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C’s bull, an attorney not to be compared to, 239. Cages of squirrels, 1385. Cairo, the Pacha refuses a diploma, 84. Cakes, 42; tossed from an ox’s horn, 43. Calabrian minstrels in Rome, at Christmas, 1595. Calf, superstitiously burnt, 854; walks up to a lion, 1005. Camberwell, church monuments, 382; fair, 1124; Grove, scenery, 1014. Cambray, boy bishop, 1558. Cambridge, names and professions, 699, oak, 1060; squib, on dog muzzling, 898; university examination, 461; Apollos, and wigs, 1263. Camden, earl, account of, 480. Camel, how taught to dance, 1581. Candle, an everlasting one, 28; piece of a celestial one, 203; sport, 1408; superstition, 1415. Candles, blest, 200; annually given at Lyme Regis, 206; for the tooth ache, 208; lighted by miracle, 27, 78, 99; by the devil, 115; see also the saints in Index II. CANDLEMAS, _February 2_; customs of the festival, 199; derived from the ancient Romans, 202; bull, 11; bond, 12. Candler, his Fantoccini, 1114. Cannom, Cath., marries two husbands, 1122. Canonbury tower, Islington, described, 633; when built, 1232. Canterbury, St. Augustine’s monastery, 301. Caraccioli, prince, executed, 128; rises from the sea, 130. Cards, 89, 1607, 1622; origin of cards, 186. Care, Carle, or Carling Sunday, 378, 1069. Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., account of, 718. Carols, at Christmas, 1595, 1618. Carracioli, on the English climate, 309. Carte, Thomas, projects the English edition of Thuanus, 283. Carter, sir John, account of, 662. Carterhaugh, N. Britain, sport, 1554. Casimir III., fights after his death, 330. Castor and Pollux, 537. Cat-worship by the Romish clergy, 758; anecdotes of cats, 1104. Catalani, madame, noticed, 763. Catchpole, a barber, 1269. CATHARINE, _November 25_; account of her, 1504; customs on her festival, 1507; see Katharine. Cathedrals, ill adapted to protestant worship, 643. Cato, performed in Fetter-lane, 968. Cattle, superstitiously treated, 12; drinking in winter, 198. Cavanagh, the fives-player, account of, 865. Cave, Edward, printer, account of, 1482. Cave of the three kings of Cologne, 82. Caxton, William, his life of St. Roche, 1121. CECILIA, _November 22_; notice of her, 1495. Celts, for cutting the mistletoe, 1637. Censing, at Whitsuntide, 685. Centaur, a, seen by a saint, 104. Ceres, the planet, discovered, 17. Cervantes, his death, 503. CHAD, _March 2_; St. Chad’s Wells, Battle-bridge, 322. Chafing dish, on twelfth-night, 55. Chair, the barber’s, 1269. Chantry, Mr., a designation by, 1458. Chapel-royal, Maundy, 401; printers’ chapel, 1135. Chaplains, Romish, play-writers, 756. Chappell and Pike’s tumblers, &c., 1197. Chare Thursday, 402. Charity schools, of London, instituted, 389; children at church, 1407. CHARLES I. K. MARTYRDOM, _January 30_; his execution, 187; pasquinade on his statue at Charing-cross, 897. ---- II. K. RESTORATION, _May 29_; customs of the Restoration-day 711; his escape from Worcester, 712; statue in the Royal Exchange, 719; verses admired by him, 720; restores maypoles, 557; prohibits wigs at Cambridge, 1264; his weakness in childhood, 16. ---- V. emperor and cobbler, 1401. ---- VI. of France, licenses the English mysteries, 747. Charlton, village and fair described, 1386. Charms, apple-trees, 42; witchcraft, 55; mistletoe, 1638; various, 1409. Chatham, the great earl, died, 651. Chatsworth, Derbyshire, sonnet at, 1355. Checketts, T., his seven-legged mare, 1118. Cherry season, 903. Cheshire customs, 430. Chester, maypole, 549; mysteries, 750, 757; pageants, 835. Chesterfield, lord, and his servants, 689. Cheyne, sir John, his answer to the archbishop of Canterbury, 752. Child desertion, 1119. Childebert, his key, a reliquary, 1062. Childermas-day, 1648. Children, flogged, 30; whipped on Innocent’s morning, 1648; how nursed formerly, 923; pickled, and come to life, 1555. Childs, Mr. Robert, of