Catalogue of Bi-and Material.
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Sports on Dover's Hill, Thurs- day (17th cent.)
Unchartered Tryste Fair on Whitsunbank Hill -
{d) Trade Festivals.
The College Cooks " fetched in the fly " -
Millers' Procession at Whit- Monday Fair -
Milkmaids' Garland and dancing/ Whit Monday -
Fishermen's Guild, Whit Monday - - - -
[e] Whitsuntide Fairs.
" Wakes and fairs at Whit- suntide " noted 1685
" Show-fair " : trades' pro- cession - - - -
" Whistle-peg Fair." Three- cornered cakes of puff- paste containing currants, eaten - . _ -
Lads and lasses chalk each others' backs overnight : hence called " Chalk-back neet " -
Neighbours attend with clubs " to keep order " (?)
Whitsuntide the great plea- sure fair of the year
Other fairs - - - -
Stow Fair — Bush inns. " Mayor " exacted toll, and punished by ducking or stocks i - - .
LOCALITY.
Cotswolds. Northumbd. (Wooler).
Oxford (17th cent.). Leic. (Hinckley). East Riding (Hornsea). Norwich.
Suffolk.
Warwicksh. (Hinckley).
Cheshire (Knutsford).
East Riding (Bridling- ton).
Ibid. (Little Driffield).
Ibid. (Norton). Cornwall (Redruth). Glos. (Evesham). Wilts. (Corsley).
Monm. (Newport).
iThe cattle were turned into the fresh grass on Old May Day, but the gaieties took place at Whitsuntide. '^ Mock Mayors. The following cases occur among our Whitsuntide Notes : " Mayor of Bewdley Street," e. Whit Wednesday- - Glos. (Evesham). " Mayor of Headington," e. Whit Wednesday at Marsh
" Bush " (?.f. Bush-house fair) .... Oxon. (Headington).
