[173] Dugdale's Monast. Anglic., vol. vi. p. 906.
[174] Farington Papers, p. 128.
[175] Gent. Mag., vol. liii., for July, 1783, p. 578.
[176] M. F., in Notes and Queries, 3rd series, ii. 397.
[177] Aquinas, in Notes and Queries, 3rd series, v., April 2., 1864.
[178] Ed. Notes and Queries.
[179] Wellbank, in Notes and Queries, 2nd series, viii. 242.
[180] See History of Blackpool.
[181] Here is the specimen of one sung from house to house during Christmas:—
We're nather cum to yare hase to beg nor to borrow,
But we're cum to yare hase to drive away o sorrow;
A suop o' drink, as yau may think, for we're varra droy,
We'll tell yau what we're cum for—a piece o' Christmas poye.