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| Abbey Buildings, The Arrangement of, | [658] |
| Abraham and Sarah, | [101] |
| Abyssinian Ladies, Dress of the, | [491] |
| Abyssinian Lady, Tattooed, | [495] |
| Advertisement, an American, | [111] |
| Advertisements, Curious, | [406], [447], [455], [478] |
| —— in the last Century, | [207] |
| —— of a Dying-speech Book, | [116] |
| —— New Style of, | [249] |
| —— a Pudding as an, | [228] |
| —— of a Fleet Parson, | [116] |
| A False Find, | [31] |
| A Female Sampson, | [62] |
| A Fine Old Soldier, | [314] |
| A Floating City, | [308] |
| A Funeral appropriately conducted, | [235] |
| Aged Persons, instances of many Dying, | [283] |
| Ages of Celebrated Men, | [102] |
| A Great Marvel seen in Scotland, | [138] |
| A Happy Family, | [28] |
| A Harmless Eccentric, | [186] |
| Albertus Magnus, Receipts from, | [91] |
| Ale Too Strong, | [267] |
| Alexandria, Pharos at, | [274] |
| Algerine Invasion of Ireland, | [176] |
| A Last Chance, | [103] |
| All Humbugs, | [85] |
| A Lucky Find, | [6] |
| A Man in a Vault Eleven Days, | [69] |
| —— Carries his House on his Head, | [290] |
| —— Selling his own Body, | [95] |
| —— aged One Hundred Years, | [256] |
| A Monster, | [287] |
| Ambassador, French, Entry into London, | [262] |
| —— why Held by the Arms, | [162] |
| Amphitheatres, | [102] |
| Amulets worn by Egyptian Females, | [120] |
| —— Brotche, | [332] |
| Amusements in the 15th Century, | [254] |
| —— in 1743, Popular, | [56] |
| An apparent Singularity accounted for, | [93] |
| An Eccentric Tourist, | [139] |
| Ancients, Credulity of the, | [144] |
| Anglo-Saxons, Sepulchral Barrow of, | [26] |
| Animals, Food of, | [24] |
| —— Communication between, | [294] |
| Animation, Suspended, | [374] |
| Anne Boleyn, Execution of, | [375] |
| Antimony, | [570] |
| Antipathies, | [391] |
| —— Unaccountable, | [196] |
| Antiquities, Egyptian, | [642] |
| Apollo, Oracles of, in France, | [675] |
| Arabian Horses, | [291] |
| Arabs, Horses of the, | [498] |
| Archbishop, an, Washing Feet, | [5] |
| Arch, A Beautiful, | [433] |
| A remarkable Old Man, | [214] |
| Armlet, Ancient, | [425] |
| Armour, Ancient, Curious Piece of, | [341] |
| Arms, Abyssinian, | [509] |
| Artists, Duration of Life amongst, | [196] |
| A Sea above the Sky, | [81] |
| Ash, the Shrew, | [397] |
| Ass, The, | [116] |
| Assiduity and Perseverance, | [304] |
| Attar of Roses, Origin of, | [343] |
| Attar of Roses, | [298] |
| A Woman takes the Lighted Match, | [40] |
| —— Defends a Post singly, | [52] |
| Authors, some Learned, Amusements of, | [137] |
| A Unique Library, | [211] |
| Aztec Children, | [37] |
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| Babes of Bethlehem, The, | [660] |
| Bagpipes, Irish, | [505] |
| Ballot, Origin of the, | [673] |
| Bandoliers, | [560] |
| Bank, A Mattrass for a, | [323] |
| Banner, The Templars', called Beauseant, | [564] |
| Banquets of the Ancients, | [439] |
| Bara, a Machine used in Sicily, | [415] |
| Barbers, | [94] |
| Barometer, Incident connected with, | [136] |
| Bartholomew Fair in 1700, Handbill of, | [148] |
| Bastille of Paris, Storming of the, | [194] |
| Bazaar, a Turkish, | [614] |
| Bear, a Shaved, | [17] |
| Beard, Care of the, | [503] |
| Beau Brummell (a) of the 17th Century, | [61] |
| Bective Abbey, | [392] |
| Bedesmen in the time of Henry VII., | [593] |
| Bedford Missal, The, | [407] |
| Bee, The Queen, | [25] |
| Bees, Obedient to Training, | [95] |
| Beggars, Severe Enactment against, | [302] |
| —— selected as Models by Painters, | [281] |
| Bell, The Great, of Burmah, | [559] |
| —— of Rouen, | [650] |
| Bells, | [193] |
| —— of the Ancients, | [279] |
| —— of St. Mura, | [411] |
| Bell-Shrine, an Ancient, | [347] |
| Bellows, Primitive Pair of, | [637] |
| Bible, | [118], [372], [490] |
| —— Bunyan's, | [121] |
| —— Summary of the, | [169] |
| —— used by Charles I. on the Scaffold, | [271] |
| Billy in the Salt-box, | [181] |
| Birds, The Ear of, not to be Deceived, | [228] |
| Blind Jack, | [23] |
| —— Granny, | [70] |
| —— Workman, | [155] |
| Boat, Burmese, | [667] |
| Bobart, Jacob, | [22] |
| Boiling to Death, | [663] |
| Bolton Abbey, Origin of, | [273] |
| Bombardier Beetle, The, | [68] |
| Bones, Adaptation of to Age, | [52] |
| Book-shaped Watch, | [328] |
| Boots an object of Honour, | [232] |
| Boydell, Alderman, | [9] |
| Brama, the Hindoo Deity, | [555] |
| Bramins, Philosophy of the, | [371] |
| Brank, The, | [2] |
| Brass Medal, of our Saviour, | [241] |
| Breakfasting Hut in 1745, | [158] |
| Bribery, | [141] |
| Bricks of Babylon, The, | [612] |
| Bridge, Old London, The Gate of, | [561] |
| —— Chinese, | [439] |
