Old Church Lore

by William Andrews

Abjuring the realm, [4]
Acrobats on steeples, [244-251]
Ale at weddings, [199]
Alford, plague at, [164]
Armour, buried in, [219]
Bainbridge horn, [79]
Banks and his horse Morocco, [250]
Battle Abbey, [38]
Bear-baiting on Sunday, [99]
Bedford bridge, [51];
prison, [51];
Bunyan, [51];
curious regulations, [51];
chapel, [51]
Bernwood forest, [72]
Beverley sanctuary; [14],
plague at, [160]
Biddenden Maids Charity, [148-151]
Bible burned, [127]
Boar slaying, [74]
Boiling oil, ordeal of, [24]
Boiling water, ordeal of, [23]
“Book of Sports,” [103]
Bowling on Sunday, [97]
Bradford-on-Avon bridge, [53]
Bradley, plague at, [166]
Brentwood Church, sanctuary in, [9]
Braintree, plague at, [167]
Broad-stone, East Retford, [164]
Bull-baiting announced in church, [92]
Buried alive, [165]
Burning to death, [85]
Cadman killed, [247]
Carlisle horn, [75]
Castleton, curious custom at, [180-182]
Chapels on Bridges, [44-64]
Chairs, sanctuary, [15]
Charter Horns, [65-79]
Cheapside Cross, [138-147]
Chingford horn, [78];
singular tenure, [79]
Chimney money, [183-185]
Clog almanack, [240]
Coining by Archbishop of York, [38]
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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IN THE PRESS. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION.

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—An Index of six closely-printed pages.

ILLUSTRATED.