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 - William Hone

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Vol. I.—27.

INDEXES.

[I.]	GENERAL INDEX.
[II.]	CORRESPONDENTS’ INDEX.
[III.]	INDEX TO THE POETRY.
[IV.]	INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS.

I. THE GENERAL INDEX.

Abingdon, old parish accompts of, [481].
Abridgement of a library by Pilpay, [247].
Accommodation extraordinary, [562].
Acquaintance table, [377].
Admiral, lord high; office and seal of, [573].
Adoption of children, in France, [220].
“Adrasta,” old play, [321].
Advertisement; at Ghent, [59]; letter in consequence of one, [60].
Advice, danger of giving, [330].
Affectation, less prevalent among women than formerly, [358].
African young woman’s compliment to her lover, [187].
Agriculture, British, derived from the Romans, [393].
“Ahab,” by S. R. Jackson, [498].
Air and exercise for ladies, [209].
Airay, Thomas, Grassington manager, notice of, [69].
Albany and York, duke of, [93]; the dukedom of Albany, [409].
Albemarle, duke of, creditable patronage by, [763].
Alcock, Rev. Mr., the waggish clergyman, [634].
Alderson, Hut., of Durham, [365].
Ale, Prynne “put into the road of writing” by, [726].
“All Fools,” old play, [192].
Allan-a-Maut, engraving, [116].
Allen, Rev. Mr., fatal duel fought by, [722].
Alleyn, the actor, “master of the bears and dogs,” [497].
Alliteration, clever specimen of, [155].
Ally, a good one, [632].
Almanacs; Liege, [274]; curious notices in French almanacs, [540].
Alms-houses, [workhouses;] none before the Reformation, [392].
Ambassadors, former custom of, [663].
Amurath, sultan, effect of music on, [229].
Ancient Britons. See [Wales].
Andalusia, deadly irritation of winds in, [273].
Angel help, [751].
Angling, notices concerning, [659].
Angoulême, duchess of; anecdote of, [9].
Animals; a common effect of attempting to domesticate wild ones, [617]; connection between muscular power and speed, [618]; experiment of music upon, [691].
“Antipodes, (The)” old play, [704].
Antiquarian Hall, engraving and memoir of, [139].
Antique bronze found in the Thames, [267].
Aphorisms; by Lavater, [279]; by other persons, [828].
Apparitions, curious narrative of, [710].
Apprentices, former maxims for, [562], [564].
Architecture, brought in by the Normans, [393].
“Arden of Feversham,” old play, [221].
Aremburg, duke of, his love of the arts, [10].
Arithmetical notices, [759].
Armorial bearings; of ambassadors, [663]; having emblems of the devil, [699].
Armories, formerly possessed by private lords and gentlemen, [391].
Arms [of the human body,] one stated to be broken by the throbbings of rheumatism, [142].
“Arraignment of Paris,” old play, [511].
Arran, earl of, his letter on duke of Buckingham’s death, [526].
Arrens, near Marseilles, interring the carnival at, [271].
Artist’s (Young) letter from Switzerland, [427].
Arts, benevolent application of profits from, [510].
Ash, (mountain) an antidote to witchcraft, [674].
Astrologers, account of Hart, [135].
Aubrey, John, curious collection by, [389].
Auld Robin Gray, ballad of; history of, [200], [201].
Authors; Mrs. Charke reading her manuscript to a bookseller, engraving of, [125]; suggestions to authors, [248]; their two wishes, [279]; peculiarities of in composing, [681]; prolific authors, [726].
Autograph of Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, [573].
Bacchus, bronze head of, found in the Thames , [267].
Bacon, gammon of, at Easter, [39].
——, lord; his judgment on books, [218]; his method of condensing thought, [682].
—— (Friar) and his servant, [633].
Badajos, (the dean of) [323].
Bag, duel with, [20].
Bagdad, effect of music after capture of, [229].
Baker, Miss Polly, fiction of, [89].
Baldwin, Samuel, singular burial of, [412].
Ballads, licenses for printing, [586].
Bank, (country) capital for, [59].
——side bear garden, [489].
Banquet given by Whitelock to queen of Sweden, [552].
“—— of the dead,” [515].
Barbers; description of a barber, [241]; Dudley, barber, at Portsmouth, [405].
Barley-break, an old pastime, [37].
Barnard, lady Ann, poetess, [200].
Barre, (Du) madame, and the Liege almanac, [274].
Bate, Rev. Mr., three duels fought by, [722].
Bath chairman, mock funeral of, [41].
Bathing, utility of, [819].
Battalia, Francis, a stone-eater, [355].
Battle; prize-fighting formerly sometimes with swords, [495]; “Battle of the Poets,” [407]; “Battle of Alcazar,” old play, [486]; field of battle, [661].
Battle-bridge, remains of an elephant found near, [80].
Bayswater, projected improvement at, [215].
Bazaar, (Soho) [153].
Bear garden, (old) Southwark, [489]; of elector of Saxony, [490].
Beauty, compliment to, [344].
Beaux not always mere coxcombs, [666].
Beckenham, Kent, [765]; bridge in road to, [701].
Bees; “Parliament of Bees,” old play, [133]; a boy bee-eater, curious account of, [746].
Beeston, clerk of, [420].
“Begin again,” [421].
Behnes, Mr., his bust of duke of York, [93].
Belfast, Easter custom at, [506].
Belgrave, siege of, [155].
Bell, (diving) origin and notices of, [763].
——, (Tommy) engraving of, [651].
Berne, description of, [427].
Berners, dame Julia, treatise on field sports by, [392].
Best of a bad matter, [762].
Bibliomaniac ridiculed, [218].
Bibo’s (General) tale, [515].
Bibury, rector of, [501].
Bielfeld, baron, his account of the dance of torches, [107].
Bigotry punished, [558].
“Billet, (Crooked)” on Penge Common, [669].
Billingsgate, old satire on, [168].
Billy Boots, notice and engraving of, [302].
Bilsington Priory, tenure of, [616].
Bird-catcher, engraving of, [589].
—— seller, engraving of, [509].
Birds; a play in which all the characters are birds, [133]; particulars respecting birds, [588], [591]. See [Parrots], [Starlings].
Birmingham old conjurors, [234].
Bishops; one misled by a saint, [415]; “bishop of Butterby,” [365].
Black jacks and warming pans, [15].
—— -letter books, curious criticism on, [425].
Blacksmiths; their endurance of fire, [315]; Gretna-green blacksmith, [431].
Bleeding; for one’s country, [90]; practised by a woman, [141]; former frequency of, [479]; in silence and psalmody, [ib.]
Blind Hannah, engraving of, [221].
—— Willie, of Newcastle, [461].
Bloody hand, (the) [258].
“Blythe Cockpen,” and the merry monarch, [411].
Boar’s head, custom concerning, [85], [390].
Bodmin, royal joke on, [348].
Bogs, remarks on timber in, [185].
Bonaparte; his grand procession to Notre Dame, [503]; his system of over-governing, [734].
Bones, curious account of breaking of one, [142]; embalming of, [576].
Bon-fire, singular one, [762].
Books; pleasures and consolation of, [16], [217]; old, with new titles, [68]; one dedicated to the author, [125]; proper standard of, [248]; (black letter) naif criticism on, [425]; when first made of paper, [507]. See [Doomsday book].
Booksellers, an author reading a manuscript to one; engraving, [125].
Boots, Billy, engraving of, [302].
Bowring, Mr., his “Popular Servian Poetry,” [529].
Boys; at school, [149]; on errands, [150]; account of a boy bee-eater, [746].
Bradenstoke Priory, [232].
“Brazen Age, (The)” old play, [447].
Bread seals, used by ladies, [90].
Breach of promise, curious case of, [180].
Breakfast, singular dishes at, [618].
