Note 694 — VII THE COURT PLAY

The documents are printed by Cunningham, xxiv, and by Law, More, 39, 71, who gives the warrant more fully. They were removed by Cunningham from the Audit Office, and when returned to the Record Office were classed in error as papers subsidiary to the Revels Accounts, instead of to those of the Treasurer of the Chamber. But Law, More, 61, successfully vindicates their authenticity, and I may add that the dockets of Chamberlain's warrants for other years (Jahrbuch, xlvi. 94) refer to schedules now lost, and that a schedule of the plays of the King's men for 1638-9 was facsimiled from a private manuscript by G. R. Wright in Brit. Arch. Ass. Journal, xvi. 275, 344 (1860), and in his Archaeologic and Historic Fragments (1887). In this the claims for 'our day lost' are clearly specified.