—Painters and Glaziers’ Accounts.
Some of the performers from the Mayor’s Midsummer show gradually got grafted on to the “Banes Riding,” and increased the importance of it.
[30] The Castle and the North Gate were two of the appointed places, and the “Banes” would be heard by the wretched prisoners there, to whom a donation was generally accorded:—
| “To the prisoners at the Castle | id. | |
| To the prisoners at the North Gate | id.” |
Painters and Glaziers’ Accounts.
THE BANES
which are reade beefore the beginninge of the Playes of Chester, 4 June 1900.
Reverende lordes & ladyes all,
That at this tyme here assembled bee,
By this message understand you shall