In a message dated 21/11/2007 20:44:46 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: The Grassmen's Accounts for Durham St Giles listed on the Ancestry UK website, I found someone had been paid one shilling for a 'Jingle Pot' in 1837. The Grassmen's Accounts were published in 1896 as Vol 95 of the Surtees Society publications, and it is no doubt that which you have found on Ancestry. On page 117 of that book (note 2) it says, as a comment on the phrase "Jingle-Pot" ("By d[itt]o - ie by cash - for a Jingle Pot, 1s" in accounts dated 1798: "Jingle-cap, shake-cap, a pitman's and keelman's game (Sc Jingle-the bonnet). Brockett. "Jingle-the-Bonnet. - Two or more put a halfpenny or other coin each into a cap or bonnet, and after jingling or shaking them together throw them on the ground, and he who has the most heads when it is his turn to jingle wins the stakes that were put into the bonnet". - Jamieson. "The editor has been informed by an old inhabitant of Gilligate that there still exists somewhere in the parish a pewter pot, called the "Jingling pot", which was formerly used on Bounder Day for collecting money in from the "riders" both during the peramulation and at the dinner afterwards at the 'Britannia', and that it used also to be placed on the ground for the reception of coins, which were thrown into it from a distance." This seems to confirm that "Bounders" was the day of Riding the Bounds (sometimes called "Beating the Bounds", of the parish, an annual event in many places. The explanation connected with lead mining is unlikely as the nearest lead mines to Gilesgate were in Stanhope in Weardale, over 30 (? a guess) miles to the west, whereas Gilesgate itself was dominated by coal mining, a quite different type of mining. Incidentally "The editor" of that Surtees Society volume was Rev J Barmby. Geoff Nicholson