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Blame my Nose! softened im-
precation, 477.
BLANCHARD ALAIN, 70.
Blank Verse, Irregular, re-
marks on, 1.

Blind, funds for, at Christ's
Hospital, 387.

Blood, Circulation of? allusion
to, in Eccles. xii. 546.
Boar, a Norfolk one, ridden
four and a quarter miles by
his master, 415.

Boar's head, 174.
Boat like an Eagle, 67.
BODMER'S Noachid, a bad
Poem, 2.

BOLINGBROKE, remark

on

Calvin's Institutes, reported
through Madan, 410.
Bombast, Spanish, 259.
Bonaparte and Dr. Solomon,
confusion of, 365.
Bone Manure, 388.
Bonfires, Festival, 116.
Book, occupations necessary

to produce one, 450. When
new, 692. A friend, 725.
Bons Esprits, and beaux esprits,

389.

Book-keeper, correct and in-
correct, P. Tompkin's, death
of, 390.
BOSWELL had a faculty for man-

ners, said Adam Smith, 617.
Botany, Medical, extracts, 573.
BOUCHET, Serées, 704.
Bourg de Bar, le Capitaine, 170.
BOVIUS, THOMAS, an Empiric,
his Hercules and Aurum Po-
tabile, 436.
BOWDWOIN, JAMES, astrono-
mical opinions of, 431.
BOWLES CAROLINE, i. e. Mrs.
Southey, remark of, 621.
Bracha, Gallia Braccata, &c.40.
Brama, how he first made man,

428.
Bramins, 238.

Breath, Ill, strange cure for,

429.

Brick, custom of building with,

when introduced, 400.
Brescia, Arnald of, 141.
Bretagne, Traditions in, 240.
BREUSE, The Lady, 174.
Brianstone, Great Sergeanty
Tenure of, 175.
Bride Ale, 361.

Britain, the thirteen rarities of,

145.

Bristol, H. Walpole not favour-
ably impressed with, 392.
Goodness of the water of,
426.

Burgomaster, strange mode of
choosing, 454.
BURGOINGNE, DUC DE, Lettres
envoyées de, par le Roy d'An-
gleterre au, 21. Charles the
Warlike, Duke of, 104, 109,
115, 164.

Burial, Royal and Noble Modes
of, 133.

Buried Money, story of, 426.
Burke the miscreant, affrighted
BURKE, his admiration of Spen-
in his sleep, 708.
ser, 312. Complimented by
Lord G. Gordon, 689. His
saying on Pitt's Economical
Bill, 689. On the Growth
of Atheism, 700.

Broad-cloth, deterioration of by BURNET, SIR THOMAS, Son of

Devil's dust in Latimer's
time, 610.

Broads, meaning of the term,

86.

BROOKE, LORD, his Poems, re-

marks on, 315. Extracts,
647-649, 691.
Brougham Castle, fine ruin,532,

537. LORD, 666, 688.
Brough Bells, story of, and Bal-
lad, 422.

Bishop, saying of, 350.
BURNET'S Theoria Sacra, ad-
mired by Southey and
Wordsworth, 184.
Burning, better than Inter-
ment, 195.

Burrough, or Burgh, Hutchin-

son's remark on name, 618.

BURTON, Anat. of Mel. ex-
tracts, 467-8, 473-4.
BUSHELL'S Wells, account of
at Enstone, 405.

BROUGHTON'S Dict. of all Re-
ligions, extracts from, 121, 2.
SIR THOMAS, tradition about, Butterfly, pretty lines of Hall

535.

BROWN, JOHN, remarks on his

Estimate, &c. 342.
BROWNE, SIR T. favourite wri-
ter of Southey's, 334.
BRUCE, The Heart of, 172. Ex-

tracts from "The," 217.
Bruciad, not a good Poem, 633.
Brute Creation, Apology for,
Sermon by James Granger,

592.

BRUYERE LA, extracts from,
645, 669.

Buck, St. Paul's, 120, 414.
Clubs of Bold Bucks, &c. 377.
BUCKHURST, LORD, advice in
Ferrex and Porrex, to settle
the succession, 323.
Bull-Baiting, Dr. Parr fond of,

585.

BUNYAN, JOHN, of his Pilgrim's
Progress, 221. Remark of,
on lies and slanders, 691.
Burbolts, kind of fish, Gadus
Lota, of Linnæus, 607.
Burgess, curious custom of ta-
king up the freedom of one
at Alnwick, 419.

Hartston's, 661.

C.

Cader Idris, 242.

CECILIA, ST., 67; sermons
preached on her day as late
as 1713, 703.
CAFFARELLI, the singer, his
wealth, 433.

