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(Howard Street Entrance). man 11 was a -"The Uriani the REPLIES: - Welsh Poems 4. Tuolsels LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1905. Whereupon Sir Roger, with twenty retainers (his customary retinue), armed with “ bowes, CONTENTS.-No. 104. billes, arrowes, glaves, and other weponz,' NOTES :-Christmas Notes, 1390-1714, 501-The Christmas came into the churchyard, and would have Bush, 502 - Bibliography of Christmas, 503 - French entered into the church to slay him ; but Sir The Boar's Head — " Drinkings": • Drinking lain) to Sir Roger, and vicar of Ellerburn, yner to be in his Penballow-Twizzle-twigs-Rockefeller, 507. parish church, “insomuch as it QUERIES :- 'King Nutcracker’-Queen Elizabeth's Por- solempne and a high day. Meantime Sir trait in Holyrood - Toby's Dog - Heraldic-Maidlow, Roger's wife hurried into the church to warn "Passive Resister," 508-Authors of Quotations Wanted -"Laying": "Tering"-Campbells in Joyner, whereupon he went out at a back the Strand-Timothy Buck-Hutton : Hepburn Lidder- door and fled to Pickering, and besought the dale-Fulham Bridge ** Jan Kees."—Johnson's Irene': help of the Cholmleys, stowards of Pickering Charles Goring - Chaloner : Thomas Meighen: Fortunate Boy, 509 - London Newspapers – Dr. Cooksou— Forest. On St. Stephen's Day Roger Cholmley “These are the Britons," 510. and some knights and gentlemen gathered a - Pig : Swine: Hog, 510 "Sjambok": {ts force of more than 200 armed persons, and Pronunciation — Zaputa's Questions' - Charles Lamb, came to Sir Roger Hastings's manor of 512-Splitting Fields of Ice-Detached Belfries-Authors of Quotatious Wanted – Hugh Trevor" -Horse-pewa Roxby, where he was at dinner with his * Arabian Nights,' 513-Suicides buried in the Open friends, and threatened that if he did not Fields—“The Screaming Skull,” 514–Lincolnshire Death Folk-lore-Rabi'ah, Son of Mukaddam—"Tbat same come out to fight they would burn him in his Hyphens after Street Names, 515 house. The quaint details are given at length – Ithamar-Duelling in Germany-Samuel in N. Riding Rec. Soc., N.S. i. 136–96. Whitchurch, Poet-Sir Lawrence Dundas, 510-Female Crucifixes-Sir William De Lancey-"Famous Chelsea, Early in the reign of Elizabeth, before 517–Antonio Canova in England, 518. 1568, William Watson, parson of Levisham, NOTES ON BOOKS :-Gift-Books of Messrs. Routledge, had a cross-bow weighing 4 lb., a long-bow, á * Ancient Carols' Festive Songs for Christmas' – Illa cur-dog, and a grewe bitch, with which he and Death of Mr. Badman' and The Holy War’-“The went poaching in Pickering, Forest, and of . “betwixte Christinmasse and Newyeares Notices tu Correspondents. day last” he killed a fawn (ibid., 213). In 1586 it is recorded that the foresters had Notes. long been accustomed to supply loads of fire wood to the householders of Lockton, to CHRISTMAS NOTES, 1390-1714. furnish them “with competent store of fyer IN 1390 the Earl of Derby's party of duringe all the Christmas tyme." In return, Englishmen kept Christmas in Prussia. The the householders made a feast in one of their -expenditure on wine, beer, candles, “farina houses in turn, between Christmas and frumenti” (for frumenty ?)pig - meat, and Shrovetide, for themselves and the foresters, other food, and on waferers, fiddlers, tumblers, each householder bringing a hen, so that harpers, heralds, and minstrels, and pro "they altogether might be merry and make ' lusu doinini ad tales " and in money gifts, is good chere" (ibid., 224-5). set out in Camd. Soc., N.S. lii. pp. 64, 65, 109. In 1552, on the afternoon of Christmas The lord's ministrels had a special gift because Day, when the Lord Mayor and aldermen they came with their minstrelsy to his rode to St. Paul's, the 340 children of Christ's chamber early in the morning of the Cir. Hospital, boys and girls, all in livery, with cumcision. the masters, physician, four surgeons, and In 1484 Adam Veleson, messenger and matrons, stood in array from St. Laurence usher of the Duchy of Lancaster, was allowed Lane in Cheap to the cathedral (Wriothesten shillings for his livery-gown “anenst the ley's Chronicle,' ii. 80, where also is a note Fest of Christmas” (North Riding Record about the “lords of misrule"). Soc., N.S. i. 115). At Christmas, 1640, 104 does and 5 hinds In 1498 Sir Roger Hastings had a dispute were sent from 21 royal parks to Whitehall with one Ralph Joyner (or Jenore), from for the use of his Majesty's house (Cox, whom he claimed some rent, and upon whose • Royal Forests,' 1905, p. 78). goods he had distrained. Joyner thought it In 1644, 25 December was the day of the prudent to keep out of the knight's way, but monthly fast, and the Houses of Parliament on Christmas Day he ventured to go to his went to hear fast-sermons-the Lords in the parish church, at Ellerburn, near Pickering, Abbey, and the Commons in St. Margaret's. as belonged to a christen man to doo." But in 1657 things had changed: hardly a . |
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