Part 140

ABBEVILLE, sporting letter from, 1575. Abduction, case of, 767. Abelard, P., died, 494. Abercrombie, sir R., died, 397. Aboo, or Aber, Irish war-cry, 502. Abraham’s bosom, in old wood-cuts, 1599. Absalom, in a sign, 1262. Accomplishments without principle, 287. Actor, an itinerant, his duties, 1243. Acts of the Apostles, a mystery at Paris, 749. Adam, R. and J., account of, 326. Adams, Jack, his parish, 1481. Addison, at Button’s, 1007. Adelphi, the, 326. Advent, meaning of the term, 1531; customs of the season, 1552, 1595, 1642. Ærial, the, account of, 1455. Ætna, its eruptions diverted by a lady’s veil, 213. Africa, travels in, 1580. After Yula, 3. AGATHA, _February 5_; miracles by her, 213. Agincourt, battle of, 1397. AGNES, _January 21_; her legend, 141; customs on St. Agnes’ eve, 136. Aguesseau, chanc. D’, his use of time, 310. Air, spiritually peopled, 1328. Aits, islands on the Thames, 604. ALBAN, _June 17_; account of this saint, 803. Alban’s, St., Herts, formerly Holmhurst, 804. Albert and Isabella, archdeacon and duchess, kiss St. Walburg’s jawbone, 303. Aldegraver, his engraving of the guillotine, 148. Ale, 1147, 1622; name derived, 1544; ale-drinkers in Holinshed’s time, 1125. ----, Whitsun, 685; whence derived, 686. Alexander the Great, notice of, 493. ----, St., Newski, order of, 1538. All Fools’ day, 409. ---- hallow e’en, 1408. ---- heal, the mistletoe, 1637. ALL SAINTS, _November 1_; customs on, 1421. ---- SOULS, _November 2_; customs on, 1423. Allan, D., his etching of Italian street music, 1595. Alleluia, buried in the Romish church, 199. Almanacs, chronological error in, 1429; made of wood, 1471. Alphabet, in a bill of costs, 238. ALPHEGE, _April 19_; customs on his festival, 485. Amelia, princess, original letter from, 1071. American war commenced, 486; poetry, 1571. Amherst, lord, his portrait, 604. Amhurst, Nicholas, author, account of, 527. Amiens, peace of, signed, 392. Amulet, the, its literary character, 1532. Ancient Britons, their anniversary, 322. ANDREW, St., _November 30_; account of the saint and his festival, 1538; order of, _ib._ ----’s Holborn, boy bishop, 1561. ---- Undershaft, maypole, 555. Angelo, Michael; see Buonarroti. Angel, guardian, 630. Angels, archangels, and angels guardian, 1326; their orders and habits, 1349; for their visits, &c. to saints, see Index II. Angling, 697. Anglo-Norman carol, 1595. Animals, on cruelty to, 799, 1308. ANN, St., _July 25_; memoirs of her and St. Joachim, 1008. ANNUNCIATION, B. V. M., or LADY DAY, _March 25_; customs on the festival, 385. Anselm, St., archbishop of Canterbury, notice of, 493. Anson, commodore, lord, died, 767. Antiquaries, society of, their anniversary, 503. Antony, St., picture of, 118; his hospital, London, 119; its seal, 120; school, _ib._; his pig, 119. Apis, the Egyptian deity, 491. Apocrypha, authority for reading it, 1343. Apollinarius, the elder and younger, play writers, 744. Apollo and Minerva, shown at Naples, for David and Judith, 1612. ----, an, of Cambridge, 1263. Apostle spoons, described, 176. Apothecaries, proposal for their canonization, 303. Apparition of an arm chair, 1494. Apparitions, &c. see Romish saints, in Index II. Apple, sports, 1408, 1421; diving, 1415. Apples, the finest, where grown, 908; blest, 978. Apple-tree, charm, 42; wassail, 1606. Apprentices, city, their former importance, and