[705] B. Rudyerd, Memoirs, 12, 13. The ascription of these revels to 'the Christmas of 1599' in Mediaeval Stage, i. 416, is an error; cf. p. 169.
[706] Manningham, 18.
[707] J. D. Walker, Black Books of Lincoln's Inn, i. xxxiii, 344, 348, 352, 362, 374, 418; ii. 55. It was ordered on 2 Feb. 1565 that 'Mʳ Edwards shall have in reward liijˢ, iiijᵈ for his plee, and his hussher xˢ, and xˢ more to the children that pleed' (in margin, 'Children of the Quenes Chappell'). The accounts of 1564-5, however, show £1 18s. 2d. for a supper and for staff torches, clubs, and other necessaries for the play, and £1 as reward for the boys; those of 1565-6 £2 to the boys of the Queen's chapel and their master for a play at the Purification; those of 1569-70 £1 'lusoribus' of 'Lord Roche' at the Purification; those of 1579-80 £3 6s. 8d. on 9 Feb. 'to Mʳ Ferrand [Farrant] one of the Queen's chaplains pro commedia'. On 12 May 1598, a levy was made for the expenses of 'the gentlemen that were actors in the matter of the shew the last Christmas'. No more is known of this show. On the Inns of Court Christmases generally cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 413.
[708] The Westminster accounts of 1564-5 (Murray, ii. 168) include 'at yᵉ rehersing before Sir Thomas Benger for pinnes and sugar candee viᵈ' and 'the second tyme att the playing of Heautonti, for pinnes halfe a thousand viᵈ', but there is nothing to suggest that any play but Miles Gloriosus was given before the Queen. The Revels Accounts (Feuillerat, Eliz. 145, 176, 179, 238, 277, 325, &c.) have (1571-2), 'playes ... chosen owte of many and ffownde to be the best that then were to be had, the same also being often pervsed, & necessarely corrected & amended (by all thafforesaide officers)'; (1572-3), 'muzitians that plaide at the proof of Duttons play' ... 'rushes in the hall & in the greate chambere where the workes were doone & the playes rezited'; (1574-5) 'at Wynsor ... for peruzing and reformyng of Farrantes playe' ... 'wheare my Lord of Leicesters menne showed theier matter of Panecia' ... 'where my Lord Clyntons players rehearsed a matter called Pretestus', &c.; (1576-7), 'To Whitehall and back againe to recyte before my Lord Chamberleyn' ... 'to Sᵗ Johns ... for the play of Cutwell'; (1579-80) 'Thinges ... brought into the Masters Lodginge for the rehearsall of sondrie playes to make choise of dyvers of them for her maiestie', &c., &c.
[709] Machyn, 221.
[710] Cf. chh. xxiii, xxiv, s.vv. Chettle (1602); Dekker, Fortunatus, Phaethon; the anonymous Histriomastix. The prints of several plays contain special court prologues or epilogues, e.g. Lyly's Campaspe and Sapho and Phaon.
[711] Buggin's Revels memorandum of 1573 (Tudor Revels, 33) indicates that his proposed Serjeant 'is with the master and the reast of the officers to be at the rehersall of playes'.
[712] Feuillerat, Eliz. 326 (1579-80, 50 days), 337 (1580-1, 70 days), table ii (1581-2, 44 days), 352 (1582-3, 62 days), table iii (1583-4, 56 days), 368 (1584-5, 66 days), 389 (1587-8, 64 days; 1588-9, 57 days). The commission (App. D, No. lvi) authorized the Master to command players 'to appear before him with all suche plaies tragedies comedies or showes as they shall haue in readines or meane to sett forth and them to presente and recite before our said servant or his sufficient deputie'.
[713] Feuillerat, Eliz. 145, 193, 286, 320. In 1571-2 all the plays were 'throwghly apparelled and ffurnished'; in 1573-4 all were 'fytted and ffurnyshed with the store of thoffice and with the woorkmanshipp and provisions herein expressed'; in 1578-9 the clerk seems to distinguish between plays furnished with 'sondrey', 'some', 'manie', and 'verie manie' things; in 1579-80 seven out of nine plays were 'wholie furnyshed in this offyce', and of the others one had 'sondrie' and one 'many' things; cf. Graves, 83.
[714] Cf. ch. iii, p. 93.