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Catalogue of Brand Material.
ST. KATHARINE'S DAY.
November 25TH.
St. Katharine of Alexandria, V.M., a.d. 307. Regarded as a per- sonification of the Church. Patroness of women, especially of unmarried women, and of spinning.
Represented as patroness of the Barbers' locality.
Company in Corpas Christi Pageant, 1685-1860 ; of the Flax-dressers, 1861-1878. Ibid. {Shr. F.L. p. J56) - Shrewsbury.
ENCxLAND.
I. Name.
Catten's Day
- Bucks. (Wendover).
II. Local Observances. (a) Holidays.
Mayor and Corporation attended church, drank together and with players. Special plays performed, 1479 - . - -
Lacemakers' holiday. Girls dressed in men's clothes, called at houses, refreshed with " wiggs " (carraway buns) and " hot-pot " (egg- flip). Catherine wheels let off. Women jumped over candlestick for luck (19th cent.) . - - -
" Keeping Kattern " -
{b) Processions.
Children's procession with lights and image, round St. Paul's
Workhouse girls (spinners), headed by a " Queen," paraded city, singing. Con- tributions asked. Disused 1834 - - - -
Bristol.
Bucks. (Wendover, etc. Herts. (Wigginton),
London (1553, 1556).
Peterborough.
