"Game at Chess," old play, 321.
Gaming, curious notice about gambling
houses, 86; gaming for funeral expenses,
763.

Gammon of bacon, Easter custom of, 390.
Garlands, May-day, 541, 543, 550.
Garrick Plays, selections from, contributed by
Mr. C. Lamb, 111, 133, 159, 192, 223, 255,
239, 324, 856, 384, 417, 447, 486, 511, 559,
581, 608, 640, 676, 703, 735, 788, 799.
Geese, in the fens, management of, 141;
goose-dancing in Scilly islands, 81.
Geikie, Mr., a meritorious artist, 116.
Gems of the twelve months, 321.
Genius; unrewarded, 316; chance a great
patron of, 421.

Gentleman, (The Old) character of, 118.
Gentry; heralds formerly kept by, 390; for-

mer manners and oppressions of, 391,
392; austere treatment of their children,
394.

George I., anecdote of, 406.

II. and his cooks, 377.

Germain, lord George, anecdote of, 410.
Germany, universities in, 123.
Gibbs, alias Huck'n, Dr., 554.

Gifford, William, death and memoir of, 43.
Gifts; new-year, 7; wedding, 793, 794.
Ginger beer, receipt for, 471.

Gipsies, health and happiness of, 210.
Gipsy [a stream] in Yorkshire, 230.
Gladiators in England, 495.

Glass windows, rare before the Reformation,

392.

Glenstrae, laird of, 465.

Glisseg, in Wales, the happy valley, 352.
"God keep you," old salutation, 390.
"God save the King," author of, 225.
Goethe, his philosophy of life, 398.
Gold found in Scotland and Cornwall, 658.
"Golden Age, (The)" old play, 677.

tooth, learned disputes about, 453.
Gone or going, 778.

Good-eating pernicious, 277; domestic dia-
logue on good-living, 822.
Good-Friday, 478, 482.

Goodrick, St., a bishop misled by, 415.
Granger, Rev. Mr., the Linnæus of British por-
traits, 510.

Grassington manager, [T. Airay] 69.
Gratitude, in birds, 592.

Gravity mistaken for wisdom, 393.
Great Unknown discovered, 306, &c.
Green-grocers' devices, 607.
Greenland, English sailors in, 629.
Greenock Adam and Eve, antiquity of,
538.

Gregory, (Old) selfishness of defeated, 240.
Gresham committee, notice by, about lost
children, 18.

Gretna Green blacksmith and marriages, 431,
436.

Grey, lady Jane, table book of, 3.
Grief, expressive silence of, 459.
Grinstead, (East) old play-bill, 137.
Grosvenor, earl, and Mr Gifford, 57.

Hare's foot an antidote to witchcraft, 674.
Harp, notices of, 335.

Harris, Renatus, organist, 260.

Harrow church, engraving of its old font, 157
Hart, the astrologer, 135.

Hatred, to be insured by advice, 350.
Hawking, ladies formerly devoted to, 392.
Health, importance and means of, 209, 277
Hedgehog, celestial, 627.

Henley, in Arden, custom in, 176.
Henry IV., anecdotes of, 401, 402.
IX., notice of, 739.

Heralds formerly in the train of nobility and
gentry, 390.

Herefordshire, new-moon custom in, 393.
Heriot, curious register concerning, 817.
Hero, singular one of an old play, 385.
Heroism and humanity, 632.

Herrings, curing and virtues of, 569.
Heywood, Thomas, his excellence as a dra-
matist, 301, 358.

Hide park, or a tanner's villa, 764.
"Hierarchie of Angels," old play, 385.
High admiral, (lord) office and seal of, 573.
Highlands; legend of, 290; weddings, 292;
tartans nearly obsolete in, 293; customs
in, 465, 543; deer and sheep in, 751; con-
tempt for table luxuries in, 755; Highland
scenery, 775.

Hill, Rev. Mr., killed in a duel, 722.
Hindoo husbandmen, 696.

Hiring of servants at statutes, 171, 203.
Hobby horses, obsolete toys, engraving of,

686.

