Chapter I: The General Index

Abduction, curious respite from execution for, 414.
Abershaw, Jerry, 148, 149.
Aborigines, 447.
Abraham, heights of, in Derbyshire, 136.
Accidents to one man, 127.
Accompaniment to roasting, 201.
Actors--acting of old men by children, 526. See Plays.
Advertisements, singular, 222, 511, 616, 722.
Advice. See Counsels.
Age, reason for not reckoning, 352.
Air, philosophy of, 503.
Airay, (Tom) manager at Grassington, 247.
Ale, old English, 351; antiquity of beer, 746.
Alfred, tomb of, 734.
Alia Bhye, East Indian princess, 520.
Alleyn, actor, the Roscius of his day, 498, (note.)
Amadeus, duke of Savoy, 594.
“Ambitious Statesman, (The)” old play, 551.
Amilcas the fisherman, 639.
Amsterdam, notices of, 157, 460.
Anaximander, and other ancients, 819. See Ancients.
Ancients and moderns, discoveries of, 58, 83, 120, 182, 202, 214, 245,
342, 375, 406, 438, 472, 503, 632, 724, 742, 788, 819.
----; mode of writing of the ancients, 196; superiority of their
music, 202; casualties among, 574.
“Andronicus,” old play, 456.
Animals, theories on generation of, 792.
Animated nature, 216.
Anne, queen, 243.
Antipathies, instances of, 190.
“Antipodes, (The)” old play, 361.
Anty Brignal and the Begging Quaker, 761.
Aphorisms, 160, 181. See Counsels.
“Apostle Spoons,” 817.
Apothecary or Dramatist, 411.
Apprentices, to be found in sufficient wigs, 432.
Archimedes, and other ancients, 821. See Ancients.
Argyll, customs of, 10.
Aristarchus, and other ancients, 820. See Ancients.
Aristotle, former bondage to, 59.
Armstrong, Dr., notice of, 109.
Artists, letter of one to his son, 129.
Arts and Sciences, skill of the ancients in. See Ancients.
Arum, herb called, 369.
Ashburton Pop, 356.
“Asparagus Gardens, (The)” 363.
Assignats, (French) engraving, 209.
Astronomy, curious tract on, 252; ancients’ knowledge of, 794. See
Ancients.
Atheism, scandals to, 773.
Attraction, 342.
Audley, Hugh, usurer, life of, 72.
Augustus, anecdote of, 231.
Aurora Borealis, opinions on, 633.
Authors, difficulties of, 123, 174; vanity of, 263, 811.
Avarice, sorts of, 77. See Misers.
Avenues of trees near Scheveling, 461.
Avon Mill, Wilts, 346.

Babylon, 822.
Bachelors; bachelor’s desk, 195; budge bachelors, 237; miserable home
of bachelors, 269; pocket-book of one, 405.
Bakewell, in Derb.; monuments, &c. in church of, 198.
“Ballad Singer,” 666.
Bans, happy, 116.
Baptizing, customs touching, 23.
Bargest, the spectre hound, 655.
Barnes, Joshua, epitaph for, 33.
Barrington, George, notice of, 152.
“Bastard, (The)” old play, 171.
Bathing, (earth) 562.
Bear and Tenter, boys’ play, 364.
Beards on women, superstition about, 23.
Bears, habits of, 369.
Beaus, English and French, 774.
Beauty, ingenuous disclaimer of, 414; beauties at church, 774.
Bed, (celestial) 562.
Bede, (venerable) a hot spicer, 545.
Beer, antiquity of, 746.
Beethoven, musician, memoir of, 204.
Begging Quaker, &c. 761.
Bellows and bellows-makers, 603.
Bells. See Ringing.
“Belphegor,” old play, 552.
Beverley, a strong porter, 550.
Beverley, St. John of, 545.
Bhye, Alia, amiable character of, 520.
Bilbocquet, a royal amusement, 348.
Bill of fare, 44.
Birds; water-fowl at Niagara, 534; Dr. Fuller’s account of one, 287;
Sandy’s method of hatching their eggs, 681. See Storks, &c.
Birmingham, clubs of, 89; manufactures, &c. of, 595.
Bishops; resignation of one, 103.
Blacking, notices about, 435.
Blackthorn, old custom of, 240.
Blake, W., hostler, engraving of, 47.
Blood, circulation of, notices about, 724.
Bloomfield, George, poet’s brother, engraving, 801.
----, Robert, poet, notice of, 802.
“Blurt, Master Constable,” old play, 739.
Bodies, elements of, 214.
Bolton, John, of Durham, 409.
Bonaparte at Torbay, 360.
Bones, advice for breaking, 511.
Booker, Rev. L., notice of, 163.
Books; lending of, 285, 287; my pocket-book, 403; device taken from a
book of prayers, 615, (note.)
Boots, importance of shape of, 512.
Boswelliana, 255.
Bowel complaints, receipt for, 256.
Braco, Lord, and a farthing, 242.
Brandon, Gregory, hangman, 699.
Brass-works, 601.
Bribery, in England, by foreigners, 16.
Bridal, public, 374.
“Bride, (The)” old play, 134.
Bridlington, custom at, 582.
Bristol, opulence and inns at, 243; prince George of Denmark at, 243;
high cross at, 715.
Bromley, bishop’s well at, 65; engraving of the church-door, 97;
extraordinary ringing at, 527.
Bruce, lord Edward, notices about, 225.
“Brutus of Alba,” old play, 711.
Brydges, sir E., epitaph on his daughter, 280.
Buckles, notices of, 597.
Budeus, (the learned) blunder of, 413.
Budge, [Fur] notices about, 236; budge-bachelors, 237; Budge-row, 237.
Building estimates should be doubled, 352.
Bunyan’s holy war dramatized, 24.
Burial in gardens, 460. See Funerals.
Burkitt, Dan., an old jigger, 278.
Bush tavern, Bristol, 44.
Butler, (Hudibras,) hint adopted by, 410.
Buttons, notices about, 596.
Buying and selling, 211.

