders, 1547-52.

HEYWOOD, JOHN. For his possible connexion with Paul's, cf. ch. xii, s.v. Chapel.

HEYWOOD, THOMAS. Admiral's, 1598; Worcester's Anne's, 1602-19, and dramatist.

HINSTOCK, ROBERT. Interluders, 1538-51.

HOBBES, THOMAS. Charles's, 1610, 1616-25. He lived at the upper end of Shoreditch in 1623 (J. 348).