Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Appendix/Index
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INDEX.
- Abbot of Chester, 260
- Accrington, notchel crying, 176
- Ace of Spades, 4
- Acorns, pelting with, 85
- Acres Fair, 84
- Adventures of a Skull, 67
- Alfred, King, Legend respecting, 21
- Amusements at Didsbury, 126
- Ancient games, 132
- Ancient houses, 120
- Anderton's jewels, 145
- Appeal of murder, 173
- Apple catching for money, 162
- Archery butts, 148
- Ashton gyst-ale, 85
- Ashton Manor, payment for, 3
- Assheton's Journal, 94
- Astbury Church, paintings at, 20
- Bacon, superstitions about, 124
- Back-slamming, 175
- Ballad quoted, 18
- Bandy-ball, game of, 149
- Barcroft of Barcroft, 4
- Barley Brake, game of, 138, 141
- Barton and Eccles, rhymes on, 89
- Bear-baiting, 119
- Beasts offered to the Devil, 124
- Beheading a thief, 172
- Benches in churches for women, 3
- Bernshaw Tower, 5
- Birds, superstitions respecting, 218
- Biron, Lady, funeral of, 9
- Blindman's buff, 141
- Blackthorn, game of, 150
- Boggart hole in Pendle Forest, 141
- Book of Sports, 122
- Bowt's bare, 202
- Bradshaigh, Sir William, 45
- Bradshaw chapel, skulls at, 60
- Bradshaw, John, preaching, 109
- Brank at Holme, lost, 167
- Buck-thanging, punishment of, 175
- Bull-baiting at Eccles, 127
- Bull-baiting at Chatburn, 149
- Burnley waits, 87
- Burnley holidays, 161
- Byrom, John, opposed to races, 154, 156
- Castle Irwell, races at, 157
- Cats, king of, 13
- Cats, superstition respecting, 219
- Chad's church, Rochdale, 52
- Chapter of proverbs, 213
- Chatburn, the tailor of, 15
- Chests, carvings on, 65
- Children put to death, 12
- Children, superstitions respecting, 220
- Christ's croft, 183
- Christmas rhymes, 240
- Christmas song, 88
- Churches strewed with rushes, 109
- Church feasts, 123
- Churchyards, fairs held in, 125
- Churning rhymes, 234
- Chylde of Hale, dress of, legends, 31, 33
- Cicely's hunting pranks, 253
- Clayton hall, 8
- Clegg Hall boggart, 11
- Clogs worn, clogs to clogs, 146, 237
- Cockerham, the Devil at, 241
- Cockfighting at Eccles, rules for, 128, 143
- Coifi abandons paganism, 75
- Courting on Fridays, 176
- Courtship, superstitions respecting, 222
- Cross and pile, game of, 139
- Cuck stool at Liverpool, 167
- Cucking stool at Ormskirk, 168
- Cunliffes of Wyecoller, 79
- Danish sword dance, 153
- Debtor relieved by a witch, 252
- Decorations at rushbearings, 118
- Demons, forms of, 77
- Demon pigs, 7
- Denton, derivation of, 28
- Devil's bond, 6
- Devil outwitted, 240
- Devil's stride, 243
- Derby, Earls of, crest, 22
- Didsbury wakes, 125
- Dilworth, written stone at, 13
- Downham, King and Queen at, 88
- Downes, Roger, superstitions respecting remains of, 66, 69
- Dragon of Wantley, 265
- Drawing dun out of mire, 140
- Drowning female criminals, 172
- Ducking pits at Burnley, 165
- Dule upo' Dun, 15
- Dun cow and old rib, 16
- Drunk as blazes, 208
- Eagle Crag in Cliviger, 5
- Eagle and child, legend of, 19, 259
- Earl of Mexborough, cockfighter, 144
- Eccles guising, 89
- Eccles pageant, 92
- Eccles tithes wagered on cocks, 145
- Edward Longshanks "lifted," 143
- Edwin of Northumbria, 75
- Egerton lady and the skull, 70
- Entwisel, Sir Bertine, ballad, 23
- Eustace Dauntesey sells his soul, 42
- Expenses of guising, 91
- Fair women of Lancashire, 206
- Fairs at Manchester proclaimed, 84
- Fairs, origin of, 125
