Property, fixed and moveable, remarks | Realities resembling dreams, 229

on, 173

Protestant German Universities, 62

Prynne, William, notice of, 363
Public-houses, 433, 434, &c., 440
Public and private, 366

Publishers, how dispensed with, 364
Puddle-dock, duke of, 560
Pudsey, bishop, notice of, 208

Pulpits furnished with hour-glasses and
clocks, 243, 251; pulpit desk, 512;
pulpit in the rock, 662
Punch bowl, Devil's, 487
Punctilio, Spanish, 541
Punctuality recommended, 398
Punishments, capital, solemnity and
ror of, 228, &c.

Rebellion, (The)" old play, 677
Red-herring on horseback, an old dish,

195; eulogium of red-herrings, 285

Reformation, manners and customs be-
fore, 195; progress of, 242
Regent's-street and park, 107, 108
Relationship, involvement of by marriage,
238
Religion, 414

Request, modest, 734

Restitution, better late than never, 69;
for ease of conscience, 201
Retrospect, 92

Return made to a parish circular, 189
ter-"Return, the Soldier's," 702

Puns, not unnatural in grief as well as
joy, 56

Purple of the ancients, 732, (note.)
Purvis, William, or "Bind Willie," the
minstrel, 231

Pye, Mr., curious anecdote from, of
Charles I., 350

Pye-stealer detected, 210

Revels, master of, licence by for enacting
plays, 34
Revenant (Le) 228
Revenge, wishes of, 98
Reverie, 232

Revival, after hanging at the gallows, 228
"Rewards of Virtue," old play, 80
Rheumatism, asserted effect of, 71
Rhodian Colossus, 826

Rhone, river, Scipio's shield found in, 132
Rhubarb, and the Turk in Cheapside, 97
Rich man defined, 173

Pyramids of Egypt, 826

Rhodope and Cinderella, 774

Pythagoras, power of his music,
Pythagoras and other ancients,
See Ancients.
Pytheas and other ancients, 824.
Ancients.

516;

824.

See

Quakers; The Three Quakers, 439;
quakers under William Penn, 623,
&c.; origin of the term quaker, 629
66 Quarter of an hour before," 398
Qualities, sensible doctrine of, 505
Queen's college, Oxford, custom at, 43,
195

Queenborough, curious account of, 563
Questions, danger of asking, 171
Quid pro quo, 430

Quin, his apology for a dancer's absence,
8; his unfeeling jokes, ib., 9; notices
of, 470, 709

Quintain, the, 502, 534
Quipoes explained, 470

Richardson, the first public fire-eater, 158
Riches, good and bad effect of, 174
Riddle and explanation, 205
Ridicule, 501

Right hand, reason for preferring, 140
Rigi, in Switzerland, inscription on book
at, 69

Ringing, memorial of, at Bromley, 678;
anecdotes of ringers, 679
Rings; the Gimmal ring, engraving and
notice of, 415
Rising, (early) 398

Rivers, opinions on, 763

Road-posts inscribed with texts, 270
Roasting, musical, 516

Robertson, J., a friend of Thomson, 604
"Robin Gray, (Auld)" curious account
of, 100

Robin Hood's bower, 243

Rodd, Mr. H., picture-dealer, 118

Rollan, Madame, a celebrated dancer, 8
Roman antiquities, 40

Romans, customs of, 433; fatality of
Roman emperors, 612; doubts on Ro-
man history, 621; Roman remains,
727, 729, 735
Romuald, St., 711

Rooms, former lowness of, 84
Rope-riding at Venice, 540
Rosamond, (Fair) 158

Rouen, Easter custom at, 242
Round robin, ancient custom of, 349
Royal Society, 276

Royal families, ill-fated ones, 613

"Royal King and Loyal Subject, (The)” | Schools, rare before the Reformation,

old play, 663

Rubens, liberality and kindness of, 5
Kunaway mops or statutes, 88

Ruptures, curious application for, 647
Rural delights, 354

Rushes, houses and churches strewed
with, 553, &c.
Russia, Esop in, 643

Rutty, Dr., a Quaker, confession of, 669
Rydal Mount, seat of Wordsworth, 552

Sackville, sir E., and lord Bruce, due!
between, 527

Saddles, rules touching, 593
Sailors, 563

custom of when in Greenland,
315; generous feeling of one for a dead
enemy, 316; their remonstrance by a
round robin, 345; anecdote of an Irish
one, 350

