THE ORDURYNGE of the BASSES in my Lordes Chappell for the settynge of the QUEARE dayly at Mattynges, Masse, and Even Songe thorowe owte the Weike, As the NAYMES of them, With the DAYES and TYMES that they shall kepe, Hereafter Followyth.

THE BASSES

THE Fyrst Bais to set the Queyre all Sonday, and at Mattyngs on Friday.

THE ijd Bais to set the Queare all Monday, and at Mas on Fryday, p. 374.

THE iijd Bais to set the Queare all Tewisday, and at Evyn-Song on Friday.

THE jth Basse to set the Queare all Weddynsday, and at Mattyngs on Satturday.

THE vth Bais to set the Queare all Thursday, and at Masse on Satturday.

THE ORDURYNGE for the keapynge Weykely of the ORGAYNES oone after an outher, as the Names of them hereafter followith.

THE ORGAYNE PLAYERS

THE Master o'th Chilldern, if he be a Player, the fyrst Weike. A Countertennor that is a Player, the Secounde Weike.

A Tennor that is a Player, the Thyrde Weyke.

A Baisse that ys a Player, the Fourthe Weike.

And every Man that ys a player to kepe his Cours Weykely.

THE ORDURYNGE for stondynge RECTOR-CHORE at the Deske, Viz. at Mattyngs, Highe Mas, and Evyn-Songe, one after an other, SYDE for SYDE, as the NAMYS of them hereafter followith (p. 375).

Of Wolsey's chapel, Cavendish says (vol. i. p. 35, ed. Singer, 1825): "Now I will declare unto you the officers of his chapel, and singing men of the same. First, he had there a Dean, who was always a great clerk and a divine; a Sub-Dean; a Repeater of the quire; a Gospeller, a Pisteller; and twelve singing Priests; of Scholars he had first, a Master of the children; twelve singing children; sixteen singing men; with a servant to attend upon the said children."

For an account of Cardinal Wolsey's Minstrels, see Stowe's Annals, p. 535; Hawkins' Hist. Music, iii. 67. The King borrowed Wolsey's minstrels, and made them play all night without resting, which killed the shalme-player, who was very excellent in that Instrument,'-unless the King's players poisoned him from jealousy.

Hawkins, Hist. of Music, iii. 417, note, says that the first regular establishment of a company of players was that of the children of Paul's in 1378, the next that of the parish clerks of London at Skinner's-well; the third that of the Children of the Royal Chapel under their master Edwards, by license from Queen Elizabeth; fourth, that of the Children of the Revels.

One of the last two is Shakespere's 'aiery of little children, little eyases,' Hamlet, act ii. sc. 6.

NOTE TO PRICKS, P. LXXXIII.

What the pricks were I can't quite make out. T. Roberts, in the Glossary to his English Bowman, 1801, p. 292, has the following:

PRICK mark. The white Mark or Target shot at.

PRICKING.

PRICK-shooting. }-Shooting at prick Marks.

PRICKS.-The place where the pricks or marks are placed.

shaft.—An arrow used in prick-shooting.

PRICKER. The needle or instrument with which the target card is pricked or

marked.

In the well-known Archery Statute, 33 Henry VIII. cap. 9, the word prick is used for target or butt, and prick-shaft for arrow. "That no man under the Age of Twenty-four Years shall shoot at any standing Prick, except it be at a Rover, whereat he shall change at every Shoot his Mark, upon Pain [to forfeit] for every Shoot doing the contrary iv. d.; and that no Person above the said Age of Twenty-four Years shall shoot at any Mark of eleven score Yards or under, with any Prick-shaft or Flight under the Pain to forfeit for every Shoot, Six shillings Eight-pence and also that Butts be made on this side the Feast of St Michael the Archangel next coming in every City, Town and Place, by the Inhabitants of every such City, Town and Place according to the Law of ancient Time used.” Palsgrave has Pricke, a marke-marque,' and Prompt. Prykke, merke, meta.'

It seems clear that the butts were for near or short shooting, and the pricks for long ranges, which is, I suppose, the meaning of "a mark of compass +."

"Moll. Out upon him, what a suiter have I got, I am sorry you are so bad an Archer, sir.

Eare. Why Bird, why Bird?

Moll. Why, to shoote at Buts, vvhen you shou'd use prick-shafts, short shooting vvill loose ye the game, I as[sure] you, sir.

Eare. Her minde runnes sure upon a Fletcher, or a Bowyer,

1633, Rowley. A Match at Midnight, Act ii. sc. 1 (ref. in Richardson). "The Cornish men," says Carew ‡, are "well skilled in near shooting, and in wellaimed shooting;-the butts made them perfect in the one, and the roaving in the

An accidental mark, in contradistinction to butts and targets: trees, bushes, posts, mounds of earth, landmarks, stones, &c., are roving marks. Hansard's Archery, p. 362.

† And first for shooting in the long-bowe a man must observe these few rules: first that hee haue a good eye to behold and discerne his marke, a knowing iudgment to vnderstand the distance of ground to take the true aduantage of a side-winde, and to know in what compasse [trajectory] his arrow must flie. G. Markham], Countrey Contentments, 1615, p. 107, referred to by Strutt.

Carew's Cornwall, 1602, Bk. i. fol. 73, in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 49.

other, for the prickes, the first corrupters of archery through too much preciseness, were formerly scarcely known, and little practised."

