The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) / Everlasting Calerdar 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
Страница - 1287 Страница - 1289 I. THE GENERAL INDEX. Abduction, curious respite from execution for, [414] . Abershaw, Jerry, [148] , [149] . Aborigines, [447] . Abraham, heights of, in Derbyshire, [136] . Accidents to one man, [127] . Accompaniment to roasting, [201] . Actors—acting of old men by children, [526] . See [Plays] . Advertisements, singular, [222] , [511] , [616] ,
[722] . Advice. See [Counsels] . Age, reason for not reckoning, [352] . Air, philosophy of, [503] . Airay, (Tom) manager at Grassington, [247] . Ale, old English, [351] ; antiquity of beer, [746] . Alfred, tomb of, [734] . Alia Bhye, East Indian princess, [520] . Alleyn, actor, the Roscius of his day, [498] , ([note] .) Amadeus, duke of Savoy, [594] . “Ambitious Statesman, (The)” old play, [551] . Amilcas the fisherman, [639] . Amsterdam, notices of, [157] , [460] . Anaximander, and other ancients, [819] . See [Ancients] . Ancients and moderns, discoveries of, [58] , [83] , [120] ,
[182] , [202] , [214] , [245] ,
[342] , [375] , [406] , [438] ,
[472] , [503] , [632] , [724] ,
[742] , [788] , [819] . ——; mode of writing of the ancients, [196] ; superiority of their music,
[202] ; casualties among, [574] . “Andronicus,” old play, [456] . Animals, theories on generation of, [792] . Animated nature, [216] . Anne, queen, [243] . Antipathies, instances of, [190] . “Antipodes, (The)” old play, [361] . Anty Brignal and the Begging Quaker, [761] . Aphorisms, [160] , [181] . See [Counsels] . “Apostle Spoons,” [817] . Apothecary or Dramatist, [411] . Apprentices, to be found in sufficient wigs, [432] . Archimedes, and other ancients, [821] . See [Ancients] . Argyll, customs of, [10] . Aristarchus, and other ancients, [820] . See [Ancients] . Aristotle, former bondage to, [59] . Armstrong, Dr., notice of, [109] . Artists, letter of one to his son, [129] . Arts and Sciences, skill of the ancients in. See [Ancients] . Arum, herb called, [369] . Ashburton Pop, [356] . “Asparagus Gardens, (The)” [363] . Assignats, (French) engraving, [209] . Astronomy, curious tract on, [252] ; ancients’ knowledge of, [794] . See
[Ancients] . Atheism, scandals to, [773] . Attraction, [342] . Audley, Hugh, usurer, life of, [72] . Augustus, anecdote of, [231] . Aurora Borealis, opinions on, [633] . Authors, difficulties of, [123] , [174] ; vanity of, [263] ,
[811] . Avarice, sorts of, [77] . See [Misers] . Avenues of trees near Scheveling, [461] . Avon Mill, Wilts, [346] . Babylon, [822] . Bachelors; bachelor’s desk, [195] ; budge bachelors, [237] ; miserable home of
bachelors, [269] ; pocket-book of one, [405] . Bakewell, in Derb.; monuments, &c. in church of, [198] . “Ballad Singer,” [666] . Bans, happy, [116] . Baptizing, customs touching, [23] . Bargest, the spectre hound, [655] . Barnes, Joshua, epitaph for, [33] . Barrington, George, notice of, [152] . “Bastard, (The)” old play, [171] . Bathing, (earth) [562] . Bear and Tenter, boys’ play, [364] . Beards on women, superstition about, [23] . Bears, habits of, [369] . Beaus, English and French, [774] . Beauty, ingenuous disclaimer of, [414] ; beauties at church, [774] . Bed, (celestial) [562] . Bede, (venerable) a hot spicer, [545] . Beer, antiquity of, [746] . Beethoven, musician, memoir of, [204] . Begging Quaker, &c. [761] . Bellows and bellows-makers, [603] . Bells. See [Ringing] . “Belphegor,” old play, [552] . Beverley, a strong porter, [550] . Beverley, St. John of, [545] . Bhye, Alia, amiable character of, [520] . Bilbocquet, a royal amusement, [348] . Bill of fare, [44] . Birds; water-fowl at Niagara, [534] ; Dr. Fuller’s account of one, [287] ;
Sandy’s method of hatching their eggs, [681] . See [Storks] , &c. Birmingham, clubs of, [89] ; manufactures, &c. of, [595] . Bishops; resignation of one, [103] . Blacking, notices about, [435] . Blackthorn, old custom of, [240] . Blake, W., hostler, engraving of, [47] . Blood, circulation of, notices about, [724] . Bloomfield, George, poet’s brother, engraving, [801] . ——, Robert, poet, notice of, [802] . “Blurt, Master Constable,” old play, [739] . Bodies, elements of, [214] . Bolton, John, of Durham, [409] . Bonaparte at Torbay, [360] . Bones, advice for breaking, [511] . Booker, Rev. L., notice of, [163] . Books; lending of, [285] , [287] ; my pocket-book, [403] ;
device taken from a book of prayers, [615] , ([note] .) Boots, importance of shape of, [512] . Boswelliana, [255] . Bowel complaints, receipt for, [256] . Braco, Lord, and a farthing, [242] . Brandon, Gregory, hangman, [699] . Brass-works, [601] . Bribery, in England, by foreigners, [16] . Bridal, public, [374] . “Bride, (The)” old play, [134] . Bridlington, custom at, [582] . Bristol, opulence and inns at, [243] ; prince George of Denmark at, [243] ; high cross at,
[715] . Bromley, bishop’s well at, [65] ; engraving of the church-door, [97] ; extraordinary
ringing at, [527] . Bruce, lord Edward, notices about, [225] . “Brutus of Alba,” old play, [711] . Brydges, sir E., epitaph on his daughter, [280] . Buckles, notices of, [597] . Budeus, (the learned) blunder of, [413] . Budge, [Fur] notices about, [236] ; budge-bachelors, [237] ; Budge-row,