Cabalistic learning, 20.
Cabbage-trees, vast height of, 471.
Calvin and Servetus, 730.
Cann, Abraham, wrestler, 499.
CAPITAL extempore, 480.
Capon, William, scene painter, notice of, 709.
Carlisle, customs at, 373.
Castle-baynard, tale of, 242.
Casualties of the ancients, 574.
Cataracts of Niagara, 531.
Caverns, tremendous one, 541.
Centenaries; medal for the centenary of the diet of Augsburgh, 321;
centenary of the revolution, 515.
Cesar and Amilcas, 638.
“Chabot, Admiral of France,” old play, 6.
Chains, hanging in, 149.
Chairs, (arm) curious ones, 436, 622.
“Challenge to Beauty,” old play, 498, 622.
Charlemagne, misfortunes in family of, 397.
Charles I. and treaty of Uxbridge, 521.
---- II., anecdote of, 33; procession on his restoration, 505; his
court, 832.
---- V., bribery of English parliament by, 16.
Charost, M. de, a royal favourite, 512.
Chartres, duke of, notice of, 209.
Chateaubriand, viscount de, anecdote of, 415.
Chatsworth, 135.
Chemistry of the ancients, 743, 746, 789.
Chequers at public-houses, 38.
Chester, custom at, 613.
Chiari and rival dramatists, 11.
Children, customs relating to, 21; children and mother, 441; children
and split trees superstition concerning, 465; affection for
children, 491.
Christening, customs at, 23.
Christian Malford, plague at, 553.
Christmas-pie, 506.
Chrysanthemum Indicum, 737.
Churches, remarks on beautifying, 25; custom of strewing with rushes,
277. See Fonts.
Church-yards, beautiful one at Grassmere, 278.
Cigar divan of Mr. Gliddon, 673.
Cinderella, origin of, 719.
Circle, squaring the, 797.
Circulation of the blood, 724.
Cities, ancient, 822.
Civilisation promoted by trade, 212.
Cleopatra’s pearl, 789.
Clergy, luxurious dress of, 236; weekly expenses of a clergyman, 283;
devoted attachment of one to his flock, 483.
Clerk’s desk, 195.
Clocks, difference between, accounted for, 409.
Closing the eyes, 27.
Clubs at Birmingham, 89.
Coachman, considerate, 146.
Coats, how speedily made, 86.
“Cock and Pynot” public-house, 513.
Colossus of Rhodes, 823.
Colours, philosophy of, 406.
Comets, philosophy of, 472.
Commerce, tendency of, 214.
Compliment to a young laird, 256.
Confession of Augsburgh, medal about, 321.
Controversy, 160.
Cookery aided by music, 204.
Copernican system, 438.
Cordon, sanitary, 493, 495.
Corineus, a Trojan giant, 615, 617.
Cornwall, wrestling in, 499.
Corporations, fools kept by, 353.
Corpuscular philosophy, 245.
Corral,--a poor cottager, 784.
Cottagers, singular difficulties of one, 385, &c.
Counsels and cautions, 160, 181, 352, 478, 541, 817.
Country, (native) 809.
---- dances, 32.
Courtiers, humiliation of one, 174.
Courtship, patient, 818.
Coward, Nathan, glover and poet, 259.
Crabbing for husbands, 465.
Craven, notices of, 243, 721; stories of the Craven dales, 653, 775.
Cries, old London, 431.
Criticism, killing, 651.
Crystal summer-house, 253.
Cuckoo-pint, a plant, 369.
Cumberland, customs of, 373, 559.
Cup and ball, a royal amusement, 348.
Cyrus, his love of gardening, 459.

Dairy poetry, 238.
Danby, earl of, and the revolution, 513.
Dancing; country-dances, 32; profound study of minuets, 64; dancing
round the harrow, 197.
Darwin, Dr., his “Botanic garden,” 459, (note.)
Davy, (old) the broom-maker, 452.
D’Arcy, Mr. J., and the revolution, 515.
Death and virtue, dialogue between, 19; superstitions touching death,
99.
“Defeat of Time, (The)” 335.
Democritus, notice of, 791.
Deposits, a well-kept one, 415.
Derbyshire, notices respecting, 12, 135, 481, 493, 516.
Descent, canons of, 63.
“Desolation of Eyam, (The)” 481.
Despotism, virtuous, 520.
“Devil’s Law Case, (The)” old play, 131.
Devil’s punch-bowl in Surrey, 145.
Devonshire wrestling, 416, 499.
---- ----, earl of, and the revolution, 513.
Dial, ancient, 19.
Diarrhœa, receipt for, 256.
Diligence (French) described, 183.
Dining on Coke, 63; royal dinner time, 751.
Diophantes and other ancients, 820. See Ancients.
Discoveries of the ancients and moderns, 83, 120, 182, 214, 245, 342,
375, 406, 438, 472, 503, 632, 724, 742, 788, 819.
Diseases, passing patients through trees for, 465.
Disputation to be avoided, 160.
Distillation, ancients’ knowledge of, 788.
Diversions, political origin of some, 364.
Doctor degraded, 640.
“Dodypol, Doctor,” old play, 69.
Domitian, (the emperor) inscription for, 754.
“Don Quixotte,” old play, 457.
Dorking, Leith hill, near, 117.
Dover pig, 731.
Dramatists; rival Italian dramatists, 11; dramatist or apothecary,
411.
Dreams, a black dream, 126.
Duddlestone, John, of Bristol, 243.
Duels of sir E. Sackville and lord E. Bruce, 225, &c.
Dunchurch cow and calf, 723.
Durfey, Tom, notice of, 650.
Durhamiana, 409.
Dutch royal gardens, 460; Dutch trees, fisheries, &c., 460, &c.; Dutch
customs, 563; Dutch gallantry, 773.

