Agriculture, dangers to, from war,
182. Enthusiastic Experiment-
alist in, 295.

Agues, severity of, in Ascham's
days, 333. King James I., 360.
ALAIN CHARTIES, the power of
Love, 286.
Albums, 159.

Ale, all not good. Old Song, Ex-
ale-tation of Ale, 287. Ale
houses reduced in Oxford from
300 to 100, 381.
Alliance between Church and
State, 17.

Alligators and Sharks, curious
fact respecting, 284.
Almonbury Registers, curious con
tents, 343.

Alonzo, Don, the call of, 293.
Ambassadors, why Charles II.
admitted them often and in pri-
vate, 393.
American Independence, 10.
Anarchy, effect of on religion, 160.
Anatomy of the Service Book,
Forms of Prayer fit only for
children Service-Book Sav-
ages worse than Mohawks, 36.
ANDREWS, BISHOP. The Speech
and the Speaker-The Grave in
Hebrew The Tongue-We
should regard our Ends no less
than our Acts-Sowing not scat
tering-Motives, real and pre-
tended-Brief sentences, 239.
Good actions liable to ill con-
struction-His careful preach-
ing-Rage for Sermons in Bish-
op Andrews's time-Psalms and
Proverbs-Systematical eva-
sions of the laws, 240. What
is a true congregation ?-The
Plague in 1603-Signification
of the term Plague, 241.

Aneel, introduced for dyeing, by
Pero Vaz Devora, 348, 358.
Anglo-Saxon, God and Man in,

190.

Animals, love of company in, 282.
ANN, QUEEN, History of English

Manners and Literature, 397.
Touched Johnson for the Evil,

397.

Anson's Voyage, 220.
Antiquarian Studies, 29, 146.
Antwerp, English trade removed
from, to Hamburg, 163.
Ant's Eggs, soldier's physic, 368.
Apparel, orders in, in Oxford, 342.
Apprentices, insubordination of, in
the City, 388. Apprenticeship,
whether it extinguishes gentry,

394.

Arbitration in Parishes, Norwe-
gian custom, 51.

Archery, advantages of, over mus-
quetry, 181. Its great import-
ance in Henry V.'s time, 183.
Arion, a second, 289.
Armour, silk, 390.
Armpits, Egyptian custom of
hatching eggs under, 298.
ARROWSMITH'S Sermon, A.D. 1643,

Barnet, the ordinary at, a place
of great resort in James I.'s
time, 360.
Barometers, 387.
BARON'S Toast, circulated by Hol-
lis, 31.

BARROW. Necessity of following
a good guide in things not with-
in reach of ordinary capacities,
32. Alludes to hawking as
common in his days, 387.
Basil, accuracy of the printers of,
in Henry VIII.'s time, who nev.
ertheless chose English as cor-
rectors of the press for their dil-
igence, 333.

Baths, Dr. Chamberlain's offer to
improve, temp. Car. I., 373.
Battle field, enthusiastic recollec-
tion of, 299.

BAXTER, against the Quakers' as-
sertion that there was no true
church before George Fox, 28.
Quakers formed chiefly from
separatists-Credulity of pro-
fessors, 29. An Anabaptist bet-
ter than a Quaker, 30.
BAYLE, on the public weal, 146.
Bear, whipping the blind, sport
of, 360.

Beards, divers coloured, 297; dif-

ferent shapes of, 364.
Beasts, well for us that they do
not act in union, 154.
BEATTIE AND LORD MONBODDO,

223.

BEAUFORT, DUKE of, princely

economy at Badmington, 385.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, 183.
Beaus, rural, 396.
Bees, instinct of, 261. Importance
of, in Edward IV.'s days, 329.
Beggars, idle, and wanderers,
Increase of, in Charles I.'s time
-Directions against, 371.
BEHMEN, JACOB, Law's study of,

221. His second rapture, 222.
Belief rejected with as little rea-
son as it is received, 160.
BELINOUS LE SAGE, an insight
into Nature, 282.
BELLAY, DU, 198.
Bells, rung all night long on All-
hallows night, 333.
Bergea, the morning star of, 253.
BERKELEY, character of, 219.
BERKELEYS, number of churches
founded by, 131. Fosbrooke's
Berkeley family, 329.
BERNARD, SAINT. What we owe
to Men, to Angels, and to God-
Bodily penance comparatively
light-Triple groundwork of re-
ligious hope, 205.
BERNI, 175, 179.

