Thank you very much, Stan and Geoff, for your replies. I find it fascinating to learn about such details of life in County Durham in days past. I'd heard of 'Beating the Bounds' and guessed that the 'Bounders' mentioned might have something to do with that, but I wasn't sure. As to what a jingle pot might have been, Durham Mining Museum's website mentions a 'Jingle Pot Level' in a Swaledale lead ore mine at Marrick, so perhaps it was a term commonly used by miners of all minerals in the North and amongst mining communities for the container used in the coin-throwing game. I'm now wondering what happened to the coins collected on Bounder Day in the pot paid for by the Parish. Surely there must have been a reason other than 'winner-takes-all' gambling for collecting the money. Would it have gone into Parish funds? It seems unlikely it was used, as raffle prizes are today, at the dinner at the 'Britannia' (which I assume was an inn or public house)? Regards, Mary O