[237] . Building estimates should be doubled, [352] . Bunyan’s holy war dramatized, [24] . Burial in gardens, [460] . See [Funerals] . Burkitt, Dan., an old jigger, [278] . Bush tavern, Bristol, [44] . Butler, (Hudibras,) hint adopted by, [410] . Buttons, notices about, [596] . Buying and selling, [211] . Cabalistic learning, [20] . Cabbage-trees, vast height of, [471] . Calvin and Servetus, [730] . Cann, Abraham, wrestler, [499] . CAPITAL extempore, [480] . Capon, William, scene painter, notice of, [709] . Carlisle, customs at, [373] . Castle-baynard, tale of, [242] . Casualties of the ancients, [574] . Cataracts of Niagara, [531] . Caverns, tremendous one, [541] . Centenaries; medal for the centenary of the diet of Augsburgh, [321] ; centenary of the revolution,
[515] . Cesar and Amilcas, [638] . “Chabot, Admiral of France,” old play, [6] . Chains, hanging in, [149] . Chairs, (arm) curious ones, [436] , [622] . “Challenge to Beauty,” old play, [498] , [622] . Charlemagne, misfortunes in family of, [397] . Charles I. and treaty of Uxbridge, [521] . —— II., anecdote of, [33] ; procession on his restoration, [505] ; his court,
[832] . —— V., bribery of English parliament by, [16] . Charost, M. de, a royal favourite, [512] . Chartres, duke of, notice of, [209] . Chateaubriand, viscount de, anecdote of, [415] . Chatsworth, [135] . Chemistry of the ancients, [743] , [746] , [789] . Chequers at public-houses, [38] . Chester, custom at, [613] . Chiari and rival dramatists, [11] . Children, customs relating to, [21] ; children and mother, [441] ; children and split trees
superstition concerning, [465] ; affection for children, [491] . Christening, customs at, [23] . Christian Malford, plague at, [553] . Christmas-pie, [506] . Chrysanthemum Indicum, [737] . Churches, remarks on beautifying, [25] ; custom of strewing with rushes, [277] . See
[Fonts] . Church-yards, beautiful one at Grassmere, [278] . Cigar divan of Mr. Gliddon, [673] . Cinderella, origin of, [719] . Circle, squaring the, [797] . Circulation of the blood, [724] . Cities, ancient, [822] . Civilisation promoted by trade, [212] . Cleopatra’s pearl, [789] . Clergy, luxurious dress of, [236] ; weekly expenses of a clergyman, [283] ; devoted
attachment of one to his flock, [483] . Clerk’s desk, [195] . Clocks, difference between, accounted for, [409] . Closing the eyes, [27] . Clubs at Birmingham, [89] . Coachman, considerate, [146] . Coats, how speedily made, [86] . “Cock and Pynot” public-house, [513] . Colossus of Rhodes, [823] . Colours, philosophy of, [406] . Comets, philosophy of, [472] . Commerce, tendency of,[214] . Compliment to a young laird, [256] . Confession of Augsburgh, medal about, [321] . Controversy, [160] . Cookery aided by music, [204] . Copernican system, [438] . Cordon, sanitary, [493] , [495] . Corineus, a Trojan giant, [615] , [617] . Cornwall, wrestling in, [499] . Corporations, fools kept by, [353] . Corpuscular philosophy, [245] . Corral,—a poor cottager, [784] . Cottagers, singular difficulties of one, [385] , &c. Counsels and cautions, [160] , [181] , [352] ,
[478] , [541] , [817] . Country, (native) [809] . —— dances, [32] . Courtiers, humiliation of one, [174] . Courtship, patient, [818] . Coward, Nathan, glover and poet, [259] . Crabbing for husbands, [465] . Craven, notices of, [243] , [721] ; stories of the Craven dales,
[653] , [775] . Cries, old London, [431] . Criticism, killing, [651] . Crystal summer-house, [253] . Cuckoo-pint, a plant, [369] . Cumberland, customs of, [373] , [559] . Cup and ball, a royal amusement, [348] . Cyrus, his love of gardening, [459] . Dairy poetry, [238] . Danby, earl of, and the revolution, [513] . Dancing; country-dances, [32] ; profound study of minuets, [64] ; dancing round the harrow,
[197] . Darwin, Dr., his “Botanic garden,” [459] , ([note] .) Davy, (old) the broom-maker, [452] . D’Arcy, Mr. J., and the revolution, [515] . Death and virtue, dialogue between, [19] ; superstitions touching death, [99] . “Defeat of Time, (The)” [335] . Democritus, notice of, [791] . Deposits, a well-kept one, [415] . Derbyshire, notices respecting, [12] , [135] , [481] ,
[493] , [516] . Descent, canons of, [63] . “Desolation of Eyam, (The)” [481] . Despotism, virtuous, [520] . “Devil’s Law Case, (The)” old play, [131] . Devil’s punch-bowl in Surrey, [145] . Devonshire wrestling, [416] , [499] . —— ——, earl of, and the revolution, [513] . Dial, ancient, [19] . Diarrhœa, receipt for, [256] . Diligence (French) described, [183] . Dining on Coke, [63] ; royal dinner time, [751] . Diophantes and other ancients, [820] . See [Ancients] . Discoveries of the ancients and moderns, [83] , [120] , [182] ,
[214] , [245] , [342] , [375] ,
[406] , [438] , [472] , [503] ,
[632] , [724] , [742] , [788] ,
[819] . Diseases, passing patients through trees for, [465] . Disputation to be avoided, [160] . Distillation, ancients’ knowledge of, [788] . Diversions, political origin of some, [364] . Doctor degraded, [640] . “Dodypol, Doctor,” old play, [69] . Domitian, (the emperor) inscription for, [754] . “Don Quixotte,” old play, [457] . Dorking, Leith hill, near, [117] . Dover pig, [731] . Dramatists; rival Italian dramatists, [11] ; dramatist or apothecary, [411] . Dreams, a black dream, [126] . Duddlestone, John, of Bristol, [243] . Duels of sir E. Sackville and lord E. Bruce, [225] , &c. Dunchurch cow and calf, [723] . Durfey, Tom, notice of, [650] . Durhamiana, [409] . Dutch royal gardens, [460] ; Dutch trees, fisheries, &c., [460] ,
