Part 79
Padua, cheerful funeral at, 699. Pageant vehicle and play, representation of, 11. Painters, scene for, 655. Pamphleteers, a singular one, 727. Paper books not before the tenth century, 507. Papers, (Stuart) curious account of, 738. Parenthesis, explanation of, 571. Parents. See Children. Paris garden, Southwark, 489. Parish accompts, (old,) 481. Parliament, clubs, 280; anecdote of royal aversion to, 700. “Parliament of Bees,” old play, 608. Parrots, Col. O’Kelly’s most remarkable one, 622. Parsons and clerks, anecdotes about, 662. See Clergymen. Parsons, Joe, the samphire-gatherer, 451. Parties of pleasure, a successful one, 552. Passion-week, 477, &c. Patients, philosophical observation of their diseases by, 711. Patriotism, fervour and judgment of, 401. Patronage, (cheap) 405. Paulian, (Father) his account of a stone-eater, 353. Pearce, Dr. Zachary, H. Walpole’s ridicule of, 9. Pedantry formerly the associate of learning, 394. “Peep into futurity,” 74. Penge Common, “Crooked Billet” on, 670. Pens, how carried anciently, 507; their introduction, _ib._ “Perhaps,” its importance in the sciences, 247. Pesce, Nicolo, the diver, and the royal gold cups, 705. Phantasms, singular case of, 710. Philippine Islands, salutations in, 196. “Phillis of Segros,” old play, 799. Phipps, William, founder of the Mulgrave family, 763. Phlebotomy. See Bleeding. Phrenology, 329. Physicians, curious jealousy of some, 274. Picture dealer, trade catalogue of, 236. Pilgrimages, intense interest of “Pilgrim’s Progress,” 217; pilgrimages formerly in England, 392; a curious one, 475. Pilpay’s abridgement of a library, 247. Pipe sludge, or prejudice against new water-conveyance, 733. Places, names of some explained, 156; high places and groves, 808. Planets, illustration of, 745. Platina, the historian, anecdote of, 698. Plays, representation of a pageant vehicle and play at Coventry, 11; license for enacting plays, 67; curious play-bills, 137, 257, 584, 636; origin and progress of theatrical representation, 306; not a third of old dramatic treasure exhausted, 358; supposed libels in, 401, 403; an author’s correct estimate of one, 572; one of nine days representation, 737; a straightforward critic upon, 803; Garrick’s collection of. See Garrick plays. Plough-Monday, 81. “Poetesses, (British)” by Mr. Dyce, 195. Poetry, Bowring’s popular Servian poetry, 529; poetry and fact, 646. Poets; advice to one from one younger, 248; estimate of various poets, 682; minor poets not useless, 683. Poland, custom in, 320. Poor’s boxes, notices and engravings of, 747. ---- rates, none before the Reformation, 392. Port wine, Ewart’s excellent, 343. Portaferry, Easter custom at, 506. Porter recommended, 412. Porters, (ticket) regulations and fares of, 19. Portraits, British, Rodd’s sale catalogue of, 236. Posts, (road) scripture texts on, 539. Potatoes, proper treatment of in frost, 17. Potter, Dr., university flogger, 394. Pound, derivation of, 378. Powell the fire-eater, 314. ----, Mr., a notorious duellist, 721. Presents, new-year’s, 7; wedding, 793, 794. Pretender, curious paternal notices of, 744. Priests in France, former hospitality of, 390. Printing, licenses for, 584, 586. Prison walls, 727. Private and public, 732. Prize-fighting with swords formerly, 495. Professors in German universities, 123. Prognostications, effect of a few successful ones, 275. Promise, breach of, curious case of, 180. Pronoun, first personal, not to be worn out, 341. Pronunciation, at the old Grassington theatre, 72; extreme irregularity of the English, 688. Property, fixed and movable, remarks on, 345. Protestant German Universities, 124. Prynne, William, notice of, 726. Public and private, 732. Publishers, how dispensed with, 727. Pudsey, bishop, notice of, 415. Pulpits furnished with hour-glasses and clocks, 485, 501. Punctuality recommended, 796. Punishments, capital, solemnity and terror of, 455, &c. Puns, not unnatural in grief as well as joy, 112. Purvis, William, or “Blind Willie” the minstrel, 461. Pye, Mr., curious anecdote from, of Charles I., 700. Pye-stealer detected, 419.
