The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [590] Edition of 1550.

[ [591] The ale here evidently implies the place where ale was sold. Ibid. pass. 1.

[ [592] A reward. Ibid. pass. xi.

[ [593] P. Ploughman, pass. primus.

[ [594] Fabiliaux et Contes, edit. Par. tom. ii. p. 161.

[ [595] Malmsb. lib. ii. cap. 4.

[ [596] Hist. p. 869.

[ [597] Ibid. lib. ii. cap. 6.

[ [598] App. to Leland's Collect. vol. vi. p. 36.

[ [599] At this time there was also a sergeant of the minstrels. See Essay on Ancient Minstrels, Reliques of Ancient Poetry, vol. i.