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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Norfolk

In some parts of Norfolk libations of spiced ale used to be sprinkled on orchards and meadows.—Book of Days, vol. ii. p. 736.

Northamptonshire

On Christmas Eve, 1815, says Cole (History of Ecton, 1825), the musicians of Ecton, accompanied by the vocalists of the church, revived the custom of going round the village at midnight and singing a carol at the principal houses.

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