Strood, Kent, entailment of its natives, | Terminus, the god of boundaries, 54 356
Struensee and Brandt executed, 269 Stuart holydays, 98
line, its termination, 21 Sudley, entertainment to queen Eliza- beth, 32
Suett, the comedian, his legs, 519 Suffocation, receipt for, 108 Suffolk customs, 430; witchcraft, 475 countess of, her hair, 636
lady, her present to Pope, 545
Suicides, how buried, 230 Summer, dress, 414; evening, 471; mid- night, 410; morning and evening, 412; morning, 485; solstice, 416; zephyr, 464; last rose, 699; holydays, 510 Sun, the, dancing, 215; symbolized, 250; sunset, 682; sunshining on St. Vin- cent's-day, 80
Sunday schools founded, 215
-s, five in February, 159 Superstitions, vulgar, 262, 266 Swallow-day, 237; account of swallows, their migration, &c., 257, 326, 328, 553 Swash-bucklers and swashers, 621 Sweetheart customs, and superstitions, 72, 134
SWITHIN, July 15; account of him, 481; establishes tithes in England, ib.; su- perstitions on his festival, 481 Swordbearer, and swords of the city, 670 Sword and buckler, how carried, 621 Sylvester, St.; see Silvester Symes, Mr., of Canonbury tower, 323 Systrum, of the Egyptians, 559
Tail-sticking, on St. Sebastian's day, 72; at Stroud, 356
Tailors, why they should require a refer- ence, 64
Tasks for a saint, 175 Tasso, died, 264
Tavistock monastery founded, 19 Tawdry, its derivation, 696 Taylor, Jeremy, on card-playing, 49
Joseph, bookseller, his endow- ment for an annual sermon on the great storm, 763 Teddington church, Middlesex, mistletoe proscribed, 823
Tee, the, described, 766, 768
Tewkesbury, battle of, 311
Thames, the, the king's bear washed in it, 507; its nuisances, 525 Theatres at fair time, 225 Theatrical notice, 652 Thimble and pea, 388
THOMAS, ST., December 21; customs on the day, 797
Thompson, Memory Corner, 45 Thornton, Dr., exhibition to, 734 Thread-my-needle, 350
Three Dons, the, a mystery, 378 kings of Cologne, 27
knocks on a saint's head, 147 Threshing the hen, 127
Throne, Burmese, described, 767 - Thuanus's history, Euglish edition, 151 Tid, mid, misera, 194
Tiddy Doll and his song, 293 Tigress and her whelps, by a lion, 592,
Tillotson, abp., the first prelate that wore a wig, 635
Time, what it is, and its use, 159; time enough, 693; measured, 717; flies, ib. Times, The, the first newspaper printed by steam, 772
Tinder-boxes, when not in use, 54 Tinners. their patron saint, 171 Toast thrown to fruit trees, 25, 26 Tobacco, prohibited at Cambridge, 636; a pipe in the morning, 693 Tom, a cod fish, 46 Tombuctoo, &c., described by Leo Afri- canus, 795
Top, whipped in the Romish church, 104 Torches, at a royal wedding, 780 Tottenham High-Cross fountain, 525 Tower, the, lions, 506
Great Bell, of St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, described, 744 Town, out of, 250
Townsend, police officer, his wig, 636 Towton, battle of, 203
Trades, the complaint against sir John Barleycorn, 41
TRANSLATION, EDWARD, K. W. S., June 20; origin of translations of saints' bodies, 411
Travelling, old mode of, 442 Tree, a wicked one destroyed, 17 of common law, 121
Tell, William, arms his countrymen, 12 Tresham, sir T., prior of St. John's,
Temperature of winter, 786
Temple, the, fountain, 526
gate, the pope burnt at, 748 Inner, customs at Christmas, 813 Temptations of St. Anthony, 59 Tenebræ, a Romish church service, 207 Term, first day of, customs, &c., 54, 82, 722
Trial of a title to land in India, 224 Trimilki, 273
Tring, Herts, superstition, 527 Trinity symbolized, 190
house brethren, 366 Sunday customs, 365 Monday customs, 365
Triumphs of London, 727 Trumpet-blowers licensed, 626 Tulips, and tulippomania, 308
