winter flowers, 783

Fly-berry plant, 72

Fly-boat, (the Malden) 694

Font, of Harrow Church, 79; of Becken-
ham church, 383; of West Wickham
church, 407; of Grassmere, 550
Foot-ball, formerly played in London
streets, 85

Fop and wit, union of, 333
Forces, doctrine of, 585

Forests, ancient and decayed, in Scotland,
576, 577. See Trees.
Forrest,

author of "Five Days'

Peregrination," 560
Fortune; cards for telling fortunes, 37;
how to be commanded, 174; fortune
favours the brave, or butterfly hunt-
ing, 339

"Fortune by Land and Sea," old play,
150

Fownes, Thomas and his fox-hounds, 17
Fox, the quaker, 381

Fractures, singular advice about, 670
Franklin, Dr., anecdote of, 45
Fraock Elan, isle of, 389
Fraser, Simon, brother of lord Lovat, 317
French; nobility, 66; valentines, 103;
adoption of children by, 110; transmi-
gration of French noblesse, 121; cere-
monies in France, 136, 251; present
jumble of ranks among, 181; former
hospitality to travellers, 198; nation-
ality of, 252, 253; decorum of in
crowds, ib.; almanacs, statements of,
270; diligence, description of, 756
Friar Bacon and his servant, 317
Friendship; destroyed by advice,
on the nail, supposed meaning of, 382
Fritters in France and England, 136
Fruit, market for at London and Paris,
479

165;

Funerals; mock, of a Bath chairman, 21;
of a French general by a British sailor,
316; a cheerful one, 350; customs
touching, 467, 550, 601, 743; consola
tion from funeral processions, 654
Furniture of old times, 706
Furs; tippets and scarfs, 532

Futurity, peep into, 37

ral, 467, 550

Garrick plays, selections from, contributed
by Mr. C. Lamb, 56, 67, 80, 96, 112, 128,
150, 162, 178, 192, 209, 224, 243, 256,
280, 291, 304, 320, 338, 352, 368, 394,
400, 417, 440, 449, 467, 480, 500, 514,
530, 547, 578, 595, 610, 642, 663, 676,
690, 704, 724, 737, 770, 784, 800, 817
Geese in the fens, management of, 71;
goose-dancing in Scilly islands, 41
Geikie, Mr., a meritorious artist, 58
Gems of the twelve months, 161
Genders, 556

Genius; unrewarded, 158; chance a great
patron of, 211; distresses of men of,
476; genius and good temper, 621
Gentleman, (The Old) character of, 59
"Gentleman Usher," old play, 500
"Gentleman of Venice," old play, 467
Gentry; heralds formerly kept by, 195;
former manners and oppressions of,
196; austere treatment of their child-
ren, 197

George, prince of Denmark, notice of, 536
George I., anecdote of, 203

II., and his cooks, 189
Germain, lord George, anecdote of, 205
Germany, universities in, 62
Giants in lord mayor's show, 719
Gibbs, alias Huck'n, Dr., 277
Gibbeting, 490

Gibbon's "Decline and Fall," 558
Gifford, William, death, and memoir of,
22

Gifts; new-year, 7; wedding, 397
Gilding without gold, 713
Gilpin, (Mrs.,) riding to Edmonton, 454
Gimmal ring, engraving, 415
Gin act, effect of passing. 539
Ginger beer, receipt for, 236
Gipsies, health and happiness of, 105; in
Epping Forest, 428

Gipsy [a stream] in Yorkshire, 115
Gladiators in England, 248
Glass windows, rare before the Reforma-
tion, 196; discovery of, 781; skill of
the ancients in, 809, 812, 826
Gleaning or leasing cake, 587
Glenstrae, laird of, 233

Gliddon, Mr., cigar divan of, 551

502

Gallantry, Dutch, 801

"Game at Chess," old play, 161
Gaming, curious notice about gambling
houses, 43; gaming for funeral ex-
penses, 382

Gammon of bacon, Easter custom of, 195
Gaols. See Prisons.

Gardens; summer garden of Peter the
Great, 643; love of gardens, 644;
Dutch royal garden, 644

Glorious memory, (the) 654

Gluttony, instances of, 589; glutton and
echo, 619

"God keep you." old salutation, 195
"God save the King," author of, 113
Goethe, his philosophy of life, 199
Gog and Magog of Guildhall, 719
Gold found in Scotland and Cornwall,
329; skill of the ancients in arts re-
lating to, 786

"Golden Age, (The)" old play, 339

in, 329

Hackerston's cow, 539

Hague, fine woods near, 644

Hagman Heigh, new year's eve custom, 4
Hairdresser. See Barber.

Halfpennies, 189

Hall, (Antiquarian) of Lynn, engraving
and notice of, 70

Thomas, his "Funebria Floræ," 273
Ham and Stilton, 90

Hammond, the poet, notice of, 470
Hampstead, Shepherd's Well at, 191;
the place of groves, 405

623, &c.