&c.; Dutch customs, [563] ; Dutch gallantry, [773] . Earning the best getting, [160] . Earth-bathing, [562] . Earthquakes, opinions on, [633] . East Indies, amiable native monarch in, [520] . Ecbatane, city of, [822] . Echo, (moral) [410] . Economy, curious instance of, [78] . See [Misers] . Edmonton, inhospitable styles of, [81] . “Edward the Third,” old play, [52] . Eels, (Bush) [224] . Eggs, peculiar mode of hatching, [681] ; artificial hatching by the ancients, [746] . Eldon, lord, anecdote of, [63] . Electricity, [637] . Elm-tree, celebrated one, [422] . Emigration, Highland, [322] . Emperors and kings, ill-fated ones, [395] , [397] . “English Monsieur,” [330] . Epilepsy, disorder of great minds, [807] . Epitaphs, [16] , [19] , [33] , [104] ,
[147] , [152] , [182] , [198] ,
[249] , [256] , [259] , [273] ,
[274] , [280] , [281] , [295] ,
[298] , [300] , [366] , [410] ,
[510] , [526] , [558] , [754] . Erasmus, notices of, [199] , [340] . Ether, doctrine of, [503] . Esop in Russia, [457] . Eternity, [808] . Etiquette, Spanish, [254] . Evelyn, extracts from, [829] , &c. Executioner, [698] . Executions, former frequency of, [151] . Ex-Thespianism, [554] . Eyam in Derb., notices of, [481] , &c., [629] . Eyes: closing the eyes, [27] ; guard against an evil eye, [583] . Eyre, chief justice, notice of, [151] , [152] . Facetiæ, [771] . “Fairies, tale of the,” [335] . “Faithful Shepherd, (The)” old play, [525] . “Faithful Shepherdess, (The)” old play, [619] . Falls of Niagara, [531] . Families; ill-fated royal ones, [397] ; Wilkie’s picture of one, [509] . Fare, bill of,[44] . Farthings; one found by a lord, [242] ; the broad farthing, [507] . Fashion, a gentleman’s, [341] . “Fatal Jealousy,” old play, [579] . “Fatal Union, (The)” [713] . Father and son, [31] . Favourites, a singular one, [512] . “Fawn, (The)” old play, [424] . Ferguson, sir A., letter from sir Walter Scott to, [518] . Filching, cure of, [285] . Filey, in Yorkshire, [637] . Fill-up, (a) [735] . Fire, water mistaken for, [534] . Fires in London, [570] ; “burning the witch,” [582] . Fish, royal reason for not eating, [288] . Fishermen; Lucan’s description of one, [638] . Fishing-towns, Dutch and English, [463] . “Five days’ Peregrination,” &c., [291] . Fletcher, Dickey, [765] . “Floating Island, (The)” [552] . Flowers; Time’s source of pleasure from, [337] ; mode of preserving, [604] ;
winter flowers, [737] . Fly-boat, (the Malden) [559] . Fonts; Grassmere font, [272] . Forces, doctrine of, [342] . Forests, ancient and decayed, in Scotland, [324] , [325] . See
[Trees] . Forrest, ——, author of “Five Days’ Peregrination,” [291] . Fractures, singular advice about, [511] . French diligence, description of, [683] . Fruit, markets for, at London and Paris, [130] . Funerals, customs touching, [105] , [272] , [373] ,
[658] ; consolation from funeral processions, [479] . Furniture of old times, [584] . Furs; tippets and scarfs, [235] . Gage, viscount, his fête of the quintain, [175] . Gallantry, Dutch, [773] . Gaols. See [Prisons] . Gardens; summer garden of Peter the Great, [457] ; love of gardens, [459] ; Dutch
royal garden, [460] . Garlands, funeral, [105] , [272] . Garrick plays, selections from, contributed by Mr. Charles Lamb, [6] , [52] ,
[67] , [106] , [131] , [171] ,
[200] , [232] , [265] , [328] ,
[361] , [393] , [456] , [497] ,
[524] , [551] , [579] , [619] ,
[645] , [711] , [739] , [771] ,
[806] . Genders, [284] . Genius, distresses of men of, [123] ; genius and good temper, [414] . “Gentleman Usher,” old play, [171] . “Gentleman of Venice,” old play, [106] . George, prince of Denmark, notice of, [243] . Giants in lord mayor’s show, [609] . Gibbeting, [151] . Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall,” [287] . Gilding without gold, [597] . Gilpin (Mrs.) riding to Edmonton, [79] . Gimmal ring, engraving, [1] . Gin act, effect of passing, [249] . Gipsies in Epping Forest, [28] . Glass, discovery of, [734] ; skill of the ancients in, [789] ,
[796] , [824] . Gleaning or leasing cake, [346] . Gliddon, Mr., cigar divan of, [673] . Glorious memory, (the) [480] . Gluttony, instances of, [350] ; glutton and echo, [410] . Gog and Magog of Guildhall, [609] . Gold, skill of the ancients in arts relating to, [744] . Goldoni and rival dramatists, [11] . Good temper and good nature, [414] . Goodrick, sir H., and the Revolution, [515] . Goose-fair at Nottingham, [180] , ([note] .) Gossip and Stare, the, [61] ; comment on literary gossip, [508] . Gostling’s, Mr., account of Hogarth’s tour, [303] . Gout, notices on, [652] . Government, simplicity and wisdom of, [417] , &c. Gozzi, Italian dramatist, [11] . Graham, Dr., lecturer, [561] . Grammar explained, [128] . Grapes in Covent Garden, &c. [139] . See also [33] ,
[628] . Grasshopper on Change, explanation of, [338] , [339] . Grassington theatricals, [247] , [606] . Grassmere, beauty of, [277] . Gravity, doctrine of, [342] . Greatness, tax on, [809] . Green, W., artist and author, [281] . Gregory, old name for the hangman, [701] . Gresham, sir Thomas, a deserted child, [338] . Gretna Green parsons, [125] . Guildford races, [705] . Guildhall, curious explanation of, [767] . Guinea sovereigns, [751] . Gunpowder, antiquity of, [791] . Guns; air-guns, [508] ; notices concerning guns, [598] . Hackerston’s cow, [250] . Hague, fine woods near, [460] . Hammond, the poet, notice of, [111] . Handkerchief, white cambric, [294] . Hanging in chains, [149] ; inducement to hanging, [256] ; hanging the shuttle,