| —— Suspension, at Freybourg, | [166] |
| Britannia Tubular Bridge, | [172] |
| British Islands, Size of the, | [245] |
| Brooch, Ancient Scandinavian, | [401] |
| Bruce, Lord Edward, Case containing the Heart of, | [215] |
| Brunswick, House of, Anecdote of the, | [459] |
| Buckinger, Matthew, | [53] |
| Buddist Temples, Instruments used in, | [621] |
| Bumper, | [153] |
| Bunyan's, John, Tomb, | [156] |
| Burial Places of Distinguished Men, | [390] |
| Burmah, Elephant God of, | [537] |
| Bust, Etrurian, An Ancient, | [677] |
| Byng, Admiral, Execution of, | [182] |
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| Cader Idris, | [118] |
| Cagots, The, | [638] |
| Calculation, Interesting, | [474] |
| Cambridge Clods, | [20] |
| Camden Cup, | [250] |
| Camel, as a Scape-Goat, | [522] |
| Cameleon, The Eye of the, | [479] |
| Candles in the Church, | [449] |
| Cannon, Ancient, raised from the Sea, | [40] |
| —— at the Siege of Constantinople, | [69] |
| —— First Iron, | [320] |
| Canute, The Discovery of the Body of, | [176] |
| Cardinals, Colour of the Hat for, | [234] |
| Cards, Games with, in the 16th Century, | [618] |
| Carfax Conduit, | [333] |
| Carronades, | [149] |
| Carrara, Francis, Cruelty of, | [504] |
| Carriage, Turkish, | [655] |
| Cascade des Pelerines, | [135] |
| Cat, Instinct in a, | [353] |
| Catacombs at Rome, | [87] |
| Cataract, Extraordinary, | [223] |
| Cat-Clock, A, | [631] |
| Cats, White, | [51] |
| —— with Knotted Tails, | [238] |
| Caves, The Hawthornden, | [382] |
| Chaffinch Contest, | [651] |
| Chalice, Iona, The Golden, | [422] |
| Changes of Fortune, | [371] |
| Chaplain, Instructions to a, | [458] |
| Chapter-House in Henry VIIth's time, | [599] |
| Charing Cross, Autobiography of, | [128] |
| Charity instead of Pomp, | [407] |
| —— Rewarded by a Mendicant, | [257] |
| Charlemagne, Clock presented to, | [145] |
| Charles I., Anecdote relative to, | [174] |
| —— II., Privy Purse, Expenses of, | [234] |
| Cherry Tree, | [458] |
| Chess, in India, How it Originated, | [305] |
| Chieftain, Ancient Scottish, | [500] |
| Chilcott, the Giant, | [71] |
| Child, Test of Courage in a, | [132] |
| Children of Aged Parents, | [319] |
| China, Origin of the Great Wall of, | [233] |
| Chinese Dainties, | [91] |
| —— Ivory Balls, | [144] |
| —— Method of Fishing, | [315] |
| —— Punishment of the Kang, | [134] |
| —— Ladies, Small Feet of, | [475] |
| —— Mirrors, | [425] |
| —— School, | [525] |
| —— Therapeutics, | [369] |
| Chocolate, Early use of, | [52] |
| Christmas Customs, Bygone, | [14], [19] |
| Christening, Novel Mode of Celebrating a, | [393] |
| Chronology of Remarkable Events, | [218] |
| Church of Donore, James II. and the, | [557] |
| Cigars, Extraordinary Fashion in, | [274] |
| Circumstance, a Curious, | [430] |
| —— Extraordinary, | [15] |
| Cistern of Majolica Ware, | [597] |
| Clock at Hernhuth, Watchmen Imitating, | [20] |
| —— Wonderful, | [167] |
| Clocks, Early, | [171] |
| Clonmacnois, Ruins of, | [289] |
| Coachmen of the Time of Charles II., | [257] |
| Cock Fighting at Schools, | [219] |
| Coffee, | [153] |
| Coffee and Tea, | [122] |
| Coffee-house in London, the First, | [4] |
| —— Attractions in 1760, | [41] |
| Coin, The First, with Britannia on it, | [468] |
| Coinage, Variations in the, | [650] |
| Coincidences, some Curious, | [434] |
| Collars, Stone, Ancient, | [665] |
| Column at Cussi, | [533] |
| Comb, Curious Indian, | [657] |
| Conecte, Thomas, | [433] |
| Confectionary Art in 1660, | [373] |
| Conjuring, Public Taste for in 1718, | [122] |
| Conway Church, Inscription in, | [112] |
| Coral Reefs, | [73] |
| Coronations, Prices for Seats at, | [160] |
| —— Expenses at, | [283] |
| Corpulent Man, | [78] |
| Corpulence, Cure for, | [80] |
| Cost of Articles in the 14th Century, | [330] |
| Costume, Ancient Female, | [71], [78] |
| Costumes, | [395], [437], [536], [544], [547], [630], [651] |
| Couteau-de-Chasse, Ancient, | [633] |
| Cranmer's (Archbishop) Dietary, | [137] |
| Credulity, Extraordinary Instance of, | [311] |
| Cricket-Matches, Extraordinary, | [408] |
| Criminal, a Rich and Cruel, | [450] |
| Criminals, Old Custom Relating to, | [598] |
| Cromwell's Bridge at Glengariff, | [648] |
| Cross of Cong, The, | [457] |
| —— —— Muiredach, | [369] |
| —— Ordeal of the, | [463] |
| Crown of Charlemagne, | [377] |
| Cucking-Stool, The, | [1] |
| Cupid, The, of the Hindoos, | [230] |
| Curious Feats, | [181], [239] |
| —— Law, | [8] |
| —— Manuscript, | [214] |
| Curiously-shaped Vessel, | [376] |
| Curiously-shaped Drinking Cups, | [413] |
| Curiosities, Strange, | [457] |
| Custom, Means of attracting, | [683] |
| Customs, Singular Local, | [653] |
