Then there is the day itself. As was a custom of old "..to dress out stools with a cushion of flowers, so our Lady's bottom would be met softly. A layer of clay is placed on the stool, & therein is stuck with great regularity an arrangement of all kinds of flowers, so close as to form a beautiful cushion. These are exhibited at the doors of house in the villages, & at the ends of streets & cross-lanes of larger towns where the attendants beg money from passengers, to enable them to have an evening feast & dancing." Also "This custom, the Romans saw, as part of their rites. Feast of the Lares, or Household Gods, who presided as well over the house a streets. This mode of adorining the seat or couch of the Lares was beautiful, & the idea of reposing them on aromatic flowers, & beds of roses, excellent. And so do the folk worship still."