Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . very likely still is so in some—not to begin the service until the squire came ; weare shocked to find that it was so in those earliertimes, and that the squire was sometimes very is illustrated by two of the very curious storiesin the * Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry. * I have herde of a knight and of a lady that in her(their) youthe delited hem to rise late. And so they usedlonge tille many tymes that thei lost her masse, and madeother of her paryshe to lese it, for the knight was lord andpatron of the churche, a
Parish priests and their people in the Middle Ages in England . very likely still is so in some—not to begin the service until the squire came ; weare shocked to find that it was so in those earliertimes, and that the squire was sometimes very is illustrated by two of the very curious storiesin the * Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry. * I have herde of a knight and of a lady that in her(their) youthe delited hem to rise late. And so they usedlonge tille many tymes that thei lost her masse, and madeother of her paryshe to lese it, for the knight was lord andpatron of the churche, and therefor the priest durst notdisobeye hym. And so it happed that the knight sent untothe chirche that thei shulde abide hym. And whane hecome it was passed none, wherefor thei might not thatday have no masse, for every man saide it was passed tymeof the day, and therefore thei durst not singe. The other story is of a ladi that dwelled faste by the chirche, that toke everyday so long time to make her redy, that it made every * Early English Text ELliVATION AT MASS. FROM THE LATE XV. CENT. MS. 25698, f. 2. THE PUBLIC SERVICES IN CHURCH. 205 Sunday the parson of the chirche and the parisseners toabide after her. And she happed to abide so longe ona Sunday that it was fer dayes, and every man said to other, This day we trow shall not this lady be kerned andarraied. We read also of instances on fast days, when menmight not eat till after evensong, of evensong beingsaid at noon. After mass on Sunday, it was not very uncommonfor a pedlar to take the opportunity of the assemblingof the people to display his wares in the churchyard,in spite of injunctions to the contrary. And afterevensong, the young people took advantage of theirholiday to play at games, sometimes in the church-yard.* An inquiry t by Cardinal Pole, in 1557, whethertaverns and ale houses opened their doors onSundays and holy days in time of mass, matins,and evensong, indicates that the law required themto
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