The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) / or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

by William Hone

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INDEXES.

[I.]	GENERAL SUBJECTS.
[II.]	ROMISH SAINTS.
[III.]	POETRY, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
[IV.]	FLORAL DIRECTORY.
[V.]	CORRESPONDENTS’ SIGNATURES.
[VI.]	ENGRAVINGS IN THE VOLUME.

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I. GENERAL INDEX.

SUBJECTS CONTAINED OR NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME.

Festivals and other Holydays of observance, in the Church of England Calendar, are printed in Capitals.

• Abbeville, sporting letter from, [1575].
• Abduction, case of, [767].
• Abelard, P., died, [494].
• Abercrombie, sir R., died, [397].
• Aboo, or Aber, Irish war-cry, [502].
• Abraham’s bosom, in old wood-cuts, [1599].
• Absalom, in a sign, [1262].
• Accomplishments without principle, [287].
• Actor, an itinerant, his duties, [1243].
• Acts of the Apostles, a mystery at Paris, [749].
• Adam, R. and J., account of, [326].
• Adams, Jack, his parish, [1481].
• Addison, at Button’s, [1007].
• Adelphi, the, [326].
• Advent, meaning of the term, [1531]; customs of the season, [1552], [1595], [1642].
• Ærial, the, account of, [1455].
• Ætna, its eruptions diverted by a lady’s veil, [213].
• Africa, travels in, [1580].
• After Yula, [3].
• Agatha, [February 5]; miracles by her, [213].
• Agincourt, battle of, [1397].
• Agnes, [January 21]; her legend, [141]; customs on St. Agnes’ eve, [136].
• Aguesseau, chanc. D’, his use of time, [310].
• Air, spiritually peopled, [1328].
• Aits, islands on the Thames, [604].
• Alban, [June 17]; account of this saint, [803].
• Alban’s, St., Herts, formerly Holmhurst, [804].
• Albert and Isabella, archdeacon and duchess, kiss St. Walburg’s jawbone, [303].
• Aldegraver, his engraving of the guillotine, [148].
• Ale, [1147], [1622]; name derived, [1544]; ale-drinkers in Holinshed’s time, [1125].
• ———, Whitsun, [685]; whence derived, [686].
• Alexander the Great, notice of, [493].
• ———, St., Newski, order of, [1538].
• All Fools’ day, [409].
• ——— hallow e’en, [1408].
• ——— heal, the mistletoe, [1637].
• All Saints, [November 1]; customs on, [1421].
• ——— Souls, [November 2]; customs on, [1423].
• Allan, D., his etching of Italian street music, [1595].
• Alleluia, buried in the Romish church, [199].
• Almanacs, chronological error in, [1429]; made of wood, [1471].
• Alphabet, in a bill of costs, [238].
• Alphege, [April 19]; customs on his festival, [485].
• Amelia, princess, original letter from, [1071].
• American war commenced, [486]; poetry, [1571].
• Amherst, lord, his portrait, [604].
• Amhurst, Nicholas, author, account of, [527].
• Amiens, peace of, signed, [392].
• Amulet, the, its literary character, [1532].
• Ancient Britons, their anniversary, [322].
• Andrew, St., [November 30]; account of the saint and his festival, [1538]; order of, [ib.]
• ———’s Holborn, boy bishop, [1561].
• ——— Undershaft, maypole, [555].
• Angelo, Michael; see [Buonarroti].
• Angel, guardian, [630].
• Angels, archangels, and angels guardian, [1326]; their orders and habits, [1349]; for their visits, &c. to saints, see [Index II.]
• Angling, [697].
• Anglo-Norman carol, [1595].
• Animals, on cruelty to, [799], [1308].
• Ann, St., [July 25]; memoirs of her and St. Joachim, [1008].
• Annunciation, B. V. M., or Lady Day, [March 25]; customs on the festival, [385].
• Anselm, St., archbishop of Canterbury, notice of, [493].
• Anson, commodore, lord, died, [767].
• Antiquaries, society of, their anniversary, [503].
• Antony, St., picture of, [118]; his hospital, London, [119]; its seal, [120]; school, [ib.]; his pig, [119].
• Apis, the Egyptian deity, [491].
• Apocrypha, authority for reading it, [1343].
• Apollinarius, the elder and younger, play writers, [744].
• Apollo and Minerva, shown at Naples, for David and Judith, [1612].
• ———, an, of Cambridge, [1263].
• Apostle spoons, described, [176].
• Apothecaries, proposal for their canonization, [303].
• Apparition of an arm chair, [1494].
• Apparitions, &c. see Romish saints, in [Index II.]
• Apple, sports, [1408], [1421]; diving, [1415].
• Apples, the finest, where grown, [908]; blest, [978].
• Apple-tree, charm, [42]; wassail, [1606].
• Apprentices, city, their former importance, and present condition, [258].
• Aprilius, John, hanged for three days and kept alive, [46].
• Apron, the barbers’, [1254].
• Archee, his new-year’s gift, [9].
• Archers, decay of, [1236]; their service at Agincourt, [1397].
• Architecture of the new churches, [945].
• Arius, indebted to St. Lucian, [61].
• Armitage, the racket-player, [868].
• Arnmonat, [1059].
• Arsedine, yellow arsenic, [1213].
• Art, eminence in it, how attained, [273].
• Arundel Castle, a sweep in the state bed, [588].
• Ascension-Day, [651]; its customs, [1379].
• Ascham, Roger, account of, [29].
• Ascot races, fraud at, [768].
• Ash, rev. J., philologist, died, [529].
• Ash Wednesday, movable; customs, [261].
• Ass, the, citations respecting, [1309]; his nobleness and voice, [1358]; how mentioned by Leo Africanus, [1580]; remarks on, [1610]; drawn in procession, [393].
• Assumption, B. V. M., [August 15]; customs on the day, [1117].
• Astley’s troop at Bartholomew fair, [1246].
• Atkins, his menagerie, [1175].
• Attanasy, father, his Easter sermon, [446].
• Attorney, an, not to be compared to a bull, nor to a goose, but comparable, perhaps, to the man in the moon, [239].
• Attornies of the lord mayor’s court, [1333].
• Audrey’s, St., lace, [1383].
• August, the Twelfth of, petition from, [1099]; answer to, [1101].
• Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, [May 26]; his monastery at Canterbury, [301]; notices and legendary anecdotes of him, [704].
• ———, St., [August 28]; an early father, Lardner’s character of him, [1144].
• Aunty’s garden, a pastime, [109].
• Aurochos, an African animal, [1176].
• Autograph of St. Ignatius, [1056].
• Autumn quarter, [1283].
• Baal, Bal, Beal, Bel-tein, fires, [594], [847], [1412], [1422].
• Bacchus, his festival, [1471].
• Bachelors, in the lord mayor’s show, [1453].
• Bacon, lord, died, [452]; cause of his death, [870]; proof of his favoritism, [871].
• Bag-pipers, of Italy, [1595]; a German one with a cognizance, [1626].
• Bailey, rev. R. R., his sermon at St. Katharine’s, [1406].
• Baker, Mrs., her company at Bartholomew fair, [1245].
• Bales, Peter, a writing-master, account of, [1085].
• Ball-play customs, [244], [259], [429], [1554], [1634]; at Copenhagen-house, [865].
• Ball’s itinerant theatre, [1175].
• Ballad-singers, formerly licensed, [1243].
• Ballard’s menagerie, [1191].
• Balloons, [442].
• Banks, sir Jos., his wine cellar, [21]; died, [811].
• Bannockburn, battle of, [855].
• Bannocks, cakes, “sauty” and charmed ones, [260]; of St. Michael, [1339].
• Baptism of infants, [1444].
• Bara, a Sicilian festival, [1118].
• Barbers, account of, [1254].
• Baretti, Jos., died, [616].
• Barley, beerlegh, berlegh, berleg, [1147].
• Barley-corn, sir John, his trial, [73]; Burns’s ballad, [1391].
• Barme, beerheym, berham, [1147].
• Barnabas, St., [June 11]; notice respecting him, [772].
• Barnes and Finley’s booth at Bartholomew fair, [1241].
• Barnet, battle of, [463].
• Barnmoneth, [1059].
• Baron, lord chief, to say he cannot ear of one ear actionable, [239].
• Barr, Ben, the seer of Helpstone, [525].
• Barrister’s first brief, [160].
• Barrow, Dr. Isaac, notice of, [613].
• Barrow-woman, of London, described, [903].
• Barthelemy, J. J., notice of, [614].
• Bartholomew, St., [August 24]; notice of him, [1131]; custom at Croydon on his festival, [1132].
• ———, massacre at Paris, [1131].
• ———’s church-yard anciently contested in for school prizes, [119].
• ——— fair, its ancient and present state, [1165], [1252]; form of the proclamation read, [1235].
• ——— hospital, origin of, [1231].
• ——— pig, [1201].
• ———, Mr., of St. John’s, Clerkenwell, [1480], [1481].
• Bassingborne, Camb., mystery at, [755].
• Bastile, account of its destruction, [935].
• Bath, anecdotes, [1574], [1583]; season of visiting, [1583].
• Bathing, [893], [970].
• Batman, Stephen, his notice of printing, [1134].
• Batrich, Thomas, an ancient barber, [1244].
• Battersea, steeple and windmill, [603], [810].
• Battle, Sarah, at whist, [91].
• Bauer, assists Kœnig in the steam press, [1537].
• Baynes, John, account of, [159].
• Beacon, or standing lamp, [833].
• Bean-king, and queen, on twelfth-night, [44], [55], [57], [59].
• Bears, mode of taking in Russia, [180]; carried in a cart with queen Elizabeth, [445]; fight with lions, [1000]; washed in the Thames, [1005].
• Beards, comely ones, [18]; various, described, [1258]; St. Anthony’s beard at Cologne, [117].
• Beasts preached to, and blessed, [117].
• Beaton, cardinal, notice of, [708].
• Beaus, comb their wigs in public, [1263].
• Beauclerc, Topham, a collector of mysteries, [746].
• Becket, the bookseller, and Garrick, [328].
• Beckwith, Mr., his account of twelfth-eve at Leeds, [43].
• Bed, love of it, [17]; sleeping out of one’s own, [1591]; beds at Stourbridge fair, [1308].
• Bede, Venerable, [May 27]; notice of him, [706].
• Bees, swarming, [647], [682]; on a man’s head, [963].
• Beggars, their patron, [1149].
• Behnes, Mr. W., sculptor, his bust of West, [346]; of Mrs. Gent, [638]; he calls a man “no conjuror,” [1458]; his pupils gain the Royal Academy prize, [1651].
• Bell, death, its knell, why different, [724].
• ———, pancake, [242], [246].
• ———, the great, of Lincoln’s Inn, [811].
• Bells, on new-year’s day, [5], [6], [15]; on All Souls’ day, [1415], [1425]; on admiral Vernon’s birth-day, [1473]; on new-year’s eve, [1653]; rung by puppet angels, [1247]; Whittington’s, [1271].
• Bell-flower, [901].
• Bellows, blown under Dives, [1599].
• Beltein, see [Baal].
• Belzoni, death of, [1542].
• Benedict, [March 21]; miraculous anecdotes of him, [380]; founder of the order of St. Benedict, [382].
• Benedictine nunnery, Clerkenwell, its site, [754].
• Bent, Independent, [603].
• Berkshire customs, [435].
• Berlin, royal marriage dance, [1551].
• Berners, lord, his Froissart, &c., [861].
• Berri, duchess de, her new-year’s gift to Louis XVIII., [14].
• Berwick, duke of, killed, [773].
• Bessy, on Plough Monday, [71].
• Beyntesh, Berks, hue and cry, [876].
• Bible, withheld from the laity, [751], [753]; written to be comprised in a walnut shell, [1086].
• Bickham, George, writing-master, died, [614].
• Big Sam, notice of, [619].
• ———, man, [1565].
• Bill of costs, whimsical, [235].
• Billington, Mrs., noticed, [763].
• Bingley, Mrs., dress-maker to princess Amelia, [1073].
• Birch, Dr. Thomas, notice of, [79], [975].
• Bird, W., and his school in Fetter-lane described, [965].
• Birds, in winter, [24]; their resistance to cold, [70]; arrival, [466], [614]; singing, [727]; migration, [1390]; fraudulently painted, [1253].
• Birdseller’s shop, described, [754].
• Birkbeck, Dr. George, founder of the London Mechanics’ Institution, [1549].
• Bishop Valentine, [219].
• Blackbird, in a cage at Greenwich, [691].
• Blackheath hill, [687], [689].
• Blacksmiths, their patron, [1498].
• Blackstone, sir W., how he relieved his studies, [164]; account of, [231].
• Blandford Forum, custom, [1414].
• Blase, [February 3]; miracles attributed to this saint, [207]; customs on his festival, [209].
• Bleeding image of Paris, [895]; stone cross, [1586].
• Blessing of apples, [978]; ashes, [261]; beasts, [117]; candles, [200]; wax, [201]; a market, [758].
• Blight, in spring, [620].
• Bliss, Dr., his boar’s head carol, [1600].
• Bloemart, Abraham, his piper, [1626].
• Bloomfield, Robert, poet, account of, [1125].
• Blossoms, in spring, [621].
• Blotmonath, [1419].
• Bo! to a goose, [1088].
• Boadicea, site of her battle, [861].
• Boar’s head, and carol, at Christmas, [1618].
• Bo-bo and his father Ho-ti, [1218].
• Bochart, Samuel, orientalist, died, [619].
• Bodies, why they float after death, [130].
• Boetius, beheaded, and carries his head, [706].
• Bolton, Jenny, [1241].
