British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People: Arranged According to the Calendar of the YearG. Bell, 1900 - 520 pages |
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... plough soone free your teame , Then home and fother them ; If the maides a spinning goe , Burn the flax and fire the tow . * * * * Bring in pails of water , then Let the maides bewash the men ; Give St. Distaff all the ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
... plough soone free your teame , Then home and fother them ; If the maides a spinning goe , Burn the flax and fire the tow . * * * * Bring in pails of water , then Let the maides bewash the men ; Give St. Distaff all the ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
Page 38
... Plough Munday , next after that twelf - tide is past , Bids out with the plough ; the worst husband is last . If plowman get hatchet or whip to the skrene , Maids loseth their cocke , if no water be seen . ' Which are ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
... Plough Munday , next after that twelf - tide is past , Bids out with the plough ; the worst husband is last . If plowman get hatchet or whip to the skrene , Maids loseth their cocke , if no water be seen . ' Which are ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
Page 39
... Plough Monday . If a ploughman came to the kitchen - hatch , and could cry , " Cock in the pot , " before the maid could cry " Cock on the dunghill , " he was entitled to a cock for Shrove Tuesday . - N . & Q. 2nd S. vol ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
... Plough Monday . If a ploughman came to the kitchen - hatch , and could cry , " Cock in the pot , " before the maid could cry " Cock on the dunghill , " he was entitled to a cock for Shrove Tuesday . - N . & Q. 2nd S. vol ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
Page 40
... Plough Monday is observed in this county . The mummers are called " Plough - Witchers , " and their cere- mony , " Plough - Witching . " - N . & Q. 2nd S. vol . ix . p . 381 . LEICESTERSHIRE . Macaulay ( History of Claybrook , 1791 , p ...
... Plough Monday is observed in this county . The mummers are called " Plough - Witchers , " and their cere- mony , " Plough - Witching . " - N . & Q. 2nd S. vol . ix . p . 381 . LEICESTERSHIRE . Macaulay ( History of Claybrook , 1791 , p ...
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... plough- shares and the other ground the corn ; and Bessy rattled his box , and danced so high that he showed his worsted stockings and corduroy breeches ; and very often , if there was a thaw , tucked up his gown skirts ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
... plough- shares and the other ground the corn ; and Bessy rattled his box , and danced so high that he showed his worsted stockings and corduroy breeches ; and very often , if there was a thaw , tucked up his gown skirts ... PLOUGH MONDAY .
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ancient annual Antiq apples assemble attended Bartholomew Fair bells Book of Days boys Brand bread BUCKINGHAMSHIRE cake called Candlemas candles carried celebrated ceremony Christmas Day church colours Cornwall cross customary Customs and Charities dancing Day Book decorated DERBYSHIRE door dressed Easter eggs England Evi Kalend fair feast festival fire first-foot flowers formerly Friday garland give head Henry Henry VIII HEREFORDSHIRE History honour horse inhabitants Ireland Isle John king ladies Lancashire London Lord maids manor May-day mayor maypole merry Monday morning neighbourhood night NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE o'clock observed occasion Old English Customs origin OXFORDSHIRE Palm Sunday pancakes parish party person play Plough Monday pole poor procession Queen reign revised ribbons round saint says Scotland Shrove Tuesday singing song sport STAFFORDSHIRE Stephen's Day streets Sunday Tenby Thursday town Trans Translated Valentine village wassail Year's YORKSHIRE young
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