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Catalogue of Brand Material.

(/) Village Feasts and Revels

Water shut off from mill- stream and bed of stream cleansed, Wednesday after- noon. Ram lamb taken round village, Monday, killed and roasted on Tues- day (formerly in dry bed of stream). Flesh sold in slices. Sports ensue

Feasts with Morris-dancing - ,, with Mock Mayor

Feasts with Dancing -

,, with Dancing led by

King and Queen -

,, with Dancing in St.

Aldhelm's (ruined)

chapel (Thursday) -

,, " Singing-feast " ^

Revels, 3 with cudgel - play

(called " back-

swording ") -

,, with cudgel-play and

" bush-houses " -

,, with bush-houses -

,, with cock - shies,

wrestling, sports and bush-houses -

,, with racing

LOCALITY.

Devon (King's Teign-

ton). Oxon. (General). Oxon. (Headington ; and

see note below). ^ Yorks. (Headley).

Lanes. (Downham).

Dorset (Worth). Leic. (Wymondham).

Berks. (Peppard, Buckle- bury, Woodley).

Ihid. (East Lockinge). Oxon. (Headington,

" Marsh Bush Revel ").

Devon (General). Glos. (St. Briavel's)

" Mayor of the City," Newbury, e. to defend Common

rights of inhabitants of that part of the town - " Mayor of Stow Fair.'' Bush houses. (Part of town of) Man carried about on wooden horse . . . . Mock Guilds with Mayors. Whit Monday and Tuesday

Berks. (Newbury). Newport (Mon.). Oxon. (Hampton Foyl). Norfolk (Norwich and Costessv).

1 See note 2 on p. 207. ~ Particulars wanted.

if there is more than a local difference of nomenclature between a feast and a

3Qy revel ?