and wigs, 1263.

Camden, earl, account of, 480.
Camel, how taught to dance, 1581.
Candle, an everlasting one, 28; piece of a
celestial one, 203; sport 1408; super-
stition, 1415.

Candles, blest, 200 annually given at Lyme
Regis 206; for the tooth ache, 208; lighted
by miracle 27, 78, 99; by the devil, 115;

see also the saints in Index II.
CANDLEMAS, February 2; customs of the
festival, 199; derived from the ancient
Romans, 202; bull, 11; bond, 12.
Candler, his Fantoccini, 1114.
Cannom, Cath., marries two husbands, 1122.
Canonbury tower, Islington, described,
633; when built, 1232.

Canterbury, St. Augustine's monastery,

301.

Caraccioli, prince, executed, 128; rises
from the sea, 130.

Cards, 89, 1607, 1622; origin of cards, 186.
Care, Carle, or Carling Sunday, 378, 1069.
Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., account of,

718.

Carols, at Christmas, 1595, 1618.
Carracioli, on the English climate, 309.
Carte, Thomes, projects the English edi-
tion of Thuanus, 283.
Carter, sir John, account of, 662.
Carterhaugh, N. Britain, sport, 1554.
Casimir III., fights after his death, 330.
Castor and Pollux, 537.

Cat-worship by the Romish clergy, 758;
anecdotes of cats, 1104.
Catalani, madame, noticed, 763.
Catchpole, a barber, 1269.

CATHARINE, November 25; account of her,

1504; customs on her festival, 1507,
see Katharine.

Cathedrals, ill adapted to protestant wor-
ship, 643.

Cato, performed in Fetter-lane, 968.
Cattle, superstitiously treated, 12; drinking
in winter, 198.

Cavanagh, the fives-player, account of, 865.
Cave, Edward, printer, account of, 1482.
Cave of the three kings of Cologne, 82.
Caxton, William, his life of St. Roche, 1121.
CECILIA, November 22; notice of her, 1495.
Celts, for cutting the mistletoe, 1637.
Censing, at Whitsuntide, 685.
Centaur, a, seen by a saint, 104.
Ceres, the planet, discovered, 17.
Cervantes, his death, 503.

CHAD, March 2; St. Chad's Wells, Battle-
bridge, 322.

Chafing dish, on twelfth-night. 55.

Chair, the barber's, 1269.

Chantry, Mr., a designation by, 1458.
Chapel-royal, Maundy, 401

chapel, 1135.

prirters'

Chappell and Pike's tumblers, &c., 1197.
Chare Thursday, 402.

Charity schools, of London, instituted, 389;
children at church, 1407.

CHARLES I. K. MARTYRDOM, January 30;
his execution, 187; pasquinade on his
statue at Charing-cross, 897.

II. K. RESTORATION, May 29; cus-
toms of the Restoration-day 711; his
escape from Worcester, 712; statue in the
Royal Exchange, 719; verses admired
by him, 720; restores maypoles, 557;
prohibits wigs at Cambridge, 1264;
his weakness in childhood, 16.

V. emperor and cobbler, 1401.

VI. of France, licenses the English
mysteries, 747.

Charlton, village and fair described, 1386.
Charms, apple-trees, 42; witchcraft, 55;
mistletoe, 1638; various, 1409.
Chatham, the great earl, died, 651.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire, sonnet at, 1355.
Checketts, T., his seven-legged mare, 1118.
Cherry season, 903.
Cheshire customs, 430.

Chester, maypole, 549; mysteries, 750,
757; pageants, 835.

Chesterfield, lord, and his servants, 689.
Cheyne, sir John, his answer to the arch-
bishop of Canterbury, 752.
Child desertion, 1119.

Childebert, his key, a reliquary, 1062.
Childermas-day, 1648.

Children, flogged, 30; whipped on Inno-
cent's morning, 1648; how nursed for-
merly, 923; pickled, and come to life,
1555.

Childs, Mr. Robert, of Bungay, 1354.
Chimney corner, in old times, 1622.

sweepers' May garland, 583;
their festivities, 585, 591.
Chinese characters, in movable types, 185.
Christ's hospital, boys bathing, 974; ser-
mon on St. Matthew's day, 1314.

Passion, a mystery, by Gregory
Nazianzen, 744; performed at
house, 756.

Ely

Christchurch, cloisters, 1216, 1240.
Christern, king of Denmark, at a London
pageant, 830.

Christianity, in England before Augustine,
301.
CHRISTMAS-DAY, December 25; its cele-
bration, 1612; eve, 1594; carols, 1595;
ever-greens, order of their succession
in decking, 205; kings, in a pageant at
Norwich, 256; log, 204; pie, 1639.
Church, ball-play in it, 429, 864.