Bungay, 1354. Chimney corner, in old times, 1622. ---- sweepers’ May garland, 583; their festivities, 585, 591. Chinese characters, in movable types, 185. Christ’s hospital, boys bathing, 974; sermon on St. Matthew’s day, 1314. ---- Passion, a mystery, by Gregory Nazianzen, 744; performed at Ely house, 756. Christchurch, cloisters, 1216, 1240. Christern, king of Denmark, at a London pageant, 830. Christianity, in England before Augustine, 301. CHRISTMAS-DAY, _December 25_; its celebration, 1612; eve, 1594; carols, 1595; ever-greens, order of their succession in decking, 205; kings, in a pageant at Norwich, 256; log, 204; pie, 1639. Church, ball-play in it, 429, 864. ----, building, in saints’ times, 25, 1497. ----, a racket-player, 868. Churches, decked with greens, 1635; not with mistletoe, 1635; modern architecture of, 919, 945. Cider drinking, 42, 43. CIRCUMCISION, _January 1_; when instituted, 3. City, laureate, or poet, 1453. Civil wars, how commenced in England, 28. C. L’s sister, 965, 970. Clare-market, butchers’ bonfire, 1433. Clarges, sir Walter, his origin, 582. Clark, Thomas, miser of Dundee, 1588. Clarke’s horse-riding and tumbling, 1185. ----, posture master, 1248. ----, John, licenser of ballad singers, 1243. Classes, high and low assimilate, 1599. Clay, Mr., printseller, 1011. Clayen cup, in Devonshire, 41. Cleghorn, Mr. John, artist, sketching at the Pied Bull, 635; noticed again, 974. CLEMENT, St., _November 23_; notice of him, 1497; customs on his festival, 1498. Clergy, Romish, call themselves the cocks of the Almighty, 255. Clerkenwell, parish, Clerks’well, its site, 754; ducking-pond, 971; St. John’s church and parish, 1474. Clias, captain, his gymnastics, 19. Cliff, Kent, rectorial custom at, 978. Clipping the church, 430. Clock, dialogue, 819. Clogs, wooden almanacs, 1471. Cloth fair, lord Rich’s residence in, 1233. Clothiers, how they travelled anciently, 876; at Bartholomew fair, 1232. Clouds, their gorgeous imagery, 888. Clouwet, his engraving of Rubens’s St. Antony, 120. Coach wheel, driven for a wager, 1315. Coalheavers going to Greenwich fair, 437. Cobbler and his stall, 857; cobblers take precedence of shoemakers, 1402. Cock in pot, and cock to dunghill, 72. ---- and lion, disputants, 99. ---- fighting, and customs, 252, 255; leaden ones, 253. ---- crowing during the nights of Advent, 1642. Cockneys, king of, his court on Childermas-day, 1648. Cockpit-royal, Whitehall, 255. Coke, sir Edward, his reproof of Anne Turner, 1437. Colchester oysters, at Stourbridge, 1307. Cold, at the North Pole, 466. Colet, dean, his order for the boy bishop’s sermon, 1559. Collar days, at court, 100. Colley, Thomas, convicted of murder, 1045. Collop Monday customs, 241. Colnaghi and Son, printsellers, 1011. Cologne, three kings of, 45, 46. Colpoys, admiral, his life saved, 663. Common council, prayed for, 446. ---- crier’s office, 1333. ---- Hunt’s office, 1332. Conant, Mr., and the Ærial, 1461. Conduits, destroyed, 1042. Confectioners of Paris, 13. Congresbury custom, 837. Constantine, his church establishment, 744. Contented man, described, 1468. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, _January 25_; superstitions concerning the day, 175. Cook, how disgraced if idle at Christmas, 1640. Cooke, Mr., theatrical singer, 966. Copenhagen-house, account of, 857. Copy-writing, at school, 967. Corning, on St. Thomas’s day, 1587. Cornwall, Palm Sunday customs, 396; other customs and superstitions, 561, 847, 849, 853, 1611; guary miracle plays, or mysteries, 757. Corpse, terrifically rises from the sea, 131. CORPUS CHRISTI, _movable_; makes Trinity term commence a day later, 100; customs on the festival, 742. Cosin, John, bishop of Durham, lights his cathedral on Candlemas-day, 205. Costermonger, described, 1213, 1308. Costume of the 13th century, 337. Cottager, a, and his family, 873. Coventry mysteries, 750, 756; parliament there, 753; sports, 