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共 45 段- Near Hutton Conyers there is a large common, called Hutton C
- In the sixteenth century it would appear that some peculiar
- Bring in pails of water, then
- The anniversary of the execution of King Charles I. was form
- “Always before Lent there comes waddling a fat, grosse groom
- The goal of All Saints’ was the water-wheel of the nun’s mil
- _Crowdie_ is mentioned by Sir F. M. Eden (_State of the Poor
- It appears that married and single were then alike liable to
- At Bury, in Lancashire, from time beyond memory, thousands o
- It is still customary with our boys, both in the south and n
- Matthew Paris mentions Maundy money, and the Benedictional o
- John Blagrave, by will dated 30th June, 1611, devised to Jos
- The egg was a symbol of the world, and ancient temples in co
- They have an ancient custom at Coleshill, says Blount, (_Joc
- The meaning of the word _hoke_ or _hock_ seems to be totally
- St. Mark’s Day is observed at Alnwick by a ridiculous custom
- The _Oyster Fishery_ has always formed a valuable part of th
- Shakespeare likewise, alluding to this custom, says (_Henry
- On the 1st of May a species of festivity, Hitchins tells us,
- A maypole was annually erected on May-day morning in Leadenh
- [57] Whilst making some researches in the library of Christc
- In Ireland, says Mr. Crofton Croker, May-day is called _La n
- A correspondent of the _Gent. Mag._ (1783, vol. liii. p. 578
- At Kidlington, says Blount (_Jocular Tenures_, Beckwith’s ed
- Lord Viscount Palmerston, in 1734, by deed, gave for thrashe
- Croker, in his _Researches in the South of Ireland_ (1824, p
- At Old Weston a piece of green sward belongs by custom to th
- Gule of August, or Lammas Day, is variously explained. _Gule
- On their return to the castle-hall one of the minstrels crie
- An offering of a stag was at one time annually made on St. C
- On this day a very curious custom is observed in the North o
- In the reign of Charles I., the young gentlemen of the Middl
- In this county the inhabitants set on a board a high heap of
- One of the senior apprentices being chosen to serve as _Old
- “The fame of St. Nicholas’ virtues was so great that an Asia
- At Nottingham, on Christmas Eve, as well as in many other of
- Stubbes, a morose puritan in the days of Elizabeth, denomina
- It was customary in the Isle of Man for every family that co
- “Au wish ya a murry Chrismas,--
- In 1517, however, King Henry VIII., by an order, enjoined, “
- Cheese, given away at Christmas, 482
- =BOHN’S Handbooks of Games.= New edition. In 2 vols., with n
- =HUTCHINSON (Colonel). Memoirs of the Life of.= By his Widow
- =SMITH’S (Adam) The Wealth of Nations.= Edited by E. Belfort
- Preface: ... the movable feasts are placed under the earlies