Earning the best getting, 160.
Earth-bathing, 562.
Earthquakes, opinions on, 633.
East Indies, amiable native monarch in, 520.
Ecbatane, city of, 822.
Echo, (moral) 410.
Economy, curious instance of, 78. See Misers.
Edmonton, inhospitable styles of, 81.
“Edward the Third,” old play, 52.
Eels, (Bush) 224.
Eggs, peculiar mode of hatching, 681; artificial hatching by the
ancients, 746.
Eldon, lord, anecdote of, 63.
Electricity, 637.
Elm-tree, celebrated one, 422.
Emigration, Highland, 322.
Emperors and kings, ill-fated ones, 395, 397.
“English Monsieur,” 330.
Epilepsy, disorder of great minds, 807.
Epitaphs, 16, 19, 33, 104, 147, 152, 182, 198, 249, 256, 259, 273,
274, 280, 281, 295, 298, 300, 366, 410, 510, 526, 558, 754.
Erasmus, notices of, 199, 340.
Ether, doctrine of, 503.
Esop in Russia, 457.
Eternity, 808.
Etiquette, Spanish, 254.
Evelyn, extracts from, 829, &c.
Executioner, 698.
Executions, former frequency of, 151.
Ex-Thespianism, 554.
Eyam in Derb., notices of, 481, &c., 629.
Eyes: closing the eyes, 27; guard against an evil eye, 583.
Eyre, chief justice, notice of, 151, 152.

Facetiæ, 771.
“Fairies, tale of the,” 335.
“Faithful Shepherd, (The)” old play, 525.
“Faithful Shepherdess, (The)” old play, 619.
Falls of Niagara, 531.
Families; ill-fated royal ones, 397; Wilkie’s picture of one, 509.
Fare, bill of, 44.
Farthings; one found by a lord, 242; the broad farthing, 507.
Fashion, a gentleman’s, 341.
“Fatal Jealousy,” old play, 579.
“Fatal Union, (The)” 713.
Father and son, 31.
Favourites, a singular one, 512.
“Fawn, (The)” old play, 424.
Ferguson, sir A., letter from sir Walter Scott to, 518.
Filching, cure of, 285.
Filey, in Yorkshire, 637.
Fill-up, (a) 735.
Fire, water mistaken for, 534.
Fires in London, 570; “burning the witch,” 582.
Fish, royal reason for not eating, 288.
Fishermen; Lucan’s description of one, 638.
Fishing-towns, Dutch and English, 463.
“Five days’ Peregrination,” &c., 291.
Fletcher, Dickey, 765.
“Floating Island, (The)” 552.
Flowers; Time’s source of pleasure from, 337; mode of preserving, 604;
winter flowers, 737.
Fly-boat, (the Malden) 559.
Fonts; Grassmere font, 272.
Forces, doctrine of, 342.
Forests, ancient and decayed, in Scotland, 324, 325. See Trees.
Forrest, ----, author of “Five Days’ Peregrination,” 291.
Fractures, singular advice about, 511.
French diligence, description of, 683.
Fruit, markets for, at London and Paris, 130.
Funerals, customs touching, 105, 272, 373, 658; consolation from
funeral processions, 479.
Furniture of old times, 584.
Furs; tippets and scarfs, 235.

