The Twickenham Easter cakes

Twickenham once divided two great cakes among its young people in church on Easter Day. In 1645 Parliament stopped it as a superstitious relic and told the parish to buy bread for the poor with the money instead, and a pound a year was still charged on the vicarage for penny loaves for poor children after Easter. Within living memory the loaves had been thrown from the church steeple to be scrambled for, as they also were at Paddington.