Index.

Abjuring the realm, 4 Acrobats on steeples, 244-251 Ale at weddings, 199 Alford, plague at, 164 Armour, buried in, 219 Bainbridge horn, 79 Banks and his horse Morocco, 250 Battle Abbey, 38 Bear-baiting on Sunday, 99 Bedford bridge, 51; prison, 51; Bunyan, 51; curious regulations, 51; chapel, 51 Bernwood forest, 72 Beverley sanctuary; 14, plague at, 160 Biddenden Maids Charity, 148-151 Bible burned, 127 Boar slaying, 74 Boiling oil, ordeal of, 24 Boiling water, ordeal of, 23 “Book of Sports,” 103 Bowling on Sunday, 97 Bradford-on-Avon bridge, 53 Bradley, plague at, 166 Brentwood Church, sanctuary in, 9 Braintree, plague at, 167 Broad-stone, East Retford, 164 Bull-baiting announced in church, 92 Buried alive, 165 Burning to death, 85 Cadman killed, 247 Carlisle horn, 75 Castleton, curious custom at, 180-182 Chapels on Bridges, 44-64 Chairs, sanctuary, 15 Charter Horns, 65-79 Cheapside Cross, 138-147 Chingford horn, 78; singular tenure, 79 Chimney money, 183-185 Clog almanack, 240 Coining by Archbishop of York, 38 Colchester, plague at, 169 Cold water ordeal, 25 Concerning Coffins, 218-226 Corpse, touching a, 28-36 Craven custom, 202 Cuming, H. Syer, 239 Cross, origin of, 120 Curfew Bell, 227-239 Curious Symbols of the Saints, 240-243 Danes, Sunday under, 83 Derby St. Mary’s bridge, 54; chapel, 55; Jesuits, 55; St. James bridge, 56; plague, 161; rope performing, 246; Topham, 249 Durham sanctuary, 12-14; parish-coffins, 224; fatal accident to a rope-dancer, 251 Easingwold parish coffin, 221 Easter Sepulchre, 111-119 Eleanor, Queen, 138; crosses, 138 Esk, bridge over, 46 Eyam cross, 121; plague, 170-173 Executions, 25, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 56, 85 Fight between the Mayor of Hull and Archbishop of York, 37-43 Fined for not attending church, 108-110 Football on Sunday, 96 Friars building bridges, 44 Grave, a man making his own, 167 Hanging, 25-37 Hastings, battle of, 86 Henry I. abolishes curfew law, 233 Hoghton Tower, James at, 102 Hot ale at weddings, 199-202 Howden parish coffin, 224 Hull merchants evading prisage claims, 39; Sunday regulations, 89; plague at, 95 Hungerford horn, 77; curious customs, 78 Indulgences, 45, 122 Ireland, burials without coffins, 221 Iron, red-hot ordeal, 27 King curing an Abbot of indigestion, 174-176 Kissing the Bride, 195-198 Kissing customs, 78, 107 Knox and Sunday, 98 Leicester, plague at, 158-160 Lich-gates, 139-140 Lincoln, Bishop of, claims right of hanging criminals, 37 London Bridge, 47-50; chapel on, 48; houses on, 48; terrible fire, 48; heads of traitors on, 49 Macclesfield, curious epitaph, 225 Manchester sanctuary, 6-7 Manx laws, 192 Markets on Sunday, 86-89 Marriage of a Blue-coat boy, 207 Marriages on Sunday, 98 Marrying Children, 203-209 Marrying under the gallows, 191-194 Marrying in a white sheet, 186-190 Masques on Sunday, 95 Mint belonging to Archbishop of York, 38 Murder in Westminster Abbey, 8-9 New England, Sunday in, 107-108 New York, curious marriage custom, 194 Nigel’s horn, 72 Norfolk, Sunday trading in, 91 Northampton, fire at, 183; hearth money, 184; cross, 139, 141 Oak leaves, carrying, 179 Ordeal, origin of, 22 Oxford, play at, 95 Passing Bell, 210-217 Penance of Jane Shore, 125 Penderel’s grave, 178 Plagues and Pestilences, 152-173; business stopped, 152; watch and ward, 153; red crosses on doors, 154; dogs killed, 154; strange remedies, 155; Newcastle, 158; Leicester, 158; Derby, 162; Smoking, 163; Broad-stone, East Retford, 164; Alford 164; burial of dead, 165; buried alive, 165; Stratford-on-Avon, 165; Bradley, 166; Braintree, 167; Colchester, 169; collections, 170; Eyam, 170 Plays on Sunday, 92-96 Preaching, extravagant, 133 Puritans and Sunday, 101, 104-147 Pusey horn, 70 Reading Abbey, 174 Red-hot iron ordeal, 27 Rhyne Toll, 73 Right of Sanctuary, 1-21 Ringing on May 29th, 183 Romance of Trial, 23-26 Rotherham Bridge, 56; chapel, 56 Rope dancers, 244-251 St. Paul’s Cross, 120-137; oaths taken at, 122; thrown down by an earthquake, 122; indulgences granted for assisting to rebuild it, 122; penance at, 124-125; sermon in favour of the Duke of Gloucester, 126; Bible burned at, 127; riot at, 128; Queen Elizabeth’s love of display, 129; Hooker at Shunamite House, 131; rioters at,131; James I. at, 133; pulled down, 136 Sales, etc., announced by parish clerks, 92 Salford bridge, 51; chapel on, 51; prison on, 51 Salisbury, tricks on steeple at, 245; Cadman killed, 247 Sanctuary, origin of, 1 Sanctuary, right of, 1-21 Saxons, Sunday under, 82 Sorcery at Dalkeith, 35 Scotchman knocking at York gates, 102 Scotland, Early marriages in, 209 Secrets of the realm, disclosing, 5 Services and customs of Royal Oak Day, 179-185 Shunamite House, 131 Skelton in Westminster sanctuary, 10 Slavery in England, 84 Sports on Sunday, 100 Stafford sanctuary, 11 Stage plays in churches, 92-96 Stockton-on-Tees parish coffin, 223 Stoning to death, 85 Stratford-on-Avon, plague at, 165 Sunday in the Olden Time, 81-110 Survival of ordeal, 36 Swords, wearing, 5 Tax on coffins proposed, 225 Tewkesbury, battle of, 7 Thief, hanging a, 37 Traitors’ heads on London bridge, 49 Travelling in the olden time, 79 Trial, romance of, 22-36 Tobacco fines, 108 Touch, ordeal of, 28-36 Ulphus, horn of, 65 Wakefield Bridge, 59; chapel, 59; battle, 60 Walking on Sunday forbidden, 107 Water ordeals, 24-25 Westminster Sanctuary, 10 Wigton, meat at church door, 90 William I. enforces curfew law, 233 Whipping to death, 86 Whitton, marriage custom at, 199 Worcester, Sunday trading at, 90; battle of, 178 York gates closed on Sunday, 101 York bridge over Ouse, 50; chapel, 50 Youghal parish coffin, 221

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Early Religious Plays: being the Story of the English Stage in its Church Cradle Days—The Caistor Gad-Whip Manorial Service—Strange Serpent Stories—Church Ales—Rush-Bearing—Fish in Lent—Concerning Doles—Church Scrambling Charities—Briefs—Bells and Beacons for Travellers by Night—Hour Glasses in Churches—Chained Books in Churches—Funeral Effigies—Torchlight Burials—Simple Memorials of the Early Dead—The Romance of Parish Registers—Dog Whippers and Sluggard Wakers—Odd Items from Old Accounts—An Index of six closely-printed pages.

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YORKSHIRE IN OLDEN TIMES.

Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

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An Outline History of Yorkshire. By Thomas Frost.

The Cow-Devil: A Legend of Craven. By William Brockie.

The First Anglo-Saxon Poet. By John H. Leggott, f.r.h.s.

The Battle of Brunanburgh. By Frederick Ross, f.r.h.s.

Old Customs at York. By George Benson.

Elizabethan Gleanings. By Aaron Watson.

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Folk Assemblies. By John Nicholson.

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The Salvation of Holderness. By Frederick Ross, f.r.h.s.

Yorkshire Fairs and Festivals. By Thomas Frost.

James Nayler, the Mad Quaker who claimed to be the Messiah. By William Andrews, f.r.h.s.

Duke Richard’s Doom: A Legend of Sandal Castle. By Edward Lamplough.

Obsolete Industries of the East Riding. By John Nicholson.

Bolton Abbey: Its History and Legends. By Alfred Chamberlain, b.a.

To Bolton Abbey. By the Rev. E. G. Charlesworth.

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The Synod of Streoneshalh. The Doomed Heir of Osmotherley. St. Eadwine, the Royal Martyr. The Viceroy Siward. Phases in the Life of a Political Martyr. The Murderer’s Bride. The Earldom of Wiltes. Blackfaced Clifford. The Shepherd Lord. The Felons of Ilkley. The Ingilby Boar’s Head. The Eland Tragedy. The Plumpton Marriage. The Topcliffe Insurrection. Burning of Cottingham Castle. The Alum Workers. The Maiden of Marblehead. Rise of the House of Phipps. The Traitor Governor of Hull.

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