Breaking of an arm bone by rheumatism, [142].
Brecon, minstrelsy society at, [338].
Breeds, (mixed) curious complaint of, [626].
Brentford Hannah, [Blind Hannah,] engraving of, [221].
Brewer’s drayman, character of, [374].
Brewing, private, [772].
“Bridal of Caölchairn,” [784].
Bride, description of one, [295].
Bridesman, [294], [296].
Bridlington, irregular stream near, [230].
Bristol, Lent custom at, [625].
Britannia’s sup-porter, [412].
British Museum, pleasures and facilities of, [111].
—— poetesses, by Mr. Dyce, [195].
—— portraits, sale catalogue of, [236].
Britons, (ancient.) See [Wales].
Bromholm, former pilgrimage to, [392].
Bronze, antique, found in the Thames, [267].
Brookes, Mr. J., dissection of king’s ostrich by , [617].
“Brose and Butter,” a favourite royal air, [411].
Brothers, younger not allowed formerly to pursue trades, [393].
Brough, in Westmoreland; twelfth-night customs at, [26]; March fair at, [317]; church, [817].
Brougham, Mr., his speech on the founding of the London university, [596].
Brouwer, a painter, notice of, [10].
Brummelliana, [666].
Bryan, Daniel, a brave old seaman, [631].
Cabbage and tailors, [471].
Cairo, characteristic salutation at, [197].
Camberwell Grove, [809].
Campbell, Mr. T., speech of at Glasgow, [758].
Campbells, the, [778].
Canons, near Edgeware, former celebrity of, [621].
Capital for banking, [59].
—— punishments, [455], [460].
Caps and hats, fashionable days for new ones, [478].
Captain and lieutenant, mortal duel between, [724].
Cards, fortune-telling, [74].
Carew, lady Elizabeth, [196].
Carnival, ceremony of interring, [271], [273].
Carthago, Nova, its present to Scipio, [265].
Carts, dignity of, [169].
Castle-building, [464].
—— Coombe, tickling trout at, [662].
Catherine de Medicis, vow of, [475].
Catherinot, a French pamphleteer, [727].
Catholic German universities, [124].
Cawston church, poor’s-box in, [747].
Ceremonies, a true paper currency, [219].
Chafin, Rev. Mr., his anecdotes about Cranbourne Chase, [32].
Chairman, (Bath) mock funeral of, [41].
Chairs, (arm,) [786].
Challenges, a poetical solicitor’s answer to one, [724]. See [Duels].
Chambers, James, the poor poet, [436].
Chancellor, (lord) office of, [729].
Chancery, [540]; despatch in, [730].
Chandler, Mary, a poetess, [199].
“Changes, (The)” old play, [417].
Characters; of servants at hirings, [177]; national, in compliment, [186], &c.; tendency of former lessons to meanness of character, [564]; character of the old gentleman, [118]; of Kimberley, a Birmingham conjuror, [235]; of the barber, [241]; of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr, [340]; of Agrestilla, [358]; of the drayman, [371]; a literary character, [410]; of “the good clerk,” [562]; of the Durham pitmen, [651].
Charke, Mrs., her autobiography, [125]; farther notices, [258].
Charlemagne, privilege granted by, [554].
Charles I., curious anecdote concerning, [701].
—— II., character of, [547]; anecdotes of, [701], [732].
Charlestown, ugly club at, [468]; duelling society at, [720].
Charybdis and Scylla, conflicting descriptions of, [642], [705].
“Chaste Maid in Cheapside,” old play, [255].
Chastity of Scipio, [265].
Chatham, earl of, [812].
Chaworth, Mr., duel with lord Byron, [722].
Cheapside Turk, inquiry for, [194].
Cheese and stones, comparative digestibility of, [355].
“Cherry woman” of long since, engraving of, [685].
Chest, a wonderfully capacious one, [706].
Chester, mysteries of, treated by Mr. Sharp, [14].
Chesterfield, lord, bleeding for his country, [90].
Children, lost, proper means for recovering, [18]; adoption of, in France, [220]; former austere treatment of, [394].
Chiltern Hundreds, account of, [649].
Chimneys, rare before the Reformation, [389]; smoky, how cured, [572].
Chinese ceremonies of salutation, [197]; idol, [627].
Christina queen of Sweden, curious collation given to, [552].
Christmas customs, [390], [391].
Christ’s sepulchre and resurrection, [484].
Churches; church processions, [392]; church-houses before the Reformation described, [392]; few built in the correct line, [393]; throughout Europe, pope’s grant to Italian architects for building, [393]; organs first used in, [473]; (see [Organs];) visiting the churches, [478]; curious old church accompts, [481]. See [Fonts].
Cibber, (Colley) life of his daughter, [125].
“City nightcap,” old play, [559].
Clare, Elizabeth, her intense attachment, [458].
Clarence, duke of, lord high admiral, [577]; dukedom of Clarence, [409].
Classes of mankind, how many, [455].
Clemency, policy of, [401].
Clergyman, a waggish clergyman, [633]; duels fought by, [722]; office of lord chancellor formerly held by, [729].
“Clerk, (the good)” [562].
Clerkenwell, ancient river Fleet at, [75].
Clerks and parsons, anecdotes about, [662].
Clothes, economical allowance for, [668].
Clubs, the ugly, [264], [468]; parliament, [280]; the silent, [467]; the duellists’ in Charlestown, [721].
Coaches, in 1684, [169]; coach and steam travelling compared, [262].
Coin, (old silver) how to read inscriptions of, [452].
Coke, sir Edward, immense fan used by, [394].
Colas, a celebrated diver, [647].
Cole, Mr. J., his “Antiquarian Trio,” [525], [530].
Colliers of Durham, account of, [651].
Colours, the Isabella colour, [558].
Columns, engraving of a curious British one, [349].
Companies, certain uses of , [229].
Compliments, [196]; a natural compliment, [344].
Condemnation, criminal, stupefaction attending, [457].
Conjurors, (Birmingham) [234].
Conscience, force of, [138], [401].
Constable’s “Miscellany,” [114].
Convents, ambition of the nuns in, [478].
Cooke, Rev. T., inquiry about, [136]; notice of, [406].
Cookesley, Mr., patron of Mr. W. Gifford, [52].
Cooks for the royal table, [377].
Copper mines, valuable, in Cornwall, [658].
Cordeliers, their lists of candidates how arranged, [698].
Cornwall, valuable mines in, [658]; suffered little in recent pressure, [659]; parsons and clerks in, [662].
Corporations, anatomy of, [524].
Cortusius Lodovick, a lawyer, funeral of, [699].
Coulour, in Golconda, celebrated for diamonds, [827].
Counter, tradesman’s duty behind, [565].
Country, bleeding for, [90]; parties and pleasures, [358]; little known, [708]; former manners of country gentlemen, [391].
Court banquet, innocent gaiety at, [551].
Courtier, shrewd, [405].
Courts of justice, contrast of feelings in, [457].
Covent Garden, gambling-houses formerly in, [86].
Coventry, pageant vehicle and play at, [11].
Cowper, the poet, two letters of, [752].
Crabbe, poet, criticism on, [683].
Cranbourne Chase, notice and engraving of emigration of deer from, [29]; town and parish of Cranbourne, [ib.]; bloody affray in the chase, [32]; origin and history of the chase, [36].
Craven, (Skipton in) theatrical company in, [69]; legend of, [515].
Creditors, unblushing impudence of one, [667].
Cresses, green-grocers’ devices with, [607].
Cries, London; engraving of the “young lambs” seller, [395]; of the bird-seller, [509]; of the cherry-woman, [685]; of the old water-carrier, [733].
Criminals, capital, feelings of before and after hanging, [455].
Cromwell, Oliver, anecdote of, [14].
Crown lands, under Elizabeth, [580], [581].
