[9] Creizenach, I. 101.

[10] Historians of the Church of York, Rolls Series, No. 71, i. 328. Quoted by A. F. Leach in Some English Plays and Players, Furnivall Miscellany, p. 206.

[11] In Supp. Dods. Old Plays, Introd. to Chester Plays, ix.; Latin Stories, p. 100.

[12] An Answer to a Certain Libel, &c., in Collier, II. 73.

[13] As early as 1304 in Hamburg: Meyer, Gesch. d. hamburg. Schul- und Unterrichtswesens im Mittelalter, S. 197: cited in Creizenach, I. 391.

[14] The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, from the Annunciation to the Flight into Egypt (Ms., 1533), and the Weavers' Pageant of the Presentation in the Temple.

[15] V. XXVI., XXVIII., XXIX., XXX., XXXI., XXXIII.; probably XXXII. Perhaps this playwright (if we may use the singular) rewrote XXXIV. I think he remodelled XXXV. and XXXVI., in the old metres.

[16] XXVI., The Conspiracy, and IX., Noah,—abababab⁴cdcccd³.

[17] XXXVI., The Mortificacio,—ababbcbc³d¹eee²d³. VII., The Cayme,—ababbc⁴d¹bcc⁴d².

[18] Y. XI., W. VIII.; Y. XXII., W. XVIII.; Y. XXXVII., W. XXV.; Y. XXXVIII., W. XXVI.; Y. XLVIII., W. XXX. For particulars see Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith, Pollard, Hohlfeld's Die Altenglischen Kollektivmisterien, Anglia XI.