1. THE GENERAL INDEX.

Abbey, (Fountain’s,) Yorkshire, ruins of, [1061].
Abgarus, portrait sent by Christ to, [63].
Abraham, his oak at Mamre, [1033].
Actors, power formerly exercised over, by lord chamberlain, [1063].
Adanson, Michael, naturalist, notice of, [1067].
Addison, his library noticed, [696].
Aerostation, [1567].
Ague, charm for, [1560].
Aguelar, baron, the miser, lottery anecdote about, [1526].
Alberoni, cardinal, notice of, [878].
Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, [1308].
Aleppo, thorns called Glastonbury brought from, [1642].
Ales, local customs about, [675], [693].
All-fools’ day, [485], [487].
Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, narrative relating to, [1631].
Alnwick. Northumberland, the freeman’s well at, [249].
Ambleside church, notice of, [1369].
Amsterdam, lotteries in, [1532].
Anderson, Jem, champion for mayor of Garrett, [834].
Andrew, Merry, derivation of, [503].
Anglers, important to, [767].
Angling, article on, [769].
Ann of Denmark, notice of her jewels, [749].
Anthony, parish of, in Cornwall; accident in church of, [663].
Antigua in 1736, [1304].
Antiquaries, remarks in favour of, [308].
Apparitions, forged account of, in Ireland, [278], [281]; at Woodstock, history of, [583]; relating to death, &c., [1111]; judicious remarks on, quoted, [1011]; farther notice, [1578].
Apples, receipt for keeping, [1213].
—— see [Cider].
Archery at White Conduit-house, [1564].
Argyle, earl of, notice of, [758], [759].
Arm-chairs, opera, [630].
Armour, articles of, lottery prizes consisting of, [1411].
Ardmore, bishopric of, [1034].
Arones, J., lottery fraud of, [1466].
Art, black, printing so called, [1240].
Arthur’s seat, Edinburgh, engraving of May-dew dancers at, [609].
Ash Wednesday, [197].
Ashburnham family, [1376].
Ashburton, lord, (John Dunning,) died, notice of, [1087].
Ashmole, Elias, extracts from his diary, [1305].
Ashton-under-line, custom at, [467].
Ashton Ralph, tradition concerning, [469].
Asidew, Arsedine, or Orsden, explanation of, [1376].
Auckland, (Bishop,) custom at, [1043].
Augsburg cathedral, engraving of a monument in, [1073].
Avingham fair and sports, [1653].
Authors, curious instance of one, [1068]; instance of anxiety of one, [1315].
Autographs; of Browne Willis, [295], [296]; of Dr. R. Willis, bishop of Winchester, [296]; of Benjamin West, [366]; of earl of Mansfield, [396]; of John Hampden, [476]; of William Emerson, [690]; of George Heriot, [913].
Autumn, engraving of ancient dress for, [1342].
Baal, fires in honour of, See [Fires].
Backsword or singlestick, notices of, [1207], [1341], [1399].
Bacon, gammon of, custom of eating at Easter, [439]; custom about flitch of bacon, and engraving, [799]; receipt for making Somersetshire bacon, [813].
—— lord, his singular recommendation about garden walks, [518]; his plan of a mansion house, [1621].
Balcanquel, Dr., rules for Heriot’s hospital drawn by, [756].
Baldwin, Samuel, remarkable funeral willed by, [684].
Bales, Peter, curious caligraphy by, [1215].
Balmerino, lord, executed, notice of, [1096].
Band, Elizabeth, daughter of Heriot; her sons provided for in their grandfather’s hospital, [755].
Bank of England, anecdote of clerks of, [1447]; singular details of forgery on, see [Price, Charles].
Baptism; of bells, [139]; of Jews at Rome before Easter Sunday, [437]; a curious case of one, [899]; a Welch one described, [1613].
Barber-surgeons, [758].
Barbers, numerous convictions of, in 1746, [1564].
Baretti, Joseph, notice of, [643].
Barming, Kent, custom of doleing at, [1627].
Barnwell, George, acting of at Christmas, effect of, [1651].
Barrington, viscount, expelled house of commons, [1447].
Bartholomew fair, [1196].
Bartlemass, mayor of, mock election of at Newbury, [1045].
Bath anecdotes, [1659].
Battles, singular opening of one, [875]; notice of a great naval one, [ib.]
Baubleshire, duke of, a remarkable character so called; engraving and notice of, [679].
Baxter’s “World of Spirits,” anecdote from, [1239].
Beadle, parish, [1558].
Bears, various descriptions of, [1560].
Beasts, satire on over-fattening for the market, [1547].
Beaucaire, in France, fair of, [1037].
Beaufoy, colonel, his account of a remarkable storm, [553].
Beaume, Sainte, near Marseilles, notice of, [1003].
Beauty, supposed to be promoted by washing with May-dew, [611].
Becket, Thomas à, engraving and notice of, [929].
Beckford family, notice of, [1371].
Bees, taking honey without killing them, [1323].
Bell-man’s verses, [1594].
Bells, notices of, [135], [138]; consecration of, [136]; description of passion bell, [392]; how guarded in Lent, [434]; England called the ringing island, [509]; horse-racing for silver bells, [539]; their redundant ringing and tolling, [744], [745], [907]; notice of Bow bells, [1256].
Beltain or Beltane, in Scotland, Scottish May-day festival, [659].
Ben, Old General, of Nottingham, [1569].
Bennet, old, the newscrier, notice of, [1275].
Bentinck, count, duke of Portland, [1374].
Benvenuti, bishop, costly mistake of, [1398].
Berkshire, derivation of the name, [1033].
Berwick, duke of, notice of, [789], [1323].
Bexhill, Sussex, notice of, [743].
Beziers, in France, procession of the camel in, [641].
Biddenden, Kent, notice of, [442], [449].
Bills, exchequer, origin of, [29].
Birds, amusement of shooting at a wooden one, [289]; rearing and treatment of young ones, [ib.]; the eagle, a royal one, [ib.]; singular collision of flocks of, near Preston, [1139].
Birds-nests, anecdote concerning, [238].
Births, insurance of, [1436].
Bish, the last man, lottery puff, [1507].
Bishop Auckland, custom of, [1043].
Bishops, the devil called by king James a busy bishop, [1230]; notice of the boy bishop, [1601].
Black, lamp, receipt for, [266].
—— art, printing so called, [1240].
Blackberry jam, how to be prepared, [1116].
Blackburn weavers, memorial of their wretched state, [562].
Blackford, an able backsword player, [1341].
Blacking, burlesque company for making, [1581].
Blagden, Dr., and others, experiments on heat, [776]; his narrative, [ib.]
Bland, Mrs., notice of, [1204].
Blanks, lottery, [1447]; one made a prize, [1466].
Blase, sir W. and lady, their equipage at mock election for Garrett, [851].
Blind persons, remarks on their dreams, [1539].
Block, wetting the; shoemakers’ custom of, [470].
Blood showers, explanation of, [1127].
Bloomfield, (the poet,) an early amusement of, [901].
Blue-coat boys, tampered with about lottery tickets, [1463]; remarks on their singing Christmas carols, [1651].
Boadicea, [1198].
Boar’s head at Christmas, [1649].
Bochsa, Mr., [1599].
Bolton-upon-Swale, Henry Jenkins born in, [1602].
Bolton, duke of, [1375].
——, duchess of, (before Kitty Fisher,) advertisement by, [474].
Bonaparte, [1070].
Books, advertisement of one in 1653, [1314]; lottery for, [1414]; list of the books, [1418].
Bosworth, battle of, [1104].
Bottesford, curious entry in church book of, [371].
Bow bells, notice of, [1256].
Bowl, wassell, notice of, [7].
Bowls, long, [1070].
Bowyer, Wm., printer, notice of, [1557].
Boxeley, rood of, account of, [417].
Boy, the laughing, engraving of, [543].
—— bishop, notice of, [1601].
Boys, one said to be murdered by his school-master, [1371]; notice and cut of boys about a sugar hogshead, [1543].
——, climbing, remarks on, from [617] to [626]. See [Chimney-sweepers].
Bray, sir Reginald, notice of, [1071].
Bridal, royal, [374].
Bridewell boys, former turbulence of, [1398].
Bridgewater, duke of, canals by, [1266].
Bright, Edward, the largest man, [1581].
Brighton, [1257].
Brill, (The,) Middlesex, Cæsar’s camp called, [1345], [1566].
Brindley, James, civil engineer, died, notice of, [1263].
Brittany, superstitions in, [972].
Brockbank, William, the walking post, [1593].
Brothers, the, [316].
Brough, Westmoreland, [1596].
Brown, baron, Durham poet, engraving and notice of, [1217].
—— Joe, account of, [549].
Brushes for sweeping chimneys, engraving of one, [617].
Bubbles, (speculations called,) notice of, [28], [520], [1579].
Buck and doe, carried in St. Paul’s cathedral, origin of, [119].
Buckingham, custom at, [707].
Buckles and shoes, notice of, [1354].
Buffon, count de, naturalist, notice of, [519].
Bulkeley, Mr., circumstances of his child’s baptism, [899].
Buns, hot-cross, [410].
Burial, provision against in a will, [1325]; general invitations published to attend burials, [1645].
Burnet, sir Thomas, died, [43].
Bury, Suffolk, dispute about bells in, [907].
Burwell, Cambridgeshire, fatal fire at, [1225].