Gage, viscount, his fête of the quintain, 175.
Gallantry, Dutch, 773.
Gaols. See Prisons.
Gardens; summer garden of Peter the Great, 457; love of gardens, 459;
Dutch royal garden, 460.
Garlands, funeral, 105, 272.
Garrick plays, selections from, contributed by Mr. Charles Lamb, 6,
52, 67, 106, 131, 171, 200, 232, 265, 328, 361, 393, 456, 497, 524,
551, 579, 619, 645, 711, 739, 771, 806.
Genders, 284.
Genius, distresses of men of, 123; genius and good temper, 414.
“Gentleman Usher,” old play, 171.
“Gentleman of Venice,” old play, 106.
George, prince of Denmark, notice of, 243.
Giants in lord mayor’s show, 609.
Gibbeting, 151.
Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall,” 287.
Gilding without gold, 597.
Gilpin (Mrs.) riding to Edmonton, 79.
Gimmal ring, engraving, 1.
Gin act, effect of passing, 249.
Gipsies in Epping Forest, 28.
Glass, discovery of, 734; skill of the ancients in, 789, 796, 824.
Gleaning or leasing cake, 346.
Gliddon, Mr., cigar divan of, 673.
Glorious memory, (the) 480.
Gluttony, instances of, 350; glutton and echo, 410.
Gog and Magog of Guildhall, 609.
Gold, skill of the ancients in arts relating to, 744.
Goldoni and rival dramatists, 11.
Good temper and good nature, 414.
Goodrick, sir H., and the Revolution, 515.
Goose-fair at Nottingham, 180, (note.)
Gossip and Stare, the, 61; comment on literary gossip, 508.
Gostling’s, Mr., account of Hogarth’s tour, 303.
Gout, notices on, 652.
Government, simplicity and wisdom of, 417, &c.
Gozzi, Italian dramatist, 11.
Graham, Dr., lecturer, 561.
Grammar explained, 128.
Grapes in Covent Garden, &c. 139. See also 33, 628.
Grasshopper on Change, explanation of, 338, 339.
Grassington theatricals, 247, 606.
Grassmere, beauty of, 277.
Gravity, doctrine of, 342.
Greatness, tax on, 809.
Green, W., artist and author, 281.
Gregory, old name for the hangman, 701.
Gresham, sir Thomas, a deserted child, 338.
Gretna Green parsons, 125.
Guildford races, 705.
Guildhall, curious explanation of, 767.
Guinea sovereigns, 751.
Gunpowder, antiquity of, 791.
Guns; air-guns, 508; notices concerning guns, 598.

Hackerston’s cow, 250.
Hague, fine woods near, 460.
Hammond, the poet, notice of, 111.
Handkerchief, white cambric, 294.
Hanging in chains, 149; inducement to hanging, 256; hanging the
shuttle, 221.
Hangman, and his wages, 698.
Harpham, St. John’s well at, 545.
Harris, James, 284.
Harrow, dancing round the, 197.
Harvest-catch, in Norfolk, 333.
Hats; substitute for the shovel-hat, 381.
Hay-band, origin of, 714.
Heart, perpetual motion of, 544; case containing Lord Bruce’s heart,
225; instance of heart-burial, 230: disposal of sir W. Temple’s
heart, 460.
Heat, how counteracted at Siam, 253.
Heaving, in wrestling, explained, 501.
“Hectors, (The)” old play, 392.
Hell-bridge, in the Highlands, 87.
Henley, (Orator) advertisement of, 616.
Henry II. character of, 154.
---- III. of France, amusements of, 348.
---- VIII. and his peers, 571.
Hermits, 593.
Hervé, Peter, artist, letter respecting, 20.
Hervey, Rev. J., notices of, 366.
“Hey for Honesty,” old play, 394.
Highlands. See Scotland.
Highwaymen, nearly extinct, 149, 150.
Hill, sir John, physician, notice of, 652.
Hipparchus, and other ancients, 820. See Ancients.
Hippocrates, curious advice of, 511.
History of Rome, doubt on, 413; pleasing passage of history, 422.
“Hoffman’s Tragedy, or Revenge for a Father,” old play, 740.
Hogarth, curious notices of, 289, &c.
Holland, customs of, 563. See Dutch.
Holt, John, a great ringer, 529.
Holwood, seat of Mr. Pitt, engraving and notices of, 623, 642.
Home, praises of, 268.
Hood, T., sonnet to, 239; Plea of the Fairies, by, 340; “Whims and
Oddities” of, 659.
Hoppins, David, a singular parodist, 341.
Horace, pious parody of, 339.
Horæ Cravenæ, 721.
Horns, emblems of kingly power, 420.
Horsedealing, latitude of deceit in, 213.
Horses, marks of age of, 357.
Horsham gaol, 93.
Horticulture recommended, 459.
Hostler, derivation of, 49.
Hotels. See Taverns.
Houses and accommodations of old times, 584; country-houses lead to
poor-houses, 352.
Howitt, William and Mary, their Poems, 417, 481.
Humour, definition of, 290.
“Huntingdon Divertisement,” old play, 581.
Huntsman, Mr. Woodford’s, 192.
Husbandman, (The retired) engraving, 17.
Husbands, a happy one, 442; crabbing for husbands, 464; evidence of
affection for one, 544. See Wives.
Hydrophobia, 667.
Hypochondria, 91.

Ideas (innate), 120.
Illusion, pleasures of, 757.
Imperial fate, 395.
Indians--and William Penn, 417, &c.; adventure of some, 534; Indians
at Court in 1734, 693.
“Infant Genius,” 659.
Infants, offerings to, 21; picture of a deserted one, 338.
Innate ideas, 120.
Inns of the Romans, &c. 37, 39, 49; seeking lost sign of one, 410;
good ones the result only of great travelling, 544; inn yards, 681.
Intemperance, corrected by echo, 410.
Invasion and volunteers, 55.
Ireland, customs in, 23; Irish tobacco-pipes, 769.
Islington, rights of parish of, 392, 787.
Italian dramatists, 11.

Jack the Viper, 763.
Jack Ketch a gentleman, 698.
Jemmal ring, 1.
Jennens, Charles, notice of, 651.
Jew’s harp, 31.
John, (St.) a custom on St. John’s eve, 99, St. John of Beverley’s
Well at Harpham, 545.
Johannites, notice of, 721.
Johnson, Dr., “an odd kind of a chiel,” 255.
Jones, Rev. M., Berkshire miser, 380.
Jubilee, (Revolution) 515.
Judges--a singular decree of one, 64; curious description of one, 255;
a candid judge, 351; juries the better judges, 351.
Juries, the better judges, 351; decisions of juries, 733.
Justices of peace, female, 571.
Juxton, bishop, notice of, 192.