BERRIDGE'S World Unmasked.

Prayer efficacious only through
faith, 172. Salvation through
faith only-Faith, its efficacy-
The doctrine of perseverance,
and Serjeant IF-Moral recti-
tude and moral obliquity, 173.
Bible and Common Prayer Book,

a goldsmith's receipt at Auck-
land from Bishop Cosin for £100
for plate and workmanship on
the covers of, 393.
Bible, Sir Thomas More's opinion

of, 15. Plate and cover for, 393.
Bidding, notice of a Welsh, 303.
Bilberries of Sherwood Forest, the
profit and pleasure of the poor,

Breakers, shoals of fish mistaken
for, 270.

Not

Breakfast, abolished in Holin-
shed's days, 130. Old English,
in a Baronial family, 201.
eaten by Cotton or Viator, 393.
Brick-buildings, introduced in
London by the Earl of Arundel,
in James I.'s time, previous to
which they were chiefly of wood,
355. Complaint against it, and
James' reply, 356. First brick
house at Leeds, 372. Benefit
of, 386.

Bristol, shopkeepers at, 234, 385.
BRITONS, Manners of, &c., 306.
BROMFALL, Sheriff, instrumental
to the saving of the Cottonian
Library, 375.

BROOKE, Lord, his Mustapha, 56.
A serious thought, 278.
Broth, the Liturgy so called by
the sectarians, 373.
BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, a painful
query of-Better prospects, 275.
Brown, the great pudding eater
of Kent, 371.
BRUYERE, LA, Inequality-Men
evil if not good-Men who are
determined to succeed, 85.
BUCKINGHAM, first used six horses
to a coach, 357.
BUDEUS, account of his studies,

121.

Buff coat, covers shabby clothes,

393.

Buildings, edicts against new, by
James I. to hinder the increase
of London, 355.
Bull-baiting, apology for, by Per-
kins, 357.

BUNYAN, JOHN, on extempore
prayer-Prayer with devotion,
109. All mischief commences
in the name of God, says Luther
-A man hanged upon his own
self-accusation, 110. Anticipa-
tion of the Pilgrim in the Her-
motimus of Lucian, 263.
Burlesque Poetry, the depraver
of taste, 282.
BURTON, ROBERT, Anatomie of
Melancholie. Ruin of maritime
cities-What waters are purest,
175. Water through leaden
pipes-Sheltered sites of En-
glish country houses, 176. Idle-
ness generating melancholy,
178. Soul and body, 179. Mul-
tiplication of books, 184. De-
mand for new Latin works de-

creasing, and for English ones
increasing-Of his own style-
Physicians turning divines, and
divines physicians-Backward-
ness of English manufactures
and fisheries-Surplus popula-
tion, how disposed of amongst
the ancients, 185. Luxurious
selfishness-Discouragement of

Theological studies-Manners
of the gentry, 186. Employ-
ments of women-Prerogative
of personal beauty-Arts of
temptation adapted to individ-
ual character and circumstances
-Blind credulity of the multi-
tude, 187. Fowling, its various
kinds-Fishing, its advantage
over other sports of the field-
Winter amusements-Standing
waters unwholesome-Miseries
of idleness, 188. Occupation the

best cure for discontent-Evils
of compulsory solitude-Pleas
ures and pains of meditative
melancholy, 189. Total disso-
lution of religious houses la-
mented, 190. Marriage versus
Poverty, 198. Study a cause
of melancholy, 248. The clergy
sometimes the coiners of their
own bad coin-Fanatic preci-
sians, 249. The miseltoe, 262.
Bush, Good Wine needs no
Bush,' 395.

Butter, Datch forbidden to export
from the West of England, and
Wentworth advised to make
the same probibition for Ireland,
because the best commodity to
be sent to Spain, 376.

C.

Cabbages, not a hundred years,
says Evelyn, since the first
came from Holland-Sent as
presents from Holland in Ben
Jonson's time, 365.
California, modern, 301.
Caligraphy, neglected in Charles
I.'s time, 373.

CAMERARIUS, his old age, 117.
Canada, etymology of, 175.
CANOPIUS, NATHANIEL, a Cretan,
the first who made and drank
coffee in Oxford, 374.
Canterbury, new establishment
at, 295.
Capital, a Pecuniary word, 159.
Employed in trade in Queen
Anne's reign, 77.

Caps, two, worn under the hat,
curious custom, 90.
Cards, box of ancient, 336. Rab-

elais amuses Gargantua with
tricks upon, 337.

