[238] Printed in Leland’s Collectanea, pp. 270, 272.
[239] A MS. of the sixteenth century, Bib. Harl. 2150, fol. 356, gives full particulars of this fête and procession.
“At the White Horse, horses are shod with iron,
Pity the same cannot be done to men, for then they would need no shoes.”
[241] Crowns exactly similar to this, made of box, tinsel, and coloured paper, are yearly hung out by the fishmongers in Holland on the first arrival of the salt herring after the summer fishery.
[242] Pennant’s Account of London, p. 423.
[243] Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1842; and London Gazette, Dec. 30, 1718.
[244] Lloyd’s Evening Post, Jan. 16-19, 1761.
[245] Brand’s Popular Superstitions.
[246] Robert Herrick, Hesperides, p. 234.