CHAPTER V.

Whitsuntide Festivities -- Sole Religious Festival that continues a Popular one -- this partly owing to Friendly Societies -- Joyous Aspect of this Village Fete -- Whitsuntide Village Processions as seen by the Author in his Youth -- fine Subject for a Painter -- these Love-Feasts of the People very appropriate to this Period, being that of the AGAPAI, or Love-Feasts of the early Christians -- Objections to their being held at Public Houses -- this remediable -- Whitsuntide as witnessed at Warsop in Nottinghamshire -- Concluding Remarks 444