Kalm, Swedish traveller, his description of Niagara, 532.
Keats, John, poet, epitaph on himself, 249; notices of, 371, 430.
Kelly, Miss, notices respecting, 55, 68.
Keston Cross, 33.
Ketch, Jack, 698.
Kicking, in wrestling, barbarous, 500, 502.
Kings and emperors, ill-fated ones, 395, 397; kings in Africa, 752.
“King’s Arms,” 32.
Kirkby, 437.

Labour and luck, 160.
Lacteals in a mole, 191.
Ladies. See Women.
Lairds, compliment to a young one, 255.
Landlady, agreeable, 285.
Language, genders in, 284.
Laurence Kirk snuff-boxes, 680.
Law of kindness, 496.
Law and poetry, 63; remark on law-books, 734.
Lawyers, two, 475.
Leaping, curious instance of, 279.
Leaves scorched by summer-showers, 253.
Lee Penny, The, engraving, 143.
Leeds, duke of, [earl of Danby], vindication of, 515.
Leith Hill, near Dorking, 117.
Lettsom, Dr., notice of, 285.
Liars, incredible, 639.
Life, description of, 810.
Light, philosophy of, 408, 794.
Limbs, advice in case of one broken, 511.
Liston, Mr., 650.
Literature, foolish labour in, 28, 765.
Living well, 32.
Loadstone, opinions on, 635.
London; fruit markets of London and Paris, 138; old London Cries, 431;
a London watchman, 523; fires in London, 570; Londiniana, 587;
giants in Guildhall, 609. See Islington, &c.
Longevity of a Highlander, 213.
Lord Mayor’s show, giants in, &c. 609.
Lords and ladies, vegetable, 369.
“Love Tricks,” old play, 172.
Love, David, walking stationer, 177.
Lovers, hostility of time to, 337.
“Love’s Dominion,” old play, 456.
“Love’s Metamorphosis,” old play, 265.
Loyola, Ignatius, and his boot, 512.
Luck and labour, 160.
Lyttleton, sir George, notice of, 590.

Macdonald, John, a Highlander, 213.
“Mad Dog,” 666.
Magpie, anecdote of, 608.
Maid of honour, curious patent to one, 413.
“Maid Marian,” letter respecting, 10.
Mallet, David, notice of, 110.
“Mamamouchi,” old play, 231.
Man, description of, 809.
“Man in the Moon,” tract called, 252.
Manners of old times, 584, 829.
Manufactures, celerity of processes of, 86; of Birmingham, 595.
Manuscripts, curious restoration of one, 415.
Mariner, (an ultra) 188.
Mark, St., customs on St. Mark’s eve, 99, 159, 251.
Markets (fruit) of London and Paris, 138.
Marlow, poet, merit of, 498 (note.)
Marot, Clement, French poet, notice of, 766.
Marriage, the Gimmal Ring, 1; a happy marriage, 116; Gretna Green
parsons, 125; old customs at, 239, 348, 373; ungallant toll on
brides, 343; marriage under the protectorate, 506.
“Married Beau, (The)” old play, 622.
Martin, St., and the Devil, 170.
Mary, Peter and, 264.
Matlock, 135.
Mayor’s feast, temp. Elizabeth, 617.
Mechanical power, 85; ancients’ knowledge of, 794, 822, 824.
Medals; commemoration medal of diet of Augsburgh, 321.
Medicine, skill of the ancients in, 743, 746.
Melancthon and Calvin, 736.
Melons, varieties and weights of, 141.
Memory with stupidity, instance of, 571.
Menage, advice of, touching poetry, 512.
Mendip mines and miners, 695.
Merrow, in Surrey, 705.
Meum et Tuum, 250.
Mice, field, for preventing injuries from, 467.
Michaelmas day, customs on, 464.
Microscopes, whether known to the ancients, 824.
Milk, in America, 480.
Milky Way, the, 375.
Mill, the haunted, 476.
Millhouse, Robert, his Poems, 161.
Mines, descent into, 137; Mendip mines and miners, 695.
Minuets, laborious study of, 64.
Misers, notices of, 72, 77, 78, 118, 153, 242, 380.
Misery,--a bond of affection, 806; trial through, 807.
Miss, designation of, 831.
Mitcheson, Tommy, of Durham, 287.
Moderns and ancients, discoveries of, 58, 83, 120, 182, 202, 214, 245,
342, 375, 406, 438, 472, 503, 632, 724, 743, 788, 819.
Mœris, (Lake) in Egypt, 823.
Moles, lacteals in, 191.
Mompesson, Rev. W., and his wife, 481, &c.
Monarchs, most ancient of, 335; ill-fated ones, 395, 397; a pure and
exemplary one, 520.
Money, rareness of due care of, 78.
Monkey, gallant comparison with, 573.
Monmouth, duke of, 702.
Montmorenci, Ann, anecdotes of, 174, 208.
Moon, philosophy of, 473; tincture of moon, 653; moonlight view of
Niagara, 543.
More, sir T., 704.
Mosaics of the ancients, 826.
Mother and her children, 441.
Mummies, 744.
Music, superiority of the ancient, 202, 826, musical anecdotes, 204;
memoir of Beethoven, 206; the music which old Time delights in, 336.
My Pocket Book, 403.
Mysteries dramatized, 113.

