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Olden Holiday Customs.
After the Restoratiou , these offending poles were once more allowed to be erected . Notwithstanding , in 1658 , Sir Aston Cokain writes : — " The zelots here are grown so ignorant That they mistake wake ^ for some ancient s aint ; They else would keep that feast ; for though they all Would be called saints here , none in heaven they call ; Besides , they Maypoles hate with all then- soul—I think because a Cardinal was a . Pole . "
Stow gives an account of an old Maypole set up in Basing Lane , termed " Gerard's Hall Maypole , " fabled to be the jousting staff of Gerard , a giant . Imagine , reader , the consternation of a dapper city clerk , issuing forth on this once festive day to his business calls , and encountering such an emblem of popular merriment in the heart of his every-day perambulations .
From a newspaper of May , 1718 , I extract the account of the downfal of the last Maypole : — " The Maypole in the Strand * is taken down , which was some time since pawned at the " Five Bells" tavern , near the new church ; it is sold outright , it seems , by the great men in the neighbourhood , and sent into Essex . " This was to Wanstead , to Sir Isaac Newton , who had begged it for a stand to his large telescope . f
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Olden Holiday Customs.
After the Restoratiou , these offending poles were once more allowed to be erected . Notwithstanding , in 1658 , Sir Aston Cokain writes : — " The zelots here are grown so ignorant That they mistake wake ^ for some ancient s aint ; They else would keep that feast ; for though they all Would be called saints here , none in heaven they call ; Besides , they Maypoles hate with all then- soul—I think because a Cardinal was a . Pole . "
Stow gives an account of an old Maypole set up in Basing Lane , termed " Gerard's Hall Maypole , " fabled to be the jousting staff of Gerard , a giant . Imagine , reader , the consternation of a dapper city clerk , issuing forth on this once festive day to his business calls , and encountering such an emblem of popular merriment in the heart of his every-day perambulations .
From a newspaper of May , 1718 , I extract the account of the downfal of the last Maypole : — " The Maypole in the Strand * is taken down , which was some time since pawned at the " Five Bells" tavern , near the new church ; it is sold outright , it seems , by the great men in the neighbourhood , and sent into Essex . " This was to Wanstead , to Sir Isaac Newton , who had begged it for a stand to his large telescope . f