IX. Folk-lore. Under this head will come customs and ceremonies relating to childbearing, churching, christening, courtship, betrothal, marriage, death, and burial--public-house signs and their meaning--customs and superstitious pertaining to wells and streams--used and disused sports and games--obsolete punishments, such as ducking-stool or stocks--omens--witchcraft--ghosts--charms--divinations--and other quaint or original customs. Several books have lately been published on this subject, but they are mostly instances of book-making, and none come up to or surpass Ellis’s edition of “Brand’s Popular Antiquities.” A most useful publication society has been recently started, termed “The Folk Lore Society,” which has already begun collecting and publishing. The Hon. Sec. is G. Lawrence Gomme, Esq., Castelnau, Barnes. X. Dialect. On this subject see the invaluable publications of the “English Dialect Society,” now (1879) in the seventh year of its existence. The hon. secretary is J. H. Nodal, Esq., The Grange, Heaton Moor, Stockport. One of their publications, price 6s. to non-subscribers, is “A List of Books relating to some of the counties of England.” Halliwell’s “Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words” will be found very useful. XI. Poor Law and general Rating, history and statistics. XII. Population, inhabited houses, and other census details at different periods. [Illustration] INDEX. Advowson, 76. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 16. Armour, 89. Attainders, 53. Bacon’s “Liber Regis,” 82. Banks’ “Dormant and Extinct Baronage,” 48. Bateman’s “Ten Years Diggings,” 15. Bells, 91. Bigelow’s “Placita Anglo-Normannica,” 35. Black Book of the Exchequer, 20. Blount’s “Ancient Tenures,” 19. Bloxam’s “Monumental Architecture,” 87. Bohn’s “Antiquarian Series,” 16. Boldon Book, 18. Book of Ely, 17. Book of Exeter, 17. Book of Winchester, 18. Borough Records, 56. Boutell’s “Christian Monuments,” 88. Brand’s “Popular Antiquities,” 107. Brasses, 88. Briefs, 74. Burke’s “Armoury,” 89. Burke’s “Landed Gentry,” 48. Burn’s “Parish Registers,” 58. Calamy’s “Ejected Ministers,” 81. Chaffers’ “Hall Marks,” 91. Chalmers’ “Biographical Dictionary,” 57. Chambers’ “Divine Worship,” 92. Chantries, 69. Charities, 66. Charnock’s “Local Etymology,” 14. Charter Rolls, 25. Church Details, 93-6. Church, Description of, 84. Church, History of, 67. Churchwardens’ Accounts, 62. Close Rolls, 24. Collins’ “Peerage and Baronetage,” 48. Commonwealth Survey, 73. Constables’ Accounts, 62. Corblet’s “Manuel Elémentaire,” 92. Costume, 89. County Records, 55. Court of Chancery, 33. Cowel’s “Interpreter,” 78. Cussan’s “Heraldry,” 89. Cutts’ “Incised Slabs,” 87. Dialect, 108. Dedication of Church, 81. Domesday Book, 16, 67. Domestic Architecture, 44. Dugdale’s “Baronage,” 48. Dugdale’s “Monasticon,” 101.