Nails and nail-makers, 602.
Names, scriptural, &c. 767.
Nationality, 331.
Nature, animated, 216.
Navarino, description of, 513.
Newspapers; newspaper orthography, 222; classification of readers of
newspapers, 570. See Advertisements.
Newtonian philosophy and the ancients. See Ancients.
Niagara, cataracts of, 531.
Nixon’s prophecies, notice of, 224.
Norfolk, custom in, 333.
Northumberland, custom in, 21.
Norwich Guild, 617.
Nottingham, custom at, 180 (note); Nottingham and the revolution, 513.

Oaks, fine ones in Holland, 460.
“Oddities, Whims and,” by T. Hood, 559.
Offerings to infants, 21.
Offices, estimates of value of, 76.
Oglethorpe, general, notice of, 693.
“Old England forever,” pamphlet called, 353.
Opinions, former authority of, 59.
Opium-eater, the, notices of, 277, 278.
“Oranges, The Three,” play called, 11.
Orleans, duchess of, ingenuous disclaimer by, 414.
Ostler, derivation of, 49.
Oyster cellars, entertainment of, 40.

Page’s Lock, near Hoddesdon, curious chair at, 436.
Painting on cloth and glass, by the ancients, 745, 789, 825.
Palindrome, explanation and instance of, 169.
Parents’ affection, 441, 491.
Paris and London, fruit markets of, 138.
Parishes, abuses in, 25.
Parliament, bribery of, by Charles V., 16.
Parodies, pious, of Horace, 339.
Parr, Dr., early model of, for style, 369.
Parsimony. See Misers.
Party of pleasure, interesting, 289.
Pastoral and tragi-comedy, definitions of, 621.
Pavy Labathiel, 526.
Pawning, valuable resource of, 78.
Peak’s hole, 14.
Peal (dumb) of Grandsire Triples, 527.
Pearce, Dr. Z., anecdote of, 103.
Pearl, Cleopatra’s, 789.
Pegge, Rev. S., revolution centenary sermon of, 516, 517, 697.
Pemberton, sir J., lord mayor, 19.
Penn, William, and the Indians, engraving, 417.
Penny, (The Lee) an antique, description of, 143.
Pentheney, Anthony, a miser, notice of, 118.
Pepys, extracts from, 830, &c.
Perfection, the steps of, 222.
Peter the Great, summer garden of, 457.
Peter-house college, anecdote touching, 264.
Philadelphia, origin of, 419.
Philippos, 705.
Philosophy; of ancients and moderns. See Ancients.
Philosophy of a fairy, 339.
Physicians, a benevolent one, 285; two physicians, 475.
Pickpockets, 232.
Pickworth, Mr. C., letter to, 605.
Pie, Christmas, 506.
Pikeman, or turnpike-man, 684.
Pine apples, 138.
Pipes, Irish tobacco, 769.
Piscatoria, 638.
Pitt, Mr. W., notices of, and of his seat at Holwood, 627.
Plague at Eyam, 481, &c., 629.
Planets, material of one, 252.
Planting in Scotland, 326; planting recommended, 459, 470.
Plato, mode of studying, 174; Plato and other ancients, 820. See
Ancients.
Plays at Linton and Grassington, 247; play-wrighting, 411; acting of
extraordinary children in plays, 526; performance of plays at
Christian Malford, 553; definition of pastoral and tragi-comedy,
621; expedients and difficulties of players, 554; selections
contributed by Mr. C. Lamb from the Garrick plays, 6, 52, 67, 106,
131, 171, 200, 232, 265, 328, 361, 393, 456, 497, 524, 551, 579,
619, 711, 739, 771, 806.
“Plea of the Fairies,” 340.
Pleasures of Illusion, 757.
“Plotting Parlour, (The)” 514.
Plurality of worlds, doctrine of, 375.
Poaching, vindication of, 115.
Pockets, pickpockets, and pocket-handkerchiefs, 231, 232.
Poetry, thou and you in, 232; rule for criticism of, 512; diction of,
811.
Poets, distresses of, 123; an athletic poet, 279; reward of an
ingenious one, 231; encouragement to poets, 691.
Politeness, 414.
Polkinghorne, a famous wrestler, 499.
Polypi, 793.
Pope, Alexander, notice of, 109.
Portraits, picture of taking, 452.
Portuguese mysteries, 114.
Preacher, (Puritan) 808.
Prescription of money, instead of physic, 286.
Presents, to infants, custom of, 21; at weddings, 373.
Pride, remarks on, 600; instances of, 751.
Princesses, mode of carrying, 174.
Prisons, ancient and modern, 92.
Processions at funerals, 479; at the restoration, 505; on centenary of
the revolution, 518.
Public-houses, 37, 39, &c., 51.
Puddle-dock, duke of, 291.
Pulpits; pulpit desk, 195; pulpit in the rock, 495.
Punch bowl, Devil’s, 145.
Punctilio, Spanish, 254.
Purple of the ancients, 636 (note.)
Pyramids of Egypt, 823.
Pythagoras, power of his music, 203; Pythagoras and other ancients,
819. See Ancients.
Pytheas and other ancients, 819. See Ancients.

Quakers; The Three Quakers, 50; quakers under William Penn, 417, &c.;
origin of the term quaker, 429.
Queenborough, curious account of, 297.
Qualities, sensible, doctrine of, 182.
Quid pro quo, 31.
Quin, notices of, 111, 589.
Quintain, the, 175, 239.
Quipoes explained, 112.

