30 May, 1595 - Warlamchester

Here's what the Admiral's Men performed at the Rose playhouse on this day, 424 years ago...

Henslowe writes: y^e 30 of maye 1595 ... R at warlamchester ... ix^s 

In modern English: 30^th May, 1595 ... Received at Warlamchester ... 9 shillings

The martyrdom of St Alban, from a 13th century
manuscript by Matthew Paris

Today, the Admiral's Men performed again their lost play Warlamchester, which was probably about the martyrdom of St Alban during the Roman persecutions of Christians in England.You can read more about this play in the entry for 28 November.

The company last performed Warlamchester three weeks ago. Previously, they had seemed to be trying to make it a frequently-performed play, but they are now easing up on it, and today's box office shows that they were right to do so: this is a catastrophically tiny audience.

Henslowe links

• Transcript of this page of the Diary (from W.W. Greg's 1904 edition)
• Facsimile of this page of the Diary (from the Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project)

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