Suffolk
Brand (Pop. Antiq. 1849, vol. i. p. 489) alludes to a custom practised in the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmunds among the young men, of hunting owls and squirrels on Christmas Day.
In 1358, at Hawstead, the customary tenants paid their lord at Christmas a small rent, called offering silver. Eleven of them paid in all xviijd. In 1386 the Christmas offerings made by the master for his domestics amounted to xiiijd. for seven servants.—Cullum, History of Hawstead, 1813, pp. 13-14.