Ascham seems to use the word pricks for-1. the uprights of a target, or a pair of targets, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the range, as in the engraving in Strutt; 2. the target itself; and, 3. the white in the centre of it, or piece of wood (Halliwell),

Off the marke he welde not fayle,

He cleffed the preke on thre.-Robin Hood, i. 91.

I. and II. A pair of winding pricks' is one of the 'things that hinder a man which looketh at his mark to shoot straight,' ib. p. 161. If the pricks stand of a straight plain ground, they be the best to shoot at. If the mark stand on a bill-side. . a man's eye shall think that to be straight which is crooked,' ib. p. 159, pricks being here equivalent to mark. To shoot straight, they have invented some ways.. to have some notable thing betwixt the marks; and once I saw a good archer which did cast off his gear, and laid his quiver with it, even in the midway betwixt the pricks,' ib. p. 159. (Markham, in his Art of Archerie, 1634 (which seems little more than his own Introduction, and a copy of parts of Ascham's Toxophilus), has ‘betwixt the marks' in both places: p. 165. And once I heard in Cambridge the down-marke at Tweluescore-prick for the space of three markes was thirteene score and an halfe, p. 151.) 'I suppose it be a great deal more pleasure also to see a soul fly in Plato, than a shaft fly at the pricks,' ib. p. 12. You may stand sometime at the pricks, and look on them which shoot best,' ib. p. 90.

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'I fortuned to come with three or four that went to shoot at the pricks,' p. 11; 'the customable shooting at home at butts and pricks,' p. 82. You must take heed also, if ever you shoot where one of the marks, or both, stands a little short of a high wall, for there you may be easily beguiled. . . For the wind which cometh indeed against you, redoundeth back again at the wall, and whirleth back to the prick, and a little farther, and then turneth again,' p. 156. Use of pricking, and desire of near shooting at home, are the only causes of strong shooting in war,' p. 80.

III. In the singular, the prick, at other times called the white, is the white spot or point in the midst of the mark,' says Dr Giles, ib. p. 91, in a note to 'at all times to hit the prick, shall. . no shooter ever do.' The best end in shooting, which you call hitting of the prick,' p. 91. And by & by he lifteth his arme of pricke heyght.' (Folio 54, ed. 1571.) But yet at p. 99, what handling belongeth to the mark? Tox. To mark his standing, to shoot compass to consider the nature of the prick, in hills and dales, in straight plains and winding places, and also to espy his mark.' 'Other men use to espy some mark almost a bow wide of the prick, and then go about to keep himself on the hand that the prick is on,' p. 160.

Having referred the question of the various meanings of the word prick to the best authority in Britain, Mr Peter Muir, Bowmaker to the Royal Archers at Edinburgh, he answers:-1st. See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, page 62, ed. 1838, "The marks usually shot at by Archers for pastime were Butts, prickes, and Roavers." The Butt, we are told, was a level mark, &c. The Pricke was a marke of compass,' but certain in its distance, and to this mark strong swift arrows of one flight were best suited. 2nd. In Roberts' English Bowman, page 241 (London, 1801), is the following, in an article, sect. v. 'Of Prick shooting:'archery we frequently find mention of prick shooting. Prick-marks and Prickshafts are noticed in Stat. of the 33rd H. VIII. c. 9, before cited. The latter, we know, are arrows considerably lighter than those used in other kinds of shooting

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except flight shooting. The ancient prick-mark was frequently called the White, and consisted probably of a card or piece of stiff white paper. In the Garland, indeed, we read of prick wands and willow wands, probably peeled sticks. One thing we may collect, which distinguishes this kind of shooting from others, namely, that the prick or mark was generally fixed to one spot, and at a less distance, than in other kinds of shooting, and not varied during the shooting. Hence the Statute terms it a standing prick, or mark. Prick being a Saxon word for point, seems to indicate that this kind of shooting was chiefly confined to small marks, &c. Carew observes it required too much preciseness.' Holinshed and Ascham allude to it as 'shooting round compass.' The marks used for this kind of shooting for two centuries past consisted either of a small circular piece of white paper fixed to a post (wand) or of a target. Modern prick shooting is practised by the Royal Archers at Edinburgh, and is their favourite, at a small round target fixed at 180 yards. Within 30 years they shot at a square mark of canvas on a frame, and called 'the Clout; and an arrow striking the target is still called 'a clout. They count arrows in the ground within four bow-lengths, or 24 feet of the target, the nearest arrow only counting, which is decided by a cord from the centre of the target, and may have been the origin of the mark of compass.' The Royal Archers still shoot at Butts 100 feet at the small paper which is enclosed [four inches in diameter, with a white dot as a centre, and four rings outside it]. Till within these few years the Kilwinning Archers (the oldest club in Britain) shot Butts at a white paper two inches in diameter. Lately they adopted a mark 12 inches, with a two-inch white in the centre, and other two rings outside of different values.”

Mr Wright glosses pricks as "a game like bowls." Bowls was a game known in early times. Among the sports to make a young lady forget her lover is this,

A hundred knightes, truly told,

Shall play with bowls in alleys cold,

Your diseases to drive away.

Squyer of Lowe Degre, Ellis. Spec. p. 337.

If any reader of this note feels certain as to the meaning of pryckis, he knows more about it than I do.