Mary, queen of Scots, new year's gift to, 5 | Mile, and half-mile stones, projected, 52
St., at Hill, boy bishop, 780
-'s eve carol, 801
Overy, boy bishop, 780
-, Spital, London, 223
Mason, Rev. W., poet, died, 211
Maskers, at a common hop, 823
Masking on twelfth night, 27
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 566
Master of the revels, his office and seal, 622
Matilda, queen of Denmark, dies in prison,
265
MATTHEW, St., September 21; account of
him, 657
Maughan, Nicholas, a showman, 587
MAUNDAY THURSDAY, moveable; maund,
maunday, &c., customs, 200
Maxentius II., emperor, his cruelty, 752
May-day, maypoles, maygames and gar-
lands, 271, 299, 353; maypole in a
screen, 381
Melmoth, Courtney, died, 181
Melodies of evening, 303
Memory Corner Thompson, account of, 41
Men, twelve, suspended in the air, 13
Mercery, its signification, 669
Merchant Tailors' song, 726
Meredith, a fives-player, 434
Merriment within compass, 31
Merry-andrew, a superior one, 623
Merry in the hall, when beards wag all! 820
Meteor, a, in Britain, 187
MICHAEL, St., September 29; account of
him, 315; his dragon, 250, 663
Michaelmas-day custom, 663
old, 687
Miles, lieutenant-colonel, services against
the Burmese, 764
Milkmaids' garlands, 285
Miller's booth, Bartholomew fair, 619
Mince pies, symbolical, 819
Minch pies, 820
Minster, Isle of Thanet, first abbess of, 143
Minstrels, their ancient vocation, 616
Miracles, &c., of Romish saints; see Index
II.
Mirror of the Months, a book, 746
Missel-thrush, 268
Mistletoe cut by the Druids, 3; kissed
under, 807, 808; proscribed in churches,
Mitford, J., his account of Lord Byron's
residence at Mitylene, 244
Monk, a, drowned, and afterwards relates
his adventures, 559
duke of Albemarle, his wife, 291
Monmouth, countess of, 9
Montgomery, colonel, killed, 226
Months, the, in a Norwich pageant, 128;
in a versified memorandum, 155
Montmartre, its derivation, 686
Monument, the, on Fish st, hill, 575, 583
Moon, the, poetically addressed, 146; at
midnight, 482; its influence on the
weather, 508; symbolized, 555: new-
moon customs, 755
Moor, sir Jonas, astronomer, died, 547
Moore's travels in Africa, 791
Mr. Thomas, Lord Byron's last
lines to, 245
Moorgate, annual procession from, 744
More, sir Thomas, lord chancellor, de-
clines a new-year's gift of money, 5;
reproves his lady, 131; his head on
London bridge, 400
Morrice dance, in the Strand, 280
Morton, Regent, his guillotine, 75
Moscow rebuilt, from Grays-inn-lane
dust-heap, 162
Most Christian king, origin of the title, 675
Mother, suckling her child, 453
Mothering Sunday, 179
Mother's milk, an epigram, 656
Motions, puppet shows, 623
Moveable fasts and feasts, 95; vigil or
eve, morrow, octave or utas of, &c. 96;
corrected, 208
Mummers and mumming, 296, 827
Mushroom, an enormous one, 10
Music of cats 553, 555; music in every
thing, 571; at Bartholomew fair, 62+;
in the ass, 680; musical ear of squir
rels, 683; musical prodigies, 519
Mutton-pie, and loaf, annual gift, 489
Myddleton, sir Hugh, when he did not
die, 172
Mysteries, and Romish church pageants,
371, 375, &c.
Nailing on twelfth-night, 25
NAME OF JESUs, August 7; why in the
almanacs, 536
Napoleon's marriage and medal, 205;
king of Rome, born, 187; Napoleon
died, 308
Naseby, battle of, 387
Nash, Beau, notice of, 793
NATIVITY OF JOHN, baptist, June 24; cus-
toms on the day and eve, 417, 423
B. V. M., September 8; when
instituted as a festival, &c., 637
Navigations, miraculous, 2, 13, 97
Negro woman's pity of a climbing boy,
296
Nelson, Lord, anecdotes of him, 63
Neptune of the Egyptians, 71
Nero, account of, 227
and Wallace lions, 489
Nettle whipping, on May eve, 297
New River nuisances, 476. 521
year's day, celebrations of, 2; Night-
eve, celebration and winds,
Newcastle customs, 215; Corpus Christi
play, 378; procession of glass-cutters,
643; and shoemakers, 701
Newman, Sarah, epitaph on, 740
Newnton, Wilts, Trinity Sunday custom,
362
Newspaper advertisement, to subscribers,
412
office, letter-boxes, 52
Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand
maypole, 330; dispute between him
and Flamsteed, 546; died, 187
Nice, council of, 779
NICHOLAS, December 6; account of St.