[221] . Hangman, and his wages, [698] . Harpham, St. John’s well at, [545] . Harris, James, [284] . Harrow, dancing round the, [197] . Harvest-catch, in Norfolk, [333] . Hats; substitute for the shovel-hat, [381] . Hay-band, origin of, [714] . Heart, perpetual motion of, [544] ; case containing Lord Bruce’s heart, [225] ;
instance of heart-burial, [230] : disposal of sir W. Temple’s heart, [460] . Heat, how counteracted at Siam, [253] . Heaving, in wrestling, explained, [501] . “Hectors, (The)” old play, [392] . Hell-bridge, in the Highlands, [87] . Henley, (Orator) advertisement of, [616] . Henry II. character of,[154] . —— III. of France, amusements of, [348] . —— VIII. and his peers, [571] . Hermits, [593] . Hervé, Peter, artist, letter respecting, [20] . Hervey, Rev. J., notices of, [366] . “Hey for Honesty,” old play, [394] . Highlands. See [Scotland] . Highwaymen, nearly extinct, [149] , [150] . Hill, sir John, physician, notice of, [652] . Hipparchus, and other ancients, [820] . See [Ancients] . Hippocrates, curious advice of, [511] . History of Rome, doubt on, [413] ; pleasing passage of history, [422] . “Hoffman’s Tragedy, or Revenge for a Father,” old play, [740] . Hogarth, curious notices of, [289] , &c. Holland, customs of, [563] . See [Dutch] . Holt, John, a great ringer, [529] . Holwood, seat of Mr. Pitt, engraving and notices of, [623] , [642] . Home, praises of, [268] . Hood, T., sonnet to, [239] ; Plea of the Fairies, by, [340] ; “Whims and
Oddities” of, [659] . Hoppins, David, a singular parodist, [341] . Horace, pious parody of, [339] . Horæ Cravenæ, [721] . Horns, emblems of kingly power, [420] . Horsedealing, latitude of deceit in, [213] . Horses, marks of age of, [357] . Horsham gaol, [93] . Horticulture recommended, [459] . Hostler, derivation of, [49] . Hotels. See [Taverns] . Houses and accommodations of old times, [584] ; country-houses lead to poor-houses,
[352] . Howitt, William and Mary, their Poems, [417] , [481] . Humour, definition of, [290] . “Huntingdon Divertisement,” old play, [581] . Huntsman, Mr. Woodford’s, [192] . Husbandman, (The retired) engraving, [17] . Husbands, a happy one, [442] ; crabbing for husbands, [464] ; evidence of affection for
one, [544] . See [Wives] . Hydrophobia, [667] . Hypochondria, [91] . Ideas (innate), [120] . Illusion, pleasures of, [757] . Imperial fate, [395] . Indians—and William Penn, [417] , &c.; adventure of some, [534] ; Indians at
Court in 1734, [693] . “Infant Genius,” [659] . Infants, offerings to, [21] ; picture of a deserted one, [338] . Innate ideas, [120] . Inns of the Romans, &c. [37] , [39] , [49] ; seeking lost sign of
one, [410] ; good ones the result only of great travelling, [544] ; inn yards,
[681] . Intemperance, corrected by echo, [410] . Invasion and volunteers, [55] . Ireland, customs in, [23] ; Irish tobacco-pipes, [769] . Islington, rights of parish of, [392] , [787] . Italian dramatists, [11] . Jack the Viper, [763] . Jack Ketch a gentleman, [698] . Jemmal ring, [1] . Jennens, Charles, notice of, [651] . Jew’s harp, [31] . John, (St.) a custom on St. John’s eve, [99] , St. John of Beverley’s Well at Harpham,
[545] . Johannites, notice of, [721] . Johnson, Dr., “an odd kind of a chiel,” [255] . Jones, Rev. M., Berkshire miser, [380] . Jubilee, (Revolution) [515] . Judges—a singular decree of one, [64] ; curious description of one, [255] ; a
candid judge, [351] ; juries the better judges, [351] . Juries, the better judges, [351] ; decisions of juries, [733] . Justices of peace, female, [571] . Juxton, bishop, notice of, [192] . Kalm, Swedish traveller, his description of Niagara, [532] . Keats, John, poet, epitaph on himself, [249] ; notices of, [371] ,
[430] . Kelly, Miss, notices respecting, [55] , [68] . Keston Cross, [33] . Ketch, Jack, [698] . Kicking, in wrestling, barbarous, [500] , [502] . Kings and emperors, ill-fated ones, [395] , [397] ; kings in Africa,
[752] . “King’s Arms,” [32] . Kirkby, [437] . Labour and luck, [160] . Lacteals in a mole, [191] . Ladies. See [Women] . Lairds, compliment to a young one, [255] . Landlady, agreeable, [285] . Language, genders in, [284] . Laurence Kirk snuff-boxes, [680] . Law of kindness, [496] . Law and poetry, [63] ; remark on law-books, [734] . Lawyers, two, [475] . Leaping, curious instance of, [279] . Leaves scorched by summer-showers, [253] . Lee Penny, The, engraving, [143] . Leeds, duke of, [earl of Danby], vindication of, [515] . Leith Hill, near Dorking, [117] . Lettsom, Dr., notice of, [285] . Liars, incredible, [639] . Life, description of, [810] . Light, philosophy of, [408] , [794] . Limbs, advice in case of one broken, [511] . Liston, Mr., [650] . Literature, foolish labour in, [28] , [765] . Living well, [32] . Loadstone, opinions on, [635] . London; fruit markets of London and Paris, [138] ; old London Cries, [431] ; a London
watchman, [523] ; [570] ; Londiniana, [587] ; giants in Guildhall, [609] .
