Bridal, royal, 187

Bridewell boys, former turbulence of, 699
Bridgewater, duke of, canals by, 633
Bright, Edward, the largest man, 791
Brighton, 629

Brill, (The,) Middlesex, Cæsar's camp
called, 673, 783

Brindley, James, civil engineer, died, no-
tice of, 632

Brittany, superstitions in, 486

Carbonari, ludicrous anecdote about, 699
Cardan, curious circumstance of, 228
Caraboo, impostor, self-called, notice and
engraving of, 816

Cards, a child played for at, 672
Carlos, colonel, and Charles II., notice of,

349

Carna, goddess of the hinge, 364
Cars, travelling ones in Ireland, engrav-
ings of, 120, 121

Dr. Busby's, a supposititious one,

sedan, ib.

shoemakers' amusement with, ib.
Chalmers, James, curious advertisement
by, 469

Chamberlain, lord, power formerly exer-
cised by, over actors, 532
Chancery, a hoax in, 573
Chances in lotteries, computations touch-
ing, 728

Charitable corporation, notice of, and of
lottery for the sufferers by, 726
Charles I., behaviour of, 72, 73

II., notice of, 349; public notice
of his continuing to heal the evil, 341
V., anecdote of, 229; curious
pageant at Dunkirk by, 435
Charlotte, queen, notice of, 542
Charlton, Mr. T., notice of, 814
Cheap Tommy, (Thomas Hogg,) notice
of, 471
Cheldonizing, or swallow-singing, ex-
plained, 556

Chemists, anecdote of, 318
Chepstow castle, sports at, 781

Cherries, feast of, at Hamburgh, 520
Cheshire, customs in, 275, 299, 686
Chester, ancient horse-racing at, 270
Chicheley, archbishop, artifice of, 571
Child, Mr., banker, notice of, 723

one played for at cards, 672
Chillcott, Charles, notice of, 485
Chimes, 69
Chimney-sweepers, rhetoric of one, 28;
May-day exhibition of, 307; procession,
public dinner, and oratory of the mas-
ters, 309; engraving of "the last
chimney-sweeper," ib.; masters' hand-
bill, ib.

Chimneys, how to dress for the summer,

259

Chinese festival of lanterns, 45
Cholera morbus, remarks on, 622
Cholmondeley, marquis of, 188
Christians, their hatred of Jews, 267
Christmas, usages and celebrations re-
specting, 814, 819, &c.

Christmas out of doors, at Ratzburg, 6
Christopher, Bartholomew, a sufferer by
gambling, 764

Christ's Hospital. See Blue-coat Boys
Chuneelah, the elephant killed at Exe-
ter Change, 161

Churches, pressing for the navy in, 222;
watching of, in Yorkshire, 274; cu-
rious colloquy on images, &c. in, 684;
Hogarth's satire on some old supposed
embellishments in, 685
Churchill, (Stuart), Arabella, notice of,
663

Clack Fall Fair, 686, 792, 803

Clapham, old church of, notice of, 685
Clay, Hercules, delivered from danger
by a dream, 184

Clayton, Mr., an old and good tenant, 628
Cleobulus, his riddle on the year, 13
Clerkenwell in 1730, notice of, 350
Cleves, patent for Order of Fools at, 644
Climate, changes of, 35; Howard's work
on climate of London recommended, 2
Climbing boys, society for suppressing,
311. See Chimney-sweepers
Clinton, Samuel, an extraordinary sleep-
er, 48

Clogs, engraving of an old shoe and clog,

818

Clothing, counteractive of heat, 390
Clouds, singular case of their electricity

in Java, 541; notices respecting
heights, motions and shapes of clouds, ib.
Club, calves.head, 79

Coachmen (Hackney), instances of ho-
nesty of, 451

Coat and badge, Dogget's prize of, for
rowing, 531

Cobblers' festival of, at Paris, 527, 528
See Shoemakers

Cook-maid, engraving of, in a lottery
puff, 752

Cooper's hall, lotteries latterly drawn in,
560

Copenhagen-house, 782
Corbet, Richard, bishop of Norwich, 695
Cornwall, Christmas drama of St. George
as acted in, 61; customs in, 338, 504;
earthquake in, in 1757, 504
Coronations, Mr. Taylor's excellent
work on, 498

Corpse candles, exhalations so called, 510
Corpus Christi day, notice of, 348
Cotswold, harvest home on, 578
Country and town, contrast of, 683

mansions, description of, 810, &c
Court (Lawless), notice of, 643
Covent-garden market, 594
Coventry, earl of, 688
Cow-mass, 435
Cowper, earl, 688
Cracknell, T., notice of, 419
Craniology, notice of, 419
Credulity, popular, 570
Criminals, elephants employed as exe-
cutioners of, 178

Crispe, sir Charles, notice of, 471
Crocodile, the first living one in England,
803

Croker, T. C., jaunting car described by,

121

Cromwell, Oliver, original letter of, 456
Cross, Paul's, history and engraving of, 208
Mr., account of his elephant at
Exeter change, 162

buns, 205

Crucifixion, Christ's, celebration of at
Seville, 211; relics of, 213
Cruikshank, George, phrenological illus
trations by, 561

