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Catalogue of Brand Material.

Endowed doles of Fish dis- tributed - - - -

Endowed doles of fish, bread, and pease distributed

(6) Drinking Strong Liquors.

" Potation Penny " paid to

schoolmasters - - - Churchwardens drank when

forswearing meat

(c) Recreations permitted.

Miracle Plays - - - Oratorios -. -

" Exercise " {i.e. cavalry manoeuvres) - - -

" Troy-game " (a sort of war- game) - -.

III. Special Local Observance.

" Jack o' Lent " (efifigy carried through streets and destroyed on sea-shore ^ -

IV. Business Transacted.

" Lent-tillin' " (sowing Lent-corn) " Begin to sow oats when parson

begins to read Genesis " - " Begin to sow oats when parson

begins his Lent sermons " -

LOCALITY.

Essex (Clavering, Foi- sted).

Bristol.

Lancashire. Stafford (1617).

(Middle Ages). (later).

London (12th cent.).

London (12th cent.).

Cornwall (Polperro).

General. Exmoor. Bucks. (Slough). 2

WALES.

I. Proverbial Saying.

" Salmon and Sermon in Lent."

II. Observances.

Wearing Mourning (obsolete). " The Lent Cauldron," a common trick : an eggshell filled with water, meat, flour, etc., put secretly on the window-sill while people were at supper

Carmarthenshire.

1 Formerly common, but generally set up all through Lent to be thrown at before destruction. Cf. Easter Monday, Haslemere. 2Cf. Note to Presidential Address, Folk-Lore, March, 1910.