[163] Pictorial History of Lancashire.
[164] History of Blackpool, p. 92.
[165] Browis or brewis is broth or pottage; frumenty, is hulled wheat boiled in milk, and flavoured with cinnamon, sugar, allspice; and jannocks, oaten bread in large, coarse loaves; throdkins, a cake made of oatmeal and bacon.
[166] Rev. W. Thornber's History of Blackpool.
[167] Hone's Every-Day Book, ii. 597.
[168] For the words of these songs, see Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, p. 116; and for words and music, Chambers's Book of Days, i. 546.
[169] A. B., Liverpool, in Notes and Queries, v. 581.
[170] Baines's History of Lancashire.
[171] These boughs, says Mr. Thornber, in his History of Blackpool, were emblematical of the character of the maiden thus conspicuously distinguished; an elder-bough for a scold, one of ash for a swearer, &c.
[172] Pictorial History of Lancashire.