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Catalogue of Brand Material.

Cockfighting in church, 1 661-2

,, elsewhere

Cocksticks (throwing sticks to dislodge ginger-bread hearts from brick-ends)

Egg-battle (at Dame-School) Lent-cocks (game, decapitat- ing daffodils) - Blindfold race for cocks " Squoiling," " Squirling," or " Squirreling " (hunting squirrels) followed by squirrel feast

(/«) Games.

Opening Day for games — marbles, tip-cat, skipping- ropes,^ whipping-tops ^

Ball - - - - Ball-play begins Pancake Tuesday and continues till Easter - - - Called Keppin' Day and Ball-day - - - If you do not catch a ball before twelve o'clock you will be ill in har- vest - :-

New balls given to school children. -.

Football begins, and is con- tinued till Easter - Battledore and Shuttle- cock.

Played by grown people in streets

Omens of length of life

taken from the game Played in nave of church -

LOCALITY.

North Riding (Heming-

brough) . Hants. (Romsey). Yorks. (Richmond).

Stockport Grammar

School. Cornwall (St. Columb's).

Derbyshire.

Yorks. (Crosby, 1728).

Hants.

1 South Staffs., 2 South

Lines. London (12th cent.).

North Country, Durham. Scarborough, etc.

E. and W. Riding. E. and W. Riding. Durham.

Leic. (Hinckley), W. Rid- ing, Richmond, Shef- field, York.

Sheffield. Grantham.