St. Bride's church, admirable organ in, 131
St. David's day, 167

St. Giles Hill, near Winchester, fair at,

102

Saint Giles's bowl, 765

St. Goodrick misleading a bishop, 208
St. Jerome's description of an organ, 237;
conjecture about his dragon, 269
Saint John's Well, at Harpham, engrav-
ing, 687

St. Lawrence church, capital organ in, 131
St. Margaret's at Cliff, 225

St. Mary church, admired organ in, 131
Saint Romuald, 711

St. Sepulchre's bell, at executions, 82
Saints, a poor female one, 376
"Sally Holt," a story, 749

Salt, the terror of spectres, 261, 262;
custom of putting salt on the dead, 262
Salutation, different modes and forms of,
93, 195; curious one by lord Lovat,
120; lively lecture on the English
mode, 278

Samphire, gathering, 225, 226
Sandy, James, an extraordinary artist, 754
Sanitary cordon, 661, 662

"Sappho and Phaon," old play, 547
Satellites, 603

"Satiromastix," old play, 352

Saville, sir G., letter to, 660

Sawston Cross, 455

Saxons, customs of, 433

195; chastisement in, 501; schoolboys'
anticipations of home, 548

Sciences and arts, skill of the ancients in.
See Ancients.

Scilly Islands, custom in, 41

Scipio, anecdote and shield of, 132
Scot, John, a fasting fanatic, 67
Scotland, story of the Scotch soldier, 143;
utility of the Scottish hospital, 143:
customs on the new moon in, 197;
amusements called hy-jinks in, 234;
an old and corrected map of, 253;
Scotch Adam and Eve, 269; some
gold found in, 329; Scottish legends,
388; customs in, 426, 434, 486; Scotch
lairds and judges, 542; Highland emi-
gration, 575; forest of Scotland, 576.
See Highlands.

Scott, sir Walter, letter of, to sir A. Fer-
guson, 668

Thomas, shepherd, anecdote of, 669
Scripture texts, how hung up formerly
in houses, 195; inscribed on road-
posts, 270

Sculpture of the ancients, 827

Scylla and Charybdis, ancient and mo
dern descriptions of, 321
Sea bull, 350

weed, address to, 226
Seals; bread seals, 45; seal of lord high
admiral, 287
Second-sight, 391

Secrets worth keeping, 371
Sects, exclusiveness of, 818
Seigneurs, the benevolent one, 66
Seignories in England, dreadful abuses
and oppressions formerly in, 196
Selden, notice of, 700
Self-devotion, clerical, 682
Self-esteem, 790

Selling and buying, 520
Sensualist and his conscience, 619
Sepulchral remains, 41, 42
Servants, appropriate addresses of differ-
ert ones, 89; description of statutes or
mops for hiring, 86, 102; servant-
maid's pocket-book, 616; old and faith-
ful servants, 823

Servetus and his works, 777
Servian popular poetry, 265
"Seven Champions of Christendom," old
play, 244

Session court of, satire on judges of, 542
pic-"Shakerley, my aunt," 746

Scaffold, the criminal's view from, 230
Scandal, a grand receptacle of, 123;
ture of, 445

Scarborough, custom at, 202
Scarfs and tippets, 532
Scheveling scenery, 644

Schmidt, celebrated organ-builder, 130
"School of Adults," 745

Schoolboys, 75; at Malmsbury, tradition
about, 116

Shakspeare, a fault in, 151; contempo-
rary dramatists of, 179; a giant among
giants, 179; time's rival, 584
Sham-fights and invasion, 442
Sharp, Mr.. his dissertation on Coventry
pageants, 6

Sheep, aversion of deer to, 377, 378;
their injury to young woods, 576;

superstition touching sheep and mice, | Snuffers, (curious old) account and en-

Street circulars, 238
Strutt, Mr., new edition of his "Sports
and Pastimes," &c., by editor of the
Table Book, 503

Stuart papers, interesting account of, 369;
the unfortunate line of Stuarts, 613
Students in German universities, 62
Studley statute for hiring servants, 87
Style, error respecting, 30
Styles, for writing on table-books, 1
Suicide never occurring among gipsies, 105
Sumatra, oran-outang of, 378
Summer drinks, receipts for, 236
Summer; summer-house at Siam, 541;
summer showers, an effect of, £41;
summer garden of Peter the Great, 643
Sunday, diversions on, 245, 247
Suppers, a light and early one, 334
Sup-porter, a sign motto, 206
Surgery, skill of the ancients in, 785, 787
Surnames, various cases of that of the
"devil," in families, and arms corre-
spondent, 349

