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Plough Bullocks & Plum Pudding, the Forgotten Feast of Plough Monday

Plough Bullocks & Plum Pudding, the Forgotten Feast of Plough Monday

‘Forget not the Feasts that belong to the Plough’* Plough Munday, the next after Twelftide be past, biddeth out with the plough, the worst husband is last. If Ploughman gets hatchet or whip to the skreene. maydes loseth their Cocke if no Water be seene. Thomas Tusser* 1557 Writing in 1557 the Essex writer and farmer, Thomas Tusser, is describing a game then played on Plough Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Night. The game’s origins are unknown. It would…

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