Scorpion and Mouse, matched against each other, 594. The scorpion the cure of his own poison, 599.
Scote faire la, supposed origin of the term, 370.
Scots, the, Strafford's remarks Scotland, ex- upon, 184. tracts relative to, 195, &c. The canny Scot, 332. Scythe, Military, 318. Sea-Calves and Seals of the Gulph of Bothnia, 601. Sea, the Grass Sea, why so called, 583. Spuma maris, or, excrement of the sea, 584. Chopping seas, 614. A tamer of ferocity, 657. Sea-Cow, Steller's, disappear. ance of, 603. Sectaries, wisdom of leaving
them alone, 31. Divers, 58. Seelig Michael, monastery of,
SELDEN, released by the inter-
vention of Laud, 135. Selemnus River, or, the Lover's cure, 613.
SELYMUS II. his ambassador's chamber, 508. Semana la Divina, 252. SENECA, 142, 145. Sepharad, the, who? 653. SEPULVEDA'S Collection of Ballads, references to, 284. Sermons, advertisement for sale
of, 1807, 103. Reading of, prohibited by the lesser Council of Lausanne. 109. An hour, the length of, ib. Reciting by rote, 114. Seronge, les toiles peintes de, qu'on apelle OBITES, 514. Serpent, great jewel taken from
the head of, &c. 347. Serro and Cochilhas, what? 666.
Sesamum Orientale, oil of, 431. SHADFORD, GEORGE, the her- mit, 24.
Shadow, Hindoo superstition,
422. SHAFTESBURY's
tics, quoted, 69, 70, 72. Shugreen, what? 464. Shamachy, the grapes of, 520. Shard-borne, derivation of, 646. Sharks, danger of, living or dead, 590. Shark's Teeth, instruments of war, 351.
Sheep and Goats, what? 42. Sheep called by name, illus tration of John x. 3., 70. Ancient care of, in Wales, 358. Sherbet, 467.
SHERLOCK. Wickedness in a poor estate the cause of more poverty - Improveable ta- lents, 86. Shin-wood, why so called, 605. Shiraz, robber tombs near, 425.
SHIRLEY, quoted, 340-1. Shoes, shining, 335. Siamese notion of the end of the world, 421. SIDNEY, SIR HENRY, down to Strafford's time the good deputy of Ireland, 198. Sign-boards, common use of, 331.
Silks-shot, Quære? 333. Silk, interdicted by Mussul-
men, and the interdiction eluded by the intermixture of a little cotton, 448. Silver, the first got in Ireland, sent over by Strafford, an ingot of 300 ozs. 197. SILVERA, FERNA DA, Trovas de, 242.
Simoniacal corruptions, 63. Singadi, or Night Tree, Man- delslo's account of, 494, and ib. Sir William Jones's, Sins, parallel of our own and Jewish, 76. Monstrous pro- position that God is the au- thor of, 105. Worse than leprosy, 319.
Sir, origin of the term, and its wide use, 641. SIRIBIO, the magician, and prophetic bird, 467. Sisebut, 271.
Sisters, succession through, in Malabar, and among the Natchez, 409. SKELTON, extracts from, 308. Dame Pallas to the Queen of Fame-The Countess of Surrey deviseth a Coronet of Lawrell for Skelton, her Clerke, ib.
Skopshorn, mountain of, 624. Sleeping at Church, remarks
Slingers, Irish. 339. Sloe-juice Ink, 602.
Snakes, eaten, a receipt for
growing young, 324. sea, a sign of land, 578. Snow-blindness, among the AD- des, 530. Remedy against, 597.
Snuff, to take it in, i. e. to be angry, 654. Snufflers, Puritanical, “As if the way to heaven was through the nose," 153. Soap, vegetable, in India, 429. Societies and Orders, religious, analyzed, 70.
SOCRATES Scholasticus,quoted,
Soldier English, where well fed, fearless of death and danger, 667.
Soldiers, enrolment of, 664. SONNINI, his account of the
Mountain of Birds, 468. Quoted, 490, 491, 492, 495, 499, 500.
Sophia, Saint, the tesserated | Mosaic of, 614.
Sophis, head dress of, 409. SORBIERE'S mistake about a ship with two keels, and two foremasts Rare use of forks and ewers by the Eng lish, 667. Why they ad- mire their own language, ib. Sorbus Aucuparia, or, Moun- tain Service, 589. Sortes Biblica, 113. Soul, the doom of one who despises his, 365.
SOUTHEY, ROBERT, his regret in Cumberland for the flow- ers and insects of his child- hood, 602. His brother's account of chopping seas, 614.
