Note 926 — APPENDICES (continued 4)
Reading edition
Drake, Eboracum, App. xxix; Davies, 243; York Plays, xxxiv. Melton is called ‘sacrae paginae professor,’ which Drake and many light-hearted scholars after him, down to A. W. Ward (ed. 2, 1899), i. 53, translate ‘professor of holy pageantry.’ The ‘sacred page,’ however, is the Bible, and the title = S.T.P., or D.D.