-, building, in saints' times, 25, 1497.
-, a racket-player, 868.

Churches, decked with greens, 1635; not
with mistletoe, 1635; modern architec-
ture of, 919, 945

Cider drinking, 42, 43.

CIRCUMCISION, January 1; when instituted, 3.
City, laureate, or poet, 1453.

Civil wars, how commenced in England, 28.
C. L's sister, 965, 970.

Clare-market, butchers' bonfire, 1433.
Clarges, sir Walter, his origin, 582.
Clark, Thomas, miser of Dundee, 1588.
Clarke's horse-riding and tumbling, 1185.
, posture master, 1248.

John, licenser of ballad singers,

1243.
Classes, high and low assimilate, 1599.
Clay, Mr., printseller, 1011.
Clayen cup, in Devonshire, 41.
Cleghorn, Mr. John, artist, sketching at

the Pied Bull, 635; noticed again, 974.
CLEMENT, St., November 23; notice of him,
1497; customs on his festival, 1498.
Clergy, Romish, call themselves the cocks of
the Almighty, 255

Clerkenwell, parish, Clerks'well, its site,
754; ducking-pond, 971; St. John's
church and parish, 1474.

Clias, captain, his gymnastics, 19.
Cliff, Kent, rectorial custom at, 978.
Clipping the church, 430.

Clock, dialogue, 819.

Clogs, wooden almanacs, 1471.

Cloth fair, lord Rich's residence in, 1233.
Clothiers, how they travelled anciently,
876; at Bartholomew fair, 1232.
Clouds, their gorgeous imagery, 888.
Clouwet, his engraving of Rubens's St.
Antony, 120.

Coach wheel, driven for a wager, 1315.
Coalbeavers going to Greenwich fair, 437.
Cobbler and his stall, 857; cobblers take
precedence of shoemakers, 1402.
Cock in pot, and cock to dunghill, 72.
and lion, disputants, 99.

fighting, and customs, 252, 255;
leaden ones, 253.

crowing during the nights of Advent,
1642.

Cockneys, king of, his court on Childermas-
day, 1648.

Cockpit-royal, Whitehall, 255.

Coke, sir Edward, his reproof of Anne
Turner, 1437.

Colchester oysters, at Stourbridge, 1307.
Cold, at the North Pole, 466.

Colet, dean, his order for the boy bishop's
sermon, 1559.

Collar days, at court, 100.

Colley, Thomas, convicted of murder, 1045.
Collop Monday customs, 241.
Colnaghi and Son, printsellers, 1011.
Cologne, three kings of, 45, 46.

Colpoys, admiral, his life saved, 663.
Common council, prayed for, 446.
crier's office, 1333.
Hunt's office, 1332.

, and the Ærial, 1461.

Conduits, destroyed, 1042.
Confectioners of Paris, 13.
Congresbury custom, 837.

Constantine, his church establishment, 744.
Contented man, described, 1468.

CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, January, 25; sa-
perstitions concerning the day, 175.

Cook, how disgraced if idle at Christmas,
1640.

Cooke, Mr., theatrical singer, 966.
Copenhagen-house, account of, 857.
Copy-writing, at school, 967.

Corning, on St. Thomas's day, 1587.
Cornwall, Palm Sunday customs, 396;
other customs and superstitions, 561, 847,
849, 853, 1611; guary miracle plays, or
mysteries, 757.

Corpse, terrifically rises from the sea, 131.
CORPUS CHRISTI, movable; makes Trinity

term commence a day later, 100; customs
on the festival, 742.

Cosin, John, bishop of Durham, lights his
cathedral on Candlemas-day, 205.
Costermonger, described, 1213, 1308.
Costume of the 13th century, 337.
Cottager, a, and his family, 873.

Coventry mysteries, 750, 756; parliament
there, 753; sports, 477.

Councils, forbid the decking with greens,

1635.

Country, the, and a country life, 492, 525,
608, 659; country lasses, their finery
formerly, 8; squire of queen Anne's
time, 1621.

Cowper, William, poet, account of, 520.
Cox, captain, the collector, 477.
Cranmer, archbishop, burnt, 382; his
widow, ib.

Cratch, the, in mince-pies, 1639.

Crawley's booth, Bartholomew fair, 1247.
Creation of the world, a mystery, 754; re-
presented by puppets at Bartbolomew
fair, 1239, 1247; at Bath, ib.
Creeping to the cross, 431.
Cressets, account of, 831.

Cressy, father S., his "Church History" used
in this work, 3.

Crickets on a winter hearth, 98.

Cripplegate, and the cripples' patron, 1149.
Crisp, Samuel, account of, 102.
CRISPIN, October 25; account of the saint
and his festival, 1394.

