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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

July 5.]

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Leicestershire.

July 5.]

Leicestershire.

At Glenfield, the parish clerk, in accordance with an old custom, strews the church with new hay on the first Sunday after the 5th of July.—Edwards, Old English Customs and Charities, p. 219.

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