Hop cribbing, [222].
Hop-pole hotel, [35].
Hops, [228].
Hopton family, [322].
House of Industry, [38], [43].
Housling pence, or Sacrament money, [31].
Huddington, [188], [205].
Iccomb, [95].
Image, destruction of at Worcester, [285].
Incumbents of Worcester, [17], [26], [39], [45], [51], [56], [59], [62], [66], [69], [73].
Inkberrow, [78], [83], [125], [177], [132], [218], [253], [311], [315], [316], [321].
Javelin men, [281].
Jeffries' Manuscripts, [136].
Kempsey, [15], [131], [147], [245], [271].
Kidderminster, [3], [14], [75], [100], [103], [125], [127], [151], [184], [185], [201], [211], [217], [249], [264], [268], [271], [293], [302], [305], [308].
King Charles's coins, [228].
King Charles's staff, [236].
King's Norton, [96], [103], [104], [113], [132], [203], [210], [240], [254], [260], [265], [271], [283], [292], [294], [310], [313], [314], [316].
King's tax, [27], [234].
Kington, [4], [80].
Knighton, [156], [272].
Knights of the Royal Oak, [266].
Knightwick, [128], [142], [166], [200], [252], [326].
Knightwood, fines for not taking, [309].
Kyre, [158], [161].
Lechmere family, [104], [122], [264], [292].
Lee, Rev. Dr., [261].
Legends and traditions, [193].
Leigh, [95], [185], [188], [215], [235], [253], [272], [289], [312].
Lindridge, [112], [147], [149], [156], [157], [142], [294].
Littletons, [102], [315].
Longdon, [90], [220], [240], [259], [311], [312], [314].
Longevity, [255].
Love spells, [189].
Lulsley, [158], [200], [253].
Lygon family, [37], [87], [88], [121], [123], [184], [264], [267].
Lyttelton family, [266], [267], [286], [294].
Magistrates in 1483, [267].
Malvern, Great, [126], [133], [147], [171], [186], [195], [256], [264], [311], [313].
----, Little, [154].
Mamble and Bayton, [83], [165], [210], [255].
Manuscripts, county, [135].
Marine store dealers, [228].
Martin Hussingtree, [255].
Marriage custom, [208].
Marriages by Justices, [57].
Martley, [129], [160], [165], [252], [255], [257], [310], [313], [326].
Mathon, [169], [181], [253], [263].
May-poles, [112], [210].
Memory, fine, [259].
Milward evidences, [230].
Morris dancing, [213].
Mortuary Cloth of Clothiers' Company, [305].
Moseley, [126], [265], [294], [317].
Mothering Sunday, [210].
Nash family, [37], [57], [119], [121], [123], [265], [310].
Naunton Beauchamp, [207].
Needle trade, [228].
New Year's customs, [221].
Nicknames, [218].
Nonconformity, [268].
Norbury family, [119], [120].
Northfield, [125], [132], [241], [253], [310].
Norton-juxta-Kempsey, [131].
Norton near Evesham, [205], [239].
Oddingley, [128], [202].
Offenham, [179], [210], [215], [253], [298], [313], [315].
Oil lamps first set up, [38], [41], [55].
Oldberrow, [297].
Oldbury, [116], [305], [313].
Old customs, [205].
Old family, [239].
Old sayings, [238].
Oldswinford, [80], [271].
Ombersley, [128], [266], [295], [310].
Organs at Cathedral, [152].
Orleton, [158].
Overbury, [262].
Oxford circuit, [275].
Pageant-house, [232].
Pakington family, [71], [122], [130], [270], [294], [310].
Paper, early mention of, [284].
Papists, [31], [75], [112].
Pensax, [155], [165], [288].
Pensham, [315].
Peopleton, [270].
Perambulations, [13], [22], [29], [41], [51], [55], [64], [68], [72], [222].
Pershore, [125], [174], [179], [239], [245], [252], [265], [270], [271], [303], [310], [311], [314].
Pillory, [84], [230].
Plague, [132].
Plum-pudding and pancake bells, [215].
Plymouth, Earl of, [87], [93].
Poor, [89].
Population of Worcester parishes, [17], [26], [39], [45], [51], [56], [59], [62], [66], [69], [73].
Powick, [55], [64], [253], [289].
Primitive Cathedral customs, [206].
Printer, first at Worcester, [236].
Quakers, [36], [39], [53], [112], [114].
Queen Elizabeth, [292], [298].
Queries, [228].
Rats, old English, [284].
Records of the City of Worcester, [1] to [73].
Redditch, [132], [228].
Redmarley, [261], [272], [311], [312], [315], [316].
Reformation, [4].
Ribbesford, [75], [163], [165], [193], [272], [294], [315].
Ridley the martyr, [261].
Ringing for the parson, [205].
Ripple, [75], [237], [272], [289], [314].
Rock, [150], [161], [204], [255], [256], [257], [272], [312], [314].
Roundhead's description of Worcestershire, [249].
Rouselench, [235], [316].
Royalists compounding, [292].
Royal oak day, [209].
Rushock, [79], [102], [182], [314].
Rushout family, [87], [122].
Saddle silver, [66].
Saffron, [237].
Salt, [36], [101], [297].
Salwarpe, [57], [85], [187], [271], [282], [291], [295], [312].
Sandys family, [123], [266], [295].
Sapey, [159].
Sculptures on churches, [235].
Seabright family, [295].
Seal of Worcester, [284].
Sedgberrow, [289].
Severn Stoke, [2], [13], [15], [271], [294], [313].
Shelsley, [75], [137], [159], [160], [185], [187], [199], [253], [256], [297].
Ship money, [308].
Shipston, [77], [303], [322].
Shrawley, [80], [166], [180], [293], [311].
Small parishes, [296].
Social regulations, [97].
Somers, the great Lord, [1].
Spetchley, [126], [228].
St. Alban's, [56].
St. Andrew's, [45], [197].
St. Clement's, [66], [197], [225].
St. Helen's, [52].
St. John's, [61], [285], [294], [312], [313].
St. Martin's, [57].
St. Michael's, [1], [131], [295].
St. Nicholas, [26].
St. Peter's, [39], [131].
St. Swithin's, [17].
Stanford, [137], [142], [145], [154], [161], [204], [248], [252], [314].
Star and Garter hotel, [35].
Staunton, [314], [316].
Stewponey, [232].
Stockton, [165].
Stoke Prior, [102], [132], [180].
Stone, [240], [249], [293], [314].
Stourbridge, [75], [100], [103], [124], [125], [133], [161], [182], [186], [206], [218], [231], [232], [233], [240], [253], [271], [304].
Stourport, [289].
Stourton Castle, [127], [232], [328].
Strensham, [256], [294], [295], [314].
Suckley, [158], [173], [249], [272], [296], [310], [314], [316].
Sunday schools, [38].
Superstitions, [167].
Talbot family, [266], [282], [295].
Tardebigg, [102].
Tenbury, [75], [103], [125], [142], [147], [149], [158], [180], [200], [220], [237], [238], [239], [255], [256], [272], [304].
Tenure, [218].
Theatres, [132].
Tibberton, [203], [313].
Tobacco, [103], [242].
Touching for King's evil, [27], [181].
Townsend Manuscripts, [141].
Traces of the Stuarts, [318].
Tradesmen's tokens, [298].
Traveller's passport, [129].
Tredington, [240], [312].
Trial by combat, [147].
Trumpeters at Assizes, [282].
Tything, [93].
Upton-on-Severn, [75], [85], [125], [130], [146], [270], [311], [313], [314].
Upton Snodsbury, [61], [245].
Upton Warren, [132], [253].
Vacarius' Roman law, [143].
Valentine's Day,

