[Footnote 622: _Ib._, 629.] [Footnote 623: _Ib._, 652. "Blind inns" were secret taverns, where, of course, all sorts of irregular proceedings went on.] [Footnote 624: _i.e._ Draughts.] [Footnote 625: _Leet Book_, 786.] [Footnote 626: _Ib._, 690.] [Footnote 627: _Leet Book_, 28.] [Footnote 628: _Ib._, 28.] [Footnote 629: See below, the Harcourt and Stafford quarrel.] [Footnote 630: Sharp, _Mysteries_, 169.] [Footnote 631: Wife of the famous Talbot.] [Footnote 632: _i.e._ Who.] [Footnote 633: _i.e._ Edge tool.] [Footnote 634: _Paston Letters_, i. 73.] [Footnote 635: Sharp, _Mysteries_, 180.] [Footnote 636: _Leet Book_, 204.] [Footnote 637: Corp. MS. A. 6. _Corpus Christi Guild Accounts_, ff. 54, 56, 80.] [Footnote 638: Corp. MS. A. 6. _Corpus Christi Guild Accounts_, f. 43.] [Footnote 639: The smiths spent money recklessly at this season until 1472, when it was ordained that the master of the craft should be allowed 5s. on Midsummer, and 3s. 6d. on S. Peter's eve, "and not a penny more," wherewith to provide supper (Sharp, _Mysteries_, 183).] [Footnote 640: _Ib._, 179.] [Footnote 641: _Ib._, 176.] [Footnote 642: See quotation from Stowe in Sharp, _Mysteries_, 175.] [Footnote 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).] [Footnote 644: Among the dyers, the penalty was 13s. 4d.(Sharp, _op. cit._, 183).] [Footnote 645: _Ib._, 160.] [Footnote 646: _Ib._, 184.] [Footnote 647: _Ib._, 193-4.] [Footnote 648: _Ib._, 194.] [Footnote 649: _Ib._, 196.] [Footnote 650: The cappers paid 9d. for canvas to make a new skirt for the giant, and "for mendyng of hys head and arme, xvi_d_." (_ib._, 201). The dyers also furnished a pageant wherein a hart and a herdsman blowing a horn figured. Perhaps this was a cause why they had been so long allowed to escape from providing a pageant on Corpus Christi day. See above, p. 220.] [Footnote 651: Sharp, 193. Drapers' Accounts, 1555, "payd to xviij gonnarys lxii_s_. iiij_d_.; payd for xijli of gonepother, xij_s_. vj_d_."] [Footnote 652: Sharp, _Mysteries_, 184.] [Footnote 653: "To gabriell for beryng the lilly iiij_d_." (_ib._, 162).] [Footnote 654: The frequent mistakes in chronology made by all writers who depend on Sharp or the printed versions of the Annals for dates of these visits make it important to insist on them.] [Footnote 655: The Shrewsbury mercers' guild imposed a fine on such of its members who missed the local procession through absence at Coventry fair. Chambers, _Mediæval Stage_, ii. 110.] [Footnote 656: C. Mery Talys, lvi. (quoted Chambers, ii. 358).] [Footnote 657: Chambers, _op. cit._, ii. 362. Bateson, _Leicester_, III. 111, 120, 127, 137.]