England in the Days of Old

by William Andrews

The foregoing authority to beg was granted for twelve months, but, as the response was so small, it pleased the King to extend the privilege for another year. From one parish in the City of London he only received seven shillings and sixpence—a poor reward, to use Stow’s words, “of many a weary day’s travel, and cold winter night’s study.”

His end now was drawing near, and mundane trials were almost over. On the 5th of April, 1605, his well-spent life closed, and his mortal remains were laid to rest in his parish church of St. Andrew, Undershaft. Here may still be seen the curious and interesting monument which his loving widow erected. It is pleasant to leave the busy streets of the great metropolis and repair to the quiet sanctuary where rests the old chronicler, and look upon his quaint monument, and reflect on ages long passed. When the Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the London Stow had so truthfully described, his monument escaped destruction.

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INDEX.

Abingdon, customs at, [56]
Advertisement, novel, [194-197]
Age of Snuffing, [168-185]
Alleyn, Edward, founder of Dulwich College, [212]
Altrincham, Mayor of, [60-61]
Ambassadors, at bear-baitings, [211], [215-216]
America, Muffs in, [45-46];
Cold places of worship, [46-47]
Anglo-Saxon bread, [134]
An Old-Time Chronicler, [266-274]
Arise, Mistress, Arise!, [142-143]
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, [84-87]
Arrows, [152]
Ashbourne, custom at, [241]
Baker’s dozen, [138]
Baiting animals stopped by Act of Parliament, [221]
Banbury, customs at, [58]
Banks, Mrs. G. L., on hair-dressing, [38]
Bankside, plan of, [213]
Barber’s shop, [21]
Barley bread, [135]
Baxter, Richard, on Sunday pleasure, [231]
Barbers fined, [32]
Barrington, G., poet and pickpocket, [180-181]
Barrister’s wig, [18], [19]
Barrow bells, [157]
Bear-baiting, [132-133], [205-221]
Bells as Time-Tellers, [156-167]
Bell ringing bequests, [261-262]
Beverley, funeral at, [123];
bear-baiting at, [133]
Bewdley, custom at, [142]
Bish, Mr., on Lotteries, [200-202]
Blue-Coat boys, draw at lotteries, [194]
Boar’s-head with mustard, [131]
Bonfires, [234], [235]
Bow bells, [159]
Boroughbridge, Battle of, [77]
Brandeston, removing a dead body to the church for protection, [117]
Bread and Baking in Bygone Days, [134-141]
Bread Street, [135]
Bribes for the Palate, [63-73]
British slaves, freeing, [257-258]
Briscoe, J. P., on Nottingham customs, [61-62]
Bromley-by-Bow, bakers at, [135]
Burial at Cross Roads, [105-114]
Burying the mace, [53]
Butter and suet, prohibiting the use of in making bread, [140]
Byng, Admiral, shot, [45]
Cade, Jack, [81]
Caius, Dr., on dogs, [145]
Cambridge, regulations relating to tobacco, [173]
Candles for lighting the streets, [52]
Canterbury, curious customs at, [52-53]
Capture of snuff, [171]
Carlisle, Earl of, beheaded, [78-79]
Carlisle, heads spiked at, [92-95]
Charles II. and wigs, [7]
Charlotte, Queen, gives up using hair-powder, [36];
taking snuff, [176]
Christmas rhymes, [142]
Chronicler, an Old-Time, [266-274]
Churches, snuff taking in, [172-175]
Clarinda, Burns on, [178]
Clee, custom at, [263]
Clergy and the wig, [15-17]
Clifton rhyme, [219-220]
Clocks, introduction of, [160]
Clothiers in eighteenth century, [165]
Closing shops, time for, [160]
Cobham, Eleanor, trial of, [80]