Care, necessary for the preserva-
tion of life, natural and spiritual,

300.
CARLISLE, EARL of, introduced
great expense in dress, 367.
Carp, brought into England by
Mr. Mascal of Plumsted in Sas-
sex, 339. Five shillings a piece
in London in Taylor the water
poet's time, 362.

CARTER, MRS. ELIZABETH, let-
ters, &c. Utility of trifling oc-
cupations, 213. Strained bypo-
thesis, its temptations, 220.
Emptiness of party politics-
Progress of luxury among the
poorer classes-Management of
domestics-Charm of a familiar
object seen in its happiest light,

221.

Celibacy, Erasmus and Augustine
upon, 55.

Chairs close, another project for,

378.

CHAMBERLAYNE, DR. the man-
midwife, 377.
Chancery-lane, no sewers in, 385.
Chapel Royal, children of-School-
master of, 200.
CHAPMAN, the poet, Habington's
lines upon, 304.
Charcoal, use of, as fuel, 299.
Charity, want of, in Puritans and
Papists, 70.

CHARLES I., efforts to prevent the
trial of, 89. English manners
and literature, in time of, 367.
A dicer, 376.
CHARLES II., English manners
and literature, 385.
CHARLES V., emperor, and the
swallow's nest, 283.
Charmers, numerous in Eliza-
beth's reign, 341.
Chelmsford, sectaries of, 15.
Chicaranos, cause of their gi
gantic stature, 284.
Chimneys, rarity of, in ancient
times, 319, 372.
Christianity, 10. Power of, 253.
Church, plundered by churchmen,
35. Churches like ships, 97.
Effect of the overthrow of the
Church, 104. Church dignity,
121. Low state of, in Eliza-
beth's early years, 341. Plan
of taking away and making
clergy stipendary, 396.
CHURCHILL'S Sermons, Levity of

the last age, 211. Vindictive-
ness and meekness contrasted,
212.
CLARENDON. Abolition of offices

and Privileges, 10. Necessity
of church dignity, 121. Extracts
from, illustrative of the time of
Charles I., 367, &c.
Claret, terse, what, 389.
CLARKE'S Travels. Primitive
quarantine-Lasting effects of
heat, 246. Instance of fraud
sanctioned by the highest au-
thority, 259.

Clergy, good defence of, 31.
Cruelty to, in the parliament's
time, 164. Provision for, 234.
Petition to sit in parliament, 350.
Clerical habit. South's complaint
of its neglect, 390.
Coaches, increase of, 299. When
introduced, 346. First flying
coach from Oxford to London
in thirteen hours, 1669, 391.
Coccolucio, or Tavardilha, disease
so called, 294.
Cockle, gigantic, or chama gigas,
use of, 276.

Cod fish, sanctorum, 123.
Coffee, 374, 376.

Houses sup-
pressed in Charles II.'s time,

386.

Coffin, used as a boat, 299.
Coinage, 359, 372.

Colonists, too proud to labour, 123.
Commons, evils of, in Middlesex,

142.

Confiscations, revolutionary, 218.
Conscience, weak, 12. Torpid, 54.
Consumption, remedy for, 259.

Curable in the beginning, 375.
Contracts, death dissolves, 293.
Convent-garden, Duke of Bed-

ford's stately building there, 374.

ications, 229.
Coral-reefs-Progression of, 296.
Corn laws, 127.
Corn-rent paid to colleges in
Elizabeth's days, 343.
Cornwall, lands in, how held in
Carew's time, 134. Formerly
tenants scarce, but now many
applicants for every farm-
Overrun with Irish vagabonds,
135. Successful industry in a
Cornish labourer, 136. Salubrity
of, 279.

CORYAT's crudities, 101, 106, 108.
COSMO, GRANd Duke, 387, 388.
Cottages, hard commission against
temp. Car. I., 379.
Cottagers by the way side, 11.
Cottonian Library, preserved by
Sheriff Bromfall, 375.
Court, inns of, in Fortescue's
time, 199. Court of honour, or
Lord Marshall's court, held in
the painted chamber, 371.
Covenant and the number 666,

Damask table cloth, great price
of, in James I.'s time, 365.
Dames, fine, delicacy and luxury
of, in James 1.'s days, 361, 363.
Dance, the world's round, 135.
Dancing schools in Charles II.'s
time, 388.
DANIEL, sepulchre of, 290.
DANIEL. Saxon kings-Sweyne
-Canute, 165. Confused his
tory of the wars between the
Anglo-Saxons and the Danes,
182. On the decline of English
poetry after Elizabeth's reign,
223. Roman conquest of Brit
ain, 254. Effects of Norman
conquest, 255.

