Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c./Appendix/Index

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Mellor Hall, or Abbot House

Lancashire Legends, Traditions, Pageants, Sports, &c. (1873)
edited by John Harland & T. T. Wilkinson

Index

Appendix: Index.

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INDEX.

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 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

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 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
Cockerham, the Devil at, 241
Cockfighting at Eccles, rules for, 128, 143
Coifi abandons paganism, 75
Courting on Fridays, 176
Courtship, superstitions respecting, 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
Derby, Earls of, crest, 22
Didsbury wakes, 125
Dilworth, written stone at, 13
Downham, King and Queen at, 88
Downes, Roger, superstitions respecting remains of, 66, 69
Dragon of Wantley, 265
Drawing dun out of mire, 140
Drowning female criminals, 172
Ducking pits at Burnley, 165
Dule upo' Dun, 15
Dun cow and old rib, 16
Drunk as blazes, 208

Eagle Crag in Cliviger, 5
Eagle and child, legend of, 19, 259
Earl of Mexborough, cockfighter, 144
Eccles guising, 89
Eccles pageant, 92
Eccles tithes wagered on cocks, 145
Edward Longshanks "lifted," 143
Edwin of Northumbria, 75
Egerton lady and the skull, 70
Entwisel, Sir Bertine, ballad, 23
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 161 7, 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 Confessor, 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 respecting, 236

Mabel Bradshaigh, penance of, 47
Mab's cross, 45
Manchester gallows and tumbrel, 171
Maid Marion, 108
Margery's pranks, 252
Marlock, meanings of, 86, 148
Marsh, George, footprint of, 77
Medicines, superstitions respecting, 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, 11
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 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
Unsworth's crest, 65

Wakes described by Drayton, 123
Wantley, Dragon of, 265
Wardley Hall skull, 65
Wardley Hall, owners, descrip- of, 70, 71
Warton rushbearing, 121
Weather rhymes, 188, 232
Weather wisdom, 231
Whalley crosses, rushbearings, 73, 121
Whitaker's opinion of Stanley, 36
White lady at Samlesbury, 264
Wife selling, 177
Wigan church, monuments in, 49, 72
Wigan nursery song, 182
Will o' the wisp superstition, 237
Wilson's proverb rhymes, 213
Winwick church and pig, rhyme, 76, 182
Wishes, tailor of Chatburn's 15
Witchcraft superstitions, 234
Witches' temptation, dance, feast, 248, 249, 255
Witches released from gaol, 257
Women's possessions, 121
Worsley giant, combats of, 78
Wyecoller Hall and spectre, 79

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