Colchester, plague at, 169
Cold water ordeal, 25
Concerning Coffins, 218-226
Corpse, touching a, 28-36
Craven custom, 202
Cuming, H. Syer, 239
Cross, origin of, 120
Curfew Bell, 227-239
Curious Symbols of the Saints, 240-243
Danes, Sunday under, 83
Derby St. Mary's bridge, 54;
chapel, 55;
Jesuits, 55;
St. James bridge, 56;
plague, 161;
rope performing, 246;
Topham, 249
Durham sanctuary, 12-14;
parish-coffins, 224;
fatal accident to a rope-dancer, 251
Easingwold parish coffin, 221
Easter Sepulchre, 111-119
Eleanor, Queen, 138;
crosses, 138
Esk, bridge over, 46
Eyam cross, 121;
plague, 170-173
Executions, 25, 29, 33, 34, 36, 37, 56, 85
Fight between the Mayor of Hull and Archbishop of York, 37-43
Fined for not attending church, 108-110
Football on Sunday, 96
Friars building bridges, 44
Grave, a man making his own, 167
Hanging, 25-37
Hastings, battle of, 86
Henry I. abolishes curfew law, 233
Hoghton Tower, James at, 102
Hot ale at weddings, 199-202
Howden parish coffin, 224
Hull merchants evading prisage claims, 39;
Sunday regulations, 89;
plague at, 95
Hungerford horn, 77;
curious customs, 78
Indulgences, 45, 122
Ireland, burials without coffins, 221
Iron, red-hot ordeal, 27
King curing an Abbot of indigestion, 174-176
Kissing the Bride, 195-198
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
Sunday in the Olden Time, 81-110
Survival of ordeal, 36
Swords, wearing, 5
Tax on coffins proposed, 225
Tewkesbury, battle of, 7
Thief, hanging a, 37
Traitors' heads on London bridge, 49
Travelling in the olden time, 79
Trial, romance of, 22-36
Tobacco fines, 108
Touch, ordeal of, 28-36
Ulphus, horn of, 65
Wakefield Bridge, 59;
chapel, 59;
battle, 60
Walking on Sunday forbidden, 107
Water ordeals, 24-25
Westminster Sanctuary, 10
Wigton, meat at church door, 90
William I. enforces curfew law, 233
Whipping to death, 86
Whitton, marriage custom at, 199
Worcester, Sunday trading at, 90;
battle of, 178
York gates closed on Sunday, 101
York bridge over Ouse, 50;
chapel, 50
Youghal parish coffin, 221
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YORKSHIRE IN OLDEN TIMES.
Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.
This work consists of a series of carefully written papers, reprinted from
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CONTENTS:
An Outline History of Yorkshire. By THOMAS FROST.
The Cow-Devil: A Legend of Craven. By WILLIAM BROCKIE.
The First Anglo-Saxon Poet. By JOHN H. LEGGOTT, F.R.H.S.
The Battle of Brunanburgh. By FREDERICK ROSS, F.R.H.S.
Old Customs at York. By GEORGE BENSON.
Elizabethan Gleanings. By AARON WATSON.
The Fight for the Hornsea Fishery. By T. TINDALL WILDRIDGE.
Folk Assemblies. By JOHN NICHOLSON.
Quaint Gleanings from the Parish Register-Chest of Kirkby Wharfe. By the
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The Wakefield Mysteries. By WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON.
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Some Scraps and Shreds of Yorkshire Superstitions. By W. SYDNEY, F.R.S.L.
The Salvation of Holderness. By FREDERICK ROSS, F.R.H.S.
Yorkshire Fairs and Festivals. By THOMAS FROST.
James Nayler, the Mad Quaker who claimed to be the Messiah. By WILLIAM
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Duke Richard's Doom: A Legend of Sandal Castle. By EDWARD LAMPLOUGH.
Obsolete Industries of the East Riding. By JOHN NICHOLSON.
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The Synod of Streoneshalh.
The Doomed Heir of Osmotherley.
St. Eadwine, the Royal Martyr.
The Viceroy Siward.
Phases in the Life of a Political Martyr.
The Murderer's Bride.
The Earldom of Wiltes.
Blackfaced Clifford.
The Shepherd Lord.
The Felons of Ilkley.
The Ingilby Boar's Head.
The Eland Tragedy.
The Plumpton Marriage.
The Topcliffe Insurrection.
Burning of Cottingham Castle.
The Alum Workers.
The Maiden of Marblehead.
Rise of the House of Phipps.
The Traitor Governor of Hull.
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