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Catalogue of Braiid Material.

(b) Church-going Customs.

Christmas at Court (King George II. escorted to Chapel Royal by Heralds and Knights of Garter, Thistle and Bath, com- municated, and offered wedge of gold called Byzant) - Municipal Christmas, 1685

(Corporation met at Guild- hall and escorted Mayor to Church, on festival and its morrow) - - - -

Dancing in Church after service, crying ' Yule, yule, yule ! " -

Drinking together in alehouse after service (17th cent.)

Christmas Greetings in church- yard before service

(c) Customary Feasts.

Breakfast given by Bailiffs between Matins and High Mass on Christmas Day (discon- tinued 1540) - - - -

Breakfast given by individual Aldermen, 1556

Breakfast for inhabitants on Christmas Day provided by monks, subsequently by farmer of parsonage - - - -

Ditto, by tithe-farmers, St. Stephen's Day, i.e. 1800

Rector provided bread, cheese and beer to inhabitants after afternoon service on Christmas Day -

Ditto, St. Stephen's Day -

Rectors remonstrated against similar custom, 1610, 1667, 1765 - - . - -

LOCALITY.

174I.

Newbury.

Berks.

North

cent.)

Yorksh. (17th

Yorksh. (Danby Wiske) Derbyshire villages.

Shrewsbury. Chester.

Yarmouth. Oxon. (Bampton)

Oxon. (Heyford), up to c. 1730

Bucks. (Drayton Beau- champ and Gt. Hor- wood).

Glos. (Evenley).