ratives and anecdotes concerning ele- | Fathers, a curious present from one. 1560. phants, 337-356; particulars relating to Fearn, Scotland, accident in church of, one killed at Geneva, 700. 1307.
Elia, notice of the writings of Mr. Lamb, so signed, 1255.
Elizabeth, queen, and dean of St. Paul's;
curious colloquy between, 1367. Emerson, W., autograph and notice of, 690.
Encroachments resiated, 1207.
Encyclopedia, a universal natural one, pro- posed by Adanson, 1168. Enghien, storm at, 1235.
England. merry, description of, 36; called the Ringing Island, 509. Englishmen, difference between their for- mer and present habits, 11. Ensham, Oxfordshire, custom in, 669. Epitaphs, on T. Jackson, 390; on the State Lottery, 1525; on Henry Jenkins, 1604
Epping forest, Easter hunt in, 459, 460. Equator, custom of sailors on passing, 1391.
Equinox, autumnal, gales of, 1283. Erskine, lord, a poem on supposed to be written by, 1189. Essex, great mortality of wives in, 923; harvest custom in, 1172.
Estates, the Three, curious political drama called, 15.
Every-Day Book; memoranda on Vol. I.,
1550; to be immediately followed by a work called "The Table Book," 1664. Evil, royal notice of continuing to heal it, 682.
Ewes, signs of rain given by, 510. Exchequer bills, origin of, 29.
Executions, of lords Kilmarnock and Bal- merino, 1096.
Exercises, gymnastic. See Gymnastics. Exeter, Lammas fair, 1059.
Change, dead elephant at, 321. Eye, evil; preventive against the blink of, in Scotland, 688.
Faces, (human,) curious medley of, 1587. Facts, instances of their coincidence with predictions, 456.
Fair, (frost,) on the river Thames in 1814, 110.
Fairlop oak, a pulpit made of, 1564.
Fairs on St. Patrick's day in Ireland, 383. Falkirk, a gruel against witchcraft still made and sold at, 688. Fallowfield, Mr., speculation of, 520. Falstaff, the Cornish, (Payne Anthony,) notice of, 969.
Families, long exemption from death in one, 899
Farrell, Mr., engraving of a fountain in his window, 785.
Farren, notice of, 894.
Fatalit of days, work concerning, 1320.
"Feast of fools," 485, 487.
Fens in Essex and Kent, dangerous resi dence in, 923.
Fermor, family of, 1376.
Fetch, (Death,) opera so called, notice of, 1011.
Fielding, Henry, his farce called "The Lottery," 1447.
Figg, the prize-fighter, notice of, 780. Fingers, joints of, dedicated to saints,
Fires, great or fatal, in Lincoln's inn, 880; at a puppet show, 1225; hallow-eve fires, 1259; passing through fires, or lighting them in honour of Baal or the the sun, 865, 870; beginning of the season for lighting fires, 1359
Fish, curious revolution in, 769. Fisher, Kitty, (duchess of Bolton,) adver- tisement by, 474.
Fishing, Thunny, at Marseilles, 647. Fitz-Ooth, (Robin Hood,) memoir of,
Fleet-ditch, notice of a boar passing through it into the Thames, 1113. ------market, contract for building in 1736 1857.
Fleetwood, recorder of London, a spring diversion of, 532.
Flies, notice of the May-fly, 770. Flitch of bacon, custom touching, 799. Floral games of Toulouse, 539. Flower, Margaret and Phillis, executed for witchcraft, 371.
Flowers, artificial, curious advertisement of, 172.
Flying machines, fatal accident by, 1291. Fog, remarkable one in 1813, 101.
Fontenoy battle, singular opening of, 560. Fools, April, custom of making, 485; order of fools, 1287. Foot-ball, $74.
Foote, Samuel, the actor, notice of, 815; his" Mayor of Garrett," 846; anecdote of, 1471.
Forcing-houses, guarded against hail, 1237. Fordyce, Dr., and others, experiments on heat by, 776.
