Catalogue of Bra7id Material.
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Mock friar taken in procession round the city (up to circa 1680)
Mayor chosen under charter of James II. - - - .
Tenants deposit modus for tithe on hay, in hole in tomb, before noon
Endowed dole of bread and cheese thrown from church tower Sun- day before Christmas - - -
" Dole-money "distributed" about Christmas " -
" Duchess Dudley's Charities " distributed - - - .
Church Charities distributed Millers present their customers with wheat ....
OBSERVED IN
York.
Dorset (Bradninch).
Dorset (Thornford).
Middlesex (Paddington).
Yorksh. (West Haddle- sey).
Warw. (Stoneleigh
Abbey). Shropshire (Edgmond).
W. Yorksh.
WALES. I. Name.
Dy* gwyl Tomas.
Parsnip Day - . - .
II. Observances.
(a) Viands.
Parsnips - - - -
{b) Begging Customs.
Wives and mothers ask doles of money, etc. -
Both sexes do so -
" Cenad-y-meirw,' wheaten flour, distribution
cakes of made for
Breconsh.
Breconsh.
South Wales. Denbighsh. Llantisilio).
(Meivod,
Denbighsh. (Henllys)
SCOTLAND.
I. Name.
" Tammas-mas E'en " (20th Decem- ber, O.S.) - - - - Shetland. " Five nights afore Yule " - - Shetland.
