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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 regu-
lations, 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, 81
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 regu-
lations, 89; plague at, 95
Hungerford horn, 77; curious
customs, 78
Ireland, burials without coffins, 221
Iron, red-hot ordeal, 27
King curing an Abbot of Indigestion, 174-176
Kissing the Bride, 195-198
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; New-
castle, 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; Brad-
ley, 165; Braintree, 167; Col-
chester, 169; Collections, 170;
Eyam, 170
Plays on Sunday, 92-96
Preaching, extravagant, 133
Puritans and Sunday, 101; 104-107
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, 22-36
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; indul-
gences 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 Shuna-
mite 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
Santuary, 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
Traitor’ 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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