Note 1397 — Chapter XVI · GUILD FOOLS AND COURT FOOLS
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Douce, 512; Doran, 293. Lodge, Wits Miserie (1599), describes a fool as ‘in person comely, in apparell courtly.’ The Durham accounts (Appendix E (1)) contain several entries of cloth and shoes purchased for the fool Thomas, but there is no mention of a hood.