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Malvern, loc. cit. ix. 259. Probably this is the play for which the Issue Roll of the Exchequer for Easter—Michaelmas, 1391 (F. Devon, Issues of the Exchequer, Hen. III-Hen. VI, 244), records on July 11, 1391, a payment ‘to the Clerkes of the Parish Churches and to divers other clerkes of the City of London, in money paid to them in discharge of £10 which the Lord and King commanded to be paid them of his gift on account of the play of the Passion of our Lord and the Creation of the World by them performed at Skynner Well, after the Feast of Bartholomew last past.’ But the dates do not quite agree, and there may have been a play at Bartholomew-tide 1390 as well as that of July, 1391.