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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. JUNE i, 1907.
MALDON RECORDS AND THE DRAMA.
(See ante, pp. 181, 342.) THE other entries in these records do not give such minute particulars concerning the pieces represented from time to time :
1540. Item in money geven that yere to my lord of Sussex players at Mr. Bayliffs' comaundement,
Item in money gevyne to my lord Cromewellis players that yere at Mr. Bayliffs' comaundement,
1541. Gd. gevyne to the erle of Sussex players that yere at Master Bayliffs' comaundement.
[for bringing*] the stage tymbre from the
Friers to Robard
1544. Ther remayneth in the hands of John Arrowsmith (otherwise Fysher) and Alice (late the wife of John) Stuck, as parcell of 40s. which John Stuck had styll in his hands of the monye which was gathered at the play,t xxvis. viiid.
1546. iis. geven to the Queen's players. vs. geven to the King's gester [jester].
1547. 31. 17s. 4d. received of William Hale for the profitts of the plays this yere.
20d. geven to the Quene's players for their re- ward [=tip] this yere.
3s. 4a. to the King's players.
2s. to my lord of Sussex players.
2s. Sd. to the King's mynstrells.
1550. Sd. (?) to the King's players in reward, at the request of Mr. Beilez [bailiffs?].
1552. 5s. 2d. geven to my lord Marques of North- ampton's players.
1553. 5s. to my lord Marquis of Northampton s players in reward.
1558. 22d. to the pleers [=players]. 9s. to the Queen's maiestie s players. 3s. Sd. unto certeyne players. 5s. to the duke of Norfolk's players.
1560. 4s. 6d. geven unto my lord of Burgayne's players in rewarde.
7s. Sd. unto my lord of Oxynford's players this yere.
6s. Sd. geven unto my lord Dudleye's players this yere.
1561. 3s. to Mr. Fescue's players as a rewarde. 5s. to my lord of Oxynf ord's players as a rewarde.
1562. 5s. payde to my lord Robert Dudlie's players, as in rewarde.
10s. paid at two sondrye tymes unto the duches of Soutfolk's plaiers.
,">-. to my lord of Oxinforde's players.
Also of 6d. paid for a key for a chest that the plaiers rayment was in ; also of 3d. paid for making
- Record mutilated.
t John Stuck had been junior " ballivus" in 1538 and 1539. He may have been senior " ballivus " in l."4;> or 1544, and died in office ; but this does not appear on record. His widow Alice had re- married. See for such a "collection" 1540. The accounts for 1542 and 1543 are lost.
To judge by 1540 and 1543 (?), it seems to have boon intended to exhibit a play every third or fourth year. In this year the production of it Appears' to have been handed over to one man, with the requirement that he should pay over to the borough any surplus.
He had married the heiress of the Bourchiers.
cleane of the hawle after that the plaiers' garments,
were made there this yere ; also of 2s. paid for
scowring up of the harneis in the tyme of the playe ;
also of 4rf. paid to a woman for brushing up
of iii gownes which were lent to the use of
the plaie ; also of 5d. paid for bere * in the halle ;
also of 4s. paid to the furbuisher for scowring the
harneis after the playe ; also of Qd. paid to Thomas,
Myerts for carrieirig home of harneis to Mr. Crest-
ner's after the plaie ; also of 3s. 4c. paid for the
mending of iii goones [guns] against the playe ;
also of 4c. paid to Catlyn for carrieing of the plaiet
geare out of the Tower into the hawle.
5s. paid to th' erle of Shrewseberie's players.
10s. paid to the Quene's players.
8s. paid to William Reynolds for the bording, "boarding] of Buries, the propertie plaier,t thi& yere.
Also of 439. 4e. paid for the scowring of the- harneis for the playe this yere ; also of 5s. 9d. paid more to the surveyors of the playe.
William Hale, alderman, bought "quoddam frenge bissi relictum ex vestimeiitis lusorum " for 5s. ; and Richard Rogers paid I2d. for certain "peces de vestimentis lusorum relictis."
21 December, ordered that " omuia vestimenta cujusque ecclesie infra hanc villam que nuper tra- dita fuerunt ad faciendum vestitus lusorum, viz.,. le plaiers' garments," shall be sold by the chamber- lains for as much as they will fetch, and that, after paying 51. to the churchwardens of All Saints', the sum over shall be put into the town treasury.
1563. 17 May, received of William'Bawlwyn and John Man of Brantre [Braintree] {31. 6s. Sd. for profits de le players' garments.
1564. 91. received of Mr. Richard Josua for the players' garments which was sold unto him by the towne this yere.
5s. to my lord of Bedford's players in reward.
5s. to my lord of Bedford's players at another time.
10s. to the Quene's maiestie's players in reward.
5s. in reward to my lord Robert Dudleye's players.
5s. geven in reward to the Duchess of Suffolk's. players.
1565. 6s. Sd. to the erle of Lesceter's players. 5s. to my lorde Hundeston's players.
5s. to my lord Ryche's players.
6s. 8</. to the Queen's majesty's players.
3s. 4rf. to my lord Straunge's players.
1566. 7s. Sd. to the Queen's majestie's players. 5s. to my lord of Hunsdunse players.
3s. to my lord of Mungeis players. 3>\ to Sir William Pykering's players.
1570. 6s. 80?. to the Queen's maiestie's players by- way of reward this year.
6k Sd. to my lord Riche's players by way of reward this year.
5.-'. to my lord of Sussex players byway of reward this year.
1571. 6s. Sd. to earle of Sussex players, 28 Jan.. [1570 1].
1572. 20 Aug., to the Earle of Sussex players, 8s.. 20 Nov., to the Quene's majesties players, 10s.
- If this is in connexion with the play, it repre-
sents refreshment to the tailors who were making, the players' garments out of the Church, vestments-
t Apparently=stage-nianager;
