Chapter I: General Index (1)

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.