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Recotsrofearf~Qenglish Drama volume 13, number 2 (1988) ?A,e - ~, 121 A Newsletter published by University of Toronto Press in association with Erindale College, University of Toronto r P . JoAnna Dutka, editor RecotsrofEarf~qEnglish Drama 1988's second issue includes papers on material from the medieval to the Elizabethan and Stuart periods: Jerzy Limon (University of Gdansk, Poland) transcribes a list of participants in the 1634 Triumph of Peace by James Shirley; Mark C. Pilkinton (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) analyzes records of payments to students and masters of the free school of St Bartholomew in Bristol ; Alexandra F . Johnston (Victoria College, University of Toronto) discusses Chaucer's poetry as a `record' of early English drama. The issue concludes with an index to REEDN for the years 1984-1988 prepared by Ruby Wallrich, formerly of the REED office . ALEXANDRA F . JOHNSTON, DIRECTOR Records of Early English Drama Society (UK) We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Records of Early English Drama Society. Peter Meredith of Leeds, who has been the UK representative on the REED Executive Board since 1976, has agreed to become the Honorary Secretary of the Society . Membership in the Society will include the regular issues of the REED Newsletter and enable British colleagues to purchase REED volumes at the 20% discount enjoyed by North American scholars at conferences. Members will be informed of REED events (such as the upcoming launch of the Cambridge volumes on March 29) taking place in the UK. Other advantages to membership in the future will, we hope, include the possibility of accessing the REED Toronto data base through computer links with Britain. The membership fees will be used in the UK to support REED research and editorial checks being conducted by British scholars . This will go some way to ease the burden on the Canadian budget. 1 JERZY LIMON Neglected evidence for James Shirley's The Triumph of Peace (1634) The manuscript entitled The Manner of the Progression of the Masque (now at the Folger Shakespeare Library : Z. e.1(25)) has been known to scholars through its version published in the Historical Manuscripts Commission 5th Report (1876, Part I, 355). This version, however, is actually an inaccurate summary, and to my knowledge the full text of the original has not so far been published.' Surprisingly enough, scholars seem to have treated this nineteenth-century summary as the original description . The list would include such eminent scholars as G.E. Bentley .' Even as recently as in 1983, Tucker Orbisonin his `The Middle Temple Documents Relating to James Shirley's The Triumph of Peace' (Malone Society, Collections, xii) refers to this ms as 'an anonymous description in the manuscripts of Richard Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, Shropshire' (p 35), and uses the HMC report mentioned above as his reference . But the extant manuscript is not a description ; rather it is a list of names of people and characters who took part in the masque progress . The `description' as such never existed and came into being in 1876, when someone summarized the ms for the HMC . This ms used to belong to Richard Cholmondeley ; later, it was in the possession of Lord Crewe of Cheshire, when it was bound (in 1889), together with other documents, in a large volume . This was acquired by the Folger Library in the late 1930s . The Folger ms is of considerable importance to theatre historians for it adds a number of details (like the names of the participants in the `progression') to the body of materials concerning James Shirley's The Triumph ofPeace (1634) . Also, the original transcribed below corrects a number of wrong readings that mar the HMC version (like the absurd reading of 'Byad' for 'Byrd', or `masques' for 'masquers') .3 Tl+e Folger ms consists of four leaves, with the major text on the first 6 1/2 folios, and -with an endorsement on f 8, totally omitted in the HMC version. To make the comparison of the two texts easier, the one known to scholars in its abbreviated version is reproduced first . Temp, James I. The manner of the progression of the Masque . (6 1/2 pp);- Thomas Basset, the Lancashire Bagpipe, and John Seywell, the Shalme, riding abreast together, and two men to lead their horses and two torch bearers. Fancy, riding single, Opinion and Confidence, riding together, and a pair of torch bearers to each . The Jews harp, the Tongs, and the Byad, with three men to lead their horses, and two torch bearers . Projectors, viz. the jocky, the countryman, the lamp-man, the case, the Carrot man, the seaman, John Morton the Byad, each with two torch bearers. The Magpie, the Crow, the Jay, and the Kite riding in a quadrangle with the Oql in the middle ; these have five men to