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| Daffeys' Elixir, | [173] |
| Dagger, An Ancient, | [673] |
| Dagobert, Ancient Chair of, | [421] |
| Dance, Curious Provincial in France, | [679] |
| Dances, Fashionable of the last Century, | [220] |
| Dancing Rooms, | [57] |
| Dead, Fashions for the, | [523] |
| Dead Bodies, Preservation of, | [251], [280], [638] |
| Death, Boiling to, | [663] |
| —— Lunar Influence in, | [346] |
| —— Pressing to, | [515] |
| Decorative Drinking Vessel, | [336] |
| Della Robbia Ware, | [601] |
| Demons, Bribing the, | [531] |
| Dervishes, Dancing, | [669] |
| Desolation, Scene of, | [329] |
| Destitute Cats, Asylum for, | [280] |
| Dial and Fountain in Leadenhall Street, | [553] |
| Dilemma, | [499] |
| Dinner, an Egyptian, | [537] |
| —— in China, | [596] |
| —— Party in the 17th Century, | [609] |
| Diogenes in a Pithos, not Tub, | [101] |
| Disorders Cured by Fright, | [307] |
| Dispute and appropriate Decision, | [140] |
| Dog (A) Extinguishing a Fire, | [20] |
| —— Combination of Instinct and Force, | [284] |
| —— A Sensible, Refusing to Bait a Cat, | [76] |
| —— Persevering, | [80] |
| —— Friendship, | [84] |
| —— A Piscatorial, | [367] |
| —— Sensible, | [376] |
| —— in Japan, | [622] |
| —— Figures of on Ancient Tombs, | [682] |
| Dog-wheel, The Old, | [101] |
| Dole in consequence of a Dream, | [503] |
| Doles, | [399] |
| Down among the Dead Men, | [185] |
| Dress, Forty years ago, | [212] |
| Dress in London, | [18], [114], [253], [295] |
| —— Fastidiousness at an Old Age, | [243] |
| —— of the Ancient Britons, | [79] |
| Drinking Bouts in Persia, | [547] |
| Drinks, Intoxicating, Antiquity of, | [611] |
| Dropping Wells, | [142] |
| Druids' Seat, | [464] |
| Drunkenness, the Offspring of, | [666] |
| Duns in the Mahratta Country, | [379] |
| Dyaks of Borneo, | [275] |
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| Ears, Character Indicated by, | [65] |
| Earthenware, English, | [575] |
| Earthquake Panic, | [520] |
| —— Swallowed up by an, | [329] |
| —— at Lisbon, | [200] |
| —— Nottingham, in 1816, | [280] |
| Earthquakes, | [398], [432] |
| East India House, the First, | [206] |
| Eating for a Wager, | [4] |
| Eccentric Englishman, An, | [438] |
| Eccentrics, a Couple of, | [318] |
| Echo, Extraordinary, | [341] |
| Eddystone Lighthouse, | [108] |
| Edicts against Fiddlers, | [328] |
| Eel, Large, | [10] |
| Egypt, | [491] |
| —— Pyramids of, | [130] |
| Egyptian Toys in the British Museum, | [129] |
| Elephant Detects a Robber, An, | [99] |
| Elephants Frightened at Pigs, | [9] |
| Energy, A Triumph of, | [193] |
| England before the Romans, | [86] |
| Englishman, A Fat, | [28] |
| Epitaph, an Inculpatory, | [268] |
| Etna, Mount, Great Eruption of, | [451] |
| —— Changes of, | [406] |
| Europa, Ruins of, | [567] |
| Exchequer-bills, Origin of, | [676] |
| Execution, in 1793, | [84] |
| Extraordinary Tree, | [183] |
| Extravagance at Elections, | [149] |
| —— Oriental, | [499] |
| Eyam, The Desolation of, | [226] |
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| Fallacy of the Virtues of a Seventh Son, | [315] |
| False Accusers, Punishing, | [230] |
| Farmers, Illustrious, | [304] |
| Fashionable Disfigurement, | [213] |
| Fayence, The, of Henry II. of France, | [591] |
| Feasts, Anglo-Saxon, | [517] |
| Federation, Fête of the, | [288] |
| Female Intrepidity, Extraordinary, | [248] |
| Ferrers, Earl, Execution of, | [107] |
| Figg, Champion, | [113] |
| Finger Rings, Porcelain, | [486] |
| Fire at Burwell, Cambridgeshire, | [293] |
| Fire-arms in the Tower of London, | [29] |
| Fire-engines, When first made, | [223] |
| Fish, Shooting, | [432] |
| —— High Price of, in London, | [312] |
| —— Extraordinary Ponds and, | [561] |
| —— Tame, | [659] |
| —— Wonderful, | [542] |
| Fishermen, Bulgarian, | [497] |
| Fleet Marriages, about 1740, | [299] |
| Floods, the Morayshire, | [126] |
| Flying Coach, | [228] |
| Fog of 1783, The Great, | [414] |
| Font at Kilcarn, The, | [417] |
| Food of the Ancients, | [450] |
| Foot-Racing in 1699, | [457] |
| Foreigners in London in 1567, | [371] |
| Fortune, Change of, | [371] |
| Fox Killed by a Swan, | [4] |
| Francis I., Funeral Oration of, | [363] |
| Franklin's Celebrated Letter to Strahan, | [39] |
| Frederick the Great at Table, | [579] |
| French Dress, | [102] |
| —— Assignats, the Origin, | [253] |
| Friars, Preaching, | [221] |
| Frost Fairs, | [67] |
| —— Extraordinary, | [209] |
| Funeral, an Eccentric, | [395] |
| —— Jar, | [481] |
| —— Obsequies, Strange, | [108] |
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| Game Preserves at Chantilly, | [362] |
| Gamblers, Chinese, Playing for Fingers, | [593] |
| Gambling, Legalised, | [141] |
| —— Extraordinary, | [359] |
| Gaming, a National Taste for, | [267] |
| Gander, an Old, | [27] |
| Garden, an Egyptian, | [349] |
| —— at Kenilworth, when in its Prime, | [641] |
| —— Love of, | [419] |
| —— Sacred, | [420] |
| —— The Hanging, of Babylon, | [558] |
| Garrick's Cup, | [232] |
| Gauntlet of Henry, Prince of Wales, | [661] |
| George II., Proclamation for, | [200] |
| Georgians as Topers, | [511] |
| Giant Tree, | [229] |
| Gibraltar, Siege of, | [6] |
| Gigantic Bones, | [248] |
| Glaives, | [504] |
| Glove Money, | [503] |
| Gloves, Anne Boleyn's, | [600] |
| —— Origin of "Pin Money", | [275] |
| Grace Knives, | [641] |
| Graham Island, | [443] |
| Graves of the Stone Period, | [363] |
| Greek Vases, | [501] |
| Gretna Green Marriages, | [159] |
| Grey Man's Path, The, | [528] |
| Grinning for a Wager, | [13] |
| Groaning Boards, | [66] |
| Groat, a Castle for a, | [470] |
| Grotto, Remarkable, and Story connected with it, | [625] |
| Guillotine, Decapitation by the, | [8] |
| Gun, Celebrated, | [568] |
| Gunpowder, Making a Candlestick of, | [249] |
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| Hackney Coach, The Earliest, | [211] |
| Hair, Ancient, Quantity and Colour of the, | [4] |
| —— Price of Human, | [242] |
| —— Remarkable Preservation of, | [122] |
| —— Transplantation of, | [40] |
| —— Turned Grey by Fright, | [327] |
| —— Two of the Fathers, on False, | [24] |
| Hamster Rat, The, | [265] |
| Handbills, Distributing, | [178] |
| —— from Peckham Fair, in 1726, | [72] |
| Hanging a Mayor, | [140] |
| "Happy Dispatch" in Japan, The, | [578] |
| Head Breaker, A., | [338] |
| Head-dress, Monstrous, | [242] |
| —— Ornament, Antique, | [393] |
| Hejirs, The, | [222] |
| Helmet, Early English, | [632] |
| —— of Sir John Crosby, | [520] |
| Henry I., Dream of, | [26] |
| —— II., Stripped when Dead, | [39] |
| —— V., Cradle of, | [416] |
| —— the VIIIth's Chair, | [488] |
| —— VIII., Curious Extracts from the Household Book of Lady Mary, Daughter of, | [399] |
| Highlander, A Remarkable, | [238] |
| Highwaymen in 1782, | [5] |
| Hindoo Computation, | [507] |
| —— Rites, Cruelty of, | [627] |
| Historical Anecdote, | [156] |
| Holy Water Sprinkler, | [532] |
| Homer in a Nutshell, | [127] |
| Hooking a Boy Instead of a Fish, | [319] |
| Hoops, in 1740, | [6] |
| Horse, A, Getting himself Shod, | [76] |
| Horse-race, Indenture of a, | [52] |
| Horses of the Arabs, | [498] |
| Horses, Different Sorts of, in the 16th Century, | [634] |
| —— Feeding one another, | [368] |
| —— Vicious, Novel Way of Curing, | [174] |
| Hot Cross Buns, | [251] |
| House, Novel Way of Designating a, | [539] |
| —— of Hens' Feathers, | [646] |
| Household Rules of the 16th Century, | [518] |
| How Distant Ages are Connected, | [200] |
| Hudson, Jeffery, the Dwarf of the Court of Charles I., | [472] |
| "Humbug," Origin of the Term, | [97] |
| Hume, David, on his own Death, | [215] |
| Hundred Families' Lock, | [435] |
| Hunting Party, a Regal, | [391] |
| Husband, Novel way of Purchasing a, | [275] |
| Hydra, Extraordinary Reproductive Power of the, | [490] |
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| Ice, Ground, | [506] |
| Ignorance and Fear, | [290] |
| Impostor, An, | [50] |
| Impudence or Candour? Which is it? | [239] |
| Incense Chariot, An Ancient, | [513] |
| Incremation, Instance of, | [353] |
| Indian Jugglers, European Balancing, | [293] |
| Inhumanity, Extraordinary Instances of, | [436] |
| Innkeeper's Bill in 1762, | [431] |
| Insects, Wonderful Formation of the Eye in, | [467] |
| Insect Life, Minuteness of, | [338] |
| Instinct of Animals, | [410] |
| Insurance Agent, Canvass of an, | [465] |
| Interesting and Fanciful Relique, | [243] |
| Inventors, The Perils of, | [141] |
| Irrigation, Turkish Machine for, | [349] |
| "It's much the same Now", | [94] |
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| James II. and the Church of Donore, | [557] |
| James II., Spent by the Corporation of Coventry at the Entertainment of, in his Progress through Coventry, | [378] |
| Javanese, Superstition of the, | [244] |
| Jenny's Whim, | [174] |
| Jewel, A Curious, which belonged to James I., | [456] |
| Jews, Wealth of the, | [359] |
| Johnson, Dr., A Visit to the Residence of, | [48] |
| Joy, William, the English Sampson, | [176] |
| Judas Iscariot, Legends of, | [339] |
| Judges attending Public Balls, | [303] |
| —— Salaries, | [446] |
| Jugglers in Japan, | [529] |
| —— of Modern Egypt, | [342] |
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| Kildare, Death of the Earl of, | [172] |
| Killed by eating Mutton and Pudding, | [73] |
| King Edward I., Household Expenses of, | [231] |
