Barnes and Finley's booth at Bartholomew
Barnet, battle of, 463. Barnmoneth, 1059.
Baron, lord chief, to say he cannot ear of one ear actionable, 239.
Barr, Ben, the seer of Helpstone, 525. Barrister's first brief, 160.
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, notice of, 613. Barrow-woman, of London, described, 903. Barthelemy, J. J., notice of, 614. BARTHOLOMEW, St., August 24; notice of him, 1131; custom at Croydon on his festival, 1132.
-, massacre at Paris, 1131. 's church-yard anciently contested in for school prizes, 119. fair, its ancient and present state, 1165, 1252; form of the procla mation read, 1235.
hospital, origin of, 1231. pig, 1201.
Mr., of St. John's, Clerken-
the great, of Lincoln's Inn, 811. Bells, on new-year's day, 5, 6, 15; on All Souls' day, 1415, 1425; on admiral Ver- non's birth-day, 1473; on new-year's eve, 1653; rung by puppet angels, 1247; Whittington's, 1271. Bell-flower, 901.
Bellows, blown under Dives, 1599. Beltein, see Baal.
Belzoni, death of, 1542.
BENEDICT, March 21; miraculous anecdotes of him, 380; founder of the order of St. Benedict, 382.
Benedictine nunnery, Clerkenwell, its site,
Bent, Independent, 603.
Berkshire customs, 435.
Berlin, royal marriage dance, 1551. Berners, lord, his Froissart, &c., 861. Berri, duchess de, her new-year's gift to Louis XVIII., 14.
Berwick, duke of, killed, 773. Bessy, on Plough Monday, 71. Beyntesh, Berks, hue and cry, 876.
Bible, withheld from the laity, 751, 753; written to be comprised in a walnut shell, 1086.
Bickham, George, writing-master, died, 614. Big Sam, notice of, 619.
Bill of costs, whimsical, 235. Billington, Mrs., noticed, 763.
Bingley, Mrs., dress- maker to princess Amelia, 1073.
Birch, Dr. Thomas, notice of, 79, 975. Bird, W., and his school in Fetter-lane described, 965.
Birds, in winter, 24; their resistance to cold, 70; arrival, 466, 614; singing, 727; migration, 1390; fraudulently painted, 1253.
Birdseller's shop, described, 754. Birkbeck, Dr. George, founder of the
London Mechanics' Institution, 1549. Bishop Valentine, 219.
Blackbird, in a cage at Greenwich, 691. Blackheath hill, 687, 689.
Blacksmiths, their patron, 1498.
Blackstone, sir W., how he relieved his studies, 164; account of, 231. Blandford Forum, custom, 1414. BLASE, February 3; miracles attributed to this saint, 207; customs on his festival, 209.
Bleeding image of Paris, 895; stone cross, 1586.
Blessing of apples, 978; ashes, 261; beasts, 117; candles, 200; wax, 201; a market, 758.
prior of St. Bartholomew's, 1232. Bombs, first used in war, 385. Bona Dea, the good goddess of the Romans, 1655.
Bonaparte, Louis, anecdote of, 95. Bonasoni, his portrait of M. Angelo, 270. Bon-Bons, French, 13.
Bonfires, on St. John's eve, 823, 845; on 5th of November, 1433. BONIFACE, June 5; account of him, 766. -, pope, VIII., throws blessed ashes in the eyes of an archbishop, 262.
archbishop of Canterbury, anec-
dote of, 1231.
Bonnets, 1437.
Boot of St. Ignatius, 1050.
Brindley, the editor of his classics hanged,
BRITIUS BRICE, November 13, notice of him,
Broom girls, Buy a broom? 809. Brougham, Mr. Robert, his good humour
on a humorous portrait of him, 811. Brown's troop of jugglers, dancers, &c. 1190. Bruce, James, traveller, died, 527. Brüd, his bed, 206.
Bruno, bishop, eaten by rats, 1362. Bubbles, anecdotes of, 165, 172, 354, 1460. Buccleugh, banner of, 1554.
Buchanan, George, his new-year's gift to Mary queen of Scots, 10. Buckler of St. Michael, 1329. Buckley, Samuel, bookseller, account of, 281.
Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, 614. Buds, their structure, 184.
Building, improvements, 638, 642, 872, 878. Bull-running at Stamford, 1482.
Bull, a,-the dead returns thanks, 372. Bullock, Mr., forms a museum at Mexico,
Bumping, 1340, 1374.
Bungay, Suffolk, storm at, 1065; watch-
men there, their Christmas verses, 1628. Buns, Good Friday, 402.
Buonarroti, Michael Angelo, account of, 263; design by him for a fountain, 1045.
Boots and Shoes, receipt for water proof, Burial of persons alive, 1565.
Boring, for water, 1041.
Botanizers of London, 872.
Botolph, St., Aldersgate, Register Book, 434. Bottle-devil, 27.
Bourgeois Gallery, Dulwich, 1011.
Bow Church, corporation sermon, 446. Bowings, marvellous number per day by a saint, 38. Bowling alleys, 1236.
Bowring, John, tendency of his poetry, 1428.
Bows and silver arrows, prizes, 1238. Bowyer, Robert, keeper of the lions, 1005. Boxing day, described, 1645. Boxley rood, 1292.
Boy bishop, account of, 1557.
Boyer, Jem, C. L's schoolmaster, 1361. Boyne, the, battle of, 894.
Braddock, Fanny, singular memoir of, 1278. Bradford, Yorkshire, clothing festival, 209. Braeckmonath, 738.
Bramanti, his disputes with M. Angelo, 267. Brandy punch, 1622.
