Athenaeum Club.
293. _Great Plough at Castor Church._--Can any of your correspondents
give me the history of, or afford me any intelligence about, the large
plough which Dibdin, in his _Northern Tour_, vol. i. p. 44., tells us is
about twenty feet in length, and suspended in Castor Church, extending
from one transept to the other? In a foot-note on the same church, he
speaks of a curious ceremony, as practised there every Palm Sunday,
respecting a peculiar tenure. I do not find it referred to in any other
account of Castor Church. Bourne, in his _Antiquities_, vol. i. p. 130.,
gives the history of it, but says it is practised at Caistor Church in
Lincolnshire. Is the doctor right in his statement? I would also be glad
to know whether it is still continued at Caistor Church, as some years
ago an act was tried for in the House to abolish it.