 | James Sowerby, Phebe Lankester, John Edward Sowerby - Botany - 1870 - 596 pages
...garlands of flowers and rushes, walk in procession to the parish church, accompanied by a crowd of rustics with flags flying and music playing. There they suspend their floral chaplets on the chancel-rails, and the day is concluded with a simple feast. The neighbourhood of Ambleside was until... | |
 | 1874 - 588 pages
...of flowers and rushes, walk in procession to the parish church, accompanied by a crowd of rustics, with flags flying and music playing. There, they suspend...chaplets on the chancel rails, and the day is concluded by a simple feast. The neighbourhood of Ambleside was until lately, and may be is still, one of the... | |
 | 1887 - 752 pages
...of flowers and rushes, walked in procession to the Parish Church, accompanied by a crowd of rustics, with flags flying and music playing. There they suspend...and the day is concluded with a simple feast." The introduction of carpets and matting did away with the necessity for employing rushes ; but the holding... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...garlands of flowers and rushes, walk in procession to the parish church accompanied by a crowd of rustics with flags flying and music playing. There they suspend...rails, and the day is concluded with a simple feast." (Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. ix.) In Cheshire, at Runcorn and Warburton, fifty years ago,... | |
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... with flags flying and music playing. There they suspend their floral chaplets on the chancel rails, and the day is concluded with a simple feast. The neighbourhood of Ambleside was until lately, and may be still, one of the chief strongholds of this... 