June 25.]
Yorkshire
June 25.]
Yorkshire.
In the village of Micklefield, about ten miles east of Leeds, it is the custom on the second day of the feast, (June 25th) for about twelve of the villagers,73 dressed, in their best garb, and wearing a white apron à l’épicier, to carry a large basket (generally a clothes-basket) to each farm-house in the village, the occupier of which seems to consider it his bounden duty to give them a good supply of confectionery of some kind to take away with them, and ale ad libitum to drink in his house.—N. &. Q. 3rd S. vol. iii. p. 263.
Notes
73 These villagers call themselves “Joss Weddingers.” (?)