Cruelty relenting at music, [229].
Crusades, effects of, [392].
Cumberland weddings, [794].
Cups, gold and maple, exchange of at coronations, [616].
Cushion dance described, [161].
Customers, how to be considered, [566]; a spruce mercer and a lady customer, [567]; invitation of customers, [627].
Dabshelim, king of India, library of, [247].
Damages for breach of promise by a negro, [180].
Dancing; goose-dancing described, [81]; the dance of torches, [107]; cushion dance, [161]; May-day dance of milk-maids, [557]; particular wedding dances, [793].
Davenant, Sir W., his description of London, [167].
“David and Bethsabe,” old play, [609].
“David’s Sow, (As drunk as)” explained, [379].
Death; “Death’s Doings,” [240]; horror at mention of, [423]; description of a death-bed, [425]; banquet of the dead, [515]; custom of laying salt on the dead, [523]; singular disposal of a royal corpse, [576]; singular phantasms or figures of the dead, [710].
Decimals, [741].
Decker, the dramatist, excellence of, [358].
Dedication, curious, [125].
Deer, emigration of from Cranbourne Chase, notice and engraving of, [29]; driven from the Highlands, [754]; their abhorrence of sheep, [ib.], [755].
Defoeana, [564], [626].
Delaval (Sir) and the monk, [599].
Denton castle, seat of Fairfax, [687].
“Devil,” often assumed as a surname, with corresponding arms, [698].
Devonshire, butterfly hunting in, [678].
——, duchess of, compliment to, [344].
Diamond cut diamond, [649].
Diamonds, where and how found, [827].
Diligence and delight, [730].
Dinner, mysterious privacy of, [424].
Directions; pious direction posts, [539]; a particular direction, [675].
Discount for cash, [283].
Disease, philosophical observation under, [711].
Dishes for the royal table marked, [377].
Ditton, (Thames) great resort of anglers, [659].
Diver of Charybdis, account of, [705].
Diving-bell, origin and notices of, [763].
Doctors, dilemma against, [81].
Doge of Venice, marriage of, [452].
Dolcoath, valuable mine in Cornwall, [658].
Doomsday-book, dissertations on, [610].
Dormer, judge, [406].
Dover Cliffs, humane warning against, [450].
“Downfall of May-games,” [545].
“—— of Robert, earl of Huntingdon,” old play, [799].
Draining the fens, effect of, [143].
Drama. See [Plays].
Drayman, brewer’s, description of, [374].
Drayton, his sarcasm on trade, [564].
Dresden, elector’s bear-garden at, [490].
“Drunk as David’s sow,” [379].
Drunkards, the place they go to, [540]; warning to, [824].
“Duchess of Suffolk,” old play, [583].
Dudley [405].
Duels; singular mode of duelling with a bag, [20]; interesting account of duels, [720]; poetical answer to a challenge, [724].
Dulwich college, and the founder, [495], [497], [670].
Dumplings, Norfolk, by whom to be eaten , [355].
Dungeons for prisoners formerly in castles and monasteries, [391].
Durham, engraving of Tommy Sly of, [331]; Hut. Alderson bellman of, engraving, [365]; Elvet bridge in, engraving, [413]; ecclesiastical survey of see of, [415]; account of the pitmen in county of Durham, [651]; visit of James I. to the city, [679].
Dustman, happy compliment by, [344].
Dutch compliments of salutation, [197].
Dyce, Alexander, his specimens of British poetesses, [198].
Early rising, [796].
East Grinstead old play-bill, [137].
Easter, antipathy to the Jews at, [390]; Easter ceremonies, [477], &c. [502], [554].
Eating, advice against excess of, [81]; fire-eaters, [314]; stone-eaters, [353].
Eclipse, [race-horse] engraving and account of, [617], &c.
Economy equally necessary with industry, [346].
Education, how conducted before the Reformation, [389]; lamented by a mulatto, [ib.]
Effingham, lord Howard of, his autograph, [573].
Egyptians in France, description of, [478].
El Dorado of literature, [741].
Elephant, remains of, found near Battle-bridge, [80].
Elizabeth, queen, simile used by, [220]; washing poor’s feet by, [479].
Elvet bridge, Durham, [413].
Emblems and mottos, [90]; emblems used by servants at hirings, [174], [203].
Epitaphs; by Dr. Lowth on his daughter, [138]; extempore one on a French general, [633].
Errors, clerical, [634].
Ethiopians, mode of salutation by, [196].
Etiquette, cut down by civilization, [219]; nearly fatal excess of, [737].
Etymology; of various English words, [473]; of words of necessity from the German, and of those of luxury from the French, [ib.]
“Every Man in his Humour,” original scene of changed, [302].
Ewart’s old port, [343].
Excuse, a good one, [796].
Execution, case of revival after apparent execution, [455].
Excursions of tradesmen, limits of, [567].
Exercise and air recommended to ladies, [209].
Fairs, former importance of, [205].
Falcon tavern, site of, [497].
Families, former discipline in, [394]; singular abandonment of family, [424]; picture of desolation in, [656].
Fanatic, (fasting) [134].
Fans, former size and application of, [394].
Fares of ticket porters, [19].
Farmers in 1782, and in 1822, [463].
Faro Straits, [643], [646].
Farthings, [378].
Fasting, extraordinary, [134]; fast-pudding and Friar Bacon, [633].
Fate, plea and answer respecting, [828].
“Father’s Home, (A),” [170].
Feast, a fearful one, [520].
Feathers, [141].
February, advice for, [252].
Fees, the best of, [540].
Feet, washing of, at Vienna, [477]; and at Greenwich by queen Elizabeth, [479].
Felons, sensations of, before and after hanging, [455].
Female friendship, [363].
Fens, goose-herds in, [140]; effect of draining in, [143].
Figures and numbers, [759].
—— of the dead, singular narrative of, [710].
Filial custom, [625].
Fingers, numbering by, [761].
Fire-damp, explosions of, [656].
Fire-eaters, [314].
Fish-street, (Old), [167].
Fishermen, sarcasms upon, [570].
Fitzgerald, Col., and Col. King, duel between, [723].
Fleet river at Clerkenwell, [75].
Flogging, formerly, at Oxford, [394].
Flora, games of, [541]; indictment and trial of Flora, [545].
Flowers, singular attention to, by the pitmen, [653].
Fly-berry plant, [144].
Font, of Harrow church, [157]; of Beckenham church, [765]; of West Wickham church, [813].
Foot-ball, formerly played in London streets, [169].
Fop and wit, union of, [666].
Fortune; cards for telling fortunes, [74]; how to be commanded, [347]; fortune favours the brave, or butterfly hunting, [678].
“Fortune by Land and Sea,” old play, [299].
Fownes, Thomas, and his fox-hounds, [33].
Fox, the quaker, [762].
Franklin, Dr., anecdote of, [89].
Fraock Elan, isle of, [777].
Fraser, Simon, brother of lord Lovat, [633].
French; nobility, [132]; valentines, [206]; adoption of children by, [220]; transmigration of French noblesse, [242]; ceremonies in France, [271], [272], [502]; present jumble of ranks among, [362]; former hospitality to travellers, [396]; nationality of, [504], [505]; decorum of in crowds, [ib.]; almanacs, statements of, [540].
Friar Bacon and his servant, [633].
Friendship; destroyed by advice, [330]; on the nail, supposed meaning of, [764].
Fritters in France and England, [271].
Funerals; mock, of a Bath chairman, [41]; of a French general by a British sailor, [631]; a cheerful one, [699].
Futurity, peep into, [74].
“Game at Chess,” old play , [321].
Gaming, curious notice about gambling houses, [86]; gaming for funeral expenses, [763].
Gammon of bacon, Easter custom of, [390].
Garlands, May-day, [541], [543], [550].
