Abberley, 161, 240, 255, 289.
Abberton, 207, 297.
Abbot's Lench, 253.
Abbot's Morton, 177.
Abington's Manuscripts, 144.
Acton family, 264, 267, 270, 293, 315.
Acton Beauchamp, 159, 173.
Affiliations, 20, 42, 54.
All Fools' Day, 210.
All Saints' parish, 60, 222, 227.
Alfrick, 157, 173, 200, 204, 249, 289, 316.
Alvechurch, 102, 109, 132, 241, 253, 256, 271, 316.
Anabaptists, 117.
Ancient Inns, 258.
Archaic words, 251.
Areley, 202, 294.
Ascension Day, 208.
Assize notices, 273.
Astley, 80, 166, 246, 261, 289, 295, 310, 312, 313.
Astwood, 189.
Babes of Bethlehem, 205.
Badging paupers, 19, 41, 63, 68.
Badsey, 316.
Balls at Assizes, 279.
Baptisms, 176, 206.
Barneby family, 155.
Bearcroft family, 311, 315.
Bees, 179.
Belbroughton, 125, 182, 132, 254, 260, 310.
Bells, 17, 34, 47, 48, 52, 64, 177, 214, 240.
Beoley, 104, 126, 187, 132, 228, 253, 254, 316.
Berkeley family, 159, 160, 267, 293, 325.
Berrow, 253.
Besford, 234, 295.
Bewdley, 15, 75, 76, 100, 103, 125, 145, 150, 162, 173, 185, 198, 215, 232, 239, 245, 247, 253, 258, 264, 268, 301, 308, 318, 322, 328.
Birlingham, 125, 126, 315.
Birtsmorton, 203.
Bishampton, 101, 241, 272, 294, 314.
Bishop Skinner's Memoirs, 151.
Bishop Swinfield's Roll, 145.
Bishop Thornborough's monument, 287.
Black pear of Worcester, 228.
Blockley, 126, 272, 312, 315.
Bloody pond, 263.
Blount family, 120, 310.
Bockleton, 155, 315.
Brawling, 110, 118.
Bredicot, 297.
Bredon, 111, 126, 249, 256, 311, 313.
Bredon's Norton, 112.
Bretforton, 102, 199, 241.
Bricklehampton, 90, 316.
Bride ales, 218.
Bridges and highways, 130.
Broadheath, 64.
Broadwas, 208.
Broadway, 98, 238, 252, 266, 301, 312, 317.
Bromsgrove, 52, 65, 75, 84, 85, 100, 102, 106, 110, 113, 117, 124, 125, 198, 200, 132, 133, 235, 240, 260, 266, 268, 271, 289, 294, 296, 301, 305, 310, 312, 313, 316, 321.
Broughton Hackett, 203.
Burying in woollen, 26, 50.
Bushley, 295, 312.
Carriers, 101.
Cast-iron grave slabs, 231.
Castle Morton, 100, 129, 172, 290, 312.
Cathedral and precincts, 3, 9, 11, 12, 23, 25, 64, 96, 149, 152, 182, 196, 131, 142, 143, 206.
Catherning, 215.
Cattle market, old, 38.
Chaddesley, 106, 125, 126, 130, 182, 201, 217, 253, 255, 271, 290, 310, 312, 314.
Charlton family, 94.
Charms, 180.
Chaseley, 316.
Chimney money, 25, 28.
China trade, 254.
Christmas customs, 219.
Church and the people, 105.
Churchwardens of Worcester, 17, 26, 39, 45, 51, 56, 59, 62, 66, 69, 73.
Civil Wars, 10, 126, 318.
Claines, 70, 93, 271, 295, 311, 313.
Cleeve Prior, 316.
Clent, 196, 206, 240.
Clergy of seventeenth century, 108.
Clerks and sextons, 17, 259.
Clifton-on-Teme, 159, 161, 195, 137, 301.
Clothing trade, 305.
Club-men of Worcestershire, 324.
Cofton Hackett, 153, 132, 311.
Collins's fire, 60.
Comberton, 79, 127.
Communicants in 1548, 270.
Compositions to the king's household, 133.
Cookes family, 313.
Corn trade, 99.
Costume of the bar, 273.
Cotheridge, 229, 293, 315, 325.
Council of the Marches in Wales, 8, 15, 47.
County Sessions Records, 74 to 134.
Coventry family, 10, 18, 75, 87, 100, 122, 275.
Crabbing the parson, 206.
Crime, 82.
Cromwell pilloried, 229.
Cromwell's parliament, 292.
Cromwell's property tax, 264.
Croome, 75.
Cropthorne, 102.
Crowle, 188, 311.
Cuckolds, 84, 106.
Curfew, 210, 211, 232, 246, 248.
Harvington, 148, 215, 219.
Heaving, 211.
Hemp and flax, 102.
Henry the Eighth's obsequies, 5.
Hermitages and caves, 246.
Himbleton, 125, 231, 234, 241, 253.
Hindlip, 23.
Holt, 189, 256, 293, 295.
Holy loaf,

233.
Honeybourne, 102, 238.
Hop cribbing, 222.
Hop-pole hotel, 35.
Hops, 228.
Hopton family, 322.
House of Industry, 38, 43.
Housling pence, or Sacrament money, 31.
Huddington, 188, 205.
Iccomb, 95.
Image, destruction of at Worcester, 285.
Incumbents of Worcester, 17, 26, 39, 45, 51, 56, 59, 62, 66, 69, 73.
Inkberrow, 78, 83, 125, 177, 132, 218, 253, 311, 315, 316, 321.
Javelin men, 281.
Jeffries' Manuscripts, 136.
Kempsey, 15, 131, 147, 245, 271.
Kidderminster, 3, 14, 75, 100, 103, 125, 127, 151, 184, 185, 201, 211, 217, 249, 264, 268, 271, 293, 302, 305, 308.
King Charles's coins, 228.
King Charles's staff, 236.
King's Norton, 96, 103, 104, 113, 132, 203, 210, 240, 254, 260, 265, 271, 283, 292, 294, 310, 313, 314, 316.
King's tax, 27, 234.
Kington, 4, 80.
Knighton, 156, 272.
Knights of the Royal Oak, 266.
Knightwick, 128, 142, 166, 200, 252, 326.
Knightwood, fines for not taking, 309.
Kyre, 158, 161.
Lechmere family, 104, 122, 264, 292.
Lee, Rev. Dr., 261.
Legends and traditions, 193.
Leigh, 95, 185, 188, 215, 235, 253, 272, 289, 312.
Lindridge, 112, 147, 149, 156, 157, 142, 294.
Littletons, 102, 315.
Longdon, 90, 220, 240, 259, 311, 312, 314.
Longevity, 255.
Love spells, 189.
Lulsley, 158, 200, 253.
Lygon family, 37, 87, 88, 121, 123, 184, 264, 267.
Lyttelton family, 266, 267, 286, 294.
Magistrates in 1483, 267.
Malvern, Great, 126, 133, 147, 171, 186, 195, 256, 264, 311, 313.
----, Little, 154.
Mamble and Bayton, 83, 165, 210, 255.
Manuscripts, county, 135.
Marine store dealers, 228.
Martin Hussingtree, 255.
Marriage custom, 208.
Marriages by Justices, 57.
Martley, 129, 160, 165, 252, 255, 257, 310, 313, 326.
Mathon, 169, 181, 253, 263.
May-poles, 112, 210.
Memory, fine, 259.
Milward evidences, 230.
Morris dancing, 213.
Mortuary Cloth of Clothiers' Company, 305.
Moseley, 126, 265, 294, 317.
Mothering Sunday, 210.
Nash family, 37, 57, 119, 121, 123, 265, 310.
Naunton Beauchamp, 207.
Needle trade, 228.
New Year's customs, 221.
Nicknames, 218.
Nonconformity, 268.
Norbury family, 119, 120.
Northfield, 125, 132, 241, 253, 310.
Norton-juxta-Kempsey, 131.
Norton near Evesham, 205, 239.
Oddingley, 128, 202.
Offenham, 179, 210, 215, 253, 298, 313, 315.
Oil lamps first set up, 38, 41, 55.
Oldberrow, 297.
Oldbury, 116, 305, 313.
Old customs, 205.
Old family, 239.
Old sayings, 238.
Oldswinford, 80, 271.
Ombersley, 128, 266, 295, 310.
Organs at Cathedral, 152.
Orleton, 158.
Overbury, 262.
Oxford circuit, 275.
Pageant-house, 232.
Pakington family, 71, 122, 130, 270, 294, 310.
Paper, early mention of, 284.
Papists, 31, 75, 112.
Pensax, 155, 165, 288.
Pensham, 181.
Townsend Manuscripts, 141.
Traces of the Stuarts, 318.
Tradesmen's tokens, 298.
Traveller's passport, 129.
Tredington, 240, 312.
Trial by combat, 147.
Trumpeters at Assizes, 282.
Tything, 93.
Upton-on-Severn, 75, 85, 125, 130, 146, 270, 311, 313, 314.
Upton Snodsbury,

61, 245.
Upton Warren, 132, 253.
Vacarius' Roman law, 143.
Valentine's Day, 212.
Vernon family, 264, 295.
Versified will, 262.
Vineyards, 288.
Virtuous parish, 296.
Wages of Magistrates, 291.
Waits, 213.
Wake at Claines, 72.
Ward, Lord, 87.
Watchman, the last, 38.
Weather rhymes and sayings, 306.
Welland, 57, 126.
Whipping, 84.
Whitbourne, 128.
White Ladies, 212, 256.
Whitsun farthings, 14, 23, 56, 65, 69.
Whoop custom, 217.
Wichbold, 312, 313.
Wichenford, 295, 315.
Wick, 207.
Winnington family, 87, 123, 137.
Witchcraft, 78, 183, 142.
Witley, 75, 125, 160.
Wolverley, 142, 201, 259, 311, 325.
Yardley, 313, 314, 316.

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