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1982 :1 r P" A newsletter published by University of Toronto Press in association with Erindale College, University of Toronto and Manchester University Press . JoAnna Dutka, editor

Records ofEarfv~ English Drama

The biennial bibliography of books and articles on records of drama and minstrelsy contributed by Ian Lancashire (Erindale College, University of Toronto) begins this issue ; John Coldewey (University of Washington) discusses records of waits in Nottinghamshire and what the activities of the waits there suggest to historians of drama ; David Mills (University of Liverpool) presents new information on the iden- tity of Edward Gregory, believed to be the scribe of the Huntington manuscript of the Chester cycle.

IAN LANCASHIRE

Annotated bibliography of printed records of early British drama and minstrelsy for 1980-81

This list, covering publications up to 1982 that concern documentary or material records of performers and performance, is based on a wide search of recent books, periodicals, and record series publishing evidence of pre-18th-century British history, literature, and archaeology . Some remarkable achievements have appeared in these years. Let me mention seven, in the areas of material remains, civic and town records, household papers, and biography . Brian Hope-Taylor's long-awaited report on the excavations at Yeavering, Northumberland, establishes the existence of a 7th-century theatre modelled on Roman structures . R.W. Ingram has turned out an edition of

the Coventry records for REED that discovers rich evidence from both original and antiquarian papers, more than we dared hope from a city so damaged by fire and war. The Malone Society edition of the Norfolk and Suffolk records by David Galloway and John Wasson is an achievement of a different sort : the collection of evidence from 41 towns has presented them unusual editorial problems, in the solv- ing of which both editors and General Editor Richard Proudfoot have earned our gratitude . Muriel St Clare Byrne's life work, an edition of the Lisle letters, gives a detailed, loving picture of one Tudor noble household and its music and plays . David C . Price has in an admirable way surveyed twelve other households of Tudor gentry for their own musical and dramatic records and so provides a broad backdrop against which to measure the Lisles' interests . Biographical research, finally, has produced two impressive reference works of special usefulness in this field : Peter Beal's index of literary manuscripts by author, and Stanley Sadie's revised edition of Grove's dictionary of music and musicians . There are many other striking developments in these four areas. A brief overview of a few will have to suffice here . Articles on a 14th-century (later a royal) English guitar (Mary Remnant and Richard Marks), the Christ Church cornetts (Julian Drake), pre-Norman Pan pipes at York, and two brasses at King's Lynn (H .K. Cameron) point out that our most neglected record source, material culture, can tell us much about early performance . Jane A . Bakere's survey of Cornish dramatic records and David Wiles' gazetteer of Robin Hood plays both effectively treat aspects of theatre history that have, up to now, been difficult to see whole . Civic records' work, however, is still dominated by two cities, London and York . There have been major reassessments of the history of three professional theatres in London : the late Irwin Smith's book on the Theatre ; Richard Hosley and John Orrell have recon- structed the Fortune, Susan P . Cerasano has done a biographical history of it, and Jerzy Limon has found a striking analogue in a theatre at Gdansk ; and John Orrell has worked out a key to the structural measurements of the first Globe, while Maija Jansson Cole reports a new letter describing its destruction and Herbert Berry ana- lyses a lawsuit about the leasing of the second Globe from still other new records. Similar work has changed our understanding of the history of London's professional theatre companies . Karl Wentersdorf and David George have reinterpreted, with strikingly different results, evidence for the composition and activities of Pembroke's Men and the Queen's Men ; and important new evidence for earlier companies, from 1426 to 1573, has been published by Anne Lancashire and R . Mark Benbow . The London audience has also been examined, with some unusual results : Bing D . Bills, Margot Heinemann, and Richard L . Greaves show that the attitudes of puritans to drama are more complex than had been supposed ; and Reavley Gair's study of the society about the second Paul's theatre shows that dramatic records are not all necessarily about players and performances . Research on York records has taken two directions : one, as in work by Philip Butterworth and Peter Meredith, refines REED York ; another, in studies by Joann Moran, Eileen White, and R .B. Dobson, finds new records in biographical sources . Research on household records has been directed at particular households : John Orrell extracts payments from the accounts of

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• t_ the duke of Buckingham under James, and my edition of the earl of Northumberland's ceremonial for Twelfth Day and Night draws attention to one useful household record that is not financial in nature . Biographical studies, finally, continue to flourish with S. Schoenbaum's two beautiful books on Shakespeare, lifes of Henry Medwall by Alan H . Nelson and M .E. Moeslein, and three articles on lesser figures (Wayne H . Phelps on Robert Daborne, Mark Eccles on William Wager, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field on the Bassano family) . It is gratifying to see that, in the second century of serious theatre-and-music- history research, scholars continue to discover primary sources of information, not only in recognized bodies of material such as Chancery and Court of Requests papers in the PRO, and printed literature (for example, Antimo Galli's description of a Jonson masque), but in a wide variety of lesser-known resources, from archaeological finds to kinds of record that I have not seen used before : quitclaims, brass rubbings, parliamentary diaries, and Old English glossaries . I will no doubt have overlooked works that should have appeared below, for not all current materials were available for me to look through . (Such items as I could not examine are described as `Not seen' .) I am particularly grateful to colleagues who sent me offprints or notices of their work, and to Dr Theodore De Welles (who helped me locate some items), and would welcome learning of shortcomings in this list. Unfortunately it has not been possible to include in it literary studies of play or music texts, or general research tools of considerable use to records' researchers . My annotations are not intended to be evaluative : they abstract essential records infor- mation or argument, rather more fully for items with new evidence than for those analyzing already-published records, and because I may at times appear to have missed a point, or (worse) to have misstated one, I ask the indulgence of both author and user .

1 Adams, Victor J . `When the Players Came to Poole' . The Dorset Year Book (1978), pp . 129-36 . [Town accounts record the visits of the players of the marquis of Dorset to perform in the church in 1551, and those of Lord Mountjoy and of Leicester in 1570 (p. 129).]

2 Airs, Malcolm R ., and John G . Rhodes . 'Wall-Paintings from a House in Upper High Street, Thame' . Oxoniensia, 45 (1980), 235-59 . [The upper chamber of a house built c . 1550-75 has contemporary paintings showing a bass viol, a woman tuning a lute, and two boys singing from an open score (pp . 239, 245-7, 254-6, and pl. ii) .]

3 Alexander, Robert J . `George Jolly [Joris Joliphus], der wandernde Player and Manager : Neues zu seiner Tatigkeit in Deutschland (1648-1660)'. Kle ine Schriften der Gesellschaft fur Theatergeschichte, 29-30 (1978), 31-48 . [The Continental travels of a Caroline player.]

4 Alford, Violet . The Hobby Horse and OtherAnimal Masks . Prepared for publication by Margaret Dean-Smith . London : Merlin Press, 1978. [See Chapter 2, `The Hobby

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ft %- Horses of Great Britain and Ireland', pp . 35-68, for the Salisbury Hob-Nob, the morris at Abingdon, William Kempe's morris, and the hobby horse at Perth ; cf. pp. xxix, 2, 22, 27, and the many literary allusions to this pastime .]

5 Alsop, James . `Nicholas Brigham (d . 1558), Scholar, Antiquary, and Crown Servant' . The Sixteenth Century Journal, 12 (1981), 49-67 . [His widow married William Hunnis of the Chapel Royal before 2 June 1559 (pp . 58, 61).]

6 Alsop, J . D. 'A Moorish Playing Company in Elizabethan England' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 135. [The `Turk' who tumbled and rope-walked c . 1589-90 at Ipswich, Norwich, New Hall, Coventry, Bridgnorth, and Leicester was a Moor, Bullocke Bazia, licenced with his company by the Viceroy and Council of Algiers in a letter to Elizabeth to show her 'playe and pastime' .]

7 - `Players at Stoke Mansion, 1528' . Theatre Notebook, 35 (1981), 87 . [Two messes of players were fed, 3 and 5 January 1528, at this Suffolk seat of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk.]

8 - `A Sunday Play performance at the Jacobean Court' . Notes and Queries, 224 (1979), 427 . [Two payments in the accounts of Queen Anne's receiver-general : to Sillis Worth, one of her players, 17 Dec . 1615 ; and to the King's players on 21 Dec ., both at Queen's Court .]

9 A Middle English Treatise on the Playing of Miracles . Ed . Clifford Davidson . Washington : University Press of America, 1981 . [A new edition of the Wycliffite treatise against miracle plays, with introduction, notes, and commentary that discuss religious attitudes - Lollard and other - to scriptural drama .]

10 Anderson, J.J. 'The Durham Corpus Christi Play'. REEDN, 1981 :2, pp . 1-3 . [A bibliographical guide to guild play references 1403-1549, and a transcription of the relevant part of the weavers' (unpublished) ordinary of 5 August 1450 .]

11 - `The Newcastle Dragon'. Medieval English Theatre, 3, no. 2 (Dec . 1981), 67-8 . [A civic procession with a wood-and-canvas dragon, possibly worn by one man like a hobby horse, in April 1510 in Newcastle upon Tyne.]

12 - 'The Newcastle Pageant "Care" '. Medieval English Theatre, 1, no. 2 (Dec. 1979), 60-1 . [The slaters' and the fullers' and dyers' pageants for the Corpus Christi play with vehicles, without wheels, drawn by bearers .]

13 Astington, John H . 'Inigo Jones and the Whitehall Cockpit' . In The Elizabethan Theatre VII, ed. G.R. Hibbard (Port Credit, Ont . : P.D. Meany for the University of Waterloo, 1980), pp . 46-64. [The Danckerts view (1674) reveals that the exterior of the Cockpit was then as it was in the 1530 s : in 1629-30 Jones did not erect a new remodelled structure or even alter the location of stage and tiring house but

4 rather modified their size, redid the entrances, and refined interior space by means of a permanent stage facade and a new ceiling .]

14 Ayres, Philip J . `Anthony Munday : "Our Best Plotter"?' English Language Notes, 18 (1980), 13-15 . [Francis Meres' comment refers to Munday's anti-Catholic inform- ing and conspiracy, not to his contriving of dramatic plots .]

15 Bakere, Jane A. The Cornish Ordinalia : ACriticalStudy . (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1980). [A broad and detailed account of surviving Cornish dramatic records appears in Chapter II, `The Historical and Topographical Setting' (pp . 12-49) : St. Ives 1573-84 (plays, players, playing place), Stratton 1536-8 (Robin Hood), St . Columb Major 1585-95 (Robin Hood, morris dancing), St . Breock 1588-98 (Robin Hood, a play of Suzanna, dancers), Lanherne 1466-7 (a household disguising), Camborne 1540-83 (plays), Bodmin (the 16th cent. : costumes), and various 'plain- an-gwarry' sites . The St . Breock and Camborne records are drawn from original documents .]

16 Beadle, Richard . 'Entertainments at Hickling Priory, Norfolk, 1510-1520' . REEDN, 1980:2, pp . 17-19. [Ten payments to visiting players, bearwards, minstrels, and waits from accounts, of special interest for their mention of Christmas "ludi" by towns such as Beccles, Norwich, Wymondham, and Northrepps .]

17 - and Peter Meredith . `Further External Evidence for Dating the York Register (BL Additional MS 35290)'. Leeds Studies in English, NS 11 (1980), 51-8 . [Argues from the York play-text and dramatic records that both the `Purification' and 'Fergus' had been laid aside before 1477, and proposes a redating of two guild agreements in REED York by one year (nn . 4, 7).]

18 Belfield, Jane. `Robert Armin, Citizen and Goldsmith of London' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 158-9 . [Additional information about this actor in the goldsmiths' company records of 1582, 1604, and 1608 .]

19 Benbow, R. Mark. 'Dutton and Goffe versus Broughton : a Disputed Contract for Plays in the 1570s' . REEDN, 1981 :2, pp . 3-9 . [A detailed Chancery bill of 1573 by three players (then of the earl of Lincoln), Lawrence Dutton, John Dutton, and Thomas Goffe, gentleman, against Rowland Broughton of London for failure to fulfil an agreement whereby Broughton (1) received £20 in advance for writing 18 plays over two-and-a-half years to be acted by Lawrence Dutton's company (which would include boys) on Sundays and holidays, and (2) would receive one-sixth of the troupe's profits and bear one-sixth of its costs .]

20 Benson, Larry D . `The Tournament in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes & L Histoire de Guillaume Le Marechal' . In Chivalric Literature: Essays on Relations between Literature & Life in the Later Middle Ages, ed . Larry D . Benson and John

5 Leyerle (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980), pp . 1-24 . [Some discussion of the early history of the tournament in England .]

21 Berry, Herbert. `The Globe, its Shareholders, and Sir Matthew Brend' . Shakespeare Quarterly, 32 (1981), 339-51 . [On the basis of 17 new documents (transcribed in an appendix), drawn mainly from the Court of Requests, a close reconstruction is made of the successful lawsuit (c . 1633-7) of the Globe shareholders against Sir Matthew Brend, who owned the playhouse property, to extend their lease on it for nine or ten years beyond 1635 .]

22 Bettey, J .H . Church & Community : The Parish Church in English Life . Bradford- on-Avon, Wilts. : Moonraker Press, 1979 . [Undocumented references to dancing, organs, wrestling, plays, minstrelsy, Robin Hood, May days, and other parish pas- times in many towns in England from 1451 to 1634 .]

