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: Old English Sports Pastimes and Customs by Ditchfield P H Peter Hampson - England Social life and customs; Holidays England; Amusements England

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JANUARY.

Dedication Festivals--New Year's Day--"Wassail"--Twelfth Night--"King of the Bean"--St. Distaffs Day--Plough Monday--Winter Games--Skating--Sword-dancing

FEBRUARY.

Hunting--Candlemas Day--St. Blaize's Day--Shrove-tide-- Football--Battledore and Shuttlecock--Cock-throwing

MARCH.

Archery--Lent--"Mothering" Sunday--Palm Sunday-- "Shere" Thursday--Watching the Sepulchre

APRIL.

Easter Customs--Pace Eggs--Handball in Churches--Sports confined to special localities--Stoolball and Barley-brake--Water Tournament:--Quintain--Chester Sports--Hock-tide

May-day Festivities--May-pole--Morris-dancers--The Book of Sports--Bowling--Beating the Bounds--George Herbert's description of a Country Parson

JUNE.

Whitsuntide Sports--Church-ales--Church-house--Quarter-staff-- Whistling and Jingling Matches--St. John's Eve--Wrestling

JULY.

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