Plough Monday celebrations, the dance of Bessie and the Clown. Plough Monday celebrated the start of the ploughing season after Christmas. Ploughboys took a decorated plough around the village, begging for money, food or drink. From Old England: A Pictorial Museum, published 1847.

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