Greenwich, by an inventory of the dresses worn by the boys and a list of the dramatis personæ.
The school-boys of St Paul's were taken down the river with the master in six boats, at the cost of a shilling a boat—the cost of the dresses and the other expenses amounting in all to sixty-one shillings.
The characters were—
An orator in apparel of cloth of gold.
Nov. 1537.Religio, Ecclesia, Yeritas, like three widows, in garments of silk, and suits of lawn and cyprus.
Heresy and False Interpretation, like sisters of Bohemia, apparelled in silk of divers colours.
The heretic Luther, like a party friar, in russet damask and black taffety.
Luther's wife, like a frow of Spiers in Almayn, in red silk.
Peter, Paul, and James, in habits of white sarsnet, and three red mantles, and lace of silver and damask, and pelisses of scarlet.
A Cardinal in his apparel.
Two Sergeants in rich apparel.
The Dolphin and his brother in coats of velvet embroidered with gold, and capes of satin bound with velvet.
A Messenger in tinsel satin.
Six men in gowns of grey sarsnet.
Six women in gowns of crimson velvet.
War, in rich cloth of gold and feathers, armed.
Three Almeyns, in apparel all cut and holed in silk.
Lady Peace in lady's apparel white and rich.
