Note 562 — Chapter XXIV · PLAYERS OF INTERLUDES
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The Revels Account for 1511 (Brewer, ii. 1496) notes an interlude in which ‘Mr. Subdean, now my Lord of Armykan’ took part. In his Oratio ad Clerum of the same year Colet criticizes the clerics who ‘se ludis et iocis tradunt’ (Collier, i. 64). A Sermo exhortatorius cancellarii Eboracensis his qui ad sacros ordines petunt promoveri printed by Wynkyn de Worde about 1525 also calls attention to the canonical requirement that the clergy should abstain ‘a ludis theatralibus’ (Hazlitt, Bibl. Coll. and Notes, 3rd series (1887), 274).