Part 78

Fairs, former importance of, 205. Falcon tavern, site of, 497. Families, former discipline in, 394; singular abandonment of family, 424; picture of desolation in, 656. Fanatic, (fasting) 134. Fans, former size and application of, 394. Fares of ticket porters, 19. Farmers in 1782, and in 1822, 463. Faro Straits, 643, 646. Farthings, 378. Fasting, extraordinary, 134; fast-pudding and Friar Bacon, 633. Fate, plea and answer respecting, 828. “Father’s Home, (A),” 170. Feast, a fearful one, 520. Feathers, 141. February, advice for, 252. Fees, the best of, 540. Feet, washing of, at Vienna, 477; and at Greenwich by queen Elizabeth, 479. Felons, sensations of, before and after hanging, 455. Female friendship, 363. Fens, goose-herds in, 140; effect of draining in, 143. Figures and numbers, 759. ---- of the dead, singular narrative of, 710. Filial custom, 625. Fingers, numbering by, 761. Fire-damp, explosions of, 656. Fire-eaters, 314. Fish-street, (Old), 167. Fishermen, sarcasms upon, 570. Fitzgerald, Col., and Col. King, duel between, 723. Fleet river at Clerkenwell, 75. Flogging, formerly, at Oxford, 394. Flora, games of, 541; indictment and trial of Flora, 545. Flowers, singular attention to, by the pitmen, 653. Fly-berry plant, 144. Font, of Harrow church, 157; of Beckenham church, 765; of West Wickham church, 813. Foot-ball, formerly played in London streets, 169. Fop and wit, union of, 666. Fortune; cards for telling fortunes, 74; how to be commanded, 347; fortune favours the brave, or butterfly hunting, 678. “Fortune by Land and Sea,” old play, 299. Fownes, Thomas, and his fox-hounds, 33. Fox, the quaker, 762. Franklin, Dr., anecdote of, 89. Fraock Elan, isle of, 777. Fraser, Simon, brother of lord Lovat, 633. French; nobility, 132; valentines, 206; adoption of children by, 220; transmigration of French noblesse, 242; ceremonies in France, 271, 272, 502; present jumble of ranks among, 362; former hospitality to travellers, 396; nationality of, 504, 505; decorum of in crowds, _ib._; almanacs, statements of, 540. Friar Bacon and his servant, 633. Friendship; destroyed by advice, 330; on the nail, supposed meaning of, 764. Fritters in France and England, 271. Funerals; mock, of a Bath chairman, 41; of a French general by a British sailor, 631; a cheerful one, 699. Futurity, peep into, 74.

“Game at Chess,” old play, 321. Gaming, curious notice about gambling houses, 86; gaming for funeral expenses, 763. Gammon of bacon, Easter custom of, 390. Garlands, May-day, 541, 543, 550. Garrick Plays, selections from, contributed by Mr. C. Lamb, 111, 133, 159, 192, 223, 255, 299, 324, 356, 384, 417, 447, 486, 511, 559, 581, 608, 640, 676, 703, 735, 788, 799. Geese, in the fens, management of, 141; goose-dancing in Scilly islands, 81. Geikie, Mr., a meritorious artist, 116. Gems of the twelve months, 321. Genius; unrewarded, 316; chance a great patron of, 421. Gentleman, (The Old) character of, 118. Gentry; heralds formerly kept by, 390; former manners and oppressions of, 391, 392; austere treatment of their children, 394. George I., anecdote of, 406. ---- II. and his cooks, 377. Germain, lord George, anecdote of, 410. Germany, universities in, 123. Gibbs, alias Huck’n, Dr., 554. Gilford, William, death and memoir of, 43. Gifts; new-year, 7; wedding, 793, 794. Ginger beer, receipt for, 471. Gipsies, health and happiness of, 210. Gipsy [a stream] in Yorkshire, 230. Gladiators in England, 495. Glass windows, rare before the Reformation, 392. Glenstrae, laird of, 465. Glisseg, in Wales, the happy valley, 352. “God keep you,” old salutation, 390. “God save the King,” author of, 225. Goethe, his philosophy of life, 398. Gold found in Scotland and Cornwall, 658. “Golden Age, (The)” old play, 677. ---- tooth, learned disputes about, 453. Gone or going, 773. Good-eating pernicious, 277; domestic dialogue on good-living, 822. Good-Friday, 478, 482. Goodrick, St., a bishop misled by, 415. Granger, Rev. Mr., the Linnæus of British portraits, 510. Grassington manager, [T. Airay] 69. Gratitude, in birds, 592. Gravity mistaken for wisdom, 393. Great Unknown discovered, 306, &c. Green-grocers’ devices, 607. Greenland, English sailors in, 629. Greenock Adam and Eve, antiquity of, 538. Gregory, (Old) selfishness of defeated, 240. Gresham committee, notice by, about lost children, 18. Gretna Green blacksmith and marriages, 431, 436. Grey, lady Jane, table book of, 3. Grief, expressive silence of, 459. Grinstead, (East) old play-bill, 137. Grosvenor, earl, and Mr. Gifford, 57. Groves; on a picturesque one, 807; groves and high places, 808. “Guardian, (The)” old play, 418. Guards, Swiss, monument of, engraving, 253. Guilty, stupefaction on verdict of, 457. Gwennap, in Cornwall, productive mine in, 658.