Cockledge, murder at, [123]
Combing the wig, [10]
Concerning Corporation Customs, [48-62]
Congleton, bear-baiting at, [217-218]
Conspiracy to assassinate William III., [87]
Cooper’s Hall, Lotteries at, [193]
Cornish Insurrection, [81];
folk-lore, [234-236]
Corporation snuff-boxes, [168-169]
Craven cartoon, [242]
Crop Clubs, [34]
Curious Charities, [255-265]
Curious window at Betley, [225-227]
Curfew bell, [166-167]
Dagger Money, [57]
Death, Superstitions relating to, [242]
Death of William I., [167]
Deering on snuff-taking, [178]
Detaining the Dead for Debt, [115-121]
Derby, suicide, burial of a, [106]
Discarding wigs in court, [19]
Doctors’ muffs, [42]
Dogs, earliest writer on, [145];
in muffs, [44]
Droylsden, suicide, burial of, [108-109]
Druidical superstitions, [234]
Dryden, Haunt of, [182]
Ducking Stool, [138]
Duels, [106]
Earle, Mrs. A. M., on American Muffs, [46]
Early closing of public-houses, [167]
Eating custom, [242-243]
Ecclesfield, tradition at, [220]
Edward III., proclamation of, against bear-baiting, [205]
Egypt, goose in, [150]
Egyptians, invent wigs, [1]
Eldon, Lord, objects to the wig, [18]
Elizabeth, enjoys baiting animals, [208]
Epitaphs, [109], [116], [197], [203-204], [260-261]
Erasmus in England, [206]
Exeter, salmon given at, [70]
False hair, [20], [22]
Famous snuff takers, [176]
Fathers of the Church denounce wigs, [3]
Felo-de-se, Acts relating to, [112-114]
Female follies, [30]
Fined for arresting the dead, [118-119], [121]
Fined for being deficient in elegance, [52]
First English lottery, [186-188]
Fish, presentation of, [70]
Fisher, Bishop, beheaded, [81-82]
Fishtoft, burial of a suicide at, [107]
Fitstephen on bear-baiting, [205]
Fletcher, Captain, [88-89]
Folk-Lore of Midsummer Eve, [234-243]
France, Mania for Wigs in, [6-7]
Funeral, stately, [123]
Garrick, Mrs., [178]
George II., a selfish snuff-taker, [185]
Glayer, Sir John, [258-261]
Globe Theatre, [209]
Gold-dust used for hair-powder, [28]
Gossip about the Goose, [150-155]
Great Plague, tobacco and snuff used during, [169-171]
Guinea-pigs, [35]
Harvest bell, [156], [157-158]
Harvest Home, [244-254]
Hair, cut off with a bread-knife, [44]
Hale, Sir Matthew, [63-64]
Hamlet, Grave scene in, [105]
Hampton Court Palace, clock at, [162-163]
Hannibal and his wigs, [5-6]
Hartlepool, strange enactment at, [62]
Hawarden attacked, [74]
Heart-breakers, [20]
Hempseed, sowing, [241]
Henzner, Paul, [84]
Herrick on harvest customs, [252-253]

Hilton, Jack of, [152]
Hockley-in-the-Hole, [220]
Holy bread, [134]
Hope theatre, [207]
Horse Guards, protect the lottery wheel, [193]
Howard’s Household Book, [145]
Hull, curious ordinances at, [51-53];
Sheriff to provide his wife with a scarlet gown, [52];
Andrew Marvell and Hull ale, [71-73];
head spiked at, [95];
ducking-stool at, [96];
Mayor slain, [98];
snuff-box at, [168-169]
Incorporation of towns, [48]
Inscription on bells, [159]
Ireland, St. John’s eve in, [236-237]
Irish folk-lore, [175]
Jackson, John, and his clock, [162-166]
Jacobites, defeat of, [102]
James I. and tobacco, [173];
orders a bear to be baited to death, [215]
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, and his snuff, [182]
Judge’s wig, [18]
Keeping people awake, [255]
Kenilworth, bears baited at, [211]
King eating meal and rye bread, [141]
Kingston-upon-Thames, Morris Dancers at, [223]
Knocking feet in meeting houses, [47]
Lady, origin of, [134]
Lamb, Charles and Mary, [184]
Lanthorns, bequests for providing, [262-263]
Last Lottery in England, [198-200]
Layer, Councillor, [87-88]
Leconfield castle, [123]
Leeds bridge, market on, [165]
Leicester, mace lowering at, [51];
bear-baiting at, [216-217]
Leighton, Robert, poem by, [183-184]
Letters from the dead to the living, [11]
Licence to beg, [272-273]
Lincolnshire geese, [153]
Lion Sermon, [258-261]
London Bakers’ Company, [135-136]
London Bridge, [75-84]
London, burials of suicides, [110-111]
Love divinations, [238-240]
Louth, ringing custom at, [158]
Lowering the mace, [51]
Ludlow, customs at, [59]
Lycians, heads shaven and wigs worn, [5]
Mace, as a weapon and as an ensign of authority, [49]
Manchester, curious baking regulations, [140]
Manorial service, curious, [144], [152]
Margarett, Princess, [49], [123-124]
Mar, Rising of, [87]
Marvell, Andrew, and Hull ale, [71-73]
Mary, Queen of Scots, [102]
May-pole, [233]
Meals in the olden time, [127-129]
Medical men and the wig, [17-18]
Men wearing Muffs, [40-47]
Michaelmas goose, [154]
Micklegate Bar, York, [98-99];
heads stolen from, [103]
Milk, price of, in the olden time, [268]
More, Sir Thomas, beheaded, [83]
Morley, custom at, [143]
Morris-Dancers, [222-233]
Municipal Reform Act, [48]
Murder, strange story of a, [137]
Napoleon taking snuff, [181];
snuff-box, [177-178]
Newcastle-on-Tyne, assize custom at, [56-58];
presents of wine and sugar loaves, [64-66];
brank at, [66], [67];
burial of a suicide, [111]
Nobleman’s Household in Tudor Times, [122-133]
North Wingfield, dead body stopped at, [115-116]
Northumberland Household Book, [125-133]

