[1341] I find an ‘évesque des folz’ at Béthune, a ‘M. le Cardinal’ as head of the ‘Joyeux’ at Rheims (Julleville, Les Com. 242; Rép. Com. 340), and an ‘évesque des Griffons’ at Amiens (Rigollot, 105). Exceptional is, I believe, the Société des Foux founded on the lines of a chivalric order by Adolphe, Comte de Clèves, in 1380 (Du Tilliot, 84).
[1342] Julleville, 236; Guy, 471.
[1343] Julleville, 88, 136. The Paris Basoche was a ‘royaume’; those of Chambéry and Geneva were ‘abbayes.’
[1344] Cf. p. 304.
[1345] Julleville, Les Com. 152.
[1346] Bulaeus, Hist. Univ. Paris, v. 690; Julleville, Les Com. 297; Rashdall, Universities of Europe, ii. 611. It was probably to this student custom that the Tournai rioters of 1499 appealed (cf. p. 301). In 1470 the Faculty of Arts ordered the suppression of it. Cf. C. Jourdain, Index Chartarum Paris. 294 (No. 1369). On Jan. 5 they met ‘ad providendum remedium de electione regis fatuorum,’ and decreed ‘quod nullus scolaris assumeret habitum fatui pro illo anno, nec in collegio, nec extra collegium, nisi forsan duntaxat ludendo farsam vel moralitatem.’ Several scholars ‘portantes arma et assumentes habitus fatuorum’ were corrected on Jan. 24, and it was laid down that ‘reges vero fatuorum priventur penitus a gradu quocumque.’
[1347] Grenier, 365; Ducange, s. v. Deposuit, quoting Stat. Hosp. S. Iacobi Paris. (sixteenth century), ‘après le diner, on porte le baton au cueur, et là est le trésorier, qui chante et fait le Deposuit.’ Stat. Syn. Petri de Broc. episc. Autiss. (1642) ‘pendant que les bâtons de confrérie seront exposez, pour être enchéris, l’on ne chantera Magnificat, et n’appliquera-t-on point ces versets Deposuit et Suscepit à la délivrance d’iceux; ains on chantera quelque antienne et répons avec l’oraison propre en l’honneur du Saint, duquel on célèbre la feste.’
[1348] Cf. ch. iii and Appendix F; and on the general character of the puys, Julleville, Les Com. 42; Guy, xxxiv; Paris, 185. Some documents with regard to a fourteenth-century puy in London are in Riley, Liber Custumarum, xlviii. 216, 479 (Munim. Gildh. Lond. in R. S.); Memorials of London, 42.
[1349] Julleville, Les Com. 92, 233, 236, 241.
[1350] Clément-Hémery, Fêtes du Dép. du Nord, 184, states on the authority of a MS. without title or signature that this fête originated in a prose with a bray in it, sung by the canons of St. Peter’s. The lay form of the feast can be traced from †1476 to 1668. Leber, x. 135, puts the (clerical) origin before 1282.