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Catalogue of Brand Material.
Endowed doles of Fish dis- tributed - - - -
Endowed doles of fish, bread, and pease distributed
(6) Drinking Strong Liquors.
" Potation Penny " paid to
schoolmasters - - - Churchwardens drank when
forswearing meat
(c) Recreations permitted.
Miracle Plays - - - Oratorios - . -
" Exercise " {i.e. cavalry manoeuvres) - - -
" Troy-game " (a sort of war- game) - - .
III. Special Local Observance.
" Jack o' Lent " (efifigy carried through streets and destroyed on sea-shore ^ -
IV. Business Transacted.
" Lent-tillin' " (sowing Lent-corn) " Begin to sow oats when parson
begins to read Genesis " - " Begin to sow oats when parson
begins his Lent sermons " -
LOCALITY.
Essex (Clavering, Foi- sted) .
Bristol.
Lancashire. Stafford (1617).
(Middle Ages) . (later) .
London (12th cent.).
London (12th cent.).
Cornwall (Polperro).
General. Exmoor. Bucks. (Slough). 2
WALES.
I. Proverbial Saying.
" Salmon and Sermon in Lent."
II. Observances.
Wearing Mourning (obsolete). " The Lent Cauldron," a common trick : an eggshell filled with water, meat, flour, etc., put secretly on the window-sill while people were at supper
Carmarthenshire.
1 Formerly common, but generally set up all through Lent to be thrown at before destruction. Cf. Easter Monday, Haslemere. 2Cf. Note to Presidential Address, Folk-Lore, March, 1910.
