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Catalooitc of Brand MateviaL

Living man personates Guy Fawlves - - - -

Party wear masks and fancy costume -

Fireworks let off - Rival fires lighted Youths run through fire and smoke - - - -

Burning tar-barrels rolled

down -hill Ditto, thrown into river

LOCALITY.

Devon (Ilfracombe). Kent (Ramsgate). Somerset (Bridgwater).

Cambs. and Common.

(See IV. below.) Common. Yorks. (Normanton).

Sussex (Lewes). Lines. (Dorrington ?).

Glos. (Stroud). Lewes.

(c) Other Amusements.

(i) Mischief and Lawlessness : " Playing the very balti-

orum " (rowdjasm) Rioting - - - -

Town and Gown Rows Barring-out the school- master. - - Shooting game without a license (supposed to be legal) - - - -

(ii) Card-playing begins Mumming begins

Whitby.

Guildford.

Oxford.

Yorks. (North Ridint

Lines. (Bottesford,

Kirton-in-Lindsey ).

Yorks. (Carlton -in-Cleve- land).

South Devon. Exeter.

(d) Viands.

Cakes specially baked and

eaten with treacle - " November cake " " Parkin " -

Sponge-cakes (case of, given)

Kent (Ramsgate).

Derby.

Lanes. (Bury).

Yorks. (Swaledale, Nor- manton, Huddersfield).

London (Fishmongers' Company).