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Leather-lane, King's-head public-house,
1630.

Lee and Harper's show, 1228.
Leeds, twelfth-eve custom, 43.
Leek, on St. David's-day, 317.

Leeming, Joseph, account of, 1455; his
letter to the editor, 1467.
Leeuwarden custom, 1566.

Leg, a, adventures of, 1460, 1467.
Legal glee-a catch, 164.

recreations, 239.

Leicester, sir John, his gallery possesses
Mr. Behnes' bust of Mr. West, 346.
Leisure, retired, 667.
Lenct-monat, 312.

Lent celebrations, 193; in a pageant, 256,
257; Lenten cross, 395.
Leo, zodiacal sign, symbolized, 1006.
Africanus, on the ass, 1309;

camel, 1580; his travels, 1581.

-, pope, calls St. Hilary a cock, 99.
XII., his indulgence, 306.

and

Leopold, prince, of Brunswick, drowned,

527.

Letter to March 25, 389.

foundery of Breitkopf, 185.

1435; lord mayor's day, 1439; election
of ward officers, 1587; waits, 1626;
ceremony of founding the new London-
bridge, 775; account of the old one,
799; city wall repaired from ruins of
Jews' houses, 296.

LONDON BURNT, 1666, September 2; accounts
of the great fire, 1150.

Magazine, "Lion's Head," 1007.
LONGEST DAY, June 21; a suitable apologue,
819; see BARNABAS, June 11.
Longevity of Petrarch, a Russian, 39.

Dennis Hampson, Irish bard,

40.
LORD MAYOR'S DAY, November 9; account
of lord mayor's show, 671, 1439, 1453.
Lord of the tap, at Stourbridge fair, 1487.
Lothbury, Jews' synagogue plundered, 296;
how watered formerly, 971.

Lovat, lord, executed, 452.
Love account-keeping, 215; advertisement,
1070; see Spring.

Loveday, Mr., his daughters become Catho-
lics, 534.

Loudon, J. C., his "Encyclopædia of Gar-
dening," 1043, note.

Leyden, explosion of gunpowder there, 93. Louis XVI., beheaded, 145.

Libra, zodiacal sign, 1147.

Lida aftera, 892; erra, 738.

Lifting at Easter, 422.

Lincoln's-inn-hall, breakfast on first of

term, 155, 1436; fountain, 1043.

Lincolnshire customs, &c. 1482.

XVIII., new-year's gifts to him, 14;
patron of plum-pudding, 1617

Low SUNDAY, movable; its derivation,

453.

Luchd-vouil, 1634.

LUCIAN, January 8; account of this saint,
78.

Lions, anecdotes of, 104, 978 to 1006, LUCY, December 13; account of this saint,

Lindsey, dame, of Bath, 1280.

1184, 1176, 1177, 1191.

head at Button's, 1006.

Lisbon, earthquake at, affects Peerless-pool,

975.

Liston, Mr., sees the living skeleton, 1029.
Literary services, ungrateful reward of, 527;
piracy, 1140.

Literature, societies for encouraging, 354.
Little Britain, Spectator published there,
283.

Littleton, lexicographer, his inscription for
the monument, 1165.

Liverpool, earl of, master of the Trinity,
ceremony of swearing, 724.
Living skeleton, the, visit to, 1017; an-
other, 1129.

Livy and his books, 24.
Loaf-mass, 1063.
Lobscouse, 53.

Logan, salt-water fish-pond, 82.
London, new-year's day, 15; Palm Sunday,
395; customs, 435; lord mayor and
citizens going a maying, 552; pageant,
671; lord mayor &c. at a mystery, 756;
ancient watch, 826; sheriffs proveditors
for beasts, 1005; corporation costume on
St. Bartholomew's day, eve, &c. 1235; cus-
toms at Michaelmas, 1330; lord mayor's
establishment, 1331; notice for 5th Nov.

1570.

LUKE, October 18; horn fair on his festival,

1386; how he is painted, 1387.

Lulle, Kaym., alchemist, account of, 398.
Lulli, J. B., composer, died, 383.
Lute, the barber's, 1268.