[212].
Vernon family, [264], [295].
Versified will, [262].
Vineyards, [288].
Virtuous parish, [296].
Wages of Magistrates, [291].
Waits, [213].
Wake at Claines, [72].
Ward, Lord, [87].
Watchman, the last, [38].
Weather rhymes and sayings, [306].
Welland, [57], [126].
Whipping, [84].
Whitbourne, [128].
White Ladies, [212], [256].
Whitsun farthings, [14], [23], [56], [65], [69].
Whoop custom, [217].
Wichbold, [312], [313].
Wichenford, [295], [315].
Wick, [207].
Winnington family, [87], [123], [137].
Witchcraft, [78], [183], [142].
Witley, [75], [125], [160].
Wolverley, [142], [201], [259], [311], [325].
Yardley, [313], [314], [316].

PARISH RECORDS
OF
THE CITY OF WORCESTER.

St. Michael's.

The register of this parish commences with the year 1546, but as the entries for about half a century are apparently in the same handwriting, it is probable that in or soon after the year 1597, when an order was issued that all parochial registers should be transcribed on vellum, an older register of St. Michael's was copied on that now existing. It is on vellum and in excellent preservation—which probably will not be said some two or three centuries hence respecting the common and perishable paper registers now in use by Government authority. The first entry which attracted my attention in this register was—

"1648.—John Somers, gent., and Katherine, the daughter of John Seaverne, gent., and Mary his wife, were married Nov. 13."

And among the births are the following: