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, 788
Abelard, P., died, 247
Abercromby, sir R, died, 199 Aboo, or Aber, Irish war-cry, 251 Abraham's bosom, in old wood-cuts, 800 Absalom, in a sign, 631
Accomplishments without principle, 144 Actor, an itinerant, his duties, 622 Acts of the Apostles, a mystery at Paris, 375| Adam, R. and J., account of, 163 Adams, Jack, his parish, 741 Addison, at Button's, 504 Adelphi, the, 163
Advent, meaning of the term, 766; cus- toms of the season, 776, 795, 8-1 Ærial, the account of, 728
Ætna, its eruptions diverted by a lady's veil, 107
Africa, travels in, 790 After Yula, 2
AGATHA, February 5; miracies by her, 107 Agincourt, battle of, 699
AGNES, January 21; her legend, 71; cus- toms on St. Agnes' eve, 68 Aguesseau, chanc. D', his use of time,
Air, spiritually peopled, 664 Aits, islands on the Thames, 302 ALBAN, June 17; account of this saint, 402
Alban's, St, Herts, formerly Holmhurst, 402
Albert and Isabella, archdeacon and duchess kiss St. Walburg's jawbone,
Almanacs, chronological error in, 715; made of wood, 736
Alphabet, in a bill of costs, 119 ALPHEGE, April 19; customs on his fes- tival, 243
Am lia, princess, original letter from, 536 American war commenced, 243; poetry, 785
Amherst, lord, his portrait, 302 Amhurst, Nicolas, author, account of,
Amiens, peace of, signed, 196
Amulet, the, its literary character, 766 Ancient Britons, their anniversary, 161 ANDREW, St., November 30; account of the saint and his festival, 769; order of, ib. 's Holborn, boy bishop, 781 Undershaft, maypole, 278 Angelo, Michael; see Buonarroti Angel, guardian, 315
Angels, archangels, and angels guardian, 663; their orders and habits, 675; for their visits, &c. to saints, see Index II. Angling, 349
Anglo-Norman carol, 798 Animals, on cruelty to, 400, 654 ANN, St., July 25; memoirs of her and St. Joachim, 504
ANNUNCIATION, B. V. M., or LADY DAY, March 25; customs on the festival, 193 Anselm, St., archbishop of Canterbury, notice of, 247
Anson, commodore, lord, died, 384 Antiquaries, society of, their anniversary,
Antony, St., picture of, 59; his hospital, London, its seal, school, his pig, 60 Apis, the Egyptian deity, 246 Apocrypha, authority for reading it, 672 Apollinarius, the elder and younger, play writers, 372
Apollo and Minerva, shown at Naples, for David and Judith, 806
-, an, of Cambridge, 632 Apostle spoons, described, 88 Apothecaries, proposal for their canoni- zation, 152
Apparition of an arm chair, 747 Apparitions, &c., see Romish saints in Index II.
Apple, sports, 704, 711; diving, 708
Apples, the finest, where grown, 454; | Bales, Peter, a writing-master, account of, blest, 489
Apple-tree, charm, 21; wassail, 8 3 Apprentices, city, their former import- ance, and present condition, 129 Aprilius, John hanged for three days and kept alive, 23
Apron, the barbers', 627 Archee, his new-year's gift, 5
Archers, decay of, 618; their service at Agincourt, 699
Architecture of the new churches, 473 Arius, indebted to St.
Armitage, the racket-player, 434 Arnmonat, 530
Arsedine, yellow arsenic, 607
Art, eminence in it, how attained, 137 Arundel Castle, a sweep in the state bed,
ASCENSION-DAY, 326; its customs, 690 Ascham, Roger, account of, 15 Ascot races, fraud at 384
Ash, rev. J., philologist, died, 265 ASH WEDNESDAY, moveable; customs, 131 Ass, the, citations respecting, 655; his nobleness and voice, 679; how men- tioned by Leo Africanus, 790; remarks on, 805; drawn in procession, 197 A-SUMPTION, B. V. M. August 15; customs on the day, 559
Astley's troop at Bartholomew fair, 623 Atkins, his menagerie, 588
Attanasy, father, his Easter sermon, 223 Attorney, an, not to be compared to a bull, nor to a goose, but comparable, perhaps, to the man in the moon, 120 Attornies of the lord mayor's court, 667 Audrey's, St., lace, 692
August, the Twelfth of, petition from, 550; answer to, 551
AUGUSTINE, archbishop of Canterbury, May 26; his monastery at Canterbury, 151; notices and legendary anecdotes of him, 352
St., August 28; an early father, Lardner's character of him, 572 Aunty's garden, a pastime, 54
Aurochos, an African animal, 588
Autograph of St. Ignatius, 528
Ball-play customs, 122, 130, 215, 777. 817; at Copenhagen-house, 433 Ball's itinerant theatre, 588 Ballad-singers, formerly licensed, 622 Ballard's menagerie, 596 Balloons, 221
Banks, sir Jos., his wine-cellar, 11; died, 406
Bannockburn, battle of, 428
Bannocks, cakes, "sauty" and charmed ones, 130; of St. Michael, 670 Baptism of infan", 722
Bara, a Sicilian festival, 559 Barbers, account of, 627 Baretti, Jos, died, 308
Barley, beerlegh, berlcgh, berleg, 574 Barley-corn, sir John, his trial, 37; Burns's ballad, 696
Barme, beerheym, berham, 574 BARNABAS St., June 11; notice respecting him, 386
