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Catalogue of B7'and Material.

(e) Plant Ceremonies.

May boughs (hawthorn) exit and carried

Elm-boughs carried ; houses adorned with them -

Green boughs, not specified, carried - - - -

Birch rods carried ; birch bough tied to bridge con- tended for

Willow- wands carried -

" Gads " carried - - -

Poles tipped with posies

carried - - - -

Poles tipped with ribbons carried - - - -

Milkwort, called Gang-flower or Rogation-flower used in posies and garlands -

Bunches of sedge laid on doorsteps ; clerk hit with them - - - -

Boy put in oak-tree, fumi- gated with burning straw

" Youling " (wassailing)

apple-orchards

(/) Fights, etc.

Enquired into by authority - " Gads " and " bannering-

poles " as weapons - Otterton parishioners ducked

East Budleigh men - Head of new parish officer held in hole in ground, while he is beaten with shovel - - - - Cock-throwing and crockery- breaking at boundary Scrambling for money, nuts, oranges ,, ,, stay laces, pins, biscuits

LOCALITY.

Wednesbury.

Lichfield.

Ripon.

Ludlow.

The Fylde (Lanes.). The City, The Tower, Ox- ford, Forest of Galtres.

Exeter.

Wolverhampton, Shrews- bury.

Hereford.

Suffolk, etc.

York (All SS.).

Hereford.

Kent (Keston, Wickham).

Lincoln (1223). Exeter, Shrewsbury. 1854.

Leicester (St. Mary). York (Water Fulford). Beverley. Whitby.