and himself which was to pay twenty pound a year
rent, ¹ and to bestow a hundred marks upon build-
ing, which I said I would rather pull down the play-
house than I would do so, and he bad me do, and
said he gave me leave, and would bear me out, for
it was in him to do it. ²

Henslowe did not renew his lease of the property.
On October 4, 1605, the Commissioners of the
Sewers amerced him for the Rose, but return was
made that it was then "out of his hands." ³ From
a later entry in the Sewer Records, February 14,
1606, we learn that the new owner of the Rose was
one Edward Box, of Bread Street, London. Box,
it seems, either tore down the building, or con-
verted it into tenements. The last reference to it in
the Sewer Records is on April 25, 1606, when it is
referred to as "the late playhouse." ⁴

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