1477, March 26. ‘The pleyers the which pleed the passion play the yere next afore brought yne a byll the whiche was of serten devties of mony and whedʳ the passion shulbe put to crafts to be bounden or nay. And at yᵗ tyme the seid pleyers gaff to the pachents yʳ mony which that thei had getten yn playng of the seid play euer fore to that day and all yʳ Rayments wʰ al othʳ maner of stuff yᵗ they had at that tyme. And at the same Common Halle be the advyse of all the Comons was chosen thies persones after named for to have the gydyng and Rule of the said play’ [19 persons with 2 ‘bedalls’ named][838]. 1495, Friday after xijᵗᵉ day. ‘Yᵗ ys ordent agreyt stabelechyd & acte for the comon well of the towne and of seche guds as ys yn a store hows in the Setterday marcat yᵗ ys to say wodde tymber and vdyr playyng germands yf ther be ony her hys chosyn to be ouersears thereof’ [6 names][839]. It is not clear on what day the Passion play took place. There were great processions on Whit Monday from the churches of St. Martin and St. Mary to that of St. Margaret, and in these the Twelve Apostles figured[840]. The accounts of the same churches show plays apparently distinct from the Passion play. _St. Mary’s._ 1491. Paid to the Players on New-year’s day at even in the church, vjᵈ. 1499. Paid for a play in the church, in Dominica infra Octavam Epiphaniae, ijˢ. 1504. Paid for mending the garment of Jesus and the cross painting, jˢ iijᵈ. Paid for a pound of hemp to mend the angels heads, iiijᵈ. Paid for linen cloth for the angels heads, and Jesus hoose, making in all, ixᵈ. 1507. Paid for a pound of hemp for the heads of the angels, iijᵈ. Paid for painting the wings and scaff, &c., viijᵈ[841]. These entries suggest a _Quem quaeritis_, but perhaps only a puppet-show. _St. Martin’s._ 1492. Paid to the players on New-year’s day at even in the church, vjᵈ. 1546-7. Pᵈ. for makynge of a sworde & payntynge of the same for Harroode. 1555-6. Pᵈ. to the iij shepperds at Whytsontyde, vjᵈ. 1559-60. Pᵈ. to ye plears for ther paynes. 1561. Rᵈ. for serten stufe lent to the players of Fosson[842]. In 1551 the Corporation came not to a feast ‘because of the play that was in the church[843].’ LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE. The Cathedral Statutes of Bishop Hugh de Nonant (1188-98) provide for the _Pastores_ at Christmas and the _Quem quaeritis_ and _Peregrini_ at Easter. ‘Item in nocte Natalis representacio pastorum fieri consueuit et in diluculo Paschae representacio Resurreccionis dominicae et representacio peregrinorum die lunae in septimana Paschae sicut in libris super hijs ac alijs compositis continetur.’ Similarly in the account of the _officium_ of the _Succentor_ it is provided: