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Updated: August 11, 2024
For purposes of utility they are useless; they remain, however, a connecting link with the superstitions of the past, and a collection of such curious objects is of extreme interest. Wayte, of Edenbridge, who collects many such things. Emblems of Luck. There seems to be a distinctive difference between the amulets which were protectors against harm and those which are emblems of good fortune.
This contrivance, first turned by hand, was afterwards accelerated and made more regular by the mechanical contrivances just referred to. These appear to have been of three different types. Those illustrated were recently in the possession of Mr. Charles Wayte, of Edenbridge, an enthusiastic discoverer of antiquarian metal work in out-of-the-way places in Sussex and Kent.
He cites other examples in Norfolk parishes, viz., "Constable Acre" in Stuston, "Constable Pasture" in Fralingham, "Dog Whipper's Land" in Barton Turf. Cf. In an early year temp. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep., v, Pt. i , 596a. See also Shrop. Arch. and Nat. Hist. E. Freshfield, St. E.g., St. St. Thos. Examples among many are the Edenbridge, Kent, lands. These bridgewardens held lands in three parishes.
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