shop of Nicomedia, who had already performed that sacred act, "having been an Arian, and of course an heretic;" and that the FONT preserved in a Chapel adjoining the LATERAN, is the identical one which was used by SILVESTER upon that occasion.

Finis.

Inder.

Abbot of Misrule, ii. 322.

Abbot of Unreason, ii. 322.

Absurdities, Papistical, derived from the Heathens, ii. 17. Accession of George the Third, ii. 31, 228.

A Cruce Salus, that motto, i. 361.

Ad Græcas Calendas, a classical proverb, ii. 119.

Advent, ii. 308.

Advocates, Roman, restricted in their time of pleading, i. 5.

Era, the Christian, ii. 342.

Agatha, St. her Legend, i. 206.

Age, Apostolical, ii. 365.

Ages of the Sovereigns since the Conquest, ii. 228.

Agnes' Fast, custom of keeping in England, i. 169.

Agnes, St. her Legend, i. 168.

why painted with a Lamb, &c. i. 169.

Ahaz, his the first dial, i. 2.

Alban, or Latin Calendar, i. 15.

Alban, St. his Legend, ii. 54.

Albans, St. the town of, ii. 55.

Ale, a favourite beverage of the Saxons, ii. 349.
Ale Stake, i. 346.

Alfred the Great, anecdote of, i. 364.

his method of dividing time by candles, i. 6.

All Fools day, customs of, i. 299.

All Saints, or All Hallows, ii. 240.

All Souls, ii. 242.

Almanac, general description, etymology of, &c. i. 39,
Alms, those given on Maundy Thursdays, i. 285.
Alphage, St. his Legend, i. 318.

Ambrose, St. his Legend, i. 309:

Ambrosian Rite, church-singing so called, i. 259, 314.

Amphibalus, St. his Legend doubted, ii. 58.

Anchor the emblem of St. Clement, ii. 303.

Andrew, St. the Apostle, ii. 311.

Andrews, St. the town of, in Fifeshire, ii. 313.

Angelo, Michael, anecdote of, i. 335.

Anna, or Anne, St. her Legend, ii. 115.

Anniversaries, their origin, &c. ii. 201.
Anno Domini, ii. 12, 342.

Annunciation, i. 281. ii. 200.

Apostle of the Circumcision, ii. 80.

of the English, i. 256. ii. 1.

of the French, ii. 197.

of the Gauls, ii. 273.

of the Gentiles, ii. 81.

of the Germans, ii. 49.

of the Jews, ii. 81.

Apostles, antient custom of giving them worldly titles, ii. 191.
April, general description of that month, i. 67.

its pictural representation, i. 68.

« In April, Dove's flood,}a proverb, i. 69.

Is worth a King's good,"

April Fish, i. 300.

Fool, i. 299.

Aquarius, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 60.

Aquitaine, Duke of, represented at the Coronation, ii. 181,

Archee, Fool to James II. anecdote of, i. 302.

Archer, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 92.

Ardesoif, Mr. anecdote of, i. 213.

Aries, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 66.

Arms, the regal, ii. 35.

Ascension-day, i. 372.

Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent, i. 183, 223.

Ashes, i. 224, 279.

Assassins of Becket, ii. 100.

Asses, in the ceremonies of the Romish church, i. 269. ii. 86. Assumption, the, ii. 136.

Astite, a provincialism, i. 209.

Astrology, Judicial, its absurdity, i. 41.

Athanasius, his creed, i. 393.

Atoms of the Antient Hour, i. 138.

Audry, a causeway at Ely, ii. 220.

August, general description and derivation of the term, i. 27, 76.

pictural representations of, i. 79.

"A man has made his August," a proverb, i. 79. Augustine, St. of Hippo, his Legend, ii. 141.

Friars, the order of, ii. 143.

Austin, or Augustin, St. his Legend, ii. 1.

Autumn, ii, 66.

B.

Bacon, why formerly eaten by Christians at Easter, &c. i. 296.

ii. 345.

Bajazet, anecdote of, i. 306.

Balance, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 83.

Baptism substituted for Circumcision, i. 141.

Bard, ii. 138.

Barley, its etymology, i. 82.

Barme, its etymology, i. 82.

Barnabas, St. the Apostle, ii. 52, 201.

Bartholomew, St. the Apostle, ii. 139, 201.
Battle Axe, badge of St. Mathias, i. 245.
Beads, ii. 12.

Beauclerc, why Henry 1st. so called, i. 364.
Becket, Thomas à, ii. 93.

anecdote of, fasting, i. 236.

Bede, Venerable, ii. 8.

Admirable, ii. 8.

Admiral, ii. 14.

Beef-eaters, or Yeomen, origin of, ii. 174,

Beheading, first instance of in high rank, ii. 129.

Beloved Disciple, ii. 363.

Beltein Fires, ii. 241, 356.

Benedict, St. his Legend, i. 273.

Benedictine Monks, the formation, &c. of that order, i. 274.

Benefit of the Clergy, i. 363.

Beshrew, that expression, i. 210.

Bills of Exchange, regulations respecting, i. 54. Birth-days, their observance very antient, ii, 31. anniversaries so called, ii. 201.

ii. 31.

of the reigning monarch and his consort, i. 390.

Bishop, universal, i. 257.

Bishops and Archbishops do not confer titles

their upon

con

sorts, i. 385. ii. 269.

Bishops and Clergy of the middle centuries, their extreme

ignorance, i. 363, 404.

Bissextile, or Leap-year, i. 24, 237.

Blase, or Blaize, Bishop, his Legend, i. 201.

various representations of, on tokens, i. 204.

Blazing, i. 203, 298.

Blazy, a town in Cornwall, i. 204.

Bloody Act, a statute so called, i. 385.

Boar's-head, an antient favourite dish, ii. 345.

Boniface, Pope, the Eighth, his indecorous conduct, i. 222.

Boniface, St. his Legend, ii. 47.

Bosom, leaning upon, origin of that phrase, ii. 363.

Bow, regulations respecting that weapon, i. 278.

Bowing at the name of Jesus, ii. 123.

Bowl, Wassail, ii. 346.

Box Money, ii. 344.

Boxes, Christmas, ii. 343.

Boy Bishop, ii. 315.