The every day book: or a guide to the year: describing the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days in past and present timesWilliam Tegg, 1866 |
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... town is to provide themse.ves with fausse faces , or masks ; and those with crooked horns and beards are in greatest demand . A high paper cap , with one of their great grandfather's antique coats , then equips them as a guisard — they ...
... town is to provide themse.ves with fausse faces , or masks ; and those with crooked horns and beards are in greatest demand . A high paper cap , with one of their great grandfather's antique coats , then equips them as a guisard — they ...
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... town have a grand main of cocks ; but there is nothing in these customs peculiar to the season . Falkirk , 1825 . J. W. R. ANNUAL JOCULAR TENURE . The following are recorded particulars of a whimsical custom in Yorkshire , by which a ...
... town have a grand main of cocks ; but there is nothing in these customs peculiar to the season . Falkirk , 1825 . J. W. R. ANNUAL JOCULAR TENURE . The following are recorded particulars of a whimsical custom in Yorkshire , by which a ...
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... town . If they are large enough , he divides them with a rule and compasses into four equal parts ; of which the steward claims one , the warrener another , and the remainder a plentiful dinner in the servants ' hall ; and after dinner ...
... town . If they are large enough , he divides them with a rule and compasses into four equal parts ; of which the steward claims one , the warrener another , and the remainder a plentiful dinner in the servants ' hall ; and after dinner ...
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... I was na that far wrang- " Care mad to see a man sae happy , E'n drowned himself amang the happy . " Now , I kent twa or three o ' the Kerr's that leev't in the town - head , but I 38 THE EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 16 .
... I was na that far wrang- " Care mad to see a man sae happy , E'n drowned himself amang the happy . " Now , I kent twa or three o ' the Kerr's that leev't in the town - head , but I 38 THE EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 16 .
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... Town to Highgate , and though not the most remarked perhaps , is certainly the most remarkable house for " swearing on the horns . " Guiver , the present landlord , ( January 1826 ) came to the house about Michaelmas 1824 , and many ...
... Town to Highgate , and though not the most remarked perhaps , is certainly the most remarkable house for " swearing on the horns . " Guiver , the present landlord , ( January 1826 ) came to the house about Michaelmas 1824 , and many ...
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