Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, by John Brand; Arranged, Rev. and Greatly Enlarged, by Sir Henry Ellis, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1849 |
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... Cake and Cheese Christening Customs 33 Care Cloth . 141 34 Bride Ale 143 • 37 Winning the Kail 153 · 41 Football Money . 156 44 Torches used at Weddings . 157 51 Music at Weddings . . 158 57 Sports at Weddings . 160 63 Divinations at ...
... Cake and Cheese Christening Customs 33 Care Cloth . 141 34 Bride Ale 143 • 37 Winning the Kail 153 · 41 Football Money . 156 44 Torches used at Weddings . 157 51 Music at Weddings . . 158 57 Sports at Weddings . 160 63 Divinations at ...
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... cakes , Are the junkets still at wakes : Unto which the tribes resort , Where the businesse is the sport . Morris - dancers thou shalt see , Marian too in pagentrie ; And a mimick to devise Many grinning properties . Players there will ...
... cakes , Are the junkets still at wakes : Unto which the tribes resort , Where the businesse is the sport . Morris - dancers thou shalt see , Marian too in pagentrie ; And a mimick to devise Many grinning properties . Players there will ...
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... cake ; here , to be sure , the piper fails not of diligent attendance . The cake to be danced for is provided at the charge of the alewife , and is advanced on a board on the top of a pike about ten feet high ; this board is round , and ...
... cake ; here , to be sure , the piper fails not of diligent attendance . The cake to be danced for is provided at the charge of the alewife , and is advanced on a board on the top of a pike about ten feet high ; this board is round , and ...
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... cake and apples , and then the alewife's trade goes on . CARTERS ' INTERJECTIONS . PERHAPS it will be thought no uninteresting article in this little code of Vulgar Antiquities to mention a well - known in- terjection used by the ...
... cake and apples , and then the alewife's trade goes on . CARTERS ' INTERJECTIONS . PERHAPS it will be thought no uninteresting article in this little code of Vulgar Antiquities to mention a well - known in- terjection used by the ...
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... Cake is that which is distributed to the people at Harvest Home . The following lines occur in Poor Robin's Almanack for August , 1676 : 66 Hoacky is brought home with hallowing , Boys with plumb - cake the cart following . " The Hockey ...
... Cake is that which is distributed to the people at Harvest Home . The following lines occur in Poor Robin's Almanack for August , 1676 : 66 Hoacky is brought home with hallowing , Boys with plumb - cake the cart following . " The Hockey ...
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