“Quarter of an hour before,” 796. Queen’s college, Oxford, custom at, 85, 390. Questions, danger of asking, 342. Quin, his apology for a dancer’s absence, 16; his unfeeling jokes, _ib._, 17.
Race-horses. See Horses. Radnor, lord, anecdote of, 90. Ramsay, sir George, killed in a duel, 723. Randwick near Stroud, custom at, 553. Ratting, 281. Ravens, at Nimeguen, 87; tradition respecting two at home, _ib._; anecdote of one at Hungerford, 826. Raynal, Abbé, anecdote of, 89. Reading aloud, remarks on, 278. Realities resembling dreams, 457. Red-herring on horseback, an old dish, 390; eulogium of red-herrings, 569. Reformation, manners and customs before, 389; progress of, 483. Regent’s-street and park, 214, 215. Relationship, involvement of by marriage, 475. Religion, 828. Restitution, better late than never, 138; for ease of conscience, 401. Retrospect, 184. Return made to a parish circular, 378. Revels, master of, license by for enacting plays, 68. Revenant, (Le), 455. Revenge, wishes of, 195. Reverie, 464. Revival, after hanging at the gallows, 455. “Rewards of Virtue,” old play, 159. Rheumatism, asserted effect of, 142. Rhone, river, Scipio’s shield found in, 264. Rhubarb, and the Turk in Cheapside, 194. Rich man defined, 346. Richardson, the first public fire-eater, 315. Riches, good and bad effects of, 347. Riddle and explanation, 410. Right hand, reason for preferring, 280. Rigi, in Switzerland, inscription on book at, 138. Rising, (early), 796. Road-posts inscribed with texts, 539. “Robin Gray, (Auld)” curious account of, 200. Robin Hood’s bower, 485. Rodd, Mr. H., picture-dealer, 236. Rollan, Madame, a celebrated dancer, 16. Roman antiquities, 79. Rooms, former lowness of, 168. Rosamond, (Fair), 315. Rouen, Easter custom at, 484. Round robin, ancient custom of, 698. Royal Society, 552. Rubens, liberality and kindness of, 10. Runaway mops or statutes, 176. Rural delights, 708.
Sailors, custom of when in Greenland, 629; generous feeling of one for a dead enemy, 631; their remonstrance by a round robin, 689; anecdote of an Irish one, 699. St. Bride’s church, admirable organ in, 261. St. David’s day, 334. St. Giles Hill, near Winchester, fair at, 204. St. Goodrick misleading a bishop, 415. St. Jerome’s description of an organ, 474; conjecture about his dragon, 538. St. Lawrence church, capital organ in, 261. St. Margaret’s, at Cliff, 450. St. Mary church, admired organ in, 261. St. Sepulchre’s bell, at executions, 164. Saints, a poor female one, 751. Salt, the terror of spectres, 521, 523; custom of putting salt on the dead, 523. Salutation, different modes and forms of, 186, 390; curious one by lord Lovat, 239; lively lecture on the English mode, 555. Samphire, gathering, 450, 451. “Satiromastix,” old play, 704. Scaffold, the criminal’s view from, 460. Scandal, a grand receptacle of, 246. Scarborough, custom at, 403. Schmidt, celebrated organ-builder, 260. Schoolboys, 149; at Malmsbury, tradition about, 232. Schools, rare before the Reformation, 389. Scilly islands, custom in, 81. Scipio, anecdote and shield of, 264. Scot, John, a fasting fanatic, 134. Scotland, story of the Scotch soldier, 285; utility of the Scottish hospital, 286; customs on the new moon in, 393; amusement called hy-jinks in, 467; an old and corrected map of, 506; Scotch Adam and Eve, 538; some gold found in, 658; Scottish legends, 775. See Highlands. Scripture texts, how hung up formerly in houses, 389; inscribed on road-posts, 539. Scylla and Charybdis, ancient