[29] Ten Brink, Eng. Lit. II: i. 306.
[30] I do not forget that belated Tobias at Lincoln, 1564-66, nor the Godly Queen Hester of 1561; but they have nothing to do with the case.
[31] Rel. Antiq. II. 43.
[32] St. Katharine (Dunstable c. 1100, Coventry, 1490); St. George (1415 and later); St. Laurence (Lincoln, 1441); St. Susanna (Lincoln, 1447); St. Clara (Lincoln, 1455); St. Edward (Coventry, 1456 and later); St. Christian (Coventry, 1504); St. Christina (Bethersden in Kent, 1522); Sts. Crispin and Crispinian (Dublin, 1528); St. Olave (London, 1557). Some of these were church plays, like the St. Olave; some, like the St. Katharine, were school plays; some, craft plays, like the St. Crispin. It is hard sometimes to distinguish between the play and the mumming or the mute pageant; to the dumb show may be assigned some of the St. Georges and the pageants of Fabyan, Sebastian, and Botulf, displayed, in 1564, by the religious gild of Holy Trinity (St. Botolph without Aldersgate). For some conception of the frequency and vitality of such shows one need only turn to Hone, Stow's Survey, the Records of Aberdeen, Toulmin Smith's English Gilds, the History of Dublin, Davidson's English Mystery Plays, and other books of this kind.
[33] German ballads on the subject in 1337 and 1478. A case similar to the material of this drama is assigned to 1478 in Train's Gesch. d. Juden in Regensburg, pp. 116-117.
[34] Child, English and Scotch Popular Ballads, vol. III., pp. 44, 90, 127, 114.
[35] In his introduction, Contributions to Early English Popular Literature, London, 1849, privately printed.
[36] Warton, H. E. P., vol. II., p. 72.
[37] Repr. in Manly's Specimens; the former from Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, II. 503-505; the latter from Kelly's Notices of Leicester.
[38] Halliwell's Contribution to E. Engl. Lit.