whitsuntyde

Updated: June 3, 2025

At Wing, Bucks, those refusing "to be lorde at Whitsuntyde for the behofe of the church" were fined 35. 4d. apiece. In some places these masters of the revels were called Cuckoo Kings, and the office seems to have gone in rotation like other parish offices.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects