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Fletcher's inclusion on the 1603 patent may have been diplomatic and bureaucratic, a way of easing and greasing the company's transition from the old regime to the new; or perhaps
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who bought timber for the stage, and distributed reward money from the king. They also played in Dundee and
Aberdeen, where Fletcher, described as the king's servant, was made a freeman of the burgh.
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