• ———, prior of St. Bartholomew’s, [1232].
• Bombs, first used in war, [385].
• Bona Dea, the good goddess of the Romans, [1655].
• Bonaparte, Louis, anecdote of, [95].
• Bonasoni, his portrait of M. Angelo, [270].
• Bon-Bons, French, [13].
• Bonfires, on St. John’s eve, [823], [845]; on 5th of November, [1433].
• Boniface, [June 5]; account of him, [766].
• ———, pope, VIII., throws blessed ashes in the eyes of an archbishop, [262].
• ———, archbishop of Canterbury, anecdote of, [1231].
• Bonnets, [1437].
• Boot of St. Ignatius, [1050].
• Boots and Shoes, receipt for water proof, [1503].
• Boring, for water, [1041].
• Botanizers of London, [872].
• Botolph, St., Aldersgate, Register Book, [434].
• Bottle-devil, [27].
• Bourgeois Gallery, Dulwich, [1011].
• Bow Church, corporation sermon, [446].
• Bowings, marvellous number per day by a saint, [38].
• Bowling alleys, [1236].
• Bowring, John, tendency of his poetry, [1428].
• Bows and silver arrows, prizes, [1238].
• Bowyer, Robert, keeper of the lions, [1005].
• Boxing day, described, [1645].
• Boxley rood, [1292].
• Boy bishop, account of, [1557].
• Boyer, Jem, C. L.’s schoolmaster, [1361].
• Boyne, the, battle of, [894].
• Braddock, Fanny, singular memoir of, [1278].
• Bradford, Yorkshire, clothing festival, [209].
• Braeckmonath, [738].
• Bramanti, his disputes with M. Angelo, [267].
• Brandy punch, [1622].
• Breakfast, in cold weather, [288].
• Breitkopf, J. G. I., account of, [185].
• Breughel, his concert of cats, [1106].
• Brewer, the, and his trade, [1568].
• Brewster, Dr., invents the kaleidoscope, [474].
• Bride’s, St., church, Fleet-street, [86]; spital sermon, [445]; well, [325].
• Brindley, the editor of his classics hanged, [287].
• Britius Brice, [November 13], notice of him, [1473].
• Broom girls, Buy a broom? [809].
• Brougham, Mr. Robert, his good humour on a humorous portrait of him, [811].
• Brown’s troop of jugglers, dancers, &c. [1190].
• Bruce, James, traveller, died, [527].
• Brüd, his bed, [206].
• Bruno, bishop, eaten by rats, [1362].
• Bubbles, anecdotes of, [165], [172], [354], [1460].
• Buccleugh, banner of, [1554].
• Buchanan, George, his new-year’s gift to Mary queen of Scots, [10].
• Buckler of St. Michael, [1329].
• Buckley, Samuel, bookseller, account of, [281].
• Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, [614].
• Buds, their structure, [184].
• Building, improvements, [638], [642], [872], [878].
• Bull-running at Stamford, [1482].
• Bull, a,—the dead returns thanks, [372].
• Bullock, Mr., forms a museum at Mexico, [1531].
• Bumping, [1340], [1374].
• Bungay, Suffolk, storm at, [1065]; watchmen there, their Christmas verses, [1628].
• Buns, Good Friday, [402].
• Buonarroti, Michael Angelo, account of, [263]; design by him for a fountain, [1045].
• Burial of persons alive, [1565].
• Burleigh, lord, at Bernard Gilpin’s, [331].
• Burmese state carriage, described, [1519].
• Burney, Dr. C., a collector of mysteries, [746]; his death, [461].
• Burning the old witch, [58].
• Burton, Devon, festival at, [741].
• Bushy, Middlesex, ball-play, [245].
• Butchers, French, their pageant, [1298]; of Clare-market, their bonfire, [1433].
• Bute, John, earl of, died, [346].
• Butler, rev. Alban, his “Lives of the Saints” used in this work, [3].
• ———, archdeacon, his opinion on card-playing, [89]; funeral sermon, on Dr. Parr, [444].
• ———, Jacob, antiquary, account of, [1301].
• Button’s coffee-house, [1006].
• Byron, lord, died, [486].
• C’s bull, an attorney not to be compared to, [239].
• Cages of squirrels, [1385].
• Cairo, the Pacha refuses a diploma, [84].
• Cakes, [42]; tossed from an ox’s horn, [43].
• Calabrian minstrels in Rome, at Christmas, [1595].
• Calf, superstitiously burnt, [854]; walks up to a lion, [1005].
• Camberwell, church monuments, [382]; fair, [1124]; Grove, scenery, [1014].
• Cambray, boy bishop, [1558].
• Cambridge, names and professions, [699], oak, [1060]; squib, on dog muzzling, [898]; university examination, [461]; Apollos, and wigs, [1263].
• Camden, earl, account of, [480].
• Camel, how taught to dance, [1581].
• Candle, an everlasting one, [28]; piece of a celestial one, [203]; sport, [1408]; superstition, [1415].
• Candles, blest, [200]; annually given at Lyme Regis, [206]; for the tooth ache, [208]; lighted by miracle, [27], [78], [99]; by the devil, [115]; see also the saints in [Index II.]
• Candlemas, [February 2]; customs of the festival, [199]; derived from the ancient Romans, [202]; bull, [11]; bond, [12].
• Candler, his Fantoccini, [1114].
• Cannom, Cath., marries two husbands, [1122].
• Canonbury tower, Islington, described, [633]; when built, [1232].
• Canterbury, St. Augustine’s monastery, [301].
• Caraccioli, prince, executed, [128]; rises from the sea, [130].
• Cards, [89], [1607], [1622]; origin of cards, [186].
• Care, Carle, or Carling Sunday, [378], [1069].
• Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., account of, [718].
• Carols, at Christmas, [1595], [1618].
• Carracioli, on the English climate, [309].
• Carte, Thomas, projects the English edition of Thuanus, [283].
• Carter, sir John, account of, [662].
• Carterhaugh, N. Britain, sport, [1554].
• Casimir III., fights after his death, [330].
• Castor and Pollux, [537].
• Cat-worship by the Romish clergy, [758]; anecdotes of cats, [1104].
• Catalani, madame, noticed, [763].
• Catchpole, a barber, [1269].
• Catharine, [November 25]; account of her, [1504]; customs on her festival, [1507]; see [Katharine].
• Cathedrals, ill adapted to protestant worship, [643].
• Cato, performed in Fetter-lane, [968].
• Cattle, superstitiously treated, [12]; drinking in winter, [198].
• Cavanagh, the fives-player, account of, [865].
• Cave, Edward, printer, account of, [1482].
• Cave of the three kings of Cologne, [82].
• Caxton, William, his life of St. Roche, [1121].
• Cecilia, [November 22]; notice of her, [1495].
• Celts, for cutting the mistletoe, [1637].
• Censing, at Whitsuntide, [685].
• Centaur, a, seen by a saint, [104].
• Ceres, the planet, discovered, [17].
• Cervantes, his death, [503].
• Chad, [March 2]; St. Chad’s Wells, Battle-bridge, [322].
• Chafing dish, on twelfth-night, [55].
• Chair, the barber’s, [1269].
• Chantry, Mr., a designation by, [1458].
• Chapel-royal, Maundy, [401]; printers’ chapel, [1135].
• Chaplains, Romish, play-writers, [756].
• Chappell and Pike’s tumblers, &c., [1197].
• Chare Thursday, [402].
• Charity schools, of London, instituted, [389]; children at church, [1407].
• Charles I. K. Martyrdom, [January 30]; his execution, [187]; pasquinade on his statue at Charing-cross, [897].
• ——— II. K. Restoration, [May 29]; customs of the Restoration-day 711; his escape from Worcester, [712]; statue in the Royal Exchange, [719]; verses admired by him, [720]; restores maypoles, [557]; prohibits wigs at Cambridge, [1264]; his weakness in childhood, [16].
• ——— V. emperor and cobbler, [1401].
• ——— VI. of France, licenses the English mysteries, [747].
• Charlton, village and fair described, [1386].
• Charms, apple-trees, [42]; witchcraft, [55]; mistletoe, [1638]; various, [1409].
• Chatham, the great earl, died, [651].
• Chatsworth, Derbyshire, sonnet at, [1355].
• Checketts, T., his seven-legged mare, [1118].
• Cherry season, [903].
• Cheshire customs, [430].
• Chester, maypole, [549]; mysteries, [750], [757]; pageants, [835].
• Chesterfield, lord, and his servants, [689].
• Cheyne, sir John, his answer to the archbishop of Canterbury, [752].
• Child desertion, [1119].
• Childebert, his key, a reliquary, [1062].
• Childermas-day, [1648].
• Children, flogged, [30]; whipped on Innocent’s morning, [1648]; how nursed formerly, [923]; pickled, and come to life, [1555].
• Childs, Mr. Robert, of Bungay, [1354].
• Chimney corner, in old times, [1622].
• ——— sweepers’ May garland, [583]; their festivities, [585], [591].
• Chinese characters, in movable types, [185].
• Christ’s hospital, boys bathing, [974]; sermon on St. Matthew’s day, [1314].
• ——— Passion, a mystery, by Gregory Nazianzen, [744]; performed at Ely house, [756].
• Christchurch, cloisters, [1216], [1240].
• Christern, king of Denmark, at a London pageant, [830].
• Christianity, in England before Augustine, [301].
• Christmas-day, [December 25]; its celebration, [1612]; eve, [1594]; carols, [1595]; ever-greens, order of their succession in decking, [205]; kings, in a pageant at Norwich, [256]; log, [204]; pie, [1639].
• Church, ball-play in it, [429], [864].
• ———, building, in saints’ times, [25], [1497].
• ———, a racket-player, [868].
• Churches, decked with greens, [1635]; not with mistletoe, [1635]; modern architecture of, [919], [945].
• Cider drinking, [42], [43].
• Circumcision, [January 1]; when instituted, [3].
• City, laureate, or poet, [1453].
• Civil wars, how commenced in England, [28].
• C. L’s sister, [965], [970].
• Clare-market, butchers’ bonfire, [1433].
• Clarges, sir Walter, his origin, [582].
• Clark, Thomas, miser of Dundee, [1588].
• Clarke’s horse-riding and tumbling, [1185].
• ———, posture master, [1248].
• ———, John, licenser of ballad singers, [1243].
• Classes, high and low assimilate, [1599].
• Clay, Mr., printseller, [1011].
• Clayen cup, in Devonshire, [41].
• Cleghorn, Mr. John, artist, sketching at the Pied Bull, [635]; noticed again, [974].
• Clement, St., [November 23]; notice of him, [1497]; customs on his festival, [1498].
• Clergy, Romish, call themselves the cocks of the Almighty, [255].
• Clerkenwell, parish, Clerks’well, its site, [754]; ducking-pond, [971]; St. John’s church and parish, [1474].
• Clias, captain, his gymnastics, [19].
• Cliff, Kent, rectorial custom at, [978].
• Clipping the church, [430].
• Clock, dialogue, [819].
• Clogs, wooden almanacs, [1471].
• Cloth fair, lord Rich’s residence in, [1233].
• Clothiers, how they travelled anciently, [876]; at Bartholomew fair, [1232].
• Clouds, their gorgeous imagery, [888].
• Clouwet, his engraving of Rubens’s St. Antony, [120].
• Coach wheel, driven for a wager, [1315].
• Coalheavers going to Greenwich fair, [437].
• Cobbler and his stall, [857]; cobblers take precedence of shoemakers, [1402].
• Cock in pot, and cock to dunghill, [72].
• ——— and lion, disputants, [99].
• ——— fighting, and customs, [252], [255]; leaden ones, [253].
• ——— crowing during the nights of Advent, [1642].
• Cockneys, king of, his court on Childermas-day, [1648].
• Cockpit-royal, Whitehall, [255].
• Coke, sir Edward, his reproof of Anne Turner, [1437].
• Colchester oysters, at Stourbridge, [1307].
• Cold, at the North Pole, [466].
• Colet, dean, his order for the boy bishop’s sermon, [1559].
• Collar days, at court, [100].
• Colley, Thomas, convicted of murder, [1045].
• Collop Monday customs, [241].
• Colnaghi and Son, printsellers, [1011].
• Cologne, three kings of, [45], [46].
• Colpoys, admiral, his life saved, [663].
• Common council, prayed for, [446].
• ——— crier’s office, [1333].
• ——— Hunt’s office, [1332].
• Conant, Mr., and the Ærial, [1461].
• Conduits, destroyed, [1042].
• Confectioners of Paris, [13].
• Congresbury custom, [837].
• Constantine, his church establishment, [744].
• Contented man, described, [1468].
• Conversion of St. Paul, [January 25]; superstitions concerning the day, [175].
• Cook, how disgraced if idle at Christmas, [1640].
• Cooke, Mr., theatrical singer, [966].
• Copenhagen-house, account of, [857].
• Copy-writing, at school, [967].
• Corning, on St. Thomas’s day, [1587].
• Cornwall, Palm Sunday customs, [396]; other customs and superstitions, [561], [847], [849], [853], [1611]; guary miracle plays, or mysteries, [757].
• Corpse, terrifically rises from the sea, [131].
• Corpus Christi, movable; makes Trinity term commence a day later, [100]; customs on the festival, [742].
• Cosin, John, bishop of Durham, lights his cathedral on Candlemas-day, [205].
• Costermonger, described, [1213], [1308].
• Costume of the 13th century, [337].
• Cottager, a, and his family, [873].
• Coventry mysteries, [750], [756]; parliament there, [753]; sports, [477].
• Councils, forbid the decking with greens, [1635].