See [Islington] , &c. Longevity of a Highlander, [213] . Lord Mayor’s show, giants in, &c. [609] . Lords and ladies, vegetable, [369] . “Love Tricks,” old play, [172] . Love, David, walking stationer, [177] . Lovers, hostility of time to, [337] . “Love’s Dominion,” old play, [456] . “Love’s Metamorphosis,” old play, [265] . Loyola, Ignatius, and his boot, [512] . Luck and labour, [160] . Lyttleton, sir George, notice of, [590] . Macdonald, John, a Highlander, [213] . “Mad Dog,” [666] . Magpie, anecdote of, [608] . Maid of honour, curious patent to one, [413] . “Maid Marian,” letter respecting, [10] . Mallet, David, notice of, [110] . “Mamamouchi,” old play, [231] . Man, description of, [809] . “Man in the Moon,” tract called, [252] . Manners of old times, [584] , [829] . Manufactures, celerity of processes of, [86] ; of Birmingham, [595] . Manuscripts, curious restoration of one, [415] . Mariner, (an ultra) [188] . Mark, St., customs on St. Mark’s eve, [99] , [159] , [251] . Markets (fruit) of London and Paris, [138] . Marlow, poet, merit of, [498] ([note] .) Marot, Clement, French poet, notice of, [766] . Marriage, the Gimmal Ring, [1] ; a happy marriage, [116] ; Gretna Green parsons,
[125] ; old customs at, [239] , [348] , [373] ;
ungallant toll on brides, [343] ; marriage under the protectorate, [506] . “Married Beau, (The)” old play, [622] . Martin, St., and the Devil, [170] . Mary, Peter and, [264] . Matlock, [135] . Mayor’s feast, temp. Elizabeth, [617] . Mechanical power, [85] ; ancients’ knowledge of, [794] , [822] ,
[824] . Medals; commemoration medal of diet of Augsburgh, [321] . Medicine, skill of the ancients in, [743] , [746] . Melancthon and Calvin, [736] . Melons, varieties and weights of, [141] . Memory with stupidity, instance of, [571] . Menage, advice of, touching poetry, [512] . Mendip mines and miners, [695] . Merrow, in Surrey, [705] . Meum et Tuum, [250] . Mice, field, for preventing injuries from, [467] . Michaelmas day, customs on, [464] . Microscopes, whether known to the ancients, [824] . Milk, in America, [480] . Milky Way, the, [375] . Mill, the haunted, [476] . Millhouse, Robert, his Poems, [161] . Mines, descent into, [137] ; Mendip mines and miners, [695] . Minuets, laborious study of, [64] . Misers, notices of, [72] , [77] , [78] ,
[118] , [153] , [242] , [380] . Misery,—a bond of affection, [806] ; trial through, [807] . Miss, designation of, [831] . Mitcheson, Tommy, of Durham, [287] . Moderns and ancients, discoveries of, [58] , [83] , [120] ,
[182] , [202] , [214] , [245] ,
[342] , [375] , [406] , [438] ,
[472] , [503] , [632] , [724] ,
[743] , [788] , [819] . Mœris, (Lake) in Egypt, [823] . Moles, lacteals in, [191] . Mompesson, Rev. W., and his wife, [481] , &c. Monarchs, most ancient of, [335] ; ill-fated ones, [395] , [397] ;
a pure and exemplary one, [520] . Money, rareness of due care of, [78] . Monkey, gallant comparison with, [573] . Monmouth, duke of, [702] . Montmorenci, Ann, anecdotes of, [174] , [208] . Moon, philosophy of, [473] ; tincture of moon, [653] ; moonlight view of Niagara,
[543] . More, sir T., [704] . Mosaics of the ancients, [826] . Mother and her children, [441] . Mummies, [744] . Music, superiority of the ancient, [202] , [826] , musical anecdotes,
[204] ; memoir of Beethoven, [206] ; the music which old Time delights in,
[336] . My Pocket Book, [403] . Mysteries dramatized, [113] . Nails and nail-makers, [602] . Names, scriptural, &c. [767] . Nationality, [331] . Nature, animated, [216] . Navarino, description of, [513] . Newspapers; newspaper orthography, [222] ; classification of readers of newspapers,
[570] . See [Advertisements] . Newtonian philosophy and the ancients. See [Ancients] . Niagara, cataracts of, [531] . Nixon’s prophecies, notice of, [224] . Norfolk, custom in, [333] . Northumberland, custom in, [21] . Norwich Guild, [617] . Nottingham, custom at, [180] ([note] ); Nottingham and the revolution,
[513] . Oaks, fine ones in Holland, [460] . “Oddities, Whims and,” by T. Hood, [559] . Offerings to infants, [21] . Offices, estimates of value of, [76] . Oglethorpe, general, notice of, [693] . “Old England forever,” pamphlet called, [353] . Opinions, former authority of, [59] . Opium-eater, the, notices of, [277] , [278] . “Oranges, The Three,” play called, [11] . Orleans, duchess of, ingenuous disclaimer by, [414] . Ostler, derivation of, [49] . Oyster cellars, entertainment of, [40] . Page’s Lock, near Hoddesdon, curious chair at, [436] . Painting on cloth and glass, by the ancients,[745] , [789] , [825] . Palindrome, explanation and instance of, [169] . Parents’ affection, [441] , [491] . Paris and London, fruit markets of, [138] . Parishes, abuses in, [25] . Parliament, bribery of, by Charles V., [16] . Parodies, pious, of Horace, [339] . Parr, Dr., early model of, for style, [369] . Parsimony. See [Misers] . Party of pleasure, interesting, [289] . Pastoral and tragi-comedy, definitions of, [621] . Pavy Labathiel, [526] . Pawning, valuable resource of, [78] . Peak’s hole, [14] . Peal (dumb) of Grandsire Triples, [527] . Pearce, Dr. Z., anecdote of, [103] . Pearl, Cleopatra’s, [789] . Pegge, Rev. S., revolution centenary sermon of, [516] , [517] ,