CALDERON, extracts, 468, 471,

501, 640. 658.
CALVERT, F. LORD BALTI-
MORE, works of, 348.
Calvinistic Teachers, 716.
CALVIN'S Institutes, Boling-
broke's remarks on, 410.
CAMDEN, Gough's, quotations
from, 57, 61, 62.
Camel, called the Ship of the
Land, 176; conveyors of
souls, Ib.; taught to dance,

428.

CAMILLUS LEONARDUS, Mirror
of Stones, 46.
CAMOENS, 627.

Canary Fanciers, pattern bird
of, 433.
CANOVA's genius first manifest
ed in modelling butter, 510.

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Carnifex, an officer of great
dignity under our Danish
Kings, 400.

CARRARA UBERTINO, his Co-
lumbus, extracts from, 631,2.
CARTE'S ORMOND, remarks
from, 690.
CARTWRIGHT, MAJOR, the
sportsman, anecdotes of,-
his Book &c., 515.
Carwichet, what, 509, 705.
CASTILLEJO, to the Author of
a bad Poem, 634.
Castor Church, Lincolnshire,
irreverent custom at, 414.
Cataract, dislodged by a fall
from a horse, 589.
CATESBY, THOMAS, Lord Pa-

get, Essay on Human Life,

351.

Cat and Dog, instance of their
travelling together, &c., 400.
Cats, Madame de Custine's
praise of, 490.

Cathedra Stercoris, what? 401.
CATO's Letters, extracts from,

470.

Cattle, some account of, and of

grazier's terms, 401, 488.
Cave, King Arthur's, 160.
Cavern, strange, 76; wind-
guarded, 138.
CEIREOC, battle of, 108,
Celebes, poisonous tree of, 243.
Cemeteries at Hamburg, with-
out the city, 579.
Chafing, cured by the slime of
the slug, 555.
Chaises private, made war upon
in 1733 by stages and hack-
ney coaches, 377; curious

account of a chaise driver's
last bequest, 418.
CHALKHILL, JOHN, his Theal-
ma and Clearchus, 630.

Chama Gigas, great shell, 7.
CHAMBERLAYNE, author of the

Anglia Notitia, vanity of,

430.

CHANCELLOR, LORD, is his of
fice compatible with Speaker
of the House of Lords? 395.
Charitable men, St. Chrysos-
tom's character of, 626.
CHARLEMAGNE and his Mis-
tress, tale of, 71.

CHARLES I., omens of his fate,
159; A Marvel's lines on
death of, 635.

CHARLES II., best likeness of,

according to H. Walpole,620.
Charleton, Leicestershire, 392,

415.

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Chester, burial place of Henry,
a Roman Emperor,-Harold
said to have retired there
after the battle of Hastings,
406.

CHEVERNY, CHANCELLOR, pret
ty story of, 543.
CHIABERRA, extracts, 497.
Chimney-sweepers, women em-
ployed as, 391.
CHESTERFIELD's Letters, 716.
Chivalry, stories connected with
the manners of, 11; educa-
tion of, 151; L'Amour de
Dieu et des Dames, 152;
chivalrous speech, 172.
Choultries, account of, 238, 247.
Christiad, the, poem by Robert
Clarke, 537.

Christian principles, duty of
acting up to, 695.
CHRISTINA,

QUEEN, 158;
Queen of Corinth intended
for, 713.

Christmas Tale, ideas for, 275.
CHRISTOPHER, ST., Buffalmac-
co's painting of, 433.

Church of England, has re-
nounced hidden things of
darkness, 677.
Church-Reformers,Sir G.Mack-
enzie's remark upon, 384.
Churches, want of in large
towns, 419.

CHURCHILL, extracts from and
remarks on, 335.
Churchyards, Welsh, account of
from Booker's Malvern,104;
a lesson to be learnt from,
290; desecration of Wool-
wich one by some drunken
sailors, 386.

Ciborium, meaning of, 283.
Cider, an African liquor? 709.
Circassian Gentleman, 237.
Circelliones, or, wandering
monks, 675.

Cistern, Silver, at Belvoir Cas-
tle, 373.

CLARA, the Beata of Madrid,

384.

CLARENDON, LORD, honest ad-
vice of, 687; his saying re-
lative to the want of Bishops
in Reformed Churches, 687.
CLARKE, ADAM, extracts from,
505, 707, &c.

CLARKE ROBERT, his Chris-
tiad, 537.

CLAUDIAN, extracts from, 221.
Clergy, a beggarly, says Ful-
ler, the forerunner of a bank-
rupt religion, 696.
Clothes, in Edw. III.'s time,—
a project to show men's
birth, &c. 712.
Clover, American, 537.
CLOVIS, christening of, 71.
Coals, some particulars about
shipping of, 393.