23 Billington, Sandra . ` "Suffer Fools Gladly" : The Fool in Medieval England and the Play Mankind' . In The Fool and the Trickster : Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford . Ed. Paul V.A. Williams . Cambridge, Eng . : D.S. Brewer ; and Totowa, N .J .: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979, pp . 36-54, 125-33 . [Discusses evidence of fools and their customs at Lincoln and Beverley, and in literary texts by Thomas of Cobham, Chaucer, and others.]

24 Bills, Bing D . `The "Suppression Theory" and the English Corpus Christi Play : A Re-Examination' . Theatre Journal, 32 (1980), 157-68 . [Argues that economic factors, and to a much less degree the rather late puritan opposition to drama gen- erally (but not a deliberate suppression by a reformed church and state), led to the end of the scriptural cycle play in England .]

25 Blackstone, Mary A. `Notes towards a Patrons Calendar' . REEDN, 1981 :1, pp . 1-11 . [A description of a proposed list of patrons, and an itinerary of their playing troupes (about 600 patrons from 16 major sources, several yet unpublished) ; and a discussion of the kinds of information that such a list and itinerary yield .]

26 Blezzard, Judith . `A New Source of Tudor Secular Music' . The Musical Times, 122, no. 1662 (August1981), 532-5 . [BL Add. MS 60577 includes a fragment headed `The copi of a letter written by Elis Heywod at Padua in Italie to John Haywod his father in London' (p . 533 ; the actual letter has been torn away) . The music, copied c. 1560-80, is probably not by Heywood .]

27 Borne, Patricia, and Philip Dixon . `Halton Castle Reconsidered' .Archaeologia AEliana, 5th ser., 6 (1978), 131-9 . [A room-by-room inventory of 1624 lists a pair of virgin- als in the great chamber of the upper floor (p . 132) .]

28 Bradbrook, M.C. John Webster, Citizen and Dramatist . New York : Columbia Uni-

6 versity Press, 1980 . [A full study of Webster's London, life, and plays. Documen- tation of the external evidence is largely based on Mary Edmond's biographical re- search ; with a Webster family tree by her .]

29 Bray, Roger, `More Light on Early Tudor Pitch' . Early Music, 8 (1980), 3 5-42 . [Dis- cusses the chapel of the fifth earl of Northumberland, with details from plans and sketches of Wressle chapel and antechapel c . 1600 from the Petworth House Archives, 3538-47, West Sussex Record office .]

30 British Library Harleian Manuscript 433 . Volume One : Register of Grants for the Reigns of Edward V and Richard III . Eds. Rosemary Horrox and P .W. Hammond. Richard III Society. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979 . [Richard III's grant to John Hache, trumpeter (p. 286) .]

31 Bussby, Fredrick . Winchester Cathedral 1079-1979 . Southampton : Paul Cave, 1979 . [Includes a list of organists 1402-1642, when the organs were thrown down (p . 339; cf, pp. 67, 108, 126, 130-1, 134) .]

32 Butterworth, Philip . `The York Mercers' Pageant Vehicle, 1433-1467 : Wheels, Steering, and Control' . Medieval English Theatre, 1, no. 2 (Dec . 1979), 72-81 . [Technological account of wheel-binding, and discussion of how soaping the wheels, applying iron pikes and great nails to the axle-tree, adding 'costers' to the pageant, and manipulating the waggon with a potting stang and two wooden rollers affects our understanding of this structure .]

33 Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book 1532-1565 . Part 11 : 1542-1552. Eds. Elizabeth Ralph and Nora M. Hardwick . Bristol Record Society, 33 . Gloucester : Alan Sutton, for the BRS, 1980. [References to minstrels of Montgomery, Wales (nos. 182, 1447 ; pp . 16, 119), Bristol (nos . 203, 408, 428, 503, 514, 748 ; pp . 17, 35-6,42-3,62), Chippenham, Wilts . (no. 313, p. 26), Cork, Ireland (no . 530, p. 44), and Penkridge, Staffs . (no. 1253, p . 102) .]

34 Callender, Michael E . `The Organs of Cork Cathedral' . The Organ, 60 (1981), 178-87 . [Cork Cathedral organ was completed 4 Nov . 1633 (p . 178) .]

35 Cameron, H .K. `The Fourteenth-Century Flemish Brasses at King's Lynn' . Archaeological Journal, 136 (1979), 151-72, and pls . 35-49. [Minstrels with instru- ments, as well as a dancer (?) and a man wrestling a bear, are depicted on the brass of Adam and Margaret Walsokne in 1349 (pp . 155-6, pl . 40c) . On the brass of Robert Blaunche and his wives, 1364, are illustrations of angels playing musical instruments, and minstrels at a legendary peacock feast (pp . 158-60, 161-2, and pls. 49b, c) .]

36 Carson, Neil . `Production Finance at the Rose Theatre, 1596-98' . Theatre Research

7 International, NS 4 (1979), 172-83, and four tables . [Argues that the Admiral's Men financed their productions responsibly out of largely independent funds and borrowed from Henslowe only in emergencies, and proposes a new method of re- constructing a schedule of play-productions by collating weekly income figures and the evidence of licences, inventories, and prompt book lists .]

37 Cerasano, Susan P . `Dissertation Digest' . The Shakespeare Newsletter, no. 172 (Dec . 1981), 35 . [Her 'Alleyn's Fortune : The Biography of a Playhouse, 1600-21' (Uni . of Michigan, 1981), drawing on unpublished records, includes discussions of Peter Street (head carpenter of the Fortune), the theatre site and local community, Edward Alleyn, the acting companies, and the theatre's troubles with Middlesex authorities and the Privy Council .]

38 Chan, Mary . `John Hilton's Manuscript British Library Add . MS 11608' . Music & Letters, 60 (1979), 440-9 . [A lease of a house 1626-9 locates this song-writer in Westminster before he was appointed clerk and organist at St . Margaret's, West- minster, 1628 .]

39 -Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. [A study of texts more than of records of performance.]

40 Chancellor, John . The Life and Times of Edward I. Intro . by Antonia Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981 . [References to tournaments and young Edward 11's liking for `play-acting' (pp . 113, 208) ; two manuscript illustrations of dancers from a late 13th-cent . English bible (pp . 208-9) .]

41 Chillington, Carol A . `Playwrights at Work : Henslowe's, Not Shakespeare's, Book of Sir Thomas More' . English Literary Renaissance, 10 (1980), 439-79 . [Draws on Henslowe's diary for information about multiple-author playwriting, and on inter- nal evidence in More, to argue that Hand D is Webster's, that More was intended for Worcester's Men at the Rose, and that Henslowe's entry of 14 Jan . 1603 for an unnamed Heywood-Chettle collaboration refers to this project .]

42 Christopher Tye: II Masses . Ed. Paul Doe. Early English Church Music, 24 . London : Stainer and Bell, 1980 . [Tye, probably grandfather of Samuel Rowley, organist at Ely in 1559, and a gentleman of the chapel of Edward Vi c. 1553 : a brief biography (pp. ix-x).]

43 Clanchy, M .T. From Memory to Written Record : England 1066-1307. London : Edward Arnold, 1979 . [Draws attention to the certificate of Miles, earl of Hereford, regarding his trusted jester and man, Folebarba, c . 1143 (p. 67) ; and to Walter Map's scornful reference to the `trifling of mummers [mimorum] in vulgar rhymes' (late 12th cent .; p. 157) .]

8 44 Cole, Maija Jansson . 'A New Account of the Burning of the Globe' . Shakespeare Quarterly, 32 (1981), 352 . [A newly-discovered letter by a London merchant, Henry Bluett, that identifies Henry VIII as All is True, performed only two or three times before, and adds circumstantial detail about the fire and the audience .]

45 Collinson, Patrick. 'Cranbrook and the Fletchers : Popular and Unpopular Religion in the Kentish Weald'. In Reformation Principle and Practice : Essays in Honour of Arthur Geoffrey Dickens . Ed. Peter Newman Brooks . London : Scolar Press, 1980, pp . 171-202 . [Presentments against minstrels in the court of the archdeacon of Canterbury, 1575-1606, involving the towns of Ashford, Cranbrook, Molash, and Warden in Sheppey .]

46 Cosman, Madeleine Pelner. Medieval Holidays and Festivals: A Calendar of Cele- brations. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981 . [Twelve holidays : Twelfth Night, St. Valentine's day, Easter, All Fool's day, May day, Midsummer Eve, St . Swithin's day, Lammas, Michaelmas, Halloween, St . Catherine's day, and Christmas (a practical book, with chapters on recipes, bannermaking, etc. ; no documentation) .]

47 Cotton, Nancy . Women Playwrights in England c . 1363-1750 . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 1980. [Up to 1642, these are Katherine of Sutton, abbess of Barking (c . 1363-76), Lady Jane Lumley (c . 1550), Elizabeth I (c. 1561), Mary Sidney Herbert, countess of Pembroke (c. 1590-2), Elizabeth Cary, viscountess Falkland (c. 1602-5), and Queen Henrietta Maria (c . 1626-35 ; pp. 15, 27-40) .]

48 Coventry . Ed. R.W. Ingram. Records of Early English Drama . Toronto and Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1981 . [Excerpts from 60 MSS and 14 printed books of primarily civic, cathedral, and guild records of drama, music, and public ceremonial 1392-1642, chronologically ordered (448 pp. of text) . Documents include the city leet books, chamberlains' accounts, council, receipt, and payments-out books, rentals, and quitclaims ; many civic annals; St. Mary's cathedral inventory and St . Mary's Priory Pittancer's roll ; records of the butchers, cappers, cardmakers and saddlers, carpenters, drapers, dyers, mercers, shearmen and tailors, smiths, tanners, tilers, weavers, and Corpus Christi guilds ; and miscellaneous personal papers . Some of these survive the great destruction of city records only as a result of antiquarian compilations and collections by Thomas Sharp, J .O. Halliwell-Phillipps, William Reader, Thomas Daffern, and Charles Nowell . These records treat of such subjects as the ten-play Corpus Christi cycle ; the Corpus Christi procession ; saints plays of St. Katherine and St. Christian ; the Hock Tuesday play ; plays called `The Destruc- tion of Jerusalem' and `The History of Edward iv'; the Midsummer Watch ; Fair Friday; St . Peter's Eve ; royal and noble visits ; a Priory interlude ; a comedy and tragedy by the grammar school scholars ; the song school ; civic waits ; the St. George's day procession ; travelling bearwards, dancers, musicians, players, trumpeters, and waits sponsored by 159 persons or towns ; musical instruments ; and various other entertainers and entertainments . An introduction discusses the civic drama, music,

9 and ceremonial, Coventry's antiquarians, the documents, and editorial procedures . There are 10 appendixes, two of which concern the Berkeleys and Caludon Castle, and the Troughton drawings (six of these appear on pp . 519-24). The volume con- cludes with translations, endnotes, Latin and English glossaries, and a general index .]

49 Crawford, Anne. `The King's Burden? - the Consequences of Royal Marriage in Fifteenth-century England' . In Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England. Ed. Ralph A . Griffiths . Gloucester: Alan Sutton ; Atlantic Highlands : Humanities Press, 1981, pp . 33-56. [Household expenses of Margaret of Anjou 1444-5 include the upkeep of a lion (p . 38) .]

50 Croft-Murray, Edward . `The Wind-Band in England, 1540-1840'. In The British Museum Yearbook 4 : Music and Civilization . Ed. T.C . Mitchell . London : British Museum Publications, 1980, pp . 135-79 . [A survey of illustrations, several of which predate the Restoration : the Great Tournament Roll of Westminster (1511) ; pano- ramic records of state funerals c . 1593-1603 ; and what is probably Hans Holbein's depiction of five wind-players in a balcony, c . 1532-45, made during one of his visits to London and the court of Henry Viii (see especially pp . 135-6, 148, and pl . 100).]

51 D[avidson] ., C[lifford] . `More Musical Instruments' . The EDAM Newsletter, 2, no. 1 (Nov. 1979), 13 . [An Addendum to York Art : illustrations of fidels, horns, and a mandora .]

52 -'Supplement to Drama and Art' . The EDAM Newsletter, 4, no. 2 (March 1982), 25-50 . [Includes a `Supplementary Bibliography' (pp . 45-9) that also deals with music and musical iconography .]

53 Davison, Nigel . 'So Which Way Round Did They Go? The Palm Sunday Procession at Salisbury' .Music and Letters, 61 (1980), 1-14. [A mapping of the earlier route of of the Use of Sarum, and of a later one of the 14th century ; with a description of the ritual at the four stations, such as the ceremony of the boy prophet (introduced only in the printed processionals of 1508, 1517, and 1555) ; with note of a possible different route at St . Paul's Cathedral (p . 8).]

54 Dobson, E.J., and F. Il. Harrison, Medieval English Songs . London and Boston : Faber and Faber in association with Faber Music, 1979. [A 'joculator', harper William Hennynges, owned a collection of songs made in Winchester College for singing and dancing at its Christmas feasts (pp . 22-7, 62-3) ; no royal minstrels are associated with any written sacred music (p . 59) ; and early uses of the organ and 'cithara' at Winchester, Malmesbury, Canterbury, and Abingdon (pp. 78-82) .]

55 Drake, Julian . 'The Christ Church Cornetts, and the Ivory Cornett in the Royal College of Music, London' . The Galpin Society Journal, 34 (1981),44-50, and pl . IV.

10 [The extant Christ Church cornetts, purchased for the visit of James I to Oxford in 1605, are analysed and photographed (pl . IVa).]