present condition, 258. Aprilius, John, hanged for three days and kept alive, 46. Apron, the barbers’, 1254. Archee, his new-year’s gift, 9. Archers, decay of, 1236; their service at Agincourt, 1397. Architecture of the new churches, 945. Arius, indebted to St. Lucian, 61. Armitage, the racket-player, 868. Arnmonat, 1059. Arsedine, yellow arsenic, 1213. Art, eminence in it, how attained, 273. Arundel Castle, a sweep in the state bed, 588. ASCENSION-DAY, 651; its customs, 1379. Ascham, Roger, account of, 29. Ascot races, fraud at, 768. Ash, rev. J., philologist, died, 529. ASH WEDNESDAY, _movable_; customs, 261. Ass, the, citations respecting, 1309; his nobleness and voice, 1358; how mentioned by Leo Africanus, 1580; remarks on, 1610; drawn in procession, 393. ASSUMPTION, B. V. M., _August 15_; customs on the day, 1117. Astley’s troop at Bartholomew fair, 1246. Atkins, his menagerie, 1175. Attanasy, father, his Easter sermon, 446. Attorney, an, not to be compared to a bull, nor to a goose, but comparable, perhaps, to the man in the moon, 239. Attornies of the lord mayor’s court, 1333. Audrey’s, St., lace, 1383. August, the Twelfth of, petition from, 1099; answer to, 1101. AUGUSTINE, archbishop of Canterbury, _May 26_; his monastery at Canterbury, 301; notices and legendary anecdotes of him, 704. ----, St., _August 28_; an early father, Lardner’s character of him, 1144. Aunty’s garden, a pastime, 109. Aurochos, an African animal, 1176. Autograph of St. Ignatius, 1056. Autumn quarter, 1283.

Baal, Bal, Beal, Bel-tein, fires, 594, 847, 1412, 1422. Bacchus, his festival, 1471. Bachelors, in the lord mayor’s show, 1453. Bacon, lord, died, 452; cause of his death, 870; proof of his favoritism, 871. Bag-pipers, of Italy, 1595; a German one with a cognizance, 1626. Bailey, rev. R. R., his sermon at St. Katharine’s, 1406. Baker, Mrs., her company at Bartholomew fair, 1245. Bales, Peter, a writing-master, account of, 1085. Ball-play customs, 244, 259, 429, 1554, 1634; at Copenhagen-house, 865. Ball’s itinerant theatre, 1175. Ballad-singers, formerly licensed, 1243. Ballard’s menagerie, 1191. Balloons, 442. Banks, sir Jos., his wine cellar, 21; died, 811. Bannockburn, battle of, 855. Bannocks, cakes, “sauty” and charmed ones, 260; of St. Michael, 1339. Baptism of infants, 1444. Bara, a Sicilian festival, 1118. Barbers, account of, 1254. Baretti, Jos., died, 616. Barley, beerlegh, berlegh, berleg, 1147. Barley-corn, sir John, his trial, 73; Burns’s ballad, 1391. Barme, beerheym, berham, 1147. BARNABAS, St., _June 11_; notice respecting him, 772. Barnes and Finley’s booth at Bartholomew fair, 1241. Barnet, battle of, 463. Barnmoneth, 1059. Baron, lord chief, to say he cannot ear of one ear actionable, 239. Barr, Ben, the seer of Helpstone, 525. Barrister’s first brief, 160. Barrow, Dr. Isaac, notice of, 613. Barrow-woman, of London, described, 903. Barthelemy, J. J., notice of, 614. BARTHOLOMEW, St., _August 24_; notice of him, 1131; custom at Croydon on his festival, 1132. ----, massacre at Paris, 1131. ----’s church-yard anciently contested in for school prizes, 119. ---- fair, its ancient and present state, 1165, 1252; form of the proclamation read, 1235. ---- hospital, origin of, 1231. ---- pig, 1201. ----, Mr., of St. John’s, Clerkenwell, 1480, 1481. Bassingborne, Camb., mystery at, 755. Bastile, account of its destruction, 