Crittel, Mr., landlord at West Wickham,

1507.

Croaker, Mrs., her new-year's gift to the
lord chancellor, 9.

Croft, rev. Mr., collector of mysteries,
746.
Cromwell, O., personated in a sport, 718;
his supposed burial place, 859.

Cross, found by Helena, 611; seen in the
sky by Constantine, 1292; bleeding one
of stone, 1586.

of the south, described, 611.

975; predicted by cats, 1109.
Easling, Kent, custom, 1539.
East winds, unwholesome, 134.
Easter, Eastre, Easter-monath, 407.
EASTER-DAY, movable; origin, and how to
find, 416, 517, 518; customs, 421, 864;
offerings, origin of, 359.

Eckert, C. A. F., a musical prodigy, 1038.
Eclipse, the first recorded, 373.
Eddystone lighthouse destroyed, 1515.
Edinburgh, coronation pageant, 647; car-
dinal Beaton's house, 711; new Exchange
founded, 1312.

EDMUND, K. and MARTYR, November 20;
account of him, 1493.

Edulf, a strong Anglo-Saxon, 29.
EDWARD, St., K. W. S. March 18; mur-
dered, 372.

-'s TRANSLATION, June 20; removal
of his remains, 813.

the confessor, his death, 619;
translation, 1376.

II., sees a mystery at Paris, 746.
III., his gift to a boy bishop, 1559.
Fel-pie house, near Hornsey, 697.
Eggs, at Easter, 425.

Egypt, conquered by the Turks, 461.
Eldest son of the church, origin of the
title, 1349.

Elephant, of Henry III., 1005; Atkins's,
1177, 1179.

Elia, and Bridget Elia, 92.

and Jem White, their treat to the
sweeps, 585.
Elizabeth, queen, new-year's gifts to, 7;
studies with Roger Ascham, 29; sces
fives' play, 865; goes to St. Mary Spital,
445; her accession celebrated, 1488.
Elm leaves, used for fodder, 1403.
Elmo, St., extraordinary circumstances
relative to the capitulation of the fort,
126.

Ely, Isle of, convent and church, 1382;
willows, 1080.

-house, mystery performed there, 756.
EMBER WEEKS, movable; seasons of mor-
tification, 1572.

Enoch, the book of, 1326.

ENURCHUS, September 7; his history of no
authority, 1253.

EPIPHANY, January 6; customs of the festi-
val, 45, 59; name explained, 58.
Epitaphs on a chimney board, 459; on
captain Grose, 657; on a garret, 790; at
St. John's, Clerkenwell, 1480.
Equinox, vernal, 375.

Erskine, lord, his dressing of his barber,

1265.

242; Shrove Tuesday, 259; bonfires,
849; nutting, 1294.
Ettrick forest, sport, 1554.
Etymology of the seasons, 1518.

Evelyn, John, with judge Jefferies at an
entertainment, 478; his account of the
fire of London, 1152.

Evergreens at Christmas, 1635.

Every-day dialogue, 1574; work, 1042.
Evesham, John, keeper of the lions, 1005.
Evil eye, on May eve, 593.

May-day, 555, 577.

Ewis, inscription for St. David at, 316.
Exaltation of the cross, 1291.
Excise laws, originated, 360.
Exercise, indispensable, 1316.
Exeter city gates broken by a strong mas,
29; mail coach horse, and lions, 1191.
Eyes, the, receipt for, 353.

FABIAN, January 20; notice of him, 1.35.
Fagot-sticks, divination, 1552.
Fairies on May eve, 593.

FAITH, October 6; the existence of this saint
doubted, 1362.

Falconer, John, barber of Glasgow, 1272
Falling sickness, in rooks, 495.
Fan handle, decorated, 8.

Fantoccini, a street show described, 1113.
Fardel, explained, 1215.
Fashion-monger's head, 1262.
Fasten's eve, 260.

Favorite of lord Bacon's, mentioned, 871.
Faulkner, rev. W. E. L., 1474.
Fawkes, the conjuror, 1225.

Guy, his day, London, 1429.
Ferrers, earl, executed, 615.
Ferule, school-masters', described, 967.
Festival of kings, 44.
Fete de Sans-Culottes, 57.

Fiddler, a, in Greenwich park, 692.
Filthie worm, a Romish monument, lost,

294.

Finger-snapping by barbers, 1268.
Finland custom on St. Stephen's day, 1644
Finsbury-fields, ball-play, 258.
Fires in London, 389, 1098, 1150.

- good ones, essential to Christmas,
1615.

