261

"Lambs (Young) to sell," a London cry,

198

Lamond of Cowel, tradition of, 233
Lancaster, dukes of, 50; aud York,
houses of, ib.

Landlady, agreeable, 562
Language, without words, 234; English,
distinct derivations of, 237; genders
in, 556

Lansberg, Matthew, Liege almanac by,

137

Lanterns, court order for, in the streets,
207

Laplander's mode of salutation, 93
Lapstone, beating the, 43
Lark, the evening, 311

Last tree, 44; last deer of Beann Doran,
377

"Late Lancashire Witches, (The)" old
play, 97

Lauron, Marcellus, artist, 255
Lavater, aphorisms by, 137
Laurence Kirk snuff-boxes, 754
Law of kindness, 662

Lawsuit, effect of, 67

Law and poetry, 446; remark on law-
books, 781
Lawyers, two, 652

Leaping, curious instance of, 554
Learning, and large libraries, 109; for-
merly united with pedantry, 197; a
mulatto deploring his education, 313;
a little learning not dangerous, 379
Leathart, Mr., "Welsh Penillion of," 168
Leaves scorched by summer-showers, 541
Lee Penny, The, engraving, 486
"Legends, Scottish," 388
Leceistershire, custom of, 262
Leeds, duke of, (earl of Danby), vindica-
tion of, 672

Lendi, M. B,, new hygrometer by, 13
Lent, customs in, 313

135

Jack o', puppet formerly thrown at,

Leith Hill, near Dorking, 473

description of, 819

Light, philosophy of, 618, 811

Lilly, his account of the astrologer Hart,
68

Limbs, advice in case of one broken, 670
Linnet fancy, 294

Liston, William, crier of, "young lambs,"

198

Liston, Mr., 739

Literature, a great bargain of, 370; a
literary character, 205; foolish labour
in, 428, 797
Living well, 430

Lloyd, T. Esq., curious pillar restored
by, 176

Loadstone, opinions on, 732

Loaf-stealing, an old Christmas game, 196
Loddon church, poor's box in, 375
London, described in 1634, 84; modern
improvements in, 107; musicians in-
corporated in, 1:4; cries, see Cries;
university, founding of, 297; notice of
London watermen, 314; London mer-
chants a hundred years since, 325;
London holydays, 347; fruit markets
of London and Paris, 483; old London
cries, 630; a London watchman, 676;
fires in London, 699; Londiniana, 708;
giants in Guildhall, 719. See Bank-
side, Battle-bridge, Clerkenwell, Co-
vent Garden, Islington, &c.
"London Chanticleers," old play, 128
Long, sir Walter, of Draycot, his style
of travelling, 197

Longevity, clerical, striking case of, 12;
longevity of a Highlander, 521
"Looking Glass for England and Lon-
don," old play, 321
Lord chancellor, office of, 365

high admiral, powers and seal of, 287
Lord Mayor's show, giants in, &c., 719
Lords and ladies, vegetable, 599
Lost children, notice about, 9
Lottery, madness from success in, 256
Lovat, lord, engraving of, 119; claimant
to the title, 317

Liege almanac, 137

Luck and labour, 494

Lying; why Thames Ditton called lying
Ditton, 330; how to be reformed, 366
Lynn, Antiquarian Hall of, 70; Billy
Boots of, 151; May-day at, 271
Lyttleton, sir George, notice of, 709

Mac Colda, Alaister, 389

Macdonald, John, a Highlander,521
Donalds and Campbells, 389
Gregor of Glenstrae, 233
Phadian, captain, 391
Macham, discoverer of Madeira, 138
Macrae, captain, and sir George Ramsay,
fatal duel between, 362
Madeira, discoverer of, 138
"Mad Dog," 747

Madness, raving, from a lottery prize, 256
Madrid, carnival in, 137
Magpies, superstition relating to, 191;
anecdote of one, 718

Maid of Honour, curious patent to one,
621

"Maid Marian," letter respecting, 419
Malacca, salutation in, 98

Mallet, David, notice of, 469

customs at, 534, 588, 601; ungallant
toll on brides, 536; marriage under
the protectorate, 667

"Married Beau, (The)" old play, 725
Marseilles, custom at, 136; interesting
history of, 270

Martin, St., and the Devil, 499
Mary, Peter, and, 546

"Master of the bears and dogs," 249
Master of the revels, license by, 30, 34
Masters, an amiable one, 205
Matlock, 482

Matrimony. See Marriages.
Maturin, conversations of, 341
Maundy Thursday, 239. &c.
Maxims of meanness, 281, 282
May-day, customs on, 271, &c., 279, 314,

629

Mayor's feast, temp. Elizabeth, 723
Mazarine, cardinal, easy patronage by,

203

Meals; hot meals, 157; taken with mys-
terious privacy, 212

Meanness formerly taught for morals,
281, &c.

