Libra, zodiacal sign, 574

Lida aftera, 446; erra, 369
Lifting at Easter, 211

XVIII., new year's gifts to him, 7;
patron of plum-pudding, 809

Low SUNDAY moveable; its derivation, 227

LUCIAN, January 8; account of this saint,
39

Lucr, December 13; account of this saint,
785

LUKE, October 18; horn fair on his festival,
693; how he is painted, 694

142

Littleton, lexicographer, his inscription
for the monument, 183

Liverpool, earl of, master of the Trinity,
ceremony of swearing, 362

Living skeleton, the, visit to, [0; an-
other, 565

Livy, and his books, 12

Loaf mass, 532

Lobscouse, 27

Logan, salt-water fish-pond, 41
London, new-year's day, 8; Palm Sun-
day, 198; customs, 218; lord mayor and
citizens going a-maying, 276; pageant,
336; lord mayor, &c. at a mystery, 378;
ancient watch, 413; sheriffs proveditors
for beasts, 503; corporation costume on
St. Bartholomew's day, eve, &c, 618;
customs at Michaelmas, 665; lord
mayor's establishment, 666; notice for
5th Nov., 718; lord mayor's day, 720;
election of ward officers, 794; waits, 813;
ceremony of founding the new London
bridge, 388; account of the old one,
100; city wall repaired from ruins of
Jews' houses, 148

LONDON BURNT, 1666, September 2, accounts
of the great fire, 575

Magazine "Lion's Head," EO
LONGEST DAY, June 21; a suitable apologue
410; See BARNABAS, June 11.
Longevity of Petrarch, a Russian, 20

Dennis Hampson, Irish Bard, 20
LORD MAYOR'S DAY, November 9; account
of lord mayor's show, 336, 720, 727
Lord of the tap, at Stourbridge fair, 744
Lothbury, Jews' synagogue plundered, 148
how watered formerly, 486
Lovat, lord, executed, 226
Love account keeping, 108; advertise-
ment, 535; see Spring
Loveday, Mr, his daughters become Ca-
tholics, 267
Loudon, J. C., his "Encyclopædia of
Gardening," 522, note.

Lulli, J B., composer, died, 192
Lute, the barber's, 634

Lyme Regis, custom on Candlemas day,
103

M'Creery, Mr John, his "Press
a poem,
56; lines on his daughter's hour-glass,
713
Macdonald, Alexander, his monument to
the Pretender, 17

sergeant, Samuel, notice of, 310
M'Dowal, colonel, his salt fish store, 41
M CHUTUS, November 15; who he was, 743
Mackerel fishing, 481

Macnamara, captain, duellist, 226
Mad do's, danger from, 450

283

Moll, and her husband, at Hitchin,

Magdalen-college

quadrangle, dressed

with greens, 418
Magna Charta signed, 406
Magnus, St., church, custom at, 675
Maia, a deity, 269
Maid Marian, 275, &c.
Mail Coach, annual procession, 2.2
Malabar Christians, 793
Malt's defence, 38

Man of Ross, Pope's, 719

smuggling, illegal, 718
Mansfield, earl, C. J, died, 157
Manures and dressings, fanciful, 332
Mara, madam, notice of, 381
Marco, a Tower lion, 503
Mare with seven legs, 591
Margot, a French girl, a ball-player, 123
MARK, St., April 25; notice of him, 26;
celebrations of his eve and festival, 261
Marlborough, duke of, notice of, 399
Marriage of a priest, whereby he re-
mained a bachelor, 71; ill luck to
marry on Childermas-day, 824
Marseilles' fete, 649

MARTIN, St., November 11; account of
him, 735

's church, near Canterbury, 151
Mr. of Galway, noticed, 490
Martineau, Mrs., lines on her death, 398
Martinmas, 735

Mary, the lady, a rope dancer, her tra-
gical fate, 621

-, queen, sung to by a boy bishop, 780

St., at Hill, boy bishop, 780

-'s eve carol, 801

Overy, boy bishop, 780
Spital, London, 223

Mason, Rev. W., poet, died, 211
Maskers, at a common hop, 823
Masking on twelfth night, 27
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 566
Master of the revels, his office and seal, 622
Matilda, queen of Denmark, dies in prison,
265