Walks, pleasant, disappearing, 440 Wallis, Mr., astronomical lectures, 34 Walnut tree, miraculous, 390
Tunstall, bishop, befriends B. Gilpin, Walpole, Lydia, a dwarf, 591
Turkeys, Christmas, 807
Turner, Anne, on her trial for murder, 723
Mr., pump-maker, 525 Turnspits, anecdotes of, 191 Tusser, Thomas, his epitaph and burial place, 147
Twelfth-cake, how to draw, 30; how made anciently, 32
day eve, 25; twelfth day eus- toms, 28; characters, 30; derived from the Greeks, 33; and the Druids, 33; observed at court, 34 Twickenham ball-play, 127
Tye, John, watchman of Bungay, 816 Tyson's, rev. Michael, portrait of Butler, 656
Tythes, penance after death for nonpay- ment, 356; established in England, 481
Vader-land, anglicised by lord Byron,
VALENTINE, February 14; derivation and customs of the day, 112
Wanyford, Henry, large man, died, 787 Wanstead, Strand maypole carried to, 284 Want, Hannah, a long liver, account of, 680
War, peaceful triumph in, 375
cry, ancient English, 255; Irish, ib. Warburton, bp., what he said to the lord mayor, 227; his character of the month of November, 714; notice of him, 388
Ward, Ned, his visit to Bartholomew fair, 623
Samuel, his sermons cited, 420 Wareham, translation of King Edward's body, 411
Warwickshire customs, 216, 220; lion and dog bait at Warwick, 493; War- wickshire carol-singer, 804 Wassail-bowl customs, 25, 26, 31, 32 Watch, setting the, anciently in London, 417; Nottingham, 421; Chester, ib. Watchmen's verses, 818
Water of the dead and living ford, 10 -, boring for, 525
Vauxhall, accident, 539; adventures at, Waterloo, battle of, 406 733
VENERABLE BEDE, May 27; see Bede. Verard, Ant., his vellum edition of the Mystery of the Passion, 378
Waters, Billy, in a puppet-show, 562 Watts, Joseph, of Peerless-pool, 491 Wax, blessed, 105
work at Bartholomew fair, 598
Vernon, adm., celebration of his birth-Way-goose, a printers' feast, 571 day, 741
VINCENT, January 22; notice of him, 80) T., his account of the fire of
Viper, the, and her young, 561 Virgil, Polydore, on church ceremonies, 105
Virgin, the, street music to her in Ad- vent, 802
Virgo, zodiacal sign, 534 Visions, see Saints, Index II. Voelker's gymnastics, 622 Vos, Martin de, engraving from, 752 Votive offerings at Isernia, 666
Union with Ireland, 13 Upcott, Mr. William, 532, 804, 584 Uptide Cross, 202
Urbine, servant to M. Angelo, 143 Uriel, archangel, 667 Utrecht, peace of, concluded, 231 Waggon-driving at shrove-tide, 133 Waggoner in love, 118
Waits of London, 419; their ancient ser- vices, 817
Wales, St. Patrick of, 190; superstitious customs, 266, 285, 429, 711; adventure in, 403; see Welsh
Weasel, died, for mealing on a saint's robe, 26 Weather prognosticated, by bats, bees, beetles, birds, 272, 778; blackbirds, 55; bulls, 257; buzzards, 272; cassia, 343; cerea, 344; chairs and tables, 55; chickweed, 343; church clocks, 778; clouds,55; convolvulus, 343; corns, 55; cows, 257, 272; crickets, 55; cuckoo, 339; dandelion, 344; dew, 272; dogs, 55, 272; dog-rose, 343; ducks, 55, 271; evening primrose, 343; fever- few, 343; fieldfares, 272; fish, 55; flies, 55, 272; four o'clock flower, 343; frogs, 55, 272; geese, 271; glow- worms, 55; goatsbeard, 343; gossamer, 272; hedge fruits, 272; hens, 271, 339; honeydew, 272; horses, 55; lettuce, 343; limbs, 55; marigold, 343; moles, 272; moon, 55, 512, 677; moun- tain ebony, 343; nipplewort, ib.; pea- cocks, 272; peterel, 272; pigeons, ib.; pigs, 271, 272; pimpernel, 55, 343; princesses' leaf, 343; rainbow, 55, 339; ravens, 271; rooks. 55, 271, 339; sea fowl, 55; sea gulls, 272; serpentine aloe, 343; sheep. 272; sky, 55; sloe- tree, 339; smoke, 55; snipes, 272;