SOUTH'S Sermons,
from, 4. Drum ecclesiastics, 12. An orthodox man with- out religion, 13. Mysteries revealed to the meek, 26. Painful treatment of the Christian ministry, 36. Un- prepared ministry under the usurpation, ib. Remarks on Puritanical preaching, 39. Difference of ministrations, 44. God's witness of him- self, ib. Triumph of vice, 103. Interpreting gifts of fanatical preachers, 105. Men's hearts most forestall them in heaven, 106. World- ly wisdom of the Romish
church, ib. Itch in the ear,
107. On reciting sermons
of, concerning the root of all our confusions, 87.
ped of Woolsley in Stafford- shire, 600.
by rote, 114. Description Stones, Spirit, of the Indians, Street-lighting, early at Paris,
of true wit, 121. Fanatical persuasion, 124 His high opinion of Abp. Laud, 134. State of insecurity during the rebellion, 145. Puritan claptrap addressed to the daughters of Sion, 146. Ma- hommedan story: where did South find it? 449. Pain felt differently by different constitutions, 653. Sow that had devoured a child, execution of, at Meulont at- tested, 606. Spaniards, factious affection to, in Elizabeth's reign, 638. Spanish, corruptions, 277. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE, 209, &c. SPAIN, Lord Clarendon's opin- ion of, and of the Spaniards, particularly as respects their literature, 140. Schemes for reducing Ireland under Spanish dominion, 203. Change of arms in, 358. Speaking loud, Strafford's re- marks upon, 181. Specie, defined sense of, 661. Sphinx, quoted, 364. Spialls, Henry VII.'s use of, defended, 665. Spirit, fanatic, a deadly one Perverseness of spirit, 6. Holy Spirit, as described by Huntington, 125. Spirit- stones of the Indians, 593. Spiritual Exercises, 374, &c. and Directorium in Exerci- tia, 375.
Spurs, "Par esperons on com- mence soy armer." Proverb,
Storm, dreadful one of 1196 as described in Hoare's Giral- dus, 632. In Forbes's Ori- ental Memoirs, 634. STRAFFORD'S Letters, extracts from, 134, &c. Would have no one to be a bishop before forty, 135. Expression of his obligations to Laud, 136, 155, &c. 164, &c. Recom- mendation to the King rela- tive to fines of delinquents, 165. Thanks Laud for his good advice, 166. No desire to be Lord Treasurer, 167. Account of his means, and vindication of his expendi- ture, 170. Obligations to Laud, ib. His desire to hurt no one, but confession of a natural stiffness, 172. The Abp. of Tuam's valediction to, ib. Offered his life if he would urge the King to Epis copacy, 173. Letters and dispatches, extracts from, 177, &c. Naturally not sus- picious, 178. Opposed to all non-residents in Ireland as well lay as ecclesiastical, ib. Care against ill bishops, 179. Constant integrity of, -Advances his own money to save the crown, ib. trustiness, 191. Advises the King rather to employ men of fortune than adventurers, 183. Letters to Laud, 183. Advises the re-establishment of the mint, 200. Advises the King not to let gun- powder be made in Ireland, 201. Purchases the customs, which had been usurped or alienated, for the crown, ib. No rebellion in Ireland if Strafford had lived, 203. Intimacy with Vandyke, 205. Strawberry, large double crop-
STRYPE, 2. Expenses of the three constant martyrs in Bocardo, 16.
Student's directions, according to the Institutes of Menu, 504.
Stuie, or, Stoc, what? 331. STYLITES, SIMEON, and the bucket rope, 616. Subsidies, Strafford's care for in Ireland, that the rich might bear the burden as well as the poor, 182. Subterraneous Fires, 620. SUDRAC KING, the wailing of the fortunes of, 512. Sugar of the Canary Islands, its sometime excellence, 610. Sugar-cane in Hayti, planted by one Aquilon, a Canarian, 569. Drink made from, 597. Sultania, Mosque of, idea that the well of water there comes underground from Mecca,
Sumatra, extraordinary creep- er of, 409. Sun-rising, ancient custom of the Christians assembling to view from the steps of the Basilica of St. Peter discon- tinued, as savouring of Gen- tilism, 44. Caution of com- batants to get the sun of their adversaries, 359. Superstition and Enthusiasm, evils of, 64. Forced abolition of, 119. Superstitions, 302. Influence of, 621. Surinam Moat, 526. The line of, ib. Razor-grass of, ib. SUSSEX, religious destitution of, 3.
