Part 142

Hackin, the, a sausage, 1640. Hackney coaches, at Stourbridge, 1301. Hagbush-lane, Islington, account of, 870; derivation of name, 875. Haggis, how made, 1634. Hail-storm saint, 326. Hair dress, 1260. ---- shirts; see saints, in Index II. Halifax gibbet, and gibbet law, 145. Hall, with his preserved birds and beasts at Bartholomew fair, 1245. Halley, Edmund, astronomer, 1093. Hallow e’en, 1408. Halter, in a repartee, 529. Hamilton, lady, at Caraccioli’s execution, 130. Hampton-Wick, Middlesex, ball-play, 245. Hand ball, hand tennis, 863; see Ball-play. Handsel Monday, 23. Hanging month, 1419. Harding, Jem, a racket-player, 868. Hardwick forest, custom, 145. Hardwicke, lord, resigns the seals to read Thuanus, 284. Hardy, captain, R. N., serves against the Burmese, 1529. Hare and tabor, 1210; hare and tortoise, 1377; hares, domesticated, 1383. Hartman, his opinion of Leo Africanus, 1581. Harvest month, 1059; end of harvest, 1147. Hastings, Warren, account of, 1128; Sheridan’s conduct in his impeachment, 914. Hats, 1437. Hawkwood, sir John, in a pageant, 1449. Haydon, Mr., artist, an opinion by, 1458. Haymarket theatre, disputes with the master of the revels, 1244. Hazard, played by the royal family, 59. Hazlitt, Mr., on Cavanagh’s fives-play, 865. Head-ache, cured by a saint, 23. Health, in summer, to preserve, 921. ---- drinking, on Plough Monday, 1334. Heard, sir Isaac, herald, died, 530. Hearne, Thomas, antiquary, discovers an old leaf, 1600; at Bartholomew fair, 1228; died, 771. Hearts, in valentines, 219, 227. Heatley’s booth at Bartholomew fair, 1238. Heaven, represented in a pageant, 1118; heaven and hell, distance between, 1541; see saints in Index II. Heaving, at Easter, 422. Heemskerk, his barber, 1265. Heit! used to horses, its antiquity, 1644. Helena, empress, translates the three kings, 45. Heligh-monat, 1543. Hell, its Romish arrangement, 22; see saints in Index II. Hell-mouth, in a mystery, 747, 757. Heloise and Abelard, notice of, 494. Hempseed, charm, 1410, 1415. Hen, hey, hay-monath, 892. Henrietta Maria, queen, notice of, 773. ---- street, Covent-garden, duel there, 911. Henry II., acts as sewer to his son, 1622. ---- IV., holds a parliament at Coventry, 753. Henry V., at Agincourt, 1397. ---- VI., at a mystery at Winchester, 755; at another at Coventry, 757. ---- VII., keeps Christmas at Greenwich, 1599. ---- VIII., Charles I. buried beside him, 190; a cock fighter, 255; goes a maying to Greenwich, 550; disguises himself to see the London watch, 830. ---- IX., king of England, 34. Hens, customs concerning, 245; one that spoke, 249. Herald, personated by the devil, 21. Herefordshire, custom on twelfth-night, 43; winter fodder, 1403. Heretics, St. Antony’s, hatred to, 111. Hermit, the first, 104. Hertfordshire customs, 565, 1375; witchcraft, 1045. Heton, near Newcastle, boy bishop, 1559. Higgins, a posture master, 1248. Highgate, lord Bacon died there, 870. Highway-woman, at Rumford, 1503. HILARY, _January 13_; account of him, 99. Hindoo festival, Huli, 412. Hipson, Miss, a gigantic girl, 1173. Hitchin, Herts, May-day, 565. Hlafmas, 1063. Hoare, Mr. S., his admonitory letter to Wombwell, 988. Hoax, in France, 960. Hoby, sir Philip, his papers, 871. Hock, Hoke, or Hox-day, 476. Hockley in the hole, its site, 754. Hoddesdon, Herts, Shrove Tuesday customs, 242. Hodges’s distillery, Lambeth, 603. Hogarth, painted scenes for Bartholomew fair, 1245. Holbetch, bishop of London, declares the gift of St. Bartholomew’s to the city, at Paul’s cross, 1234. Holborn-hill, “in my time,” 907. Holland’s, lady, mob, 1229. Hollar, Wenc., engraver, account of, 397. Holmhurst, St. Alban’s, 804. Holly, the, and the ivy, 60; a carol, 1598, 1635; an in-door decking, 1635; holly-boy and ivy-girl, 226, 257. HOLY CROSS, _September 14_; derivation and usage of the day, 1291. ---- THURSDAY, _movable_; rogations and customs of the