• Country, the, and a country life, [492], [525], [608], [659]; country lasses, their finery formerly, [8]; squire of queen Anne’s time, [1621].
• Cowper, William, poet, account of, [520].
• Cox, captain, the collector, [477].
• Cranmer, archbishop, burnt, [382]; his widow, [ib.]
• Cratch, the, in mince-pies, [1639].
• Crawley’s booth, Bartholomew fair, [1247].
• Creation of the world, a mystery, [754]; represented by puppets at Bartholomew fair, [1239], [1247]; at Bath, [ib.]
• Creeping to the cross, [431].
• Cressets, account of, [831].
• Cressy, father S., his “Church History” used in this work, [3].
• Crickets on a winter hearth, [98].
• Cripplegate, and the cripples’ patron, [1149].
• Crisp, Samuel, account of, [102].
• Crispin, [October 25]; account of the saint and his festival, [1394].
• Crittel, Mr., landlord at West Wickham, [1507].
• Croaker, Mrs., her new-year’s gift to the lord chancellor, [9].
• Croft, rev. Mr., collector of mysteries, [746].
• Cromwell, O., personated in a sport, [718]; his supposed burial place, [859].
• Cross, found by Helena, [611]; seen in the sky by Constantine, [1292]; bleeding one of stone, [1586].
• ——— of the south, described, [611].
• ———-bill, a bird, described, [934].
• ——— week, [642].
• Crowdie, [260].
• Crowle, J. C., master of the revels, &c. [1243].
• Crown and Anchor booth, at fairs, [693], [724], [1388].
• Croyland abbey custom, [1132].
• Crucifixion, wounds, &c. in the passion flower, [770].
• Cruikshank, Mr. George, the artist, noticed, [907], [1113], [1320], [1429].
• Cuckold’s point, [1386].
• Cuckoo, the, [390], [411]; cuckoo-day, [465]; song, [739].
• Cumberland customs, [53], [423]; funerals, [1077].
• ——— gardens, Vauxhall, [603].
• Cuper’s gardens, [603].
• Curfew bell, its origin, &c. [242].
• Curl-papers, [1267].
• Curses of the church, [262].
• Cuthbert, St., converted at ball-play, [864].
• Cutpurses, caveat against, [1206].
• Cyprian, St., [September 26]; notice of, [1324].
• Cyprus, a decking for rooms, [1635].
• Daffa-down-dilly, a lawyer may not be called one, [239].
• Dagon, a symbol of the sun in Pisces, [28].
• Dance, by moonlight, [11]; of torches, [1551].
• Danes, massacre of, commemorated, [476]; their honours to rural deities, [42].
• Daniel O’Rourke, his story, [622].
• Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, death of, [481].
• Davies, John, a racket-player, [868].
• ——— Tom., bookseller, notice of, [615].
• David, St., [March 1]; account of the saint, [314]; customs of his festival, [317].
• ——— H., artist, engraving from, [1395].
• Day family, the, [1100].
• ———, 15th September, usually fine, [1294].
• ——— after lord-mayor’s day, [1469].
• ——— Mr., his exhibition of painting and sculpture, [263], [1531].
• ——— Mr. Thomas, a dwarf, [1194].
• Dead Sunday, [340].
• Death, contemplated, [1032].
• ——— of Good Living, [257].
• ——— of the Virgin, by old engravers, [1119].
• Deeping the Jews, [297].
• Deer, and a lion, [1001].
• Denham, sir J., poet, died, [373].
• Denys, St., [October 9]. Account of his martyrdom, and walking two miles afterwards with his head between his hands, attended by angels, and other miracles, [1371].
• Deptford fair, on Trinity Monday, [724].
• Descent into Hell, a mystery, [750], [755].
• Devil in a dish, [112]; very tall, [114], [115]; his smell, [ib.]; blessed by mistake, [118]; visits Bungay church, [1065]; represented in a pageant, [1490]; for other adventures attributed to him, see accounts of the Romish saints, [Index II].
• Devonshire customs and superstitions, [42], [718], [1609].
• Dictionary of musicians, characterised, [765].
• Dioclesian, the emperor, in his garden, [132].
• Discontented pendulum, [819].
• Dissent, origin and progress of, [752].
• Distaff’s, St., day, superstitions, [61].
• Dives and Lazarus, a carol, [1598].
• Divinations, various, [1409]; in advent, [1552].
• Docwray, Thomas, prior of St. John’s Clerkenwell, [1479].
• Dog and goose, [1341].
• Dog Days begin [July 3]; influence of the season on dogs, [897]; no cure for the bite of a mad one, [900]; a dog’s complaint, [944].
• ——— END [August 11].
• ——— fights on Sunday, [870].
• ——— killer, an ancient office, [901].
• ——— star, its alleged power, [897].
• Dogs, bait lions, [978], [1006]; a horse, [ib.]
• Dogget’s booth at Bartholomew fair, [1239].
• Dorset, countess of, [16].
• Dorsetshire custom, [1414].
• Dort, milk-maids save the city, [605].
• Dotterel catching, in Cambridgeshire, [646].
• Doubts, burnt out, [745].
• Douce, Mr., his ancient Christmas carols, [1595], [1600].
• Dragon, a symbol, [500]; of St. Michael, [1325]; with a stake in his eye, [38].
• Drama, ancient Greek, suppressed, [743]; origin of the modern drama, [744].
• Drinking custom, [373].
• ———, by miracle, [25]; at both ends of the barrel, [654]; before execution, [1132]; excessive, [1568].
• Druids, customs, ceremonies, &c. [6], [58], [854], [1413], [1637].
• Drury-lane maypole, [581].
• Dublin royal society’s pupils, under Mr. Behnes, gain the London royal academy prizes, [1651].
• Duck-hunting at May-fair, [573].
• Dudingston, N. Britain, custom, [1539].
• Duel, R. B. Sheridan and Mathews, [911].
• Duelling, characterised, [451].
• Dulwich, visit to, [1011].
• Dunn, Harriet, English plum-pudding maker at Paris, [1617].
• Dunstan, [May 19]; adventures of the saint with the devil, [670].
• ———, sir Jeffery, [1245].
• Durham, cathedral, on Candlemas-day, [205]; customs, [431].
• Dwarfs at Bartholomew fair, [1189], &c.
• Dyer, Mr. George, his “Privileges of the University of Cambridge,” and “History,” [1305].
• Earth, the, how worshipped, [1655].
• Earthquakes, England, [150], [341]; Lisbon, [975]; predicted by cats, [1109].
• Easling, Kent, custom, [1539].
• East winds, unwholesome, [134].
• Easter, Eastre, Easter-monath, [407].
• Easter-day, movable; origin, and how to find, [416], [517], [518]; customs, [421], [864]; offerings, origin of, [359].
• Eckert, C. A. F., a musical prodigy, [1038].
• Eclipse, the first recorded, [373].
• Eddystone lighthouse destroyed, [1515].
• Edinburgh, coronation pageant, [647]; cardinal Beaton’s house, [711]; new Exchange founded, [1312].
• Edmund, K. and Martyr, [November 20]; account of him, [1493].
• Edulf, a strong Anglo-Saxon, [29].
• Edward, St., K. W. S. [March 18]; murdered, [372].
• ———’s Translation, [June 20]; removal of his remains, [813].
• ——— the confessor, his death, [619]; translation, [1376].
• ——— II., sees a mystery at Paris, [746].
• ——— III., his gift to a boy bishop, [1559].
• Eel-pie house, near Hornsey, [697].
• Eggs, at Easter, [425].
• Egypt, conquered by the Turks, [461].
• Eldest son of the church, origin of the title, [1349].
• Elephant, of Henry III., [1005]; Atkins’s, [1177], [1179].
• Elia, and Bridget Elia, [92].
• ——— and Jem White, their treat to the sweeps, [585].
• Elizabeth, queen, new-year’s gifts to, [7]; studies with Roger Ascham, [29]; sees fives’ play, [865]; goes to St. Mary Spital, [445]; her accession celebrated, [1488].
• Elm leaves, used for fodder, [1403].
• Elmo, St., extraordinary circumstances relative to the capitulation of the fort, [126].
• Ely, Isle of, convent and church, [1382]; willows, [1080].
• ——— house, mystery performed there, [756].
• Ember Weeks, movable; seasons of mortification, [1572].
• Enoch, the book of, [1326].
• Enurchus, [September 7]; his history of no authority, [1253].
• Epiphany, [January 6]; customs of the festival, [45], [59]; name explained, [58].
• Epitaphs on a chimney board, [459]; on captain Grose, [657]; on a garret, [790]; at St. John’s, Clerkenwell, [1480].
• Equinox, vernal, [375].
• Erskine, lord, his dressing of his barber, [1265].
• Erysipelas, why called St. Antony’s fire, [119].
• Escurial, palace and monastery, [1085].
• Eskdale custom, [1379].
• Etheldreda, [October 17]; account of her, [1382].
• Eton-school customs, on Collop Monday, [242]; Shrove Tuesday, [259]; bonfires, [849]; nutting, [1294].
• Ettrick forest, sport, [1554].
• Etymology of the seasons, [1518].
• Evelyn, John, with judge Jefferies at an entertainment, [478]; his account of the fire of London, [1152].
• Evergreens at Christmas, [1635].
• Every-day dialogue, [1574]; work, [1042].
• Evesham, John, keeper of the lions, [1005].
• Evil eye, on May eve, [593].
• ——— May-day, [555], [577].
• Ewis, inscription for St. David at, [316].
• Exaltation of the cross, [1291].
• Excise laws, originated, [360].
• Exercise, indispensable, [1316].
• Exeter city gates broken by a strong man, [29]; mail coach horse, and lions, [1191].
• Eyes, the, receipt for, [353].
• Fabian, [January 20]; notice of him, [135].
• Fagot-sticks, divination, [1552].
• Fairies on May eve, [593].
• Faith, [October 6]; the existence of this saint doubted, [1362].
• Falconer, John, barber of Glasgow, [1272].
• Falling sickness, in rooks, [495].
• Fan handle, decorated, [8].
• Fantoccini, a street show described, [1113].
• Fardel, explained, [1215].
• Fashion-monger’s head, [1262].
• Fasten’s eve, [260].
• Favorite of lord Bacon’s, mentioned, [871].
• Faulkner, rev. W. E. L., [1474].
• Fawkes, the conjuror, [1225].
• ———, Guy, his day, London, [1429].
• Ferrers, earl, executed, [615].
• Ferule, school-masters’, described, [967].
• Festival of kings, [44].
• Fete de Sans-Culottes, [57].
• Fiddler, a, in Greenwich park, [692].
• Filthie worm, a Romish monument, lost, [294].
• Finger-snapping by barbers, [1268].
• Finland custom on St. Stephen’s day, [1644].
• Finsbury-fields, ball-play, [258].
• Fires in London, [389], [1098], [1150].
• ———, good ones, essential to Christmas, [1615].
• ———, on twelfth-day eve, [43], [58]; see [Baal].
• Fireworks, in London, prohibited, [1435].
• Fish, how preserved in ponds during frost, [82]; preached to, [118]; pond for cod, [82].
• Fishmongers’ almshouses, fiddler at, [692].
• Fives’, ball-play, [863]; see [Ball-play].
• ———-court, St. Martin’s-st. [868].
• Fleet prison, ball-play, [869].
• Flamsteed, John, astronomer, his original memoirs of himself, and his dispute with sir Isaac Newton, [1089].
• Fleming, rev. Abraham, account of, [1066].
• Flight into Egypt, how represented by artists, [1650].
• Flint, William, printer, of the Old St. John of Jerusalem tavern, [1481].
• Flockton, his puppet show at Bartholomew fair, [1246].
• Flogging of children, [30], [1648]; of relics, to recover their virtues, [816].
• Floral directory, commenced and explained, [131].
• Flowers, origin of their names, and when they blow, [104], [303], [464], [667], [740], [963].
• Flying, by patent wings, [1462].
• Fog of London, in November, [1502].
• Fools, on Plough Monday, [71]; hatching, in a pageant, [256].
• Foot-ball, in Scotland, [1554]; see [Ball-play].
• Foote, captain, signs the treaty of St Elmo, [127].
• Fornacalia, Fornax, the origin of pancakes, [250].
• Foscue, a farmer general, his self-burial alive, [101].
• Fountain, public-house, City-road, [975].
• Fountains, [1006], [1041].
• France, twelfth-day in, [57]; Death of Good Living there, [257]; all fools’ day, [413]; bleeding image of Paris, [895]; Christmas, [1616].
• Francis I. throws verses on Laura’s tomb, [451]; licenses mysteries, [749].
• Franking of newspapers, discontinued, [856].
• Frederick, emperor, his present to Cologne, [46].
• ———, prince of Wales, at Bartholomew fair, [1242]; his death, [374].
• Freeling, Mr., possessor of Kele’s carols, [1600].
• Freezing shower, its effects on trees and animals, [134].
• Frenchmen, all sportsmen, [1577].
• Frontispiece to this volume, explained, [1655].
• Fruit-stalls, [907].
• Funerals in Cumberland, [1077]; a rustic one, [1533].
• Fuseli, his compositions as an artist, [349].
• Fussell, Mr. Joseph, artist, noticed, [872].
• Gabriel, the archangel, [1326].
• Gahagan, Usher, a scholar, hanged, [287].
• Gallagher, Mr. John, gains a prize for sculpture, [1651].
• Game destroyers’ notice to House of Commons, [350].
• Gang-week, [642].
• Ganging, [1374].
• Ganging-day, [1340].
• Ganymede, changed to Aquarius, [141].
• Garden, its beauties, [133].
• Gardeners, perambulating, [616].
• Gardening, in old age, a renewal of our childhood, [113].