Hagman Heigh, new year’s eve custom, 7. Hairdresser. See Barber. Halfpennies, 378. Hall, (Antiquarian) of Lynn, engraving and notice of, 139. ----, Thomas, his “Funebria Floræ,” 545. Ham and stilton, 179. Hampstead, Shepherd’s Well at, 381; the place of groves, 810. Hands; peculiarity of the barber’s hand, 245; the bloody hand, 258; reason for preferring the right hand, 280. Hanged and unhanged, mankind divided into, 455. Hannah, (Blind) notice and engraving of, 221. Hard fare, 353. ---- labour, varied by different tread-mills, 755. Hare’s foot an antidote to witchcraft, 674. Harp, notices of, 335. Harris, Renatus, organist, 260. Harrow church, engraving of its old font, 157. Hart, the astrologer, 135. Hatred, to be insured by advice, 330. Hawking, ladies formerly devoted to, 392. Health, importance and means of, 209, 277. Hedgehog, celestial, 627. Henley, in Arden, custom in, 176. Henry IV., anecdotes of, 401, 402. ---- IX., notice of, 739. Heralds formerly in the train of nobility and gentry, 390. Herefordshire, new-moon custom in, 393. Heriot, curious register concerning, 817. Hero, singular one of an old play, 385. Heroism and humanity, 632. Herrings, curing and virtues of, 569. Heywood, Thomas, his excellence as a dramatist, 301, 358. _Hide_ park, or a tanner’s villa, 764. “Hierarchie of Angels,” old play, 385. High admiral, (lord) office and seal of, 573. Highlands; legend of, 290; weddings, 292; tartans nearly obsolete in, 293; customs in, 465, 543; deer and sheep in, 754; contempt for table luxuries in, 755; Highland scenery, 775. Hill, Rev. Mr., killed in a duel, 722. Hindoo husbandmen, 696. Hiring of servants at statutes, 171, 203. Hobby horses, obsolete toys, engraving of, 686. Hobday, Mr., artist, exhibition of, 687. Hobson, (old) pleasant conceits of, 419. Hoby, sir Edward, 578. Hogarth, and engraving from his picture of lord Lovat, 237. Holidays; how spent in Ireland, 692; their utility, 694; the benevolent Greek philosopher, 695. Holly tree, carrying of, at Brough, 26. Home, a father’s, 170; spells of home, 216. Hornchurch, 84. Horses; engraving and account of the race-horse Eclipse, 618, &c.; their swiftness connected with great muscular power, _ib._; difference between theoretic standards and occasional excellence, 620; insurance of, 621; great weight of the heart of Eclipse, _ib._; singular examination of horses, 660. Hot meals, 314. Hounds; first fox-hounds in the west, 35. Hour-glasses for pulpits, 485, 501. Howard of Effingham, lord, [lord high admiral] autograph of, 573, &c. Human life, 398. Humanity and heroism, 632; humanity sometimes nearly lost in forms, 737. Hunter, John, the anatomist, 618. Hunting; description of buck-hunting in Cranbourne Chase, 33. Husbandmen in India, 696. Hut. Alderson, of Durham, 365. Hy-jinks, a Scotch amusement, 467. Hyatt, Sophia, her poetical enthusiasm, 718. Hygrometer, new, 25.

I, the pronoun, danger of wearing it out, 341. Idols, (Chinese) 627. Imagination; its transforming power, 9, 16. Immersion instead of interment, 412. Imperial drink, receipt for, 471. Improvisatore, extraordinary, 421. Inch, derivation of, 378. India, library of the king of, 247; husbandmen of, 696. “Indictment of Flora,” a dialogue, 545. Indulgences, (popish) not always ill applied, 413. Industry vain without thrift, 346. Inishail, isle of, 775. Innocent (Pope) III., 747. Inns, rare before the Reformation, 391; poor’s boxes formerly at, 392, 747. Inscriptions on old silver coin, how to read, 452. Intellect, march of, 60, 681. Interlaken, beauties of, 428. Interment superseded by immersion, 412. Ireland, bogs in, 185; customs in, 506, 523; custom of lord-lieutenants of, 663; Irishmen on a holiday, 692. Italian architects, pope’s grant to, for building churches, 393.

“Jack Drum’s Entertainment,” old play, 416. Jack-o’-Lent, 270. Jamaica, speculation for warming-pans in, 15. James I., rudeness of his court to women, 390; at Durham, 679. ---- II., notices of the Stuart papers, 738. January, general prescriptions for, 81. Japanese mode of salutation, 197. Jeffries, Judge, a judge of music, 261. Jeggon, Dr., anecdote of, 828. Jerningham, Mr., notice of, 201. Jests; great merit of suppressing offensive ones, 280; effect of wealth on their success, 348. Jews, Easter custom against, 554. “John (King) and Matilda,” old play, 111, 803. John Bull, specimen of, 376; indecorum and rudeness of in crowds, 505. Joy, madness from excess of, 511. Judges, hunting their own venison on circuit, 34; immense fans formerly carried by, on circuit, 394. Justice, (impartial) 406. Justices of peace, former furniture of their halls, 391; arithmetical estimate of, 738.

Keats, the poet, 810. Kimberley, Francis, Birmingham conjuror, 235. King, (The) and the private gentleman, 732. King, Col., and Col. Fitzgerald, duel between, 723. ---- Dr., _his_ pun, 252. Kirby Malhamdale church-yard legend, 515. ---- Moorside, death of duke of Buckingham at, 525. Kircher, his account of a marvellous diver, 705. Kissing, in Ireland, on Easter Monday, 506. Knowledge, defends from the juggle of forms, 219; even a little of it useful, 758; importance of a knowledge of the world, 824.

