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86. 3. ‘“Chippings.” The “Chippings of Trencher-brede” in 
Lord Percy’s household were used ‘for the fedynge of my lords 
houndis.”—Percy Household Book, p. 353. ‘‘ Other ij pages. . 
them oweth to chippe bredde, but too nye the crumme.”—House- 
hold Ordin. pp. 71-2. In the Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, ed. 1634, 
p. 71, we are warned against eating crusts, because ‘ they ingender 
a dust cholor, or melancholly humours, by reason that they bee 
burned and dry.” 
86. 10. “Call quarterly seruants to court and to leete,” that is, 
call to account. 
88. 7. “Lurching,” cf. footnote to 23. 3, p. 61. 
89. 2. ‘ Bandog,” cf. note on ch. 10. 19. 
89. 12. ‘ Guise.” 
“For he was laid in white Sheep’s wool 
New pulled from tanned Fells; 
And o’er his Head hang’d Spiders webs 
As if they had been Bells. 
Is this the Country Guise, thought he ? 
Then here I will not stay.” 
Ballad, K. Alfred and the Shepherd. 
“°?Tis thy Country Guise, I see, 
To be thus bluntish still.”—Ibid. 
“The Norman gwzse was to walke and jet up and downe the streets.” 
——Lambert’s Peramb. of Kent, 1826, p. 320. 
90. 2. The Skreene was a wooden settee or settle, with a high 
back sufficient to screen the sitters from the outward air, and was 
in the time of our ancestors an invariable article of furniture near 
all kitchen fires, and is still seen in the kitchens of many of our old 
farm-houses in Cheshire. The meaning of the two lines: 
“If ploughman get hatchet or whip to the skreene, 
maides loseth their cock if no water be seene,” 
is, ‘if the ploughman can get his whip, ploughstaff, hatchet, or 
anything he wants in the field to the fireside (screen being here 
equivalent to firesede) before the maid has got her kettle on, then 
she loses her Shrove-tide cock, which belongs wholly to the men.” 
“Plough Monday.” “The Monday next after Twelfth-day, when 
our Northern plow-men beg plow-money to drink; and in some 
places if the plowman (after that day’s work) come with his whip 
to the kitchin hatch, and cry ‘cock in pot’ before the maid says 
‘cock on the dung-hill,’ he gains a cock on Shrove-Tuesday.”— 
Coles’ Dict. 1708. ‘Among the rural customs connected with the 
anniversary of Christmas were those of Plough-Monday, which fell 
on the first Monday after Twelfth-day. This was the holiday of 
the ploughmen, who used to go about from house to house begging 
for plough-money to drink. In the northern counties, where this 
practice was called the fool-plough (a corruption perhaps of yzle- 
plough), a number of sword-dancers dragged about a plough, while 