• Garlands, on Trinity Sunday, [723]; mourning, [1080]; see [May-day].
• Garret, or Garrard, a grocer’s epitaph, [790].
• Garrick, David, his letter to Messrs. Adam, [328]; goes to Bartholomew fair with Mrs. Garrick, [1244].
• Garter of the princess of Bavaria, at her wedding, [1551].
• Gaudy days, at the universities, [100].
• Gaunt, Mrs., burnt, [480].
• Geck, gowk, gull, [411].
• Ge-ho! to horses, its antiquity, [1645].
• Genealogy, precedence disputed, [797].
• Genius, what it is, [357].
• Gent, Mrs. Thomas, her bust by Behnes, [638].
• Gentleman’s Magazine title-page, [1481].
• Geoffry, abbot of St. Albans, first plays mysteries in England, [750].
• George-a-Green, and George Dyer, [1100], [1103].
• ———, III., king, notice of, [766].
• ———, IV., birth-day of, [1099].
• George, St., [April 23]; account of him, [496]; legend of his adventures with the dragon, [498], [1101].
• ———’s, St., fields, lactarium, [103].
• Germany, twelfth-day in, [57]; celebrations of Spring, [339]; breeds the best cocks, [240]; German diploma rejected, [84].
• Gerst-monat, [1147].
• Giants, at Bartholomew fair, [1172], &c.; represented in pageants at Chester, [835]; in Guildhall, [1454].
• Gibbon, Edward, where he conceived his history, [268].
• Gilbert, Mr. Davies, his Christmas carols, [1603].
• Giles, [September 1]; miracles attributed to him, [1149].
• Giltspur-street, whence so called, [1166].
• Gilpin, rev. Bernard, account of, [330], [345].
• ———, rev. William, tourist, died, [421].
• Giordano, Lucca, painter, notice of, [1651].
• Gladman, John, pageant by him, [255].
• Glasscutters’ procession at Newcastle, [1286].
• Glastonbury, monastery, [315]; miraculous walnut tree, [772].
• Gleeman, Anglo-Saxon, [1188].
• Glenfinnyn, vale of, monument there to the pretender, [32].
• Gloves, new-year’s gifts, [9]; hung in the air by miracle, [78]; kissing for, [1509]; glove of defiance in a church, [345]; glove money whence derived, [9].
• Gloucestershire customs, [58], [849].
• Glowworm, [1143].
• Gnat killed by a saint, [21].
• Go-to-bed-at-noon, flowers, [667].
• God of Death, druidical, [58].
• God rest you, merry gentlemen! Christmas carol, [1603].
• Godfrey, sir Edmundbury, in a pageant, [1488].
• Golden Legend, W. de Worde’s edition, used in this work, [3]; formerly read instead of the New Testament, [386].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, resided at Canonbury, [638].
• Gondomar, on the English weather, [308].
• Good Friday, movable; celebrations and customs of the day, [402].
• Gooding, on St. Thomas’s day, [1586].
• Goose, at Michaelmas, [1338]; anecdote of one, [1341]; whether lawful in Lent, [1472]; in Christmas pie, [1639]; goose pies on St. Stephen’s day, [1645].
• Gooseberry fair, [437].
• Gordon, Jemmy, of Cambridge, [698]; his death, [1294].
• Gothic church, depraved, [1474].
• Gout, miraculously cured, [472].
• Grammar school disputations in Smithfield, [1236].
• Grand days, in the law courts, [100].
• Granger, rev. J., punning note to Grose, [657].
• Grapes, grow on a saint’s bramble, [102].
• Grasshopper, its song, [98].
• Grass-week, [642].
• Great, the, when they sell themselves to the court, and the devil, [1419].
• ——— seal, new, [17].
• Greatness of character, exemplified, [263], [280].
• Greeks, the, used the mistletoe, [1637].
• Greens, on St. John’s day, [837]; in churches, [1635]; see [Evergreens].
• Greenwich church, dedication, [486]; holidays and fairs at Easter, [436]; Whitsuntide, [687]; observatory founded, [1089]; see [Flamsteed].
• Gregory, (called the Great,) [March 12]; account of this saint and his alleged miracles, [356].
• ——— Nazianzen, suppresses the Greek drama, and writes religious plays instead, [743], [744].
• Grey, lady Jane, severity of her parents, [31]; inscription on her portrait, [32].
• ——— Friars, mystery performed at the, [756].
• Gridirons honoured, [1085].
• Griffin, rev. Thomas, his storm sermon, [1518].
• Groom porter at St. James’s, played for by the royal family, [59].
• Grose, Francis, antiquary, notice of, [656].
• Guil-erra, and guil, [1544].
• Guillotine, in France, [145]; in England, &c. long before, [148]; contemplated for lord Lovat, [149]; an heraldic bearing, [ib.]
• Gule, of August, [1062].
• Gunpowder, invented, [397].
• ——— Plot day, [1429].
• Guthlac, St., his whips, [1132].
• Gymnastics, account of, [19], [1315].
• Hackin, the, a sausage, [1640].
• Hackney coaches, at Stourbridge, [1301].
• Hagbush-lane, Islington, account of, [870]; derivation of name, [875].
• Haggis, how made, [1634].
• Hail-storm saint, [326].
• Hair dress, [1260].
• ——— shirts; see saints, in [Index II.]
• Halifax gibbet, and gibbet law, [145].
• Hall, with his preserved birds and beasts at Bartholomew fair, [1245].
• Halley, Edmund, astronomer, [1093].
• Hallow e’en, [1408].
• Halter, in a repartee, [529].
• Hamilton, lady, at Caraccioli’s execution, [130].
• Hampton-Wick, Middlesex, ball-play, [245].
• Hand ball, hand tennis, [863]; see [Ball-play].
• Handsel Monday, [23].
• Hanging month, [1419].
• Harding, Jem, a racket-player, [868].
• Hardwick forest, custom, [145].
• Hardwicke, lord, resigns the seals to read Thuanus, [284].
• Hardy, captain, R. N., serves against the Burmese, [1529].
• Hare and tabor, [1210]; hare and tortoise, [1377]; hares, domesticated, [1383].
• Hartman, his opinion of Leo Africanus, [1581].
• Harvest month, [1059]; end of harvest, [1147].
• Hastings, Warren, account of, [1128]; Sheridan’s conduct in his impeachment, [914].
• Hats, [1437].
• Hawkwood, sir John, in a pageant, [1449].
• Haydon, Mr., artist, an opinion by, [1458].
• Haymarket theatre, disputes with the master of the revels, [1244].
• Hazard, played by the royal family, [59].
• Hazlitt, Mr., on Cavanagh’s fives-play, [865].
• Head-ache, cured by a saint, [23].
• Health, in summer, to preserve, [921].
• ——— drinking, on Plough Monday, [1334].
• Heard, sir Isaac, herald, died, [530].
• Hearne, Thomas, antiquary, discovers an old leaf, [1600]; at Bartholomew fair, [1228]; died, [771].
• Hearts, in valentines, [219], [227].
• Heatley’s booth at Bartholomew fair, [1238].
• Heaven, represented in a pageant, [1118]; heaven and hell, distance between, [1541]; see saints in [Index II.]
• Heaving, at Easter, [422].
• Heemskerk, his barber, [1265].
• Heit! used to horses, its antiquity, [1644].
• Helena, empress, translates the three kings, [45].
• Heligh-monat, [1543].
• Hell, its Romish arrangement, [22]; see saints in [Index II.]
• Hell-mouth, in a mystery, [747], [757].
• Heloise and Abelard, notice of, [494].
• Hempseed, charm, [1410], [1415].
• Hen, hey, hay-monath, [892].
• Henrietta Maria, queen, notice of, [773].
• ——— street, Covent-garden, duel there, [911].
• Henry II., acts as sewer to his son, [1622].
• ——— IV., holds a parliament at Coventry, [753].
• Henry V., at Agincourt, [1397].
• ——— VI., at a mystery at Winchester, [755]; at another at Coventry, [757].
• ——— VII., keeps Christmas at Greenwich, [1599].
• ——— VIII., Charles I. buried beside him, [190]; a cock fighter, [255]; goes a maying to Greenwich, [550]; disguises himself to see the London watch, [830].
• ——— IX., king of England, [34].
• Hens, customs concerning, [245]; one that spoke, [249].
• Herald, personated by the devil, [21].
• Herefordshire, custom on twelfth-night, [43]; winter fodder, [1403].
• Heretics, St. Antony’s, hatred to, [111].
• Hermit, the first, [104].
• Hertfordshire customs, [565], [1375]; witchcraft, [1045].
• Heton, near Newcastle, boy bishop, [1559].
• Higgins, a posture master, [1248].
• Highgate, lord Bacon died there, [870].
• Highway-woman, at Rumford, [1503].
• Hilary, [January 13]; account of him, [99].
• Hindoo festival, Huli, [412].
• Hipson, Miss, a gigantic girl, [1173].
• Hitchin, Herts, May-day, [565].
• Hlafmas, [1063].
• Hoare, Mr. S., his admonitory letter to Wombwell, [988].
• Hoax, in France, [960].
• Hoby, sir Philip, his papers, [871].
• Hock, Hoke, or Hox-day, [476].
• Hockley in the hole, its site, [754].
• Hoddesdon, Herts, Shrove Tuesday customs, [242].
• Hodges’s distillery, Lambeth, [603].
• Hogarth, painted scenes for Bartholomew fair, [1245].
• Holbetch, bishop of London, declares the gift of St. Bartholomew’s to the city, at Paul’s cross, [1234].
• Holborn-hill, “in my time,” 907.
• Holland’s, lady, mob, [1229].
• Hollar, Wenc., engraver, account of, [397].
• Holmhurst, St. Alban’s, [804].
• Holly, the, and the ivy, [60]; a carol, [1598], [1635]; an in-door decking, [1635]; holly-boy and ivy-girl, [226], [257].
• Holy Cross, [September 14]; derivation and usage of the day, [1291].
• ——— Thursday, movable; rogations and customs of the day, [651], [643].
• ——— gate, opened at Rome, [307].
• ——— water, [25].
• Holyday, at Dulwich, by S. R. [1011]; rational holyday making, [438].
• ———, children, at Christmas, [1607].
• Home, a sailor’s, [690].
• Hop, a threepenny, [1646].
• Hopfer, D., engraving by, [1121].
• Horn fair, described, [1386].
• Horne, bishop, anecdote of, [836].
• Hornsey Wood house, notice of, [759].
• Horoscope of Greenwich observatory, [1090].
• Horses, overloaded one, [438]; baited by dogs, [1000]; bled on St. Stephen’s day, [1643].
• Hosts, miraculous, [351], [534].
• Hot letter from I. Fry to capt. Lyon, [950].
• ——— weather, [1041]; effects of, [1111].
• Hour-glass, inscription, [1425].
• Howe, lord, his naval victory, [741].
• Huddy, Mr., his whimsical equipage, [78].
• Hunting, in the twelfth century, [1379].
• ———, rule for knowing when the scent lies, [1378].
• Husbandmen, should be meteorologists, [879].
• Hyde-park, sale of the toll-gate, [1355].
• Hydrophobia, incurable, [900].
• Icicles, poetically described, [184], [198].
• Iliad, in a nut-shell, [1086].
• Ill May-day; see [Evil May-day].
• Illumination in London, 1814, [459]; of St. Peter’s at Rome, [885].
• Image, divided by miracle, [99].
• Indulgence of Leo XII., [306].
• Innocents, [December 28]; derivation and customs of the day, [1648].
• Inquests of London, [1587].
• Insects in summer, [1099].
• Invention of the Cross, [May 3]; miraculous origin of the festival, [611].
• Inverness, ball-play, [260].
• Iol, or ol, [1544].
• Ireland, its verdure and plants, [108]; customs, [422], [592], [685], [847], [1508]; advancing in sculpture, [1651].
• Irving, Mr. Washington, his love of England, [635].
• Isle of Man customs, [59].
• Islington; see [Canonbury], [Copenhagen-house], [Hagbush-lane], [Pied Bull], &c.
• Italian minstrels, in London, [1630].
• Ivy, an outside decking, [1635]; see [Holly].
• Jack in the green, [585].
• ——— Snacker of Wytney, [1246].
• Jacob’s Well, Barbican, [972].
• Jahn’s gymnastics, [1317].
• James’s, St., palace, plum porridge there at Christmas, [1640].
• James I., new-year’s gifts to, [9]; a cock-fighter, [255]; goes to St. Mary Spital, [445]; attends his queen’s coronation at Edinburgh, [647]; his adventure with a clergyman who caught dotterels, [646].
• ——— II., lands in Ireland, [353].
• January, the first day, how pictured, [3].
• Janus, how pictured, [1], [6].
• Jefferies, Judge, account of, [478].
• Jennings, miser, account of him, [301].
• Jenyns, Soame, on cruelty to animals, [799].
• Jerome, [September 30]; authority for O. T. Apocrypha, [1343]; his legend of the first hermit, [104].
• Jerusalem, golden gate of, [1008].
• Jessup, Samuel, the pill-taker, [661].
• Jesuit, the, a periodical work, [914].
• Jewellery of the Burmese carriage, [1520].
• Jews’ new-year’s day, [15].
• ———, their treatment and present state in England, [295], [385]; Jewish stage play, [743].
• Joachim, St., and St. Anne, account of, [1008].
• Joan of Arc, account of, [726].
• John, king of France, died, [452].
• John Port Latin, [May 6]; notice of him, [617].
• ———, St., baptist, customs on his festival, [836], [845].
• ———’s eve, celebrations, [823], [836].
• John, St., apostle, [December 27], account of him, and customs on his festival, [1647].