and modern descriptions of, 642. Sea bull, 699. ---- weed, address to, 452. Seals; bread seals, 90; seal of lord high admiral, 573. Second-sight, 781. Secrets worth keeping, 741. Seigneurs, the benevolent one, 132. Seignories in England, dreadful abuses and oppressions formerly in, 391. Sepulchral remains, 82, 83. Servants, appropriate addresses of different ones, 178; description of statutes or mops for hiring, 171, 203. Servian popular poetry, 529. “Seven Champions of Christendom,” old play, 487. Shakspeare, a fault in, 302; contemporary dramatists of, 358; a giant _among_ giants, 358. Sharp, Mr., his dissertation on Coventry pageants, 11. Sheep, aversion of deer to, 754, 755. Shepherd’s well, Hampstead, 381. Shepherds, how paid formerly, 393. Sherbet, receipt for making, 471. Sheriff’s trumpets explained, 393. Shield of Scipio found in the Rhone, 264. “Ship, (The)” order of, 57. Shrove Tuesday, 271. Shute, bishop of Durham, pun on, 283. Sight, (second), 781. Signs, explanation of a modern one, 672; one near Skipton, 636; odd signs, 412. Silent club, (the), 467. Silver, how silver coin tested, 452; found in Cornwall, 658. “Silver Age, (The)” old play, 676. Singing birds. See Birds. “Single hair,” for angling, an enthusiast on, 660. Skating, 150. Skipton in Craven, theatrical company at, 69; custom in, 628. Smith, sir Sidney, and old Dan Bryan, 631. Smoking, much used in 1634, 169. Smoky chimnies, how cured, 572. Smyth, Capt. W. H., his account of Scylla and Charybdis, 646. Snuff and tobacco, proposed history of, 387. Snuffbox, (My) engraving and description of, 189. Snuffers, (curious old) account and engraving of, 639. Snuffing candles, curious process of, 348. Society simplified by civilization, 219. Soho bazaar, 153. Soldier, (Scotch) story of, engraving, 285. Southam, custom in, 176. Sparr, Mrs. A., a maiden lady, 340. Sparrow, address to, 364. Spectrology, 710. Spells of home, 216. Sporting, 283. Spring, the voice of, 624. Spring Gardens, a former Vauxhall, 720. Stag-hunting, near Beann Doran, 754. Stage-coach adventures, 263. Standing mannerly before parents, 394. Stanmore toll-house, engraving of, 171. Starlings, battle of, 661. Statistics, curious, 540. Statutes, for hiring servants, account of, 171, 203. Stealing to restore, 234. Stephens, his mode of writing, 682. “Steps retraced,” 475. Stilton, (ham and), 179. Stocking, throwing of, 298. Stoke Lyne, lord of manor of, 556. Stones, sepulchral accumulations of stones, 83; account of a stone-eater, 353; autobiography of one, 354. Storm in 1790, 767. Stourbridge fair, 205. Stratford-upon-Avon Church, engraving of, 445. Streams, irregularity of some, 230. Street circulars, 476. Stuart papers, interesting account of, 738. Students in German universities, 123. Studley statute for hiring servants, 174. Style, error respecting, 60. Styles, for writing on table-books, 1. Suicide never occurring among gipsies, 210. Sumatra, oran-outang of, 756. Summer drinks, receipts for, 471. Sunrise and sunset, 138. Sunday, diversions on, 489, 494. Suppers, a light and early one, 668. Sup-porter, a sign motto, 412. Surnames, various cases of that of the “devil” in families, and arms correspondent, 698. Surveys, of see of Durham, 415; in Doomsday-book, 610. Swimming, Kircher’s account of a man web-handed and web-footed, 705. Swiss guards, monument of, 253. Switzerland, an artist’s letter from, 427. Sword-dancing in Northumberland, 657. “Sybil’s Leaves,” 74. System for shopkeepers, 562, 564.
