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Mental
Health
Nursing
Applying Theory to Practice
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Applying Theory to Practice
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Applying Theory to Practice
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BRIEF CONTENTS
SECTION 1 CHAPTER 15
Theoretical frameworks underpinning practice 16 Obsessive compulsive and related disorders 339
CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 18
Ethics, law and mental health nursing practice 33 Trauma and stress-related disorders 351
CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 19
Treatment modalities utilised in contemporary mental health Other disorders of clinical interest 367
service delivery 48
CHAPTER 5 SECTION 3
Mental health nursing as a therapeutic process 68
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN MENTAL
CHAPTER 6 HEALTH NURSING 391
Using evidence to guide mental health nursing practice 91
CHAPTER 20
Suicide and non-suicidal self-injury 392
SECTION 2 CHAPTER 21
THE CLINICAL CONTEXT OF PRACTICE 106 Recovery and resilience in mental health 413
CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 22
Assessment and diagnosis 107 The family’s role in contemporary mental health
CHAPTER 8
service delivery 435
Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders 127 CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 9
The multidisciplinary team 450
Bipolar and related disorders 152 CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 10
Community mental health context 464
Depressive disorders 171 CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 11
Cultural context in practice in Australia 482
Anxiety disorders 195 CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 12
Mental health first aid 497
Personality disorders 211
CHAPTER 13
Eating disorders 235
CHAPTER 14
Substance-related and addictive disorders 258
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CONTENTS
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viii Contents
Comprehensive mental health assessment 111 Antisocial personality disorder (APD) 220
Modern diagnostic classification systems in mental Borderline personality disorder 224
health assessment 122 Chapter resources 232
Chapter resources 124
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 8 Eating disorders 235
Schizophrenia spectrum and other Introduction 236
psychotic disorders 127 Anorexia nervosa 236
Introduction 128 Bulimia nervosa 246
Aetiology 128 Binge-eating disorder 252
Diagnostic criteria schizophrenia 133 Males and eating disorders 253
Clinical presentation and the mental state examination 136 Chapter resources 254
Treatment 141
CHAPTER 14
Recovery and relapse prevention 146
Other psychotic disorders 147
Substance-related and addictive disorders 258
Introduction 259
Chapter resources 149
The historical context of substance use and misuse 259
CHAPTER 9 Understanding substance misuse, and defining
Bipolar and related disorders 152 illicit and psychoactive substances 259
Introduction 153 Addiction and dependence 260
Aetiology 153 Substance use, misuse problems and substance
Diagnostic criteria bipolar I and II disorder 155 use disorders 264
Clinical presentation and the mental state examination 158 Diagnostic criteria 274
Treatment 163 Biopsychosocial assessment framework 282
Recovery and relapse prevention 166 Clinical presentation and the mental state examination 285
Chapter resources 169 Chapter resources 294
CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 15
Depressive disorders 171 Neurodevelopmental disorders 299
Introduction 172 Introduction 300
Aetiology and epidemiology 172 Neurodevelopmental disorders 300
Clinical presentation of depressive disorder in the Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder 300
context of the mental state examination 176 Intellectual disability (intellectual disability disorder) 303
Treatment 177 Autism spectrum disorder 307
Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) 184 Risk assessment for people diagnosed
Depression in the perinatal period 185 with a neurodevelopmental disorder 312
Depression and older people 186 The impact of caring for a person with a diagnosis of a
Recovery and relapse prevention 189 neurodevelopmental disorder: who cares for the carers? 312
The family’s experience of depression 189 Chapter resources 313
Chapter resources 190
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 11 Neurocognitive disorders 317
Anxiety disorders 195 Introduction 318
Introduction 196 Ageing in Australia today: contemporary
What is anxiety? 196 trends and issues 318
Aetiology 197 Healthy ageing 319
Diagnostic criteria 198 Elder abuse 319
Treatment of anxiety disorders 203 Mental health issues and older people 320
How do mental health nurses assist a person Delirium 321
experiencing anxiety? 207 Major neurocognitive disorders: dementia 323
Chapter resources 208 The impact of neurocognitive disorders on families 333
Chapter resources 335
CHAPTER 12
Personality disorders 211 CHAPTER 17
Introduction 212 Obsessive compulsive and related disorders 339
Defining personality and understanding general Introduction 340
personality disorder 212 Obsessive-compulsive disorder 340
Introducing cluster A, B and C personality disorders 213 Hoarding disorder 344
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Contents ix
CHAPTER 1
Challenge your mental perspective
health was enacted through the 1843
2.4 Describe Lunacy cognitiveVictoria
behavioural/social was introduced.
theories of personality, their applicationHowever,
and relevancethis qualification
to mental
health nursing practice and some of the major critiques of these theories
on mental health Actnursing in Prior to this, the
(Curry, 1989). first superintendent was not recognised outside of Victoria, and nurses and
2.5 Describe humanistic theories of personality, their application and relevance to mental health nursing
had been a layperson, whose approach toandthe
somecare attendants were not registered with the Nurses’ Board
the real world with the practice
2.6 Describe
of the major critiques
how nursing
of these theories
of individuals with a mental health condition wastheorists have of drawn from psychological
Victoria (Reischel,and sociological
1974).theorists to understand
Learning from Practice focused on using psychosocial care
human
as a
behaviour
means
and
for
how this influences the role
Modern
of the mental health nurse
mental
2.7 Reflect on which psychological and/or nursing theories would be relevant to your health nursing education
nursing practice
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questions. Then, consider
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supported FROM medicalPRACTICE registration as psychiatric nurses commenced in
how the chapterapproaches has to treatment ‘based in neurophysiology Victoria with the passing of the Victorian Nurses Act
difficulty focusing their thoughts on a broad, open Shelley is a 21-year and skills.
