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(/) Village Feasts and Revels
Water shut off from mill- stream and bed of stream cleansed, Wednesday after- noon. Ram lamb taken round village, Monday, killed and roasted on Tues- day (formerly in dry bed of stream). Flesh sold in slices. Sports ensue
Feasts with Morris-dancing - ,, with Mock Mayor
Feasts with Dancing -
,, with Dancing led by
King and Queen -
,, with Dancing in St.
Aldhelm's (ruined)
chapel (Thursday) -
,, " Singing-feast " ^
Revels, 3 with cudgel - play
(called " back-
swording ") -
,, with cudgel-play and
" bush-houses " -
,, with bush-houses -
,, with cock - shies,
wrestling, sports and bush-houses -
,, with racing
LOCALITY.
Devon (King's Teign-
ton). Oxon. (General). Oxon. (Headington ; and
see note below). ^ Yorks. (Headley).
Lanes. (Downham).
Dorset (Worth). Leic. (Wymondham).
Berks. (Peppard, Buckle- bury, Woodley).
Ihid. (East Lockinge). Oxon. (Headington,
" Marsh Bush Revel ").
Devon (General). Glos. (St. Briavel's)
" Mayor of the City," Newbury, e. to defend Common
rights of inhabitants of that part of the town - " Mayor of Stow Fair. Bush houses. (Part of town of) Man carried about on wooden horse . . . . Mock Guilds with Mayors. Whit Monday and Tuesday
Berks. (Newbury). Newport (Mon.). Oxon. (Hampton Foyl). Norfolk (Norwich and Costessv).
1 See note 2 on p. 207. ~ Particulars wanted.
if there is more than a local difference of nomenclature between a feast and a
3Qy revel ?
