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 Catalogue of Brand Material.

Servants allowed best cider

LOCALITY.

while it lasted

Norfolk (Mulbarton).

Family and servants took

meals together

Norfolk.

Spovis.

Dancing round the fire in

hall ... -

Inns of Court, 1740.

" Leaping over a Christmas

Eve bonefire "

Chester (Randle Holme,

1627-99).

Kept aligU>

Till Twelfth Day -

Salop.

All the week -'

Lines. (1773).

Part kept for New Year's Eve Lines, (modem).

A little burnt every night

till New Year

Notts.

All night and next day -

Northumbd., Lanes. (The

Fylde).

All night; any left, re-

lighted Old Christmas

Eve - - -.

Yorks. (Richmond, Peni-

All night

Remnant preserved to light next year's log Also to preserve house from fire

To pieserve house from

other harm - To preserve house from

" fire and lightning " - " To keep the witch away "

Foi luck - - - -

Kept under bed

Kept in cellar -

Ashes kept underneath

milk-bench - Bit thrown into burning

house will check fire

stone). Derby, Stafis. (Cheadle),

Northants, Worcest., Cornwall.

General.

Whitby, Cornwall.

Northants.

Northumberland.

Herefordshire.

South Yorks. (Penistone),

Notts.

Derby, Herefordshire.

North Country, Whitby.

Northants., 1850.

South Yorks. (Penistone).

North Country (Denham) ^ The change from open hearths to grates would naturally affect both the size of the log and the time it would be kept burning.