Robert Halliday, by his will, dated 6th May, 1491, gave estates in the parish of St. Leonard, Eastcheap, London, the rents to be applied to various purposes, and, amongst others, five shillings to the churchwardens yearly, either to make an entertainment among such persons of the said parish of St. Clement, who should be at variance with each other, in the week preceding Easter, to induce such persons to beget brotherly love amongst them; or if none should be found in the said parish, then to make an entertainment with the said five shillings, at the tavern, amongst the honest parishioners of the said parish on the day of our Lord’s Supper, commonly called Shere Thursday, that they might pray more fervently for the souls of certain persons named in his will.--Edwards, _Old English Customs and Charities_, 1842, p. 146. By indenture, bearing date 11th April, 1691, John Hall, granted a messuage, in the parish of St. Martin Ongar, to Francis Kenton and another, in trust to pay out of the rents thereof, amongst other sums, ten shillings a year, to the churchwardens of the parish of St. Clement, Eastcheap, London, on the Thursday next before Easter, to provide two turkeys for the parishioners, to be eaten at their annual feast, called the reconciling or love feast, usually made on that day. The house is in the possession of the Weavers’ Company, who make the payment for the turkeys annually.--_Ibid._ p. 60. NORTHUMBERLAND. The Thursday before Easter is called Bloody Thursday by some of the inhabitants of this and the neighbouring county of Yorkshire.--_N. & Q. 1st S._ vol. x. p. 87; _4th S._ vol. v. p. 595. MARCH 20.] GOOD FRIDAY. The term Good Friday is erroneously said to be peculiar to the English Church; but it is certainly an adoption of the old German _Gute Freytag_, which may have been a corruption of _Gottes Freytag_, God’s Friday, so called on the same principle that Easter Day in England was at one period denominated God’s Day. In a manuscript homily, entitled _Exortacio in die Pasche_, written about the reign of Edward IV., we are told that the Paschal Day “in some place is callede Esterne Day, and in sum place Goddes Day.”--Harl. MSS. Cod. id. fol. 94. Another MS. quoted by Strutt (_Horda Angel-Cynna_, vol. iii. p. 175) says it is called Good Friday, because on this day good men were reconciled to God. The length of the services in ancient times on this day, occasioned it to be called Long Friday, the ~Lang Frigdæg~ of the Anglo-Saxons, which they probably received from the Danes, by whom at the present time the day is denominated _Lang Freday_.--_Med. Ævi Kalend._ 1841, vol. i. p. 186. The old ceremony of Creeping to the Cross on Good Friday is given from an ancient book of the ceremonial of the Kings of England, in the _Notes to the Northumberland Household Book_. The usher was to lay a carpet for the king to “creepe to the Crosse upon.” The Queen and her ladies were also to creepe to the Crosse.