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.