Cuckoo, the, observations on, 569
Cumberland, customs in, 225, 334
Cup, the clayen, or clome, or ciomen, 826

of, 418, 419

Coffins, anecdotes of, 510

Coleridge, Mr., his description of Christ-

mas out of doors at Ratzburg, 57
Coleshill, customs of, 234

graving of, and satire on, 773
Curling, game of, 82

Daft-days, 7

Dalmahoy, Mr., statement of, 764

Danby, lord, anecdote of, 548
Dancing (morris), 396
bears, 780

Darkness and fog in 1813, 51
Darlington, earl of, 688

Daughters, a curious present to one, 780
Davenant, sir W., notice of, 261
Davis, George, a sleep-walker, 648
Days, lucky, notice of a supposed one, 660
Death, apparition of the chariot of, 489;
account of the "death fetch," in an
Irish tale, 507; opera of "The Death-
fetch" noticed, 506; prayers for priso-
ners under sentence of death, 689;
death of the State Lottery, 750, 751;
annual death of a whole people, 791
Debtors, fraudulent, singular case of one,
621

Dedication, of joints of the fingers to
saints, 47

Deer, Sion Gardens lottery for, 723
D'Eglantine, Faber, why so called, 303
Delaval, sir F. B., curious anecdote of,
736

Dellicott, William, convicted of stealing
a penny, 450

Den of the Elephant' killed at Exeter
Change, engraving of, 168
Denny, D., lottery fraud of, 733
Derby, West, customs of, 216
Derbyshire, customs in, 226, 319
Devil, history of the good devil of Wood-
stock, 291; engraving of St. Michael
standing on the devil, 636; called by
James I. a busy bishop, 620; his usual
shape an empty bottle, 621; overlook-
ing Lincoln College, 618; superstitions
respecting him, 619
Devils, printers', 620

Devonshire, customs in, 333, 505, 585,
826

Dew (May), dancers at Arthur's seat,
Edinburgh, 205

Diaries, curious extracts from one, 653
Dibdin, Charles, his opera of "The
Waterman" noticed, 531
Digby, lord, annual tolling for, 628
Dimsdale, sir H., mayor of Garrett, 412,

419

Dinners, curious invitation to one, 254;
anecdote of an election one, 597
Diogenes and his lantern, print of, 322
Dissenters, their celebrations of throwing
out the Schism Bill, 531
Diversions, curious one of a widowed hus-
band, 510

Doctors, the Whitworth one, 239
Does, origin of carrying a buck and a
doe in St. Paul's cathedral, 60
Dogget, Thomas, actor, notice of, and of
his coat and badge rowing for, 531

dog of Heriot's hospital, 380
Dolmoors, Somersetshire, custom at, 459,

461

Dragon, St. George and the, engraving of,
637

Dramas, fertility in producing, 567
Draper, Elizabeth, account of her wed-
ding-dress in 1550, 398

Drawing of the Lottery, engraving of,
721. See Lottery

Dreams, Mr. Clay delivered from danger
by one, 184; curious remarks on
dreams, 769; notices of dreams, 789,
791

Dress, a lady's in 1550, 398; engraving
of an ancient dress for autumn, 671
Drop handkerchief, custom of, 333
Drummond, lady Jane, notice of, 372
Drunkenness, singular advertisement
touching, 469

Dublin, May day in, 298

Duck, Stephen, the thresher poet, 552
hunting, description of, 702
Duelling, memorandum to men of ho-
nour touching, 471

Dulce domum, supposed origin of, 355
Duncan, lord, notice of, 658
Dunck, Miss, a great heiress, 449
Dunkirk, cow mass at, 435
Dunmow, Essex, ancient custom at, en-
graving of, 400

Dunning, John, (lord Ashburton,) died,
notice of, 544

Dunstable, mode of catching larks at, 59
Dunstan, sir Jeffery, mayor of Garrett,
412, 415

Durham, county of, ceremony of a new
bishop entering, 522

city of, custom at, 224
ox, complaint of, 774
Dwarf, curious one, 803
Dyne, Corey, a noted backsword player,
671

minster election, 427

Hanover, no State Lottery ever in, 768
Harburgh lottery, bill to suppress, 723
Hardouin, Père, died, notice of, 796
Harper, John, (sir John,) mayor of Gar-
rett, 412, 417, 421; engraving of his
election, 420

Harrington, sir J., election cxpenses, &c.
of, 830

Harris, a sleep-walker, 650
Hartsyde, Margaret, notice of, 375
Harvest-home, engraving of, 577, 579;
harvesting on a Sunday, notice of, 578;
notice of harvest in France, 439
Hastings, Mr., an old English gentleman,
812

Hatherleigh, Devonshire, customs in, 71
Hawkesbury in Cotswold, harvest-home
in, engraving of, 577
Hawthorn, Glastonbury, 821
Hazlitt, Mr., notice of, 629
Health, art of preserving, 98, 808; drink-
ing health in harvest, 584, 586
Heat, great degrees of, safely borne, and
how, 386

Hedgehogs, wandering about Oldham, in
Lancashire, by day, 470
Hell, a pageant representation of, 436
Helston, Cornwall, notice of “Furry" at,
324

Henry VII., chapel of, built by sir Regi-
nald Bray, 536
Herefordshire, "crying the mare" in,
582; griggling, and making of cider in,

635

Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, engraving

and notice of, and also of the founder,
373, 374; his arms and autograph, 457
Herod and Herodias, 570
Highgate, swearing on the horns at, 40,

189

Hinge, the, Carna goddess of, 364
Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, custom at, 587
Hoare, sir R. C., 511

Hob (old), custom of in Cheshire, 686
Hogg, Thomas, (cheap Tommy,) 471
Hogmany, a new year's usage in Scotland,
7; similar in England, 37
Holland, Ann, duchess of Exeter, her
will, 416

Charies, actor, anecdote of, 731
Holy Thursday, custom on, 318
Home, the poor man's described, 282