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 Catalogiie of Brand Material.

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Chatham, Rochester, and Brompton.

Sussex. Ibid.

South Staffs. North Wore.

Ibid.

Ropemakers paraded town, locality.

carrying a " Queen " Catherine in a chair of state

(c) Begging Customs.

Children traverse the country

begging for ale and apples ;

with special rhyme - Called Catterning - Adults of both sexes also (cf.

Hallowmas. Souling) ^ -

Called Cattening, Catter- ning, Cattaring, Catherning

{d) Pilgrimages, etc.

Girls visit St. Katharine's well and chapel ; invoke her to send them husbands

Fair held beside St. Katha- rine's well and chapel

{e) Legends.

' ' Queen Katharine burnt her

old lace to encourage trade " Queen Katharine was lost in

a fog and found on St.

Katharine's Day, the bells

Avere rung in rejoicing " One of Henry VIII. 's wives

instituted the procession " Peterborough. " Queen Katharine founded

the rope-walk " - - Chatham.

Dorset (St. K.'s chapel, Melton Abbey).

Eskdale.

Bucks.

Bucks. (Ellesborough).

III. Business Transactions.

Cathedral Chapter Rent Audit con- cluded, mulled wine distributed to tenants, 1848

Worcester.

' Typical rhynie-

Cattern and Clement be here, be here, Some of your apples and some of your beer, An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Or any good thing to make us merry."