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92 In connection with the name "frumity-flowers " for cuckoo-flowers, can frumity formerly have been a festival dish on Garland Day? In Lincolnshire, the proper seasons for eating it are Yuletide and sheep-shearing.

About 1820 or 1830, an old man, a barber in Leeds, used to sing to an air something like "Pease upon a Trencher" (i.e. T. Moore's "The time I've lost in wooing") the following:

The parchment charm exhibited on my behalf was sent to me by the Editor of the Chemist and Druggist, who had received it with others like it from a firm of druggists at Bradford, to whom they were brought by a customer who had recently found them in "an old hall" in the neighbourhood, and supposed them to be old medical prescriptions. I found them to be undoubtedly charms; all were exactly alike, but so far illegible that it was only with great difificulty and by collating the lot that I succeeded in making them out. The words run as follows:

Mr. Peacock judges it to be written in a legal hand not earlier than the reign of George III. Professor Skeat says: "I do not