Barnes and Finley's booth at Bartholomew

fair, 1241.

Barnet, battle of, 463.
Barnmoneth, 1059.

Baron, lord chief, to say he cannot ear of
one ear actionable, 239.

Barr, Ben, the seer of Helpstone, 525.
Barrister's first brief, 160.

Barrow, Dr. Isaac, notice of, 613.
Barrow-woman, of London, described, 903.
Barthelemy, J. J., notice of, 614.
BARTHOLOMEW, St., August 24; notice of
him, 1131; custom at Croydon on his
festival, 1132.

-, massacre at Paris, 1131.
's church-yard anciently
contested in for school prizes, 119.
fair, its ancient and present
state, 1165, 1252; form of the procla
mation read, 1235.

hospital, origin of, 1231.
pig, 1201.

Mr., of St. John's, Clerken-

well, 1480, 1481.

the great, of Lincoln's Inn, 811.
Bells, on new-year's day, 5, 6, 15; on All
Souls' day, 1415, 1425; on admiral Ver-
non's birth-day, 1473; on new-year's eve,
1653; rung by puppet angels, 1247;
Whittington's, 1271.
Bell-flower, 901.

Bellows, blown under Dives, 1599.
Beltein, see Baal.

Belzoni, death of, 1542.

BENEDICT, March 21; miraculous anecdotes
of him, 380; founder of the order of St.
Benedict, 382.

Benedictine nunnery, Clerkenwell, its site,

754.

Bent, Independent, 603.

Berkshire customs, 435.

Berlin, royal marriage dance, 1551.
Berners, lord, his Froissart, &c., 861.
Berri, duchess de, her new-year's gift to
Louis XVIII., 14.

Berwick, duke of, killed, 773.
Bessy, on Plough Monday, 71.
Beyntesh, Berks, hue and cry, 876.

Bible, withheld from the laity, 751, 753;
written to be comprised in a walnut shell,
1086.

Bickham, George, writing-master, died, 614.
Big Sam, notice of, 619.

-, man, 1565.

Bill of costs, whimsical, 235.
Billington, Mrs., noticed, 763.

Bingley, Mrs., dress- maker to princess
Amelia, 1073.

Birch, Dr. Thomas, notice of, 79, 975.
Bird, W., and his school in Fetter-lane
described, 965.

Birds, in winter, 24; their resistance to
cold, 70; arrival, 466, 614; singing,
727; migration, 1390; fraudulently
painted, 1253.

Birdseller's shop, described, 754.
Birkbeck, Dr. George, founder of the

London Mechanics' Institution, 1549.
Bishop Valentine, 219.

Blackbird, in a cage at Greenwich, 691.
Blackheath hill, 687, 689.

Blacksmiths, their patron, 1498.

Blackstone, sir W., how he relieved his
studies, 164; account of, 231.
Blandford Forum, custom, 1414.
BLASE, February 3; miracles attributed to
this saint, 207; customs on his festival,
209.

Bleeding image of Paris, 895; stone cross,
1586.

Blessing of apples, 978; ashes, 261; beasts,
117; candles, 200; wax, 201; a market,
758.

Bolton, Jenny, 1241.

prior of St. Bartholomew's, 1232.
Bombs, first used in war, 385.
Bona Dea, the good goddess of the Romans,
1655.

Bonaparte, Louis, anecdote of, 95.
Bonasoni, his portrait of M. Angelo, 270.
Bon-Bons, French, 13.

Bonfires, on St. John's eve, 823, 845; on
5th of November, 1433.
BONIFACE, June 5; account of him, 766.
-, pope, VIII., throws blessed ashes
in the eyes of an archbishop, 262.

archbishop of Canterbury, anec-

dote of, 1231.

Bonnets, 1437.

Boot of St. Ignatius, 1050.

Brindley, the editor of his classics hanged,

287.

BRITIUS BRICE, November 13, notice of him,

1473.

Broom girls, Buy a broom? 809.
Brougham, Mr. Robert, his good humour

on a humorous portrait of him, 811.
Brown's troop of jugglers, dancers, &c. 1190.
Bruce, James, traveller, died, 527.
Brüd, his bed, 206.