day, 651, 643. ---- gate, opened at Rome, 307. ---- water, 25. Holyday, at Dulwich, by S. R. 1011; rational holyday making, 438. ----, children, at Christmas, 1607. Home, a sailor’s, 690. Hop, a threepenny, 1646. Hopfer, D., engraving by, 1121. Horn fair, described, 1386. Horne, bishop, anecdote of, 836. Hornsey Wood house, notice of, 759. Horoscope of Greenwich observatory, 1090. Horses, overloaded one, 438; baited by dogs, 1000; bled on St. Stephen’s day, 1643. Hosts, miraculous, 351, 534. Hot letter from I. Fry to capt. Lyon, 950. ---- weather, 1041; effects of, 1111. Hour-glass, inscription, 1425. Howe, lord, his naval victory, 741. Huddy, Mr., his whimsical equipage, 78. Hunting, in the twelfth century, 1379. ----, rule for knowing when the scent lies, 1378. Husbandmen, should be meteorologists, 879. Hyde-park, sale of the toll-gate, 1355. Hydrophobia, incurable, 900.

Icicles, poetically described, 184, 198. Iliad, in a nut-shell, 1086. Ill May-day; see Evil May-day. Illumination in London, 1814, 459; of St. Peter’s at Rome, 885. Image, divided by miracle, 99. Indulgence of Leo XII., 306. INNOCENTS, _December 28_; derivation and customs of the day, 1648. Inquests of London, 1587. Insects in summer, 1099. INVENTION OF THE CROSS, _May 3_; miraculous origin of the festival, 611. Inverness, ball-play, 260. Iol, or ol, 1544. Ireland, its verdure and plants, 108; customs, 422, 592, 685, 847, 1508; advancing in sculpture, 1651. Irving, Mr. Washington, his love of England, 635. Isle of Man customs, 59. Islington; see Canonbury, Copenhagen-house, Hagbush-lane, Pied Bull, &c. Italian minstrels, in London, 1630. Ivy, an outside decking, 1635; see Holly.

Jack in the green, 585. ---- Snacker of Wytney, 1246. Jacob’s Well, Barbican, 972. Jahn’s gymnastics, 1317. James’s, St., palace, plum porridge there at Christmas, 1640. James I., new-year’s gifts to, 9; a cock-fighter, 255; goes to St. Mary Spital, 445; attends his queen’s coronation at Edinburgh, 647; his adventure with a clergyman who caught dotterels, 646. ---- II., lands in Ireland, 353. January, the first day, how pictured, 3. Janus, how pictured, 1, 6. Jefferies, Judge, account of, 478. Jennings, miser, account of him, 301. Jenyns, Soame, on cruelty to animals, 799. JEROME, _September 30_; authority for O. T. Apocrypha, 1343; his legend of the first hermit, 104. Jerusalem, golden gate of, 1008. Jessup, Samuel, the pill-taker, 661. Jesuit, the, a periodical work, 914. Jewellery of the Burmese carriage, 1520. Jews’ new-year’s day, 15. ----, their treatment and present state in England, 295, 385; Jewish stage play, 743. Joachim, St., and St. Anne, account of, 1008. Joan of Arc, account of, 726. John, king of France, died, 452. JOHN PORT LATIN, _May 6_; notice of him, 617. ----, St., baptist, customs on his festival, 836, 845. ----’s eve, celebrations, 823, 836. JOHN, St., apostle, _December 27_, account of him, and customs on his festival, 1647. ----’s lane, Clerkenwell, raised, 1481. ---- wort, a charm, 854. Johnson, David, writing-master, account of, 1086. ----, Mr. J., his “Typographia,” 1136. ----, Dr. Samuel, and Boswell’s liking to town, 646. Joint-stock companies, see Bubbles; a new one proposed, 1460. Joke, no, like a true joke, 505. Jones, rev. W., of Nayland, anecdote of, 836. ----, sir W., died, 527. Jonson, Ben, his description of Bartholomew fair, 1201. Joseph, St., Roman carpenters’ respect for him, 1595. Judas, the, 435. Judges’ breakfast on first of term, 722; sermon before them on Trinity Sunday, 722. Judith and Holofernes, at Bartholomew fair, 1227. Juggler, with balls, knives, &c. 1188. Julian, emperor, reviver of beards, 18; notice of him, 887. Juliet Capulet, and Petrarch, 1063. Julius II., pope, prefers the sword to books, 266. Junkets, 561. Justifying bail, humorously described, 158. Justs and tournaments on London-bridge, Smithfield, &c. 799, 1167, 1234.