Lyme Regis, custom on Candlemas-day,
206.

Press," a poem,
lines on his daughter's hour-glass,

Macdonald, Alexander, his monument to the
pretender, 33.

sergeant Samuel, notice of, 619.
M'Dowal, colonel, his salt fish store, 82.
MACHUTUS, November 15; who he was,
1486.

Mackerel fishing, 961.

Macnamara, captain, duellist, 451.
Mad dogs, danger from, 900.

Moll, and her husband, at Hitchin,
566.
Magdalen-college quadrangle, dressed with
greens, 836.

Magna Charta signed, 811.

Magnus, St., church, custom at, 1349
Maia, a deity, 537.
Maid Marian, 550,

&c.

Mail coach, annual procession, 503.

Malabar Christians, 1586.

Malt's defence, 75.

Man of Ross, Pope's, 1438.

smugging, illegal, 1435.
Mansfield, earl, C. J., died, 374.
Manures and dressings, fanciful, 664.
Mara, madam, notice of, 762.
Marco, a Tower lion 1006.
Mare with seven legs, 1181.
Margot, a French girl, a ball-player, 856.
MARK, St. April 25; notice of him, 512;

celebrations of his eve and festival, 521.
Marlborough, duke of, notice of, 798.
Marriage of a priest, whereby he remained
a bachelor, 142; ill luck to marry on
Childermas-day, 1648.
Marseilles' fete, 1298.

MARTIN, St., November 11; account of him,
1469.

-'s church, near Canterbury, 301.
Mr., of Galway, noticed, 980.
Martineau, Mrs., lines on her death, 796.
Martinmas, 1470.

Mary, the lady, a rope-dancer, her tra-
gical fate, 1241.

1560.

10.

, queen, sung to by a boy bishop,

-, queen of Scots, new-ycar's gift to,

Melmoth, Courtney, died, 361.

Melodies of evening, 606.

Memory Corner Thompson, account of, 81.
Men, twelve, suspended in the air, 26.
Mercery, its signification, 1337.
Merchant Tailors' song, 1452.

Meredith, a fives-player, 867.
Merriment within compass, 61.
Merry-andrew, a superior one, 1245.
Merry in the hall, when beards wag all!
1640.

Meteor, a, in Britain, 373.

MICHAEL, St., September 29; account of
him, 629; his dragon, 500, 1325.
Michaelmas-day custom, 1325.
old, 1374.

term, 1436.

Michell, Simon, barrister, 1479, 1481.
Middleton's, Dr.Conyers, coach-horses bless-
ed, 117.

Mid-Lent Sunday, 358.

Midnight and the Moon, 963.
MIDSUMMER-DAY, June 24; celebrations
837.

--eve, bonfires, watchsetting,
&c. 823 to 836; divinations, 850.
--men, 850.
Midsumormonath, 738.
Midwinter, 59.

-monath, -1543.

Milan, its great loss, 46.

Mildred's, St., church in the Poultry, 285.
Mile, and half-mile stones, projected, 103.
Miles, lieutenant colonel, serves against the
Burmese, 1527.

Milkmaids' garlands, 570.

Miller's booth, Bartholomew fair, 1238.
Mince pies, symbolical, 1638.
Minch-pies, 1639.

Minster, Isle of Thanet, first abbess of, 285.
Minstrels, their ancient vocation, 1231.
Miracles, &c. of Romish saints; see Index
II.

Mirror of the Months, a book, 1491.
Missel-thrush, 535.

Mistletoe cut by the Druids, 6; kissed
under, 1614, 1615; proscribed in
churches, 1636.

Mitford, J., his account of lord Byron's
residence at Mitylene, 487.

Monk, a, drowned, and afterwards relates
his adventures, 1117.

duke of Albemarle, his wife, 582.
Monmouth, countess of, 17.

Montgomery, colonel, killed, 451.
Months, the, in a Norwich pageant, 256;
in a vérsified memorandum, 310.
Montmartre, its derivation, 1371.
Monument, the, on Fish-street-hill, 1150,
1165.

