The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

Pulver Wednesday, 153.

Pepys', Mr. Sam., and his wife's dress, 170.

Perambulations, 1172.

Percy, origin of the name, 1210.
Peridexion, a marvellous tree, 492.
Periwigs, 169, 170, 1166.
Perpetual motion, 1585.
Pett, Thomas, miser, 659.

Phillips, sir R., his Personal Tour, 229.
Physicians, old, prescriptions, 212.
Pickle-eating, 970.

Pie, dwarf in a, 16.

Pied Piper, of Hulberstadt, 1372.
Pied-poudre court, Stourbridge fair, 1540,
1543.

Pierson, S., churchwarden of St. Margaret's,
Westminster, 1574.
Pigmies, 18.

Pigs, sharp-sighted, 252; predilection for, 703.
Pilliwinckles, for extorting confession, 1563.
Pinner, Middlesex, shrove-tide, 151.
Pinner's hall, annual sermon, 503.
Pitfour, lord of sessions, Edinburgh, 700.
Pix, the, 325.

Plague, the, affects wig-wearing, 173.
Planets, 9.

Plantagenet, Richard, son of Richard III., 980.
Plants, 43.

Pleasants, Mr. T, Irish philanthropist, 268.
Plough Monday, 57.

inn, Lordship lane, Camberwell. 301.

Poet, and the Summer, 917,
Political adversaries, 750, 1184.
Pollok, Robert, and his birth-place, 1090,
Pondering, 191.

Pont notre-dame, fall of, 1255.

Poor-boxes at inns, &c., 596.

man's life, a virtuous, 512.

Punchbowl and ladle at Jesus college, Cam-

bridge, 265.

Punishment of death, 1399.

Punning notice, 1204.

Puny epistle to the kirk of Scotland, 1920.

Rain, 222; monthly averages, 131.
Rainsford, Mr., justice, 377.
Ramsay, Allan, 796.
Ratcliffe, Dr., 212.

Raffaele, painter, 447.

Rats, the town guard, Edinburgh, 666.
Raven inn, at Hook, Hants., 450.
Rawlinson, Dr. R., his wig, 169.
Read, Mr. J., overseer, differs with his parish
on quitting office, detains the past over-
seers' tobacco box, and is sued for it in
chancery, 1575.

Nich., sculptor, 311.

sir W., quack doctor, 631.
Reading and knowledge, 1374.
Records, Prynne's, 70.

Reddish, Mr. comedian, his widow, and his
father, 1547.

Regalia, the, 1422.

Reinagle, Mr., his account of the Royal Cla-
rence Vase, 997.

Religion under Cromwell and Charles II., 165.
Rembrandt's Jacob's Dream, 1441.
Remember! 295.

Pope, Alex, advertises he was not whipped, Restoration-day, 636.

726.

Powder, witch, 1563.

Power, desire for, 128.

Preaching covered, 1118.

Prepossession, a, fatally realised, 1339.
Presepic, the, 1579.

Preston bugessess, 755.

Pretender, the, in London, 1019.

Priestley, Peter, parish-clerk of Wakefield,303.
Primroses, 762.

Prince of misrule, 25; at Gray's Inn, 357.
-Daniel, Oxford, bookseller, 682.
Private judgment in matters of faith, 214.
Proverbs of the weather, 300.
Prynne, Will., and Laud, 66.
Pudding pieing, Kent, 361.

Results of machinery, 1152.

Revenge and retribution, awful instances of,
1406.

Reynolds, sir J., account of, 234.

Richard I., died, 430; the first royal pluralist,
ibid.

II., lands in Ireland, 1160.
III. killed, 980; his son, ibid.

Riches, 1036.-

of poverty, 279.

Ring-finger, 76.

in the mire, near Honiton, Devon, 1353.
Rising and falling in the world, 313.
Robbing detected by reflexion, 1139.
Robin redbreast, 63; an emblem, 413; nest
on board lord Nelson's ship, 1162.
Robin Hood, a little geste of, 802.

king John, and Maid Marianne,
803.
Le morte de, &c., 805, 846.
Rochester castle, Kent, plants, 920.

lord, cuffs Killegrew, 166; witty
dialogue with Charles II., 167.
Rocker of the royal household, 401.
Rogers, C., antiquary and patron of art, 907.
H., criminal opposer of the law, 999.
Rome, carnival, 49.

Barnabas-day customs, 709.
Bartholomew, festival of, 985.
Catherine Cree church, Leadenha'l-street,
1356.