[697] . Pemberton, sir J., lord mayor, [19] . Penn, William, and the Indians, engraving, [417] . Penny, (The Lee) an antique, description of, [143] . Pentheney, Anthony, a miser, notice of, [118] . Pepys, extracts from, [830] , &c. Perfection, the steps of, [222] . Peter the Great, summer garden of, [457] . Peter-house college, anecdote touching, [264] . Philadelphia, origin of, [419] . Philippos, [705] . Philosophy; of ancients and moderns. See [Ancients] . Philosophy of a fairy, [339] . Physicians, a benevolent one, [285] ; two physicians, [475] . Pickpockets, [232] . Pickworth, Mr. C., letter to, [605] . Pie, Christmas, [506] . Pikeman, or turnpike-man, [684] . Pine apples, [138] . Pipes, Irish tobacco, [769] . Piscatoria, [638] . Pitt, Mr. W., notices of, and of his seat at Holwood, [627] . Plague at Eyam, [481] , &c., [629] . Planets, material of one, [252] . Planting in Scotland, [326] ; planting recommended, [459] , [470] . Plato, mode of studying, [174] ; Plato and other ancients, [820] . See Ancients. Plays at Linton and Grassington, [247] ; play-wrighting, [411] ; acting of
extraordinary children in plays, [526] ; performance of plays at Christian Malford, [553] ;
definition of pastoral and tragi-comedy, [621] ; expedients and difficulties of players,
[554] ; selections contributed by Mr. C. Lamb from the Garrick plays, [6] ,
[52] , [67] , [106] , [131] ,
[171] , [200] , [232] , [265] ,
[328] , [361] , [393] , [456] ,
[497] , [524] , [551] , [579] ,
[619] , [711] , [739] , [771] ,
[806] . “Plea of the Fairies,” [340] . Pleasures of Illusion, [757] . “Plotting Parlour, (The)” [514] . Plurality of worlds, doctrine of, [375] . Poaching, vindication of, [115] . Pockets, pickpockets, and pocket-handkerchiefs, [231] , [232] . Poetry, thou and you in, [232] ; rule for criticism of, [512] ; diction of,
[811] . Poets, distresses of, [123] ; an athletic poet, [279] ; reward of an ingenious one,
[231] ; encouragement to poets, [691] . Politeness, [414] . Polkinghorne, a famous wrestler, [499] . Polypi, [793] . Pope, Alexander, notice of, [109] . Portraits, picture of taking, [452] . Portuguese mysteries, [114] . Preacher, (Puritan) [808] . Prescription of money, instead of physic, [286] . Presents, to infants, custom of, [21] ; at weddings, [373] . Pride, remarks on, [600] ; instances of, [751] . Princesses, mode of carrying, [174] . Prisons, ancient and modern, [92] . Processions at funerals, [479] ; at the restoration, [505] ; on centenary of the
revolution, [518] . Public-houses, [37] , [39] , &c., [51] . Puddle-dock, duke of, [291] . Pulpits; pulpit desk, [195] ; pulpit in the rock, [495] . Punch bowl, Devil’s, [145] . Punctilio, Spanish, [254] . Purple of the ancients, [636] ([note] .) Pyramids of Egypt, [823] . Pythagoras, power of his music, [203] ; Pythagoras and other ancients, [819] . See
[Ancients] . Pytheas and other ancients, [819] . See [Ancients] . Quakers; The Three Quakers, [50] ; quakers under William Penn, [417] ,
&c.; origin of the term quaker, [429] . Queenborough, curious account of, [297] . Qualities, sensible, doctrine of, [182] . Quid pro quo, [31] . Quin, notices of, [111] , [589] . Quintain, the, [175] , [239] . Quipoes explained, [112] . Rain, effect of, [254] . Rainbow at Niagara, [537] , [542] . “Ram Alley,” old play, [497] . Ravensbourne, sources of the, engraving, [641] . “Rebellion, (The)” old play, [525] . Request, modest, [639] . “Return, The Soldier’s,” [576] . Rhodian Colossus, [823] . Rhodope and Cinderella, [720] . Ridicule, [174] . Ringing, memorial of, at Bromley, [527] ; anecdotes of ringers, [529] . Rings; the Gimmal ring, engraving and notice of, [1] . Rivers, opinions on, [697] . Roasting, musical, [204] . Robertson, J., a friend of Thomson, [379] . Romans, customs of, [37] ; fatality of Roman emperors, [395] ;
[413] ; Roman remains, [626] , [629] , [641] . Romuald, St., [593] . Rope-riding, at Venice, [251] . Royal families, ill-fated ones, [397] . “Royal King and Loyal Subject, (The)” old play, [497] . Ruptures, curious application for, [466] . Rushes, houses and churches strewed with, [277] , &c. Russia, Esop in, [457] . Rutty, Dr., a quaker, confession of, [510] . Rydal Mount, seat of Wordsworth, [276] . Sackville, sir E. and lord Bruce, duel between, [225] . Saddles, rules touching, [357] . Sailors, [298] . Saint Giles’s bowl, [702] . —— John’s Well, at Harpham, engraving, [545] . —— Romuald, [593] . “Sally Holt,” a story, [669] . Sandy, James, an extraordinary artist, [680] . Sanitary cordon, [493] , [495] . “Sappho and Phaon,” old play, [265] . Satellites, [377] . Saville, sir G., letter to, [492] . Sawston Cross, [81] . Saxons, customs of, [38] . Scandal, picture of, [61] . Scarfs and tippets, [235] . Scheveling scenery, [460] . “School of Adults,” [662] . Schools, chastisement in, [174] ; schoolboys’ anticipations of home, [268] . Sciences and arts, skill of the ancients in.—See Ancients. Scotland, customs in, [23] , [40] , [143] ; Scotch
