 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...forts, and the like had ye in the Houfe of every Nobleman of Honour, or good Worfhip, were he fpiritual or temporal. The Mayor of London and either of the Sheriffs had their feveral Lords of Mifrule, ever contending, without Quarrel or Offence, who fhould make the rarejl Pajlincs... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...house, wheresoever he lodged, a lord of misrule, or master of merry disports, and the like had yee in the house of every nobleman of honour, or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal! f." In an original draught of the Statutes of Trinity-college, * Prol. 753. f Survey of London, pag.... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 388 pages
...house, wheresoever he lodged, a lord of misrule, or master of merry disports, and the like had yee in the house of every nobleman of honour, or good worship, were he spiritual or temporallf." In an original draught of the Statutes of Trinity-college, * Prol. 753. f Survey of London,... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...Stow in his Survey, there was in the King's House, a Lord of Misrule, or Master of Merry Dis~ ports, and the like had ye in the House of every Nobleman...temporal. The Mayor " of London and either of the Sheriffs had-their several Lords of Misrule, ever contending, without Quarrel or Offence, who should make the... | |
 | Griffin Higgs - Christmas plays, English - 1816 - 104 pages
...of London,") there was in the King's house, wheresoever he lodged, a lord of misrule, or master of merry disports, and the like had ye in the house of...good worship, were he spiritual or temporal." The custom prevailed till the ascendancy of the puritans during the civil war; and some idea of the expense,... | |
 | Christmas plays, English - 1816 - 406 pages
...of London,") there was in the King's house, wheresoever he lodged, a lord of misrule, or master of merry disports, and the like had ye in the house of...good worship, were he spiritual or temporal." The custom prevailed till the ascendancy of the puritans during the civil war; and some idea of the expense,... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of London - Archaeology - 1817 - 594 pages
...entertainment during the Christmas holidays, not in the King's palace only, but in those, as Stow tells us, of every nobleman of honour or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal. Strype's ed. Book I. p. 246, says, that by an Act of Common Council, I. 2. Ph. & Mar. for retrenching... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...in the Kinges house, wheresoever hee was lodged, a lorde of misrule, or mayster of merie disportes, and the like had ye in the house of every nobleman of honor, or good worshippe, were he spirituall or temporall. STOW. When I returned to the drawing-room,... | |
 | 1821 - 720 pages
...Anglite Notitia, 1673, Part II. p. 259. ' An old historian, alluding to the Lord of Misrule, says, "The like had ye in the house of every nobleman of...spiritual or temporal. The Mayor of London, and either [both] of the Sheriffs, had their several Lords of Mi»The provincial Lord of Misrule was an object... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1821 - 734 pages
...Anglia; Notitia, 1673, Part II. p. 259. ' An old historian, alluding to the Lord of Misrule, says, " The like had ye in the house of every nobleman of...or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal. The M ayc-r of London, and either [both] of the Sheriffs, had their several Lords of Mitrule, even contending,... | |
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First, in the feast of Christmas, there was in the king's house, wheresoever he was lodged, a lord of misrule, or master of merry disports, and the like had ye in the house of every nobleman of honour or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal. 
