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Garland or ‘“‘ Whoode” upon his own head, and then, taking it 
off, put it on the head of his successor. It was a strange break 
in the festivities, perhaps devised to promote digestion, or it may 
be it was considered imprudent to delay until the end of the 
Feast, while the procession, the service at church and accompany- 
ing exhortation always took so long it was impossible to proceed 
to business until the pressing calls of hunger had been partially 
appeased. 
No service procession or feast is mentioned in the Bath Charter, 
but from the minutes we gather that all these customs existed 
until the extinction of the Company. 
When Collinson wrote his history the arms of the Merchant 
Tailors Company were to be seen in the window over the entrance 
to the vestry with the inscription : 
“ This window was repaired and continually kept by 
the Taylors, 1641.” 
The inscription and arms have disappeared but the memory of 
it is preserved on an old painting of Arms of the Company now 
hanging in the Abbey Vestry with the above inscription copied 
on the frame. 
Possibly this window may mark the spot where the officials. 
and members sat, or it may be that they had some connection 
with the vestry itself. It was originally a Chapel erected or 
restored by Sir Nicholas Salterne. Whether he was a Tailor I 
do not know. 
The maintenance of the window was continued for many years 
after its erection, for I find among Mr. Walter Hurd’s disburse- 
ments these items : 
21 Sept., 1691. pd ye glasier due Mr. Cogswell’s time 3 
pd ye glasier due in his own time 2 
a woes 
which must refer to the Abbey Window. 
The procession said by Warner to have taken place May 25, 
1765, when the Company was about to expire, was the last 