Table Book, explanation of, 1; design of the present, 3; editor’s disclaimer of various publications in his name, 764. Tadloe’s tread like paviers’ rammers, 375. Tailors and cabbage, 471. “Tales, (Early metrical)” notice of, 114. Talker, the selfish, 341; talking, at times, how difficult, 362. “Tancred and Gismund,” old play, 322. Tanner, appropriate name for his villa, 764. Tartans, now little used in the Highlands, 293. Taste, its power and value, 86. Tempers of birds, how ascertained, 592. Temple church, organ in, 260. “Tethys’ Festival,” old play, 641. Test of talent, 572. Texts of scripture; formerly written in apartments, 389; on road-posts, 539. Thames, river, shut out state of, 168; bronze antique found in, 267. Thames Ditton, the resort of anglers, 659. Theatres, one projected at Edinburgh, 313; advice respecting formation of, _ib._; curious circumstances of a fire at one, 737. See Plays. “The thing to a T,” explanation of, 15. Thomas, Elizabeth, poetess, 198. Thorwaldsen, monument by, 253. Thoulouse, cruel custom at, 554. Throwing the stocking, 298. Thucydides, testimonial to, 647. Ticket porters, regulations and fares of, 19. Tickling trout, 662. Tighe, Mrs., poetess, 199. Timber in bogs, remarks on, 185. Tin mines, in Cornwall, 658. Titles, new, to old books, 68. Tobacco, much used in 1634, 169; and snuff, proposed history of, 387; anecdotes of dealers in, _ib._ Toll-house at Stanmore, engraving, 171. Tollard, (royal) formerly a royal seat, 36. Tollet, Elizabeth, poetess, 198. Tomarton, former dungeon in, 391. Tomkins, an unrelenting creditor, 667. Tommy Bell, engraving of, 651. ---- Sly, engraving of, 331. Tonga Islands, custom in, 826. Tooth, (the golden) learned dispute on, 453. Torches, dance of, 107. “Tottenham Court,” old play, 581. Toupees, how formerly stiffened, 394. Trades, younger brothers formerly not bred to, 393; and offices specified in Doomsday-book, 616. Tradesmen, deviation from ancient rule of, 240; competition between, 387; “The Tradesman,” by Defoe, 564. Travellers, former hospitality to, in France, 390; before the Reformation were entertained at religious houses, 391. Travelling by coach and steam compared, 262. Tread-mills, different standards of labour in, 755. Trees, tasteful disposal of, 807. Trials, of Flora, 545; of a negro for breach of promise, 180; for life, impressions under, 457. Trout, tickling, 662. Trumpets formerly sounded before lords and gentlemen, 393. Tuilleries, massacre of Swiss guards at, 253. Tumuli, 82, 83. Turk in Cheapside, inquiry for, 194. Turks, consolation under persecution by, 453; a terror to Christendom, 485, 575. Tutor for tradesmen, 562, 564. Twelfth-night custom at Brough, 26. “Two angry Women of Abingdon,” old play, 356. “Two Tragedies in one,” old play, 488.
Ugly club, 264, 468. Unhanged and hanged, two only classes, 455. Universities, in Germany, 123; flogging in, 394; founding the London, 593. Unknown, (the great) discovered, 306, &c.
Valediction, 399. Valentines, 206. Valle Crucis abbey, pillar near, 349. Vanithee, [wife] Jack Mullally’s, 694. Vauxhall, a dramatic sketch, 438. Vehicle, (pageant) and play, notice and engraving of, 11. Venice, the doge’s marriage, 452. Venison, hunted better than shot, 34. Vernon, admiral, patron of general Washington, 617. ----, mount, why so called, 617. ----, a musician, anecdote of, 17. Vienna, customs in, 17. Views, of a felon on the scaffold, 460. Village new-year described, 91. “Virgin Widow,” old play, 321. Virginia, deliberate duel in, 721. “Visiting the churches,” 478.
