 | 1890 - 342 sider
...Cuthbert) is called Helly-Well, ie, Haly or Holy Well. It formerly was the custom for the youth of all the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...variety of rural sports. It was the village wake, and took place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and fairs in the churchyard was discontinued.... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1890 - 302 sider
...water, which (probably from its having been anciently dedicated to the same St. Cuthbert) is called the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...variety of rural sports. It was the village wake, and took place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and fairs in the churchyard was discontinued.... | |
 | John Brand - 1900 - 574 sider
...Cuthbert) is called Belly-Well, \. e. Haly or Holy Well. It formerly was the custom for the youth of all the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...variety of rural sports. It was the village wake, and took place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and fairs in the churchyard was discontinued.... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 360 sider
...Cuthbert), is called Helly-Well, ie Haly or Holy Well. It formerly was the custom for the youth of all the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...variety of rural sports. It was the village wake, and took place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and fairs in the churchyard was discontinued.... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 374 sider
...Cuthbert) is called Helly-Well, ie Haly or Holy Well. It formerly was the custom for the youth of all the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...Sunday in May, and there to join in a variety of rural snorts. It was the village wake, and took" place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 sider
...Cuthbert). is called Helly-Well, ie Haly or Holy Well. It formerly was the custom for the youth of all the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well...Sunday in May, and there to join in a variety of rural sport«. It was the village wake, and took place here, it is possible, when the keeping of wakes and... | |
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the neighbouring villages to assemble at this well early in the afternoon of the second Sunday in May, and there to join in a variety of rural sports. It was the village wake, 