Catalogue of Brand Material.
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Common Rights entered upon. locality.
Overseers of common lands appointed (following Sunday),
who must provide a town bull Isle of Ely (Whittlesea). Common of pasture re-opened
(closed, Michaelmas) - - Epping Forest (Havering
at-the-Bower). Right of lopping wood began at midnight on Eve (bonfire and
beer) ----- Epping Forest (Lough- ton).
WALES.
L Name. ? IL Natural Phenomena.
FaUing stars forebode trouble to Wales -----
Owls hooting forebode evil to the village -----
Geese standing on ice forebode mire at Christmas - - - -
Weather foretold by the bladebone of a sheep or pig, or the merry- thought of a bird
South W'ales.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
in. Local Customs.
Hiring Fair ; bonfire on Eve Wheat must be sown before Llan- madoc Mabsant, West Gower.^ (dedication festival, St. Madog, 12th Nov.).
Carnarvonsh. (Nevin).
Pembrokeshire (Llan- madoc).
SCOTLAND.
Business Transactions.
Term-time for both situations and
tenancies ----- General. " Feeing " or hiring fairs - - Dumfries (Martinmas
Wednesday), etc., etc. " Foy," the ploughman's farewell
supper ----- Fife.
1 If sown later, it will lie in the ground forty days before it begins to spring. Pie of chopped mutton and currants eaten.
