Sends notes taken from the record book of the Brewers' Company in London.

Transcribes entries from the University accounts, 1587-1591, relating to the stage.

Discusses newly discovered editions of Heywood. Includes the impression of "one of Dr. Donne's seals, upon which G Herbert wrote some verses," according to Bliss.

Transcription of an entry from the exchequer accounts of Henry VIII, ca. 1530.

Discusses a 1637 volume recording the performance of a play at Hampton Court; biographical information about Shakespeare.

Collier's note: "From an acct. book of payments to the Shuttleworths of Gunthorpe, Lancashire. The list was furnished to me by Mr. Harland of Manchester on Jan 8. 1856." A record of payment to various players, 1586-1618.

Transcription of a payment to players from the household accounts of the Shuttleworths of Lancashire, 1594.

Encloses a transcript of a passage in a book in St. Mary Redcliffe Church relating to the construction of a sepulcher.

Transcription of payments to players from an account book, 1531-1536.

Concerning the printing of Collier's .

Concerning the printing of Collier's . Asks whether Collier will expand the work from two to three volumes.

Inquires about the title of a play performed in 1598. Attached is a printed article adverstising Thorpe's new work, (1858).

Questions about items in the Calendar of the Patent Roll; mentions Collier's opinion.

Reports on what he has found on the Patent Roll of 1574. Mentions Richard Burbage, Thomas Heywood, Frederic Shoberl.

Concerning a 1650 document related to Church hiring.

Addressed to a correspondent in Maria Lane, Ludgate. Transcribes part of a 1576 document; discusses his work and discoveries on the Patent Roll.

2 leaves in Collier's hand. Transcription of proceedings of the Court of Requests in the Chapter House at Westminster: Burbage versus Allen, ca. 1596. James Burbage's landlord, Giles Allen, refuses to extend the lease on Burbage's theater property in Shoreditch.

Discusses an extract of Lambard and what P.C. [John Payne Collier?] knows about it (see W.b.502 (16a)). Extracts a passage from the appendix to Henry Chapman's Little Treatise of the City of Bath.

License to new build...one theatre...and erect a company and a nursery...under the general supervision of Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant. 4 leaves. Printed in Shakespeare Society papers, iii (1847), p. 163. Collier intended to print it in the next edition of his History of Dramatic Poetry.

Facsimile of 16th century original in the possession of the earl of Ellsemere. Recipient of petition unidentified. Liberties heretofore enjoyed by the inhabitants of the two house of the [Black]friars should be continued. Signed by Christopher Wraye and James Dyer.

Mailed from Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 13 A.M. Lane, to John Payne Collier, Victoria Road, Kensington, dated March 14, 1846. Tomlins forwards the documents (W.b.502 (20-22)) from his cousin, who "has much to say on the superior evidence of the patent roll to privy seals & warrants." Note on reverse [by a cousin of Thomas Tomlins?]: "The date is material since it shews that Prince Henry's Players, acting at the Fortune Theatre in Golding Lane, Cripplegate, were not authorized by Privy Seal until 30th April 1607, whereas the list supplied by Mr. Collier is applicable to the year 1603..."

Mailed from Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 13 A.M. Lane, to John Payne Collier, Victoria Road, Kensington, dated March 14, 1846. Tomlins forwards the documents (W.b.502 (20-22)) from his cousin, who "has much to say on the superior evidence of the patent roll to privy seals & warrants." Note [by a cousin of Thomas Tomlins?]: "Thus we all see that Mr. Collier was probably misinformed..." See w.b.502 (20, 22).

Mailed from Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, 13 A.M. Lane, to John Payne Collier, Victoria Road, Kensington, dated March 14, 1846. Tomlins forwards the documents (W.b.502 (20-22)) from his cousin, who "has much to say on the superior evidence of the patent roll to privy seals & warrants."

Printed title page for the third volume of the 1831 edition of by John Payne Collier. Includes an engraving of the Swan Theatre. Printed in London by John Murray, Albemarle-Street.

Pages 33-34 from by John Payne Collier. Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London.

