Part 143

Packhorse travelling, 876. Packington’s pound, a tune, 1214. Pageants in London, 671, 1443, 1473, 1487; at Edinburgh, 647; on St. John’s eve, 825; of the seasons, fasts, and feasts, 255. Palace-yard porter shops, 603. Pallas, the planet, discovered, 397. PALM SUNDAY, _movable_; celebrations and customs of the day, 391; palm, 1081. ---- play, with a ball, 864. Palmer, Garrick’s bill-sticker, 1244. Pamela, imagined at cards, 93. Pancake-day, 246. ---- month, 197. Panchaud, M., defrauded, 770. Panormo, Mr. C., gains a prize for sculpture, 1651. Paper folding man, the, 692. ---- windows at Bartholomew tide, 1133. Paques, pascha, paschal, pace, paste, 416. Paradise, a Jesuit’s account of, 1350. Paris, new-year’s day, 13; blessing of a market there, 758. Parish clerks of London, the, mysteries of, 753. ---- priest, a good, 1613. Parr, Dr. Samuel, his Spital sermon, and character, 444; and death, 339. Pascal, the, 393, 436, 959. Passion, the, symbolized, 405. ---- flower, 770. ---- Sunday, 392. Pastry-cooks’ shops on twelfth-night, 47. Paternoster backwards, a charm, 1415. PATRICK, St., _March 17_; legend of the saint’s miracles, 363; customs on his festival, 369; his chair, 825. Paul, St., the apostle, notice of, 889; his and Seneca’s epistles, 453. ----’s day, superstitions, 175; his chain, 601. Paul’s cathedral, London, 301; its pigeon, 1246. ---- cross, sermon against maypoles, 753; rood, 1292. ---- school, boys play mysteries, 753. Pea-queen on twelfth-night, 56. Peckham fair, 1125. Pedlar, described, 1215. Peerless-pool, described, 970. Pendrill, Will., in the royal oak, 718. Penn, William, his account of Mrs. Gaunt’s death, 480. Penny, in twelfth-cake, 55. Pens, his engraving of a guillotine, 148. Pentecost, 685. Pentonville, deficient of water, 1042. Penzance, May custom, 561. Perambulation of parishes, 652. Perceval, Robert, killed in the Strand, 561. PERPETUA, _March 7_; noticed, 340. Perriwigs, 1259. Peru, a fives-player, 867. Perukes, 1450; for four angels, 435. PETER, St., _June 29_; celebration of his festival at Rome, 885. ----’s chains, 1061. ---- chair at Rome, 121. ---- church, occasioned the Reformation, 264. ----, Czar, visits Greenwich, 1095. Petrarch, crowned in public, 452; his birth-day, the same as Juliet Capulet’s, 1063. Phials, with devil’s drink, 21. PHILIP and JAMES, Sts., _May 1_; noticed, 541. ---- the fair, entertains Edward II., 746. Phillips, W., a Welsh dwarf, 1188. Philosopher’s stone, a patent for it, 240. Piazzi’s discovery of the planet Ceres, 17. Picture of St. Ignatius, miraculous, 1055. Pictures at Dulwich, 1011. Pidcock and Polito’s menagerie, 1246. Pie-powder-court, 1214. Pied Bull, Islington, 634. Pifferari of Calabria, 1595. Pigeons of Paul’s, 120, 1246. Pigs, 119; annually consumed in London, 1217. Pillow made of a dead man, 21. Pills, one pill not a dose, 661. Pinning on twelfth-night, 47. Pin-sticking customs, 136. Pins and Pin-money, 9. Pio, Albert, prince of Carpi, buried, 529. Pipe of the Roman eucharist, 185. Piran’s, St., day, 334. Pitt, rev. Charles, poet, died, 461. Pizarro, notice of, 857. Plague, the, notice of, 363; in London, 383. Plough-light money, 73. PLOUGH MONDAY, _movable_; processions and other customs, 71. ---- ---- and Sunday, London festivals, 1334. Plum-porridge at Christmas, 1640. ---- pudding, an eccentric vender of it, 1250; made in France, 1617. Plutarch, read to Louis XIV., 1231. Plymouth, mild winter at, 1563. Poaching notice, 350. Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 701. Pole, the barber’s, 1269. Pompeii, panorama of, 1595. Pompey’s complaint in the dog-days, 945. Ponsondie, 53. Pope, the, and cardinals’ jubilee for the massacre on St. Bartholomew’s day, 1131. ----, annual burning of, 1487. ---- Joan, card party, 91. Pope’s willow tree, 1081. Popery, No, 1433. Porter and his knot, 1215. Porto-Bello, rejoicings on taking, 1473. Post office business increased, 215. POWDER PLOT, _November 5_; celebrations, 1429. Powell’s, Mr., pedigree, 797. Powell of the fives-court, 868. Prayer, directory for, 202; M. Angelo’s, 280. Praying for the dead, 1424. Prechdachdan sour, 1633. Pressing of seamen, when commenced, 373. Pretender, monument to him, 33. Price, Dr. Richard, died, 486. Pricking in the belt, 437. Printer’s customs, and printing terms, 1133; ---- devil, 1139. Printing, 185; improvement in, 1535; a simile, 30. PRISCA, _January 18_; noticed, 22. Prisoners on trial, why uncovered, 1437. Pritchard, rev. George, his storm sermon, 1517. Procession-week, 642. Proclamation of Bartholomew fair, form of, 1165; for a fast in the storm year, 1515. Proger’s, Mr., pedigree, 797. Pulpits, 838; stone pulpit at Oxford, 837. Pumps, 1041. Puppet shows, 1246; in Ben Jonson’s time, 1202; at May-fair, 574; at Pentonville, 1114. Purgatory eased, in 1825, 307; see Romish saints, Index II. PURIFICATION, _February 2_; see Candlemas. Puxton custom, 837. Pye-corner, Smithfield, 1217, 1238. ----, John, watchman of Bungay, 1628.

Quadragesima, 193. Quarter-day, situations and feelings on, 841. Quarto-die-post, explained, 100. Queen’s college Oxford, Boar’s head carol, 1619.

R. G. V. H. an inscription, 1466. Racine, reads to Louis XIV., 1231. Rackets, origin of, 863. Radcliffe, Ralph, mystery writer, 753. Rahere, first prior of St. Bartholomew’s, 1231. Raikes, Robert, philanthropist, died, 421. Rain, why it did not fall for three years, 116; on Swithin’s day, 954, 958; average fall in winter, 1564. ----bow in winter, 107. Ranson’s, Mr. J. T., etching of Starkey, 922, 928, 968. Raphael, the archangel, 1326. ----, painter, died, 451; his picture of the Nativity, with a bag- piper, 1595. Rath, the or Burmese state-carriage, 1519. Rats eat a bishop, 1362. Ratzburg customs on Christmas-eve, 1604. Raven feeds a saint and fetches his cloak, 104. Recollections, effect of tender, 1406. Red Cross-street burial ground, for Jews, 296. ---- Lion-square, obelisk in, 859. Reformation, the, its immediate cause, 264. Refreshment Sunday, 358. Relics, curious list of, 814. REMIGIUS, _October 1_; noticed, 1349. Resurrection, the, a Romish church drama, 431. Rhed-monath, 313. Rheumatism cured by ale, 23. Ribadeneira’s Lives of the Saints, used in this work, 3. Rich, Richard, lord, grant to him of St. Bartholomew’s priory, 1232. RICHARD DE WICHE, _April 3_; account of him, 419. ---- II. and his court at the parish clerks’ play, 753. ---- III. attends the Coventry plays, 757. Richards, rev. Mr., buried alive, 1565. Richardson, Mr., buys Button’s lion’s head, 1007. ----’s, itinerant theatre, 1182, 1388. Richmond, visit