The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (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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TO THE BINDER.

If the work be required in FOUR Volumes, commence “VOL. I.—PART II.” at col. 867, and place the Indexes to that Volume at the end—commence “VOL. II.—PART II” at col. 833, and conclude with the Indexes to Vol. II.

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1. THE GENERAL INDEX.

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

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II. INDEX TO ROMISH SAINTS.