Kale, whence derived, 196. Kaleidoscope invented, 473. Katharine, queen, goes a maying, 550. ----’s, St., church, by the tower, last service there, 1405; see Catharine. Keate, George, author, notice of, 880. Kele-wurt, 196. Kemp, W., of Peerless-pool, 971. Kenilworth, sports, 477. Kensington, lord, his interest in Bartholomew fair, 1233. Kent-road fountain, 1043. Kentish custom on Valentine’s day, 226; not on that day, 257. Kiavamuchd, 1634. Kidder, bishop, and his lady, killed, 1513. Kidderminster custom, 1337, 1343. Kilda, St., Isle of, custom, 1340. Killigrew, Charles, master of the revels, 1243. King, George IV., his birth-day kept, 1199. ----’s-bench, ball-play, 869. Kingston, Surrey, customs, 245, 959. Kiss in the ring, 692. Klopstock, Frederic, died, 361. Knacking of the hands, 1267. Knight, the, and the Virgin Mary, a mystery, 748. ----, R. P., his dissertation, 1324. Knight-riders-street, whence so called, 1166. Knights and ladies, a winter pastime, 1614. Knowledge, advantages of, 1549. Kœnig, Mr., inventor of the steam press, 1537. Kyrle, John, death of, 1438.

Labour, inevitable in all ranks, 1315; essential to success in art, 1651. Labre, Benedict Joseph, account of, 467. Lace of St. Audrey, 1383. Lackington, Mr. George, purchases the Egyptian-hall, 1531. Lady-day, 386. ----, old, 450. ---- of the May, 550. Ladies, wore friars’ girdles, 262. Lagan-le-vrich, 1633. Lalande, astronomer, died, 451. Lamb of St. Agnes, 141, 143; lamb-playing at Easter, 422; lamb and lion, 1005. ----, Mr. Charles, quatrains from him to the editor, 927; quatorzains from the editor to him, 929. Lamb’s wool, 44, 53, 1606; its derivation, 1416. LAMBERT, _September 17_; account of the saint, 1295. LAMMAS, _August 1_; its derivation, 1063; weather in Scotland, 342. Lamps, of old times, 831. Lanark, Palm Sunday custom, 396. Lane, a legerdemain player, 1248. Larks in spring, 534; Dunstaple, 952. Last Judgment of M. Angelo, 268. Latimer’s, bishop, new-year’s gift to Henry VIII., 7. Laura, Petrarch’s, died, 450. LAWRENCE, _August 10_; account of this saint, 1085. ----, St., Jewry church, 1085. ----, sir Thomas, a question by, 1458. Law suit, its forms and progress of, 233. ---- terms, 99; vacations, _ib._ Laymen’s parliament, 752. Leadenhall-street maypole, 555. Leaf, a withered, 1111; fall of the leaf, 1438. Learned pig’s performance, 1194. Leather-lane, King’s-head public-house, 1630. Lee and Harper’s show, 1228. Leeds, twelfth-eve custom, 43. Leek, on St. David’s-day, 317. Leeming, Joseph, account of, 1455; his letter to the editor, 1467. Leeuwarden custom, 1566. Leg, a, adventures of, 1460, 1467. Legal glee--a catch, 164. ---- recreations, 239. Leicester, sir John, his gallery possesses Mr. Behnes’ bust of Mr. West, 346. Leisure, retired, 667. Lenct-monat, 312. Lent celebrations, 193; in a pageant, 256, 257; Lenten cross, 395. Leo, zodiacal sign, symbolized, 1006. ---- Africanus, on the ass, 1309; and camel, 1580; his travels, 1581. ----, pope, calls St. Hilary a cock, 99. ---- XII., his indulgence, 306. Leopold, prince, of Brunswick, drowned, 527. Letter to _March 25_, 389. ---- foundery of Breitkopf, 185. Leyden, explosion of gunpowder there, 93. Libra, zodiacal sign, 1147. Lida aftera, 892; erra, 738. Lifting at Easter, 422. Lincoln’s-inn-hall, breakfast on first of term, 155, 1436; fountain, 1043. Lincolnshire customs, &c. 1482. Lindsey, dame, of Bath, 1280. Lions, anecdotes of, 104, 978 to 1006, 1184, 1176, 1177, 1191. ---- head at Button’s, 1006. Lisbon, earthquake at, affects Peerless-pool, 975. Liston, Mr., sees the living skeleton, 1029. Literary services, ungrateful reward of, 527; piracy, 1140. Literature, societies for encouraging, 354. Little Britain, Spectator