9 Jan. 1483. Item, the same day, my Lord paid to Garard, of Sudbury, for all suche stoffe as folewyth, that he bought for the Dysgysing [a schedule of paper, gunpowder, ‘arsowde,’ pack-thread, &c., follows]. Summe totall, xxjˢ ob. [From accounts of Thomas, Earl of Surrey, in _Household Books_ (_ut supra_), 515, 517, 519.] 20 Dec. 1490. Payd for xviij yardes of lynen cloth, that M. Leynthorpe had for dysgysyng, at iiijᵈ the yard, ... vjˢ iiijᵈ. [Other expenses for the disguising follow.] 27 Dec. 1490. Item, payd to the playars of Chemsford, vjˢ. viijᵈ. 2 Jan. 1491. Item, the said day, in reward to the panget [pageant (?)], iijˢ iiijᵈ. Item, payd to ——, when he went to Bury to fach stuff for dygysers on Saynt Stevens day, xvjᵈ. 8 Jan. 1492. Item, in reward to the players of Lanam [Lavenham], xlˢ. [The Howard accounts also include many payments for minstrelsy, &c. The Duke of Norfolk kept singers, a harper, children of the chapel, and two fools, ‘Tom Fool’ and Richard, ‘the fool of the kitchen.’] VIII. THE ENGLISH COURT. [From Rymer, _Foedera_, x. 387. A memorandum _de strenis, liberatis et expensis_, at Christmas, 1427.] A Jakke Travail et ses compaignons feisans diverses jeuues et entreludes dedeins le feste de Noell devant notre dit sire le roi, 4 lib. Et as autres jeweis de Abyndon feisantz autres entreludes dedeins le dit feste de Noel, 20 sol. [Extracted by Collier, i. 50, from the _Household Book_ of Henry VII, 1491-1505, and the _Book of King’s Payments_, 1506-9. I cannot identify the former; the latter appears to be vol. 214 of the _Miscellanea of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer_ (Scargill-Bird, _Guide to the Public Records_, 228). I omit, here and below, entries referring to minstrelsy, disguisings, and plays by the King’s players and the Chapel. Probably some of the performances were given at London; others before the King on progress. I have corrected some of Collier’s dates from the similar entries in Bentley, _Excerpta Historica_, 85, taken from a transcript in _B. M. Add. MS._ 7099.] 1 Jan. 1492. To my Lorde of Oxon pleyers, in rewarde, £1. 7 Jan. 1493. To my Lorde of Northumberlande Pleyers, in rewarde, £1. 1 Jan. 1494. To four Pleyers of Essex in rewarde, £1. To the Pleyers of Wymborne Minster, £1. 6 Jan. 1494. To the Frenche Pleyers for a rewarde, £1. 31 Dec. 1494. To 3 Pleyers of Wycombe in rewarde, 13ˢ 4ᵈ. 4 Jan. 1495. To the Frenshe Pleyers in rewarde, £2. 20 July, 1498. To the pleyers of London in rewarde, 10ˢ. 14 June, 1499. To the pleyers with Marvells, £4. 6 Aug. 1501. To the Pleyers at Myles End, 3ˢ 4ᵈ. 2 Jan. 1503. To the Pleyers of Essex in rewarde, £1.