MDDM Ch. 59

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575.2 The Shelby Seat ... Governor Sharpe ... Mr Joseph Warford

http://www2.dgsys.com/~shelbys/Evan.htm

http://www.fultoncountypa.com/towns.html

575.6 Tom Hynes, Catherine Wheat, and their Baby ("... see *Proceedings of
the Council of Maryland*, for the Year 'sixty-five" 579.14)

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/
000032/html/am32--155.html

576.1 people of the Kirk - the Kirk (Informal) the Presbyterian Church of
Scotland

577.3 the Constable, Barney Johnson (i.e. Barnett, cf. 577.19)

577.27 pinguid Embrace - pinguid adj. fatty, oily or greasy; soapy [17th C.
from Latin *pinguis* fat, rich] Cf. the Peter Pinguid Society in _Lot49_

578.7 a compress of Arnica Tea

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/arnic058.html

580.36 *schlag*  ?  = directly?

581.29 desuperpollicates - to give a 'thumbs down'

http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/def.htm

582.13 lately run Conoloways White - apparently a local wine produced by
Conrad (of questionable vintage)

http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/md-pa.htm

582.17 Calathumpians

callithump: a noisy, boisterous mock serenade, a charivari (shivaree)

http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/abc.htm#C

The festive celebration of Christmas and the attendant rituals of misrule
survived despite legal prohibition. In England, the Cromwellian regime
banned any overt Christmas frivolities. Riots ensued in several cities, and
the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 reversed the ban. In America, the
Puritan agenda confined the celebration of Christmas; in 1659, the
Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted a law which levied a penalty for anyone
"found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing
of labor, feasting, or any other way". Government and religious leaders
justified such measures, citing "prevention of disorders".
 
Such legislation was widely resisted, and became a historical artifact with
subsequent events such as the American Revolution and the process of
disestablishing the churches. The open celebration of Christmas thrived, not
so much as a time of religious meditation and observance but more as an
opportunity for theatrical release, indulgence, and misrule. Some did mark
the time with religious rites and "decently feasting with their friends and
relatives".[12] Many, though, chose to celebrate Christmas by "reveling in
profusion, and paying their sincere devotion to merry Bacchus". One
newspaper noted the contrast between a reverential service within a church
and "the temples dedicated to the service of merriment, dissipation and
folly (which) were much crouded (sic.)Š" [13]

The ritual of misrule reached its height with the formation of
"callithumpian bands", impromptu congregations of noisy revelers. [14] Some
callithumpian groups evolved into more formal assemblages, such as The
Boston Anticks, groups of liquor-lubricated plebeians who performed their
acts of unfocused rowdiness on the nearest street corner.
The whole callithumpian activity, and the wider phenomenon of "organized
misrule" - roving bands of loud, intoxicated youths or groups of drunken
revelers who often invaded the homes of nascent bourgeoisie at all hours of
the day and night (demanding an audience for their theatrics, and payment
often in the form of "cakes and ale") during the Christmas season offended
the sensibilities of Clement Moore and other urban patricians. Moore had
watched the gradual incursion of New York City into the grounds of the huge
estate he had inherited upon his mother's death. [...]

http://www.americanatheist.org/win99-00/T2/remnants.html

http://oldcelticbooks.com/Celtic%202000/celtic52.html

http://oldcelticbooks.com/Celtic%202000/celtic51.html

I remember the name being used by my father as a sort of made-up nationality
and term of derision, for non-Christians or foreigners in general I guess.
I'm not sure where the word derives from (perhaps Old Celtic), but there are
Calathumpian Parades and Calathumpian Bands and Calathumpian Societies
dating back to the early 1800s at least. It seems to denote secular
revellers or musicians or gangs of louts, particularly at Xmas/New Year, or
a club name for university pranksters.

[...] Many years ago, a work colleague of mine said that he didn't belong to
any church. He was a "Calathumphian", he said. I wish I had known the real
meaning of the word at the time. "Calathumpian" comes from "calathus", Latin
for a rubbish bin, and it means that the person has retrieved all the ideas
that other people have rejected and thrown out.

http://www.ccr.org.au/newage.html

In actual fact, a "calathus" is a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient
Greek art and used as a symbol of fruitfulness.

http://www.bartlebee.net/61/53/C0025300.html

582.17 cowbells tun'd to the Pentatonick Scale - pentatonic scale: a scale
of five notes reaching the octave on the sixth. There is good evidence that
the octave so divided represents the form of early scales.

http://mckown.home.texas.net/chimes/pentatonic.htm

582.24 "Your Dogs have to lean against the Wall to bark, Gus."  ? (Gus?)

583.2 "The Black Joke"
 
An old tune, now called 'The Sprig of Shillelagh'. Tom Moore has adapted
words to the tune, beginning, "Sublime was the warning which Liberty spoke".
 
http://www.bartleby.com/81/1948.html

http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/eire/sublime.htm

583.6 pattern'd all over with identical small blue Flowers, upon a Ground of
glowing Vermilion - another variation on a familiar colour theme

584.17 Grandfather Cresap  ?

http://users.erols.com/rsleem/Cresap_pic.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/one.htm

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