- Fairfax, General, 26
- Farm house, description of, 17
- Fighting "up and down," 145
- Fish, superstitions respecting, 224
- Fives, game of, 150
- Fleetwood Habergham, ballad by, 30
- Flodden Field, battle of, 35
- Fox, Mr, and Earl of Derby, 51
- Furness, rhymes and proverbs in, 202
- Fylde, ducking stools in the, 170
- Gallows at Manchester, 171
- "Gaping Saturday," 161
- Ghosts, vanishing of, 56
- Goblin builders, 53
- Godly lane, cross in, 7
- Gorton, derivation of, 27
- Great main of cocks, 144
- Grinning through collars, 126
- Grith, meaning of, 85
- Habergham Hall, 29
- Habergham's, Mrs, lament, 31
- Habergham, John, reckless life of, 30
- Hair, superstitions respecting, 224
- Hale, Chylde of, 31
- Halper pots, 137
- Hand-ball, game of, 149
- Hanging ditch, origin of, 34
- Hanging male criminals, 172
- Harrop, Joseph, printer of race lists, 156
- Heaving or "lifting," 142
- Hector, speech of, 107
- Helston, Mother, the witch, 6
- Hidden treasure, 38
- Higson, John, on plague stone, 54
- Hoghton pageant in 161 7, 93
- Holt, Constance, saved from drowning, 62
- Holy water, use of, 124
- Hornby chapel, 34
- Hot cockles, game of, 136
- Hulme Hall, 37
- Hunting at Extwistle, 147
- Idiot starved to death, 4
- Ignanging and Ignagnus, 153
- Ince Hall and the dead hand, 38
- Inn, "Dule upo' Dun," 16
- Inscription on written stone, 14
- Inscription at Hornby church, 37
- Jealous woman, revenge of, 175
- Jem o' Bradeley, 212
- Jeppe knave grave, 172
- "Kent and keer," proverb, 193
- Kersal Hall, traditions of, 41
- Kersal moor, races at, 154
- Kirkham, ducking stool at, 171
- Knight murdered, 263
- Lady in white, 22, 261
- Lancashire v. Yorkshire, 144
- Lancashire riddles, rhymes, 186, 188
- Lancashire witches, revels of, 247, 257
- Lancaster, mayor of, punished, 251
- Lapland witches, account of, 258
- Latham, Sir Thomas, 19
- Latham and Knowsley, sayings, legend, 205, 259
- Laws of Edward the Confessor, 133
- Loggats, game of, 133
- Lomax, James, otter hunter, 154
- Lostock tower, description of, 44
- Love's evil choice, 30
- Lifting or heaving, 142
- Liverpool fair, custom at, 95
- Liverpool May-day customs, 96
- Lucky bone, superstitions respecting, 236
- Mabel Bradshaigh, penance of, 47
- Mab's cross, 45
- Manchester gallows and tumbrel, 171
- Maid Marion, 108
- Margery's pranks, 252
- Marlock, meanings of, 86, 148
- Marsh, George, footprint of, 77
- Medicines, superstitions respecting, 225
- Melletus on festivals, 124
- Mellor Hall, 272
- Men no seats in churches, 3
- Milk or mickle stones, 54
- Money, hidden, 55
- Money, superstitions about, 227
- Mischief night, 175
- Miscellaneous superstitions, 217,
- Moon superstitions, 238
- Mortgage, the forfeited, 45
- More of More Hall, 264
- Morris dance, 137
- Murder at Dilworth, 14
- Murder, appeal of, 173
- Nicker, derivation of, 29
- Nine-holes, game of, 134
- Norman punishment, 173
- Notchel crying, 176
- Nude men, races by, 159
- Nuttall, William, ballad by, 11
- Nuts, omens from, 222
- Oat-cake lads, 239
- Oat-cakes, presentation of, 127
- Old Crambo, &c., 95
- Omens or signs of death, 23
- Omens from doves, specks, pip-pins, 228-230
- O'Neal, rebellion of, 61
- Origin of guilds, 97
- Ormskirk, church bell at, 48
- Osbaldeston Hall, legend of, 270
- Oskatel, Sir, legend of, 20
- Oswald's, St, Church, 61
- Otter hunting, 154
- Pace egg mummers, 101
- Pack-sheeting, punishment of, 175
- Pageants, maskings, &c., 81
