Garlands for the children on Trinity Eve at Lambeth

On the eve of Trinity Sunday the parish of Lambeth gave its children garlands and drink and paid singers to go with the procession. Brand, quoting Lysons’s extracts from the Lambeth churchwardens’ accounts for 1519, gives sixpence for the children’s garlands and drink, a shilling to Spryngwell and Smyth for singing with the procession, and three shillings for four ounces of trimming ribbons.