[1003] Register de Eglise de S. Stephen de Dijon, 1494.

[1004] P. de Blois, ut supra.

[1005] Encyclopédie Françoise, article Fête des Fous.

[1006] Theoph. Raynaud.

[1007] Dugdale's Monast. vol. iii. Appendix vii.

[1008] A. D. 1512. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, vol. i. p. 248; and vol. iii. p. 390.

[1009] Of St. Paul's cathedral.

[1010] Knight's Life of Colet, p. 362.

[1011] Hist. Poet. ut supra.

[1012] Boys.

[1013] MS. Cott. Tiberius B. i.

[1014] Strype's Eccl. Mem. vol. iii. chap. 39. p. 310.

[1015] Ibid. chap. 35. p. 202.

[1016] Ibid. chap. 39. p. 310.

[1017] Invent. York Cathedral. See also Dugdale's Hist of St. Paul's, p. 205.

[1018] Additions to Bourne's Antiq. Vulg. chap. 14. p. 175.

[1019] Ibid.

[1020] See Warton's Hist. Eng. Poet. vol. iii. p. 307.

[1021] Heath's Islands of Scilly, 1750, p. 125.

[1022] Survey of Lond. p. 79.

[1023] M. Paris Hist. Aug. sub anno 1152.

[1024] Or Ross, the Warwickshire historian. Edita Hearne, p. 105.

[1025] Gloss, under the title Hock-day.

[1026] Hist. Hampshire.

[1027] See a Memoir by the Rev. Mr. Jenne, Archæologia, vol. vii. p. 224

[1028] A. D. 1002. But the time of the year does not agree. St. Brice's-day is the 13th of November.

[1029] Memoir, ut supra.

[1030] Page 223, and Introduction.

[1031] Antiq. Vulgares, chap. 25.

[1032] Survey of London, p. 80.

[1033] In his Anatomie of Abuses, printed in 1595.

[1034] The May-pole is treated with little less ceremony by the Rev. Thomas Hall, another Reformist, cited in the Introduction.

[1035] Archæologia, vol. i. cap. 4, p. 11.

[1036] Strype's Eccles. Mem. vol. iii. cap. 49, p. 377.

[1037] Hall, in Vit. Hen. VIII. fol. vi

[1038] Hinder or prevent

[1039] Latimer's Sermons, printed 1589

[1040] K. vol. x.

[1041] Harl. Lib. 69.

[1042] I suppose the author means tilting armour, for the purpose of justing, here called running of courses.

[1043] See p. 143.

[1044] Hall, in Vit. Hen. VIII. an. 2, p. vi.

[1045] See an account of this book in the Introduction.

[1046] Vol. v. No. 365, first published A. D. 1712.

[1047] See Granger's Biog. Hist. vol. iv. p. 354.

[1048] Blount's Ancient Tenures, p. 49.

[1049] Bourne's Antiq. vol. ix. chap. 27

[1050] MSS. Harl. 2354 and 2391.

[1051] The midsummer pageants at Chester are fully described in the Introduction.

[1052] Survey of London, pp. 84, 85.

[1053] Perhaps it should be image, and resembled those commonly used in other pageants.

[1054] Nat. Hist Oxford, p.343, and Blount's Ancient Tenures, p. 154.

[1055] Eccl. Memoirs, vol. iii. chap. 39, p. 51.

[1056] Ibid. p. 309.

[1057] Eccl. Memoirs, vol. iii. chap. 49, p. 377

[1058] Table Talk, 1689, article Pope.

[1059] Heath's Description of Cornwall, p. 445

[1060] Præcedente tibicine aut tympano. Moresin. Deprav. Reliq. Orig. in verbo vacina.

[1061] Brand's Observations on Bourne's Vulg. Antiq. chap. xxxi. p. 303.

[1062] Ibid.

[1063] Vulg. Antiq. ut supra.

[1064] Ibid.

[1065] Bede, Eccl. Hist. lib. i. cap. 30.

[1066] Ibid.

[1067] Homily for the Vigil of St. John Baptist. MS. Harl.

[1068] Antiq. Vulg. chap. 30.

[1069] Dodsworth's MSS. Bid. Bob. vol. 148. fol. 97.

[1070] That is, the time the contract was made.

[1071] Carew's Survey of Cornwall, 1602, book i. p. 68.

[1072] The Anatomie of Abuses, 1595.

[1073] I rather think it should be church-yard.

[1074] Burton, Anat. Melancholy, part ii. sect. 2. cap. 4.

[1075] Vol. ii. No. 161, first printed 1711.

[1076] Vol. iii. No.

[1077] See the Introduction.

[1078] Reckoning from 1800.

[1079] Survey of London.

[1080] See p. 373. It does not appear that these lamps were made with glass of various colours, according to the present fashion. I rather think this improvement is perfectly modern.

[1081] A galley, or small vessel.

[1082] Act iv. scene 2.

[1083] Nichols's Progresses of Elizabeth, vol. i.

[1084] I suppose he means the discharge of a cannon or two.

[1085] Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth Castle, p. 62.

[1086] Small kind of cannons.

[1087] Nichols's Progresses of Elizabeth, vol. ii. p. 19.

[1088] History of all the Colleges in and about London, printed A. D. 1615.

[1089] [Before 1800.]

[1090] [Reckoning from 1800.]

[1091] [In 1800.]

[1092] See p. 375.

[1093] See p. 375; and the Introduction; whence it appears these green men attended the pageants, and preceded the principal persons in the procession to clear the way.

[1094] Garrick's Collection, G. vol. ii.

[1095] See p. 84.

[1096] See p. 254.

[1097] Plut. in Apophthegm. Laced. et Ælian. Var. Hist. lib. xii. cap. 15.

[1098] Val. Max. lib. viii. cap. 8.

[1099] See p. 147.

[1100] See p. 118.

[1101] See pp. 144-146.

[1102] See p. 125.

[1103] See p. 77.

[1104] See p. 78.

[1105] Garrick's Collect. I. vol. xviii.

[1106] Dictionary, word barley-brake.

[1107] See p. 80.

[1108] Joan. Meursi, de Lud. Græc.

[1109] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7

[1110] See p. 225.

[1111] See pp. 85, 86.

[1112] Taken from tricks of the jugglers. See p. 226.

[1113] See pp. 302, 303.

[1114] See chap. iii. p. 91, et infra.

[1115] See p. 270.

[1116] Sueton, in Vita Aug. cap. 83.

[1117] No. 112.

[1118] The poet has drawn a simile from this pastime. Æneidos, lib. vii. lin. 378, et infra.

[1119] Harl. Lib. No. 6391.

[1120] Lib. ii. sat. 3. line 48.

[1121] See p. 337.

[1122] See p. 276.

[1123] Vol. vi. No. 466.

[1124] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1125] See p. 303.

[1126] No. 2. b. vii.

[1127] Act ii. scene the last.

[1128] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1129] No. 2, B. vii.

[1130] Addition to Bourne's Vulg. Antiq.

[1131] No. 264.

[1132] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1133] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1134] Page 391.

[1135] Lib. ii. sat. 3. line 47.

[1136] Pollux, lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1137] Vol. vii. No. 504.

[1138] Page 571.

[1139] Pollux. lib. ix. cap. 7.

[1140] No. 20. D. iv.

[1141] Harl. MS. 2391.

[1142] Harl. MS. 2125.

[1143] Vol. iii. No. 246.

[1144] Vol. iv. No. 278.