935. Bath, anecdotes, 1574, 1583; season of visiting, 1583. Bathing, 893, 970. Batman, Stephen, his notice of printing, 1134. Batrich, Thomas, an ancient barber, 1244. Battersea, steeple and windmill, 603, 810. Battle, Sarah, at whist, 91. Bauer, assists Kœnig in the steam press, 1537. Baynes, John, account of, 159. Beacon, or standing lamp, 833. Bean-king, and queen, on twelfth-night, 44, 55, 57, 59. Bears, mode of taking in Russia, 180; carried in a cart with queen Elizabeth, 445; fight with lions, 1000; washed in the Thames, 1005. Beards, comely ones, 18; various, described, 1258; St. Anthony’s beard at Cologne, 117. Beasts preached to, and blessed, 117. Beaton, cardinal, notice of, 708. Beaus, comb their wigs in public, 1263. Beauclerc, Topham, a collector of mysteries, 746. Becket, the bookseller, and Garrick, 328. Beckwith, Mr., his account of twelfth-eve at Leeds, 43. Bed, love of it, 17; sleeping out of one’s own, 1591; beds at Stourbridge fair, 1308. BEDE, VENERABLE, _May 27_; notice of him, 706. Bees, swarming, 647, 682; on a man’s head, 963. Beggars, their patron, 1149. Behnes, Mr. W., sculptor, his bust of West, 346; of Mrs. Gent, 638; he calls a man “no conjuror,” 1458; his pupils gain the Royal Academy prize, 1651. Bell, death, its knell, why different, 724. ----, pancake, 242, 246. ----, the great, of Lincoln’s Inn, 811. Bells, on new-year’s day, 5, 6, 15; on All Souls’ day, 1415, 1425; on admiral Vernon’s birth-day, 1473; on new-year’s eve, 1653; rung by puppet angels, 1247; Whittington’s, 1271. Bell-flower, 901. Bellows, blown under Dives, 1599. Beltein, see Baal. Belzoni, death of, 1542. BENEDICT, _March 21_; miraculous anecdotes of him, 380; founder of the order of St. Benedict, 382. Benedictine nunnery, Clerkenwell, its site, 754. Bent, Independent, 603. Berkshire customs, 435. Berlin, royal marriage dance, 1551. Berners, lord, his Froissart, &c., 861. Berri, duchess de, her new-year’s gift to Louis XVIII., 14. Berwick, duke of, killed, 773. Bessy, on Plough Monday, 71. Beyntesh, Berks, hue and cry, 876. Bible, withheld from the laity, 751, 753; written to be comprised in a walnut shell, 1086. Bickham, George, writing-master, died, 614. Big Sam, notice of, 619. ----, man, 1565. Bill of costs, whimsical, 235. Billington, Mrs., noticed, 763. Bingley, Mrs., dress-maker to princess Amelia, 1073. Birch, Dr. Thomas, notice of, 79, 975. Bird, W., and his school in Fetter-lane described, 965. Birds, in winter, 24; their resistance to cold, 70; arrival, 466, 614; singing, 727; migration, 1390; fraudulently painted, 1253. Birdseller’s shop, described, 754. Birkbeck, Dr. George, founder of the London Mechanics’ Institution, 1549. Bishop Valentine, 219. Blackbird, in a cage at Greenwich, 691. Blackheath hill, 687, 689. Blacksmiths, their patron, 1498. Blackstone, sir W., how he relieved his studies, 164; account of, 231. Blandford Forum, custom, 1414. BLASE, _February 3_; miracles attributed to this saint, 207; customs on his festival, 209. Bleeding image of Paris, 895; stone cross, 1586. Blessing of apples, 978; ashes, 261; beasts, 117; candles, 200; wax, 201; a market, 758. Blight, in spring, 620. Bliss, Dr., his boar’s head carol, 1600. Bloemart, Abraham, his piper, 1626. Bloomfield, Robert, poet, account of, 1125. Blossoms, in spring, 621. Blotmonath, 1419. Bo! to a goose, 1088. Boadicea, site of her battle, 