Elizabeth, queen, and dean of St. Paul's;
curious colloquy between, 1367.
Emerson, W., autograph and notice of,
690.

Encroachments resisted, 1207.

Encyclopedia, a universal natural one, pro-
posed by Adanson, 1168.
Enghien, storm at, 1235.

England, merry, description of, 36; called
the Ringing Island, 509.
Englishmen, difference between their for-
mer and present habits, 11.
Ensham, Oxfordshire, custom in, 669.
Epitaphs, on T. Jackson, 390; on the
State Lottery, 1525; on Henry Jenkins,
1604.

Epping forest, Easter hunt in, 459, 460.
Equator, custom of sailors on passing,
1394.

Equinox, autumnal, gales of, 1283.
Erskine, lord, a poem on "The Rook"
supposed to be written by, 1139.
Essex, great mortality of wives in, 923;
harvest custom in, 1172.

Estates, the Three, curious political drama
called, 15.

Every-Day Book; memoranda on Vol. I.,

1550; to be immediately followed by a
work called "The Table Book," 1664.
Evil, royal notice of continuing to heal
it, 682.

Ewes, signs of rain given by, 510.
Exchequer bills, origin of, 29.

Executions, of lords Kilmarnock and Bal-
merino, 1096.

Exercises, gymnastic. See Gymnastics.
Exeter, Lammas fair, 1059.

Change, dead elephant at, 221.

Eye, evil; preventive against the blink of,
in Scotland, 688.

Faces, (human,) curious medley of, 1537.
Facts, instances of their coincidence with
predictions, 456.

Fair, (frost,) on the river Thames in 1814,

110.

Fairlop oak, a pulpit made of, 1564.

Fairs on St. Patrick's day in Ireland, 383.
Falkirk, a gruel against witchcraft still
made and sold at, 688.
Fallowfield, Mr., speculation of, 520.
Falstaff, the Cornish, (Payne Anthony,)
notice of, 969.

Families, long exemption from death in
one, 899.

Farrell, Mr., engraving of a fountain in his
window, 785.

Farren, notice of, 894.

Fata lity of days, work concerning, 1320.

"Feast of fools," 485, 487.

Fens in Essex and Kent, dangerous resi-
dence in, 923.

Fermor, family of, 1376.

Fetch, (Death,) opera so called, notice of,
1011.

Fielding, Henry, his farce called "The
Lottery," 1417.

Figg, the prize-fighter, notice of, 780.
Fingers, joints of, dedicated to saints,

95.

Fires, great or fatal, in Lincoln's inn, 880;
at a puppet show, 1225; hallow-eve
fires, 1259; passing through fires, or
lighting them in honour of Baal or the
the sun, 865, 870; beginning of the
season for lighting fires, 1859.

Fish, curious revolution in, 769.
Fisher, Kitty, (duchess of Bolton,) adver-
tisement by, 474.

Fishing, Thunny, at Marseilles, 647.
Fitz-Ooth, (Robin Hood,) memoir of,
1636.

Fleet-ditch, notice of a boar passing through
it into the Thames, 1113.
----market, contract for building in 1736,
1857.

Fleetwood, recorder of London, a spring
diversion of, 532.

Flies, notice of the May-fly, 770.
Flitch of bacon, custom touching, 799.
Floral games of Toulouse, 599.
Flower, Margaret and Phillis, executed
for witchcraft, 371.

Flowers, artificial, curious advertisement
of, 172.

Flying machines, fatal accident by, 1291.
Fog, remarkable one in 1813, 101.
Fontenoy battle, singular opening of, 560.
Fools, April, custom of making, 485; order
of fools, 1287.
Foot-ball, 374.

Foote, Samuel, the actor, notice of, 845;
his" Mayor of Garrett," 846; anecdote
of, 1471.
Forcing-houses, guarded against hail, 1237.
Fordyce, Dr., and others, experiments on
heat by, 776.

Forests, their beauty in autumn, 1283.
Forgery,extreme ingenuity and vigilance in,

1476.

90; harvest in, 377.

Free, Mrs., her curious application about
a lottery prize, 1443.

Freeman's well, the, at Alnwick, 249.
Freemasons, engraving and account of a
procession burlesquing, 522.
French, Thomas, a singular pauper, 679.
Frost, great, in 1814, 101; frost fair, 109.
Fruits, the pleasure of buying our own,
1188; how to mark growing fruits,

1213.

Funerals, a remarkable one, 681.
Fuseli, H., painter, notice of, 551.

Gainsborough, Thomas, painter, notice of,
1065.

Gall and Spurzheim, Drs., notice of, 1122.
Galloway, lord, poetical lamentation, &c.
of, 631.

Game laws, copy of the order for swans,
958.

Gaming; a child played for at cards, 1344.
Gammon of bacon, custom about, 729.
Garden-walks, singular management of,
recommended, 518.

Gardiner, col., anecdote of, 694.

Garrett, in Wandsworth road, election of
mayor of, 819.

Garrick, David, anecdote of, 61; play-bill
of his first appearance in London, 1336;
further notice, 1652.

