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Catalogue of Brand Material.
III. special Local Observances.
Games at waste hollow, by men
and women separately Landlady treated household and friends to cake and wine -
" Fathering Monday," the day after Mothering Sunday - - - -
" Fathering Sunday," the Sunday after Mothering Sunday - - - -
LOCALITY.
Oxfordshire (Chalgrove).
Gloucester (Swan Inn, Wotton-under-Edge) .
South Staffs.
Gloucester (St. Briavel's).
FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT.
I. Names.
Carling or Carlin Sunday ^
Carle Sunday - - - - Careing or Care Sunday
Fag-pie Sunday - - - - Whirlin Sunday - - - -
II. General Observances. (a) Viands.
" Carlings," viz. dried peas, steeped, boiled, and fried in butter. Some- times eaten with rum and sugar - - - Eaten as a sweetmeat be- tween meals, or as des- sert - - - - Made into a pancake and eaten in the afternoon - Inn-keepers offer them free to customers
" Carling-groats " spent in ale to drinkwith carlings
Northumberland, Cum- berland, Westmore- land, Durham, Yorks., Lanes.
North Yorks.
Lines., Notts., Lanes., Cheshire (Leigh).
Lanes. (Burnley).
Isle of Ely (Wisbech).
North of England.
(N,ewcastle-on-Tyne) .
Cumberland.
Northumberland (general) Cumberland, West- moreland, Yorks.
Northumberland wick) . 1 " Carlin" seems to be the Northumberland pronunciation.
(Aln-
