1536. pro biberio in nocte Sancti Nicholai. Sol. mimo pro solatiis factis sociis et scholasticis tempore Nativitatis Domini, viijˢ. 1537. pro carbonibus consumptis in sacrario, per custodes sepulchri, et per pueros in festis hiemalibus, ijˢ [and in other years]. 1539. pro bellariis datis sociis cum ageretur comedia, viijˢ. 1540. pro epulis datis sociis eo tempore quo agebatur tragedia, viijˢ iiijᵈ. pro bellariis datis sociis et clericis vigilia divi Nicolai, iiijˢ viijᵈ. pro pane et potu datis semicommunariis dum curabant publicam exhibere comediam, xxᵈ. 1541. A ‘tympanista’ was hired at Christmas and comedies acted. 1554. 30 Ian. in adventu [dom. Matravers] ad tragedias per duas noctes, xlijˢ viijᵈ ob. Pro epulis datis sociis post exactas tragedias, xˢ ixᵈ. The only Elizabethan entry I need note is:— 1561. Sol. Joyner, pictori, depingenti portenta religiosorum in spectaculo Baulino, iijˢ iiijᵈ ... depingenti nomina haeresium in spectaculo (in aula) quod choristarum moderator [Richard Baull] ordinavit. VI. SHREWSBURY CORPORATION. [Extracts from the Bailiffs’ accounts by Owen and Blakeway, _Hist. of Shrewsbury_ (1825), i. 262, 267, 275, 284, 290, 292, 325 sqq.; and by W. D. Macray in _Hist. MSS._ xv. 10. 25. It is not always clear to which calendar year an entry belongs. The accounts run from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, but Owen and Blakeway generally quote entries under one calendar year and sometimes under one regnal year.] 1401. ‘Histriones’ of the Prince and the Earl of Stafford. ‘Menstralles’ of the Earls of Worcester and Stafford. 1409. Players [i.e. in these early accounts, ‘histriones,’ not ‘lusores’] of the countess and earl of Arundel, of Lord Powis, Lord Talbot, and Lord Furnivall. Players ‘in honorem villae’ at the marriage of a cousin of David Holbache. 1437. Minstrels of earl of Stafford. 1438. Livery to two town minstrels, ‘voc. _waytes_.’ 1442. Some town minstrels called ‘histriones.’ In same year, ‘histrionibus regis,’ and in subsequent years ‘histrionibus’ of earl of Shrewsbury and others, including one ‘voc. Trumpet.’ 1450. Players and minstrels at coming of duke of York from Ireland. 1457. Denaria soluta uni ministrallo domini principis [Edward] pro honestate villae. Quatuor ministrallis domini ducis de Bukyngham. Duobus ministrallis d’ni de Powys. 1 lagenae vini de Ruyn dictis ministrallis. Denaria data uni ministrallo d’ni principis et suo puero. iiij. ministrallis d’ni ducis de Eboraco. iv. ministrellis d’ni ducis de Excestro. 1474. Regardo ministrallis d’ni ducis de Clarence.