Suttee, the passing of, 451. Suyzaros, the sword of, what?
ter, described by De Foe as a harbour for flies, 647. SYLVESTER II. marvellous ac- count of, 624.
Tabasco, town of, 531. dians of, make wells on the shore, to procure fresh wa- ter, 602.
Table Mountain, 616. TACITUS, extract from his An- nals, apposite to Cromwell, 142. To Charles and his Parliament, 145. Tagus, Etymology of, 260. Its source, 268. Talmud, story from, 647. Tamaraca, theft of, 530. Tanistry, law, or custom of, in Ireland, 204. Tanjour, the Rajah of, and the description of commodities for which a demand can ex- ist, 452. Tariga, population of the val- ley of, 524. Tatars, American, 529. Tattooing Indian, 634. Tauris,petrifying springs near,
TAVERNIER, 464. Les Char- latans à Baroche, 465. Gor- geous heretical mosque at Tauris, 466. Wood in the Mahom- desert, &c., 468.
medan dread of Christian defilement, 469. Size of the Pistachio Tree, and Pista- chios of Aleppo, 470, 471. Account of the wools of Ker- Rose water of man, 472. the women of Yezd, 473. Persian jars for wine, 479. Plaister like marble, 483. Turkish buildings,and splen- did interior of the Turkish houses, 484. Simplicity of Persian beds-In the open air, sur leurs terrasses, 485.
The dancers, 492. Cha-Se- phi's way of mourning for his murdered wife-Way of warming Persian houses- Persian love for tobacco, 493. Caravanseras, 495. The rice of Navapoura, 497. Taver- nier's entertainment by Cha Sefi, 503. Palanquin-bear- ers, 517.
TAYLOR, JEREMY, Nothing
can recompense for a certain | change, but a certain truth, 142. Old Testament divines who have too much squinted towards Moses, ib. Govern- ment of the church by bi- shops, ib. Lineally descend- ed from the martyr, Rowland Taylor, 194. Saying of, 205. Diversity of saints, and their particular charge, 389. Tea, imitation of, from leaves of the hornbeam, 592. Teeth, Black, in esteem a- mongst the Banyans, 415. Singular custom in Trinidad Bay of grinding down the teeth to the gums, 524. Teftis, glazed windows at, 508. TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, on in-
flammatory causes, 608. O- pinion of the Spaniards, 642. | State of the Low Countries in 1670, ib. Further cha- racter of Spain, 643. glish politics that live only by the day, 663. Temporalities, wisdom in re- storing, without which no man will take pains, 135. Termites, delicious food, ac- cording to Dr. Winterbot- tom, 532. Tertzena, in the Morea, excel- lence of the wine of, 584. Testudo Aboriginal, or,
the Yucutan instrument of the tortoise shell, 570.
Thieves in the East, clad in stone doublets, 504.
Tholsel, at Dublin, what? 609. Thorough, or Thorow, empha- tic use of the word by Straf-
ford, in his letters, 171, 176. Thunder, the angel of, 439. TIMBERLAKE, account of the great jewel taken from the serpent's head, and used in conjuring, 347.
Tinting of Arms,account of, 350. TIRANTE, quoted, 341. Cere.
mony of degrading a knight, 346. Custom observed in En- dast on the birth of a male Establishes a
child, 354. military watch at Constanti- nople, 619. TLALTECATZIN, the body of Preparations in death for a change proximate to life,535.
vantages of, 278. Verses on the wall of staircase in the town of, 288. Early use of the word for a sword, by Lly- gad Gwr, bard to the last Llewelyn, 320.
Toleration, during the great rebellion, more harmful than any persecution for seventy years before, 150. TOMICH, PERE quoted, 341. A good precedent for with- holding supplies, &c. · The habit of a conqueror not the habit of the conquered-Lo Rey Ceremonios, 343. Tonga Mythology-Tonga Bo- latoo, or, Island of the Gods, 626. Initiation of their chil- dren in cruelty, 638. Tongue, necessity of speaking in one understood by the people, 2. Division of tongues after Adam's exile from Pa- radise, 439. TORQUEMADA, his statement that the Indian kings were war-makers on their acces. sion, and why, 576. TORPES, SAINT, account of, and Southey's intent to make a poem of it, 378. TORQUATUS, &c. The Seven Bishops, 379. Tortoise, age of, 598.
Tournaments, places for match-
makings, 337. Armas del Torneo, ib.
TOURNEFORT, account of the ceiling of Mahomet Bey's Seraglio, 506. Angora Goats,
Trabuco, used by Cortez when his powder failed, at the siege of Mexico. Probably
Trade Winds, account of, 581. Transformation, unhappy, 114. Transubstantiation, 80, 285. TRAQUAIR, Laud's opinion that he was treacherous, 196. Treacle, etymology of the word, 599.
