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| 1. | Handwritten note giving book title "The Black Knight of Ashton". |
| 2. | Handwritten account of the "Pace Eggers". Song from Notes & Queries, 4th Ser. 8, p.355 (1871) contributed by J.E. Price. |
| 3. | A cutting from Notes & Queries 12 S 2(1916) p.76 of Pace Egging from "Old Chorlton". |
| 4. | Text of Pace-Egging song. |
| 5. | A handwritten note taken from "Lancashire Folk Lore" 1867, p.254 by J. Harland & T.T. Wilkinson on "The Hobby Horse" or Old Ball. |
| 6. | Handwritten account of customs of a bygone age, first page missing (transferred to Ireland). |
| 7. | A handwritten extract from Lancashire Folk Lore, 1867, p.253 giving account of Mumming in Lancs. |
| 8. | Handwritten extract from Notes & Queries 9th S3, p.334 re the Peace Egg. |
| 9. | A handwritten extract from A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect (1875) p.165 re the Fylde sword or morris dance. |
| 10. | A handwritten extract from the History of the Fylde of Lancashire on Christmas Week. |
| 11. | A handwritten account of 6 Jan., taken from "The Journal of Nicholas Assheton", 1617-8. |
| 12. | Plough Monday - A handwritten account taken from "History of the Fylde of Lancashire (1876) p.96. |
| 13. | Type rhyme used at Pace egging with handwritten footnote from G. Le Pon Newstead. |
| 14. | Duplicate of the above (13). |
| 15. | Newspaper cutting of the "Peace-eggers". |
| 16. | Newspaper cutting entitled "An Easter Play" probably from "Pall Mall Gazette". |
| 17. | Newspaper cutting entitled "Lancashire at Easter". |
| 18. | Newspaper cutting entitled "Egg-rolling at Preston". |
| 19. | Newspaper cutting on a surprise visit to Manchester of Mummers. |
| 20. | Newspaper cutting entitled "Easter Mummery" from Pall Mall Gazette. |
| 21. | A cutting from Manchester City News on the play. |
| 22. | A cutting of "St. George and the Slasher" from Manchester Guardian, 10.1.1906 (A & B). |
| 23. | Three letters from readers re Pace-egging from Manchester City News, Mar. 1905 (A.B.C.). |
| 24. | Three letters from readers re Pace-egging from Manchester City News, Mar. 11, 1905 (A.B.C.). |
| 25. | Four letters from readers of Manchester City News, 18.3.1906 (A.B.C.D.). |
| 26. | Four letters from readers of Manchester City News & another newspaper (A.B.C.D.). |
| 27. | Newspaper article of Old Easter Customs of Lancs & Cheshire followed by two letters from another newspaper (A.B.C.). |
| 28. | Eccles and Barton Guising War Notes & Queries, 3rd S, Vol.6 (1864). |