Course expressions, instead of
strong ones, 717.
Coat, rapidity with which one

was made from wool of the
same eday's shearing,395,482.
Cod-fish, prolific milt of, 435.
Cock, crowing of, the notice of
ghosts to quit, 80.
Cockatoo, unruly one, 389.
Cock-crower, the king's, office
of? 375.

Cockmate and Copesmate,query,
the same, 299, 300.
Cock-roaches, exorcised, 109,
535.

Coffin-rings, use of, 445.
Coffins, cast iron ones, 386;
Story of, 402, 403.

Colombiade La, extracts from, | CRANMER, ABP., said by Ful-

222.

Colours, the love language of,

88.

Cole's dog, Prov. 428, 676.
Coltic Timber, what? 434.
Columbia, i. e. Dr. Doveland,
584, 596.
Comedy, writers of, 261.
Comets, 396.

Con, the son of the Sun, 155.
CONDER JOSIAH, stories by,
357.

Connoisseur, extracts from,338-
340.

Conqueror, duty of, 114.
Contradiction, spirit of, 645.
Consumption, certain messenger
of death, 353.
Cookery, old Scotch, 29.
Cookoo, the, "ever telling of
one tale," 288.
Cooling Card, meaning of, 459.
Copenhagen, anecdote at the
siege of, 389.

Copper, quantity of used in pin
making, 467.

Coracles, account of, 123.
CORELLI, his enthusiastic ap-

pearance when playing the
violin, 571.
Cormorant, description of, 44.
Corps' Candles, 160.
Corwen, town of. 57.
Corns, sprouts of rheumatism,
555; Ali Bey known by,

665.

Cornagium,- cornage tenure,
206, 456, 510.
CORTEZ, censuring of, 260.
COTTON, CHARLES, 306.
COURTOYS GYRON LE, extracts
and remarks on, 280.
COVERLEY, SIR ROGER DE, re-
marks of, 690, 707.
Cowardice, what? 29.
Cow-dung, water of, a purge,

554.

COWLEY, extracts, 627.
COWPER, his taste-melancho-
ly, &c. 322.

Cows, ladies drawn by, 108;
in the Alps, proud of their
bells, 371; list of names of
from a Shropshire Dairy,

388.

Cowslip water, good for the
memory, 503.
Crabs, shower of at Reigate in
1829, 469.

Cramp-rings, blessing of, 511.

ler to have had an amiable
eye, 647.
Craw-fish, discharges its own
stomach, curious fact in Na-
tural History, 434.
Credulity, effects of, 164; in-
stances of English, 359.
Cricket, merry as, Prov., 486.
Cricket-match,between married
women and maidens, 416;
between Greenwich pension.

ers with one arm and one
leg, 418.

Crimes, duty of exposing, 51.
CRISPIN, ST., his day much
kept at Keswick, 531.
Criticism, which corrupts
writer and readers, 673.
Crocodiles, the king of, 176;
superstition relative to the
Indian, 237.
CROMWELL, the Devil shall
have it sooner than, 426.
Cross by the wayside, a memen-
to! 357; some of the Fa-
thers saw it in every thing,

500.

Crows, dutiful children, 109;
curious account of a tame
one, 411; caught in Italy
with bird-limed hoods, 418.
Crowthers, i. e. black pigs, ori-
gin of the name, 498.
Croyland, first ring of bells at,
in England, 425.
Crune, or Croon, to bellow like
a disquiet ox, 422.
Cuckoo, stuttering one? 535.
Cucupha, quilted cap with ce-
phalic powder in, 436.
CUENCA LA BEATA DE, account
of, 384.

Culm, small coal not exceeding

two inches in diameter, 393.
Cumbrian Customs, 531.
CUMMING, G. R., quare, as to
the veracity of his adven-
tures, 256.

Customs, good old, the cause of

religion and order, 195.
CUTTS, Lord JOHN, why called
a salamander by Marlboro',

349.

CYNETHA, 107.
Cypresses, duration of, 74.
CYVEILIOC, OWEN, 107; ex-
communicated, 140.

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DERMODY, THOMAS, account
of, 516.

DERRICK, Johnson's saying of,

663.

Desert, produce of, 224.
DESPARD, COLONEL, 194.
Despotism, Eastern, instance
of, 498.
Δευτερόποτμοι, who, 431.
Devil, hath not always had his
due, 195; visit to St. An-
thony, 196; original of the
Devil's walk, 199; gran Fi
losofo, 443; ugliness of, 463;
Scotch dislike to mentioning,

529.