Surveys, of see of Durham, 208; in
Doomsday-book, 305
Sweetheart-seeing, 494

Swimming, Kircher's account of a man
web-handed and web-footed, 353
Swiss guards, monument of, 127
Switzerland, an artist's letter from, 214
Sword-dancing in Northumberland, 329
"Sybil's Leaves," 37

Sympathy, supposed effect of, 581
System for shopkeepers, 281, 282
Table Book, explanation of, 1; design of
the present, 2; editor's disclaimer of
various publications in his name, 382;
editor of about to publish a cheap
edition of "Strutt's Sports and Pas-
times," 503; editor's severe domestic
afflictions, 783

Table rock at Niagara, 685

Temple of Health, Dr. Graham's, 695;
for smoking, Mr. Gliddon's, 751
Temple, Sir W., disposal of his heart, 644
Tenter, (Bear and) boys' play, 596
"Tethy's' Festival," old play, 321
Test of talent, 286

Texts of scripture; formerly written in
apartments, 195; on road-posts, 270
Thales and other ancients, 824.
Thames, river, shut out state of, 84;

bronze antique found in, 134
Thames Ditton, the resort of anglers, 330
Theatres, one projected at Edinburgh,

157; advice respecting formation of,
ib; curious circumstances of a fire at
one, 369. See Plays.

"The thing to a T," explanation of, 8
Thomas, Elizabeth, poetess, 99
Thomson, poet, notices of, 468, 603, 708
Thorwalsden, monument by, 127
Thoulouse, cruel custom at, 277
Thou and you, in poetry, 580
Thread and thread-makers, 716
Throwing the stocking, 149
Thucydides, testimonial to, 324
Thunder, opinions on, 730
"Thyestes," old play, 737
Ticket porters, regulations and fares of, 10
Tickling trout, 331

Tides, opinions on, 731
Tie and bob wigs, 631
Tighe, Mrs., poetess, 100
Timber in bogs, remarks on, 93
"Time, the defeat of," 582
Tin mines, in Cornwall, 329
Tippets and scarfs, 532
Titles, new, to old books, 34
Titles, 790

Tobacco, much used in 1634, 85; and
snuff, proposed history of, 194; anec-
dotes of dealers in, ib.; or a substitute,
ancient use of, 800. See Ancients.

Tadloc's tread like pavier's rammers, 188 Toll, ungallant, 536

Tailors and cabbage, 236
Tailor, origin of the word, 773
Talbot inn, Borough, 437

"Tales, (Early Metrical)" notice of, 57
Talker, the selfish, 171; talking, at times,
how difficult, 181

Talkington, George, casualties, that be-
fell, 478

"Tancred and Gismund," old play, 161
Tanner, appropriate name for his villa, 382
Tanner, Dame, gleaning cake of, 587
Tartans, now little used in the High-
lands, 147

Taste, its power and value, 43
Tasting days, 638

Taverns and inus, notices of, 435, &c.,
439, &c.

Taylor, J., of Birmingham, notice of, 712
Tempers of birds, how ascertained, 296
Temple church, organ in, 130

Tollard, (royal) formerly a royal seat, 18
Tollet, Elizabeth, poetess, 99
Tomarton, former dungeon in, 196
Tomkins, an unrelenting creditor, 334
Tommy Bell, engraving of, 326

Sly, engraving of, 166
Tonga Islands, custom in, 413
Tooth, (the golden) learned dispute on, 227
Torches, dance of, 54

"Tottenham Court," old play, 291
Toupees, how formerly stiffened, 197
Tours, a curious one, 560

Townsend, (Bow street) evidence by, 489
Trade, good and ill of, 520

Trades, younger brothers formerly not
bred to, 197; and offices specified in
Doomsday-book, 308

Tradesmen, deviation from ancient rule
of, 120; competition between, 194;
"The Tradesman," by Defoe, 282

Tradition, picture of, 597
Tragi-comedy and pastoral comedy, 725
"Traitor, (The)" old play, 704
Transmigration, explanatory of antipa-
thies, 510

