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Nailing, on twelfth-night, 29
NAME OF JESUS, August 7; why in the
almanacs, 540

Napoleon's marriage and medal, 209;
king of Rome, born, 191; Napoleon
died, 312

Naseby, battle of, 391
Nash, Beau, notice of, 797
NATIVITY OF JOHN, baptist, June 24; cus-
toms on the day and eve, 421, 427
B. V. M., September 8; when
instituted as a festival, &c., 641
Navigations, miraculous, 6, 17, 101
Negro woman's pity of a climbing boy,

300

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Nelson, Lord, anecdotes of him, 67
Neptune of the Egyptians, 75
Nero, account of, 231

and Wallace, lions, 493

Nettle whipping, on May eve, 301
New River nuisances, 480, 525

year's day, celebrations of, 6; Night-
ingale on, 265

9, 10, 831

eve, celebration and winds,

gifts, 7, 19

Newcastle customs, 219; Corpus Christi
play, 382; procession of glass-cutters,
647; and shoemakers, 705

house bonfire, 721

Newman, Sarah, epitaph on, 744
Newnton, Wilts, Trinity Sunday custom,
366

Newspaper advertisement, to subscribers,

416

office, letter-boxes, 56
Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand
maypole, 334; dispute between him
and Flamsteed, 550; died, 191
Nice, council of, 783

NICHOLAS, December 6; account of St.
Nicholas, and customs on his festival,
782; in Holland, 787

lady Penelope, killed, 761
Nicknackitarian law-suit, 646
NICOMEDE, June 1; a martyr, 375
Niger, the, its course, 795
Nightingales on new-year's day, 265; in
April, 274; in May, 307; at Black-
heath, 348; their jug-jug, 368
Nightless days, 390

Noah's flood represented at Bartholomew
fair, 628

Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 508
North-east wind fiend, 72; its effects,

315

North road to London, account of the
most ancient, 439 to 443

Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at

an owl there, 130
Northumberland customs, 429

mysteries, 382

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May-day, 346

MICHAELMAS DAY, October 11; cus-
toms, 692
Onagra, the, 593
Onions, divination, 780
O. P. row, 306

Opie, John, artist, died, 231
Optical illusion, 65

Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, 667
Orange, stuck with cloves, 8
Oratorio, its origin, 356
Oratory, fathers of the, 355
Organ, of St. Catharine's church, 708; in
the street at Christmas, 812
Orleans, duchess d', her new-year's gift
to Louis XVIII., 11

O SAPIENTIA, December 16; why in the
almanacs, 790
Oster-monath, 208
Ovens, origin of, 134
Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, 723
Ovid, character of, 16

Our lady of Bolton's image, 220
Owling and purling on Valentine's day,
&c., 118, 130

Ox and Ass, why represented in prints
of the nativity, 809
Oxen pledged in cider, &c., 26
Oxford, curfew at Carfax, 125
Oyster-tub used for a carriage, 43
Oysters on St. James's-day, 493

Packhorse travelling, 442
Packington's pound, a tune, 611
Pageants in London, 340, 726, 741, 748;
at Edinburgh, 328; on St. John's eve,
417; of the seasons, fasts, and feasts,
132

household book, records, Palace-yard porter shops, 306
Pallas, the planet, discovered, 203

PALM SUNDAY, moveable; celebrations and
customs of the day, 200; palm, 545
play, with a ball, 436

Palmer, Garrick's bill-sticker, 626
Pamela, imagined at cards, 51
Pancake-day, 127

- month, 103

Panchand, M., defrauded, 389
Panormo, Mr. C., gains a prize for sculp-
ture, 830

Paper folding man, the, 350

windows at Bartholomew tide, 571
Paques, pascha, paschal, pace, paste, 212
Paradise, a Jesuit's account of, 679
Paris, new-year's day, 11; blessing of a
market there, 383

Parish clerks of London, the, mysteries
of, 381

priest, a good, 811

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Parr, Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and Pigs, 64; annually consumed in London,
character, 226; and death, 174

Pascal, the, 201, 222, 484

Passion, the, symbolized, 207
flower, 389
Sunday, 200

Pastry-cooks' shops on twelfth-night, 28
Paternoster backwards, a charm, 712
PATRICK, St., March 17; legend of the
saint's miracles, 186; customs on his
festival, 189; his chair, 417
Paul, St., the apostle, notice of, 449; his
and Seneca's epistles, 231

