Catalogue of Brand Material.
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Club-feasts (with processions). General in - - -
Carrying hazel-wands With morris-dancing " Breaking-out at tide- time," i.e. drunkenness " Three Kings " Club (Tues- day) - - . .
School-feasts (with pro- cessions) - - - -
{g) Business Festivals.
" Greenhill Bower " (once Municipal Court of Array) still kept up - " Rat by Meadow Mowing " (Owners let common meadow and dine on pro- ceeds with gift to Leicester Hospital) - - -
Hiring Fairs ...
(A) Other Business Transactions.
" Pentecostals, " or Whitsun
Farthings, due, 1663
,, paid, up to igth cent.
,, carried in procession
to Evesham Abbey -
" Streamers " (tinners) sell tin at Whitsuntide market
Land, called " Red Spears," held by service of riding through Penrith on Whit Tuesday, brandishing
spears - - - _
Spring-sown Selds fenced
Harvesters engaged : gloves given - - - . o
LOCALITY.
Somerset (Stoke Courcy). Wilts. (Corsley). Berks. (Kennet Valley). Sussex (Harting). Oxon. (Bampton).
Hants. (Otterbourne).
Wore. (Hanley Castle).
Manchester.
West Riding (Chfton and
Hartshead) . Norwich (Necton).
Staffs. (Lichfield).
Leicestersh. (Ratby). Cumberland.
Warwick.
Wore. (Castle Morton) .
Wore. (Ch. Honeyborn and others).
Cornwall.
Cumberland (Hesket). Wore. (Clent).
Suffolk (Hawsted).