In Collier's hand. Copy of a 1427 entry from the accounts of Stamford Church in Lincolnshire, recording payment to players.

Transcribes an excerpt from William Caxton's English translation of , 1481.

In Collier's hand. Copy of a 1465 entry from the household book of Sir John Howard of Stoke-by-Neyland, afterward Duke of Norfolk.

In Collier's hand. Copy of a receipt for the hire of garments for pageants, 1485, from the record of St. Mary Hill.

Copy of signatures of the "players of the King's interludes" in secretary hand, in receipt of payment.

With motto "Cavendo Tutus" and seal of the Order of the Garter.

Copy of signature of William Cornysshe, composer.

In Collier's hand. Discussion and transcription of "Certaine notes taken out of the entertainment of Katherine Dowager" on her marriage to Henry VIII, taken from the Jarne manuscript (Harl. 69).

Advertises a copy of Il Moro (1556), a dialogue in memory of Thomas More by Ellis Heywood, son of John Heywood. From Thorpe's auction catalog, 1832.

In secretary hand.

In Collier's hand. Describes an entertainment in which the Princess Mary was an actress.

Signature of a letter from Tomas Wylley, Vicar of Yoxford, to the Lord Privy Seal, 16th or 17th century.

In Collier's hand. A proclamation given on May 26, 1546, against the "theft and falsehood" of the "ruffians and vagabonds" of the theater.

In Collier's hand. Two passages concerning payment of the Queen's Players [1546] and the King's Players [coronation record, 1549] From in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

In Collier's hand. Concerning a manuscript of a play titled ; refers to Collier's prefixed to his editions of Shakespeare.

In Collier's hand. Notes on female attendance at plays, including an extract from and the answering letter "sent by the maydens of London to the virtuous matrons..." [1567].

Copy of the signature on the first royal patent issued to performers of plays in England.

Copy of Leicester's signature on a letter to Sir Jerome Bowes.

Quotes from .

Copy of Lyly's signature on a letter to Lord Burghley.

In Collier's hand. "Endorsed 21 June 1580. The vice chauncelor of Cambridge. The Earle of Oxfords players. Addressed to the right Honorable the Lorde Burghley Lord High Tresaurer of Englande."

Printed letter. Asks Collier's assistance interpreting a 1582 manuscript that refers to "the Theatre."

Copy of a signature from a letter from John Field, puritanical preacher, to Lord Leicester, November 25, 1581.

Fleetwood's signature on a report to Lord Burghley

From Thorpe's Catalog, 1844. Advertises Warwick's autograph to an order for the payment of bills for provisions and players, 1587.

In Collier's hand. Describes a 1587 incident in which masked Calvinists performed a mock-mass, inciting anger and violence among Catholic spectators. In Latin (31a) with an English translation (31b).

From a letter to Lord Burghley, on the subject of a mask that was not performed.

In Collier's hand. Passage from , in response to the a Martin Marprelate tract. Concerning the stage.

In Collier's hand. Letter from Sir Anthony Standen to Anthony Bacon concerning entertainment on twelfth night.

Copy of a signature of John Still, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. On a letter concerning a play commissioned for the Queen.

Addresses an error that Brinsley Nicholson has pointed out in Collier's (see W.b.503 (37)).

Points out an error in Collier's (for response, see W.b.503 (36)).

In Collier's hand. Notes on the Gray's Inn Masque performed at court in 1594. Cites Lee Davison's .

In Collier's hand, under the heading "Plays in 1592." A letter from Edward Jones to Anthony Bacon, November 21, 1592.

Listing for , 1587, from Lilly's catalog, 1858. The book advertised is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.

In Collier's hand. Notes on the expansion of the Blackfriars theater. Quotes William Kempe.

In Collier's hand. Concerning the execution of John Lewes and the ballad of John Carelesse, to which Nash refers.

In Collier's hand. Notes on Stephen Gosson and his , 1579.

In Collier's hand. Entry showing payment for costume supplies from accounts signed "T. Dorset" and "Tho. Flemyng," 1604-1605.