116

"Mamamouchi," old play, 530

Man, description of, 819

"Man in the Moon," tract called, 540
Mankind, only two classes of, 228
Manners in Oliver Cromwell's time, 10;
before the Reformation, 195; of old
times, 706, 829

Manufactures, celerity of processes of,
457; of Birmingham, 712
Manuscripts, an author reading one to a
bookseller, engraving, 63; curious ac-
count of Stuart manuscripts, 369; cu-
rious restoration of one, 622
Maps, a curious old one, 253
March, first of, 283; fair, at Brough, 159
of intellect, 60

Marden, (Milton and) hundred of, 289
Mariner, (an ultra) 508

Mark, St., customs on St. Mark's eve,
464, 494, 540

Markets, (fruit) of London and Paris,

483

Marlow, poet, merit of, 663 (note.)
Marot, Clement, French poet, notice of,
797
Marriages, a new plan for, 11; account
of late duke of York's, 53; breach of
promise of marriage, 90; in Highlands,
146; at Gretna Green, 216; of the
doges of Venice, 226; perplexing ones
in relationship, 238; vulgarity of a
court lady's consenting to marriage,
369; Welsh, 371; Cumberland, 397;
curious case of re-marriage, 409; the
Gimmal Ring, 415; a happy marriage,
472; Gretna Green parsons, 477; old

ledge of, 811, 825, 826

Medals; a commemoration medal of diet
of Augsburgh, 575

Medicine, skill of the ancients in, 786,
787

Melancthon and Calvin, 782

Melons, varieties and weights of, 485
Memory with stupidity, instance of, 700
Memorandum books, 1
Menage, advice of, touching poetry, 670
Mendip mines and Miners, 762
Mercer of London, old picture of, 285
Merchandise, unfavourable tendencies of,

282

Merchants, (London) a hundred years
since, 325

Merrow, in Surrey, 767
Metastasio, memoir of, 211
Meum et Tuum, 539

Mice, field, for preventing injuries from,
648

Michaelmas day, customs on, 646
Microscopes, whether known to the
ancients, 826

Milk, in America, 654
Milky Way, the, 602
Mill, the haunted, 652
Millhouse, Robert, his Poems, 495
Milton, hundred of, 288, 290
Mines; workers in coal-mines described,
327; fatal explosion in, 328; in Great
Britain, 329; descent into, 483; Men-
dip mines and miners, 762
Ministers, cheap patronage by, 203
Minstrels, curious regulations for, 168
Mint, test of old silver coin at, 226
Minuets, laborious study of, 446

Nottingham, earl of, 288
Numbers and figures, 380
Nunneries, girls formerly educated in,

195

Oaks, fine ones in Holland, 644
Oddities of Genius, 212

"Oddities, Whims and,” by T. Hood, 744
Offerings to infants, 425

Offices, estimates of value of, 452
Offices and trades specified in Dooms-
day-book, 308
Oglethorpe, general, notice of, 761
O'Kelly, Col., his celebrated race horse
and parrot, 311

Old age, a fair price for burning it out at
the stake, 343

gentleman, (the) character of, 59
women, ridicule of, De Foe's cen-
sure of, 10

"Old England for ever," pamphlet called,

591

Opinions, former authority of, 444
Opium-eater, the, notices of, 553
"Oranges, The Three," play called, 420
Oran-outang, extraordinary one, 378
Orde, Mr., an amateur artist, 255
Organs, celebrated ones, 130; address to
a barrel organ, 403; notices of, 237
Orleans, duchess of, ingenuous disclaimer
by, 621

Osnaburgh, bishopric of, 49
Ostend, siege of, 279
Ostler, derivation of, 439

Ostrich, (the king's) dissection of, 309
Oho, earl of York, 49

“Ough,” (the syllable) many ways of
pronouncing, 344
Ounce, derivation of, 189
"Outlandish knight," 65
Oxford, mayor of, 309

Oyster cellars, entertainment of, 434

Padua, cheerful funeral at, 350
Page's lock, near Hoddesdon, curious
chair at, 632

Pageant vehicle and play, representation
of, 6

Painters. scene for, 328

Painting on cloth and glass, by the an-
eients, 787, 809, 827

Palindrome explanation and instance of,
499

Pamphleteers, a singular one, 364
Paper books not before the tenth cen-
tury, 254

Papers, (Suart) curious account of, 369
Parents' affection, 635, 660. Sec Children.
Parenthesis, explanation of, 286
Paris garden, Southwark. 245

Parliament, clubs, 140; anecdote of royal
aversion to, 350; bribery of, by Charles
V., 422

"Parliament of Bees," old play, 304
Parodies, pious, of Horace, 584

Parr, Dr., early model of, for style, 599
Parrots, Col. O'Kelly's most remarkable
one, 311

Parsimony. See Misers.

Parsons and clerks, anecdotes about, 331.
See Clergymen.

Parsons, Joe, the samphire-gatherer, 226
Parties of pleasure, a successful one, 276
Party of pleasure, interesting, 559
Passion-week, 239, &c.

