96 Catalogue of Brand Material.
Ill, Business Transacted. Small tithes paid.
SCILLY. Observance.
Goose-dancing (men and women exchanged clothes and went round the neighbourhood dancing and making topical jokes). 1750.
JERSEY.
Easter Monday.
The great holiday of the year.
Fair at Gorey.
Assembly at Mont Orgueil Castle.
GUERNSEY. #
Observances.
Begging for eggs (obs.). Viands — fried eggs and bacon.
(If fowls' eggs could not be had, then wild birds' eggs were used.)
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER AND MONDAY FOLLOWING.
ENGLAND.
I. Names. locality.
Low Sunday - - . - General.
Little Easter Sunday.
II. Local Ceremonies.
{Sunday).
The Wardstaff, by which
certain land was held in
Ongar and Harlow, cut by
the bailiff of the Hundred Essex (Ongar). Mock Mayor chosen and
attended Church in state ;
banquet afterwards - - Cornwall (Lostwithiel).
