Entries for the tag ‘Rushbearing’
Old ecclesiastical festival in which rushes are collected and carried to be strewn on the floor of the parish church. 
- 22 August 1596: A lewd church parade at Cawthorne, Barnsley
- 25 November 1698: A scholar must also pursue a modern scoundrel like Dugdale the demoniac
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