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(From the Stick of Tuesday.)

... drunk: thus there were bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, leet-aks, Midsummer-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball and barley-break were, alao, Whitsun sporta: in “ancient tymes.” too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, they were twentyfive ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1846
Newspaper: Nottinghamshire Guardian
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6598 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES OF THE MONTH.—JUNE

... thtus there were3 bride-ales, clerk-ales, give-ales, lamb-ales, Icet-ales, Mlidstim- moe-ales, Scot-ales, and several more. Stool-ball andi barley- break were, also, Whitsun sports: in 11ancient tymes, too, Whitsun plays were acted: at Chester, thley were ...