Catalogue of Brand AlateriaL
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Parochial (Churchwardens in church, 1552). - ,, (" Caymes Pageant," i6th cent.)
]\Iorris-dancins; -
Dancing
Maypoles
Cudgel-play
Ball and other games as on
Shrove Tuesday Runaway-blow at fairs ' ' Cock-squailing ' ' (throwing
at cocks) - - - -
Kiss-in-the-ring or Drop handkerchief (called gages in N. Devon) -
Thread-the-Needle played at Greenwich Fair
LOCALITY.
Essex (Heybridge).
Reading. 1
S. Salop (Broseley, 1656). Glos. (Blakeney). Chester (1790). Oxon., Herefordshire. Berks. (Reading, Abing- don). Northants. (Brackley,
1766). Lanes. (Brindle). Glos. (Avening, Cherring-
ton). Salop (AshfordCarbonel). Yorks. (Hornsea). Lanes. (Downham). Oxon. (Ducklington,
Woodstock,Chalgrove) . Hants. (Hurstbourne
Tarrant, St. Mary
Bourne). Glos. (Cooper's Hill
Common, nr. Birdlip ;
Pagan Hill, nr. Stroud). Salop (Ludlow). Berks (general). Hants. (Stubbington till
1 8th cent.).
Alnwick. Lanes.
Dorset.
Devon (specially) and elsewhere.
Greenwich.
iThe King Play (King Game or Kyng Ale) is also mentioned in i6th cent, parochial accounts, but may have been only a Church Ale with King and Queen of A^ay. The " tree of the Kyng play late stondyng in the marcatt place " was sold in 1516-17 for i2d.
