Produced by Heather Clark, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni. [Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is surrounded by _underscores_ and superscripted text is preceded by a ^ and surrounded with {curly braces}. Certain letters in the text were smaller and these letters are surrounded by ~t~.] Christmastide. [Illustration: James Stephanoff, del. Ashbee & Dangerfield, lith. PLAY BEFORE QUEEN ELIZABETH.] CHRISTMASTIDE its History, Festivities, and Carols. BY WILLIAM SANDYS, F.S.A. LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, _SOHO SQUARE_. LONDON: Printed by E. TUCKER, Perry’s Place, Oxford Street. TO WYNN ELLIS, ESQUIRE, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, THE FOLLOWING WORK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FOR HIS PUBLIC, AND ESTEEM FOR HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER. CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Lithographs. PAGE Play before Queen Elizabeth _frontispiece_ Ushering in the Boar’s Head 30 Pageant before Henry the Eighth 66 Lord of Misrule, G. Ferrers 86 New Year’s Gifts to Queen Elizabeth 100 Temple Revels, temp. Charles the Second 130 The Wassail Bowl 134 Old Christmas Festivities 142 The Christmas Tree 152 Vignettes. CHAP. 1 Edward the First’s Offering at the Epiphany 1 2 Froissart’s Christmas Log 23 3 Merry Carol 45 4 Archie returning his Christmas Gift 63 5 Teonge’s Twelfth Night at Sea 85 6 Charles the Second gambling at Christmas 103 7 Pepys’ Wassail Bowl 127 8 Modern Christmas Plays 145 9 Three Kings offering 159 10 Carol Singers of old 173 11 Decorating with Evergreens 199 Carols 215 A Mock Play 292 Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon, as represented in the West of England 298 Index to Carols 303 Index to principal matters 305 Index of References 306 Music.