[1277] Lincoln Statutes, i. 290 (Black Book, †1300); ii. ccxxxi.
[1278] Archaeologia, liii. 25, 50; Monasticon, viii. 1282 ‘Item, a coope of Rede velvett wt Rolles & clowdes ordenyd for the barne busshop wt this scriptur “the hye wey ys best”.’ The entry is repeated in a later inventory of 1548.
[1279] Hereford, Consuetudines of thirteenth century (Lincoln Statutes, ii. 67) ‘Thesaurarius debet invenire ... in festo Innocencium pueris candelas et ·ijos cereos coram parvo Episcopo.’
[1280] Lichfield—J. C. Cox, Sports in Churches, in W. Andrews, Curious Church Customs, 3, quoting inventories of 1345 and of the fifteenth century. The latter uses the term ‘Nicholas Bishop.’
[1281] Gloucester—Rimbault, 14, prints from Cotton MSS. Vesp. A. xxv, f. 173, a Sermon of the Child Bishop, Pronownysed by John Stubs, Querester, on Childermas Day, at Gloceter, 1558.
[1282] Norwich—a fourteenth-century antiphonal of Sarum Use, probably of Norwich provenance (Lansd. MS. 463, f. 16v), provides for the giving of the baculus to the Episcopus Puerorum at Vespers on St. John’s Day.
[1283] Beverley—the fifth earl of Northumberland about 1522 gave xxs. at Christmas to the ‘Barne Bishop’ of Beverley, as well as to him of York (Percy, North. H. B. 340); cf. p. 357.
[1284] Wordsworth, Proc. 52; cf. Appendix M (1).
[1285] Ottery—Statutes of Bishop Grandisson (1337), quoted by Warton, ii. 229 ‘Item statuimus, quod nullus canonicus, vicarius, vel secundarius, pueros choristas in festo sanctorum Innocentium extra parochiam de Otery trahant, aut eis licentiam vagandi concedant.’
[1286] Magdalen—see Appendix E.