56 Durkan, J ., and R .V. Pringle. `St Andrews Additions to Durkan & Ross : Some Unrecorded Scottish Pre-Reformation Ownership Inscriptions in St Andrews Uni- versity Library' . The Bibliotheck, 9 (1978-9), 13-20 . [John Vaus, Aberdeen humanist, owned a Terence printed at Paris c . 1505 (item 22) .]

57 Dutka, JoAnna. Music in the English Mystery Plays . Early Drama, Art, and Music Reference Series 2 . Kalamazoo, Mich . : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1980 . [Study and indexes based in part on records of singers, minstrels, and musicians contributing to drama at Chester, Coventry, Norwich, Beverley, Lincoln, and York ; an index of musical instruments in cycles and accounts, with commentary (pp . 82-93) ; six plates with manuscript illustrations of musicians ; and a bibliography .]

58 Dyer, Alan . `Northampton in 1524'. Northamptonshire Past & Present, 6, no .2 (1979), 73-80 . [One minstrel was assessed for the subsidy of 1525 (p . 79) .]

59 Eccles, Mark . `William Wager and his Plays' . English Language Notes, 18 (1981), 258-62 . [Includes new biographical information : Wager's birth about 1537, his general privilege to preach in London in 1579, certain benefices and commissions, the lives of his children, and his personal testimony in a Chancery suit in early 1579 .]

60 Edmond, Mary. `Limners and Picturemakers' . The Forty-Seventh Volume of the Walpole Society 1978-1980 (Pitman Press, for the Walpole Society, 1980), pp . 60- 242. [A wide-ranging survey of unprinted London guild records, state papers, parish registers, and wills turns up incidental information on James Harding, musician to Elizabeth (pp . 76-7) ; Mark Anthony Galliardello, Tudor court musician (pp . 77-8) ; Samuel Cooper, lutenist (p . 98) ; John Oker, organist at Wells (pp . 116-17) ; John and Robert Dowland (p . 125) ; Henry Martin, serjeant-trumpeter to James (p. 125) ; Ingram Frizer (Marlowe's murderer in 1593), paid as a digger and carter of earth at Eltham in 1625-6 (p . 168) ; and John De Critz and Maximilian Colt, who worked to decorate the new Cockpit Theatre in 1629-30 and thereafter (pp . 173-4, 176) .]

61 English, Barbara . The Lords of Holderness 1086-1260 : A Study in Feudal Society . Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the University of Hull, 1979 . [Tournaments at York in 1142 and at Brackley, Northants ., in 1219 (pp . 4, 21, 41) .]

62 Epistolae Academicae 1508-1596 . Ed. W.T. Mitchell . Oxford Historical Society NS 26. Oxford : Clarendon Press, for the OHS, 1980 (for 1977-8). [Bequest of 1522 for new organs at St . Mary's church (pp . 162-3) .]

63 Evans, John T . Seventeenth-Century Norwich : Politics, Religion, and Government,

11 1620-1690. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979 . [Several references to musician freemen and to the cathedral organ (pp . 20-1, 128) .]

64 Fisher, John, intro . A Collection of Early Maps of London 1533-1667 . Lympne Castle, Kent : Harry Margary, in association with the Guildhall Library, London, 1981 . [For the sites of the bear and bull baiting rings, and the public theatres, see these facsimiles of the Copperplate map, c . 1553-9 ; Braun and Hogenberg's map, 1572 ; the Agas map, c . 1562 ; Faithorne and Newcourt's map, 1658 ; Hollar's `Great Map of London', c . 1658; and Leake's survey of the post-fire city, 1667 .

65 Foister, Susan. `Paintings and Other Works of Art in Sixteenth-century English Inventories' . The Burlington Magazine, 123, no. 938 (May 1981), 273-82 . [The term `pageant', used in four wills 1487-1533, denotes a type of small painted hang- ing (p . 274 ; not in OED).]

66 Francis, Richard . `The Ludlow Parish Church Organ'. The Musical Times, 122, no. 1660 (June 1981), 409-10 . [A brief history, 1549-1650 .]

67 Fuggles, John . `William Laud and the Library of St John's College, Oxford' . The Book Collector, 30 (1981), 19-38 . [Disposal of duplicate college books in 1612, in- cluding an Aristophanes ; declaimed poems at the entertainment of Charles 130 August 1636 ; and Laud's donation of a Euripides to the library c. 1630-40 (pp . 22, 31-2, 36).]

68 Gair, Reavley . `The Conditions of Appointment for Masters of Choristers at Paul's (1553-1613)' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 116-24. [Texts and commentary on the documents of appointment of Sebastian Westcott (1553-82), Thomas Gyles (1584-1600), and Edward Pierce (1599-1612), the developing allowances and re- strictions of which give a running assessment of the performance of these masters .]

69 - `Second Paul's : Its Theatre and Personnel : Its Later Repertoire and Audience (1602-6)'. In The Elizabethan Theatre VII. Ed. G .R. Hibbard. Port Credit, Ont . : P .D. Meany for the University of Waterloo, 1980, pp . 21-45. [The visitation book of Bishop Bancroft, St. Paul's dean and chapter registers, and parish registers of St . Martin's and St. Gregory's fill out the lives and characters of the masters of the cho- risters, and the cardinals, as well as the nature of the new audience, local house- holders and businessmen (rather than members of the Inns of Court) interested in dramatic plots of sensational London low life.]

70 Galloway, David. `Records of Early English Drama in the Provinces and What They May Tell Us about the Elizabethan Theatre' . In The Elizabethan Theatre VII . Ed. G.R. Hibbard . Port Credit, Ont.: P.D . Meany for the University of Waterloo, 1980, pp. 82-110. [Discusses the need for continued records' research in provincial

12 archives, and of evidence for provincial theatres at Bristol, York, Great Yarmouth, and Norwich, notably at its White Horse in 1624 (p . 96) and its Red Lion inn in 1583 (an appendix has a fresh transcript of the `Affray at Norwich' as described in court depositions ; pp. 97-8, 103-10) .

71 Gaskell, Philip . `Books Bought by Whitgift's Pupils in the 1570s' . Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 7, pt . 3 (1979), 284-93 . [Includes four copies of Sophocles' works in Greek, purchased by pupils of John Whitgift, master of Trinity College (p. 289) .]

72 George, David . `Another Elizabethan Stage : Further Comment' . Theatre Notebook, 25 (1981), 10-12 . [A reconsideration of the `blocking diagram' for Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV in the light of Alfred Emmet's criticism .]

73 - `Shakespeare and Pembroke's Men'.Shakespeare Quarterly, 32 (1981), 305-23 . [A reconstruction of the personnel of Pembroke's company, and a family tree of the major London acting companies c . 1592-4 (based on recently-published records and play studies), suggest that Shakespeare began as an actor with the Queen's Men and then joined Strange's Men as a non-touring member writing plays .]

74 Gibson, Gail McMurray . `Bury St . Edmunds, Lydgate, and the N-Town Cycle' . Speculum, 56 (1981), 56-90 . [Argues for auspices of the N-town plays at Bury, and surveys published evidence for its Corpus Christi interlude and pageants 1389- 1558 (pp . 60-1), monastic holdings of Terence and Plautus there and at St . Alban's (p. 63), Sir Robert Cooke's playbooks in 1537 (p . 64), St. Mary's church organ player (p . 70), and the Boy Bishop of the St . Nicholas Guild (pp . 77-8) ; together with evidence for games at Long Melford, Suffolk, in 1555 (pp . 79-80), and for Lydgate's dramatic activities (pp. 82-4) .]

75 Gifford, D. J . `Iconographical Notes towards a Definition of the Medieval Fool' . In The Fool and the Trickster: Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford . Ed. Paul V. A. Williams . Cambridge : D .S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J . : Rowman and Littlefield, 1979, pp. 18-35, 121-5 . [Discusses portraits of trickster fools within the historicated initial `D' beginning Psalm 14 in various manuscripts (including the Great Bible of Richard ii, and other English examples) .]

76 Gleason, John B . `The Dutch Humanist Origins of the De Witt Drawing of the Swan Theatre' . Shakespeare Quarterly, 32 (1981), 324-38 . [De Witt's drawing employs the convention of `simultaneous representation' and in other ways imitates the copperplate engraving of the Colosseum at Rome in Lipsius' De Amphitheatro (another vertical half-section, with labelled parts, of a nearly empty theatre with a performance in progress) .]

77 The Great White Book of Bristol . Ed . Elizabeth Ralph . Bristol Record Society 32 .

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0. Kendal : Titus Wilson, for the BRS, 1979. [A Star Chamber suit of 1518 between the sheriffs of Bristol and the mayor and aldermen, over the proper proportion of expenses for which each was responsible, lists, among the sheriffs' annual charges, costs of minstrels, the four waits (as at St . George's tide), the midsummer watch, wrestling at St. Lawrence tide and St . James tide (once in the Marsh), and the bear- wards (pp. 73-5, 77-8, 83-7).]

78 Goldstein, Leba M . `The Life and Death of John Lambe' . Guildhall Studies in London History, 4, pt. i (Oct.1979), 19-32 . [A black magician jailed in the King's Bench prison in 1608, where he possessed a pair of virginals (p . 20) ; and murdered on Friday, 13 June 1628, by an angry crowd who followed him after he was recog- nized at a performance in the Fortune Theatre (pp . 25-6) .]

79 Gray, Arthur and Frederick Brittain . A History of Jesus College Cambridge . New re- vised edn. London : Heinemann, 1979 . [Reviews the evidence for plays 1561-1622 (pp . 68-9), organs and organists 1514-1643 (when it was buried in the master's orchard ; pp. 23, 31, 54-6, 76, 79), and musicians in 1615 (p . 61).]

80 Greaves, Richard L . `The Origins of English Sabbatarian Thought'. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 12 (1981), 19-34 . [As demonstrated by Elizabethans including John Rogers, Thomas White, John Stockwood, Anthony Gilby, Christopher Shutte, John Walsall, Gervase Babington, and Lawrence Vaux (generally condemning plays, dancing, baitings, minstrelsy, and games) .]

81 -Society and Religion in Elizabethan England . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1981 . [See especially `Social Entertainment and Recreation', pp. 431-69, which examines the views of laity and clergy to plays and other pastimes in many towns (from both published and unpublished materials) .]

82 Green, Richard Firth . `A Joust in Honour of the Queen of May, 1441' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 386-9 . [Text of a challenge for a joust at Kennington (a letter by the Queen of May, read by April, her officer of arms) .]

83 Green, Vivian. The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427-1977 . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1979 . [A play recorded in Shrove Sunday week 1513 (p . 107) ; the visit of the parish St . Nicholas Clerk or Bishop and his clerks 1487-1530 (p . 110) ; a chapel organ, early 16th century (p . 24) ; a pair of clavicords, 1533 (p . 62) ; musicians 1583 (p . 107) ; visiting trumpeters 1592-3 (p . 151) ; John Atherton, hanged at Dublin for bestiality c . 1640, who confessed that `frequenting of plays' was one of the things that led him astray (pp . 163-4) ; William Davenant (p . 162) ; and the music club of William Ellis (p . 233) .]

84 Hale, Paul R. `Music and Musicians' . In New College Oxford 13 79-1979. Eds. John Buxton and Penry Williams . Oxford : the Warden and Fellows of New College, 1979,

14 pp. 267-92 . [Discusses chapel organs, organ-makers, and organists from 1449 (pp . 267-9).]

85 Hanawalt, Barbara A. Crime and Conflict in English Communities 1300-1348 . Cambridge, Mass ., and London : Harvard University Press, 1979 . [PRO Coroners' Rolls show that one Thomas Tolly stole a lute and a litany from the house of Aleyn Syger of Hoo (p. 73).1

86 Harris, John, and A .A. Tait. Catalogue of the Drawings by Inigo Jones, John Webb and Isaac De Caus at Worcester College Oxford . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. [These include Jones' Cockpit Theatre, Whitehall (pp . 11-12 ; pl. 5) ; his Phoenix (or Cockpit) Theatre in Drury Lane (pp. 14-15 ; pls. 11-12) ; and his design for an uniden- tified theatre, probably at Somerset House (p . 17).]

87 Harvey, John H . [A review of William Tydeman's The Theatre in the Middle Ages (1978)] . The Antiquaries Journal, 59 (1979), 468-9 . [Easterford players visiting Stoke-by-Nayland in 1482 (Household Books of John Duke of Norfolk, ed. Collier [1844]) are from Kelvedon, Essex ; and the 'stytelerys' in the stage diagram of The Castle of Perseverance are possibly 'scytelerys', that is, `settlers' or `seated spectators on settles' .]

88 Harwood, Ian . 'A Case of Double Standards? Instrumental Pitch in England c 1600' . Early Music, 9 (1981), 470-81 . [Pictures of surviving bass, tenor, and treble viols 1598-c. 1636 (pp. 472-3), and of a bandora of 1580, possibly a gift of Elizabeth i (p. 480) .]

89 Haselock . J., and D.E. O'Connor . `The Medieval Stained Glass of Durham Cathedral' . In Medieval Art and Architecture at Durham Cathedral . British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 3 . Eds. Nicola Coldstream and Peter Draper . Leeds: W. S. Maney and Son for BAS, 1980 for 1977, pp . 105-29 . [Includes 15th- cent. (?) fragment of harping angel, and 14th-cent . portative organ (pp . 117, 121, and pl. xvnib) .]

90 Hayward, L.C. and Leslie Brooks . Bygone Yeovil. Yeovil Archaeological and Local History Society, 1980 . [Not seen . Describes church processions from churchwardens' accounts .]

