Shrid-pies, 819

Shrive shrove, 123

SHROVE TUESDAY, moveable; customs, 121
Siddons, Mrs., 453

Side-bar, in Westminster-hall, 78
Sidney, Algernon, 210

Sign, Absalom, 631; a tinman's, 693
Silenus, 225

SILVESTER, December 31; notice of him,
827

SIMON, St., and St. JUDE, October 23;
superstitions of the day, 702
Sirius, the dog-star, 449, 450

Sixtine chapel, M. Angelo's scaffold for
it, 134

Skeleton huntsmen's song, 648
Skewers, used for pins, 6

Skinners' company, their pageant, 726
well, mystery played at, 377
Slatyer, W., his Psalms to song tunes,
799

Sleep, how avoided by a saint, 141
Sleepers, legend of the Seven, 518
Slingsby, sir H., his account of the train-
ing in 1639, 14

Sluicehouse, near Hornsey Wood, 318
Smith, Gentleman, account of, 614
Smithery, ode in praise of, 750
Smithfield, entertainment on May day,
295; at Bartholomew fair time, 583;
whence so called, 616; paved, 617
Smoking, 33+

Smuchdan, 6

Spectator, by whom published, 142
Spectral appearances to the editor, 62;
why they were illusions, 63
Spencer, sir John, account of, 320
Spice-bread massacre, 27
Spiced-bowl, 5, 21

Spiders, 192; barometers, 466; fly in
summer, 642; save a saint, 51
Spines, Jack, a racket-player, 434
Spinsters, their patroness, 754
Spirits, watching them in the church
porch, 262

Spital sermon, 222; an inflammatory one,
289

Sportsman, account of one, by himself,
145

Spring quarter, and festival, 163, 187;
dress, 169; complete, 263; mornings,
265, 337

Sprout-kele, 98

Spry, Dr., preaches on Trinity Monday
363

Squires of the Lord Mayor, 666
Squirrels, habits and instinct, 683, 692
squirrel hunting, 770
Stafford, its patron saint, 639
-shire customs, 212

Stage, the old, described, 379
Staines, sir W., anecdotes of, 486
Stamford bull running described, 741
Standish, Dr., his inflammatory sermon,
289

Stang, a cowl-staff, 6

716; a man, 718

Snipes, 695

755

Star, feast of the, 23

cinal, 207

drop described, 39

Snuff-taking, how to leave off, 76; wit at
a pinch, 116

Soissons, church branch at seven tapers,

23

Solace, a printer's penalty, 568

Flamsteed, 546; fall to discover a
buried image, 97

Steamboat visit to Richmond, 301
Stebbings, Isaac, swam for a wizard, 471
Steel boots, worn by Charles II., 9
Steeple climbing, 388

Stevens, George, account of, 76

and capturing their lion, 503

Somers, lord, died, 263

-town miracle, 236

Somerset-house, old, what stones built
with, 740

Somersetshire, sports and customs, 218;
customs; 419, 433
Somnambulism, 796

Song, a, sung by itself, 648

his festival, 821

Stepney Wood, a maying place, 276
Stilts, 128

Stock, Eliza, a giantess, 59)

Stocks, the earl Camden put into, 241
Stockwell ghost, narrative, 31; solution,

34

Stone, old, at North Ronaldshaw, 5
Stoning Jews, a Lent custom, 148

Strong woman, 287

332

Struensee and Brandt executed, 265

Stuart holydays, 94

line, its termination, 17

Tewkesbury, the battle of, 307

Thames, the, the king's bear washed in
it, 503; its nuisances, 521

Theatres at fair time, 221

beth, 28

Suett, the comedian, his legs, 515

Suffocation, receipt for, 104

Suffolk customs, 426; witchcraft, 471

countess of, her hair, 632

, lady, her present to Pope, 541
Suicides, how buried, 226
Summer, dress, 410; evening, 467; mid-
might, 406; morning and evening, 408;
morning, 481; solstice, 412; zephyr,
460; last rose, 695; holydays, 506
Sun, the, dancing, 211; symbolized, 246;
sunset, 678; sunshining on St. Vin-
cent's-day, 76

Sunday schools founded, 211

-s, five in February, 155
Superstitions, vulgar, 258, 262
Swallow-day, 233; account of swallows,
their migration, &c., 253, 322, 324, 549
Swash-bucklers and swashers, 617
Sweetheart customs, and superstitions,
68, 130

