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p. 189, l. 393, side-note, _Hall,_ should be _Hall._ Fires in Hall
lasted to _Cena Domini_, the Thursday before Easter: see l. 398.
Squires’ allowances of lights ended on Feb. 2, I suppose. These lights,
or _candle_ of l. 839, would be only part of the allowances. The rest
would continue all the year. See _Household Ordinances & North. Hous.
Book_. Dr Rock says that the _holyn_ or holly and _erbere grene_ refer
to the change on Easter Sunday described in the _Liber Festivalis_:--
“In die paschẽ. Good friends ye shall know well that this day is called
in many places God’s Sunday. Know well that it is the manner in every
place of worship at this day _to do the fire out of the hall;_ and the
black winter brands, and all thing that is foul with smoke shall be done
away, and there the fire was, shall be gaily arrayed with fair flowers,
and strewed with green rushes all about, showing a great ensample to all
Christian people, like as they make clean their houses to the sight of
the people, in the same wise ye should cleanse your souls, doing away
the foul brenning (burning) sin of lechery; put all these away, and cast
out all thy smoke, dusts; and strew in your souls flowers of faith and
charity, and thus make your souls able to receive your Lord God at the
Feast of Easter.” --Rock’s _Church of the Future_, v. iii. pt. 2,
p. 250. “The holly, being an evergreen, would be more fit for the
purpose, and makes less litter, than the boughs of deciduous trees.
I know some old folks in Herefordshire who yet follow the custom, and
keep the grate filled with flowers and foliage till late in the autumn.”
--D. R. On Shere-Thursday, or _Cena Domini_, Dr Rock quotes from the
_Liber Festivalis_--“First if a man asked why Sherethursday is called
so, ye may say that in Holy Church it is called ‘Cena Domini,’ our
Lord’s Supper Day; for that day he supped with his disciples openly....
It is also in English called Sherethursday; for in old fathers’ days the
people would that day sheer their heads and clip their beards, and poll
their heads, and so make them honest against Easter-day.” --Rock, _ib._,
p. 235. [[Corrected; 15a. The Sidenote belongs to the Latin line
between 394, 395.]]
p. 192, l. 462-4, _cut out_ . _after_ hete; _put_ ; _after_ sett, _and_
, _after_ let; l. 468-9, _for_ sett, In syce, _read_ sett In syce;
l. 470, ? some omission after this line. [[Corrected; 28a.]]
p. 200, l. 677, side-note, steel spoon _is more likely_ spoon handle
[[Corrected]]
p. 215, l. 14. _The _T_ of _T the_ is used as a paragraph mark in
the MS._
p. 274, l. 143-4, ? sense, reading corrupt. [[Corrected; 63a.]]
p. 275, Lowndes calls the original of _Stans Puer ad Mensam_ the _Carmen
Juvenile_ of Sulpitius. [[Corrected; 63b.]]
p. 312, col. 2, Holyn. Bosworth gives A.S. _holen_, a rush; Wright’s
Vocab., _holin_, Fr. _hous_; and that Cotgrave glosses ‘The Hollie,
Holme, or Huluer tree.’ _Ancren Riwle_, 418 note *, and _Rel. Ant._, ii.
280, have it too. See Stratmann’s Dict.
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