The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[640] Ib., 179.

[641] Ib., 176.

[642] See quotation from Stowe in Sharp, Mysteries, 175.

[643] This was a universal custom, but there were special local feasts. For instance, at Canterbury, on the eve of the Translation of S. Thomas, a watch was kept. At Chester, Shrove Tuesday was a day for general merry-making (Green, i. 149).

[644] Among the dyers, the penalty was 13s. 4d.(Sharp, op. cit., 183).

[645] Ib., 160.

[646] Ib., 184.

[647] Ib., 193-4.

[648] Ib., 194.

[649] Ib., 196.