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Catalogue of Braiid Material.
(b) Church-going Customs.
Christmas at Court (King George II. escorted to Chapel Royal by Heralds and Knights of Garter, Thistle and Bath, com- municated, and offered wedge of gold called Byzant) - Municipal Christmas, 1685
(Corporation met at Guild- hall and escorted Mayor to Church, on festival and its morrow) - - - -
Dancing in Church after service, crying ' Yule, yule, yule ! " -
Drinking together in alehouse after service (17th cent.)
Christmas Greetings in church- yard before service
(c) Customary Feasts.
Breakfast given by Bailiffs between Matins and High Mass on Christmas Day (discon- tinued 1540) - - - -
Breakfast given by individual Aldermen, 1556
Breakfast for inhabitants on Christmas Day provided by monks, subsequently by farmer of parsonage - - - -
Ditto, by tithe-farmers, St. Stephen's Day, i.e. 1800
Rector provided bread, cheese and beer to inhabitants after afternoon service on Christmas Day -----
Ditto, St. Stephen's Day -
Rectors remonstrated against similar custom, 1610, 1667, 1765 - - . - -
LOCALITY.
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Newbury.
Berks.
North
cent.)
Yorksh. (17th
Yorksh. (Danby Wiske) Derbyshire villages.
Shrewsbury. Chester.
Yarmouth. Oxon. (Bampton)
Oxon. (Heyford), up to c. 1730
Bucks. (Drayton Beau- champ and Gt. Hor- wood) .
Glos. (Evenley).