477. Councils, forbid the decking with greens, 1635. Country, the, and a country life, 492, 525, 608, 659; country lasses, their finery formerly, 8; squire of queen Anne’s time, 1621. Cowper, William, poet, account of, 520. Cox, captain, the collector, 477. Cranmer, archbishop, burnt, 382; his widow, _ib._ Cratch, the, in mince-pies, 1639. Crawley’s booth, Bartholomew fair, 1247. Creation of the world, a mystery, 754; represented by puppets at Bartholomew fair, 1239, 1247; at Bath, _ib._ Creeping to the cross, 431. Cressets, account of, 831. Cressy, father S., his “Church History” used in this work, 3. Crickets on a winter hearth, 98. Cripplegate, and the cripples’ patron, 1149. Crisp, Samuel, account of, 102. CRISPIN, _October 25_; account of the saint and his festival, 1394. Crittel, Mr., landlord at West Wickham, 1507. Croaker, Mrs., her new-year’s gift to the lord chancellor, 9. Croft, rev. Mr., collector of mysteries, 746. Cromwell, O., personated in a sport, 718; his supposed burial place, 859. Cross, found by Helena, 611; seen in the sky by Constantine, 1292; bleeding one of stone, 1586. ---- of the south, described, 611. -----bill, a bird, described, 934. ---- week, 642. Crowdie, 260. Crowle, J. C., master of the revels, &c. 1243. Crown and Anchor booth, at fairs, 693, 724, 1388. Croyland abbey custom, 1132. Crucifixion, wounds, &c. in the passion flower, 770. Cruikshank, Mr. George, the artist, noticed, 907, 1113, 1320, 1429. Cuckold’s point, 1386. Cuckoo, the, 390, 411; cuckoo-day, 465; song, 739. Cumberland customs, 53, 423; funerals, 1077. ---- gardens, Vauxhall, 603. Cuper’s gardens, 603. Curfew bell, its origin, &c. 242. Curl-papers, 1267. Curses of the church, 262. Cuthbert, St., converted at ball-play, 864. Cutpurses, caveat against, 1206. CYPRIAN, St., _September 26_; notice of, 1324. Cyprus, a decking for rooms, 1635.

Daffa-down-dilly, a lawyer may not be called one, 239. Dagon, a symbol of the sun in Pisces, 28. Dance, by moonlight, 11; of torches, 1551. Danes, massacre of, commemorated, 476; their honours to rural deities, 42. Daniel O’Rourke, his story, 622. Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, death of, 481. Davies, John, a racket-player, 868. ---- Tom., bookseller, notice of, 615. DAVID, St., _March 1_; account of the saint, 314; customs of his festival, 317. ---- H., artist, engraving from, 1395. Day family, the, 1100. ----, 15th September, usually fine, 1294. ---- after lord-mayor’s day, 1469. ---- Mr., his exhibition of painting and sculpture, 263, 1531. ---- Mr. Thomas, a dwarf, 1194. Dead Sunday, 340. Death, contemplated, 1032. ---- of Good Living, 257. ---- of the Virgin, by old engravers, 1119. Deeping the Jews, 297. Deer, and a lion, 1001. Denham, sir J., poet, died, 373. DENYS, St., _October 9_. Account of his martyrdom, and walking two miles afterwards with his head between his hands, attended by angels, and other miracles, 1371. Deptford fair, on Trinity Monday, 724. Descent into Hell, a mystery, 750, 755. Devil in a dish, 112; very tall, 114, 115; his smell, _ib._; blessed by mistake, 118; visits Bungay church, 1065; represented in a pageant, 1490; for other adventures attributed to him, see accounts of the Romish saints, Index II. Devonshire customs and superstitions, 42, 718, 1609. Dictionary of musicians, characterised, 765. Dioclesian, the emperor, in his garden, 132. Discontented pendulum, 819. Dissent, origin and progress of, 752. Distaff’s, St., day, superstitions, 61. Dives and Lazarus, a carol, 1598. Divinations, various, 1409; in advent, 1552. Docwray, Thomas, prior of St. John’s Clerkenwell, 1479. Dog and goose, 1341. DOG DAYS BEGIN _July 3_; influence of the season on dogs, 897; no cure for the bite of a mad one, 900; a dog’s complaint, 944. ---- END _August 11_. ---- fights on Sunday, 870. ---- killer, an ancient office, 901. ---- star, its alleged power, 897. Dogs, bait lions, 978, 1006; a