Gaskill, Isaac, penance done by, in 1826, 982.
Gassendi, explanation by, of bloody rain,

1128.

Gathering of May-dew, engraving of, 609.
Gay science, the, college for at Toulouse,
602.

Gazette, first published at Oxford in 1665,
1384; origin of the name, ib.
Geneva, engraving of the death of an ele-
phant at, 706.

madanie, lying in state, 1269.
Gentlemen, old English, their houses and
mode of living, 1620-1624.
George IV., his birthday noticed, 1083.
Gerard's-hall, London, May-pole of, 612.
German showman, engraving and notice of,

1329.

Ghosts. See Apparitions.
Gibbon, John, notice of, 1458.

Gideon, sir Sampson, fraud of, touching lot-
teries, 1458.

Gilchrist, Dr. John, his gift to Heriot's hos-
pita,, 766.

Gin lane, 272; gin act, notice of, 1269.
Glasgow and Ayr, synod of, decision of
respecting Sunday, 1156.
Glastonbury thorn, 1641.

Gleaning apples from the trees, (called
griggling,) 1269.

Glendower, Owen, notice of, 1026.
"Glory of Regality," Mr. Taylor's excellent
work called, 995.

1498.

God, mother of, curious address to Mary as,

1089.

God save the king, air of, 538.

Goddards, attempt at explanation of, 1137.
Gold, an image of, dug up, notice of, 1606.
Golding's model lottery, 1583.
Good Friday, 410.

Gordon, lord George, 831.

Gossamer, showers of, produced by the field
spider, 1188, 1332.

Gottingen university, 1248.

Grain, rogue in, an acknowledged one,

729.

Grant, sir A., expelled the Commons, 1451.
Grasshoppers, 1150.

Greatness, ludicrous complaint against,

1547.

Green, Valentine, 685.

Greenwich hospital adventure, lottery so
called, 1446.

Gregory, Dr. George, died, notice of, 369.
Griggling orchards, in Herefordshire, 1270.
Grocer's sugar hogshead, with boys, notice
and cut, 1562.

Gruel against witchcraft, still made and sold
in Scotland, 688.

Guard, yeomen of, instituted in 1485, 1351.
Guildford, old, church, accident in, 542.
Guilds; Necton (in Norfolk) guild, engrav-
ing and account of, 669.

Gutch, Mr., his account of the pretended
Caraboo, 1634.

Gymnastics, society for, in London, 653;

engraving of gymnastic exercises, 658.

Hackneymen, instances of honesty of, 902.
Hail, guarding forcing-houses against,1237.
Hair powder, convictions about, 1564.
Halde, J. B. Du, died, 1297.
Halifax, earl of, marriage of, 898.
Hall, capt. H., his description of passing
the line, 1394.

Halls, ancient, description of one, 1617.
Hallow-eve fires, 1259.

Halo, lunar, extraordinary one, 1537.
Hamburgh, feast of cherries at, 1040.
Hamilton, general, killed in a duel by col.
Burr, 912.

Hammersmith pump, engraving of, 1231.
Hampden, John, letter and autograph of,

475.

Hand-bills, distributed at Bartholomew-fair,
1196.

Handkerchief, drop, custom of in Devon-
shire, 666.

Hanger, col., his description of a Westmin-
ster election, 853.

Hanover, no State Lottery ever in, 1535.
Harburgh lottery, bill to suppress, 1446.
Hardouin, Pere, died, notice of, 1592.
Harper, John, (sir John,) mayor of Garrett,

823, 834, 842; engraving of his election,
839.

Harrington, sir J., election expenses, &c. of,
1659, 1660.

Harris, a sleep-walker, 1299.
Hartsyde, Margaret, notice of, 750.
Harvest-home, engraving of, 1153, 1158;
harvesting on a Sunday, notice of, 1156;
notice of harvest in France, 877.
Hastings, Mr., an old English gentleman,
1624.

Hatherleigh, Devonshire, customs in, 142.
Hawkesbury in Cotswold, harvest-home in,
engraving of, 1153.

Hawthorn, Glastonbury, 1642.
Hazlitt, Mr., notice of, 1257.

Health, art of preserving, 195 1615; drink-
ing health in harvest, 1168, 1171..
Heat, great degrees of, safely borne, and
how, 771.

Hedgehogs, wandering about Oldham by
day, in 939.

Hell, a pageant representation of, 872.
Helston, Cornwall, notice of "Furry" at,
648.

Henry VII., chapel of, built by sir Reginald
Bray, 1072.

Herefordshire, "crying the mare" in, 1163;
griggling, and making of cider in, 1269.
Heriot's hospital, Edinburgh, engraving
and notice of, and also of the founder,
746, 747; his arms and autograph, 913.
Herod and Herodias, 1140.
Highgate, swearing on the horns at, 79,

378.

Hinge, the, Carna goddess of, 727.

Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, custom at, 1174.
Hoare, sir R. C., 1022.