Bruno, bishop, eaten by rats, 1362.
Bubbles, anecdotes of, 165, 172, 354, 1460.
Buccleugh, banner of, 1554.

Buchanan, George, his new-year's gift to
Mary queen of Scots, 10.
Buckler of St. Michael, 1329.
Buckley, Samuel, bookseller, account of,
281.

Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, 614.
Buds, their structure, 184.

Building, improvements, 638, 642, 872, 878.
Bull-running at Stamford, 1482.

Bull, a,-the dead returns thanks, 372.
Bullock, Mr., forms a museum at Mexico,

1531.

1503.

Boring, for water, 1041.

Botanizers of London, 872.

Botolph, St., Aldersgate, Register Book, 434.
Bottle-devil, 27.

Bourgeois Gallery, Dulwich, 1011.

Bow Church, corporation sermon, 446.
Bowings, marvellous number per day by a
saint, 38.
Bowling alleys, 1236.

Bowring, John, tendency of his poetry,
1428.

Bows and silver arrows, prizes, 1238.
Bowyer, Robert, keeper of the lions, 1005.
Boxing day, described, 1645.
Boxley rood, 1292.

Boy bishop, account of, 1557.

Boyer, Jem, C. L's schoolmaster, 1361.
Boyne, the, battle of, 894.

Braddock, Fanny, singular memoir of, 1278.
Bradford, Yorkshire, clothing festival, 209.
Braeckmonath, 738.

Bramanti, his disputes with M. Angelo, 267.
Brandy punch, 1622.

Breakfast, in cold weather, 288.
Breitkopf, J. G. I., account of, 185.
Breughel, his concert of cats, 1106.
Brewer, the, and his trade, i568.
Brewster, Dr., invents the kaleidoscope,

474.

Bride's, St., church, Fleet-street, 86; spital
sermon, 445; well, 325.

Burleigh, lord, at Bernard Gilpin's, 331.
Burmese state carriage, described, 1519.
Burney, Dr. C., a collector of mysteries,
746; his death, 461.
Burning the old witch, 58.

Burton, Devon, festival at, 741.
Bushy, Middlesex, ball-play, 245.
Butchers, French, their pageant, 1298; of
Clare-market, their bonfire, 1433,
Bute, John, earl of, died, 346.
Butler, rev. Alban, his "Lives of the Saints"
used in this work, 3.

" archdeacon, his opinion on card-
playing, 89; funeral sermon, on Dr. Parr,
444.

Jacob, antiquary, account of, 1301.
Button's coffee-house, 1006.

Byron, .ord, died, 486.

C's bull, an attorney not to be compared
to, 239.

Cages of squirrels, 1385.

Cairo, the Pacha refuses a diploma, 84.
Cakes, 42; tossed from an ox's horn, 43.
Calabrian minstrels in Rome, at Christ-
mas, 1595.

Calf, superstitiously burnt, 854; walks up
to a lion, 1005.

Camberwell, church monuments, 382; fair,
1124; Grove, scenery, 1014.
Cambray, boy bishop, 1558.

Cambridge, names and professions, 699;

Cider drinking, 42, 43.
CIRCUMCISION, January 1; when instituted, 3.
City, laureate, or poet, 1453.

Civil wars, how commenced in England, 28.
C. L's sister, 965, 970.

Clare-market, butchers' bonfire, 1433.
Clarges, sir Walter, his origin, 582.
Clark, Thomas, miser of Dundee, 1588.
Clarke's horse-riding and tumbling, 1185.
posture master, 1248.

John, licenser of ballad singers,

1243.
Classes, high and low assimilate, 1599.
Clay, Mr., printseller, 1011.
Clayen cup, in Devonshire, 41.

Cleghorn, Mr. John, artist, sketching at
the Pied Bull, 635; noticed again, 974.
CLEMENT, St., November 23; notice of him,
1497; customs on his festival, 1498.
Clergy, Romish, call themselves the cocks of
the Almighty, 255

Clerkenwell, parish, Clerks'well, its site,
754; ducking-pond, 971; St. John's
church and parish, 1474.

