Whitsuntide Customs.

Tabor and pipe decorated with ribbons . Tom J"ool and Maid Marian . Morris Dancers , dancing Sarabants , clashing their staves . Two captains of the armed men . Twenty-four armed men with drums . Twenty-one dozeners with standards or posies . Two Constables .

Gaoler . Sheriff . SsrjeantB-at-mace and Town Crier . Bailiffs and Town Clerk . Citizens , inhabitants , etc . On arriving at the door of St . Mary ' s Church , an address was delivered by the town-clerkrecommending a peaceable demeanour , and watchful attendance to

, duty ; then a volley was fired over the posies , and the business of the day ended . At one time the images were deposited in the belfry of the adjoining church , from which it has been conjectured that the origin of the ceremony was relig ious . The custom was abolished by the magistrates in 1805 , at which time the expense was annually about s 670 ; but was afterwards in some degree continued bprivate subscription .

y We must here close our remarks on the customs of Whitsuntide , for the length of our paper will not permit us to speak of many other quaint observances which formerly took place throughout the length and breath of our land .

Masonic And General Archaeologia.

MASONIC AND GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGIA .

IN Maldon ' s " Account of King ' s College , Cambridge , " at page 80 , we find the following indenture : — " This indenture made the fourth day of August in the fifth yere of the reign of our sovrain lord kyng Herry the 8 th , betwyneMr . Robert Hacombleyn Provost of the kyng ' s college royal in Cambrydge and the scolers of the same with the advise and agrement of Mr . Thomas Larke surveyor of the k ' s

yng works there on the oon partye , and John Wastell master mason of the seid works on the other partye , witnesseth , That it is covenaunted , bargayned , and agreed betwyne the partyes aforeseid , that the seid John Wastell shall make and sett up , or cawse to be made and sett up , at his propre cost and charge , the vawting of two porches of the newe churche of the kyng ' s college aforeseid with Yorkshere ston ; And also the vawtes of seven chapels in the body of the

same churche with Weldon ston , accordynge to a plat made as well for the same seven chapels as for the seid two porches ; and nine other chapels behynd the quyre of the seid churche with like Weldon ston to be made of a more course werke , as appereth by a plat for the same made : And that the seid John Wastell shall make and sett up or cawse to be made and sett up at his cost and charge the batelments of all the seid porches and chapels with Weldon

ston accordynge to another plat made for the same remyning with all the other p lats afore rehersed in the kepynge of the seid surveyor signed with the hands of the lords the kynge ' s executors : All the seid vawtes and batelments to be well and workmanly wrought made and sett up after the best handlynge and forme of good workmanshyp , and accordyng to the plats afore specifyed : The foreseid John Wastell to provide and fynde at his cost and charge not only as

moche good sufficient and hable ston of Hampole quarryes in Yorkshere as shall suflise for the performance of the said two porches , but also as moche good sufficient and hable ston of Weldon quarryes as shall suffise for the performyng of all the seid chapels and batelments , together with lyme , sand , scaffoldyng , mooles , ordinaunces , and every other th yng concernyng the fynishyng and performyng of all the seid vawtes and batelments , as well workmen ancl laborers , as all maner of stuff and ordinaunce as