INDEX.
Reading edition
Agape, suggested origin of "Church ales," 53
Ales, Church, 52, 53, 57
Alfred, laws relating to holidays, 5
All-hallow Eve, 105
Animals to be hunted, 16
April, 36
Archery, 25-31
Ascension Day, 50
Ascham's accomplishments of English Gentleman, 97
Back-sword play, 81
Baiting bears, bulls, &c., 89
Bale-fires,50
Ball games, 20, 21, 61-71
Barley-brake, 39
Bath, wakes at, 81
Battledore, 23
Bean, King of, 7
Berks—Old sports, 81
"Bessy," 9
Blaize St., 18
Boar's head at Christmas, 123
Bonfires, 6, 57, 106, 108
Book of Sports, 48, 50
Bounds, beating, 50
Bowl, 49
Boy bishop, 116
Bull-baiting, 89
Burning wheel, 59
Butts, 27
Caber-tossing, 38
Candlemas, 18
Carols, 111
Catherine, St., miracle play, 99
Charlemagne, 58
Chess, 112
Chester, 41, 48
Choirs, Old, 111
Christmas holidays, 5 customs, 118-126 at Court, 120
Church decoration, 37, 49, 121,
Churchwardens' accounts, 34, 36, 42, 54, 72, 100
Church ale, 52, 53, 57
Church house, 53
Cloudslee, William of, 28
Club-ball, 65, 66
Cock-fighting, 23, 24
Cock-throwing, 23
Collop Monday, 19
Colloquies of Erasmus, 113
Conversion of St. Paul, mystery play, 98
Country parson, 51
Coventry, 42, 103
Crafte of Hunting, 16
Cricket, 38, 61-65
Cross-bow, 27
Cudgel-play, 38
Curling, 39
Customs, local, 4, 5, 6, 12, 20, 24, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 50, 54, 60, 62, 78, 81, 106, 108, 109, 117
Dances, country, on village green, 11
Dancing with swords, 10
December, 115
Dedication festivals, 3
Demands Joyous, 110
Devonshire custom, 4
Distaff, St., 9
Dragons, 59
Dues, Cock-fight, 24
Early sport, 14, 16
Easter, 36-41
Eighteenth century cricket, 63
Election of King of Bean, 7
England "Merry," 1, 125, 126
English Villages, Our, 3, 80
Epiphany, 5
Erasmus, Colloquies of, 113
Evelyn's Diary, 90
Fairs, 3, 80,
Falconer, 87
February, 13
Festivals, 3, 36, 50, 118
Finsbury, 28
Football, 20, 21, 41
Foot-races, 22, 38
Fox-hunting extraordinary, 17
France, home of tennis, 39
Gambling, 112
Games, minor ball, 71 ball, 20, 21, 64, 71 indoor, 21, 112
George Herbert, 51
Golf, 66, 68
Good Friday cake, 33
Gospel trees, 50
Grasmere, 72
Guildford, cricket at, 62
Gunpowder Plot, 108
Guy Fawkes, 107
Hambledon Cricket Club, 63, 64
Handball, 27
Handball in Church, 38
Harvest home, 75, 79
Hawking, 84
Heaving, 37
Herbert, George, 51
Herefordshire custom, 6
Herrick, 9, 31, 74, 115, 119, 125
Hobby-horse, 26
Hock-cart, 75
Hocking, 54
Hock-tide, 41, 42
Holland, golf introduced from, 66
Horse-collar, grinning through a, 54
Hot cross buns, 33, 34
Hunting, 13, 17
Hurling, 22, 23
Indoor games, 21
Ireland, 50
Isaak Walton, 17
January, 1
Jersey, 59
Jingling match, 56
John's, St., Eve, 57
Jousts, 94
July, 61
June, 52
Kenilworth Castle, pageants at 103
Kent and Sussex, first homes of cricket, 62
King of the Bean, 7
Lammas, 74
Lancashire, 49
Lawn-tennis, 70
Lifting, 37
Lillywhite, 65
Local customs, 4, 5, 12, 19, 24, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 50, 54, 60, 62, 78, 81, 107, 108, 109, 117, 123
"Lord of Misrule," 125
Magdalen hymn, 45
Magdalen pulpit, 60
March, 25
Martinmas, 110
Maundy Thursday—Money, 33
May—May Day, 44
May-pole, 45, 46, 48
May Queen, 46
"Merry England," 1, 125, 126
Mews, origin of word, 88
Michaelmas, 88
Midsummer Eve, 58
Minor ball-games, 71
Miracle plays, 36, 57, 98
Misrule," "Lord of, 125
Mitford, Miss, Our Village, 64
Moralities, 99
Mothering-Sunday, 31
Mummers, 124
Mysteries, 57, 98, 100
New Year's Day, 45
Nicholas, St., The Image of, mystery play, 99
Nicholas, Day, St., 116
Noah and the Flood, mystery play, 98
November, 105
October, 92
Old songs, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 23, 28, 36, 46, 63, 75, 76, 77, 109
Orchards, wassailing of, 4, 6
Otter-hunting, 17
Our English Villages, reference, 3, 80
Our Village, reference, 64
Outdoor winter sports, 7
Oxford customs, 109, 123
Pace, Pasche, Paschal, eggs, 37
Pageants, 101
Pall Mall, 68
Palm Sunday, 32
Park, St. James's, 68
Parson, country, 50
Pea, Queen of, 8
Pig-catching, 56
Pigeon-holes, 56
Plagues, 72
Plough Monday, 9
Pole-leaping, 38
Purification, 18
Puritans, 47
Quarter-staff, 38, 54, 56
Queen of the Pea, 8
Queen of the Play, 46
Quintain, 41
Reading town, 27, 42, 54
Reformation, 9, 18, 22
Refreshment Sunday, 31
Relics of Sun-worship, 51, 59
Revival of Bounds-beating, 51
Robin Hood, 28
Roch's, St., Day, 75
Rogation Days, 50
Royal golfers, 66 tennis players, 69, 70
Rush-bearing, rushes in Churches, 49, 71, 72
Salisbury, boy bishop, 116
September, 84
Sepulchres, 35
Sheep-shearing, 79
Shere Thursday, 33
Shrovetide, 19, 24
Simnell-cakes, 32
Single-stick, 35
Skating, 10, 38
"Spinster," derivation of, 9
Sports, Book of, 48, 49, 50
Sports, early, 14, 16
Songs, old, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 23, 28, 36, 46, 63, 75, 76, 77, 109
Soul-cakes, 106
Stool-ball, 66
Stuarts, 21, 48, 50, 66, 68, 80
Sudeley Castle, pageants at, 101
Sun-worship, relics of, 57, 59
Superstitions, 5, 33, 39, 50, 59, 106, 107
Sussex custom, 4
Sussex and Kent, first homes of cricket, 62
Tansy-cake, 38
Tennis, 68, 71
Tilting at a ring, 97
Tipcat called Billet, 23
Tournaments, 92
Trap-ball, 66
Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Husbandry, 79
Twelfth Day Eve, 5, 6
Twelfth Night, 7
Undershaft, St. Andrew, 48
Uncleanliness, 72
Valentine, St., 18
Wakes, 79, 80, 81
Walton, Isaak, 17
"Wassail," 4
Water tournament, 39, 40
Whistling match, 56
White Horse Hill, 54
Whitsuntide, 52
Willes, 65
Winter games, indoor, 10
Wise men from East, 7
Withers, Christmas song, 125
Wrestling, 59
Year, New, festivities, 4, 5
Yule-log, 118