91 Heinemann, Margot . Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts . Past and Present Publications. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1980. [Chapter 2, `Puritanism, Censorship and Oppo- sition to the Theatre', pp . 18-47, surveys opinions by puritans such as Lancelot Andrewes, Robert Anton, and Richard Brathwaite (pp . 28, 34, 35) . Chapter 13, `From Popular Drama to Leveller Style : a Postscript', pp . 237-57, discusses actors such as Richard Overton and John Harris . Appendix A, 'Middleton's Parliamentary

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c Puritan Patrons', pp . 258-83, mentions Sir Thomas Myddleton's accounts at Chirk Castle in 1613 (fiddlers at Christmas ; p. 261) and explores the attitudes of preachers like Samuel Hieron and Thomas Adams to playing (pp . 274-5, 280-1) .]

92 Helm, Alex. The English Mummers' Play . With a foreword by N . Peacock and E .C. Cawte. The Folklore Society, Mistletoe Series, 14 . Woodbridge, Suff . : D .S. Brewer ; and Totowa, N.J . : Rowman and Littlefield, for the Folklore Society, 1981 . [The earliest reference here is to a manuscript description, c . 1685, of an `ancient pastime' of St . George, St . Dennis, St . Patrick, the Turk, Oliver Cromwell, a Doctor, an old woman, Beelzebub, and a little devil (at Cork, probably performed after 1658; p. 7).]

93 Hicks, M .A. False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence : George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-78 . Gloucester : Alan Sutton, 1980 . [Minstrels of the earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, and of the duke of Gloucester (Richard Plantagenet), were together at Stratford, Warws., in 1464-5 (pp . 26, 228 n. 44) ; and Clarence sponsored trumpeters, mimes, and a bearward (p . 198) .]

94 Hollowell, Ida Masters. `Was Widsid a Scop' . Neophilologus, 64 (1980), 583-91 . [Suggests that he was a 'wodbora', a prophetic seer, and that 'scops' might have been neighbourhood or even monastic singers .]

95 Hope-Taylor, Brian . Yeavering: An Anglo-British Centre of Early Northumbria . Department of the Environment Archaeological Reports, No . 7. London : HMSO, 1977 (issued 1979) . [Bede's Ad Gefrin, a villa regis of the Northumbrian kings, included a nine-tiered structure (originally six-tiered), `akin to a grandstand', con- centric arcs facing a small platform or dais . This form is `not that of an amphitheatre, but of a theatre . The whole is focused on a stage, not an arena : a minute but a veri- table stage, which is given appropriate setting by a carefully contrived arrangement of screens, otherwise functionless (save perhaps as windbreaks or sounding boards) behind it and to either side' (p . 242) . The theatre is of `the Romano-Celtic type' (p. 242), with a life c . 605-16 to c . 640, when it was peacefully demolished, and was probably used for political assembly and promulgation (p . 279) in the reign of Edwin . See figs. 12, 55-7, 63, 75-8, 109 ; pls . 90-104 (excavation), 108 (recon- struction model) ; and pp . 119-22, 154, 158-9, 168-9, 241-4, 279-80, 316-19) .]

96 Horrox, Rosemary. `Urban Patronage and Patrons in the Fifteenth Century' . In Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England . Ed. Ralph A. Griffiths . Gloucester : Alan Sutton ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J . : Humanities Press, 1981, pp . 145-66 . [Royal and noblemen's minstrels toured towns seeking rewards in 'a recognised circuit' (p . 149 ; cf. pp. 156, 164 n . 75).]

97 Hosley, Richard . `The Ground Plan of the Swan Playhouse' . The Shakespeare News- letter, 29 (1979), 20. [Abstract of a paper at the Shakespeare Association of

16 America meeting, April 1979 .]

98 - `A Reconstruction of the Fortune Playhouse : Part ii ; In The Elizabethan Theatre vu. Ed . G .R. Hibbard. Port Credit, Ont. : P.D . Meany for the University of Waterloo, 1980, pp . 1-20. [Drawing on answers to some `basic questions' discussed in part I, Hosley reconstructs staircases, galleries, seating and sightlines, stage, tiring-house, and stage superstructure, and these are illustrated in seven figures (by Dale Frens) : the playhouse elevation, showing staircases ; plans of the three storeys ; sections of the playhouse, taken through tiring-house and side galleries ; and a plan of the play- house frame at the rear of the stage .]

99 Hoy, Cyrus . Introductions, Notes, and Commentaries to Texts in `The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker' Edited by Fredson Bowers . 2 vols. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1980 . [The first two volumes of a set of four, with stage histories of twelve plays, among them Dekker's part of The Magnificent Entertainment wel- coming James at his entry into London for his coronation .]

100 Hughes, Andrew . Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office : A Guide to their Or- ganization and Terminology . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981 . [See especially `Lent and Easter Week', pp . 245-71 ; and the General Index, under `boy bishop', `dialogues', `music', and `processions' .]

101 - Medieval Music : The Sixth Liberal Art. Rev. edn. Toronto Medieval Bibliographies 4 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980 . [Additional preface (p . xiii), supple- ment to the bibliography (pp . 270-94), and index to that supplement (pp . 355-60).]

102 Index of British Literary Manuscripts . Volume 1 1450-1625 . 2 pts. Comp . Peter Beal. London : Mansell ; New York : R.R. Bowker, 1980 . [Organized alphabetically by author, the introductions to which sometimes have notes on the whereabouts of letters, depositions, and other biographical materials . For dramatists, see Francis Bacon, John Bale, Francis Beaumont, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, William Browne, Robert Burton, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, Samuel Daniel, Sir John Davies, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Phineas Fletcher, John Ford, John Foxe, George Gascoigne, Robert Greene, Fulke Greville, John Heywood, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, John Leland, Sir David Lindsay, Thomas Lodge, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, Thomas Sackville, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, John Skelton, Cyril Tourneur, Nicholas Udall, and John Webster .]

103 Ingram, Reg. `The Coventry Pageant Waggon' . Medieval English Theatre, 2, no. 1 (July 1980), 3-14 . [Analyses, from re-edited and newly-discovered civic records, the waggon under the headings `Dimensions', `In and Out' (of the pageant house), `Roofed', `Number of Wheels', `Manhandled' (and horsedrawn), `Curtained', `Special Machinery', `Extra Pageants/Stages', `Maximum Number of Actors', `Special

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0 Decorations', `Processional Floats', and `Route' .]

104 Janssen, Carole A . `The Waytes of Norwich and an Early Lord Mayor's Show' . Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 22 (1979), 57-64 . [Records and text of the Lord Mayor's show of Truth, the daughter of Time, written by school- master John Buck (whose interlude of 1559 is also mentioned) for the city waits and performed on a scaffold stage at St. Peter Hungate .]

105 John Coprario : Fantasia-Suites . Ed . Richard Charteris . Musica Britannica : A National Collection of Music, XLVI. London : Stainer and Bell, 1980 . [For a life of this composer-court musician (c . 1575-1626), see pp. xv-xvii; and pl. 1, p . xxiv, is a facsimile of Coprario's letter to a Mr. Billet 1 June 1607 .]

106 Johnston, A.F . `Errata in York'. REEDN, 1980 :1 pp. 35-8. [In particular, consi- dering variant readings in Meg Twycross' study of the station lists (REEDN, 1978 :2, pp. 10-33) .1

107 - `Parish Entertainments in Berkshire' . In Pathways to Medieval Peasants . Ed. J .A. Raftis . Papers in Mediaeval Studies, 2 . Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981, pp . 335-8 . [Records of Robin Hood and Maid Marion, morris dancing, fools and vices, Mays, and the king play in Bray, Thatcham, Wantage, Stanford-in- the-Vale, Reading, and Wallingford in the 16th and 17th centuries ; and of visiting town players at Reading 1382-1428 .]

108 Josephson, David S. John Taverner, Tudor Composer. Studies in Musicology, 5 . Ann Arbor, Mich . : University Microfilms international, 1975, 1979 . [A biography based on a search of unpublished materials, with incidental details about the musical life of London, the court, Boston, Oxford, and Tattershall . The Tattershall accounts refer to purchase of a setting (for church office) termed `versus prophete' (1498-9) for the Palm Sunday procession (p . 21 ; p. 219 n. 51), and to the college organists .

109 Kahrl, Stanley J . `What We Do Not Find in Chambers' . Southern Theatre, 22 (1979), 11-16 . [In his Mediaeval Stage (1903), E.K. Chambers' `monolithic system', his `theory of a single norm of production', is at odds with regional variation in medie- val performance methods ; he used published records, often extracts out of context ; and he paid little attention to travelling players .]

110 Kastan, David Scott . `The Death of William Baldwin' . Notes and Queries, 226 (1981), 516-17 . [The playwright? an anti-papist preacher of this name died in 1563 .]

111 Kelliher, Hilton . `A Hitherto Unrecognized Cavalier Dramatist : James Compton, Third Earl of Northampton' . British Library Journal, 6 (1980), 158-87 . [Includes a summary of the dramatic activities of the father and grandfather of this Common- wealth playwright (pp . 159, 161) .]

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o %, 112 King, T.J . 'The Superstructure of Shakespeare's Second Globe Playhouse and the Herbert House, York : An Architectural Analogue'. The Shakespeare Newsletter, 29 (1979), 20 . [Abstract of a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting, April 1979 .]

113 Kinsman, Robert S . John Skelton, Early Tudor Laureate : An Annotated Bibliog- raphy c. 1488-1977. Boston, Mass .: G.K. Hall, 1979 . [Known historical records of and literary references to the author of Magnificence, entered by year from 1490 to 1529 (pp . 1-15).1

114 Knight, Frida . Cambridge Music from the Middle Ages to Modern Times . Cambridge and New York : Oleander Press, 1980 . [A survey of local texts and records, mainly from published sources (for the beginnings to 1660, see pp . 1-40).]

115 Kolin, Philip C . 'A Bibliography of Scholarship on Henry Medwall' . Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 22 (1979), 65-72 . [105 entries.]

116 Koster, John . 'The Importance of the Early English Harpsichord' . The Galpin Society Journal, 33 (1980), 45-7 3 . [Analysis and figures of two surviving English instruments, one made by Lodewijk Theeuwes in London in 1579, and one made by John Hasard there in 1622 .]

117 Lamb, Margaret. 'Antony and Cleopatra' on the English Stage . Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980 . [See 'The Text and the King's Men', pp . 23-34, for early performance history.]

118 Lancashire, Anne . 'Players for the London Cutlers' Company' . REEDN, 1981 :2, pp . 10-11 . [A company tradition, 1442-98, of players (a 'play' in the final year) at the guild's annual Christmas cony feast (from largely unpublished records) .]

119 -'Plays for the London Blacksmiths' Company ' . REEDN, 1981 :1, pp. 12-14. [A company tradition, 1426-1555, of an annual (then biennial) play at the guild's cony feast on the Monday a week after Twelfth Day (from unpublished sources) .]

120 Lancashire, Ian . 'Annotated Bibliography of Printed Records of Early British Drama and Minstrelsy for 1978-9' . REEDN, 1980 :1, pp. 1-34. [257 items .]

121 - 'The Corpus Christi Play of Tamworth' . Notes and Queries, 224 (1979), 508-12 . [Star Chamber depositions show that in a (Doomsday?) play performed on Corpus Christi day, 15 June 1536, possibly in the churchyard, an actor playing a chain- bearing devil struck Sir Humfrey Ferrers, lord of Tamworth Castle, across the shins; and a will by a Statfold man in 1539 bequeathes money and a velvet jacket to Tamworth's Corpus Christi play wardens, who may have been associated with the town's St . George guild.]

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w 122 -'Orders for Twelfth Day and Night circa 1515 in the Second Northumberland Household Book' . English Literary Renaissance, 10 (1980), 6-45, and pl . between pp. 32-3 . [An edition of the fourteenth ordinance in a ceremonial manuscript : the proper ordering of the hall of Henry Algernon Percy, fifth earl of Northumberland, on Twelfth Day, probably at Wressle, as well as the ceremony, banquets, and enter- tainments there on Twelfth Night, including a play 'as an entirlude A comody or trigidy', a disguising and dance accompanied by minstrels, a pageant 'towr or thing' devised for morris dancers, and additional music by minstrels, trumpeters, and the earl's chapel . An introduction and commentary cite unpublished dramatic and mu- sical evidence in household accounts of Percy and Henry VII, fabricated evidence by John Payne Collier, and a reference to plays in the ceremonial for the wedding supper of an earl's daughter . An appendix gives the text of Henry VII's Twelfth Night ceremonial . (Errata : read 'Eng. Hist. b . 208' [p .6 ; pl. between pp. 32-31, `1491 to 1544' [p .7], `Van Fossen' [p . 8 n. 3], `Bulletin ofthelnstitute' [p . 8 n. 4], 'Mediaeval' [p . 8 n. 51, `players or "histrionibus" ' [p . 111, `the king's juggler' [p. 15], `to be couerid' [p . 26,1. 53], 'Rastall' [p . 34, n. to 11 . 213-14], and `the (i>r' [p. 43,1. 4311 .)]

123 Lawless, Donald S . 'On Shakespeare's Death, Funeral, and Burial' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 176-7 . [Applying the known funeral and burial practices at St. Saviour's, Southwark, in 1613, to the unknown ones at Stratford three years later .]

124 Lehrman, Walter D ., Dolores J. Sarafinski, and Elizabeth Savage, SSJ. The Plays of Ben Jonson : A Reference Guide. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1980 . [See `Influence and Allusions' (items 737-817), 'Jonson and Shakespeare' (items 818-62), 'Theatri- cal History' (items 1001-21), and `The War of the Theatres' (items 1022-42) .]

