of these execrable pastimes, they offer sacrifice to the Devil and Sathanas [Satan], they would repent, and withdraw their hands, which God grant they may." The Lords of Misrule in colleges were preached against at Cambridge by the Puritans in the reign of James I. as inconsistent with a place of religious education, and as a relic of Pagan worship. In Scotland, the "Abbot of Unreason" (as the Lord of Misrule was called there), with other festive characters, was suppressed by legislation as early as 1555. Thomas Fuller (1608-1681), in his _Good Thoughts in Worse Times_ (1647), says: "Some sixty years since, in the University of Cambridge, it was solemnly debated betwixt the heads [of the colleges] to debar young scholars of that liberty allowed them in Christmas, as inconsistent with the discipline of students. But some grave governors mentioned the good use thereof, because thereby, in twelve days, they more discover the dispositions of scholars than in twelve months before." =Page 193.=--_The Clopton who is gone._ William Clopton, whose tomb is in the north aisle of Stratford Church. He was the father of the William Clopton of Shakespeare's boyhood, who resided at Clopton House, an ancient mansion less than two miles from Stratford on the brow of the Welcombe Hills. It is still standing, though long ago modernized. It is said to have been originally surrounded with a moat, like the "moated grange" of _Measure for Measure_ (iii. 1. 277). _To burn this night with torches._ That is, to prolong the festivities. The quotation is from _Antony and Cleopatra_, iv. 2. 41. _John Dyer_ (1700-1758) was an English poet, author of _Grongar Hill_ (1727), _The Ruins of Rome_ (1740), etc. [Illustration: CLOPTON MONUMENTS] =Page 194.=--_Flawns._ A kind of custard-pie. Compare Ben Jonson, _Sad Shepherdess_, i. 2:-- "Fall to your cheese-cakes, curds, and clouted cream, Your fools, your flawns," etc. The _fools_ were also a kind of custard, or fruit with whipped cream, etc. _Gooseberry-fool_ is still an English dish.