Norwich, burial of a suicide, [107]
Nottingham, burying the mace at, [53-55];
ale and bread custom, [61-62];
town’s presents, [69];
Goose Fair, [154]
Novel mode of distributing a charity, [265]
Over, Mayor of, [60-61]
O’Connell, D., and his wig, [22-23]
Parading a head, [79]
Parliament sitting at Shrewsbury, [75]
Palm-Sunday, battle on, [101]
Penzance, customs at, [235]
Pepys and his wigs, [7-9];
muffs, [41];
on the Plague, [170]
Percy family, [122-133]
Peter the Great obtaining the loan of a wig, [23]
Petticoat charity, [265]
Pig-tail, [12], [14]
Pillory, bakers in the, [137]
Pipes and tobacco for judges, [58]
Piper playing to workmen, [247-248]
Pliny on the goose, [150]
Poets’ Corner, Johnson and Goldsmith in, [91-92]
Porpoise regarded as a delicacy, [69]
Pope on Belinda, [177]
Potatoes, preservation of, [70-71]
Powdering the Hair, [28-39]
Pontefract Castle, head spiked at, [77]
Prison charities, [255-256]
Punishing bakers, [138-140,] [141]
Puritans and lotteries, [189]
Quill pens, [155]
Ramillie Wig, [13]
Reading, Morris Dancers at, [224]
Rebel Heads on City Gates, [74-104]
Revolt against Henry IV., [79]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [184-185]
Riot, Wig, [25-27]
Rollit, Sir Albert K., [168]
Rome saved by the cackling of the goose, [151]
Roper, Margaret, [83], [85]
Rushes for church floors, [263-265]
Rye, authority of Mayor, [62]
Rye House Plot, [84-87]
Saxons colouring their hair, [28]
Scarlet gowns for the Mayoress, [52]
Scotland, wigs in, [36-37];
muff in, [42];
body arrested in, [120];
snuff taking in, [171-173]
Scott, Sir Walter, on wigs, [37]
School-boys obliged to smoke, [170]
Schoolmasters forbidden to smoke, [174]
Scrope, Richard, beheaded, [96-97]
Selkirk, Making a sutor of, [59]
Selling the Church Bible to pay for a Bear, [217-220]
Sheridan, curious report respecting, [120]
Shrewsbury, Parliament sitting at, [75]
Shrouds for prisoners, [256-257]
Shouting a kirn, [248-250]
Slaves, freeing christian, [257-258]
Smoking forbidden in the streets, [173-174]
Snuffing, earliest allusion to, [169]
Southampton, Mayoress of, [50]
South Shields, suicide, burial of, [109-110]
Sowing hempseed, [241]
Sparsholt, dead body detained at, [115]
Speaker’s wig, [18]
Spice bread, making prohibited, [140]
St. Albans, clock at, [161]
St. Paul’s Lotteries drawn at the doors of, [188]
State Lotteries, [186-204]
Stealing wigs, [24-25]
Sterne, a snuff taker, [184]
Stow, John, [266-274]
Stratford-le-Bow, bakers at, [135]
Sugar-loaves, presentation of, [62-69]
Tamworth, curious bye-law at, [167]
Taxing hair-powder, [31], [33];
repealing tax, [39]
Taylor, John, on Hull ale, [72-73]
Tea and snuff, [178]
Temple Bar, [84-92]
Test Act, [48]

Thewes at Hull, [96]
Towneley, Colonel, [88-92]
Towton-field, battle of, [101]
Turnspit, The, [144-149]
Twyford, suicide, burial of, [113-114]
Unwin, Mrs., fond of snuff, [177]
Valuable snuff-boxes, [181]
Vesper bell, [167]
Wakefield, battle of, [97-98]
Wales, subjugation of, [74]
Wallace, Sir William, [75]
Watches not usually carried, [165]
Welsh rebels beheaded, [74]
Wesley, Rev. John, and snuff-taking, [175]
West Hallam, burial at four lane ends, [107]
West Riding lore, [120-121]
When Wigs were Worn, [1-27]
Whittington, Dick, [159]
Whitsun morris dance, [228]
Wigs, [1-27];
Riots, [25-27]
Wildridge, T. Tindall, on Hull, [95]
Winchester, presents of sugar loaves at, [66-69];
curious regulations, [215]
Women wearing wigs, [9], [22]
Worcester, curious baking regulation, [140]
Wressel Castle, [125]
Wycombe, customs at, [55-56]
York, Duke of, slain, [98];
head spiked, [98]
York, Lord Mayor of, [49]
York, walls and gates of, [96-104]

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