Labour, hard, greatly varied by different tread-mills, 755. Ladies, in winter like tea-kettles, 151; air and exercise for, 209; lady of the hill, 291; character of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr, a maiden lady, 340; the lady and troubadour, 453; the white lady, 717. See Women. Laing, David, the Gretna-green blacksmith, 131. Lamb, Mr. C., lively letter to, 194. Lambert, [parliamentary] monument to, 522. “Lambs (Young) to sell,” a London cry, 395. Lamond of Cowel, tradition of, 465. Lancaster, dukes of, 100; and York, houses of, _ib._ Language without words, 467; English, distinct derivations of, 473. Lansberg, Matthew, Liege almanac by, 274. Lanterns, court order for, in the streets, 414. Laplander’s mode of salutation, 186. Lapstone, beating the, 85. Lark, the evening, 622. Last tree, 88; last deer of Beann Doran, 754. “Late Lancashire Witches, (The)” old play, 193. Lauron, Marcellus, artist, 509. Lavater, aphorisms by, 274. Lawsuit, effect of, 134. Learning, and large libraries, 218; formerly united with pedantry, 394; a mulatto deploring his education, 626; a little learning _not_ dangerous, 757. Leathart, Mr., “Welsh Penillion of,” 335. “Legends, Scottish,” 775. Leicestershire, custom of, 523. Lendi, M. B., new hygrometer by, 25. Lent, customs in, 625. ---- Jack-o’, puppet formerly thrown at, 270. Lettered stones, curious ancient one, 351. Letters, address on one, 675. Lewis, St., disposal of his body, 576. Leybourne, W. de, first Englishman styled admiral, 576. Libels, actions for, formerly rare, 389; dramatic libel, 402. Libraries, cautions about forming, 218; that of the king of India, 247. Licenses, for enacting plays, 67, 68; for printing play-bills, 584, 586. Liege almanac, 274. Lieutenant and captain, dreadful duel between, 724. Life, 398; recovered after hanging, 455. Lilly, his account of the astrologer Hart, 135. Linnet fancy, 587. Liston, William, crier of “young lambs,” 395. Literature, a great bargain of, 740; a literary character, 410. Lloyd, T., Esq., curious pillar restored by, 352. Loaf-stealing, an old Christmas game, 391. Loddon church, poor’s box in, 747. London, described in 1634, 167; modern improvements in, 214; musicians incorporated in, 228; cries, see Cries; university, founding of, 593; notice of London watermen, 627; London merchants a hundred years since, 649; London holidays, 694. See Bankside, Battle-bridge, Clerkenwell, Covent Garden. “London Chanticleers,” old play, 256. Long, sir Walter, of Draycot, his style of travelling, 393. “Looking Glass for England and London,” old play, 641. Longevity, clerical, striking case of, 24. Lord chancellor, office of, 729. ---- high admiral, powers and seal of, 573. Lost children, notice about, 18. Lottery, madness from success in, 511. Lovat, lord, engraving of, 237; claimant to the title, 633. Love; loves of the negroes, 180; music requested for a love dialogue, 514; refinements of Spanish love, 737. “Love for Love’s sake,” old play, 735, 788. Lowth, bishop, his epitaph on his daughter, 138. Lucerne, monument of the Swiss guards at, 253. Lying; why Thames Ditton called lying Ditton, 659; how to be reformed, 731. Lynn, Antiquarian Hall of, 139; Billy Boots of, 302; May-day at, 541.