W, (the letter), 410. Waggery, ancient, 419. Wales, character of the ancient Britons, 335; notices of the Welsh harp, _ib._; minstrelsy society in, 338; ancient British pillar, engraving of, 349. Wallis, lady, her correct estimate of her comedy, 572. Walpole, Horace, letter of, about extortion in Westminster abbey, 9. Walsh, Mr. H., his satire on corporations, 524. Wamphray, in Scotland, great hiring fair at, 204. Warming-pans for Jamaica, 15. Warwickshire, statutes or mops in, 172, &c. “Washing of the feet” at Vienna, 477; and at Greenwich by queen Elizabeth, 479. Washington, general, notice of, 607. Water, prejudice against pipe-conveyance of, 733. Water-carrier, (old) engraving of, 733. Waterloo-bridge, intended opening to, 214. Watermen, ancient misconduct of, 168; watermen hundred years ago, 627. Watson, bishop, letters of to duke of York, 109, 110. Watson, Tom, an eminent dramatist, 385. Waverley, more than ten years unpublished, 427; Waverley novels acknowledged by sir Walter Scott, 306. Wax-work and extortion in Westminster abbey, 9. Way to grow rich, 347. Way-posts with texts on them, 539. Wealth, good and bad effects of, 347. Weather, a new hygrometer, 25. Webster, the dramatist, excellence of, 358. ----, Dr., of St. Alban’s, 239. Weddings, Highland, 292; Welsh, 792; Cumberland, 794. See Marriages. Welsh. See Wales. Wesley, John, his return of plate, 40. West, Gilbert, notice of, 811. Westminster abbey, curious letter of H. Walpole about, 9; burial fees of, 333. Westmoreland, belief of witchcraft in, 674. Weston, the royal cook, 377. Whitelock, collation by, to queen of Sweden, 552. Whyte, Mr. S., his account of Mrs. Charke, 125. Wickham (West) church, 811. Wiggen [ash] tree; its virtues against witchcraft, 674. Wigs, 243. Wild man of the woods, an extraordinary one, 756. ----, Jonathan, first victim to a law, 235. Wildman, Mr., first purchaser of Eclipse, 621. ---- ----, Colonel, benevolent conduct of, 718. Will, Will-be-so, memoir of, 139. Willie, (Blind) of Newcastle, 461. Willy-Howe, in Yorkshire, legends about, 82. Wilson, comedian, anecdote of, 571. Wiltshire abroad and at home, 231. Windows, rarely of glass before the Reformation, 392. Winds, irritating effect of some, 273. Wine, effect of, 824. Winter’s day, description of, 148. “Wit in a Constable,” old play, 193. Witchcraft, how to recognise a witch, 674; preventives of, _ib._ Wives, last resource of one, 451; use of a wife and children, 566. Wolfe, general, how his death wound received, 251. Wolverhampton church, valuable organ in, 262. Women; ungallant ridicule of the “old woman,” 20; poniards worn by, in Spain, 273; improvement of, 358; former education of, 389; former court rudeness to, 390; former amusements of, 392; prodigious fans used by, 394; a lady customer and a spruce mercer, 567; situation of a woman in India, 697; former refinement of court ladies in Spain, 737. Worfield, longevity of vicars of, 23. Wragg, Mary, 768. Writers, correct estimate by one of her own work, 572. See Authors. Writing tables, 2.
Yard, derivation of the term, 378. Yarmouth, long famed for herrings, 569. York, cardinal de, notice of, 738. ----, duke of, engraving and notices of, 93; list of dukes of York, 99. Yorkshire, new year’s eve custom in, 7; fairies in, 82; Yorkshire Gipsy, [stream] 230. “Young lambs to sell,” a London cry, 395. “Your humble servant,” when first used in salutation, 390. Youth, illiberal teachers of, 561.
