The proceedings at Troyes seem to have reacted upon the feast at Sens. In December, 1444, the chapter had issued an elaborate order for the regulation of the ceremony, in which they somewhat pointedly avoided any reference to the council of Basle or the Pragmatic Sanction, and cited only the legatine statute of Odo of Tusculum in 1245. The order requires that divine service shall be devoutly and decently performed, _prout iacet in libro ipsius servitii_. By this is doubtless meant the _Officium_ already described. There must be no mockery or impropriety, no unclerical costume, no dissonant singing. Then comes what, considering that this is a reform, appears a sufficiently remarkable direction. Not more than three buckets of water at most must be poured over the _precentor stultorum_ at Vespers. The custom of ducking on St. John’s eve, apparently the occasion when the precentor was elected, is also pruned, and a final clause provides that if nobody’s rights are infringed the _stulti_ may do what they like outside the church[1047]. Under these straitened conditions the feast was probably held in 1445. There was, however, the archbishop as well as the chapter to be reckoned with. It was difficult for Louis de Melun, after the direct appeal made to him by his suffragan at Troyes, to avoid taking some action, and in certain statutes promulgated in November, 1445, he required the suppression of the whole _consuetudo_ and ordered the directions for it to be erased from the chant-books[1048]. There is now no mention of the feast until 1486, from which date an occasional payment for _la feste du premier jour de l’an_ begins to appear again in the chapter account-books[1049]. In 1511, the _servitium divinum_ after the old custom is back in the church. But the chapter draws a distinction between the _servitium_ and the _festum stultorum_, which is forbidden. The performance of _jeux de personnages_ and the public shaving of the precentor’s beard on a stage are especially reprobated[1050]. The _servitium_ was again allowed in 1514, 1516, 1517, and in 1520 with a provision that the _lucerna precentoris fatuorum_ must not be brought into the church[1051]. In 1522, both _servitium_ and _festum_ were forbidden on account of the war with Spain; the shaving of the precentor and the ceremony of his election on the feast of St. John the Evangelist again coming in for express prohibition[1052]. In 1523 the _servitium_ was allowed upon a protest by the vicars, but only with the strict exclusion of the popular elements[1053]. In 1524 even the _servitium_ was withheld, and though sanctioned again in 1535, 1539 and 1543, it was finally suppressed in 1547[1054]. Some feast, however, would still seem to have been held, probably outside the church, until 1614[1055], and even as late as 1634 there was a trace of it in the annual procession of the Virgin Mary and the Apostles, already referred to.