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THE EVERY-DAY BOOK AND TABLE BOOK; OR, EVERLASTING CALENDAR OF POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, SPORTS, PASTIMES, CEREMONIES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND EVENTS, INCIDENT TO Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES; FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE YEAR, MONTHS, AND SEASONS, AND A PERPETUAL KEY TO THE ALMANAC; INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF THE WEATHER, RULES FOR HEALTH AND CONDUCT, REMARKABLE AND IMPORTANT ANECDOTES, FACTS, AND NOTICES, IN CHRONOLOGY, ANTIQUITIES, TOPO- GRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, NATURAL HISTORY, ART, SCIENCE, AND GENERAL LITERATURE; DERIVED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, AND VALUABLE ORIGINAL COMMUNI- CATIONS, WITH POETICAL ELUCIDATIONS, FOR DAILY USE AND DIVERSION.
PREFACE.
JANUARY.
CLIMATE.
January 1.
New Year’s Day.
WASSAIL!
Hogmany.
ANNUAL JOCULAR TENURE.
NEW-YEAR’S DAY IN SUSSEX.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 2.
St. Concord.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 3.
THE RIDDLE OF THE YEAR, By Cleobulus.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 4.
Prepare for Twelfth-day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 5.
TWELFTH-DAY EVE. Agricultural Custom.
Credulity and Incredulity.
EXCHEQUER BILLS.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 6.
Twelfth-day.
Dr. Busby’s Chair.
The King drinks.
Old Christmas-day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 7.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 8.
Chronology.
THE NEW YEAR NEW MOON
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 9.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 10.
Winter in London.
LETTER from PAUL PRY.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 11.
Feast Week.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 12.
Leeches unhurt by Frost.
SWEEPING RHETORIC.
AMUSEMENTS.
Seasonable Refreshment.
Garrick.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 13.
St. Veronica.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 14.
Sailors.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 15.
Changes of Climate.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 16.
HOGMANY.
New Readings of Burns.
A Dramatic Printing Apparatus.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 17.
Snow, &c.
Swearing on the Horns at Highgate.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 18.
St. Priscian.
Old Twelfth Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 19.
Feast of Lanthorns.
French Lark Shooting.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 20.
Fabian.
DEDICATION.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 21.
St. Agnes.
How to sleep well in cold weather.
Extraordinary sleeper.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 22.
St. Vincent.
Skating on the Serpentine.
Great Frost, 1814.
Frost Fair—1814.
Christmas out of doors at Ratzburg. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.
Skating.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 23.
Larking.
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January 24.
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January 25.
St. Paul’s Day. Buck and Doe in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 26.
“St. George he was for England.”
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January 27.
Weights and Measures.
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January 28.
An Appearance of the Season.
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January 29.
Accession of George IV.
Bells.
CONSECRATION OF BELLS.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 30.
Remarkable 30th of January Sermon.
The Calves-head Club.
Oranges and Bells.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
January 31.
Wakes.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
FEBRUARY.
February 1.
Flowers.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 2.
Purification, or Candlemas. 1826.—Holiday at the Public Offices.
Elizabeth Woodcock.
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February 3.
St. Blaise. St. Agatha.
WITCHCRAFT.
Witchcraft.
COPY OF A LETTER Written to a Domestic at Parting.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 4.
Chronology.
A CHARACTER. The Old Lady.
The Season.
Stilling the Sea with Oil.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 5.
Browne Willis, Esq. LL.D.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 6.
The Season and Smoking.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 7.
1826.—SHROVE TUESDAY.
The Great Seal in Danger.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 8.
The First Day of Lent.
Lent Assizes and Sessions.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 9.
St. Apollonia.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 10.
Biographical Notice.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 11.
CHRONOLOGY.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 12.
1826.—First Sunday in Lent.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 13.
VALENTINE’S EVE AT SWAFFHAM.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 14.
Valentine.
David Love, of Nottingham, Aged 74, A. D. 1824.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 15.
1826. Ember Week.
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February 16.
CHRONOLOGY.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 17.
Sittings after Term.
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February 18.
Revivification of Trees.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 19.
The First Bird’s Nest in Spring.
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February 20.
The ways of the Season.
Travelling in Ireland.
A JAUNT IN A COUNTRY CAR From Lismore to Fermoy By T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 21.
Seasonable Rules.
Rules for Servants.
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February 22.
GENERAL ELECTION.
THE FREEMAN’S WELL AT ALNWICK.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 23.
CHRONOLOGY.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 24.
St. Matthias.—Holiday at the Public Offices.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 25.
STORM SUPERSTITIONS.
A Shrovetide Custom.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 26.
