Pace eggs

The pace or pasch egg, once given at Easter all over Christendom, was still handed out by children and country people in Lancashire in Chambers’s day. Even in Scotland, where the church feasts had long been put down, young people got hard-boiled dyed eggs to roll, throw and eat. At Chester the eggs were boiled hard in water dyed red, blue or violet, with words or little pictures on them. Pace eggs and egg rolling are still part of Easter in the north.