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 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

LANCASHIRE FOLK-LORE.

PART I.