| —— Fine for Insulting a, | [149] |
| —— of Kippen, The, | [139] |
| —— John and Pope Innocent, | [463] |
| King-Maker, Warwick the, | [527] |
| King's Bed, Ceremonial for Making the, | [562] |
| —— Cock Crower, The, | [137] |
| —— Dishes with the Cook's Name, | [235] |
| —— Stone, The, at Kingston, | [461] |
| Kitchen, Spacious, | [383] |
| Knight's Costume of the 13th Century, | [480] |
| Knives and Forks, | [133] |
| Knox, John, The Pulpit of, at St. Andrews, | [269] |
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| Lady, Origin of the Word, | [147] |
| Lagmi, and the Use made of it, | [623] |
| Lambeth Wells, the Apollo Gardens, | [272] |
| Lamps, Roman, | [437] |
| Land, Change in the Value of, | [196] |
| Landslip at Colebroke, Shropshire, | [184] |
| Lantern, Curious, | [100] |
| Lauderdale, The Duchess of, | [403] |
| Law of the Mozcas, | [454] |
| Law and Order in the Streets of London, | [131] |
| Laws, a Hundred years ago, Severity of, | [234] |
| Leadenhall Street, Old Dial and Fountain in, | [553] |
| Legend, A Superstitious, | [351] |
| Legends among Savage Nations, | [146] |
| Length of Life without Bodily Exercise, | [274] |
| Lepers, Treatment of, in England, | [493] |
| Leprosy, Lazars, and Lazar Houses, | [169] |
| Letter, Extraordinary, | [322] |
| Lettsom's (Dr.) Reasons, | [71] |
| Lewson, The Eccentric Lady, | [221] |
| Life, An Eventful, | [427] |
| —— in Death, | [443] |
| Lighting the Streets, Bequests for, | [310] |
| Lightning, Calmuc's Opinion of, | [63] |
| Living, Style of, among the Nobility of the 15th Century, | [533] |
| —— in the 16th Century, | [357] |
| Lizards, Swallowing, | [41] |
| Loaf Sugar, | [166] |
| Locomotives, the First, | [96] |
| Locusts, | [151] |
| London Localities in the 16th Century, | [526] |
| London Water Carrier in Olden Time, | [258] |
| —— in 1756, State of, | [147] |
| London Resorts a Hundred Years Ago, | [197] |
| Longevity, | [269] |
| Long Meg and her Daughters, | [394] |
| Lord Mayor's Feast in 1663, | [551] |
| Lotteries, | [619] |
| Louis XVI., Execution of, | [258] |
| Luther's (Martin) Tankard, | [149] |
| Luxury in 1562, | [418] |
| Lynch's Castle, Galway, | [581] |
| |
| Mackarel, Price of, | [576] |
| Madness, Sudden Recovery from, | [168] |
| Madyn, the Capital of Persia, Magnificence of, when invaded by the Saracens A.D. 636, | [554] |
| Magic Rain Stone, | [168] |
| Magician's Mirror and Bracelet, | [344] |
| Magnet, The Summers' or Loadstone, | [41] |
| Magnificence of Former Times, | [111] |
| Magpie Stoning a Toad, | [92] |
| Mahomet, Personal Appearance of, | [571] |
| Mail, Ancient suit of, | [483] |
| Malady, Extraordinary, | [670] |
| Mandrin, the Smuggler, | [167] |
| Manners, Ancient, of the Italian, | [585] |
| Man without Hands, | [77] |
| Manufacture, One of the Effects of, | [142] |
| Marat, Funeral of, | [375] |
| Marriage Custom, Curious, | [543] |
| —— Lottery, | [91] |
| —— Vow, | [419] |
| Mary, Queen of Scots, her First Letter to English, | [370] |
| Mary Queen of Scots, her Candlestick, | [436] |
| Maternal Affection in a Dumb Woman, | [140] |
| May-pole in the Strand, | [534] |
| —— Fate of the Last, in the Strand, | [682] |
| May-poles, | [100] |
| Mecca, The Black Stone at, | [550] |
| Medmenham Abbey, | [429] |
| Memento-Mori Watch, | [285] |
| Mental Affection, A Curious, | [335] |
| Merman, A, | [16] |
| Mexican Tennis, | [375] |
| Michaelmas-day, Origin of eating Goose on, | [198] |
| Military Hats in Olden Time, | [75] |
| Mill at Lissoy, | [469] |
| Miraculous Escape, | [266] |
| Misers, Two, | [459] |
| Missal, The Bedford, | [163] |
| Mob Wisdom, | [294] |
| Monasteries, Libraries of destroyed, | [334] |
| Monkeys Demanding their Dead, | [415] |
| Monkish Prayers, | [383] |
| Monks, Gluttony of the, | [347] |
| —— and Friars, | [680] |
| Monsey (Dr.) bequeaths his own Body, | [93] |
| Monsoons, | [179] |
| Monument, Rock-cut, of Asia Minor, | [441] |
| Monuments, Wayside, | [587] |
| Mosque of Omar, | [316] |
| Mother Mapp, the Bone Setter, | [158] |
| Mountains, Height of, | [148] |
| Mouth, Character of the, | [106] |
| M.P.'s and Mayors, Privateers, | [176] |
| Mulgrave, Origin of the House of, | [602] |
| Mullet and Turbot, with the Romans, | [488] |
| Mummy Cases, | [409] |
| Murderess, a Young but Cruel, | [392] |
| Music, Effect of, on a Pigeon, | [64] |
| —— of the Hindoos, | [683] |
| —— —— —— Sea, | [351] |
| Musical Instrument, A Curious, | [628] |
| Musical Instruments, Burmese, | [629] |
| —— —— Egyptian, | [404] |
| |
| Names, Strange Custom about, | [295] |
| Naora, The, | [635] |
| Narrow Escape, | [121] |
| Nature, Wonderful Provision of, | [55] |
| Nebuchadnezzar, Gold Mask of, | [105] |
| Necklace, Ancient Jet, | [529] |