125 Levin, Richard A . `Shakespeare's Bastard Son' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 177- 9 . [Argues that Aubrey's story of Shakespeare's begetting of Sir William D'Avenant alludes tellingly to King John .]

126 Limon, Jerzy . `New Evidence for the Activity of English Players in the Netherlands in the Second Quarter of the Seventeenth Century' . English Studies [Lisse], 62 (1981), 115-19 . [Two new documents, recording a troupe of English comedians visiting Gdansk in 1636, and another unidentified English troupe visiting there in 1649 : both discussed in the context of other Continental and Gdansk records of English actors .]

127 - `Pictorial Evidence for a Possible Replica of the London Fortune Theatre in Gdansk'. Shakespeare Survey, 32 (1979), 189-99, pls. IIA-B . [A square wooden structure, with several galleries surrounding an open inner yard, illustrated in an engraving of the exterior c . 1664-87, described briefly in 1646, documented from 1600, built c . 1600-12, and used by various English players (some of them associated with the London Fortune), the visits of whom from 1587 to 1612 are

20 described in order . See also his `An Early Seventeenty-Century Public Playhouse in Gdarisk Reminiscent of London's Fortune Theatre', The Shakespeare Newsletter, 29 (1979), 20. (Abstract of a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting, April 1979 .) .]

128 The Lisle Letters . Ed . Muriel St. Clare Byrne . 6 vols. Chicago and London : Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1981 . [John Husee, the Lisles' London agent, writes Lady Lisle 5 Oct. 1538 about players' garments he has rented and an interlude called 'Rex Diabole', the text (?) costing above 20s ., `new ecclesiastical matters' ; and by April 1539, when he is returning the garments, Husee has to pay damages because they have been sea-wet (V, 237-8, 428, 437) . Husee writes Lord Lisle 22 June 1539 about the cancellation of the London Midsummer night watch (V, 542) . Lisle's possessions, inventoried at his jailing in 1540, include a set of twelve masquing gowns and vizards (VI, 157, 201) and a pair of organs in the chapel and vestry (Vi, 194) . There are many references to gift monkeys and marmosets (I, 503 ; Ii, 316-17, 532 ; III, 548), to music lessons for Lisle's daughter on the lute, virginals, and regals (III, 157, 164, 205 ; cf. IV, 264), to dancing lessons for his son (IV, 470, 473-4 ; 486, 517), and to payments to his minstrels or players at Southampton and Tiverton (I, 163) . Another letter of 1583 mentions that Thomas Richards, with his harp and stringed instrument, has been recommended to Sir Philip Sidney, who expects him at Salisbury (Vi, 285) .]

129 Loades, D.M. The Reign of Mary Tudor : Politics, Government, and Religion in Eng- land, 1553-1558 . London : Ernest Benn, 1979 . [Princess Mary's fool Jane and tumbler Lucrece (pp . 25, 35 n. 67 ; cf. pp . 443-4, 455-6 nn . 76-81) .]

130 The London Theatre Guide. 1576-1642 . Ed. Christopher Edwards. Foxton Royston, Herts .: Burlington Press, 1979 . [Not seen . A survey of 34 playhouses, with 44 illustrations .]

131 Lyall, R . J . `The Linlithgow interlude of 1540'. In Actes du 2e Colloque de Langue et de Litterature ecossaises (Moyen Age et Renaissance) . Univ. de Strasbourg 5-11 juillet 1978. Eds. Jean-Jacques Blanchot and Claude Graf . Strasbourg : Univ. de Strasbourg, 1978, pp. 409-21 . [Not seen. What is taken to be the first version of Sir David Lindsay's Satire of the Three Estates. Cited from 1979 MLA International Bibliography, no. 4003 .]

132 Lyons, David B . Lute, Vihuela, Guitar to 1800 : A Bibliography . Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 40 . Detroit : Information Coordinators, 1978 . [Covers these instruments as well as the cittern and the theorbo, surveys known composers and performers, and has a special section on `Lute History/England' (pp . 112-15).]

133 McFarlane, I .D. Buchanan. London : Duckworth, 1981 . [An intellectual biography of George Buchanan, Scottish humanist and Latin playwright, with four plays and

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t. a dialogue written at Bordeaux (pp. 90-1, 94, 117-21, 190-205, 379-92), and masques for Mary, Queen of Scots, and James Vi (pp . 231, 233-4) .]

134 McGee, C. E. `A Reception for Queen Elizabeth in Greenwich' . REEDN, 1980:2, pp . 1-8 ; [An edition, with commentary, of the unprinted part of Goodwill (60 11 .) for a show with music at the turret at the entrance to Greenwich Park (in the early 1580s): Goodwill, played by one of the Chapel children, wears a (fully described) allegorical costume .]

135 - and John C . Meagher. `Preliminary Checklist of Tudor and Stuart Entertainments : 1588-1603' [i.e. 1558-1603]. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 24 (1981), 51-155 . [154 texts, or records of performances whose texts have not sur- vived, of masques, tilts, manor house shows, royal entries, Lord Mayor's shows, martial sports, banquet shows, fireworks, dialogues, debates, Twelfth Night revels, devices of war, musters, and a civic show, for each of which the compilers list manuscript and printed sources .]

136 MacLean, Sally-Beth . Chester Art : A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early Drama . Early Drama, Art and Music Reference Series, 3 . Kalamazoo, Mich .: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1982 . [See pp . 68-70, a section on 'Entertainments', with wood carvings or roof bosses of green man masks (four, c . 1380-1538), a tumbler (c . 1380), wild men (seven, c . 1380 ; fig. 38), and wrestlers (c . 1380 ; fig. 39) ; and Appendix ii, `Musical Instruments in Surviving Chester Art', pp . 86-9, for wood carvings or stone carvings of citoles, harps, lutes, serpent, shawms, transverse flute, drum, organs, and singers (figs. 1-2, pls . i-ii, and `Index', s .v. `instruments, musical') .]

137 McPherson, David . `Roman Comedy in Renaissance Education : The Moral Question'. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 12 (1981), 19-30 . [Attitudes to Plautus and Terence in educators such as Roger Ascham, Alexander Nowell, Richard Bernard, John Brinsley, John Rainolds, Thomas Elyot, Laurence Humphrey, and Juan Luis V Ives.]

138 Mactaggart, Peter and Ann . `The Rich Wearing Apparel of Richard, 3rd Earl of Dorset' . Costume, 14 (1980), 41-55 . [An inventory of 1617-19 of the clothing of Richard Sackville includes a pair of his yellow, silver-embroidered masquing stockings, two banners and two pairs of cordalls for the trumpets, and the trum- peter's coat (items 69, 81-2, 93, 95 ; pp . 51, 53 ; fig. 3).]

139 Manning, Roger B . `The Origins of the Doctrine of Sedition' . Albion, 12 (1980), 99-12 1 . [A serious libel could be committed by `impersonating an important per- sonage in a play' or by means of rhymes or songs (p . 118, cited from William Hudson's treatise on the Court of Star Chamber .]

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1 %_ V. 140 Marcus, Leah Sinanoglou . `The Occasion of Ben Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue'. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 19 (1979), 271-93 . [James' progress through Scotland and Lancashire in 1618, where he met with puritan resentment at lawful pastimes and at excesses such as the morris dancing John Barwick describes as taking place outside a Lancashire church during the king's visit there (pp . 276-7) .]

141 Marder, Louis . `132 Year Mystery Solved : Ashbourne Portrait Now Proved to be Lord Mayor' . The Shakespeare Newsletter, 160 (Nov. 1979), 33-4 . [A portrait of Hugh Hammersley, Lord Mayor of London in 1627, overpainted to look like Shakespeare .]

142 Marshall, John . `The Chester Pageant Carriage - How Right was Rogers?' Medieval English Theatre, 1, no. 2 (Dec. 1979), 49-55 . [Records of the smiths, the shoe- makers, and the coopers suggest that he `was not seriously wrong' about a four-or- six-wheel waggon with two rooms, one lower and one upper .]

143 - `The Medieval English Stage : A Graffito of a Hell-mouth Scaffold?' Theatre Note- book, 24 (1980), 99-103, pl . 8. [A 15th-century drawing on a clunch pier of the church of St. Peter, Stetchworth, Cambs., previously described as a `cat drawn with- in a square' .]

144 Meredith, Peter . `John Clerke's Hand in the York Register' . Leeds Studies in English, NS 12 (1981 for 1980-1), 245-71 . [The scrivener responsible for the York play-text 1542-67 : his annotations and additions, none of which suggests censorship or official revision for ecclesiastical authorities, may in part arise from what he heard during performances .]

145 -'The Ordo Paginarum and the Development of the York Tilemakers' Pageant' . Leeds Studies in English, NS 11 (1980), 59-73 . [The Ordo (1415) has an entry for the pageant of Christ's condemnation, the combined responsibility of several crafts including the tilemakers, that is made over an erased entry and must be dated c . 1422-36, after the second list (1417-22), as a calendar history of that pageant from 1415 to 1563 (relying on and in some details emending REED York shows .]

146 - and John Marshall . `The Wheeled Dragon in the Luttrell Psalter' . Medieval English Theatre, 2, no. 2 (Dec . 1980), 70-3 . [An East Anglian manuscript illustration c . 1340, suggested to represent a pageant dragon such as the one in Brueghel's picture of a St. George play .]

147 Meserole, Harrison T., and John B . Smith . `Shakespeare : Annotated World Bibliog- raphy for 1979' . Shakespeare Quarterly, 31 (1980), 468-659 . [See `Biography and Milieu', pp. 488-90 (items 95-126), `Shakespeare and his Stage', pp . 497-9 (items 260-96), and `Productions, Stage History', pp . 499-510 (items 297-538) .]

23 148 - `Shakespeare : Annotated World Bibliography for 1980' . Shakespeare Quarterly, 32 (1981), 420-684 . [See `Biography and Milieu', pp . 444-6 (items 168-205), `Shakespeare and his Stage', pp . 454-6 (items 374-415), and `Productions, Stage History', pp. 457-72 (items 416-735) .]

149 Moisl, Hermann . 'A Sixth-century Reference to the British bardd' . Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 29 (1981), 269-73 . [Venantius Fortunatus, in a poem com- posed at Metz in 566, refers generally to the British 'crotta', a stringed musical in- strument (the Welsh 'crwth'), as singing, and associates it with the poetry of a 'barbarus', a Frankish court poet .]

150 Montagu, Jeremy . `A Carved Wooden Figure at Haddon Hall' . The Galpin Society Journal, 33 (1980), 128-9 . [Two carved wooden figures, over two feet tall, English work of the first half of the 15th century : one plays a rebec-like instrument ; the other a shawm, with staple .]

151 Moran, Joann H. Education and Learning in the City of York 1300-1560 . Borthwick Papers no. 55 . [St. Anthony's Press] 1979 . [Some dramatic records in REED York (pp. 30, 32-4), York Minster account rolls of `performers' hired to help celebrate the feasts of St . William and Pentecost, c . 1371-1430 (p . 33), and early expenses for the organist and organ repairs at St . Michael's church (p . 46 n. 80) .]

152 Myers, A.R. `The Book of the Disguisings for the Coming of the Ambassadors of Flanders, December 1508' . Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 54 (1981), 120-9. [An edition of a previously unprinted financial account mentioning a tree, a castle, and a mount, painted (transported and stored) pageants, costumes (some with crowns), and other stuff for disguisings organized by Henry Wentworth for the marriage by proxy of Princess Mary and Charles, Prince of Castile .]

153 Nathaniel Giles : Anthems. Ed. J . Bunker Clark. Early English Church Music 23 . London : Stainer and Bell, 1979 . [With a biographical summary (pp . ix-xi) .]

154 Nelson, Alan H . `Life Records of Henry Medwall, M. A., Notary Public and Play- wright; and John Medwall, Legal Administrator and Summoner' . Leeds Studies in English, NS 11 (1980), 111-55 . [Brief documentary biographies, prefixed to transcriptions or summaries of the relevant parts of forty documents (with biblio- graphical notes, translations, and commentary) : many unpublished before, notably dozens of references to Henry Medwall in King's College Cambridge muniments 1480-95 (items 7.a-c, 8 .a). Many published records have also not been noticed previously .]

155 Nelson, Malcolm A . ' "See An Account By Sir G . Esterling, 1598" '. Shakespeare Quarterly, 31 (1980), 95-6 . [The source of Richard Clark's note (1824) that Shakespeare's daughter, accompanying herself on the virginals, sang for him his own setting of Marlowe's `Come live with me'.]

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a, 156 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Ed. Stanley Sadie . New edn. 20 vols. London: Macmillan, 1980 . [Replacing the fifth edition (1954) as the standard reference work, and covering, with updated bibliography, all important figures and subjects in British music up to 1642.1

157 Newton, Stella Mary . Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365. Woodbridge, Suff . : Boydell Press ; Totowa, N. J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1980 . [See especially Chapters VI, `Tournaments and Orders of Chivalry', pp . 41-52, and IX, `Actors, Minstrels and Fools', pp . 76-85 . Visers, tunics, and other things were supplied for `the king's play' at Windsor in 1361 (pp . 77, 122 n . 18) . Court minstrels appearing in the Christmas and Pentecost 1360 wardrobe accounts are named often after their instruments (Lambkyn Taborer, Petro Clarion, Nicholas Fidler, John Sitoler, and Arnold Pyper), and the 1363-4 accounts mention about 20 minstrels as receiving Christmas liveries (pp . 67-8, 77) .]