Busby, Dr., his chair a supposititious one, [901].
Bushell, Isaac, a backsword player, [1341].
Butler, William, died, [1316].
Butterworth, Billy, an eccentric character, notice of, [1142].
Cæsar’s pretorium at Pancras, [1345], [1566].
Cake, Biddenden, account of, [442].
Calculation, an extraordinary one, [396].
Calendar, naturalists’, [25].
Calico-printing, a chemical black for, [269].
Caligraphy, notice of, [1215].
Calves-head club, [158].
Camps, description of Cæsar’s at Pancras, [1345], [1566].
Canals by Brindley, notice of, [1265]; the Grand Junction one commenced in 1766, [970].
Candlemas day, [173], [223]; judges’ entertainment and dance, [174].
Cann, the Devonshire champion in wrestling, [1009].
Canonbury tower, supposed subterraneous passage from, [1607].
Canterbury, Thomas à Becket, archbishop of, notice and engraving of, [929].
Carbonari, ludicrous anecdote about, [1398].
Cardan, curious circumstance of, [456].
Caraboo, impostor, self-called, notice and engraving of, [1632].
Cards, a child played for at, [1344].
Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., notice of, [698].
Carna, goddess of the hinge, [727].
Cars, travelling ones in Ireland, engravings of, [239], [241].
Carter, farmer, ludicrous “trial of farmer Carter’s dog,” [198].
Carving, ancient, engraving of, [497].
Cat, engraving of a street image of one, [312].
Catholics and Protestants, mutual interest of, [1370].
Cavendish, house of, [1376].
Ceres, represented in harvest, [1155], [1162].
Chabert, the human salamander, [771].
Chairs, opera arm, [630].
——, Dr. Busby’s, a supposititious one, [901].
——, sedan, [ib.]
——, shoemakers’ amusement with, [ib.]
Chalmers, James, curious advertisement by, [938].
Chamberlain, lord, power formerly exercised by, over actors, [1063].
Chancery, a hoax in, [1145].
Chances in lotteries, computations touching, [1456].
Charitable corporation, notice of, and of lottery for the sufferers by, [1451].
Charles I., behaviour of, [143], [146].
—— II., notice of, [698]; public notice of his continuing to heal the evil, [682].
—— V., anecdote of, [458]; curious pageant at Dunkirk by, [870].
Charlotte, queen, notice of, [1084].
Charlton, Mr. T., notice of, [1627].
Cheap Tommy, (Thomas Hogg,) notice of, [942].
Cheldonizing, or swallow-singing, explained, [1111].
Chemists, anecdote of, [635].
Chepstow castle, sports at, [1562].
Cherries, feast of, at Hamburgh, [1040].
Cheshire, customs in, [450], [597], [1371].
Chester, ancient horse-racing at, [539].
Chicheley, archbishop, artifice of, [1141].
Child, Mr., banker, notice of, [1445].
—— one played for at cards, [1344].
Chillcott, Charles, notice of, [969].
Chimes, [138].
Chimney-sweepers, rhetoric of one, [56]; May-day exhibition of, [613]; procession, public dinner, and oratory of the masters, [617]; engraving of “the last chimney-sweeper,” [ib.]; masters’ hand-bill, [ib.]
Chimneys, how to dress for the summer, [517].
Chinese festival of lanterns, [90].
Cholera morbus, remarks on, [1243].
Cholmondeley, marquis of, [376].
Christians, their hatred of Jews, [533].
Christmas, usages and celebrations respecting, [1628], [1638], &c.
Christmas out of doors, at Ratzburg, [11].
Christopher, Bartholomew, a sufferer by gambling, [1527].
Christ’s Hospital. See [Blue-coat Boys].
Chuneelah, the elephant killed at Exeter Change, [321].
Churches pressing for the navy in, [443]; watching of in Yorkshire, [548]; curious colloquy on images, &c. in, [1367]; Hogarth’s satire on some old supposed embellishments in, [1369].
Churchill, (Stuart,) Arabella, notice of, [1325].
—— John, (duke of Marlborough,) [1376].
—— sir Winston, letter of, [1322].
Churchwardens, chosen on Easter-Monday, [458].
Cibber’s Apology, notice of, [1064].
Cider, preparation for making, [1269]; excellence of the Herefordshire cider, [1270].
Cookery, old receipts for, their costliness, [518].
Clack Fall Fair, [1371], [1584], [1606].
Clapham, old church of, notice of, [1369].
Clay, Hercules, delivered from danger by a dream, [367].
Clayton, Mr., an old and good tenant, [1256].
Cleobulus, his riddle on the year, [26].
Clerkenwell in 1730, notice of, [699].
Cleves, patent for Order of Fools at, [1287].
Climate, changes of, [70]; Howard’s work on climate of London recommended, [3].
Climbing boys, society for suppressing, [622]. See [Chimney-sweepers].
Clinton, Samuel, an extraordinary sleeper, [96].
Clogs, engraving of an old shoe and clog, [1635].
Clothing counteractive of heat, [779].
Clouds, singular case of their electricity in Java, [1082]; notices respecting heights, motions, and shapes of clouds, [ib.]
Club, calves-head, [158].
Coachmen, (Hackney,) instances of honesty of, [902].
Coat and badge, Dogget’s prize of, for rowing, [1062].
Cobblers, festival of, at Paris, [1054], [1055]. See [Shoemakers].
Cock, W., (sir W. Swallowtail,) notice of, [835], [838].
Coffins, anecdotes of, [1020].
Coleridge, Mr., his description of Christmas out of doors at Ratzburg, [114].
Coleshill, customs of, [467].
Collars, a remarkably heavy one, [530]; worn by judges, [538].
Colman, George, the elder, died, notice of, [1087].
Comedy, street, notice of, [1310].
Common prayer, strictures on, [149].
Connaught, rigid fasting at, on Good Friday, [411].
Connor, rev. J., his description of ceremonies of Greek church at Jerusalem, [438].
Conjugal indifference, [1301].
Conway, William, a noted London-crier, [470].
Cook-maid, engraving of, in a lottery puff, [1503].
Cooper’s hall, lotteries latterly drawn in, [1119].
Copenhagen-house, [1564].
Corbet, Richard, bishop of Norwich, [1390].
Cornwall, Christmas drama of St. George as acted in, [122]; customs in, [676], [1008]; earthquake in, in 1757, [1007].
Coronations, Mr. Taylor’s excellent work on, [995].
Corpse candles, exhalations so called, [1019].
Corpus Christi day, notice of, [695].
Cotswold, harvest home on, [1155].
Country and town, contrast of, [1366].
—— mansions, description of, [1620], &c.
Court, (Lawless,) notice of, [1286].
Covent-garden market, [1187].
Coventry, earl of, [1376].
Cow-mass, [870].
Cowper, earl, [1375].
Cracknell, T., notice of, [838].
Craniology, notice of, [838].
Credulity, popular, [1139].
Criminals, elephants employed as executioners of, [356].
Crispe, sir Charles, notice of, [941].
Crocodile, the first living one in England, [1605].
Croker, T. C., jaunting car described by, [241].
Cromwell, Oliver, original letter of, [911].
Cross, Paul’s, history and engraving of, [415].
—— Mr., account of his elephant at Exeter Change, [323].
—— buns, [410].
Crucifixion, Christ’s, celebration of at Seville, [422]; relics of, [426].
Cruikshank, George, phrenological illustrations by, [1119].
Cuckoo, the, observations on, [1138].
Cumberland, customs in, [450], [668].
Cup, the clayen, or clome, or clomen, [1652].
Cupid, the popular representation of, engraving of, and satire on, [1545].
Curling, game of, [163].
Daft-days, [13].
Dalmahoy, Mr., statement of, [1527].
Dalmer, a baker, how his fortune made, [1561].
Danby, lord, anecdote of, [1095].
Dancing, (morris,) [792].
—— bears, [1560].
Darkness and fog in 1813, [101].
Darlington, earl of, [1376].
Daughters, a curious present to one, [1560].
Davenant, sir W., notice of, [521].
Davis, George, a sleep-walker, [1296].
Days, lucky, notice of a supposed one, [1320].
Death, apparition of the chariot of, [978]; account of the “death fetch,” in an Irish tale, [1013]; opera of “The Death-fetch” noticed, [1011]; prayers for prisoners under sentence of death, [1378]; death of the State Lottery, [1499], [1502]; annual death of a whole people, [1581].
Debtors, fraudulent, singular case of one, [1241].
Dedication, of joints of the fingers to saints, [94].
Deer, Sion Gardens lottery for, [1446].
D’Eglantine, Faber, why so called, [605].
Delaval, sir F. B., curious anecdote of, [1471].
Dellicot, William, convicted of stealing a penny, [899].
Den of the elephant killed at Exeter Change, engraving of, [335].
Denny, D., lottery fraud of, [1466].
Derby, West, customs of, [432].
Derbyshire, customs in, [451], [637].
Devil, history of the good devil of Woodstock, [582]; engraving of St. Michael standing on the devil, [1271]; called by James I. a busy bishop, [1239]; his usual shape an empty bottle, [1241]; overlooking Lincoln College, [1236]; superstitions respecting him, [1238].
Devils, printers’, [1239].
Devonshire, customs in, [666], [1009], [1170], [1652].
Dew, (May,) dancers at Arthur’s seat, Edinburgh, [409].
Diaries, curious extracts from one, [1305].
Dibdin, Charles, his opera of “The Waterman” noticed, [1062].
Digby, lord, annual tolling for, [1255].
Dimsdale, sir H., mayor of Garrett, [824], [838].
Dinners, curious invitation to one, [508]; anecdote of an election one, [1193].
Diogenes and his lantern, print of, [644].
Dissenters, their celebrations of throwing out the Schism Bill, [1061].
Diversions, curio is one of a widowed husband, [1020].
Doctors, the Whitworth one, [477].
Does, origin of carrying a buck and a doe in St. Paul’s cathedral, [119].
Dogget, Thomas, actor, notice of, and of his coat and badge rowing for, [1062].
Dog, ludicrous trial of, [198]; and of the dog of Heriot’s hospital, [759].
Dolmoors, Somersetshire, custom at, [917], [921].
Dragon, St. George and the, engraving of, [1274].
Dramas, fertility in producing, [1133].
Draper, Elizabeth, account of her wedding-dress in 1550, [796].
Drawing of the Lottery, engraving of, [1441]. See [Lottery].
Dreams, Mr. Clay delivered from danger by one, [367]; curious remarks on dreams, [1537]; notices of dreams, [1578], [1581].
Dress, a lady’s in 1550, [796]; engraving of an ancient dress for autumn, [1342].
Drop handkerchief, custom of, [665].
Drummond, lady Jane, notice of, [743].
Drunkenness, singular advertisement touching, [938].
Dublin, May-day in, [595].
Duck, Stephen, the thresher poet, [1103].
—— hunting, description of, [1403].
Duelling, memorandum to men of honour touching, [942].
Dulce domum, supposed origin of, [710].
Duncan, lord, notice of, [1315].
Dunck, Miss, a great heiress, [898].
Dunkirk, cow mass at, [870].
Dunmow, Essex, ancient custom at, engraving of, [799].
Dunning, John, (lord Ashburton,) died, notice of, [1087].
Dunstable, mode of catching larks at, [118].
Dunstan, sir Jeffery, mayor of Garrett, [824], [829].
Durham, county of, ceremony of a new bishop entering, [1044].
—— city of, custom at, [447].
—— ox, complaint of, [1547].
Dwarf, curious one, [1605].
Dyne, Corey, a noted backsword player, [1341].
Eagle, a royal bird, [1077].
—— Tavern, City-road, wrestling at, [1337].
Earthquakes, one felt in Cornwall in 1757, [1007].
Earwigs, [1099].
East Bourn, custom of sops and ale at, [693].
Easter-day, [457]; extreme possible difference of time in its happening, [457].
Edinburgh, celebrated for fine skaters, [117]; notice of Heriot’s hospital in, and of the founder, [746]; custom in, [609].
Edward, king of the West Saxons, [390].
Egede, Paul, a Danish missionary, died, [731].
Eggs, paste, [439], [450]; filled with salt, prophetic virtue of, [1560].
Election, general, in 1826, [799], [818]; description of a Westminster election, [853]; occurrence at an election dinner, [1193]; curious account of election expenses, [1659], [1660].
Elections, mock, of mayor of Garrett, [819], [851]; of mayor of Bartlemass, for Newbury, [1045].
Electricity in clouds, curious and dreadful case of in Java, [1082].
Elephanta, island of, [349].
Elephantiasis, [357].
Elephants, account of the one called Chuny killed at Exeter Change, [321], &c.; narratives and anecdotes concerning elephants, [337]-[366]; particulars relating to one killed at Geneva, [700].
Elia, notice of the writings of Mr. Lamb, so signed, [1255].
Elizabeth, queen, and dean of St. Paul’s; curious colloquy between, [1367].
Emerson, W., autograph and notice of, [690].
Encroachments resisted, [1207].
Encyclopedia, a universal natural one, proposed by Adanson, [1168].
Enghien, storm at, [1235].
England, merry, description of, [36]; called the Ringing Island, [509].
Englishmen, difference between their former and present habits, [11].
Ensham, Oxfordshire, custom in, [669].
Epitaphs, on T. Jackson, [390]; on the State Lottery, [1525]; on Henry Jenkins, [1604].
Epping forest, Easter hunt in, [459], [460].
Equator, custom of sailors on passing, [1394].
Equinox, autumnal, gales of, [1283].
Erskine, lord, a poem on “The Rook” supposed to be written by, [1139].
Essex, great mortality of wives in, [923]; harvest custom in, [1172].
Estates, the Three, curious political drama called, [15].
Every-Day Book; memoranda on Vol. I., [1550]; to be immediately followed by a work called “The Table Book,” [1664].
Evil, royal notice of continuing to heal it, [682].
Ewes, signs of rain given by, [510].
Exchequer bills, origin of, [29].
Executions, of lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, [1096].
Exercises, gymnastic. See [Gymnastics].
Exeter, Lammas fair, [1059].
—— Change, dead elephant at, [321].
Eye, evil; preventive against the blink of, in Scotland, [688].
Faces, (human,) curious medley of, [1537].
Facts, instances of their coincidence with predictions, [456].
Fair, (frost,) on the river Thames in 1814, [110].
Fairlop oak, a pulpit made of, [1564].
Fairs on St. Patrick’s day in Ireland, [383].
Falkirk, a gruel against witchcraft still made and sold at, [688].
Fallowfield, Mr., speculation of, [520].
Falstaff, the Cornish, (Payne Anthony,) notice of, [969].
Families, long exemption from death in one, [899].
Farrell, Mr., engraving of a fountain in his window, [785].
Farren, notice of, [894].
Fatality of days, work concerning, [1320].
Fathers, a curious present from one, [1560].
Fearn, Scotland, accident in church of, [1307].
“Feast of fools,” [485], [487].
Fens in Essex and Kent, dangerous residence in, [923].
Fermor, family of, [1376].
Fetch, (Death,) opera so called, notice of, [1011].
Fielding, Henry, his farce called “The Lottery,” [1447].
Figg, the prize-fighter, notice of, [780].
Fingers, joints of, dedicated to saints, [95].
Fires, great or fatal, in Lincoln’s inn, [880]; at a puppet show, [1225]; hallow-eve fires, [1259]; passing through fires, or lighting them in honour of Baal or the the sun, [865], [870]; beginning of the season for lighting fires, [1359].
Fish, curious revolution in, [769].
Fisher, Kitty, (duchess of Bolton,) advertisement by, [474].
Fishing, Thunny, at Marseilles, [647].
Fitz-Ooth, (Robin Hood,) memoir of, [1636].
Fleet-ditch, notice of a boar passing through it into the Thames, [1113].
—— market, contract for building in 1736, [1357].
Fleetwood, recorder of London, a spring diversion of, [532].
Flies, notice of the May-fly, [770].
Flitch of bacon, custom touching, [799].
Floral games of Toulouse, [599].
Flower, Margaret and Phillis, executed for witchcraft, [371].
Flowers, artificial, curious advertisement of, [172].
Flying machines, fatal accident by, [1291].
Fog, remarkable one in 1813, [101].
Fontenoy battle, singular opening of, [560].
Fools, April, custom of making, [485]; order of fools, [1287].
Foot-ball, [374].
Foote, Samuel, the actor, notice of, [845]; his “Mayor of Garrett,” [846]; anecdote of, [1471].
Forcing-houses, guarded against hail, [1237].
Fordyce, Dr., and others, experiments on heat by, [776].
Forests, their beauty in autumn, [1283].
Forgery, extreme ingenuity and vigilance in, [1476].
Fortunatus lottery, [1440].
“Fortunes of Nigel,” a novel, notice of, [766].
Fortune-telling by means of snails in Scotland, [685].
Foster, rev. ——, a dissenting minister, notice of, [1096].
Fountain in June, engraving of, [785].
Fountain’s abbey, a beautiful ruin, [1061].
France, spending of twelfth night in, [31]. lotteries in, [1532], &c.; lark-shooting in, [90]; harvest in, [377].
Free, Mrs., her curious application about a lottery prize, [1443].
Freeman’s well, the, at Alnwick, [249].
Freemasons, engraving and account of a procession burlesquing, [522].
French, Thomas, a singular pauper, [679].
Frost, great, in 1814, [101]; frost fair, [109].
Fruits, the pleasure of buying our own, [1188]; how to mark growing fruits, [1213].
Funerals, a remarkable one, [681].
Fuseli, H., painter, notice of, [551].
Gainsborough, Thomas, painter, notice of, [1065].
Gall and Spurzheim, Drs., notice of, [1122].
Galloway, lord, poetical lamentation, &c. of, [631].
Game laws, copy of the order for swans, [958].
Gaming; a child played for at cards, [1344].
Gammon of bacon, custom about, [729].
Garden-walks, singular management of, recommended, [518].
Gardiner, col., anecdote of, [694].
Garrett, in Wandsworth road, election of mayor of, [819].
Garrick, David, anecdote of, [61]; play-bill of his first appearance in London, [1336]; further notice, [1652].
Gaskill, Isaac, penance done by, in 1826, [982].
Gassendi, explanation by, of bloody rain, [1128].
Gathering of May-dew, engraving of, [609].
Gay science, the, college for at Toulouse, [602].
Gazette, first published at Oxford in 1665, [1384]; origin of the name, [ib.]
Geneva, engraving of the death of an elephant at, [706].
—— madame, lying in state, [1269].
Gentlemen, old English, their houses and mode of living, [1620]-[1624].
George IV., his birthday noticed, [1083].
Gerard’s-hall, London, May-pole of, [612].
German showman, engraving and notice of, [1329].
Ghosts. See [Apparitions].
Gibbon, John, notice of, [1458].
Gideon, sir Sampson, fraud of, touching lotteries, [1458].
Gilchrist, Dr. John, his gift to Heriot’s hospital, [766].
Gin lane, [272]; gin act, notice of, [1269].
Glasgow and Ayr, synod of, decision of respecting Sunday, [1156].
Glastonbury thorn, [1641].
Gleaning apples from the trees, (called griggling,) [1269].
Glendower, Owen, notice of, [1026].
“Glory of Regality,” Mr. Taylor’s excellent work called, [995].
Gloucestershire, harvest custom in, [1164].
Go, (little and great,) lottery, notice of, [1498].
God, mother of, curious address to Mary as, [1089].
God save the king, air of, [538].
Goddards, attempt at explanation of, [1137].
Gold, an image of, dug up, notice of, [1606].
Golding’s model lottery, [1583].
Good Friday, [410].
Gordon, lord George, [831].
Gossamer, showers of, produced by the field spider, [1188], [1332].
Gottingen university, [1243].
Grain, rogue in, an acknowledged one, [729].
Grant, sir A., expelled the Commons, [1451].
Grasshoppers, [1151].
Greatness, ludicrous complaint against, [1547].
Green, Valentine, [685].
Greenwich hospital adventure, lottery so called, [1446].
Gregory, Dr. George, died, notice of, [369].
Griggling orchards, in Herefordshire, [1270].
Grocer’s sugar hogshead, with boys, notice and cut, [1562].
Gruel against witchcraft, still made and sold in Scotland, [688].
Guard, yeomen of, instituted in 1485, [1351].
Guildford, old, church, accident in, [542].
Guilds; Necton (in Norfolk) guild, engraving and account of, [669].
Gutch, Mr., his account of the pretended Caraboo, [1634].
Gymnastics, society for, in London, [653]; engraving of gymnastic exercises, [658].
Hackneymen, instances of honesty of, [902].
Hail, guarding forcing-houses against, [1237].
Hair powder, convictions about, [1564].
Halde, J. B. Du, died, [1297].
Halifax, earl of, marriage of, [898].
Hall, capt. H., his description of passing the line, [1394].
Halls, ancient, description of one, [1617].
Hallow-eve fires, [1259].
Halo, lunar, extraordinary one, [1537].
Hamburgh, feast of cherries at, [1040].
Hamilton, general, killed in a duel by col. Burr, [942].
Hammersmith pump, engraving of, [1231].
Hampden, John, letter and autograph of, [475].
Hand-bills, distributed at Bartholomew-fair, [1196].
Handkerchief, drop, custom of in Devonshire, [666].
Hanger, col., his description of a Westminster election, [853].
Hanover, no State Lottery ever in, [1535].
Harburgh lottery, bill to suppress, [1446].
Hardouin, Pere, died, notice of, [1592].
Harper, John, (sir John,) mayor of Garrett, [823], [834], [842]; engraving of his election, [839].
Harrington, sir J., election expenses, &c. of, [1659], [1660].
Harris, a sleep-walker, [1299].
Hartsyde, Margaret, notice of, [750].
Harvest-home, engraving of, [1153], [1158]; harvesting on a Sunday, notice of, [1156]; notice of harvest in France, [877].
Hastings, Mr., an old English gentleman, [1624].
Hatherleigh, Devonshire, customs in, [142].
Hawkesbury in Cotswold, harvest-home in, engraving of, [1153].
Hawthorn, Glastonbury, [1642].
Hazlitt, Mr., notice of, [1257].
Health, art of preserving, [195], [1615]; drinking health in harvest, [1168], [1171].
Heat, great degrees of, safely borne, and how, [771].
Hedgehogs, wandering about Oldham by day, in [939].
Hell, a pageant representation of, [872].
Helston, Cornwall, notice of “Furry” at, [648].
Henry VII., chapel of, built by sir Reginald Bray, [1072].
Herefordshire, “crying the mare” in, [1163]; griggling, and making of cider in, [1269].
Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh, engraving and notice of, and also of the founder, [746], [747]; his arms and autograph, [913].
Herod and Herodias, [1140].
Highgate, swearing on the horns at, [79], [378].
Hinge, the, Carna goddess of, [727].
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, custom at, [1174].
Hoare, sir R. C, [1022].
Hob, (old,) custom of in Cheshire, [1371].
Hogg, Thomas, (cheap Tommy,) [942].
Hogmany, a new year’s usage in Scotland, [13]; similar in England, [73].
Holland, Ann, duchess of Exeter, her will, [831].
—— Charles, actor, anecdote of, [1461].
Holy Thursday, custom on, [636].
Home, the poor man’s described, [564].
Honey, to take without killing the bees, [1323].
Honeycomb, Will, [432].
Hoo, in Kent, mortality of wives in, [921].
Hood, Mr. T., notices of his Progress of Cant, [130]; and his Whims and Oddities, [1537].
Hornchurch, custom of, [1649].
Horne, W. A. esq., notice of, [1192].
Horns, swearing on, at Highgate, [79], [378]; horns prohibited to newsmen, [1276].
Hornsey, new river at, engraving of, [1311].
Horse-racing, early notice of, [539]; with women-riders, at Ripon, [1061]; at Sadler’s Wells, [1561].
Horses, an extraordinary one for age and excellence, [1294].
Hosier, admiral, [1392].
Hot cross-buns, [410].
Hours, the three, of Christ’s crucifixion, celebration of, [421].
House, Sam., the Westminster publican, [853].
Houses, hot or forcing, how guarded against hail, [1237]; of old English gentlemen, [1620].
Howard, Mr. Luke, his treatise on the climate of London recommended, [3].
Howel Sele, notice of, [1027].
Hug, Cornish, [1010].
Humphrey, duke, dining with, [625].
Hungerford, Wiltshire, revel at, [1399].
Hunting, of elephants, [338], &c.; in Epping forest at Easter, [459], [460].
Hurling, description of, [1008].
Hurricanes, see [Storms].
Husbands, a wife’s sale of her dead one, [1301].
Hutton Conyers, whimsical custom in, [21].
Idiots, curious account of one, [244].
Illusions, [1557], [1559]; see [Apparitions].
Images, common Italian, engravings of some of them, [311], [312], [315]; colloquy on images in churches, [1367]; account of digging up a gold image, [1606].
Imposture, extraordinary. See [Price, Charles].
Incest, penance performed for, in 1826, [982].
India, lottery for women in, [1518].
Indifferents, the, order of merit so named, [696].
Infants, jocular account of night-nursing them, [1541].
Ink, writing, [265].
“Inkle and Yarico,” curious criticism on, [143].
Inscriptions, a curious one with a key to it, [732]; singular colloquy touching images and inscriptions in churches, [1367].
Insurance, on marriages, births, &c., [1436]; for lottery tickets, [1436], [1461], [1496]; curious trial about lottery insurance, [1469].
Interment, provision in a will against, [1325].
Inverary, astonishing rain at, [1215].
Invitations, curious one to dinner, [508].
Ireland, festival in honour of Baal in, [66], [866]; travelling in, represented, [239]; singular devotion in, relative to Christ’s passion, [411]; superstitions touching death in, [1012]; lottery job in, [1457].
Irish linen, remarkably fine piece of, [1616].
Iron mask, man with the, [1559].
Isaure, Clemence, of Toulouse, [600].
Islington, (St. Mary,) old church, engraving, [502].
Italy, lotteries in, [1531], [1554].
Ivy lane, [1135].
Jack Ketch and Newgate, notice of, [694].
Jackson, Thomas, inscription on, [390].
Jacobin club, origin of, [971].
Jam, blackberry, receipt for, [1116].
James I. and Ann of Denmark, marriage of, [1100].
—— II., notice of, [1320]; anecdote touching a statue of, [487].
January 30, remarkable sermon preached on, [149].
Java, curious and dreadful case of electrical cloud in, [1082].
Javasu, pretended birth-place of an impostor, [1633].
Jekyll, sir J., obnoxious through the gin act, [1269].
Jenkins, Henry, older than Old Parr, engraving and notice of, [1602].
Jersey, earl of, [1376].
“Jesus, Maria, Joseph,” &c., extract from a curious book so titled, [1089].
Jewels, of queen Ann of Denmark, notice of, [749]; lottery for disposing of prince Rupert’s, [1445].
Jews, two procured to be baptized the day before Easter at Rome, [437]; custom of eating bacon at Easter in abhorrence of them, [439]; prejudice against, and interesting account of one, [533]; trial touching the validity of a Jewish marriage, [1611]; their hatred of Mamre fair, [1034].
Johnson, Dr. S., remarks on, [271].
Jones, John, of Wandsworth, notice and engraving of, [820], [821], &c.
Joseph of Arimathea, and the Glastonbury thorn, [1642].
Joshua, the inventor of lotteries, [1529].
Judas the traitor, [425].
Judges, dancing round the coal fire, custom of, [174]; collars worn by, [538].
Juggling, outdone by science, [780].
Justice, H., esq., transported for stealing books, [652].
Keats, John, died, [250].