-'s day, superstitions, 92; his chain,
305

-'s cathedral, London, 155; its pigeon,
627

cross, sermon against maypoles,
381; rood, 650

school, boys play mysteries, 381 |
Pea-queen on twelfth-night, 32
Peckham fair, 567

Pedlar, described, 612
Peerless-pool, described, 489

Pendrill, Will., in the royal oak, 363
Penn, William, his account of Mrs.
Gaunt's death, 244
Penny, in twelfth-cake, 32

Pens, his engraving of a guillotine, 78
Pentecost, 347

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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
Pinning on twelfth-night, 28
Pin-sticking customs, 72
Pins and Pin-money, 9

Pio, Albert, prince of Carpi, buried, 269
Pipe of the Roman eucharist, 97
Piran's St., day, 171

Pitt, rev. Charles, poet, died, 235
Pizarro, notice of, 433

Plague, the, notice of, 186; in London,
196

Plough-light money, 41

PLOUGH MONDAY, moveable; processions
and other customs, 40

and Sunday, London

festivals, 671
Plum-porridge at Christmas, 824

pudding, an eccentric vendor of it,
629; made in France, 813
Plutarch, read to Louis XIV., 620
Plymouth, mild winter at, 786
Poaching notice, 179

Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 355
Pole, the barber's, 639
Pompeii, panorama of, 802

Pompey's complaint in the dog-days, 477
Ponsondie, 31

Pope, the, and cardinals' jubilee for the
massacre on St. Bartholomew's day,
570

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Post-office business increased, 112

PETER, St., June 29; celebration of his Porto-Bello, rejoicings on taking, 741

POWDER-PLOT, November 5; celebrations,
718

church, occasioned the Roforma- Powell's, Mr., pedigree, 403

Powell of the fives court, 438

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Prayer, directory for, 105; M. Angelo's, | Recollections, effect of tender, 707
144
Red Cross-street burial ground, for
Jews, 152

Praying for the dead, 716

Prechdachdan sour, 821

Lion square, obelisk in, 434

Pressing of seamen, when commenced, 191 Reformation, the, its immediate cause,
Pretender, monument to him, 21

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devil, 514

136

Refreshment Sunday, 183
Relics, curious list of, 411

Printer's customs, and printing terms, REMIGIUS, October 1; noticed, 679

571

Resurrection, the, a Romish church
drama, 220

Printing, 97; improvement in, 772; a Rhed-monath, 161
simile, 19

PRISCA, January 18; noticed, 15
Prisoners on trial, why uncovered, 723
Pritchard, rev. George, his storm sermon,
763

Procession week, 325

Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form
of, 587. 762; for a fast in the storm
year, 762

Proger's, Mr., pedigree, 403

Pulpits, 423; stone pulpit at Oxford, 423
Pumps, 525

Puppet shows, 627; in Ben Jonson's
time, 605; at May-fair, 291; at Pen-
tonville, 561

Purgatory eased, in 1825, 158; see Ro-
mish saints, Index II.
PURIFICATION, February 2; see Candlemas
Puxton custom, 423

Pye-corner, Smithfield, 613, 623

John, watchman of Bungay, 818

Quadragesima, 101

Quarter-day, situations and feelings on,
425

Quarto-die-post, explained, 54

Queen's college, Oxford, Boar's head
carol, 814

R. G. V. H. an inscription, 737
Racine, reads to Louis XIV., 620
Rackets, origin of, 436

Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, 381
Rabere, first prior of St. Bartholomew's,
620

Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, 215
Rain, why it did not fall for three years,
62; on Swithin's dav, 481, 483; aver-
age fall in winter, 736

-bow in winter. 58

Rheumatism cured by ale, 16

Ribadeneira's Lives of the Saints, used
in this work, 6

Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St.
Bartholomew's priory, 620

RICHARD DE WICHE, April 3; account of
him, 214

II. and his court at the parish
clerk's play, 381

383

III. attends the Coventry plays,

Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, 787
Richardson, Mr. buys Button's lion's
head, 508

-'s, itinerant theatre, 595, 698
Richmond, visit to, 305; hunt on Holy-
rood-day, 651

