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GEORGE BELL & SONS

LONDON: YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN AND NEW YORK: 66 FIFTH AVENUE BOMBAY : 53 ESPLANADE ROAD CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON BELL & Co.

Frutton Webster

BRITISH

POPULAR CUSTOMS

PRESENT AND PAST

ILLUSTRATING THE SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC
MANNERS OF THE FFOFI F

AKKANGED

ACCORDING TO THE CALENDAR OF THE YEAR

BY THE KEY.

T. F. THISELTON DYER, M.A.

FEMEROKE COLLEGE, XON.

LONDON

GEORGE BELL & SONS

1900

1909

398.3049.
7448

Cop. 2.

701728

LONDON

REFRINTED FROM STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE.

IN presenting the following pages to the Public I do not lay claim to any originality, my object simply having been to collect together, into a readable and condensed form, from various sources within my reach, accounts of Customs which, if not already obsolete, are quickly becoming so.

With regard to the general plan of the book, it speaks for itself. It should, however, be stated that the movable feasts are placed under the earliest days on which they can fall.

In conclusion, I would only add that I am much indebted to Mr. James Britten, of the British Museum, for the valuable help and suggestions which he has given me whilst passing the proof-sheets through the Press.

September 15th, 1875.

T. F. THISELTON DYER.

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