lairds and judges, [255] ; Highland emigration, [322] ; forests of Scotland,
[324] . Scott, sir Walter, letter of, to sir A. Ferguson, [508] . ——, Thomas, shepherd, anecdote of, [510] . Sculpture of the ancients, [825] . Sects, exclusiveness of, [808] . Selden, notice of, [572] . Self-devotion, clerical, [536] . Self-esteem, [751] . Selling and buying, [211] . Sensualist and his conscience, [410] . Servants; servant maid’s pocket-book, [404] ; old and faithful servants, [818] . Servetus and his works, [726] . Session, court of, satire on judges of, [255] . “Shakerley, my aunt,” [663] . Shakspeare, Time’s rival, [339] , [340] . Sham-fights and invasion, [55] . Sheep, their injury to young woods, [324] ; superstition touching sheep and mice, [467] ;
sheep-shearing in Cumberland, [559] . Sheepshanks, Whittle, [267] . Sheriffs, female, [571] . Ships, descent of one over Niagara falls, [531] . Shirley Common, broom-maker’s at, [449] . Shirts, wearing two in travelling, [352] . Shoeblacks, notices respecting, [435] . Shoemakers, an ambitious one, [341] . Shoes, old, curious application of, [318] . Shorland, Lord, old legend and monument of, [300] , [317] . Showers, summer, [253] . Shuttle, hanging the, [221] . Siam, summer-house in, [253] . Signs; sign-seeking, [412] ; curious signs, [448] , [504] ,
[756] . Silchester, Hants, Roman station, [556] . Simcoe, general, notice of, [422] . Singing, test of excellence of, [210] . “Sir Giles Goosecap,” old play, [329] . Skimmington, procession called, [360] . Skipton in Craven. See [Craven] . Sleeves, pockets formerly in, [231] . Smith, Thomas, a quack, [722] . Smoking and snuffing, oriental temple for, [673] , [679] ; antiquity of smoking,
[771] . Snitzler, an honest organ-builder, [26] . Snuffing and smoking, [673] , &c.; Laurence-kirk snuff-boxes, [680] . Soames, Dr., master of Peterhouse, [264] . Soldiers; a soldier’s age, [352] ; a soldier’s return, [576] . Somerset, proud duke of, [751] . Son, father and, [31] . Sophia Charlotte, sister of Geo. I., [479] . Southey, poet, residence of, [282] . Spa-fields, sketch in, [764] . Spaniards, spare diet of, [772] . Spanish mysteries, [113] ; punctilio, [254] . Speculation, folly of, [352] . Spinning, tenuity of, [85] . Spit, movement of to music, [204] . “Spoons, Apostle,” [817] . Stanley, Rev. T., rector of Eyam, [629] . Starch-wort, an herb, account of, [369] . “Stare and Gossip, the,” [61] . Stars, fixed, the, [375] , [795] . Statesmen, model of, [429] . ——, small farming proprietors called, [378] . Statues, stupendous, [823] . Steam-engines, [85] . Steel manufacturers, [600] . Stones, (precious) ancients’ imitation of, [745] . Stories, (long) [210] . Storks, habits and treatment of, [464] , [564] . Strutt, Mr., new edition of his “Sports and Pastimes,” &c. by editor of the Table Book,
[177] . Stuarts, (The) unfortunate line of, [398] . Summer; summer-house at Siam, [253] ; summer showers, an effect of, [253] ; summer
garden of Peter the Great, [457] . Surgery, skill of the ancients in, [742] , [746] . Sweetheart-seeing, [159] . Sympathy, supposed effect of, [334] . Table Book, editor of about to publish a cheap edition of “Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes,”
[177] ; editor’s severe domestic afflictions, [737] . Table rock at Niagara, [541] . Tailor, origin of the word,[717] . Talbot inn, Borough, [45] . Talkington, George, casualties that befell, [127] . Tanner, Dame, gleaning cake of, [346] . Tasting days, [447] . Taverns and inns, notices of, [41] , &c. [49] , &c. Taylor, John, of Birmingham, notice of, [595] . Temple of Health, Dr. Graham’s, [561] ; for smoking, Mr. Gliddon’s, [673] . Temple, Sir W., disposal of his heart, [460] . Tenter, (Bear and) boys’ play, [364] . Thales and other ancients, [819] . See [Ancients] . Theatres. See [Plays] . Thunder, opinions on, [632] . Tippets and scarfs, [235] . Thomson, poet, notices of, [108] , [378] , [588] . Thou and you, in poetry, [332] . Thread and thread-makers, [603] . “Thyestes,” old play, [645] . Tides, opinions on, [634] . Tie and bob wigs, [434] . “Time, the defeat of,” [335] . Titles, [752] . Tobacco, or a substitute, ancient use of, [771] . See [Ancients] . Toll, ungallant, [243] . Tours, a curious one, [291] . Townsend, (Bow street) evidence by, [149] . Trade, good and ill of, [211] . Tradition, picture of, [366] . Tragi-comedy and pastoral comedy, [621] . “Traitor, (The)” old play, [580] . Transmigration, explanatory of antipathies, [191] . Trashing, [348] . Travelling, precautions for, [352] , [364] . Treasure-digging, patent for, [413] . Treaties; one between W. Penn and the Indians, [417] , &c.; treaty of Uxbridge,
