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Notes and Queries for Worcestershire

by John Noake

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Epigraph — Preface
  3. 3Parish Records of the City of Worcester
  4. 4St. Swithin’s
  5. 5St. Nicholas
  6. 6St. Peter’s
  7. 7St. Andrew’s
  8. 8St. Helen’s
  9. 9St. Alban’s
  10. 10St. Martin’s
  11. 11All Saints
  12. 12St. John’s
  13. 13St. Clement’s
  14. 14Claines
  15. 15County Sessions Records
  16. 16Witchcraft
  17. 17Crime
  18. 18The Gaol
  19. 19The Poor
  20. 20Social Regulations
  21. 21The Church and the People
  22. 22Dissenting Chapels and Meeting Houses
  23. 23The Civil Wars
  24. 24A Traveller’s Passport
  25. 25Bridges and Highways
  26. 26The Plague
  27. 27Theatres
  28. 28Compositions to the King’s Household
  29. 29Worcestershire Manuscripts
  30. 30The Jeffries Manuscripts
  31. 31Diary of Mistress Joyce Jeffries
  32. 32The Townsend Manuscripts
  33. 33Vacarius’ Roman Law
  34. 34Abington’s Manuscript
  35. 35Bishop Swinfield’s Roll
  36. 36Bishop Skinner
  37. 37Doddingtree Hundred Two Centuries Ago
  38. 38Superstitions
  39. 39Bells
  40. 40Good Friday
  41. 41Bees
  42. 42Charms
  43. 43Touching for the King’s Evil
  44. 44Witchcraft
  45. 45Ghosts
  46. 46Love Spells
  47. 47Legends and Traditions
  48. 48Old Customs
  49. 49Ringing for the Parson
  50. 50Baptisms
  51. 51Crabbing the Parson
  52. 52Primitive Cathedral Customs
  53. 53Marriage Custom
  54. 54Funereal
  55. 55Ascension Day
  56. 56Guy Faulx
  57. 57“Royal Oak Day” — May 29
  58. 58Mothering Sunday
  59. 59All Fools’ Day
  60. 60Pledging
  61. 61May-Poles
  62. 62Heaving
  63. 63Valentine’s Day
  64. 64Morris Dancing
  65. 65The “Waits”
  66. 66The Curfew Bell
  67. 67Plum-Pudding and Other Bells
  68. 68St. Catharine’s Day
  69. 69Curious Charity, &c.
  70. 70The Whoop
  71. 71Tenure
  72. 72Nicknames
  73. 73Bride Ales
  74. 74Pauper Relief
  75. 75Christmas Customs
  76. 76Hop-Cribbing
  77. 77Beating the Bounds
  78. 78Queries
  79. 79The Black Pear — King Charles’s Coins
  80. 80Hops
  81. 81Needle Trade · Marine Store Dealers — Groves
  82. 82Cromwell Pilloried
  83. 83The Pillory, &c.
  84. 84The Milward Evidences
  85. 85Cast-Iron Grave Slabs
  86. 86Stewponey
  87. 87Queen Elizabeth at Hartlebury
  88. 88Dr. Prattinton’s Papers
  89. 89The Pageant House
  90. 90Curious Discovery
  91. 91The Holy Loaf
  92. 92A Sounding Name
  93. 93The King’s Duty
  94. 94Sculptures on Churches
  95. 95The First Worcester Printer
  96. 96King Charles’s Staff
  97. 97Giants
  98. 98Saffron
  99. 99Miscellaneous Notes
  100. 100A Happy Village
  101. 101A Great Flood
  102. 102Old Family
  103. 103Bells and Bell-Founders
  104. 104Tobacco
  105. 105“Meditation on Smoking
  106. 106Hermitages and Caves
  107. 107Worcestershire Described by a Roundhead
  108. 108Peculiar Words
  109. 109Curious Names of Places
  110. 110The China Trade
  111. 111Longevity
  112. 112Gloucester City Gates
  113. 113Ancient Inns
  114. 114A Fine Memory
  115. 115Longdon Marshes
  116. 116Hereditary Clerks and Sextons
  117. 117The Rev. Dr. Lee
  118. 118The Martyr Ridley
  119. 119Versified Will
  120. 120Bloody Pond
  121. 121Cromwell’s Property and Income-Tax
  122. 122Graveyard Punning
  123. 123Knights of the Royal Oak
  124. 124Worcestershire Magistrates in 1483
  125. 125Nonconformity
  126. 126Communicants in 1548
  127. 127Assize Notices
  128. 128John Talbot, Esq., of Salwarpe
  129. 129King’s Norton Library
  130. 130Old English Rats
  131. 131Paper
  132. 132Ancient Seal of Worcester
  133. 133Destroying an Image at Worcester
  134. 134East Window of St. John’s Church
  135. 135Bishop Thornborough’s Monument
  136. 136Vineyards
  137. 137Echoes
  138. 138The Last Fool
  139. 139Notes on Elmley Lovett
  140. 140County Magistrates’ Wages
  141. 141Royal Visit to King’s Norton
  142. 142Cromwell’s Parliament
  143. 143Worcestershire Royalists Compounding
  144. 144A Quadruple Alliance
  145. 145A Virtuous Parish
  146. 146Droitwich Brine
  147. 147Small Parishes
  148. 148A Contradiction — Queen Elizabeth’s Arrears
  149. 149Worcestershire Tokens — Seventeenth Century
  150. 150The Clothing Trade
  151. 151The Mortuary Cloth of the Clothiers’ Company
  152. 152Ship Money
  153. 153Fines for Not Taking the Order of Knighthood
  154. 154Slaughter of Dogs and Cats
  155. 155Traces of the Stuarts in Worcestershire

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