II. CORRESPONDENTS’ INDEX.
A. B., 792. Alpha, 549. Blackmore, M., 267. Carle, 674. Dewhurst, H. W., 629. Edwin, S., 164. E. C. M. D., 194. E. J. H., 659. E. M. S., 320. Ex Dunelmensis, 331. F. W., 636. G. B., 569. Gaston, 242. J. H., 148, 217. J. J. K., 285. J. K., 5. J. R., 607. J. R. P., 374. J. W., 636. Juvenis, 625. K., 139, 541. L., 425. Lamb, C., 111. Lander, H. M., 538. M., 84. M. H., 786. N., 340, 358. P., 473, 662. P. N., 468. Pare, William, 161. Pegge, Samuel, 668. A Reader, 231, 233. R. J. P., 365. R. P., 91. S. R. J., 622. S. S. S., 467. Sam Sam’s Son, 156, 658. Ψ., 657. *, *, P., 635. **** ********, 408. T. C., 82, 230. T. Q. M., 69, 420, 515, 628. Tomlinson, C., 553. Veiled Spirit, (The), 803. W. H. H., 26, 317. W. P., 95, 387. Will o’ the Wisp, 67, 584. X., 556.
III. INDEX TO THE POETRY.
_Contributed by Correspondents under the following Signatures._
Amicus, 426. Aquila, 166. B. C., 179. B. W. R., 148, 281. C., 806. E., 343. Elia, 773. F. P. H., 248. Gaston, 403. H., 399. H. L., 212. J. B. O., 398. J. G., 508. J. J. K., 453, 732. J. R. P., 476. Jackson, S. R., 500. Jehoiada, 405. O. N. Y., 388. P., 155. Prior, J. R., 162. R., 170. Sam Sam’s Son, 443, 444, 728. S. R. J., 571. *, *, P., 220, 236, 318. T. T., 689. W. T. M., 664.
_By the Editor_, on
The emigration of deer from Cranbourne Chase, 30. River Fleet at Clerkenwell, 75. Duke of York, 93. Mrs. Charke, 125. Antiquarian Hall, 139. Valentine’s day, 205. Porch of Beckenham church-yard, 715.
AUTHORS QUOTED.
Allan, J. H., 775, 785. Antiquarian Hall, 139. Byron, lord, 138. Chatham, earl of, 812. Cooke, Rev. T., 136, 406. Cowper, 65, 66, 217, 752, 753. Crabbe, 683. Crowley, 489. Fletcher, 16. Gay, 819. Gifford, W., 59. Goldsmith, 797, 798. Hemans, Mrs., 281, 624. Herrick, 524. Hogg, 684. Huddesford, 653. Hyatt, Sophia, 719. Jones, sir William, 344. Keats, 810. Lamb, C., 751. Leathart, W., 334, 338. Lowth, Dr., 138. Moffat, Mr., 233. Montgomery, J., 199. Peacock, T. L., 314. Pitt, 643. Pope, 525. Shakspeare, 252, 450. Sidney, sir P., 37, 38. Sotheby, 339. Trefusis, Elizabeth, 209. Wake, W. Basil, 117. Webb, Mr. J., 437.
WORKS CITED.
Annals of Sporting, 81. Bath Herald, 122. Dunton’s Athenian Sports, 421. Dyce’s Specimens of British Poetesses, 196. Examiner, 364. 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. Indicator, 291. “Love in a Village,” 178. Monthly Magazine, 184, 206, 216. Newsman’s Verses, 61. New Monthly Magazine, 88, 207, 764.
ANONYMOUS.
8, 24, 25, 26, 40, 85, 122, 129, 138, 153, 155, 205, 277, 305, 370, 377, 411, 420, 435, 452, 471, 540, 585, 599, 622, 624, 648, 654, 657, 672, 687, 724, 725, 730, 826.
IV. INDEX TO THE ENGRAVINGS.