-, on twelfth-day eve, 43, 58; see Baal.
Fireworks, in London, prohibited, 1435
Fish, how preserved in ponds during frost,

82; preached to, 118; pond for cod. 82.
Fishmongers' almshouses, fiddler at, 692
Fives', ball-play, 863; see Ball-play.

-court, St. Martin's-st. 868.
Fleet prison, ball-play, 869.
Flamsteed, John, astronomer, his origina
memoirs of himself, and his dispute with
sir Isaac Newton, 1809.

Fleming, rev. Abraham, account of, 1466
Flight into Egypt, how represented by
artists, 1650.

Flint, William, printer, of the Old St. John
of Jerusalem tavern, 1481.

Flockton, his puppet show at Bartholomew
fair, 1246.

Flogging of children, 30, 1648; of relics, to
recover their virtues, 816.
Floral directory, commenced and explained,
131.

Flowers, origin of their names, and when
they blow, 104, 303, 464, 667, 740,
$63.

Flying, by patent wings, 1462.
Fog of London, in November, 1502.
Fools, on Plough Monday, 71; hatching,
in a pageant, 256.

Foot-ball, in Scotland, 1554; see Ball-play.
Foote, captain, signs the treaty of St. Elmo,
127.

Fornacalia, Fornax, the origin of pancakes,
250.

Foscue, a farmer general, his self-burial
alive, 101.

Fountain, public-house, City-road, 975.
Fountains, 1006, 1041.

France, twelfth-day in, 57; Death of Good
Living there, 257; all fools' day, 413;
bleeding image of Paris, 895; Christmas,

1616.

Francis I. throws verses on Laura's tomb,

451; licenses mysteries, 749.
Franking of newspapers, discontinued, 856.
Frederick, emperor, his present to Cologne,
46.

prince of Wales, at Bartholomew
fair, 1242; his death, 374.
Freeling, Mr., possessor of Kele's carols,
1600.

Freezing shower, its effects on trees and
animals, 134.

Frenchmen, all sportsmen, 1577.
Frontispiece to this volume, explained, 1655.
Fruit-stalls, 907.

Funerals in Cumberland, 1077; a rustic
one, 1533.

Fuseli, his compositions as an artist, 349.
Fussell, Mr. Joseph, artist, noticed, 872.

Garrick, David, his letter to Messrs. Adam,
328; goes to Bartholomew fair with Mrs.
Garrick, 1244.

Garter of the princess of Bavaria, at her
wedding, 1551.

Gaudy days, at the universities, 100.
Gaunt, Mrs., burnt, 480.
Geck, gowk, gull, 411.

Ge-ho! to horses, its antiquity, 1645.
Genealogy, precedence disputed, 797.
Genius, what it is, 357.

Gent, Mrs. Thomas, her bust by Bebnes, 638.
Gentleman's Magazine title-page, 1481.
Geoffry, abbot of St. Albans, first plays
mysteries in England, 750.
George-a-Green, and George Dyer, 1100,
1103.

III., king, notice of, 766.

IV., birth-day of, 1099.

GEORGE, St., April 23; account of him,
496; legend of his adventures with the
dragon, 498, 1101.

-'s, St., fields, lactarium, 103.
Germany, twelfth-day in, 57; celebrations
of Spring, 339; breeds the best cocks,
240; German diploma rejected, 84.
Gerst-monat, 1147.

Giants, at Bartholomew fair, 1172, &c.; re-
presented in pageants at Chester, 835; in
Guildhall, 1454.

Gibbon, Edward, where he conceived his
history, 268.

Gilbert, Mr. Davies, his Christmas carols,
1603.

GILES, September 1; miracles attributed to
him, 1149.

Giltspur-street, whence so called, 1166.
Gilpin, rev. Bernard, account of, 330,
345.

rev. William, tourist, died, 421.
Giordano, Lucca, painter, notice of, 1651.
Gladman, John, pageant by him, 255.
Glasscutters' procession at Newcastle, 1286.
Glastonbury, monastery, 315; miraculous
walnut tree, 772.

Gleeman, Anglo-Saxon, 1188.

Glenfinnyn, vale of, monument there to the
pretender, 32.
Gloves, new-ye
by miracle,

of defiance in

ifts, 9; hung in the air
issing for, 1509; glove
furch, 345; glove money,

whence derived, 9.
Gloucestershire customs, 58, 849.
Glowworm, 1143.

Gnat killed by a saint, 21.
Go-to-bed-at-noon, flowers, 667.
God of Death, druidical, 58.

God rest you, merry gentlemen! Christmas
carol, 1603.

Godfrey, sir Edmundbury, in a pageant,
1488.

Golden Legend, W. de Worde's edition
used in this work, 3; formerly read in-
stead of the New Testament, 386.