horse, _ib._ Dogget’s booth at Bartholomew fair, 1239. Dorset, countess of, 16. Dorsetshire custom, 1414. Dort, milk-maids save the city, 605. Dotterel catching, in Cambridgeshire, 646. Doubts, burnt out, 745. Douce, Mr., his ancient Christmas carols, 1595, 1600. Dragon, a symbol, 500; of St. Michael, 1325; with a stake in his eye, 38. Drama, ancient Greek, suppressed, 743; origin of the modern drama, 744. Drinking custom, 373. ----, by miracle, 25; at both ends of the barrel, 654; before execution, 1132; excessive, 1568. Druids, customs, ceremonies, &c. 6, 58, 854, 1413, 1637. Drury-lane maypole, 581. Dublin royal society’s pupils, under Mr. Behnes, gain the London royal academy prizes, 1651. Duck-hunting at May-fair, 573. Dudingston, N. Britain, custom, 1539. Duel, R. B. Sheridan and Mathews, 911. Duelling, characterised, 451. Dulwich, visit to, 1011. Dunn, Harriet, English plum-pudding maker at Paris, 1617. DUNSTAN, _May 19_; adventures of the saint with the devil, 670. ----, sir Jeffery, 1245. Durham, cathedral, on Candlemas-day, 205; customs, 431. Dwarfs at Bartholomew fair, 1189, &c. Dyer, Mr. George, his “Privileges of the University of Cambridge,” and “History,” 1305.

Earth, the, how worshipped, 1655. Earthquakes, England, 150, 341; Lisbon, 975; predicted by cats, 1109. Easling, Kent, custom, 1539. East winds, unwholesome, 134. Easter, Eastre, Easter-monath, 407. EASTER-DAY, _movable_; origin, and how to find, 416, 517, 518; customs, 421, 864; offerings, origin of, 359. Eckert, C. A. F., a musical prodigy, 1038. Eclipse, the first recorded, 373. Eddystone lighthouse destroyed, 1515. Edinburgh, coronation pageant, 647; cardinal Beaton’s house, 711; new Exchange founded, 1312. EDMUND, K. and MARTYR, _November 20_; account of him, 1493. Edulf, a strong Anglo-Saxon, 29. EDWARD, St., K. W. S. _March 18_; murdered, 372. ----’s TRANSLATION, _June 20_; removal of his remains, 813. ---- the confessor, his death, 619; translation, 1376. ---- II., sees a mystery at Paris, 746. ---- III., his gift to a boy bishop, 1559. Eel-pie house, near Hornsey, 697. Eggs, at Easter, 425. Egypt, conquered by the Turks, 461. Eldest son of the church, origin of the title, 1349. Elephant, of Henry III., 1005; Atkins’s, 1177, 1179. Elia, and Bridget Elia, 92. ---- and Jem White, their treat to the sweeps, 585. Elizabeth, queen, new-year’s gifts to, 7; studies with Roger Ascham, 29; sees fives’ play, 865; goes to St. Mary Spital, 445; her accession celebrated, 1488. Elm leaves, used for fodder, 1403. Elmo, St., extraordinary circumstances relative to the capitulation of the fort, 126. Ely, Isle of, convent and church, 1382; willows, 1080. ---- house, mystery performed there, 756. EMBER WEEKS, _movable_; seasons of mortification, 1572. Enoch, the book of, 1326. ENURCHUS, _September 7_; his history of no authority, 1253. EPIPHANY, _January 6_; customs of the festival, 45, 59; name explained, 58. Epitaphs on a chimney board, 459; on captain Grose, 657; on a garret, 790; at St. John’s, Clerkenwell, 1480. Equinox, vernal, 375. Erskine, lord, his dressing of his barber, 1265. Erysipelas, why called St. Antony’s fire, 119. Escurial, palace and monastery, 1085. Eskdale custom, 1379. ETHELDREDA, _October 17_; account of her, 1382. Eton-school customs, on Collop Monday, 242; Shrove Tuesday, 259; bonfires, 849; nutting, 1294. Ettrick forest, sport, 1554. Etymology of the seasons, 1518. Evelyn, John, with judge Jefferies at an entertainment, 478; his account of the fire of London, 1152. Evergreens at Christmas, 1635. Every-day dialogue, 1574; work, 1042. Evesham, John, keeper of the lions, 1005. Evil eye, on May eve, 593. ---- May-day, 555, 577. Ewis, inscription for St. David at, 316. Exaltation of the cross, 1291. Excise laws, originated, 360. Exercise, indispensable, 1316. Exeter city gates broken by a strong man, 29; mail coach horse, and lions, 1191. Eyes, the, receipt for, 353.

