Note 941 — APPENDICES (continued 5)

Hearne, Fordun’s Scotichronicon, v. 1493 (from MS. of Annals, penes Thomas Jesson of Ch. Ch.) ‘This yeare the King came to se the playes acted by the Gray Friers and much commended them.’ The mayoral list in this text of the Annals goes to 1675. It is probably another that Sharp, Diss. 5, quotes as making the same statement and describes as ‘not older than the beginning of Charles I’s reign.’ He does not give the full entry. Is it the basis of Mr. Fretton’s addition to the 1871 ed. of Sharp’s Hist. and Antiq. of Cov. 202 ‘1492. Henry 7th and his Queen saw the Plays at Whitsuntide’? Can ‘by the Gray Friers’ mean ‘at a station by the convent’? In the Carpenters’ accounts for 1453 is an item ‘for the mynstrell at the frerˢ.’ This, says Sharp, Diss. 213, relates to the craft’s annual dinner held at the White Friars. There is no other possible allusion to friars’ plays in Mr. Sharp’s extracts.