[675] Sullivan, 201, misdated 27 Nov. 1607 for 1608, from S. P. D. Jac. I, xxxvii. 96. The mask was Queens.
[676] Reyher, 508, 520; cf. ch. xxiii.
[677] W. ffarington writes on 7 Feb. 1609 (Chetham Soc. xxxix. 151), 'The Comonalty do somewhat murmur at such vaine expenses and thinke that that money worth bestowed other waies might have been conferred upon better use, but quod supra nos, nihil ad nos'.
[678] Reyher, 72.
[679] Collier, i. 349; Abstract, 13. The Lords' Mask is separately reckoned at £400. This was just about the amount of the 'rewards'.
[680] On the earlier custom cf. S. Cox (App. C, No. xliv). Buggin's memorandum on the Revels in 1573 (Tudor Revels, 36) contemplates the possibility of service at 'Hollantide'.
[681] Birch, i. 69.
[682] Cf. App. B. The Revels Accounts record plays which the Treasurer of the Chamber did not reward, by the Chapel (1559-60); by unnamed companies (3 plays) at Windsor (1563-4); by Westminster (Miles Gloriosus; cf. Murray, ii. 168), the Chapel, Sir Percival Hart's sons, and 'showes' by Gray's Inn (1564-5); by an unnamed company (1567-8); by an unnamed company (1581-2); and by Gray's Inn (Misfortunes of Arthur, 1587-8). For years not covered by these accounts must be added the Inner Temple Gorboduc (1562), probably their Gismond of Salerne (1566?), and not impossibly others by Gray's Inn, who, according to Elizabeth in 1595 (Gesta Grayorum, 68), 'did always study for Sports to present unto her'. I cannot understand Collier's unreferenced notice of a payment to men of George Evelyn (cf. ch. xiii) for a play in 1588. A letter of 4 Dec. 1592 from the University of Cambridge (M. S. C. i. 198, from Lansd. MS. 71), deprecating an invitation to play an English comedy at court, shows that a similar suggestion had been made to Oxford; there is no evidence that either University actually played. It is conceivable that plays may sometimes have been rewarded out of the Privy Purse (cf. ch. ii) instead of by the Treasurer of the Chamber.
[683] Cf. Calendar, s.a. 1559 (7 Aug., Paul's at Nonsuch), 1564 (5 July, play at Mr. Sackville's), 1567 (April 13, play before Elizabeth and Spanish ambassador), 1575 (plays on progress at Lichfield by Warwick's, at Kenilworth, and at Woodstock), 1578 (Aug., Ipswich play at Stowmarket), 1579 (play at Osterley), 1595 (Jan., probable performance of M. N. D. at Derby's wedding), 1601 (Aug., 'playing-wenches' at Caversham), 1601 (29 Dec., play at Hunsdon's in Blackfriars). There are also, of course, the plays at Oxford and Cambridge (cf. ch. iv). For these no money reward was paid, but the Works and Revels met some of the expenses, and the actors got a warrant for venison out of Woodstock to make a feast.
[684] Cf. p. 7.