Ararat, centre of population, i. 2. Arcadian Princess, Brathwayt's, described, iii. 157. Arms, antient regulations respecting, i. 73. Arthur's show, particulars of, iii. 18. Asm, S. extract from Sermon by, ii. 113. T Astrologia, term defined, ii. 219. Aubrey, state of manners in England 1678, i. 414. Superstition of, ii. 274. Augustine mission, ii. 17. Aulus Plautius, acts of in England, i. 17. Aumont, Duc d', lodged at Somerset house, iii. 237. Aurora Borealis, the, converted into signs and wonders, ii. B. BADBY, burnt as a heretic, ii. 25. Badges, origin of, i. 131. Bailiff, dreadful encounter of with a butcher, i. 358. Bailiffs, number of, 1677, i. 352. Ball, J. doctrines of liberty and equality, i. 117. Ballad-singers licensed, iii. 42. Bands, a Methodist term, explained, ii. 183. Belief in the existence of witches, ii. 264. Bayley, a quaker, punished, ii. 150. Bedford, Earl of, charity of temp. Eliz. i. 203. Bells, custom of tolling, i. 385. Bertlet, charity of Lord, i. 336. Bilson, extract from Sermon by, ii. 104. " Boadicea, Queen, dress of, ii. 281. Courage, cruelty, and death of, i. 21. Bolingbroke, Sir R. hanged, ii. 299. Bonnor, Bishop, anecdotes of, i. 207. Book of Common Prayer torn publicly by soldiers, ii. 64. Brandon, a juggler, tricks of, iii. 24. Breeches, stuffed, particulars of, ii. 314. tires Briefs, particulars of, i. 357. a. British manners and customs, doubtful in early ages, i. 13. Britons, character of, by the Romans, i. 23. by G. Cambrensis, i. 24. remarkable for courage, i. 14. treachery of certain, i. 16. active and hardy, i. 26. manner of painting their bodies, i. 30. of burial, i. 128. **** Brocardo, the cabalist, refuted, ii. 246. Bromhall, T. a promoter of superstition, ii. 270. Brown, Sir T. list of unlucky acts enumerated by, ii. 263... Duke of, speech of, temp. R. III. respecting sanctuaries, i. 155... Bulkeley, Sir R. folly of, ii. 212. Bull-baiting, described, iii. 55. Bullein, Anna, charity of, i. 194. Bulloigne, Godfrey of, specimen of a work so called, iii. Bulwer, J. comments of on dress, ii. 310. Bunyan, J. extract from his Groans of a damned Soul, ii. 127. Burgess I 1 Burgess and Marshall, time occupied by them in preaching, ii. 50. C. extract from Sermon by, ii. 111. A. ditto, ii. 116. Burial, Quaker, mode of, ii. 174. Burton, comments of on dress, ii. 312. Butcher, J. burnt, ii. 30. C. CADE, J. insurrection of, ï. 149. Cæsar, J. invasion of England by, i. 15. second, i. 17. Calamy, E. extract from Sermon by, ii. 118. Cambridge, Earl of, courage of him and other Knights, i. 96. Cantares, J. skill of in legerdemain, iii. 28. Canute, decree of respecting property, i. 66. Caractacus, skill and bravery of, i. 17. by, i. 18. brave resistance of the Romans in Shropshire speech of, to Claudius, i. 19. Cards, origin of, iii. 13. office for sealing of, iii. 50. Carriages of the antient Britons, i. 32, Cartismandua, treachery of, i. 18. Casaubon, Dr. folly of, ii. 241. Casibelanus, courage and address of, i. 15. Cawdry, D. extract from Sermon by, ii. 107. Caxton's observations on the youth of his time, i. 142. Cedwalla, form of a conveyance made by, i. 50. Challenge, antient method of deciding, i. 128. II. character of, i. 291. reception of after his restoration, i. 295. humiliating explanation made by, i. 340. Charms, a catalogue of, against evil accidents, &c. ii. 259. Christmas day, how observed 1643, ii. 66. Churches, manners of the people in, ii. 69. French and Dutch, address of Ministers of to Charles II. ii. 86. Citizens, domestic amusements of the, iii. 32. Citters, the Sieur, assaulted at a bonfire, iii. 49. Clergy, minds of the, illustrated, ii. 97. Clubs, various particulars of, iii. 238. Coaches, introduction of, i. 227. Coal-heavers, whimsical punishment inflicted by, i. 400. Cockney, term of, explained, i. 205. Coin, base, i. 317, 367. Collars, instances of a negro and a dog advertised with, i. 369. a reformer of the Stage, iii. 100. Collings, extract from Sermon by, ii. 125. Combat, antient, between English and French Knights, i, 100, Conference, Methodist, account of, ii. 191. Congregational and Presbyterian Ministers, agreement be- Contradictions in the accounts of the antient Britons, i. 29. Conventicle Conventicle Courant, extract from, ii. 82. Conventicles suppressed, ii. 70-81. Copeland, combat of Sir J. with Sir L. D' Lorris, i. 98. Cornwallis, Bishop, extract from Serinon by, ii. 134. Courtesy of England, i. 68. Cowley, the Works of, noticed, iii. 181. Craven, I. extract from Sermon by, ii. 126. Credulity, instance of, i. 339. Crispe, T. extract from Sermon by, ii. 115. superstition of, ii. 259, 267. Crusades, account of, ii. 231. Cuckold, antiquity of the term, i. 214. Curfew bell, origin of, i. 61. D. DÆMONOLOGY, extract from the work of James I. so Dancing, an early amusement in England, iii. 6. detested by Quakers, ii. 157. Danes, cruelty of the, towards the English, i. 50. Day, J. extract from Sermon by, ii. 105. Dedication, specimen of antient, by T. Twine, iii. 126. by E. Spencer, iii. 136. Dee, Dr. account of him and his spirits, ii. 239. Derby, Earl of, stratagem of to capture Richard II. i. 121. i. 127. Dereham, West, conference at, between the quakers and clergy, ii. 148. Desolation, universal in England temp. King Stephen, i. 71. |