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Cockfighting in church, 1 661-2
, , elsewhere
Cocksticks (throwing sticks to dislodge ginger-bread hearts from brick-ends)
Egg-battle (at Dame-School) Lent-cocks (game, decapitat- ing daffodils) - Blindfold race for cocks " Squoiling," " Squirling," or " Squirreling " (hunting squirrels) followed by squirrel feast
(/«) Games.
Opening Day for games — marbles, tip-cat, skipping- ropes,^ whipping-tops ^
Ball - - - - Ball-play begins Pancake Tuesday and continues till Easter - - - Called Keppin' Day and Ball-day - - - If you do not catch a ball before twelve o'clock you will be ill in har- vest - :-
New balls given to school children . - .
Football begins, and is con- tinued till Easter - Battledore and Shuttle- cock.
Played by grown people in streets
Omens of length of life
taken from the game Played in nave of church -
LOCALITY.
North Riding (Heming-
brough) . Hants. (Romsey). Yorks. (Richmond).
Stockport Grammar
School. Cornwall (St. Columb's).
Derbyshire.
Yorks. (Crosby, 1728).
Hants.
1 South Staffs., 2 South
Lines. London (12th cent.).
North Country, Durham. Scarborough, etc.
E. and W. Riding. E. and W. Riding. Durham.
Leic. (Hinckley), W. Rid- ing, Richmond, Shef- field, York.
Sheffield. Grantham.
