Note 590 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

"Munimenta Gildhallæ Londiniensis."—"Liber albus, Liber custumarum; Liber Horn," Rolls, 1859, ed. Riley. The regulations (in French) relating to the Pui are drawn from the "Liber Custumarum," compiled in 1320 (14 Ed. II.), pp. 216 ff. "The poetical competitions called puis," established in the north of France, "seem to have given rise to German and Dutch imitations, such as the Master Singers and the Chambers of Rhetoric." G. Paris, "Littérature française au moyen âge," paragraph 127. To these we can add the English imitation which now occupies us.