Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 1Bell and Daldy, 1873 |
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... Cocks Pancake Customs Ash Wednesday St. David's Day St. Patrick's Day Mid - Lent Sunday Palm Sunday . 43 Maypoles 51 MORRIS - DANCERS 53 Maid Marian 62 Robin Hood 63 Friar Tuck 72 The Fool . • 82 94 • . 102 Scarlet , Stokesley , and ...
... Cocks Pancake Customs Ash Wednesday St. David's Day St. Patrick's Day Mid - Lent Sunday Palm Sunday . 43 Maypoles 51 MORRIS - DANCERS 53 Maid Marian 62 Robin Hood 63 Friar Tuck 72 The Fool . • 82 94 • . 102 Scarlet , Stokesley , and ...
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... cock's stride . If the grass grows in Janiveer , It grows the worse for't all the year . According to the Shepherd's Kalender , 1709 , p . 16 , " if New Year's Day in the morning open with duskey red clouds , it denotes strifes and ...
... cock's stride . If the grass grows in Janiveer , It grows the worse for't all the year . According to the Shepherd's Kalender , 1709 , p . 16 , " if New Year's Day in the morning open with duskey red clouds , it denotes strifes and ...
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... cock - fighting and throwing at cocks appear almost everywhere to have pre- vailed . Fitzstephen , as cited by Stowe , informs us that anciently on Shrove Tuesday the school - boys used to bring cocks of the game , now called game - cocks ...
... cock - fighting and throwing at cocks appear almost everywhere to have pre- vailed . Fitzstephen , as cited by Stowe , informs us that anciently on Shrove Tuesday the school - boys used to bring cocks of the game , now called game - cocks ...
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... cocks , called Fugees , as their perquisites . ' According to Fitzstephen : " After dinner , all the youths go into ... cock- fighting on Shrove Tuesday . " Hutchinson , in his History of Cumberland , ii . 322 , speak- ing of the parish ...
... cocks , called Fugees , as their perquisites . ' According to Fitzstephen : " After dinner , all the youths go into ... cock- fighting on Shrove Tuesday . " Hutchinson , in his History of Cumberland , ii . 322 , speak- ing of the parish ...
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... cocks won the most battles was victorious in the cock - pit ; and the prize , a small silver bell , suspended to the button of the victor's hat , and worn for three successive Sundays . After the cock - fight was ended , the foot - ball ...
... cocks won the most battles was victorious in the cock - pit ; and the prize , a small silver bell , suspended to the button of the victor's hat , and worn for three successive Sundays . After the cock - fight was ended , the foot - ball ...
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