Moon, the, poetically addressed, 292; at
midnight, 963; its influence on the
weather, 1015; symbolized, 1110; new-
moon customs, 1509.

Moor, sir Jonas, astronomer died, 1093.
Moore's travels in Africa, 1582.

Mr. Thomas, lord Byron's last
lines to, 490.
Moorgate, annual procession from, 1488.
More, sir Thomas, lord chancellor, declines |
a new-year's gift of money, 9; reproves
his lady, 262; his head on London
bridge, 799.

Morrice dance, in the Strand, 559.
Morton, Regent, his guillotine, 149.
Moscow rebuilt, from Grays-inn-lane dust-
heap, 323.

Most Christian king, origin of the title,

1349.

Mother, suckling her child, 905.
Mothering Sunday, 358.

Mother's milk, an epigram, 1311.
Motions, puppet shows, 1246.

Movable fasts and feasts, 190; vigil or
eve, morrow, octave or utas of, &c. 192;
corrected, 415.

Mummers and mumming, 592, 1653.
Mushroom, an enormous one, 20.
Music of cats, 1106, 1110; music in every
thing, 1142; at Bartholomew fair, 1248; |
in the ass, 1360; musical ear of squir-
rels, 1365; musical prodigies, 1038.
Mutton-pie, and loaf, annual gift, 978.
Myddleton, sir Hugh, when he did not die,

343.

Mysteries, and Romish church pageants,
742, 750, &c.

Nailing, on twelfth-night, 50.

NAME OF JESUS, August 7; why in the
almanacs, 1071.

Napoleon's marriage and medal, 409;
king of Rome, born, 374; Napoleon
died, 616.

Naseby, battle of, 773.

Nash, Beau, notice of, 1585.

NATIVITY OF JOHN, baptist, June, 24; cus-
toms on the day and eve, 833, 846.

B. V. M., September 8; when
instituted as a festival, &c., 1274.
Navigations, miraculous, 4, 26, 194.

office, letter-boxes, 103.

Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand may-
pole, 560; dispute between him and
Fiamsteed, 1091; died, 374.

Nice, council of, 1557.

NICHOLAS, December 6; account of St.
Nicholas, and customs on his festival,
1555; in Holland, 1566.

lady Penelope, killed, 1513.
Nicknackitarian law-suit, 1284.
NICOMEDE, June 1; a martyr, 741.
Niger, the, its course, 1582.

Nightingales, on new-year's day, 521; in
April, 540; in May, 606; at Blackheath,
688; their jug-jug, 728.

Nightless days, 772.

Noah's flood represented at Bartholomew
fair, 1247.

Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 1007.
North-east wind fiend, 136; its effects,
622.

Nutting on Holy-rood day, 1293.

Oath, remarkably observed, 654.
Octavia, empress, account of, 454.
Ode on Smithery, 1499.
O'Donoghue, legend of, 594.

Offerings at the chapel-royal on twelfth-
day, 59; at Easter, 359.

Negro woman's pity of a climbing boy, Olave's St., church in the Old Jewry for-
592.

merly a synagogue, 296; boy bishop,

1561.

Orange, stuck with cloves, 7.
Oratorio, its origin, 703.
Oratory, fathers of the, 702.
Organ, of St. Catharine's church, 1407; in
the street at Christmas, 1615.
Orleans, duchess d', her new-year's gift to
Louis XVIII., 14.

O SAPIENTIA, December 16; why in the
almanacs, 1572.
Oster-monath, 407.
Ovens, origin of, 259.

Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, 1437.
Ovid, character of, 23.

Our lady of Bolton's image, 431.
Owling and purling on Valentine's day, &c.
227, 252.

Ox and Ass, why represented in prints of
the nativity, 1610.

Oxen pledged in cider, &c., 43.
Oxford, curfew at Carfax, 242.
Oyster-tub used for a carriage, 78.
Oysters on St. James's-day, 978.

Packhorse travelling, 876.
Packington's pound, a tune, 1214.
Pageants in London, 671, 1443, 1473,
1487; at Edinburgh, 647; on St.
John's eve, 825; of the seasons, fasts,
and feasts, 255.

