Elia, and Jem White, their treat to the
sweeps, 293
Elizabeth, queen, new year's gifts to, 4;
studies with Roger Ascham, 15; sees
fives' play, 433; goes to St. Mary Spital,
223; her accession celebrated, 744
Elm Leaves, used for fodder, 702
Elmo, St., extraordinary circumstances
relative to the capitulation of the fort, 63
Ely, Isle of, convent and church, 691;
willows, 540

house, mystery performed there, 378
EMBER WEEKS, moveable; seasons of mor-
tification, 786

Enoch, the book of, 663

ENURCHUS, September 7; his history of no
authority, 627

EPIPHANY, January 6; customs of the fes-
tival, 23, 30; name explained, 29
Epitaphs, on a chimney board, 230; on
captain Grose, 329, on a garret, 393;
at St. John's, Clerkenwell, 740
Equinox, vernal, 18

Erskine, lord, his dressing of his barber,
633

Erysipelas, why called St. Antony's fire, 60
Escurial, palace and monastery, 513
Eskdale custom, 690
ETH.LREDA, October 17; account of her,
691

FABIAN, January 20; notice of him, 68
Fagot-sticks, divination, 776

Fairies on May eve, 297

Favourite of Lord Bacon's mentioned, 433
Faulkner, rev. W. E. L., 740
Fawkes, the conjuror, 613

Guy, his day, London, 715
Ferrers, earl, executed, 303
Ferrule, schoolmasters' described, 481
Festival of kings, 22

Fete de Sans-Culottes, 29
Fiddler, a, in Greenwich park, 316
Filthie worm, a Romish monument, lost,
117

Finger-snapping by barbers, 614
Finland custom on St. Stephen's day, 8:2
Finsbury-fields, ball-play, 129
Fires, in London, 195, 5 49, 575

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good ones, essential to Christmas,
808

on twelfth-day eve, 22, 29; see Baal
Fireworks, in London, prohibited, 718
Fish, how preserved in ponds during frost,

41; preached to, 59; pond for cod, 41
Fishmongers' almshouses, fiddler at, 346
Fives' ball-play, 432; see Ball-play

court, St. Martin's-street, 434
Fleet prison, ball play, 435
Flamsteed, John, astronomer, his original
memoirs of himself, and his dispute with
sir Isaac Newton, 546

Fleming, rev. Abraham, account of, 533
Flight into Egypt, how represented by
artists, 825

Flint, William, printer, of the old St. John
of Jerusalem tavern, 7+1

Flocton, his puppet show at Bartholomew
fair, 623

Flogging of children, 15, 824; of relic‹,
to recover their virtues, 408
Floral directory, commenced and explain-
ed, 66

Flowers, origin of their names, and when
they blow, 52, 152, 232, 334, 370, 482
Flying, by patent wings, 731

Fog of London, in November, 751
Fools on Plough Monday, 36; hatching, in
a pageant, 128

Foot-ball, in Scotland, 777; see Ball-play
Foote, captain, signs the treaty of St.
Elmo, 61

Fornacalia, Fornax, the origin of pan-
cakes, 125

Foscue, a farmer general, his self-burial
alive, 51

Fountain, a public-house, City-road, 488
Fountains, 503, 521

saint doubted, 681

Falconer, John, barber of Glasgow, 636
Falling sickness, in rooks, 248

Fan handle, decorated, 4
Fantoccini, a street show described, 557
Fardel, explained, 608
Fashion-monger's head, 631
Fasten's eve, 130

Good Living there, 129; all fools' day,
207, bleeding image of Paris, 448;
Christmas, 808

Francis I. throw's verses on Laura's tomb,
226; licenses mysteries, 375

Franking of newspapers, discontinued, 423
Frederick, emperor, his present to Co-
logne, 23

mew fair 621; his death, 187
Freeling, Mr., possessor of Kele's carols,

800

Freezing shower, its effects on trees and
animals, 67

Frenchmen, all sportsmen, 789
Frontispiece to this volume, explained,

828

Fruit stalls, 451

Funerals in Cumberland, 539; a rustic
one, 767

Fuseli, his compositions as an artist, 175
Fussell, Mr. Joseph, artist, noticed, 438

