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