Christian antiquities -- Great Britain; Folklore -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Kissing customs, 78, 107
Knox and Sunday, 98
Leicester, plague at, 158-160
Lich-gates, 139-140
Lincoln, Bishop of, claims right of hanging criminals, 37
London Bridge, 47-50;
chapel on, 48;
houses on, 48;
terrible fire, 48;
heads of traitors on, 49
Macclesfield, curious epitaph, 225
Manchester sanctuary, 6-7
Manx laws, 192
Markets on Sunday, 86-89
Marriage of a Blue-coat boy, 207
Marriages on Sunday, 98
Marrying Children, 203-209
Marrying under the gallows, 191-194
Marrying in a white sheet, 186-190
Masques on Sunday, 95
Mint belonging to Archbishop of York, 38
Murder in Westminster Abbey, 8-9
New England, Sunday in, 107-108
New York, curious marriage custom, 194
Nigel's horn, 72
Norfolk, Sunday trading in, 91
Northampton, fire at, 183;
hearth money, 184;
cross, 139, 141
Oak leaves, carrying, 179
Ordeal, origin of, 22
Oxford, play at, 95
Passing Bell, 210-217
Penance of Jane Shore, 125
Penderel's grave, 178
Plagues and Pestilences, 152-173;
business stopped, 152;
watch and ward, 153;
red crosses on doors, 154;
dogs killed, 154;
strange remedies, 155;
Newcastle, 158;
Leicester, 158;
Derby, 162;
Smoking, 163;
Broad-stone, East Retford, 164;
Alford 164;
burial of dead, 165;
buried alive, 165;
Stratford-on-Avon, 165;
Bradley, 166;
Braintree, 167;
Colchester, 169;
collections, 170;
Eyam, 170
Plays on Sunday, 92-96
Preaching, extravagant, 133
Puritans and Sunday, 101, 104-147
Pusey horn, 70
Reading Abbey, 174
Red-hot iron ordeal, 27
Rhyne Toll, 73
Right of Sanctuary, 1-21
Ringing on May 29th, 183
Romance of Trial, 23-26
Rotherham Bridge, 56;
chapel, 56
Rope dancers, 244-251
St. Paul's Cross, 120-137;
oaths taken at, 122;
thrown down by an earthquake, 122;
indulgences granted for assisting to rebuild it, 122;
penance at, 124-125;
sermon in favour of the Duke of Gloucester, 126;
Bible burned at, 127;
riot at, 128;
Queen Elizabeth's love of display, 129;
Hooker at Shunamite House, 131;
rioters at,131;
James I. at, 133;
pulled down, 136
Sales, etc., announced by parish clerks, 92
Salford bridge, 51;
chapel on, 51;
prison on, 51
Salisbury, tricks on steeple at, 245;
Cadman killed, 247
Sanctuary, origin of, 1
Sanctuary, right of, 1-21
Saxons, Sunday under, 82
Sorcery at Dalkeith, 35
Scotchman knocking at York gates, 102
Scotland, Early marriages in, 209
Secrets of the realm, disclosing, 5
Services and customs of Royal Oak Day, 179-185
Shunamite House, 131
Skelton in Westminster sanctuary, 10
Slavery in England, 84
Sports on Sunday, 100
Stafford sanctuary, 11
Stage plays in churches, 92-96
Stockton-on-Tees parish coffin, 223
Stoning to death, 85
Stratford-on-Avon, plague at, 165
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