Hobday, Mr., artist, exhibition of, 687.
Hobson, (old) pleasant conceits of, 419.
Hoby, sir Edward, 578.

Hogarth, and engraving from his picture of
lord Lovat, 237.

Holidays; how spent in Ireland, 692; their
utility, 694; the benevolent Greek philo-
sopher, 695.

Holly tree, carrying of, at Brough, 26.
Home, a father's, 170; spells of home, 216.
Hornchurch, 84.

Horses; engraving and account of the race-
horse Eclipse, 618, &c.; their swiftness
connected with great muscular power, ib.;
difference between theoretic standards and
occasional excellence, 620; insurance of,
621; great weight of the heart of Eclipse,
ib.; singular examination of horses, 660.
Hot meals, 314.

Hounds; first fox-hounds in the west, 35.
Hour-glasses for pulpits, 485, 501.

Howard of Effingham, lord, [lord high admi-
ral] autograph of, 573, &c.

Human life, 398.

Humanity and heroism, 632; humanity some-
times nearly lost in forms, 737.
Hunter, John, the anatomist, 618.
Hunting; description of buck-hunting' in
Cranbourne Chase, 33.
Husbandmen in India, 696.

Hut. Alderson, of Durham, 365.
Hy-jinks, a Scotch amusement, 467.

Hyatt, Sophia, her poetical enthusiasm, 718.
Hygrometer, new, 25.

1, the pronoun, danger of wearing it out, 341.
Idols, (Chinese) 627.

Imagination; its transforming power, 9, 16.
Immersion instead of interment, 412.
Imperial drink, receipt for, 471.
Improvisatore, extraordinary, 421.
Inch, derivation of, 378.

India, library of the king of, 247; husband-
men of, 696.

"Indictment of Flora," a dialogue, 545.
Indulgences, (popish) not always ill applied,

413.

Industry vain without thrift, 346.
Inishail, isle of, 775.

Innocent (Pope) III., 747.

Inns, rare before the Reformation, 391; poor's
boxes formerly at, 392, 747.

Inscriptions on old silver coin, how to read,
452.

Intellect, march of, 60, 681.
Interlaken, beauties of, 428.
Interment superseded by immersion, 412.
Ireland, bogs in, 185; customs in, 506, 523;
custom of lord-lieutenants of, 663; Irish-
men on a holiday, 692.

Italian architects, pope's grant to, for building
churches, 393.

"Jack Drum's Entertainment," old play, 416.
Jack-o'-Lent, 270.

Jamaica, speculation for warming-pans in,
15.

James I., rudeness of his court to women,
390; at Durham, 679.

II., notices of the Stuart papers, 738.
January, general prescriptions for, 81.

Japanese mode of salutation, 197
Jeffries, Judge, a judge of music, 261.
Jeggon, Dr., anecdote of, 828.
Jerningham, Mr., notice of, 201.

Jests; great merit of suppressing offensive
ones, 280; effect of wealth on their suc-
cess, 348.

Jews, Easter custom against, 554.
"John (King) and Matilda," old play, 111,
803.

John Bull, specimen of, 376; indecorum and
rudeness of in crowds, 505.

Joy, madness from excess of, 511.
Judges, hunting their own venison on circuit
31; immense fans formerly carried by, on
circuit, 394.

Justice, (impartial) 406.

Justices of peace, former furniture of their
halls, 391; arithmetical estimate of, 738.

Dr., his pun, 252

Kirby Malhamdale church-yard legend,
515.

Moorside, death of duke of Bucking-
ham at, 525.

Kircher, his account of a marvellous diver,
705.

Kissing, in Ireland, on Easter Monday, 506
Knowledge, defends from the juggle of forms,
219; even a little of it useful, 758; im-
portance of a knowledge of the world, 824.

Labour, hard, greatly varied by different tread-
mills, 755.

Ladies, in winter like tea-kettles, 151; air

and exercise for, 209; lady of the hill.
291; character of Mrs. Aurelia Sparr, a
maiden lady, 340; the lady and trouba
dour, 453; the white lady, 717. See Wo

men.

