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28.
Daniel Defoe,
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A Journal of the Plague Year: The Diary of the Barcelona Tanner Miguel Parets
,
1651
(New York, 1991), 82;
OED
, s.v. “vespillon”; F. Altieri,
Dizionario Italiano ed. Inglese
... (London, 1726), I;
A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Selectmen’s Minutes from 1764 to
1768 (Boston, 1889), 12; Aug. 15, 20, 1665, Pepys,
Diary
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29.
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30.
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SJC
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Nocte
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31.
Nov. 4, 1777, Sanger,
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SAS
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Diary
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32.
Aug. 27, 1691, H. J. Morehouse and C. A. Hulbert, eds.,
Extracts from the Diary of the Rev. Robert Meeke
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A Collection of Voyages and Travels
... (London, 1746), VI, 729; Journal of James Robertson, 1767, 118, Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; William W. Hagen,
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33.
John Brown, Mar. 19, 1777, Assi 45/33/10c; Augustin Gallo,
Secrets de la Vraye Agriculture
... (Paris, 1572), 16; Tusser,
Good Husbandrie
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Maison Rustique, or, the Countrey Farme
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34.
Apr. 25, 1698, Diary of John Richards, 52, Dorset Record Office, Bournemouth, Eng.; Best,
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Diary
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Diary
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Journal
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Diary
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35.
Halliwell,
Archaic and Provincial Words
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Diary
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Diary
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B. Chron.
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Yorkshire Diaries & Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Books
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36.
Stevens and Liebault, comps.,
Maison Rustique
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... (London, 1605), fo. 6; Piero Camporesi,
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37.
Best,
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Journal
, 13, 86, 236; James Kelly,
A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs
... (London, 1818), 212; Jasper Charlton,
The Ladies Astronomy and Chronology
... (London, 1735), 35; “Charles Ley,”
SWA
or LJ
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SJC
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38.
SAS
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... (London, 1773), 220; Patten,
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39.
Jonas Hanway,
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GM
39 (1853), 264; Gallo,
Secrets de la Vraye Agriculture
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Unpublished Itinerary
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40.
NYWJ
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Italy
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41.
Hester Lynch Piozzi,
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A Four Months Tour through France
(London, 1776), II, 13; Jan. 28, 1708, Cowper, Diary; Jeremy D. Popkin, ed.,
Panorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableau de Paris, Louis-Sébastien Mercier
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NYWJ
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42.
Paroimiographia
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On Agriculture and Trees
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(New York, n.d.), 243; Patricia James, ed.,
The Travel Diaries of Thomas Robert Malthus
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a.d.
1500–1900
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43.
Feb. 9, 12, 1767, Woodforde,
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My Father’s Life
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Markham’s Farewell to Husbandry
... (London, 1620), 146.

44.
Philip D. Morgan,
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45.
Taylor,
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... (n.p., 1643), 1.

46.
Verdon,
Night
, 113–114; “Mus Rusticus,”
SJC
, Apr. 27, 1773; Jeffry Kaplow,
France on the Eve of Revolution: A Book of Readings
(New York, 1971), 145;
OBP
, Apr. 17–20, 1765, 174; Frank Cundall, ed.,
Lady Nugent’s Journal: Jamaica One Hundred and Thirty-eight Years Ago
(London, 1939), 86; Michael Sonenscher, “Work and Wages in Paris in the Eighteenth Century,” in Maxine Berg et al., eds.,
Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory
(Cambridge, 1983), 167.

47.
Bouteloup, “Travail de Nuit,” 3; Lydia Dotto,
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Bakers of Paris
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48.
SAS
, IX, 480.

49.
OBP
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Crime
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Bakers of Paris
, 244.

50.
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ECR
, II, 373.

51.
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52.
Evangeline W. and Charles M. Andrews, eds.,
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
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Slave Counterpoint
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53.
Piero Camporesi,
Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe
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Diary
, I, 66;
SAS
, XI, 110; William Moraley,
The Infortunate: or, the Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley
... (Newcastle, Eng., 1743), 51; George Lyman Kittredge,
The Old Farmer and His Almanack .
. . (New York, 1967), 172–173; Roger D. Abrahams,
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54.
J. J. Evans, ed.,
Welsh Proverbs .
..
(Llandysul, Wales, 1965), 23; Tilley,
Proverbs in England
, 753.

55.
Abel Boyer,
Dictionaire Royal
... (Amsterdam, 1719); Mr. Ozell, trans.,
M. Misson’s Memoirs and Observations in His Travels over England
(London, 1719), 332; Suzanne Tardieu,
La Vie Domestique dans le Mâconnais Rural Préindustriel
(Paris, 1964), 154–161; Verdon,
Night
, 117–123; Hans Medick, “Village Spinning Bees: Sexual Culture and Free Time among Rural Youth in Early Modern Germany,” in Hans Medick and David Warren Sabean, eds.,
Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship
(Cambridge, 1984), 317–339; Stephen P. Frank, “‘Simple Folk, Savage Customs?’ Youth, Sociability, and the Dynamics of Culture in Rural Russia, 1856–1914,”
JSH
25 (1992), 716, 711–737, passim; Alessandro Falassi,
Folklore by the Fireside: Text and Context of the Tuscan Veglia
(Austin, 1980), 3, 248, passim; Dec. 16, 1783, Lady T. Lewis, ed.,
Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry
(London, 1865), I, 53; Darryl Ogier, “Night Revels and Werewolfery in Calvinist Guernsey,”
Folklore
109 (1998), 54–56; Magnús Gíslason,
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Proceedings of the British Academy
31 (1945), 191–192;
SAS
, VI, 482–483; Mrs. Grant,
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... (New York, [1831?]), I, 103; Hugh Evans,
The Gorse Glen
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56.
Leona C. Gabel, ed.,
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The Victorian Countryside
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57.
Robert Bell,
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... (London, 1804), 20.

58.
Medick, “Spinning Bees,” 322–323; Jakob Stutz,
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The Poems of Ossian
(Edinburgh, 1805), II, 341;
SAI
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59.
Daniello Bartoli,
La Ricreazione del Savio
(Parma, 1992), 336; Burke,
Popular Culture
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Cardozo Law Review
16 (1994), 343–344; Crusius,
Nocte
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(Tokyo, 1986), 24–25; Henrie Glassie,
Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community
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Essays on the History of Religions
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60.
Moses Heap, “My Life and Times, or an Old Man’s Memories, Illustrated with Numerous Anecdotes and Quaint Sayings,” 3, District Central Library, Rawtenstall, Eng.; Bourne,
Antiquitates Vulgares
, 76; Garnert,
Lampan
, 114.

61.
Brétonne,
My Father’s Life
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The Early Poems of John Clare, 1804–1822
(Oxford, 1989), II, 126;
SAS
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(Newark, Del., 1989), 112.