Southwark.
_Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes._--the word _Maior_ of
Misrule appears in the Harl. MSS. 2129. as having been on glass in the
year 1591, in Denbigh Church.
"5 Edw. VI., a gentleman (Geo. Ferrars), lawyer, poet, and
historian, appointed by the Council, and being of better calling
than commonly his predecessors, received his commission by the
name of 'Master of the King's Pastimes.'"--_Strutt's Sports and
Pastimes_, 340.
"1578. Edward Baygine, cursitor, clerk for writing and passing
the Queen's leases, 'Comptroller of the Queen's pastimes and
revels,' clerk comptroller of her tents and pavilions,
commissioner of sewers, burgess in Parliament."--Gwillim,
_Heraldry_, 1724 edit.