Kensington palace, supposed long subterranean passage to, [1607]; notice of Kensington gardens, [781].
Kent, customs in, [1162], [1642]; Weald of Kent, origin of, [450]; fens of, mortality of wives in, [923].
Keppel, A. J. V., first earl of Albemarle, [1375].
Ketch, (Jack) and Newgate, [694].
Keys, Mr., melancholy case of, [1459].
Kidlington, Oxfordshire, festival called Lady of the Lamb in, [669].
Kilburn, John, cheap travelling of, [791].
Kilmarnock, earl of, executed, [1096].
Kindness, natural to women, [1614].
Kings’ speeches, notice of one of James I., [1239].
Kingshill, at Rochfort, Essex, Lawless court at, [1286].
Kirklees, Yorkshire, [1638].
Kissing-crust, [1563].
Kitchen-maid, engraving of one in a lottery puff, [1503].
Kitchener, Dr., [1550].
Knill, John, esq., patron of athletic exercises in Cornwall, [1010].
Ladies, wedding preparations of one in 1550, [797].
Lady, the old, character of, [189].
Lambs, anecdote of the sale of, [395].
Lammas towers, in Mid-Lothian, [1051].
Lamp-black, receipt for, [266].
Lancashire, custom in, [660].
Lance, holy, account and engraving of, [426], [427], &c.
Land-lady, fright of one, [1549].
Lands, local custom of laying out, [917].
Lanterns, Chinese festival of, [90].
Largess, a harvest cry, [1158], [1166], [1173].
Larks, taken by glasses at Dunstable, [118].
Laughing boy, engraving of, [543].
Laundon, (now Threekingham,) [1246].
Law, whimsical account of, [232]; curious action at, [1389]. See [Trials].
Lawrence, Mrs., her seat of Studley Royal described, [1061].
Ledyard, his interesting character of women, [1614].
Leeches, unhurt by frost, [56]; form a good weather-guide, [491].
Legat, Bartholomew, an Arian, burnt, [374].
Leheup, Peter, fined for lottery fraud, [1458].
Leicester house, Leicester-square, [997].
Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, notice of, [696].
Lent, curious penance for transgressing, [416].
Lenthall, W., speaker, original letter of Oliver Cromwell to, [911].
Leonidas of Tarentum, [510].
Lever, sir Ashton, notices and engravings of his museum, [985]-[994].
Levy, J., a Jew, interesting account of, [533].
Lewes, Mr. Sheriff, petition in 1775 against lotteries, [1462].
Licenses, application for one to kill thieves, [1189].
Lichfield, customs of, [667].
Lifting, a custom called, [1562].
Lightning, observations on, and fatal effects upon a theatre at Venice, [1130], [1132].
Lincoln college, Oxford, the devil looking over, [1236].
Lincoln’s inn, great fire in, [880].
Lincolnshire, custom in, [394].
Lindians soliciting public subscriptions, notice of, [1111].
Lindsay, sir D., curious political drama by, [15].
Line, custom of sailors on crossing the, [1394].
Linen, Irish, remarkably fine pieces of, [1616].
Linton, Kent, custom of “doleing” at, [1627].
Literature, dramatic, instance of fertility in, [1131].
Little John, and Robin Hood, [1634], &c.
Littlecotes-house, Buckinghamshire, described, and adventure at, [1617].
Living, reasons for, [1591].
Locksley, in Ivanhoe, representative of Robin Hood, [1638].
London, Howard’s treatise on its climate recommended, [3]; season of winter in, [48]; engravings of city seals, [257], [881]; spring in the city, [542]; notice and engraving touching old watch of, [619], [869]; gymnastic society in, [653]; the season in, [781]; materials of old city gates sold in 1760, [1043]; Ivy-lane in, [1135]; Cæsar’s camp near, [1345], [1566]; lord mayor’s day, [1386]; old sights in 1751, [1605]; election for city officers, [1626].
—— Gazette, [1384].
—— Journal in 1731 on lotteries, [1451].
Long, Edward, his ludicrous “Trial of a dog for murder,” [198]; died, [210].
Longforgan, in Scotland, custom at, [1175].
Lopez de Vega, died, notice of, [1132].
Lord-mayor, celebration of his day, [1132]; singular robbery of, near Turnham-green, [1389].
Loscoe, Derbyshire, the miser of, [1192].
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, custom at, [441].
Lothian, (Mid) Lammas towers in, [1051].
Lotteries, engravings and very numerous notices of, [1335], [1405], &c. &c.
Love, satire on the popular representation of, [1515].
—— lane, Camberwell, [1101].
—— tokens, formerly given, [1100].
——, David, engraving and notice of, [225], [1575].
Lovelace, col. R., notice of, [561].
Lovers, dream of one, [1539].
Luck in lotteries, curious instance of, [1461].
Lucky numbers in lotteries, notices of, [1437].
Ludgate-hill, engraving relative to old watch tower on city wall near, [629].
Lully, J. B., notice of, [403].
Lumley, lord, [1376].
Lunar halo, extraordinary, [1537].
Lunn, Sally, buns of, [1561].
Lusus naturæ, accounts of, [444], [445].
Lyings in, custom at, [1331].
Lynn, custom at, [223].
Macdonald, Flora, [1148].
Magdaleneide, a curious poem so called, [1006].
Maids, (the two Biddenden,) account and engraving of, [442], [443].
Maidstone, custom at, [1627].
Mamre, Abraham’s oak at, [1033].
Man with the iron mask, [1559].
Mansfield, earl of, his autograph, [396].
Mantle-pieces, use of, [1350].
Manuscripts, accidental loss of valuable ones, [1617].
March, J. C., epitaph on, [478].
Mare, crying the, custom of, [1163].
Margarets, William, a rogue in grain, [729].
Marl, ninepenny, game called, [983], [1661].
Marlborough, duke of, [794].
Marriages, a singularly disproportioned one, [651]; custom of flitch of bacon relating to, [799]; of Jews, trial about one, [1611]; insurance on, [1436].
Martins, [1562].
Marseilles, thunny fishing at, [647]; festival at, [1643].
Martyr’s stone at Hadleigh, Suffolk, [212].
Marvel, Andrew, died, notice of, [1095].
Mary, (the Virgin,) Romish titles of, [1610].
Mask, iron, the man with the, [1559].
Mason, col., concentrates Norfolk festivities in Necton, [669].
Mass, (Cow,) at Dunkirk, description of, [870].
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, notice of, [1113].
Massey, Mr. W., his account of election of mayor of Garrett, [826].
Matches, burlesque company for making, [1581].
Matthews at home, engraving and notice of, [465].
Maundy Thursday, celebration of, at Seville and Rome, [405], [409].
May, Cornelius, [644].
—— dew, notice and engraving about gathering of, [610].
—— fly, [770].
Mayo, Ben, “the old general” of Nottingham, [1569].
Mayors, of Bartlemass, [1045]; of Garrett, [819], &c.
May-poles, engravings and notices of, [574], [575], [579], [594], [640], [660].
Measures and weights, [126].
Meat, over-fed, satire on, [1547].
Medley of human faces, [1537].
Merchants, emblem for, [1327].
Mercury, engraving of, [ib.]
Merit, curious order of, at Paris, [696].
Merlin’s cave in Richmond gardens, [1103].
Merriman, Mr., at fairs, [1291].
Mid-Lothian, Lammas towers in, [1051].
Middleton Monday, [1571].
Milk-maids, engraving of one in a lottery puff, [1520]; garland of, [1562].
Minden, battle of, [1628].
Minerva, engraving and notice of, [463].
Miser of Loscoe, [1192].
Mists, [1295].
Model lottery, [1583].
Money, turning of, on new moon of new year, [44].
Montague, Mrs., her annual dinner to chimney-sweepers, [623].
Montgolfier, Messrs., [1567].
Months, Woolley’s curious representation of the, [515]; ancient Cornish names of, [970].
Moody, Joe, [683].
Moon, accounts of lunar rainbows, [1229], [1230]; extraordinary lunar halo, [1537]; discoveries in the moon, [1595].
More, sir T., credulity of, [425].
Morecroft, Mr. T. (the Spectator’s Will Wimble,) died, [897].
Morris, nine men’s, game called, [983], [1661].
—— dancing, [792].
——, captain T., died, [221].
Mosely, Dr., a curious criticism of, [143].
Mother of God, curious address to, [1089].
Mountebanks at White Conduit-house in 1826, [1291].
Mountgoddard-street, London, [1137].
Mulberries, numerous kinds of, [1069], &c.
Mummers, [1645], &c.
Munden, the actor, notice of, [894].
Murder, ludicrous trial of a dog for, [198].
Murphy, Arthur, author, notice of, [797].
Museum, Leverian, engraving and notice of, [986], &c.
Music, of a harvest cry, [1171]; Canada and America in general, deficient in vocal music, [713]; notice of the death song of the swan, [965], [966]; lottery for a fine organ, [1453].
“My son, sir,” ludicrous engraving, [1542].
Mysteries, old dramas, notice of, [500].
Nanneu, the haunted oak of, in Wales, [1022].
Napoli, in Greece, celebration of Easter in, [454].
Naseby, battle of, original letter of Oliver Cromwell about, [911].
Nassau, William, (first earl of Rochfort,) [1376].
Naturalists’ calendar proposed, [25].
Nature and art, [310].
Navy, pressing men in church for, [449].
