Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
1 The Wakefield Group in the Towneley Cycle … (Johns Hopkins Press, 1930).
2 Pike-harnes in Wakefield; Brewbarret in York.
3 Plays of Our Forefathers (New York, 1907), p. 185.
4 Carey, op. cit., p. 216.
5 York Plays … (Oxford, 1885), p. 37, n. 1.
6 The break in the MS. as indicated by Miss Smith, op. cit., p. 37 occurs at line 70. Lines 71–2 do not follow smoothly from line 70, nor do they seem to lead altogether smoothly to line 73.
7 M.S. maladictio.
8 Mr. F. M. Salter kindly called this line to my attention. In Miss Smith's text it is printed in the margin opposite l. 89, but it is not numbered.
9 Carey, op. cit., p. 39.
10 “On the Relation between the York and Towneley Plays,” PMLA, xliv (1929), 315–316.