lead their horses and four torch bearers. The Myne Mill [=the Wyndmill], a Fantastique and the Dancer [ = the Drummer?] have each two torch bearers, and the dancer has a horse leader. Seven pair of trumpeters, each pair having two torch bearers. One hundred gentlemen riding two and two together, each gentleman having two of his own men torch bearers and a groom. The marshall and his 40 men. The first chariot for Musicke, Sir Henry Fane's coachmen is charioteer ; it carries eight persons and has three flambeaux bearers on the right and three on the left . The second chariot for Musicke, the Earl of Northumberland's coachman is charioteer ; of theis chariot are the Genies [= the Genius], Amphilucke [= Amphiluche], Irene (Mr . John Lanier), Eunomia, Diche, and five Constellacions (the fourth is Mr. Henry Lawes); it has three 2 flambeaux bearers on the right and three on the left ; two pair of gentlemen riding together and two torch bearers for each pair ; a chariot of orange and silver with four masks [ = masquers] in it, with two horse leaders, and four torch bearers on the right and four on the left ; two pair of gentlemen riding together, with two torch bearers for each pair ; a chariot of blue and silver with four masks [ = masquers] in it, with two horse leaders and four torch bearers on the right and four on the left ; two pair of gentlemen riding together, and two torchbearers for each pair ; a chariot of crimson and silver with four masks [=masquers] in it, two horse leaders, and four flambeaux bearers on the right and four on the left ; two pair of gentlemen riding together, with two torch bearers for each pair; a chariot of white and silver with four masks [=masquers] in it, two horse leaders and four flambeaux bearers on the right and four on the left . The two Marshals of London and a guard of 200 halberdiers .4 In its chronology and order, the Folger ms generally follows the description of the masque's progress provided by James Shirley himself .' There are, however, minor differences . Shirley's `Hornpipe', for instance, is called the `Lancashire Magpipe' in the Ms . One of Shirley's characters, Phansie, is missing. The 'grimme Philosophical fac'd fellow' who carried a lamp in his hand is simply called the `lampeman' in the ms . Similarly, Shirley's Physition who wore a hat with a bunch of carrots is labelled `The Carrott man'. Sometimes the order of people taking part in the progression is reversed . In Shirley's printed description the Marshal is followed by one hundred gentlemen, riding ,two and two a breast', whereas in the ms the Marshal and his forty men follow `One hundred [gentlemen] rydeinge 2 & 2 together'. Since Shirley's description was written after the actual performance of The Triumph of Peace, the implication is that the Folger ms is of earlier date for it does not include the apparent last-minute changes in the order of the progression. Most of the names appearing in the Folger ms are of musicians, lawyers and servants (students, perhaps) . Although Shirley does not give any names in his description, he indicates the participant's functions, as for instance when he tells us that between every chariot with masquers there were four musicians riding together, attended with torch bearers. Actually, most of the identifiable names in the Folger ms are those of musicians . This should not surprise us, for we know that at least one hundred of them were employed for the masque . Thus, the Folger ms is a useful piece of evidence, complementary to Shirley's own description and to other extant sources . The Manner of the progression of the Masque Thomas Bassett ye Lancashire Magpipe And Iohn Seywell the Shalme rydeinge a breast togeather Henry Ioye & leade theire horses Richard Lunt Mathew Morrell & theire Torchbearers the one at the one side and the other at ye other Thomas Gillett Fancy rideinge single Richard Wetherhed his Torchbearers and Roger Powell 3 Opinion and Confidence rideinge togeather William Price & theire Torchbearers Robert Zones Iolity and Laughter rydeinge togeather William Cooper & theire Torchbearers Thomas Langer Thomas Rudstone the Jews Harpe John Fidler w`h the tonges all three a breast together Robert Davis the Byrd f Robert Sayers John Wilkinsone leadinge theire horses Francis Browne Philipp Phillipps & William Aukland theire Torchbearers Proiectors Thelocky Jeremy Wilkins & f William Evans his Torchbearers The Country man Samuel Milton & Robert Venninge his Torchbearers The Lampeman Ioseph Leigh & i his Torchbearers William Seare The Case [f 1] Thomas Phillipps & his Torchbearers William Taylor The Carrott man Peter Bastable & Richard Stutesbury his Torchbearers The Sea man w` h the Shipp uppon his head Iohn Page & t his Torchbearers James Francklyn I Iohn Morton the Byrd Thomas White leades his horse Edward
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