[779] Harl. MS. 2150, ff. 85ᵇ-88ᵇ.
[780] It is this entry which shows that Harl. MS. 2150 is not the ‘White Book,’ but a copy. The official catalogue of the Harleian collection is in doubt on this point.
[781] So printed by Furnivall, possibly as an addition to the text of Harl. 1944, from the shorter copy of the Breauarye in Harl. 1948.
[782] Hist. MSS. i. 49.
[783] C. L. Kingsford in D. N. B. s.v. Higden. Mr. Kingsford does not think that ‘Randle Heggenett,’ the author of the Chester Plays, can be identified with Higden. But ‘Higden,’ which occurs in Rogers’s list of Mayors, is an earlier form in the tradition than ‘Heggenett.’
[784] Ormerod, Hist. of Cheshire (ed. Helsby), iii. 651; Morris, 315.
[785] Morris, 316. The Painters and Glaziers’ charter is quoted as calling them ‘tyme out of minde one brotherhood for the ... plaie of the Shepperds’ Wach,’ but no date is given.
[786] Ibid.
[787] Harl. MS. 2150, f. 85ᵇ.
[788] Morris, 318; Furnivall, xxv; Hist. MSS. viii. 1. 363, 366.
[789] Pennant, Wales, i. 145.
[790] Furnivall, xxii, xxviii.
[791] D. Rogers, Breauarye, in Furnivall, xviii; Morris, 303.
[792] Morris, 322, 353; Furnivall, xxvi.
[793] Morris, 322; Furnivall, xxvi; Collier, i. 112.
[794] Morris, 324; Furnivall, xxiii; Fenwick, Hist. of Chester, 370.
[795] Sharp, 8.
[796] C. L. Kingsford, Henry V, 346, says that he reached Coventry alone on March 15, and joined Katharine at Leicester on March 19. Ramsay, Y. and L. i. 290, quoting J. E. Tyler, Henry of Monmouth, ii. 28, gives the same dates. The entry in the Leet Book (Harris, 139) brings him to Coventry on March 21 and with the queen. But this was Good Friday. If the Leet Book is right, he might have remained for Hox Tuesday, April 1.
[797] Brewer, xiv (1), 77.
[798] C. Mery Talys, lvi (ed. Oesterley, 100).
[799] Heywood, The Foure PP, 831 (Manly, i. 510).
[800] Foxe, vi. 411; viii. 170; Maitland, Essays on the Reformation, 24.
[801] Sharp, 12, 39, 64, 75, 78; Weavers’ Play, 21.
[802] Sharp, 9; Hearne, Fordun’s Scotichronicon, v. 1450.
[803] Sharp, 157; Hearne, loc. cit.
[804] Sharp, 216.
[805] Sharp, 209; Halliwell-Phillipps, Outlines, ii. 296.
[806] Sharp, 159.
[807] J. T. Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, i. 239; ii. 54. Cf. Davidson, 222, and in Modern Language Notes, vii. 339.
[808] Harris, Hist. of Dublin, 147; J. C. Walker, Hist. Essay on the Irish Stage (Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. ii (1788), 2. 75), from MS. of Robert Ware.
[809] Walker, loc. cit.; Sir James Ware, Annales Rerum Hibern. (1664), 161; Variorum, iii. 30, from MS. in Trin. Coll. Dublin. W. F. Dawson, Christmas: its Origin and Associations, 52, says that Henry II kept Christmas at Hogges in 1171 with ‘miracle plays.’ But I cannot find the authority for this.
[810] Gilbert, op. cit. i. 242.
[811] Matthew Paris, Gesta Abbat. S. Albani, ap. H. T. Riley, Gesta Abbatum S. Albani (R. S.), i. 73; Bulaeus, Historia Universitatis Parisiensis, ii. 226; Collier, i. 13.
[812] J. D. Marwick, Records of Edinburgh (Scottish Burghs Record Soc.), ii. 193 sqq.
[813] Kelly, 19.
[814] Pearson, ii. 413.
[815] L. G. Bolingbroke, Pre-Eliz. Plays and Players in Norfolk (Norfolk Archaeology, xi. 338).
[816] N. and Q. xii. 210; Kelly, 68.
[817] Hist. MSS. xiii. 4. 300.
[818] Hist. MSS. xiii. 4. 288.
[819] R. Johnson, Ancient Customs of Hereford (ed. 2. 1882), 119.