published there, 283. Littleton, lexicographer, his inscription for the monument, 1165. Liverpool, earl of, master of the Trinity, ceremony of swearing, 724. Living skeleton, the, visit to, 1017; another, 1129. Livy and his books, 24. Loaf-mass, 1063. Lobscouse, 53. Logan, salt-water fish-pond, 82. London, new-year’s day, 15; Palm Sunday, 395; customs, 435; lord mayor and citizens going a maying, 552; pageant, 671; lord mayor &c. at a mystery, 756; ancient watch, 826; sheriffs proveditors for beasts, 1005; corporation costume on St. Bartholomew’s day, eve, &c. 1235; customs at Michaelmas, 1330; lord mayor’s establishment, 1331; notice for 5th Nov.,1435; lord mayor’s day, 1439; election of ward officers, 1587; waits, 1626; ceremony of founding the new London- bridge, 775; account of the old one, 799; city wall repaired from ruins of Jews’ houses, 296. LONDON BURNT, 1666, _September 2_; accounts of the great fire, 1150. ---- Magazine, “Lion’s Head,” 1007. LONGEST DAY, _June 21_; a suitable apologue, 819; see BARNABAS, _June 11_. Longevity of Petrarch, a Russian, 39. ---- Dennis Hampson, Irish bard, 40. LORD MAYOR’S DAY, _November 9_; account of lord mayor’s show, 671, 1439, 1453. Lord of the tap, at Stourbridge fair, 1487. Lothbury, Jews’ synagogue plundered, 296. ---- how watered formerly, 971. Lovat, lord, executed, 452. Love account-keeping, 215; advertisement, 1070; see Spring. Loveday, Mr., his daughters become Catholics, 534. Loudon, J. C., his “Encyclopædia of Gardening,” 1043, note. Louis XVI., beheaded, 145. ---- XVIII., new-year’s gifts to him, 14; patron of plum-pudding, 1617. LOW SUNDAY, _movable_; its derivation, 453. Luchd-vouil, 1634. LUCIAN, _January 8_; account of this saint, 78. LUCY, _December 13_; account of this saint, 1570. LUKE, _October 18_; horn fair on his festival, 1386; how he is painted, 1387. Lulle, Raym., alchemist, account of, 398. Lulli, J. B., composer, died, 383. Lute, the barber’s, 1268. Lyme Regis, custom on Candlemas-day, 206.

M‘Creery, Mr. John, his “Press,” a poem, 1135; lines on his daughter’s hour-glass, 1425. Macdonald, Alexander, his monument to the pretender, 33. ----, sergeant Samuel, notice of, 619. M‘Dowal, colonel, his salt fish store, 82. MACHUTUS, _November 15_; who he was, 1486. Mackerel fishing, 961. Macnamara, captain, duellist, 451. Mad dogs, danger from, 900. ---- Moll, and her husband, at Hitchin, 566. Magdalen-college quadrangle, dressed with greens, 836. Magna Charta signed, 811. Magnus, St., church, custom at, 1349. Maia, a deity, 537. Maid Marian, 550, &c. Mail coach, annual procession, 503. Malabar Christians, 1586. Malt’s defence, 75. Man of Ross, Pope’s, 1438. ---- smugging, illegal, 1435. Mansfield, earl, C. J., died, 374. Manures and dressings, fanciful, 664. Mara, madam, notice of, 762. Marco, a Tower lion, 1006. Mare with seven legs, 1181. Margot, a French girl, a ball-player, 856. MARK, St., _April 25_; notice of him, 512; celebrations of his eve and festival, 521. Marlborough, duke of, notice of, 798. Marriage of a priest, whereby he remained a bachelor, 142; ill luck to marry on Childermas-day, 1648. Marseilles’ fete, 1298. MARTIN, St., _November 11_; account of him, 1469. ----’s church, near Canterbury, 301. ----, Mr., of Galway, noticed, 980. Martineau, Mrs., lines on her death, 796. Martinmas, 1470. Mary, the lady, a rope-dancer, her tragical fate, 1241. ----, queen, sung to by a boy bishop, 1560. ----, queen of Scots, new-year’s gift to, 10. ----, St., at hill, boy bishop, 1560. ----’s, eve carol, 1602. ---- Overy, boy bishop, 1559. ----, Spital, London, 445. Mason, rev. W., poet, died, 421. Maskers, at a common hop, 1646. Masking on twelfth-night, 54. Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1131. Master of the revels, his office and seal, 1244. Matilda, queen of Denmark, dies in prison, 529. MATTHEW, St., _September 21_; account of him, 1314. Maughan, Nicholas, a showman, 1173. MAUNDY THURSDAY, _movable_; maund, maundy, &c. customs, 400. Maxentius II., emperor, his cruelty, 1504. May-day, maypoles, maygames and garlands, 541 to 598, 705; maypole in a screen, 761. Mayers’ song, 567. May-fair, Piccadilly, account of, 572. ---- hill, dangerous to invalids, 652. ---- month, 598. ---- morning, 644. Mechanics’ Institution recommended, 1500. ----, London, founded, 1549. Mechelen, Israel van, engraving by, 1119. Medal of Henry IX. king of England, 34; of Napoleon on his marriage, 409; a French one on Martinmas, 1472. Medemonath, 738. Melmoth, Courtney, died, 361. Melodies of evening, 606. Memory Corner Thompson, account of, 81. Men, twelve, suspended in the air, 26. Mercery, its signification, 1337. Merchant Tailors’ song, 1452. Meredith, a fives-player, 867. Merriment within compass, 61. Merry-andrew, a superior one, 1245. Merry in the hall, when beards wag all! 1640. Meteor, a, in Britain, 373. MICHAEL, St., _September 29_; account of him, 629; his dragon, 500, 1325. Michaelmas-day custom, 1325. ---- ----, old, 1374. ---- term, 1436. Michell, Simon, barrister, 1479, 1481. Middleton’s, Dr. Conyers, coach-horses blessed, 117. Mid-Lent Sunday, 358. Midnight and the Moon, 963. MIDSUMMER-DAY, _June 24_; celebrations, 837. ---- -eve, bonfires, watchsetting, &c. 823 to 836; divinations, 850. ---- -men, 850. Midsumormonath, 738. Midwinter, 59. ---- -monath, 1543. Milan, its great loss, 46. Mildred’s, St., church in the Poultry, 285. Mile, and half-mile stones, projected, 103. Miles, lieutenant colonel, serves against the Burmese, 1527. Milkmaids’ garlands, 570. Miller’s booth, Bartholomew fair, 1238. Mince pies, symbolical, 1638. Minch-pies, 1639. Minster, Isle of Thanet, first abbess of, 285. Minstrels, their ancient vocation, 1231. Miracles, &c. of Romish saints; see Index II. Mirror of the Months, a book, 1491. Missel-thrush, 535. Mistletoe cut by the Druids, 6; kissed under, 1614, 1615; proscribed in churches, 1636. Mitford, J., his account of lord Byron’s residence at Mitylene, 487. Monk, a, drowned, and afterwards relates his adventures, 1117. ----, duke of Albemarle, his wife, 582. Monmouth, countess of, 17. Montgomery, colonel, killed, 451. Months, the, in a Norwich pageant, 256; in a versified memorandum, 310. Montmartre, its derivation, 1371. Monument, the, on Fish-street-hill, 1150, 1165. Moon, the, poetically addressed, 292; at midnight, 963; its influence on the weather, 1015; symbolized, 1110; new-moon customs, 1509. Moor, sir Jonas, astronomer died, 1093. Moore’s travels in Africa, 1582. ----, Mr. Thomas, lord Byron’s last lines to, 490. Moorgate, annual procession from, 1488. More, sir Thomas, lord chancellor, declines a new-year’s gift of money, 9; reproves his lady, 262; his head on London bridge, 799. Morrice dance, in the Strand, 559. Morton, Regent, his guillotine, 149. Moscow rebuilt, from Grays-inn-lane dust-heap, 323. Most Christian king, origin of the title, 1349. Mother, suckling her child, 905. Mothering Sunday, 358. Mother’s milk, an epigram, 1311. Motions, puppet shows, 1246. Movable fasts and feasts, 190; vigil or eve, morrow, octave or utas of, &c. 192; corrected, 415. Mummers and mumming, 592, 1653. Mushroom, an enormous one, 20. Music of cats, 1106, 1110; music in every thing, 1142; at Bartholomew fair, 1248; in the ass, 1360; musical ear of squirrels, 1365; musical prodigies, 1038. Mutton-pie, and loaf, annual gift, 978. Myddleton, sir Hugh, when he did not die, 343. Mysteries, and Romish church pageants, 742, 750, &c.

