Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, by John Brand; Arranged, Rev. and Greatly Enlarged, by Sir Henry Ellis, 2. kötetH.G. Bohn, 1849 |
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12. oldal
... burials , but chiefly at their wakes , which they yearly hold ( although it be of late years well laid down ) . " " Macaulay , in his History of Claybrook , 1791 , p . 93 , ob- serves that there is a wake the Sunday next after St. Peter ...
... burials , but chiefly at their wakes , which they yearly hold ( although it be of late years well laid down ) . " " Macaulay , in his History of Claybrook , 1791 , p . 93 , ob- serves that there is a wake the Sunday next after St. Peter ...
58. oldal
... buried in some hungry womb . Item , executors I will have none But he that on my side laid seven to one , And like a gentleman that he may live , To him and to his heirs my comb I give . " To cry coke is , in vulgar language ...
... buried in some hungry womb . Item , executors I will have none But he that on my side laid seven to one , And like a gentleman that he may live , To him and to his heirs my comb I give . " To cry coke is , in vulgar language ...
116. oldal
... buried corse . " Armin's History of the Two Maids of Moreclacke , 4to . 1609 , opens thus , preparatory to a wedding : " Enter a maid strewing flowers , and a serving - man perfuming the door . The maid says , ' Strew , strew , ' - the ...
... buried corse . " Armin's History of the Two Maids of Moreclacke , 4to . 1609 , opens thus , preparatory to a wedding : " Enter a maid strewing flowers , and a serving - man perfuming the door . The maid says , ' Strew , strew , ' - the ...
204. oldal
... burial one , and after the same another ? " Inquiry is also directed to be made , " whether at the death of any there be any super- stitious ringing ? " " The passing - bell , " says Grose , " was anciently rung for two purposes : one ...
... burial one , and after the same another ? " Inquiry is also directed to be made , " whether at the death of any there be any super- stitious ringing ? " " The passing - bell , " says Grose , " was anciently rung for two purposes : one ...
207. oldal
... burial , " is this anecdote : " A rich churle and a begger were buried , at one time , in the same church- " Hæc , tunc in dormitorio sororum pausans , exaudivit subito in aere notum campanæ sonum quo ad orationes excitari vel convocari ...
... burial , " is this anecdote : " A rich churle and a begger were buried , at one time , in the same church- " Hæc , tunc in dormitorio sororum pausans , exaudivit subito in aere notum campanæ sonum quo ad orationes excitari vel convocari ...
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