975; predicted by cats, 1109.
Easling, Kent, custom, 1539.
East winds, unwholesome, 134.
Easter, Eastre, Easter-monath, 407.
EASTER-DAY, movable; origin, and how to
find, 416, 517, 518; customs, 421, 864;
offerings, origin of, 359.

Eckert, C. A. F., a musical prodigy, 1038.
Eclipse, the first recorded, 373.
Eddystone lighthouse destroyed, 1515.
Edinburgh, coronation pageant, 647; car-
dinal Beaton's house, 711; new Exchange
founded, 1312.

EDMUND, K. and MARTYR, November 20;
account of him, 1493.

Edulf, a strong Anglo-Saxon, 29.
EDWARD, St., K. W. S. March 18; mur-
dered, 372.

-'s TRANSLATION, June 20; removal
of his remains, 813.

the confessor, his death, 619;
translation, 1376.

II., sees a mystery at Paris, 746.
III., his gift to a boy bishop, 1559.
Eel-pie house, near Hornsey, 697.
Eggs, at Easter, 425.

Egypt, conquered by the Turks, 461.
Eldest son of the church, origin of the
title, 1349.

Elephant, of Henry III., 1005; Atkins's,
1177, 1179.

Elia, and Bridget Elia, 92.

and Jem White, their treat to the
sweeps, 585.
Elizabeth, queen, new-year's gifts to, 7;
studies with Roger Ascham, 29; sees
fives' play, 865; goes to St. Mary Spital,
445; her accession celebrated, 1488.
Elm leaves, used for fodder, 1403.
Elmo, St., extraordinary circumstances
relative to the capitulation of the fort,

126.

Ely, Isle of, convent and church, 1382;
willows, 1080.

-house, mystery performed there, 756.
EMBER WEEKS, movable; seasons of mor-
tification, 1572.

Enoch, the book of, 1326.

ENURCHUS, September 7; his history of no
authority, 1253.

EPIPHANY, January 6; customs of the festi-
val, 45, 59; name explained, 58.
Epitaphs on a chimney board, 459; on
captain Grose, 657; on a garret, 790; at
St. John's, Clerkenwell, 1480.
Equinox, vernal, 375.

Erskine, lord, his dressing of his barber,

242; Shrove Tuesday, 259; bonfires,
849; nutting, 1294.

Ettrick forest, sport, 1554.
Etymology of the seasons, 1518.

Evelyn, John, with judge Jefferies at an
entertainment, 478; his account of the
fire of London, 1152.

Evergreens at Christmas, 1635.
Every-day dialogue, 1574; work, 1042.
Evesham, John, keeper of the lions, 1005.
Evil eye, on May eve, 593.

May-day, 555, 577.

Ewis, inscription for St. David at, 316.
Exaltation of the cross, 1291.
Excise laws, originated, 360.
Exercise, indispensable, 1316.
Exeter city gates broken by a strong man,
29; mail coach horse, and lions, 1191.
Eyes, the, receipt for, 353.

FABIAN, January 20; notice of him, 135.
Fagot-sticks, divination, 1552.
Fairies on May eve, 593.

FAITH, October 6 ; the existence of this saint
doubted, 1362.

Falconer, John, barber of Glasgow, 1272.
Falling sickness, in rooks, 495.
Fan handle, decorated, 8.

Fantoccini, a street show described, 1113.
Fardel, explained, 1215.
Fashion-monger's head, 1262.
Fasten's eve, 260.

Favorite of lord Bacon's, mentioned, 871.
Faulkner, rev. W. E. L., 1474.
Fawkes, the conjuror, 1225.

Guy, his day, London, 1429.
Ferrers, earl, executed, 615.
Ferule, school-masters', described, 967.
Festival of kings, 44.
Fete de Sans-Culottes, 57.

Fiddler, a, in Greenwich park, 692.
Filthie worm, a Romish monument, lost,
294.

Finger-snapping by barbers, 1268.
Finland custom on St. Stephen's day, 1644.
Finsbury-fields, ball-play, 258.
Fires in London, 389, 1098, 1150.

-

good ones, essential to Christmas,
1615.

on twelfth-day eve, 43, 58; see Baal.
Fireworks, in London, prohibited, 1435.
Fish, how preserved in ponds during frost,

82; preached to, 118; pond for cod, 82.
Fishmongers' almshouses, fiddler at, 692.
Fives', ball-play, 863; see Ball-play.

--court, St. Martin's-st. 868.
Fleet prison, ball-play, 869.
Flamsteed, John, astronomer, his original
memoirs of himself, and his dispute with
sir Isaac Newton, 1809.

