The gentlemen of the Inns of Courts were always ready to follow in the wake of courtly fashion. Their interludes were famous and important in the days of Elizabeth, but, although Lincoln’s Inn entertained external _lusores_ in 1494 and 1498[565], Gray’s Inn is the only one in which amateur performances are recorded before 1556. A ‘disguising’ or ‘plaie’ by one John Roo was shown here in 1526, and got the actors into trouble with Wolsey, who found, or thought that he found, in it reflections on his own administration[566]. All ‘comedies called enterludes’ were stopped by an order of the bench in 1550, except during times of solemn Christmas[567]. In 1556 an elaborate piece for performance by all the Inns was in preparation by William Baldwin[568]. There were interludes, moreover, at universities and in schools. The earliest I have noted are at Magdalen College, Oxford, where they occur pretty frequently from 1486 onwards. They were given in the hall at Christmas, and overlap in point of time the performances of the _Quem quaeritis_ in the chapel[569]. There was a play at Cardinal’s College in 1530[570]. Nicholas Grimald’s _Christus Redivivus_ was given at Brasenose about 1542. Possibly his _Archipropheta_ was similarly given about 1546 at Christ Church, of which he had then become a member. Beyond these I do not know of any other Oxford representations before 1558. But in 1512 the University granted one Edward Watson a degree in grammar on condition of his composing a comedy[571]. At Cambridge the pioneer college was St. John’s, where the _Plutus_ of Aristophanes was given in Greek in 1536[572]. Christ’s College is noteworthy for a performance of the antipapal _Pammachius_ in 1545[573], and also for a series of plays under the management of one William Stevenson in 1550-3, amongst which it is exceedingly probable that _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_ was included[574]. Most of these university plays were however, probably, in Latin. The Elizabethan statutes of Trinity College[575] and Queens’ College[576] both provide for plays, and in both cases the performances really date back to the reign of Henry VIII. At Trinity John Dee seems to have produced the _Pax_ of Aristophanes, with an ingenious contrivance for the flight of the Scarabaeus to Zeus, shortly upon his appointment as an original fellow in 1546[577].