snow, 339; soot, 55; sounds, 778; Wilson, sir Thomas and lady, of Charl- sowthistle, 343; spiders, 272, 470; sun, ton, 698 55; swallows, 55, 257, 271; swans, Wiltshire customs, 366 257; swine-pipes, 272; tamarind, 343; Winchester, mystery performed there, thermometer, 55; missel thrush, 272; 382 toads, 55; trefoil, 343; voices, 778; water fowl, 271; water lily, 343; white thorns, 343; whitlow grass, 343; wild- goose, 272; wind, 55, 257, 339; wood- cocks, 272; woodscare, 272; wood- sorrel, 343
Weathercock of St. Clement's church, Strand, 753
Welsh charity-school anniversary, 165; valuation of cats, 559; triplets, 715; carols for the seasons, 805 Welshman, sir T. Overbury's, 164 Well-rope winds into a saint's body, 23
Wind superstitions, 10; effects of east and north-east winds, 314, 405 Winstanley killed in the Eddystone, 762 Wint-monat, 714
Winter, 59, 71, 103; its approach de- scribed, 735; the quarter, 785; the season described, 830 Winter-fulleth, 677
Wenceslaus of Olmutz, engraving by, 564 | Wishart, Geo, burned at St. Andrew's,
Werington, Christmas-eve custom, 807 Wesley, Charles, senior and junior, musi- cians, account of, 523
Samuel, musician, notice of, 524 West, Benjamin, painter, account of, 177 Western custom on Valentine's day, 118 Literary Institution, 706 Westmeath twelfth-night, 33 Westminster-hall, with shops in it, 81 school, Shrove Tuesday cus-
tom, 134 Weston, sir W., prior of St. John's Clerkenwell, 744 Weyd-monat, 373 Whifflers, 726, 748 Whist-playing, 50
WHIT SUNDAY, moveable; Whitsuntile, 347; holydays in 1825 at Greenwich fair, 348; censer at St. Paul's, 627 Whitby, Daniel, divine, died, 197 White, Mr. H., engraver on wood, noticed, 458, 561, 664
-, Jem, his doings and character, 299
Whitehead, W. W., gigantic boy, 601 Whoo-he to horses, its antiquity, 826 Wickham, East, Kent, 698
West, Kent, painted glass win- dow of St. Catherine in the church, 757; delightful site of the village, 758 Wife of two husbands, 565; husband's address to his wife, 731 Wigs, 630
Wild fowl shooting in France, 792
street chapel, annual sermon, 760 Wilkie, the publisher, anecdote of, 461 WILLIAM, KING, LANDED, November 4; error of the almanacs, 718
Williams, Mr. Samuel, artist, noticed, 450, 534, 599, 677
-'s blacks, 905; fate of a dealer in, 458 Wood, Lucky, an ale wife, 824 Woodcocks, 699
Woodward, a fives-player, 438 Wool-trade feasts, 109 Woolwich dock-yard, St. Clement's day at, 755
arsenal, its St. Catharine, 758 Worcester, marquis of, his curious foun- tain, 526
Worde, Wynkyn de, his carols, 804, 814 Worms, their utility, 39
Wreathock, an attorney transported, 83 Wren, Sir Christopher, on the size of churches, 464
Wrestling at Bartholomew-tide, 622 Wright, Mr., bees swarm on, 456 Writing-masters' trial of skill, 547 Wycliffe, John, 380
Wynne's "Eunomus" recommended, 120 Wyn-monath, 677
Wilson, Richard, painter, notice of him, Yates and Shuter's booth at Bartholomew 330
2. Amelia, princess, her autograph, 542 46. February, 102
47. Flamsteed's horoscope, 549 48. autograph, 555
49. Flight of the Holy Family, 829 50. Flowers with symbols, 57
51. Fountain at Tottenham, 525
64. Halifax gibbet, 78
65. Hare and tabor, 609
66. Heading-block and maul, 79 67. Heart breaker, 113 68. Hen threshing, 128
70. Henry IX., K. of England, 21 71. reverse of his medal, 21 72. Hipson, Miss, a dwarf and a Malay,
73. Hornsey Wood house, 384 74.
75. Huxter, 611
76. Hyde Park gate, sale, 683
77. Italian minstrels in London, 819
79. Joan of Arc's fountain, 369 80. John, St., at Patmos, 313
742 81. July, 449
82. June, 373
83. King's arms, a showman's wood-cut,
84. Labre, B. J., 240
85. Lamp, old, 421
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