Being Maunday Thursday, Dr. Gilbert sub-almoner, wash’d the feet, and distributed alms to 49 (the king’s years) poor people of both sexes. See the Ceremony, Gent. Mag., vol. i., p. 172. In addition to what has been mentioned by your correspondents concerning Maunday Thursday, you will please to inform them that it is a general […]

Windy Saturday is one of the popular epochs which is frequently mentioned by natives of Scotland, and yet it is remarkable how very few of them have the least idea when that notable day occurred, or of any of the circumstances attending it. I made inquiry of at least fifty persons, before I got the […]

In your Magazine for last October your correspondent H. D. takes notice of a new appellation for the Sunday fortnight before Easter, viz., Careing Sunday. In Northumberland, that day is called Carling Sunday. The yeomanry in general steep peas, and afterwards parch them, and eat them on the afternoon of that day, calling them Carlings. […]

As a correspondent of yours, vol. liii., p. 578, is desirous amongst other customs of knowing the original of regaling on furmety on what he calls ” Mothering Sunday,” I have here sent you what has occurred to me towards tracing it out. As to ” Mothering Sunday,” of which another correspondent, p. 928, confesses […]

This term is used in Bury, Lancashire, to denote the ‘fourth Sunday in Lent ” Mid-Lent called in other parts of the country and West Riding of Yorkshire, ” Mothering Fig-Pie,” ” Mulled Ale,” and “Braggart Sunday.” From time beyond memory, thousands of per-sons come from all parts to that town to eat “Simnels.” Formerly, […]

I HAVE been much entertained with the customs and manners of certain towns and villages in England, etc., mentioned in some of your former Magazines, and should be glad if some of your correspondents would inform us why most places in England have eggs and collops (slices of bacon) on Shrove Monday, pancakes on Tuesday, […]