Hob, (old,) custom of in Cheshire, 1371.
Hogg, Thomas, (cheap Tommy,) 942.
Hogmany, a new year's usage in Scotland,
13; similar in England, 73.
Holland, Ann, duchess of Exeter, her will,

831.

- Charles, actor, anecdote of, 1461.
Holy Thursday, custom on, 636.
Home, the poor man's described, 564.
Honey, to take without killing the bees,
1323.

Honeycomb, Will, 482.

Hoo, in Kent, mortality of wives in, 921.
Hood, Mr. T., notices of his Progress of
Cant, 130; and his Whims and Oddities,
15372

Hornchurch, custom of, 1649.
Horne, W. A. esq., notice of, 1192.
Horns, swearing on, at Highgate, 79, 378;

horns prohibited to newsmen, 1276.
Hornsey, new river at, engraving of, 1311.
Horse-racing, early notice of, 539; with
women-riders, at Ripon, 1061; at Sad-
ler's Wells, 1561.

Horses, an extraordinary one for age and
excellence, 1294.

Hosier, admiral, 1392.
Hot cross-buns, 410.

Hours, the three, of Christ's crucifixion,
celebration of, 421.

House, Sam., the Westminster publican,
853.

Houses, hot or forcing, how guarded
against hail, 1237; of old English gen-
tlemen, 1620.

Howard, Mr. Luke, his treatise on the cli-
mate of London recommended, 3.
Howel Sele, notice of, 1027.

Hug, Cornish, 1010.

Humphrey, duke, dining with, 625.
Hungerford, Wiltshire, revel at, 1399.
Hunting, of elephants, 338, &c.; in Epping
forest at Easter, 459, 460.
Hurling, description of, 1008.
Hurricanes, see Storms.

Husbands, a wife's sale of her dead one,
1301.

Hutton Conyers, whimsical custom in, 21.

Idiots, curious account of one, 244.
Illusions, 1557, 1559; see Apparitions.
Images, common Italian, engravings of
some of them, 311, 312, 315; colloquy
on images in churches, 1367; account
of digging up a gold image, 1606.
Imposture, extraordinary. See Price,
Charles.

Incest, penance performed for, in 1826, 982.
India, lottery for women in, 1518.
Indifferents, the, order of merit so named,
696.

Infants, jocular account of night nursing
them, 1541.

Interment, provision in a will against,
1325.

Inverary, astonishing rain at, 1215.
Invitations, curious one to dinner, 50 8.
Ireland, festival in honour of Baal in, 66,
866; travelling in, represented, 239;
singular devotion in, relative to Christ's
passion, 411; superstitions touching
death in, 1012; lottery job in, 145/7.
Irish linen, remarkably fine piece of 1616.
Iron mask, man with the, 1559.
Isaure, Clemence, of Toulouse, 600.
Islington, (St. Mary,) old church, engraving,

502.

Italy, lotteries in, 1531, 1554. .
Ivy lane, 1135.

1616.

Linton, Kent, custom of "doleing" at, 1627.
Literature, dramatic, instance of fertility
in, 1131.

Little John, and Robin Hood, 1634, &c.
Littlecotes-house, Buckinghamshire, de-
scribed, and adventure at, 1617.
Living, reasons for, 1591.

Locksley, in Ivanhoe, representative of
Robin Hood, 1638.
London, Howard's treatise on its climate
recommended, 3; season of winter in,
48; engravings of city seals, 257, 881;
spring in the city, 542; notice and en-
graving touching old watch of, 619, 869;
gymnastic society in, 658; the season
in, 781; materials of old city gates sold
in 1760, 1043; Ivy-lane in, 1135; Cæsar's
camp near, 1315, 1566; lord mayor's
day, 1386; old sights in 1751, 1605;
election for city officers, 1626.
Gazette, 1384.

Journal in 1731 on lotteries, 1451.
Long, Edward, his ludicrous "Trial of a
dog for murder," 198; died, 210.
Longforgan, in Scotland, custom at, 1175.
Lopez de Vega, died, notice of, 1132.
Lord-mayor, celebration of his day, 1132;
singular robbery of, near Turnham-green,

-fly, 770.

Mayo, Ben," the old general" of Notting-
ham, 1569.

Mayors, of Bartlemass, 1045; of Garrett,
819, &c.

May-poles, engravings and notices of, 574,
575, 579,594, 640, 660.
Measures and weights, 126.

Meat, over-fed, satire on, 1547.
Medley of human faces, 1537.
Me chants, emblem for, 1327.

Mercury, engraving of, ib.

Merit, curious order of, at Paris, 696.
Merlin's cave in Richmond gardens, 1103.
Merriman, Mr., at fairs, 1291.

Mid-Lothian, Lammas towers in, 1051.

Middleton Monday, 1571.

Milk-maids, engraving of one in a lottery

puff, 1520; garland of, 1562.

Minden, battle of, 1628.

Minerva, engraving and notice of, 463.

Miser of Loscoe, 1192.

Mists, 1295.

Model lottery, 1583.

Money, turning of, on new moon of new

year, 44.