...contentment, and had other pageants and pastimes, as ye may read in my said author. I find also, that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings,...

...most of the larger towns of Elizabethan England and even of London, as Stow remarks: I find also, that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several may...

...notes both the pageantry of the procession and the drama of the ensuing festival: I find also, that in the month of May, the citizens of London of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings,...

...thai in the month of May, the citizens of Ixmdon of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings and did letch in maypoles, with divers warlike shows, with good archers, morris dancers and other devices,...

...records of the citizens of London, that they " of all estates, lightly in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several Mayings, and did fetch in Maypoles, with divers warlike shews, with good archers, morris-dancers, and other devices, for pastime...

...Katherine his wife, accompanied by many lords and ladies ; and further tells us, " I find also that, in the month of May, the citizens of London (of all estates) lightly, in every parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several Mayings,...

...not let me see a mustering, Nor in a May-day morning fetch in May.' We are informed by Stow, ' that, in the month of May, the citizens of London, (of all estates,) lightly in every parish, or sometime two or three parishes joining together, had their several Mayings,...