Giles Alleyn's Version
"Cuthbert Burbage and his crew did riotously assemble themselves together
and then there armed themselves with divers and many unlawful and offensive
weapons, as namely, swords, daggers, bills, axes, and such like, and so armed
did then repair unto the said Theatre. And then and there, armed as aforesaid,
in very riotous, outrageous, and forcible manner, and contrary to the laws
of your Highness's realm, attempted to pull down the said Theatre, whereupon
divers of your subjects, servants and farmers, then going about in peaceable
manner to procure them to desist from that their unlawful enterprise, they,
the said riotous persons aforesaid, notwithstanding procured then therein
with great violence, not only then and there forcibly and riotously resisting
your subjects, servants and farmers, but also then and there pulling, breaking,
and throwing down the said Theatre in very outrageous, violent and riotous
sort, to the great disturbance and terrifying not only of your subjects,
said servants and farmers, but of divers others of your Majesty's loving
subjects there near inhabiting."
(source: S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare,
A Compact Documentary Life, Oxford 1977, p.208)