In Dauphiné there was a _rex et festum fatuorum_ at St. Apollinaire’s in Valence, but I cannot give the date[1111]. At Vienne the _Statutes_ of St. Maurice, passed in 1385, forbid the _abbas stultorum seu sociorum_, but apparently allow _rois_ on the Circumcision and Epiphany, as well as in the three post-Nativity feasts. They also forbid certain _ludibria_. No _pasquinades_ are to be recited, and no one is to be carried _in Rost_ or to have his property put in pawn[1112]. More can be said of the feast at Viviers. A _Ceremonial_ of 1365 contains minute directions for its conduct[1113]. On December 17 the _sclafardi et clericuli_ chose an _abbas stultus_ to be responsible, as at Auxerre, for the decorum of the choir throughout the year. He was shouldered and borne to a place of honour at a drinking-bout. Here even the bishop, if present, must do him honour. After the drinking, the company divided into two parts, one composed of inferior clergy, the other of dignitaries, and sang a doggerel song, each endeavouring to sing its rival down. They shouted, hissed, howled, cackled, jeered and gesticulated; and the victors mocked and flouted the vanquished. Then the door-keeper made a proclamation on behalf of the ‘abbot,’ calling on all to follow him, on pain of having their breeches slit, and the whole crew rushed violently out of the church. A progress through the town followed, which was repeated daily until Christmas eve[1114]. On the three post-Nativity feasts, a distinct _dominus festi_, the _episcopus stultus_, apparently elected the previous year, took the place of the _abbas_. On each of these days he presided at Matins, Mass, and Vespers, sat in full pontificals on the bishop’s throne, attended by his ‘chaplain,’ and gave the Benedictions. Both on St. Stephen’s and St. John’s days these were followed by the recitation of a burlesque formula of indulgence[1115]. The whole festivity seems to have concluded on Innocents’ day with the election of a new _episcopus_, who, after the shouldering and the drinking-bout, took his stand at a window of the great hall of the bishop’s palace, and blessed the people of the city[1116]. The _episcopus_ was bound to give a supper to his fellows. In 1406 one William Raynoard attempted to evade this obligation. An action was brought against him in the court of the bishop’s official, by the then _abbas_ and his predecessor. It was referred to the arbitration of three canons, who decided that Raynoard must give the supper on St. Bartholomew’s next, August 24, at the accustomed place (a tavern, one fears) in the little village of Gras, near Viviers[1117].