SHROVE TUESDAY._The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

It is communicated to the _Every-Day Book_ by a correspondent, Mr. R. N.

B--, that at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, the old curfew-bell, which was

anciently rung in that town for the extinction and relighting of “all

fire and candle light” still exists, and has from time immemorial been

regularly rang on the morning of Shrove Tuesday at four o’clock, after

which hour the inhabitants are at liberty to make and eat _pancakes_,

until the bell rings again at eight o’clock at night. He says, that this

custom is observed so closely, that after that hour not a pancake

remains in the town.

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