Palace-yard porter shops, 603.
Pallas, the planet, discovered, 397.

PALM SUNDAY, movable; celebrations and
customs of the day, 391; palm, 1081.
play, with a ball, 864.

Palmer, Garrick's bill-sticker, 1244.

Pamela, imagined at cards, 93.

Pancake-day, 246.

month, 197.

Panchaud, M., defrauded, 770.

ture, 1651.

Paul's cathedral, London, 301; its pigeon,
1246.

cross, sermon against maypoles,
753; rood, 1292.

school, boys play mysteries, 753.
Pea-queen on twelfth-night, 56.
Peckham fair, 1125.
Pedlar, described, 1215.
Peerless-pool, described, 970.
Pendrill, Will., in the royal oak, 718.
Penn, William, his account of Mrs. Gaunt's
death, 480.

Penny, in twelfth-cake, 55.

Pens, his engraving of a guillotine, 148.
Pentecost, 685.

Pentonville, deficient of water, 1042.
Penzance, May custom, 561.
Perambulation of parishes, 652.

Perceval, Robert, killed in the Strand, 561.
PERPETUA, March 7; noticed, 340.
Perriwigs, 1259.

Peru, a fives-player, 867.

Perukes, 1450; for four angels, 435.

PETER, St., June 29, celebration of his fes-
tival at Rome, 885.

-'s chains, 1061.

chair at Rome, 121.

church, occasioned the Reforma-

tion, 264.

Czar, visits Greenwich, 1095.
Petrarch, crowned in public, 452; his
birth-day, the same as Juliet Capulet's,
1063.

Phials, with devil's drink, 21.

PHILIP and JAMES, Sts., May 1; noticed,
541.

the fair, entertains Edward II., 746.
Phillips, W., a Welsh dwarf, 1188.
Philosopher's stone, a patent for it, 240.

Panormo, Mr. C., gains a prize for scuip- Piazzi's discovery of the planet Ceres, 17.

Paper folding man, the, 692.

windows at Bartholomew tide, 1133.
Paques, pascha, paschal, pace, paste, 416.
Paradise, a Jesuit's account of, 1350.
Paris, new-year's day, 13; blessing of a
market there, 758.

Parish clerks of London, the, mysteries of,
753.

priest, a good, 1613.

Picture of St. Ignatius, miraculous, 1055.
Pictures at Dulwich, 1011.

Pidcock and Polito's menagerie, 1246.
Pie-powder-court, 1214.
Pied Bull, Islington, 634.
Pifferari of Calabria, 1595.
Pigeons of Paul's, 120, 1246.

Pigs, 119; annually consumed in London,
1217.

Pillow made of a dead man, 21.

Parr, Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and Pills, one pill not a dose, 661.

character, 444; and death, 339.

Pascal, the, 393, 436, 959.

Passion, the, symbolized, 405.
flower, 770.
Sunday, 392.

Pastry-cooks' shops on twelfth-night, 47.
Paternoster backwards, a charm, 1415.
PATRICK, St., March 17; legend of the saint's
miracles, 363; customs on his festival,
369; his chair, 825.

Paul, St., the apostle, notice of 889; his
and Seneca's epistles, 453.

's day, superstitions, 175; his chain,

601.

Pinning on twelfth-night, 47.
Pin-sticking customs, 136.
Pins and Pin-money, 9.

Pio, Albert, prince of Carpi, buried, 529.
Pipe of the Roman eucharist, 185.
Piran's, St., day, 334.

Pitt, rev. Charles, poet, died, 461.
Pizarro, notice of, 857.

Plague, the, notice of, 363; in London, 383.
Plough-light money, 73.

PLOUGH MONDAY, movable; processions
and other customs, 71.
festivals, 1334.

and Sunday, London

Plum-porridge at Christmas, 1640.

Racine, reads to Louis XIV., 1231.

- pudding, an eccentric vender of it, | Rackets, origin of, 863.
1250; made in France, 1617.
Plutarch, read to Louis XIV., 1231.
Plymouth, mild winter at, 1563.
Poaching notice, 350.

Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, 753.
Rahere, first prior of St. Bartholomew's,
1231..

Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 701.
Pole, the barber's, 1269.
Pompeii, panorama of, 1595.

Pompey's complaint in the dog-days, 945.
Ponsondie, 53.

Pope, the, and cardinals' jubilee for the
massacre on St. Bartholomew's day, 1131.
annual burning of, 1487.
Joan, card party, 91.
Pope's willow tree, 1081.
Popery, No, 1433.

Porter and his knot, 1215.

Porto-Bello, rejoicings on taking, 1473.
Post-office business increased, 215.

POWDER PLOT, November 5; celebrations,
1429.

Powell's, Mr., pedigree, 797.

Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, 421.
Rain, why it did not fall for three years,
116; on Swithin's day, 954, 958; aver-
age fall in winter, 1564.

-bow in winter, 107.
Ranson's, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey,
922, 928, 968.

Raphael, the archangel, 1326.

, painter, died, 451; his picture of
the Nativity, with a bag-piper, 1595.
Rath, the, or Burmese state-carriage, 1519.
Rats eat a bishop, 1362.

Ratzburg customs on Christmas-eve, 1604.
Raven feeds a saint and fetches his cloak
104.

Recollections, effect of tender, 1406.
Red Cross-street burial ground, for Jews,
296.

Lion-square, obelisk in, 859.

Prayer, directory for, 202; M. Angelo's, Reformation, the, its immediate cause, 264.

Powell of the fives-court, 868.

Praying for the dead, 1424.

280.

Prechdachdan sour, 1633.

Refreshment Sunday, 358.

Relics, curious list of, 814.

REMIGIUS, October 1; noticed, 1349.

431.

Pressing of seamen, when commenced, 373. Resurrection, the, a Romish church drama,
Pretender, monument to him, 33.
Price, Dr. Richard, died, 486.
Pricking in the belt, 437.

Printer's customs, and printing terms, 1133;
devil, 1139.

Printing, 185; improvement in, 1535; a
simile, 30.

PRISCA, January 18; noticed, 22.
Prisoners on trial, why uncovered, 1437.
Pritchard, rev. George, his storm sermon,
1517.

Procession-week, 642.

Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form of,
1165; for a fast in the storm year, 1515.
Proger's, Mr., pedigree, 797.

Pulpits, 838; stone pulpit at Oxford, 837.
Pumps, 1041.

Puppet shows, 1246; in Ben Jonson's
time, 1202; at May-fair, 574; at Pen-
tonville, 1114.

Purgatory eased, in 1825, 307; see Romish
saints, Index II.
PURIFICATION, February 2; see Candlemas.
Puxton custom, 837.

Pye-corner, Smithfield, 1217, 1238.

-, John, watchman of Bungay, 1628.

Quadragesima, 193.

Quarter-day, situations and feelings on,
841.

Quarto-die-post, explained, 100.

Rhed-monath, 313.

Rheumatism cured by ale, 23.

Ribadeneira's Lives of the Saints, used in
this work, 3.

Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St.
Bartholomew's priory, 1232.

RICHARD DE WICHE, April 3; account of
him, 419.

II. and his court at the parish
clerks' play, 753.

III. attends the Coventry plays,

757.
Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, 1565.
Richardson, Mr., buys Button's lion's head,
1007.

-'s, itinerant theatre, 1182, 1388.
Richmond, visit to, 601; hunt on Holyrood-
day, 1294.

Riding stang described, 12.
Ridlington, Rob., his bequest to Stamford,
1484.

Ring, a, occasions a repartee, 529; wedding
ring of Joachim and Anne, 1010.
Rippon church, Yorkshire, lighted up be
fore Candlemas, 205.
Rising early, its effects, 79.

Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol,
1600.

Roast beef, 1578.

pig, by Elia, 1218.

Queen's college Oxford, Boar's head carol, Robbery at Copenhagen-house, 862.
1619.

R. G. V. H. an inscription, 1466.

Robin in winter, 103; and the wren, 647.
Hood, 550; and his bower, 686.

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Roche, St. or St. Roche's day, 1120.

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