The Project Gutenberg eBook, Old English Sports, by Peter Hampson Ditchfield
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OLD ENGLISH SPORTS
Pastimes and Customs
BY
P.H. DITCHFIELD, M.A.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
OLD ENGLISH SPORTS.
CHAPTER I.
JANUARY.
Dedication Festivals—New Year's Day—"Wassail"—Twelfth Night—"King of the Bean"—St. Distaff's Day—Plough Monday—Winter Games—Skating—Sword-dancing.
CHAPTER II.
FEBRUARY.
Hunting—Candlemas Day—St. Blaize's Day—Shrove-tide— Football—Battledore and Shuttlecock—Cock-throwing.
CHAPTER III.
MARCH.
Archery—Lent—"Mothering" Sunday—Palm Sunday— "Shere" Thursday—Watching the Sepulchre.
CHAPTER IV.
APRIL.
Easter Customs—Pace Eggs—Handball in Churches—Sports confined to Special Localities—Stoolball and Barley-brake —Water Tournament—Quintain—Chester Sports—Hock-tide.
CHAPTER V.
MAY.
May Day Festivities—May-pole—Morris-dancers—The Book of Sports—Bowling—Beating the Bounds—George Herbert's description of a Country Parson.
CHAPTER VI.
JUNE.
Whitsuntide Sports—Church-ales—Church-house—Quarter-staff —Whistling and Jingling Matches—St. John's Eve—Wrestling.
CHAPTER VII.
JULY.
Cricket—Club-ball—Trap-ball—Golf—Pall-mall—Tennis— Rush-bearing
CHAPTER VIII.
AUGUST.
Lammas Day—St. Roch's Day—Harvest-home—"Ten-pounding"— Sheep-shearing—"Wakes"—Fairs.
CHAPTER IX.
SEPTEMBER.
Hawking—Michaelmas—Bull and Bear-baiting.
CHAPTER X.
OCTOBER.
Tournaments—Mysteries—Moralities—Pageants.
CHAPTER XI.
NOVEMBER.
All-hallow Eve—"Soul Cakes"—Diving for Apples—The Fifth of November—Martinmas—Demands Joyous—Indoor Games.
CHAPTER XII.
DECEMBER.
St. Nicholas Day—The Boy Bishop—Christmas Eve—Christmas Customs—Mummers—"Lord of Misrule"—Conclusion.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
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