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< p > To recover them is, Thomas Betterton's company, therefore, to their due Estimation, a new Project was form'd of building them a stately theatre in the Hay-Market, by Sir John Vanbrugh, for which he raised a Subscription of thirty Persons of Quality, at one hundred Pounds each, in Consideration whereof every Subscriber, for his own Life, was to be admitted to whatever Entertainments should be publickly perform'd there, without farther Payment for his Entrance .</ p >< p >— John Vanbrugh's notice of subscription for the new theatre </ p > He was joined in the enterprise by his principal associate and manager William Congreve and an actors ' co-operative led by Thomas Betterton.