| Negro, Bill of Sale for a, in 1770, | [39] |
| Nell Gwynne's Looking-Glass, | [237] |
| Never Sleeping in a Bed, | [331] |
| Newspapers, Vacillating, | [514] |
| New South Wales, Dances of the Natives of, | [225] |
| Newton, A Visit to the Observatory of, | [10] |
| New Zealand, The Wingless Bird of, | [307] |
| Norman Caps, | [44] |
| North American Indian War Dispatch, | [45] |
| Nose, Effect of a New, | [102] |
| Nostrums, | [63] |
| Nun, The First English, | [330] |
| Nut Crackers, Ancient, | [236] |
| |
| Oaks, Extraordinary, | [310], [426], [466], [455] |
| —— Remarkable, | [405] |
| Old Age, Dying of, at Seventeen Years, | [47] |
| Old Books, | [360] |
| Old London Signs, | [118] |
| Opera, The First, | [567] |
| Opium, Best Position for Smoking, | [675] |
| Oræfa Mountain, in Ireland, | [356] |
| Ornaments, Personal Antique, | [293], [400], [447], [452] |
| Orthography in the Sixteenth Century, | [17] |
| |
| Pagoda, The Great Shoëmadoo, | [572] |
| Pailoos, Chinese, | [625] |
| Panama, Isthmus of, Passage through, | [148] |
| Paper, | [619] |
| Papyrus, The, | [82] |
| Parental Authority, Too Much, | [513] |
| Paris Garden at Blackfriars, | [465] |
| Parlour Dogs, | [320] |
| Passport, A Traveller's, | [679] |
| Pastimes, Popular, | [514] |
| Pâtés de Foies Gras, | [142] |
| Peacocks, | [366] |
| Pear-Tree, Great, | [454] |
| Pearls, British, | [363] |
| —— Fondness of the Romans for, | [208] |
| Pedestrian Feat, Wonderful, | [327] |
| Peg Tankards, | [43] |
| Penn, Tea Service which belonged to, | [201] |
| Penny Post, Origin of the, | [47] |
| Pennsylvania Journal, | [63] |
| Perfumes, | [253] |
| Persecution, | [430] |
| —— in the Reign of Queen Mary, | [587] |
| Perseverance rewarded by Fortune, | [287] |
| Persia, Drinking Bouts in, | [547] |
| Personal Charms Disclaimed, | [118] |
| Peru, Condor in, | [170] |
| Peruvian Bark, | [51] |
| Pest-house, during the Plague, in Tothill Fields, | [573] |
| Pestilence, The Black, | [402] |
| Peter the Great at Zaandam, | [544] |
| Physic, A Friend to, | [267] |
| Physick for the Poor, Choice Receipts for, | [117] |
| Pigeon Catching near Naples, | [437] |
| Pig, Roast, Advertisement of, in 1726, | [46] |
| Pike, An Old, | [667] |
| Pilgrim Fathers, Chair belonging to, | [186] |
| Pillory for Eating Flesh in Lent, | [68] |
| Plague in England, The, | [183] |
| —— Corpse Bearers during the, | [283] |
| Plantagenets, Yellow Hair in the Time, | [103] |
| Plate, Use of, in the time of Henry VIII., | [523] |
| Platypus, the Duck-billed, | [273] |
| Playbill, Curious, | [227] |
| —— in the time of William III., | [530] |
| Ploughing and Threshing, Ancient, | [66] |
| Poets, English, Fates of the Families of, | [471] |
| Pogonias Vocal Fish, | [478] |
| Poison Cup, The, | [485] |
| Poisoning the Monarch, | [12] |
| Police, London, Disgraceful State of, | [193] |
| Pont du Gard, Great Aqueduct of, | [312] |
| Pope's Chair, | [577] |
| Porcelain, Anecdote in, | [517] |
| Port Coon Cave, | [516] |
| Poet Haste One Hundred Years ago, | [182] |
| "Postman," The, Paragraph from, in 1697, | [219] |
| Pottery in China, Art of, | [321] |
| Powerscourt Fall, Phenomenon at the, | [304] |
| Prayers, Unusual Locality for Saying, | [171] |
| Praying by Machinery, | [314] |
| —— by Wheel and Axle, | [539] |
| Pre-Adamite Bone Caverns, | [199] |
| Precocious Children, | [64] |
| Presence of Mind—Escape from a Tiger, | [330] |
| Priests in Burmah, Knavery of the, | [266] |
| —— of Sikkim, | [663] |
| Prince of Wales, Origin of the Crest of the, | [115] |
| Prince Rupert, at Everton, | [291] |
| Prolific Author, | [320] |
| Proteus Anguinus, The, | [152] |
| Psalm, Value of a Long, | [512] |
| Pterodactylus, The, | [360] |
| Pulpit, Refreshments for the, | [262] |
| Punishing by Wholesale, | [680] |
| Punishment, Ancient Instrument of, | [680] |
| —— Russian, | [654] |
| —— and Torture, Ancient Instruments of, | [58], [88] |
| Puritan Zeal, | [579] |
| Purple, Tyrian, | [643] |
| |
| Quackery in the Olden Time, | [671] |
| Queen Elizabeth, Banquets of, | [414] |
| —— —— Dresses of, | [501] |
| —— —— Old Verses on, | [204] |
| —— —— saddle of, | [340] |
| —— —— State Coach of, | [128] |
| —— —— 's Laws, | [151] |
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| Raffaelle, Tomb of, | [568] |
| Raffle, A, in 1725, | [47] |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter, Residence of, | [160] |
| Ranelagh, | [204] |
| Ranz des Vaches, | [173] |
| Rats, Destructive Force of, | [463] |
| Ravilliac, Execution of, | [132] |
| Receipts, Quaint, | [153] |
| Red Sea, Luminous Appearance of the, | [454] |
| Regiments, The Modern Names of, | [639] |
| Reichstadt, The Duke de, | [435] |