In Collier's hand. Cites a letter from Ben Jonson to Sir Robert Cecil on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Copy of Jonson's signature, from a manuscript for "."

In Collier's hand. Copy of an account for the payment of "musicke house" costs, [1606-1607], from the original in the Audit Office. Signed T. Dorset and Jul. Caesar.

Two leaves from Notes and Queries IX, January 21, 1860. Article concerning English comedians in the Netherlands in the 17th century, by J.H. van Lennep, citing L. Ph. C. van den Bergh.

In Collier's hand. Extract from Thomas Woodward's letter to Lord Shrewsbury, November 19, 1607.

In Collier's hand. Extracts concerning theater costs from the accounts of [Edmund Tilney?], 1608-1609.

Copy of a signature of Edmund Tilney, Master of the Revels from 1579 to 1610.

In Collier's hand. Extract from the epistle preceding [1608] by Henry Parrot. Concerning personal attacks on poets and players.

In Collier's hand. Account of the purchase of theatrical materials; describes a masque performed for the marriage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Prince Palatine.

In Collier's hand. Regarding a warrant for "one Middleton, sonne to Middleton the Poet," possibly referring to Edward Middleton.

Copy of an extract from an undated manuscript detailing the duties and fees of the office of Serjeant Trumpeter.

In Collier's hand. Discusses a letter from the Lord Mayor of London and Alderman to the Privy Council, dated December 21, 1625. Regarding the plague's effect on playhouses, and the jurisdiction of the city of London.

In Collier's hand. From John Bruce's calendar of state papers for 1628-1629. Regarding licenses for the playing of comedies, December 9, 1628.

Letter in Notes and Queries by Edward F. Rimbault, discussing the performance of at Bishop Williams's house, September 27, 1631 (see W.b.503 (60)).

Asks about a performance of in the house of Bishop Williams on Sunday, September 27, 1631. Cites John Payne Collier (for reply, see W.b.503 (59)).

Discusses the activities of John Shakespeare, bitmaker, in 1621; cites John Payne Collier.

In Collier's hand. Records an accident in which a coach coming from the playhouse killed a beggar.

Unpublished evidence of King Charles I's love for masques at court. Asks John Payne Collier for a masque title.

In Collier's hand. Regarding the actor Timothy Read, who performed in by James Shirley, ca. 1626.

In Collier's hand. Extract from , 1661, regarding players driven out by soldiers.

9 leaves. Missing W.b.503 (66f). Payments to players and mistrels.

In Collier's hand. Transciptions of various extracts from the Chester Plays, found in a mansucript by George Bellin, the scribe of the 1600 museum copy of the plays.

Listing for a manuscript on vellum of the Miracle Plays exhibited by the incorporated trades of the city of York on Corpus Christi, 15th and 16th centuries (especially 1553). Sold June 10, 1844.

In Collier's hand. From Neville's , 1582 edition.

In Collier's hand. Cites the municipal records of the city of York during the reigns of Edward IV. Edward V, and Richard III.

In Collier's hand. List of titles and other information from a manuscript of the Chester Plays by George Bellin, dated 1592.

In Collier's hand. The accounts of churchwardens, 1532. Printed in , 1797.

In Collier's hand. from . Concerning plays acted in churches and chapels.

Concerning a newly discovered treatise against the performing of Miracle Plays.

From an undated letter from Bale to Cromwell, complaining of persecutions by the Papists.

In Collier's hand. From a poem by George Gascoigne, written for Richard Courtop. Describes a mixed miracle and moral play.

An extract on vice and the stage, from , ca.1570-1580. Also an extract from Dekker's Owles Almanack, [1617].

In Collier's hand. Notes on Puttenham's conception of "buffons and vices in players."

In Collier's hand. This passage possibly, Collier notes, the origin of the phrase "cradle of security."

In Collier's hand. A poem "from the broken plainsong." First line: "By a bancke as I lay."

Listed in the Union first line index of English verse.

For the sale of a copy of Lupton's

With a Latin inscription, "Virtus vivit us euum."

Signed "W. P. Esquier," with a Latin inscription. From a collection of plays by William Percy, ca. 1600.