to, 601; hunt on Holyrood-day, 1294. Riding stang described, 12. Ridlington, Rob., his bequest to Stamford, 1484. Ring, a, occasions a repartee, 529; wedding ring of Joachim and Anne, 1010. Rippon church, Yorkshire, lighted up before Candlemas, 205. Rising early, its effects, 79. Ritson, Jos., publishes a Christmas carol, 1600. Roast beef, 1578. ---- pig, by Elia, 1218. Robbery at Copenhagen-house, 862. Robin in winter, 103; and the wren, 647. ---- Hood, 550; and his bower, 686. Roche, St. or St. Roche’s day, 1120. Rochester cathedral, 301. ----, lord, outwitted, 613; banters Charles II., 721. Rock-day, 61. Rodd, Mr. Thomas, bookseller, 8, 1066. Rodney, adm., defeats Comte de Grasse, 459. Roebuck Inn, Richmond, 604. ROGATION SUNDAY, _movable_; customs in Rogation week, 641. Rogers, organist of Bristol, noticed, 1039. Roman pottery, a new-year’s gift, 6; wigs of Roman ladies, 1263. Rome, ancient, new-year’s day, 13; founded, 493. Romish church established, 744; Romish and protestant churches and worship compared, 839, 919. Ronaldshay, North, custom, 10. Rood, the, described, 1291. Rooks, in Doctor’s Commons, 494. Rose Sunday, 358. ---- gathering on Midsummer-eve, 852. ----, the last, of summer, 1389. Roseberry, earl of, singular narrative of his son and a clergyman’s wife, 1122. Rosemary-branch, fives-play, 867. Round-abouts and up-and-downs, 1249. Rout, city, discontinued, 1336. Row, T., Dr. Pegge, and curfew, 244. Rowlandson’s Boor’s-head, 1622. Royal-oak-day, 711. Rubens’s death of St. Antony, 120. Ruffian’s hall, Smithfield, 1234. Runic calendar, 1404. Rural musings, 106. Rush-strewing at Deptford, 1825, 725.

Sackville, secretary, account of his schoolmaster, 29. Sadler, J., his engraving of St. Cecilia, 1496. Sadler’s Wells, anglers, 344; play-bill, 1200. Saffron-flower and cakes, 1148. Sailors, their patrons in storms, 537; staid ashore in bad weather, 1419; mistake of one, 1591; a sailor and his wife at Greenwich, 689. Saints, Romish, authorities mostly referred to for their legends, 3; in sweetmeat, 116; peculiarity of their bodies, _ib._; tender-nosed, 745; carry their heads under their arms after death, 1371; a dirty one, 467. For further particulars, see Index II. Salisbury, boy bishop, 1557; Edward the Confessor, translated to Salisbury, 813. Sallows described, 78. Salters’ company, custom, 1349. Salvator’s temptation of St. Antony, 116. Samam, vigil of, 1415. Samwell’s company of tumblers, 1185. Sannazarius’s poem, De Partu Virginis, 1611. Saturnalian days, 57. Satyr, seen by a saint, 104. Saunderson, Dr. Nicholas, mathematician, died, 486. Sausages, feast of, 1471. Scent in hunting, 1378. Schoen, Martin, engraving by, 1119. Schoolmasters, formerly, 30; presided on throwing at cocks, 252. School-time in spring, 674. Scone, ball-play, 259. Scotland, candlemas-day, 206; Shrove Tuesday, 259; mists, 250; first of April, 1811; has no carols at Christmas, 1602; Highland Christmas, 1633; superstitions, 1408. Scott, Bartholomew, married Cranmer’s widow, 382. Screen, at Hornsey Wood house, 760. Sculpture and painting, their relative merits, 275; the two Royal Academy prizes for 1825 awarded to two Irish pupils, 1651. Scythe carried by the Devil, 21. Sea-water, a company to bring it to Copenhagen-fields, 869. Seal of Button’s Lion’s