Note 1259 — Chapter XV · THE BOY BISHOP
Reading edition
Archaeologia, l. 446, 472 sqq. (Invent. of 1245) ‘mitra alia alba addubbata aurifrigio, plana est; quam dedit J. Belemains episcopo innocentum.... Mitra episcopi innocentum, nullius precii.... Capa et mantella puerorum ad festum Innocentum et Stultorum [cf. p. 323] sunt xxviij debiles et contritae.’ In 1402 there were two little staves for the Boy Bishop (Simpson, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Old City Life, 40).