Necton, in Norfolk, Whitsuntide festivals established in, [669]; engraving, [671].
Nelson, lord, [1343], [1356].
Neptune, personified by sailors, custom of, [1394].
Nests, attachment of birds to them, [238].
New-year’s day, [5], &c.
—— River, impurity of water of, [1203]; at Hornsey, engraving of, [1311]; New River eclogue, notice of, [1551].
Newark, customs at, [161], [367].
Newbury, Berkshire, customs at, [367], [1045].
Newcastle, extract from common council book of, [487]; house of God, charity at, [785].
Newscriers, London, [1275]; a remarkable one, [ib.]
Newspapers, an old one for 1736, described, [1301]; an apology for not giving the news in one, [1362].
Niblet, Mr., died, [1095].
Nichols, Mr., John, Dr. S. Parr’s letter to, on king Richard’s well, [1107]; respectful notice of him, [1641].
Nicot, Mr., said to have first brought tobacco to Europe, [398].
Nine men’s morris, game called, [983], [1661].
Noah, S., lottery fraud of, [1466].
Nonsuch lottery, [1446].
Norfolk, customs in, [1666].
Northampton May garland, engraving of, [615].
Northumberland, death tokens in, [1019].
Norwich, hoax at, [1139].
Notes, forged, in shop windows, notice of, [1335].
“Nothing half so sweet in life,” illustrated, [1335].
Nottingham, old general Ben of, [1569].
Nowell, dean of St. Paul’s, and queen Elizabeth, colloquy between, [1367].
Numbers, lucky, in lotteries, notices of, [1437].
O’Hara family, the, a tale of, [1013].
Oaks, the haunted oak of Nanneu, [1022]; sir Philip Sidney’s oak, [1032]; Abraham’s oak at Mamre, [1033]; name of Berkshire derived from one, [1033]; lottery called the Royal Oak, [1423], &c.
Oaths, form of the Dunmow oath, [803], [807]; at election of mayor of Garrett, [843].
Oddities, Whims and, Mr. Hood’s book called, notice of, and cuts from, [1537], &c.
Ody, Joe, [1371], [1584].
Oil used for stilling waves, [191], [254].
Old English squires or gentlemen, their houses and mode of living, [1620], [1621], &c.
—— general Ben, of Nottingham, [1569].
—— Lady, the, picture of, [189].
—— Whig, the, newspaper described, [1301].
Oldham, Lancashire, hedgehogs abounding in 1826, [939].
Opera arm-chairs, [630].
Optical illusions, [1559].
Orders, female order of merit at Paris, [696]; order of fools, [1287], &c.
Orford, lord, his account of archbishop Chicheley, [1141]; and of a curious organ, [1451].
Organ, disposal of a very curious one by lottery, [1451].
Orsedew, explanation of, [1263].
Osnaburg, lottery in, [1531].
Oven, heat of, resisted by Monsieur Chabert, [772], &c.
Owen, Glendower, [1026].
Owl and duck, cruel amusement with, [1403].
Ox, Durham, complaint of, [1547].
Oxford, gazette first published at, [1384].
Paddington, customs at, [449], [577]; notice of the old church at, [1369].
Paisley, Hallow-eve fires, [1259].
Palamede, a fish highly valued, [648].
Palm Sunday, pageants on, [390], [392].
Palmer worm, notice of, [1128].
Pancakes, [1561].
Pancras, Roman station at, [1345], [1566].
Pandolfo Attonito, or lord Galloway’s lamentation, [632].
Pantomimes, [500].
Panyer Alley, engraving of an effigy on a stone in, [1135].
Papeguay, French amusement of shooting at, [289], [375].
Paris, festival of cobblers at, [1054].
Parish beadle, [1553].
Parker, John, curious caligraphy by, [1215].
Parkinson, Mr., obtains the Leverian museum by lottery, [997], &c.
Parkyns, sir T., notice of, [874].
Parliaments, the only one within memory, expiring by efflux of time, [249].
Parr, Dr. S., letter from, on king Richard’s well, [1107].
Parrots, engraving of a street image of one, [311]; amusement of shooting at a stuffed one, called papeguay, [289], [375].
Passing Bell, origin of, [135].
Passion Wednesday, celebration of, at Seville, [401].
Patch, alias Price, Charles, lottery office-keeper, curious memoirs of, [1470].
Paths, field, [903].
Paul Pry, letter from, [49].
Paul’s Cathedral, notice of ball and cross on, [1096]; dialogue between queen Elizabeth and the dean, [1367]; lottery drawn in the church-yard, [1410].
—— Cross, history of, [414].
Pauntley, agricultural custom in, [28].
Peak of Derbyshire, custom of, [451]; peculiar rights of marriage claimed in, [637].
Peerages, now existing, prior to Henry VII., [1109].
Peers, king William’s, notices of, [1374].
Penderill family, anecdote of, [257].
Penny lottery, [1421].
Pentonville, Roman remains at, [1197], [1566].
Peppard revel, advertisement of, [678].
Pepys’, Mr., notice of gathering May-dew, [611].
Peru, harvest customs in, [1162].
Peter, the Lombard, immaculate conception suggested by, [1609].
—— penny, [1319].
Peter’s, St., at Rome, celebration of Easter in, [451].
Petrarch, his notice of the cavern of Sainte Beaume, [1006].
Phillips, sir R., his description of Garrett, [822].
Phrenological illustrations by Cruikshank, notice of, [1121], &c.
Physicians, the wonderful one, [477].
Piccadilly, origin of, [381].
Pictures in churches, curious colloquy on, [1367].
Pigs, the first in Scotland, humorous notice of, [1113].
Pilate, tradition concerning, [431].
Piper, John, notice of, [925].
Plants, machine for determining their daily increase, [185].
Plate, lotteries for, [1409], &c.
Play-bills, one announcing Garrick’s first appearance in London, [1336]; apparatus for printing, [72].
Plays, first attendance at one described, [1252].
Ploughing, a miser’s plan for, [1194].
Plumtree, Miss, her account of superstitions of Brittany, [972], &c.
Poetry, establishment at Toulouse for encouraging, [602].
Poisons, singular case of experimenting on, [635]; taken, or pretended to be so, in large quantities, with impunity, [771].
Pol de Leon, St., account of, [974].
Polkinhorne, the Cornish champion in wrestling, [109].
Pollard’s land, in Durham, tenure of, [1044].
Pomfret, earl of, [1376].
Pony, remarkable feat of one, [682].
Poor man’s home, [563], [564].
Porters, fellowship, notice of, [876].
Portland, duke of, [1374].
Porto Bello, capture of, [1392].
Ports and Havens, first lottery for repairing, [1410].
Pope, Morris, a champion at single-stick, [1400].
Posset at bed-time, notice of, [1623].
Post, the walking, [1593].
Pottage, Christmas, [1643].
Potteries, the, a summer scene in, [994].
Pounteney, Mrs., accomplice of Price, the forger, [1478], &c.
Poverty, reflections on, [563], [564].
Powder Plot, November 5, celebrations of, [1378], &c.
Prayers desired in a church for luck in a lottery, [1461].
Presents, hiding of, in shoes and slippers, [1598].
Pressing for the navy in church, in reign of queen Elizabeth, [449].
Preston, Lancashire, singular collision of flocks of birds near, [1139].
Pretorium, supposed, of Suetonius, at Pentonville, [1198], [1566].
Price alias Patch, lottery-office keeper, notice and engravings of, [1470].
Prince of Thieves, Robin Hood the, [1637].
Printers, their May festival, [627]; printers devils, [1239].
Printing, mystery of, picture of, [1240]; calicoes, a chemical black for, [269].
—— press at St. James’s, notices concerning, [231].
Prisoners under sentence of death, prayers for, [1378].
Prize-fighting, a challenge given and accepted in 1726, [780].
Prizes in the lottery, [1410], &c.
Processions, a burlesque one of freemasons, [523]; of the chimney-sweepers, in lieu of their old May dances, [619]; of the camel at Beziers, in France, [641].
Prophecies, some relating to Easter, &c., [455]; lord Bacon’s remarks on, [457].
Protestants and Catholics, mutual interest of, [1370].
Provençal poetry, public encouragement of, at Toulouse, [602].
Puffs, lottery, engravings and notices touching, [1503], &c.
Pulpits, [1544].
Pump with two spouts, [492].
Punch in the puppet-show, [500].
Puppet-shows, fatal fire at one, [1225].
Purton, Wiltshire, customs at, [1207], [1379].
Quainton, Buckinghamshire, [1641].
Quakers, their address at birth of George IV., [1087].
Queen, (harvest,) [1155], [1161].
Quirinalia, the Roman, [487].
Racing, early date of horse-racing, [539]; women riders at Ripon, [1060]; a sudden and lively foot-race at Brighton, [1257].
Raffling lottery, notice of, [1444].
Rain, Peiresc’s explanation of bloody rain, [1128]; astonishing fall of, at Inverary, [1215]; most fertilizing in thunder storms, [1131].
Rainbow lunar, accounts of, [1229], [1230].
Raleigh, Nottinghamshire, custom at, [1649].
Ramsgate, custom of, [1642].
Ratzburg, Christmas out of doors at, [114].
Ravens, attachment of, to their nests, [238].
Reading, a lottery at, [1411].
Recorders of London, a spring diversion of one, [532].
