... Friday. In connection with this I heard the expression wigs for breakfast and buns for tea on Good Friday.” (It may be spelt whigs). I found out th»t wigs were a kind of cake, flavoured with carrawav seed, and made in the shape of a Cornish pasty with pointed ...

... WIGGS AT WELLS “ F.F.'s” mention ot wigs or whigs being eaten Weils on Good Fricay this year particularly inteiesting. tor these were tormerly common Lenten tan- all over England On tne Bth April, 1664, Pepys writes in his Diary: -‘ home to the ohiv Lenten ...

... chaps, and not least for the Sally Lun, the recipe for which Miss White gives F.F.” has recently mentioned the Wells wig or whig” on sale in the shops on Good Friday. An old lady relative of mine always kept one of these for a whole vear and though I was ...

... cows, and these were Attested the sale attracted Attested herd owner* from a wide area. pedigree Ayrshire cow, Muston Miss Whig, and her bull calf made 40 gns., Dora and her bull calf. 47 gnt. Ada. 381 gns. : Jinnie, 47 gns. ; Doris. 291 gns. ; Jane. ...

... Sherwood Forest are the Dukeries. In the 18th century the huge mansions clustered together here were the homes of the great Whig dukes. Years ago some of them had to be closed down. As one motored through this glorious part of the forest and noticed the ...

... during tne delivery of the excellent remarks made Mr Klnglake who countv magistrate of twenty years' standing, professing old Whig or modern Liberal-Conservative principles, that, it cannot said that his advocacy of the cause of the labourers is the result ...

... keep them there for a fortnight at their own expense. But generally a compromise was effected, and the seats were shared—one Whig and one Tory. Thus in 1807 only nine contested elections took place in the counties of England, and in 1812 only two. But the ...

... of 1688, which brought about his fall, handed over his reputation at the same time to the mercy of his bitterest enemies, Whig historians alone recorded his actions and appraised his motives and character. Fox's Historyof James 11., Oldmixon's History ...

... Speke family, with the male members which family he became closely conlected in the troublous problems of us time. He was a Whig and bitterly ■upported such acts as the Test Act >f Charles 11. 's time, speaking itronglv against the Duke of York leir to ...

... date. —Ethelbert Horne. REPLIES TO QUERIES JOHN TRENCHARD 3856. —John Trenchard. —Mr. (later Sir) John Trenchard was elected Whig M P. for Taunton in February. 1678-9. His first Session was an exciting one. During it the Commons impeached Danby, the King's ...

... into an accommodating conformity; and thus the leaven of opposition has subsided. The Wesleyans have started a newspaper on Whig principles called the ' Wesleyan Chronicle '■ in opposition to the Watchman, the Conservative bias of which, it is affirmed ...

... this day in the traditional phrase with which Somerset children still greet others who flourish no foliage : Royal oak, The Whigs to provoke!” The curious habit concealing one’s oak-leaf until challenged by the password, Show your oak!” suggests itself ...