Memorials of old Derbyshire
by J. Charles Cox
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Cox, J. Charles (John Charles), 1843-1919
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Bemrose and Sons Ltd.,1907.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell, Chris Jordan, George Peabody Library (Johns Hopkins University) 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
- Derbyshire (England) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69017
- Release Date
- September 20, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Memorials of Old Derbyshire
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
- 7.HISTORIC DERBYSHIRE
- 8.PREHISTORIC BURIALS IN DERBYSHIRE — Neolithic Barrows — Bronze Age Barrows — “Late” Prehistoric Barrows.
- 9.THE PREHISTORIC STONE CIRCLES OF DERBYSHIRE
- 10.SWARKESTON BRIDGE
- 11.DERBYSHIRE MONUMENTS TO THE FAMILY OF FOLJAMBE [32]
- 12.REPTON: ITS ABBEY, CHURCH, PRIORY, AND SCHOOL
- 13.THE OLD HOMES OF THE COUNTY
- 14.WINGFIELD MANOR HOUSE IN PEACE AND IN WAR
- 15.BRADSHAW AND THE BRADSHAWES
- 16.OFFERTON HALL.
- 17.ROODS, SCREENS, AND LOFTS IN DERBYSHIRE CHURCHES
- 18.PLANS OF THE PEAK FOREST
- 19.OLD COUNTRY LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 20.DERBYSHIRE FOLK-LORE — The Glass House [117] — Peggy with the Wooden Leggy [118] — MISCELLANEOUS FOLK-LORE — A Skull as the Protector of a House — Christmas Eve — New Year — Easter Observances — Shrove Tuesday Custom — Yule Loaf, Posset, and Candle — The last of the Cave-dwellers — First Foot — Curfew — Good Times — Vows under the Shadow of a Hill — Thar-Cake Joinings — Burial Customs — Wakes — Offerings to the Fairies — “Sweeping the Girl” on St. Valentine’s Day
- 21.JEDEDIAH STRUTT
- 22.INDEX
- 23.Selected from the Catalogue of BEMROSE & SONS Ltd.
- 24.Untitled
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