Devil's Dust, what? 610.
Dew-water of Ferrea, 225; of

St. John's night, has the vir-
tue to stop the plague, 274.
Dex, the larva of a beetle, which
corroded the wood the Greeks
used for seals, 431.
Dhahi, statues in, 96.
Diabolorum Regnum, applied to
England, 353.

DIANA'S Chamber, near St.
Paul's-her temple supposed
to have been on the present
site, 414. Jewel's Works,
vii. 292. ed. Jelf.
Diet, 599.
Dilapidations, friends of Bp.
Kidder strangely sued for,

612.

Dirt, latent in frost, like vices
and ill qualities in society,

665.

Disangelicals, a name for
whom? 603.

Diseases, Languis held all to

be animalcular, 436; Dr.
Hahnemann's notion of cho-
leraic miasma, 439; effect of
the Fall, 690.

Disports, master of merry, 115.
Dissenting Churches, remark
on, 693.

Divination by Torrent, or, Tag-
hairn, 39.

Divine Right, remark on, 665.
Dock, floating one of iron, ac-

count of, 386.
DOCTOR, THE, &c. Collections
for, 427, &c.
Dog-ribbed Indian Woman, ac-
count of, 166.
Dogs, know the dog-killer, ac-
cording to Lord Bacon, 108;
Mrs. Wilson's story of, 194;
extracts relative to, 584;

Newfoundland dog's puppy
inherited its mother's tricks,
593; church-going, 356;
gone to heaven, story of,
363; hunt of wild one, 369;
famished, 370; instinct, 371;
over-tempted, 372; speaking
one, 378; the pride of old
Cole's, proverb, 428; sacri-
ficed to the dog-star by the
Romans, 443, 478, 482; af-
fected by music, 573.
Dollars, Spanish, wide spread
of, 389.

Dolwyddelan Castle, 39.
DOM DANAEL, the destruction
of, 181.

Doncaster, collections about,

452-3.

Dondego, what? 706.
DONNE's Letters, extracts from,
612, 620-1; poems, 647-8.
Doome's-day, Lord Sterlinge's,

16.

Doring or during, meaning of,

398.

Dotterel catching, proverb, 454.
Double stars, 434.

Dragon, standard of, 132.
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, tradi-
tion of in Somersetshire, 424.
Dramatist's English, extracts
from, passim.
DRAYTON, remarks on, 291.
Dreams, extracts relative to,
565; recurrence of, 566, 601.
Drowned persons, Finlanders

said to recover after two or
three days! 553.
Druids, United Lodges of, ce-
remonies at, 402.
Drum, miraculous ones, 7; of
captives' skins, 158.
Drunkenness, Johnson's re-
mark on, 624.

Druses, opinion of relative to
transmigration, 586.
DRYDEN, remarks on, and ex-
tracts relative to, 328;
Charles, his eldest son, usher
of the palace to Clement XI.
drowned in Thames, 351.
Ducking-stool, a legal punish-
ment, 401.
Duelling, effectual
against, 492.
Dulness, Triumph of, a poem,
origin of, 714.
DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM, notice
of, 351.

sermon

Dwarfs, boys bred up for by

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EDWY, 181.

Eel, skinning of, barbarous
story of, 356; how one came
in at a bedroom window, 371;
story of the man with eels
in his inside, 402; mere so
full of small eels as to supply
eel-cakes, 409.

Eggs, hatched by a man, queer

story, 416.
Egregori of the Book of Enoch,
who? 122.

Egypt, night in, 223; their
medicine wholly upon astro-
logical or magical grounds,
547; leprosy and elephan-
tiasis peculiar to, 551.
Elden Hole, 243.

Election trick, 392.
Electricity, cure for agues, 436.
Elephants, majestic bearing of,

541.

ELIDORE, descent of, 139.
ELIZABETH, sick exile cured
for joy at her succession-
Fuller knew his father"right

well," 506; advised the
House of Commons to prefer
the most weighty matters
first, 718.

ELTON, OLIVER, story of, 9.
Enamorados de la Pena de los,

83.

Enchanter, cold-blooded, why?
243.

Eneorema, what? 434.
England, should be the scene
of an Englishman's poem,-
ideas relative to-why not
attempted, 17; charity of,
-"in the day of her visita-
tion may it be remembered,"
20; three names of, 46;
saying of M. de Custine's
about, 718.

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND
POETRY, &c. extracts rela-
tive to, 279, &c.
English, account of, from Mal-
colm's Manners and Customs
of London, 376.
EVTEλEXEía, Aristotle's use of,
434, 440.

