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WILLIAM ANDREWS & CO.,
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SECOND EDITION. Bound in cloth gilt, demy 8vo. 6s.
Curiosities of the Church:
Studies of Curious Customs, Services, and Records,
By WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,
Author of “Historic Romance,” “Famous Frosts and
Frost Fairs,” “Historic Yorkshire,” etc.
CONTENTS:
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.
ILLUSTRATED.