1213.

Funerals, a remarkable one, 681.
Fuseli, H., painter, notice of, 551.

Gainsborough, Thomas, painter, notice of,
1065

Gall and Spurzheim, Drs., notice of, 1122.
Galloway, lord, poetical lamentation, &c.
of, 631.

Game laws, copy of the order for swans,
958.

Gaming; a child played for at cards, 1344.
Gammon of bacon, custom about, 729.
Garden-walks, singular management of,
recommended, 518.

Gardiner, col., anecdote of, 694.
Garrett, in Wandsworth road, election of
mayor of, 819.

Garrick, David, anecdote of, 61; play-bill

of his first appearance in London, 1336;
further notice, 1652.

Gaskill, Isaac, penance done by, in 1826, 982.
Gassendi, explanation by, of bloody rain,
1128.

Gathering of May-dew, engraving of, 609.
Gay science, the, college for at Toulouse,
602.

Gazette, first published at Oxford in 1665,
1384; origin of the name, ib.
Geneva, engraving of the death of an ele-
phant at, 706.

madame, lying in state, 1269.
Gentlemen, old English, their houses and
mode of living, 1620-1624.
George IV., his birthday noticed, 1083.
Gerard's-hall, London, May-pole of, 612.
German showman, engraving and notice of,
1329.

Ghosts. See Apparitions.

Gibbon, John, notice of, 1458.

Gideon, sir Sampson, fraud of, touching lot-
teries, 1458.

Gilchrist, Dr. John, his gift to Heriot's hos-
pital, 766.

Gin lane, 272; gin act, notice of, 1269.
Glasgow and Ayr, synod of, decision of
respecting Sunday, 1156.
Glastonbury thorn, 1641.

Gleaning apples from the trees, (called
griggling,) 1269.

Glendower, Owen, notice of, 1026.
"Glory of Regality," Mr. Taylor's excellent
work called, 995.

God, mother of, curious address to Mary as,
1089.

God save the king, air of, 538

Goddards, attempt at explanation of, ¡137.
Gold, an image of, dug up, notice of, 1606.
Golding's model lottery, 1583.

Good Friday, 410.

Gordon, lord George, 831.

Gossamer, showers of, produced by the field
spider, 1188, 1332.

Gottingen university, 1243.

Grain, rogue in, an acknowledged one.
729.

Grant, sir A., expelled the Commons, 1451.
Grasshoppers, 1150.

Greatness, ludicrous complaint against,
1517.

Green, Valentine, 685.

Greenwich hospital adventure, lottery so
called, 1446.

Gregory, Dr. George, died, notice of, 369.
Griggling orchards, in Herefordshire, 1270.
Grocer's sugar hogshead, with boys, notice
and cut, 1562.

Gruel against witchcraft, still made and sold
in Scotland, 688.

Guard, yeomen of, instituted in 1485, 1351.
Guildford, old, church, accident in, 542.
Guilds; Necton (in Norfolk) guild, engrav-
ing and account of, 669.

Gutch, Mr., his account of the pretended
Caraboo, 1634.

Gymnastics, society for, in London, 653;
engraving of gymnastic exercises, 658,

Hackneymen, instances of honesty of, 902.
Hail, guarding forcing-houses against, 1237.
Hair powder, convictions about, 1564.
Halde, J. B. Du, died, 1297.

Halifax, earl of, marriage of, 898.
Hall, capt. H., his description of passing
the line, 1894.

Halls, ancient, description of one, 1617.
Hallow-eve fires, 1259.

Halo, lunar, extraordinary one, 1537.
Hamburgh, feast of cherries at, 1010.
Hamilton, general, killed in a duel by col.
Burr, 912.

Hammersmith pump, engraving of, 1231.
Hampden, John, letter and autograph of,

475.

Hand-bills, distributed at Bartholomew-fair,
1196.

Handkerchief, drop, custom of in Devon-
shire, 666.

Hanger, col., his description of a Westinin-
ster election, 853.

