Memorabilia; Or Recollections, Historical, Biographical, and Antiquarian
MEMORABILIA;
OR
RECOLLECTIONS ,
HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL,
AND
Antiquarian,
By JAMES SAVAGE.
TAUNTON:
PRINTED FOR JAMES SAVAGE,
AND SOLD BY
J. POOLE, BOOKSELLER, FORE-STREET, AND
BY BALDWIN, CRADOCK, & JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW,
James Savage
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MEMORABILIA.
ADVERTISEMENT.
CONTENTS.
Dr. KENNICOTT.
REMARKABLE HISTORICAL COINCIDENCES.
BRITISH PEARLS.
PILLARS OF COMMEMORATION.
MASON THE POET.
BISHOPS OF SODOR AND MAN.
THE TABLE.
CLOCKS.
BOTTLES OF SKIN.
ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE.
OLIVER CROMWELL’S WIFE.
SHAKESPEARE.
UNIVERSITY DEGREES.
FIGS.
PEACOCKS.
ANCIENT LIBRARIES.
KING CHARLES THE FIRST.
THE FAIR GERALDINE AND THE EARL OF SURREY.
JEWS IN ENGLAND.
THE ENGLISH BIBLE.
LUXURY OF ANCIENT ROME.
RHYME.
M. COQUEBERT DE MONTBRET.
Dr. THOMAS PIERCE.
WRITING AMONG THE GREEKS.
ACCOUNT OF THE SCRIPTORIA, OR WRITING ROOMS IN THE MONASTERIES OF ENGLAND.
Dr. JOHNSON’S CONVERSATION WITH THE LATE KING.
Dr. BEATTIE’S CONVERSATION WITH THE LATE KING AND QUEEN.
SACRED GARDENS.
THE HAND A SYMBOL OF POWER.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MOSAIC PAINTING.
KING EGBERT.
THE LATIN LANGUAGE.
Dr. HERSCHEL.
PARODIES.
MOURNING FOR THE DEAD.
GARRICK.
LEMONS.
ORIGIN OF THE POINT OF HONOUR.
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
LIFTING UP THE HAND IN SWEARING.
VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
KING ARTHUR.
ALCHEMY.
ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL NOBLE FAMILIES IN ENGLAND WHO OWE THEIR ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE TO THEIR ANCESTORS HAVING BEEN ENGAGED IN TRADE.
LAST MOMENTS OF QUEEN CAROLINE.
THE BRITONS, ACCORDING TO THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS.
THE SEVEN SLEEPERS.
JOHN RAY, THE NATURALIST.
LONDON BANKERS, AND THEIR ORIGIN.
ELUCIDATION OF THE ORNAMENTS WITH WHICH THE GREEKS AND ROMANS ADORNED THE HUMAN HEAD ON COINS AND MEDALS.
THE DIADEM.
THE RADIATED CROWN.
THE CROWN OF LAUREL.
THE ROSTRAL CROWN.
THE MURAL CROWN.
THE CIVIC CROWN.
THE HELMET.
THE NIMBUS OR GLORY.
OTHER ORNAMENTS OF THE HEAD.
THE TRADESCANTS.
ORANGE TREES.
ARTICLES OF USE AND LUXURY INTRODUCED INTO EUROPE BY THE ROMANS.
ACCOUNT OF THE ESCAPE OF THE EARL OF NITHSDALE, FROM THE TOWER, IN THE YEAR, 1716.
ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST RISE OF FAIRS IN ENGLAND, AND THE MANNER OF LIVING IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
SIR RICHARD CLOUGH.
ROYAL CLEMENCY.
LOTTERIES.
HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS.
WOLVES IN ENGLAND.
PROFESSOR PORSON.
HISTORY OF SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS.
CROSS-LEGGED MONUMENTS.
TABLE TOMB.
GRAVE STONES.
HERALDIC SYMBOLS.
MONUMENTS FOR ECCLESIASTICS.
THE SKELETON MONUMENT.
