Note 703 — VII THE COURT PLAY
Reading edition
Ch. xxiii, s.v. Beaumont; Inderwick, Inner Temple Records, i. lxv, 219; ii. xlix, 23 sqq., 56, 64. A payment of 20s. 'to the players' at the Christmas of 1615 was probably, in view of the amount, for musicians. The earlier account-books are not preserved. On the plays, not necessarily professional, of the 1561-2 Christmas, cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Brooke.