Pastoral and tragi-comedy, definitions of,
725

Patients, philosophical observation of
their diseases by, 356

Patriotism, fervour and judgment of, 201
Patronage, (cheap) 203

Paulian, (Father) his account of a stone-
eater, 177

Pavy Labathiel, 677

Pawning, valuable resource of, 453
Peak's hole, 421

Peal (dumb) of Grandsire Triples, 678
Pearce, Dr. Zachary, H. Walpole's ridi-
cule of, 5; anecdote of, 466 ̊
Pearl, Cleopatra's, 809

Pedantry formerly the associate of learn-
ing, 197

"Peep into futurity," 37

Pegge, Rev. S., revolution centenary ser-
mon of, 672, 673, 763

Pemberton, sir J., lord mayor, 424
Penge Common, "Crooked Billet " on,

335

Penn, William, and the Indians, en-
graving, 623

Penny, (The Lee) an antique, description
of, 486

Pens, how carried anciently, 254; their
introduction, ib.

Penthaney, Anthony, a miser, notice of,
473

Pepys, extracts from, 829, &c.
"Perhaps," its importance in the sciences,

124

Perfection, the steps of, 525
Pesce, Nicolo, the diver, and the royal
gold cups, 353

Peter the Great, summer garden of, 643
Peter-house college, anecdote touching,
546

Phantasms, singular case of, 355
Philadelphia, origin of, 624
Philippos, 767

Philippine Islands, salutations in, 98
"Phillis of Segros," old play, 400

Parish accompts, 241

Parishes, abuses in, 427

See Ancients. Philosophy of a fairy,

584

grave family, 382
Phlebotomy. See Bleeding.
Phrenology, 165

Physicians, curious jealousy of some,
137; a benevolent one, 557; two phy-
sicians, 652

Pickpockets, 530

Pickworth, Mr. C., letter to, 717
Picture dealer, trade catalogue of, 118
Pie, Christmas, 667

l'ikeman, or turnpike-man, 756
Pilgrimages, intense interest of "Pilgrim's
Progress," 109; pilgrimages formerly
in England, 196; a curious one, 238
Pilpay's abridgment of a library, 124
Pine apples, 483

Pipe sludge, or prejudice against new
water-conveyance, 367
Pipes, Irish tobacco, 799
Piscatoria, 733

Pitt, Mr. W., notices of, and of his seat
at Holwood, 728

Places, names of some explained, 78;
high places and groves, 404
Plague at Eyam, 655, &c., 729
Planets, illustration of, 373; material of
one, 540

Planting in Scotland, 577; planting re-
commended, 644, 649

Platina, the historian, anecdote of, 349
Plato, mode of studying, 501; Plato and
other ancients, 824. See Ancients.
Plays; representation of a pageant vehicle
and play at Coventry, 6; licence for
enacting plays, 34; curious play-bills,
69, 129, 292, 318; origin and progress
of theatrical representation, 153; not
a third of old dramatic treasure ex-
hausted, 179; supposed libels in, 201,
202; an author's correct estimate of
one, 286; one of nine days' represen-
tation, 369; a straightforward critic
upon, 402; at Linton and Grassington,
538; play-wrighting, 620; acting of
extraordinary children in plays, 677;
performance of plays at Christian Ma!-
ford, 691; definition of pastoral and
tragi-comedy, 725; expedients and
difficulties of players, 691; selections
contributed by Mr. C. Lamb from the
Garrick plays, 417, 440, 448, 467, 430,
500, 514, 530, 547, 578, 595, 610, 642,
663, 676, 690, 704, 724, 770, 784, 800,
817; Garrick's collection of.
Garrick plays.

Plea of the Fairies," 584

See

"Poetesses, (British)" by Mr. Dyce, 98

kerchiefs, 530

Poetry, Bowring's popular Servian poetry,
265; poetry and fact, 323; thou and
you in, 530; rule for criticism, 670;
diction of, 820

Poets; advice to one from one younger,
124; estimate of various poets, 341;
minor poets not useless, 342; distresses
of, 476; an athletic poet, 554; reward
of an ingenious one, 530; encourage-
ment to poets, 760
Poland, custom in, 160
Politeness, 621

Polkinghorne, a famous wrestler, 664
Polypi, 811

Poor's boxes, notices and engravings of,
374

rates, none before the Reformation,
196

Pope, Alexander, notice of, 469
Port wine, Ewart's excellent, 172
Portaferry, Easter custom at, 253
Porter recommended, 206

Porters, (ticket) regulations and fares
of, 10
Portraits, British, Rodd's sale catalogue
of, 118; picture of taking, 640
Portuguese mysteries, 571

Posts, (road) scripture texts on, 270
Potatoes, proper treatment of in frest, 9
Potter, Dr., university flogger, 197
Pound, derivation of, 189
Powell, the fire-eater, 157

Mr., a notorious duellist, 361
Preacher (Puritan) 818
Prescription of money, instead of physic,

Princesses, mode of carrying, 501
Printing, licenses for, 292, 293
Prison walls, 364
Prisons, ancient and modern, 460
Private and public, 366
Prize-fighting, with swords formerly, 248
Processions at funerals, 654; at the re-
storation, 667; on centenary of the
revolution, 673

Professors in German universities, 62
Prognostications, effect of a few success-
ful ones, 138

Promise, breach of, curious case of, 90
Pronoun, first personal, not to be worn
out, 171

Pronunciation, at the old Grassington
theatre, 36; extreme irregularity of
the English, 344