Mac Colda, Alaister, 778. ---- Donalds and Campbells, 778. ---- Gregor of Glenstrae, 465. ---- Phadian, captain, 782. Macham, discoverer of Madeira, 276. Macrae, captain, and sir George Ramsay, fatal duel between, 723. Madeira, discoverer of, 276. Madness, raving, from a lottery prize, 511. Madrid, carnival in, 273. Magpies, superstition relating to, 382. Malacca, salutation in, 196. Malmsbury abbey school, tradition about, 232. Mankind, only two classes of, 455. Manners, in Oliver Cromwell’s time, 19; before the Reformation, 389. Manuscripts, an author reading one to a bookseller, engraving, 125; curious account of Stuart manuscripts, 738. Maps, a curious old one, 506. March, first of, 283; fair, at Brough, 317. ---- of intellect, 60. Marden (Milton and) hundred of, 577. Marriages, a new plan for, 21; account of late duke of York’s, 105; breach of promise of marriage, 180; in Highlands, 292; at Gretna-green, 431; of the doges of Venice, 452; perplexing ones in relationship, 475; vulgarity of a court lady’s consenting to marriage, 737; Welsh, 742; Cumberland, 794; curious case of re-marriage, 817. Marseilles, custom at, 271; interesting history of, 539. “Master of the bears and dogs,” 497. Master of the revels, license by, 60, 68. Masters, an amiable one, 410. Matrimony. See Marriages. Maturin, conversations of, 681. Maundy Thursday, 477, &c. Maxims of meanness, 562, 564. May-day, customs on, 541, &c., 557, 628, 629. Mazarine, cardinal, easy patronage by, 405. Meals; hot meals, 314; taken with mysterious privacy, 424. Meanness formerly taught for morals, 562, &c. Memorandum books, 1. Mercer of London, old picture of, 569. Merchandise, unfavourable tendencies of, 564. Merchants, (London) a hundred years since, 649. Metastasio, memoir of, 421. Milton, hundred of, 575, 579. Mines; workers in coal-mines described, 653; fatal explosion in, 656; in Great Britain, 658. Ministers, cheap patronage by, 405. Minstrels, curious regulations for, 336. Mint, test of old silver coin at, 452. Miron, Francis, boldness and impunity of, 401. Miseries of travelling, 262. Monasteries, frequent and pious bleedings in, 479. Monks. See Monasteries. Monson, William, alias Billy Boots, 302. Month’s mind, a mass for the dead, 483. Months, twelve gems of the, 320. Moon, new, customs on, 393. Moore, T., the poet, remarks on, 681, 684. Moorfields and laundresses, 169. Mops or statutes for hiring servants, 171, 203. Morals, former system of, for tradesmen, 564, &c. More, sir T., notice of, 730. Mortality through duels, stated, 720. Mother-wit better than learning, 572. “Mothering Sunday,” 625. Mottos and emblems, 90. Mount Vernon, why so called, 617. Mountain ash, an antidote to witchcraft, 674. Mug-houses, described by a foreigner, 378. Mulattos, curious lamentation of one, 626. Mulgrave family, founder of, 763. Mullally, Jack, an Irish landlord, 693. Music; anecdotes of, 225; comparison of some much-admired, 228; musicians incorporated, 228; some effects of music, 229; in churches, 261; notice of the harp, 336; mischievous musical crash, 348; effects of, on rudeness and ignorance, 461; changes in church music, 485; requested for a beautiful love-dialogue, 514; of birds particularized, 589; experiment of, on animals, 691. Muskerry, lord, his receipt to cure lying, 731. Mustard and cress seeds, devices with, 607. Mysteries, dramatic, performed at Coventry, engraving of, 11.

Nail, to be a friend upon the, 764. Names, of places, explained, 156; curtailment of baptismal names, 385; substitution of classical for baptismal ones, 698; the name of “devil” often assumed, _ib._ Nash, T., on herrings, in 1599, 569. Necromancy, 323. Negroes, loves of, 180; salutation of two negro kings, 197. Nelson, lord, punctuality of, 796. Nettleton, custom at, 85. New-moon, customs on, 393. New-year, ode to, set to music, 5; customs on, 7. Newcastle, Blind Willie of, 461. ----, duchess of, notices of, 197, 278. Newsman, description and engraving of, 61. Newspapers, varieties and interest of, 61, 65; reading the newspaper, engraving, 797. Newstead abbey, female enthusiast at, 718. Nicolai, M., bookseller, morbid phantasms of, 710. Nightingale, poets’ mistake about, 588. Nimeguen, two ravens at, 87. Nobility, French, remarks on, 132. Nominative case, 282. Norfolk dumplings, digested by a stone-eater, 355. Normans, what derived from, 393. Northumberland, custom in, 657. Notre Dame, grand Easter ceremony in, 502. Nottingham, earl of, 575. Numbers and figures, 759. Nunneries, girls formerly educated in, 389.

Oddities of genius, 424. Offices and trades specified in Doomsday-book, 616. O’Kelly, Col., his celebrated race-horse and parrot, 621. Old age, a fair price for burning it out at the stake, 686. ---- gentleman, (the) character of, 118. ---- women, ridicule of, De Foe’s censure of, 20. Oran-outang, extraordinary one, 756. Orde, Mr., an amateur artist, 510. Organs; celebrated ones, 260; address to a barrel organ, 403; notices of, 474. Osnaburgh, bishopric of, 97. Ostend, siege of, 558. Ostrich, (the king’s) dissection of, 617. Otho, earl of York, 97. “Ough,” (the syllable) many ways of pronouncing, 688. Ounce, derivation of, 378. “Outlandish knight,” 130. Oxford, mayor of, 617.