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: Early Religious Plays: being the Story of the English Stage in its Church Cradle Days--The Caistor Gad-Whip Manorial Service--Strange Serpent Stories--Church Ales--Rush-Bearing--Fish in Lent--Concerning Doles--Church Scrambling Charities--Briefs--Bells and Beacons for Travellers by Night--Hour Glasses in Churches--Chained Books in Churches--Funeral Effigies--Torchlight Burials--Simple Memorials of the Early Dead--The Romance of Parish Registers--Dog Whippers and Sluggard Wakers--Odd Items from Old Accounts--A carefully compiled Index.

ILLUSTRATED.

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Old Church Lore.

The Right of Sanctuary--The Romance of Trial--A Fight between the Mayor of Hull and the Archbishop of York--Chapels on Bridges--Charter Horns--The Old English Sunday--The Easter Sepulchre--St. Paul's Cross--Cheapside Cross--The Biddenden Maids Charity--Plagues and Pestilences--A King Curing an Abbot of Indigestion--The Services and Customs of Royal Oak Day--Marrying in a White Sheet--Marrying under the Gallows--Kissing the Bride--Hot Ale at Weddings--Marrying Children--The Passing Bell-- Concerning Coffins--The Curfew Bell--Curious Symbols of the Saints-- Acrobats on Steeples--A carefully-prepared Index.

ILLUSTRATED

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Old-Time Punishments.

Carefully prepared papers, profusely illustrated, appear on the following subjects:--

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Bygone England:

Contents:

Under Watch and Ward. Under Lock and Key. The Practice of Pledging.

The Minstrel in the Olden Time. Curious Landholding Customs. Curiosities of Slavery in England.

Buying and Selling in the Olden Time. Curious Fair Customs. Old Prejudices against Coal.

The Sedan Chair. Running Footmen. The Early Days of the Umbrella.

A Talk about Tea. Concerning Coffee. The Horn Book.

Fighting Cocks in Schools. Bull-Baiting. The Badge of Poverty.

Patents to wear Nightcaps. A Foolish Fashion. Wedding Notices in the Last Century.

Selling Wives. The Story of the Tinder Box. The Invention of Friction Matches.

Body Snatching. Christmas under the Commonwealth. Under the Mistletoe Bough.

A carefully prepared Index.

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AN IMPORTANT BOOK FOR REFERENCE.

Fcap. 4to. Bevelled boards, gilt tops. Price 4s.

FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS

IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time.

This work furnishes a carefully prepared account of all the great Frosts occurring in this country from A.D. 134 to 1887. The numerous Frost Fairs on the Thames are fully described, and illustrated with quaint woodcuts, and several old ballads relating to the subject are reproduced. It is tastefully printed and elegantly bound.

BYGONE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE:

Its History, Folk-Lore, and Memorable Men and Women.

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Only 750 copies printed, and each copy numbered.

Bygone Essex:

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

Historic Essex, by Thomas Frost--Epping Forest: Its History, Customs, and Laws, by Jesse Quail--Greenstead Church, by Edward Lamplough--The Burial of Harold at Waltham, by William Winters, F.R.H.S.--St. Osyth's Priory, by John T. Page--Colchester in Olden Times, by Joseph W. Spurgeon--The Siege of Colchester, by Joseph W. Spurgeon--Colchester: Its Historic Buildings and Famous Men, by Joseph W. Spurgeon--Essex Tokens, by Thomas Forster--Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury: A Glance at Armada Days, by Edward Lamplough--The Lawless Court, by the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.--The Dunmow Flitch--A Deserted Primitive Village, by G. Fredk. Beaumont--William Hunter: The Young Martyr of Brentwood, by John W. Odling--Fairlop Fair, by John W. Odling--Thomas Tusser, and his "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," by W. H. Thompson--John Ray, Naturalist, by W. H. Thompson-- Wanstead House, by John T. Page--Hopkins, the Witchfinder, by Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S.--An Essex Poet, by the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.--Historic Harwich--Old Bow Bridge, by John T. Page--Index.

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Bygone Lancashire.

Edited by ERNEST AXON.

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Bygone London.

The Walls and Gates--Episodes in the Annals of Cheapside--Bishopsgate Street Within and Without--Aldersgate Street and St. Martin's-le-Grand-- Old Broad Street--Chaucer and the Tabard--The Priory of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate--Convent of the Sisters Minoresses of the Order of St. Clare, Aldgate--The Abbey of St. Mary of Graces, or East Minster--The Barons Fitzwalter, of Baynard's Castle--Sir Nicholas Brember, Knight, Lord Mayor of London--An Olden Time Bishop of London: Robert de Braybrooke--A Brave Old London Bishop: Fulco Basset--An Old London Diarist--Index.

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PRICE ONE SHILLING.

In the Temple.

In the Temple--The Knight Templars--The Devil's Own--Christmas in the Temple--How to become a Templar--On Keeping Terms--Call Parties.

Bygone Derbyshire:

Its History, Romance, Folk-Lore, Curious Customs, etc.

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

Derbyshire is rich in historical associations of an out-of-the-way character. In the pages of "Bygone Derbyshire" are presented in a readable, and at the same time in a scholar-like style, papers, profusely illustrated, bearing on such subjects as the history of the county, ancient castles, monumental brasses, gleanings from parochial records, old church lore, family romance, traditions, curious customs, witchcraft, well-dressing, old-time sports, etc., etc.

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