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

[ [999] Reges Fabis creantur.

[ [1000] In nomine Regis de Fabâ. MS. Cott. Nero, C. viii.

[ [1001] Table Talk, London, 1689, title Christmas.

[ [1002] Circular Letter addressed to the Clergy of France, by P. de Blois, published in 1444.

[ [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.