Property, fixed and moveable, remarks | Realities resembling dreams, 229
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
Rhodope and Cinderella, 774
Pythagoras, power of his music, Pythagoras and other ancients, See Ancients. Pytheas and other ancients, 824. Ancients.
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,
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,
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-
648; sheep-shearing in Cumberlaud, 694
Sheepshanks, Whittle, 548 Shepherd's well, Hampstead, 191 Shepherds, how paid formerly, 197 Sherbet, receipt for making, 236 Sheriff's trumpets explained, 197 Sheriffs, female, 700
Shield of Scipio found in the Rhone, 132 "Ship, (The)" order of, 29
Ships, descent of one over Niagara falls, 680
Shirley Common, broom-maker's at, 639 Shirts, wearing two in travelling, 590 Shoeblacks, notices respecting, 632 Shoemakers, an ambitious one, 585 Shoes, old, curious application of, 588 Shorland, Lord, old legend and monu- ment of, 564, 573 Showers, summer, 541 Shrove Tuesday, 136
Shute, bishop of Durham, pun on, 142 Shuttle, hanging the, 525 Siam, summer-house in, 541 Sight, (second) 391
Signs, explanation of a modern one, 336; one near Skipton, 318; odd signs, 206; sign-seeking, 620; curious signs, 638, 666, 792
Silchester, Hants, Roman station, 692 Silent club, (the) 234
Silver, how silver coin tested, 226; found in Cornwall, 329
"Silver Age, (The)" old play, 338 Simcoe, general, notice of, 625 Singing, test of excellence of, 519 Singing birds. See Birds.
Single hair," for angling, an enthusiast on, 330
"Sir Giles Goosecap," old play, 579 Skating, 75
Skimmington, procession called, 594 Skipton in Craven, theatrical company at, 35; custom in, 314. See Craven. Sleeves, pockets formerly in, 530 Smith, sir Sydney, and old Dan Bryan, 316
Smith, Thomas, a quack, 775 Smoking, much used in 1634, 85 Smoking and snuffing, oriental temple for, 751, 754; antiquity of smoking,
Smoky chimnies, how cured, 286 Smyth, Capt. W. H., his account of Scylla and Charybdis, 323 Snitzler, an honest organ-builder, 427 Snuff and tobacco, proposed history of,
Snuffing and smoking. 751, &c.; Laurence- kirk snuff-boxes, 754
Snuff box, (my) engraving and descrip- tion of, 95
Suuffing candles, curious process of, 174 Soames, Dr. master of Peterhouse, 546 Society simplified by civilization, 110 Soho bazaar, 77
Soldier, (Scotch) story of, engraving, 143 Soldiers; a soldier's age, 590; a soldier's return, 702
Somerset, proud duke of, 790 Son, father and, 430
Sophia Charlotte, sister of George I., 654 Southam, custom in, 88 Southey, poet, residence of, 555 Spa-fields, sketch in, 796 Spaniards, spare diet of, 800 Spanish mysteries, 471; punctilio, 541 Sparr, Mrs. A., a maiden lady, 170 Sparrow, address to, 182 Spectrology, 355 Speculation, folly of, 590 Spells of home, 108 Spinning, tenuity of, 457 Spit, movement of to music, 516 "Spoons Apostle," 823 Sporting, 142
Spring, the voice of, 312 Spring Gardens, a former Vauxhall, 360 Stag-hunting, near Bean Doran, 377 Stage-coach adventures, 132 Standing mannerly before parents, 197 Stanley, Rev. T., rector of Eyam, 729 Stanmore toll-house, engraving of, 86 Starch-wort, an herb, account of, 599 Stare and Gossip, the," 445 Starlings, battle of, 331 Stars, fixed, the, 602, 812 Statesmen, model of, 629
small farming proprietors
called, 603 Statistics, curious, 270 Statutes for hiring servants, account of, 86, 102; stupendous ones, $26 Stealing to restore, 117 Steam-engines, 457
Steel manufacturers, 714 Stephens, his mode of writing, 341 Steps retraced," 238 Stilton, (ham and) 90 Stocking, throwing of, 149 Stoke Lyne, lord of manor of, 278 Stones,sepulchral accumulations of stones, 42; account of a stone-eater, 177; auto- biography of one, 177 Stones, (precious) ancients' imitation of,
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
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.
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
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.
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