Refreshment, (seasonable) engraving of, [59].
Relics, of the crucifixion, account of, [426]; in churches, curious colloquy on, [1367].
Revolution, curious one in fishes, [769].
Rhinoceros, a remarkable female one, [1605].
Riddles, one by Cleobulus, [26].
Riding, extraordinary, [1293]; riding the fair, a local custom, [1664], [1665].
Ringing of bells. See [Bells].
Ripon, Yorkshire, customs at, [866], [1059].
Rivers, Brindley’s answer about the use of, [1268].
Robin Hood, memoir of, [1635].
Robinson, G., fraud of, [1450].
Rochford, Essex, Lawless court at, [1286].
Rochfort, first earl of, [1375].
Rodd, Mr. T., bookseller, integrity and judgment of, [1126].
Rogue in grain, acknowledgment of one, [729].
Roman remains, at Pentonville and Pancras, [1197], [1199], [1345], [1566].
Romans, lotteries among, [1529], [1530].
Rook, supposed poem on “The Rook” by lord Erskine, [1139].
Roses for shoes, [1354].
Ross, Mr., actor, curious anecdote of, [1651].
Rotherham, Yorkshire, account of swallows at, [1295].
Rouen, in France, pageant of the assumption in, [1092].
Rousey, John, aged 138, died, [731].
Rowing for Dogget’s coat and badge, [1062].
Royal debts, notice of, [1355].
Royal Oak lottery, the, notice of, [1423], &c.
Rudkins, —— a remarkable thief, [1242].
Rules, for servants, [226]; for preserving health, [1615].
Rupert, prince, lottery for his jewels, [1445].
Russell, house of, [1376].
Russia, St. George much revered in, [546].
Rutland, earl of, two of his children supposed bewitched, [370].
Sadler’s Wells, curious invitation to, [41]; horse-racing at, [1561].
Sagittarius, charm against the influence of, [1569].
Sailors, on shore, [65]; custom of, on crossing the Line, [1394]; anecdote of one, [1470].
Saint Ives, Cornwall, celebration of athletic games near, [1010].
Sainte Beaume, near Marseilles, notices of, [1002], &c.
Salamander, the human, M. Chabert, [771].
Salisbury Plain, indolence of shepherds there, [984].
Salle, Mademoiselle, Order of Merit instituted by, at Paris, [696].
“Sally Brown,” &c. a popular ballad, [1549].
Salt, great age of a man who never used any, [1214].
—— cellar, its importance in arranging guests, [1622].
Sannazaro, [580].
Scandiscope, (machine for cleaning chimneys,) engraving of, [617].
Scarborough, earl of, [1376].
Schism, intended bill against, notice of, [1061].
Schomberg, Marshal, [1375].
Schoolmasters, tradition of a boy murdered by one, [1371].
Science, poetry called the Gay Science, and a college for encouraging it at Toulouse, [602]; science outdoes juggling, [780].
Scorpions, continued and appalling visions about, [1578].
Scotland, curious political drama acted before the court of, [15]; superstitions in, [684]; humorous account of the first pigs in, [1113].
Scottish songs, essay on, [713]; list of, [717].
Scripture, application of, [1320]; curious notice about inscriptions in churches, [1367].
Sea, stilling its waves by oil, [192], [254]; reflections on the sea, [1258].
Sealing-wax, account of, [263].
Seals, engravings of seals of London, [258], [881].
Sebastian, Don, belief of the Portuguese in his coming, [87].
Sedan-chairs, notice of, [901].
Sedgemoor, battle of, [910].
Sele, Howel, notice of, [1027], [1028].
Sermons, a singular one on 30th January, [149]; preaching of at Paul’s Cross, [414], [415]; singular title-page of one, [478].
Serpentine river, skating on, [17].
Servants, a letter written to one on parting, [187]; rules for them, [226]; periodical hirings of them described, [669]; treatment of them in harvest, [1158], [1160].
Severndroog castle and tower, [488].
Seville, celebration of certain religious ceremonies in, [392], [405], [421], [436].
Sewers, common, notice of a boar lost in one, [1113].
Seymour, Arabella, (Arabella Stuart,) notice and autograph of, [730].
Shaftesbury, custom at, [641].
Shakerley, aunt, ludicrous picture of, [1545].
Shakspeare, anecdote concerning, [522].
Shaving, on passing the Line, sailors’ custom of, [1394].
Shaw, Hugh, aged 113, notice of, [1007].
Sheep-shearing, notice and engraving of, [721], [787].
Sheffield, custom at, [1259].
Shelley, sir J., laudable practice of, [23].
Shenstone, William, poet, died, [222].
Shepherds on Salisbury Plain, indolence of, [984].
Sherborne, bells in, notice of, [745], [1255]; Pack-Monday fair in, [1307].
Shergold, lottery office-keepers, notices of, [1454], [1496].
Sheridan, R. B., [1251].
Sherwood Forest, scene of Robin Hood’s adventures, [1637].
Shirts, specimen of pride about, [859].
Shoemakers, customs among, [471], [901], [1054], [1055].
Shoes, notice of shoes and buckles, [1354]; hiding presents in shoes and slippers, [1598]; engraving of a lady’s old shoe and clog, [1685].
Shore, Jane, notice of, [417].
Showers, supposed of blood, explanation of, [1127].
Showman, engraving of the German showman, [1329].
Shropshire, crying the mare in, [1163].
Shrove Monday, and peas and pork, [282].
—— Tuesday, notice and customs of, [196], [256].
Sidney, sir Philip, notice of his oak, [1033].
Signs on alehouses, [789].
Singlestick or backsword, [1341], [1399].
Sisters, the Biddenden, engraving and account of, [442], &c.
Sistine Chapel at Rome, grand religious pageants in, [396], [435].
Sixpence, anecdote of a lost one, [1575].
Skaith Saw, or gruel against witchcraft still made and sold at Falkirk, [688].
Skating, earliest notice of in England, [116]; people of Edinburgh skilled in, [117].
Skeleton, a curious present of one, [1560].
Sky island, custom of, [866].
Slaves in West Indies in 1736, [1304].
Sleep, how to obtain in cold weather, [95]; walking in, cases of, [1296].
Sleeper, an extraordinary one, [96].
Slippers and shoes, hiding presents in, [1598].
Smart, Mr. G., receives two gold medals for machines for cleaning chimneys, [623].
Smith, Mr. J., a date in Panyer Alley engraved in wood by, [1134], [1135].
Snails, predicting fortunes by, in Scotland, [385].
Snow, great fall of in 1814, [101]; blue and pink shades of, [72]; accounts of women lost in, [177], [395].
Societies, united one of Master Chimney-sweepers established in London, [619]; also a Gymnastic Society, [1568]; Cecilian Society, [ib.]
Somersetshire, receipt for making Somersetshire bacon, [813]; custom about laying out lands in, [917].
Somnambulism, cases of, [1297].
Songs, Scottish, essay on, [713].
Sops and ale, local custom of, [693].
Sotheby and Leigh, booksellers, notice of, [696].
South Downs, custom in, [1562].
Spectator, (The,) ridicule of lotteries in, [1437].
Spectres. See [Apparitions].
Spider (field) notice and calculation about its gossamer, [1188], [1332].
Spilsbury, Mr., notice of, [1486].
“Spirit’s blasted tree, The,” in Wales notice and engraving of, [1023].
Spurzheim and Gall, Drs., notice of, [1122].
Squires, old English, their houses and mode of living, [1620]-[1624].
Staines (Middlesex) church, singular spectacle at, [1225].
Stationers’ Hall, St. Cecilia’s feast at, [1567].
Steevens, G. A., anecdote of, [224].
Stiles, (field) inconveniences and pleasures of, [903].
Stockings, finding presents in, [1598].
Stone, (The Martyr’s) at Hadleigh, [212].
Stools, shoemakers’ amusement with, [901].
Storms, in 1826, [1130]; at Enghien, [1235]; at Wigton, [1299].
Story-telling, custom of, [599]; its value in winter, [1617].
Strand May-pole, [660].
Street entertainments, [1319], &c.
Stroud, abundance of earwigs at, in 1755, [1099].
——, sir William, convicted of swindling, [45].
Stuart, Arabella, (Arabella Seymour,) notice and autograph of, [734].
Stubbins, Dr., anecdote concerning, [1392].
Students, curious instance of one, [1068].
Studley, Royal, Yorkshire, description of, [1061].
Study, peculiar mode of pursuing, [1267].
Subscription for relief of distress, notice of, [1111].
Suffolk, customs in, [1165].
Sugar-cuppers, in Derbyshire, notice of, [451].
—— hogshead with boys, description and engraving of, [1542], [1543].
Suicide, through lotteries, [1447], [1466], [1494]; reasons against, [1591].
Sun, kindling fires in honour of. See [Fires].
Sunday, harvesting on, in Scotland, [1156].
Sunsets in England, [1185].
Surgeon-barbers, curious notice concerning, [758].
Surrey hills, spring walk on, [557].
Sussex, new year’s day in, [23].
Sutton, sir R., expelled the Commons, [1451].
—— T., founder of the White Conduit, [1201].
—— the prize-fighter, notice of, [780].
Sydenham, Mr., land-lottery of, [1446].
Swaffham, in Norfolk, custom of, [222].
Swallows in 1826, [492]; notice of swallow-singing or cheldonizing, [1111]; swallows at Rotherham, [1295].
