before Easter Sunday, 437; a curious
case of one, 899; a Welch one described,
1618.

Barber-surgeons, 758.

singular collision of flocks of,
ton, 1139.

Birds-nests, anecdote concerning, 5
Births, insurance of, 1436.

Baretti, Joseph, notice of, 643.

Barming, Kent, custom of doleing at, 1€27.
Barnwell, George, acting of at Christmas,
effect of, 1651.

Barrington, viscount, expelled house of
commons, 1447.

Bartholomew fair, 1196.

Bartlemass, mayor of, mock election of at
Newbury, 1045.

Bath anecdotes, 1659.

Battles, singular opening of one, 875; notice
of a great naval one, ib..

Baubleshire, duke of, a remarkable charac-
ter so called; engraving and notice of,
679.

Baxter's "World of Spirits," anecdote
from, 1239.

Beadle, parish, 1558.

Bears, various descriptions of, 1560.
Beasts, satire on over-fattening for the mar-
ket, 1547.

Beaucaire, in France, fair of, 1037.
Beaufoy, colonel, his account of a remark-
able storm, 553.

Beaume, Sainte, near Marseilles, notice of,
1003.

Beauty, supposed to be promoted by wash-
ing with May-dew, 611.

Becket, Thomas à, engraving and notice of,
929.

Beckford family, notice of, 1371.

Bishop Auckland, custom of, 1942
Bishops, the devil called by king la
busy bishop, 1230; notice of
bishop, 1601.

Black, lamp, receipt for, 266.

art, printing so called, 1219.
Blackberry jam, how to be prepared.
Blackburn weavers, memorial d
wretched state, 562.

Blackford, an able backsword player.
Blacking, burlesque company for mas

1581.

Boar's head at Christmas, 1649.
Bochsa, Mr., 1599.

1323.

Bell-man's verses, 1594.

Bells, notices of, 135, 138; consecration
of, 136; description of passion bell, 392;
how guarded in Lent, 434; England
called the ringing island, 509; horse-
racing for silver bells, 539; their redun-
dant ringing and tolling, 744, 745, 907;
notice of Bow bells, 1256.

Beltain or Beltane, in Scotland, Scottish
May-day festival, 659.

Ben, Old General, of Nottingham, 1569.
Bennet, old, the newscrier, notice of, 1275.
Bentinck, count, duke of Portland, 1374.
Benvenuti, bishop, costly mistake of,

1398.

Berkshire, derivation of the name, 1033.
Berwick, duke of, notice of, 789, 1323.
Bexhill, Sussex, notice of, 748.
Beziers, in France, procession of the
camel in, 641.

Biddenden, Kent, notice of, 442, 449.
Bills, exchequer, origin of, 29.
Birds, amusement of shooting at a wooden
one, 289; rearing and treatment of young
ones, ib. ;
the eagle, a royal one, b;

Bow bells, notice of, 1256.
Bowl, wassell, notice of, 7.
Bowls, long, 1070.

Bowyer, Wm., printer, notice of, 1557.
Boxeley, rood of, account of, 417.
Boy, the laughing, engraving of, 543.

bishop, notice of, 1601.
Boys, one said to be murdered by his
school-master, 1371; notice and cut
boys about a sugar hogshead, 1513.

climbing, remarks on, from 617
626. See Chimney-sweepers.
Bray, sir Reginald, notice of, 107).
Bridal, royal, 374.
Bridewell boys, former turbulence of, 1999
Bridgewater, duke of, canals by, 12f6

Bright, Edward, the largest man, 1581.
Brighton, 1257

Brill, (The,) Middlesex, Cæsar's camp
called, 1345, 1566.

Brindley, James, civil engineer, died, notice
of, 1263.

Brittany, superstitions in, 972.

Brockbank, William, the walking post,

1593.

Brothers, the, 316.

Brough, Westmoreland, 1596.

Cards, a child played for at, 1344.
Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., notice of
698.

Carna, goddess of the hinge, 727.

Cars, travelling ones in Ireland, engravings
of, 239, 241.

