FOOTNOTES
[1] Stromat., L. 1, pp. 407-408, ed. Oxon., 1715.
[2] Translated by T. Deacon in 1733-35, pp. 335-336.
[3] Histrio Mastix, ed. 1633, p. 757.
[4] [Transcriber's Note: ".nglond" appears in the original. An 18th-Century annotated edition of The Forme of Cury notes that in the original manuscript, "E was intended to be prefixed in red ink" in place of the leading period. See Pegge, Samuel, The Forme of Cury, p. 1, note c (London: J. Nichols, 1780) (page image available at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/FoC042.html).]
[5] The Duke of Somerset had just been condemned to death, and was beheaded the 22nd January following.
[6] This word has an indefinite meaning. Sometimes it is synonymous with entrails—as "tripes and trullibubs"; sometimes it is meant for something very trifling, and then is occasionally spelt "trillibubs." Why introduced here, no one can tell.
[7] This Saturnalia of barring out the Schoolmaster at Christmas—just before breaking up—was in use certainly as late as 1888. Vide Notes and Queries, 7th series, vol. vi. p. 484.
[8] "Canterbury Christmas; or, A True Relation of the Insurrection in Canterbury on Christmas Day last, with the great hurt that befell divers persons thereby."
[9] Mayor.
[10] Tough or strong.
[11] Rushworth's Historical Collections, pt. iv. vol. ii. p. 944.
[12] Hist. MSS. Commission Reports, v. p. 192.
[13] His text was 2 Cor. xiii. 9.
[14] Whitelock's Memorials, ed. 1682, p. 666.
[15] Bishop of Winchester, died 1684.
[16] Ed. 1736, p. 217.
[17] A Collection of Old English Customs and Curious Bequests and Charities, London, 1842, p. 64.
[18] A Collection of Old English Customs and Curious Bequests and Charities, London, 1842, p. 24.
[19] Notes and Queries, second series, v. 35.
[20] Edwards, p. 209.
[21] Ibid., p. 25.
[22] Ibid., p. 129.
[23] Notes and Queries, 2 series, iv. 487.
[24] 7 series, x. p. 487.
[25] Pickers and stealers.
[26] Yule.
[27] St. Thomas à Becket, of Canterbury, was commemorated on 29th December.
[28] Last.
[29] True.
[30] I am renowned as.
[31] Manger.
[32] Satisfaction.
[33] Knowest.
[34] In faith.
[35] Reasonable.
[36] Lighting, burning.
[37] Sixth series, vol. ii. p. 508.
[38] Fifth series, viii. p. 481.
[39] Notes and Queries, seventh series, ii. 501.
[40] Langley's Abridg., p. 100.
[41] Do.
[42] Pretty.
[43] A large basket.
[44] Legends of the Madonna, p. 205.
[45] Fleurs de Catholicisme, vol. iii. p. 236.
[46] Isaiah i. 3.
[47] Mad.
[48] Beginnest to upbraid.
[49] Dress.
[50] This was the first Christmas day, New Style: the change taking place Sept. 2, 1752, which became Sept. 14.
[51] Crackle.
[52] There seems to be a hiatus here.
[53] Shrill.
[54] Abundance.
[55] Piteous.
[56] Many.
[57] Clothing.
[58] Wicked, foul.
[59] Thrive.
[60] Brought to confusion.
[61] Lost.
[62] Those who went round thus were called "Vessel Cup women."
[63] This dance is thus described in Notes and Queries (5th series, xii. 506). "Six youths, called sword dancers, dressed in white and decked with ribbons, accompanied by a fiddler, a boy in fantastic attire, the Bessy, and a doctor, practised a rude dance till New Year's day, when they ended with a feast. The Bessy interfered, whilst the dancers, surrounded him with swords, and he was killed."
[64] Chambers' Journal, Dec. 21, 1881.
[65] False beards.
[66] Except that it shall be.
[67] Burn.
[68] Upon pain of paying.
[69] Fosbroke here seems to have mixed up masquers and mummers.
[70] Notes and Queries, 6th series xii. 489.
[71] Second Report of Ritual Comm., from which the examples following are also taken.
[72] Probably the John Gladman spoken of by Stubbes (see p. 127).
[73] Dugdale's Orig. Jurid. cap. 64.
[74] Garland for the Year, p. 151.
[75] Defero.
[76] Found.
[77] Great and small.
[78] Ex Otio Negotium, etc., ed. 1656, p. 114.
[79] Dates were an ingredient in most kinds of pastry. See All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. sc. 1—"Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
[80] Suddenly.
[81] Corporation Letter-book, i. fol. 238.
[82] Place the dishes before him, and remove them.
[83] A stone monument of a boy bishop found in Salisbury Cathedral.
[84] The Anglo-Saxons called Innocents' day Childe-mass or Childer-mass.
[85] Orig. Jur., p. 246.
[86] Poles. To ride the stang was a popular punishment for husbands who behaved cruelly to their wives.
[87] Or Fig-sue, which is a mixture of ale, sliced figs, bread, and nutmeg, all boiled together, and eaten hot. This mess is made in North Lancashire, and partaken of on Good Friday, probably by way of mortifying the flesh.
[88] Vallancey's Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, vol. i. No. 1. p. 124.
[89] Last.
[90] Slay.
[91] Stay, hinder.
[92] Law.
[93] Bugbears, goblins.
[94] A name for a spinning wheel.