PAGE       LINE
3 29   
Nehemiah, viii, 10.
15 31   
Rabelais, vol. i, 478, n. ed. 1823.
20 22   
Lingard’s Hist. Eng. ed. 1837, vol. i, 259.
21 22   
John of Bromton. Twysden, X Scriptores.
25 26   
Archæologia, vol. xi, 13 (from Wilkins’s Concil.).
27 26   
Blount, Fragmenta Antiq., by Beckwith, 50.
30    13, 21   
Madox’s Hist. Exchequer, 258.
33 13   
The Woman’s Prize, Fletcher, iv, 2.
34 9   
Hamlet i, 1.
36 18, 29   
Baker’s Chronicle, 82, 83.
37 31   
Théâtre Français au moyen Age, 1842, p. 118.
38 20   
Cronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, 46.
39 21   
Archæologia, xxvi, 342.
40 24, 30   
Archæologia, xxxi, 37, 38, 43, 122.
42 9   
Cotton MS. Nero, C. viii.
— 15   
Petitôt Mémoires, 1st Ser. vi, 66.
— 22   
Monstrelet, ed. 1840, i, 153.
44 11   
Warton, Hist. of Poetry, 8vo, ii, 71, 72.
45 —   
Henry V, i, 1.
46 24   
Archæologia, xxi, 66. Old Poem on Siege of Rouen.
— 31   
Petitôt Mémoires, 1st Ser. viii, 35.
47 26, 31   
Excerpta Historica, 148, 150.—(Cotton MS. Cleopatra, F. iv.)
— 28   
Proceedings of Privy Council, iii, 285.
48 4   
Fairholt’s History of Costume.—(Harl. MS. 2278.)
— 11   
Proceedings of Privy Council, v, 114.
— 14   
Rymer’s Fœdera, x, 387.
— 30   
Collier, Hist. Dram. Poetry, ii, 127.
50 17   
King John, ii, 1.
51 28   
Harl. MS. 5931.
52 3   
Fabliaux et Contes du xii et xiii siècles, i, 329, &c.
54 29   
Additional MS. 6113.
55 25   
Antiquarian Repertory, i, 328.
56 4   
Hamlet, i, 4.
— 7   
Love’s Labour Lost, v, 2.
57 31   
Ritson’s Ancient Songs, 304. (From New Christmas Carols.)
58 15   
Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii, 1.
— 24   
Herrick’s Works, ii, 92.
59 25   
Ordinances of Royal Household, 120.
61 14   
Archæologia, xxv, 319-27.
66 6   
Hall’s, Holinshed’s, and Baker’s Chronicles may be consulted for this and most of the Christmas revels in the time of Henry VIII; also Collier’s Annals of the Stage, for many particulars of payments and gifts.
72 29   
Henry VIII, i, 4.
76 18   
Hall’s Chronicle.
78 14   
Ellis’s Original Letters, i, 271.—(Cotton MS. Vespasian, F. xiii.)
79 16   
Cotton MS. Appendix, xxviii.
80 27   
Strutt’s Sports, &c. 305.
81 8   
Archæologia, xxv, 422.
82 4   
Leland’s Itinerary, iv, 182.
83 7   
Camden’s Remains, 262.
— 18   
Archaeological Journal, No. 4, 367.
— 24   
Kalendars of the Exchequer, i, 269.
89 10   
Particulars of George Ferrer’s Misrule will be found in Stow’s Annals, Baker’s Chronicle, Loseley MS. 45, &c. and Machyn’s Diary, 13, &c.
90 10   
Loseley MS. 90.
91 17   
Machyn’s Diary, 162.
92 4   
Machyn’s Diary, 222.
93 19   
Dugdale Origines Jurid.
— 24   
Account of Revels, 28.
95 —   
See Collier, i, 196, &c., for this page.
96 13   
Lansdowne MS. 71.
— 22   
Ben Jonson’s Conversations with Drummond, 23.
102 —   
See Archæologia, i,9; Ditto, xix, 292; Nichols’s Progresses; Sloane MS. 4827; Ditto, 814, Additional MS. 5751;—for particulars of New Year’s Gifts in this and preceding pages.
103 6   
Account of Revels, 204
108 12, 22   
Pictorial History of England, iii, 88.
110 25   
Nichols’s Progresses, i, xl, n.
— 30   
Account of Revels, xi.
111 30   
Lansdowne MS. 92.
112 26   
Doblado’s Letters.
113 17   
Introduction to Canto 6, Marmion.
— 28   
Romeo and Juliet, i, 4.
115 6   
Horace, lib. i, od. 9.
— 19   
Michaelmas Term, ii, 3.
— 23   
Promptorium Parvulorum, 238.
116 2   
Johnes’s Translation, vol. iii, c. 7.
— 16   
Herrick’s Works, ii, 124.
— 30   
Witty Fair One, iv, 2.
118 27   
Nichols’s Illustrations of Manners and Expenses, 53.
121 25   
Archæologia, xviii, 335.
122 6   
Curiosities of Literature, iii, 269.
124 6   
Hone’s Every Day Book, i, 9. (Banquet of Jests, 1634.)
125 29   
Petitôt Mémoires, 47, 101.
136 17   
Percy’s Reliques, ed. 1840, 169.
— 28   
Evans’s Ballads, iii, 262.
137 15   
Evans’s Ballads, i, 146.
138 15   
City Madam, ii, 1.
144 23   
Roper’s Life of Sir T. More, 73.
146 17   
Cowley’s Anaercontiques, No. 2.
147 9   
Wine and Walnuts, ii, 157.
— 30   
New Year’s Day, by Hartley Coleridge.
149 30   
Brady Clavis Calendaria, ii, 316, 17.
154 20   
In Wily Beguiled.
155 22   
Collier’s Annals of the Stage, i, 22.
