[404] Mirror of the Months.
October 30.
Yeomen of the Guard.
On this day in the year 1485, when king Henry VII. was crowned at Westminster, he instituted the body of royal attendants, called yeomen of the guard, who in later times acquired the appellation of “beef-eaters.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 47·17.
October 31.
Hallow Eve.
The superstitious observances of this night, described in the former volume, are fast disappearing. In some places where young people were accustomed to meet for purposes of divination, and frequently frighten each other into fits, as of ancient custom, they have little regard to the old usages. The meetings on Hallow-eve are becoming pleasant merry-makings; the dance prevails till supper-time, when they take a cheerful glass and drink to their next happy meeting.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 47·62.