Breakfast, in cold weather, 288. Breitkopf, J. G. I., account of, 185. Breughel, his concert of cats, 1106. Brewer, the, and his trade, i568. Brewster, Dr., invents the kaleidoscope,
Bride's, St., church, Fleet-street, 86; spital sermon, 445; well, 325.
Burleigh, lord, at Bernard Gilpin's, 331. Burmese state carriage, described, 1519. Burney, Dr. C., a collector of mysteries, 746; his death, 461. Burning the old witch, 58.
Burton, Devon, festival at, 741. Bushy, Middlesex, ball-play, 245. Butchers, French, their pageant, 1298; of Clare-market, their bonfire, 1433, Bute, John, earl of, died, 346. Butler, rev. Alban, his "Lives of the Saints" used in this work, 3.
" archdeacon, his opinion on card- playing, 89; funeral sermon, on Dr. Parr, 444.
Jacob, antiquary, account of, 1301. Button's coffee-house, 1006.
Byron, .ord, died, 486.
C's bull, an attorney not to be compared to, 239.
Cages of squirrels, 1385.
Cairo, the Pacha refuses a diploma, 84. Cakes, 42; tossed from an ox's horn, 43. Calabrian minstrels in Rome, at Christ- mas, 1595.
Calf, superstitiously burnt, 854; walks up to a lion, 1005.
Camberwell, church monuments, 382; fair, 1124; Grove, scenery, 1014. Cambray, boy bishop, 1558.
Cambridge, names and professions, 699;
oak, 1060, squib, on dog muzzling, 898; university examination, 461; Apollos, 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,
Carols, at Christmas, 1595, 1618. Carracioli, on the English climate, 309. Carte, Thomas, 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 desiguation by, 1458. Chapel-royal, Maundy, 401·
Chaplains, Romish, play-writers, 756. 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 Ely house, 756.
Christchurch, cloisters, 1216, 1240. Christern, king of Denmark, at a London
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,
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.
Conant, Mr., 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; su-
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 Bartholomew fair, 1239, 1247; at Bath, ib. Creeping to the cross, 431. Cressets, account of, 831.
Cressy, father S., bis "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
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.
Cruikshank, Mr. George, the artist, noticed, 907, 1113, 1320, 1429. Cuckold's point, 1386.
Cuckoo, the,, 390, 411; cuckoo-day, 465; song, 739.
Cumberland customs, 53, 423; funerals, 1077.
gardens, Vauxhall, 603.
Cuper's gardens, 603.
Curfew bell, its origin, &c. 242.
Curl-papers, 1267.
Curses of the church, 262
Cuthbert, St., converted at ball-play, 864. Cutpurses, caveat against, 1206.
CYPRIAN, St., September 26; notice of, 1324.
Cyprus, a decking for rooms, 1635.
Daffa-down-dilly, a lawyer may not be called one, 239.
Dagon, a symbol of the sun in Pisces, 28. Dance, by moonlight, 11; of torches, 1551. Danes, massacre of, commemorated, 476; their honours to rural deities, 42. Daniel O'Rourke, his story, 622. Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, death of, 481. Davies, John, a racket-player, 868.
Tom., bookseller, notice of, 615. DAVID, St., March 1; account of the saint, 314; customs of his festival, 317.
H., artist, engraving from, 1395. Day family, the, 1100.
15th September, usually fine, 1294. after lord-mayor's day, 1469. Mr., his exhibition of painting and
sculpture, 263, 1531.
Mr. Thomas, a dwarf, 1194.
Death, contemplated, 1032.
in a pageant, 1490; for other adventures attributed to him, see accounts of the Romish saints, Index II.
Devonshire customs and superstitions, 42, 718, 1609.
Dictionary of musicians, characterised, 765. Dioclesian, the emperor, in his garden, 132. Discontented pendulum, 819.
Dissent, origin and progress of, 752. Distaff's, St., day, superstitions, 61. Dives and Lazarus, a carol, 1598. Divinations, various, 1409; in advent, 1552. Docwray, Thomas, prior of St. John's Clerk- enwell, 1479.
DOG DAYS BEGIN July 3; influence of the season on dogs, 897; no cure for the bite of a mad one, 900; a dog's complaint,
END August 11. fights on Sunday, 870. killer, an ancient office, 901. star, its alleged power, 897.
Dogs, bait lions, 978, 1006; a horse, ib. Dogget's booth at Bartholomew fair, 1239. Dorset, countess of, 16. Dorsetshire custom, 1414.
Dort, milk-maids save the city, 605. Dotterel catching, in Cambridgeshire, 645. Doubts, burnt out, 745.
Douce, Mr., his ancient Christmas carols, 1595, 1600.
Dragon, a symbol, 500; of St. Michael, 1325; with a stake in his eye, 38. Drama, ancient Greek, suppressed, 743; origin of the modern drama, 744. Drinking custom, 373.
by miracle, 25; at both ends of the barrel, 654; before execution, 1132; excessive, 1568.
Druids, customs, ceremonies, &c. 6, 58, 854, 1413, 1637.
Drury-lane maypole, 581.
Dublin royal society's pupils, under Mr. Behnes, gain the London royal academy prizes, 1651.
Duck-hunting at May-fair, 573. Dudingston, N. Britain, custom, 1539. Duel, R. B. Sheridan and Mathews, 911.
of the Virgin, by old engravers, Duelling, characterised, 451.
Dulwich, visit to, 1011.
Dunn, Harriet, English plum-pudding maker at Paris, 1617.
DUNSTAN, May 19; adventures of the saint with the devil, 670.
Durham, cathedral, on Candlemas-day, 205; customs, 431.
Dwarfs at Bartholomew fair, 1189, &c. Dyer, Mr. George, his "Privileges of the University of Cambridge," and "His- tory," 1305.
visits Bungav church 1065; represented | Earth, the, how worshipped, 1655.
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