head, 1007. Seasons, their names derived, 1518. Seduction, 1076. Self-multiplication of saints’ bodies and relics, 335, 611, 814. Selim, sultan, takes Cairo, 461. Seneca, his death and character, 453. SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY, _movable_; why so called, 192, 193. Sepulchre, Romish church drama, 432. Serjeant’s coif, 158. Sermon for Easter diversion, 446. ----s prohibited to be read, 1264. Serpent, a little one in a woman, 38; a taper, _ib._; serpents dance on ropes, 1245; a seat on a serpent’s knee, 1599. Servants, their new-year’s gifts to masters, 10; cautioned against leaving Christmas leaves, 204. ---- maid, a character, 481. Settle, Elkanah, the last city poet, 1453. Seurat, Ambrose, account of, 1017. Seward, Anna, author, died, 389. SEXAGESIMA, _movable_; why so called, 191, 193. Shaftesbury, lord, plays in a pageant, 1490. Shakspeare, died, 503; his jest book, 504. ---- tavern sale, 1007. Shamrock, the Irish cognizance, 371. Sharp, Mr. T., his work on pageants, 478. ----, W., engraver, 604. Shaving in winter, 18; anciently, 1268. Sheep blessing by the Romish church, 143; shearing, 740. Sheep’s head, singed, 1539. Sheet used at execution of Charles I., 187. Shepherd and shepherdess tavern, City-road, 442, 975. Shere Thursday, 400. Sheridan, R. B., notice and character of, 910. Ship, in a pageant, 1450. Shirt, a miraculous iron one, 286; stitches in a shirt, 1375. Shoemaker-row, 1238. ----s, their patron and holyday, 1395; shoe-stealer blinded, 26. Shoes, sandals, and slippers, 513. Shony, a western isle sea-god, 1414. Shooting, at Bartholomew tide, 1235; in North Britain at Christmas, 1634. Showman’s family described, 1189. Shrewsbury, Easter-lifting, 422. Shrid-pies, 1638. Shrive, shrove, 246. SHROVE TUESDAY, _movable_; customs, 242. Siddons, Mrs., 905. Side-bar, in Westminster-hall, 156. Sidney, Algernon, 479. Sign, Absalom, 1262; a tinman’s, 1385. Silenus, 450. SILVESTER, _December 31_; notice of him, 1653. SIMON, St., and St. JUDE, _October 28_; superstitions of the day, 1403. Sirius, the dog-star, 897, 899. Sixtine chapel, M. Angelo’s scaffold for it, 267. Skeleton-huntsmen’ song, 1296. Skewers, used for pins, 9. Skinners’ company, their pageant, 1452. ---- well, mystery played at, 753. Slatyer, W., his psalms to song tunes, 1598. Sleep, how avoided by a saint, 282. Sleepers, legend of the Seven, 1035. Slingsby, sir H., his account of the training in 1639, 28. Sluicehouse, near Hornsey Wood, 696. Smith, Gentleman, account of, 1288. Smithery, ode in praise of, 1499. Smithfield, entertainment on May-day, 589; at Bartholomew-fair time, 1166; whence so called, 1231; paved, 1234. Smoking, 667. Smuchdan, 12. Smugging tops, dumps, &c. 253; a Guy, 1431; a man, 1435. Snipes, 1390. Snow-ball, sport, 257; snow-balls medicinal, 414. ---- drop described, 78. Snuff-taking, how to leave off, 152; wit at a pinch, 231. Soissons, church branch of seven tapers, 45. Solace, a printer’s penalty, 1136. Soldier pensioned for killing two men, and capturing their lion, 1006. Somers, lord, died, 525. ---- town miracle, 472. Somerset-house, old, what stones built with, 1479. Somersetshire, sports and customs, 435; customs, 837, 865. Somnambulism, 1591. Song, a, sung by itself, 1296. Sophia, princess, of Gloucester, walk