Hocktide
hocktide also hock tide hoke day monday tuesday second week easter english medieval festival tuesday preceding monday hockdays together whitsuntide twelve day christmastide week following easter marked vacation husbandman year slack time cycle year villein ceased work lord demesne likely land well hocktuesday important term day rent payable michaelmas divided rural year winter summer half evidence allows u see hocktide considered important festival part latemedieval england chance woman parish raise money local church katherine french work allowed u see woman would capture tie local men release exchange release fee would donated church george c homans notice parallel pattern christmastide solemn feast church christmas followed festive holiday agricultural round beginning anew epiphany folk custom plow monday th century england plow monday first monday epiphany occasioned antic gang young plowman calling plowbullocks went door door caparisoned white plow collecting penny withheld might plow dooryard coventry play called old coventry play hock tuesday suppressed reformation owing incidental disorder accompanied revived part festivity queen elizabeth visit kenilworth july depicted struggle saxon dane given colour suggestion hocktide originally commemoration massacre dane st brices day november rejoicing death harthacanute june expulsion dane date anniversary bear th century hocktide widely celebrated england easter although massacre dane order king ethelred unready took place around feast st brice november hardicanutes death occurred june festivity banned henry viii thought encourage public disorder elizabeth petitioned reinstate tradition event recorded sir walter scott kenilworth popular revival recorded number town known reestablished tradition however end th century festival largely forgotten th century festivity consisted men parish binding woman monday demanding kiss release tuesday actual hockday woman would tie men demand payment setting free monies collected would donated parish fund origin name hocktide unknown trace word found old english hockday earliest use composition appears first th century hocktide hockmoney first attested oed celebration hungerford began watercress supper john gaunt patron place wonderful horn town treasured possession kept supper consisted black broth welsh rarebit macaroni salad bowl punch england tradition survives hungerford berkshire although festival somewhat modified celebrate patronage duchy lancaster john gaunt st duke lancaster granted grazing right permission fish river kennet commoner hungerford despite legal battle reign elizabeth – duchy attempted regain lucrative fishing right case eventually settled townspeople favour queen interceded hocktide hungerford combine ceremonial collecting rent something previous tradition demanding kiss money although hocktide celebration take place several day main festivity occur tuesday also known tutti day hocktide council elected previous friday appoints two tutti men whose job visit property attracting commoner right formerly collected rent accompanied bellman town crier summon commoner attend hocktide court town hall fine unable attend one penny lieu loss right tutti men carry tutti pole wooden staff topped bunch flower cloved orange thought derived nosegay would mitigated smell less salubrious part town time past tutti men accompanied orange man orange scrambler – wear hat decorated feather carry white sack filled orange – tutti wench give orange sweet crowd return penny kiss proceeding start sounding horn town hall step summons commoner attend court tutti men visit house turn longer collect rent demand penny kiss lady house visit return orange man give owner orange parade tutti men street hocktide lunch take place hocktide council commoner guest traditional plantagenet punch served meal initiation ceremony known shoeing colt held firsttime attendee shod blacksmith leg held nail driven shoe released shout punch orange heated coin thrown town hall step child gathered outside radonitsa dr hugh pihlens hungerford pictorial history chichester sussex phillimore co ltd isbn countryman diary nowrare herald spring mischiefmaking parasite darlington stockton time april retrieved may tutti day hocktide hungerford west berkshire council retrieved may c payne radford april top tutti hit street newbury today archived original september retrieved may howard angela december live like common people daily telegraph london archived original december retrieved may attribution article incorporates text publication public domain chisholm hugh ed hocktide encyclopædia britannica vol th ed cambridge university press p hocktideh—or hocke day internet sacred text archive