[ 16.] Lawson, 223 f.
[ 17.] Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. x. 482.
[ 18.] This account of the Feast of Fools and the Boy Bishop is mainly derived from Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 274-371, and from Mr. A. F. Leach's article, “The Schoolboys’ Feast,” in “The Fortnightly Review” (London), vol. lix., 1896, 128 f.
[ 19.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 294.
[ 20.] Full text in Chambers, “M. S.,” ii. 280 f.
[ 21.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 372 f.
[ 22.] “Two Sermons preached by the Boy Bishop at St. Paul's,” ed. by J. G. Nichols, with an Introduction by E. F. Rimbault (London, printed for the Camden Society, 1875).
[ 23.] Ibid. 3.
[ 24.] Quoted by F. J. Snell, “The Customs Of Old England” (London, 1911), 44.
[ 25.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 366.