a custom in Cumberland, where all the friends of a new-married couple assemble together, and are treated with cold pies, furmity, and ale ; at the conclusion of the day, the bride and bridegroom are placed in two chairs, in the open air, or in a large barn, the bride with a pewter dish on her knee, half covered with a napkin ; into this dish the company present put their offerings, the amount of which is sometimes forty or fifty pounds.