old woman who As livesdescribed
at home with previously, At theinterpersonal
end of the second visit, a registered nurse
impacted your and neuropathology’ (Curry, 1989,
question. However, too many closed questions can
p. 10)
her mother. contributed
Shelley
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SECTION 1
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experiences could be
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FEATURES WITHIN CHAPTERS
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with a mental
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health condition in Victoria wasill at established in 1848
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SUMMARY
the Mental Health Act aims to support people with a providing and supporting care for people with a mental
mental health condition who require treatment, it can be illness. It is the responsibility of the nurse to ensure that
■■ This chapter has explored the legal and ethical contexts for ■■ Law and ethics apply in the context of nursing in Australia
a stigmatising and scary experience for consumers. The care and treatment provided is supportive of the person’s
nurses working in the field of mental health in the context of and all nurses working in health care need to be familiar
challenging aspect of this is for mental health nurses to human rights, and inclusive of their and their primary
mental health legislation in Australia. with local Mental Health Acts and other relevant
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balance legislation whilst maximising choice, promoting
in various jurisdictions of Australia
safety and supporting consumers in their recovery.
carer/’s wishes.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Gylo (Julie) Hercelinskyj is a senior lecturer Principal Lecturer Nursing, Three Counties School
in mental health nursing at Australian Catholic of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Worcester/
University (ACU), Melbourne. Julie’s clinical, teaching Associate Professor (adjunct) School of Nursing and
and research background is in older person’s mental Midwifery, La Trobe University
health, perinatal mental health, interpersonal skills ■■ Chapter 18: Trauma and stressor-related
and psychosocial nursing practice. Julie is a registered disorders, with Louise Ward.
nurse. She completed her original education in general
Glen Collett
nursing and then specialised in mental health nursing.
Ad. Dip Nursing Studies, Facilitating Learning in
Julie has a Masters in Nursing Studies and completed
Clinical Practice, P.Grad Certificate of Nursing, Papers
her PhD in 2011. She has presented at national and
in Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation and Clinical
international conferences and has published in the
Speciality in Mental Health. Prior Nurse Unit Manager
area of emotional labour in mental health nursing.
for Addictions, Healthscope, Clinical Facilitator
Julie believes that all nurses need to incorporate
■■ Chapter 14: Substance-related and addictive
promoting mental health into their practice. This
disorders, with Desiree Smith
requires a clear understanding of mental health and
mental distress, the impact on the person and their Doseena Fergie
families and how nurses work collaboratively with PhD. FCATSINaM. 2016 Churchill Fellow. Project Lead,
people who have a lived experience mental distress, Indigenous Recruitment and Retention, (Postgraduate
and their families. & Academic), Australian Catholic University
■■ Chapter 25: Cultural context in practice in
Louise Alexander is a lecturer in mental health
Australia
nursing at Australian Catholic University (ACU),
Melbourne. Louise has a background in forensic Terry Froggatt
mental health nursing in acute, subacute and PhD. MSc. BHA (UNSW). RN.CMHN, Head - Faculty
rehabilitation areas. Louise is a registered nurse with of Health and Social Wellbeing, Honorary Fellow
post-graduate qualifications in psychiatric nursing, University of Wollongong, Nan Tien Institute
and professional education and training. She also has ■■ Chapter 3: Ethics, law and mental health nursing
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Gylo (Julie): This has been a journey shared with a You are both my biggest motivation, and my proudest
number of people. Thanks to Louise for agreeing to achievement. I love you both very much. Finally, I
go on this rollercoaster ride with me. To my amazing would like to dedicate this book to my nephew James.
husband Peter – your support, love and friendship Never forgotten.
have always been the mainstay in my life. You
Cengage and the authors would like to thank the
are my ‘rock’. Here’s to the future. To my children
following reviewers for their incisive and helpful
Ayisha and Shae and my amazing grandson Ralph,
feedback:
I am immensely proud of the people you are, and
■■ Trudy Atkinson – Central Queensland University
that I get to be your mum and grandma. Mum, your
■■ Rhonda Dawson – University of Southern
indomitable spirit inspires me to be best I can be
Queensland
personally and professionally. To my father, sister and
■■ Cheryl Green – University of Adelaide
brother, I miss you all. This book is dedicated to you.
■■ Phillip Maude – RMIT University
Louise: I would like to thank my family for their ■■ Eddie Robinson – Monash University
support during this journey. You have all had to ■■ Tracy Robinson – University of Canberra
put up with an awful lot of literary suffering, far in ■■ Susan Sumskis – University of Wollongong
manuscripts, PhD thesis and this book. In particular, ■■ Philip Warelow – Federation University.
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1
UNDERPINNINGS OF MENTAL
HEALTH NURSING
CHAPTER 1 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING –THEN AND NOW 2
CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS UNDERPINNING PRACTICE 16
CHAPTER 3 ETHICS, LAW AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE 33
CHAPTER 4 TREATMENT MODALITIES UTILISED IN CONTEMPORARY
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY 48
CHAPTER 5 MENTAL HEALTH NURSING AS A THERAPEUTIC PROCESS 68
CHAPTER 6 USING EVIDENCE TO GUIDE MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRACTICE 91
From the days of the asylum and work of attendants through to contemporary mental health
service delivery, mental health nursing has evolved into a discipline that is guided by humanistic
principles and evidence for practice. Practice is founded on a range of theoretical perspectives,
legislative requirements, a variety of treatment and management options and therapeutic
processes. Section 1 explores these foundational ideas in order to set the scene for the
remainder of the book.
To understand the role of the mental health nurse as a member of the multidisciplinary
team in delivering recovery-oriented and trauma-informed care, Chapter 1 provides a
sense of the historical development of the discipline. Chapter 2 introduces some of the key
theoretical frameworks that underpin mental health nursing practice. You will read about
ideas from psychology and medicine as well as key contributions from mental health nursing
theorists. These ideas will be applied to practice and critiqued. Chapter 3 presents essential
knowledge regarding how mental health legislation underpins mental health service delivery,
how recovery has influenced recent legislation and the consumer perspective of compulsory
treatment and nursing practice, as well as key ethical considerations and issues related
to practice and ethical frameworks to identity these issues. Chapter 4 explores the range
of pharmacological and psychosocial treatment options currently used in contemporary
practice. Core to effective practice in mental health is the capacity to listen to, respond and
work collaboratively with consumers and their families. Chapter 5 explores the concept
of mental health nursing as a therapeutic process. The fundamental components of the
communication process, and the application of knowledge and skills to the therapeutic
process are identified and explored. Section 1 concludes with Chapter 6, which looks at how
mental health nurses understand, apply and critique evidence for practice. This includes
consideration of clinical reasoning and decision-making.