• ———’s lane, Clerkenwell, raised, [1481].
• ——— wort, a charm, [854].
• Johnson, David, writing-master, account of, [1086].
• ———, Mr. J., his “Typographia,” [1136].
• ———, Dr. Samuel, and Boswell’s liking to town, [646].
• Joint-stock companies, see Bubbles; a new one proposed, [1460].
• Joke, no, like a true joke, [505].
• Jones, rev. W., of Nayland, anecdote of, [836].
• ———, sir W., died, [527].
• Jonson, Ben, his description of Bartholomew fair, [1201].
• Joseph, St., Roman carpenters’ respect for him, [1595].
• Judas, the, [435].
• Judges’ breakfast on first of term, [722]; sermon before them on Trinity Sunday, [722].
• Judith and Holofernes, at Bartholomew fair, [1227].
• Juggler, with balls, knives, &c. [1188].
• Julian, emperor, reviver of beards, [18]; notice of him, [887].
• Juliet Capulet, and Petrarch, [1063].
• Julius II., pope, prefers the sword to books, [266].
• Junkets, [561].
• Justifying bail, humorously described, [158].
• Justs and tournaments on London-bridge, Smithfield, &c. [799], [1167], [1234].
• Kale, whence derived, [196].
• Kaleidoscope invented, [473].
• Katharine, queen, goes a maying, [550].
• ———’s, St., church, by the tower, last service there, [1405]; see [Catharine].
• Keate, George, author, notice of, [880].
• Kele-wurt, [196].
• Kemp, W., of Peerless-pool, [971].
• Kenilworth, sports, [477].
• Kensington, lord, his interest in Bartholomew fair, [1233].
• Kent-road fountain, [1043].
• Kentish custom on Valentine’s day, [226]; not on that day, [257].
• Kiavamuchd, [1634].
• Kidder, bishop, and his lady, killed, [1513].
• Kidderminster custom, [1337], [1343].
• Kilda, St., Isle of, custom, [1340].
• Killigrew, Charles, master of the revels, [1243].
• King, George IV., his birth-day kept, [1199].
• ———’s-bench, ball-play, [869].
• Kingston, Surrey, customs, [245], [959].
• Kiss in the ring, [692].
• Klopstock, Frederic, died, [361].
• Knacking of the hands, [1267].
• Knight, the, and the Virgin Mary, a mystery, [748].
• ———, R. P., his dissertation, [1324].
• Knight-riders-street, whence so called, [1166].
• Knights and ladies, a winter pastime, [1614].
• Knowledge, advantages of, [1549].
• Kœnig, Mr., inventor of the steam press, [1537].
• Kyrle, John, death of, [1438].
• Labour, inevitable in all ranks, [1315]; essential to success in art, [1651].
• Labre, Benedict Joseph, account of, [467].
• Lace of St. Audrey, [1383].
• Lackington, Mr. George, purchases the Egyptian-hall, [1531].
• Lady-day, [386].
• ———, old, [450].
• ——— of the May, [550].
• Ladies, wore friars’ girdles, [262].
• Lagan-le-vrich, [1633].
• Lalande, astronomer, died, [451].
• Lamb of St. Agnes, [141], [143]; lamb-playing at Easter, [422]; lamb and lion, [1005].
• ———, Mr. Charles, quatrains from him to the editor, [927]; quatorzains from the editor to him, [929].
• Lamb’s wool, [44], [53], [1606]; its derivation, [1416].
• Lambert, [September 17]; account of the saint, [1295].
• Lammas, [August 1]; its derivation, [1063]; weather in Scotland, [342].
• Lamps, of old times, [831].
• Lanark, Palm Sunday custom, [396].
• Lane, a legerdemain player, [1248].
• Larks in spring, [534]; Dunstaple, [952].
• Last Judgment of M. Angelo, [268].
• Latimer’s, bishop, new-year’s gift to Henry VIII., [7].
• Laura, Petrarch’s, died, [450].
• Lawrence, [August 10]; account of this saint, [1085].
• ———, St., Jewry church, [1085].
• ———, sir Thomas, a question by, [1458].
• Law suit, its forms and progress of, [233].
• ——— terms, [99]; vacations, [ib.]
• Laymen’s parliament, [752].
• Leadenhall-street maypole, [555].
• Leaf, a withered, [1111]; fall of the leaf, [1438].
• Learned pig’s performance, [1194].
• Leather-lane, King’s-head public-house, [1630].
• Lee and Harper’s show, [1228].
• Leeds, twelfth-eve custom, [43].
• Leek, on St. David’s-day, [317].
• Leeming, Joseph, account of, [1455]; his letter to the editor, [1467].
• Leeuwarden custom, [1566].
• Leg, a, adventures of, [1460], [1467].
• Legal glee—a catch, [164].
• ——— recreations, [239].
• Leicester, sir John, his gallery possesses Mr. Behnes’ bust of Mr. West, [346].
• Leisure, retired, [667].
• Lenct-monat, [312].
• Lent celebrations, [193]; in a pageant, [256], [257]; Lenten cross, [395].
• Leo, zodiacal sign, symbolized, [1006].
• ——— Africanus, on the ass, [1309]; and camel, [1580]; his travels, [1581].
• ———, pope, calls St. Hilary a cock, [99].
• ——— XII., his indulgence, [306].
• Leopold, prince, of Brunswick, drowned, [527].
• Letter to [March 25], [389].
• ——— foundery of Breitkopf, [185].
• Leyden, explosion of gunpowder there, [93].
• Libra, zodiacal sign, [1147].
• Lida aftera, [892]; erra, [738].
• Lifting at Easter, [422].
• Lincoln’s-inn-hall, breakfast on first of term, [155], [1436]; fountain, [1043].
• Lincolnshire customs, &c. [1482].
• Lindsey, dame, of Bath, [1280].
• Lions, anecdotes of, [104], [978] to [1006], [1184], [1176], [1177], [1191].
• ——— head at Button’s, [1006].
• Lisbon, earthquake at, affects Peerless-pool, [975].
• Liston, Mr., sees the living skeleton, [1029].
• Literary services, ungrateful reward of, [527]; piracy, [1140].
• Literature, societies for encouraging, [354].
• Little Britain, Spectator published there, [283].
• Littleton, lexicographer, his inscription for the monument, [1165].
• Liverpool, earl of, master of the Trinity, ceremony of swearing, [724].
• Living skeleton, the, visit to, [1017]; another, [1129].
• Livy and his books, [24].
• Loaf-mass, [1063].
• Lobscouse, [53].
• Logan, salt-water fish-pond, [82].
• London, new-year’s day, [15]; Palm Sunday, [395]; customs, [435]; lord mayor and citizens going a maying, [552]; pageant, [671]; lord mayor &c. at a mystery, [756]; ancient watch, [826]; sheriffs proveditors for beasts, [1005]; corporation costume on St. Bartholomew’s day, eve, &c. [1235]; customs at Michaelmas, [1330]; lord mayor’s establishment, [1331]; notice for 5th Nov., [1435]; lord mayor’s day, [1439]; election of ward officers, [1587]; waits, [1626]; ceremony of founding the new London-bridge, [775]; account of the old one, [799]; city wall repaired from ruins of Jews’ houses, [296].
• London burnt, [1666], [September 2]; accounts of the great fire, [1150].
• ——— Magazine, “Lion’s Head,” [1007].
• Longest day, [June 21]; a suitable apologue, [819]; see Barnabas, [June 11].
• Longevity of Petrarch, a Russian, [39].
• ——— Dennis Hampson, Irish bard, [40].
• Lord Mayor’s day, [November 9]; account of lord mayor’s show, [671], [1439], [1453].
• Lord of the tap, at Stourbridge fair, [1487].
• Lothbury, Jews’ synagogue plundered, [296].
• ——— how watered formerly, [971].
• Lovat, lord, executed, [452].
• Love account-keeping, [215]; advertisement, [1070]; see [Spring].
• Loveday, Mr., his daughters become Catholics, [534].
• Loudon, J. C., his “Encyclopædia of Gardening,” [1043], [note].
• Louis XVI., beheaded, [145].
• ——— XVIII., new-year’s gifts to him, [14]; patron of plum-pudding, [1617].
• Low Sunday, movable; its derivation, [453].
• Luchd-vouil, [1634].
• Lucian, [January 8]; account of this saint, [78].
• Lucy, [December 13]; account of this saint, [1570].
• Luke, [October 18]; horn fair on his festival, [1386]; how he is painted, [1387].
• Lulle, Raym., alchemist, account of, [398].
• Lulli, J. B., composer, died, [383].
• Lute, the barber’s, [1268].
• Lyme Regis, custom on Candlemas-day, [206].
• M‘Creery, Mr. John, his “Press,” a poem, [1135]; lines on his daughter’s hour-glass, [1425].
• Macdonald, Alexander, his monument to the pretender, [33].
• ———, sergeant Samuel, notice of, [619].
• M‘Dowal, colonel, his salt fish store, [82].
• Machutus, [November 15]; who he was, [1486].
• Mackerel fishing, [961].
• Macnamara, captain, duellist, [451].
• Mad dogs, danger from, [900].
• ——— Moll, and her husband, at Hitchin, [566].
• Magdalen-college quadrangle, dressed with greens, [836].
• Magna Charta signed, [811].
• Magnus, St., church, custom at, [1349].
• Maia, a deity, [537].
• Maid Marian, [550], &c.
• Mail coach, annual procession, [503].
• Malabar Christians, [1586].
• Malt’s defence, [75].
• Man of Ross, Pope’s, [1438].
• ——— smugging, illegal, [1435].
• Mansfield, earl, C. J., died, [374].
• Manures and dressings, fanciful, [664].
• Mara, madam, notice of, [762].
• Marco, a Tower lion, [1006].
• Mare with seven legs, [1181].
• Margot, a French girl, a ball-player, [856].
• Mark, St., [April 25]; notice of him, [512]; celebrations of his eve and festival, [521].
• Marlborough, duke of, notice of, [798].
• Marriage of a priest, whereby he remained a bachelor, [142]; ill luck to marry on Childermas-day, [1648].
• Marseilles’ fete, [1298].
• Martin, St., [November 11]; account of him, [1469].
• ———’s church, near Canterbury, [301].
• ———, Mr., of Galway, noticed, [980].
• Martineau, Mrs., lines on her death, [796].
• Martinmas, [1470].
• Mary, the lady, a rope-dancer, her tragical fate, [1241].
• ———, queen, sung to by a boy bishop, [1560].
• ———, queen of Scots, new-year’s gift to, [10].
• ———, St., at hill, boy bishop, [1560].
• ———’s, eve carol, [1602].
• ——— Overy, boy bishop, [1559].
• ———, Spital, London, [445].
• Mason, rev. W., poet, died, [421].
• Maskers, at a common hop, [1646].
• Masking on twelfth-night, [54].
• Massacre of St. Bartholomew, [1131].
• Master of the revels, his office and seal, [1244].
• Matilda, queen of Denmark, dies in prison, [529].
• Matthew, St., [September 21]; account of him, [1314].
• Maughan, Nicholas, a showman, [1173].
• Maundy Thursday, movable; maund, maundy, &c. customs, [400].
• Maxentius II., emperor, his cruelty, [1504].
• May-day, maypoles, maygames and garlands, [541] to [598], [705]; maypole in a screen, [761].
• Mayers’ song, [567].
• May-fair, Piccadilly, account of, [572].
• ——— hill, dangerous to invalids, [652].
• ——— month, [598].
• ——— morning, [644].
• Mechanics’ Institution recommended, [1500].
• ———, London, founded, [1549].
• Mechelen, Israel van, engraving by, [1119].
• Medal of Henry IX. king of England, [34]; of Napoleon on his marriage, [409]; a French one on Martinmas, [1472].
• Medemonath, [738].
• Melmoth, Courtney, died, [361].
• Melodies of evening, [606].
• Memory Corner Thompson, account of, [81].
• Men, twelve, suspended in the air, [26].
• Mercery, its signification, [1337].
• Merchant Tailors’ song, [1452].
• Meredith, a fives-player, [867].
• Merriment within compass, [61].
• Merry-andrew, a superior one, [1245].
• Merry in the hall, when beards wag all! [1640].
• Meteor, a, in Britain, [373].
• Michael, St., [September 29]; account of him, [629]; his dragon, [500], [1325].
• Michaelmas-day custom, [1325].
• ——— ———, old, [1374].
• ——— term, [1436].
• Michell, Simon, barrister, [1479], [1481].
• Middleton’s, Dr. Conyers, coach-horses blessed, [117].
• Mid-Lent Sunday, [358].
• Midnight and the Moon, [963].
• Midsummer-day, [June 24]; celebrations, [837].
• ——— -eve, bonfires, watchsetting, &c. [823] to [836]; divinations, [850].
• ——— -men, [850].
• Midsumormonath, [738].
• Midwinter, [59].
• ——— -monath, [1543].
• Milan, its great loss, [46].
• Mildred’s, St., church in the Poultry, [285].
• Mile, and half-mile stones, projected, [103].
• Miles, lieutenant colonel, serves against the Burmese, [1527].
• Milkmaids’ garlands, [570].
• Miller’s booth, Bartholomew fair, [1238].
• Mince pies, symbolical, [1638].
• Minch-pies, [1639].
• Minster, Isle of Thanet, first abbess of, [285].
• Minstrels, their ancient vocation, [1231].
• Miracles, &c. of Romish saints; see [Index II].
• Mirror of the Months, a book, [1491].
• Missel-thrush, [535].
• Mistletoe cut by the Druids, [6]; kissed under, [1614], [1615]; proscribed in churches, [1636].