Swan with two necks, explanation of, [958].
Swans, accounts of swanhopping, and order for the same by the statutes and customs, [914], [958]; a vicious swan, [955]; their power to contend with frost, [965]; notice of their supposed death-song, [964].
Swearing at Highgate. See [Highgate].
Table Book, The, a work to succeed the Every-Day Book, [1664].
Tale-bearing, how punished, [1562].
Tangiers, in Africa, celebration of Easter at, [455].
Tanner, Dr., manuscripts lost by, [1617].
Tasker, William, died, [212].
Taylor, Dr. Rowland, martyred, [212].
—— the Whitworth doctor, [477].
Tea-kettle, trick with, [774].
Temple Sowerby, Westmoreland, custom in, [599].
Tenants, a remarkable one, [1256].
Tenures, an annual jocular one, [21].
Tetbury, [1561].
Texts inscribed in churches, [1367].
Thames, river, frozen over in 1814, [109].
Thanet, isle of, custom of, [1643].
Thieves, application for licence to kill them, [1189]; a remarkable one, [1242]; Robin Hood, the Prince of Thieves, [1637].
Thompson, J., fraud of, [1450].
Thorn, the Glastonbury, [1641].
Threekingham, or Laundon, Lincolnshire, notice of, [1246].
Thunder clouds, dreadful one at Java, [1082].
Thunny fishing, [647].
Thurlow, lord, letter of, [498].
Tickets, lottery, same number twice sold, [1460]; divided with great minuteness, [ib.] See [Lottery].
Times, old, notice of, [1301].
Tissington, Derbyshire, custom of dressing wells in, [636].
Toad-stools, singular connection of subjects with, [518].
Toast, sugared, at lyings-in, [1333].
Tobacco, article on, [397].
Todd, James, death of, by a flying machine, [1291].
Toddingham, sir T., singular letter of the famous earl of Warwick to, [1403].
Toulouse, establishments or customs at, [600], [602].
Tourant, Michael, aged 98, notice of, [1211].
Towers, notice of old London watch tower, and an engraving, [619]; notice of Lammas towers made of sods, [1051].
Tracy, sir W., [932], &c.
Tradesmen, emblem for, [1327].
Trafalgar, battle of, [1343], [1356].
Travelling, in Ireland, [239], &c.; cheap, curious plan for, [791].
Trees, engraving of “the Spirit’s blasted tree” in Wales, [1023]; revivification of trees, [233]. See [Oaks].
Trial of weights and measures, [127].
Trials, ludicrous one of farmer Carter’s dog, [188]; burlesque ones, [233]; trial of the dog of Heriot’s hospital, [758]; an aged witness at, [1602]; “Trial of the Royal Oak Lottery,” a satire called, [1423].
Trigg, Henry, curious will of, [1325].
Turkey-cock, Garrick earnestly imitating one, [61].
Turner, Dr. Dawson, his account of the pageant of the assumption at Rouen, [1092].
Turnstiles, notice of, [905].
Turpentine tree, the, notice of, [1034].
Tusks, elephants’, matters found imbedded in, [337].
Tutbury, honour of, custom of, [807].
Tweed, river of, peculiarity of, [270].
Twelfth day, &c., [28], &c.
Twelvepenny lottery, [1446].
Twickenham, custom at, [449].
Upstarts, description of one, [1623].
Vacina, or Vacuna, goddess of rest, [1160].
Valentine’s day and eve, customs on, [222], &c.
Vane, sir H., representatives of, [1378].
Vaughan, sir R., notice of his park and manor, [1024], &c.
Vauxhall gardens, [611], [783]; minor Vauxhall, (White Conduit-house,) [1204].
Vega, Lopez de, died, notice of, [1132].
Vernon, admiral, notice of, [1392].
Vice, a personage in the old mysteries, [501].
Victor’s, St., abbey, [998].
Village May-pole, engraving of, [593].
Villeloin, abbé, curious remark of, [1141].
Villiers, sir Edward, [1376].
Vincent, Mr., musician, notice of, [1568].
Virginia, in America, lottery for, [1612].
Visions in dreams, remarks on relative to the blind, [1540].
Wadeley, lady, aged 105, notice of, [880].
Wafers, account of, [265].
Waites, Christmas, [1645].
Wakes, singular directions about one, [165].
Wales, superstitious intimations of death in, [1019]; description of a Welch baptism, [1613].
Walking, extraordinary, [1293].
Wallace, sir William, executed, [1110].
Walton, Isaac, motto to his book on angling, and advertisement of the first edition, [1313].
Wandsworth, Garrett near, election of a mayor for, [819], [824].
Warkworth, ash meadow in, custom at, [1179].
Warren and Cann, wrestling match of, [1338].
Warwick, custom at, [869].
——, earl of, Lawless court belonging to, [12]; curious letter from Guy the kingmaker, [1403].
Washerwomen, nocturnal, apparitions of, [978].
Wassail, [7].
Watch-tower (old) of London-wall, engravings relative to, [629].
Watson, rev. J., remarkable sermon of, [149].
Wax (sealing) account of, [263].
Weald of Kent, origin of the term, [450].
Weather-guide, cheap, [491].
Weavers of Blackburn, memorial of their wretched state, [562].
Weber, Carl Maria Von, died, and notice of, [766].
Wedding, dress for one in 1550, [797].
Welch baptism, description of, [1613].
Wellington under the Wrekin, custom of, [599].
Wells, the freeman’s well at Alnwick, [249]; custom of dressing wells, [636]; rebukes and sentences in Scotland for going to them for cures, [686]; an old one at Pentonville, [1199].
Welner, J., a German chemist, anecdote of, [635].
Wesley, J., his first pulpit, [1564].
West, the, wonder of, notice and engraving of, [1631].
—— Indies, state of slaves in, in 1736, [1304].
——, Benj., painter, engraving and autograph of, [366].
Westbury, custom at, [1333].
Westminster, notice of an election for, [854].
—— bridge, lottery for, [1451].
Westmoreland, custom in, [450].
Wetting the block, custom of, [471].
Wheel, lottery, engraving of, [1439]; case of a ticket sticking in the wheel, [1454].
Whichmore, Staffordshire, custom at, [807].
Whig, old, description a newspaper so called, [1301].
“Whims and Oddities,” notice of, and cuts from, [1537], &c.
Whipping, curious action at law for not being whipped, [1389].
White Conduit, the, at Pentonville, engraving and notice of, [1197], [1202].
White, —, his curious address to the devil, [1239].
——, rev. B., his account of various ceremonies at Seville, [405], [421], [436].
Whitefield, G., his first pulpit, [1564].
Whitehaven, customs at, [1645].
Whitsuntide, [663].
Whittaker, C., his charity at Birmingham, [1627].
Whittle, Jemmy, [542].
Whitworth, doctor, the, notice of, [477].
Wigan, Lancashire, abundance of gossamer at, [331].
Wigs, a glass one, [1196].
William III., centenary of his landing, [1374]; notices of some of the king’s followers, [1371], &c.
Willis, Dr. Browne, his autograph, and anecdotes of him, [292], [295], [296].
Wills, duchess of Exeter’s, [531]; a curious one of H. Trigg, [1325].
Wiltshire, customs in, [1207], [1399].
Wimble, Will, of the Spectator, (Mr. T. Morecroft,) notice of, [897].
Winchester college, anecdote, [710].
Windsor, St. George’s chapel at, completed by sir R. Bray, [1072].
Winnold fair, Norfolk, [283].
Winter in town, [48].
Wisbech, St. Mary, fête at, [882].
Witchcraft, notices of, [181], [1328]; Margaret and Phillis Flower executed for, [371]; still much credited in Scotland, [685], [688].
Witheridge, the pretended Caraboo born at, [1638].
Withrington, earl, Camberwell beadle a descendant from, [1564].
Wives, mortality of, in Essex and Kent, [923]; sale of her dead husband by one, [1301].
Women, riders at horse-racing, [1061]; custom at their lyings-in, [1333]; lottery for, in India, [1518]; Ledyard’s interesting character of, [1614].
Wonder of the west, engraving and notice of, [1631].
Wood, Mr. alderman, [1389].
—— Mr., his speculation about iron, [520].
Woodcock, Elizabeth, buried in a snow storm, [175].
Woodstock, notice of the novel called, and history of the good devil of, [582].
Wolverhampton fair, [939].
Woolcombers, deserted by St. Blase, [1560].
Woolley, James, the miser of Loscoe, notice of, [1192].
Worms, Palmer, notice of, [1128].
Worcestershire, custom in, [1576].
Wraiths and fetches, notice of, [1111], &c.
Wrestling, sir T. Parkyns, author of a book on, sculptured on his monument as wrestling with death, [874]; different modes of wrestling, [1009]; wrestling at the Eagle tavern, [1333]; for a boar’s head at Christmas, [1649].
Wright, rev. —, in Scotland, and presbytery of Ayr, notice of, [1157].
Writing, hand, curious instances of, [1215].
Writing ink, receipts for, [265], [266].
Yardley, Mr., a fraudulent debtor, [1241].
Yarmouth dinners, custom at, [636].
Year, the, riddle on, [26].
Yenlet creek, notice of, [924].
Yeomen of the guard, instituted in 1485, [1351].
York, duke of, anecdote about his celebrated speech, [1575].
Yorkshire, customs in, [21], [548].