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:--When Wigs were Worn--Powdering the Hair--Men Wearing Muffs--Concerning Corporation Customs--Bribes for the Palate--Rebel Heads on City Gates--Burial at Cross Roads--Detaining the Dead for Debt--A Nobleman's Household in Tudor Times--Bread and Baking in Bygone Days--Arise, Mistress, Arise!--The Turnspit--A Gossip about the Goose--Bells as Time-Tellers--The Age of Snuffing--State Lotteries--Bear-Baiting--Morris Dancers--The Folk-Lore of Midsummer Eve--Harvest Home--Curious Charities--An Old-Time Chronicler.

A carefully prepared Index enables the reader to refer to the varied and interesting contents of the book.

The Bygone Series.

In this series the following volumes are included, and issued at 7s. 6d. each. Demy 8vo., cloth gilt.

These books have been favourably reviewed in the leading critical journals of England and America.

Carefully written articles by recognised authorities are included on history, castles, abbeys, biography, romantic episodes, legendary lore, traditional stories, curious customs, folk-lore, etc., etc.

The works are illustrated by eminent artists, and by the reproduction of quaint pictures of the olden time.

BYGONE BERKSHIRE, edited by Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A.

BYGONE CHESHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE DEVONSHIRE, by the Rev. Hilderic Friend.

BYGONE DURHAM, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE GLOUCESTERSHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE HERTFORDSHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE LEICESTERSHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE LINCOLNSHIRE , edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE MIDDLESEX, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE NORFOLK, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE NORTHUMBERLAND, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, by William Stevenson.

BYGONE SCOTLAND, by David Maxwell, C.E.

BYGONE SOMERSETSHIRE, edited by Cuming Walters.

BYGONE SOUTHWARK, by Mrs. E. Boger.

BYGONE SUFFOLK, edited by Cuming Walters.

BYGONE SURREY, edited by George Clinch and S. W. Kershaw, F.S.A.

BYGONE SUSSEX, by W. E. A. Axon.

BYGONE WARWICKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

BYGONE YORKSHIRE, edited by William Andrews.

Literary Byways.

BY WILLIAM ANDREWS.

:--Authors at Work--The Earnings of Authors--"Declined with Thanks"--Epigrams on Authors--Poetical Graces--Poetry on Panes--English Folk Rhymes--The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards--Toasts and Toasting--Curious American Old Time Gleanings--The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet--A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe--A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter--A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper--The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips--A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller--The Cottage Countess--The Compiler of "Old Moore's Almanack": Henry Andrews--James Nayler, the Mad Quaker, who claimed to be the Messiah--A Biographical Romance: Swan's Strange Story--Short Letters--Index.

The Church Treasury of History, Custom, Folk-Lore, etc.

EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

A Book About Bells.

:--Invention of Bells--Bell Founding and Bell Founders--Dates and Names of Bells--The Decoration of Bells--Some Noteworthy Bells--The Loss of Old Bells--Towers and Campaniles--Bell-Ringing and Bell-Ringers--The Church-Going Bell--Bells at Christian Festivals and Fasts--The Epochs of Man's Life Marked by the Bells--The Blessings and the Cursings of the Bells--Bells as Time-Markers--Secular Uses of Church and other Bells--Small Bells, Secular and Sacred--Carillons--Belfry Rhymes and Legends--Index of Subjects, Index of Places.

THIRTEEN FULL-PAGE PLATES.

Historic Dress of the Clergy.

The Miracle Play in England,

An Account of the Early Religious Drama.

BY SIDNEY W. CLARKE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

In bygone times the Miracle Play formed an important feature in the religious life of England. To those taking an interest in the history of the Church of England, this volume will prove useful. The author has given long and careful study to this subject, and produced a reliable and readable book, which can hardly fail to interest and instruct the reader. It is a volume for general reading, and for a permanent place in the reference library.

:--The Origin of Drama--The Beginnings of English Drama--The York Plays--The Wakefield Plays--The Chester Plays--The Coventry Plays--Other English Miracle Plays--The Production of a Miracle Play--The Scenery, Properties, and Dresses--Appendix--The Order of the York Plays--Extract from City Register of York, 1426--The Order of the Wakefield Plays--The Order of the Chester Plays--The Order of the Grey Friars' Plays at Coventry--A Miracle Play in a Puppet Show--Index.

Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.

EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

:--Bible Law--Sanctuaries--Trials in Superstitious Ages--On Symbols--Law Under the Feudal System--The Manor and Manor Law--Ancient Tenures--Laws of the Forest--Trial by Jury in Old Times--Barbarous Punishments--Trials of Animals--Devices of the Sixteenth Century Debtors--Laws Relating to the Gipsies--Commonwealth Law and Lawyers--Cock-Fighting in Scotland--Cockieleerie Law--Fatal Links--Post-Mortem Trials--Island Laws--The Little Inns of Court--Obiter.

Transcriber's note:

Corrections to the Index have been made without note.

Significant changes to the text are listed below.

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