Show SHEETS IX SCOTLAND From the Scottish Antiquary The custom of sleeping in one large sheet doubled at the foot seems to have been peculiar to Scotland and to have made special impression on more than one English traveler Fynes Moryson writ ing in 15DS says They used but one sheet open at the sides and top but close at the feet and so doubled and John Hay the naturalist who visited Scotland about 1C52 remarked that It is the manner man-ner in some places there to lay on but ono sheet as large as two turned up from the feet upward The practice I imagine was continued until recent times and I have when a boy slept in a sheet of the kind Such pieces of linen were termed sheets par excellence the single coverings which are now used being called half sheets |