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Turkeys at Christmas ....... 112
Twelfth cake ........ 166
Twelfth Night—Epiphany . . . . . .164
Twelfth Night at sea ....... 132
Waits . . . . . . . . 83,96, 116
Wassail bowl . . . . . . . 18, 55
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INDEX OF REFERENCES. |
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To avoid encumbering the pages with foot-notes, all references requiring them have been omitted, but the principal works and passages referred to will be found in this Index, excepting those that already appear in the body of the work. Many of the old Chronicles have been inspected for historical facts, but it has not been thought necessary to specify them, except in a few instances; and where one is cited, the fact is frequently corroborated by two or three others. Hickes's * Thesaurus,' vol? i, pp. 209-14, and Gebelin's ' Allegories Orientales,' contain a good deal of learning about Yule or Gule, and the former as to midwinter. Du Cange's' Glossary,' in voce Festum, gives many particulars respecting the Feasts of Asses and Fools. The Wardrobe Accounts, temp. Edw. First, have entries connected with that time; and Mr. Collier's ' Annals of the Stage, and History of Dramatic Poetry,' and the 'Account of Bevels,' by Mr. Peter Cunningham, both works containing much valuable information, the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, of Henry the Eighth, and of the Princess Mary, the {Northumberland Household Book,' and Nichols's ' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth and King James,' are the authorities for many of the plays and masks, and the particulars of the accounts connected with them, and the New Year's Gifts from the time of Henry the Seventh to that of James the First j and many additional particulars may be found in them. Brady's 1 Clavis Calendaria' contains much information respecting the early history of Christmas; and Mosheim's 'Ecclesiastical History,'may'also be consulted. Spelman's ' Glossary,' voce Xenia, and Boulanger,' l'Antiquite Devoilee,' iv, 16, 17, a work however not to be recommended, speak of the ancient New Year's Gifts. Madox's ' History of the Exchequer' states the movements of our early |
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