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" Sanmas " or " Soulmass " locality. ,
cakes, small fruit cakes - Mid-Yorkshire. " Saumas Loaves," square
farthing cakes given by
bakers to customers, kept
for good luck - - - Whitby. Solmas Loaf (obs.) - - Derbyshire. Soul-cakes distributed to poor Lanes. (Blount, 1674). Herefsh. (ditto). Salop (Aubre}^ 1686).
Pegging Customs {Nov. ist and 2nd).
Young men beg " soul-pence " Lanes. (INIarton-le-Fylde), Children beg for soul-cakes
(obs.), apples, etc., with
special rhymes ^
Men beg for beer, with songs Called " souling " Called "soul-caking " - Soulers act Mummers' Play of St. George, or blacken their faces, or carry " Old Hob" (a hobby-horse or " dobby -horse ") ; or add Christmas carols to their rhymes - -
Doles.
Beer and bread distributed to all comers by Lord of Manor (Aubrey)
Cakes, to school-children (formerly scrambled for in church-porch) - - -
Salop, North Staffs.,
Cheshire. Ibid.
Salop and Staffs. Cheshire.
Bread and money, (by bequest)
Cheshire.
Surrey (Walton-on-
Thames).
Devon (All Saints', East Budleigh).
to widows
Oswestry Mountain)
(Sweeney
1 Typical rhymes : " Soul, soul, for an apple or two,
of you've got no apples, pears '11 do.
One for Peter, two for Paul,
And three for Him as made us all.
Up with the kettle and down with the pan,
Give us a good big un and we'll be gone."
- See Folk-Lo/r, vol. .\xv. pp. 285-299.