Gabriel, the archangel, 663
Gahagan, Usher, a scholar, hanged, 144
Gallagher, Mr. John, gains a prize for
sculpture, 826

Game d stroyers' notice to House of
Commons, 175
Gang-week, 321
Gang ng, 687
Ganging-day, 670

Ganymede, changed to Aquarius, 71
Garden, its beauties, 67

Gardeners, perambulating, 308
Gardening, in old age, a renewal of ou"
childhood, 57

Garlands, on Trinity Sunday, 362;
mourning, 540; see May-day
Garret, or Garrard, a grocer's epitaph,395
Garrick, David, his letter to Messrs.
Adam, 164; goes to Bartholomew fair
with Mrs. Garrick, 622

Garter of the princess of Bavaria, at her
wedding, 776

Gaudy days, at the universities, 50
Gaunt, Mrs., burnt, 240
Geck, gowk, gull, 206

Ge-oh! to horses, its antiquity, 823
Genealogy, precedence disputed, 399
Genius, what it is, 179

Gent, Mrs. Thomas, her bust by Behnes,

319

Gentleman's Magazine title-page, 7+1
Geoffry abbott of St. Alban's, first plays
mysteries in England, 375
George-a-Green, and George Dyer, 550,
552

III., king, notice of, 383

IV, birth-day of, 550

GEORGE, St., April 23; account of him,
248; legend of his adventures with the
dragon, 219, 551

-', St., fields, lactarium, 52
Germany, twelfth-day in, 29; celebra-
tions of Spring, 170; breeds the best
cocks, 120; German diploma rejected,42
Gers-monat, 571

Giants, at Bartholomew fair, 586, &c.;
represented in pageants at Chester,
418, in Guildhall, 727

history, 134

Gilbert, Mr. Davies, his Christmas carols,
802

GILES, September 1; miracles attributed
to him, 575

Giltspur street, whence so called, 583
Gilpin, rev. Bernard, account of, 165, 178
rev. William, turist, died, 211
Giordano, Lucca, painter, notice of, 826
Gladman, John, pageant by him, 128
Glass-cutter's procession at Newcastle,
643

Glastonbury monastery, 158; miracu-
lors walnut tree, 386
Gleeman, Anglo-saxon, 59+
Glenfinnyn, vale of, monument there to
the pretender, 16

Gloves, new-year's gifts, 5; hung in the
air by miracle, 133, kissing for, 755;
glove of defence in a church, 173;
glove money whence derived, 5
Gloucestershire customs, 29,425
Glowworm, 572

Gnat killed by a saint, 11

Go-to bed-at-noon, flowers, 334
God of Death, druidical, 29

God rest you, merry Gentlemen! Chri t-
mas carol, 802

Godfrey, sir Edmundbury, in a pageant,
744

Golden Legend, W. de Worde's edition
used in this work. 2; formerly read in-
stead of the New Testament, 193
Goldsmith, O., resided at Canonbury, 819
Gondomar, on the English weather, 154
GOOD FRIDAY, moveable; celebrations and

customs of the day, 201

Gooding, on St. Thomas's day, 793
Goose at Michaelmas, 669; anecdote of

one, 671; whether lawful in Lent, 738;
in Christmas pie, 82); goose pies on
St. Stephen's day, 823
Gooseberry fair, 219

Gordon, Jemmy, of Cambridge, 349; his
death, 647

Gothic church depraved, 737
Gout, miraculously cured, 236
Grammar school disputations in Smith-
field, 618

Grand days, in the law courts, 51
Granger, rev.J., punning note toGrose,329
Grapes, grow on a saints bramble, 51
Grasshopper, its song, 49
Grass-week, 321

Great, the, when they se'l themselves to
the court and the devil, 710

seal, new, 11

Greatness of character, exemplified, 132,

140

Greeks, the, used the mistletoe, 819
Greens, on St. John's day, 419; in chur-
ches, 818; see Evergreens

Greenwich church, dedication, 243; holi-
days, and fairs at Easter, 218; Whit-
suntide, 344; observatory founded, 545
see Flamsteed

GREGORY, (called the Great), March 12;
account of this saint and his alleged
miracles, 178

-Nazianzen, suppresses the Greek
drama, and writes religious plays in-
stead, 372

