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Catalogue of B7'and Material.
(e) Plant Ceremonies.
May boughs (hawthorn) exit and carried
Elm-boughs carried ; houses adorned with them -
Green boughs, not specified, carried - - - -
Birch rods carried ; birch bough tied to bridge con- tended for
Willow- wands carried -
" Gads " carried - - -
Poles tipped with posies
carried - - - -
Poles tipped with ribbons carried - - - -
Milkwort, called Gang-flower or Rogation-flower used in posies and garlands -
Bunches of sedge laid on doorsteps ; clerk hit with them - - - -
Boy put in oak-tree, fumi- gated with burning straw
" Youling " (wassailing)
apple-orchards
(/) Fights, etc.
Enquired into by authority - " Gads " and " bannering-
poles " as weapons - Otterton parishioners ducked
East Budleigh men - Head of new parish officer held in hole in ground, while he is beaten with shovel - - - - Cock-throwing and crockery- breaking at boundary Scrambling for money, nuts, oranges ,, ,, stay laces, pins, biscuits
LOCALITY.
Wednesbury.
Lichfield.
Ripon.
Ludlow.
The Fylde (Lanes.). The City, The Tower, Ox- ford, Forest of Galtres.
Exeter.
Wolverhampton, Shrews- bury.
Hereford.
Suffolk, etc.
York (All SS.).
Hereford.
Kent (Keston, Wickham).
Lincoln (1223). Exeter, Shrewsbury. 1854.
Leicester (St. Mary). York (Water Fulford). Beverley. Whitby.
