The Wayzgoose

An old writer on printing, quoted by Hone, said that about Bartholomew-tide the journeymen printers made new paper windows for the printing house, and the master printer gave them a feast called a way-goose. The corrector, the type founder, the smith and the ink maker were invited, and all opened their purses for the men to spend in the tavern afterwards. From that time the men began to work by candlelight. Hone adds that paper windows were no more, and prints the old customs of the printers’ chapel alongside.