Pageants, 101

Pall Mall, 68

Palm Sunday, 32

Park, St. James’s, 68

Parson, country, 50

Pea, Queen of, 8

Pig-catching, 56

Pigeon-holes, 56

Plagues, 72

Plough Monday, 9

Pole-leaping, 38

Purification, 18

Puritans, 47

Quarter-staff, 38, 54, 56

Queen of the Pea, 8

Queen of the Play, 46

Quintain, 41

Reading town, 27, 42, 54

Reformation, 9, 18, 22

Refreshment Sunday, 31

Relics of Sun-worship, 51, 59

Revival of Bounds-beating, 51

Robin Hood, 28

Roch’s, St., Day, 75

Rogation Days, 50

Royal golfers, 66
  " tennis players, 69, 70

Rush-bearing, rushes in Churches, 49, 71, 72

Salisbury, boy bishop, 116

September, 84

Sepulchres, 35

Sheep-shearing, 79

Shere Thursday, 33

Shrovetide, 19, 24

Simnell-cakes, 32

Single-stick, 35

Skating, 10, 38

“Spinster,” derivation of, 9

Sports, Book of, 48, 49, 50

Sports, early, 14, 16

Songs, old, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 23, 28, 36, 46, 63, 75, 76, 77, 109

Soul-cakes, 106

Stool-ball, 66

Stuarts, 21, 48, 50, 66, 68, 80

Sudeley Castle, pageants at, 101

Sun-worship, relics of, 57, 59

Superstitions, 5, 33, 39, 50, 59, 106, 107

Sussex custom, 4

Sussex and Kent, first homes of cricket, 62

Tansy-cake, 38

Tennis, 68, 71

Tilting at a ring, 97

Tipcat called Billet, 23

Tournaments, 92

Trap-ball, 66

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Husbandry, 79

Twelfth Day Eve, 5, 6

Twelfth Night, 7

Undershaft, St. Andrew, 48

Uncleanliness, 72

Valentine, St., 18

Wakes, 79, 80, 81

Walton, Isaak, 17

“Wassail,” 4

Water tournament, 39, 40

Whistling match, 56

White Horse Hill, 54

Whitsuntide, 52

Willes, 65

Winter games, indoor, 10

Wise men from East, 7

Withers, Christmas song, 125

Wrestling, 59

Year, New, festivities, 4, 5

Yule-log, 118

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