Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Corpse to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 Of Garlands in Country Churches : Of ...
... Corpse to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 Of Garlands in Country Churches : Of ...
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... Corpse to Church , and during the bring- ( 6 ing it out of the Church to the Grave . " I think this a curious and pertinent Quotation . It seems . to account for a Custom still preserved in the North , of making numerous Distinctions at ...
... Corpse to Church , and during the bring- ( 6 ing it out of the Church to the Grave . " I think this a curious and pertinent Quotation . It seems . to account for a Custom still preserved in the North , of making numerous Distinctions at ...
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... Corpse to Church : * Vide Pancake - Tuesday in the Appendix . † Reever , a Robber . To reeve , to spoil or rob . Speght's Glossary to Chaucer . William the Conqueror , in the first Year of his Reign , com- manded that in every Town and ...
... Corpse to Church : * Vide Pancake - Tuesday in the Appendix . † Reever , a Robber . To reeve , to spoil or rob . Speght's Glossary to Chaucer . William the Conqueror , in the first Year of his Reign , com- manded that in every Town and ...
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... Corpse was an an- tient Custom of the Church , and every where practised . They were wont to sit by it , from the Time of its Death till its Exportation to the Grave , either in the House it died in , or in the Church itself . Agreeable ...
... Corpse was an an- tient Custom of the Church , and every where practised . They were wont to sit by it , from the Time of its Death till its Exportation to the Grave , either in the House it died in , or in the Church itself . Agreeable ...
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... Corpse . It is called the Lakewake ; a Word plainly derived from the Anglo - Saxon Lic or Lice , a Corpse , and Wæcce , a Wake , Vigil , or Watching . It is used in this Sense by Chaucer , in his Knight's Tale : Shall not be told for me ...
... Corpse . It is called the Lakewake ; a Word plainly derived from the Anglo - Saxon Lic or Lice , a Corpse , and Wæcce , a Wake , Vigil , or Watching . It is used in this Sense by Chaucer , in his Knight's Tale : Shall not be told for me ...
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