Chapter VI: Part 6

Early Religious Plays: being the Story of the English Stage in
its Church Cradle Days--The Caistor Gad-Whip Manorial
Service--Strange Serpent Stories--Church
Ales--Rush-Bearing--Fish in Lent--Concerning Doles--Church
Scrambling Charities--Briefs--Bells and Beacons for Travellers
by Night--Hour Glasses in Churches--Chained Books in
Churches--Funeral Effigies--Torch-light Burials--Simple
Memorials of the Early Dead--The Romance of Parish
Registers--Dog Whippers and Sluggard Wakers--Odd Items from Old
Accounts--An Index of six closely-printed pages.

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