Darkness, power of, over animals,

283.

Dean, the, and the singing man,
204.

Debts, member elected to escape,
in Elizabeth's time, 349.
Degrees prohibited, 56.
Delinquents,wine press for squeez-
ing, 18.

DELL, WILLIAM, taking of Bris-
tol-Denial of authority in mat-
ters of religion, 21. Naseby
won by faith, 22.
DENNY, SIR WILLIAM, Pelicani-
cidium, 97, 98.
Dentrifice, made of beaten china,

398.

DERING, SIR EDWARD, on the de
nial of the Creed, 36. On bow-
ing at the name of Jesus, 38
Defence of the clergy-Defence
of the bishops-Fear of a de-
mocracy-Difficulty of satisfy-
ing the people, 39.
Dew, walking up and down in, a
cure for the gout, 352.
Dignities, church, 11.
Dinner hour, 14.

Prescribed for
Lord or Lady Burleigh in their
illness, 348. Twelve o'clock,
somewhat later, 360, and eleven,
364. In George II.'s time, three,
401.

Disputant, not to provoke, 165.
Dissenters, and James the Second,

70. Charge on Dissenters, 73.
Dissent, De Foe on, 124.
Divines, Scripture, 13.
DODD, argument against the sub-
jection of our Clergy to a lay
head, 28. War on the Nether-
lands produced our rebellion,

29.

Dogs, wild, of Porto Rico, 122.
Wonderful dogs, 290.
Domestics and Children, modern

question on separation of, 257.
DONNE's Letters. Religion is

Christianity The Primitive
Monks-Delusion of Romanism
-Short prayers, 236. Defender
of the faith-Supremacy of the
Romish church-Oil of gladness
-Ourselves our own umbrellas,
and our own suns-One man's
meat another man's poison-
Idleness to be resisted on re-
ligious grounds, 236. Truth
and Casuistry, 237. Donne's
serious thoughts, 250.
DOUTHWAITE's Poems, 298.
Dover, projects for bridge or tan-
nel from Dover to Calais, 174.
Downs, fertilizing process of na-
ture upon, 145.
DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, 164.
DRAYTON, Concerning dedications

-Of his own poetry, 76. Of
his schooling in love, 77.
Dreams, use of, 71. On the early
works, 86.

Drengage tenure, what, 318.
Dress, ruinous luxury in, 179, 219.
Tight dresses and shoes worn
by fashionables and exquisites,
361. Vanity of in South's time,

390.

Drinking to excess, introduced
into England by those who had
been engaged in the Netherland
wars, 346. English, hard drink-
ers, 363.

Druidical temples, human bodies
in the foundations of, 145.

Drunkenness in England more
than in Germany, 108.
Duels, law against in James I.'s
time, 358. Barbarous custom
of, 389.

Dunstable plain walkers, 286.
DUNSTAN, 308, 309, 310, 311.

E.

Eagle's stone, 369.

Ear, fan, feathers, and ribands in,
365. Ear-rings, Charles I. wore
pearl ones, 374.
Earthquake, water turned green
by, at Serampore, 301. Influ-
ence of on animals, 299.
East, obeisance towards, 357.
Easter, a gala season, 390.
Ecclesiastical Courts, scandalous
work in, 262.

-

Family Service in Charles II.'s
time, 385.

Fanatics and the Old Testament,

61.

Fare, Scotch farmers, daily bill
of, 90.

FARINDON ANTONY, sermons, 239.
Farmers, open to conviction, but
necessarily and wisely cautious,
131. Mavor's opinion of small
farms, 141. Good servants be-
coming scarce as small farms
have disappeared, 142.
Farms, size of, 127.
Farrago, Rowland Hill's, a good
story, 222.

Fascination of danger, 238.
Fashions, for the middle of the
last century, 285. French aped
by the English, temp. Car. II.,

389.

Fasting, how explained, by the
casuísts, 66.

Feast, city, in William III.'s time,

396.

FEATLEY, corruption of justice;
of manners, 51.

Feet Scrapers of Cambridge, and
Dr. James Scott, 234.
Female head dresses, their alti-

Fighting Fish, 281.