Barnes and Finley's booth at Bartholo- mew fair, 621 Barnet, battle of, 232 Barumoneth, 530
Baron, lord chief, to say he cannot hear of one ear actionable, 120 Barr, Ben, the seer of Helpstone, 263 Barrister's first brief, 80
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, notice of, 307 Barrow-woman of London, described, 432 Barthelemy, J. J., notice of, 307 BARTHOLOMEW, St. August 24; notice of him, 566; custom at Croydon on his festival, 565
massacre at Paris, 566 's church-yard anciently contested in for school prizes, 60
fair, is ancient and present state, 583, 626; form of the proclama- tion read, 618
hospital, origin of, 616 pig, 601
Mr., of St. John's, Clerk-
Baal, Bal, Beal, Bel-tein, fires, 297, 424, Bathing, 447, 485 706, 711
Bacchus, his festival, 736
Bachelors, in the lord mayor's show, 727 Bacon, lord, died, 226; cause of his death, 435; proof of his favouritism, 436 Bag pipers, of Italy, 798; a German one with a cognizance, 813
Bailey, rev. R. R., his sermon at St. Katharine's, 703 Baker, Mrs., her company at Bartholo- mew fair, 623
Batman, Stephen, his notice of printing,
Batrich, Thomas, an ancient barber, 622 Battersea, steeple and windmill, 302, 405 Battle, Sarah, at whist, 46 Bauer, assists Koenig in the steam press, 769
Baynes, John, account of, 80 Beacon, or standing lamp, 417 Bean-king, and queen, on twelfth-night, 22, 28, 29, 30
Bears, mode of taking in Russia, 90; carried in a cart with queen Elizabeth, 223; fight with lions, 500; washed in the Thames, 503
Beards, comely ones, 11; various, de- scribed, 629; St. Anthony's beard at Cologne, 59
Beasts preached to, and blessed, 59 Beaton, Cardinal, notice of, 354 Beaus, comb their wigs in public, 632 Beauclerc, Topham, a collector of mys- teries, 373
Becket, the bookseller, and Garrick, 164 Beckwith, Mr., his account of twelfth-eve at Leeds, 22
Bed, love of it, 11; sleeping out of one's own, 796; beds at Stourbridge fair, 654 BEDE, VENERABLE, May 27; notice of him, 353
Bees, swarming, 324, 341; on a man's head, 482
Beggars, their patron, 575
Behnes, Mr. W., sculptor, his bust of West, 173; of Mrs. Gent, 319; he calls a man "no conjuror," 729; his pupils gain the Royal Academy prize 826 Bell, death, its knell, why different, 362 pancake, 121, 123
-the great, of Lincoln's Inn, 406 Bells, on new-year's day, 3, 8; on All Soul's day, 708, 713; on Admiral Ver- non's birth-day, 737; on new-year's eve, 827; rung by puppet angels, 624; Whittington's, 636
Bellows, blown under Dives, 800 Beltein, see Baal
Belzoni, death of, 771
BENEDICT, March 21; miraculous anec-
dotes of him, 190; founder of the order of St. Benedict, 191
Benedictine nunnery, Clerkenwell, its site, 377
Bent, Independent, 302
Berkshire customs, 218
Berlin, royal marriage dance, 776
Berners, lord, his Froissart, &c., 431
Bird, W., and his school in Fetter-lane described, 483
Birds, in winter, 12; their resistance to cold, 35; arrival, 233, 307; singing, 364; migration, 695; fraudulently painted, 627
Birdseller's shop, described, 377 Birkbeck, Dr. George, founder of the London Mechanics' Institution, 775 Bishop Valentine, 110
Blackbird, in a cage at Greenwich, 346 Blackheath hill, 344, 345 Blacksmiths, their patron, 749 Blackstone, Sir W., how he relieved his studies, 82; account of, 116 Blandford Forum, custom, 707 BLASE, February 3; miracles attributed to this saint, 104; customs on his fes- tival, 105
Bleeding image of Paris, 448; stone cross, 793
Blessing of apples, 4×9; ashes, 131; beasts, 59; candles, 100; wax, 101; a market, 379
Blight, in spring, 310
Bliss, Dr., his boar's head carol, 800 Bloemart, Abraham, his piper, 813 Bloomfield, Robert, poet, account of, 563 Blossoms, in spring, 310 Blotmonath, 710 Ro! to a goose, 544
Boadicea, site of her battle, 431 Boar's head, and carol, at Christmas, 89 Bo-bo and his father Ho-ti, 609 Bochart, Samuel, orientalist, died, 310 Bodies, why they float after death, 65 Boetius, behd., and carries his head, 353 Bolton, Jenny, 621
prior of St. Bartholomew's, 617 Bombs, first used in war, 193
Bona Dea, the good goddess of the Ro- mans, 828
Bonaparte, Louis, anecdote of, 48
Bonasoni, his portrait of M. Angelo, 135 Bon-Bons, French, 7
Bonfires, on St. John's eve, 412, 423; on 5th of November, 717
Berri, duchess de, her new-year's gift to BONIFACE June 5; account of him, 383
Louis, XVIII., 7
Berwick, duke of, killed, 387
Bessy, on Plough Monday, 36 Beyntesh, Berks, hue and cry, 438
Bible, withheld from the laity, 376, 377; written to be comprised in a walnut shell, 543
Bickham, George, writing-master, died, 307 Big Sam, notice of, 310
-, pope, VIII., throws blessed ashes in the eyes of an archbishop, 131 archbishop of Canterbury,
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