PART II.

LOCAL CUSTOMS AND USAGES AT VARIOUS SEASONS.

Church and Season Festivals 212

New Year's-day 214

Fire on New Year's Eve 214

New Year's Luck 214

New Year's First Caller 215

New Year's-day and Old Christmas-day 216

Auld Wife Hakes 216

New Year's Gifts and Wishes 216

Shrovetide 217

Shrove-Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday 218

Cock-throwing and Cock-fighting 218

Cock-fighting about Blackburn 220

Cock-penny at Clitheroe 220

Cock-fighting at Burnley 220

Shrovetide Customs in the Fylde 221

Lent.--Ash-Wednesday 221

Mid-Lent Sunday, or "Mothering Sunday" 222

Simnel Cakes 223

To Dianeme 223

Bury 224

Bragot-Sunday 225

Fag-pie Sunday 226

Good Friday 226

Easter 227

Pasche, Pace, or Easter Eggs 228

Pace Egging in Blackburn 228

Pace or Peace Egging in East Lancashire 231

Easter Sports at the Manchester Free Grammar School 231

"Lifting," or "Heaving" at Easter 233

Easter Game of the Ring 234

Playing "Old Ball" 234

Acting with "Ball" 235

Easter Customs in the Fylde 236

May-day Customs 238

May Songs 239

May-day Eve 239

May-day Custom 240

Pendleton and Pendlebury May-pole and Games 240

May Custom in Spotland 242

May-day Customs in the Fylde 242

The May-pole of Lostock 243

Robin Hood and May-games at Burnley, in 1579 244

May-day in Manchester 245

Queen of the May, &c. 246

Whitsuntide 246

Whit-Tuesday.--King and Queen at Downham 248

Rogations or Gang Days 248

Oatmeal Charity at Ince 249

Names for Moons in Autumn 250

"Goose-Intentos" 250

All Souls'-day 251

Gunpowder Plot and Guy Fawkes 251

Christmas 252

Creatures Worshipping on Christmas Eve 253

Christmas Mumming 253

The Hobby Horse, or Old Ball 254

Christmas Customs in the Fylde 254

Celebration of Christmas at Wycoller Hall 256

Carols, &c. 257

EATING AND DRINKING CUSTOMS.

Various 258

The Havercake Lads 258

Wooden Shoes and Oaten Bread or Jannocks 259

Pork Pasties 260

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 Lancashire 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 Cockerham--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 Principal or Heriot 293

Denton Rent-boons 294

A Saxon Constablewick 295

Talliage or Tallage 296

Rochdale Tithe, Easter-dues, Mortuaries, etc. 297

Farm and Agricultural Celebrations in the Fylde 298

Dalton-in-Furness 299

Letting Sheep Farms in Bowland 300

Mediæval Latin Law Terms 300

Customs [Dues] at Warrington 301

LANCASHIRE FOLK-LORE.