- ludes within that countie on the Saboath Daies is not observed, and
especiallie within the Libertie of the Clincke and in the parish of St. Savours in Southwarke, which disorder is to be ascribed to the negligence of some of the Justices of Peace in that countie; they are required to take suche stricte order for the staying of the said disorder as is allreadie taken by the Lord Maiour within the Liberties of the Cittie, so as the same be not hereafter suffred at the times forbidden in any place of that countie.
A letter to the Justices of Middlesex that forasmuch as order is taken by the Lord Maiour within the precinctes of the Cittie for the restrayninge of plaies and interludes on the Saboath Daie, according to such direccion as hath been heretofore given by their Lordships in that behalfe, they are required to see the like observed and kept within that countie, aswell in anie places priviledged as otherwise.
lxxxi.
[1587, Nov. 23. Minute of City Court of Aldermen, printed in Harrison,
iv. 322, from Repertory, xxi, f. 503^v.]
Item yt is ordered that Sir Rowland Haywarde, Sir George Barne,
Knight, Mr. Martyn, Mr. Harte, Mr. Allott, Aldermen, shall repayre
to the right honorable the LL. and others of her Maiesties most honorble
Pryuye Councell & to move theyre honours for the suppressinge of
playes and interludes within this Cittye and the libertyes of the same.
lxxxii.
[1589, Nov. 6. Sir John Harte, Lord Mayor, to Lord Burghley, printed
M. S. C. i. 180, from Lansd. MS. 60, f. 47; also in Collier, i. 265; Hazlitt,
E. D. S. 34.]
My very honourable good L. Where by a lettre of your Lps. directed
to mr. Yonge it appered vnto me, that it was your honours pleasure
I sholde geue order for the staie of all playes within the Cittie, in
that mr. Tilney did vtterly mislike the same. According to which
your Lps. good pleasure, I presentlye sente for suche players as
I coulde here of, so as there appered yesterday before me the L.
Admeralles and the L. Straunges players, to whome I speciallie gaue
in Charge and required them in her Maiesties name to forbere playinge,
vntill further order mighte be geuen for theire allowance in that
respecte: Whereupon the L. Admeralles players very dutifullie obeyed,
but the others in very Contemptuous manner departing from me,
went to the Crosse keys and played that afternoon, to the greate
offence of the better sorte that knewe they were prohibited by order
from your L. Which as I might not suffer, so I sent for the said
Contemptuous persons, who haueing no reason to alleadge for theire
Contempt, I coulde do no lesse but this evening Comitt some of them
to one of the Compters, and do meane according to your Lps. direction
to prohibite all playing, vntill your Lps. pleasure therein be further