Hanover, no State Lottery ever in, 1535.
Harburgh lottery, bill to suppress, 1446.
Hardouin, Pere, died, notice of, 1592.
Harper, John, (sir John,) mayor of Garrett,

823, 834, 812; engraving of his election,
839.
Harrington, sir J., election expenses, &c. of,
1659, 1660.

Harris, a sleep-walker, 1299.
Hartsyde, Margaret, notice of, 750.
Harvest-home, engraving of, 1153, 1158;
harvesting on a Sunday, notice of, 1156;
notice of harvest in France, 877.
Hastings, Mr., an old English gentleman,

1624.

Hatherleigh, Devonshire, customs in, 142.
Hawkesbury in Cotswold, harvest-home in,
engraving of, 1153.

Hawthorn, Glastonbury, 1642.
Hazlitt, Mr., notice of, 1257.

Health, art of preserving, 195 1615; drink-
ing health in harvest, 1168, 1171.
Heat, great degrees of, safely borne, and
how, 771.

Hedgehogs, wandering about Oldham by
day, in 939.

Hell, a pageant representation of, 872.
Helston, Cornwall, notice of "Furry" at,
648.

Henry VII., chapel of, built by sir Reginald
Bray, 1072.

Herefordshire, "crying the mare" in, 1163;
griggling, and making of cider in, 1269.
Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, engraving
and notice of, and also of the founder,
746, 747; his arms and autograph, 913.
Herod and Herodias, 1140.

Highgate, swearing on the horns at, 79,

378.

Hinge, the, Carna goddess of, 727.

Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, custom at, 1174.
Hoare, sir R. C., 1022.

Hoh, (old,) custom of in Cheshire, 1871.
Hogg, Thomas, (cheap Tommy,) 942.
Hogmany, a new year's usage in Scotland,
13; similar in England, 73.
Holland, Ann duchess of Exeter, her will,
831.

Charies, actor, anecdote of, 1461.
Holy Thursday, custom on, 636.
Home, the poor man's described, 561.
Iloney, to take without killing the bees,
1323.

Honeycomb, Will, 482.

Hoo, in Kent, mortality of wives in, 921.
Hood, Mr. T., notices of his Progress of
Cant, 133; and his Whims and Oddities,
1537

Hornchurch, custom of, 1649.
Horne, W. A. esq., notice of, 1192.
Horns, swearing on, at Highgate, 79, 378;

horns prohibited to newsmen, 1276.
Hornsey, new river at, engraving of, 1311.
Horse-racing, early notice of, 539; with

women-riders, at Ripon, 1061; at Sad-
ler's Wells, 1561.

Horses, an extraordinary one for age and
excellence, 1291.

Hosier, admiral, 1392.
Hot cross-buns, 410.

Hours, the three, of Christ's crucifixion,
celebration of, 421.

House, Sam., the Westminster publican,

853.

Houses, hot or forcing, how guarded
against hail, 1237; of old English gen-
tlemen, 1620.

Howard, Mr. Luke, his treatise on the cli
mate of London recommended, 8.
Howel Sele, notice of, 1027.

Hug, Cornish, 1010.

Humphrey, duke, dining with, 625.
Hungerford, Wiltshire, revel at, 1399.
Hunting, of elephants, 338, &c. ; in Epping
forest at Easter, 459, 460.
Hurling, description of, 1008.
Hurricanes, see Storms.

Husbands, a wife's sale of her dead one,
1301.

Hutton Conyers, whimsical custom in, 21.

Idiots, curious account of one, 241.
Illusions, 1557, 1559; see Apparitions.
Images, common Italian, engravings of
some of them, 311, 312, 315; colloquy
on images in churches, 1867; account
of digging up a gold image, 1606.
Imposture, extraordinary. See Price,
Charles.

Incest, penance performed for, in 1826,982.
India, lottery for women in, 1518.
Indifferents, the, order of merit so named,

Insurance, on marriages, births, &c. 1486;
for lottery tickets, 1486, 1461, 1496;
curious trial about lottery insurance,
1469.

