To Alex Johanni et al. Musicm were allowed 1831. 6 16s. 8d.; 181. 5s. to a drum-player,' and 381. to two 'players upon instruments.' It is not to be forgotten that the creation of the office of Master of the Revels did not at all render needless, according to the practice of those times, the temporary appointment of a Lord of Misrule, or, as he was afterwards sometimes called, Lord of the Pastimes, whose business it was not so much to regulate, as to provide entertainment for the Court at Christmas. The patent of Sir Thomas Cawarden bears date 11th of March, 1545, (according to our pre- A.D. sent mode of reckoning, 1546,) and in it the 1546. place is termed,Officium Magistri Jocorum, Revel'lorum, et Mascorum, omnium et singulorum nostrorum, vulgariter nuncupatorum Revells et Masks,' and the salary is called 'vadium et feodum decem librarum sterlingarum*,' not so much as was usually paid to the Lord of Misrule for his services during the twelve days at Christmas. Sir Thomas Cawarden, however, derived other emoluments from his situation as one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber †. The Yeoman of the Revels had a *The instrument is printed at length in Rymer's Foedera, xv., 62. On the 23d of March, 33 Henry VIII., Sir Thomas Cawarden, and Elizabeth his wife, obtained, under the privy seal, a grant of the manors of Ullicote and Loxley, in the county of Warwick. By a privy seal, dated the 20th of April, of the same year, Marcus Antonio de Petala, 'unus tymphanistrorum nostrorum vocat. sagbuts' acquired the manor of Fiddington in Gloucestershire. salary of 91. 2s. 6d., and we may suppose that het discharged the more laborious duties of the office. After March, 1545-6, the following, as I find from a document in the State Paper Office, was the dramatic and musical establishment of the King. Master of the Revels Yeoman of the Revels Eight players of interludes, at 3l. 6s. 8d. each per annum Two flute players, the other at A sergeant trumpeter, and 15 other trumpeters, at 24l. 6s. 8d. each Jone at 30 18 413 13 4 £596 7 6 This total of expense is of course independent of gifts to players, &c., on New Year's day, as well as of occasional rewards, and exclusive also of the establishment of the King's Chapel, both gentlemen and children. * When an inventory was taken after the death of Henry VIII. of all the tapestry, pictures, plate, jewels, and other goods of which he died possessed, it was found that he had no less than 99 vizors, or 'masks of sondry sorts,' besides many sets of mask *Harl, MSS., No. 1419, ings beads,' at Greenwich, which he and his courtiers were in the habit of wearing. None of his other property, excepting perhaps musical instruments, was even remotely connected with the subject of the present investigation. His books are always numbered, and not named, by the parties making out the account, with the following four exceptions, two of which are curious. Item, a square coffer with tilles, &c. with a boke 'conteyning the ymage of both churches *. Item, a case of lether, conteyninge patentes concernynge Quene Jane. • Item, a booke of Kynge Henry VII., his founda'tion of the Chappell at Westminster. Item, a boke wrytten in parchement of the Pro'cesse betwere King Henry theight and the Ladye Katheryne Dowager.' It does not appear that there was any production of a dramatic kind in the King's private library, unless it were included among 'sundry bookes,' the titles and contents of which are not given. * By John Bale. I am not aware of any printed edition of this work prior to 1550. 138 ANNALS OF THE STAGE, DURING THE REIGNS OF EDWARD VI. IMMEDIATELY after the demise of Henry VIII., the A. D. Duke of Somerset introduced various econo1547. mical reforms into the royal household: many of the officers were dismissed, and a considerable reduction took place in the establishment of Musicians and Players. A MS. in the Royal Collection in the British Museum *, makes this point quite clear: one division of it is headed, 'the names of such officers in ordynary of the chamber of the late Kynges Majestie ' now discharged;' but it is much decayed, and although the word Players' yet remains, the names of those who were dismissed, originally subjoined, are wanting. The other division of the MS., entitled, the names ' of such of the Kynges Majesties servaunts as are 'nuely in ordinary of the chamber,' is in a perfect state, and exhibits not only the numbers, but the names of the Musicians' and 'Players' retained by the Protector: they are the following. MUSICIANS, * Royal MSS. 7 C. xvi. Thomas Lee, Thomas Curzon, Thomas Pagington. John Birch *, Henry Heryet, John Smyth.' Here we observe several names, for the first time, included in the list of royal performers of interludes; and we may infer that, among those who were discharged, were Hinstocke, Slye, Parlowe, and Young, the mention of whom occurs late in the reign of Henry VIII. If, therefore, what is supposed to have been the Household-book of Edward VI., among the Harleian MSS., without a date, apply, in fact, to the reign of that King, it probably belongs to the period after the death of the Duke of Somerset ; for there we find an entry of eight Players of Interludes,' each of whom received a fee of 31. 6s. 8d. annually†. *If this be the same player who is mentioned in the account-books of the reign of Henry VIII., his Christian name has been mistaken,— it was George. John was, perhaps, his son. †The following is the form of the entry of the department of |