[601] See Gent.’s Mag., Jan. 1819, where the conditions are given in extenso.
[602] “At the abbey of Saint Milaine, near Rennes, there has been for more than 600 years a flitch of bacon, still perfectly fresh and good; yet it is promised and ordered to be given to the first couple that has been married for a year and a day without quarrelling, scolding, or regretting that they were married.”—Contes d’Eutrap.
[603] Creame—Dutch, kraam—a temporary booth erected in fair-time to serve as a shop. Even at the present day those men that go from village to village selling cheap jewellery and other articles, which they carry in a box or basket, are called mars-kramers—apparently from marcher, to walk, and the above kraam.
[604] Skene, De Verborum Significatione at the End of his Lawes and Actes. Edinburgh, 1597.
[605] See in this same chapter, [p. 417], for particulars of a signboard at the Cape, exhibited by Farmer Peek.
[606] “Fly Leaves,” 1854.
[607] Parliamentary History, vol. i., p. 1195.
[608] See Gent’s Mag., Jan. 1792, p. 19.
[609] Tho. Decker’s A Knight’s Conjuring.
[610] Quoted in Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent, p. 356.