Anglo-Saxon prelates, 198-201
Annointing at baptism, 89
Announcements of fortunes at marriages, 121
Apostle Spoons, 90
Armour, burial in, 132
Armour in Churches, 174-181
Armour at funerals, 129, 178
Arvel Dinner, 139
Ascension Day customs, 188-189
Axon, W. E. A., Shorthand in Church, 246-260
Banns, forbidding, 113
Banns peal, 46
Baptism, earliest t.i.tles of, 78
Baptism rejected, 79
Barton-le-Street, curious customs at, 20
Batley bells, poem on, 61-63
Beating the Bounds, 182-190
Bell inscriptions, 35, 39, 40, 45, 49, 63
Bells cast in churches and churchyards, 154
Bells lost, 38-39
Benham, Rev. Canon, B.D., F.S.A., Customs and Superst.i.tions of Baptism, 78-98; Reminiscences of our Village Church, 261-270
Bibles, throwing dice for, 165
Biddenden Maids, 25
Bidding at weddings, 119
Bidding for funerals, 146
Bishops in Battle, 198-231
Black Prince, armour of, 175
Blinds taken down at death, 139
Bragget Sunday, 23
Bread and beer distributed at a tomb, 20
Bridegrooms, 104
Box at funerals, 145
Boy-bishop, 2-8
Bozeat toffee, 25
Bridesmaids, 103
Briscoe, J. Potter, "Curiosities of the Belfry," 73
Bull-running, 28
Burial Customs, 126-146
Burial without city walls, 127
b.u.mping children, 187-188; a curate, 188
Buns and cider, 24
Burning books, 158
Burnley marriage custom, 123
Butchers" serenade, 122
Caistor gad-whip, 28
Canute"s crown, 175
Card-playing, 20
Carling Sunday, 23
Caroline, Queen, trial of, 26;