Crossword-Solution: SIMNELS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Here some one was shouting command to imaginary militia; there an aged crone was offering, without price, simnels and black butter, as a sort of propitiation for an imperfect past; and from a window a notorious evil-liver was frenziedly crying that she had heard the devil and his Rocbert witches revelling in the prison dungeons the night before.

The Wars of the Roses are viewed as less important than the Peasants' Revolt; the scholars of the New Learning leave scant space for Lambert Simnels and Perkin Warbecks.

The bread was doubtless of many kinds, as in England--simnels, cracknels, jannacks, cheat loaves, cocket-bread, wastel-bread, manchet, and buns.

From Johnson's explanation of the term, I conclude, that this practice of making "simnels" must in former times have been more general than it is at present.

Such cross-marked buns were found at Herculaneum." The "simnels" eaten on Mid-Lent, or "Mothering" Sunday, are, doubtless, but modern representatives of the ancient festive cake.