Nailing, on twelfth-night, 29 Napoleon's marriage and medal, 209; Naseby, battle of, 391 300 , Nelson, Lord, anecdotes of him, 67 and Wallace, lions, 493 Nettle whipping, on May eve, 301 year's day, celebrations of, 6; Night- 9, 10, 831 eve, celebration and winds, gifts, 7, 19 Newcastle customs, 219; Corpus Christi house bonfire, 721 Newman, Sarah, epitaph on, 744 Newspaper advertisement, to subscribers, 416 office, letter-boxes, 56 NICHOLAS, December 6; account of St. lady Penelope, killed, 761 Noah's flood represented at Bartholomew Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 508 315 North road to London, account of the Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at an owl there, 130 mysteries, 382 May-day, 346 MICHAELMAS DAY, October 11; cus- Opie, John, artist, died, 231 Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, 667 O SAPIENTIA, December 16; why in the Our lady of Bolton's image, 220 Ox and Ass, why represented in prints Packhorse travelling, 442 household book, records, Palace-yard porter shops, 306 PALM SUNDAY, moveable; celebrations and Palmer, Garrick's bill-sticker, 626 - month, 103 Panchand, M., defrauded, 389 Paper folding man, the, 350 windows at Bartholomew tide, 571 Parish clerks of London, the, mysteries priest, a good, 811 Parr, Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and Pigs, 64; annually consumed in London, Pascal, the, 201, 222, 484 Passion, the, symbolized, 207 Pastry-cooks' shops on twelfth-night, 28 -'s day, superstitions, 92; his chain, -'s cathedral, London, 155; its pigeon, cross, sermon against maypoles, school, boys play mysteries, 381 | Pedlar, described, 612 Pendrill, Will., in the royal oak, 363 Pens, his engraving of a guillotine, 78 festival at Rome, 447 -'s chains, 535 chair at Rome, 65 tion, 136 613 Pillow made of a dead man, 15 Pills, one pill not a dose, 335 Pio, Albert, prince of Carpi, buried, 269 Pitt, rev. Charles, poet, died, 235 Plague, the, notice of, 186; in London, Plough-light money, 41 PLOUGH MONDAY, moveable; processions and Sunday, London festivals, 671 pudding, an eccentric vendor of it, Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 355 Pompey's complaint in the dog-days, 477 Pope, the, and cardinals' jubilee for the Post-office business increased, 112 PETER, St., June 29; celebration of his Porto-Bello, rejoicings on taking, 741 POWDER-PLOT, November 5; celebrations, church, occasioned the Roforma- Powell's, Mr., pedigree, 403 Powell of the fives court, 438 Prayer, directory for, 105; M. Angelo's, | Recollections, effect of tender, 707 Praying for the dead, 716 Prechdachdan sour, 821 Lion square, obelisk in, 434 Pressing of seamen, when commenced, 191 Reformation, the, its immediate cause, devil, 514 136 Refreshment Sunday, 183 Printer's customs, and printing terms, REMIGIUS, October 1; noticed, 679 571 Resurrection, the, a Romish church Printing, 97; improvement in, 772; a Rhed-monath, 161 PRISCA, January 18; noticed, 15 Procession week, 325 Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form Proger's, Mr., pedigree, 403 Pulpits, 423; stone pulpit at Oxford, 423 Puppet shows, 627; in Ben Jonson's Purgatory eased, in 1825, 158; see Ro- Pye-corner, Smithfield, 613, 623 John, watchman of Bungay, 818 Quadragesima, 101 Quarter-day, situations and feelings on, Quarto-die-post, explained, 54 Queen's college, Oxford, Boar's head R. G. V. H. an inscription, 737 Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, 381 Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, 215 -bow in winter. 