SWITHIN, July 15; account of him, 477;
establishes tithes in England, ib.; su
perstitions on his festival, 477
Swordbearer, and swords of the city, 666
Sword and buckler, how carried, 617
Sylvester, St.; see Silvester

Symes, Mr., of Canonbury tower, 319
Systrum, of the Egyptians, 555

Tail-sticking, on St. Sebastian's day, 68;
at Stroud, 352

Tailors, why they should require a refer-
ence, 60

Tansy pudding, 215

Tantony pig, 60

Tasks for a saint, 171

Tasso, died, 260

Tavistock monastery founded, 15
Tawdry, its derivation, 692
Taylor, Jeremy, on card-playing, 45

Joseph, bookseller, his endow-
ment for an annual sermon on the
great storm, 769

Thimble and pea, 384

THOMAS, ST., December 21; customs on
the day, 793

Thompson, Memory Corner, 41
Thornton, Dr., exhibition to, 730
Thread-my-needle, 346

Three Dons, the, a mystery, 374
Kings of Cologne, 23

knocks on a saint's head, 143
Threshing the hen, 123
Throne, Burmese, described, 763
Thuanus's history, English edition, 147
Tid, mid, misera, 190

Tiddy Doll and his song, 239
Tigress and her whelps, by a lion, 588,

590

Tillotson, abp., the first prelate that wore
a wig, 631

Time, what it is, and its use, 155; time
enough, 689; measured, 713; flies, ib.
Times, The, first newspaper printed
by steam, 768

Tinder-boxes, when not in use, 50
Tinners, their patron saint, 167

Toast thrown to fruit trees, 21, 22
Tobacco, prohibited at Cambridge, 632;
a pipe in the morning, 689
Tom, a cod fish, 42

Tombuctoo, &c., described by Leo Afri-
canus, 791

Top, whipped in the Romish church, 100
Torches, at a royal wedding, 776
Tottenham High-Cross fountain, (21
Tower, the, lions, 502

Great Bell, of St. John's church
Clerkenwell, described, 740
Town, out of, 246

v. Country, 323

proscribed, 819

Tee, the, described, 762, 764

Tell, William, arms his countrymen, 8
Temperature of winter, 782
Temple, the, fountain, 522

gate, the pope burnt at, 741
Inner, customs at Christmas, 809
Temptations of St. Anthony, 55
Tenebræ, a Romish church service, 203
Term, first day of, customs, &c., 50, 78,
718

Tree, a wicked one destroyed, 13

of common law, 117

Tresham, sir T., prior of St. John's,
Clerkenwell, 740

Trial of a title to land in India, 220
Trimilki, 269

Tring, Herts, superstition, 523
Trinity, symbolized, 186

house brethren, 362
Sunday customs, 361
Monday customs, 351

Triumphs of London, 723
Trumpet-blowers licensed, 622
Tulips, and tulippomania, 304

165

Turkeys, Christmas, 803

Wanyford, Henry, large man, died, 783
Wanstead, Strand maypole carried to, 28)

VALENTINE, February 14; derivation and
customs of the day, 108

Vauxhall accident, 535; adventures at,
729

VENERABLE BEDE, May 27; see Bede
Verard, Ant., his vellum edition of the
Mystery of the Passion, 374

676

War, peaceful triumph in, 371

cry, ancient English, 251; Irish, ib.
Warburton, bp., what he said to the lord
mayor, 223; his character of the month
of November, 710; notice of him
384

Ward, Ned, his visit to Bartholomew
fair, 619

Samuel, his sermons cited, 416
Wareham, translation of King Edward's
body, 407
Warwickshire customs, 212, 216; lion
and dog bait at Warwick, 489; War-
wickshire carol-singer, 800

Wassail-bowl customs, 21, 22, 27, 28
Watch, setting the, anciently in London,
413; Nottingham, 417; Chester, ib.
Watchmen's verses, 814
Water of the dead and living ford, 6
boring for, 521

bailiff's office, 667
Waterloo, battle of, 402
Waters, Billy, in a puppet show, 558
Watts, Joseph, of Peerless-pool, 487
Wax, blessed, 101

work at Bartholomew fair, 694

London, 576

Viper, the, and her young, 557
Virgil, Polydore, on church ceremonies,
101

Virgin, the street music to her in Advent,
798

Virgo, zodiacal sign, 530
Visions, see Saints, Index II.
Voelker's gymnastics, 618

Vos, Martin de, engraving from, 748
Votive offerings at Isernia, 662

Union with Ireland, 9
Upcott, Mr. William, 528, 800, 580
Uptide Cross, 198

Urbine, servant to M. Angelo, 139
Uriel, archangel, 663
Utrecht, peace of, concluded, 227
Waggon-driving, at shrove-tide, 129
Waggoner in love, 114

Waits of London, 415; their ancient ser-
vices, 813

Wales, St. Patrick of, 186; superstitious
customs, 262, 281, 425, 707; adventure
in, 399; see Welsh

VOL. I.