FINCH, LORD CHANCELLOR,
Laws, their mean-On the mis-
chief of agitating questions, 80.
What is peace in a state? 81.
Fiscal Oaths, invalidity of, 349.
Fish-days, the casting off and its
results, 381.

Education, a word on, 247.
EDWARDS' Gangrana. Descrip-
tion of the army-Complaint of
the effects of toleration - On
toleration. 38.
EDWARD III. to HENRY VIII.
English Manners and Litera-
ture, 324.
EDZARDUS, Præf. ad Avoda Sara.
Judaizing fanatics-Rabbinical tude, 398.
Doctrine, &c., 210. Tradition
concerning the life and death
of Rabbi Eleazar-Martyrdom
of Rabbi Chanina, 216.
Εἰκὼν βασιλική, 11.
Electricity, curious effect of, on
the compass, 180.
Elections, interference in, a pen-
alty of £40 proposed upon, in
Elizabeth's reign, 349. Ex-
penses at, 391.
ELIZABETH, prophesy against, 16.
Division of the forenoon in her
reign, 32. Eye upon the uni-
versities, 50. History of En-
glish Manners and Literature
in her time, 339, &c. Admirable
speech of, upon her religious
duties towards the kingdom,

349.

Emigration, periodical, 10.
Employment, the public, too heavy
for the saints, 375.
Encore, altro volto, 398.
England, the refuge of the dis-
tressed, 262.

Enthusiasm, why it succeeds bet-
ter than sober religion, 124.
Evlia Effendi, 253. Cid Ghazi
Battal, 272. Story of a Dervish
Reytashi, 288. A second Arion,
289. Wonderful dogs, 290.
Epidemics of the mind, 116.
ERASMUS, Defence of Sir T. More
for persecution, 57.
ERBERY, WILLIAM, triumph over
the fallen sects, 37.
Error, effects of, 155.

Estates, change in the manage-
ment of, after Wat Tyler, 131.
Ethics, selfish and Christian com-
pared, 114.

Exchange, New, temp. Car. II.,

388.

Flax imported from Egypt to En-
gland, 383.

FLECKNOE'S Farrago, 163.
Flemish Merchants trading on
borrowed capital, 155.
Flowers, secret virtues of, 290.
Fly-takers of Cape Colony, 264.
Footmen, running, custom of, and
hence John Bunyan's title of
the Heavenly Footman, 399,
story of, 399.
Forks, use of, 106.
FORTIGUERRA, 164, 166.
Fortune, instability of, Stability
of a good name, 235.
FOTHERGILL, SAMUEL, Faith and
opinion-Quaker dress, 9.
Fox, GEORGE, his lear father
what?-his marriage, 43.
France, naval and military serv
ice of, in 16th century, their
relative advantages, 199.
FRAY LUIS DE GRANADA, his
usual supper, 205.
Free Schools, why established,

390.

FREEMAN'S Sermons, Use of self-
knowledge, 178. Temptations
of Clergymen, 179. The task
of the labourer easier than that

of the employer, 191. What
the world is-Evils of intempe-
rance, 192. Variety of individ-
ual qualifications for the min-
istry, 193. Pulpit eloquence
-The Indian summer of New
England, 197. Affected humil-
ity, 198. Democratic disquie-
tude, 254.
French, more moral than the En-
glish (?), 154. Ignorance of
English character, 235. French
cooks part of luxurious estab-
lishments in James I.'s time,

368; but not generally kept by
English noblemen, temp. Car.
II., 388.
Fresh-water taken at sea, at the
mouth of great rivers, 302.
Fresh water, a curious way of
drawing from sea-wells at Bah-
rem, 270. Fresh-water Still,

276.

Fuel, pit-coal the common, in
Charles I.'s time in London,
375. London in Charles II's
time, called by Shadwell "a
place of sin and seacoal," 389.
FULWOOD, MR. condemned for
taking a young wench of four-
teen from school, and marrying
her against her will, 380.
FULLER, Monastic Reformers, 46.
Spirits haunt precious mines,
110. Folly among many En-
glish of supposing they were of
Jewish extraction - Egyptian
notion that the souls remained
in the mummies-Pyramids, 115.
Character of, 214. The sea, 266.
Fulwiht, A. S. word of baptism,
337.

Funerals, money scattered at,
362. Doles continued at, in the
west of England till the civil
wars, 372. Midnight, 388. Stat-
ues wrought to be presented at
Query, did this custom continue
after Cromwell? 392. Custom
of carrying rosemary at, to pre-
vent infection, 398.