Trashing, 588

Travellers, former hospitality to, in
France, 195; before the Reformation
were entertained at religious houses, 196
Travelling by coach and steam compared,
131

Travelling, precautions for, 590, 581
Tread-mills, different standards of labour
in, 378

Treasure-digging, patent for, 621
Treaties; one between W. Penn and the
Indians, 623, treaty of Uxbridge, 675
Trees, tasteful disposal of, 404; skeletons
of, 577; a memorable elm, 625; noble
trees near Amsterdam, 645; super-
stition about passing patients through
a split ash, 647; trees poetically and
nationally considered, 649; height of
the cabbage tree, 650

Trials, of Flora, 273; of a negro for
breach of promise, 90; for life, im-
pressions under, 229
Tricks of the Fairies, 584

Vauxhall, a dramatic sketch, 219
Vega, Francis de la, adventures of, 508
Lopez de, mysteries of, 471
Vehicle, (pageant) and play, notice and
engraving of, 6

Venice, 540; the doge's marriage, 226
Venison, hunted better than shot, 17;
potted, curious notion about, 581
Vines, notices about, 430, 728. See
Grapes.

Viper's poison, 796

Vernon, admiral, patron of General
Washington, 309

-, mount, why so called, 309

a musician, anecdote of, 9

Vienna, customs in, 9
Views of a felon on the scaffold, 230
Village new-year described, 46
"Virgin Widow," old play, 161
Virginia, deliberate duel in, 361
Virtue and Death, dialogue between, 424
"Visiting the churches," 239
Voice, restoration of, by anchovy, 685
Volunteer reminiscences, 442
Vortices, doctrine of, 603
W, (the letter) 205
Waggery, ancient, 210
Wagstaff, Mr. E., 507

"Triumphant Widow, (The)"old play, 530 Wake-Robin, a plant, 599

Troller's Gill, (The) 741

Tromp, Van, gallantry of, 800

Trout, tickling, 331

"True Trojans, (The)" old play, 578
Trumpets formerly sounded before lords
and gentlemen, 197

Tuileries, massacre of Swiss Guards at, 127
Tumuli, 41, 42

Turk in Cheapside, inquiry for, 97; the|
Great Turk, 791

Turks, consolation under persecution by,
227; a terror to Christendom, 243, 285
Turnpikeman, (The) 736

Tutor for tradesmen, 281, 282
Tuum et Meum, 539

Twelfth-night custom at Brough, 13
"Twins, (The)" old play, 579
"Two angry women of Abingdon," old
play, 178

"Two Tragedies in one," old play, 244
Ugliness, naïf admission of, 621
Ugly club, 132, 234

Umbrella, clergyman's, 465
Unhanged and hanged, two classes, 228
Universities, in Germany, 62; flogging in,
197; founding the London, 297
Unknown, (the great) discovered, 153, &c.
Usurers; life of one, 450; a liberal one, 818
Utopia, (sir T. More's) blunder about, 621
Uxbridge, town and treaty of, 675
Valediction, 200

Valentines, 103

Valle Crucis abbey, pillar near, 175
Vanithee (wife) Jack Mullally's, 347

Wakefield, custom near, 425

Wales, character of the ancient Britons,
168; notices of the Welsh Harp, ib.;
minstrelsy society in, 169; ancient
British pillar, engraving of, 175
Walker, (Willy) and John Bolton, 619
Waller, sir E., his tomb at Beaconsfield,
649

Wallis, lady, her correct estimate of her
comedy, 286

Walpole, Horace, letter of, about extor-
tion in Westminster abbey, 5
Walpole, sir H, and Hogarth, 559, 560
sir R., notice of, 510
Walls of plaster advised for fruit, 485
Walsh, Mr. H., his satire on corporations,
262

Wamphray, in Scotland, great hiring fair
at, 102

Wards, court of, abuses of, 452
Warming-pans for Jamaica, 8
"Wars of Cyrus," old play, 725
Warwickshire, statutes or mops in, 86, &c.;
custom in, 647

“Washing of the feet" at Vienna, 239;
at Greenwich by queen Elizabeth, 240
Washington, general, notice of, 304
Watchmen, (London) 676
Water, prejudice against pipe-conveyance
of, 367; having the effect of fire, 682
Water carrier, (old) engraving of, 367
Waterloo-bridge, intended opening to, 107
Watermen, ancient misconduct of, 84;
watermen hundred years ago, 314.