Fleming, rev. Abraham, account of, 1066.
Flight into Egypt, how represented by
artists, 1650.

Flint, William, printer, of the Old St. John
of Jerusalem tavern, 1481.

Flockton, his puppet show at Bartholomew
fair, 1246.

Flogging of children, 30, 1648; of relics, to
recover their virtues, 816.
Floral directory, commenced and explained,

131.

Flowers, origin of their names, and when
they blow, 104, 303, 464, 667, 740,
$63.

Flying, by patent wings, 1462.
Fog of London, in November, 1502.
Fools, on Plough Monday, 71; hatching,
in a pageant, 256.

Foot-ball, in Scotland, 1554; see Ball-play.
Foote, captain, signs the treaty of St. Elmo,
127.

Fornacalia, Fornax, the origin of pancakes,
250.

Foscue, a farmer general, his self-burial
alive, 101.

Fountain, public-house, City-road, 975.
Fountains, 1006, 1041.

France, twelfth-day in, 57; Death of Good
Living there, 257; all fools' day, 413;
bleeding image of Paris, 895; Christmas,
1616.

Francis I. throws verses on Laura's tomb,

451; licenses mysteries, 749.
Franking of newspapers, discontinued, 856.
Frederick, emperor, his present to Cologne,
46.

-, prince of Wales, at Bartholomew
fair, 1242; his death, 374.
Freeling, Mr., possessor of Kele's carols,
1600.

Freezing shower, its effects on trees and
animals, 134.

Frenchmen, all sportsmen, 1577.
Frontispiece to this volume, explained, 1655.
Fruit-stalls, 907.

Funerals in Cumberland, 1077; a rustic
one, 1533.

Fuseli, his compositions as an artist, 349.
Fussell, Mr. Joseph, artist, noticed, 872.

Garrick, David, his letter to Messrs. Adam,
328; goes to Bartholomew fair with Mrs.
Garrick, 1244.

Garter of the princess of Bavaria, at her
wedding, 1551.

Gaudy days, at the universities, 100. •
Gaunt, Mrs., burnt, 480.
Geck, gowk, gull, 411.

Ge-ho! to horses, its antiquity, 1645.
Genealogy, precedence disputed, 797.
Genius, what it is, 357.

Gent, Mrs. Thomas, her bust by Behnes, 638.
Gentleman's Magazine title-page, 1481.
Geoffry, abbot of St. Albans, first plays
mysteries in England, 750.
George-a-Green, and George Dyer, 1100,

1103.

III., king, notice of, 766.

IV., birth-day of, 1099.
GEORGE, St., April 23; account of him,
496; legend of his adventures with the
dragon, 498, 1101.

-'s, St., fields, lactarium, 103.
Germany, twelfth-day in, 57; celebrations
of Spring, 339; breeds the best cocks,
240; German diploma rejected, 84.
Gerst-monat, 1147.

Giants, at Bartholomew fair, 1172, &c.; re-
presented in pageants at Chester, 835; in
Guildhall, 1454.

Gibbon, Edward, where he conceived his
history, 268.

Gilbert, Mr. Davies, his Christmas carols,
1603.

GILES, September 1; miracles attributed to
him, 1149.

Giltspur-street, whence so called, 1166.
Gilpin, rev. Bernard, account of, 330,
345.

rev. William, tourist, died, 421.
Giordano, Lucca, painter, notice of, 1651.
Gladman, John, pageant by him, 255.
Glasscutters' procession at Newcastle, 1286.
Glastonbury, monastery, 315; miraculous
walnut tree, 772.

Gleeman, Anglo-Saxon, 1188.
Glenfinnyn, vale of, monument there to the
pretender, 32.

Gloves, new-year's gifts, 9; hung in the air
by miracle, 78; kissing for, 1509; glove
of defiance in a church, 345; glove money,
whence derived, 9.

Gloucestershire customs, 58, 849.
Glowworm, 1143.

Gnat killed by a saint, 21.
Go-to-bed-at-noon, flowers, 667.
God of Death, druidical, 58.

God rest you, merry gentlemen! Christmas
carol, 1603.

Godfrey, sir Edmundbury, in a pageant,
1488.

Golden Legend, W. de Worde's edition
used in this work, 3; formerly read in-
stead of the New Testament, 386.

638.

Gondomar, on the English weather, 308.
GOOD FRIDAY, movable; celebrations and
customs of the day, 402.

