226 Charles Davidson — English Mystery Plays. 



3. Cycle mystery plays by craft gilds, mode of presentation un- 

 known, — Beverly, 



4. Possibly cycle mystery plays by craft gilds, — Sleaford (XIX) (?) 

 Preston, Lancaster, Kendall (XXVI), Canterbury in time of Henry 

 IV, Wymondham (XXIX). 



5. Cycle plays, not mystery, on pageant wagons,— York, Our 

 Lord's Prayer (XXIV); York, Creed Play (XXV). 



6. Cycle mystery plays, not by craft gilds, — 



a. By literary society, — London by Parish clerks (XIV). 



h. By wandering troupe (?) — Coventry. 



c. By the parish and the priests, — Cornwall (XXVII). 



7. Single religious play by religious gild, — Sleaford (XIX). 



8. Single religious play in connection with church service, — Beth- 

 ersden, Heybridge (X), Leicester, 1546-71 (XII), Reading' (XVII), 

 Tewksbury (XX). 



9. Plays in the chapels and castles of nobility, — Northumberland 

 (XV). 



10. Puppet mystery, a form of church mute mystery, — Witney 

 (XXIII). 



11. Occasional plays, mystery or otherwise, — Bassingbourne, Can- 

 terbury, 1501-2, Edinburgh (VIII), Leicester, 1477 (XII), Lincoln 

 (XIII), London, 1556, 1557, 1603 (XIV), Windsor (XXII). 



12. School or cloister dramas, — Cambridge, Dunstable (VII), Lon- 

 don, 12th century (XIV), Winchester (XXI). 



18. Processional pageants, — Aberdeen, Dublin (VI), London by 

 Holy Trinity Gild (XIV). 



14. Christmas mummings, — Gloucestershire (IX), Lancashire (XI). 



15. Royal entry,— Paris (XVI). 



16. Play by company under the protection of some noble, — 

 Shrewsbury (XVIII). 



XVIIL 



THE DEVELOPMENT, OF THE NORTHERN SEPTENAR 



STANZA. 



The English Mj^stery Plays present a bewildering variety of 

 metres and stanzas. In this variety, however, it may be expected 

 that individuality of authorship will reveal itself, since a scribe is 

 less likely to distort beyond recognition stanzaic structure than to 

 destroy dialectal peculiarities in the changes of transcription. But 



