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

Appendix: Index.
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
* 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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