[820] Hist. MSS. xiii. 4. 352.
[821] Nichols, Extracts from Churchwardens’ Accounts, 175.
[822] W. Sandys, Christmas Carols, xc.
[823] G. Hadley, Hist. of Kingston upon Hull (1788), 823.
[824] W. Andrews, Historic Yorkshire, 43; Curiosities of the Church, 19.
[825] J. Wodderspoon, Memorials of the Ancient Town of Ipswich (1850), 161; Hist. MSS. ix. 1. 245.
[826] Nathaniel Bacon, The Annalls of Ipswich, 1654 (ed. W. H. Richardson, 1884), 102 and passim. Some additional notices are in Hist. MSS. ix. 1. 241 sqq.
[827] R. S. Ferguson, A Boke of Record ... of Kirkbie Kendall (Cumb. and Westm. Arch. and Ant. Soc.), 91, 136.
[828] See s.v. Manningtree.
[829] Weever, Funeral Monuments, 405.
[830] I. Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature, Second Series, iii. 343.
[831] Bale, Vocacyon to Ossory (1553), in Harleian Miscellany (ed. 1745), vi. 402; (ed. 1808), i. 345.
[832] Hist. MSS. xi. 3. 165, 223, 224. The original documents appear to be in Latin.
[833] Harrod, King’s Lynn Records, 87.
[834] Cf. Appendix E (viii).
[835] Lysons, Environs of London, i. 229.
[837] Percy, N. H. B. 343, 345.
[838] Kelly, 27, 187. M. Bateson, Records of Leicester, ii. 297; J. Nichols, History of Leicestershire, iv. i. App. 378, 9.
[839] Kelly, 188.
[840] Kelly, 7.
[841] Kelly, 14, 16.
[842] Kelly, 15, 18, 19, 20; T. North, Accounts of Churchwardens of St. Martin’s, 2, 21, 74, 86, 87.
[843] Kelly, 193.
[844] Lincoln Statutes, ii. 15, 23.
[845] Cf. vol. i. p. 91.
[846] Wordsworth, 126, and in Lincoln Statutes, ii. lv. The entry given for 1452 in the latter omits ‘et Prophetis.’
[847] Wordsworth, 126.
[848] A. F. Leach, in Furnivall Miscellany, 223; Rock, ii. 430.
[849] Leach, loc. cit. 224.
[850] Wordsworth, 139.
[851] Leach, loc. cit. 224; Lincoln Statutes, ii. ccliv; Hist. MSS. xiv. 8. 25.
[852] Wordsworth, 141; Leach, loc. cit. 223, from Chapter Act Book, A. 31, f. 18; Shaks. Soc. Papers, iii. 40, from copy of same document in Harl. MS. 6954, p. 152. The latter has ‘Serenomium’ (for Ceremonium). Mr. Leach reads ‘Sermonium’ and translates ‘speech.’
[853] Leach, loc. cit. 227; Gentleman’s Magazine, liv. 103.
[854] J. C. Robertson, Materials for the Hist. of Becket (R.S.), iii. 9.
[855] Dodsley, Collection of Old Plays (1744), i. xii. I cannot trace the original authority.
[856] Malvern, Continuator to Higden’s Polychronicon (ed. J. R. Lumby in R.S.), ix. 47.
[857] Malvern, loc. cit. ix. 259. Probably this is the play for which the Issue Roll of the Exchequer for Easter—Michaelmas, 1391 (F. Devon, Issues of the Exchequer, Hen. III-Hen. VI, 244), records on July 11, 1391, a payment ‘to the Clerkes of the Parish Churches and to divers other clerkes of the City of London, in money paid to them in discharge of £10 which the Lord and King commanded to be paid them of his gift on account of the play of the Passion of our Lord and the Creation of the World by them performed at Skynner Well, after the Feast of Bartholomew last past.’ But the dates do not quite agree, and there may have been a play at Bartholomew-tide 1390 as well as that of July, 1391.
[858] London Chronicle, 80.
[859] London Chronicle, 91. The Cott. MS. reads ‘Clerkenwelle’ for the ‘Skynners Welle’ of the Harl. MS. Gregory’s Chronicle (Hist. Coll. of a Citizen of London, Camden Soc.), 105, also mentions ‘the grette playe at Skynners Welle’ in 1409.
