42

Minstrels' Christmas Serenade at an Old Baronial Hall 44

Westminster Hall 46

Strange Old Stories Illustrated (_From Harl. MS._) 50

A Cook of the Period (_Early Norman_) 55

Monk Undergoing Discipline 56

Wassailing at Christmastide 57

Panoply of a Crusader 58

Royal Party Dining in State 63

Ladies Looking from the Hustings upon the Tournament 73

The Lord of Misrule 74

Curious Cuts of Priestly Players in the Olden Time 76

A Court Fool 77

Virgin and Child (_Florentine, 1480. South Kensington Museum_) 83

Henry VI.'s Cradle 84

Lady Musician of the Fifteenth Century 91

Rustic Christmas Minstrel with Pipe and Tabor 92

Martin Luther and the Christmas Tree 106

The Little Orleans Madonna of Raphael 107

Magdalen College, Oxford 110

Bringing in the Boar's Head with Minstrelsy 111

Virgin and Child, Chirbury, Shropshire 118

Riding a-Mumming at Christmastide 121

A Dumb Show in the Time of Elizabeth 123

The Fool of the Old Play (_From a Print by Breughel_) 137

The Acting of one of Shakespeare's Plays in the Time of
Queen Elizabeth 141

Neighbours with Pipe and Tabor 147

Christmas in the Hall 149

The Hobby-Horse 197

Servants' Christmas Feast 202

"The Hackin" 216

Seafaring Pilgrims 219

An Ancient Fireplace 225

A Druid Priestess Bearing Mistletoe 228

A Nest of Fools