Grey, lady Jane, severity of her parents,
16; inscription on her portrait, 16
Friars, mystery performed at the, 378
Gridirons honoured, 5 +3

Griffin, rev. Thomas, his storm sermon, 7:9
Groom porter at St. James's, played for
by the royal family, 30

Grose, Francis, antiquary, notice of, 328
Guil-erra, and guil, 772

Guillotine, in France, 73; in England, &c,
long before, 74; contemplated for lord
Lovat, 75; an heraldic bearing, ib.
ule, of August, £31
Gunpowder, invented, 199

-Plot day, 715

Guthiac St., his whips, 563
Gymnastics, account of, 10; 658

Hackin, the, a sausage, 820

Hackney coaches, at Stourbridge, 651
Hagbush-lane, Islington, account of, 435;
derivation of name, ?88
Haggis, how made, 817
Hail-storm saint, 163
Hair dress, 630

-shirts; see saints, in Index II.
Halifax gibbet, and gibbet law, 73
Hall, with his preserved birds and beasts
at Bartholomew fair, 623

Halley, Edmund, astronomer, 553
Hallow e'en, 704

Halter, in a repartee, 265

Hamilton, lady, at Caraccioli's execution,
65

Hampton-wick, Middlesex ball-play, 123
Hand ball, hand tennis, 432; see Ball-play
Handsel Monday, 12
Hanging month, 710

Harding Jem, a racket-player 431
Hardwick forest, custom, 73
Hardwicke, lord, resigns the seals to read
Thuanus, 142

Hardy, captain, R.N., serves against the
Burmese, 765

Hare and tabor, 605; hare and tortoise,

689; hares, domesticated, 692
Hartman, his opinion of Leo Africanus, 791
Harvest month, 530; end of harvest, 574
Hastings, Warren, account of, 564; She-
ridan's conduct in his impeachment, 457
Hats, 719

Hawkwood, Sir John, in a pageant, 725
Haydon, Mr., artist, an opinion by, 729

Haymarket theatre, disputes with the
master of the revels, 622

Hazard, played by the royal family, 30
Hazlitt, Mr., on Cavanagh's fives-play,
433

Head-ache, cured by a saint, 12
Health, in summer, to preserve, 461

-drinking on Plough Monday, 667
Heard, sir Isaac, herald, died, 265
Hearne, Thomas, antiquary, discovers an
old leaf, 800; at Barth 1mew fair,
614; died, 386

Hearts, in valentines,110; 114
Healey's booth at Bartholomew fair, 619
Heaven, represented in a pageant, 559;
heaven and hell, distance between, 771;
see saints in Index II.
Heaving, at Easter, 211
Heemskerk, his barber, 633
Heit! used to horses, its antiquity, 822
Helena, empress, translates the three
kings, 23
Heligh-monat, 772

Hell, its Romish arrangement, 11; see
saints in Index II,

Hell-mouth, in a mystery, 374; 379
Heloise and Abelard, notice of, 247
Hempseed, charm, 705; 708
Hen, hey, hay-monath, 446
Henrietta Maria, queen, notice of, 387
-street, Covent Garden, duel there,

456

Henry II., acts as sewer to his son, 811
-Henry IV., holds a parliament at
Coventry, 376

Henry V., at Agincourt, 699

-VI., at a mystery at Winche ter,
378; at another at Coventry, 379

-VII., keeps Christmas at Green-
wich, 800

-VIII., Charles I, buried besile
him, 95; a cock-fighter, 128; goes a-
maying to Greenwich, 275; disguises
himse f to see the London watch, 415
-IX., king of England, 17
Hens, customs concerning, 123; one that
spoke, 125

Herald, personated by the devil, 11
Herefordshire, custom on twelfth-night,
22; winter fodder, 702
Heretics, St. Anthony's hatred to, 56
Hermit, the first, 52
Hertfordshire customs, 283, 688; witch-
craft, 523

Heton, near Newcastle, boy bishop, 765
Higgins, a posture master, 624
Highgate, lord Bacon died there, 435
Highway woman, at Rumford, 752
HILARY, January 13; account of him, 50
Hindoo festival, Huli, 206