[860] J. H. Wylie, Hist. of Henry IV, iv. 213.
[861] J. G. Nichols, Grey Friars Chronicle (Camden Soc.) 12; R. Howlett, Monumenta Franciscana (R.S.), ii. 164.
[862] J. Christie, Some Account of Parish Clerks, 24, 71.
[863] H. Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, 15.
[864] Stowe, Survey, 7.
[865] Andrew, Annales Henr. VII (R.S.), 121.
[866] Collier, in Shakesp. Soc. Papers, iii. 40. The ‘pagents’ on a roll of vellum belonging to the Holy Trinity Guild in St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate (†1463), were probably only paintings with descriptive verses (Hone, 81).
[867] Kempe, 71. The date given, Shrovetide, 38 Hen. VIII, must be wrong, as the king died before Shrovetide (Feb. 20-2) in the thirty-eighth year of his reign.
[868] Herbert, Hist. of Livery Companies, i. 80.
[869] E. B. Jupp, Hist. of Carpenters’ Company, 198.
[870] Collier, i. 51.
[871] Machyn, 138.
[872] Machyn, 145.
[873] Prynne, 117.
[874] Stowe, Annales, 489; Survey, 38; Herbert, i. 197, 454; Brand-Ellis, i. 166.
[875] R. W. Goulding, Louth Records.
[876] Hist. MSS. v. 517.
[877] Manningham’s Diary (Camden Soc.), 130.
[878] Heywood, Apology for Actors (Shakespeare Soc.), 61.
[879] Quoted in Variorum, xvi. 295.
[880] Dekker’s Plays (ed. Pearson).
[881] Hazlitt-Warton, iii. 312.
[882] Harrod, King’s Lynn Records, 88.
[883] W. Hobhouse, Churchwardens’ Accounts (Somerset Record Soc.), 209.
[884] F. Holthausen, Das Noahspiel von N. upon T. (1897), 11; H. Bourne, Hist. of N. (1736), 139; J. Brand, Hist. of N. (1789), ii. 369; E. Mackenzie, Hist. of N. (1827), ii. 664, 707; F. W. Dendy, Newcastle Gilds (Surtees Soc.), i. 4; ii. 161, 164, 171.
[885] W. A. Scott-Robertson, The Passion Play and Interludes at New Romney (Archaeologia Cantiana, xiii. 216); Hist. MSS. v. 533; Arch. Cantiana, xvii. 28.
[886] C. A. Markham and J. C. Cox, Northampton Borough Records, ii. 184.
[887] Paston Letters, iii. 227.
[888] H. Harrod, Particulars concerning Early Norwich Pageants (Norfolk Archaeology, iii. 3).
[889] R. Fitch, Norwich Pageants: The Grocers’ Play, in Norfolk Archaeology, v. 8, and separately.
[890] Fitch, op. cit.; Blomfield, Hist. of Norfolk, iii. 176.
[891] Blomfield, iv. 426.
[892] Cf. vol. i. p. 222.
[893] Cf. Appendix E (v).
[894] W. Hobhouse, Churchwardens’ Accounts (Somerset Record Soc.), 232.
[895] Norris, ii. 452; E. H. Pedler in Norris, ii. 507; Carew, Survey of Cornwall; D. Gilbert, History of Cornwall; Borlase, Antiquities of Cornwall (ed. 2), 207; Nat. Hist. of Cornwall, 295; T. F. Ordish, Early London Theatres, 15.
[897] W. A. Abram, Memorials of the Preston Guilds, 18, 21, 61, 99.
[898] C. Kerry, History of St. Lawrence, Reading, 233. Extracts only from the accounts are given; a full transcript would probably yield more information.
[899] W. H. R. Jones, Vetus Registrum Sarisburiense (R.S.), ii. 129.
[900] Cal. State Papers, Dom. Addl. (1580-1625), 101.
[901] Jones and Macray, Salisbury Charters (R.S.), xi, 102.
[902] Cf. Appendix E (vi).
[903] Phillips, Hist. of Shrewsbury, 201.
[904] Phillips, 201.
[905] Owen and Blakeway, Hist. of Shrewsbury, i. 328.
[906] Shropshire Arch. Soc. Trans. viii. 273.
[907] F. A. Hibbert, Influence and Development of English Craft Guilds (1891). 113.
[908] Add. MS. 28,533, ff. iᵛ, 2. Computi from 1477 to 1545 are in this MS.; but most of them are very summary.
