In the north of England the word is still in use whittling is synonymous with cutting Twenty of inhabitants of Setmurthy in 1723 entered into agreement to pay certain annual sums to the schoolmaster and to keep him a certain number of each The total amount paid to him was 36 money payments being 36s The whittle gait in practical application has long been given up but amount was collected by the overseers from tne of the several tenements which were liable to the agreement and was paid over to the schoolmaster but about forty years ago the overseers to make the collection and the whittle gait as we believe it is still called has since been collected by schoolmaster himself But schoolmasters were not only persons in the north of England who were entitled to whittle gait In a note in Mr Park's copy Bourne and Brand's Popular Antiquities it is that Crossthwaite Church in the vale of Keswick Cumberland hath five chapels belonging to it minister's stipend is 51 per annum and goose grass the right of commoning his geese a whittle gait or valuable privilege of using his knife for a week at time at any table in the parish and lastly a o ft or a shirt of coarse linen Another mode of remunerating schoolmasters in north of England arose out of the brutal game of cock fijnting which schoolmasters even in those rude of England have now ceased to encourage This I remuneration was called cock penny In the free school of the parish of Crossthwaite in Cumberland children born in the parish are admitted and free of expense Cock pennies used to be paid to master by the boys at Shrovetide at which time ha cock fight close to the school when a
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