Перевод: Shrovetide

Northamptonshire mumming, Shrovetide football, and Plough Mondays are examples of practices which were no longer encouraged and to an extent positively discouraged by a gentry which increasingly distanced itself from rude diversions and vulgar games.
The godly had some success in severing their connection with the church by banishing them from the churchyard, but the old festal calendar survived and the activities associated with it - mumming at New Year, dancing at Candlemas, football and other games at Shrovetide, and maypole dancing on Mayday - were relocated in and around the village ale-house.
The rolling forest of Wensleydale that surrounded Bainbridge has gone now, with its deer and wild boar, but the horn that was blown at dusk every evening between Holyrood and Shrovetide to lead travellers out of the forest to safety still hangs behind the bar of the Rose and Crown, although it is blown now only at village weddings.
The church was once more fully involved in the traditional festive culture of the people, for the old ceremonies associated with Christmas, Easter, Whitsun, Shrovetide, and Maytide were quickly resumed in all parts of the country and proved as popular as ever.
Shrove Tuesday was "Colperras day" and with Shrovetide came the traditional hurling matches.
His puritanical streak led him as lord mayor to attempt to ban the "demoralizing pleasure fair" in Ashbourne and to outlaw Shrovetide football.

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