Garrick Plays, selections from, contributed by Mr. C. Lamb, [111], [133], [159], [192], [223], [255], [299], [324], [356], [384], [417], [447], [486], [511], [559], [581], [608], [640], [676], [703], [735], [788], [799].
Geese, in the fens, management of, [141]; goose-dancing in Scilly islands, [81].
Geikie, Mr., a meritorious artist, [116].
Gems of the twelve months, [321].
Genius; unrewarded, [316]; chance a great patron of, [421].
Gentleman, (The Old) character of, [118].
Gentry; heralds formerly kept by, [390]; former manners and oppressions of, [391], [392]; austere treatment of their children, [394].
George I., anecdote of, [406].
—— II. and his cooks, [377].
Germain, lord George, anecdote of, [410].
Germany, universities in, [123].
Gibbs, alias Huck’n, Dr., [554].
Gilford, William, death and memoir of, [43].
Gifts; new-year, [7]; wedding, [793], [794].
Ginger beer, receipt for, [471].
Gipsies, health and happiness of, [210].
Gipsy [230].
Gladiators in England, [495].
Glass windows, rare before the Reformation, [392].
Glenstrae, laird of, [465].
Glisseg, in Wales, the happy valley, [352].
“God keep you,” old salutation, [390].
“God save the King,” author of, [225].
Goethe, his philosophy of life, [398].
Gold found in Scotland and Cornwall, [658].
“Golden Age, (The)” old play, [677].
—— tooth, learned disputes about, [453].
Gone or going, [773].
Good-eating pernicious, [277]; domestic dialogue on good-living, [822].
Good-Friday, [478], [482].
Goodrick, St., a bishop misled by, [415].
Granger, Rev. Mr., the Linnæus of British portraits, [510].
Grassington manager, [T. Airay] [69].
Gratitude, in birds, [592].
Gravity mistaken for wisdom, [393].
Great Unknown discovered, [306], &c.
Green-grocers’ devices, [607].
Greenland, English sailors in, [629].
Greenock Adam and Eve, antiquity of, [538].
Gregory, (Old) selfishness of defeated, [240].
Gresham committee, notice by, about lost children, [18].
Gretna Green blacksmith and marriages, [431], [436].
Grey, lady Jane, table book of, [3].
Grief, expressive silence of, [459].
Grinstead, (East) old play-bill, [137].
Grosvenor, earl, and Mr. Gifford, [57].
Groves; on a picturesque one, [807]; groves and high places, [808].
“Guardian, (The)” old play, [418].
Guards, Swiss, monument of, engraving, [253].
Guilty, stupefaction on verdict of, [457].
Gwennap, in Cornwall, productive mine in, [658].
Hagman Heigh, new year’s eve custom, [7].
Hairdresser. See [Barber].
Halfpennies, [378].
Hall, (Antiquarian) of Lynn, engraving and notice of, [139].
——, Thomas, his “Funebria Floræ,” [545].
Ham and stilton, [179].
Hampstead, Shepherd’s Well at, [381]; the place of groves, [810].
Hands; peculiarity of the barber’s hand, [245]; the bloody hand, [258]; reason for preferring the right hand, [280].
Hanged and unhanged, mankind divided into, [455].
Hannah, (Blind) notice and engraving of, [221].
Hard fare, [353].
—— labour, varied by different tread-mills, [755].
Hare’s foot an antidote to witchcraft, [674].
Harp, notices of, [335].
Harris, Renatus, organist, [260].
Harrow church, engraving of its old font, [157].
Hart, the astrologer, [135].
Hatred, to be insured by advice, [330].
Hawking, ladies formerly devoted to, [392].
Health, importance and means of, [209], [277].
Hedgehog, celestial, [627].
Henley, in Arden, custom in, [176].
Henry IV., anecdotes of, [401], [402].
—— IX., notice of, [739].
Heralds formerly in the train of nobility and gentry, [390].
Herefordshire, new-moon custom in, [393].
Heriot, curious register concerning, [817].
Hero, singular one of an old play, [385].
Heroism and humanity, [632].
Herrings, curing and virtues of, [569].
Heywood, Thomas, his excellence as a dramatist, [301], [358].
Hide park, or a tanner’s villa, [764].
“Hierarchie of Angels,” old play, [385].
High admiral, (lord) office and seal of, [573].
Highlands; legend of, [290]; weddings, [292]; tartans nearly obsolete in, [293]; customs in, [465], [543]; deer and sheep in, [754]; contempt for table luxuries in, [755]; Highland scenery, [775].
Hill, Rev. Mr., killed in a duel, [722].
Hindoo husbandmen, [696].
Hiring of servants at statutes, [171], [203].
Hobby horses, obsolete toys, engraving of, [686].
Hobday, Mr., artist, exhibition of, [687].
Hobson, (old) pleasant conceits of, [419].
Hoby, sir Edward, [578].
Hogarth, and engraving from his picture of lord Lovat, [237].
Holidays; how spent in Ireland, [692]; their utility, [694]; the benevolent Greek philosopher, [695].
Holly tree, carrying of, at Brough, [26].
Home, a father’s, [170]; spells of home, [216].
Hornchurch, [84].
Horses; engraving and account of the race-horse Eclipse, [618], &c.; their swiftness connected with great muscular power, [ib.]; difference between theoretic standards and occasional excellence, [620]; insurance of, [621]; great weight of the heart of Eclipse, [ib.]; singular examination of horses, [660].
Hot meals, [314].
Hounds; first fox-hounds in the west, [35].
Hour-glasses for pulpits, [485], [501].
Howard of Effingham, lord, [lord high admiral] autograph of, [573], &c.
Human life, [398].
Humanity and heroism, [632]; humanity sometimes nearly lost in forms, [737].
Hunter, John, the anatomist, [618].
Hunting; description of buck-hunting in Cranbourne Chase, [33].
Husbandmen in India, [696].
Hut. Alderson, of Durham, [365].
Hy-jinks, a Scotch amusement, [467].
Hyatt, Sophia, her poetical enthusiasm, [718].
Hygrometer, new, [25].
I, the pronoun, danger of wearing it out, [341].
Idols, (Chinese) [627].
Imagination; its transforming power, [9], [16].
Immersion instead of interment, [412].
Imperial drink, receipt for, [471].
Improvisatore, extraordinary, [421].
Inch, derivation of, [378].
India, library of the king of, [247]; husbandmen of, [696].
“Indictment of Flora,” a dialogue, [545].
Indulgences, (popish) not always ill applied, [413].
Industry vain without thrift, [346].
Inishail, isle of, [775].
Innocent (Pope) III., [747].
Inns, rare before the Reformation, [391]; poor’s boxes formerly at, [392], [747].
Inscriptions on old silver coin, how to read, [452].
Intellect, march of, [60], [681].
Interlaken, beauties of, [428].
Interment superseded by immersion, [412].
Ireland, bogs in, [185]; customs in, [506], [523]; custom of lord-lieutenants of, [663]; Irishmen on a holiday, [692].
Italian architects, pope’s grant to, for building churches, [393].
“Jack Drum’s Entertainment,” old play, [416].
Jack-o’-Lent, [270].
Jamaica, speculation for warming-pans in, [15].
James I., rudeness of his court to women, [390]; at Durham, [679].
—— II., notices of the Stuart papers, [738].
January, general prescriptions for, [81].
Japanese mode of salutation, [197].
Jeffries, Judge, a judge of music, [261].
Jeggon, Dr., anecdote of, [828].
Jerningham, Mr., notice of, [201].
Jests; great merit of suppressing offensive ones, [280]; effect of wealth on their success, [348].
Jews, Easter custom against, [554].
“John (King) and Matilda,” old play, [111], [803].
John Bull, specimen of, [376]; indecorum and rudeness of in crowds, [505].
Joy, madness from excess of, [511].
