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 Catalogue of Bra7id Material.

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Mock friar taken in procession round the city (up to circa 1680)

Mayor chosen under charter of James II. - - -.

Tenants deposit modus for tithe on hay, in hole in tomb, before noon

Endowed dole of bread and cheese thrown from church tower Sun- day before Christmas - - -

" Dole-money "distributed" about Christmas " -

" Duchess Dudley's Charities " distributed - - -.

Church Charities distributed Millers present their customers with wheat ....

OBSERVED IN

York.

Dorset (Bradninch).

Dorset (Thornford).

Middlesex (Paddington).

Yorksh. (West Haddle- sey).

Warw. (Stoneleigh

Abbey). Shropshire (Edgmond).

W. Yorksh.

WALES. I. Name.

Dy* gwyl Tomas.

Parsnip Day -. -.

II. Observances.

(a) Viands.

Parsnips - - - -

{b) Begging Customs.

Wives and mothers ask doles of money, etc. -

Both sexes do so -

" Cenad-y-meirw,' wheaten flour, distribution

cakes of made for

Breconsh.

Breconsh.

South Wales. Denbighsh. Llantisilio).

(Meivod,

Denbighsh. (Henllys)

SCOTLAND.

I. Name.

" Tammas-mas E'en " (20th Decem- ber, O.S.) - - - - Shetland. " Five nights afore Yule " - - Shetland.