Signed "Amen qd John Heywood." From a manuscript of a dramatic production.

"Upon Kempe and his morice with his Epitaph," a poem from by Richard Brathwaite, [1618]. First line: "Welcome from Norwich Kempe: all joy to see."

Listed in the Union First Line Index of English Verse.

In Collier's hand. Two broadside ballads on the murder of Page of Plymouth by his wife and her lover. Titled "Mrs Page's complaint for causing her husband to be murthered for the love of George Strangwidge" and "George Strandwidge's lamentation for Page's death to senceting for the love of Ulalia, Page's wife."

Printed with the signatures of Thomas Dekker and John Day, co-authors of , [1599-1600].

From a letter to his father-in-law Philip Henslowe concerning the engagement of a performer, [1597].

From an entry of money received for the joint authorship of a play, [1598].

Records payment to Jane Shore and her company of players, 1629.

From a receipt for joint authorship of a play, [1601].

From an entry concerning a play by William Longsword, [1598].

From a receipt of money for the authorship of plays, [1599].

Printed with the signatures of William Haughton and John Day, co-authors of , [1599-1600].

Printed with the signatures of William Haughton and Thomas Dekker, co-authors of , [1599-1600].

From an entry in Henslowe's diary.

In Collier's hand. Excerpt from 1598, beginning "Gue, hang thy selfe for woe, since gentlemen."

Thomas Kyd's translation of Tasso's work, sold in Thorpe's Catalogue, 1833.

In Collier's hand. A passage from concerning the author, Thomas Nashe.

In Collier's hand. From [William] Fleetwood to Lord Burghley. Concerning the theater in Shoreditch.

In Collier's hand. Cites a tract that mentions the execution of a traitor at the Theater in 1588.

In Collier's hand. Cites , 1604, on the Player's old Hall at Dowgate.

In Collier's hand. Speculations on a garden at the Curtain Theatre; cites the register of St. Giles Cripplegate.

In Collier's hand. Concerning the poets of Elysium and Dekker's contemporaries.

7 leaves. In Collier's hand. Concerning James Burbage, Cuthbert Burbage, Giles Allen, and the dispute over the theater at Shoreditch

In Collier's hand. Concerning the Blackfriars theater.

In Collier's hand. Concerning a bear garden turned into a playhouse, ca. 1650.

In Collier's hand. The case of William Trevill versus Thomas Woodford, concerning the Whitefriars Theatre.

In Collier's hand. Cites Henry Farley's , 1614, on the reconstruction of the Globe after fire.

In Collier's hand. Copy of [1634]. Contains entry for construction of the Globe theatre.

In Collier's hand. Epigram 33, upon the burning of the Globe.

In Collier's hand. On comedies.

In Collier's hand. Discusses a performance at the Bull within Bishopsgate and cites , 1567.

In Collier's hand. Discusses a suit in the Court of Requests concerning the Red Bull Theatre.

In Collier's hand. Cites , [1650].

In Collier's hand. Cites , by Evariste Regis Huc.

In Collier's hand. Description of the conduct of a gallant at Blackfriars Theatre.

In Collier's hand. On players and playhouses.

In Collier's hand. Notes on the simplicity of the early stage, citing Act III, scene 3 of

In Collier's hand. Concerning audience interaction in , which he attributes to Day, Rowley, and Wilkins.

In Collier's hand. Notes on jigs of William Kempe and Augustine Phillips, [1595-1600].

In Collier's hand. Entry concerning William Jaggard ("Jagger") who requests "the printings of the bills for players."

In Collier's hand. Concerning playbills used in the first regular performances at the Theatre in London. Cites Stephen Gosson's , [1579].

Article by Frederick Latreille, in which he challenges the authenticity of a supposed 1663 playbill that Collier includes in his .

In Collier's hand. "Of one that cousned the cut-purse."

In Collier's hand. Concerning the shares of players who wrote for the theater.

In Collier's hand. Notes on the dedication to

In Collier's hand. Cites on the location of the music room in the theater.

Advertises a copy with many manuscript notes and additions by the author and others.