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| Stockliegh Pomeroy - David Smith [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons |
"MEAL TIMES.
A wee-bit and breakfast,
A stay-bit and dinner,
A nummit and a crummit,
And a bit arter supper.
A wee-bit and breakfast,
A stay-bit and dinner,
A nummit and a crummit,
And a bit arter supper.
MEAL HOURS A.D. 1515.
To rise at five and dine at nine,
To sup at five and bed at nine,
Will make a man live to ninety-nine.
To rise at five and dine at nine,
To sup at five and bed at nine,
Will make a man live to ninety-nine.
Our meal- hours and time of rising in the morning have considerably changed in the course of three centuries. As our ancestors rose at five they needed the "wee-bit" especially in the winter season. Persons of quality would sometimes dine as late as ten and supper was at five or six in the evening, and all the family were in bed at nine. They sounded the curfew, which warned them to put out their fires at six in the winter and between eight and nine in the evening during the summer time."
Hewett 1900
Map - Stockleigh Pomeroy
[Not sure if this is really folklore, but I am going to include it anyway...]
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