MATTHEW, St., September 21; account of
him, 6 7

Maughan, Nicholas, a showman, 587
MAUNDAY THURSDAY, moveable; maund,
maunday, &c., customs, 200
Maxentius II., emperor, his crue'ty, 752
May-day, maypoles, maygames and gar.
lands, 271, 299, 353; maypole in a
screen, 331

Mayers' song, 284

May-fair, Piccadilly account of, 286
hill, dangerous to inval.ds, 326
month, 299
morning, 322
Mechanics' Institution recommended, 750
London, founded, 775
Mechelen, Israel van, engraving by, 560
Medal of Henry IX. King of England, 17;
of Napoleon on his marriageė, 205; a
French one on Martinmas, 736
Mademonath, 369

Melmoth, Courtney, died, 181
Melodies of evening, 303

Memory Corner Thompson, account of, 41
Men, twelve, suspended in the air, 13
Mercery, its signification, 669
Merchant Tailors' song, 726

Meredith, a fives-player, 434
Merriment within compass, 31
Merry-andrew, a superior one, 623
Merry in the hall, when beards wag all! 820
Meteor, a, in Britain, 187

MICHAEL, St., September 29; account of
him, 315; his dragon, 250, 663
Michaelmas-day custom, 663
old, 687

term, 718

Michell, Simon, barrister, 740, 741
Middleton's, Dr. Conyers, coach-horses
blessed, 59
Mid-Lent Sunday, 193
Midnight and the Moon, 482
MIDSUMMER-DAY, June 24, celebrations, 419
-eve, bonfires, watchsetting,
&c., 412, to 418; divinations, 425
men, 425

Midsumormonath, 369

Midwinter, 30

-monath, 772

Milan, its great loss, 23

Mildred's, St., church in the Poultry, 143

Miles, lieutenant-colonel, services against

the Burmese, 764

Milkmaids' garlands, 285

Miller's booth, Bartholomew fair, 619
Mince pies, symbolical, 819
Minch pies, 20

Minster, Isle of Thanet, first abbess of, 143
Minstrels, their ancient vocation, 616
Miracles, &c., of Romish saints; see Index
II.

Mirror of the Months, a book, 746
Missel-thrush, 268

Mistletoe cut by the Druids, 3; kissed
under, 807, 508; proscribed in churches,
818.

Mitford, J., his account of Lord Byron's
residence at Mitylene, 244

Monk, a, drowned, and afterwards relates
his adventures, 559

duke of Albemarle, his wife, 291
Monmouth, countess of, 9
Montgomery, colonel, killed, 226
Months, the, in a Norwich pageant, 123;
in a versified memorandum, 155
Montmartre, its derivation, 686
Monument, the, on Fish st, hill, 575, 583
Moon, the, poetically addressed, 146; at
midnight, 482; its influence on the
weather, 508; symbolized, 555: new-
moon customs, 755

Moor, sir Jonas, astronomer, died, 547
Moore's travels in Africa, .91

Mr. Thomas, Lord Byron's last
lines to, 245

Moorgate, annual procession from, 744
More, sir Thomas, lord chancellor, de-
clines a new year's gift of money, 5;
reproves his lady, 131; his head on
London bridge, 400

Morrice dance, in the Strand, 280
Morton, Regent, his guillotine, 75
Moscow rebuilt, from Grays-inn-lane
dust-heap, 162

Most Christian king, origin of the title, 675
Mother, suckling her child, 453
Mothering Sunday, 179

Mother's milk, an epigram, 656
Motions, puppet shows, 623

Moveable fasts and feasts, 95; vigil or
eve, morrow, octave or utas of, &c. 96;
corrected, 208

Mummers and mumming, 296, 827
Mushroom, an enormous one, 10
Music of cats 553, 555; music in every
thing, 571; at Bartholomew fair, 621;
in the ass, 680; musical ear of squir-
rels, 683; musical prodigies, 519
Mutton-pie, and loaf, annual gift, 489
Myddleton, sir Hugh, when he did not
die, 172

Mysteries, and Romish church pageants,
371, 375, &c.

