. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . K93.—Christrras. 1799.—Barley-breaii. 125 126 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. of ribbons folded into roses. As many as twenty young men wouldbe in the yoke of one plough. Shrove Tuesday, again, had its own especial source of amuse-ment and a very discreditable one it was. He also would to thethreshing of the cock (Fig. 1807), says a manuscript life of thefourth Lord Berkeley, preserved at Berkeley Castle, a proof thatthis ancient barbarity, the chief distinguishing feature of ShroveTuesday, was by
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . K93.—Christrras. 1799.—Barley-breaii. 125 126 OLD ENGLAND. [Book V. of ribbons folded into roses. As many as twenty young men wouldbe in the yoke of one plough. Shrove Tuesday, again, had its own especial source of amuse-ment and a very discreditable one it was. He also would to thethreshing of the cock (Fig. 1807), says a manuscript life of thefourth Lord Berkeley, preserved at Berkeley Castle, a proof thatthis ancient barbarity, the chief distinguishing feature of ShroveTuesday, was by no means confined to the plebeian vulgar. In ourwars with France, in former ages, says the Gentlemans Maga-zine for 1737, our ingenious forefathers invented this emblemati-cal way of expressing their derision of, and resentment towards thatnation [the Latin name for a cock, Gallus, also signified a French-man] ; and poor Monsieur at the stake was pelted by men andboys in a very rough and hostile manner. Sir Charles Sedleysepigram implies another origin : in it he says— Mayst thou be punishd for
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