Sowlen, souls. Alle Soulen day,

All Souls' day.

Sownde, message.
Sowte, sought.

Spowsage, espousals.

Spyllyth, spoileth.
Starkly, strongly.
Stere, stir, to move.
Stond, stonde, stand.
Stytelerys, p. 227 ?
Suster, sister.
Sustren, sisters.
Swinke, labour.
Swyche, such.

Sybbe, a relative by blood.

Syerge, a wax-taper.
Sygt, sight, presence.
Syse, assize, judgment.
Syth, p. 46, time.
Syth, p. 46, afterwards.
Syttyth, sitteth.

T.

Xal, shall.

Take, p. 34, shone.

Taste, p. 70, feel.

Tende, tend, wait on.

Tent, attention, heed, carning.
Thonking, thanking.

Thor', p. 41, thorough; also therefore.
Thor'we, through.

Thorwe outh, throughout.
Thretty, thirty.

Thrydde, third.

X.

Y.

A.

ABRAHAM and Isaac,a mystery,acted

at Newcastle, 213
Actium, anniversary of the battle of,
turned into the feast of St. Peter
ad vincula, 160
Acts of the Apostles, a grand mys-
tery, performed at Paris, 175;
proclamation for its performance,
177; prohibited by the parlia-
ment, 179

Adam and Eve naked on the stage,
220

Address to the audience at the per-

formance of a mystery, 57
Albans, St., the Devil seen there,
89; copes, borrowed from the
Abbey for the miracle play at
Dunstable, 200

All for Money, a play, 288
Andrew's, St., Holborn, Boy Bishop,

Bacchanalian

D.

and

Saturnalian
sports, succeeded by religious
shows, 157, 159

Bale, Bishop, notice of him and of
mysteries he wrote, 226
Baldini and Boticelli, engrave a cu-
rious print of hell, 122
Bamberg, remarkable performance
of a mystery there, 185; and a
religious procession of the Pas-
sion, 187

Baptizing of Christ, a mystery,
acted at Newcastle, 213
Bartholomew Fair, Creation of the

World, Noah's Flood, and Dives
and Lazarus performed there, 230
Bassingborne, miracle play, 215
Bedford Missal, 112, 165
Beehive of the Romish Church, 220,
222, 283

Bégrande, Mad., plays in the mys-

tery of Susannah, at Paris, 189
Bellarmine, Card., the division of
hell into compartments erro-
neously attributed to him, 122
Bells spiritualized, 284
Benedictine convent at Clerken-
well, 207

Bernard's St., Querela, 141
Bibles, their scarcity formerly, 202
Birth of Christ, &c., acted in a pup-
pet-show at Dieppe, 189

of Mary, a Coventry mystery,
described, 13
Boar's-head Carols, 100, 102
Bodleian Library, MSS. of Cornish
mysteries of the Deluge, Passion,
and Resurrection there, 217
Boeck van Jhesus Leven, contains
woodcuts from apocryphal story,
112, 122
Botolph, St., without Aldersgate,
chartulary of the brethren of the

Holy Trinity described, 73
Boy Bishop, 166; the ceremony de-
scribed, 193-200
Branch in churches, 83
Brussels, superstition there concern-
ing dogs, 172

Burial of Christ and the Virgin, mys-
teries acted at Newcastle, 214
Buttock-bone of Pentecost, 88

C

Cambray Boy Bishop, 197
Cambridge University, its ignorance
of Greek in the time of Erasmus,

157

Candles, Thirteen, allegorical of
Christ and the Apostles, 78; a
triangular one allegorical of the
Trinity, ibid; candles in Catho-
lic worship borrowed from the
ancient Romans, 84
Canterbury Cathedral, the Descent
into Hell in one of the windows,
and the Apocryphal Gospel of
Nicodemus, formerly chained to
the pillars, 123

Carols, Christmas, notices concern-
ing, 90; lists of those now printed,
97; specimens of carol-cuts, 100
Castle of Good Preservanse, a mo-
rality, 227

Caxton's Pilgrimage of the Sowle,
122, 235

Caxton, the monks alarmed at his
,press, 228

Chaplains compose mysteries, 215
Chester mysteries in the British
Museum, 200; giants, 268
Chevalier que donne sa femme au
Diable, a mystery, 174
Children, custom to whip them on
Innocents' day, 195

Christ allegorised by candles, 83;
prints of his apocryphal story,
108; his blood at his crucifixion
said to have descended into hell,
123; his approbation affixed to a
book, 282
Christmas, Gerard, improves the
figures in the pageants, 267
City accounts, entry of the sum paid
to the carver of the giants, 267
companies' barges first built,

249

Clergy, their ignorance in former
times, 156; they destroy ancient
MSS., 157; introduce Iudicrous
shows into the church, ibid; de-
cline in power in England, 204
Clerk at the Eton Montem,
strangely used by the chaplain
after prayers, 199
Clerkenwell, mysteries performed
there, 206; extracts from the rate
books, 207

Church Service in honour of the
ass, 162

Churchwardens hire players to per-
form the mysteries, 218
Colet, Dean, orders the children of
St. Paul's school to attend the Boy
Bishop's sermon, 198

Constance, Council of, mysteries
acted there, 170
Conscience, the Worm of, described,
287

Cornish Miracle Plays, 217
Coventry mysteries in the British
Museum, 200; mystery of the
Sheremen and Tailors, 218

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pageants there, 235; the lay-
men's parliament held there, 203
Council of the Trinity and the In-
carnation, a Coventry mystery,
described, 38; illustrated from a
MSS., 72

Creation of the World, a mystery,
acted at Civita Vecchia, 169; at
Lisbon, 181; at Bamberg, 185;
at Clerkenwell, 206; in a puppet-
show at Bath, 229 ; at Bartholo-
mew Fair, 230
to the re-
surrection, a series of mysteries
acted at York, on Corpus Christi
day, 213

Creeping to the Cross, 221
Croydon, the Vicar of, preaches
against printing, 228
Cruickshank, Mr. George, his talents
as an artist, 276

D.

Damned, whether all or only some
were released on Christ's descent
into hell, 121

a tail-piece, 142

dressed in a mystery in scarlet
stockings, and a gold-laced hat, 181
Dialogue betwixt the body and soul
of a damned man, 141
Dieppe, mysteries there, with pup-
pets, 190

Dives and Lazarus, Job's Sufferings,
Susannah, &c., mysteries acted by
Radcliffe's scholars, 205; Dives
and Lazarus in a puppet-show at
Bartholomew Fair, 230
Dogs of Brussels receive consecrated
bread annnally, 172
Don Juan, founded on Punch in the
puppet-show, 230

Douce, Mr., on the Feast of Fools,
Feast of the Ass, and other bur-
lesque ceremonies, 165; his gir-
dle of an Abbot of Fools, 166
Dragon's tail allegorical of the king-
dom of Satan, 134
Drama, the ancient, superseded by
the religious plays of Gregory
Nazianzen, &c., 151

Dramatic exhibitions denounced by
the Fathers, 148