Buckinghamshire
It appears from a MS. in the British Museum (Status Scholæ Etonensis, A.D. 1560, MS. Brit. Mus. Donat. 4843, fol. 423), that the boys of Eton School used, on the day of the Circumcision, to play for little New Year’s gifts before and after supper; and that boys had a custom on that day, for good luck’s sake, of making verses, and sending them to the provost, masters, &c., as also of presenting them to each other.