[Footnote 735: In 1563-5, 'canvas to couer diuers townes and howsses and other devisses and clowds' (Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 116); in 1571-2, 'sundry Tragedies Playes Maskes and sportes with their apte howses of paynted canvas' (129); in 1572-3, 'sparres to make frames for the players howses' (175); in 1573-4, 'hoopes for tharbour and topp of an howse' ... 'pynnes styf and great for paynted clothes' ... 'nayles to strayne the canvas' ... 'canvas to paynte for howses for the players and for other properties as monsters, greate hollow trees and suche other' ... 'cariage for the fframes for the howses that served in the playes' ... 'iij elme boordes and vij ledges for the frames for the players' ... 'cariage of fframes and painted clothes for the players howses' (197, 201, 203, 204, 218); in 1574-5, 'canvas to make frenge for the players howse' (244); in 1576-7, 'cariadge ... of a paynted cloth and two frames' (266); in 1587-9, 'timber bordes and workmanshipp in mending and setting vp of the houses by greate' (390); in 1587-8 'paynters for ... clothe for howses' (381); in 1579-80, 'ffurre poles to make rayles for the battlementes and to make the prison for my Lord of Warwickes men' (327).] [Footnote 736: Feuillerat, _M. P._ 69, calculates that enough cloth was painted in 1580-1, 1582-3, and 1584-5 to allow of about 16 square yards for every house or other _décor_ used.] [Footnote 737: Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 134.] [Footnote 738: Ibid. 176.] [Footnote 739: Ibid. 119.] [Footnote 740: Ibid. 320.] [Footnote 741: Ibid. 336.] [Footnote 742: Ibid. 349.] [Footnote 743: Ibid. 365.] [Footnote 744: In 1571-2, 'curtyn ringes' (Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 140); in 1573-4, 'poles and shivers for draft of the curtins before the senat howse ... curtyn ringes ... edging the curtins with ffrenge ... tape and corde for the same' (200); in 1576-7, 'a lyne to draw a curteyne' (275); in 1580-1, a purchase of 8 ells of orange taffeta double sarcenet at 10s an ell for a curtain for a play (338); in 1584-5 'one greate curteyne' of sarcenet for _Phillyda and Corin_ (365).] [Footnote 745: Cf. ch. xix.] [Footnote 746: In 1572-3, 'an awlter for Theagines' (Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 175); in 1573-4, 'lathes for the hollo tree' ... 'one baskett with iiij eares to hang Dylligence in the play of Perobia ... a iebbett to hang vp Diligence' ... 'hoopes for tharbour' (199, 200, 203); in 1578-9 'a rope, a pulley, a basket' (296); in 1584-5, a well for _Five Plays in One_ (365). For Cutwell, rehearsed but not performed in 1576-7 (277), 'the partes of yᵉ well counterfeit' were brought from the Bell to St. John's.] [Footnote 747: In 1572-3, 'a tree of holly for the Duttons playe ... holly for the forest ... tymber for the forest ... provizion and cariage of trees and other things to the Coorte for a wildernesse in a playe' (Feuillerat, _Eliz._ 175, 180); in 1573-4, 'holly and ivye for the play of Predor' (203); in 1574-5, 'moss and styckes' and holly and ivy (239, 244).]