Nicholas and customs on his festival,
778; in Holland, 783
lady Penelope, killed, 757
Nicknackitarian law-suit, 642
NICOMEDE, June 1; a martyr, 371
Niger, the, its course, 791
Nightingales on new-year's day, 261; in
April, 270; in May, 303; at Black-
heath, 344; their jug-jug, 364
Nightless days, 386
Noah's flood represented at Bartholomew
fair, 62+
Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 504
North-east wind fiend, 68; its effects,
311
North road to London, account of the
most ancient, 435 to 439
-Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at
an owl there, 126
Northumberland customs. 425
Norwich Turkeys, sent to London at
Christmas, 803
Notice to quit, 671
Nottingham park, foliage destroyed, 556
Now-a hot day, 440
Nut-burning and cracking, 704, 708, 711
Nutting on Holy Rood day, 647
Oath, remarkably observed, 827
Octavia, empress, account of, 227
Ode on Smithery, 750
O'Donoghue, legend of, 297
Offerings at the chapel-royal, on twelfth-
day, 30; at Easter, 180
Olave's St., church in the Old Jewry
formerly a synagogue, 148; boy bishop,
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-MICHAELMAS DAY, October 11; cus-
toms, 688
Onagra, the, 589
Onions, divination, 776
O. P. row, 302
Opie, John, artist, died, 227
Optical illusion, 61
Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, 663
Orange, stuck with cloves, 4
Oratorio, its origin, 352
Oratory, fathers of the, 351
Organ, of St. Catharine's church, 704; in
the street at Christmas, 808
Orleans, duchess, d', her new year's gift
to Louis XVIII., 7
O SAPIENTIA, December 16, why in the
almanacs, 786
Oster monath, 204
Ovens, origin of, 130
Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, 719
Ovid, character of, 12
Our lady of Bolton's image, 216
Owling and purling on Valentine's day,
&c., 114, 126
Ox and Ass, why represented in prints
of the nativity, 805
Oxen pledged in cider, &c., 22
Oxford, curfew at Carfax, 121
Oyster-tub used for a carriage, 39
Oysters on St. James's-day, 489
Packhorse travelling, 438
Packington's pound, a tune, 607
Pageants in London, 336, 722, 737, 744;
at Edinburgh, 324; on St. John's eve,
413; of the seasons, fasts, and feasts,
-household book, records, Palace-yard porter shops, 302
Pallas, the planet, discovered, 199
PALM SUNDAY, moreable; celebrations and | Peter Czar, visits Greenwich, 548
customs of the day, 198; palm, 541
-play, with a ball, 432
Palmer, Garrick's bill sticker, 622
Pamela, imagined at cards, 47
Panchand, M., defrauded, 385
Panormo, Mr. C., gains a prize for sculp-
ture, 826
Paper folding man, the 346
-windows at Bartholomew tide, 567
Paques, pascha paschal, pace, paste, 208
Paradise, a Jesuit's account of, 675
Paris, new-year's day, 7; blessing of a
market there, 379
Pari-h clerks of London, the, mysteries
of 377
-priest, a good, 807
Petrarch, crowned in public, 226; his
birth-day, the same as Juliet Capulet's
Phials, with devil's drink, 11
PHILIP and JAMES, Sts., May 1; noticed,
271
-the fair, entertains Edward Il.,
373
Phillips, W., a Welch dwarf, 594
Philosopher's stone, a patent for it, 120
Piazzi's discovery of the planet Ceres, 9
Picture of St. Ignatius, miraculous, 528
Pideock and Polito's menagerie, 623
Pictures at Dulwich, 506
Pied Bull, Islington, 317
Pe-powder-court, 607
Pifferari of Calabria, 798
Pigeons of Pauls, 60, 623
Parr. Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and Pigs, 60; annually consumed in London,
character, 212; and death, 170
Pascal, the. 197, 218, 480
Passion, the, symbolised, 203
Pastry-cook's shops on twelfth-night, 24
Paternoster backwards, a charm, 708
Pars.cs, St. March 17; legend of the
saint's miracles 182; enstoms on his
festival 183; his chair, 413
Paul St, the apostle, notice of 445; his
and Seneca's epistles 227
day, supersations 8; his chain,
PLores MONDAY, moveable; processions
Plough-light money, 37
and other customs, 36
and Sunday, London
Pium-porridge at Christmas, 820
——pudding, sa eccentric vendor of it,
625. made in France, 803
Flutarch, read to Louis XIV. 616
Plymouth, mild winter at, 782
Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 351
Fole, the barber's 635
Fompers panorama of 798
Pompey's complains in the dog-days, 473
Ponsonde, 27
Pope, the, and cardinals' jubilee for the
