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From: "Christopher Challener" <>
Subject: [Dyfed] cnappan
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:28:35 -0000
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In Newport Pembs (home of cnappan?!?), there is a restaurant with the same
name

Christopher 6684

Still looking for
CHALLENER - Anywhere
SPROSTON - Anywhere
TREMBLE - Eire/South and West Wales/East London
DAVIES - Pembs. & Carmarthenshire
SCOPES - Mainly Suffolk
GOLDING - Mainly East London
MANNING - 18th/19th C. Cheshire
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> One correspondent wrote to say that in Margam the game of cnappan was
> called
> "bando." However, this is an 19th. c. version of cnappan.
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> Extract from "Old Pembrokeshire Parishes &c."
> by Christopher C.Webbe. Gent.*
>
> I must say something about two very notable days in the olden time
> red-letter days in the town calendar-Shrove Tuesday and Whit-Monday; days
> to
> which the young people particularly looked forward with pleasure and
> excitement of no common kind. It is said that very long ago it was a
> practice at Shrovetide to engage in the brutal and dangerous
> sport of bull-baiting, and the equally cruel, thought less risky one of
> cock-fighting, and the pastime to which I am about to refer was introduced
> with a view to draw away the people from their more objectionable sports..
> It must, in this respect, have been a great change for the better. A
> stranger to the town, entering it on Shrove Tuesday. would have been sure
> to
> notice that there was something unusual afoot. Early in the forenoon
> ladders
> would be placed against the house fronts, and a general barricade of the
> windows through-out the place was proceeded with. He might have supposed
> that, as at Coventry, some Lady Godiva was about to proceed through the
> streets, and that the inhabitants were screening themselves from gazing on
> a
> procession which modesty forbade them to look upon, but this
> was not the case. Just at twelve o'clock a sudden commotion was observable
> in the streets, and a splendid football, held out in the hands of some
> notable party in the town was kicked aloft into the air, and then
> commenced
> a scrimmage and tussle which gave you and idea of what ancient
> battle-fields
> were when gunpowder was unknown and hand-to-hand fights settled the fate
> of
> nations. the skill and activity displayed by some of our noted kickers
> were
> marvellous to behold. Think of a large ball spinning off the toe up into
> the
> air till, like the skylark, it became almost invisible. On one occasion
> the
> ball was kicked on to the leads of St. Mary's and rebounded into Dark
> Street, or Back lane as it was then called. the sport continued until dark
> and resulted in nothing worse than a few free fights and bloody noses. No
> great harm, say I.
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