39

Bath, wakes at, 81

Battledore, 23

Bean, King of, 7

Berks--Old sports, 81

"Bessy," 9

Blaize St., 18

Boar's head at Christmas, 123

Bonfires, 6, 57, 106, 108

Book of Sports, 48, 50

Bounds, beating, 50

Bowl, 49

Boy bishop, 116

Bull-baiting, 89

Burning wheel, 59

Butts, 27

Caber-tossing, 38

Candlemas, 18

Carols, 111

_Catherine, St._, miracle play, 99

Charlemagne, 58

Chess, 112

Chester, 41, 48

Choirs, Old, 111

Christmas holidays, 5
customs, 118-126
at Court, 120

Church decoration, 37, 49, 121

Churchwardens' accounts, 34, 36, 42, 54, 72, 100

Church ale, 52, 53, 57

Church house, 53

Cloudslee, William of, 28

Club-ball, 65, 66

Cock-fighting, 23, 24

Cock-throwing, 23

Collop Monday, 19

_Colloquies_ of Erasmus, 113

_Conversion of St. Paul_, mystery play, 98

Country parson, 51

Coventry, 42, 103

_Crafte of Hunting_, 16

Cricket, 38, 61-65

Cross-bow, 27

Cudgel-play, 38

Curling, 39

Customs, local, 4, 5, 6, 12, 20, 24, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 50,
54, 60, 62, 78, 81, 106, 108, 109, 117

Dances, country, on village green, 11

Dancing with swords, 10

December, 115

Dedication festivals, 3

_Demands Joyous_, 110

Devonshire custom, 4

Distaff, St., 9

Dragons, 59

Dues, Cock-fight, 24

Early sport, 14, 16

Easter, 36--41

Eighteenth century cricket, 63

Election of King of Bean, 7

England "Merry," 1, 125, 126

_English Villages, Our_, 3, 80

Epiphany, 5

Erasmus, _Colloquies_ of, 113

Evelyn's _Diary_, 90

Fairs, 3, 80

Falconer, 87

February, 13

Festivals, 3, 36, 50, 118

Finsbury, 28

Football, 20, 21, 41

Foot-races, 22, 38

Fox-hunting extraordinary, 17

France, home of tennis, 39

Gambling, 112

Games, minor ball, 71
" ball, 20, 21, 64, 71
" indoor, 21, 112

George Herbert, 51

Golf, 66, 68

Good Friday cake, 33

Gospel trees, 50

Grasmere, 72

Guildford, cricket at, 62

Gunpowder Plot, 108

Guy Fawkes, 107

Hambledon Cricket Club, 63, 64

Handball, 27

Handball in Church, 38

Harvest home, 75, 79

Hawking, 84

Heaving, 37

Herbert, George, 51

Herefordshire custom, 6

Herrick, 9, 31, 74, 115, 119, 125

Hobby-horse, 26

Hock-cart, 75

Hocking, 54

Hock-tide, 41, 42

Holland, golf introduced from, 66

Horse-collar, grinning through a, 54

Hot cross buns, 33, 34

Hunting, 13, 17

Hurling, 22, 23

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