in her gardens at Blackheath, 689. Sops, joy-sops with twelfth-cake, 56. Sot’s hole, 689. Sound as a roach, 1121. South-sea bubble, 165. Sowans, 1633. Sowing, rewarded by cakes and cider, 42. Sparrows, their use, 495. Spectator, by whom published, 283. Spectral appearances to the editor, 123; why they were illusions, 125. Spencer, sir John, account of, 639. Spice-bread massacre, 54. Spiced-bowl, 10, 42. Spiders, 384; barometers, 931; fly in summer, 1284; save a saint, 102. Spines, Jack, a racket-player, 868. Spinsters, their patroness, 1508. Spirits, watching them in the church-porch, 523. Spital sermon, 443; an inflammatory one, 577. Sportsman, account of one, by himself, 290. Spring quarter, and festival, 335, 374; dress, 337; complete, 536; mornings, 530, 674. Sprout-kele, 196. Spry, Dr., preaches on Trinity Monday, 725. Squires of the Lord Mayor, 1331. Squirrels, habits and instincts, 1365, 1383; squirrel hunting, 1539. Stafford, its patron saint, 1278. ----shire customs, 423. Stage, the old, described, 757. Staines, sir W., anecdotes of, 972. Stamford bull running described, 1482. Standish, Dr., his inflammatory sermon, 577. Stang, a cowl-staff, 12. Starkey, capt. Ben., memoirs of, 922, 965, 1510. Star, feast of the, 45. Stars in winter, 22, 1582; observed by Flamsteed, 1091; fall to discover a buried image, 194. Steamboat visit to Richmond, 601. Stebbings, Isaac, swam for a wizard, 942. Steel-boots, worn by Charles II., 17. Steeple-climbing, 766. Steevens, George, account of, 152. STEPHEN, St., _December 26_; customs on his festival, 1641. Stepney Wood, a maying place, 552. Stilts, 256. Stock, Eliz., a giantess, 1197. Stocks, the, earl Camden put into, 481. Stockwell ghost, narrative, 62; solution, 68. Stone, old, at North Ronaldshay, 10. Stoning Jews, a Lent custom, 295. Stool ball, 430; see Ball-play. Storm, the great, in 1703, described, 1512. ---- cock, 535. Stourbridge fair, account of, 1300, 1487. Stow, John, antiquary died, 421. Strand, maypole, 556. Strathdown, new-year’s celebration, 11. Straw in the shoe, the perjurer’s sign, 157. Strong woman, 574. Strood, Kent, entailment of its natives, 704. Struensee and Brandt executed, 529. Stuart holydays, 188. ---- line, its termination, 33. Sudley, entertainment to queen Elizabeth, 55. Suett, the comedian, his legs, 1029. Suffocation, receipt for, 209. Suffolk customs, 430; witchcraft, 942. ----, countess of, her hair, 1263. ----, lady, her present to Pope, 1081. Suicides, how buried, 451. Summer, dress, 819; evening, 933; midnight, 812; morning and evening, 815; morning, 962; solstice, 823; zephyr, 920; last rose, 1389; holydays, 1011. Sun, the, dancing, 421; symbolized, 491; sunset, 1355; sunshining on St. Vincent’s-day, 151. Sunday schools founded, 421. ----s, five in February, 310. Superstitions, vulgar, 515, 523. Swallow-day, 465; account of swallows, their migration, &c., 506, 644, 647, 1098. Swash-bucklers and swashers, 1234. Sweetheart customs, and superstitions, 136, 260. SWITHIN, _July 15_; account of him, 953; establishes tithes in England _ib._; superstitions on his festival, 954. Swordbearer, and swords of the city, 1331. Sword and buckler, how carried, 1234. Sylvester, St.; see Silvester. Symes, Mr., of Canonbury tower, 638. Systrum, of the Egyptians, 1110.