massacre on St. Bartholomew's day,
anal burning of 744
Joan, card party, 46
Face's wide tree, 841
Post-edice business meressed, DS
Fewoan Fiet, Nzvender 3; cubrations
etarch, occasioned the Reforma. Powell's Me požgree. 339
Prayer, directory for, 101; M. Angelo's, | Recollections, effect of tender, 703
Redcross-street burial ground, for Jews,
Praying for the dead, 712
Prechdachdan sour, 817
Red Lion square, obelisk in, 430
Pressing of seamen, when commenced, 187 Reformation, the, its immediate cause,
Pretender, monument to him, 17
Price, Dr. Richard, died, 243
Pricking in the belt, 219
Relics, curious list of, 407
Printer's customs, and printing terms, REMIGIUS, October 1; noticed, 675
Printing, 93; improvement in, 768;
simile, 15
PRISCA, January 18; noticed, 11
Prisoners on trial, why uncovered, 719
Pritchard, rev. George, his storm sermon,
759
Procession week, 321
Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form
of, 583, 758; for a fast in the storm
year, 758
Proger's, Mr., pedigree, 399
Pulpits, 419; stone pulpit at Oxford, 419
Pumps, 521
Puppet shows, 623; in Ben Jonson's
time, 601; at May-fair, 287; at Pen-
tonville, 557
Resurrection, the, a Romish church drama,
216
a Rhed-monath, 157
R. G. V. H., an inscription, 733
Racine, reads to Louis XIV., 616
Rackets, origin of, 432
Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, 377
Rahere, first prior of St. Bartholomew's,
616
Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, 211
Rain, why it did not fall for three years,
58; on Swithin's day, 477, 479; aver-
age fall in winter, 732
Rainbow in winter, 54
Rheumatism cured by ale, 12
Ribadeneira's Lives of the Saints, used in
this work, 2
Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St.
Bartholomew's priory, 616
RICHARD DE WICHE, April 3; account of
him, 210
II., and his court at the parish
clerk's play, 377
III. attends the Coventry plays,
379
Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, 783
Richardson, Mr. buys Button's lion's
head, 504
-'s, itinerant theatre, 591, 694
Richmond, visit to, 301; hunt on Holy-
rood day, 647
Riding stang described, 6
Ridlington, Rob, his bequest to Stam-
ford, 742
Ring, a, occasions a repartee, 265; wed-
ding ring of Joachim and Anne, 505
Rippon church, Yorkshire, lighted up
before Candlemas, 103
Rising early, its effects, 40
Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol,
Robbery at Copenhagen-house, 431
Robin in winter, 52; and the wren, 324
Hood, 275; and his bower, 343
Roche, St. or St Roche's day, 560
Rochester cathedral, 151
lord, outwitted, 307; banters
Charles II., 361
Rock-day, 31
Rodd, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, 4, 533
Rodney, adm., defeats Comte de Grasse,
230
Ranson's, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey, Roebuck Inn, Richmond, 600
ROGATION SUNDAY, moveable; customs in
Rogation week, 321
Rogers, organist of Bristol, noticed, 520
Roman pottery, a new-year's gift, 3;
wigs of Roman ladies, 632
Rome, ancient, new year's day, 7;
founded, 247
Romish church established, 372; Romish
and protestant churches ad worship
compared, 420, 460
Ronaldshay, North, custom, 5
Rood, the, described, 646
Rooks, in Doctor's Commons, 247
Rose Sunday, 179
gathering on Midsummer-eve, 426
the last, of summer, 695
Roseberry, earl of, singular narrative of
his son and a clergyman's wife, 561
Rosemary-branch, fives-play, 434
Roundabouts and up-and-downs, 625
Rout, city, discontinued, 668
Row, T., Dr. Pegge, and curfew, 122
Rowlandson's Boor's-head, 811
Royal-oak-day, 356
Rubens's death of St. Antony, 60
Ruffian's hall, Smithfield, 617
Runic calendar, 702
Rural musings, 53
Rush-strewing at Deptford, in 1825, 363
Sackville, secretary, account of his school-
master, 15
Sadler, J., his engraving of St. Cecilia,
748
Sadler's Wells, anglers, 172; play-bill,
Saffron-flower and cakes, 574
Sailors, their patrons in storms, 259;
staid ashore in bad weather, 710; mis-
take of one, 796; a sailor and his wife
at Greenwich, 345
Saints, Romish, authorities mostly re-
ferred to for their legends, 2; in sweet-
meat, 58; peculiarity of their bodies,
ib.; tender-nosed, 373; carry their
heads under their arms after death,
686; a dirty one, 234. For further
particulars, see Index II.
