Memorials of old Cheshire
by Edward Barber
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: George Allen & Sons,1910.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Neil Mercer, Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Cheshire (England)
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69492
- Release Date
- December 7, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.MEMORIALS OF OLD CHESHIRE
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.HISTORIC CHESHIRE
- 7.THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER: ITS PLACE IN HISTORY
- 8.THE ABBEYS OF CHESHIRE
- 9.CHESHIRE CASTLES
- 10.THE TIMBER-FRAMED CHURCHES OF CHESHIRE
- 11.THE WALLS AND ROWS OF CHESTER
- 12.THE HALF-TIMBERED ARCHITECTURE OF CHESHIRE
- 13.AN OLD CONSISTORY COURT
- 14.HALTON COURT LEET
- 15.CHESHIRE WORTHIES — Soldiers — Bishops — Poets — Judges and Chancellors — Scientists — Historians
- 16.THE FOUR RANDLE HOLMES OF CHESTER
- 17.THE CHESTER MYSTERY PLAYS — Introduction. — Origin of Plays. — THE BANES — The Banes or Proclamation of the Playes. — THE PLAYS — CHRIST’S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM — THE GOOD GOSSIPS’ SONG. — The Eighth Pageant—“The Three Kings.”
- 18.THE SIEGE OF CHESTER — From Slingsby’s Diary.
- 19.CHESHIRE AND ITS FAMILIES
- 20.SOME CHESHIRE CROSSES
- 21.ECHOES FROM FARNDON
- 22.SOME CHESHIRE CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, AND FOLK-LORE — SOULING — MARLING — RUSH-BEARING — PACE-EGGING — MAYING — CHESHIRE MAY SONG — LIFTING — HARVEST HOME — CORNAGE — PROVERBS AND SAYINGS — LOCAL RHYMES — SUNDRY SAWS — PHENOMENA — LEGENDS — Brereton—Bag or Black Mere. — Capesthorn—Rudesmere, or Reedsmere. — Rostherne Mere. — Combermere — BELLS — BIRDS — GAMES — MUSIC — CHURCHES — WELLS — ROBERT NIXON
- 23.TWO CHESHIRE SAINTS
- 24.INDEX
- 25.Selections from George Allen & Sons’ List
- 26.Transcriber's Notes
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