Crispin's feast at Newcastl, 89 8.

Foix, historian of Paris, 1000.

James's Palace, 1417.

John, festival of, 985.

John baptist, beheaded, 1011.
Katherine's dock, London, 754.
Martin's little summer, 1343.
Paul's cathedral, music, 538.
Thomas's day customs, 1596.

Ulric's festival, 789.

Salis, cardinal de, 186.

Salt, a morrice-dance in jewels, 855.
Salter, Gen., rose from the ranks, 911.
Salvington, a retired village, near Worthing,

1377.

Sand-glass, court of session, Edinburgh, 704.
Saracen's-head, eaten by Richard I., 1502.
Sarjant, serjeant, account of, 911.

Saw, the, 75; Isaiah martyred by, 76.
Sawing billets, 75.

Sawston hall, Cambridgeshire, 1039.

Saxon deities, 536, 1382.

Scene of happiness, 674.

Schnebbelie, J., artist, 219.

School, Bruce castle and Hazelwood, 111.

books, early, 988.

Schools, public, 502.

Schrider, organ-builder, 181.
Scissars, knives, razors, &c., 1462.

Scotland, Candlemas in, 139; Valentine's-
day, 199.

General Assembly of the Kirk, 617.
Scots' pills, 123; a union anecdote, 1447;
Scottish ploughing in Sussex, 1311.
Scott, R., old bookseller, 1133.

Sea-monsters, 1001; serpents, 1003.

song, to ladies on land, 29.
Seal's-skin, checketh lightning, 1552.
Seasons, divisions of, 138.

Second sight, 1392.

Selden's cottage, Salvington, Sussex, 1378.
Self-interest, "nothing like leather," 499.
Sennahoi, Roger Bacon's epistle to, 427.
Sepulchre, at Exeter, 355.
Serge-manufacturers, Exeter, 1468.
Serjeants at law, plead in armour, 126.
Serpents dislike a certain tree, 192.
knee, 19.

Servant, memorial to a faithful, 382.
Setters, 1029.

Seven Dials, 1164.
Seymour, queen Jane, 1231.
Shakspeare's chair, 145.

monument, performance for, 508.
works, error in reprints of, 325.
lines from, latinized, 1476.

Shamrock, 310.

Sharp, Abraham, mathematician, 1486.
Shark, a, rescue from, 542.

She-dog, lord Kames used the term implying,
702.

Sheep-shearing, 746, 813.

Shenstone, W., his death and character, 187.
Sherlock, Dr. W., death of, 730.
Ship, to hinder its sailing, 1432.
Ships, great, 298, 1226.

Shippen, Will, account of, 660.
Shoe-buckles, 169.

Shooting, first day of, 1029; flying, ibid.
Sporting, character of a pointer, 1249.
Shorediche, R., juryman of the seven bishops,

857.

Shotley-bridge, Durham, German sword-cut-
lers, 1339.

Shovel, sir Cloudesley, shipwrecked, 1224.
Shoulder-knots, 169.

Show Jamie, an Edinburgh character, 865.
Shrovetide, 146, 538, 1592, 1599.
Shroud, a man executed in 1484.
Sickness from fairies, 1533.

Sidney's, sir Philip, chair, 143; his death,
145; his father's epistle to him, 1195.
Silver-nine, in Cheshire, 1381.

Sin-eaters, 858.

Singer during a century, 1485.
Single-stick, 1525.

Sinkum the Cadie, Edinburgh, 702.
Sitting cross-legged, 1440.

Syk-lark, the, to rear, 469.

Slave-trade, origin of, 1206; abolition, 541.
Sloane, sir Hans, 71.

Smith, the organ builder, 180.

Smuggling, brutal, 1492.

Snow, verses, 131, burial of a Swiss family, 156.
Snuff box, Robert Burns's, 630.
Songs for the Nursery, 1009.
Somerset, duke of, and bad roads, 270.
-the proud, 950.

Son, what to do with a, 192; advice to, 1195,
1170.

Spanker, a race-horse, 1096.

Spark in the candle, a sign, 253.

Spearing, G., seven days in a coal-pit, 1081.
Speech from a tree, 243.
Sphinx, the, riddle of, 428.

Spinning, 1313; by hand and machinery, 1329.
-Jenny, its invention, 1331

Spirits, petition for permission to see, and
command them, 425.

evil, charms against, 1549, 1558.

