Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects Part 19

Anglo-Saxon prelates, 198-201

Annointing at baptism, 89

Announcements of fortunes at marriages, 121

Apostle Spoons, 90

Armour, burial in, 132

Armour in Churches, 174-181

Armour at funerals, 129, 178

Arvel Dinner, 139

Ascension Day customs, 188-189

Axon, W. E. A., Shorthand in Church, 246-260

Banns, forbidding, 113

Banns peal, 46

Baptism, earliest t.i.tles of, 78

Baptism rejected, 79

Barton-le-Street, curious customs at, 20

Batley bells, poem on, 61-63

Beating the Bounds, 182-190

Bell inscriptions, 35, 39, 40, 45, 49, 63

Bells cast in churches and churchyards, 154

Bells lost, 38-39

Benham, Rev. Canon, B.D., F.S.A., Customs and Superst.i.tions of Baptism, 78-98; Reminiscences of our Village Church, 261-270

Bibles, throwing dice for, 165

Biddenden Maids, 25

Bidding at weddings, 119

Bidding for funerals, 146

Bishops in Battle, 198-231

Black Prince, armour of, 175

Blinds taken down at death, 139

Bragget Sunday, 23

Bread and beer distributed at a tomb, 20

Bridegrooms, 104

Box at funerals, 145

Boy-bishop, 2-8

Bozeat toffee, 25

Bridesmaids, 103

Briscoe, J. Potter, "Curiosities of the Belfry," 73

Bull-running, 28

Burial Customs, 126-146

Burial without city walls, 127

b.u.mping children, 187-188; a curate, 188

Buns and cider, 24

Burning books, 158

Burnley marriage custom, 123

Butchers' serenade, 122

Caistor gad-whip, 28

Canute's crown, 175

Card-playing, 20

Carling Sunday, 23

Caroline, Queen, trial of, 26;