Hipson, Miss, a gigantic girl, 587
Hitchin, Herts, May-day, 283
Hlafmas, 532

Hoore, Mr. S., his admonitory letter to
Wombwell, 494

Hoax, in France, 480

Hoby, sir Philip, his papers, 436
Hock, Hoke, or Hox-day, 238
Hockley in the hole, its site, 377
Hoddesdon, Herts, Shrove Tuesday cus-
toms, 121

Hodge's distillery, Lambeth, 302
Hogarth, painted scenes for Bartholomew
fair, 623

Holbetch, bishop of London, declares the
gift of St. Bartholomew's to the city at
Paul's cross, 617

Holborn-hill, "in my time," 454
Holland's, lady, mob, 615

Hollar, Wenc., engraver, account of, 199
Holmhurst, St. Alban's, 402

Holly, the, and the ivy. 56; a carol, 799,
818; an in-door decking, 818; holly-
boy and ivy-girl, 113, 129
HOLY CROSS, September 14; derivation and
usage of the day, 646

THURSDAY, moveable; rogations and
customs of the day, 326, 322

gate, opened at Rome, 154
water, 13

Holyday, at Dulwich, by S. R., 506; ra
tional holyday making, 219

children, at Christmas, 804.

Home, a sailor's, 345

Hop, a threepenny, 823

Hopfer, D., engraving by, 561

Horn fair, described, 693
Horne, bishop, anecdote of, 418
Hornsey Wood house, notice of, 380
Horoscope of Greenwich observatory, 545
Horses, overloaded one, 219; baited by
dogs, 500; bled on St. Stephen's day, 822
Hosts miraculous, 176, 267

Hot letter from I. Fry to capt. Lyon, 475
weather, 521; effects of, 556
Hour-glass, inscription, 713
Howe, lord, his naval victory, 371
Huddy, Mr., his whimsical equipage, 39
Hunting, in the twelfth century, 690
rule for knowing when the

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scent lies, (89
Husbandmen, should be meteorologists,
440

Hyde park, sale of the toll gate, 678
Hydrophobia, incurable, 45)

Icicles, poetically described, 92, 99
Iliad, in a nut-sbell, 543

Ill, May-day; see Evil May day

Insects in summer, 550

INVENTION OF THE CROSS May 3, miracu
lous origin of the festival, 306
Inverness, ball play, 130
Iol, or ol, 772

Ireland, its verdure and plants, 54; cus-
toms, 211, 296, 343, 424, 754; advanc.
ing in sculpture, 826

Irving, Mr. Washington, his love of Eng.
land, 318

Isle of Man customs, 30

Islington; see Canonbury, Copenhagen-
house, Hagbush-lane, Pied Bull, &c.
Italian Minstrels, in London, 815
Ivy, an outside decking, 818; see Holly.
Jack in the green, 293

Snacker of Wytney, 623
Jacob's Well, Barbican, 486
Jahn's gymnastics, 659

James's St., palace, plum porridge there
at Christmas, 820

James I., new-year's gifts to, 5; a cock-
fighter, 128; goes to St. Mary Spital,
223; attends his queen's coronation at
Edinburgh, 324; his adventure with a
clergyman who caught dotterels, 323
- Il., lands in Ireland, 177
January, the first day, how pictured, 2
Janus, how pictured, 1, 3

Jefferies, Judge, account of, 239
Jennings, miser, account of him, 151
Jenyns, Soame, on cruelty to animals, 400
JEROME, September 30; authority for O. T.
Apocrypha, 672; his legend of the first
hermit, 52

Jerusalem, golden gate of, 504
Jessup, Samuel, the pill-taker, 331
Jesuit, the, a periodical work, 457
Jewellery of the Burmese carriage, 760
Jews' new year's day, 8

their treatment and present state
in England, 148, 193; Jewish stage
play, 3:2

Joachim, St., and S. Anne, account of, 504
Joan of Arc, account of, 363
John, king of France, died, 226
JOHN PORT LATIN, May 6; notice of him,
309

-, St., baptist, customs on his festival
418, 423

-'s eve, celebration, 412, 418
JOHN, St., apostle, December 27, account
of him, and customs on his festival, 821
-'s lane, Clerkenwell, raised, 741
wort, a charm, 427