[161]Pagelvii.
[161]Pagelvii.
[162]On the 17th June, 1723, an indenture was mode between Steele and Woolley, reciting that there then remained due to Woolley £900, the residue of a greater sum for which one-fifth part of the profits of the theatre was mortgaged by Steele to Minshull, by whom it was assigned to Charles Gery, and by him to Woolley (page 430). This original mortgaged deed for £1200 Woolley delivered to Steele, upon payment of £300 on delivery, and the assignment to Woolley, his executors, &c., of the fifth part of the stock, for the better security of the payment of the remaining £900; and on the 17th July Steele signed a note upon Richard Castleman and every other treasurer of the Company of Comedians at Drury Lane, requiring each of them yearly on the 23rd January to pay to Woolley or his order £200 out of the profits coming due to Steele, until the £900 with interest at five per cent., should be fully paid.
[162]On the 17th June, 1723, an indenture was mode between Steele and Woolley, reciting that there then remained due to Woolley £900, the residue of a greater sum for which one-fifth part of the profits of the theatre was mortgaged by Steele to Minshull, by whom it was assigned to Charles Gery, and by him to Woolley (page 430). This original mortgaged deed for £1200 Woolley delivered to Steele, upon payment of £300 on delivery, and the assignment to Woolley, his executors, &c., of the fifth part of the stock, for the better security of the payment of the remaining £900; and on the 17th July Steele signed a note upon Richard Castleman and every other treasurer of the Company of Comedians at Drury Lane, requiring each of them yearly on the 23rd January to pay to Woolley or his order £200 out of the profits coming due to Steele, until the £900 with interest at five per cent., should be fully paid.
[163]Pagelvii.
[163]Pagelvii.
[164]Chancery Affidavits (Registers), Mich. 1725, Nos. 101, 102.
[164]Chancery Affidavits (Registers), Mich. 1725, Nos. 101, 102.
[165]Chancery Affidavits (Registers), Hilary 1725[-6], No. 204.
[165]Chancery Affidavits (Registers), Hilary 1725[-6], No. 204.
[166]Chancery Decrees, 1725B, 203.
[166]Chancery Decrees, 1725B, 203.
[167]Chancery Proceedings, Reynardson, 1714-58, No. 2416; Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 224.
[167]Chancery Proceedings, Reynardson, 1714-58, No. 2416; Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 224.
[168]Chancery Decrees, 1725B, 425; 1726B, 464, 2, 115.
[168]Chancery Decrees, 1725B, 425; 1726B, 464, 2, 115.
[169]Chancery Proceedings, Sewell, A., 1714-58, No. 66.
[169]Chancery Proceedings, Sewell, A., 1714-58, No. 66.
[170]Chancery Decrees, 1726B, 105; Chancery Proceedings, Reynardson, 1714-58, No. 2416.
[170]Chancery Decrees, 1726B, 105; Chancery Proceedings, Reynardson, 1714-58, No. 2416.
[171]Chancery Decrees, 1726B, 461; 1727B, 8, 133.
[171]Chancery Decrees, 1726B, 461; 1727B, 8, 133.
[172]Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 224;St. James's Evening Post, February 17-20, 1728;The Weekly Journal(Read's), andThe Country Journal; or, The Craftsman, February 24, 1728. Cibber, with his usual inaccuracy, speaks of the case coming to a hearing in 1726, though, as Genest remarks, he mentions a theatrical coronation which, of course, was prompted by the coronation of George II. in 1727.
[172]Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 224;St. James's Evening Post, February 17-20, 1728;The Weekly Journal(Read's), andThe Country Journal; or, The Craftsman, February 24, 1728. Cibber, with his usual inaccuracy, speaks of the case coming to a hearing in 1726, though, as Genest remarks, he mentions a theatrical coronation which, of course, was prompted by the coronation of George II. in 1727.
[173]Masters' Reports, Easter, 1728; Steele, &c.,v.Wilks, &c.
[173]Masters' Reports, Easter, 1728; Steele, &c.,v.Wilks, &c.
[174]Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 425.
[174]Chancery Decrees, 1727B, 425.