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ip) Legends current.
Blacksmiths, as tool-makers, admitted to share feast at erection of Solomon's Temple, if dirt washed off -
Blacksmiths adjudged by King Alfred " the first of trades," because tool- makers to all others ; tailors jealous - - -
" Old Clem " was the first man to shoe a horse
(c) Begging Customs.
Children and young man beg for ale and apples with rhymes.^ See St. Katha- rine's Day.
Called Clemmening
Called Clemancing
Called Gooding -
(d) Afuitsements.
Catching apples with teeth, hence called Bite-apple Day (cf. Hallowmas)
III. Business Transactions.
Municipal accounts settled. Apples
scrambled for by crowd - Episcopal rents due Sheep-fair attended by farmers.
" Clemen ty Cakes " on sale
Twyford.
Sussex (Steyning).
London.
Sussex and South Staffs, Warwicksh. Leic. (Bosworth). Rutland.
South Staffs.
Walsall. Durham.
Bucks. (Lambourne).
WALES.
Observance.
Effig}.^ of carpenter tied to church steeple on Eve, paraded round village on Day with rhyme be- queathing garments to local car- penters, stripped and picked to pieces by crowd - - - .
Typical rhynie-
Pembrokeshire. (Locahty not stated.)
Clemeny, Clemeny, year by year.
Some of your apples and some of your beer" (etc.).