FABIAN, _January 20_; notice of him, 135. Fagot-sticks, divination, 1552. Fairies on May eve, 593. FAITH, _October 6_; the existence of this saint doubted, 1362. Falconer, John, barber of Glasgow, 1272. Falling sickness, in rooks, 495. Fan handle, decorated, 8. Fantoccini, a street show described, 1113. Fardel, explained, 1215. Fashion-monger’s head, 1262. Fasten’s eve, 260. Favorite of lord Bacon’s, mentioned, 871. Faulkner, rev. W. E. L., 1474. Fawkes, the conjuror, 1225. ----, Guy, his day, London, 1429. Ferrers, earl, executed, 615. Ferule, school-masters’, described, 967. Festival of kings, 44. Fete de Sans-Culottes, 57. Fiddler, a, in Greenwich park, 692. Filthie worm, a Romish monument, lost, 294. Finger-snapping by barbers, 1268. Finland custom on St. Stephen’s day, 1644. Finsbury-fields, ball-play, 258. Fires in London, 389, 1098, 1150. ----, good ones, essential to Christmas, 1615. ----, on twelfth-day eve, 43, 58; see Baal. Fireworks, in London, prohibited, 1435. Fish, how preserved in ponds during frost, 82; preached to, 118; pond for cod, 82. Fishmongers’ almshouses, fiddler at, 692. Fives’, ball-play, 863; see Ball-play. -----court, St. Martin’s-st. 868. Fleet prison, ball-play, 869. Flamsteed, John, astronomer, his original memoirs of himself, and his dispute with sir Isaac Newton, 1089. Fleming, rev. Abraham, account of, 1066. Flight into Egypt, how represented by artists, 1650. Flint, William, printer, of the Old St. John of Jerusalem tavern, 1481. Flockton, his puppet show at Bartholomew fair, 1246. Flogging of children, 30, 1648; of relics, to recover their virtues, 816. Floral directory, commenced and explained, 131. Flowers, origin of their names, and when they blow, 104, 303, 464, 667, 740, 963. Flying, by patent wings, 1462. Fog of London, in November, 1502. Fools, on Plough Monday, 71; hatching, in a pageant, 256. Foot-ball, in Scotland, 1554; see Ball-play. Foote, captain, signs the treaty of St Elmo, 127. Fornacalia, Fornax, the origin of pancakes, 250. Foscue, a farmer general, his self-burial alive, 101. Fountain, public-house, City-road, 975. Fountains, 1006, 1041. France, twelfth-day in, 57; Death of Good Living there, 257; all fools’ day, 413; bleeding image of Paris, 895; Christmas, 1616. Francis I. throws verses on Laura’s tomb, 451; licenses mysteries, 749. Franking of newspapers, discontinued, 856. Frederick, emperor, his present to Cologne, 46. ----, prince of Wales, at Bartholomew fair, 1242; his death, 374. Freeling, Mr., possessor of Kele’s carols, 1600. Freezing shower, its effects on trees and animals, 134. Frenchmen, all sportsmen, 1577. Frontispiece to this volume, explained, 1655. Fruit-stalls, 907. Funerals in Cumberland, 1077; a rustic one, 1533. Fuseli, his compositions as an artist, 349. Fussell, Mr. Joseph, artist, noticed, 872.