Carter, farmer, ludicrous "trial of farmer
Carter's dog," 198.

Carving, ancient, engraving of, 497.
Cat, engraving of a street image of one,

312.

Il., notice of, 698; public notice
of his continuing to heal the evil, 682.
V., anecdote of, 458; curious
pageant at Dunkirk by, 870.
Charlotte, queen, notice of, 1084.
Charlton, Mr. T., notice of, 1627.

Cheap Tommy, (Thomas Hogg,) notice of,
942.

Cheldonizing, or swallow-singing, explain-
ed, 1111.

Chemists, anecdote of, 635.

Chepstow castle, sports at, 1562.

269.

Caligraphy, notice of, 1215.
Calves-head club, 158.

Camps, description of Cæsar's at Pancras,
1345, 1566.

Canals by Brindley, notice of, 1265; the
Grand Junction one commenced in 1766,
970.

Candlemas day, 173, 223; judges' enter-
tainment and dance, 174.

Cann, the Devonshire champion in wrest-
ling, 1009.

Canonbury tower, supposed subterraneous
passage from, 1607.
Canterbury, Thomas à Becket, archbishop
of, notice and engraving of, 929.
Carbonari, ludicrous anecdote about, 1398
Cardan, curious circumstance of, 456.
Caraboo, impostor, self-called, notice and
engraving of. 1632.

Cheshire, customs in, 450, 597, 1371.
Chester, ancient horse-racing at, 539.
Chicheley, archbishop, artifice of, 1141
Child, Mr., banker, notice of, 1445.

one played for at cards, 1344.
Chillcott, Charles, notice of, 969.
Chimes, 138.
Chimney-sweepers, rhetoric of one, 56,
May-day exhibition of, 613; procession,
public dinner, and oratory of the masters,
617; engraving of "the last chimney-
sweeper," ib.; masters' hand-bill, ib.
Chimneys, how to dress for the summer,

517.

Chinese festival of lanterns, 90.

Cholera morbus, remarks on, 1243.
Cholmondeley, marquis of, 376.
Christians, their hatred of Jews, 533.
Christmas, usages and celebrations respect-
ing, 1628, 1688, &c.

Clogs, engraving of an old shoe and clog,
1635.

Clothing counteractive of heat, 779.
Clouds, singular case of their electricity in
Java, 1082; notices respecting heights,
motions, and shapes of clouds, ib.
Club, calves-head, 158.
Coachmen, (Hackney,) instances of honesty
of, 902.

Coat and badge, Dogget's prize of, for row-
ing, 1062.

Cobblers, festival of, at Paris, 1054, 1055.
See Shoemakers.

Cock, W., (sir W. Swallowtail,) notice of,
835, 838.

Coffins, anecdotes of, 1020.

Coleridge, Mr., his description of Christ-

mas out of doors at Ratzburg, 114.
Coleshill, customs of, 467.

Collars, a remarkably heavy one, 530;
worn by judges, 538.

Colman, George, the elder, died, notice of,
1087.

Comedy, street, notice of, 1810.

Common prayer, strictures on, 149.

Copenhagen-house, 1564.

Corbet, Richard, bishop of Norwich, 19
Cornwall, Christmas drama of St. George a
acted in, 122; customs in, 676,
earthquake in, in 1757, 1007.
Coronations, Mr. Taylor's excellent
on, 995.

Corpse candles, exhalations so called, W
Corpus Christi day, notice of, 695.
Cotswold, harvest home on, 1155.
Country and town, contrast of, 1366.

mansions, description of, 1623,&
Court, (Lawless,) notice of, 1286.
Covent-garden market, 1187.
Coventry, earl of, 1376.
Cow-mass, 870.
Cowper, earl, 1375.
Cracknell, T., notice of, 838
Craniology, notice of, 838.
Credulity, popular, 1139.
Criminals, elephants employed as exe
cutioners of, 356.

Crispe, sir Charles, notice of, 941.
Crocodile, the first ving one in England.

1605.

