The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 4

by E. K. Chambers

[615] Shaw; Beaumont in King’s MS. cxxiv, f. 174^v.

[616] Lodge, iii. 58; S. P. D. (Oct. 20); Procl. 974 (Oct. 24).

[617] Nichols, iv. 1059; S. P. D. (Nov. 1).

[618] S. P. D. (Dec. 21).

[619] Bradley, ii. 195, ‘It is said there shall be 30 playes’, 199; Wilbraham’s Journal (Camd. Misc. x), 66, ‘manie plaies and dances with swordes.’ One of the King’s men’s plays was Fair Maid of Bristow.

[620] Cf. ch. xxiii (Daniel, Twelve Goddesses).

[621] Law, Hampton Court, ii. 11.

[622] Margaret’s.

[623] Gawdy, 141 (Feb. 20), ‘Ther hath bene ij playes this shroftyde before the king and ther shall be an other to morrow’.

[624] V. P. x. 139.