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Calendar of Border Papers
… in very good quietnesbut this accident will now occasion misrule on both sydes, unles tymely order be provided." …
Chalgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… communal merrymaking with maypole dancing and a court of misrule, 13 while an August feast was mentioned in the 1720s. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Stafford, of Blatherwick, at Christmas time, a lord of misrule, he and others had appointed that the lord of misrule must have for a lady or Christmas wife, one Elizabeth …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… be made the author of the violation of ordinances, and of misrule. Begs to be made warden instead, having been …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… had never beheld 'a more disgusting scene of filth and misrule than the Salisbury Workhouse'. 159 It was the aim of …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… a pe . . ; and master Maynard the shreyff had a lord of [misrule, and] the mores dansse, with a good compeny. fern. …
A Survey of London
… and suburbs, that this their ancient and onely patron of misrule, is left and forsaken of her Gamesters, and therefore …