Glasgow, Sept. 23, 1851.
_Westminster Hall._--The following extract from the _Issue Roll of
Michaelmas Term_, 9 Hen. VII. 1493, may be interesting to some of your
readers, and will perhaps lead to a speculation on the nature of "the
disguisyings" alluded to:--
"To Richard Daland, for providing certain spectacles, or theatres,
commonly called scaffolds, in the great hall at Westminster, for
performance of 'the disguisyings,' exhibited to the people on the
night of the Epiphany, as appears by a book of particulars; paid
to his own hands, £28, 3_s._ 5-3/4_d._"--Devon's _Issue Roll_,
516.
Possibly the next entry, which is in Michaelmas in the following year,
of a payment of five marks yearly "to John Englissh, Edward Maye,
Richard Gibson, and John Hamond, 'lusoribus Regis' otherwise called in
English the players of the king's interludes, for their fees,"--has some
connexion with "the disguisyings."