| Relics, | [393] |
| —— A Group of, | [261] |
| —— Rescued, | [618] |
| Remarkable Events and Inventions, | [145] |
| Revenge, New Mode of, | [423] |
| Rheumatism, Strange Cure for the, | [201] |
| Rhinoceros, First in Europe, | [655] |
| Richardson, the Showman, | [251] |
| Ringing the Changes, | [192] |
| Rings, Calcinated, | [408] |
| Rites, Hindoo, Cruelty of, | [627] |
| Roads in 1780, | [327] |
| Rock of Cashel, | [352] |
| Romans in Britain, Dress of Native Females at that Period, | [86] |
| Rouen, The Great Bell of, | [650] |
| Royal Touch, The, | [42] |
| Royal Giants, Specimens of, | [121] |
| —— Prisoner, Expenses of, | [260] |
| |
| Sack Pot, Old English, | [521] |
| Sacro Catino, The, | [608] |
| Sadler's Wells, | [112] |
| Saint George, Tomb of, | [281] |
| Saint Lawrence, | [464] |
| Sálagrám, Hindoo Adoration of the, | [589] |
| Sand Columns in Africa, | [610] |
| Sandwiches, Origin of the, | [563] |
| Sardonyx Ring, with Cameo Head of Queen Elizabeth, in the possession of Rev. Lord Thynne, | [373] |
| Scape Goat, Camel as a, | [190] |
| Sceptre, Ivory, of Louis XII., | [476] |
| School, Chinese, | [525] |
| School Expenses in the Olden Time, | [427] |
| Science and Perseverance, Triumphs of, | [123] |
| Scottish Wild Cattle, | [278] |
| Scriptural Antiquities, | [215] |
| Sea, Phosphorescence of the, | [418] |
| Sea Serpent, Immense, | [42] |
| Sea-Urchin, Wonderful Construction of, | [475] |
| Second Sight, | [65] |
| Seeing Two Generations, | [211] |
| Self-Nourishment, | [315] |
| Selkirk and the Dancing Goats, | [22] |
| Sepulchral Vase from Peru, | [320] |
| Sermons, Anecdotes in, | [147] |
| Serpent, Anecdote of a, | [85] |
| Seven, The Number, | [354] |
| Sèvres Porcelain, Prices of, | [487] |
| Sex, Change of, | [189] |
| "Sforza," Origin of the Title, | [554] |
| Shakspeare's Jug, | [575] |
| Sham Prophets, | [319] |
| Sharks, The Queen's, | [203] |
| Sheba, The Queen of, | [518] |
| Sheep Killer, Hunting a, | [268] |
| Shell Fish, in 1675, Price of, | [178] |
| Shetland, The Noss in, | [324] |
| Shield, Ancient Danish, | [420] |
| Shilling, Cutting a Wife off with a, | [359] |
| Shocking Depravity, | [117] |
| Shoes, Long-toed, Origin of, | [646] |
| Shrine, Curious Figures on a, | [202] |
| Shrine of St. Sebald at Nuremberg, | [271] |
| Simoom, The, | [662] |
| Skin, Human, a Drum made of, | [398] |
| Slave Advertisements, | [25] |
| Slave Trade, Iniquities of the, | [175] |
| Slaves, Recent Prices of, | [435] |
| Sleep, Protracted, | [483] |
| —— State of the Mind during, | [350] |
| Sleeper, An Extraordinary, | [28] |
| Smoking, Attachment to, | [322] |
| Snake Charmers, | [299] |
| Snakes, Power of Fascination in, | [64] |
| Snow Storm, Memorable, | [327] |
| Snuff Boxes, Ancient, | [209] |
| Snuff, Time Wasted in taking, | [512] |
| Something like a Feast, | [129] |
| Somnambulism, | [72] |
| Sound, Phenomena of, | [367] |
| Southcottian Delusion, A Phase of the, | [230] |
| South-stack Lighthouse, | [239] |
| Spain, Wealth of, under the Moors, | [235] |
| Spider, Bite of the Tarantula, | [13] |
| Spiders Fond of Music, | [157] |
| Spirit Drinker, An Aged, | [228] |
| Spontaneous Combustion, | [431] |
| Sports of the Lower Classes, | [155] |
| Sportsman, A Royal, | [443] |
| Springs, Intermittent, | [455] |
| Stage Coach in 1760, | [155] |
| Stag-Hunt in the 16th Century, | [511] |
| Stags like Cattle, Driving, | [208] |
| Stamps, Antique Roman, | [448], [643] |
| Standards, Ancient Banner and, | [396], [583] |
| State Coach in 1796, | [156] |
| Statue, Metal, the Largest in the World, | [454] |
| Steam boat, Facsimile of the First, | [301] |
| Stevens's Specific, | [50] |
| St. George's Cavern, | [421] |
| St. James's Square, | [123] |
| St. Paul's, Old, | [162] |
| St. Paul and the Viper, | [125] |
| St. Winifred's Well, | [303] |
| Sticks, Old Walking, | [387] |
| Stirrups, | [571] |
| Stomach Brush, | [55] |
| Stoneware, | [649] |
| Strasburg, Curious Custom at, | [185] |
| Strength, Feats of, in 1789, | [9] |
| Street Cries of Modern Egypt, | [401] |
| Stuff Ball at Lincoln, Origin of the, | [49] |
| Sultan, City of the, | [103] |
| Sun and Moon, Worship of the, | [81] |
| Superstition in 1856, | [538] |
| —— Curious, | [424] |
| —— Death caused by, | [124] |
| —— in France, | [519] |
| —— Vitality of, | [474] |
| Sweating Sickness, | [110] |
| Sweets, Artificial, | [579] |
| Sword, Curious Antique, | [596] |
| —— Executioner's, | [340] |
| —— The Hawthornden, | [353] |
| —— The Seton, | [356] |
| —— Fish and Whales, | [565] |
| Sword-Breaker, An Ancient, | [672] |
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| Taking a Man to Pieces, | [79] |
| Tapestry, The Bayeux, | [642] |
| Tar and Feather, Notices to, | [38] |