Treading out the Corn, in the East, 472. Tree-eaters, 531.
Trees, removal of large ones, 354. Marvellous one of Or- fa, 448.
Trent, Council of, originator of the Indices Expurgator, 389. Tripeti, the Pagoda of, 411. Tripolitza, storks of, 584. Ca- parisoned horse of, 623. Tristis, Sud, assimilated use of the words, 665. Trolhätta Falls, 579. Truce and Peace, private form
of, from the Partidas, 325. Truth-telling, in John Dunton's days, uncommon in New- England, 651. Tuum, O'Connor's wonderful castle at, 324. Tub-thumpers, 109. TUBAL, some question about, 278.
Tuburroch, or, Holy Gift, 521. Turf and Twig, taking posses- sion of by, 641. Turkish Indolence, 500. Water Fête, 512.
TURRIANUS, the remarkable speech of, to Hasenmüller,
Turtle-dores, sacred in Egypt, 495, 500. TUSSER, quoted, 325. The geld- ing of foals, 331. Twaddle, religious, 74. TYNDAL'S books, affection for, Typhoon the, account of, from
D. Joam de Castro, in Pur- chas, 629. TYRAWLEY, LORD, and the Friars at Lisbon, 276. TYRONE and TYRCONNEL, their remark, that all the Irish that come to Spain, come for love of them, &c. 202.
U. Umbrellas, fanciful danger from, 358.
Uniformity in Religion pre- served by force, 2. Unity, Romanist, 101. Unpreaching Prelates, 10. Urns, Russian, heated by char- coal, 596.
Uros, their assertion that they
were not men, but Uros, 533. Ursula, and the 11,000 Virgins, 386.
Ushant, Isle of, 656. USHER, ARCHBISHOP, averse to the English Canons being received in Ireland, 162.
VALENTIA, LORD, Travels of, quoted, 429. Abyssinian
Valladolid, English College at, mode of making bread, 431. remarks on-Thought to be the immediate cause of the attempt at Invasion by the Spanish Armada, to reduce the English by force to the Catholic Religion, 126. VALLE, PIETRO DELLA, often quoted, e. g. 425, 440. Death of his wife, 631. VALVERDE, the Dominican, the companion of Pizarro, 656. VANDYKE, SIR ANTHONY, love for Lady Stanhope, and breach with, because she would not pay the price set upon her picture, 205. Vappe, i.e. Vinegar, 207. VARGAS ALPHONSO, DE, De
Stratagematis et Sophisma- tis Politicis Societatis Jesu,
Vestments, Priests and Stu- dents, according to the In- stitutes of Menu, 492. Venner, his remark on his di- al, 668.
VIEYRA, the Jeremy Taylor of Portugal, 259. Account of Pedro II.'s first-born Son, 279. Queen Maria Fran- cisca, 280-1. Pater-Nosters and Ave-Marys in Portu- guese, 280. His account of the Astrologer Merlino, and the Comet of 1580, 281. Af- fonso VI., 282, 385. VILLAGRA, CAPITAN GASPAR DE, Historia de la Nuera Mexico, 532.
Villa Real, town of, in Guata- mala, 640.
Vine, the leaves of, a substitute for tea, and the prunings good for making vinegar and wine, 647.
Virgin, vain worship of, 344. The Painter and the Virgin, 366. Ladders of Christ and the Virgin, as seen by S. Francisco, 385. Image of, at Venice, 621. The Pro- testant Irish Gentleman and the Virgin Mary, 656. VIRNES CRISTOVAL DE, El
Monserrate de, 237,271,229. Virtue, add to your faith, dif- ferently understood by the
Puritans and St. Paul, 194. VISHNOO, prostration to, 437. Viverra Putorius, Phosphoric
properties of the urine of, 561. Volcano, the ashes of, carried the distance of 300 leagues, or more, 526. Volcanic islands, 586.
VOLNEY, the monotony of E- gypt, 499. The disappoint- ment which Egypt suggests, 507. Mountains of the U. nited States, and course of the Rivers, 535. VOLTAIRE, and the Cid of Cor- neille, 260.
Wales, devotion of, to Charles
Wall-painting, 316. WALKER'S Irish Bards, ex- tracts from, 344. Blaosg, or Concha Marina, 349, 360. Interred gold discovered from a harper's song in Ireland, 361. Bardish lament, ib. WALSH, JOHN, and the earth- quake at Lisbon, 120. WALTON, IZAAC, his thankful- ness for not belonging to the bringers in of the Covenant, 59.
Waltz, modern, the old La
Wanderers from church to church, 106.
WARBURTON, BISHOP, sugges- tion for exposing fanatics,
WARD, BISHOP SETH, his hos- pitality, 104. His College
of Matrons, 123. WARD'S Hindoos, quoted, 427, 434, &c. Indru and Gund- hurvusanu, 454. Mountain of Sheeva and Doorga, 457. WARE, SIR JAMES, quoted, 349, 355, 365. Water, boiled with cedar and
coriander, 359. Holy water, 384. Easy way of raising in India, 408. Effect of wind on, 478. Water, fresh, how to procure on the sea-shore, 601. Water tree, account of, 534. Pools, 581.
Wattle buildings in Ireland,
Wedding garments, a curious
list of, belonging to the Lit- tleton family, 326. Welch, extensive use of the term, 345.
Wells, Oriental, 414. The sing. ing well at Monghyr, 429. Wells of Solomon, 478. The burning well, 587. WENTWORTH recommends to Charles to secure the Pala- tinate by all princely provi- dence from being possessed by the French, 180. WESLEY, thoughts on earthquake at Lisbon, 28. And the Creek Indians, 60. One day as a thousand years, 106. Justification and sanc-
tification, 110. Why the young are more zealous than the middle aged, 111. Near- ness of departed ones, ib. Remarks on the Statute of Mortmain, ib. The cock- fighter-Lincoln College Experience-Passive Pray- - Perseverance in dry duty An exacter of disci- pline-Wesley and Quaker- ism, 112. Wesley and Ro- chester's Divine Poems, 114. Quotations from Journal of, 115-117. Unnecessary mark- ing of words in poetry by, 648. His use of the word 66 Nill," ib. His account of a Chancery bill-American Independence hatched in England, 651. Fish waiting for their prey round a water- logged wreck - Curious in- stance of new sight - His opinion of farmers expressed in St. Pierre's words, 654. Loss of the art of music, 655. West India, Conquest of, quoted, 529, 531, 570, 571. Conse- cration of an idol--The hol- low idol that spake - The idol Quecaleovatl The images of Mexitili and Tez- calipoca- Cortes' ensign, &c. 570. A certain fierie mountain of, 630. WESTON, his ill will to Straf- ford, 182.
Wexford, once the most re- formed part of Ireland, Ro- manized by the priests, 197. Wheat crop, evil anticipated
from the failure of, 608. Whickham, origin of the stra tum of burnt earth there, 155.
Whirlinds, called Dragons, dis- persed by the beating of new swords crossways, 623. Whiston Cliffs, warning of, 27. WHITE, KIRKE, extracts from papers of, 339, 343. White powder, 337. WHITFIELD, address to Count Zinzendorff, 18. tory lightly esteemed by Dr. Johnson, 110. Supineness of the clergy previous to his appearance, 113. His mi- nistry never treated by Dr. Johnson with contempt, 117.
WHITGIFT, ARCHBISHOP, his care in drawing up his notes for preaching, 117. WICLIF, opposed to the intro- duction of the New Song, 82. Widow, curious custom in the Netherlands of the widow laying the keys upon the coffin of her insolvent hus- band, together with like in- stance of the girdle, belt, and purse, from Monstrellet, 356. WILFORD, Asiatic Researches, Peti-suca and his wife Ma- risha, 476. Contest between the Dèvatàs and the Daityas, and how it was brought to an end, 477. Hindoo lake of the gods-The Rajah's unhal- lowed love, 480.
Wind, the poison wind, what? 446. Destructive winds in the forests of northern Eu- rope, 611. Effect of hot, 618.
Wine, mixture of sacramental with water, first introduced by Pope Alexander I. 103. Burnt wine to fortify the stomach, 334.
Witch, the, from Du Bartas,
Witchcraft, a Duke of Milan
sends to a King of England for a soothsayer, or a book for the cure of, 622. Ex- periment in, 623. WITHER, GEORGE, extracts from, 300, &c. Christmas Carol by, 302. Mentions the hunting of the martin and the cat, ib. The willow- branch and the yellow hose, ib. Dainty dames and their apparel, 304. Court her- maphrodite His detestation of Hispaniolized English- men, ib. His horror of cox- combry, 307.
WITIZA, 275, 276.
Witt's Recreations, extracts from, 313, &c.
WOGAN of the house of Wis- ton, alias DRINKWATER, supposed death of, one of Charles's judges, 320. Wolves, rapacity of at Caun- pore, 648. Taming of one, 661. Women professors,
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