Note 894 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY
Reading edition
Variorum, iii. 65, from Sir Henry Herbert's papers, which also record a similar payment in 1618 'for toleration in the holydays'. Herbert himself sold similar indulgences and in a list of customary Revels fees drawn up in 1662 includes £3 'for Lent fee', together with £3 'for Christmasse fee' (Variorum, iii. 266). Prynne, Histriomastix (1633), 784, notes the custom of suppressing plays 'in Lent, till now of late'.