CONTENTS THE FIRST VOLUME. FITZSTEPHEN and Matthew Paris. Feast of Corpus Christi, 1264. Minstrels of Henry VI. in 1445. Players of interludes in 3 and 4 Edw. IV. Duke of Norfolk, 1482. Children of the chapel, 1467 and 1482. Sir Henry Guildford, temporary Master R. Gibson, J. English, H. Medwall, and The King's old and new players. The King's books of payments to 1521. The King's minstrels, and their wages. William Peeres. interlude-maker to the Comedy of Plautus before Henry VIII. Revels before Princess Mary, 1522. William Crane, Master of the Chapel. The Duke of Richmond's rewards, 152 Revels under Sir Henry Guildford an Play at Gray's Inn before Wolsey, 152 Luther brought upon the stage. Robert of Cicily played at Chester, 15 John Heywood's Interludes, 1530, Proclamation against Interludes, 1533. Sir David Lindsay's Three Estaitis, 1539 Players committed to the Counter, 1543. Stat. 34 & 35 Henry VIII., c. i. Thomas Wylley's letter to Cromwell. During the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary.....p. 138. The King's musicians and players, 1547. Will Somers, jester to Henry VIII. and Proclamation against plays, &c., 1549. ters, 1552. The play of Æsop's Crow, by G. Ferrers. William Baldwin and his play, 1553. Proclamation by Queen Mary against interludes, 1553. Plays suppressed for two years. A Sack full of News. Plays and players in London, 1557. Mask and feats of activity, before the Miracle-plays in London, in 1557. From the year 1575 to the year 1585....p. 213. Lord Mayor and Corporation of London opposed to theatrical performances. Petition of the Queen's players. Remedies for the evil of plays, 1576. Players expelled from the City. Building of Blackfriars play-house by James Burbadge and others, 1576. The Theatre and Curtain in Moorfields. ham. Sir Jerome Bowes and his theatrical Shews, &c. at Kenilworth Castle. William Hunnis's interludes. John Lyly's petition for the office. John Smith, an interlude player, 1581. Renewed hostility of the City to plays. Observation of the Sabbath, 1582. Accident at Paris Garden, 1583. John Field's letter to Lord Leicester. Recorder Fleetwood's reports to Lord From the year 1585 to the year 1599 Sir Francis Walsingham's Intelligencer's Letter, 1586. Warrant to Thomas Gyles, master of the children of Paul's. Plays by the gentlemen of Gray's Inn. Mask given by Elizabeth to James VI. George Peele's verses to the Queen at Theatrical performances near Cam- bridge and in the University, 1593. ard Burbage, and others to the Debts of the Queen's office of the revels. From the year 1599 to the death of Elizabeth..... Building of the Fortune theatre, 1599. allowed, 1600. Personalities in Plays at the Curtain,1601. broke's, Lord Derby's, and Lord Song in a mask before Elizabeth, 1602. .p. 311. The Queen entertained at Sir R. Cecill's Anecdote of Shakespeare and Richard Anecdotes of Ben Jonson, John Mars- Death of Queen Elizabeth, 1603. From the accession of James I. to the English players at Edinburgh, 1599. License of 1603 to 1. Fletcher, W. Queen's and Prince's servants. Eastward, Ho! and the Tragedy of The King's musicians and players. players of the nobility. Ben Jonson's MS. masks, 1605 and 1606. year 1617....p. 344. Shakespeare's retirement as an actor. Death of Prince Henry, 1612. Patent of 1612 to the Prince Palatine's Players sent to Bridewell, 1613. Phoenix, or Cockpit theatre, in Drury- lane constructed. The Globe theatre burnt, 1613. Attack upon the Cockpit playhouse From the year 1617 to the death of James I.....p. 406. Play concerning the Marquis d'Ancre, Plays during the King's progress, 1618. The King's Declaration regarding sports Blackfriars theatre, 1619. Patent in 1619 to the King's players at King's letter to cancel the patent. Plays licensed by Sir George Buc. Fatal accident at the Blackfriars, 1623. prior to 1625. Middleton's Game of Chess, and the offence given by it, 1624. 'doon, to go furth inlike cass as they came into the saide towre, " or thing devised for theim. Always reservid to the maister of the disguisinges to order it as he shall think best and convenient and when the said Moris is doone, than the gentillmen 'to com unto the women and make their obeisaunce, and every ' of them to taike oon by thand, and daunce suche base 'daunces as is apointed theym; and that doon than to daunce ⚫ such rounds as shall be appointed them to daunce togeder by ⚫ the maister of the revills; and that doon to bring the women to their plaices agayne, and make their obeysaunces, and then ' departe to their owne places where they stood before.' p. 63. 'An account of the burning of Gibson's son, in the reign of Mary.'] He (Gibson) violently underwent the cruel ' death of burning in the month of November with two more, in Smithfield, named Halingdale and Sparrow. By all the foregoing relation we may note the boldness and great ability of this man; for as he was a personable stout and comely man of body, so he was of vigour and ' activity of mind too.' Strype's Eccl. Mem. iii., 413, edit. 1733. p. 135. The Patent of Sir Thomas Cawarden bears date 11th March, 1545.'] In a Catalogue of the MSS. of Sir Tho. Phillipps is the following: 'Patent 36 Hen. VIII-To John Ber'nard appointing him Comptroller of the King's Pavilions ' and 'Tents and Master of the Revels and Masks-om'nium Jocorum, Revellorum et Mascorum.' These are precisely the terms of Sir T. Cawarden's grant, and I apprehend that that to John Bernard may have preceded it; but as Sir T. Phillipps had not the MS. in London, I was unable to ascertain its precise date. |