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Catalogue of Brand Material.

Women lift men, Monday ; men, women, Tuesday ^ -

Patients lifted :

horizontally (held by legs

and arms) - - - in the arms (or caught

round waist)

erect (held by the elbows and thrown forward to alight) - - - -

seated :

on the crossed hands in a chair, often deco- rated - - - Feet sprinkled with water by

bunch of flowers Maid will break crockery if not heaved - - -

Unlousing Day or Lousing Day

(Easter Monday) Girls formerly lifted in chair

and kissed. . -

Young men privileged to kiss

girls and thereby " un-

louse " or release them -

LOCALITY.

port, Alderley, Bar- thomley. Mow Cop villages), Staffs, (esp. Black Country), Salop (all parts), Herefordsh. (no special locality), Wore. (Alvechurch), Warwickshire.

Lanes. (Manchester,

Bolton, Ashton-under- Lyne), Cheshire (Knuts- ford, Warrington),

Wore. (Worcester, Har- tlebury).

Manchester (1784).

Warrington, Country.

Black

Cleveland.

Black Country.

Salop, Cheshire.

South Salop, Herefsh

Salop (Tong). Wore. (Hartlebury).

N. Derbyshire.

ibid. (W^ormliill).

ibid. (Hathersage, Baslow, Bamford).

1 This statement requires close examination. In the case {e.g.) of Manchester, it is contradicted by the evidence of residents ; in some other cases it does not rest on that of eye-witnesses. At Ashton-under-l.yne it is unlikely that the men engaged in riding the "Black Lad" (see below) should at the same time have been subject to the attention of the "heavers."