Judges, hunting their own venison on circuit, [34]; immense fans formerly carried by, on circuit, [394].
Justice, (impartial) [406].
Justices of peace, former furniture of their halls, [391]; arithmetical estimate of, [738].
Keats, the poet, [810].
Kimberley, Francis, Birmingham conjuror, [235].
King, (The) and the private gentleman, [732].
King, Col., and Col. Fitzgerald, duel between, [723].
—— Dr., his pun, [252].
Kirby Malhamdale church-yard legend, [515].
—— Moorside, death of duke of Buckingham at, [525].
Kircher, his account of a marvellous diver, [705].
Kissing, in Ireland, on Easter Monday, [506].
Knowledge, defends from the juggle of forms, [219]; even a little of it useful, [758]; importance of a knowledge of the world, [824].
Labour, hard, greatly varied by different tread-mills, [755].
Ladies, in winter like tea-kettles, [151]; air and exercise for, [209]; lady of the hill, [291]; character of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr, a maiden lady, [340]; the lady and troubadour, [453]; the white lady, [717]. See [Women].
Laing, David, the Gretna-green blacksmith, [131].
Lamb, Mr. C., lively letter to, [194].
Lambert, [parliamentary] monument to, [522].
“Lambs (Young) to sell,” a London cry, [395].
Lamond of Cowel, tradition of, [465].
Lancaster, dukes of, [100]; and York, houses of, [ib.]
Language without words, [467]; English, distinct derivations of, [473].
Lansberg, Matthew, Liege almanac by, [274].
Lanterns, court order for, in the streets, [414].
Laplander’s mode of salutation, [186].
Lapstone, beating the, [85].
Lark, the evening, [622].
Last tree, [88]; last deer of Beann Doran, [754].
“Late Lancashire Witches, (The)” old play, [193].
Lauron, Marcellus, artist, [509].
Lavater, aphorisms by , [274].
Lawsuit, effect of, [134].
Learning, and large libraries, [218]; formerly united with pedantry, [394]; a mulatto deploring his education, [626]; a little learning not dangerous, [757].
Leathart, Mr., “Welsh Penillion of,” [335].
“Legends, Scottish,” [775].
Leicestershire, custom of, [523].
Lendi, M. B., new hygrometer by, [25].
Lent, customs in, [625].
—— Jack-o’, puppet formerly thrown at, [270].
Lettered stones, curious ancient one, [351].
Letters, address on one, [675].
Lewis, St., disposal of his body, [576].
Leybourne, W. de, first Englishman styled admiral, [576].
Libels, actions for, formerly rare, [389]; dramatic libel, [402].
Libraries, cautions about forming, [218]; that of the king of India, [247].
Licenses, for enacting plays, [67], [68]; for printing play-bills, [584], [586].
Liege almanac, [274].
Lieutenant and captain, dreadful duel between, [724].
Life, [398]; recovered after hanging, [455].
Lilly, his account of the astrologer Hart, [135].
Linnet fancy, [587].
Liston, William, crier of “young lambs,” [395].
Literature, a great bargain of, [740]; a literary character, [410].
Lloyd, T., Esq., curious pillar restored by, [352].
Loaf-stealing, an old Christmas game, [391].
Loddon church, poor’s box in, [747].
London, described in 1634, [167]; modern improvements in, [214]; musicians incorporated in, [228]; cries, see [Cries]; university, founding of, [593]; notice of London watermen, [627]; London merchants a hundred years since, [649]; London holidays, [694]. See [Bankside], [Battle-bridge], [Clerkenwell], [Covent Garden].
“London Chanticleers,” old play, [256].
Long, sir Walter, of Draycot, his style of travelling, [393].
“Looking Glass for England and London,” old play, [641].
Longevity, clerical, striking case of, [24].
Lord chancellor, office of, [729].
—— high admiral, powers and seal of, [573].
Lost children, notice about, [18].
Lottery, madness from success in, [511].
Lovat, lord, engraving of, [237]; claimant to the title, [633].
Love; loves of the negroes, [180]; music requested for a love dialogue, [514]; refinements of Spanish love, [737].
“Love for Love’s sake,” old play, [735], [788].
Lowth, bishop, his epitaph on his daughter, [138].
Lucerne, monument of the Swiss guards at, [253].
Lying; why Thames Ditton called lying Ditton, [659]; how to be reformed, [731].
Lynn, Antiquarian Hall of, [139]; Billy Boots of, [302]; May-day at, [541].
Mac Colda, Alaister, [778].
—— Donalds and Campbells, [778].
—— Gregor of Glenstrae, [465].
—— Phadian, captain, [782].
Macham, discoverer of Madeira, [276].
Macrae, captain, and sir George Ramsay, fatal duel between, [723].
Madeira, discoverer of, [276].
Madness, raving, from a lottery prize, [511].
Madrid, carnival in, [273].
Magpies, superstition relating to, [382].
Malacca, salutation in, [196].
Malmsbury abbey school, tradition about, [232].
Mankind, only two classes of, [455].
Manners, in Oliver Cromwell’s time, [19]; before the Reformation, [389].
Manuscripts, an author reading one to a bookseller, engraving, [125]; curious account of Stuart manuscripts, [738].
Maps, a curious old one, [506].
March, first of, [283]; fair, at Brough, [317].
—— of intellect, [60].
Marden (Milton and) hundred of, [577].
Marriages, a new plan for, [21]; account of late duke of York’s, [105]; breach of promise of marriage, [180]; in Highlands, [292]; at Gretna-green, [431]; of the doges of Venice, [452]; perplexing ones in relationship, [475]; vulgarity of a court lady’s consenting to marriage, [737]; Welsh, [742]; Cumberland, [794]; curious case of re-marriage, [817].
Marseilles, custom at, [271]; interesting history of, [539].
“Master of the bears and dogs,” [497].
Master of the revels, license by, [60], [68].
Masters, an amiable one, [410].
Matrimony. See [Marriages].
Maturin, conversations of, [681].
Maundy Thursday, [477], &c.
Maxims of meanness, [562], [564].
May-day, customs on, [541], &c., [557], [628], [629].
Mazarine, cardinal, easy patronage by, [405].
Meals; hot meals, [314]; taken with mysterious privacy, [424].
Meanness formerly taught for morals, [562], &c.
Memorandum books, [1].
Mercer of London, old picture of, [569].
Merchandise, unfavourable tendencies of, [564].
Merchants, (London) a hundred years since, [649].
Metastasio, memoir of, [421].
Milton, hundred of, [575], [579].
Mines; workers in coal-mines described, [653]; fatal explosion in, [656]; in Great Britain, [658].
Ministers, cheap patronage by, [405].
Minstrels, curious regulations for, [336].
Mint, test of old silver coin at , [452].
Miron, Francis, boldness and impunity of, [401].
Miseries of travelling, [262].
Monasteries, frequent and pious bleedings in, [479].
Monks. See [Monasteries].
Monson, William, alias Billy Boots, [302].
Month’s mind, a mass for the dead, [483].
Months, twelve gems of the, [320].
Moon, new, customs on, [393].
Moore, T., the poet, remarks on, [681], [684].
Moorfields and laundresses, [169].
Mops or statutes for hiring servants, [171], [203].
Morals, former system of, for tradesmen, [564], &c.
More, sir T., notice of, [730].
Mortality through duels, stated, [720].
Mother-wit better than learning, [572].
“Mothering Sunday,” [625].
Mottos and emblems, [90].
Mount Vernon, why so called, [617].
Mountain ash, an antidote to witchcraft, [674].
Mug-houses, described by a foreigner, [378].
Mulattos, curious lamentation of one, [626].
Mulgrave family, founder of, [763].
Mullally, Jack, an Irish landlord, [693].