Sporting-month, 906.
Sportsmen, blind, 618.

Sprat, Dr. Thomas, bishop of Rochester, 1148.
Spring, 261, 280.

-birds and insects, 406.

--walks, 364, 621.

-verses, 197, 261, 279, 280, 308, 384,
387 to 392, 510, 537, 558, 614, 631, 640,
1 644.

Squinters, to avert ill luck on meeting, 253.]
Stage-coaches, deemed mischievous, 270.
Staines, Sir William, alderman, 1337.
Stanzas, by Harry Stowe Van Dyk, 206.
Steele, sir. Richard, author, 1030.
Steeple-flying, 1477.

Steer's, Mr., parish Law, 1614.

Stephen's (St.) day, 1512.

Stevenage, Herts, farmer's funeral, 155.

Stewart, Mrs., temp. Charles ìl. 171, 173,
198.

---Sir W, killed at Edinburgh, 894.
Stockhose, Robert, Eton Laureate, 1345.
Stockings, wrong put on, a sign, 252,

-hung cross-wise, a charm, 253.
-green, 170.

Stokes, rev. Edw., a blind clergyman, 617.
Stone charms, 1554.

Stones, perforated, 1437; sleeping on, ibid.
Storks, curious account of, 491.

Storm, great, on the western coast, 1385.
Story, "Robert, poet, Gargrave, Yorkshire,

1614.

Stourbridge Fair, Cambridgeshire, 1537.
Stowe, old, the elder, his will, 1612.
Strong, J., blind mechanic, 250.
Stuart, fatality of the family, 1015.
Stukeley, Dr. W., antiquary, 277.
Style, change of the, 1035.
Subtilties, confectionary, 54.
Summer wanderings, in Kent, 241.
---glories of 899, 916.
---morning, and sun-rise, 771.
---verses, 758.

--and Winter, a custom, 527.

Sun in autumn, 1027, 1145.
---rise beautifully described, 512
---beams, a token, 105.

Sunday, fevers on, 612; breaches of, 619.
Superstitious beliefs, and practices, 251, 612.

Surgeon, female, 1048.
Surname, 381.

Surrey, earl of, poet, 98.
Sussex Roads, old, 270.

Sutton and Potton, Bedfordshire, manors of,
1598.

Colefield, Warw., bequest to, 532.
Swallows, migration of, 414; marvellous vir-
tues of, 494.

Swarbrick, organ builder, 181.
Swig, a drink, 166.

day at Cambridge, 265.
Swindells, printer, Manchester, 83.
Sword dance, 57.
Swords charmed, 311.
Sympathies of Nature, 282.

Tennis, 36.

Tenth egg, 31.

wave, 444, 445.

Terms, law, 124, 1317.

Teutates, worship of, 870.
Texts, origin of, 1223.

Thame, Oxfordshire, account of the vicarage-
house, 705.

Thaw, in a village, 120.

Theatres, Drury-lane, first play bill, 444.
Haymarket, bottle conjurer, 93.
Thormometer, change in the, 726
Thomas, bishop, account of, 825.
--, Mrs., account of, 473, 623.
Thoth, 871.

Thriving and unthriving, 862.
Thrush, the, to rear, 860.
Thunder, charm against, 1551.

----quakes, 119; storms, 639.
Thurlow, lord chancellor, 295.
Time, employment and division of, 192.
Tindal, Rev. Nich., historian, account of, 890.
Toads in stones, 620.

Tobacco box of the past overseers' society of
St. Margaret, and St. John, Westminster,
1569.

Tollett's, Mr., window, 526, 835.
Tom the piper, 850.

Tompion, Thomas, watchmaker, 314.
Toot-hills, and names of places in England
derived from them, 869.
Tortoiseshell Tom cats, 728.

Toten-hall, 47.

Totness, Geo. Carew, earl of, 357.
Tottenham, Middlesex, 111.
Toulouse, count of, flagellated, 807.
Tower of London, 1422.
Townley, C., 32,

Townshend, Ald., 112; H. Hare, ibid.
Trades, effects of, on health and life, 1257.
Tragical occurrence at Edinburgh, 794.
Transmutation of metals, 32, 141, 190.
of men, 1510.

Travelling, old, 97, 268, 1048, 1451, 1599.
facilitated in Holland, 972.

Treasure-finding, 860; fairy treasure, 1531.

of the deep, 1225.

Trevor, Sir John, law judge, 618.

