Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects
AN OLD-TIME BISHOP WITH CROSIER.
Curious Church Customs And Cognate Subjects.
EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S., AUTHOR OF “CURIOSITIES OF THE CHURCH,” “OLD CHURCH LORE,” “BYGONE ENGLAND,” ETC.
HULL: WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO., THE HULL PRESS. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO., LTD. 1895.
HULL: PRINTED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS AND CO., THE HULL PRESS.
It affords me pleasure to be the means of giving to the reading public another volume dealing with the byways and highways of church history.
The authors who have been good enough to favour me with contributions are recognised authorities on the subjects they have written about, and I hope their efforts will not fail to find favour with the press and the public.
William Andrews.
The Hull Press, Christmas Eve, 1894 .
CURIOUS CHURCH CUSTOMS.
By Rev. J. Charles Cox, ll.d., f.s.a.
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CURIOUS CHURCH CUSTOMS.
Preface.
Contents.
Sports in Churches.
Holy Day Customs.
Church Bells: When and Why they were Rung.
Inscriptions on Bells.
Laws of the Belfry.
Ringers’ Jugs.
Customs and Superstitions of Baptism.
Marriage Customs.
Burial Customs.
Concerning the Churchyard.
Altars in Churches.
The Rood Loft and its Uses.
Armour in Churches.
Beating the Bounds.
The Story of the Crosier.
Bishops in Battle.
The Cloister and its Story.
Shorthand in Church.
Reminiscences of our Village Church.
Index