Music; anecdotes of, [225]; comparison of some much-admired, [228]; musicians incorporated, [228]; some effects of music, [229]; in churches, [261]; notice of the harp, [336]; mischievous musical crash, [348]; effects of, on rudeness and ignorance, [461]; changes in church music, [485]; requested for a beautiful love-dialogue, [514]; of birds particularized, [589]; experiment of, on animals, [691].
Muskerry, lord, his receipt to cure lying, [731].
Mustard and cress seeds, devices with, [607].
Mysteries, dramatic, performed at Coventry, engraving of, [11].
Nail, to be a friend upon the, [764].
Names, of places, explained, [156]; curtailment of baptismal names, [385]; substitution of classical for baptismal ones, [698]; the name of “devil” often assumed, [ib.]
Nash, T., on herrings, in 1599, [569].
Necromancy, [323].
Negroes, loves of, [180]; salutation of two negro kings, [197].
Nelson, lord, punctuality of, [796].
Nettleton, custom at, [85].
New-moon, customs on, [393].
New-year, ode to, set to music, [5]; customs on, [7].
Newcastle, Blind Willie of, [461].
——, duchess of, notices of, [197], [278].
Newsman, description and engraving of, [61].
Newspapers, varieties and interest of, [61], [65]; reading the newspaper, engraving, [797].
Newstead abbey, female enthusiast at, [718].
Nicolai, M., bookseller, morbid phantasms of, [710].
Nightingale, poets’ mistake about, [588].
Nimeguen, two ravens at, [87].
Nobility, French, remarks on, [132].
Nominative case, [282].
Norfolk dumplings, digested by a stone-eater, [355].
Normans, what derived from, [393].
Northumberland, custom in, [657].
Notre Dame, grand Easter ceremony in, [502].
Nottingham, earl of, [575].
Numbers and figures, [759].
Nunneries, girls formerly educated in, [389].
Oddities of genius, [424].
Offices and trades specified in Doomsday-book, [616].
O’Kelly, Col., his celebrated race-horse and parrot, [621].
Old age, a fair price for burning it out at the stake, [686].
—— gentleman, (the) character of, [118].
—— women, ridicule of, De Foe’s censure of, [20].
Oran-outang, extraordinary one, [756].
Orde, Mr., an amateur artist, [510].
Organs; celebrated ones, [260]; address to a barrel organ, [403]; notices of, [474].
Osnaburgh, bishopric of, [97].
Ostend, siege of, [558].
Ostrich, (the king’s) dissection of, [617].
Otho, earl of York, [97].
“Ough,” (the syllable) many ways of pronouncing, [688].
Ounce, derivation of, [378].
“Outlandish knight,” [130].
Oxford, mayor of, [617].
Padua, cheerful funeral at, [699].
Pageant vehicle and play, representation of, [11].
Painters, scene for, [655].
Pamphleteers, a singular one, [727].
Paper books not before the tenth century, [507].
Papers, (Stuart) curious account of, [738].
Parenthesis, explanation of, [571].
Parents. See [Children].
Paris garden, Southwark, [489].
Parish accompts, (old,) [481].
Parliament, clubs, [280]; anecdote of royal aversion to, [700].
“Parliament of Bees,” old play, [608].
Parrots, Col. O’Kelly’s most remarkable one, [622].
Parsons and clerks, anecdotes about, [662]. See [Clergymen].
Parsons, Joe, the samphire-gatherer, [451].
Parties of pleasure, a successful one, [552].
Passion-week, [477], &c.
Patients, philosophical observation of their diseases by, [711].
Patriotism, fervour and judgment of, [401].
Patronage, (cheap) [405].
Paulian, (Father) his account of a stone-eater, [353].
Pearce, Dr. Zachary, H. Walpole’s ridicule of, [9].
Pedantry formerly the associate of learning , [394].
“Peep into futurity,” [74].
Penge Common, “Crooked Billet” on, [670].
Pens, how carried anciently, [507]; their introduction, [ib.]
“Perhaps,” its importance in the sciences, [247].
Pesce, Nicolo, the diver, and the royal gold cups, [705].
Phantasms, singular case of, [710].
Philippine Islands, salutations in, [196].
“Phillis of Segros,” old play, [799].
Phipps, William, founder of the Mulgrave family, [763].
Phlebotomy. See [Bleeding].
Phrenology, [329].
Physicians, curious jealousy of some, [274].
Picture dealer, trade catalogue of, [236].
Pilgrimages, intense interest of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” [217]; pilgrimages formerly in England, [392]; a curious one, [475].
Pilpay’s abridgement of a library, [247].
Pipe sludge, or prejudice against new water-conveyance, [733].
Places, names of some explained, [156]; high places and groves, [808].
Planets, illustration of, [745].
Platina, the historian, anecdote of, [698].
Plays, representation of a pageant vehicle and play at Coventry, [11]; license for enacting plays, [67]; curious play-bills, [137], [257], [584], [636]; origin and progress of theatrical representation, [306]; not a third of old dramatic treasure exhausted, [358]; supposed libels in, [401], [403]; an author’s correct estimate of one, [572]; one of nine days representation, [737]; a straightforward critic upon, [803]; Garrick’s collection of. See [Garrick plays].
Plough-Monday, [81].
“Poetesses, (British)” by Mr. Dyce, [195].
Poetry, Bowring’s popular Servian poetry, [529]; poetry and fact, [646].
Poets; advice to one from one younger, [248]; estimate of various poets, [682]; minor poets not useless, [683].
Poland, custom in, [320].
Poor’s boxes, notices and engravings of, [747].
—— rates, none before the Reformation, [392].
Port wine, Ewart’s excellent, [343].
Portaferry, Easter custom at, [506].
Porter recommended, [412].
Porters, (ticket) regulations and fares of, [19].
Portraits, British, Rodd’s sale catalogue of, [236].
Posts, (road) scripture texts on, [539].
Potatoes, proper treatment of in frost, [17].
Potter, Dr., university flogger, [394].
Pound, derivation of, [378].
Powell the fire-eater, [314].
——, Mr., a notorious duellist, [721].
Presents, new-year’s, [7]; wedding, [793], [794].
Pretender, curious paternal notices of, [744].
Priests in France, former hospitality of, [390].
Printing, licenses for, [584], [586].
Prison walls, [727].
Private and public, [732].
Prize-fighting with swords formerly, [495].
Professors in German universities, [123].
Prognostications, effect of a few successful ones, [275].
Promise, breach of, curious case of, [180].
Pronoun, first personal, not to be worn out, [341].
Pronunciation, at the old Grassington theatre, [72]; extreme irregularity of the English, [688].
Property, fixed and movable, remarks on, [345].
Protestant German Universities, [124].
Prynne, William, notice of, [726].
Public and private, [732].
Publishers, how dispensed with, [727].
Pudsey, bishop, notice of, [415].
Pulpits furnished with hour-glasses and clocks, [485], [501].
Punctuality recommended, [796].
Punishments, capital, solemnity and terror of, [455], &c.
Puns, not unnatural in grief as well as joy, [112].
Purvis, William, or “Blind Willie” the minstrel, [461].
Pye, Mr., curious anecdote from, of Charles I., [700].
Pye-stealer detected, [419].
“Quarter of an hour before,” [796].
Queen’s college, Oxford, custom at, [85], [390].
Questions, danger of asking, [342].
Quin, his apology for a dancer’s absence, [16]; his unfeeling jokes, [ib.], [17].
Race-horses. See [Horses].
Radnor, lord, anecdote of, [90].
Ramsay, sir George, killed in a duel, [723].
Randwick near Stroud, custom at, [553].
Ratting, [281].
Ravens, at Nimeguen, [87]; tradition respecting two at home, ib.; anecdote of one at Hungerford, [826].
Raynal, Abbé, anecdote of, [89].
Reading aloud, remarks on, [278].
