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 his Every Man Out of his Humour, produced in the autumn of 1600. The Privy Council order of the previous 22 June, which enacts that there shall be one allowed house only 'in Surrey in that place which is commonlie called the Banckside or there aboutes', goes on to recite that the Chamberlain's men had chosen the Globe to be that one. The allowance of the house 'in Surrey called the Globe' is confirmed by the Privy Council letter of 27 December 1601. The order of 9 April 1604 authorizes the opening after the plague of 'the Globe scituate in Maiden Lane on the Banckside in the Countie of Surrey'. This order evidently contemplates that the King's men will use the house, which was assigned to them by name as 'theire nowe vsual howse called the Globe within our County of Surrey' by the terms of the patent of 19 May 1603. The precedent is followed in the later patents of 1619 and 1625, and there is nothing to indicate that any other company than the Chamberlain's or King's men ever performed, even temporarily, at the theatre.

The Globe was held by a syndicate, composed mainly of members of the company, on a leasehold tenure. The site, which had been garden ground, was described in the original lease with some minuteness as follows:

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