Interment, provision in a will against,
1325.

Inverary, astonishing rain at, 1215.
Invitations, curious one to dinner, 508.
Ireland, festival in honour of Baal in, 66,
866; travelling in, represented, 239
singular devotion in, relative to Christ's
passion, 411; superstitions touching
death in, 1012; lottery job in, 1457.
Irish linen, remarkably fine piece of, 1616.
Iron mask, man with the, 1559.

Isaure, Clemence, of Toulouse, 600.
Islington, (St. Mary,) old church, engraving,

502.

Italy, lotteries in, 1521 1551.
Ivy lane, 1135.

Jack Ketch and Newgate, notice of, 694.
Jackson, Thomas, inscription on, 390.
Jacobin club, origin of, 971.
Jam, blackberry, receipt for, 1116.
James I. and Ann of Denmark, marriage
of, 1100.

II., notice of, 1320; anecdote touch-
ing a statue of, 487.

January 10, remarkable sermon preached
on, 149.

Java, curious and dreadful case of electri-
cal cloud in, 1082.

Javasů, pretended birth-place of an im-
postor, 1633.

Jekyll, sir J., obnoxious through the gin
act, 1269.

Jenkins, Henry, older than Old Parr, engra-
ving and notice of, 1602.
Jersey, earl of, 1876.

"6 Jesus, Maria, Joseph," &c., extract from
a curious book so titled, 1089.
Jewels, of queen Ann of Denmark, notice
of, 749; lottery for disposing of prince
Rupert's, 1445.

Jews, two procured to be baptized the
day before Easter at Rome, 437; custom
of eating bacon at Easter in abhorrence
of them, 439; prejudice against, and in-
teresting account of one, 533; trial
touching the validity of a Jewish mar-
riage, 1611; their hatred of Mamre fair,
1034.

Johnson, Dr. S., remarks on, 271.
Jones, John, of Wandsworth, notice and
engraving of, 820, 821, &c.

Joseph of Arimathea, and the Glastonbury
thorn, 1642.

Joshua, the inventor of lotteries, 1529.
Judas the traitor, 425.

Judges, dancing round the coal fire, custom
of, 174; collars worn by, 538.
Juggling, outdone by science, 780.
Justice, H., esq., transported for stealing
books, 652.

Keats, John, died, 250.

Kensington palace, supposed long subter-
ranean passage to, 1607; notice of
Kensington gardens, 781.

Kent, customs in, 1162, 1642; Weald of
Kent, origin of, 450; fens of, morta-
lity of wives in, 923.

Keppel, A. J. V., first earl of Albemarle,
1375.

Ketch, (Jack) and Newgate, 694.
Keys, Mr., melancholy case of, 1459.
Kidlington, Oxfordshire, festival called
Lady of the Lamb in, 669.
Kilburn, John, cheap travelling of, 731.
Kilmarnock, earl of, executed, 1096.
Kindness, natural to women, 1614.

Kings' speeches, notice of one of James I.,

1239.

Ladies, wedding preparations of one in
1550, 797.

Lady, the old, character of, 189.
Lambs, anecdote of the sale of, 895.
Lammas towers, in Mid-Lothian, 1051.
Lamp-black, receipt for, 266.
Lancashire, custom in, 660.

Lance, holy, account and engraving of, 426,
427, &c.

Land-lady, fright of one, 1549.
Lands, local custom of laying out, 917.
Lanterns, Chinese festival of, 90.
Largess, a harvest cry, 1158, 1166, 1173.
Larks, taken by glasses at Dunstable, 118.
Laughing boy, engraving of, 543.
Laundon, (now Threekingham,) 1246.
Law, whimsical account of, 232; curious
action at, 1389. See Trials.
Lawrence, Mrs., her seat of Studley Royal
described, 1061.

Ledyard, his interesting character of
women, 1614.

Leeches, unhurt by frost, 56; form a good
weather-guide, 491.

