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By Ronald Hutton
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Publish yr note: First released August twenty second 1996
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Comprehensive and interesting, this vibrant research covers the complete sweep of formality historical past from the earliest written files to the current day.
From may well Day revels and Midsummer fires, to reap domestic and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a desirable trip during the ritual yr in Britain. He demanding situations many universal assumptions in regards to the customs of the prior, and debunks many myths surrounding gala's of the current, to light up thehistory of the calendar 12 months we are living by way of this present day.
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Into the room came ‘twelve wessells with maidens singing, with their wessells; and after came the chief wives singing with their wessells; and the gentlewoman had ordained a great table of banquet, desserts of spices and fruit, as marmalade, gingerbread, jelly, comfit, sugar plate and divers others’. 20 What is not clear is whether the whole entertainment was arranged by the household, or whether the wassail-bearers were going from house to house and were lucky enough to 50 receive a very generous welcome at this one.
In 1616 Ben Jonson could portray a typical mummer’s costume as being a pied suit and a mask. 64 The tradition was ‘put down’ in the Fylde district of Lancashire in 1648 as part of the local dimension of the ‘Puritan Revolution’, 65 but is repeatedly recorded in southern England during the Interregnum. A set of Christmas ‘mummers’ got into a dispute with an alehouse-keeper at the Wiltshire clothing town of Calne in 1655, 66 another solicited rewards at the manor house of North Aston, Oxfordshire, in 1657, and two more did the same at that of Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, in 1659.
Trumpets then sounded, and the presents arrived carried by servants, first from the queen and then from his leading subjects. In her own chamber 52 the queen received hers. The royal couple had arranged for gifts from each of them, usually in cash, to be sent out to the officers of the household and to the chief lay and clerical dignitaries of the realm. If the latter were at their own seats, the presents were carried thither by Yeomen of the Guard. Upon the same morning the fifth earl of Northumberland was awoken by minstrels playing before his door, followed by his own fanfare of trumpets.