Salisbury, boy Bishop, 779; Edward the
Confessor, translated to Salisbury, 407
Sallows described, 39
Salters' company, custom, 675
Salvator's temptation of St. Antony, 58
Samam, vigil of, 708
Samwell's company of tumblers, 593
Sannazarius's poem, De Partu Virginis,
Saturnalian days, 29
Satyr, seen by a saint, 52
Saunderson, Dr. Nicholas, mathematician,
died, 243
Sausages, feast of, 736
Scent in hunting, 689
Schoen, Martin, engraving by, 560
Scott, Bartholomew, married Cranmer's
widow, 191
Screen, at Hornsey Wood house, 380
Sculpture and painting, their relative
merits, 129; the two Royal Academy
prizes for 1825 awarded to two Irish
pupils, 826
Scythe carried by the Devil, 11
Sea-water, a company to bring it to
Copenhagen-fields, 435
Seal of Button's Lion's head, 504
Seasons, their names derived, 759
Seduction, 538
Self-multiplication of saints' bodies and
relics, 168, 306, 407
Selim, sultan, takes Cairo, 231
Seneca, his death and character, 227
SEPTUAGESIMA Sunday, moveable; why so
called, 96, 97
Sepulchre, Romish church drama, 216
Serjeant's coif, 79
Sermon for Easter diversion, 223
-s prohibited to be read, 632
Serpent, a little one in a woman, 19; a
taper, ib.; serpents dance on ropes, 643;
a seat on a serpent's knee, 800
Servants, their new-year's gifts to masters,
5; cautioned against leaving Christmas
leaves, 102
maid, a character, 241
Settle, Elkanah, the last city poet, 727
Seurat, Ambrose, account of, 509
Seward, Anna, author, died, 195
SEXAGESIMA, moveable; why so called, 96,
Shaftesbury, lord, plays in a pageant,
Shakspeare, died, 252; his jest book, ib.
tavern sale, 504
Shamrock, the Irish cognizance, 186
Sharp, Mr. T., his work on pageants, 239
W., engraver, 302
Shaving in winter, 9; anciently, 634
Sheep-blessing by the Romish church, 72;
shearing, 370
Sheep's head, singed, 790
Sheet used at execution of Charles L., 94
Shepherd and Shepherdess tavern, City-
road, 221, 488
Shere Thursday, 200
Sheridan, R. B, notice and character of,
Ship, in a pageant, 725
Shirt, a miraculous iron one, 143; stitches
in a shirt, 688
Schoolmasters, formerly, 15; presided on Shoemaker-row, 619
throwing at cocks, 126
School-time, in spring, 337
Scone, ball play, 130
Scotland, candlemas-day, 103; Shrove-
Tuesday, 130; mists, 125; first of
April, 206; has no carols at Christmas,
801; Highland Christmas, 817; super-
stitions, 704
-s, their patron and holyday, 692;
shoe-stealer blinded, 13
Shoes, sandals, and slippers, 257
Shony, a western isle sea-god, 707
Shooting, at Bartholomew tide, 618; in
North Britain at Christmas, 817
Showman's family described, 595
Shrewsbury, Easter lifting, 211
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