Legat, Bartholomew, an Arian, burnt, 374.
Leheup, Peter, fined for lottery fraud, 1458
Leicester house, Leicester-square, 997.
Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, notice of,
696.

Lent, curious penance for transgressing,416
Lenthall, W., speaker, original letter of
Oliver Cromwell to,911.
Leonidas of Tarentum, 510.
Lever, sir Ashton, notices and engravings
of his museum, 985-994.

Levy, J., a Jew, interesting account of, 533
Lewes, Mr. Sheriff, petition in 1775 against
lotteries, 1462.

Licenses, application for one to kill thieves

1189.

Lichfield, customs of, 667.

Lifting, a custom called, 1562.

Lightning, observations on, and fatal effects
upon a theatre at Venice, 1130, 1132.
Lincoln college, Oxford, the devil looking
over, 1236.

Lincoln's inn, great fire in, 880.
Lincolnshire, custom in, 394.
Lindians soliciting public subscriptions,
notice of, 1111.

Lindsay, gir D., curious political drama by,
15.

Line, custom of sailors on crossing the,
1391.

Linen, Irish, remarkably fine pieces of,
1616.

Linton, Kent, custom of "doleing" at, 1627.
Literature, dramatic, instance of fertility
in, 1131.

Little John, and Robin Hood, 1634, &c.
Littlecotes-house, Buckinghamshire, de-

scribed, and adventure at, 1617.
Living, reasons for, 1591.
Locksley, in Ivanhoe, representative of
Robin Hood, 1638.

London, Howard's treatise on its climate
recommended, 3; season of winter in,
48; engravings of city seals, 257, 881;
spring in the city, 542; notice and en-
graving touching old watch of, 619, 869;
gymnastic society in, 653; the season
in, 781; materials of old city gates sold
in 1760, 1043; Ivy-lane in, 1135; Cæsar's
camp near, 1315, 1566; lord mayor's
day, 1386; old sights in 1751, 1605;
election for city officers, 1626.
Gazette, 1384.

Journal in 1731 on lotteries, 1451.
Long, Edward, his ludicrous "Trial of a
dog for murder," 198; died, 210.
Longforgan, in Scotland, custom at, 1175.
Lopez de Vega, died, notice of, 1132.
Lord-mayor, celebration of his day, 1132;
singular robbery of, near Turnham-green,

1389.

Loscoe, Derbyshire, the miser of, 1192.
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, custom at, 441.
Lothian, (Mid) Lammas towers in, 1051.
Lotteries, engravings and very numerous
notices of, 1335, 1405, &c. &c.

Love, satire on the popular representation
of, 1515.

--lane, Camberwell, 1101.

tokens, formerly given, 1100.

-, David, engraving and notice of, 225,
1575.

Lovelace, cel. R., notice of, 561.
Lovers, dream of one, 1539.
Luck in lotteries, curious instance of, 1461.
Lucky numbers in lotteries, notices of,
1437.

Ludgate-hill, engraving relative to
watch tower on city wall near, 629.
Lully, J. B., notice of, 403.

Lumley, lord, 1376.

Lunar halo.extraordinary, 1537.

Lunn, Sally, buns of, 1561.

Lusus naturæ, accounts of, 444, 445.

Lyings in, custom at, 1831.

Lynn, custom at, 223.

Macdonald, Flora, 1148.

old

Magdaleneide, a curious poem so called,
1006.

Maids, (the two Biddenden,) account and
engraving of, 442, 443.

Maidstone, custom at, 1627.

Mamre, Abraham's oak at, 1033.

Man with the iron mask, 1559.

Mansfield, earl of, his autograph, 396.
Mantle-pieces, use of, 1350.

Manuscripts, accidental loss of valuable
ones, 1617.

March, J. C., epitaph on, 478.
Mare, crying the, custom of, 1163.
Margarets, William, a rogue in grain, 729.
Marl, nine penny, game called, 983, 1661.
Marlborough, duke of, 794

Marriages, a singularly disproportioned
one, 651; custom of flitch of bacon re-
lating to, 799; of Jews, trial about one,
1611; insurance on. 1436.
Martins, 1562.

