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 Catalogue of Brand AlatcriaL

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St. John, St. James, and Corpus Christi) - Dedication Festival, 1523 Hiring Fair - Fair held (" Holland Fairy ") " Tansey Feast " (Church, All SS.)

LOCALITY.

Norfolk (Elmhara). Kingston-on-Thames. Yorks. (Richmond). Glos. (Cirencester). East Riding (Walking- ton).

V. Business Transactions.

" Lords of Misrule " enter on office ; held till Candlemas -

Lopping wood allowed

(Changed, 1753, to Nov. 12th.)

" Aves Court " held. Woodmote Court three weeks later : pre- sentment of abuses of rights made and pannage or " aves money " paid - - - -

Eccl. Rent of Gloves paid on the High Altar (1536) -

Dues arising from fruits of earth payable (White Kennett, 1695)

City of London. Epping Forest (Loughton Manor).

Sussex (Duddleswell), Devon (Thurlestone). Oxon.

I. Names.

315^ October.

1st November.

Oct. ^i-Nov.

WALES.

Nos cyn calan ganaf.

November Eve.

Snotching Night -

Apple-snatching night -

Nos calan ganaf (the leg or iirst foot of winter). 1

Hollantide.

South Wales.

West Wales.

II. Natural Phenomena. (a) Omens.

East wind on October 31 foretells prevailing wind for winter quarter ; fair weather and open winter - Oswestry.

Formerly reckoned the end of summer. (Translation Llywarch Hen, ed. 1792.)