Gooding, on St. Thomas's day, 1586.
Goose, at Michaelmas, 1338; anecdote of
one, 1341; whether lawful in Lent, 1472;
in Christmas pie, 1639; goose pies on
St. Stephen's day 1645.
Gooseberry fair, 437.

shirts; see saints, in Index II.
Halifax gibbet, and gibbet law, 145.
Hall, with his preserved birds and beasts
at Bartholomew fair, 1245.
Halley, Edmund, astronomer, 1093.
Hallow e'en, 1408.

Halter, in a repartee, 529.

Hamilton, lady, at Caraccioli's execution,
130.

Hampton-Wick, Middlesex, ball-play, 245.

death, 1294.

Gothic church, depraved, 1474
Gout, miraculously cured, 472.

Grammar school disputations in Smithfield,
1236.

Grand days, in the law courts, 100.

Granger, rev. J., punning note to Grose, 657.
Grapes, grow on a saint's bramble, 102
Grasshopper, its song, 98.

Grass-week, 642.

Handsel Monday, 23.

Hanging month, 1419.

Harding, Jem, a racket-player, 868.
Hardwick forest, custom, 145.

Hardwicke, lord, resigns the seals to read
Thuanus, 284.

| Hardy, captain, R. N., serves against the Bur-
mese, 1529.

Hare and tabor, 1210; hare and tortoise,
1377; hares, domesticated, 1383

seal, new, 17.

Greatness of character, exemplified, 263,280.
Greeks, the, used the mistletoe, 1637.
Greens, on St. John's day, 837; in churches,
1635; see Evergreens.
Greenwich church, dedication, 486; holi-
days and fairs at Easter, 436; Whitsun-
tide, 687; observatory founded, 1089; see
Flamsteed.

GREGORY, (called the Great,) March 12; ac-
count of this saint and his alleged mira-
cles, 356.

Nazianzen, suppresses the Greek
drama, and writes religious plays instead,
743, 744.

Grey, lady Jane, severity of her parents, 31;
inscription on her portrait, 32.

Friars, mystery performed at the, 756.
Gridirons honoured, 1085.

Griffin, rev. Thomas, his storm sermon,
1518.

Groom porter at St. James's, played for by
the royal family, 59.
Grose, Francis, antiquary, notice of, 6 6.
Guil-erra, and guil, 1544.

Guillotine, in France, 145; in England, &c.
long before, 148; contemplated for lord
Lovat, 149; an heraldic bearing, ib.
Gule, of August, 1062.
Gunpowder, invented, 397.

Plot day, 1429.

Guthlac, St., his whips, 1132.

Gymnastics, account of, 19, 1315.

Hackin, the, a sausage, 1640.

Hackney coaches, at Stourbridge, 1301.

Hagbush-lane, Islington, account of, 870;
derivation of name, 575.
Haggis, how made, 1634.
Hail-storm saint, 326.

1581.

Harvest month, 1059; end of harvest, 1147.
Hastings, Warren, account of, 1128; She-
ridan's conduct in his impeachment, 914.
Hats, 1437.

Hawkwood, sir John, in a pageant, 1449.
Haydon, Mr., artist, an opinion by, 1458.
Haymarket theatre, disputes with the mas-
ter of the revels, 1244.

Hazard, played by the royal family, 59.
Hazlitt, Mr., on Čavanagh's fives-play, 865.
Head-ache, cured by a saint, 23.
Health, in summer, to preserve, 921.

drinking, on Plough Monday, 1334.
Heard, sir Isaac, herald, died, 530.
Hearne, Thomas, antiquary, discovers an
old leaf, 1600; at Bartholomew fair,
1228; died, 771.

Hearts, in valentines, 219, 227.
Heatley's booth at Bartholomew fair, 1238.
Heaven, represented in a pageant, 1118;
heaven and hell, distance between, 1541;
see saints in Index II.
Heaving, at Easter, 422.

Heemskerk, his barber, 1265.

Heit used to horses, its antiquity, 1644.
Helena, empress, translates the three kings,

45.

Heligh-monat, 1543.

Hell, its Romish arrangement, 22; see saints
in Index II.

Hell-mouth, in a mystery, 747, 757.
Heloise and Abelard, notice of, 494.
Hempseed, charm, 1410, 1415.
Hen, hey, hay-monath, 892.
Henrietta Maria, queen, notice of,773
street, Covent-garden, duel there,

911.
Henry II., acts as sewer to his son, 1622
-IV., holds a parliament at Coventry,

753.

Jessup, Samuel, the pill-taker, 661.
Jesuit, the, a periodical work, 914.
Jewellery of the Burmese carriage, 1520.
Jews' new-year's day, 15.

their treatment and present state in
England, 295, 385; Jewish stage play,
743.