Weasel, died, for mealing on a saint's
robe, 22
Weather prognosticated, by bats, bees,
beetles, birds, 268, 774; blackbirds,
51; bulls, 253; buzzards, 268; cassia
339; cerea, 340; chairs and tables, 51;
chickweed, 339; church clocks, 774;
clouds, 51; convolvulus, 339; corns, 51;
cows, 253, 268; crickets, 51; cuckoo,
335; dandelion, 340; dew, 268; dogs,
51, 265; dog-rose, 339; ducks, 51,
267; evening primrose, 339; fever-
few, 339; field fares, 268; fish, 51;
flies, 51, 268; four o'clock flower, 339;
frogs, 51, 268; geese, 267; glow-
worms, 51; goatsbeard, 339; gossamer,
268; hedge fruits, 268; hens, 267, 335;
honeydew, 268; horses, 51; lettuce,
339; limbs, 51; marigold, 339; moles,
268; moon, 51, 508, 673; moun-
tain ebony, 339: nipplewort, ib; pea-
cocks, 268; peterel, 268; pigeons, ib.;
pigs, 267, 263; pimpernel, 51, 339;
princesses' leaf, 339; rainbow, 51, 335;
ravens, 267; rooks, 51, 267, 335; sea
fowl, 51; sea gulls, 268; serpentine
aloe, 339; sheep, 268; sky, 51; sloe-
tree, 335; smoke, 51; snipes, 268;

snow, 335; soot, 51; sounds, 774;
sowthistle, 339; spiders, 268, 466; sun,
51; swallows, 51, 253, 267; swans,
253; swine pipes, 268; tamarind, 339;
thermometer, 51; missel thrush, 268;
toads, 51; trefoil, 339; voices, 774;
water fowl, 267; water lily, 339; white
thorns, 339; whitlow grass, 339; wild-
goose, 26; wind, 51, 253, 335; wood-
cocks, 268; woodsare, 263; wood-
sorrel, 339

Weathercock of St. Clement's church,
Strand, 749

Welsh charity-school anniversary, 161;
valuation of cats, 555; triplets, 711;
carols for the seasons, 801
Welshman, sir T. Overbury's 160
Well-rope winds into a saint's body, 19
Wenceslaus of Olmutz, engraving by, 560
Werington, Christmas-eve custom, 803
Wesley, Charles, senior and junior, musi-
cians, account of, 519

Samuel, musician, notice of, 520
West, Benjamin, painter, account of 173
Western customs on Valentine's day, 114
Literary Institution, 702
Westmeath twelfth-night, 29
Westminster-hall, with shops in it, 77
tom, 130
Weston, sir W, prior of St. John's,
Clerkenwell, 740
Weyd monat, 369
Whifflers, 722, 744
Whist-playing, 46

school, Shrove Tuesday cus-

WHIT SUNDAY, moveable; Whitsuntide,
343; holydays in 1825 at Greenwich
fair, 344; censer at St. Paul's, 623
Whitby, Daniel, divine, died, 193
White, Mr. H., engraver on wood,
noticed 454, 457, 660

295

"Willow tree, 540

Woodward, a fives-player, 434
Wool-trade feasts, 105

Woolwich dock-yard, St. Clement's day
at, 751

arsenal, its St. Catharine, 751
Worcester, marquis of, his curious foun-
tain, 522

Worde, Wynkyn de, his carols, 800, 810
Worms, their utility, 35

Wreathock, an attorney transported, 79
Wren, sir Christopher, on the size of
churches, 460

Wrestling at Bartholomew-tide, 618
Wright, Mr., bees swarm on, 482
Writing-masters' trial of skill, 543
Wycliffe, John, 376

Wynne's "Eunomus" recommended, 116
Wyn-monath, 6:3

fair, 623