Penderill Family.
Mayoralty Seal of the City of London.
Sealing-Wax.
Wafers.
Writing Ink.
A pure Lamp Black.
Receipts for Ink.
Indelible Writing Ink.
Calico Printing.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 27.
CHRONOLOGY.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
February 28.
Dr. Johnson.
Gin Lane.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
MARCH.
March 1.
St. David’s Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 2.
Strange Narrative.
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March 3.
St. Winwaloe.
WINNOLD FAIR, NORFOLK.
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March 4.
A Flower of the Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 5.
FLOWERS.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 6.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Merriment in March.
Anecdotes of Browne Willis, The Antiquarian.
NATURE AND ART. “Buy my images!”
The Brothers.
March 7.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 8.
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March 9.
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THE ELEPHANT,
Further particulars concerning Elephants generally.
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March 10.
Benjamin West.
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March 11.
Newark Custom, FOUNDED ON A DREAM.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 12.
Chronology.
Curious Narrative.
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March 13.
Chronology.
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March 14.
Football.
Royal Bridal.
The “Papeguay.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 15.
The Highgate Custom.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 16.
Cornish Sports, AND THE Origin of Piccadilly.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 17.
St. Patrick’s Day—a Pattern.
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March 18.
Edward, king of the West Saxons.
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March 19.
Palm Sunday.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 20.
Lamb Season. An Anecdote.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 21.
Benedict.
A Surprising Calculation.
“Tobacco.” “Ex fumo dare lucem.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 22.
Passion Wednesday.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 23.
MAUNDY THURSDAY. Shere Thursday.
Celebration of the day at Seville.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 24.
Good Friday.
Hot-cross Buns.
Irish Custom.
Sermon at St. Paul’s Cross on Good Friday.
Good Friday at Lisbon.
Good Friday at Seville.
Relics of the Crucifixion.
The TRUE Lance. Utrum horum?
Pilate.
Paste Eggs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 25.
The Last Day of Lent.
Easter Eve in Spain.
Papal Conversion of the Jews.
Greek Preparation for Easter.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 26.
Easter Sunday.
Lostwithiel Custom.
The Biddenden Maids.
Pressing in Church.
Easter Day Customs At Twickenham and Paddington.
Biddenden Custom.
Paste Eggs.
Sugar Cupping In the Peak of Derbyshire.
Easter Day at Rome.
Greek Easter.
Turkish Easter.
Prophecy Concerning Easter.
Easter Day.
Easter King.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 27.
Easter Monday.
From the “Mirror of the Months.”
Epping Hunt.
Minerva.
Mr. Matthews at Home, 1826.
Coleshill Custom.
Riding the Black Lad.
“Old Vinegar,” and “Hard Metal Spoons.”
Wetting the Block.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 28.
Easter Tuesday.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 29.
March Mornings.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 30.
Kitty Fisher.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
March 31.
John Hampden.
The Sun in March.
The Wonderful Physician.
Provincial Medical Practice.
A crooked Coincidence.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
APRIL.
Spring.
April 1.
All Fool’s Day.
Newcastle. Extract from the Common Council Book.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 2.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 3.
Signs of the Seasons.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 4.
Cheap Weather Guide.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 5.
Swallows in 1826.
Pump with two Spouts.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 6.
Spring.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 7.
Saints.
Sermon at St. Andrew’s.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 8.
Flowers.
Domestic Antiquities, and a Letter of Lord Thurlow’s.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 9.
An April Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 10.
The Season.
Punch in the Puppet Show.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 11.
Islington Parish Dinner.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 12.
Sign of Rain.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 13.
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April 14.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 15.
Seasonable.
Progress of the Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 16.
The Months.
Chronology.
Bubbles.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 17.
Chronology.
Davenant and Shakspeare.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 18.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 19.
Spring.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 20.
Duchess of Exeter’s Will.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 21.
A Spring Diversion Of the Recorder of London.
Ancient Pickpockets.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 22.
A Jew is a Thief!
The Jew near Jewin-street.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 23.
St. George’s Day.
Collar of S. S.
“God Save the King.”
Early Horse Racing.
Old Guildford Church.
Spring in the City, and Jemmy Whittle.
St. George.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 24.
Joe Brown—the Church Watch.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 25.
St. Mark.[139]
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 26.
A Land Storm.
Colonel Beaufoy’s Account of a Remarkable Storm.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 27.
A Spring Walk On the Surrey Hills.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 28.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 29.
The April of 1826.
The Poor Man’s Home.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
April 30.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
MAY.
May 1.
May Day.
May-day is a Spring day.