Riding stang described, 10
Ridlington, Rob., his bequest to Stam-
ford, 746

Ring, a, occasions a repartee, 269; wed-
ding ring of Joachim and Anne, 509
Rippon church, Yorkshire, lighted up
before Candlemas, 107

Rising early, its effects, 44

Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol,
804

Roast beef, 793

pig, by Elia, 613

Robbery at Copenhagen-house, 435
Robin in winter, 56; and the wren, 328
Hood, 279; and his bower, 347
Roche, St. or St. Roche's day, 564
Rochester cathedral, 155

"" lord, outwitted, 311; banters
Charles II., 365
Rock-day, 35

Rodd, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, 8, 537
Rodney, adm., defeats Comte de Grasse,
234

Ranson's, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey, Roebuck Inn Richmond, 604
465, 468, 488

Raphael, the archangel, 667

painter, died, 230; his picture of
the Nativity, with a bag-piper, 802
Rath, the, or Burmese state carriage, 764
Rats eat a bishop, 685

Ratzburgh customs on Christmas-eve,
806

Raven feeds a saint and fetches his cloak,
56

ROGATION SUNDAY, moreable; customs in
Rogation week, 325

Rogers, organist of Bristol, noticed, 524
Roman pottery, a new-year's gift, 7;
wigs of Roman ladies, 636

Rome, ancient, new-year's day, 11;
founded, 251

Romish church established, 376; Romish
and protestant churches and worship
compared, 424, 464

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Ronaldshay, North, custom, 9
Rood, the, described, 650
Rooks, in Doctor's Commons, 251
Rose Sunday, 183

gathering on Midsummer-eve, 430
the last, of summer, 699
Roseberry, earl of, singular narrative of

his son and a clergyman's wife, 565
Rosemary-branch, fives-play, 438
Roundabouts and up-and-downs, 629
Rout, city, discontinued, 672
Row, T., Dr. Pegge, and curfew, 126
Rowlandson's Boor's-head, 815
Royal-oak-day, 360

Rubens's death of St. Antony, 64
Ruffian's hall, Smithfield, 621
Runic calendar, 706
Rural musings, 57

Rush-strewing at Deptford, in 1825, 367

Sackville, secretary, account of his
school-master, 19

Sadler, J., his engraving of St. Cecilia,
752

Sadler's Wells, anglers, 176; play-bill,
604

Saffron-flower and cakes, 578
Sailors, their patrons in storms, 273;

staid ashore in bad weather, 714; mis-
take of one, 800; a sailor and his wife
at Greenwich, 349
Saints, Romish, authorities mostly re-
ferred to for their legends, 6; in sweet-
meat, 62; peculiarity of their bodies,
ib.; tender-nosed, 377; carry their
heads under their arms after death,
690; a dirty one, 238. For further
particulars, see Index II.
Salisbury, boy bishop, 783; Edward the
Confessor, translated to Salisbury, 411
Sallows described, 43

Salters' company, custom, 679
Salvator's temptation of St. Antony, 62
Samam, vigil of, 712

Samwell's company of tumblers, 597
Sannazarius's poem, De Partu Virginis,
810

Saturnalian days, 33
Satyr, seen by a saint, 56

Saunderson, Dr. Nicholas, mathematician,
died, 247

Sausages, feast of, 740

Scent in hunting, 693

Schoen, Martin, engraving by, 564

Scott, Bartholomew, married Cranmer's
widow, 195

Screen, at Hornsey Wood house, 384
Sculpture and painting, their relative
merits, 133; the two Royal Academy
prizes for 1825 awarded to two Irish
pupils, 830

Scythe carried by the Devil, 15
Sea-water, a company to bring it to
Copenhagen-fields, 439

Seal of Button's Lion's head, 508
Seasons, their names derived, 763
Seduction, 542

Self-multiplication of saints' bodies and
relics, 172, 310, 411

Selim, sultan, takes Cairo, 235
Seneca, his death and character, 231
SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY, moveable; why so
called, 100, 101

Sepulchre, Romish church drama, 220
Serjeant's coif, 83

Sermon for Easter diversion, 227

-s prohibited to be read, 636
Serpent, a little one in a woman, 23; a
taper, ib.; serpents dance on ropes,
647; a seat on a serpent's knee, 804
Servants, their new-year's gifts to mas-
ters, 9; cautioned against leaving
Christmas leaves, 106

maid, a character, 245
Settle, Elkanah, the last city poet, 731
Seurat, Ambrose, account of, 513
Seward, Anna, author, died, 199
SEXAGESIMA, moveable; why so called, 100;
101