158 Non-Cycle Plays and the Winchester Dialogues : Facsimiles of Plays and Fragments in Various Manuscripts and the Dialogues in Winchester College MS 33 . Intro . and transcr. Norman Davis . Leeds Texts and Monographs, Medieval Drama Facsimiles V . The University of Leeds : School of English, 1979 . [Facsimiles of all texts in Davis' EETS edn ., SS 1 (1970), except for the Shrewsbury fragments (reserved for a later volume) ; with additional facsimiles of the Interludium de Clerico et Puella, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the Winchester interludes . Davis argues that a performance of the Robin Hood fragment cannot have been sponsored (as W.W. Greg suggests) by Sir John Paston, or acted in by his horse-keeper Woode (pp . 75-6).]

159 Opland, Jeff, Anglo-Saxon Oral Poetry : A Study of the Traditions . New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1980 . [Surveys literary, historical, and ecclesiastical sources for evidence of travelling entertainers, minstrelsy, and playing from the 7th to the 12th centuries in England (pp . 102-88) ; and describes, in Chapter 9, `The Words For Poets and Poetry', pp . 230-56, the rich information that can be derived from glosses for Anglo-Saxon and Latin words such as 'scop', 'comicus', 'tragicus', `mimus', and 'gleoman', some of which suggest theatrical entertainments or illustrate the use of music to accompany poems (although Opland argues that the 'scop' and the harper are quite different entertainers) .]

160 Orme, Nicholas. `An Early-Tudor Oxford Schoolbook' . Renaissance Quarterly, 34 (1981), 11-39 . [Written c . 1512-14 or 1522-7 at Magdalen College School, Oxford, the second entry says that `it is tyme to leue owre plays, sportes and mery conseittes' that have taken place in the Christmas holidays (entry 2, p . 22 ; cf. entry 51, p. 30) ; and other entries allude to Hock Monday women capturing men, and to dancing (pp . 26, 32).]

161 -'Two Tudor Schoolmaster-Musicians'. Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries, 31, pt .

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V '- . 311 (March 1980), 19-26 . [Richard Bramston, master of the choristers at Wells (1507-9, c . 1512-31) and organist (1507-9) ; and Pancras Grout, organist of All Hallows, Sherborne (1524-7) .]

162 Orrell, John. 'Antimo Galli's Description of The Masque of Beauty'. Huntington Library Quarterly, 43 (1979), 13-23 . [A long poem of 124 stanzas, printed in London in 1609 in a book dedicated to Elizabeth Talbot-Grey, and previously un- known to Jonson scholars, lists spectators at this masque, describes its effects in performance, and suggests that Jonson's symbolism was at times liable to audience misinterpretation .]

163 -'Buckingham's Patronage of the Dramatic Arts : the Crowe Accounts' . REEDN, 1980 :2, pp . 8-17 . [Text and commentary for records (1621-7) of expenses incurred by the household of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, for plays, masques, musicians, dancers, dancing masters, and fools at Burley-on-the-Hill, York House (London), New Hall, Royston, Newmarket, Oxford, Whitehall, and places in France, and also of interest for the light they shed on figures like Balthazar Gerbier (Buckingham's Inigo Jones) and B . de Montagut (deviser of Buckingham's masque dances).]

164 - `Peter Street at the Fortune and the Globe' . Shakespeare Survey, 33 (1980), 139- 51 . [Using line, statute rod, and carpenter's square, surveyor Street is shown to have built the square Fortune Theatre frame and courtyard by the medieval ad quadratum method, and its stage by the ad triangulum method. From contemporary illustrations of the polygonal Globe, Street appears to have reconstructed it from the Theatre by using the non-Vitruvian ad quadratum method as well, with differ- ent dimensions from the Fortune : frame width 100 feet, yard width 69 feet, stage width 49 feet 6 inches, and gallery depth 15 feet 6 inches . See also Orrell's `On the Construction of Elizabethan Theatres', The Shakespeare Newsletter, 29 (1979), 20 . (Abstract of a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting, April 1979 .)]

165 Osborn, Marijane . `Reote and Ridend as Musical Terms in Beowulf : Another Kind of Harp?' Neophilologus, 62 (1978), 442-6 . [Beowulf 2457 refers to a musical instrument, the 'rota', a stringed instrument with soundbox that might be termed a 'harp-zither', and to its strumming sound .]

166 Page, Christopher . `The 15th-century Lute : New and Neglected Sources'. Early Music, 9 (1981), 11-21 ; [English instructions for tuning a lute, c . 1493-1509 ; George Cely's accounts for lessons at Calais 1474-5 ; and musical instruments listed in 14 English wills, from Bristol, York, London, Oxford, and Somerset, 1404-94, including harps, organs, lutes, hornpipe, cithera, and clavichord.]

167 Palliser, D .M. `A Crisis in English Towns? The Case of York, 1460-1640' . Northern History, 14 (1978), 108-25 . [Notes the history of civic plays, and of entertainments

26 for the gentry like races and cockfighting, as it relates to the city's deep recession up to 1558, and to its recovery beginning in the 1560s (pp . 117, 120) .]

168 - Tudor York . Oxford Historical Monographs . Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1979. [Comments on civic cockfighting from 1568 (p . 20) ; and on dramatic and minstrel evidence (pp . 63, 75, 80, 87, 105, 155, 172, 232, 239, 242, 246-7, 269, 280 (for which see REED York) .]

169 Palmer, Susann, and Samuel Palmer . The Hurdy-Gurdy . Foreword by Francis Baines. Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret : David and Charles, 1980 . [A survey of literary allusions to and material depictions of, in manuscript illustrations, paintings, stained glass, and carvings, the symphony, from the 12th century .]

170 Park, Katharine, and Lorraine J . Daston . `Unnatural Conceptions : the Study of Monsters in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century France and England' . Past and Present, 92 (August 1981), 20-54 . [Such as the tour of Lazarus Coloredo and his parasitic twin John Baptista from London to Norwich and Aberdeen in 1638-42 (pp. 20-2) .]

171 Parsons, Robert D . `Thomas Kyd's Letters' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 140-1 . [An unsigned letter previously held to be in Kyd's hand is not .]

172 Pattenden, Philip . `Robert Hegge, an Oxford Antiquary' . Oxoniensia, 45 (1980), 284-99 . [The Greek phrase used by Hegge in his note of ownership of the N-town manuscript probably means `not possession but a loan' (p . 297 and n . 61).]

173 Peck, Linda Levy . `The Earl of Northampton, Merchant Grievances and the Addled Parliament of 1614' . The Historical journal, 24 (1981), 533-52 . [In his maiden speech in 1604 Northampton compared the Lower House of Parliament, the Commons, to 'a theatre' (pp . 551-2) .]

174 Pendry, E.D . `2. Shakespeare's Life, Times and Stage' . Shakespeare Survey, 32 (1979), 227-37 . [Part of `The Year's Contributions to Shakespearian Study', pp . 211-47, this reviews some current work on theatre history and Shakespeare's biog- raphy.]

175 Phelps, Wayne H. `The Date of Ben Jonson's Death' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 146-9 . [Not 6 August 1637, as commonly held today, but about ten days later, according to contemporary accounts.]

176 -'The Early Life of Robert Daborne' . Philological Quarterly, 59 (1980-1), 1-10 . [Biographical information 1598-1612, principally from wills and three Chancery suits that pitted the playwright against his mother and his wife's family and that help explain his later need for loans and advances from Philip Henslowe and add to

27 our knowledge of Jacobean theatrical entrepreneurs Philip Rosseter and Philip Kingman .]

177 -'The Second Night of Davenant's "Salmacida Spolia" '. Notes and Queries, 224 (1979), 512-14 . [Four of William Hawkins' letters to Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester, allude to the masque's rehearsals and to its sparsely-attended repeat performance on Shrove Tuesday, 18 February 1640 .]

178 - `Sir Henry Helmes, Prince of Purpoole' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 135-7 . [A biography of the leader of Gray's Inn Christmas revels 1594-5 .]

179 -'Two Notes on Thomas May' . Notes and Queries, 224 (1979), 412-15 . [Infor- mation about the playwright's birthdate, letters of administration issued after his death, intestate, in 1650, and his brother George .]

180 Phythian-Adams, Charles . Desolation of a City : Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages . Past and Present Publications . Cambridge : Cambridge Univer- sity Press, 1979 . [Includes discussion of many dramatic and minstrel records (for which now see REED Coventry) ; see also summer dancing on Whitley Common (p . 79), and table 38, statistics mentioning musicians .]

181 - `Urban Decay in Late Medieval England' . In Towns in Societies : Essays in Eco- nomic History and Historical Sociology . Eds. Philip Adams and E .A. Wrigley . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp . 159-85 . [About 1520-70, a se- rious demographic collapse and reduced ability by towns to pay for plays, entertain- ments, and ceremonies (as at Bristol, Leicester, Salisbury, Norwich, and Coventry) occurred that were factors that made the country house, not the town, the `basic unit of the English Renaissance' .]

182 The Plays of Henry Medwall . Ed. Alan H . Nelson. Cambridge and Woodbridge, Suff . : D .S. Brewer ; and Totowa, N .J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. [See `Henry Medwall : A Summary Biography', pp . 3-14, and `Appendix : Medwall Life Records', pp. 163-9 (an abbreviated listing of the 40 entries in Nelson's article in Leeds SE, for which see above), for a wholly revised account of the playwright's life . Figs. 1-3 (pp. 10, 12) reproduce examples of Medwall's notarial handwriting .]

183 The Plays of Henry Medwall : A Critical Edition . Ed. M. E . Moeslein . New York and London : Garland, 1981 . [See `Life of Medwall', pp . 11-29, and an appendix of `Life Records' (19 items, 1474-1501), drawing attention to Medwall's earlier possible nomination to Eton in 1473 (from now-lost election rolls ; p. 11).]

184 Poole, Eric. `The Ancestors of Mary Arden' . The Shakespeare Newsletter, 171 (Sept .- Nov. 1981), 30. [Research in progress on members of the Arden family and parties to a 1501 property transfer to Shakespeare's maternal grandfather and great-grandfather .]

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41 185 - `John and Mary Shakespeare and the Aston Cantlow Mortgage' . Cahiers Elisabethains, 17 (April 1980), 21-41 . [A legal historian's examination of already- printed documents in lawsuits by Shakespeare's parents in 1588 and 1597 against their nephew John Lambert .]

186 Price, David C . Patrons and Musicians of the English Renaissance . Cambridge Studies in Music. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981 . [A thorough study of secu- lar musical patronage c . 1550-1630, centering on private music-making in the households of the Kytsons of Hengrave, the Petres of Ingatestone, the Bacons and Cornwallises of Suffolk, the Pastons of Norfolk, the Talbots of Welbeck, the Cavendishes of Chatsworth and Hardwick, the Seymours (earls of Hertford) of Wulfhall, the Thynnes of Longleat, the Manners of Belvoir, the Berties of Eresby, and the Willoughbys of Wollaton . Records of musicians and minstrel troupes, with new evidence of dramatic activity, are derived from a survey of over 165 manuscript sets of household and churchwardens' accounts, inventories, royal household papers, diaries, and miscellaneous documents (see the select list of manuscript sources, pp . 226-3 1). Price argues that the professional musicians cast out by the Reformation church found new employment in the private household .]

187 Proceedings in the Parliament of Elizabeth !. Volume t: 1558-1581 . Ed. T.E. Hartley. Leicester: Leicester University Press ; Wilmington, Delaware : Michael Glazier, 1981 . [Sir Nicholas Bacon's opening speech to Parliament 2 April 1571 says that the queen has, in defence of economy, turned 'chardgeable, glitteringe, glorious triumphes into delectable pastimes and shewes' (p . 186). In 1572 Mary, queen of Scots, is accused of displaying the arms of England on the clothes of judges at jousts and on `ripper' clothes at triumphs (pp . 270, 319). Several diaries of Commons debates, 20-30 May 1572, record members disagreeing with the inclusion of minstrels in the bill against vagabonds : Mr. Thomas Norton said 'Mynstrolls by the bill appointed roges though they goe not aboute, "which I would have reformed" ' (p . 367) ; and despite much argument (names of those supporting and opposing the measure are given), the bill remained unchanged (pp. 312-13, 384) . A bill restricting importing of wire except for virginals and 'clevicolls' was rejected in 1576 (p. 483). See also pp . 14, 31, 66, 99 .1

188 Records of Early English Drama . Handbook for Editors . Comps . A.F. Johnston and S .B. MacLean, with contributions from M . Blackstone and C . Louis. Toronto : REED, 1980. [A book of basic information for REED editors, with sections on principles of selection, transcription rules, bibliography, dating, subject indexing, etc.]

189 Records of Plays and Players in Norfolk and Suffolk 1330-1642 . Ed . David Galloway (Great Yarmouth and Wymondham) and John Wasson . The Malone Society Collections, Volume XI . Ed . G.R. Proudfoot. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the MS, 1980/1 . [An edition of records from 41 towns, excluding Norwich, hosting performances by travelling entertainers belonging to 177 patrons and 53

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190 Registrum Cancellarii 1498-1506. Ed. W.T. Mitchell . Oxford Historical Society NS

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r. 27 . Oxford : Clarendon Press for OHS, 1980 (for 1979-80). [Scholar of Broadgates whose personal inventory in 1500 includes a `casement pro doulcemeryes' (pp . 53, 212) ; and a harper whose harp has been detained by two men of St. Michael's at the North Gate who claim he owes them service (pp . 96, 242-3) .]

