Catalogiie of Brand Material.
^n
Chatham, Rochester, and Brompton.
Sussex. Ibid.
South Staffs. North Wore.
Ibid.
Ropemakers paraded town, locality.
carrying a " Queen " Catherine in a chair of state
(c) Begging Customs.
Children traverse the country
begging for ale and apples ;
with special rhyme - Called Catterning - Adults of both sexes also (cf .
Hallowmas. Souling) ^ -
Called Cattening, Catter- ning, Cattaring, Catherning
{d) Pilgrimages, etc.
Girls visit St. Katharine's well and chapel ; invoke her to send them husbands
Fair held beside St. Katha- rine's well and chapel
{e) Legends.
' ' Queen Katharine burnt her
old lace to encourage trade " Queen Katharine was lost in
a fog and found on St.
Katharine's Day, the bells
Avere rung in rejoicing " One of Henry VIII. 's wives
instituted the procession " Peterborough. " Queen Katharine founded
the rope-walk " - - Chatham.
Dorset (St. K.'s chapel, Melton Abbey).
Eskdale.
Bucks.
Bucks. (Ellesborough).
III. Business Transactions.
Cathedral Chapter Rent Audit con- cluded, mulled wine distributed to tenants, 1848
Worcester.
' Typical rhynie-
Cattern and Clement be here, be here, Some of your apples and some of your beer, An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Or any good thing to make us merry."
