[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.