191 Remnant, Mary, and Richard Marks. `A Medieval "Gittern" ' . In The British Museum Yearbook 4 : Music and Civilization . Ed . T .C. Mitchell . London : British Museum Publications, 1980, pp . 83-134, and pls . 49-99 . [Analysis and history of the design and artistic context of the early 14th-century (probably English) guitar in the British Museum that was inexpertly converted into a violin after it acquired in 1578 a plate bearing the arms of Elizabeth and the earl of Leicester .]

192 Richmond, Colin . John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981 . [Visiting and local games at Walberswick 1493-7, for which the guildhouse (St . John's House) is suggested as the place of performance (p. 177) ; and the church organs 1489-1501 (pp. 170, 178) .]

193 Rigg, A.G. `Antiquaries and Authors : The Supposed Works of Robert Baston, O . Carm.' In Medieval Scribes, Manuscripts & Libraries : Essays Presented to N.R . Ker. Eds. M.B . Parke s and Andrew G . Watson . London : Scolar Press, 1978, pp . 317-31 . [The `Tragoedias vulgares' noted by Bale, if they exist at all, must be poems (pp . 322, 326, 330).1

194 Ripley, John. 'Julius Caesar' on Stage in England and America, 1599-1973 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1980. [Four records of performance, some literary allusions, 1599-1640 .]

195 Robin Hood and the Friar . Ed. Mary A . Blackstone. PLS Performance Text 3 . Toronto : Poculi Ludique Societas, 1981 . [The introduction draws on many records and illustrations of the Robin Hood play from 1473 .1

196 Rowan, D .F. `Inigo Jones and the Teatro Olimpico' . In The Elizabethan Theatre VII . Ed. G.R. Hibbard . Port Credit, Ont . : P.D. Meany for the University of Waterloo, 1980, pp . 65-81 . [Jones' Theatre Project drawing reflects the alternate original designs of Palladio's Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and lacks an English context out- side of Jones' own designs .]

197 Roxburgh, Ronald F . `Lincoln's Inn in the Fifteenth Century' . The Law Quarterly Review, 96 (1980), 51-72 . [Mentions Christmas revels and minstrelsy, dancing and games, and jousts as Inn activities (pp. 53, 56, 60-1, 69-71) .]

198 Salgado Gimini . `2 . Shakespeare's Life, Times, and Stage' . Shakespeare Survey, 3 3 (1980), 194-204 . [Part of `The Year's Contributions in Shakespearian Study', pp . 181-211, mentioning a few works on biography and theatre history .]

31 199 Sanders, Norman, Richard Southern, T .W. Craik, and Lois Potter . The Revels History of Drama in English . Volume II: 1500-1576. London and New York : Methuen, 1980. [Four chapters concern the social and historical context (with a table of plays 1495-1575), the technique of play presentation, the companies and the repertory, and the plays and the playwrights ; 17 pls., including indoor views of the halls of Hampton Court, Penshurst Place, and Lambeth Palace ; and a bibliography.]

200 Sandon, Hugh . `Another Mass by Hugh Aston?' Early Music, 9 (1981), 184-91 . [In- cludes a biography : in 1520-1 and advisor from Coventry on the organ at St . Mary's church, Warwick ; and organ keeper and master of the choisters at St . Mary Newarke, Leicester, 1525-48 .]

201 Schmidt, Paul Gerhard . `The Vision of Thurkill' . The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 41 (1978), 50-64 . [Thurkill's vision of the devil's theatre, per- haps influenced by his sight of a Roman theatre on the Continent .]

202 Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare : The Globe & the World. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library; New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1979 . [A richly illustrated book that grew from a touring exhibition of manuscripts, books, and artifacts of Shakespeareana largely in the Folger Shakespeare Library, includ- ing plates of several documents owned (but not signed) by Shakespeare (pp . 47, 144), buildings associated with him (pp . 23-4, 40, 47), and views of London theatres and stages (pp . 58-9, 89, 93-4) and of a procession through Cheapside in 1639 with railings, banners, and hangings erected by the craft guilds (pp . 128-9) .]

203 - William Shakespeare : Records and Images. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981 . [Not seen. Reproductions of over 160 documents and portraits, with discussion of Shakespeare's hand and of forgeries involving him .]

204 Schrickx, Willem . `English Actors at the Courts of Wolfenbuttel, Brussels and Graz during the Lifetime of Shakespeare'. Shakespeare Survey, 33 (1980), 153-68 . [A study of the development of two companies, the `foreign branch' of the Admiral's Men led by Robert Browne from 1592 to 1607 on the Continent, and the successor troupe led by John Green from 1607, combining known evidence with newly- discovered (published and unpublished) records from Wolfenbuttel, Lille, and Brussels.]

205 Seddon, P.R. `Household Reforms in the Reign of James I'. Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 44-55 . [Increased expenditure on musicians by the royal family, over L2000 in 1608-9 (p . 50 n . 30) .]

206 Selfridge-Field, Eleanor . `Venetian Instrumentalists in England : A Bassano Chronicle (1538-1660)' . Studi Musicali, 8 (1979), 173-221 . [A thorough study of the geneal- ogy, musical and commercial activities, and patronage of some 20 members of this

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W. family of court musicians and instrument makers that draws widely on unpublished wills, registers, court accounts, and miscellaneous documents in London and Venetian archives ; and a family pedigree and bibliography .]

207 Sellin, Paul R . `The Performances of Ben Jonson's Newes from the New World Discover'd in the Moone' . English Studies [Amsterdam], 61 (1980), 491-7 . [Ten, and possibly twelve or more performances in January-February 1620, of this `running ballet' or masque at various royal and noble London houses, such as White- hall and Essex House, and at Sir John Croft's house at Saxham Parva near Bury St . Edmunds.]

208 Shapiro, Michael . `Annotated Bibliography on Original Staging in Elizabethan Plays' . Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 24 (1981), 23-49 . [100 entries, with analytic introductions, for books and articles from 1922 to the present, stressing structural features of the London playhouses 1576-1642, and staging tech- niques in Elizabethan play productions .]

209 Sharpe, J .A. Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York . Borthwick Papers no . 38 . University of York : Borthwick Institute of Historical Research [1981] . [Twelfth Night celebrations at Colchester in 1623, `enlivened by the circulation of a libel showing the devil taking tobacco with vari- ous of the town's clergymen' (p . 5).]

210 Shaw, Catherine M . Richard Brome . Boston: Twayne, 1980 . [Chapter 1, `The Man and his Plays', pp . 17-33, bases a biography on printed work .]

211 Skelton : The Critical Heritage . Ed. Anthony S .G. Edwards. London, Boston, and Henley : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981 . [Early biographical sketches by John Bale and Thomas Fuller (pp. 54-5, 71-3), and many literary allusions .]

212 Smith, G .H. `The Excavation of the Hospital of St . Mary of Ospringe, Commonly Called Maison Dieu'. Archaeologia Cantiana, 95 (1980 for 1979), 81-184 . [Discov- ery of a Jew's harp with an iron reed, evidently post-medieval (p . 142 ; fig. 27, no. 166).]

213 Smith, Irwin. Shakespeare's First Playhouse . Ed. David George. Dublin : Liffey Press, 1981 . [Not seen . Narrative history of James Burbage's Theatre in Shoreditch, from original documents discovered in 1913 by C .W. Wallace, with a plan of the site : an edition of Smith's manuscript'The Burbages and Shakespeare' in the Folger Library .]

214 Smith, Mary Elizabeth . `Nathaniel Giles "From Winsore" : Master of the Children in the Chapel Royal' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 124-3 1 . [A biography of Giles' professional life reexamining the second (1595) indenture appointing him to St .

33 George's Chapel, Windsor, clearly made out to permit him to become Master of the Chapel Royal in London ; Giles' brief association with the Blackfriars 1600-4 ; and his success in managing both chapels until his death in 1634 .]

215 Smolden, William L. The Music of the Medieval Church Dramas . Ed. Cynthia Bourgeault . London : Oxford University Press, 1980 . [An analysis of the vocal line of the music-dramas of the European medieval church : texts rather than records are the main subject here .]

216 Sotheby's. Catalogue of Western Manuscripts andMiniatures . Day of Sale : [London] Tuesday, 19th June, 1979 . [Lot 57, an anthology of Middle English verse and prose (now BL Add . MS . 60577) from Winchester c . 1487, with (1) a poem probably to be recited before William Waynfleet, bishop of Winchester, at Christmas or New Year's night by a 'chylde' of his (pp . 52-3) ; and (2) a fragment of a letter by Elis Heywod from Padua to his father John Heywood in London (p . 59) . I owe this reference to Edward Wilson, whose edition of (1) is forthcoming in a festschrift for Norman Davis.]

217 Staniland, Kay. `Medieval Courtly Splendour' . Costume, 14 (1980), 7-23 . [Jousting garments, Christmas 'ludi', banners for trumpets and clarions, and Richard H's dancing doublet, recorded in four royal wardrobe accounts of 1342, 1344-9, 1351- 2, and 1393-4.1

218 Streitberger, W .R. `The Armada Victory Procession and Tudor Procedure' . Notes and Queries, 225 (1980), 310-12 . [Marshalling decisions for the London state triumph and procession of 24 November 1588 established standards for precedence .]

219 Taylor, A.J. `Count Amadeus of Savoy's Visit to England in 1292' . Archaeologia, 106 (1979), 123-32. [The count's household included his jester (pp . 124, 127).]

220 -'Edward i and the Shrine of St Thomas of Canterbury' . Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 132 (1979), 22-8 . [Edward rewarded Walter Luvel, `cithariste' of Chichester, for performing before St . Richard's tomb in the cathedral at Canterbury, 26 May 1297 (p . 23 n. 9) .]

221 Taylor, John. `Letters and Letter Collections in England, 1300-1420' . Nottingham Mediaeval Studies, 24 (1980), 57-70 . [A survey, touching on the fictional Oxford letter to the King of Christmas, and on correspondence of Prince Edward about purchase of trumpets (pp . 60, 62) .]

222 Tebbs, H .F. Peterborough : A History . Cambridge, Eng ., and New York : Oleander Press, 1979 . [References to lease of players' garments 1467, players in the church 1479, visiting players in 1548, 1620 (breaking the stairs in the Moothall), and 1628 (puppet-player in the Common Hall ; p. 173 ; cf. p. 178) .]

34 223 Temperley, Nicholas. The Music of the English Parish Church . 2 vols . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979 . [Volume 1, pp . 1-76, discusses the Reformation (1534-9) and the establishment of Anglicanism (1559-1644), when popular psalm- singing undermined the professional church musician and organ-playing in church : conclusions based especially on archival work in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Dorset, central London, and York ; with a very full bibliography .]

224 Three Rastell Plays : Four Elements, Calisto and Melebea . Gentleness and Nobility . Ed . Richard Axton . Cambridge and Ipswich : D.S . Brewer ; and Totowa, N .J., Rowman and Littlefield, 1979 . ['John Rastell's career', pp . 4-10, gives an updated life of this printer-playwright .]

225 Travitsky, Betty . `The "Wyll and Testament" of Isabella Whitney' . English Literary Renaissance, 10 (1980), 76-94 . [An edition of a poem published in 1573 in which Whitney leaves to gentlemen of the London inns of court or chancery both dancing schools and, on Sundays, `In divers places Players, that / of wonders shall reporte' (p. 92,11. 297, 301-2) .]

226 Tricomi, Albert H . `John Marston's Manuscripts' . Huntington Library Quarterly, 43 (1980), 87-102 . [Discusses some John Payne Collier forgeries and analyses Marston's hand and surviving autograph papers .]

227 -'Two Letters Concerning George Chapman' . Modern Language Review, 75 (1980), 241-8 . [A petition by his brother Thomas, 18 Nov . 1611, with George's own sworn testimony at the end ; and an undated letter probably from Thomas c . 1603-4 and evidently mentioning the actor Nathan Field and the playwright Thomas Lodge .]

228 Two Tudor Interludes : The Interlude of Youth : Hick Scorner. Ed. Ian Lancashire . The Revels Plays . Manchester: Manchester University Press ; and Baltimore, Maryland, 1980. [Uses published and unpublished records of the playwrights, plays, and dis- guisings in the households of Henry Algernon Percy, 5th earl of Northumberland, and Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, to locate the auspices of these two texts (pp. 27-30, 33-4) . Appendix ii gives 15 allusions to the play-character Hick Scorner in published books 1542-93 .]

229 Twycross, Meg, and Sarah Carpenter. `Masks in Medieval English Theatre : The Mystery Plays'. Medieval English Theatre, 3, no. 1 (July 1981), 7-44 . [Parts 1, `Terminology', and 2, `Purposes and Effects of Masking', illustrate the theatrical and non-theatrical mask from early dictionaries and word-lists, dramatic texts and records (e.g., Tudor revels accounts ; records from York, Chester, and Coventry), and early European art .]

230 - `Masks in Medieval English Theatre : The Mystery Plays 2'. Medieval English Theatre, 3, no. 2 (Dec . 1981), 69-113 . [Part 3, `The Characters Who Wore Masks', a

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V. wide-ranging study of devils, wicked human characters, God, and angels, with some use of unpublished materials .]

