The minister of Duffus in Moray wrote in 1793 that the common people of his parish still kept St John’s Day, St Stephen’s Day and Christmas Day by gathering in large companies to play football, dance and make merry. He added that the Puritan horror of holidays had never taken hold of them.
Holiday football at Duffus
27 December · Duffus, Moray
No longer kept
still celebrate (perhaps without ever thinking of the origin of the practice) St. John's Day, St. Stephen's Day, Christmas Day, &c., by assembling in large companies to play at football
From Brand's Popular Antiquities, vol. 1, p. 535. Read the original
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