157 18   
Malcontent, by Marston, iv, 2.
158 —   
Dr. Macculloch’s Proofs and Illustrations of the Attributes of God, i, 358, a work of remarkable learning and information joined to sincere and unaffected piety—the production of a gifted and accomplished man, whose death will ever be regretted by those who, in his lifetime, enjoyed his friendship.
160 25   
Milton’s Ode on the Nativity.
161 25   
Sandys’s Travels, 141.
162 12   
Harl. MSS. 437, 619.
— 16   
Apocryphal New Testament, 2, 3.—Infancy, iii, 2.
— 29   
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, 1638, 225.
163 16   
Diary of Philip Henslowe, 70.
— 22, 28   
Hone’s Every Day Book, i, 46.
165 16   
Fabliaux et Contes, par Barbazan et Meon, ii, 285.
— 18   
Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes, 8vo, 344.
166 12   
Archives Curieuses de l’Histoire de France, 2 Series, v, 392.
168 13   
Warton’s History of Poetry, 8vo, ii, 91 n.
— 16   
Harl. MS. 5931.
170 9   
French Mystery of the 15th Century, ‘Le Geu des trois Rois.’
171 13   
MS. Bibl. Reg. 5 F. xiv, 7. Ib. 18 A, x, 8. Harl. MS. 1704-11.
— 14   
Harl. MS. 2407, 13.
178 24   
This reference should be ‘Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales.’
179 12   
Barzaz-Breiz, Chants Populaires de la Bretagne, i, 1, 25.
180 2   
Description of Patent Rolls, by T. D. Hardy, 129.
183 6   
Privy Purse Expenses of Princess Mary, Introduction, xxvii.
— 7   
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, 83.
184 25   
Barnaby Googe, translation of Naogeorgus.
185 11   
Pictorial History of England, iii, 446 (address by Mr. John Davison to General Assembly in Scotland, 1596).
186 25   
Old Ballads, 1723, p. 69.
188 11   
Batt upon Batt, 1711, p. 6.
191 6   
Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, i, 250.
— 20   
Rabelais, vi, 209, n. (liv. 4, c. 22).
— 26   
Pasquier les Recherches de la France, 383-4.
— 30   
Ménage Diction. Etymol., voce Noël.
192 3   
Archæologia, 22.
— 17   
Fabliaux et Contes, iv, 80, 99.
194 1   
Laborde’s Essai, i, 118, n.
200 27   
Notes and Queries, v, 7, communication by Mr. Thoms.
203 8   
Introduction to Scotch songs, i, 104.
206 2   
See French mystery of fifteenth century, La Nativité, edited by Jubinal, ii, 19, Cornish play of Creation of the World, and poem of Mount Calvary, for further particulars.
— 26   
Horne’s introduction to the Scriptures, i, 629.
213 2   
Maccabees, 15, 38.

Music to Carols.

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A VIRGIN MOST PURE.

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A CHILD THIS DAY IS BORN.

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THE LORD AT FIRST HAD ADAM MADE.

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THE FIRST NOWELL.

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THIS NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL.

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GOD REST YOU, MERRY GENTLEMEN.

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SAINT STEPHEN.

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GOD’S DEAR SON.

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TO-MORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY.

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I SAW THREE SHIPS.

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JOSEPH WAS AN OLD MAN.

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IN THOSE TWELVE DAYS.

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E. TUCKER, PRINTER, PERRYS PLACE, OXFORD STREET.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Unconventional spelling was retained especially in quotations of older texts, expect much variation as in “tres,” “très,” and “trés.”

Table of Contents, Music, “226” changed to “326” for (Joseph was an old man)

Page 124, “boomarang” changed to “boomerang” (boomerang, on their own)

Page 205, “crucifixon” changed to “crucifixion” (time of the crucifixion)

Page 254, “trangression” changed to “transgression” (Which Adam’s transgression)

Page 304, “noubelos” changed to “noubélos” to match usage in text (36. De noubélos Efans)