‘iijˢ paid for two flagons of red wine, spent in the house of Arnulph Tixonye, by the Mayor and most of his brethren, being there to see a certain play at the Feast of Corpus Christi.’ In the same year the Skinners and Sailors ‘of the town’ received rewards ‘for their labour about the procession of Corpus Christi this year[832].’ In 1409-10 Lady de Beaufort came to see a play[833]. See also s.v. MIDDLETON. KINGSTON-ON-THAMES, SURREY. On May 20, 1505, Henry VII made a payment ‘To the Players of Kingeston toward the bilding of the churche steple, in almasse, iijˢ iiijᵈ[834].’ The churchwardens’ accounts for 1505-6 include ‘That we, Adam Backhous and Harry Nycol, amountyd of a play, 4ˡⁱ.’ A few later items relate to plays at Easter. ‘1513-4. For thred for the resurrection, jᵈ. For 3 yards of dorneck for a player’s cote, and the makyng, xvᵈ. 1520-1. Paid for a skin of parchment and gunpowder for the play on Ester-day, viijᵈ. For bred and ale for them that made the stage and other thinges belonginge to the play, jˢ ijᵈ. 1565. Recᵈ. of the players of the stage at Easter, jˢ ijᵈ ob.[835]’ LANCASTER. A Corpus Christi play was acted within the lifetime of Weever, who was born 1576, and wrote 1631[836]. LANCHIRE(?), ESSEX. ‘Somers of Lanchire’ hired the Chelmsford (q.v.) wardrobe in 1566. But I can find no such place. LANGLEY, OXFORDSHIRE. See s.v. SHIPTON. LAVENHAM, SUFFOLK. The Earl of Surrey rewarded the players of ‘Lanam’ on Jan. 8, 1492 (Appendix E, vii). LECONFIELD, YORKSHIRE. The list of customary rewards given by the fifth Earl of Northumberland to his servants, drawn up †1522, includes:— ‘Them of his Lordschipes Chapell if they doo play the Play of the Nativite uppon Cristynmes-Day in the mornynge in my Lords Chapell befor his Lordship, xxˢ. ... Them of his Lordship Chappell and other, if they doo play the play of Resurrection upon Esturday in the morning in my Lords Chapell, xxˢ[837].’ LEEDS, YORKSHIRE. Ten Brink, ii. 256, says that Leeds formed a centre ‘for the art of the cyclic plays, which were represented yearly’; and Ward, i. 55, that at Leeds ‘the religious drama was assiduously cultivated by the citizens.’ I cannot find any authority for this, and can only suggest that it is a misapprehension of an entry in the _Catalogue_ of Ralph Thoresby’s manuscripts appended to his _Ducatus Leodensis_ (1715), 517. This was copied by Sharp, 141. But it refers to the _York Plays_, then in Thoresby’s possession. LEICESTER. The Hall book of the Corporation contains the following entries:—