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 Collectanea. 349

In Sheffield, "burying cakes" at funerals were big, round things about a foot wide, and weighing two or three pounds. The richer people had each two biscuits given to them instead of a "burying cake."'

If you wash sheets on Holy Thursday you will be laid out in those sheets as a corpse before the next Holy Thursday comes. ^''

At Bolsterstone, a quiet hamlet about nine miles from Sheffield, it was the custom on Holy Thursday to eat custards under a tree on the green. This tree, which was known as "the custard tree," is now dead, and another tree, called " the jubilee tree," has been planted in its place. Holy Thursday is the date of Bolsterstone Feast. S. O. Addy.

■•^ Cf. Worcestershire, supra.