Troubadours of Germany, 284.

True-lovers' knots, 1052.

Tryon, Thomas, author, 979.

Warton's, T., ludicrous account of Tom
Hearne, 1581.

Tuam, Ireland, meteorological phenomenon, Wartzburgh, bishop of, flagellated, 807.

29.

Watches and Watchmakers, 314.

Water, to preserve fresh, 221; inhabitants of,
ibid.

snakes' stone, 1434.
Watering-pot, old, 754.
Watkins, John, 213.
Waxwork exhibition, 965.
Weather prognostication, 300.
Weathercocks in trees, 375.
Weavers, hand-loom, 1332.
Wedded love, 1233.

Weddings,days lucky and unlucky, 602; knots,
612; favors, 1054; spoons, 1151; rings,
76; losing or breaking rings ominous, 253;
rosemary at, 38; biddings in Wales, 635;
music at, 198; weddings at Whitsuntide,
596; private weddings, 1649; a false
wedding, 302,

Wellwyn, Herts., altar piece and cloth, 1598.
Well fairies, 529.

- saying and doing, 922.

Welsh surnames, 381.

Whale fishing, 410; and whales, 1001.
Wheat-sowing cakes, 1596.

Whipping Toms, a custom, 538.

Whirlpool, 1002.

White down, Devon, horses lose their shoes,

1551

-witches, 1560.

--, James, author, 620.

Whiteball galleries, 172.
Whitsuntide customs, 595, &c.

Whittlesea, Camb., 540.

Whittlesford Bridge, old chapel, Camb., 1425.
Wife, qualifications of a, 1119.

a virtuous, discreet, and loving, 1055.
agony of, on her husband's execution,
1399.

Wives, bishop Thomas's, 825.
Wigs in the Bodleian Library, &c., 169, 170,

174.

Wild fowl taking, first day of, 1159.
Wilful Livers, 174.

Wilkes and No. 45-500.

Will, a, remarkable discovery of, 703.
William I., 19.

Windlesham church, Surrey, 737.
Windows painted, 556; one in St. Margaret's
church, Westminster, the subject of a pro-
secution, 1574.

Winifred's, St., well, 1308.
Winkfield church, Berks., 1321.

Winter, coming in of, 4091; arrival of
birds, 1157; celestial appearances, 1459.
a walk in, 175.

Wit, a dangerous quality, 1164.
Wise men, 1561.

Witches and charms, 377; anecdote, 216;
witch case in 1823 at Taunton, 421;
witch-finding, 376; lating witches, 1276.
alleged marks and mode of making witches,
their habits, and practices, 1561 to 1567.
Wivilscomb, Somerset., ignorance there, 421.
Wolf's eye, its alleged virtues, 1433.
Wolsey, cardinal, 313

557, 830, 1166, 1364, 1611. J. K. (South Stoneham), 925. Sleafordensis, 984.

D. A., 364, 431, 462, 545, J. L., 1104.
621, 783, 914, 947, 975, J. L. C., 1489.
984, 1007, 1089, 1134,
1199, 1263.

De la Motte, W. A., jun. 418,

450, 738, 1346, 1473.

Doowruh, W., 1069.

Edwin, J., 1508.

J. M. of M. H., 726, 1029.
Johnson, Goddard, 1109, 1134.
J.- -N., 1345.
J. T., 1227.

J. W., 1255.

J. W. B., 1479.

E. H. B., 1202, 1322, 1405, Lander, H. W., 1453.

1591.

Epsilon, 510.

Eumilys, 1318.

Fairholt, F. W., 491, 1432.

F. B., 200, 790.

Fecialis Peritus, 1323.

Lees, Edwin, 869.

M. A., 201.
Meggy, Robert, 1613.
Milner, Annie, 757, 1276.
Mina Hill Row, 1219.
Mitchell, James, 1584.

Geikic, W., 399, 866, 1122, Nemo, 1505.

1359.

Gentleman, 100.

Pare, W., 532.

Phoenix, J. F., 1526.

Smith, A. R., 1071,

S. R. J., 175, 662.
S. S. S., 1230.
S-llm-n J-s, 251, 636.
T., 1319.

T. N., 1039, 1425.
Trenta, 1554.

Turnbull, W. B. D. D., 158.

W., 576.

W. C. W., 1339.

W. D. K., 1608.
W. G., 689, 962.
Wilton, W., 812.
W. M., 1588.
Wright, J., 1250.
X. X., 190.

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