Laing, David, the Gretna-green blacksmith,

131.

401.

Miseries of travelling, 262.

Nobility, French, remarks on, 132.
Nominative case, 282.

in, 479.

Morals, former system of, for tradesmen,
564, &c.

More, sir T., notice of, 730.

Mortality through duels, stated, 720.
Mother-wit better than learning, 572.
Mothering Sunday," 625.

Mottos and emblems, 90.

Mount Vernon, why so called, 617.
Mountain. ash, an antidote to witchcraft, 674.
Mug-houses, described by a foreigner, 378.
Mulattos, curious lamentation of one, 626.
Mulgrave family, founder of, 763.
Mullally, Jack, an Irish landlord, 693.
Music; anecdotes of, 225; comparison of
some much-admired, 228; musicians in-
corporated, 228; some effects of music,
229; in churches, 261; notice of the harp,
336; mischievous musical crash, 348;
effects of, on rudeness and ignorance, 461;
changes in church music, 485; requested
for a beautiful love-dialogue, 514; of birds
particularized, 589; experiment of, on ani-
mals, 691.

Muskerry, lord, his receipt to cure lying,

781.

Mustard and cress seeds, devices with, 607.
Mysteries, dramatic, performed at Coventry,
engraving of, 11.

Nail, to be a friend upon the, 764.
Names, of places, explained, 156; curtail-
ment of baptismal names, 385; substitu-
tion of classical for baptismal ones, 698;
the name of "devil" often assumed, ib.
Nash, T., on herrings, in 1599, 560.
Necromancy, 323.

355.

Normans, what derived from, 393
Northumberland, custom in, 657.

Notre Dame, grand Easter ceremony in, 502
Nottingham, earl of, 575.

Numbers and figures, 759.

Nunneries, girls formerly educated in, 389.

Oddities of genius, 424.

Offices and trades specified in Doomsday-
book, 616.

O'Kelly, Col., his celebrated race-horse and
parrot, 621.

Old age, a fair price for burning it out at the
stake, 686.

-- gentleman, (the) character of, 118.

women, ridicule of, De Foe's censure of,

20.

Oran-outang, extraordinary one, 756.
Orde, Mr., an amateur artist, 510.
Organs; celebrated cnes, 260; address to a
barrel organ, 403; notices of, 474.
Osnaburgh, bishopric of, 97.
Ostend, siege of, 558.

Ostrich, (the king's) dissection of, 617.
Otho, earl of York, 97.
"Ough," (the syllable) many ways of pro-
nouncing, 688.

Ounce, derivation of, 378.
"Outlandish knight," 130.
Oxford, mayor of, 617.

Padua, cheerful funeral at, 699.
Pageant vehicle and play, representation of,

11.

Painters, scene for, 655.

Pamphleteers, a singular one, 727.
Paper books not before the tenth century, 507
Papers, (Stuart) curious account of, 738.
Parenthesis, explanation of, 571.
Parents. See Children.
Paris garden, Southwark, 489.
Parish accompts, (old,) 481.
Parliament, clubs, 280; anecdote of royal
aversion to, 700.

"Parliament of Bees," old play, 608.

negro kings, 197.

Nelson, lord, punctuality of, 796.

Nettleton, custom at, 85.

New-moon, customs on, 393.

622.

Parsons and clerks, anecdotes about, 662.
See Clergymen.

Parsons, Joe, the samphire-gatherer, 451.

Newcastle, Blind Willie of, 461.

--, duchess of, notices of, 197, 278.
Newsman, description and engraving of, 61.
Newspapers, varieties and interest of, 61, 65;
reading the newspaper, engraving, 797,
Newstead abbey, female enthusiast at, 718.
Nicolai, M., bookseller, morbid phantasms
of, 710.

Passion-week, 477, &c.

Patients, philosophical observation of their
diseases by, 711.

Patriotism, fervour and judgment of, 401.
Patronage, (cheap) 405.

Paulian, (Father) his account of a stone-
eater, 353.

Pearce, Dr. Zachary, H. Walpole's ridicule
of, 9.