20 May, 1505. To the Players of Kingeston toward the bilding of the churche steple, in almasse, 3ˢ 4ᵈ. 1 Jan. 1506. To the players that played afore the Lord Stewarde in the Hall opon Sonday nyght, 6ˢ 8ᵈ. To my lorde Princes players that played in hall on new-yeres even, 10ˢ. 25 Dec. 1506. To the Players that played affore the Lord Stewarde in the Hall opon Tewesday nyght, 10ˢ. 2 Jan. 1509. To my lord of Buckingham’s pleyers that playd in the Hall at Grenewich, 6ˢ 8ᵈ. [Extracted by Collier, i. 76, from the _Book of King’s Payments_ for 1509-17, now vol. 215 of the _Miscellanea of the Treasury of the Receipt of the Exchequer_. The document is more fully analysed in Brewer, ii. 1441. It is an account of the Treasurer of the Chamber.] 6 Jan. 1512. To the Players that cam out of Suffolke, that playd affore the Lorde Stewarde in the Kings Hall opon Monday nyght, 13ˢ 4ᵈ. 1 Jan. 1515. To the Erle of Wiltyshires playres, that shulde have played in the Kings Hall oppon Thursday at nyght, in rewarde, 13ˢ 4ᵈ. 1 Jan. 1516. To the Erle of Wilshire’s players, 13ˢ 4ᵈ. [From _Accounts of Treasurer of Chamber_ in _Trevelyan Papers_ (C.S.), i. 146, 161, 174.] 1 Jan. 1530. To the Prince’s plaiers. 1 Jan. 1531. To the Princes pleyers. Item, paid to certain Players of Coventrye, as in wey of the Kinges rewarde, for playnge in the Corte this last Cristmas. 1 Jan. 1532. To the Princesse plaiers. F MINSTREL GUILDS A. FRANCE. 1. _Arras_, †1105. The famous _Pui d’Arras_ (vols. i. p. 376, ii. p. 88) was in a sense a minstrel guild. According to tradition a plague was stayed by a simultaneous apparition of the Virgin in a dream to two minstrels, which led to the acquisition of ‘le joyel d’Arras,’ the miraculous ‘cierge de notre Dame.’ This was about 1105, and the result was the foundation of the _Confrérie_ or _Carité de N. D. des Ardents_, which afterwards developed into the _pui_. This was not confined to minstrels, but they were predominant. The _Statutes_ say, ‘Ceste carité est estorée des jogleors, et les jogleors en sont signors[680].’ The objects of the _pui_, however, were religious, social, and literary. It was not a craft guild, such as grew up two centuries later. 2. _Paris_, 1321.