• Mitford, J., his account of lord Byron’s residence at Mitylene, [487].
• Monk, a, drowned, and afterwards relates his adventures, [1117].
• ———, duke of Albemarle, his wife, [582].
• Monmouth, countess of, [17].
• Montgomery, colonel, killed, [451].
• Months, the, in a Norwich pageant, [256]; in a versified memorandum, [310].
• Montmartre, its derivation, [1371].
• Monument, the, on Fish-street-hill, [1150], [1165].
• Moon, the, poetically addressed, [292]; at midnight, [963]; its influence on the weather, [1015]; symbolized, [1110]; new-moon customs, [1509].
• Moor, sir Jonas, astronomer died, [1093].
• Moore’s travels in Africa, [1582].
• ———, Mr. Thomas, lord Byron’s last lines to, [490].
• Moorgate, annual procession from, [1488].
• More, sir Thomas, lord chancellor, declines a new-year’s gift of money, [9]; reproves his lady, [262]; his head on London bridge, [799].
• Morrice dance, in the Strand, [559].
• Morton, Regent, his guillotine, [149].
• Moscow rebuilt, from Grays-inn-lane dust-heap, [323].
• Most Christian king, origin of the title, [1349].
• Mother, suckling her child, [905].
• Mothering Sunday, [358].
• Mother’s milk, an epigram, [1311].
• Motions, puppet shows, [1246].
• Movable fasts and feasts, [190]; vigil or eve, morrow, octave or utas of, &c. [192]; corrected, [415].
• Mummers and mumming, [592], [1653].
• Mushroom, an enormous one, [20].
• Music of cats, [1106], [1110]; music in every thing, [1142]; at Bartholomew fair, [1248]; in the ass, [1360]; musical ear of squirrels, [1365]; musical prodigies, [1038].
• Mutton-pie, and loaf, annual gift, [978].
• Myddleton, sir Hugh, when he did not die, [343].
• Mysteries, and Romish church pageants, [742], [750], &c.
• Nailing, on twelfth-night, [50].
• Name of Jesus, [August 7]; why in the almanacs, [1071].
• Napoleon’s marriage and medal, [409]; king of Rome, born, [374]; Napoleon died, [616].
• Naseby, battle of, [773].
• Nash, Beau, notice of, [1585].
• Nativity of John, baptist, [June 24]; customs on the day and eve, [833], [846].
• ———, B. V. M., [September 8]; when instituted as a festival, &c., [1274].
• Navigations, miraculous, [4], [26], [194].
• Negro woman’s pity of a climbing boy, [592].
• Nelson, lord, anecdotes of him, [126].
• Neptune of the Egyptians, [141].
• Nero, account of, [453].
• ——— and Wallace, lions, [978].
• Nettle whipping, on May eve, [594].
• New River nuisances, [951], [1042].
• ——— year’s day, celebrations of, [3]; Nightingale on, [521].
• ——— ——— eve, celebrations and winds, [10], [11], [1653].
• ——— ——— gifts, [6], [30].
• Newcastle customs, [430]; Corpus Christi play, [755]; procession of glass-cutters, [1286]; and shoemakers, [1401].
• ——— house bonfire, [1433].
• Newman, Sarah, epitaph on, [1480].
• Newnton, Wilts, Trinity Sunday custom, [723].
• Newspaper advertisement, to subscribers, [823].
• ——— office, letter-boxes, [103].
• Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand maypole, [560]; dispute between him and Flamsteed, [1091]; died, [374].
• Nice, council of, [1557].
• Nicholas, [December 6]; account of St. Nicholas, and customs on his festival, [1555]; in Holland, [1566].
• ———, lady Penelope, killed, [1513].
• Nicknackitarian law-suit, [1284].
• Nicomede, [June 1]; a martyr, [741].
• Niger, the, its course, [1582].
• Nightingales, on new-year’s day, [521]; in April, [540]; in May, [606]; at Blackheath, [688]; their jug-jug, [728].
• Nightless days, [772].
• Noah’s flood represented at Bartholomew fair, [1247].
• Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, [1007].
• North-east wind fiend, [136]; its effects, [622].
• North road to London, account of the most ancient, [870] to [878].
• ——— Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at an owl there, [252].
• Northumberland customs, [849].
• ——— household book, records, mysteries, [755].
• Norwich turkeys, sent to London at Christmas, [1606].
• Notice to quit, [1342].
• Nottingham park, foliage destroyed, [1111].
• Now—a hot day, [880].
• Nut-burning and cracking, [1408], [1415], [1421].
• Nutting on Holy-rood day, [1293].
• Oath, remarkably observed, [654].
• Octavia, empress, account of, [454].
• Ode on Smithery, [1499].
• O’Donoghue, legend of, [594].
• Offerings at the chapel-royal on twelfth-day, [59]; at Easter, [359].
• Olave’s St., church in the Old Jewry formerly a synagogue, [296]; boy bishop, [1561].
• ———, Silver-st., mystery performed at, [756].
• Old Clem at Woolwich, [1501].
• ——— Fogeys, [1454].
• ——— Holy Rood, [September 26]; noticed, [1324].
• ——— May-day, [683].
• ——— Michaelmas Day, [October 11]; customs, [1375].
• Onagra, the, [1178].
• Onions, divination, [1552].
• O. P. row, [603].
• Opie, John, artist, died, [453].
• Optical illusion, [122].
• Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, [1245].
• Orange, stuck with cloves, [7].
• Oratorio, its origin, [703].
• Oratory, fathers of the, [702].
• Organ, of St. Catharine’s church, [1407]; in the street at Christmas, [1615].
• Orleans, duchess d’, her new-year’s gift to Louis XVIII., [14].
• O Sapientia, [December 16]; why in the almanacs, [1572].
• Oster-monath, [407].
• Ovens, origin of, [259].
• Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, [1437].
• Ovid, character of, [23].
• Our lady of Bolton’s image, [431].
• Owling and purling on Valentine’s day, &c. [227], [252].
• Ox and Ass, why represented in prints of the nativity, [1610].
• Oxen pledged in cider, &c., [43].
• Oxford, curfew at Carfax, [242].
• Oyster-tub used for a carriage, [78].
• Oysters on St. James’s-day, [978].
• Packhorse travelling, [876].
• Packington’s pound, a tune, [1214].
• Pageants in London, [671], [1443], [1473], [1487]; at Edinburgh, [647]; on St. John’s eve, [825]; of the seasons, fasts, and feasts, [255].
• Palace-yard porter shops, [603].
• Pallas, the planet, discovered, [397].
• Palm Sunday, movable; celebrations and customs of the day, [391]; palm, [1081].
• ——— play, with a ball, [864].
• Palmer, Garrick’s bill-sticker, [1244].
• Pamela, imagined at cards, [93].
• Pancake-day, [246].
• ——— month, [197].
• Panchaud, M., defrauded, [770].
• Panormo, Mr. C., gains a prize for sculpture, [1651].
• Paper folding man, the, [692].
• ——— windows at Bartholomew tide, [1133].
• Paques, pascha, paschal, pace, paste, [416].
• Paradise, a Jesuit’s account of, [1350].
• Paris, new-year’s day, [13]; blessing of a market there, [758].
• Parish clerks of London, the, mysteries of, [753].
• ——— priest, a good, [1613].
• Parr, Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and character, [444]; and death, [339].
• Pascal, the, [393], [436], [959].
• Passion, the, symbolized, [405].
• ——— flower, [770].
• ——— Sunday, [392].
• Pastry-cooks’ shops on twelfth-night, [47].
• Paternoster backwards, a charm, [1415].
• Patrick, St., [March 17]; legend of the saint’s miracles, [363]; customs on his festival, [369]; his chair, [825].
• Paul, St., the apostle, notice of, [889]; his and Seneca’s epistles, [453].
• ———’s day, superstitions, [175]; his chain, [601].
• Paul’s cathedral, London, [301]; its pigeon, [1246].
• ——— cross, sermon against maypoles, [753]; rood, [1292].
• ——— school, boys play mysteries, [753].
• Pea-queen on twelfth-night, [56].
• Peckham fair, [1125].
• Pedlar, described, [1215].
• Peerless-pool, described, [970].
• Pendrill, Will., in the royal oak, [718].
• Penn, William, his account of Mrs. Gaunt’s death, [480].
• Penny, in twelfth-cake, [55].
• Pens, his engraving of a guillotine, [148].
• Pentecost, [685].
• Pentonville, deficient of water, [1042].
• Penzance, May custom, [561].
• Perambulation of parishes, [652].
• Perceval, Robert, killed in the Strand, [561].
• Perpetua, [March 7]; noticed, [340].
• Perriwigs, [1259].
• Peru, a fives-player, [867].
• Perukes, [1450]; for four angels, [435].
• Peter, St., [June 29]; celebration of his festival at Rome, [885].
• ———’s chains, [1061].
• ——— chair at Rome, [121].
• ——— church, occasioned the Reformation, [264].
• ———, Czar, visits Greenwich, [1095].
• Petrarch, crowned in public, [452]; his birth-day, the same as Juliet Capulet’s, [1063].
• Phials, with devil’s drink, [21].
• Philip and James, Sts., [May 1]; noticed, [541].
• ——— the fair, entertains Edward II., [746].
• Phillips, W., a Welsh dwarf, [1188].
• Philosopher’s stone, a patent for it, [240].
• Piazzi’s discovery of the planet Ceres, [17].
• Picture of St. Ignatius, miraculous, [1055].
• Pictures at Dulwich, [1011].
• Pidcock and Polito’s menagerie, [1246].
• Pie-powder-court, [1214].
• Pied Bull, Islington, [634].
• Pifferari of Calabria, [1595].
• Pigeons of Paul’s, [120], [1246].
• Pigs, [119]; annually consumed in London, [1217].
• Pillow made of a dead man, [21].
• Pills, one pill not a dose, [661].
• Pinning on twelfth-night, [47].
• Pin-sticking customs, [136].
• Pins and Pin-money, [9].
• Pio, Albert, prince of Carpi, buried, [529].
• Pipe of the Roman eucharist, [185].
• Piran’s, St., day, [334].
• Pitt, rev. Charles, poet, died, [461].
• Pizarro, notice of, [857].
• Plague, the, notice of, [363]; in London, [383].
• Plough-light money, [73].
• Plough Monday, movable; processions and other customs, [71].
• ——— ——— and Sunday, London festivals, [1334].
• Plum-porridge at Christmas, [1640].
• ——— pudding, an eccentric vender of it, [1250]; made in France, [1617].
• Plutarch, read to Louis XIV., [1231].
• Plymouth, mild winter at, [1563].
• Poaching notice, [350].
• Poetry, English, its first cultivator, [701].
• Pole, the barber’s, [1269].
• Pompeii, panorama of, [1595].
• Pompey’s complaint in the dog-days, [945].
• Ponsondie, [53].
• Pope, the, and cardinals’ jubilee for the massacre on St. Bartholomew’s day, [1131].
• ———, annual burning of, [1487].
• ——— Joan, card party, [91].
• Pope’s willow tree, [1081].
• Popery, No, [1433].
• Porter and his knot, [1215].
• Porto-Bello, rejoicings on taking, [1473].
• Post office business increased, [215].
• Powder Plot, [November 5]; celebrations, [1429].
• Powell’s, Mr., pedigree, [797].
• Powell of the fives-court, [868].
• Prayer, directory for, [202]; M. Angelo’s, [280].
• Praying for the dead, [1424].
• Prechdachdan sour, [1633].
• Pressing of seamen, when commenced, [373].
• Pretender, monument to him, [33].
• Price, Dr. Richard, died, [486].
• Pricking in the belt, [437].
• Printer’s customs, and printing terms, [1133];
• ——— devil, [1139].
• Printing, [185]; improvement in, [1535]; a simile, [30].
• Prisca, [January 18]; noticed, [22].
• Prisoners on trial, why uncovered, [1437].
• Pritchard, rev. George, his storm sermon, [1517].
• Procession-week, [642].
• Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form of, [1165]; for a fast in the storm year, [1515].
• Proger’s, Mr., pedigree, [797].
• Pulpits, [838]; stone pulpit at Oxford, [837].
• Pumps, [1041].
• Puppet shows, [1246]; in Ben Jonson’s time, [1202]; at May-fair, [574]; at Pentonville, [1114].
• Purgatory eased, in 1825, [307]; see Romish saints, [Index II.]
• Purification, [February 2]; see [Candlemas].
• Puxton custom, [837].
• Pye-corner, Smithfield, [1217], [1238].
• ———, John, watchman of Bungay, [1628].
• Quadragesima, [193].
• Quarter-day, situations and feelings on, [841].
• Quarto-die-post, explained, [100].
• Queen’s college Oxford, Boar’s head carol, [1619].
• R. G. V. H. an inscription, [1466].
• Racine, reads to Louis XIV., [1231].
• Rackets, origin of, [863].
• Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, [753].
• Rahere, first prior of St. Bartholomew’s, [1231].
• Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, [421].
• Rain, why it did not fall for three years, [116]; on Swithin’s day, [954], [958]; average fall in winter, [1564].
• ———bow in winter, [107].
• Ranson’s, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey, [922], [928], [968].
• Raphael, the archangel, [1326].
• ———, painter, died, [451]; his picture of the Nativity, with a bag-piper, [1595].
• Rath, the or Burmese state-carriage, [1519].
• Rats eat a bishop, [1362].
• Ratzburg customs on Christmas-eve, [1604].
• Raven feeds a saint and fetches his cloak, [104].
• Recollections, effect of tender, [1406].
• Red Cross-street burial ground, for Jews, [296].
• ——— Lion-square, obelisk in, [859].
• Reformation, the, its immediate cause, [264].