Joachim, St.,and St. Anne, account of, 1008.
Joan of Arc, account of, 726.
John, king of France, died, 452.

JOHN PORT LATIN, May 6; notice of him,
617.

St., baptist, customs on his festival,
836, 845.

's eve, celebrations, 823, 836.
JOHN, St., apostle, December 27, account
of him, and customs on his festival, 1647.
-'s lane, Clerkenwell, raised, 1481.
wort, a charm, 854.
Johnson, David, writing-master, account
of, 1086.

Mr. J., his "Typographia," 1136.
Dr. Samuel, and Boswell's liking

to town, 646.

Joint-stock companies, see Bubbles; a new
one proposed, 1460.

Joke, no, like a true joke, 505.

Jones, rev. W., of Nayland, anecdote of,
836.

sir W., died, 527.

Jonson, Ben, his description of Bartholomew
fair, 1201.

Joseph, St., Roman carpenters' respect for
him, 1595
Judas, the, 435.

Judges' breakfast on first of term, 722; ser-
mon before them on Trinity Sunday, 722.
Judith and Holofernes, at Bartholomew
fair, 1227.

Juggler, with balls, knives, &c. 1188.
Julian, emperor, reviver of beards, 18; no-
tice of him, 887.

Juliet Capulet, and Petrarch, 1063.
Julius II., pope, prefers the sword to books,
266.

Junkets, 561.

Justifying bail, humorously described, 158.
Justs and tournaments on London-bridge,
Smithfield, &c. 799, 1167, 1234.

Kale, whence derived, 196.
Kaleidoscope invented, 473.
Katharine, queen, goes a maying, 550.

-'s, St., church, by the tower, last
service there, 1405; see Catharine.
Keate, George, author, notice of, 880.
Kele-wurt, 196.

Kemp, W., of Peerless-pool, 971.
Kenilworth, sports, 477.

Kensington, lord, his interest in Bartholo-
mew fair, 1233.
Kent-road fountain, 1043.

Kentish custom on Valentin s day, 226;
not on that day, 257.

Kiava muchd, 1634.

Kidder, bishop, and his lady, killed, 1513.
Kidderminster custom, 1337, 1343.
Kilda, St., Isle of, custom, 1340.
Killigrew, Charles, master of the revels, 1243.
King, George IV., his birth-day kept, 1199.
-'s-bench, ball-play, 869.

Kingston, Surrey, customs, 245, 959.
Kiss in the ring, 692.

Klopstock, Frederic, died, 361.
Knacking of the hands, 1267.

Knight, the, and the Virgin Mary, a mystery,
748.

" R. P., his dissertation, 1324.
Knight riders-street, whence so called,
1166.

Knights and ladies, a winter pastime, 1614.
Knowledge, advantages of, 1549.
Koenig, Mr., inventor of the steam press,

1537

Kyrle, John, death of, 1438.

Labour, inevitable in all ranks, 1315; es-
sential to success in art, 1651.
Labre, Benedict Joseph, account of, 467.
Lace of St. Audrey, 1383.

Lackington, Mr. George, purchases the
Egyptian-hall, 1531.
Lady-day, 386.

old, 450.

of the May, 550.

Ladies, wore friars' girdles, 263.
Lagan-le-vrich, 1633.

Lalande, astronomer, died, 451.
Lamb of St. Agnes, 141, 143; lamb-play-
ing at Easter, 422; lamb and lion, 1005.
Mr. Charles, quatrains from him
to the editor, 927; quatorzians from the
editor to him, 929.

Lamb's wool, 44, 53, 1606; its derivation,
1416.

LAMBERT, September 17; account of the
saint, 1295.

LAMMAS, August 1; its derivation, 1063;
weather in Scotland, 342.
Lamps, of old times, 831.

Lanark, Palm Sunday custom, 396.
Lane, a legerdemain player, 1248.
Larks in spring, 534; Dunstaple, 952.
Last Judgment of M. Angelo, 268.
Latimer's, bishop, new-year's gift to Henry
VIII., 7.

Laura, Petrarch's, died, 450.
LAWRENCE, August 10; account of this
saint, 1085.

-, St., Jewry church, 1085.

sir Thomas, a question by, 1458.
Law suit, its forms and progress of, 233.
terms, 99; vacations, ib.
Laymen's parliament, 752.
Leadenhall-street maypole, 555.

Leaf, a withered, 1111; fall of the leaf,
1438.

Learned pig's performance, 1194.