“The Genuine History of the “Good Devil of Woodstock,
May Day in Dublin.
Origin of May Day.
Wellington, Under the Wrekin.
May Day Story-telling.
Floral Games of Toulouse.
Gathering of May Dew.
Gerard’s Hall Maypole. Basing Lane.
Northampton May Garland.
The last Chimney Sweeper.
Dining with Duke Humphrey, May Day Honours to Him.
Printers’ May Festival.
Old Watch Tower of the City Wall.
Opera Arm Chairs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 2.
Demonstrative Proof.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 3.
Invention of the Cross.
“A Pie sat on a Pear Tree.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 4.
1826. Holy Thursday, Or Ascension Day.
Tissington Well Dressing.
Shaftesbury “Byzant.”
Procession of the Camel.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 5.
“A Particular Fact.”
Chronology.
“Poetry.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 6.
Birds.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 7.
The Season. Thunny Fishing.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 8.
“The Furry.”
Helston “Furry, or Flora Day.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 9.
A Match.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 10.
Justice.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 11.
London Gymnastic Society.
Gymnastic Exercises.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 12.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 13.
Old May Day. Scottish Beltein.
Strand Maypole.
The Month.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 14.
1826. Whitsunday.
Whitsunday Accident. St. Anthony’s Church, Cornwall.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 15.
1826. Whit Monday.
Drop Handkerchief.
Whit Monday at Lichfield.
Whitsuntide Hirings.
Cumberland Hirings.
Ensham, Oxon. Old Custom.
Kidlington, Oxon.
Necton, Norfolk.
Necton Guild.
Whitsun Ales.
Peppard Revel.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 16.
His Grace the Duke of Baubleshire
A Remarkable Character.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 17.
Remarkable Performance.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 18.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 19.
“Poor Joe Moody!”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 20.
Remarkable Funeral.
Scotch Superstitions in May.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 21.
1826. Trinity Sunday.
The Season.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 22.
Sops and Ale.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 23.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 24.
Jack Ketch and Newgate.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 25.
Corpus Christi Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 26.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 27.
Addison’s Library.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 28.
Female Order of Merit.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 29.
K. Charles II. Restoration.
Boscobel House, Where Charles II. was concealed after the Battle of Worcester.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 30.
Clerkenwell, in 1730.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
May 31.
Death of an Elephant.
May Custom at Buckingham. Ringing the old Bailiff out.
A May-day.
Dulce Domum.
American Vocal Music.
End of May
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
JUNE.
June 1.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 2.
A Rogue in Grain, June 2, 1759.
Longevity.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 3.
Chronology.
Curious Inscription, Discovered by a Traveller.
June 3, 1611. “The Lady Arabella” escaped from her confinement.
The Loves of “The Lady Arabella.”
Lady Jane Drummond.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 4.
Remarkable Celebration.
Bell Ringing and Hand Bells in Churches.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 5.
Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh.
Queen Ann of Denmark’s Jewels.
Margaret Hartsyde.
Heriot’s Hospital.
The Dog of Heriot’s Hospital.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 6.
Important to Anglers.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 7.
Chabert. The Human Salamander.
Dr. Blagden’s Narrative.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 8.
Figg, the Prize Fighter.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 9.
The Season, in London.
The Water Fountain.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 10.
House of God, Newcastle.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 11.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 12.
The Season, in the Country.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 13.
Signs “Of the Times,” NEW AND OLD.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 14.
Cheap Travelling.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 15.
Summer Merriment.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 16.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 17.
St. Botolph.
Lady’s Dress in 1550.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 18.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 19.
1826.—General Election.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 20.
Custom at Dunmow, in Essex.
Custom of Whichnovre, Stapfords. Bacon and Corn.
Receipt to make Somersetshire Bacon.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 21.
The Longest Day.
Fruits.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Young Birds.
June 22.
1826. General Election.
Price of Provisions during Elections.
Election for Garrett.
Garrett Election, 1826.
Speech of Sir Jeffery Dunstan.
Exparte Dimsdale, Bart. “Two single Gentlemen roll’d into one.”
Mock Election at Garrett, 25th of June, 1781.
MOCK ELECTION FOR GARRETT.
Reminiscence of Sir Jeffery Dunstan By C. L.
The Garrett Oath.
ELECTION FOR GARRETT, June 25, 1781.
Sir Jeffery Dunstan.
Sir Jeffery Dunstan’s descendants.—Sir Jeffery’s Hut.—Whitechapel Obelisk.—Dipping for old wigs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 23.
St. John’s Eve.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 24.
St. John’s Day. Midsummer Day.
Warwick Bonfires.
The Cow-Mass At Dunkirk.