Nailing, on twelfth-night, 50. NAME OF JESUS, _August 7_; why in the almanacs, 1071. Napoleon’s marriage and medal, 409; king of Rome, born, 374; Napoleon died, 616. Naseby, battle of, 773. Nash, Beau, notice of, 1585. NATIVITY OF JOHN, baptist, _June 24_; customs on the day and eve, 833, 846. ----, B. V. M., _September 8_; when instituted as a festival, &c., 1274. Navigations, miraculous, 4, 26, 194. Negro woman’s pity of a climbing boy, 592. Nelson, lord, anecdotes of him, 126. Neptune of the Egyptians, 141. Nero, account of, 453. ---- and Wallace, lions, 978. Nettle whipping, on May eve, 594. New River nuisances, 951, 1042. ---- year’s day, celebrations of, 3; Nightingale on, 521. ---- ---- eve, celebrations and winds, 10, 11, 1653. ---- ---- gifts, 6, 30. Newcastle customs, 430; Corpus Christi play, 755; procession of glass- cutters, 1286; and shoemakers, 1401. ---- house bonfire, 1433. Newman, Sarah, epitaph on, 1480. Newnton, Wilts, Trinity Sunday custom, 723. Newspaper advertisement, to subscribers, 823. ---- office, letter-boxes, 103. Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand maypole, 560; dispute between him and Flamsteed, 1091; died, 374. Nice, council of, 1557. NICHOLAS, _December 6_; account of St. Nicholas, and customs on his festival, 1555; in Holland, 1566. ----, lady Penelope, killed, 1513. Nicknackitarian law-suit, 1284. NICOMEDE, _June 1_; a martyr, 741. Niger, the, its course, 1582. Nightingales, on new-year’s day, 521; in April, 540; in May, 606; at Blackheath, 688; their jug-jug, 728. Nightless days, 772. Noah’s flood represented at Bartholomew fair, 1247. Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 1007. North-east wind fiend, 136; its effects, 622. North road to London, account of the most ancient, 870 to 878. ---- Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at an owl there, 252. Northumberland customs, 849. ---- household book, records, mysteries, 755. Norwich turkeys, sent to London at Christmas, 1606. Notice to quit, 1342. Nottingham park, foliage destroyed, 1111. Now--a hot day, 880. Nut-burning and cracking, 1408, 1415, 1421. Nutting on Holy-rood day, 1293.

Oath, remarkably observed, 654. Octavia, empress, account of, 454. Ode on Smithery, 1499. O’Donoghue, legend of, 594. Offerings at the chapel-royal on twelfth-day, 59; at Easter, 359. Olave’s St., church in the Old Jewry formerly a synagogue, 296; boy bishop, 1561. ----, Silver-st., mystery performed at, 756. Old Clem at Woolwich, 1501. ---- Fogeys, 1454. ---- HOLY ROOD, _September 26_; noticed, 1324. ---- May-day, 683. ---- MICHAELMAS DAY, _October 11_; customs, 1375. Onagra, the, 1178. Onions, divination, 1552. O. P. row, 603. Opie, John, artist, died, 453. Optical illusion, 122. Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, 1245. Orange, stuck with cloves, 7. Oratorio, its origin, 703. Oratory, fathers of the, 702. Organ, of St. Catharine’s church, 1407; in the street at Christmas, 1615. Orleans, duchess d’, her new-year’s gift to Louis XVIII., 14. O SAPIENTIA, _December 16_; why in the almanacs, 1572. Oster-monath, 407. Ovens, origin of, 259. Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, 1437. Ovid, character of, 23. Our lady of Bolton’s image, 431. Owling and purling on Valentine’s day, &c. 227, 252. Ox and Ass, why represented in prints of the nativity, 1610. Oxen pledged in cider, &c., 43. Oxford, curfew at Carfax, 242. Oyster-tub used for a carriage, 78. Oysters on St. James’s-day, 978.