[909] York Plays, lxv.
[910] G. Oliver, Hist. of Holy Trinity Guild at Sleaford (1837), 50, 68, 73, 82.
[911] Cf. Appendix E (vii).
[912] Collier, ii. 67.
[913] Hobhouse, 184.
[914] Hazlitt-Warton, iii. 163, from Register of St. Swithin’s. This is amongst the Wulvesey MSS., now in the possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (York Plays, lxv). The date is given as 1487 by Hazlitt-Warton, but the visit is said to be that ‘on occasion of the birth of Prince Arthur,’ which took place in the autumn of 1486.
[915] London Chronicle, 159.
[916] Cf. e.g. Durham Accounts, i. 95, 101, 105 ‘Soteltez ... Sutiltez ... Suttelties erga Natale.’
[917] E. Picot, in Romania, vii. 245.
[918] Hist. MSS. xiv. 8, 187.
[919] Halliwell-Phillipps, i. 342; Toulmin Smith, Ordinances of Worcester in English Guilds, 385, 407 (E. E. T. S.).
[920] Norfolk Archaeology, ix. 145; xi. 346.
[921] A. Nevyllus, De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce (1575), i. 18; Holinshed (1587), iii. 1028.
[922] L. G. Bolingbroke, in Norfolk Archaeology, xi. 334.
[923] Lincoln Statutes, ii. 98; cf. Use of Sarum, i. xxii*.
[925] York Plays, xxxv, xli; Arch. Review, i. 221.
[926] Drake, Eboracum, App. xxix; Davies, 243; York Plays, xxxiv. Melton is called ‘sacrae paginae professor,’ which Drake and many light-hearted scholars after him, down to A. W. Ward (ed. 2, 1899), i. 53, translate ‘professor of holy pageantry.’ The ‘sacred page,’ however, is the Bible, and the title = S.T.P., or D.D.
[927] Davies, 245.
[928] Antiquary, xxiii. 29.
[929] York Plays, xxi, 125; E. H. R. ix. 285.
[930] Wyclif, English Works, ed. Mathew (E. E. T. S.), 429.
[931] York Plays, xxix; Toulmin, English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), 137.
[932] Antiquary, xxii. 265.
[933] Halliwell, Letters of the Kings of England, i. 354, from a Latin original in the Bodl. Rawlinson MSS.
[934] Davies, 263.
[935] Davies, 273; Arch. Review, i. 221.
[936] Printed in York Plays, xix.
[937] Printed in Davies, 233.
[938] W. Andrews, Yorkshire in Olden Times, 105, 146.
[939] D. N B. s.v. Hegge. Poems of Richard James (ed. Grosart, xxii); T. Fowler, Hist. of C. C. C. 175, 183, 394.
[940] Dugdale, Hist. of W. (1656), 116. A not materially different version, from Dugdale’s MSS., is given by Sharp, Dissertation, 218. Nor does Sharp, in the account of the Grey Friars in his Hist. and Antiq. of Coventry (1817), add any information as to their plays.
[941] Hearne, Fordun’s Scotichronicon, v. 1493 (from MS. of Annals, penes Thomas Jesson of Ch. Ch.) ‘This yeare the King came to se the playes acted by the Gray Friers and much commended them.’ The mayoral list in this text of the Annals goes to 1675. It is probably another that Sharp, Diss. 5, quotes as making the same statement and describes as ‘not older than the beginning of Charles I’s reign.’ He does not give the full entry. Is it the basis of Mr. Fretton’s addition to the 1871 ed. of Sharp’s Hist. and Antiq. of Cov. 202 ‘1492. Henry 7th and his Queen saw the Plays at Whitsuntide’? Can ‘by the Gray Friers’ mean ‘at a station by the convent’? In the Carpenters’ accounts for 1453 is an item ‘for the mynstrell at the frerˢ.’ This, says Sharp, Diss. 213, relates to the craft’s annual dinner held at the White Friars. There is no other possible allusion to friars’ plays in Mr. Sharp’s extracts.
[942] Ten Brink, iii. 276; Sharp, 45.
[943] Hohlfeld, in Anglia, xi. 228.
[944] The term ‘pageant’ is once used in the stage-directions (Halliwell, 132) ‘Hic intrabit pagentum de purgatione Mariae et Joseph.’