- Parker of Extwistle, hunting song, 147
- Paulinus at Whalley, 74
- Parker, Thomas Townley, cock-fighter, 144
- Penance stool at Bispham, 170
- Penance in Fylde, 174
- Pendle hill rhymes. 186, 189
- Personal appearance of Paulinus, 75
- Peveril, Richard, his fate, 42
- Pigs, demon, 8
- Pilling Moss, eruption of, 243
- Pillory at Manchester, 171
- Pitching the bar, 133
- Plague stone at Stretford, 53
- Plott's, Dr, preference of brank, 167
- Popular rhymes, 183
- Preston guilds, merchant, 97
- Preston festivities, 99
- Prison bars, game of, 151
- Proud Preston, 184
- Proverbs, speeches upon, 97
- Proverbs, 189, 201
- Punching, meaning of, 146
- Punishments, various, 165
- Quoits and bowls, 151
- Race course, the oldest, 155
- Races, accidents at, 158
- Rebellions, northern, 35
- Rhodes of Rhodes defrauded, 50
- Rhodes and Pilkington traditions, 49
- Rib, old, and dun cow, 16
- Ringing the pan, 176
- Robin Hood, 108
- Robbers robbed by a witch, 254
- Rochdale proverb, 53
- Rochdale rushbearing, 114, 119
- Roger’s transformation, 256
- Rowland’s rhymes for games, 132
- Rooley moor, riddle, 159
- Rushbearings, 109
- Rushcarts, 110, 113, 115, 117
- Saddleworth rushcart, 111
- Sale of a wife, 177
- Sale, terms of, to the devil, 15
- Samlesbury hall, its legend, 261
- Samlesbury hall, views from, 261
- Saxon cross at Burnley, 8
- School holidays in 1790, 159
- Scold's branks, 166, 167
- Seathwaite, farms in, 204
- Seise-noddy, game of, 136
- Shoot—cock or shuttlecock, 140
- Shovegroat, game of, 138
- Signature by the dead hand, 39
- Similes, sayings, &c., 190, 193
- Skates, kind of, 151
- Skittles, game of, 135
- Slinging, methods of, 152
- Southworth, Sir John, 262
- Southworth, Dorothy's sad death, 263
- Spectre horseman, huntsman,79, 7
- Spell and nur, game of, 149
- Spell for witchcraft, 235
- Sports at Southport, 161
- Stang riding, 174
- Stanley and the pig's ear, 260
- Stanley, Sir Edward, 34
- Stocks at Walton, Burnley, 166
- Stool-ball, game of, 132
- St George, speech of, 102
- Sykes's wife, her appearance, 55
- Tailor killed by Downes, 66
- Tarquin the giant, 54, 273
- Ten-pins, game of, 134
- Thick as Inkle weavers, 210
- Tick-tack, game of, 135
- Timberbottom, skulls at, 160
- Timbered hall, description of, 65
- Tip, game of, 150
- Toothache charm, 226
- Top and scouge, 140
- Towneley, Lord William, 6
- Towneley Hall, legend of, 57
- Treacle dipping, 162
- Trippet, game of, 152
- Turton tower, wages when erected, 59
- Tutelar gods, 93
- Tyrone's bed, signature, 60, 63
- Unsworth, Dragons of, 63
- Unsworth, curious table at, 64
- Unsworth's crest, 65
- Wakes described by Drayton, 123
- Wantley, Dragon of, 265
- Wardley Hall skull, 65
- Wardley Hall, owners, descrip- of, 70, 71
- Warton rushbearing, 121
- Weather rhymes, 188, 232
- Weather wisdom, 231
- Whalley crosses, rushbearings, 73, 121
- Whitaker's opinion of Stanley, 36
- White lady at Samlesbury, 264
- Wife selling, 177
- Wigan church, monuments in, 49, 72
- Wigan nursery song, 182
- Will o' the wisp superstition, 237
- Wilson's proverb rhymes, 213
- Winwick church and pig, rhyme, 76, 182
- Wishes, tailor of Chatburn's 15
- Witchcraft superstitions, 234
- Witches' temptation, dance, feast, 248, 249, 255
- Witches released from gaol, 257
- Women's possessions, 121
- Worsley giant, combats of, 78
- Wyecoller Hall and spectre, 79
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