: Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by Maxwell David - Scotland History

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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.

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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.

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Old-Time Punishments.

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

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Bygone England:

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