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The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 1

Note 961 — X THE ACTOR'S QUALITY

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'Not ... after nyne of the clocke' (Norwich, 1599); cf. Canterbury, above. A Chester order of 1615 fixed 6 p.m. and a Salisbury order of 1623 7 p.m. as the limit; an Exeter order of 1609 (H. M. C. Exeter MSS. 321) allowed 6 p.m. between Annunciation and Michaelmas and 5 p.m. between Michaelmas and Annunciation.

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