Shaftesbury, lord, plays in a pageant, 749
Shakspeare, died, 256; his jest book, ib.
tavern sale, 508

Shamrock, the Irish cognizance, 190
Sharp, Mr. T., his work on pageants, 243
W., engraver, 306

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Shaving in winter, 13; anciently, 638
Sheep-blessing by the Romish church,
76; shearing, 374

Sheep's head, singed, 794

Sheet used at execution of Charles I., 98
Shepherd and Shepherdess tavern, City-
road, 225, 492

Shere Thursday, 204

Sheridan, R. B., notice and character of,
459

Ship, in a pageant, 729

Shirt, a miraculous iron one, 147; stitches
in a shirt, 692

Schoolmasters, formerly, 19; presided on Shoemaker-row, 623

throwing at cocks, 130
School-time, in spring, 341
Scone, ball-play, 134

Scotland, candlemas-day, 107; Shrove-
Tuesday, 134; mists, 129; first of
April, 210; has no carols at Christ-
mas, 805; Highland Christmas, 821;
superstitions, 708

-s, their patron and holyday,
702; shoe-stealer blinded, 17
Shoes, sandals, and slippers, 261
Shony, a western isle sea-god, 711
Shooting, at Bartholomew tide, 622; in

North Britain at Christmas, 821
Showman's family described, 599
Shrewsbury, Easter-lifting, 215

Shrid-pies, 823

Shrive shrove, 127

SHROVE TUESDAY, moreable; customs, 125
Siddons, Mrs., 457

Side-bar, in Westminster-hall, 82
Sidney, Algernon, 244

Sign, Absalom, 635; a tinman's, 697
Silenus, 229

SILVESTER, December 31; notice of him,
831

SIMON, St., and St. JUDE, October 28;
superstitions of the day, 706

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Sirius, the dog-star, 453, 454
Sixtine chapel, M. Angelo's scaffold for
it, 138

Skeleton-huntsmens' song, 652
Skewers, used for pins, 9

Skinners' company, their pageant, 730
well, mystery played at, 381
Slatyer, W., his Psalms to song tunes,
803

Sleep, how avoided by a saint, 145
Sleepers, legend of the Seven, 522
Slingsby, sir H., his account of the train
ing in 1639, 18

Sluicehouse, near Hornsey Wood, 352
Smith, Gentleman, account of, 648
Smithery, ode in praise of, 754
Smithfield, entertainment on May-day,
299; at Bartholomew fair time, 587;
whence so called, 620; paved, 621
Smoking, 338

Smuchdan, 10

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Stage, the old, described, 383
Staines, sir W., anecdotes of, 490
Stamford bull running described, 745
Standish, Dr., his inflammatory sermon,
293

Stang, a cowl-staff, 10

Smugging tops, dumps, &c., 131; a Guy, Starkey, capt. Ben., memoirs of, 465, 487,
720; a man, 722

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
a pinch, 120

Soissons, church branch at seven tapers,
27

Solace, a printer's penalty, 572

Flamsteed, 550; fall to discover a
buried image, 101

Steamboat visit to Richmond, 305
Stebbings, Isaac, swam for a wizard, 475
Steel boots, worn by Charles II., 13
Steeple-climbing, 392

Steevens, George, account of, 80

Soldier pensioned, for killing two men, STEPHEN, St., December 26; customs on

and capturing their lion, 507
Somers, lord, died, 267

-town miracle, 240

Somerset-house, old, what stones built
with, 744

Somersetshire, sports and customs, 222;
customs, 423, 437
Somnambulism, 800

Song, a, sung by itself, 652

his festival, 825

Stepney Wood, a maying place, 280
Stilts, 132

Stock, Eliz., a giantess, 603

Stocks, the earl Camden put into, 245
Stockwell ghost, narrative, 35; solution,

38

Stone, old, at North Ronaldshay, 9
Stoning Jews, a Lent custom, 152

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
- cock, 272

Stourbridge fair, account of, 654, 748
Stow, John, antiquary, died, 215

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

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