Forests, their beauty in autumn, 1283. Forgery, extreme ingenuity and vigilance in, 1476.
Fortunatus lottery, 1440.
"Fortunes of Nigel," a novel, notice of
lotteries in, 1582, &c.; lark-shooting in, | Gloucestershire, harvest custom in, 1164.
Free, Mrs.. her curious application about
a lottery prize, 1443. Freeman's well, the, at Alnwick, 2 19. Freemasons, engraving and account of a procession burlesquing, 522.
French, Thomas, a singular pauper, 679. Frost, great, in 1814, 101; frost fair, 103. Fruits, the pleasure of buying our own, 1188; how to mark growing fruits, 1213.
Funerals, a remarkable one, 681. Fuseli, H., painter, notice of, 551.
Gainsborough, Thomas, painter, notice of,
Gall and Spurzheim, Drs., notice of, 1122. Galloway, lord, poetical lamentation, &c. of, 631.
Game laws, copy of the order for swans, 958.
Gaming; a child played for at cards, 1344. Gammon of bacon, custom about, 729. Garden-walks, singular management of, recommended, 518.
Gardiner, col., anecdote of, 694.
Garrett, in Wandsworth road, election of mayor of, 819.
Garrick, David, anecdote of, 61; play-bill of his first appearance in London, 1336; further notice, 1652.
Gaskill, Isaac, penance done by, in 1826, 982. Gassendi, explanation by, of bloody rain, 1128.
Gathering of May-dew, engraving of, 609. Gay science, the, college for at Toulouse, 602.
Gazette, first published at Oxford in 1665, 1384; origin of the name, ib Geneva, engraving of the death of an ele- phant at, 706.
madame, lying in state, 1269. Gentlemen, old English, their houses and mode of living, 1620-162 1. George IV., his birthday noticed, 1083. Gerard's-hall, London, May-pole of, 612. German showman, engraving and notice of, 1329.
Ghosts. See Apparitions.
Gibbon, John, notice of, 1458.
Gideon, sir Sampson, fraud of, touching lot- teries, 1458.
Gilchrist, Dr. John, his gift to Heriot's hos- pital, 766.
Gin lane, 272; gin act, notice of, 1269. Glasgow and Ayr, synod of, decision of respecting Sunday, 1156. Glastonbury thorn, 1641.
Gleaning apples from the trees, (called griggling,) 1269.
Glendower, Owen, notice of, 1026. "Glory of Regality," Mr. Taylor's excellent work called, 995.
Go, (little and great,) lottery, notice of 1498.
God, mother of, curious address to Mary as, 1089.
God save the king, air of, 538.
Goddards, attempt at explanation of, ì137. Gold, an image of, dug up, notice of, 1606 Golding's model lottery, 1583. Good Friday, 410.
Gordon, lord George, 831.
Gossamer, showers of, produced by the field spider, 1188, 1332.
Gottingen university, 1243.
Grain, rogue in, an acknowledged one, 729.
Grant, sir A., expelled the Commons, 1451. Grasshoppers, 1150.
Greatness, ludicrous complaint against,
Green, Valentine, 685.
Greenwich hospital adventure, lottery so called, 1446.
Gregory, Dr. George, died, notice of, 369. Griggling orchards, in Herefordshire, 1270. Grocer's sugar hogshead, with boys, notice and cut, 1562.
Gruel against witchcraft, still made and sold in Scotland, 688.
Guard, yeomen of, instituted in 1485, 1351. Guildford, old, church, accident in, 542. Guilds; Necton (in Norfolk) guild, engrav- ing and account of, 669.
Gutch, Mr., his account of the pretended Caraboo, 1634.
Gymnastics, society for, in London, 653; engraving of gymnastic exercises, 658,
Hackneymen, instances of honesty of, 902. Hail, guarding forcing-houses against, 1237. Hair powder, convictions about, 1564. Halde, J. B. Du, died, 1297. Halifax, earl of, marriage of, 898.
Hall, capt. H., his description of passing the line, 1394.
