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- 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