• Refreshment Sunday, [358].
• Relics, curious list of, [814].
• Remigius, [October 1]; noticed, [1349].
• Resurrection, the, a Romish church drama, [431].
• Rhed-monath, [313].
• Rheumatism cured by ale, [23].
• Ribadeneira’s Lives of the Saints, used in this work, [3].
• Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St. Bartholomew’s priory, [1232].
• Richard de Wiche, [April 3]; account of him, [419].
• ——— II. and his court at the parish clerks’ play, [753].
• ——— III. attends the Coventry plays, [757].
• Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, [1565].
• Richardson, Mr., buys Button’s lion’s head, [1007].
• ———’s, itinerant theatre, [1182], [1388].
• Richmond, visit to, [601]; hunt on Holyrood-day, [1294].
• Riding stang described, [12].
• Ridlington, Rob., his bequest to Stamford, [1484].
• Ring, a, occasions a repartee, [529]; wedding ring of Joachim and Anne, [1010].
• Rippon church, Yorkshire, lighted up before Candlemas, [205].
• Rising early, its effects, [79].
• Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol, [1600].
• Roast beef, [1578].
• ——— pig, by Elia, [1218].
• Robbery at Copenhagen-house, [862].
• Robin in winter, [103]; and the wren, [647].
• ——— Hood, [550]; and his bower, [686].
• Roche, St. or St. Roche’s day, [1120].
• Rochester cathedral, [301].
• ———, lord, outwitted, [613]; banters Charles II., [721].
• Rock-day, [61].
• Rodd, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, [8], [1066].
• Rodney, adm., defeats Comte de Grasse, [459].
• Roebuck Inn, Richmond, [604].
• Rogation Sunday, movable; customs in Rogation week, [641].
• Rogers, organist of Bristol, noticed, [1039].
• Roman pottery, a new-year’s gift, [6]; wigs of Roman ladies, [1263].
• Rome, ancient, new-year’s day, [13]; founded, [493].
• Romish church established, [744]; Romish and protestant churches and worship compared, [839], [919].
• Ronaldshay, North, custom, [10].
• Rood, the, described, [1291].
• Rooks, in Doctor’s Commons, [494].
• Rose Sunday, [358].
• ——— gathering on Midsummer-eve, [852].
• ———, the last, of summer, [1389].
• Roseberry, earl of, singular narrative of his son and a clergyman’s wife, [1122].
• Rosemary-branch, fives-play, [867].
• Round-abouts and up-and-downs, [1249].
• Rout, city, discontinued, [1336].
• Row, T., Dr. Pegge, and curfew, [244].
• Rowlandson’s Boor’s-head, [1622].
• Royal-oak-day, [711].
• Rubens’s death of St. Antony, [120].
• Ruffian’s hall, Smithfield, [1234].
• Runic calendar, [1404].
• Rural musings, [106].
• Rush-strewing at Deptford, 1825, [725].
• Sackville, secretary, account of his schoolmaster, [29].
• Sadler, J., his engraving of St. Cecilia, [1496].
• Sadler’s Wells, anglers, [344]; play-bill, [1200].
• Saffron-flower and cakes, [1148].
• Sailors, their patrons in storms, [537]; staid ashore in bad weather, [1419]; mistake of one, [1591]; a sailor and his wife at Greenwich, [689].
• Saints, Romish, authorities mostly referred to for their legends, [3]; in sweetmeat, [116]; peculiarity of their bodies, [ib.]; tender-nosed, [745]; carry their heads under their arms after death, [1371]; a dirty one, [467]. For further particulars, see [Index II.]
• Salisbury, boy bishop, [1557]; Edward the Confessor, translated to Salisbury, [813].
• Sallows described, [78].
• Salters’ company, custom, [1349].
• Salvator’s temptation of St. Antony, [116].
• Samam, vigil of, [1415].
• Samwell’s company of tumblers, [1185].
• Sannazarius’s poem, De Partu Virginis, [1611].
• Saturnalian days, [57].
• Satyr, seen by a saint, [104].
• Saunderson, Dr. Nicholas, mathematician, died, [486].
• Sausages, feast of, [1471].
• Scent in hunting, [1378].
• Schoen, Martin, engraving by, [1119].
• Schoolmasters, formerly, [30]; presided on throwing at cocks, [252].
• School-time in spring, [674].
• Scone, ball-play, [259].
• Scotland, candlemas-day, [206]; Shrove Tuesday, [259]; mists, [250]; first of April, 1811; has no carols at Christmas, [1602]; Highland Christmas, [1633]; superstitions, [1408].
• Scott, Bartholomew, married Cranmer’s widow, [382].
• Screen, at Hornsey Wood house, [760].
• Sculpture and painting, their relative merits, [275]; the two Royal Academy prizes for 1825 awarded to two Irish pupils, [1651].
• Scythe carried by the Devil, [21].
• Sea-water, a company to bring it to Copenhagen-fields, [869].
• Seal of Button’s Lion’s head, [1007].
• Seasons, their names derived, [1518].
• Seduction, [1076].
• Self-multiplication of saints’ bodies and relics, [335], [611], [814].
• Selim, sultan, takes Cairo, [461].
• Seneca, his death and character, [453].
• Septuagesima Sunday, movable; why so called, [192], [193].
• Sepulchre, Romish church drama, [432].
• Serjeant’s coif, [158].
• Sermon for Easter diversion, [446].
• ———s prohibited to be read, [1264].
• Serpent, a little one in a woman, [38]; a taper, [ib.]; serpents dance on ropes, [1245]; a seat on a serpent’s knee, [1599].
• Servants, their new-year’s gifts to masters, [10]; cautioned against leaving Christmas leaves, [204].
• ——— maid, a character, [481].
• Settle, Elkanah, the last city poet, [1453].
• Seurat, Ambrose, account of, [1017].
• Seward, Anna, author, died, [389].
• Sexagesima, movable; why so called, [191], [193].
• Shaftesbury, lord, plays in a pageant, [1490].
• Shakspeare, died, [503]; his jest book, [504].
• ——— tavern sale, [1007].
• Shamrock, the Irish cognizance, [371].
• Sharp, Mr. T., his work on pageants, [478].
• ———, W., engraver, [604].
• Shaving in winter, [18]; anciently, [1268].
• Sheep blessing by the Romish church, [143]; shearing, [740].
• Sheep’s head, singed, [1539].
• Sheet used at execution of Charles I., [187].
• Shepherd and shepherdess tavern, City-road, [442], [975].
• Shere Thursday, [400].
• Sheridan, R. B., notice and character of, [910].
• Ship, in a pageant, [1450].
• Shirt, a miraculous iron one, [286]; stitches in a shirt, [1375].
• Shoemaker-row, [1238].
• ———s, their patron and holyday, [1395]; shoe-stealer blinded, [26].
• Shoes, sandals, and slippers, [513].
• Shony, a western isle sea-god, [1414].
• Shooting, at Bartholomew tide, [1235]; in North Britain at Christmas, [1634].
• Showman’s family described, [1189].
• Shrewsbury, Easter-lifting, [422].
• Shrid-pies, [1638].
• Shrive, shrove, [246].
• Shrove Tuesday, movable; customs, [242].
• Siddons, Mrs., [905].
• Side-bar, in Westminster-hall, [156].
• Sidney, Algernon, [479].
• Sign, Absalom, [1262]; a tinman’s, [1385].
• Silenus, [450].
• Silvester, [December 31]; notice of him, [1653].
• Simon, St., and St. Jude, [October 28]; superstitions of the day, [1403].
• Sirius, the dog-star, [897], [899].
• Sixtine chapel, M. Angelo’s scaffold for it, [267].
• Skeleton-huntsmen’ song, [1296].
• Skewers, used for pins, [9].
• Skinners’ company, their pageant, [1452].
• ——— well, mystery played at, [753].
• Slatyer, W., his psalms to song tunes, [1598].
• Sleep, how avoided by a saint, [282].
• Sleepers, legend of the Seven, [1035].
• Slingsby, sir H., his account of the training in 1639, [28].
• Sluicehouse, near Hornsey Wood, [696].
• Smith, Gentleman, account of, [1288].
• Smithery, ode in praise of, [1499].
• Smithfield, entertainment on May-day, [589]; at Bartholomew-fair time, [1166]; whence so called, [1231]; paved, [1234].
• Smoking, [667].
• Smuchdan, [12].
• Smugging tops, dumps, &c. [253]; a Guy, [1431]; a man, [1435].
• Snipes, [1390].
• Snow-ball, sport, [257]; snow-balls medicinal, [414].
• ——— drop described, [78].
• Snuff-taking, how to leave off, [152]; wit at a pinch, [231].
• Soissons, church branch of seven tapers, [45].
• Solace, a printer’s penalty, [1136].
• Soldier pensioned for killing two men, and capturing their lion, [1006].
• Somers, lord, died, [525].
• ——— town miracle, [472].
• Somerset-house, old, what stones built with, [1479].
• Somersetshire, sports and customs, [435]; customs, [837], [865].
• Somnambulism, [1591].
• Song, a, sung by itself, [1296].
• Sophia, princess, of Gloucester, walk in her gardens at Blackheath, [689].
• Sops, joy-sops with twelfth-cake, [56].
• Sot’s hole, [689].
• Sound as a roach, [1121].
• South-sea bubble, [165].
• Sowans, [1633].
• Sowing, rewarded by cakes and cider, [42].
• Sparrows, their use, [495].
• Spectator, by whom published, [283].
• Spectral appearances to the editor, [123]; why they were illusions, [125].
• Spencer, sir John, account of, [639].
• Spice-bread massacre, [54].
• Spiced-bowl, [10], [42].
• Spiders, [384]; barometers, [931]; fly in summer, [1284]; save a saint, [102].
• Spines, Jack, a racket-player, [868].
• Spinsters, their patroness, [1508].
• Spirits, watching them in the church-porch, [523].
• Spital sermon, [443]; an inflammatory one, [577].
• Sportsman, account of one, by himself, [290].
• Spring quarter, and festival, [335], [374]; dress, [337]; complete, [536]; mornings, [530], [674].
• Sprout-kele, [196].
• Spry, Dr., preaches on Trinity Monday, [725].
• Squires of the Lord Mayor, [1331].
• Squirrels, habits and instincts, [1365], [1383]; squirrel hunting, [1539].
• Stafford, its patron saint, [1278].
• ———shire customs, [423].
• Stage, the old, described, [757].
• Staines, sir W., anecdotes of, [972].
• Stamford bull running described, [1482].
• Standish, Dr., his inflammatory sermon, [577].
• Stang, a cowl-staff, [12].
• Starkey, capt. Ben., memoirs of, [922], [965], [1510].
• Star, feast of the, [45].
• Stars in winter, [22], [1582]; observed by Flamsteed, [1091]; fall to discover a buried image, [194].
• Steamboat visit to Richmond, [601].
• Stebbings, Isaac, swam for a wizard, [942].
• Steel-boots, worn by Charles II., [17].
• Steeple-climbing, [766].
• Steevens, George, account of, [152].
• Stephen, St., [December 26]; customs on his festival, [1641].
• Stepney Wood, a maying place, [552].
• Stilts, [256].
• Stock, Eliz., a giantess, [1197].
• Stocks, the, earl Camden put into, [481].
• Stockwell ghost, narrative, [62]; solution, [68].
• Stone, old, at North Ronaldshay, [10].
• Stoning Jews, a Lent custom, [295].
• Stool ball, [430]; see [Ball-play].
• Storm, the great, in 1703, described, [1512].
• ——— cock, [535].
• Stourbridge fair, account of, [1300], [1487].
• Stow, John, antiquary died, [421].
• Strand, maypole, [556].
• Strathdown, new-year’s celebration, [11].
• Straw in the shoe, the perjurer’s sign, [157].
• Strong woman, [574].
• Strood, Kent, entailment of its natives, [704].
• Struensee and Brandt executed, [529].
• Stuart holydays, [188].
• ——— line, its termination, [33].
• Sudley, entertainment to queen Elizabeth, [55].
• Suett, the comedian, his legs, [1029].
• Suffocation, receipt for, [209].
• Suffolk customs, [430]; witchcraft, [942].
• ———, countess of, her hair, [1263].
• ———, lady, her present to Pope, [1081].
• Suicides, how buried, [451].
• Summer, dress, [819]; evening, [933]; midnight, [812]; morning and evening, [815]; morning, [962]; solstice, [823]; zephyr, [920]; last rose, [1389]; holydays, [1011].
• Sun, the, dancing, [421]; symbolized, [491]; sunset, [1355]; sunshining on St. Vincent’s-day, [151].
• Sunday schools founded, [421].
• ———s, five in February, [310].
• Superstitions, vulgar, [515], [523].
• Swallow-day, [465]; account of swallows, their migration, &c., [506], [644], [647], [1098].
• Swash-bucklers and swashers, [1234].
• Sweetheart customs, and superstitions, [136], [260].
• Swithin, [July 15]; account of him, [953]; establishes tithes in England ib.; superstitions on his festival, [954].
• Swordbearer, and swords of the city, [1331].
• Sword and buckler, how carried, [1234].
• Sylvester, St.; see [Silvester].
• Symes, Mr., of Canonbury tower, [638].
• Systrum, of the Egyptians, [1110].
• Tail-sticking, on St. Sebastian’s day, [135]; at Strood, [704].
• Tailors, why they should require a reference, [120].
• Tansy pudding, [429].
• Tantony pig, [119].
• Tasks for a saint, [341].
• Tasso, died, [519].
• Tavistock monastery founded, [29].
• Tawdry, its derivation, [1383].
• Taylor, Jeremy, on card-playing, [89].
