Page:Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, Etc., with an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract.djvu/322

 INDEX.


 * 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


 * , 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


 * 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