Rain, effect of, 254.
Rainbow at Niagara, 537, 542.
“Ram Alley,” old play, 497.
Ravensbourne, sources of the, engraving, 641.
“Rebellion, (The)” old play, 525.
Request, modest, 639.
“Return, The Soldier’s,” 576.
Rhodian Colossus, 823.
Rhodope and Cinderella, 720.
Ridicule, 174.
Ringing, memorial of, at Bromley, 527; anecdotes of ringers, 529.
Rings; the Gimmal ring, engraving and notice of, 1.
Rivers, opinions on, 697.
Roasting, musical, 204.
Robertson, J., a friend of Thomson, 379.
Romans, customs of, 37; fatality of Roman emperors, 395; doubts on
Roman history, 413; Roman remains, 626, 629, 641.
Romuald, St., 593.
Rope-riding, at Venice, 251.
Royal families, ill-fated ones, 397.
“Royal King and Loyal Subject, (The)” old play, 497.
Ruptures, curious application for, 466.
Rushes, houses and churches strewed with, 277, &c.
Russia, Esop in, 457.
Rutty, Dr., a quaker, confession of, 510.
Rydal Mount, seat of Wordsworth, 276.

Sackville, sir E. and lord Bruce, duel between, 225.
Saddles, rules touching, 357.
Sailors, 298.
Saint Giles’s bowl, 702.
---- John’s Well, at Harpham, engraving, 545.
---- Romuald, 593.
“Sally Holt,” a story, 669.
Sandy, James, an extraordinary artist, 680.
Sanitary cordon, 493, 495.
“Sappho and Phaon,” old play, 265.
Satellites, 377.
Saville, sir G., letter to, 492.
Sawston Cross, 81.
Saxons, customs of, 38.
Scandal, picture of, 61.
Scarfs and tippets, 235.
Scheveling scenery, 460.
“School of Adults,” 662.
Schools, chastisement in, 174; schoolboys’ anticipations of home, 268.
Sciences and arts, skill of the ancients in.--See Ancients.
Scotland, customs in, 23, 40, 143; Scotch lairds and judges, 255;
Highland emigration, 322; forests of Scotland, 324.
Scott, sir Walter, letter of, to sir A. Ferguson, 508.
----, Thomas, shepherd, anecdote of, 510.
Sculpture of the ancients, 825.
Sects, exclusiveness of, 808.
Selden, notice of, 572.
Self-devotion, clerical, 536.
Self-esteem, 751.
Selling and buying, 211.
Sensualist and his conscience, 410.
Servants; servant maid’s pocket-book, 404; old and faithful servants,
818.
Servetus and his works, 726.
Session, court of, satire on judges of, 255.
“Shakerley, my aunt,” 663.
Shakspeare, Time’s rival, 339, 340.
Sham-fights and invasion, 55.
Sheep, their injury to young woods, 324; superstition touching sheep
and mice, 467; sheep-shearing in Cumberland, 559.
Sheepshanks, Whittle, 267.
Sheriffs, female, 571.
Ships, descent of one over Niagara falls, 531.
Shirley Common, broom-maker’s at, 449.
Shirts, wearing two in travelling, 352.
Shoeblacks, notices respecting, 435.
Shoemakers, an ambitious one, 341.
Shoes, old, curious application of, 318.
Shorland, Lord, old legend and monument of, 300, 317.
Showers, summer, 253.
Shuttle, hanging the, 221.
Siam, summer-house in, 253.
Signs; sign-seeking, 412; curious signs, 448, 504, 756.
Silchester, Hants, Roman station, 556.
Simcoe, general, notice of, 422.
Singing, test of excellence of, 210.
“Sir Giles Goosecap,” old play, 329.
Skimmington, procession called, 360.
Skipton in Craven. See Craven.
Sleeves, pockets formerly in, 231.
Smith, Thomas, a quack, 722.
Smoking and snuffing, oriental temple for, 673, 679; antiquity of
smoking, 771.
Snitzler, an honest organ-builder, 26.
Snuffing and smoking, 673, &c.; Laurence-kirk snuff-boxes, 680.
Soames, Dr., master of Peterhouse, 264.
Soldiers; a soldier’s age, 352; a soldier’s return, 576.
Somerset, proud duke of, 751.
Son, father and, 31.
Sophia Charlotte, sister of Geo. I., 479.
Southey, poet, residence of, 282.
Spa-fields, sketch in, 764.
Spaniards, spare diet of, 772.
Spanish mysteries, 113; punctilio, 254.
Speculation, folly of, 352.
Spinning, tenuity of, 85.
Spit, movement of to music, 204.
“Spoons, Apostle,” 817.
Stanley, Rev. T., rector of Eyam, 629.
Starch-wort, an herb, account of, 369.
“Stare and Gossip, the,” 61.
Stars, fixed, the, 375, 795.
Statesmen, model of, 429.
----, small farming proprietors called, 378.
Statues, stupendous, 823.
Steam-engines, 85.
Steel manufacturers, 600.
Stones, (precious) ancients’ imitation of, 745.
Stories, (long) 210.
Storks, habits and treatment of, 464, 564.
Strutt, Mr., new edition of his “Sports and Pastimes,” &c. by editor
of the Table Book, 177.
Stuarts, (The) unfortunate line of, 398.
Summer; summer-house at Siam, 253; summer showers, an effect of, 253;
summer garden of Peter the Great, 457.
Surgery, skill of the ancients in, 742, 746.
Sweetheart-seeing, 159.
Sympathy, supposed effect of, 334.

Table Book, editor of about to publish a cheap edition of “Strutt’s
Sports and Pastimes,” 177; editor’s severe domestic afflictions, 737.
Table rock at Niagara, 541.
Tailor, origin of the word, 717.
Talbot inn, Borough, 45.
Talkington, George, casualties that befell, 127.
Tanner, Dame, gleaning cake of, 346.
Tasting days, 447.
Taverns and inns, notices of, 41, &c. 49, &c.
Taylor, John, of Birmingham, notice of, 595.
Temple of Health, Dr. Graham’s, 561; for smoking, Mr. Gliddon’s, 673.
Temple, Sir W., disposal of his heart, 460.
Tenter, (Bear and) boys’ play, 364.
Thales and other ancients, 819. See Ancients.
Theatres. See Plays.
Thunder, opinions on, 632.
Tippets and scarfs, 235.
Thomson, poet, notices of, 108, 378, 588.
Thou and you, in poetry, 332.
Thread and thread-makers, 603.
“Thyestes,” old play, 645.
Tides, opinions on, 634.
Tie and bob wigs, 434.
“Time, the defeat of,” 335.
Titles, 752.
Tobacco, or a substitute, ancient use of, 771. See Ancients.
Toll, ungallant, 243.
Tours, a curious one, 291.
Townsend, (Bow street) evidence by, 149.
Trade, good and ill of, 211.
Tradition, picture of, 366.
Tragi-comedy and pastoral comedy, 621.
“Traitor, (The)” old play, 580.
Transmigration, explanatory of antipathies, 191.
Trashing, 348.
Travelling, precautions for, 352, 364.
Treasure-digging, patent for, 413.
Treaties; one between W. Penn and the Indians, 417, &c.; treaty of
Uxbridge, 521.
Trees; skeletons of, 325; a memorable elm, 421; noble trees near
Amsterdam, 461; superstition about passing patients through a split
ash, 465; trees poetically and nationally considered, 469; height of
the cabbage tree, 471.
Tricks of the Fairies, 339.
“Triumphant Widow, (The)” old play, 232.
Troller’s Gill, (The) 653.
Tromp, Van, gallantry of, 773.
“True Trojans, (The)” old play, 328.
Turk, the Great, 754.
Turnpikeman, (The) 684.
Tuum et Meum, 250.
“Twins, (The)” old play, 329.

Ugliness, _naif_ admission of, 414.
Umbrella, clergyman’s, 101.
Usurers; life of one, 72; a liberal one, 808.
Utopia, (sir T. More’s) blunder about, 413.
Uxbridge, town and treaty of, 521.

Vega, Francis de la, adventures of, 188.
----, Lopez de, mysteries of, 113.
Venice, 251.
Venison, potted, curious notion about, 334.
Vines, notices about, 33, 628. See Grapes.
Viper’s poison, 764.
Virtue and Death, dialogue between, 19.
Voice, restoration of, by anchovy, 544.
Volunteer reminiscences, 55.
Vortices, doctrine of, 377.

Wagstaff, Mr. E., 185.
Wake-Robin, a plant, 369.
Wakefield, custom near, 21.
Walker (Willy) and John Bolton, 409.
Waller, sir E., his tomb at Beaconsfield, 469.
Walpole, sir H., and Hogarth, 290, 291.
---- sir R., notice of, 192.
Walls of plaster advised for fruit, 141.
Wards, court of, abuses of, 76.
“Wars of Cyrus,” old play, 621.
Warwickshire, custom in, 466.
Watchmen, (London) 523.
Water having the effect of fire, 535.
Wedding. See Marriage.
“Weston Favel History, &c.,” remarks on, 366.
“Whims and Oddities,” by T. Hood, 559.
Whittington, revolution house at, 513.
Wight, Isle of, custom in, 714.
Wigs, formerly general, 434.
Wilson, Rev. Mr., curious tract by, 252.
----, professor of moral philosophy, notices of, 279.
Wiltshire, custom in, 197.
Winter flowers, 737.
Witchcraft, decree against, 144; “burning the witch,” 582; guard
against witchcraft, 583; the wise woman of Littondale, 776.
Wives; Mr. E. Wagstaff’s, 185; lively letter from one, 442;
consolation for loss of one, 479; evidence of affection in wives,
544; a wife taking liberties, 751.
Wizard’s Cave, 747, 750.
Wolves; forests burnt in Scotland to exterminate them, 324.
Women; customs at lying-in, 23; former freedom of society with men,
40, 41; Egyptian compliment to, 405; ingenuous admission of ugliness
by one, 414; a young one’s pocket-book, 404; women sheriffs and
justices, 571; antiquarians’ supposed dislike to, 572; dower of
women, 573; an amiable woman described, 682; “The Wise Woman of
Littondale,” 777. See Wives.
Wood feast, 455.
Wood, Antony à, his dislike of women, 572.
Wood, Nicholas, a glutton, 350.
Wordsworth, (poet) notices of, 273.
Worlds, plurality of, 375.
Wrestling, 416, 499.
Wright, (Mrs.) her description of Niagara falls, 538.
Writing, Peruvian substitute for, 112; writing-desks, 193, 196.
Wye Dale, 13.

Years, reason for not counting, 352.
York, and the revolution, 514.
Yorkshire customs, 99, 144, 348, 505.
Young, (Mr. S.) of Keston Cross, 36.