Catalogtie of Brand Material.
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By women only (sometimes widows only) or mothers with children -
OBSERVED IN
Beds., Cambs., Cornw., Derby., Essex, Glos., Hants., Heref., Hunts., Kent, Leic, Lines., Northants., Rutland, Salop, Staffs., Somerset, Sussex, Warw., Wilts., Wore, Yorks. (Holder- ness and W. Riding).^
Glos. (Bretforton, Toden- ham). North Wilts. Wore. (Armscote.Leigh, Offenham). Yorksh. (Doncaster to Ponte- fract).
Glos. (Bretforton).
Wore. (Leigh, Harving- ton, Offenham, etc.).
Glos. (Selsley).
Chesh., Cornw., Derby.
S. Devon - (Beesands and dist.). Heref. Kent (loaves at Barming). Lines., Northants.,
Rutland, Salop, Staffs., Warw., Yorks.
Cambs. (Gt. Gransden).
Glos. (Avening, Minchin- hampton, Winchcombe).
? Hunts.
Hants. (Bramshill, New Forest, Otterbourne).
Lines. (Axholme, Boston, Grantham, Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth).
Norfolk, Staffs., Sussex,
Warwickshire.
Wilts. (SwallowcHffe).
Wore, Yorksh.
1 "Kitty Witches," women of the lowest class, their faces smeared with blood and wearing men's shirts over their clothes, formerly begged from house to house on a date forgotten. Probably St. Thomas's Day ? Yarmouth.
-Not confined to St. Thomas's Day.
By children only
By " young people
By boys Wheat begged
Monev besrged
