13 Facts About Cuthbert Burbage

The Cuthbert Burbage family is thought to have come to London from Bromley in Kent.

Cuthbert Burbage had two sisters, Ellen and Alice.

Cuthbert Burbage's father found employment for him with Sir Walter Cope, a second cousin of Lady Burghley, and gentleman usher to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.

Brayne accused Cuthbert Burbage of double-dealing, and in the following month the partners submitted their dispute to arbitration by two friends, in the course of which Cuthbert Burbage struck Brayne and they fell to fisticuffs.

Hyde allowed Cuthbert Burbage to continue operating the Theatre and extended the lease, but it was again forfeited to Hyde for non-payment.

James Cuthbert Burbage then became Lord Hunsdon's man, and from 1583 on Hunsdon's Men, known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men from 1585, performed at the Theatre.

James Cuthbert Burbage allowed Brayne's widow, Margaret, a share of the profits for a short time, but then cut her off.

Cuthbert Burbage later deposed that he agreed only to save his father from debt, and was of the view that he could have used his influence with Cope to better personal advantage.

At that point Cuthbert Burbage arrived, and threatened the intruders with 'great and horrible oaths'.

Cuthbert Burbage was left to execute the matter of finding the Lord Chamberlain's Men a new home after the lease of the Theatre expired.

Cuthbert Burbage leased the Blackfriars to impresario Henry Evans, whose intended use of it for performances by children did not attract opposition.

Cuthbert Burbage hired Peter Streete to take down the old Theatre and to build the new one from as much of the salvaged material as possible.

Cuthbert Burbage remained one of the keepers of the Globe until his death, aged seventy-one years, in 1636, and the position appears to have been lucrative for him; he lived in a house in a fashionable district, St Giles Cripplegate, and owned another estate in Middlesex.