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 Catalogue of Brand Material.

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LOCALITY.

Boar's head (Christmas dinner) Windsor Castle,

Temple (i6th

Roast sirloin of beef (dinner) Plum pudding - - -

Everyone must stir - Turkey, eaten in -

Trade in, considerable Rum-punch (served in loving

cup at Christmas parties,

etc.) ... -

Ale-posset (breakfast dish for

guests, or supper at parties) Ale-posset (bread soaked in

milk, ale poured on it

while hot. Christmas Eve

supper) - - - - Wassail-bowl (Christmas cake

broken into the bowl, hot

ale poured on it, eaten with

spoons on Christmas Eve) Lambswool (roasted apples in

hot spiced ale) drunk on

Christmas Eve Toast and spiced ale, or toast

and mead (Christmas Eve

supper) - - - - Hot elderberry wine (Christ- mas Eve) ... Toast and cider (hot toast

broken into bowls, cider

poured on it, eaten with

spoons, breakfast, Christ- mas Day)

"Egg-hot," or " eggy-hot "

(eggs, hot beer, sugar, rum,

frothed up, Christmas Eve

supper) ... - Apples eaten ...

Apple enclosed in " mell " (last sheaf of corn) given to oldest servant - - - Cumberland.

Inner cent.). Queen's Coll., Oxford, Suffolk (Heugrave). General. General. Staffs.

East Anglia about 1585. Norfolk, 1 81 7.

Cumbd. and Westmd.

Cumbd. and Westmd.

Derbysh. (Milford).

Notts.

Notts.

Norfolk.

Suffolk.

Somerset, Dorset (

Devon (?),

Cornwall.

Devon (Moretonhamp-

stead).