Halls, ancient, description of one, 1617. Hallow-eve fires, 1259.
Halo, lunar, extraordinary one, 1537. Hamburgh, feast of cherries at, 1040. Hamilton, general, killed in a duel by col. Burr, 942.
Hammersmith pump, engraving of, 1231. Hampden, John, letter and autograph of,
Hand-bills, distributed at Bartholomew-fair, 1196.
Handkerchief, drop, custom of in Devon- shire, 666.
Hanger, col., his description of a Westrain. ster election, 853.
Hanover, no State Lottery ever in, 1535. Harburgh lottery, bill to suppress, 1446. Hardouin, Pere, died, notice of, 1592. Harper, John, (sir John,) mayor of Garrett
823, 831, 8:2; engraving of his election, | Hosier, admiral, 1392. 839.
Harrington, sir J., election expenses, &c. of,
Harris, a sleep-walker, 1299. Hartsyde, Margaret, notice of, 750. Harvest-home, engraving of, 1153, 1158; harvesting on a Sunday, notice of, 1156; notice of harvest in France, 877. Hastings, Mr., an old English gentleman, 1624.
Hatherleigh, Devonshire, customs in, 142. Hawkesbury in Cotswold, harvest-home in, engraving of, 1153.
Hawthorn, Glastonbury, 1642. Hazlitt, Mr., notice of, 1257.
Health, art of preserving, 195 1615; drink- ing health in harvest, 1168, 1171. Heat, great degrees of, safely borne, and how, 771.
Hedgehogs, wandering about Oldham by day, in 939.
Hell, a pageant representation of, 872. Helston, Cornwall, notice of "Furry" at, 648.
Henry VII., chapel of, built by sir Reginald Bray, 1072.
Herefordshire, "crying the mare" in, 1163; griggling, and making of cider in, 1269. Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, engraving and notice of, and also of the founder, 746, 747; his arms and autograph, 913. Herod and Herodias, 1140.
Highgate, swearing on the horns at, 79, 378.
Hinge, the, Carna goddess of, 727.
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, custom at, 1174. Hoare, sir R. C., 1022.
Hob, (old,) custom of in Cheshire, 1871. Hogg, Thomas, (cheap Tommy,) 942. Hogmany, a new year's usage in Scotland, 13; similar in England, 78. Holland, Ann duchess of Exeter, her will, 831.
Charies, actor, anecdote of, 1461. Holy Thursday, custom on, 636. Home, the poor man's described, 564. Honey, to take without killing the bees, 1323.
Honeycomb, Will, 432.
Hoo, in Kent, mortality of wives in, 921. Hood, Mr. T., notices of his Progress of Cant, 130; and his Whims and Oddities, 1537
Hornchurch, custom of 1649. Horne, W. A. esq., notice of, 1192. Horns, swearing on, at Highgate, 79, 378; horns prohibited to newsmen, 1276. Hornsey, new river at, engraving of, 1311. Horse-racing, early notice of, 539; with
women-riders, at Ripon, 1061; at Sad- ler's Wells, 1561.
Horses, an extraordinary one for age and excellence, 1294.
Hours, the three, of Christ's crucifixion, celebration of, 421
House, Sam., the Westminster publican, 853.
Houses, hot or forcing, how guarded against hail, 1237; of old English gen- Howard, Mr. Luke, his treatise on the cli tlemen, 1620. mate of London recommended, 3. Howel Sele, notice of, 1027.
Humphrey, duke, dining with, 625. Hungerford, Wiltshire, revel at, 1399. Hunting, of elephants, 338, &c. ; in Epping forest at Easter, 459, 460. Hurling, description of, 1008. Hurricanes, see Storms.
Husbands, a wife's sale of her dead one, 1301.
Hutton Conyers, whimsical custom in, 21.
Idiots, curious account of one, 244. Images, common Italian, engravings of Illusions, 1557, 1559; see Apparitions. some of them, 311, 312, 315; colloquy on images in churches, 1367; account Imposture, extraordinary. of digging up a gold image, 1606. See Price, Charles.
