Somersetshire
At West Hatch the reeve or bailiff to the manor provided at the lord’s expense a feast on Christmas Day, and distributed to each householder a loaf of bread, a pound and a half of beef, and the like quantity of pork, undressed, and the same evening treated them with a supper.—Collinson, History of County of Somerset, 1791, vol. ii. p. 186.
The following lines are sung at the Christmas mummings in this county:
“Here comes I, liddle man Jan,
With my zword in my han!
If you don’t all do,
As you be told by I,
I’ll zend you all to York,
Vor to make apple-pie.”
Brand, Pop. Antiq. 1849, vol. i. p. 466.