Tail-sticking, on St. Sebastian’s day, 135; at Strood, 704. Tailors, why they should require a reference, 120. Tansy pudding, 429. Tantony pig, 119. Tasks for a saint, 341. Tasso, died, 519. Tavistock monastery founded, 29. Tawdry, its derivation, 1383. Taylor, Jeremy, on card-playing, 89. ----, Joseph, bookseller, his endowment for an annual sermon on the great storm, 1517. Teddington church, Middlesex, mistletoe proscribed, 1637. Tee, the, described, 1523, 1528. Tell, William, arms his countrymen, 16. Temperature of winter, 1563. Temple, the, fountain, 1043. ---- gate, the pope burnt at, 1488. ----, Inner, customs at Christmas, 1618. Temptations of St. Antony, 109. Tenebræ, a Romish church service, 405. Term, first day of, customs, &c., 99, 155, 1436. Terminus, the god of boundaries, 99. Tewkesbury, battle of, 613. Thames, the, the king’s bear washed in it, 1005; its nuisances, 1042. Theatres at fair time, 442. Theatrical notice, 1296. Thimble and pea, 768. THOMAS, ST., _December 21_; customs on the day, 1586. Thompson, Memory Corner, 81. Thornton, Dr., exhibition to, 1459. Thread-my-needle, 692. Three Dons, the, a mystery, 747. ---- kings of Cologne, 45. ---- knocks on a saint’s head, 286. Threshing the hen, 245. Throne, Burmese, described, 1526. Thuanus’s history, English edition, 293. Tid, mid, misera, 379. Tiddy Doll and his song, 577. Tigress, and her whelps, by a lion, 1176, 1180. Tillotson, abp., the first prelate that wore a wig, 1262. Time, what it is, and its use, 310; time enough, 1377; measured, 1425; flies, 1426. Times, The, the first newspaper printed by steam, 1535. Tinder-boxes, when not in use, 99. Tinners, their patron saint, 334. Toast thrown to fruit trees, 42, 44. Tobacco, prohibited at Cambridge, 1264; a pipe in the morning, 1378. Tom, a cod-fish, 83. Tombuctoo, &c. described by Leo Africanus, 1582. Top, whipped in the Romish church, 199. Torches, at a royal wedding, 1551. Tottenham High-Cross fountain, 1041. Tower, the, lions, 1004. ----, Great Bell, of St. John’s Church, Clerkenwell, described, 1479. Town, out of, 491. ---- v. Country, 645. Townsend, police officer, his wig, 1263. Towton, battle of, 398. Trades, the, complaint against sir John Barleycorn, 73. TRANSLATION, EDWARD, K. W. S., _June 20_; origin of translations of saints’ bodies, 813. Travelling, old mode of, 876. Tree, a wicked one destroyed, 26. ---- of common law, 233. Tresham, sir T., prior of St. John’s, Clerkenwell, 1480. Trial, of a title to land in India, 240. Trimilki, 538. Tring, Herts, superstition, 1045. Trinity symbolized, 371. ---- house brethren, 724. ---- Sunday customs, 722. ---- Monday customs, _ib._ Triumphs of London, 1446. Trumpet-blowers licensed, 1244. Tulips, and tulippomania, 607. Tunstall, bishop, befriends B. Gilpin, 330. Turkeys, Christmas, 1606. Turner, Anne, on her trial for murder, 1437. ----, Mr., pump-maker, 1042. Turnspits, anecdotes of, 1573. Tusser, Thomas, his epitaph and burial place, 285. Twelfth-cake, how to draw, 51; how made anciently, 56. ---- day eve, 41; twelfth-day customs, 47; characters, 52; derived from the Greeks, 57; and the Druids, 58; observed at court, 59. Twickenham ball-play, 245. Tye, John, watchman of Bungay, 1628. Tyson’s, rev. Michael, portrait of Butler, 1303. Tythes, penance after death for nonpayment, 704; established in England, 953.

Vader-land, anglicised by lord Byron, 810. VALENTINE, _February 14_; derivation and customs of the day, 215. Vauxhall, accident, 1070; adventures at, 1457. VENERABLE BEDE, _May 27_; see Bede. Verard, Ant., his vellum edition of the Mystery of the Passion, 747. Vernon, adm., celebration of his birth-day, 1473. VINCENT, _January 22_; notice of him, 151. ----, T., his account of the fire of London, 1152. Viper, the, and her young, 1113. Virgil, Polydore, on church ceremonies, 202. Virgin, the, street music to her in Advent, 1595. Virgo, zodiacal sign, 1059. Visions, see Saints, Index II. Voelker’s gymnastics, 1316. Vos, Martin de, engraving from, 1495. Votive offerings at Isernia, 1324.

Union with Ireland, 17. Upcott, Mr. William, 1056, 1160, 1601. Uptide Cross, 395. Urbine, servant to M. Angelo, 277. Uriel, archangel, 1326. Utrecht, peace of, concluded, 453.