The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
History
The mediaeval stage, volume 2 (of 2)
Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism; Theater -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
[Cappers. Portacio crucis usque montem Oilverii: _added_.]
Dyers. Iesus pendens in cruce [_altered by the second hand from_ Portacio
crucis et Iohanne evangelista portante Mariam].
Smythes. Longys with his knyghtes.
The eldest seriant. Maria and Iohannes evangelista (_interlined_).
Barbours. Joseth Abarmathia.
Dyers. Sepultura Christi.
The eldest seriant. Tres Mariae.
Porters. Milites armati custodes sepulcri.
Mercers. Pilate, Cayfes, Annas, and Mahounde. [_This last name has been
partly erased._]
Bakers. Knyghtes in harnes.
Journeymen cappers. Seynt Keterina with tres(?) tormentors[818].’
At a law day held on Dec. 10, 1548, it was agreed that the crafts who
were ‘bound by the grantes of their corporacions yerely to bring forthe
and set forward dyvers pageaunttes of ancient history in the processions
of the cytey upon the day and fest of Corpus Χρi, which now is and are
omitted and surceased’ should instead make an annual payment towards the
expense of repairing walls, causeways, &c.[819] The 1503 list seems to
concern a dumb-show only, and it cannot be positively assumed that the
_lusiones_ of 1440 were a Corpus Christi play.
In 1706 a labourer went through the city in the week before Easter, being
Passion week, clothed in a long coat with a large periwig, with a great
multitude following him, sitting upon an ass, to the derision of our
Saviour Jesus Christ’s riding into Jerusalem, to the great scandal of the
Christian religion, to the contempt of our Lord and his doctrine, and to
the ill and pernicious example of others[820].
HERNE, KENT.
Herne players were at New Romney in 1429.
HEYBRIDGE, ESSEX.
The churchwardens’ accounts for 1532 show a play, with ‘a fool’ and
‘pagent players,’ apparently in the church[821].
HIGH EASTER, ESSEX.
High Easter men hired the Chelmsford (q.v.) wardrobe in 1570-2.
HIGH HALDEN, KENT.
‘Haldene’ players were at New Romney in 1499.
HOLBEACH, LINCOLNSHIRE.
In 1548 the churchwardens paid vˢ viijᵈ for the ‘costs of the iij kyngs
of Coloyne[822].’
HULL, YORKSHIRE.
The accounts of the Trinity House, a guild of master mariners and pilots,
contain entries concerning a play of Noah.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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