[521] . Trees; skeletons of, [325] ; a memorable elm, [421] ; noble trees near
Amsterdam, [461] ; superstition about passing patients through a split ash, [465] ;
trees poetically and nationally considered, [469] ; height of the cabbage tree, [471] . Tricks of the Fairies, [339] . “Triumphant Widow, (The)” old play, [232] . Troller’s Gill, (The) [653] . Tromp, Van, gallantry of, [773] . “True Trojans, (The)” old play, [328] . Turk, the Great, [754] . Turnpikeman, (The) [684] . Tuum et Meum, [250] . “Twins, (The)” old play, [329] . Ugliness, naif admission of, [414] . Umbrella, clergyman’s, [101] . Usurers; life of one, [72] ; a liberal one, [808] . Utopia, (sir T. More’s) blunder about, [413] . Uxbridge, town and treaty of, [521] . Vega, Francis de la, adventures of, [188] . ——, Lopez de, mysteries of, [113] . Venice, [251] . Venison, potted, curious notion about, [334] . Vines, notices about, [33] , [628] . See [Grapes] . Viper’s poison, [764] . Virtue and Death, dialogue between, [19] . Voice, restoration of, by anchovy, [544] . Volunteer reminiscences, [55] . Vortices, doctrine of, [377] . Wagstaff, Mr. E., [185] . Wake-Robin, a plant, [369] . Wakefield, custom near, [21] . Walker (Willy) and John Bolton, [409] . Waller, sir E., his tomb at Beaconsfield, [469] . Walpole, sir H., and Hogarth, [290] , [291] . —— sir R., notice of, [192] . Walls of plaster advised for fruit, [141] . Wards, court of, abuses of, [76] . “Wars of Cyrus,” old play, [621] . Warwickshire, custom in, [466] . Watchmen, (London) [523] . Water having the effect of fire, [535] . Wedding. See [Marriage] . “Weston Favel History, &c.,” remarks on, [366] . “Whims and Oddities,” by T. Hood, [559] . Whittington, revolution house at, [513] . Wight, Isle of, custom in, [714] . Wigs, formerly general, [434] . Wilson, Rev. Mr., curious tract by, [252] . ——, professor of moral philosophy, notices of, [279] . Wiltshire, custom in, [197] . Winter flowers, [737] . Witchcraft, decree against, [144] ; “burning the witch,” [582] ;
guard against witchcraft, [583] ; the wise woman of Littondale, [776] . Wives; Mr. E. Wagstaff’s, [185] ; lively letter from one, [442] ;
consolation for loss of one, [479] ; evidence of affection in wives, [544] ; a wife taking
liberties, [751] . Wizard’s Cave, [747] , [750] . Wolves; forests burnt in Scotland to exterminate them, [324] . Women; customs at lying-in, [23] ; former freedom of society with men, [40] ,
[41] ; Egyptian compliment to, [405] ; ingenuous admission of ugliness by one,
[414] ; a young one’s pocket-book, [404] ; women sheriffs and justices,
[571] ; antiquarians’ supposed dislike to, [572] ; dower of women,
[573] ; an amiable woman described, [682] ; “The Wise Woman of Littondale,”
[777] . See [Wives] . Wood feast, [455] . Wood, Antony à, his dislike of women, [572] . Wood, Nicholas, a glutton, [350] . Wordsworth, (poet) notices of, [273] . Worlds, plurality of, [375] . Wrestling, [416] , [499] . Wright, (Mrs.) her description of Niagara falls, [538] . Writing, Peruvian substitute for, [112] ; writing-desks, [193] ,
[196] . Wye Dale, [13] . Years, reason for not counting, [352] . York, and the revolution, [514] . Yorkshire customs, [99] , [144] , [348] ,
[505] . Young, (Mr. S.) of Keston Cross, [36] .
II. CORRESPONDENTS’ INDEX. A. B., [715] . A. W., [709] . A. W. R., [559] . Alpha, [747] . Auctor, [411] . Barley Mow, (The) [220] . Bob Short, [437] . C. D., [604] . C. L., [10] , [68] . C. W. P., [212] . City Volunteer, (A) [55] . Curio So, [411] . D. A. M., [505] . Dick Dick’s Son, [714] . E. J. H., [12] , [135] . Elia, [335] . F. C. N., [239] , [512] . F. S., jun., [20] . G., [177] . G. B., [617] . G. H. I., [588] . Gaston, [436] . Gilbertus, [559] . Gulielmus, [735] . H*****, [19] . ☞, [673] . H. B., [321] . H. L., [19] . H. M. L., [723] . I. V., [353] . J. G., [817] . J. J. R., [765] . J. R. J., [521] , [556] . J.R.P., [27] , [219] , [220] , [684] ,
[812] . J. S., [829] . Jehoida, [197] . Jerry Blossom, [737] . K. B., [731] . L. V., [416] . M. H., [193] , [209] , [268] , [403] . M. N., [629] . Milo, [21] . N. S., [364] , [584] . Nemo, [185] . O., [764] . O. Z., [395] , [430] . Old Correspondent, [347] . P., [19] , [222] , [224] , [455] . Pinchard, John, [690] . ΠΡΙ, [284] , [553] , [574] . Puceron, [464] . R. N. P., [145] . S. R. J., [6] . S. S. J., [116] , [734] . S. T. J., [818] . *, *, P., [221] , [818] . *, *, *, [558] . Sam Sam’s Son, [124] , [350] , [499] ,
[561] , [570] . Smith, Mr., [719] . So and So, [387] . Sojourner at Enfield, [79] . T. B. H., [333] . T. C., [545] , [559] , [582] , [583] ,
[637] , [638] , [755] . T. Q. M., [235] , [247] , [267] , [271] ,
[287] , [606] , [721] , [761] ,
[775] . T. R., [81] , [257] , [723] . T. T. B., [757] . W. C., [373] . W. H., [445] .
III. INDEX TO THE POETRY.