Manners and customs; Rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain
Page, John T., The Rood Loft and its uses, 167-173;
Beating the Bounds, 182-190
Pancakes, 22, 37
Pancake bell, 23
Parish Armour, 178-181
Parish Clerks, 114
Passing Bell, 47, 128
Pastoral staff, 129
Paul's Pitcher Day, 30
Paying toll at weddings, 122
Peacock, Florence, Church Bells, when and why they were Rung, 33-48
Penance performance in Hull, 158
Preaching from Shorthand, 259
Private baptism, 83
Proxy, marriage by, 106
Processioning, 184
Puritan, 267
Quakers baptized, 81
Quarrels in churchyards, 151
Reeve, Isaac J., Ringers' Jugs, 74-77
Refreshment Sunday, 23
Reminiscences of our Village Church, 261-270
Reporting, objections to, 258
Revival of the rood screen, 172
Rice at wedding, 118
Rings, wedding, 107
Ringers' Jugs, 74-77
Rival Popes, 216
Rome, ancient, marriage in, 10
Rood Loft and its Uses, 167-173
Roods swept away at the Reformation, 170
Rogation Week, 183
Rosemary at funerals, 131
Rubbish heap in churchyards, 159
Russian burial customs, 141
St. Andrew, 40-41
St. Hugh's Day, 44
Saints and martyrs buried under the altar, 161
Salt at funerals, 144
Sand strewing at weddings, 124
Sanctus Bell, 42
Sawdust strewing at weddings, 124
Saxon Church, 261-262
Screens in churches, 168-169
Scrope, Richard, 224-227
Scriptorium, 233-235
Scrambling customs, 153-154
Seasons for marrying, 111
Secular uses of churches, 1
Sceptre, 192
Seville, dancing at, 14-15
Shakespeare on armour, 175
Sitting posture, buried in a, 134
Shrines, 236
Shrove Tuesday, 22-36
Shoes at weddings, 118-124
Shorthand in Church, 246-260
Simnels, 23
Skeletons represented on tombs, 142
Smith, W. H., shorthand reports for, 259-260
Spencer, Bishop of Norwich, 214, 216
Sponsors, 86
Sports in Churches, 1-20
Sports in churchyards, 150-151
Staff of authority, 191
Standard, battle of, 201-202
Stocks, 157
Story of the Crosier, 191-197
Sunday burials, 145
Sunday of the Five Loaves, 23
Sundials, 156-157
Swedish funerals, 141
Taxes on baptism, 94
Torches at funerals, 137-138
Tracts of the Times started, 269
Trading in churchyards, 148
True Lovers' Knot, 107
Twickenham cakes, 24
Tyack, Rev. G. S., B.A., on Holy Day Customs, 21-32.
Altars in Churches, 161-166.
The Story of the Crosier, 191-197
Umbrella, parish, 140
Upright burial, 133
Viands connected with Holy Days, 25
Washing feet, 30
Waxen effigies, 142
Wedding bells, 114
Wedding biddings, 119
Well-dressing, 27
Welsh custom, 29
Whitby funeral cakes, 146
Whitsuntide, 11
Wine, baptized in, 80
Wine drinking in church at weddings, 102
Wills about armour, 177
Wool stored in churches, 1
Woollen, burial in, 132
Wren stoning, 29
Wymund, the Saxon, 205-207
Yule-log, 26
Yule, songs of, 13
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