THE BANNS OF THE CHESTER PLAYS

Abstract

THERE are two distinct versions of the Banns which precede the Chester Craft Plays.2 The Late Banns 3 come to us in four manuscripts; but the Early or Pre-Reformation Banns, discovered by Canon Rupert H. Morris, D.D., and printed by him in his Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Periods,4 appear only in MS. Harley 2,150. Together with internal evidence from the plays themselves and with the help of various other documents, these two widely differing sets of Banns, originally composed about one hundred years apart, can be obliged to yield an epitome of the larger history of the cycle during the last hundred years of its existence.

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