58 Rheumatism cured by ale, 16 Ribadeneira's Lives of the Saints, used Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St. RICHARD DE WICHE, April 3; account of II. and his court at the parish 383 III. attends the Coventry plays, Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, 787 -'s, itinerant theatre, 595, 698 Riding stang described, 10 Ring, a, occasions a repartee, 269; wed- Rising early, its effects, 44 Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol, Roast beef, 793 pig, by Elia, 613 Robbery at Copenhagen-house, 435 "" lord, outwitted, 311; banters Rodd, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, 8, 537 Ranson's, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey, Roebuck Inn Richmond, 604 Raphael, the archangel, 667 painter, died, 230; his picture of Ratzburgh customs on Christmas-eve, Raven feeds a saint and fetches his cloak, ROGATION SUNDAY, moreable; customs in Rogers, organist of Bristol, noticed, 524 Rome, ancient, new-year's day, 11; Romish church established, 376; Romish Vor T 910 3H Ronaldshay, North, custom, 9 gathering on Midsummer-eve, 430 his son and a clergyman's wife, 565 Rubens's death of St. Antony, 64 Rush-strewing at Deptford, in 1825, 367 Sackville, secretary, account of his Sadler, J., his engraving of St. Cecilia, Sadler's Wells, anglers, 176; play-bill, Saffron-flower and cakes, 578 staid ashore in bad weather, 714; mis- Salters' company, custom, 679 Samwell's company of tumblers, 597 Saturnalian days, 33 Saunderson, Dr. Nicholas, mathematician, Sausages, feast of, 740 Scent in hunting, 693 Schoen, Martin, engraving by, 564 Scott, Bartholomew, married Cranmer's Screen, at Hornsey Wood house, 384 Scythe carried by the Devil, 15 Seal of Button's Lion's head, 508 Self-multiplication of saints' bodies and Selim, sultan, takes Cairo, 235 Sepulchre, Romish church drama, 220 Sermon for Easter diversion, 227 -s prohibited to be read, 636 maid, a character, 245 Shaftesbury, lord, plays in a pageant, 749 Shamrock, the Irish cognizance, 190 Shaving in winter, 13; anciently, 638 Sheep's head, singed, 794 Sheet used at execution of Charles I., 98 Shere Thursday, 204 Sheridan, R. B., notice and character of, Ship, in a pageant, 729 Shirt, a miraculous iron one, 147; stitches Schoolmasters, formerly, 19; presided on Shoemaker-row, 623 throwing at cocks, 130 Scotland, candlemas-day, 107; Shrove- -s, their patron and holyday, North Britain at Christmas, 821 Shrid-pies, 823 Shrive shrove, 127 SHROVE TUESDAY, moreable; customs, 125 Side-bar, in Westminster-hall, 82 Sign, Absalom, 635; a tinman's, 697 SILVESTER, December 31; notice of him, SIMON, St., and St. JUDE, October 28; Sirius, the dog-star, 453, 454 Skeleton-huntsmens' song, 652 Skinners' company, their pageant, 730 Sleep, how avoided by a saint, 145 Sluicehouse, near Hornsey Wood, 352 Smuchdan, 10 Stage, the old, described, 383 Stang, a cowl-staff, 10 Smugging tops, dumps, &c., 131; a Guy, Starkey, capt. Ben., memoirs of, 465, 487, Snipes, 699 759 Star, feast of the, 27 Snow-ball, sport, 133; snow-balls, medi- Stars in winter, 15, 795; observed by cinal, 211 drop described, 43 Snuff-taking, how to leave off, 80; wit at Soissons, church branch at seven tapers, Solace, a printer's penalty, 572 Flamsteed, 550; fall to discover a Steamboat visit to Richmond, 305 Steevens, George, account of, 80 Soldier pensioned, for killing two men, STEPHEN, St., December 26; customs on and capturing their lion, 507 -town miracle, 240 Somerset-house, old, what stones built Somersetshire, sports and customs, 222; Song, a, sung by itself, 652 his festival, 825 Stepney Wood, a maying place, 280 Stock, Eliz., a giantess, 603 Stocks, the earl Camden put into, 245 38 Stone, old, at North Ronaldshay, 9 Sophia, princess, of Gloucester, walk in Stool ball, 219; see Ball-play her gardens at Blackheath, 349 Sops, joy-sops with twelfth-cake, 32 Sot's hole, 349 Sound as a roach, 565 South-sea bubble, 87 Sowans, 821 Sparrows, their use, 252 Storm, the great, in 1703, described, 760 Stourbridge fair, account of, 654, 748 Strand, maypole, 282 Strathdown, new-year's celebration, 10 Sowing, rewarded by cakes and cider, 25 Straw in the shoe, the perjurer's sign, 83 Strong woman, 291 |