 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...next, in several kinds of diversions, the chief of which is a rush-bearing ; which is thus : — " They cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. Afterwards, the young women of the village who perform the ceremony that... | |
 | Thomas Rose - Cumberland (England) - 1832 - 242 pages
...:?:s>,4::)ís ла MI- r.-.r ¡=.^'!];/:«, Э'Ж'.-.тйг.гггчла.иЛ''. At Warton, in Yorkshire they cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make up into long bundles, and then dress them up in fine linen, silk ribands, Sowers, &c. Afterwards the young women of the village, who perform... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 512 pages
...the next in several kinds of diversions, the chiefest of which is usually a rush-bearing, which is on this manner. They cut hard rushes from the marsh,...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c.; afterwards the young women of the village, which perform the ceremony that... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby, i. 259, 260. [The rush-bearing, according to Lucas, is in this manner: They cut hard rushes from the marsh,...up into long bundles, and then dress them in fine lmen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. Afterwards, the young women in the village, who perform the ceremony... | |
 | William Bell - Fairies in literature - 1860 - 360 pages
...seems to have been on St. Oswald's Day — the patron — or on the Sunday nearest 1st of August : — They cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk, ribbands, flowers, &c. Afterwards the young women of the village who perform the ceremony that... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby, i. 259, 260. [The rush-bearing, according to Lucas, is in this manner : They cut hard rushes from the marsh,...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. Afterwards, the young women in the village, who perform the ceremony that... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1858 - 422 pages
...cart and banner, and sometimes serious fracas take place between the parties. At Warton, in Yorkshire, they cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make up into long bundles, and then dress them up in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. Afterwards the young women of the village, who perform... | |
 | William Andrews - Chained books - 1890 - 224 pages
...the next in several kinds of diversions, the chiefest of which is usually a rush-bearing, which is on this manner. They cut hard rushes from the marsh,...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. ; afterwards the young women of the village who perform the ceremony that... | |
 | Alfred Burton - 1891 - 236 pages
...the next in several kinds of diversions, the chiefest of which is usually a rushbearing, which is in this manner. They cut hard rushes from the marsh,...into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, etc. ; afterwards the young women of the village, which perform the ceremony... | |
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... this manner. They cut hard rushes from the marsh, which they make up into long bundles, and then dress them in fine linen, silk ribands, flowers, &c. 
