CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Lithographs. | |
| PAGE | |
| Play before Queen Elizabeth | [frontispiece] |
| Ushering in the Boar’s Head | [30] |
| Pageant before Henry the Eighth | [66] |
| Lord of Misrule, G. Ferrers | [86] |
| New Year’s Gifts to Queen Elizabeth | [100] |
| Temple Revels, temp. Charles the Second | [130] |
| The Wassail Bowl | [134] |
| Old Christmas Festivities | [142] |
| The Christmas Tree | [152] |
Vignettes. | |
| CHAP. | |
| 1 Edward the First’s Offering at the Epiphany | [1] |
| 2 Froissart’s Christmas Log | [23] |
| 3 Merry Carol | [45] |
| 4 Archie returning his Christmas Gift | [63] |
| 5 Teonge’s Twelfth Night at Sea | [85] |
| 6 Charles the Second gambling at Christmas | [103] |
| 7 Pepys’ Wassail Bowl | [127] |
| 8 Modern Christmas Plays | [145] |
| 9 Three Kings offering | [159] |
| 10 Carol Singers of old | [173] |
| 11 Decorating with Evergreens | [199] |
| Carols | [215] |
| A Mock Play | [292] |
| Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon, as represented in the West of England | [298] |
| Index to Carols | [303] |
| Index to principal matters | [305] |
| Index of References | [306] |
Music. | |
| A Virgin most pure | [313] |
| A Child this day is born | [315] |
| The Lord at first had Adam made | [316] |
| The first Nowell | [318] |
| This New Christmas Carol | [319] |
| God rest you, merry gentlemen | [320] |
| St. Stephen | [321] |
| God’s dear Son | [323] |
| To-morrow shall be my dancing-day | [324] |
| I saw three ships | [325] |
| Joseph was an old man | [326] |
| In those twelve days | [327] |
