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 respect-
ing, 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 respect-
ing, 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, II [237
Clogs worn, clogs to clogs, 146,

Cockerham, the Devil at, 241
Cockfighting at Eccles, rules
for, 128, 143

Coifi abandons paganism, 75
Courting on Fridays, 176
Courtship, superstitions respect-
ing, 222

Cross and pile, game of, 139
Cuck stool at Liverpool, 167
Cucking stool at Ormskirk, 168
Cunliffes of Wyecoller, 79

DANISH Sword dance, 153
Debtor relieved by a witch, 252
Decorations at rushbearings, 118
Demons, forms of, 77
Demon pigs, 7

Denton, derivation of, 28
Devil's bond, 6

Devil outwitted, 240

Devil's stride, 243

Eustace Dauntesey sells his
soul, 42

Expenses of guising, 91

FAIR Women of Lancashire, 206
Fairs at Manchester proclaimed,
84

Fairs, origin of, 125
Fairfax, General, 26
Farm house, description of, 17
Fighting "up and down," 145
Fish, superstitions respecting, 224
Fives, game of, 150
Fleetwood Habergham, ballad
by, 30

Flodden Field, battle of, 35
Fox, Mr, and Earl of Derby, 51
Furness, rhymes and proverbs
in, 202

Fylde, ducking stools in the, 170
GALLOWS at Manchester, 171

Gaping Saturday," 161
Ghosts, vanishing of, 56
Goblin builders, 53
Godly lane, cross in, 7
Gorton, derivation of, 27
Great main of cocks, 144
Grinning through collars, 126
Grith, meaning of, 85

HABERGHAM Hall, 29
Habergham's, Mrs, lament, 31
Habergham, John, reckless life
of, 30

Hair, superstitions respecting,
224

Hale, Chylde of, 31

Halper pots, 137

Hand-ball, game of, 149

Hanging ditch, origin of, 34

Hanging male criminals, 172

Harrop, Joseph, printer of race
lists, 156

Heaving or "lifting," 142
Hector, speech of, 107

Helston, Mother, the witch, 6

Hidden treasure, 38

Higson, John, on plague stone,

54
Hoghton pageant in 1617, 93

Holt, Constance, saved from
drowning, 62

Holy water, use of, 124
Hornby chapel, 34
Hot cockles, game of, 136
Hulme Hall, 37

Hunting at Extwistle, 147

IDIOT starved to death, 4
Ignanging and Ignagnus, 153
Ince Hall and the dead hand, 38
Inn, "Dule upo' Dun," 16
Inscription on written stone, 14
Inscription at Hornby church, 37
JEALOUS woman, revenge of, 175
Jem o' Bradeley, 212
Jeppe knave grave, 172
"KENT and keer," proverb, 193
Kersal Hall, traditions of, 41
Kersal moor, races at, 154
Kirkham, ducking stool at, 171
Knight murdered, 263
LADY in white, 22, 261
Lancashire v. Yorkshire, 144
Lancashire riddles, rhymes, 186,
188

Lancashire witches, revels of,
247, 257

Lancaster, mayor of, punished,
251

Lapland witches, account of, 258
Latham, Sir Thomas, 19
Latham and Knowsley, sayings,
legend, 205, 259

Laws of Edward the Confes-

sor, 133
Loggats, game of, 133
Lomax, James, otter hunter, 154
Lostock tower, description of, 44
Love's evil choice, 30
Lifting or heaving, 142
Liverpool fair, custom at, 95
Liverpool May-day customs, 96
Lucky bone, superstitions re-
specting, 236

MABEL Bradshaigh, penance of,

47
Mab's cross, 45

Manchester gallows and tum-
brel, 171

Maid Marion, 108
Margery's pranks, 252

Marlock, meanings of, 86, 148
Marsh, George, footprint of, 77
Medicines, superstitions respec-
ting, 225

Melletus on festivals, 124
Mellor Hall, 272

Men no seats in churches, 3
Milk or mickle stones, 54
Money, hidden, 55

Money, superstitions about, 227
Mischief night, 175
Miscellaneous superstitions, 217,
Moon superstitions, 238
Mortgage, the forfeited, 45
More of More Hall, 264
Morris dance, 137
Murder at Dilworth, 14
Murder, appeal of, 173
NICKER, derivation of, 29
Nine-holes, game of, 134
Norman punishment, 173
Notchel crying, 176
Nude men, races by, 159
Nuttall, William, ballad by, II
Nuts, omens from, 222
OAT-CAKE lads, 239
Oat-cakes, presentation of, 127
Old Crambo, &c., 95

Omens or signs of death, 23
Omens from doves, specks, pip-
pins, 228-230
O'Neal, rebellion of, 61
Origin of guilds, 97

Ormskirk, church bell at, 48
Osbaldeston Hall, legend of, 270
Oskatel, Sir, legend of, 20
Oswald's, St, Church, 61
Otter hunting, 154

PACE egg mummers, 101
Pack-sheeting, punishment of,
175

Pageants, maskings, &c., 81
Parker of Extwistle, hunting
song, 147

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 Paulin-
us, 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 tradi-
tions, 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, III
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, 60
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,
erected, 59
Tutelar gods, 93
Tyrone's bed, signature, 60, 63
UNSWORTH, Dragons of, 63
Unsworth, curious table at, 64

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