ABBEVILLE, sporting letter from, 788

Abduction, case of, 384

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,

155

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,

264

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,

252

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

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.

ucian, 31

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,

294

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

Autumn quarter, 642

543

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-

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,

567

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