Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes

The word *Maior* of Misrule appears in the Harl. MSS. 2129. as having been on glass in the year 1591, in Denbigh Church. "5 Edw. VI., a gentleman (Geo. Ferrars), lawyer, poet, and historian, appointed by the Council, and being of better calling than commonly his predecessors, received his commission by the name of 'Master of the King's Pastimes.'" —*Strutt's Sports and Pastimes*, 340. "1578. Edward Baygine, cursitor, clerk for writing and passing the Queen's leases, 'Comptroller of the Queen's pastimes and revels,' clerk comptroller of her tents and pavilions, commissioner of sewers, burgess i…