Enthusiasm and Atheism, 689.
Envy, severely just vice, 626.
Epic writers, have usually been

deficient in learning,-sug-
gestions for epic poems, 11.
Epitaphs, 48, 50-52, 73; on
Richard I., Henry II., &c.
134; on Richard II., King
John, &c. 135; a true one
at Santarem, 633; of Thomas
Tryon, 634.

Ergot of Rye, poisonous though
used medicinally, 401.
Ermesia, ancient prescription,

434.

Escape from drowning at sea,

extraordinary one, 485.
ESPINOZA, NICOLAS? a galley
slave once? 635-6.
ESPRIELLA, characteristic Eng.
lish Anecdotes and Fragments
for, 352, &c.; projected con-
tents of, 419.
Esquimaux Female, awe of in

St. Paul's, 362; saying of in
the streets of London, 516.
Estrella de Venus, &c. 266.
Etymology, perversion of by
the Meccans, 225.
Eumenides, awful to name, like
the Fairies, 529.
Euphues, extracts from, 457-9,

680-1.

EURONYMUS, who? 227.

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EUSTACHIO MANFREDI, son-
net of, 49.

EUTHYMUS, story of from Pau-
sanias, 226.

Evangelicals, 603; Magazine,

410.

EVANS, ABEL, who, 349.
EVELYN, JOHN, 348.
Evergreens, Christmas, 115.
Excrements, eating of, 249.
Executioner's Falchion, self-re-
moval of, 242.

Exeter, account of, 522.
Exorcism, effect of, 238.
Expenditure, Public, increases
wealth, 688.

EXUPERIUS, ST. how sainted,

675.

Extracts, &c. 77, 215, &c. 270,
&c.

Eyes, artificial, made by Juan
Gonzalez, a Catalan optician,
615.

F.

Faggots, of human bones, 226.
Fairies, fountain of, 43; tree
of at Dompré, 64; Indian's
name for, 168, 346. Fairy-
rings, 358. Extracts relative
to Scottish superstition, 529.
Fairs, the two great ones in
Edward VI.'s time were St.
James' at Bristol, and Bar-
tholomew's in London, 405.
Faithlessness, Indian notion of
European, 236.
Falcon, The Faery, 90.
Fame, 605.

Family Pride, 583.
Fancy A, called by Steele a
fantasque, 620; where situ-
ated, 548.

Farmer, small one, ought not
to keep a pig, 610.
Farthing, Queen Anne's, trial
about, 388.
Fashion, 596.
FASTOLF, Oath of, 66; bad cha-
racter of him by H. Wind-
sor, 72.

Fasts and Thanksgivings, in
New England, 148.
Fear, a bad guard, 659.
FEATLEY, extracts from, 445,
644, 661.

Feet-Metrical, twelve in the
English language, 1.
FELTHAM, OWEN, extracts
from, 81.

Femmes couvertes, remarkable
story, 396.

FERGUS, murder of, 166.
Fern male, root of, good against
tape-worm, 575.
FERRAN GONZALEZ, account
of, 8.

FERRIS, RICHARD, adventure
of him and his wherry, 355.
Festivals, Church, remarks on,

691.

Feverfew, Sweet, Matricaria
Suaveolens, medicinal pro-
perties of, 575.
Fez, sword of, 26.
Fidelity, animal, 140.
Fiddlers of Ambleside, their
custom on Christmas Day,
531.

Fig-dates, i. e. figs, 706.
FILICAJA VINCENZO DE, Son-
nets from, 48, 49, 50, 82, 87,
97.

Fingers, art of conversing with
and counting by, 431.
Fire, Defensive, 173.
Fire-Fly, ominous one, 160,276.
Fish, plan for naturalizing salt-
water ones in ponds, 372;
extraordinary price of, in
Billingsgate, Jan. 4, 1809,
387; affection for each other,

541.
FLACCUS VALERIUS, extracts
from, 77, 80, 81, 220.
Flamborough Head, 161.
Flamen Dialis, or, Priest of
Jupiter, account of, 614.
Flamingos, flight of, 396.
Fleas, import of, 470.
FLETCHER, THE, remarks on,
291.

Floating Island, Welsh one, 76.
Florida, custom there of sacri-

ficing the first-born male,
181.
Florist's Feast at Bethnal
Green in George I.'s time,

377.

Follies, no christian burial for,
when outlived, 616; hath
eagle's wings, but owl's eyes,
Dutch Prov. 644.
Fonthill, Garrard's description
of to Strafford, 408.
Food, extracts about, 558.
Fool, name for, original in
every language, 577; origin
of fools-to supply the want
of free society, 420; fools

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