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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

Tansy pudding, 219

Tantony pig, 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,

594

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

v. Country, 327

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

Clerkenwell, 744

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

169

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,

409

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

bailiff's office, 671

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

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London, 580

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

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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

negress, 599

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

Willow tree, 544

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-'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

fair, 627

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1. Erial, the, 732

45. Fantoccini, 561

2. Amelia, princess, her autograph, 542 46. February, 102

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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

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64. Halifax gibbet, 78

65. Hare and tabor, 609

66. Heading-block and maul, 79
67. Heart breaker, 113
68. Hen threshing, 128

69.

speaking, 129

70. Henry IX., K. of England, 21
71.
reverse of his medal, 21
72. Hipson, Miss, a dwarf and a Malay,

591

73. Hornsey Wood house, 384
74.

75. Huxter, 611

lake, 385

76. Hyde Park gate, sale, 683

77. Italian minstrels in London, 819

78. January, 5

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,

592

84. Labre, B. J., 240

85. Lamp, old, 421

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