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Catalogzie of Brand Matei'ial.
V.
Played to preserve right-of-way {2 days' play) - - - -
Saint Rattle-doll Fair (speciality gambling. Dwindling in 1877)
Bull-baiting, up to middle of i8th century -----
Rope-pulling - - - .
Threading the Needle - - -
Threading the Needle combined with Clipping Church
Clipping Church alone - - -
" Whipping Toms." (Hockey played on the Newarke, to keep up a privilege, ground cleared later by men with cart- whips. Suppressed 1841) - . - Business transacted.
Houses of ill-fame cleared - Tenants paid dues (of poultry ?) - Cattle removed from meadows Women look for shellfish (probably to eat on Ash Wednesday)
LOCALITY.
Dorset (Purbeck).
Crowland.
Portsmouth.
Ludlow, Presteign, Ponte-
fract.^ Leicester. Wilts. (Longbridge De-
verill, Trowbridge).
Salop (Bradford-on- Avon, EUesmere). Somerset (S. Petherton). Wilts. (Westbury). Worcester (Cradley) . Salop (Wellington).
Leicester.
Middle Ages. Paston Letters (1450). Tusser (1620).
Penzance.
T r ; A7 WALES.
I. Local Name.
Guttots Tuesday ... North Wales.
11. Natural Phenomena.
A good day for any new under- taking ----- South Wales. Buttermilk drunk on Shrove Tues- day prevents freckles and sun- burn ----- South Wales. III. General Observances. (a) Viands.
Pancakes as in England - Universal. Sold in baskets to football
players - - - - South Wales.
'Particulars wanted.