231 Victoria History of the Counties of England . A History of the County of Chester. Volume III . Ed. B.E. Harris. Oxford : Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980 . [At Chester, organs in the abbey, the church of the Franciscan friars, that of the Carmelite friars, and the cathedral (pp . 136, 173, 177, 189) ; the teaching of Terence at Sir John Deane's Grammar School at Northwich (p. 245) ; and cf. pp. 29, 139, 176 .1

232 -A History of the County of Sussex. Volume Vi, Part I. Bramber Rape (Southern Part). Ed. T.P. Hudson . Oxford : Oxford University Press for the Institute of His- torical Research, 1980 . [Early 16th-century church ales and a king's play at Steyning (p . 238) ; Christmas singing at Broadwater manor c . 1300 (p . 73) ; and a be- quest for organs in the church there in 1536 (p . 78) .]

233 `Viking Discovery in York' . Ed. Peter Phillips . The Early Music Gazette, a Supple- ment to Early Music, 8, no. 2 (April 1980), 1. [Boxwood `Pan pipes' found in the backyard of a tenement c . 980-1020 in Coppergate, York (with two photographs) .]

234 Waith, Eugene. `Stage or "State"?' The Shakespeare Newsletter, 161 (Dec . 1979), 44. [Suggests that Henslowe has drawn a stage `state' in his letter to Alleyn 28 Sept. 1593 .]

235 Wasson, John. `Records from the Abbey of St Benet of Hulme, Norfolk' . REEDN, 1980 :2, pp. 19-21 . [17 payments to visiting musicians and bearwards, and for the Rogation Sunday dragon-banner, in accounts for 1372-3, 1510-11, and 1516-17 ; also documenting a `ludus' at Horning in 1372-3 .]

236 -'The St. George and Robin Hood Plays in Devon'. Medieval English Theatre, 2, no . 2 (Dec. 1980), 66-9. [Mainly unpublished parish records c . 1426-1588 show a St. George at Plymouth, Dartmouth, Exeter, and Morebath, a Robin Hood at Exeter, Braunton, Woodbury, Ashburton, Honiton, Chudleigh, and Chagford, and a May day play at Plymouth .]

237 Wedderburn, Robert . The Complaynt of Scotland (c . 1550). Ed. A.M. Stewart. Scottish Text Society, 4th ser., 11. Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons for STS, 1979. [In old time the two wardens of the borders of England and Scotland deter- mined that there be no contact between their people, as in 'conuentions on holy dais at gammis and plays' (p . 84).]

238 Wentersdorf, Karl P. `The Origin and Personnel of the Pembroke Company' . Theatre Research International, 5 (1979-80), 45-68 . [Argues that Pembroke's Men was formed in late 1592 from a branch of the Queen's Men led by John and

36 Lawrence Dutton, and that Richard Burbage and Shakespeare were among their players.]

239 - `The Queen's Company in Scotland in 1589' . Theatre Research International, 6 (1980-1), 33-6 . [After an invitation by James VI that the Queen's players come north (20 Sept.), they were entertained at Edinburgh by the fifth earl of Bothwell before 22 Oct ., when the king set sail for Denmark .]

240 Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds . Ed . J .G . Hurst . Volume is Domestic Settlement, 1 : Areas 10 and 6 . Eds. D.D . Andrews and G . Milne. The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series, 8 . London : SMA, 1979 . [Two iron Jews' harps (I .H. Goodall, `Iron Objects', p . 120, fig . 63, and p . 121 ; c. 1380- 1450, and c . 1450-1520), and a fragment of a pipe of a flute made from a sheep's tibia (D .D. Andrews, `Miscellaneous Small Finds', pp . 128-9, fig . 70 ; post-15th- century).]

241 White, Eileen . ` "Bryngyng Forth of Saynt George" : The St. George Celebrations in York'. Medieval English Theatre, 3, no. 2 (Dec . 1981), 144-21 . [Records and dis- cussion of the riding of St . George, with the dragon and St . Christopher, and of the man who played St . George in 1554 (John Stamper), largely from REED York ; and a newly-found will of 1503 that refers to this riding as being by the Guild of St . Christopher and St. George.]

242 Wickham, Glynne . Early English Stages 1300 to 1660. Volume III : Plays and their Makers to 1576. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul ; New York : Columbia Uni- versity Press, 1981 . [Three sections, on drama and occasion, emblems of occasion, and play-makers and play texts (comedy and tragedy) ; with appendixes, one of which gives the Latin text and translation of Bishop Grandisson's injunction against a play against the Exeter leatherworkers in 1352 ; and 12 pls ., including carvings of musicians at Beverley Minster, and portraits of Will Sommers and John Bale (VI, x-xi) .]

243 Wienpahl, Robert W. Music at the inns of Court During the Reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles . Ann Arbor, Mich . : University Microfilms International for the Department of Music, California State University, Northridge, 1979 . [A study of music, dancing, and masques based on literary allusions, contemporary accounts, and documentary records of inns from 1407 ; among unpublished materials are the London Corporation repertories, Edward Heath's personal accounts at the inner Temple 1629-3 1 (listing ten play-books ; p. 179), and Justinian Pagitt's diary 1633- 4 .]

244 Wiles, David . The Early Plays of Robin Hood . Cambridge : D.S . Brewer, 1981 . [Chapters 1, `Introduction' ; 2-3, `Robin Hood as Summer Lord' ; 4, `The Combat Play' ; 5, `Game and Ballad : the Courtly and the Popular Traditions' ; and 6, `The

37 Symbolic Language of Carnival' . Appendixes 1, `Gazetteer of references to Robin Hood Plays before 1600' ; 2, `Map' ; 3, `Extracts from the Church-wardens' Account Book of Kingston-upon-Thames for the years 1506 and 1509' ; 4, `Original Play- texts'; 5, 'May-games in Elizabethan Drama (Extracts)' ; and 6, `The Kempford Mumming Play' ; and a bibliography .]

245 Wilkins, Nigel . Music in the Age of Chaucer. Chaucer Studies, 1 . Cambridge : D. S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J .: Rowman and Littlefield, 1979 . ['The Chapel Royal', pp . 86-8, gives the names of Edward III's singers c. 1342-74, as well as those in the separate Queen's chapel . See also Chapters 3, `Britain', pp . 74-110 ; 4, 'Chaucer', pp. 111-24 ; 5, `Minstrels', pp . 125-44 (for those of Tutbury and Beverley, and at court, see pp . 140-2) ; and 6, `Instruments', pp . 145-57 .]

246 Willan, T .S. Elizabethan Manchester . Chetham Society, 3rd ser., 27 . Manchester : Printed for the Chetham Society, 1980 . [In 1598-9 waits were paid at the two court leets and on the fair day (pp . 9-10), and there was a cockpit (pp . 143, 153) .]

247 Williams, John H. St Peter's Street Northampton: Excavations 1973-1976 . Archae- ological Monograph no . 2. [Northampton] : Northampton Development Corporation, 1979. [Two possible fragments, decorated tubes (goose ulva), of musical instruments, one like a mouthpiece (G .E. Oakley and M. Harman, `The Worked Bone', p . 318, fig. 141 [WB 103-4] ; the first, early 10th cent .).]

248 Williams, Penry . `From the Reformation to the Era of Reform 1530-1850' . In New College Oxford 1379-1979. Eds. John Buxton and Penry Williams . Oxford : the Warden and Fellows of New College, 1979, pp . 44-71 . [Organs were repaired in Mary's reign (pp . 48-9) .]

249 Wilson, David M . `The Art and Archaeology of Bedan Northumbria .' Bede and Anglo-Saxon England: Papers in Honour of the 1300th Anniversary of the Birth of Bede, Given at Cornell University in 1973 and 1974 . Ed. Robert T. Farrell. British Archaeological Reports 46 . Oxford : BAR, 1978, pp . 1-22 . [Discussion of the `Timber "Amphitheatre" ' at Yeavering (p . 18) .]

250 Wilson, .EntertainmentsJean forElizabethi. Studies in Elizabethan and Renaissance Culture Ii . Woodbridge, Eng . : D. S . Brewer ; Totowa, N . J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1980. [Reprinted texts of `The Four Foster Children of Desire' (Whitehall, 1581), and the entertainments by Lord Montague at Cowdray, Sussex (1591), by Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, at Elvetham, Hants . (1591), and by Sir Henry Lee at Ditchley, Oxon . (1592) . The introduction discusses Elizabethan pageantry, tilts, progresses, and entertainments, and gives two small texts of ones by Lady Russell at Bisham, Berks . (1592), and by Lord Norris at Rycote, Oxon . (1592) .]

251 Wilson, Michael I . Organ Cases of Western Europe . London : C. Hurst, 1979 . [Early

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r V. examples at St. Stephen's, Old Radnor, Wales (c . 1530), Tewkesbury Abbey (c . 1600), King's College Chapel, Cambridge (1605-6), for which see pp . 75-6, and p1s . 249-51 .1

252 Wiltshire, Jacqueline. `Medieval Fiddles at Hardham' . The Galpin Society Journal, 34 (1981), 142-6 . [Wall-paintings c . 1125 in this Sussex village church show figures of the elders with viol in the right hand and fiddle in the left .]

253 Wolffe, Bertram . Henry VI . London : Eyre Methuen, 1981 . [Excerpts from two accounts kept by the king's chamber treasurer show that at Eltham in Christmas 1426 Henry was entertained by Jack Travaill's London players and by four boys of the duke of Exeter performing interludes, and that in the same celebration next year there he again saw Jack Travaill, this time with Abingdon players (p . 37). See also pp. 7 (Blackman's anecdote about the king's reaction to a disguising may not be authentic), 37 (his portable organs), 45 (visiting players at Hertford for Christ- mas 1428), 60-4, 306 (royal entries in Paris, London, and Coventry), and 145 (organs at Eton) .]

254 Wormald, Patrick . 'Bede, "Beowulf" and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxon Aris- tocracy' . In Bede and Anglo-Saxon England : Papers in Honour of the 1300th Anniversary of the Birth of Bede, Given at Cornell University in 1973 and 1974 . Ed . Robert T. Farrell. British Archaeological Reports 46 . Oxford : BAR, 1978, pp . 32-95. [Discussion of early references to games and musicians (pp . 43, 50-1) .]

255 Wrightson, Keith, and David Levine.Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700. New York, San Francisco, London : Academic Press, 1979 . [Local authorities are shown trying to repress piping, fiddling, and dancing on the green and in alehouses from 1588 to 1620 ; with the names of some of those citizens charged (pp. 23, 121, 136-7, 157) .]

256 Wunderli, Richard M . London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Refor- mation. Speculum Anniversary Monographs 7 . Cambridge: Medieval Academy of America, 1981 .[The mayor's court in 1529 sentences five pimps to be led through the city by minstrels to the pillory (pp . 94-5) .]

257 Wyatt, Diana. `The Pageant Waggon : Beverley'. Medieval English Theatre, 1, no. 2 (Dec. 1979), 55-60. [The hairers' manhandled 'karre' for the play of Paradise, the waggons in the Peter Noster play, and the guilds' ceremonial `castles', as described in original records.]

258 York City Chamberlains' Account Rolls 1396-1500 . Ed. R.B. Dobson . Surtees Society 192 . Gateshead : Northumberland Press, 1980 for 1978-9 . [Includes drama- tic and minstrel records appearing in REED York, edited according to different con- ventions (and with some variant readings) ; and pensions to minstrels Robert Closse

39 in 1453-4 and 1454-5 (pp . 74, 93) ; the seizure of the goods of John Skelton, min- strel, who murdered his wife in 1462-3 (p . 106) ; and granting of waits' livery in 1486-7 (p. 188) . See also pp . xvii, xxx-xxxi, xxxiv, xxxvii .]

259 `York High Commission Causes and Act Books' . Borthwick Institute Bulletin, 2, no. 2 (1980), 75-98 . [Games-playing in Cawthorne church in 1596-7 ; and dam- age to the organ of Pocklington church in 1635 (pp . 87, 96) .]

JOHN C. COLDEWEY

Some Nottinghamshire waits : their history and habits'

It has long been the rule, rather than the exception to the rule, for historians of the drama to neglect or ignore the part that musical activities played in the unfolding of the early English dramatic tradition . For whatever reasons this has occurred - lack of information or lack of interest - it is fast becoming clear that the habit cannot continue . Recent studies of the liturgical drama have stressed the crucial interde- pendence of music and text;2 likewise, recent work on later civic and local drama has begun to explore the variety and kinds of musical entertainment that can be found both within medieval and renaissance play texts, and that which existed side- by-side with dramatic productions .3 In this paper I want to highlight the musical activities in a single county, Nottinghamshire, using some of the records of the drama which I have just finished collecting there for the REED project.4 I will focus in particular on the waits, or liveried town musicians, who flourished or who visited the county from the late middle ages until 1642 . In doing so I hope to shed some light on the customs, duties, and traumas of these colourful figures who piped and fiddled in the shadows of our drama . I want also to suggest that their activities and those of musicians generally were, in Nottinghamshire at least, so extensive and frequent that they are of more importance in assessing the dramatic tradition of that county than the drama itself ; furthermore, that if music was the main form of performing arts in Nottinghamshire, the `players' there were not as often players of plays as we should like to believe . Literally hundreds of references to waits survive in the civic documents of Not- tingham and Newark, two of the most populous towns in the county during the medieval and renaissance periods . In both places the earliest and latest entries re- garding entertainment of any kind in fact refer to waits. Indeed, entries chronicling their fortunes continue well past 1642 . In Nottingham, waits appear in the earliest surviving Chamberlains' accounts in 1461, although it is clear from other sources that they existed during the first half

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