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BIRTH AND BAPTISMAL CUSTOMS.
Presents to Women in Childbed 260
Tea-drinking after Childbirth 261
Turning the Bed after Childbirth 261
An Unbaptized Child cannot die 262
Gifts to Infants 262
BETROTHING AND BRIDAL OR WEDDING CUSTOMS.
Betrothing Customs 263
Curious Wedding Custom 263
Courting and Wedding Customs in the Fylde 264
Ancient Bridal Custom.--The Bride's Chair and the Fairy Hole 265
Burnley 265
Marriages at Manchester Parish Church 265
DYING, DEATH-BED, AND FUNERAL CUSTOMS.
Dying Hardly 268
Burying in Woollen 269
Funeral Dole and Arval Cake 270
Dalton-in-Furness 271
Old Funeral Customs at Warton 271
Funeral Customs in the Fylde 272
Mode of Burial of a Widow who had taken Religious Vows 273
Funeral Customs in East Lancas.h.i.+re 273
Bidding to Funerals 274
Situation and Direction of Graves 275
CUSTOMS OF MANORS.
The Honour of Knighthood 277
Maritagium 278
Peculiar Services and Tenures 278
Manor of c.o.c.kerham--Regulations for the Sale of Ale 281
Manorial Customs in Furness 281
The Lord's Yule Feast at Ashton 286
Riding the Black Lad at Ashton-under-Lyne 289
Boon Shearing 292
The Princ.i.p.al or Heriot 293
Denton Rent-boons 294
A Saxon Constablewick 295
Talliage or Tallage 296
Rochdale t.i.the, Easter-dues, Mortuaries, etc. 297
Farm and Agricultural Celebrations in the Fylde 298
Dalton-in-Furness 299
Letting Sheep Farms in Bowland 300
Mediaeval Latin Law Terms 300
Customs [Dues] at Warrington 301
LANCAs.h.i.+RE FOLK-LORE.
PART I.
