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 Catalogtie of Brand Material.

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By women only (sometimes widows only) or mothers with children -

OBSERVED IN

Beds., Cambs., Cornw., Derby., Essex, Glos., Hants., Heref., Hunts., Kent, Leic, Lines., Northants., Rutland, Salop, Staffs., Somerset, Sussex, Warw., Wilts., Wore, Yorks. (Holder- ness and W. Riding).^

Glos. (Bretforton, Toden- ham). North Wilts. Wore. (Armscote.Leigh, Offenham). Yorksh. (Doncaster to Ponte- fract).

Glos. (Bretforton).

Wore. (Leigh, Harving- ton, Offenham, etc.).

Glos. (Selsley).

Chesh., Cornw., Derby.

S. Devon - (Beesands and dist.). Heref. Kent (loaves at Barming). Lines., Northants.,

Rutland, Salop, Staffs., Warw., Yorks.

Cambs. (Gt. Gransden).

Glos. (Avening, Minchin- hampton, Winchcombe).

? Hunts.

Hants. (Bramshill, New Forest, Otterbourne).

Lines. (Axholme, Boston, Grantham, Grimsby, Lincoln, Louth).

Norfolk, Staffs., Sussex,

Warwickshire.

Wilts. (SwallowcHffe).

Wore, Yorksh.

1 "Kitty Witches," women of the lowest class, their faces smeared with blood and wearing men's shirts over their clothes, formerly begged from house to house on a date forgotten. Probably St. Thomas's Day ? Yarmouth.

-Not confined to St. Thomas's Day.

By children only

By " young people

By boys Wheat begged

Monev besrged