[Footnote 198: Sharpe, p. 132.] [Footnote 199: _Scots Magazine_, 1814, p. 201. Spelling modernized.] [Footnote 200: Stewart, p. 175. The whole account is marred by the would-be comic style adopted by the author.] [Footnote 201: Pinkerton, i, p. 473.] [Footnote 202: Bodin, p. 187.] [Footnote 203: Michaelis, _Discourse_, p. 148.] [Footnote 204: Remigius, pt. i, p. 90.] [Footnote 205: F. Hutchinson, _Historical Essay_, p. 42.] [Footnote 206: Boguet, p. 141.] [Footnote 207: De Lancre, _Tableau_, pp. 67, 68, 69, 126.] [Footnote 208: Id., _L'Incredulité_, p. 800.] [Footnote 209: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 125. Cp. Elworthy on the Hobby-horse as the Devil, _Horns of Honour_, p. 140.] [Footnote 210: _Rehearsall both Straung and True_, par. 24.] [Footnote 211: Kinloch, pp. 122-3.] [Footnote 212: Howell, vi, 663-4; J. Hutchinson, ii, pp. 36-7.] [Footnote 213: Chartier, iii, 44-5.] [Footnote 214: Boguet, p. 70.] [Footnote 215: De Lancre, _L'Incredulité_, p. 800.] [Footnote 216: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 121.] [Footnote 217: Pitcairn, iii, p. 613.] [Footnote 218: Taylor, p. 98.] [Footnote 219: Remigius, p. 98.] [Footnote 220: Potts, E 3.] III. ADMISSION CEREMONIES 1. _General_ In the ceremonies for admission, as in all the other ceremonies of the cult, the essentials are the same in every community and country, though the details differ. The two points which are the essence of the ceremony are invariable: the first, that the candidates must join of their own free will and without compulsion; the second, that they devote themselves, body and soul, to the Master and his service. The ceremonies of admission differed also according to whether the candidate were a child or an adult. The most complete record of the admission of children comes from the Basses-Pyrénées in 1609: