Curious Wedding Custom 263 Courting and Wedding Customs in the Fylde 264 Ancient Bridal Custom.--The Bride's Chair and the Fairy Hole 265 Burnley 265 Marriages at Manchester Parish Church 265 DYING, DEATH-BED, AND FUNERAL CUSTOMS. Dying Hardly 268 Burying in Woollen 269 Funeral Dole and Arval Cake 270 Dalton-in-Furness 271 Old Funeral Customs at Warton 271 Funeral Customs in the Fylde 272 Mode of Burial of a Widow who had taken Religious Vows 273 Funeral Customs in East Lancashire 273 Bidding to Funerals 274 Situation and Direction of Graves 275 CUSTOMS OF MANORS. The Honour of Knighthood 277 Maritagium 278 Peculiar Services and Tenures 278 Manor of Cockerham--Regulations for the Sale of Ale 281 Manorial Customs in Furness 281 The Lord's Yule Feast at Ashton 286 Riding the Black Lad at Ashton-under-Lyne 289 Boon Shearing 292 The Principal or Heriot 293 Denton Rent-boons 294 A Saxon Constablewick 295 Talliage or Tallage 296 Rochdale Tithe, Easter-dues, Mortuaries, etc. 297 Farm and Agricultural Celebrations in the Fylde 298 Dalton-in-Furness 299 Letting Sheep Farms in Bowland 300 Mediæval Latin Law Terms 300 Customs [Dues] at Warrington 301 LANCASHIRE FOLK-LORE. PART I. SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES. INTRODUCTION. "'Tis a history Handed from ages down; a nurse's tale Which children open-eyed and mouth'd devour, And thus, as garrulous ignorance relates, We learn it and believe."