The Revels Accounts preserve complaints from Ferrers that the garments for his noble retinue were not "worthy," that more elegant clothes would have to be constructed for the nobility who participated, as well as ominous orders for stocks, "a hanging lock for a pair of manacles, xxiiij great and small keyes for the ieylers," nails, a pillory, a gibbet, a "heading ax," and a "heading block." Ferrers's retinue for this macabre revel mirrored the king's--eight councillors, a
cofferer, a master of ordnance, gentlemen ushers, pages, heralds and trumpeters, ambassadors, a jester (probably Will Somers), a juggler, a minstrel (the usual Irish bagpiper), and three dancers.