Note 735 — VII THE COURT PLAY
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In 1563-5, 'canvas to couer diuers townes and howsses and other devisses and clowds' (Feuillerat, Eliz. 116); in 1571-2, 'sundry Tragedies Playes Maskes and sportes with their apte howses of paynted canvas' (129); in 1572-3, 'sparres to make frames for the players howses' (175); in 1573-4, 'hoopes for tharbour and topp of an howse' ... 'pynnes styf and great for paynted clothes' ... 'nayles to strayne the canvas' ... 'canvas to paynte for howses for the players and for other properties as monsters, greate hollow trees and suche other' ... 'cariage for the fframes for the howses that served in the playes' ... 'iij elme boordes and vij ledges for the frames for the players' ... 'cariage of fframes and painted clothes for the players howses' (197, 201, 203, 204, 218); in 1574-5, 'canvas to make frenge for the players howse' (244); in 1576-7, 'cariadge ... of a paynted cloth and two frames' (266); in 1587-9, 'timber bordes and workmanshipp in mending and setting vp of the houses by greate' (390); in 1587-8 'paynters for ... clothe for howses' (381); in 1579-80, 'ffurre poles to make rayles for the battlementes and to make the prison for my Lord of Warwickes men' (327).