Excerpt from Rush-Bearing an Account of the Old Custom of Strewing Rushes; Carrying Rushes to Church; The Rush-Cart; Garlands in Churches; Morris-Dancers; The Wakes; The Rush Jewitt, p.s.a. Mr. T. Oliver, artist, Of 8, King Street, Manchester, has rendered me great assistance with his pencil, and considerably enriched these pages. Mr. C. W. Sutton, of the Free Reference Library, Man chester, has afforded me much help in my researches there. Lastly, to Messrs. W. 85 R. Chambers, Messrs. Chatto 8: Windus, the proprietors of the Art Journal and The Graphic, I am indebted for permission to use illustrations which have appeared in their works, and which are duly set forth in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.