861. Boar’s head, and carol, at Christmas, 1618. Bo-bo and his father Ho-ti, 1218. Bochart, Samuel, orientalist, died, 619. Bodies, why they float after death, 130. Boetius, beheaded, and carries his head, 706. Bolton, Jenny, 1241. ----, prior of St. Bartholomew’s, 1232. Bombs, first used in war, 385. Bona Dea, the good goddess of the Romans, 1655. Bonaparte, Louis, anecdote of, 95. Bonasoni, his portrait of M. Angelo, 270. Bon-Bons, French, 13. Bonfires, on St. John’s eve, 823, 845; on 5th of November, 1433. BONIFACE, _June 5_; account of him, 766. ----, pope, VIII., throws blessed ashes in the eyes of an archbishop, 262. ----, archbishop of Canterbury, anecdote of, 1231. Bonnets, 1437. Boot of St. Ignatius, 1050. Boots and Shoes, receipt for water proof, 1503. Boring, for water, 1041. Botanizers of London, 872. Botolph, St., Aldersgate, Register Book, 434. Bottle-devil, 27. Bourgeois Gallery, Dulwich, 1011. Bow Church, corporation sermon, 446. Bowings, marvellous number per day by a saint, 38. Bowling alleys, 1236. Bowring, John, tendency of his poetry, 1428. Bows and silver arrows, prizes, 1238. Bowyer, Robert, keeper of the lions, 1005. Boxing day, described, 1645. Boxley rood, 1292. Boy bishop, account of, 1557. Boyer, Jem, C. L.’s schoolmaster, 1361. Boyne, the, battle of, 894. Braddock, Fanny, singular memoir of, 1278. Bradford, Yorkshire, clothing festival, 209. Braeckmonath, 738. Bramanti, his disputes with M. Angelo, 267. Brandy punch, 1622. Breakfast, in cold weather, 288. Breitkopf, J. G. I., account of, 185. Breughel, his concert of cats, 1106. Brewer, the, and his trade, 1568. Brewster, Dr., invents the kaleidoscope, 474. Bride’s, St., church, Fleet-street, 86; spital sermon, 445; well, 325. Brindley, the editor of his classics hanged, 287. BRITIUS BRICE, _November 13_, notice of him, 1473. Broom girls, Buy a broom? 809. Brougham, Mr. Robert, his good humour on a humorous portrait of him, 811. Brown’s troop of jugglers, dancers, &c. 1190. Bruce, James, traveller, died, 527. Brüd, his bed, 206. Bruno, bishop, eaten by rats, 1362. Bubbles, anecdotes of, 165, 172, 354, 1460. Buccleugh, banner of, 1554. Buchanan, George, his new-year’s gift to Mary queen of Scots, 10. Buckler of St. Michael, 1329. Buckley, Samuel, bookseller, account of, 281. Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, 614. Buds, their structure, 184. Building, improvements, 638, 642, 872, 878. Bull-running at Stamford, 1482. Bull, a,--the dead returns thanks, 372. Bullock, Mr., forms a museum at Mexico, 1531. Bumping, 1340, 1374. Bungay, Suffolk, storm at, 1065; watchmen there, their Christmas verses, 1628. Buns, Good Friday, 402. Buonarroti, Michael Angelo, account of, 263; design by him for a fountain, 1045. Burial of persons alive, 1565. Burleigh, lord, at Bernard Gilpin’s, 331. Burmese state carriage, described, 1519. Burney, Dr. C., a collector of mysteries, 746; his death, 461. Burning the old witch, 58. Burton, Devon, festival at, 741. Bushy, Middlesex, ball-play, 245. Butchers, French, their pageant, 1298; of Clare-market, their bonfire, 1433. Bute, John, earl of, died, 346. Butler, rev. Alban, his “Lives of the Saints” used in this work, 3. ----, archdeacon, his opinion on card-playing, 89; funeral sermon, on Dr. Parr, 444. ----, Jacob, antiquary, account of, 1301. Button’s coffee-house, 1006. Byron, lord, died, 486.