Gozzi, Italian dramatist, 420
Graham, Dr., lecturer, 695
Grammar explained, 478

Granger, Rev. Mr., the Linnæus of British
portraits, 255

Grapes in Covent Garden, &c., 484. See
also 430, 728

Grasshopper on Change, explanation of,
583, 584

Grassington theatricals, 538, 717
Grassington manager, [T. Airay] 85
Grassmere, beauty of, 553
Gratitude in birds, 296

Gravity mistaken for wisdom, 197
Gravity, doctrine of, 585

Great Unknown discovered, 153, &c.
Greatness, tax on, 819

Green, W., artist and author, 555
Green-grocer's devices, 304
Greenland, English sailors in, 315
Greenock Adam and Eve, antiquity of,
269

Gregory, old name for the hangman, 765
Gregory, (Old) selfishness of defeated, 120
Gresham, sir Thomas, a deserted child,
583

Gresham committee, notice by, about lost
children, 9

Gretna green, blacksmith and marriages,
216, 218; parsons, 477
Grey, lady Jane, table book of, 2
Grief, expressive silence of, 230
Grinstead, (East) old play bill, 69
Grosvenor, earl, and Mr. Gifford, 29
Groves; on a picturesque one, 404; groves
and high places, 404

Guardian, (The)" old play, 209
Guards, Swiss, monument of, engraving,
127

Guildford races, 767

Guildhall, curious explanation of, 798
Guilty, stupefaction on verdict of, 229
Guinea sovereigns, 790

Gunpowder, antiquity of, 810

Guns; air-guns, 666; notices concerning,
guns, 713

123; the bloody hand, 129; reason for
preferring the right hand, 140
Handkerchief, white cambric, 561
Hanged and unhanged, mankind divided
into, 228

Hanging in chains, 489; inducement to

hanging, 542; hanging the shuttle, 525
Hangman and his wages, 763

Hannah, (Blind) notice and engraving of,

111

Hard fare, 177

labour, varied by different tread-
mills, 378

Hare's foot, an antidote to witchcraft,
337

Harp, notices of, 168

Harpham, St. John's well at, 687
Harris, James, 556

Harris, Renatus, organist, 130

Harrow church, engraving of its old font,
79

Harrow, dancing round the, 513
Hart, the astrologer, 68
Harvest-catch, in Norfolk, 581
Hatred, to be insured by advice, 165
Hats; substitute for the shovel ha:, 605
Hawking, ladies formerly devoted to, 196
Hay-band, origin of, 771

Health, importance and means of, 105,
139

Heart, perpetual motion of, 686; case
containing Lord Bruce's heart, 527;
instance of heart-burial, 529; disposal
of sir W. Temple's heart, 644
Heat, how counteracted at 8 am, 541
Heaving, in wrestling, expl: nel, 665
"Hectors, (The)" old play, bu
Hedgehog, celestial, 314
Hell-bridge, in the Highlands, 458
Henley, (Orator) advertisement of, 722
Henley, in Arden, custom in, 88
Henry II., character of, 491

588

III. of France, amusements of,

IV., anecdotes of, 201
VIII. and his peers, 700
IX., notice of, 370

applied, 207

Inishail, isle of, 388
Innate ideas, 474

Innocent (Pope) III., 374

Inns, rare before the Reformation, 196;
poor's boxes formerly at, 196, 374

of the Romans, &c., 433, 434, 439;
seeking lost sign of one, 619; good
ones the result only of great travelling,
686; inn yards, 755
Inscriptions on old silver coin, how to
read, 226

Intellect, march of, 30, 341

Intemperance, corrected by echo, 619
Interlaken, beauties of, 214
Interment, superseded by immersion, 206
Invasion and volunteers, 442
Ireland, bogs in, 93; customs in, 253, 262,
426; custom of lord-lieutenants of,
332; Irishmen on a holiday, 346;
Irish tobacco pipes, 799

Islington, rights of parish of, 610, 808
Italian architects, pope's grant to, for
building churches, 197
Italian dramatists, 420

Jamaica, speculation for warming pans
́in, 8

James I., rudeness of his court to wo-
men, 195; at Durham, 340

II,, notices of the Stuart papers, 369
January, general prescriptions for, 41
Japanese mode of salutation, 94
Jeffries, Judge, a judge of music, 131
Jeggon, Dr., anecdote of, 414
Jemmal ring, 415

Jennens, Charles, notice of, 740
Jerningham, Mr., notice of, 101
Jests; great merit of suppressing offen-
sive ones, 140; effect of wealth on
their success, 174

Jews, Easter custom against, 277
Jew's harp, 430

John, (St.) a custom on St. John's eve,
464; St. John of Beverley's Well at
Harpham, 687

"John (King) and Matilda," old play,
56, 402

John Bull, specimen of, 188; indecorum
and rudeness of in crowds, 253
Johannites, notice of, 775

Johnson, Dr., "an odd kind of a chiel,"
542

Joy, madness from excess of, 256
Jubilee, (Revolution) 672

Judges, hunting their own venison on
circuit, 34; immense fans formerly
carried by, on circuit, 197; a singular
decree of one, 446; curious description
of one, 542; a candid judge, 590;
juries the better judges, 590

Juries, the better judges, 590; decisions
of juries, 781

Justice, (impartial) 203

Justices of peace, former furniture of
their halls, 196; arithmetical estimate
of, 366; female, 700
Juxton, bishop, notice of, 510

Kalm, Swedish traveller, description of
Niagara, 680

Keats, the poet, 405; epitaph on him-
self, 539; notices of, 600, 629
Kelly, Miss, notices respecting, 442, 448
Keston Cross, 431
Ketch, Jack, 763

Kicking, in wrestling, barbarous, 664. 665
Kimberley, Francis, Birmingham con-
juror, 118

King, (The) and the private gentleman,
366

King, Col., and Col. Fitzgerald, duel be-
tween, 362

Knowledge, defends from the juggle of
forms, 110; even a little of it useful,
379; importance of a knowledge of the
world, 412

Labour, hard, greatly varied by different
treadmills, 378

Labour and luck, 494
Lacteals in a mole, 510
Ladies, in winter like tea-kettles, 76; air
and exercise for, 105; lady of the hill,
146; character of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr,
a maiden lady, 170; the lady and trou-
badour, 227; the white lady, 359. See
Women.

Lang, David, the Gretna-green black-
smith, 216

Lairds, compliment to a young one, 542
Lamb, Mr. C., lively letter to, 97