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Catalogue of Bi'and Material.
Whit Sunday. Bread and Cheese scrambled for in Churchyard. Parishioners pay id. each and maintain right of cutting wood in Hudnalls (cf. Revel) -
Whit Monday. Maypole
erected : Cheese rolled down hill and run for by lads, to maintain right of common - - - -
" Mayor of the City " elected to defend rights of common to inhabitants of that portion of the town ^
Whit Monday. Commons held by service of drawing timber into Abbey Yard. (If they could get it out again, it was theirs)
Whit Monday. " Pole Fair " every 20 years by charter of Queen Elizabeth, freeing Corby men from road and bridge tolls. Roads barri- caded, toll exacted from strangers on pain of " pol- ing " or stocks
Festivals not connected with any special Community.
Wrekin Wakes.- (Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday) Athletic Sports,- Whit Mon- day (i6th cent.) " Convivial Assembly," - Wednesday - - -
Another mentioned by Stuke- leyi . - - -
" Scouring the White Horse" (not invariably at Whit- suntide) - - - -
LOCALITY.
Glos. (St. Briavels).
Glos. (Cooper's Hill Common, nr. Birdlip).
Berks. (Newbury).
Oxon. (Ensham).
Northants. (Corby).
Salop (Wrekin).
Leic. (Burrow Hill).
Herefsh. (Capel Jump Barrow) .
Shipley Hill. Berkshire.
1 Date of election not stated, but entry placed here for convenience.
2 Prehistoric mounds e.\ist on all these sites.