Realities resembling dreams, [457].
Red-herring on horseback, an old dish, [390]; eulogium of red-herrings, [569].
Reformation, manners and customs before, [389]; progress of, [483].
Regent’s-street and park, [214], [215].
Relationship, involvement of by marriage, [475].
Religion, [828].
Restitution, better late than never, [138]; for ease of conscience, [401].
Retrospect, [184].
Return made to a parish circular, [378].
Revels, master of, license by for enacting plays, [68].
Revenant, (Le), [455].
Revenge, wishes of, [195].
Reverie , [464].
Revival, after hanging at the gallows, [455].
“Rewards of Virtue,” old play, [159].
Rheumatism, asserted effect of, [142].
Rhone, river, Scipio’s shield found in, [264].
Rhubarb, and the Turk in Cheapside, [194].
Rich man defined, [346].
Richardson, the first public fire-eater, [315].
Riches, good and bad effects of, [347].
Riddle and explanation, [410].
Right hand, reason for preferring, [280].
Rigi, in Switzerland, inscription on book at, [138].
Rising, (early), [796].
Road-posts inscribed with texts, [539].
“Robin Gray, (Auld)” curious account of, [200].
Robin Hood’s bower, [485].
Rodd, Mr. H., picture-dealer, [236].
Rollan, Madame, a celebrated dancer, [16].
Roman antiquities, [79].
Rooms, former lowness of, [168].
Rosamond, (Fair), [315].
Rouen, Easter custom at, [484].
Round robin, ancient custom of, [698].
Royal Society, [552].
Rubens, liberality and kindness of, [10].
Runaway mops or statutes, [176].
Rural delights, [708].
Sailors, custom of when in Greenland, [629]; generous feeling of one for a dead enemy, [631]; their remonstrance by a round robin, [689]; anecdote of an Irish one, [699].
St. Bride’s church, admirable organ in, [261].
St. David’s day, [334].
St. Giles Hill, near Winchester, fair at, [204].
St. Goodrick misleading a bishop, [415].
St. Jerome’s description of an organ, [474]; conjecture about his dragon, [538].
St. Lawrence church, capital organ in, [261].
St. Margaret’s, at Cliff, [450].
St. Mary church, admired organ in, [261].
St. Sepulchre’s bell, at executions, [164].
Saints, a poor female one, [751].
Salt, the terror of spectres, [521], [523]; custom of putting salt on the dead, [523].
Salutation, different modes and forms of, [186], [390]; curious one by lord Lovat, [239]; lively lecture on the English mode, [555].
Samphire, gathering, [450], [451].
“Satiromastix,” old play, [704].
Scaffold, the criminal’s view from, [460].
Scandal, a grand receptacle of, [246].
Scarborough, custom at, [403].
Schmidt, celebrated organ-builder, [260].
Schoolboys, [149]; at Malmsbury, tradition about, [232].
Schools, rare before the Reformation, [389].
Scilly islands, custom in, [81].
Scipio, anecdote and shield of, [264].
Scot, John, a fasting fanatic, [134].
Scotland, story of the Scotch soldier, [285]; utility of the Scottish hospital, [286]; customs on the new moon in, [393]; amusement called hy-jinks in, [467]; an old and corrected map of, [506]; Scotch Adam and Eve, [538]; some gold found in, [658]; Scottish legends, [775]. See [Highlands].
Scripture texts, how hung up formerly in houses, [389]; inscribed on road-posts, [539].
Scylla and Charybdis, ancient and modern descriptions of, [642].
Sea bull, [699].
—— weed, address to, [452].
Seals; bread seals, [90]; seal of lord high admiral, [573].
Second-sight, [781].
Secrets worth keeping, [741].
Seigneurs, the benevolent one, [132].
Seignories in England, dreadful abuses and oppressions formerly in, [391].
Sepulchral remains, [82], [83].
Servants, appropriate addresses of different ones, [178]; description of statutes or mops for hiring, [171], [203].
Servian popular poetry, [529].
“Seven Champions of Christendom,” old play, [487].
Shakspeare, a fault in, [302]; contemporary dramatists of, [358]; a giant among giants, [358].
Sharp, Mr., his dissertation on Coventry pageants, [11].
Sheep, aversion of deer to, [754], [755].
Shepherd’s well, Hampstead, [381].
Shepherds, how paid formerly, [393].
Sherbet, receipt for making, [471].
Sheriff’s trumpets explained, [393].
Shield of Scipio found in the Rhone, [264].
“Ship, (The)” order of, [57].
Shrove Tuesday, [271].
Shute, bishop of Durham, pun on, [283].
Sight, (second), [781].
Signs, explanation of a modern one, [672]; one near Skipton, [636]; odd signs, [412].
Silent club, (the), [467].
Silver, how silver coin tested, [452]; found in Cornwall, [658].
“Silver Age, (The)” old play, [676].
Singing birds. See [Birds].
“Single hair,” for angling, an enthusiast on, [660].
Skating, [150].
Skipton in Craven, theatrical company at, [69]; custom in, [628].
Smith, sir Sidney, and old Dan Bryan, [631].
Smoking, much used in 1634, [169].
Smoky chimnies, how cured, [572].
Smyth, Capt. W. H., his account of Scylla and Charybdis, [646].
Snuff and tobacco, proposed history of, [387].
Snuffbox, (My) engraving and description of, [189].
Snuffers, (curious old) account and engraving of, [639].
Snuffing candles, curious process of, [348].
Society simplified by civilization, [219].
Soho bazaar, [153].
Soldier, (Scotch) story of, engraving, [285].
Southam, custom in, [176].
Sparr, Mrs. A., a maiden lady, [340].
Sparrow, address to , [364].
Spectrology, [710].
Spells of home, [216].
Sporting, [283].
Spring, the voice of, [624].
Spring Gardens, a former Vauxhall, [720].
Stag-hunting, near Beann Doran, [754].
Stage-coach adventures, [263].
Standing mannerly before parents, [394].
Stanmore toll-house, engraving of, [171].
Starlings, battle of, [661].
Statistics, curious, [540].
Statutes, for hiring servants, account of, [171], [203].
Stealing to restore, [234].
Stephens, his mode of writing, [682].
“Steps retraced,” [475].
Stilton, (ham and), [179].
Stocking, throwing of, [298].
Stoke Lyne, lord of manor of, [556].
Stones, sepulchral accumulations of stones, [83]; account of a stone-eater, [353]; autobiography of one, [354].
Storm in 1790, [767].
Stourbridge fair, [205].
Stratford-upon-Avon Church, engraving of, [445].
Streams, irregularity of some, [230].
Street circulars, [476].
Stuart papers, interesting account of, [738].
Students in German universities, [123].
Studley statute for hiring servants, [174].
Style, error respecting, [60].
Styles, for writing on table-books, [1].
Suicide never occurring among gipsies, [210].
Sumatra, oran-outang of, [756].
Summer drinks, receipts for, [471].
Sunrise and sunset, [138].
Sunday, diversions on, [489], [494].
Suppers, a light and early one, [668].
Sup-porter, a sign motto, [412].
Surnames, various cases of that of the “devil” in families, and arms correspondent, [698].
Surveys, of see of Durham, [415]; in Doomsday-book, [610].
Swimming, Kircher’s account of a man web-handed and web-footed, [705].
Swiss guards, monument of, [253].
Switzerland, an artist’s letter from, [427].
Sword-dancing in Northumberland, [657].
“Sybil’s Leaves,” [74].
System for shopkeepers, [562], [564].
Table Book, explanation of, [1]; design of the present, [3]; editor’s disclaimer of various publications in his name, [764].
Tadloe’s tread like paviers’ rammers, [375].
Tailors and cabbage, [471].
“Tales, (Early metrical)” notice of, [114].
