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44<br />

MYSTERY PLAYS IN YORKSHIRE.<br />

of wickedness. The demonsare enteredat three shillings,<br />

whiletwo is considered sufficient payment for an angel.<br />

It will not, perhaps, be out of place here to mention<br />

that the best English examples of Mystery, or Miracle,<br />

plays are those which wererepresented at Chester, which<br />

are yet, for the most part, extant. They number twentyfour,<br />

commencing with the " Fall of Lucifer," and<br />

terminatingwith the usual " Doomsday."<br />

We may say that the subject of our title is far from<br />

being exhausted by this account, but sufficient is here<br />

presented for the reader to form a just idea of the curious<br />

observances as held in Yorkshire. The carvings in our<br />

cathedrals and churches, and the songs and writings<br />

which have come down to us from the days of Mystery<br />

Plays are full of references to that now extinct institution.

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