Marseilles, thunny fishing at, 647; festival
at, 1643.

Martyr's stone at Hadleigh, Suffolk, 212.
Marvel, Andrew, died, notice of, 1095.
Mary, (the Virgin.) Romish titles of, 1610.
Mask, iron, the man with the, 1559.
Mason, col., concentrates Norfolk fes-
tivities in Necton, 669.

Mass, (Cow,) at Dunkirk, description of,
870.

Massacre of St. Bartholomew, notice of,
1113.

Massey, Mr. W., his account of election of
mayor of Garrett, 826.

Matches, burlesque company for making

captain T., died, 221.

Mosely, Dr., a curious criticism of, 143.
Mother of God, curious address to, 1089.
Mountebanks at White Conduit-house in
1826, 1291.

Mountgoddard-street, London, 1137.
Mulberries, numerous kinds of, 1069, &c.
Mummers, 1645, &c.

Munden, the actor, notice of, 891.
Murder, ludicrous trial of a dog for, 198.
Murphy, Arthur, author, notice of, 797.
Museum, Leverian, engraving and notice
of, 986, &c.

Music, of a harvest cry, 1171; Canada and
America in general, deficient in vocal
music, 713; notice of the death song of
the swan, 965, 966; lottery for a fine
organ, 1453.

My son, sir," ludicrous engraving, 1542.
Mysteries, old dramas, notice of, 500.

Naseby, battle of, original letter of Oliver
Cromwell about, 911.

Nassau, William,(first earl of Rochfort,)1376.
Naturalists' calendar proposed, 25.
Nature and art, 310.

Navy, pressing men in church for, 449.
Necton, in Norfolk, Whitsuntide festivals
established in, 669; engraving, 671.
Nelson, lord, 1343, 1356.

Neptune, personified by sailors, custom of,
1394.

Nests, attachment of birds to them, 238.
New-year's day, 5, &c.

River, impurity of water of, 1203; at
Hornsey, engraving of, 1311; New River
eclogue, notice of, 1551.
Newark, customs at, 161, 367.

Newbury, Berkshire, customs at, 367, 1045.
Newcastle, extract from common council
book of, 487; house of God, charity at,

785.

Newscriers, London, 1275; a remarkable
one, ib
Newspapers, an old one for 1736, de-
scribed, 1301; an apology for not giving
the news in one, 1362.

O'Hara family, the, a tale of, 1013.
Oaks, the haunted oak of Nanneu, 1022;
sir Philip Sidney's oak, 1032; Abra-
ham's oak at Mamre, 1033; name of
Berkshire derived from one, 1033; lot-
tery called the Royal Oak, 1423, &c.
Oaths, form of the Dunmow oath, 803, 807;
at election of mayor of Garrett, 843.
Oddities, Whims and, Mr. Hood's book
called, notice of, and cuts from, 1537, &c.
Ody, Joe, 1371, 1584.

Oil used for stilling waves, 191, 254.
Old English squires or gentlemen, their
houses and mode of living, 1620, 1621,&c.

general Ben, of Nottingham, 1569.
Lady, the, picture of, 189.

Whig, the, newspaper described,

1301.

Oldham, Lancashire, hedgehogs abounding
in 1826, 939.

Opera arm-chairs, 630.
Optical illusions, 1559.

Orders, female order of merit at Paris,
696; order of fools, 1287, &c.

Orford, lord, his account of archbishop
Chicheley, 1141; and of a curious or-
gan, 1451.

Organ, disposal of a very curious one by
lottery, 1451.

Orsedew, explanation of, 1263.
Osnaburg, lottery in, 1531.

Oven, heat of, resisted by Monsieur Cha.
bert, 772, &c.

Owen, Glendower, 1026.

Owl and duck, cruel amusement with, 1408
Ox, Durham, complaint of, 1547.
Oxford, gazette first published at, 1884.

Paddington, customs at, 449, 577; notice of
the old church at, 1869