Nailing on twelfth-night, 25

NAME OF JESUS, August 7; why in the
almanacs, 536

Napoleon's marriage and medal, 205;
king of Rome, born, 187; Napoleon
died, 308

Naseby, battle of, 387
Nash, Beau, notice of, 793
NATIVITY OF Jons, baptist, June 24; cus-
toms on the day and eve, 417, 423

B. V. M., September 8; when
instituted as a festival, &c., 637
Navigations, miraculous, 2, 13, 97
Negro woman's pity of a climbing boy,
296

Nelson, Lord, anecdotes of him, 63
Neptune of the Egyptians, 71
Nero, account of, 227

and Wallace lions, 489

Nettle whipping, on May eve, 297
New River nuisances, 476. 521

year's day, celebrations of, 2; Night-
ingale on, 261

5, 6, 827

eve, celebration and winds,

office. letter-boxes, 52
Newton, sir Isaac, obtains the Strand
maypole, 330; dispute between him
and Flamsteed, 546; died, 187
Nice, council of, 779

NICHOLAS, December 6; account of St.
Nicholas and customs on his festival,
778; in Holland, 783

lady Penelope, killed, 757
Nicknackitarian law-suit, 642
NICOMEDE, June 1; a martyr, 371
Niger, the, its course, 791
Nightingales on new-year's day, 261; in
April, 270; in May, 303; at Black-
heath, 344; their jug-jug, 364
Nightless days, 386

Noah's flood represented at Bartholomew
fair, 62+

Norfolk, duke of, foiled at a sale, 50+
North-east wind fiend, 68; its effects,
311

North road to London, account of the
most ancient, 435 to 439

-Walsham, Norfolk, throwing at
an owl there, 126
Northumberland customs. 425

Norwich Turkeys, sent to London at
Christmas, 803
Notice to quit, 671

Nottingham park, foliage destroyed, 556
Now-a hot day, 440

Nut-burning and cracking, 704, 708, 711
Nutting on Holy Rood day, 647

Oath, remarkably observed, 827
Octavia, empress, account of, 227
Ode on Smithery, 750
O'Donoghue, legend of, 297
Offerings at the chapel-royal, on twelfth-
day, 30; at Easter, 180

Olave's St.. church in the Old Jewry
formerly a synagogue, 148; boy bishop,
781

378

Silver St., mystery performed at,

-May-day, 342

-MICHAELMAS DAY, October 11; cus-
toms, 688
Onagra, the, 589
Onions, divination, 776
O. P. row, 302

Opie, John, artist, d ́ed, 227
Optical illusion, 61

Oram, Edward, and Hogarth, 663
Orange, stuck with cloves, 4
Oratorio, its origin, 352
Oratory, fathers of the, 351
Organ, of St. Catharine's church, 704; in
the street at Christmas, 808
Orleans, duchess, d', her new year's gift
to Louis XVIII., 7

O SAPIENTIA, December 16, why in the
almanacs, 786

Oster monath, 204
Ovens, origin of, 130

Overbury, sir Thomas, murder of, 719
Ovid, character of, 12

Our lady of Bolton's image, 216
Owling and purling on Valentine's day,
&c., 114, 126

Ox and Ass, why represented in prints
of the nativity, 805

Oxen pledged in cider, &c., 22
Oxford, curfew at Carfax, 121
Oyster-tub used for a carriage, 3)
Oysters on St. James's-day, 189

mysteries, 378

Perukes, 725; for four angels, 218

609

Pillow made of a dead man, 11

Plum-porridge at Christmas, 820

London

-pudding, an eccentric vendor of it,
625, made in France, 809

Plutarch, read to Louis XIV.. 6.6

Plymouth, mild winter at, 782

Poaching notice, 175

Poetry, English, its first cultivator, 331
Pole, the barber's 635

Pompeii, panorama of, 798

Pompey's complaint in the dog-days, 473
Ponsondie, 27

Pope, the, and cardinals' jubilee for the
massacre on St. Bartholomew's day,
566

annual burning of, 741
- Joan, card party, 16
Pope's willow tree, 541

Popery, No, 717

Porter and his knot, 608

festival at Rome, 443

Post-office business increased, 108

POWDER PLOT, November 5; celebrations
714

-'s chains, 531

-chair at Rome, 61

tion, 132

Powell on the fives court, 431