Note 301 — Chapter VII · THE STAR CHAMBER FOUNDERS, AND THE LONDON POLYGLOT.

Moxon, in his account of the Customs of the Chapel (Mechanick Exercises, ii, 363), gives a full description of this yearly Feast, which, he says, “is made by Four Stewards, viz., two Masters and two Journey-men; which Stewards, with the Collection of half a Crown apiece of every Guest, defray the Charges of the whole Feast.” The List of Stewards, above referred to, contains, among others, the names of nearly all the seventeenth century letter-founders. Seventy feasts were held between 1621 and 1681, the first few probably being half-yearly. Three or four Stewards officiated at each. The names of the founders occurring in the list are as follows, the figures appended to each indicating the number of the feast at which each served his stewardship, with the approximate date: