JULT 17, 1885.] 



KNOWLEDGE 



and Judas were paid loss, i 

 pageant accounts show :— 



) extracts from the 



old proclamation, "follows labour and cost." In Sharp'i 

 "Dissertation on the Coventry Mysteries " (1825), from 

 which the foregoing extracts from the registers of the 

 trading companies are quoted, we find the following 

 items of cost of repair and wardrobe : — 



" For mendinp of Dame Pr< 

 was Pilate's wile]. " To rew; 

 gear for Pilate's wife, 12d,' 

 Procula's gown, 2cl." " Payi 

 characters wore gloves] ; for 



,rd to Ml 



irmcnts, 7d. " [Dame Procnla 

 8. Grimsby for lending of her 

 a quart of wino for hiring 

 air of gloves for God [all the 

 Dyversneces- 



s for the trimmynge of the Father of Hi 

 are other items which occur. Under outlay for scenic 

 effects we read : — 



" Payd for mending of hell 2d; itm. for painting of hell-mouthe, 

 3d ; itm. for making of hell-mouthe new, Is Od ; itm. for keeping 

 fyre at hell's moutlie, 4d ; itm. for setting the world of fyre, 5d ; 

 [which duty was assigned to Pauston of ''coo-croying" fame] ; 

 itm. to Crowe for making of three worlds, 2s." 



beard, and : 

 sandals. 



•nted ; 



vith nails and dice upon then 



rearing a gilt peruke or 

 n coat, a girdle, and red 

 I black buckram jackets 



Archdeacon Rogers, who saw the plays acted at Chester 

 in 1594 according to old usages, thus succinctly describes 

 the mode of exhibition : — 



The manner of these playes were, every company had his pagiant, 

 which pagiants weare a high scatold with two roumes, a higher and 

 a lower, upon four wheels. In the lower they apparelled them- 

 selves, and in the higher roume they played, beinge all open on the 

 tope, that all behoulders might heare and see them. 1'he places 

 where they played them was in every streete. They began tirst at 

 the Abay gates, and when the first pagiant was played it was 

 wheeled to the highe crosse before the Mayor, and eoe to every 

 Btreete, and soe every streete had a pagiant playing before them at 

 one time, till all the pagiantea for the day appointed weare playen, 

 and when one pagiant was neere ended, wordo was broughte from 

 streete to streete, that soe they might come in place thereof, ex- 

 ceedinge orderlye, and all the streetes have their pagiantes afore 

 them all at one time playeinge togetlier; to see w'ch playes was 

 greate resorte, and also seafoldes and stages made in the streetes 

 in those places where they determined to playe theire pagiantes. 



The term inujeavt, it maybe remarked, is derived from 

 the movable vehicle on which the plays were performed. 



THE BUDDY ECLIPSE OF THE 

 MOON. 



By Kiciuud a. Proctoi!. 



I AM sorry that I misunderstood ilr. Mattieu Williams's 

 red-hot moon theorj-. I cannot even now see that 

 there is much more " monstrous ab.surdity " in the idea 

 of primeval heat making the moon red-hot than in the 

 idea of solar heat warming up tlie moon to redness. Has 

 Mr. Williams ever tried the experiment of heating a 

 tufaceous surface to redness ? It strikes me that if he 

 had he would hardly imagine that the action of the solar 

 rays could produce such a result, even without the ex- 

 ceedingly rapid radiation which he admits would go on 

 all the time. 



However, it appears that it is not primeval heat, as I 

 feared, which he attributes to Dian's cold pale orb. So 

 at least in agreement on one ]io int. lam al-oin 

 reement with him about the alisunliiv of 

 cncksnre " ns some are, tv-d<rj, about the 

 H.tlusis. (liy the way, a correspondent 



1 the coll 

 re had used the term " cock- 



r had rrad 



of 



That 



, spedo. 



"£t« 



itgallus. And than Jhesna xal (shall) lokyn on 



Petyr, and Petyr xal wepyn, and than he x»l gon ont and seyu, " 

 &c.— " The Trial of Christ," Cover, try Uy,<tcrics, 297. 



t The letter N represents a space to bo tilled in with tho name 

 of tho town where the performance was to tako place. 



way every /ari presented m .Mr. WilUams's " i'uol of the 

 Sun "—may bo conveniently strung. That those facts 