| Taxation, Universality of, | [318] |
| Tea, | [94] |
| Tea-Drinkers, The First, Puzzled, | [532] |
| Teapot, The, | [482] |
| Temple of Pou-tou, The, | [673] |
| —— at Simonbong, | [620] |
| Temples of Brambanam, | [442] |
| Terrier, Anecdote of a, | [358] |
| Thames, Frost Fair on the, | [106] |
| —— The First Bridge over the, | [428] |
| Thanksgiving Day in 1697, | [527] |
| Theatre, Roman, at Orange, | [366] |
| Theatres in the Time of Shakespeare, | [597] |
| The First Hermits—Why so Called, | [125] |
| The Ruling Passion, | [32], [188] |
| Theodora de Verdion, | [207] |
| Thief Caught in his own Trap, The, | [77] |
| —— Singular Discovery of a, | [115] |
| Thugs, The, | [574] |
| Tiger Cave at Cuttack, | [361] |
| Tilbury Fort, | [189] |
| Time, Division of, in Persia, | [633] |
| Tobacco, Origin of the Use of, | [57] |
| Toilet, Absurdities of the, | [536] |
| —— Boxes, Egyptian, | [381] |
| Tomb, Chinese, | [508] |
| —— of Cæcilia Metella, | [477] |
| —— of Darius, | [560] |
| Tomb of the Emperor Maximilian at Inspruck, | [590] |
| "Too Late," quoth Boice, | [489] |
| Tope, the Sanchi, | [389] |
| Topers, Georgians as, | [511] |
| Toping in the Last Century, | [314] |
| Torture, | [639] |
| —— Chamber at Nuremberg, | [615] |
| Tower of the Thundering Winds, | [93] |
| Trajan, Arch of, at Beneventum, | [112] |
| Trance, A, | [354] |
| —— at Will, | [462] |
| Trap-door Spider, | [383] |
| Travelling, Common, | [220] |
| —— in Olden Times, | [108], [162] |
| —— in the United States, | [208] |
| Treaty-Stone at Limerick, | [563] |
| Tree, Extraordinary Situation for a, | [313] |
| Trees, Age of, | [521] |
| —— that Grow Shirts, | [62] |
| Tripod, Ancient, | [549] |
| Trivial Circumstances, A Great Result from, | [605] |
| Tumbrel, The, | [2] |
| Tunisians, Ingenuity of the, | [652] |
| Turban, The, in Arabia, | [618] |
| Turkish Mode of Reparation, | [326] |
| Twin-Worm, Extraordinary Formation of the, | [136] |
| Types, the Invention of, | [152] |
| |
| Umbrella, Anglo-Saxon, | [624] |
| Upas Tree, | [123] |
| Useful and the Beautiful, | [647] |
| |
| Vampire, The Blood-sucking, | [417] |
| Varnish-Tree of the Japanese, | [615] |
| Vases, Ancient, | [337] |
| —— Greek, | [169] |
| —— Greek, Prices of, | [385] |
| —— Roman, in Black Ware, | [373] |
| —— Sepulchral, of Greek Pottery, | [616] |
| —— Sepulchral, of Ancient Egypt, | [607] |
| —— Teutonic, Hut-shaped, | [580] |
| Vauxhall, | [380] |
| Venetians, The, | [428] |
| Vengeance, Novel Mode of taking, | [586] |
| Ventriloquist, a Female, | [62] |
| Vesuvius, Crater of, in 1829, | [165] |
| Vinegar on the Skin, Effect of, | [115] |
| Vishnu, Incarnations of, | [645] |
| Volcanic Eruption in Japan, | [601] |
| Volcano of Jurullo, Formation of the, | [163] |
| Volition, Suspended, | [199] |
| Voltaire, English Letter of, | [422] |
| Vow, Singular Hindoo, | [658] |
| |
| Wagers, Curious, | [373] |
| Walking-Sticks, Old, | [387] |
| Wall, Governor, Execution of, | [154] |
| Wallace, the Hero of Scotland, | [99] |
| War Boat, A Dyak, in Borneo, | [540] |
| —— Dance of the Dyaks of Borneo, | [540] |
| —— Chariot of Ancient Egypt, | [365] |
| Warwick, the King-Maker, | [527] |
| Washing Account, Method of Keeping, | [3] |
| Washington, | [583] |
| Watch, An Antique, | [368] |
| —— presented by Louis XIII. to Charles I. of England, | [640] |
| Watches, the First in England, | [515] |
| Water for Old London, Supply of, | [282] |
| —— Preservative Power of Coal-pit, | [25] |
| —— Supply of, for London, in Olden Times, | [546] |
| —— Snakes, Battle of, | [470] |
| "We hae been", | [47] |
| Weapon, Ancient, | [660] |
| —— A Poison, | [672] |
| Weaver-Bird, The Sociable, | [440] |
| Wedding, A, A Hundred Years Ago, | [640] |
| Weight, Reducing, | [85] |
| Whipping Prisoners, | [175] |
| Whitehall, Ceiling of, | [121] |
| Whitsuntide, at Durham Cathedral, | [8] |
| Why a Man Measures more in the Morning than in the Evening, | [75] |
| Wife, Diving for a, | [479] |
| Wigs, | [17], [31] |
| Will, Eccentric, | [209] |
| William the Conqueror, Courtship of, | [555] |
| Willow, Weeping, Introduction of the, | [148] |
| Wind Mills, The First, | [577] |
| Witch-Testing, at Newcastle, in 1649, | [21] |
| Wolves in England, | [441] |
| Woman, The Hairy, of Burmah, | [677] |
| Woman's Cleverness, | [260] |
| Women of England, The, | [159] |
| —— in Former Times, | [127] |
| Wonderful Escape, | [215], [300] |
| Wren's (Sir Christopher) Cost of Churches, | [171] |
| —— —— —— Report, | [183] |
| Writing Materials, | [481] |
| Writings, Terra Cotta, | [466] |
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| Yorkshire Tike, The, | [24] |
| Yorkshire in the Last Century, | [283] |