Bygone Church Life in Scotland Part 18

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Curious Church Customs,

AND COGNATE SUBJECTS.

EDITED BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.

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CONTENTS:--Sports in Churches--Holy Day Customs--Church Bells: When and Why They were Rung--Inscriptions on Bells--Laws of the Belfry--Ringers'

Jugs--Customs and Superst.i.tions of Baptism--Marriage Customs--Burial Customs--Concerning the Churchyard--Altars in Churches--The Rood Loft and its Uses--Armour in Churches--Beating the Bounds--The Story of the Croiser--Bishops in Battle--The Cloister and its Story--Shorthand in Church--Reminiscences of our Village Church--Index.

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"Ingatherings."

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The Church Bells of Holderness.

By G.o.dFREY RICHARD PARK.

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Ess.e.x in the Days of Old.

EDITED BY JOHN T. PAGE.

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CONTENTS:--Witchcraft in Ess.e.x--Charles d.i.c.kens and Chigwell--Hadleigh Castle--Daniel Defoe in Ess.e.x--Harbottle Grimston, Puritan and Patriot--In the Reign of Terror--John Locke and Oates--The Homes and Haunts of Elizabeth Fry--The Notorious Dean of Bocking and the "Eikon Basilike"--Barking Abbey--The Round Church of Little Maplestead--Waltham Holy Cross--Queen Elizabeth in Ess.e.x--The Salmons and Haddocks of Leigh--The Dutch Refugees and the Bay and Say Trade--John Strype and Leyton--The Bra.s.s of Archbishop Harsnett--Old Southend--The Bartlow Hills--Index.