"Childermas day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boy-bishop of the college there on St. Nicholas's Day) elected their boy-bishop on St. Hugh's Day, in the month of November." In the statutes (1518) of St. Paul's School, we meet with the following: "All these children shall every Childermas Day come to Pauli's Church, and hear the Child-bishop sermon; and after he be at the high mass, and each of them offer a 1d. to the Child-bishop, and with them the masters and surveyors of the school." Brand quotes Strype, the author of the Ecclesiastical ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain |