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convenit ut Canonici aut Vicarii ex collegarum suorum
numero aliquem designent Episcopum qui reliquos omnes
magnis impendiis liberali convivio excipiat.’
[1252] W. H. R. Jones, Vetus Registr. Sarisb. (R. S.), ii. 128;
Wordsworth, Proc. 170 ‘Item, annulus unus aureus ad
Festum Puerorum.’
[1253] Constitutiones, § 45 (Jones and Dayman, Sarum
Statutes, 75; cf. Jones, Fasti, 295) ‘Electus puer chorista in
episcopum modo solito puerili officium in ecclesia, prout
fieri consuevit, licenter exequatur, convivium aliquod de
caetero, vel visitationem exterius seu interius nullatenus
faciendo, sed in domo communi cum sociis conversetur,
nisi cum ut choristam ad domum canonici causa solatii ad
mensam contigerit evocari, ecclesiam et scholas cum
caeteris choristis statim post festum Innocentium
frequentando. Et quia in processione quam ad altare
Sanctae Trinitatis faciunt annuatim pueri supradicti per
concurrentium pressuras et alias dissolutiones multiplices
nonnulla damna personis et ecclesiae gravia intelleximus
priscis temporibus pervenisse, ex parte Dei omnipotentis et
sub poena maioris excommunicationis, quam
contravenientes utpote libertates dictae ecclesiae nostrae
infringentes et illius pacem et quietem temerarie
perturbantes declaramus incurrere ipso facto, inhibemus
ne quis pueros illos in praefata processione vel alias in suo
ministerio premat vel impediat quoquomodo, quominus
pacifice valeant facere et exequi quod illis imminet
faciendum; sed qui eidem processioni devotionis causa
voluerint interesse, ita modo maturo se habeant et honeste
sicut et in aliis processionibus dictae ecclesiae se habent
qui ad honorem Dei frequentant quando que ecclesiam
supradictam.’
[1254] Appendix M.
[1255] Jones, Fasti, 299.
[1256] Wordsworth, Proc. 259. The oblationes vary from lvis.
viiid. in 1448 to as much as lxxxixs. xid. in 1456.
[1257] Jones, Fasti, 300; Rimbault, xxviii; Planché, in Journal
of Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. xv. 123. Gregory, 93, gives a cut of
the statue.
[1258] Ordinale secundum Usum Exon. (ed. H. E. Reynolds),
f. 30.
[1259] Archaeologia, l. 446, 472 sqq. (Invent. of 1245) ‘mitra
alia alba addubbata aurifrigio, plana est; quam dedit J.
Belemains episcopo innocentum.... Mitra episcopi
innocentum, nullius precii.... Capa et mantella puerorum ad
festum Innocentum et Stultorum [cf. p. 323] sunt xxviij
debiles et contritae.’ In 1402 there were two little staves for
the Boy Bishop (Simpson, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Old
City Life, 40).
[1260] Statutes, bk. i, pars vi. c. 9, De officio puerorum in festo
Sanctorum Innocencium (W. S. Simpson, Registrum
Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Sancti
Pauli Londinensis, 91).
[1261] ‘Memorandum, quod Anno Domini Millesimo cc lxiij.
tempore G. de fferring, Decani, ordinatum fuit de officio
Puerorum die Sanctorum Innocencium, prout sequitur.
Provida fuit ab antiquis patribus predecessoribus nostris
deliberacione statutum, ut in sollennitate Sanctorum
Innocencium, qui pro Innocente Christo sanguinem suum
fuderunt, innocens puer Presulatus officio fungeretur, ut sic
puer pueris preesset, et innocens innocentibus imperaret,
illius tipum tenens in Ecclesia, quem sequuntur iuvenes,
quocumque ierit. Cum igitur quod ad laudem lactencium
fuit adinventum, conversum sit in dedecus, et in derisum
decoris Domus Dei, propter insolenciam effrenatae
multitudinis subsequentis eundem, et affluentis
improborum turbae pacem Praesulis exturbantis,
statuendum duximus ut praedicti pueri, tam in eligendo suo
Pontifice et personis dignitatum Decani, Archidiaconorum,
et aliorum, necnon et Stacionariorum, antiquum suum ritum
observent, tabulam suam faciant, et legant in Capitulo. Hoc
tamen adhibito moderamine, ut nullum decetero de
Canonicis Maioribus vel Minoribus ad candelabra, vel
turribulum, vel ad aliqua obsequia eiusdem Ecclesiae, vel
ipsius Pontificis deputent in futurum, set suos eligant
ministeriales de illis qui sunt in secunda forma vel in tercia.
Processionem suam habeant honestam, tam in incessu,
quam habitu et cantu, competenti; ita vero se gerant in
omnibus in Ecclesia, quod clerus et populus illos habeant
recommendatos.’
[1262] ‘Die vero solemnitatis post prandium ad mandatum
personae Decani convenient omnes in atrio Ecclesiae,
ibidem equos ascendant ituri ad populum benedicendum.
Tenetur autem Decanus Presuli presentare equum, et
quilibet Stacionarius sua personae in equo providere.’
[1263] Statutes, bk. i, pars vii. c. 6 (Simpson, op. cit. 129), a
statute made in the time of Dean Ralph de Diceto (1181-
†1204) ‘Debet eciam novus Residenciarius post cenam die
Sanctorum Innocencium ducere puerum suum cum daunsa
et chorea et torchiis ad Elemosinariam, et ibi cum torticiis
potum et species singulis ministrare, et liberatam vini
cervisiae et specierum et candellarum facere, et ibidem
ministri sui expectare, quousque alius puer Canonici
senioris veniat. Et secundam cenam in octavis
Innocencium tenebit, Episcopum cum pueris et eorum
comitiva pascendo, et in recessu dona dando, et, si diu
expectat adventum illorum nocte illa, ad matutinos non
teneatur venire.’
[1264] Rimbault, xxxii.
[1265] Printed in Rimbault, 1. Duff, Handlists, ii. 5, notes also a
Sermo pro episcopo puerorum by J. Alcock, printed in the
fifteenth century by R. Pynson.
[1266] Concio de puero Iesu pronunciata a puero in nova
schola Iohannis Coleti per eum instituta Londini in qua
praesidet imago Pueri Iesu docentis specie (Erasmi Opera
(1704), v. 599). The English version was printed by W.
Redman (Lupton, Life of Colet, 176). It is not clear that this
Concio was preached by a boy bishop, for Colet’s school
(cf. next note) attended the ‘bishop’ of St. Paul’s song-
school.
[1267] Lupton, op. cit. 175 ‘Alle these Chyldren shall every
Chyldremasse day come to paulis Church and here the
Chylde Bisshoppis sermon, and after be at the hye masse,
and eche of them offre a 1d. to the Childe Bisshopp; and
with theme the Maisters and surveyours of the scole.’
[1268] Lincoln Statutes, ii. 98 ‘Inveniet [thesaurarius] Stellas
cum omnibus ad illas pertinentibus, preter cirpos, quos
inveniet Episcopus Puerorum futurorum [?fatuorum], vnam
in nocte Natalis Domini pro pastoribus et ·ijas in nocte
Epiphanie, si debeat fieri presentacio ·iijum regum.’
[1269] Warton, iv. 224 ‘Ioannes de Quixly confirmatur
Episcopus Puerorum, et Capitulum ordinavit, quod electio
Episcopi Puerorum in ecclesia Eboracensi de cetero fieret
de eo, qui diutius et magis in dicta ecclesia laboraverit, et
magis idoneus repertus fuerit, dum tamen competenter sit
corpore formosus, et quod aliter facta electio non valebit.’
[1270] Warton, iv. 237 ‘nisi habuerit claram vocem puerilem.’
[1271] Warton, iv. 224.
[1272] Appendix M. Cf. Rimbault, xi, for further elucidations of
the Computus.
[1273] Percy, North. H. B. 340.
[1274] York Missal, i. 23. The rubric at the beginning of Mass
is ‘Omnibus pueris in Capis, Praecentor illorum incipiat.’
There are some responds for the ‘Praecentor’ and the
‘turba puerorum.’ After the Kyrie, ‘omnibus pueris in medio
Chori stantibus et ibi omnia cantantibus, Episcopo eorum
interim in cathedra sedente; et si Dominica fuerit, dicitur ab
Episcopo stante in cathedra Gloria in excelsis Deo: aliter
non.’ The Sequentia for the day is
[1275] Rimbault, xvi. The dates are between 1416 and 1537.
[1276] Raine, Fabric Rolls of York Minster (Surtees Soc.), 213
sqq. ( † 1500, the additions in brackets being † 1510) ‘una
mitra parva cum petris pro episcopo puerorum ... [unus
annulus pro episcopo puerorum et duo owchys, unus in
medio ad modum crucis cum lapidibus in circumferenciis
cum alio parvo cum uno lapide in medio vocato turchas]....
Capae Rubiae.... Una capa de tyssue pro Episcopo
puerili ... [duae capae veteres olim pro Episcopo
puerorum].’ Leach, 132, says ‘At York, in 1321, the Master
of the Works gave “a gold ring with a great stone for the
Bishop of the Innocents.” In 1491 the Boy Bishop’s
pontifical was mended with silver-gilt.’
[1277] Lincoln Statutes, i. 290 (Black Book, †1300); ii. ccxxxi.
[1278] Archaeologia, liii. 25, 50; Monasticon, viii. 1282 ‘Item, a
coope of Rede velvett wt Rolles & clowdes ordenyd for the
barne busshop wt this scriptur “the hye wey ys best”.’ The
entry is repeated in a later inventory of 1548.
[1279] Hereford, Consuetudines of thirteenth century (Lincoln
Statutes, ii. 67) ‘Thesaurarius debet invenire ... in festo
Innocencium pueris candelas et ·ijos cereos coram parvo
Episcopo.’
[1280] Lichfield—J. C. Cox, Sports in Churches, in W.
Andrews, Curious Church Customs, 3, quoting inventories
of 1345 and of the fifteenth century. The latter uses the
term ‘Nicholas Bishop.’
[1281] Gloucester—Rimbault, 14, prints from Cotton MSS.
Vesp. A. xxv, f. 173, a Sermon of the Child Bishop,
Pronownysed by John Stubs, Querester, on Childermas
Day, at Gloceter, 1558.
[1282] Norwich—a fourteenth-century antiphonal of Sarum
Use, probably of Norwich provenance (Lansd. MS. 463, f.
16v), provides for the giving of the baculus to the
Episcopus Puerorum at Vespers on St. John’s Day.
[1283] Beverley—the fifth earl of Northumberland about 1522
gave xxs. at Christmas to the ‘Barne Bishop’ of Beverley,
as well as to him of York (Percy, North. H. B. 340); cf. p.
357.
[1284] Wordsworth, Proc. 52; cf. Appendix M (1).
[1285] Ottery—Statutes of Bishop Grandisson (1337), quoted
by Warton, ii. 229 ‘Item statuimus, quod nullus canonicus,
vicarius, vel secundarius, pueros choristas in festo
sanctorum Innocentium extra parochiam de Otery trahant,
aut eis licentiam vagandi concedant.’
[1286] Magdalen—see Appendix E.
[1287] All Souls—An inventory has ‘j chem. j cap et mitra pro
Episcopo Nicholao’ (Rock, iii. 2. 217).
[1288] In 1299 Edward I heard vespers said ‘de Sancto
Nicholao ... in Capella sua apud Heton iuxta Novum
Castrum super Tynam’ (Wardrobe Account, ed. Soc. of
Antiq., 25). In 1306 a Boy Bishop officiated before Edward
II on St. Nicholas’ Day in the king’s chapel at Scroby
(Wardrobe Account in Archaeologia, xxvi. 342). In 1339
Edward III gave a gift ‘Episcopo puerorum ecclesiae de
Andeworp cantanti coram domino rege in camera sua in
festo sanctorum Innocentium’ (Warton, ii. 229). There was
a yearly payment of £1 to the Boy Bishop at St. Stephen’s,
Westminster, in 1382 (Devon, Issues of Exchequer, 222),
and about 1528-32 (Brewer, iv. 1939).
[1289] The fifth earl of Northumberland ( † 1512) was wont to
‘gyfe yerly upon Saynt Nicolas-Even if he kepe Chapell for
Saynt Nicolas to the Master of his Childeren of his Chapell
for one of the Childeren of his Chapell yerely vjs. viijd. And
if Saynt Nicolas com owt of the Towne wher my Lord lyeth
and my Lord kepe no Chapell than to have yerely iijs. iiijd.’
(Percy, North. H. B. 343). An elaborate Contenta de
Ornamentis Ep., puer., of uncertain provenance, is printed
by Percy, op. cit. 439.
[1290] St. Mary at Hill (Brand, i. 233); St. Mary de Prees
(Monasticon, iii. 360); St. Peter Cheap (Journal of Brit.
Arch. Ass. xxiv. 156); Hospital of St. Katharine by the Tower
(Reliquary, iv. 153); Lambeth (Lysons, Environs of London,
i. 310); cf. p. 367.
[1291] Louth (E. Hewlett, Boy Bishops, in W. Andrews, Curious
Church Gleanings, 241)—the payments for the Chyld
Bishop include some for ‘making his See’ (sedes);
Nottingham (Archaeologia, xxvi. 342); Sandwich (Boys,
Hist. of S. 376); New Romney (Hist. MSS. v. 517-28),
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Somersetshire (J. C. Cox, Sports in
Churches, in W. Andrews, Curious Church Customs);
Bristol—L. T. Smith, Ricart’s Kalendar, 80 (1479-1506,
Camden Soc.). On Nov. 24, the Mayor, Sheriff, and
‘worshipfull men’ are to ‘receyue at theire dores Seynt
Kateryn’s pleyers, making them to drynk at their dores and
rewardyng theym for theire playes.’ On Dec. 5 they are ‘to
walke to Seynt Nicholas churche, there to hire theire even-
song: and on the morowe to hire theire masse, and offre,
and hire the bishop’s sermon, and have his blissyng.’ After
dinner they are to play dice at the mayor’s counter, ‘and
when the Bishope is come thedir, his chapell there to
synge, and the bishope to geve them his blissyng, and then
he and all his chapell to be serued there with brede and
wyne.’ And so to even-song in St. Nicholas’ church.
[1292] L. T. Accounts, i. ccxlvi record annual payments by
James IV (†1473-98) to Boy Bishops from Holyrood Abbey
and St. Giles’s, Edinburgh.
[1293] Wilkins, ii. 38 ‘Puerilia autem solemnia, quae in festo
solent fieri Innocentum post vesperas S. Iohannis, tantum
inchoari permittimus, et in crastino in ipsa die Innocentum
totaliter terminentur.’
[1294] Archaeologia, lii. 221 sqq.
[1295] Transactions of London and Middlesex Arch. Soc. vols.
iv, v.
[1296] Athenæum (1900), ii. 655, 692 ‘data Pueris de
Elemosinaria ludentibus coram Domino apud
Westmonasterium, iijs. iiijd.’ Dr. E. J. L. Scott and Dr.
Rutherford found in this entry a proof of the existence of
the Westminster Latin play at ‘a period anterior to the
foundation of Eton’!
[1297] Rimbault, xviii; Finchale Priory (Surtees Soc.),
ccccxxviii; Durham Accounts (Surtees Soc.), iii. xliii, and
passim.
[1298] Hist. MSS. xiv. 8. 124, 157.
[1299] Computi of Cellarer (Warton, ii. 232, iii. 300) ‘1397, pro
epulis Pueri celebrantis in festo S. Nicholai ... 1490, in
larvis et aliis indumentis Puerorum visentium Dominum
apud Wulsey, et Constabularium Castri Winton, in apparatu
suo, necnon subintrantium omnia monasteria civitatis
Winton, in festo sancti Nicholai.’
[1300] G. W. Kitchin, Computus Rolls of St. Swithin’s
(Hampshire Rec. Soc.), passim; G. W. Kitchin and F. T.
Madge, Winchester Chapter Documents (H. R. Soc.), 24.
[1301] Warton, ii. 231 ‘1441, pro pueris Eleemosynariae una
cum pueris Capellae sanctae Elizabethae, ornatis more
puellarum, et saltantibus, cantantibus, et ludentibus, coram
domina Abbatissa et monialibus Abbathiae beatae Mariae
virginis, in aula ibidem in die sanctorum Innocentium.’
[1302] Harpsfield, Hist. Eccl. Angl. (1622), 441, citing
Peckham’s Register. He says the mandate was in French.
[1303] Visitations of Diocese of Norwich (Camden Soc.), 209
‘Domina Iohanna Botulphe dicit ... quod ... habent in festo
Natalis Domini iuniorem monialem in abbatissam
assumptam, vocandi [? iocandi] gratia; cuius occasione
ipsa consumere et dissipare cogitur quae vel elemosina vel
aliorum amicorum largitione acquisierit ... Iniunctum
est ... quod de cetero non observetur assumptio abbatissae
vocandi causa.’
[1304] Gregory of Tours, x. 16 (M. G. H. Script. Rerum
Meroving. i. 427), mentions among the complaints laid
before the visitors of the convent of St. Radegund in
Poitou, that the abbess ‘vittam de auro exornatam idem
neptae suae superflue fecerit, barbaturias intus eo quod
celebraverit.’ Ducange, s. v. Barbatoriae, finds here a
reference to some kind of masquing, and Peter of Blois,
Epist. 14, certainly uses barbatores as a synonym for mimi.
The M. G. H. editors of Gregory, however, explain
‘barbatoria’ as ‘primam barbam ponere’ the sense borne by
the term in Petronius, Sat. lxxiii. 6. The abbess’s niece had
probably no beard, but may not the reference be to the
cutting of the hair of a novice when she takes the vows?
[1305] Ducange, s. v. Kalendae (‘de monialibus Villae-Arcelli’),
‘Item inhibemus ne de caetero in festis Innocentum et B. M.
Magdalenae ludibria exerceatis consueta, induendo vos
scilicet vestibus saecularium aut inter vos seu cum
secularibus choreas ducendo’; and again ‘in festo S.
Iohannis et Innocentium mimia iocositate et scurrilibus
cantibus utebantur, ut pote farsis, conductis, motulis;
praecepimus quod honestius et cum maiori devotione alias
se haberent’; Gasté, 36 (on Caen) ‘iuniores in festo
Innocentium cantant lectiones suas cum farsis. Hoc
inhibuimus.’ In 1423, the real abbess gave place to the little
abbess at the Deposuit. Gasté, 44, describes a survival of
the election of an ‘abbess’ from amongst the pensionnaires
on the days of St. Catherine and the Innocents in the
Abbaye aux Bois, Faubourg St. Germain, from the
Mémoires of Hélène Massalska. This was about 1773.
[1306] Howlett, Monumenta Franciscana (R. S.), ii. 93
‘Caveant fratres in festo Sancti Nicolai seu Innocentium,
vel quibuscunque aliis festis vestes extraneas religiosas
seu seculares aut clericales vel muliebres sub specie
devotionis induere; nec habitus fratrum secularibus pro
ludis faciendis accommodentur sub poena amotionis
confusibilis de conventu.’
[1307] Denifle, i. 532. It was forbidden ‘in eisdem festis vel aliis
paramenta nec coreas duci in vico de die nec de nocte
cum torticiis vel sine.’ But it was on Innocents’ Day that the
béjaunes or ‘freshmen’ of the Sorbonne were subjected to
rites bearing a close analogy to the feast of fools; cf.
Rigollot, 172 ‘1476 ... condemnatus fuit in crastino
Innocentium capellanus abbas beiannorum ad octo solidos
parisienses, eo quod non explevisset officium suum die
Innocentium post prandium, in mundationem beiannorum
per aspersionem aquae ut moris est, quanquam solemniter
incoepisset exercere suum officium ante prandium
inducendo beiannos per vicum super asinum.’
[1308] Denifle, iii. 166.
[1309] ‘Verbis nedum gallicis sed eciam latinis, ut ipsi qui de
partibus alienis oriundi linguam gallicam nequaquam
intelligebant plenarie.’
[1310] S. F. Hulton, Rixae Oxonienses, 68. There had been
many earlier brawls.
[1311] Statute xxix (T. F. Kirby, Annals of Winchester College,
503) ‘Permittimus tamen quod in festo Innocencium pueri
vesperas matutinas et alia divina officia legenda et
cantanda dicere et exsequi valeant secundum usum et
consuetudinem ecclesiae Sarum.’ The same formula is
used in New College Statute xlii (Statutes of the Colleges
of Oxford, vol. i).
[1312] Cf. Appendix E. Kirby, op. cit. 90, quotes an inventory of
1406 ‘Baculus pastoralis de cupro deaurato pro Epõ
puerorum in die Innocencium ... Mitra de panno aureo ex
dono Dñi. Fundatoris hernesiat (mounted) cum argento
deaurato ex dono unius socii coll. [Robert Heete] pro Epõ
puerorum.’
[1313] The Charter of King’s College (1443), c. 42 (Documents
relating to the Univ. of Camb. ii. 569; Heywood and Wright,
Ancient Laws of the Fifteenth Century for King’s Coll.
Camb. and Eton Coll. 112), closely follows Wykeham’s
formula: ‘excepto festo Sti Nicholai praedicto, in quo festo
et nullatenus in festo Innocentium, permittimus quod
pueri ... secundum usum in dicto Regali Collegio hactenus
usitatum.’ The Eton formula (c. 31) in 1444 is slightly
different (Heywood and Wright op. cit. 560) ‘excepto in
festo Sancti Nicholai, in quo, et nullatenus in festo
Sanctorum Innocentium, divina officia praeter missae
secreta exequi et dici permittimus per episcopum puerorum
scholarium, ad hoc de eisdem annis singulis eligendum.’
[1314] Warton, ii. 228; Leach, 133. The passage from the
Consuetudinarium is given from Harl. MS. 7044 f. 167
(apparently a transcript from a C. C. C. C. MS.) by
Heywood and Wright, op. cit. 632; E. S. Creasy, Eminent
Etonians, 91 ‘in die Sti Hugonis pontificis solebat Aetonae
fieri electio Episcopi Nihilensis, sed consuetudo obsolevit.
Olim episcopus ille puerorum habebatur nobilis, in cuius
electione et literata et laudatissima exercitatio, ad
ingeniorum vires et motus excitandos, Aetonae celebris
erat.’
[1315] Eton Audit Book, 1507-8, quoted by H. C. Maxwell-Lyte,
Hist. of Eton (ed. 1899), 149 ‘Pro reparatione le rochet pro
episcopo puerorum, xjd.’ An inventory of Henry VIII’s reign
says that this rochet was given by James Denton (K. S.
1486) for use at St. Nicholas’ time.
[1316] Maxwell-Lyte, op. cit. 450.
[1317] Hearne, Liber Niger Scaccarii, 674 ‘Item, unam Mitram
de Cloth of goold habentem 2 knoppes arḡ. enameld, dat.
ad occupand. per Barnebishop.’
[1318] John Stone, a monk of Canterbury, records in his De
Obitibus et aliis Memorabilibus sui Coenobii (MS. C. C. C.
C., Q. 8, quoted Warton, ii. 230) ‘Hoc anno, 1464, in festo
Sancti Nicolai non erat episcopus puerorum in schola
grammatica in civitate Cantuariae ex defectu Magistrorum,
viz. I. Sidney et T. Hikson.’
[1319] J. Stuart, Extracts from Council Registers of Aberdeen
(Spalding Club), i. 186. The council ordered on Nov. 27,
1542, ‘that the maister of thair grammar scuyll sell haf iiijs
Scottis, of the sobirest persoun that resauis him and the
bischop at Sanct Nicolace day.’ This is to be held a legal
fee, ‘he hes na uder fee to leif on.’
[1320] Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 860 ‘And whereas heretofore
dyverse and many superstitious and childysshe
observations have been usid, and yet to this day are
observed and kept in many and sondry parties of this
realm, as upon sainte Nicolas, sainte Catheryne, sainte
Clement, the holye Innocentes, and such like; children be
strangelye decked and apparelid to counterfaite priestes,
bysshopps, and women; and so ledde with songes and
daunces from house to house, bleasing the people, and
gatherynge of monye; and boyes doo singe masse, and
preache in the pulpitt, with suche other unfittinge and
inconvenyent usages, rather to the derision than to any
true glory of God, or honour of his saints; the kyng’s
majestie therefore mynding nothing so moche, as to
avaunce the true glorye of God without vayne superstition,
willith and commaundeth, that from henceforth all suche
superstitions be loste and clyerlye extinguisshed
throughowte all this his realmes and dominions,
forasmoche as the same doo resemble rather the unlawfull
superstition of gentilitie, than the pure and sincere religion
of Christe.’ Brand, i. 236, suggests that there was an earlier
proclamation of July 22, 1540, to the same effect. Johan
Bale in his Yet a Course at the Romyshe Foxe (1542), says
that if Bonner’s censure of those who lay aside certain
‘auncyent rytes’ is justified, ‘then ought my Lorde also to
suffer the same selfe ponnyshment, for not goynge
abought with Saynt Nycolas clarkes.’ Thomas Becon,
Catechism, 320 (ed. Parker Soc.), compares a bishop who
does not preach, a ‘dumb dog,’ to a ‘Nicholas bishop.’ The
Articles put to bishop Gardiner in 1550 required him to
declare ‘that the counterfeiting St. Nicholas, St. Clement,
St. Catherine and St. Edmund, by children, heretofore
brought into the church, was a mockery and foolishness’
(Froude, iv. 550).
[1321] Machyn’s Diary, 75 ‘The xij day of November [1554]
was commondyd by the bysshope of London to all clarkes
in the dyoses of London for to have Sant Necolas and to go
a-brod, as mony as wold have ytt ... [the v day of
December, the which was Saint Nicholas’ eve, at even-
song time, came a commandment that St. Nicholas should
not go abroad, nor about. But, notwithstanding, there went
about these Saint Nicholases in divers parishes, as St.
Andrew’s, Holborn, and St.] Nicolas Olyffe in Bredstret.’
Warton, iv. 237, says that during Mary’s reign Hugh
Rhodes, a gentleman or musician of the Chapel royal,
printed in black letter quarto a poem of thirty-six octave
stanzas, entitled The Song of the Chyldbysshop, as it was
songe before the queenes maiestie in her privie chamber
at her manour of saynt James in the Feeldes on Saynt
Nicholas day and Innocents day this yeare nowe present,
by the chylde bysshope of Poules churche with his
company.’ Warton apparently saw the poem, for he
describes it as ‘a fulsome panegyric on the queen’s
devotion, in which she is compared to Judith, Esther, the
Queen of Sheba, and the Virgin Mary,’ but no copy of it is
now known; cf. F. J. Furnivall, The Babees Book (E. E. T.
S.), lxxxv.
[1322] Machyn’s Diary, 121 ‘The v day of Desember [1556]
was Sant Necolas evyn, and Sant Necolas whentt a-brod in
most partt in London syngyng after the old fassyon, and
was reseyvyd with mony good pepulle in-to ther howses,
and had myche good chere as ever they had, in mony
plasses.’ Foxe, Acts and Monuments, viii. 726, celebrates
the wit of a ‘godly matron,’ Mrs. Gertrude Crockhay, who
shut ‘the foolish popish Saint Nicholas’ out of her house in
this year, and told her brother-in-law, Dr. Mallet, when he
remonstrated, that she had heard of men robbed by ‘Saint
Nicholas’s clerks.’ This was a slang term for thieves, of
whom, as of children, St. Nicholas was the patron; for the
reason of which cf. Golden Legend, ii. 119. Another
procession forbidden by the proclamation of 1541 was also
revived in 1556; cf. Machyn’s Diary, 119 ‘[The xxiv day of
November, being the eve of Saint Katharine, at six of the
clock at night] sant Katheryn(’s) lyght [went about the
battlements of Saint Paul’s with singing,] and Sant
Katheryn gohying a prossessyon.’
[1323] At Exton in Rutlandshire, children were allowed at the
beginning of the nineteenth century to play in the church on
Innocents’ Day (Leicester and Rutland Folk-Lore, 96).
Probably a few other examples could be collected.
[1324] At Mainz, not only the pueri, but also the diaconi and
the sacerdotes, had their episcopus (Dürr, 71). On the
other hand at Vienne the term used at all the feasts, of the
triduum and on January 1 and 6, was rex (Pilot de Thorey,
Usages, Fêtes et Coutumes en Dauphiné, i. 179). The Boy
Bishops received, for their brief day, all the external marks
of honour paid to real bishops. They are alleged to have
occasionally enjoyed more solid privileges. Louvet (Hist. et
Ant. de Beauvais, cited Rigollot, 142), says that at
Beauvais the right of presentation to chapter benefices
falling vacant on Innocents’ Day fell to the pueri. Jean Van
der Muelen or Molanus (De Canonicis (1587), ii. 43) makes
a similar statement as to Cambrai: ‘Immo personatus hic
episcopus in quibusdam locis reditus, census et capones,
annue percipit: alibi mitram habet, multis episcoporum
mitris sumptuosiorem. In Cameracensi ecclesia visus est
vacantem, in mense episcopi, praebendam, quasi iure ad
se devoluto, conferre; quam collationem beneficii vere
magnifici, reverendissimus praesul, cum puer grato animo,
magistrum suum, bene de ecclesia meritum, nominasset,
gratam et raram habuit.’ At Mainz lost tradition had it that if
an Elector died during the tenure of office by a Boy Bishop,
the revenues sede vacante would fall to him. Unfortunately
the chapter and verse of history disprove this (Dürr, 67,
79). On the other hand it is certain that the Boy Bishops
assumed the episcopal privilege of coinage. Rigollot, 52
sqq., describes and figures a long series of fifteenth-and
sixteenth-century coins or medals mostly struck by
‘bishops’ of the various churches and monastic houses of
Amiens. They are the more interesting, because some of
them bear ‘fools’ as devices, and thus afford another proof
of the relations between the feasts of Boys and Fools. Lille
monetae of the sixteenth century are figured by Vanhende,
Numismatique Lilloise, 256, and others from Laon by C.
Hidé, in Bull. de la Soc. acad. de Laon, xiii. 126. Some of
Rigollot’s specimens seem to have belonged, not to Boy
Bishops, but to confréries, who struck them as ‘jetons de
présence’ (Chartier, L’ancien Chapitre de N.-D. de Paris,
178); and probably this is also the origin of the pieces
found at Bury St. Edmunds, which have nothing in their
devices to connect them with a Boy Bishop (Rimbault,
xxvi).
[1325] Ivo Carnotensis, Epist. 67, ad papam Urbanum (P. L.
clxii. 87)
‘Nicolai praesulis
Festum celebremus,
.....
In tanto natalitio
Patrum docet traditio
Ut consonet in gaudio
Fidelium devotio,
Est ergo superstitio
Vacare a tripudio.’
In England it is probable that the Beverley Boy Bishop also
officiated on St. Nicholas’ Day. A chapter order of Jan. 7,
1313, directs the transfer of the ‘servitium sancti Nicholai in
festo eiusdem per Magistrum Scholarum Beverlacensium
celebrandum’ to the altar of St. Blaize during the building of
a new nave (A. F. Leach, Memorials of Beverley Minster,
Surtees Soc. i. 307).
[1328] Tille, D. W. 32; Leach, 130. The connexion of St.
Nicholas with children may be explained by, if it did not
rather give rise to, either the legend of his early piety, ‘The
first day that he was washed and bained, he addressed
him right up in the bason, and he wold not take the breast
nor the pap but once on the Wednesday and once on the
Friday, and in his young age he eschewed the plays and
japes of other young children’ (Golden Legend, ii. 110); or
the various other legends which represent him as bringing
children out of peril. Cf. Golden Legend, ii. 119 sqq., and
especially the history of the resurrection of three boys from
a pickle-tub narrated by Mr. Leach from Wace. A. Maury,
(Croyances et Légendes du Moyen Âge (ed. 1896), 149)
tries to find the origin of this in misunderstood iconographic
representations of the missionary saint at the baptismal
font.
[1329] Leach, 130; Golden Legend, ii. 111.
[1330] Cf. ch. xi. The position of St. Nicholas’ Day in the
ceremonies discussed in this chapter is sometimes shared
by other feasts of the winter cycle: St. Edmund’s (Nov. 20),
St. Clement’s (Nov. 23), St. Catherine’s (Nov. 25), St.
Andrew’s (Nov. 30), St. Eloi’s (Dec. 1), St. Lucy’s (Dec. 13).
Cf. pp. 349-51, 359, 366-8. The feast of St. Mary
Magdalen, kept in a Norman convent (p. 362), was,
however, in the summer (July 22).
[1331] Specht, 229; Tille, D. W. 300; Wetze and Welte, iv.
1411. Roman schoolmasters expected a present at the
Minervalia (March 18-23); cf. the passage from Tertullian in
Appendix N (1).
[1332] Martin Franc, Champion des dames (Bibl. de l’École
des Chartes, v. 58).
[1333] Du Tilliot, 87.
[1334] Julleville, Les Com. 241.
[1335] Julleville, Les Com. 193, 256; Du Tilliot, 97. The chief
officers of the chapel fous were the ‘bâtonnier’ and the
‘protonotaire et procureur des fous.’ In the Infanterie these
are replaced by the emblematical Mère Folle and the
‘Procureur fiscal’ known as ‘Fiscal vert’ or ‘Griffon vert.’ Du
Tilliot and others have collected a number of documents
concerning the Infanterie, together with representations of
seals, badges, &c., used by them. These may be
compared in Du Tilliot with the bâton belonging to the
Chapel period (1482), which he also gives. The motto of
the Infanterie is worth noticing. It was Numerus stultorum
infinitus est, and was taken from Ecclesiastes, i. 15. It was
used also at Amiens (Julleville, Les Com. 234).
[1336] At Amiens the ‘feste du Prince des Sots’ existed in
1450 (Julleville, Les Com. 233), but the ‘Pope of Fools’ was
not finally suppressed in the cathedral for another century.
But at Amiens there was an immense multiplication of
‘fool’-organizations. Each church and convent had its
‘episcopus puerorum,’ and several of these show fous on
their coins. Rigollot, 77, 105, figures a coin with fous, which
he assigns to a confrérie in the parish of St. Remigius; also
a coin, dated 1543, of an ‘Evesque des Griffons.’
[1337] Julleville, Les Com. 144.
[1338] The term cornard seems to be derived from the ‘cornes’
of the traditional fool headdress. Leber, ix. 353, reprints
from the Mercure de France for April, 1725, an account of a
procession made by the abbas cornardorum at Evreux
mounted upon an ass, which directly recalls the Feast of
Fools. A macaronic chanson used on the occasion of one
of these processions is preserved: