The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) / Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac
PETRARCH’S INKSTAND. In the Possession of Miss Edgeworth, presented to her by a Lady.
By beauty won from soft Italia’s land, Here Cupid, Petrarch’s Cupid, takes his stand. Arch suppliant, welcome to thy fav’rite isle, Close thy spread wings, and rest thee here awhile; Still the true heart with kindred strains inspire, Breathe all a poet’s softness, all his fire; But if the perjured knight approach this font, Forbid the words to come as they were wont, Forbid the ink to flow, the pen to write, And send the false one baffled from thy sight.
Miss Edgeworth.
BY WILLIAM HONE.
I tell of festivals, and fairs, and plays, Of merriment, and mirth, and bonfire blaze; I tell of Christmas-mummings, new year’s day, Of twelfth-night king and queen, and children’s play; I tell of valentines, and true-love’s-knots, Of omens, cunning men, and drawing lots:
I tell of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers; I tell of May-poles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes; I tell of groves, of twilights, and I sing The court of Mab, and of the fairy king.
Herrick.
WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX ENGRAVINGS.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE.
J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.
William Hone
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PREFACE.
Vol. I.—1.
The New Year.
Antiquities.
Biographical Memoranda.
Representation of a Pageant Vehicle and Play.
“The Thing to a T.”
Books.
Imagination.
Actors.
Home Department.
London.
Manners.
Topographical Memoranda.
Weather.
Omniana.
Twelfth-Day
Note.
Vol. I.—2.
Emigration of the Deer from Cranbourn Chase, 1826.
Barley-break.
Scraps.
Mock funeral of a Bath Chairman.
William Gifford, Esq.
Omniana.
Vol. I.—3.
The Newsman.
The Drama.
Literary Novelty.
The ancient River Fleet at Clerkenwell.
January.
Topography.
Customs.
Manners.
Omniana.
Social Happiness.
Vol. I.—4.
The last Likeness of the Duke of York.
Literature.
Characters.
GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.
Vol. I.—5.
Colley Cibber’s youngest Daughter.
AN INEDITED BALLAD.
PRIDE AND GOOD-WILL.
Biographical Memoranda.
REV. THOMAS COOKE.
Varieties.
Winter.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE BAZAAR.
Omniana.
SONNET
Vol. I.—6.
The Font of Harrow Church.
THE CUSHION DANCE.
ST. SEPULCHRE’S BELL.
THE DEATH OF THE RED KING
“STATUTES” AND “MOPS.”
HAM AND STILTON.
THE RETROSPECT.
TIMBER IN BOGS.
MODES OF SALUTATION.
Omniana.
Vol. I.—7.
My Snuff-box.
THE TURK IN CHEAPSIDE
Literature.
Hiring Servants at a Statute Fair.
A SONG.
THE SPELLS OF HOME.
BOOKS.
ETIQUETTE.
ADOPTION.
A Royal Simile.
Vol. I.—8.
Blind Hannah.
Music.
Topography.
British Portraits.
DEATH’S DOINGS.
THE BARBER.
Books.
Anecdotes.
February.
Winter.
Vol. I.—9.
Monument at Lucerne, designed by Thorwaldsen
The Drama.
Music.
MISERIES OF TRAVELLING.
THE UGLY CLUB.
Antiquities.
JACK O’ LENT.
THE LIEGE ALMANAC.
DISCOVERY OF MADEIRA.
Health.
Books.
Manners.
THE DEATH OF LEILA.
Omniana.
March.
Vol. I.—10.
The Story of the Scotch Soldier.
Highland Legend.
Marriage Customs.
Billy Boots.
The Drama.
Hot Meals.
Vol. I.—11.
March Fair, at Brough, Westmoreland.
Necromancy.
Phrenology.
TO THE RHONE
ADVICE.
Tommy Sly, of Durham.
Topography.
St. David’s Day.
THE WINTER’S MORN.
Characters.
Wine.
Beauty.
PERSIAN SONG OF HAFIZ.
“OUR LIVES AND PROPERTIES.”
A MUSICAL CRASH.
FASHIONABLE RELIGION.
A POLITE TOWN.
Vol. I.—12.
Hard Fare.
Characters.
THE DRAYMAN.
The Royal Table.
MONEY—WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
OLD MUG-HOUSES.
“AS DRUNK AS DAVID’S SOW.”
SINGULAR RETURN.
Suburban Sonnets.
Vol. I.—13.
Shepherd’s Well, Hampstead.
ERRATA.
SNUFF AND TOBACCO.
Young Lambs to sell.
LINES ON HAPPINESS.
HUMAN LIFE.
VALEDICTORY STANZAS.
EFFECT OF CONSCIENCE.
CUSTOM AT SCARBOROUGH.
LINES TO A BARREL ORGAN.
MINISTERIAL FAVOUR.
DUDLEY OF PORTSMOUTH.
ROYAL DECISION.
Biographiana.
REV. THOMAS COOKE.
DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS.
Riddle.
Topography.
Vol. I.—14.
Elvet Bridge, Durham.
ANCIENT WAGGERY.
THE FIRST VIOLET.
YORKSHIRE SAYING.
TO CONTENTMENT.
Biography.
WAVERLEY.
Gretna Green Marriages.
SPRING.
Eccentric Biography.
TO MY TEA-KETTLE.
TO MY TEA-POT.
Vol. I.—15.
Stratford upon Avon Church.
Topography.
MARRIAGE OF THE SEA.
OLD COIN INSCRIPTIONS.
THE LADY AND THE TROUBADOUR.
THE GOLDEN TOOTH.
LE REVENANT.
Blind Willie, the Newcastle Minstrel.
FARMERS.
A REVERIE.
HIGHLAND TRADITION.
Clubs.
SUMMER DRINKS.
CABBAGE, AND TAILORS.
ETYMOLOGY.
ORGANS.
PERPLEXING MARRIAGES.
STEPS RE-TRACED.
Vol. I.—16.
PHLEBOTOMY.
Literature.
PULPIT CLOCKS, AND HOUR GLASSES.
Easter.
OLD MAP OF SCOTLAND.
PEN BEHIND THE EAR—PAPER.
Suburban Sonnets.
Vol. I.—17.
London Cries.
Etymology.
SALT.
A CORPORATION.
House at Kirkby-Moorside, Yorkshire
Literature.
GRETNA GREEN.
SCOTCH ADAM AND EVE.
BOA CONSTRICTOR.
Varia.
Law.
Vol. I.—18.
May-Day at Lynn in Norfolk.
Easter.
DOCTOR GIBBS, alias “HUCK’N!”
May-Day Dance in 1698.
ISABELLA COLOUR.
THE GOOD CLERK.
MANNERS OF A SPRUCE LONDON MERCER, AND HIS FEMALE CUSTOMER, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
CURING OF HERRINGS.
Poetry.
Varia.
Vol. I.—19.
OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Milton Hundred, Kent.
Theatrical Customs.
THE LINNET FANCY.
Vol. I.—20.
On Chatham Hill.
GREENGROCERS’ DEVICES.
Dissertations on Doomsday.
Zoology.
THE EVENING LARK.
THE VOICE OF SPRING.
MOTHERING SUNDAY.
MANNERS OF A LONDON WATERMAN, AND HIS FARE, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
May.
NAVAL ANECDOTE.
THE “RIGHT” LORD LOVAT.
CLERICAL ERRORS.
REMARKABLE EPITAPH.
A MODERN MYSTERY.
ODD SIGN.
Vol. I.—21.
SNUFFERS.
A FRAGMENT.
CHILTERN HUNDREDS.
THE PITMAN.
THE NORTHERN STAR.
British Mines.
Angling
THE CLERKS OF CORNWALL.
BRUMMELLIANA.
Vol. I.—22.
The Crooked Billet, on Penge Common.
Witchcraft.
A PARTICULAR DIRECTION.
THE FIRST BUTTERFLY.
KING JAMES I. AT DURHAM.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.
Old London Cries, No. II.
Topography.
PRONUNCIATION.
MUSIC AND ANIMALS.
IRISHMEN ON A HOLIDAY.
LONDON HOLIDAYS.
THE HUSBANDMEN OF HINDU.
ROUND ROBIN.
NAMES.
A SEA BULL.
CHEERFUL FUNERAL.
THE YANKEE CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.
Vol. I.—23.
Bridge on the Road to Beckenham.
THE DIVER OF CHARYBDIS.
COUNTRY LITTLE KNOWN.
The Porch of Beckenham Church-yard.
THE TWO GRAVES.
DUELS.
ANSWER TO A CHALLENGE.
Prolific Writers.
WILLIAM PRYNNE.
FRENCH PAMPHLETEER.
LOVE’S PROGRESS OF A TOBACCONIST.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
Anonymiana.
THE CHILD OF MIGHT.
Vol. I.—24.
The old Water Carrier.
THE PLANETS.
Poor’s-Box in Cawston Church, Norfolk.
Poetry.
HIGHLAND DEER AND SHEEP.
HIGHLAND MEALS.
TREAD MILLS.
FIGURES, AND NUMBERS.
Omniana.
Vol. I.—25.
Beckenham Church, Kent.
GONE or GOING.
Scottish Legends.
MY ARM-CHAIR.
WELSH WEDDINGS.
CUMBERLAND WEDDINGS.
A GOOD EXCUSE.
EARLY RISING.
Vol. I.—26.
Reading the Newspaper.
The Drama.
THE PHANTOM LIGHT
GROVES AND HIGH PLACES.
West Wickham Church, Kent.
Topography.
TO MY PSEUDO-MUSE.
BATHING.
Rural Sports.
DRINKING.
THE TONGA ISLANDS.
SENSIBILITY IN A RAVEN.
DIAMONDS.
STOICAL WIT.
CAMBRIDGE WIT.
Vol. I.—27.
INDEXES.
Vol. II.—28.
The Gimmal Ring.
MAID MARIAN.
RIVAL ITALIAN DRAMATISTS.
NATURAL CURIOSITIES OF DERBYSHIRE.
BRIBERY.
The Retired Husbandman.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN VIRTUE AND DEATH,
ANCIENT DIAL.
PETER HERVE.
CABALISTIC ERUDITION.
OFFERINGS TO INFANTS.
BUNYAN’S HOLY WAR DRAMATISED.
GENTLEMEN OF THE PARISH.
THE ANGLER.
CLOSING THE EYES.
LITERARY INGENUITY.
ST. JAMES’S PARK.
ON CHANGE.
Anonymiana.
Vol. II.—29.
Keston Cross.
Poetry.
VOLUNTEER REMINISCENCES.
THE GOSSIP AND STARE.
NAVAL MANNERS.
LEGAL RECREATION.
FRENCH JUDICIAL AUTHORITY.
A LONG MINUET.
Vol. II.—30.
The Bishop’s Well, Bromley, Kent.
MISS KELLY.
AVARICE.
ECONOMY.
Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton.
SAWSTON CROSS.
MECHANICAL POWER.
MANUFACTURING CELERITY.
HELL BRIDGE.
HYPOCHONDRIA.
Vol. II.—31.
Ancient Door of Bromley Church.
JAMES THOMSON.
QUIPOES.
SPANISH MYSTERIES.
PORTUGUESE MYSTERIES.
POACHING.
HAPPY UNION.
PARSIMONY.
DISTRESSES OF MEN OF GENIUS.
THE GRETNA GREEN PARSONS.
A BLACK DREAM.
A MUCH-INJURED MAN.
GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION.
Vol. II.—32.
A LOVER OF ART TO HIS SON.
NATURAL CURIOSITIES OF DERBYSHIRE.
The Lee Penny.
REMARKABLE EPITAPHS.
AMSTERDAM—WITHOUT WATER.
SWEETHEART SEEING.
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.
Vol. II.—33.
Robert Millhouse
AN INFERNAL PALINDROME.
RIDICULE.
RIDICULOUS SITUATIONS.
The Quintain.
DAVID LOVE.
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.
AN ULTRA-MARINER.
ANTIPATHIES.
THE LACTEALS IN A MOLE.
POINTS OF CHARACTER.
Vol. II.—34.
My Desk.
WRITING DESKS.
Topographiana.
ERASMUS.
MUSICAL ANECDOTES.
BEETHOVEN.
ANNE DE MONTMORENCY.
Fac-simile of a French Assignat for Ten Sous, Referred to in the following Communication
BUYING AND SELLING.
GRASSHOPPERS.
WASPS.
THE BARLEY-MOW.
HANGING THE SHUTTLE.
NEWSPAPER ORTHOGRAPHY, 1682.
Poetry.
NIXON’S PROPHECIES.—MR. CANNING.
BUSH EELS.
Vol. II.—35.
Case containing the Heart of Lord Edward Bruce, AT CULROSS ABBEY.
HEART BURIAL.
POETICAL QUID PRO QUO.
POCKETS.
POCKET HANDKERCHIEFS.
PICKPOCKETS.
FURS.—TIPPETS AND SCARFS.
BUDGE BACHELORS.—BUDGE-ROW.
DAIRY POETRY.
SONNET
THE QUINTAIN.
A FARTHING LORD.
A CURIOUS NARRATIVE.
GRASSINGTON THEATRICALS.
THE GIN ACT—NAMES OF DRAMS.
A YOUNG POET’S OWN EPITAPH.
TIME.
HACKERSTON’S COW.
ROPE-RIDING ON HORSEBACK, ON ST. MARK’S DAY AT VENICE.
REV MR. WILSON, THE MAN IN THE MOON.
SUMMER SHOWERS—SCORCHED LEAVES.
ROYAL SUMMER-HOUSE, IN SIAM.
SPANISH PUNCTILIO.
BOSWELLIANA.
Vol. II.—36.
Nathan Coward, Glover and Poet, of Dersingham, Norfolk.
PETER AND MARY.
WHITTLE SHEEPSHANKS, ESQ.
MY “HOME.”
NOTES ON A TOUR, CHIEFLY PEDESTRIAN, FROM SKIPTON IN CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE, TO KESWICK, IN CUMBERLAND.
GENDERS.—JAMES HARRIS.
WHAT IS LIFE?
DOCTOR LETTSOM.
A FAREWELL.
“PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.”
TOMMY MITCHESON, OF DURHAM.
A MAN-LIKING BIRD.
PENNY A LOT.
FISH.
Vol. II.—37.
Hogarth embarking at the Isle of Grain.
Vol. II.—38.
The Diet of Augsburgh Commemoration Medal.
HIGHLAND EMIGRATION.
THOU AND YOU, IN POETRY.
HARVEST-CATCH IN NORFOLK.
POTTED VENISON.
PARODIES ON HORACE.
A GENTLEMAN’S FASHION.
SONG.
BILBOCQUET.
REMARKABLE CHARACTERS.
OLD ENGLISH ALE.
A SOLDIER’S AGE.
Vol. II.—39.
The noted John Cooke of Exeter.
BEAR AND TENTER.
GLANCES AT BOOKS ON MY TABLE.
ARUM—CUCKOO-PINT—STARCH-WORT.
MEMORIALS OF JOHN KEATS.
FUNERALS IN CUMBERLAND.
RELIQUIÆ THOMSONIANA.
THE BERKSHIRE MISER.
Vol. II.—40.
IMPERIAL FATE.
ILL-FATED ROYAL FAMILIES.
Original Poetry.
MY POCKET-BOOK.
WOMEN.
Durhamiana.
A SENSUALIST AND HIS CONSCIENCE.
PLAYWRIGHT-ING.
EPIGRAM.
THE ROMANS.
A LITERARY BLUNDER.
TREASURE DIGGING.
PERSONAL CHARMS DISCLAIMED.
FORCIBLE ABDUCTION.
POLITENESS.
A FRENCH TRIBUTE TO ENGLISH INTEGRITY.
DEVONSHIRE WRESTLING.
Vol. II.—41.
Penn and the Indians.
Old London Cries.
ANTIQUARIAN MEMORANDUM.
MINISTER OF KIRKBY LONSDALE, KIRKBY KENDAL.—LUNE BRIDGE.
GRAVESEND.
“POOR BILLY W——.”
ABORIGENES.
TASTING DAYS.
CURIOUS SIGN.
ORDERS TO MARCH.
Vol. II.—42.
The Broom-maker’s at Shirley Common, Surrey.
THE WOOD FEAST.
CHOOSING COMMON CONSTABLES.
Michaelmas.
A Young Ash Tree, SHIRLEY HEATH, WARWICKSHIRE, Used for Charms.
MEDICAL AND LEGAL DUALITY.
THE HAUNTED MILL.
GERMAN EPIGRAMS
PRUSSIAN COURT MOURNING.
MI-EAU IN AMERICA.
A CAPITAL EXTEMPORE
THE GLORIOUS MEMORY.
ERRATA.
Vol. II.—43.
Catherine Mompesson’s Tomb at Eyam.
Manners and Customs.
A RARE BROAD FARTHING!
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
ADVICE
A NOMINAL ACCIDENT.
Vol. II.—44.
The Revolution-house at Whittington, Derbyshire.
LONDON WATCHMEN.
THE ACTING OF CHILDREN.
A Dumb Peal of Grandsire Triples.
NAVARINO.
Vol. II.—45.
St. John’s Well, at Harpham, Yorkshire.
PLAYERS—GHOST LAYERS.
EX-THESPIANISM.
SILCHESTER, HANTS.
TO THE NIGHTSHADE.
The Velocitas, Or Malton, Driffield, and Hull Fly Boat
SHEEPSHEARING IN CUMBERLAND.
DR. GRAHAM.
STORKS.
VARIA.
WOMEN.
DOWER.
SANS CHANGER.
CASUALTIES OF THE ANCIENTS.
THE HOUR OF PRIME.
Vol. II.—46.
George Watson, the Sussex Calculator.
WITCHCRAFT
OLD HOUSES AND FURNITURE.
LONDINIANA.
Thomsoniana.
HERMITS.
CURIOUS ANECDOTES OF BIRMINGHAM MANUFACTURERS AND MANUFACTURES.
PRESERVATION OF FLOWERS.
ANECDOTE OF A MAGPIE.
THE ARTIST.
Vol. II.—47.
Lodge and Avenue at Holwood, The Residence of John Ward, Esq. formerly of the late Right Hon. William Pitt.
THE PLAGUE AT EYAM, AND THE REV. THOMAS STANLEY.
THE REIGN OF DEATH.
PISCATORIA.
INCREDIBLE LIARS
FACTITIA.
Vol. II.—48.
Source of the Ravensbourne.
THEATRALIA.
GOUT.
Vol. II.—49.
Mr. Gliddon’s Cigar Divan. King Street, Covent Garden.
LAURENCE-KIRK SNUFF-BOXES.
INN-YARDS.
THE TURNPIKE MAN.
Robert North, Esq. of Scarborough.
MENDIP MINES.
THIRTEEN-PENCE HALFPENNY.
Vol. II.—50.
The Running Horse at Merrow, Surrey.
ISLE OF WIGHT
ORIGIN OF HAY-BAND?
BRISTOL HIGH CROSS.
ORIGIN OF THE WORD TAILOR.
THE CLERK IN THE DARK.
CINDERELLA.
HORÆ CRAVENÆ.
DUNCHURCH, COW, AND CALF.
DOVER PIG.
ANECDOTES.
GLASS.
VARIA.
Epitaphs.
A FILL UP.
Vol. II.—51.
Note.
PERSONS OF DISTINCTION.
DICKEY FLETCHER.
TO FANNY.
THE PLEASURES OF ILLUSION.
OLD MACARONIC POEM.
ANTY BRIGNAL AND THE BEGGING QUAKER.
THE ORPHANS.
JACK THE VIPER.
A SKETCH IN SPA FIELDS.
WHIMSIES.
Vol. II.—52.
Irish Pipes.
HAGBUSH-LANE
Erratum.
Vol. II.—53.
George Bloomfield.
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM.
APOSTLE SPOONS.
PATIENT COURTSHIP.
OLD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS.
Music.
MANNERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Vol. II.—54.
“The Poetical Freehold.
“The April Fool.
The Unfortunate Farmer.
Memorandum.
Old Customs.
CHAPMAN’S “ALL FOOLS.”
NORWICH MOCK ELECTIONS.
Old London Customs.
A DEFENCE OF SLANG.
DIVINATION BY FLOWERS.
WALTHAM, ESSEX.
FULBOURN, CAMBRIDGE.
A PAGE FROM MY NOTE BOOK.
Original Poetry.
Original Poetry.
Notice.
Vol. II.—55.
Transcriber’s Notes
General remarks
Specific remarks
Changes made
