Nicholas Udall was vicar of Braintree, 1533-1537. The plays were probably in aid of the large expenditure on the fabric of the church between 1522 and 1535. The Chelmsford (q.v.) play was given at Braintree in 1562. BRENTWOOD, ESSEX. ‘Mr. Johnston of Brentwoode’ hired the Chelmsford (q.v.) wardrobe in 1566. BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A town-clerk’s account of municipal customs, after describing the banquet on St. Katharine’s Eve (Nov. 24), concludes:— ‘And then to depart, euery man home: the Maire, Shiref, and the worshipfull men redy to receyue at theire dores Seynt Kateryns players, makyng them to drynk at their dores, and rewardyng theym for theire plays[766].’ Were these plays more than a ‘catterning’ _quête_ (vol. i. p. 253)? There is no mention of plays amongst the records, including several craft-guild ordinances, in the _Little Red Book of Bristol_ (ed. W. B. Bickley, 1901). But ‘the Shipwrights Pageannt’ was used at the reception of Henry VII in 1486 (p. 175). BROOKLAND, KENT. Brookland players were at New Romney in 1494. BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. On the night after Corpus Christi day, June 16, 1514, certain persons ‘brake and threw down five pageants of the said inhabitants, that is to saye, hevyn pagent, the pagent of all the world, Paradyse pagent, Bethelem pagent, and helle pagent, the whyche wer ever wont tofore to be caryed abowt the seyd town upon the seyd daye in the honor of the blissyd Sacrement.’ The churchwardens’ accounts of St. Mary’s show payments in 1526 for copying the game-book, and to Stephen Prewett, a Norwich priest, for his labour in the matter. The accounts of Holy Trinity show payments: in 1558, to a man riding to Yarmouth for the ‘game gear,’ ‘to William Ellys for the interlude and game booke, iiijᵈ,’ ‘for writing the partes, ijˢ’; in 1566, on occasion of ‘the interlude in the churchyarde,’ for apparel borrowed from Lord Surrey, ‘for visors,’ and ‘to Kelsaye, the vyce, for his pastyme before the plaie, and after the playe, both daies, ijˢ.’ In 1577, a churchwarden gave a receipt to his predecessor for ‘game pleyers gownes and coats, that were made of certayne peces of olld copes.’ In 1591, 5_s._ was received for ‘players cootes[767].’ BURNHAM, ESSEX. ‘Wᵐ Crayford of Burnam’ hired the Chelmsford (q.v.) wardrobe in 1568. BURY ST. EDMUND’S, SUFFOLK. The _Ordinances_ of the Weavers (1477) assign half of certain fines to ‘the sustentacione and mayntenaunce of the payent of the Assencione of oure Lord God and of the yiftys of the Holy Gost, as yt hath be customed of olde tyme owte of mynde yeerly to be had to the wurschepe of God, amongge other payenttes in the processione in the feste of Corpus Xr̄i.’ Journeymen weavers are to pay ‘iiijᵈ’ yearly to the ‘payent’ and all ‘foreyne’ as well as ‘deyzin’ weavers are to be contributory to it[768]. It is not clear whether the ‘payent’ had a _ludus_ or was a dumb-show. CAMBORNE, CORNWALL. See Texts (i), _Cornish Plays_, _St. Meriasek_.