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

I. GENERAL INDEX.

SUBJECTS CONTAINED OR NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME.

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

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