Incest, penance performed for, in 1826, 982. India, lottery for women in, 1518. Indifferents, the, order of merit so named, 696.
Infants, jocular account of night-nursing them, 1541.
“Inkle and Yarico,” curious criticism on, 143.
Inscriptions, a curious one with a key to
it, 732; singular colloquy touching images and inscriptions in churches,
Insurance, on marriages, births, &c. 1436; for lottery tickets, 1436, 1461, 1496; curious trial about lottery insurance, 1469.
Interment, provision in a will against, 1325.
Invitations, curious one to dinner, 308. Inverary, astonishing rain at, 1215. Ireland, festival in honour of Baal in, 66, 866; travelling in, represented, 239; singular devotion in, relative to Christ's passion, 411; superstitions touching death in, 1012; lottery job in, 1457. Irish linen, remarkably fine piece of, 1616. Iron mask, man with the, 1559.
Isaure, Clemence, of Toulouse, 600. Islington, (St. Mary,) old church, engraving,
Italy, lotteries in, 1581 1554 Ivy lane, 1135.
Jack Ketch and Newgate, notice of, 694. Jackson, Thomas, inscription on, 390. Jacobin club, origin of, 971. Jam, blackberry, receipt for, 1116. James I. and Ann of Denmark, marriage of, 1100.
II., notice of, 1320; anecdote touch- ing a statue of, 487.
January 30, remarkable sermon preached on, 149.
Java, curious and dreadful case of electri-
Javasŭ, pretended birth-place of an im- postor, 1633.
Jekyll, sir J., obnoxious through the gin act, 1269.
Jenkins, Henry, older than Old Parr,engra- ving and notice of, 1602. Jersey, earl of, 1376.
"Jesus, Maria, Joseph," &c., extract from a curious book so titled, 1089. Jewels, of queen Ann of Denmark, notice of, 749; lottery for disposing of prince Rupert's, 1445.
Jews, two procured to be baptized the day before Easter at Rome, 437; custom of eating bacon at Easter in abhorrence of them, 433; prejudice against, and in- teresting account of one, 533; trial touching the validity of a Jewish mar- riage, 1611; their hatred of Mamre fair, 1034.
Johnson, Dr. S., remarks on, 271.
Jones, John, of Wandsworth, notice and engraving of, 820, 821, &c.
Joseph of Arimathea, and the Glast nbury thorn, 1642.
Joshua, the inventor of lotteries, 1529. Judas the traitor, 425.
Judges, dancing round the coal fire, custom of, 174; collars worn by, 538. Juggling, outdone by science, 780. Justice, H., esq., transported for stealing books, 652.
Ketch, (Jack) and Newgate, 694. Keys, Mr., melancholy case of, 1459. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, festival called Lady of the Lamb in, 669.
Kilburn, John, cheap travelling of, 731. Kilmarnock, earl of, executed, 1096. Kindness, natural to women, 1614.
Ladies, wedding preparations of one in 1550, 797.
Lady, the old, character of, 189. - Lambs, anecdote of the sale of, 395. Lammas towers, in Mid-Lothian, 1051 Lamp-black, receipt for, 266. Lancashire, custom in, 660.
Lance, holy, account and engraving of, 426, 427, &c.
Land-lady, fright of one, 1549. Lands, local custom of laying out, 917. Lanterns, Chinese festival of, 90. Largess, a harvest cry, 1158, 1166, 1173. Larks, taken by glasses at Dunstable, 118. Laughing boy, engraving of, 543. Laundon, (now Threekingham,) 1246. Law, whimsical account of, 232; curious action at, 1389. See Trials. Lawrence, Mrs., her seat of Studley Royal described, 1061.
Ledyard, his interesting character women, 1614. Leeches, unhurt by frost, 56; form a good weather-guide, 491.
Legat, Bartholomew, an Arian, burnt, 374. Leheup, Peter, fined for lottery fraud, 1158 Leicester house, Leicester-square, 997. Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, notice of, 696.
Lent, curious penance for transgressing,416 Lenthall, W., speaker, original letter of Oliver Cromwell to,911. Leonidas of Tarentum, 510. Lever, sir Ashton, notices and engravings of his museum, 985-991.
Levy, J., a Jew, interesting account of, 533 Lewes, Mr. Sheriff, petition in 1775 against lotteries, 1462.
Licenses, application for one to kill thieves 1189.
Lichfield, customs of, 667. Lifting, a custom called, 1562.
Lightning, observations on, and fatal effec
upon a theatre at Venice, 1130, 1132. Lincoln college, Oxford, the devil looking over, 1236.
Lincoln's inn, great fire in, 880. Lincolnshire, custom in, 394.
Lindians soliciting public subscriptions notice of, 1111.
Lindsay, eir D., curious political drama by
Kings' speeches, notice of one of James I., Line, custom of sailors on crossing the, 1
Linen, Irish, remarkably fine pieces of, 1616.
Linton, Kent, custom of "doleing" at, 1627. Literature, dramatic, instance of fertility in, 1131.
Little John, and Robin Hood, 1634, &c. Littlecotes-house, Buckinghamshire, de- scribed, and adventure at, 1617. Living, reasons for, 1591. Locksley, in Ivanhoe, representative of Robin Hood, 1638. London, Howard's treatise on its climate recommended, 8; season of winter in, 48; engravings of city seals, 257, 881; spring in the city, 542; notice and en- graving touching old watch of, 619, 369; | gymnastic society in, 653; the season in, 781; materials of old city gates sold in 1760, 1043; Ivy-lane in, 1135; Cæsar's camp near, 1815, 1566; lord mayor's day, 1386; old sights in 1751, 1605; election for city officers, 1626.
Loscoe, Derbyshire, the miser of, 1192. Lostwithiel, Cornwall, custom at, 441. Lothian, (Mid) Lammas towers in, 1051. Lotteries, engravings and very numerous notices of, 1335, 1405, &c. &c.
Love, satire on the popular representation of, 1515.
--lane, Camberwell, 1101.
tokens, formerly given, 1100.
David, engraving and notice of, 225, 1575.
Lovelace, cel. R., notice of, 561. Lovers, dream of one, 1539.
Luck in lotteries, curious instance of, 1461. Lucky numbers in lotteries, notices of,
Man with the iron mask, 1559. Mansfield, earl of, his autograph, 396. Mantle-pieces, use of, 1350.
Manuscripts, accidental loss of valuable ones, 1617.
March, J. C., epitaph on, 478. Mare, crying the, custom of, 1163. Margarets, William, a rogue in grain, 729. Marl, nine penny, game called, 983, 1661. Marlborough, duke of, 794
Marriages, a singularly disproportioned one, 651; custom of flitch of bacon re- lating to, 799; of Jews, trial about one 1611; insurance on. 1436. Martins, 1562.
Marseilles, thunny fishing at, 647; festival at, 1643.
Martyr's stone at Hadleigh, Suffolk, 212. Marvel, Andrew, died, notice of, 1095. Mary, (the Virgin,) Romish titles of, 1610 Mask, iron, the man with the, 1559. Mason, col., concentrates Norfolk fes- tivities in Necton, 669.
Mass, (Cow,) at Dunkirk, description of, 870.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, notice of, 1113.
Massey, Mr. W., his account of election of mayor of Garrett, 826.
Matches, burlesque company for making
Merit, curious order of, at Paris, 696. Merlin's cave in Richmond gardens, 1103.
Merriman, Mr., at fairs, 1291.
Mid-Lothian, Lammas towers in, 1053.
Middleton Monday, 1571.
Milk-maids, engraving of one in a lottery
puff, 1520; garland of, 1562.
Minden, battle of, 1628.
Minerva, engraving and notice of, 463.
Miser of Loscoe, 1192.
Mists, 1295.
Model lottery, 1583.
Money, turning of, on new moon of new
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