Note 713 — VII THE COURT PLAY
Reading edition
Feuillerat, Eliz. 145, 193, 286, 320. In 1571-2 all the plays were 'throwghly apparelled and ffurnished'; in 1573-4 all were 'fytted and ffurnyshed with the store of thoffice and with the woorkmanshipp and provisions herein expressed'; in 1578-9 the clerk seems to distinguish between plays furnished with 'sondrey', 'some', 'manie', and 'verie manie' things; in 1579-80 seven out of nine plays were 'wholie furnyshed in this offyce', and of the others one had 'sondrie' and one 'many' things; cf. Graves, 83.