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	[Endorsed. ] The Certificate of the Inhabitantes of the Lordship of Fynisburye of theire Consent to the Tolleracion of the Erection of a newe Plaiehowse theare.</big>		[Endorsed. ] The Certificate of the Inhabitantes of the Lordship of Fynisburye of theire Consent to the Tolleracion of the Erection of a newe Plaiehowse theare.</big>
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	\|Title=Petition to Build Fortune Playhouse		\|Title=Petition to Build Fortune Playhouse
	\|Artifact type=~~Printed Etching~~		\|Artifact type=Text
	\|Creator/author=Philip Henslowe, Edward Alleyn, Peter Street, Admiral's Men, Prince Henry's Men, Palsgrave’s Men		\|Creator/author=Philip Henslowe, Edward Alleyn, Peter Street, Admiral's Men, Prince Henry's Men, Palsgrave’s Men
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	<section begin="intro"/>		<section begin="intro"/>
	<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor. <section end="intro"/>		<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor. <section end="intro"/>

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	\|Title=Petition to Build Fortune Playhouse		\|Title=Petition to Build Fortune Playhouse
	\|Artifact type=Printed Etching		\|Artifact type=Printed Etching
	\|Creator/author=~~Francis Barlow~~		\|Creator/author=Philip Henslowe, Edward Alleyn, Peter Street, Admiral's Men, Prince Henry's Men, Palsgrave’s Men
	\|Imprint/call number=		\|Imprint/call number=
	\|Keywords=		\|Keywords=
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	\|Start date=1600-01-08		\|Start date=1600-01-08
	\|End date=1642-12-09		\|End date=1642-12-09
	\|Period=~~Restoration~~		\|Period=Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline
	\|City and country of origin=London, England		\|City and country of origin=London, England
	\|Latitude=51.5222396		\|Latitude=51.5222396
	\|Longitude=-0.09408404		\|Longitude=-0.09408404
	\|Coordinates=51.5222396, -0.09408404		\|Coordinates=51.5222396, -0.09408404
	\|Current location=		\|Current location=Destroyed, contract located at Dulwich College
	\|Economic theme=Theatre		\|Economic theme=Theatre
	\|Practice/technology=		\|Practice/technology=

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	<section begin="intro"/>		<section begin="intro"/>
	<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor. <section end="intro"/>		<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor. <section end="intro"/>

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	=~~=Introduction==~~		<section begin="intro"/>
	<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.		<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor. <section end="intro"/>
	[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]
	The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.		The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.

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	==Introduction==<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.		==Introduction==
			<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.
	[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]
	The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.		The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.

Abrano at 00:14, 23 October 2025

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	<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.		==Introduction==<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.
	[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]
	The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.		The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.

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	<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.		<big>This petition to build a playhouse (the Fortune) offers a glimpse into the way that new businesses were started in the early modern era. The petitioners highlight the remote location of the building and its potential to help the poor.
			[[File:Copperplate map Finsbury Field.jpg\|thumb]]
	The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.		The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.

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	The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.		The authors note the remoteness of the new playhouse, assuring the city that it will not be near any "person or Place of accompt." This phrase is difficult to interpret. The OED records "accompt" as a simple variant spelling of "account," which is deployed similarly to how we would use it today: "A financial record or statement." In which case, a person or place of account seems to refer to other businesses, which might be "annoyed" at a playhouses in the neighborhood. It is unclear why other business would be annoyed at a playhouse moving into their neighborhood. One would think that a playhouse, which would regularly draw over a thousand people to the area (which was in the outside the city walls, near Finsbury Field), would be welcome news as it would provide local businesses with new customers.

	It is possible that the "place of accompt" is a reference to other playhouses, which might resent the competition. Indeed, this petition seems to be a response to the Privy Council's own petition to the Middlesex justices, asking them to stop construction on the Fortune because they think there are already too many playhouses. But in that petition, the Privy Council is not worried about financial competition; they are concerned about the disruptions and crowds that playhouses bring to London and simply don't want another one.<ref>See Eric Dunnum, ''Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London'' (London: Routledge, 2020), 23. </ref> In any case, there already was a theater in the vicinity -- the Curtain, which was less than a mile away from planned cite of the Fortune, a short walk across Finsbury Field. So it seems unlikely that the petitioners were speaking of competition here since they were very much going to be in competition with another theatre, which had been in operation for decades.		It is possible that the "place of accompt" is a reference to other playhouses, which might resent the competition. Indeed, this petition seems to be a response to the Privy Council's own petition to the Middlesex justices, asking them to stop construction on the Fortune because they think there are already too many playhouses. But in that petition, the Privy Council is not worried about financial competition; they are concerned about the disruptions and crowds that playhouses bring to London and simply don't want another one.<ref>See Eric Dunnum, ''Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London'' (London: Routledge, 2020), 23. </ref> In any case, there already was a theater in the vicinity -- the Curtain, which was less than a mile away from planned cite of the Fortune, a short walk across [https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FINS2.htm Finsbury Field.] So it seems unlikely that the petitioners were speaking of competition here since they were very much going to be in competition with another theatre, which had been in operation for decades.

	If the "place of accompt" doesn't refer to another theatre, but is a reference to other businesses, whose day to day operations may be disrupted by the crowds from a play, then the petitioners aren't framing their own venture as a "real business." Their fellow playhouse owners and competing playhouses were not actually persons or places of "accompt."		If the "place of accompt" doesn't refer to another theatre, but is a reference to other businesses, whose day to day operations may be disrupted by the crowds from a play, then the petitioners aren't framing their own venture as a "real business." Their fellow playhouse owners and competing playhouses were not actually persons or places of "accompt."