The Romance of the Lace Pillow; Being the History of Lace-Making in Bucks, Beds, Northants And Neighbouring Counties, Together With Some Account of the Lace Industries of Devon And Ireland
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In some of the villages of Northants and Bucks " Thomas's " (St. Thomas's Day, Dec.
21), was also kept as a half holiday. In Mino/ Warwickshire and the parts of North- ^°^'"^^^^- ants adjoining, the old women, wearing red cloaks, used to go " Thomasen," that is, begging from house to house, the gifts besto.wed being called " Thomasers." At Stoke Goldington (Bucks) and Ecton (Northants) the children in the lace schools used to lock out the mistress and demand a holiday in the fashion that elsewh...ere vas observed on Tanders Day.
,At North Crawley (Bucks), Riseley (Beds) and other villages. Shrove Tuesday was also a half holiday. At North Crawley the Parish clerk always rang the Pancake Bell at eleven, and as soon as the sound, "Pan, pan," filtered down from the church tower the women, who had been wait- ing for it, ran, helter-skelter, out of their cottages to the belfry, each carrying a pancake and endeav- ouring to be the first to offer it to the clerk. But the first pancake was not necessarily the best, as owing, to the hurry it was likely enough to be 202 THE ROMANCE OF THE LACE PILLOW.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In some of the villages of Northants and Bucks " Thomas's " (St. Thomas's Day, Dec.
21), was also kept as a half holiday. In Mino/ Warwickshire and the parts of North- ^°^'"^^^^- ants adjoining, the old women, wearing red cloaks, used to go " Thomasen," that is, begging from house to house, the gifts besto.wed being called " Thomasers." At Stoke Goldington (Bucks) and Ecton (Northants) the children in the lace schools used to lock out the mistress and demand a holiday in the fashion that elsewh...ere vas observed on Tanders Day.
,At North Crawley (Bucks), Riseley (Beds) and other villages. Shrove Tuesday was also a half holiday. At North Crawley the Parish clerk always rang the Pancake Bell at eleven, and as soon as the sound, "Pan, pan," filtered down from the church tower the women, who had been wait- ing for it, ran, helter-skelter, out of their cottages to the belfry, each carrying a pancake and endeav- ouring to be the first to offer it to the clerk. But the first pancake was not necessarily the best, as owing, to the hurry it was likely enough to be 202 THE ROMANCE OF THE LACE PILLOW.
What to read after The Romance of the Lace Pillow; Being the History of Lace-Making in Bucks, Beds, Northants And Neighbouring Counties, Together With Some Account of the Lace Industries of Devon And Ireland?
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