Croker,T.C., jaunting car described by, 841
Cromwell, Oliver, original letter of, 911.
Cross, Paul's, history and engraving of, 415.
Mr., account of his elephant at
Exeter Change, 323.

buns, 410.
Crucifixion, Christ's, celebration of at Se-
ville, 422; relics of, 426.
Cruikshank, George, phrenological illus
trations by, 1119.

9

Cuckoo, the, observations on, 1138.
Cumberland, customs in, 450, 668.
Cup, the clayen, or clome, or clomen, [652.
Cupid, the popular representation of, en-
graving of, and satire on, 1545.
Curling, game of, 163.

is, George, a sleep-walker, 1296.
s, lucky, notice of a supposed one, 1320.
th, apparition of the chariot of, 978;
ccount of the "death fetch," in an
ish tale, 1013; opera of "The Death-
Zetch" noticed, 1011; prayers for prisoners
nder sentence of death, 1378; death of
he State Lottery, 1499, 1502; annual
leath of a whole people, 1581.
Labtors, fraudulent, singular case of one,
1241.

dication, of joints of the fingers to
saints, 94.

eer, Sion Gardens lottery for, 1446.
Eglantine, Faber, why so called, 605.
elaval, sir F. B., curious anecdote of,
1471.

ellicot, William, convicted of stealing a
penny, 899.

Den of the elephant killed at Exeter
Change, engraving of, 335.
Denny, D., lottery fraud of, 1466
Derby, West, customs of, 432.
Derbyshire, customs in, 451, 637.
Devil, history of the good devil of Wood-
stock, 582; engraving of St. Michael stand-
ing on the devil, 1271; called by James I.
a busy bishop, 1239; his usual shape an
empty bottle, 1241; overlooking Lin-
coln College, 1236; superstitions respect-
ing him, 1238.
Devils, printers', 1239.

Devonshire, customs in, 666, 1009, 1170,

1652.

Dew, (May,) dancers at Arthur's seat, Edin-
burgh, 409.

Diaries, curious extracts from one, 1805.
Dibdin, Charles, his opera of " The Water-
man" noticed, 1062.

Digby, lord, annual tolling for, 1255.
Dimsdale, sir H., mayor of Garrett, 824,838.
Dinners, curious invitation to one, 508;
anecdote of an election one, 1193.

Diogenes and his lantern, print of, 644.

Dissenters, their celebrations of throwing

out the Schism Bill, 1061.

Diversions, curio is one of a widowed hus-
band, 1020.

Doctors, the Whitworth one, 477.

Does, origin of carrying a buck and a goe
in St. Paul's cathedral, 119.

Dogget, Thomas, actor, notice of, and of
his coat and badge rowing for, 1062.
Dog, ludicrous trial of, 198; and of the dog
of Heriot's hospital, 759.

Dolmoors, Somersetshire, custom at, 917,

Dreams, Mr. Clay delivered from danger by
one, 367; curious remarks on dreams,
1537; notices of dreams, 1578, 1581.
Dress, a lady's in 1550, 796; engraving of
an ancient dress for autumn, 1342.
Drop handkerchief, custom of, €63.
Drummond, lady Jane, notice of, 743.
Drunkenness, singular advertisement touch-
ing, 938.

Dublin, May day in, 595.

Duck, Stephen, the thresher poet, 1103.
hunting, description of, 1403.
Duelling, memorandum to men of honour
touching, 942.

Dulce domum, supposed origin of, 710.
Duncan, lord, notice of, 1315.

Dunck, Miss, a great heiress, 898.
Dunkirk, cow mass at, 870.

Dunmow, Essex, ancient custom at, engrav-
ing of, 799.

Dunning, John, (lord Ashburton,) died,
notice of, 1087.

Dunstable, mode of catching larks at, 118.
Dunstan, sir Jeffery, mayor of Garrett, 824
829.

Durham, county of, ceremony of a new
bishop entering, 1044.

city of, custom at, 447.
ox, complaint of, 1547.
Dwarf, curious one, 1605.
Dyne, Corey, a noted backsword player,
1841.

