FM.
Plays in Churches.
—In Cooke's Leicestershire the following is given as an extract from the church register of Syston:
"1602, paid to Lord Morden's players because they should not play in the church, 12d."
Who was this Lord Morden; and did the chartered players claim the right of their predecessors, the "moralitie men," to use the church for their representations? Was the 12d. given as a bribe to the players to induce them to forego their claim, or expended in the hire of a place more in accordance with the parish authorities' ideas of propriety?
EMUN.
"The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong."
—Where is this oft-quoted line to be found, and who is the author of it? It is marked as a quotation in Pope's Dunciad, book iv.
S. WMSON.