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Names of places and fields in Lassington, Twin Hedges, 

 Hawk's Hill, Leg of Mutton, Butts, Inage, Portway, 

 Weatherlcy Hill, Cuckoo Pen (Wood), Reddings (Wood), 

 Brimstone Meadow, Upper Yells, Rodway, Pope's Mea- 

 dow, Upper Peter's, Low^er Peter's, Lonkridge. 



Maisemore, or Mayesmore, or Mazemore, does not 

 occur in Domesday, it being a member of St. Mary de 

 Lode, in Gloucester. Derivation from " Maes," a field or 

 place ; and " Mor," which in composition means water, 

 which well describes its situation. Some, however, sav 

 that it is from Maes — More, the great field. Several places 

 in Wales bear this name. 



This parish was inclosed in 1793. "The Church is 

 dedicated to St. Giles, and the Feast of the Patron Saint 

 is celebrated on the ist Sunday in September. 



Within the memory of living men there used to be held 

 on Feast Sunday, games of wrestling, cudgel playing, sack- 

 racing, and smock-running. A muffled peal is rung on 

 Innocents' Day. 



At Christmas time the villagers sing a kind of carol or 

 wassailing song, of which the following are the words : — 



THE WASSAILING BOWL 



We've been a wassailing all over the town. 

 Our bread it is white, and our ale it is brown. 

 Our bowl it is made of the sycamore tree. 

 And a wassailing bowl we drink unto thee. 

 Chorus — 



Wassail, wassail, our jolly wassail. 

 And joy shall go with our jolly wassail. 

 Here's a health to the ox, and to his old head. 

 Here's wishing our master a good loaf of bread, 

 A good loaf of bread that we may all see. 

 And a wassailing bowl we drink unto thee. 

 Chorus — 



Wassail, wassail, our jolly wassail. 

 And joy shall go with our jolly wassail. 



