Warwick.
_Northamptonshire Folk Lore._--There is a singular custom prevailing in
some parts of Northamptonshire, and perhaps some of your correspondents
may be able to mention other places where a similar practice exists. If
a female is afflicted with fits, nine pieces of silver money and nine
threehalfpences are collected from nine bachelors: the silver money
is converted into a ring to be worn by the afflicted person, and the
threehalfpences (_i. e._ 13½_d._) are paid to the maker of the ring,
an inadequate remuneration for his labour, but which he good-naturedly
accepts. If the afflicted person be a male, the contributions are levied
upon females.