ROGER BINGHAM HISTORY COLUMN ‘HERE S two or three jolly boys all in one mind, we’ve come a pace egging, we hope you’ feel kind ‘ran a rough chorus sung at Eastertide by local youths as they, performed a drama in retuned for pace eggs. The boiled hens’ eggs, not the over wrapped chocolate confections of today, were supposed to symbolise new life which sprung from Jesus’ Resurrection on Easter Day. Hence, ‘pace’ is said to derive from ‘pasque,’ a Latin name for a feast. The eggs were generally dyed with bright cloths but at Heversham they were boiled in daffodil leaves which produced a marble effect.