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Catalogue of Bi^and Material.
Collected
in Holy Week - - - from Monday to Thursday
in Holy Week on Good Friday
Begging lasts 2 or 3 weeks . . . by children, with or with- rhymes (generally in cos- tume and carrying sticks and baskets)
by young men with Char- acter Songs (" Jolly Lads ")
by young men with Drama
by 5'^oung men with Mas- querade (men in skins of animals, men in fancy
LOCALITY.
Swaledale.
Blackburn.
Lanes, (some country places in).
Manchester and district.
Northumb. (Alnwick,
Belford, Newcastle, Rothbury), Cumber- land (Whitehaven), Durham, Lanes. ( Black • burn and East Lanes.), Cheshire (Wirral, Wilm- slow, Northenden) .
Westmoreland, Lanes. (Furness, The Fylde.^ Heysham, Walton-le- Dale, Preston, Roch- dale, Rossendale(?)and Prestwich), Cheshire (Thurstaston), York- shire (York and (?) Wensleydale).
Lanes. (Bury, Manches- ter, Didsbury and dis- trict. The Fylde,2 Yorkshire (Leeds,
Otley, Sheffield) .3
1 In the Fylde and East Lanes, dancing (qy. sworddancitig?) is mentioned in connection with pace-egging,
• ^Called Ignagning: probably pronounced " iggun-aggun-ing."
3 This may be inferred from the fact that the only known printed copies of the Mummers' Play are printed at these towns and entitled "The Peace-Egg." But information as to the folk-lore of the West Riding is strangely scanty.