• ———, Joseph, bookseller, his endowment for an annual sermon on the great storm, [1517].
• Teddington church, Middlesex, mistletoe proscribed, [1637].
• Tee, the, described, [1523], [1528].
• Tell, William, arms his countrymen, [16].
• Temperature of winter, [1563].
• Temple, the, fountain, [1043].
• ——— gate, the pope burnt at, [1488].
• ———, Inner, customs at Christmas, [1618].
• Temptations of St. Antony, [109].
• Tenebræ, a Romish church service, [405].
• Term, first day of, customs, &c., [99], [155], [1436].
• Terminus, the god of boundaries, [99].
• Tewkesbury, battle of, [613].
• Thames, the, the king’s bear washed in it, [1005]; its nuisances, [1042].
• Theatres at fair time, [442].
• Theatrical notice, [1296].
• Thimble and pea, [768].
• Thomas, St., [December 21]; customs on the day, [1586].
• Thompson, Memory Corner, [81].
• Thornton, Dr., exhibition to, [1459].
• Thread-my-needle, [692].
• Three Dons, the, a mystery, [747].
• ——— kings of Cologne, [45].
• ——— knocks on a saint’s head, [286].
• Threshing the hen, [245].
• Throne, Burmese, described, [1526].
• Thuanus’s history, English edition, [293].
• Tid, mid, misera, [379].
• Tiddy Doll and his song, [577].
• Tigress, and her whelps, by a lion, [1176], [1180].
• Tillotson, abp., the first prelate that wore a wig, [1262].
• Time, what it is, and its use, [310]; time enough, [1377]; measured, [1425]; flies, [1426].
• Times, The, the first newspaper printed by steam, [1535].
• Tinder-boxes, when not in use, [99].
• Tinners, their patron saint, [334].
• Toast thrown to fruit trees, [42], [44].
• Tobacco, prohibited at Cambridge, [1264]; a pipe in the morning, [1378].
• Tom, a cod-fish, [83].
• Tombuctoo, &c. described by Leo Africanus, [1582].
• Top, whipped in the Romish church, [199].
• Torches, at a royal wedding, [1551].
• Tottenham High-Cross fountain, [1041].
• Tower, the, lions, [1004].
• ———, Great Bell, of St. John’s Church, Clerkenwell, described, [1479].
• Town, out of, [491].
• ——— v. Country, [645].
• Townsend, police officer, his wig, [1263].
• Towton, battle of, [398].
• Trades, the, complaint against sir John Barleycorn, [73].
• Translation, Edward, K. W. S., [June 20]; origin of translations of saints’ bodies, [813].
• Travelling, old mode of, [876].
• Tree, a wicked one destroyed, [26].
• ——— of common law, [233].
• Tresham, sir T., prior of St. John’s, Clerkenwell, [1480].
• Trial, of a title to land in India, [240].
• Trimilki, [538].
• Tring, Herts, superstition, [1045].
• Trinity symbolized, [371].
• ——— house brethren, [724].
• ——— Sunday customs, [722].
• ——— Monday customs, [ib.]
• Triumphs of London, [1446].
• Trumpet-blowers licensed, [1244].
• Tulips, and tulippomania, [607].
• Tunstall, bishop, befriends B. Gilpin, [330].
• Turkeys, Christmas, [1606].
• Turner, Anne, on her trial for murder, [1437].
• ———, Mr., pump-maker, [1042].
• Turnspits, anecdotes of, [1573].
• Tusser, Thomas, his epitaph and burial place, [285].
• Twelfth-cake, how to draw, [51]; how made anciently, [56].
• ——— day eve, [41]; twelfth-day customs, [47]; characters, [52]; derived from the Greeks, [57]; and the Druids, [58]; observed at court, [59].
• Twickenham ball-play, [245].
• Tye, John, watchman of Bungay, [1628].
• Tyson’s, rev. Michael, portrait of Butler, [1303].
• Tythes, penance after death for nonpayment, [704]; established in England, [953].
• Vader-land, anglicised by lord Byron, [810].
• Valentine, [February 14]; derivation and customs of the day, [215].
• Vauxhall, accident, [1070]; adventures at, [1457].
• Venerable Bede, [May 27]; see [Bede].
• Verard, Ant., his vellum edition of the Mystery of the Passion, [747].
• Vernon, adm., celebration of his birth-day, [1473].
• Vincent, [January 22]; notice of him, [151].
• ———, T., his account of the fire of London, [1152].
• Viper, the, and her young, [1113].
• Virgil, Polydore, on church ceremonies, [202].
• Virgin, the, street music to her in Advent, [1595].
• Virgo, zodiacal sign, [1059].
• Visions, see Saints, [Index II].
• Voelker’s gymnastics, [1316].
• Vos, Martin de, engraving from, [1495].
• Votive offerings at Isernia, [1324].
• Union with Ireland, [17].
• Upcott, Mr. William, [1056], [1160], [1601].
• Uptide Cross, [395].
• Urbine, servant to M. Angelo, [277].
• Uriel, archangel, [1326].
• Utrecht, peace of, concluded, [453].
• Waggon-driving at shrove-tide, [258].
• Waggoner in love, [227].
• Waits of London, [829]; their ancient services, [1625].
• Wales, St. Patrick of, [371]; superstitious customs, [523], [562], [849], [1413]; adventure in, [797]; see [Welsh].
• Walks, pleasant, disappearing, [872].
• Wallis, Mr., astronomical lectures, [60].
• Walnut tree, miraculous, [772].
• Walpole, Lydia, a dwarf, [1173].
• Wanyford, Henry, large man, died, [1565].
• Wanstead, Strand maypole carried to, [560].
• Want, Hannah, a long liver, account of, [1351].
• War, peaceful triumph in, [741].
• ——— cry, ancient English, [501]; Irish, [502].
• Warburton, bp., what he said to the lord mayor, [446]; his character of the month of November, [1419]; notice of him, [768].
• Ward, Ned, his visit to Bartholomew fair, [1237].
• ———, Samuel, his sermons cited, [831].
• Wareham, translation of King Edward’s body, [813].
• Warwickshire customs, [423], [431]; lion and dog bait at Warwick, [978]; Warwickshire carol-singer, [1599].
• Wassail-bowl customs, [42], [43], [53], [55].
• Watch, setting the, anciently in London, [826]; Nottingham, [833]; Chester, [834].
• Watchmen’s verses, [1628].
• Water of the dead and living ford, [11].
• ———, boring for, [1041].
• ——— bailiff’s office, [1333].
• Waterloo, battle of, [804].
• Waters, Billy, in a puppet show, [1116].
• Watts, Joseph, of Peerless-pool, [973].
• Wax, blessed, [201].
• ——— work at Bartholomew fair, [1187].
• Way-goose, a printers’ feast, [1133].
• Weasel, died, for mealing on a saint’s robe, [44].
• Weather prognosticated, by bats, bees, beetles, birds, [535], [1548]; blackbirds, [102]; bulls, [506]; buzzards, [535]; cassia, [678]; cerea, [679]; chairs and tables, [101]; chickweed, [677]; church clocks, [1548]; clouds, [101]; convolvolus, [677]; corns, [101]; cows, [506], [535]; crickets, [101]; cuckoo, [670]; dandelion, [679]; dew, [536]; dogs, [101], [102], [535]; dog-rose, [677]; ducks, [101], [534]; evening primrose, [678]; feverfew, [677]; fieldfares, [536]; fish, [102]; flies, [101], [535]; four o’clock flower, [678]; frogs, [102], [535]; geese, [534]; glowworms, [102]; goatsbeard, [678]; gossamer, [535]; hedge fruits, [535]; hens, [534], [670]; honeydew, [535]; horses, [102]; lettuce, [678]; limbs, [101]; marigold, [677], [678]; moles, [535]; moon, [101], [1015], [1345]; mountain ebony, [678]; nipplewort, [ib.]; peacocks, [536]; peterel, [535]; pigeons, [ib.], pigs, [534], [535]; pimpernel, [101], [677]; princesses’ leaf, [678]; rainbow, [101], [670]; ravens, [534]; rooks, [102], [534], [669]; sea fowl, [101]; sea gulls, [535]; serpentine aloe, [678]; sheep, [535]; sky, [102]; sloe-tree, [670]; smoke, [101]; snipes, [536]; snow, [670]; soot, [101]; sounds, [1547]; sowthistle, [677]; spiders, [535], [931]; sun, [102]; swallows, [101], [506], [533]; swans, [505]; swine-pipes, [536]; tamarind, [677]; thermometer, [101]; missel thrush, [535]; toads, [102]; trefoil, [677]; voices, [1548]; water fowl, [534]; water lily, [678]; white thorns, [677]; whitlow grass, [677]; wild-goose, [535]; wind, [101], [102], [505], [670]; woodcocks, [536]; woodseare, [535]; woodsorrel, [677].
• Weathercock of St. Clement’s church, Strand, [1498].
• Welsh charity-school anniversary, [322]; valuation of cats, [1110]; triplets, [1422]; carols for the seasons, [1602].
• Welshman, sir T. Overbury’s, [320].
• Well-rope winds into a saint’s body, [37].
• Wenceslaus of Olmutz, engraving by, [1119].
• Werington, Christmas-eve custom, [1606].
• Wesley, Charles, senior and junior, musicians, account of, [1038].
• ———, Samuel, musician, notice of, [1040].
• West, Benjamin, painter, account of, [346].
• Western custom on Valentine’s day, [227].
• ——— Literary Institution, [1404].
• Westmeath twelfth-night, [58].
• Westminster-hall, with shops in it, [153].
• ——— school, Shrove Tuesday custom, [259].
• Weston, sir W., prior of St. John’s Clerkenwell, [1480].
• Weyd-monat, [737].
• Whifflers, [1444], [1488].
• Whist-playing, [91].
• Whit Sunday, movable; Whitsuntide, [685], holydays in 1825 at Greenwich fair, [687]; censer at St. Paul’s, [1246].
• Whitby, Daniel, divine, died, [386].
• White, Mr. H., engraver on wood, noticed, [907], [1113], [1320].
• ———, Jem, his doings and character, [589].
• ——— negress, [1189].
• Whitehead, W. W., gigantic boy, [1194].
• Whoo-he to horses, its antiquity, [1643].
• Wickham, East, Kent, [1388].
• ———, West, Kent, painted glass window of St. Catherine in the church, [1506]; delightful site of the village, [1507].
• Wife of two husbands, [1122]; husband’s address to his wife, [1454].
• Wigs, [1259].
• Wild fowl shooting in France, [1575].
• ——— street chapel, annual sermon, [1512].
• Wilkie, the publisher, anecdote of, [914].
• William, King, Landed, [November 4]; error of the almanacs, [1428].
• Williams, Mr. Samuel, artist, noticed, [892], [1059], [1189], [1345].
• Willow tree, [1080].
• Wilson, Richard, painter, notice of him, [651].
• ———, sir Thomas and lady, of Charlton, [1388].
• Wiltshire customs, [723].
• Winchester, mystery performed there, [755].
• Wind superstitions, [11]; effects of east and north-east winds, [620], [802].
• Winstanley killed in the Eddystone, [1515].
• Wint-monat, [1419].
• Winter, [110], [134], [198]; its approach described, [1461]; the quarter, [1562]; the season described, [1652].
• Winter-fulleth, [1345].
• ——— monat, [1543].
• ———, Death of, a sport, [359].
• ——— rainbow in Ireland, [107].
• ———, Dr. Robert, his storm sermon, [1517].
• Wishart, Geo., burned at St. Andrew’s, [709].
• Witchcraft, charm against, [55].
• ——— and cat-craft, [1106].
• ———, in Herefordshire, [1045].
• ———, in Suffolk, [942].
• Witney, Oxfordshire, old church, show at, [1246].
• Wives’ feast-day, [206].
• Woed-monath, [737], [1059].
• Wolf-monat, [2].
• Wolves’ club, [603].
• Woman, why one wept at her husband’s burial, [504].
• Wombwell, the showman’s lion fight, [997]; his menagerie, [1197]; and himself, [1198].
• Women formerly, [904]; women barbers, [1272]; angelical women, [1351].
• ———’s work, [1375].
• ———’s blacks, [905]; fate of a dealer in, [908].
• Wood, Lucky, an ale wife, [1639].
• Woodcocks, [1390].
• Woodward, a fives-player, [867].
• Wool-trade feasts, [209].
• Woolwich dock-yard, St. Clement’s day at, [1501].
• ——— arsenal, its St. Catharine, [1508].
• Worcester, marquis of, his curious fountain, [1044].
• Worde, Wynkyn de, his carols, [1600], [1620].
• Worms, their utility, [70].
• Wreathock, an attorney transported, [157].
• Wren, sir Christopher, on the size of churches, [920].
• Wrestling at Bartholomew-tide, [1235].
• Wright, Mr., bees swarm on, [963].
• Writing-masters’ trial of skill, [1085].
• Wycliffe, John, [752].
• Wynne’s “Eunomus” recommended, [232].
• Wyn-monath, [1345].
• Yates and Shuter’s booth at Bartholomew fair, [1245].
• Yeasty ale, its virtue, [23].
• York, cardinal, account of, [33].
• ——— Corpus Christi play, [754].
• Yorkshire custom, [1379].
• Yorkshire goose pies, [1645].
• Young, Dr. Edward, poet died, [459].
• Yule derived, [1544].
• ——— -dough and cakes, whence derived, [1638].
• Zinzendorff, count, notice of, [771].

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II. INDEX TO ROMISH SAINTS,
OF WHOM THERE ARE MEMOIRS OR ACCOUNTS, WITH THE DAYS WHEREON THEIR FESTIVALS ARE KEPT.