Clias, captain, his gymnastics, 19.
Cliff, Kent, rectorial custom at, 978.
Clipping the church, 430.
Clock, dialogue, 819.

Clogs, wooden almanacs, 1471.

Cloth fair, lord Rich's residence in, 1233.
Clothiers, how they travelled anciently,
876; at Bartholomew fair, 1232.
Clouds, their gorgeous imagery, 888.
Clouwet, his engraving of Rubens's St.
Antony, 120.

Coach wheel, driven for a wager, 1315.
Coalbeavers going to Greenwich fair, 437.
Cobbler and his stall, 857; cobblers take
precedence of shoemakers, 1402.
Cock in pot, and cock to dunghill, 72.
and lion, disputants, 99.

fighting, and customs, 252, 255;
leaden ones, 253.

crowing during the nights of Advent,

1642.

Cockneys, king of, his court on Childermas-
day, 1648.

Cockpit-royal, Whitehall, 255.

Coke, sir Edward, his reproof of Anne
Turner, 1437.

Colchester oysters, at Stourbridge, 1307.
Cold, at the North Pole, 466.

Colet, dean, his order for the boy bishop's
sermon, 1559.

Collar days, at court, 100.

Colley, Thomas, convicted of murder, 1045.
Collop Monday customs; 241.
Colnaghi and Son, printsellers, 1011.
Cologne, three kings of, 45, 46.

Colpoys, admiral, his life saved, 663.
Common council, prayed for, 446.

crier's office, 1333.

Hunt's office, 1332.

Conant, Mr., and the Ærial, 1461.

Conduits, destroyed, 1042.
Confectioners of Paris, 13.
Congresbury custom, 837.

Constantine, his church establishment, 744.
Contented man, described, 1468.
CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL, January, 25; su-

perstitions concerning the day, 175.

Cook, how disgraced if idle at Christmas,
1640.

Cooke, Mr., theatrical singer, 966.
Copenhagen-house, account of, 857.
Copy-writing, at school, 967.

Corning, on St. Thomas's day, 1587.
Cornwall, Palm Sunday customs, 396;
other customs and superstitions, 561, 847,
849, 853, 1611; guary miracle plays, or
mysteries, 757.

Corpse, terrifically rises from the sea, 131.
CORPUS CHRISTI, movable; makes Trinity

term commence a day later, 100; customs
on the festival, 742.

Cosin, John, bishop of Durham, lights his
cathedral on Candlemas-day, 205.
Costermonger, described, 1213, 1308.
Costume of the 13th century, 337.
Cottager, a, and his family, 873.

Coventry mysteries, 750, 756; parliament
there, 753; sports, 477.

Councils, forbid the decking with greens,
1635.

Country, the, and a country life, 492, 525,
608, 659; country lasses, their finery
formerly, 8; squire of queen Anne's
time, 1621.

Cowper, William, poet, account of, 520.
Cox, captain, the collector, 477.
Cranmer, archbishop, burnt, 382; his
widow, ib.

Cratch, the, in mince-pies, 1639.
Crawley's booth, Bartholomew fair, 1247.
Creation of the world, a mystery, 754; re-
presented by puppets at Bartholomew
fair, 1239, 1247; at Bath, ib.
Creeping to the cross, 431.
Cressets, account of, 831.

Cressy, father S., bis "Church History" used
in this work, 3.

Crickets on a winter hearth, 98.
Cripplegate, and the cripples' patron, 1149.
Crisp, Samuel, account of, 102.
CRISPIN, October 25; account of the saint
and his festival, 1394.

Crittel, Mr., landlord at West Wickham,
1507.

Croaker, Mrs., her new-year's gift to the

lord chancellor, 9.

Croft, rev. Mr., collector of mysteries,
746.
Cromwell, O., personated in a sport, 718;
his supposed burial place, 859.

Cross, found by Helena, 611; seen in the
sky by Constantine, 1292; bleeding one
of stone, 1586.

of the south, described, 611.