Talker, the selfish, [341]; talking, at times, how difficult, [362].
“Tancred and Gismund,” old play, [322].
Tanner, appropriate name for his villa, [764].
Tartans, now little used in the Highlands, [293].
Taste, its power and value, [86].
Tempers of birds, how ascertained, [592].
Temple church, organ in, [260].
“Tethys’ Festival,” old play, [641].
Test of talent, [572].
Texts of scripture; formerly written in apartments, [389]; on road-posts, [539].
Thames, river, shut out state of, [168]; bronze antique found in, [267].
Thames Ditton, the resort of anglers, [659].
Theatres, one projected at Edinburgh, [313]; advice respecting formation of, [ib.]; curious circumstances of a fire at one, [737]. See [Plays].
“The thing to a T,” explanation of, [15].
Thomas, Elizabeth, poetess, [198].
Thorwaldsen, monument by, [253].
Thoulouse, cruel custom at, [554].
Throwing the stocking, [298].
Thucydides, testimonial to, [647].
Ticket porters, regulations and fares of, [19].
Tickling trout, [662].
Tighe, Mrs., poetess, [199].
Timber in bogs, remarks on, [185].
Tin mines, in Cornwall, [658].
Titles, new, to old books, [68].
Tobacco, much used in 1634, [169]; and snuff, proposed history of, [387]; anecdotes of dealers in, [ib.]
Toll-house at Stanmore, engraving, [171].
Tollard, (royal) formerly a royal seat, [36].
Tollet, Elizabeth, poetess, [198].
Tomarton, former dungeon in, [391].
Tomkins, an unrelenting creditor, [667].
Tommy Bell, engraving of, [651].
—— Sly, engraving of, [331].
Tonga Islands, custom in, [826].
Tooth, (the golden) learned dispute on, [453].
Torches, dance of, [107].
“Tottenham Court,” old play, [581].
Toupees, how formerly stiffened, [394].
Trades, younger brothers formerly not bred to, [393]; and offices specified in Doomsday-book, [616].
Tradesmen, deviation from ancient rule of, [240]; competition between, [387]; “The Tradesman,” by Defoe, [564].
Travellers, former hospitality to, in France, [390]; before the Reformation were entertained at religious houses, [391].
Travelling by coach and steam compared, [262].
Tread-mills, different standards of labour in, [755].
Trees, tasteful disposal of, [807].
Trials, of Flora, [545]; of a negro for breach of promise, [180]; for life, impressions under, [457].
Trout, tickling, [662].
Trumpets formerly sounded before lords and gentlemen, [393].
Tuilleries, massacre of Swiss guards at, [253].
Tumuli, [82], [83].
Turk in Cheapside, inquiry for, [194].
Turks, consolation under persecution by, [453]; a terror to Christendom, [485], [575].
Tutor for tradesmen, [562], [564].
Twelfth-night custom at Brough, [26].
“Two angry Women of Abingdon,” old play, [356].
“Two Tragedies in one,” old play, [488].
Ugly club , [264], [468].
Unhanged and hanged, two only classes, [455].
Universities, in Germany, [123]; flogging in, [394]; founding the London, [593].
Unknown, (the great) discovered, [306], &c.
Valediction, [399].
Valentines, [206].
Valle Crucis abbey, pillar near, [349].
Vanithee, [wife] Jack Mullally’s, [694].
Vauxhall, a dramatic sketch, [438].
Vehicle, (pageant) and play, notice and engraving of, [11].
Venice, the doge’s marriage, [452].
Venison, hunted better than shot, [34].
Vernon, admiral, patron of general Washington, [617].
——, mount, why so called, [617].
——, a musician, anecdote of, [17].
Vienna, customs in, [17].
Views, of a felon on the scaffold, [460].
Village new-year described, [91].
“Virgin Widow,” old play, [321].
Virginia, deliberate duel in, [721].
“Visiting the churches,” [478].
W, (the letter), [410].
Waggery, ancient, [419].
Wales, character of the ancient Britons, [335]; notices of the Welsh harp, [ib.]; minstrelsy society in, [338]; ancient British pillar, engraving of, [349].
Wallis, lady, her correct estimate of her comedy, [572].
Walpole, Horace, letter of, about extortion in Westminster abbey, [9].
Walsh, Mr. H., his satire on corporations, [524].
Wamphray, in Scotland, great hiring fair at, [204].
Warming-pans for Jamaica, [15].
Warwickshire, statutes or mops in, [172], &c.
“Washing of the feet” at Vienna, [477]; and at Greenwich by queen Elizabeth, [479].
Washington, general, notice of, [607].
Water, prejudice against pipe-conveyance of, [733].
Water-carrier, (old) engraving of, [733].
Waterloo-bridge, intended opening to, [214].
Watermen, ancient misconduct of, [168]; watermen hundred years ago, [627].
Watson, bishop, letters of to duke of York, [109], [110].
Watson, Tom, an eminent dramatist, [385].
Waverley, more than ten years unpublished, [427]; Waverley novels acknowledged by sir Walter Scott, [306].
Wax-work and extortion in Westminster abbey, [9].
Way to grow rich, [347].
Way-posts with texts on them, [539].
Wealth, good and bad effects of, [347].
Weather, a new hygrometer, [25].
Webster, the dramatist, excellence of, [358].
——, Dr., of St. Alban’s, [239].
Weddings, Highland, [292]; Welsh, [792]; Cumberland, [794]. See [Marriages].
Welsh. See [Wales].
Wesley, John, his return of plate, [40].
West, Gilbert, notice of, [811].
Westminster abbey, curious letter of H. Walpole about, [9]; burial fees of, [333].
Westmoreland, belief of witchcraft in, [674].
Weston, the royal cook, [377].
Whitelock, collation by, to queen of Sweden, [552].
Whyte, Mr. S., his account of Mrs. Charke, [125].
Wickham (West) church, [811].
Wiggen [ash] tree; its virtues against witchcraft, [674].
Wigs, [243].
Wild man of the woods, an extraordinary one, [756].
——, Jonathan, first victim to a law, [235].
Wildman, Mr., first purchaser of Eclipse, [621].
—— ——, Colonel, benevolent conduct of, [718].
Will, Will-be-so, memoir of, [139].
Willie, (Blind) of Newcastle, [461].
Willy-Howe, in Yorkshire, legends about, [82].
Wilson, comedian, anecdote of, [571].
Wiltshire abroad and at home, [231].
Windows, rarely of glass before the Reformation, [392].
Winds, irritating effect of some, [273].
Wine, effect of, [824].
Winter’s day, description of, [148].
“Wit in a Constable,” old play, [193].
Witchcraft, how to recognise a witch, [674]; preventives of, [ib.]
Wives, last resource of one, [451]; use of a wife and children, [566].
Wolfe, general, how his death wound received, [251].
Wolverhampton church, valuable organ in, [262].
Women; ungallant ridicule of the “old woman,” [20]; poniards worn by, in Spain, [273]; improvement of, [358]; former education of, [389]; former court rudeness to, [390]; former amusements of, [392]; prodigious fans used by, [394]; a lady customer and a spruce mercer, [567]; situation of a woman in India, [697]; former refinement of court ladies in Spain, [737].
Worfield, longevity of vicars of, [23].
Wragg, Mary, [768].
Writers, correct estimate by one of her own work, [572]. See [Authors].
Writing tables, [2].
Yard, derivation of the term, [378].
Yarmouth, long famed for herrings, [569].
York, cardinal de, notice of, [738].
——, duke of, engraving and notices of, [93]; list of dukes of York, [99].
Yorkshire, new year’s eve custom in, [7]; fairies in, [82]; Yorkshire Gipsy, [stream] [230].
“Young lambs to sell,” a London cry, [395].
“Your humble servant,” when first used in salutation, [390].
Youth, illiberal teachers of, [561].