Sponsors, 86
Sports in Churches, 1-20
Sports in churchyards, 150-151
Staff of authority, 191
Standard, battle of, 201-202
Stocks, 157
Story of the Crosier, 191-197
Sunday burials, 145
Sunday of the Five Loaves, 23
Sundials, 156-157
Swedish funerals, 141
Taxes on baptism, 94
Torches at funerals, 137-138
Tracts of the Times started, 269
Trading in churchyards, 148
True Lovers' Knot, 107
Twickenham cakes, 24
Tyack, Rev. G. S., B.A., on Holy Day Customs, 21-32.
Altars in Churches, 161-166.
The Story of the Crosier, 191-197
Umbrella, parish, 140
Upright burial, 133
Viands connected with Holy Days, 25
Washing feet, 30
Waxen effigies, 142
Wedding bells, 114
Wedding biddings, 119
Well-dressing, 27
Welsh custom, 29
Whitby funeral cakes, 146
Whitsuntide, 11
Wine, baptized in, 80
Wine drinking in church at weddings, 102
Wills about armour, 177
Wool stored in churches, 1
Woollen, burial in, 132
Wren stoning, 29
Wymund, the Saxon, 205-207
Yule-log, 26
Yule, songs of, 13
FOOTNOTES:
[1] The two best recent books on the subject are Pollard's _English
Miracle Plays_ (Clarendon Press, 1890,) and Bate's _The English Religions
Drama_ (Macmillan, 1893.)
[2] Peacock's _Church Furniture_.--p. 103.
[3] Peacock's _Church Furniture_.--p. 85.
[4] _Ibid._--p. 103.
[5] _English Bells and Bell Lore_, 1888, T. North, cp. 16, p. 191.
[6] At the bottom of the plate occurs the name of the engravers, Sellers
and Nelson, Leeds.
[7] See Edward's _History and Poetry of Finger Rings_, Cap. 5, p. 221.
[8] See Robinson's "History and Antiquities of Stoke Newington."
[9] Acta SS. Ord. Benedict, sec. iii., part 2.
[10] York Fabric Rolls, p. 256.
[11] York Fabric Rolls, p. 255.
[12] Andrews' "Curiosities of the Church."
[13] Andrews' "Curiosities of the Church," p. 89.
[14] York Fabric Rolls, p. 116.
[15] 8th S. V. 150, Feb. 24th, 1894.
[16] In some parishes a Triennial or even Septennial visit to the
boundaries is considered sufficient.
[17] Brand.
[18] Vol. ii., part i., p. 165.
[19] Walton's "_Life_."
[20] Lysons' "_London_," ii., 126.
[21] "History of Our Lord," by the late Mrs. Jameson, continued by Lady
Eastlake.
[22] "History of Our Lord," by the late Mrs. Jameson, 1864.
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