Most of the old grammar schools had several customs, strictly observed by many generations of scholars--_inter alia_, barring out (Burnley Grammar School), which consisted in an assumed right for the boys at the end of each term to exclude the masters from the school, on which occasion a tallow candle was used to illuminate each pane of glass in the windows. Cock-penny was an annual present claimed by the head-master from each boy; this was probably intended as a payment for the game-cocks which in former years were provided. One of the statutes of the Manchester Grammar School, made about 1525, appears to have been especially designed to put a stop to this custom; it runs: "He" (the master) "shall teach freely and indifferently[237] every child and scholar coming to the same school, without any money or other reward taking therefor, as cock-penny, victor-penny, etc." Another clause provides that the scholars shall "use no cock-fights nor other unlawful games, and riding about for victors, etc." The payment of the cock-penny was continued in some places until a few years ago. At funerals many old customs not common in other parts of the country were here observed, and, indeed, have not yet quite died out. The promiscuous giving of the penny manchet (often provided for by will) was almost universal amongst the richer classes; but the gift to each person who was "bidden" to the funeral, of a cake called the "arval cake," was not quite so common. These cakes were generally given with ale, provided at the nearest public-house. In the neighbourhood of Burnley guests attending a funeral are met at the door by an attendant, who offers spiced ale (or other liquor) from a silver tankard. In some districts, those who went round to invite the guests to the funeral presented each of them with a sprig of rosemary; this inviting was sometimes called "lathing." At Poulton-le-Fylde, at the beginning of this century, the older families always buried their dead at night by torchlight, when every householder in the streets through which the cortège passed placed a lighted candle in his window. In the seventeenth century a singular privilege was given to women dying in childbed, their bodies being allowed interment within the church without the usual fee.[238] The peculiar rites appertaining to All Hallows' Eve (October 31) are well known; but in the Fylde district it was celebrated by the lighting of bonfires, and it was locally known as Teanlay, or Teanley, night. Pace-egging in the same district is called "ignagning." In Rochdale, Good Friday, some fifty years ago, was called "Cracknel Friday," as on this day people regaled themselves with small thin cakes called cracknels. St. Gregory's Day (March 12) in the northern parts of the county is characterized as _the_ day on which onion seed must be sown, or no crop will be yielded. Lancashire is rich in this kind of folk-lore.