British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People: Arranged According to the Calendar of the YearG. Bell, 1900 - 520 pages |
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... dressing - gown , the officers of his bed - chamber having turned the top sheet smoothly down to the foot of the bed when the royal personage rose . The queen , * in like manner , sat at her foot - sheet , and received the king's New ...
... dressing - gown , the officers of his bed - chamber having turned the top sheet smoothly down to the foot of the bed when the royal personage rose . The queen , * in like manner , sat at her foot - sheet , and received the king's New ...
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... dressed he was to carry it in a dish to the table of his lord paramount , the lord of Hilton , receiving in return a dish of meat for his own mess . An annual payment , called Moseley's Dole , was formerly made by the corporation ...
... dressed he was to carry it in a dish to the table of his lord paramount , the lord of Hilton , receiving in return a dish of meat for his own mess . An annual payment , called Moseley's Dole , was formerly made by the corporation ...
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... dressed in woman's clothes , and called " the fool's wife ) , " and sometimes the hobby - horse ; they are dressed up in ribbons and tinsel , but the bells are usually discarded . - Jour . of Arch . Assoc . 1852 , vol . vii . p . 201 ...
... dressed in woman's clothes , and called " the fool's wife ) , " and sometimes the hobby - horse ; they are dressed up in ribbons and tinsel , but the bells are usually discarded . - Jour . of Arch . Assoc . 1852 , vol . vii . p . 201 ...
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... dressed like morris - dancers , and are yoked to and drag a small plough . They have their farmer , and a fool called Billy Buck , dresscd like a harlequin , with whom the boys make sport . The day is concluded by the bullocks running ...
... dressed like morris - dancers , and are yoked to and drag a small plough . They have their farmer , and a fool called Billy Buck , dresscd like a harlequin , with whom the boys make sport . The day is concluded by the bullocks running ...
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... dressed up with ribbons and other decorations — the Fool plough . Thirty or forty stalwart swains , with their shirts over their jackets , and their shoulders and hats flaming with ribbons , dragged it along from house to JAN . 7. ] 37 ...
... dressed up with ribbons and other decorations — the Fool plough . Thirty or forty stalwart swains , with their shirts over their jackets , and their shoulders and hats flaming with ribbons , dragged it along from house to JAN . 7. ] 37 ...
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