Gabriel, the archangel, 1326. Gahagan, Usher, a scholar, hanged, 287. Gallagher, Mr. John, gains a prize for sculpture, 1651. Game destroyers’ notice to House of Commons, 350. Gang-week, 642. Ganging, 1374. Ganging-day, 1340. Ganymede, changed to Aquarius, 141. Garden, its beauties, 133. Gardeners, perambulating, 616. Gardening, in old age, a renewal of our childhood, 113. Garlands, on Trinity Sunday, 723; mourning, 1080; see May-day. Garret, or Garrard, a grocer’s epitaph, 790. Garrick, David, his letter to Messrs. Adam, 328; goes to Bartholomew fair with Mrs. Garrick, 1244. Garter of the princess of Bavaria, at her wedding, 1551. Gaudy days, at the universities, 100. Gaunt, Mrs., burnt, 480. Geck, gowk, gull, 411. Ge-ho! to horses, its antiquity, 1645. Genealogy, precedence disputed, 797. Genius, what it is, 357. Gent, Mrs. Thomas, her bust by Behnes, 638. Gentleman’s Magazine title-page, 1481. Geoffry, abbot of St. Albans, first plays mysteries in England, 750. George-a-Green, and George Dyer, 1100, 1103. ----, III., king, notice of, 766. ----, IV., birth-day of, 1099. GEORGE, St., _April 23_; account of him, 496; legend of his adventures with the dragon, 498, 1101. ----’s, St., fields, lactarium, 103. Germany, twelfth-day in, 57; celebrations of Spring, 339; breeds the best cocks, 240; German diploma rejected, 84. Gerst-monat, 1147. Giants, at Bartholomew fair, 1172, &c.; represented in pageants at Chester, 835; in Guildhall, 1454. Gibbon, Edward, where he conceived his history, 268. Gilbert, Mr. Davies, his Christmas carols, 1603. GILES, _September 1_; miracles attributed to him, 1149. Giltspur-street, whence so called, 1166. Gilpin, rev. Bernard, account of, 330, 345. ----, rev. William, tourist, died, 421. Giordano, Lucca, painter, notice of, 1651. Gladman, John, pageant by him, 255. Glasscutters’ procession at Newcastle, 1286. Glastonbury, monastery, 315; miraculous walnut tree, 772. Gleeman, Anglo-Saxon, 1188. Glenfinnyn, vale of, monument there to the pretender, 32. Gloves, new-year’s gifts, 9; hung in the air by miracle, 78; kissing for, 1509; glove of defiance in a church, 345; glove money whence derived, 9. Gloucestershire customs, 58, 849. Glowworm, 1143. Gnat killed by a saint, 21. Go-to-bed-at-noon, flowers, 667. God of Death, druidical, 58. God rest you, merry gentlemen! Christmas carol, 1603. Godfrey, sir Edmundbury, in a pageant, 1488. Golden Legend, W. de Worde’s edition, used in this work, 3; formerly read instead of the New Testament, 386. Goldsmith, Oliver, resided at Canonbury, 638. Gondomar, on the English weather, 308. GOOD FRIDAY, _movable_; celebrations and customs of the day, 402. Gooding, on St. Thomas’s day, 1586. Goose, at Michaelmas, 1338; anecdote of one, 1341; whether lawful in Lent, 1472; in Christmas pie, 1639; goose pies on St. Stephen’s day, 1645. Gooseberry fair, 437. Gordon, Jemmy, of Cambridge, 698; his death, 1294. Gothic church, depraved, 1474. Gout, miraculously cured, 472. Grammar school disputations in Smithfield, 1236. Grand days, in the law courts, 100. Granger, rev. J., punning note to Grose, 657. Grapes, grow on a saint’s bramble, 102. Grasshopper, its song, 98. Grass-week, 642. Great, the, when they sell themselves to the court, and the devil, 1419. ---- seal, new, 17. Greatness of character, exemplified, 263, 280. Greeks, the, used the mistletoe, 1637. Greens, on St. John’s day, 837; in churches, 1635; see Evergreens. Greenwich church, dedication, 486; holidays and fairs at Easter, 436; Whitsuntide, 687; observatory founded, 1089; see Flamsteed. GREGORY, (called the Great,) _March 12_; account of this saint and his alleged miracles, 356. ---- Nazianzen, suppresses the Greek drama, and writes religious plays instead, 743, 744. Grey, lady Jane, severity of her parents, 31; inscription on her portrait, 32. ---- Friars, mystery performed at the, 756. Gridirons honoured, 1085. Griffin, rev. Thomas, his storm sermon, 1518. Groom porter at St. James’s, played for by the royal family, 59. Grose, Francis, antiquary, notice of, 656. Guil-erra, and guil, 1544. Guillotine, in France, 145; in England, &c. long before, 148; contemplated for lord Lovat, 149; an heraldic bearing, _ib._ Gule, of August, 1062. Gunpowder, invented, 397. ---- Plot day, 1429. Guthlac, St., his whips, 1132. Gymnastics, account of, 19, 1315.