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SCILLY. sports and Pastimes.
(1760). Cock-throwing.
Stone-throwing (assailants tripped up with rope). (1794). Music and dancing at taverns.
GUERNSEY.
Viands.
Pancakes (crepes); an old local custom, or would not be
universal as they are. Children's rhyme about them.
LENT.
ENGLAND.
I. Things formerly forbidden or disapproved by authority, still trace- able in Popular Custom.
LOCALITY.
{a) Marriage.
" Marry in Lent, live to re- pent " - - - - North Country.
[b) Eating Meat.
" Beef and bacon's out of
season " (children's rhyme
at Shrovetide - - - Oxon. " Here's long life to the Pope
and death to thousands "
(fishermen's toast) - - Cornwall. " Here's to his Holiness the
Pope," etc. (fishermen's
toast) - * - - - Suffolk (Lowestoft).
(c) Particular Recreations.
Card-playing (up to modern
times) - - - - Yorks. (Masham).
II. Things Allowed.
[a) Eating Cakes, Fish, Pulse.
" Cymnels and Wafers and
Marchpane " - - - Aubrey (1686).
