(a.d. 1625-1660.)
CHAPTER X.
Christmas, From the Restoration To the Death Of George II.
215
(a.d. 1660-1760.)
CHAPTER XI.
Modern Christmases at Home
240
CHAPTER XII.
Modern Christmases Abroad
294
CHAPTER XIII.
Concluding Carol Service of the Nineteenth Century
349
INDEX
351
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Bringing in the Yule Log
Frontispiece
The Herald Angels
3
2
Virgin and Child
5
Joseph Taking Mary to be Taxed, and the Nativity Events
6
The Nativity (Central portion of Picture in National Gallery)
8
Virgin and Child (Relievo)
9
Group from the Angels' Serenade
10
Adoration of the Magi (From Pulpit of Pisa)
11
"The Inns are Full"
14
Grape Gathering and the Vintage (Mosaic in the Church of St. Constantine, Rome, A.D. 320)
16
German Ninth Century Picture of the Nativity
16
Ancient Roman Illustrations
17
Ancient Roman Illustrations
18
Ancient Agape
19
Ancient Roman Illustrations
21
Early Celebrations in Britain
23
Queen Bertha
27
An Ancient Fireplace
30
Traveling in the Olden Time, with a "Christmas Fool: on the Front Seat
31
The Wild Boar Hunt: Killing the Boar
32
Adoration of the Magi (Picture of Stained Glass, Winchester Cathedral)
34
A King at Dinner
40
Blind Minstrel at a Feast
42
Minstrels' Christmas Serenade at an Old Baronial Hall
44
Westminster Hall
46
Strange Old Stories Illustrated (From Harl. MS.)
50
A Cook of the Period (Early Norman)
55
Monk Undergoing Discipline
56
Wassailing at Christmastide
57
Panoply of a Crusader
58
Royal Party Dining in State
4
63
Ladies Looking from the Hustings upon the Tournament
73
The Lord of Misrule
74
Curious Cuts of Priestly Players in the Olden Time
76
A Court Fool
77
Virgin and Child (Florentine, 1480. South Kensington Museum)
83
Henry VI.'s Cradle
84
Lady Musician of the Fifteenth Century
91
Rustic Christmas Minstrel with Pipe and Tabor
92
Martin Luther and the Christmas Tree
106
The Little Orleans Madonna of Raphael
107
Magdalen College, Oxford
110
Bringing in the Boar's Head with Minstrelsy
111
Virgin and Child, Chirbury, Shropshire
118
Riding a-Mumming at Christmastide
121
A Dumb Show in the Time of Elizabeth
123
The Fool of the Old Play (From a Print by Breughel)
137
The Acting of one of Shakespeare's Plays in the Time of Queen Elizabeth
141
Neighbours with Pipe and Tabor
147
Christmas in the Hall
149
The Hobby-Horse
197
Servants' Christmas Feast
202
"The Hackin"
216
Seafaring Pilgrims
219
An Ancient Fireplace
225
A Druid Priestess Bearing Mistletoe
228
A Nest of Fools
229
"The Mask Dance"
231
The Christmas Mummers
234
The Waits
5
240
The Christmas Plum-Pudding
245
Italian Minstrels in London, at Christmas, 1825
246
Snap Dragon
247
Blindman's Buff
249
The Christmas Dance
250
The Giving Away of Christmas Doles
257
Poor Children's Treat in Modern Times
265
The Christmas Bells
271
Wassailing the Apple-Trees in Devonshire
279
Modern Christmas Performers: Yorkshire Sword-Actors
282
Modern Christmas Characters: "St Peter," "St. Denys"
283