Church Comments on the Feast

• 1199- the Bishop of Paris mentions bloodshed and improprieties, and orders that bells must be rung in the normal way and there should be no bawdy songs, no masks and no torch-lit processions.The Lord of the Feast (Dominus Festi) must put on his cope in the Church , not in his home, and with the Precentor's staff he shall lead the singing.
• 1245- Cardinal Odo, Papal legate in France wrote to the Chapter in Sens Cathedral demanding that the feast be celebrated with no unclerical dress and no wreaths of flowers.
• 1431- The Council of Basel outlaws th feast in Swiss areas.
• 1444- An authority says that the services should be preformed with devotion and reverence, without mockery or disonsnt singing. Also, the Boy-Bishop is not to be drenched with more than 3 buckets of water during Vespers.