East Bourn, custom of sops and ale at, 693.
Easter-day, 457; extreme possible differ
ence of time in its happening, 457.
Edinburgh, celebrated for fine skaters,
117; notice of Heriot's hospital in, and
of the founder, 716; custom in, 609.
Edward, king of the West Saxons, 390.
Egede, Paul, a Danish missionary, died,
731.

Eggs, paste, 439, 450; filled with salt, pro-
phetic virtue of, 1560.

Election, general, in 1826, 799, 818; de-
scription of a Westminster election, 853,
occurrence at an election dinner, 1193;
curious account of election expenses,
1659, 1660.

Elections, mock, of mayor of Garrett, 819
851; of mayor of Bartlemass, for New-
bury, 1045

Electricity in clouds, curious and dreadful
case of in Java, 1082.
Elephanta, island of, 819.
Elephantiasis, 357

Elephants, account of the one called Chuny
killed at Exeter Change, 321, &c.; nar-

Encroachments resisted, 1207.
Encyclopedia, a universal natural one, pro-
posed by Asanson, 1168.
Entien, storm at. 1235.

England, merry, description of, $; called
the Ringing Island, 509.
Englishmen, difference between their for-
mer and presen: habits, 11.
Ensham. Oxfordshire, custom in, 669.
Epitaphs. on T. Jackson. 30); on the
State Lottery, 1545; on Henry Jenkins,
1604

Epping forest, Easter hunt in, 459, 460.
Equator, custom of sailors on passing,
1394.

Equinox, autumnal. gales of, 1283.

Erskine, lord, a poem on "The Rook"
supposed to be written by, 1132.
Essex, great mortality of wives in, 923;
harvest custom in, 1172.

Estates, the Three, curious political drama
called, 15.

Every-Day Book; memoranda on Vol. I.,

1550; to be immediately followed by a
work called The Table Book,” 1664.
Evil, royal notice of continuing to heal
it, 682.

Ewes, signs of rain given by, 510.
Exchequer bills, origin of. 29.

Executions, of lords Kilmarnock and Bal-
merino, 1996.

Exercises, gymnastic. See Gymnastics.
Exeter, Lammas fair, 1959.

-- Change, dead elephant at, 321.
Eye, evil; preventive against the blink of,
in Scotland, 688.

Faces, (human,) curious medley of, 1537.
Facts, instances of their coincidence with
predictions, 456.

Fair, (frost,) on the river Thames in 1814,

110.

Fairlop oak, a pulpit made of, 1564.

Fairs on St. Patrick's day in Ireland, 383.
Falkirk, a gruel against witchcraft still
made and sold at, 688.

Fallowfield, Mr., speculation of, 520.
Falstaff, the Cornish, (Payne Anthony,)
notice of, 969.

Families, long exemption from death in
one, 899.

Farrell, Mr., engraving of a fountain in his
window, 785.

Farren, notice of, 834.

Fatality of days, work concerning, 1320.

1636.

Fleet-ditch, notice of a boar passing throug
it into the Thames, 1113.

market, contract for building in 178

1357.
Fleetwood, recorder of London, a sp
diversion of, 532.

Flies, notice of the May-fly, 770.
Flitch of bacon, custom touching, 799.
Floral games of Toulouse, 599.
Flower, Margaret and Phillis, executed
for witchcraft, 371.
Flowers, artificial, curious advertisement
of, 172.

Flying machines, fatal accident by, 1291.
Fog, remarkable one in 1813, 101.
Fontenoy battle, singular opening of, 5
Fools, April, custom of making, 485; order

of fools, 1287.
Foot-ball, 374.

of, 1471.

Foote, Samuel, the actor, notice of, 815;
his "Mayor of Garrett," 846; anecdote
Forcing-houses, guarded against hail, 1997.
Fordyce, Dr., and others, experiments
heat by, 776.

Forests, their beauty in autumn, 1983.
Forgery, extreme ingenuity and vigilance in