Midsummer Wrestling.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 25.
Fellowship Porters.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 26.
Midsummer Harvest In France.
Chronology.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 27.
Chronology.
Seal of Edward the First, for the Port of London, Found in the River Thames
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 28.
A Village Fete.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 29.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
June 30.
London Porter.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
JULY.
July 1.
Cockletop. Munden.—Farren.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 2.
Will Wimble.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 3.
“All—for a Penny!”
The Regent’s Park.
“Busby’s Chair.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 4.
Translation of St. Martin.
For the Honour of Hackneymen.
Field Paths.
Bells and Bell Ringing at Bury St. Edmund’s.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 5.
Chronology.
Letter of Oliver Cromwell Now first published.
Heriot’s Hospital, Edinburgh.
Swan-hopping Season.
Original Poetry.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 6.
Old Midsummer Day.
Laying out of Lands In the Parish of Puxton, Somerset.
Laying out of Wives In the Fens of Essex and Kent.
Yenlet Creek
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 7.
Thomas a Becket.
Sir William de Tracy.
The Tomb At Morthoe.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 8.
Chronology.
The Season.
A Curious Advertisement, From the Bahama Gazette, June 30, 1795.
Arrivals Extraordinary.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 9.
Wolverhampton Fair.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 10.
Chronology.
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July 11.
Chronology.
Memorandum. To Men of Honour.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 12.
A Vicious Swan.
Annual Excursion to Twickenham.
Swan-hopping.
“Swan-hopping”—Explained.
The Order for Swannes.
“SWAN WITH TWO NECKS,” Lad-lane.
“The Swan at Staines.”
The Swan’s Death Song.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 13.
The Cornish Falstaff.
Ancient Cornish names of the Months.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 14.
Chronology.
French Revolution.
Origin of the Jacobin Club.
Superstitions of Brittany.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 15.
St. Swithin.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 16.
Silence of the Birds.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 17.
A Penance.
Ninepenny Marl.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 18.
The Leverian Museum.
Leicester House.
Ticket of Admission to the Leverian Museum.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 19.
“The Glory of Regality.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 20.
St. Margaret.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 21.
St. Victor of Marseilles.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 22.
Magdalene.
St. Mary Magdalen.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 23.
Longevity.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 24.
Remarkable Earthquake.
Cornish Hurling.
Cornish Wrestling and the Hug.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 25.
St. James.
“The Death Fetch.”
A Tale of the O’Hara Family.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 26.
St. Ann.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 27.
Fall of Nanneu Oak.
Sir Philip Sidney’s Oak.
The Oak of Mamre.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 28.
St. Declan.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 29.
St. Martha.
The Season.
The Feast of Cherries.
Fish.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 30.
The Old Gates of London.
New Bishop of Durham— Bishop Auckland Custom.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
July 31.
Mayor of Bartlemass.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
AUGUST.
August 1.
Lammas Day.
Lammas Towers in Mid-Lothian.
The Cobblers’ Festival at Paris on the First of August, 1641.
Lammas Day Exeter Lammas Fair.
Rippon Lammas Feast.
Dissenters’ Festival.
Dogget’s Coat and Badge.
Dogget.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 2.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 3.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 4.
Long Bowls.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 5.
St. James’s Day, Old Style.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 6.
Transfiguration.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 7.
Name of Jesus.
St. Afra.
St. Ulric.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 8.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 9.
The Eagle—a Royal Bird.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 10.
Chronology.
Coya Shawsware’s Tomb.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 11.
Clouds.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 12.
K. George IV. Born.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 13.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 14.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 15.
Assumption, B. V. M.
Notre Dame Des Anges.
Pageant of the Assumption at Rouen.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 16.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 17.
Ball and Cross of St. Paul’s.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 18.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 19.
Earwigs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 20.
Chronology.
Love Tokens.
An Evening Walk.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 21.
Merlin’s Cave, and Stephen Duck.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 22.
Battle of Bosworth.
King Richard’s Well.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 23.
Chronology.
The Season.
Cheldonizing, or Swallow Singing.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 24.
St. Bartholomew.
Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
A Resident in the Fleet.
The first Pigs in Scotland.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 25.
Islington Cattle Market.
Important to Housekeepers.
Death of the Lottery.
PHRENOLOGY.
Showers of Blood.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 26.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 27.
1688. A Date in Panyer-alley.
Goddards.
The Cuckoo.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 28.
St. Augustine.
Chronology.
Hoax at Norwich.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 29.
St. John Baptist beheaded.
Archbishop Chicheley.
An Eccentric Character.
A Hoax “In Chancery.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 30.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
August 31.
Grasshoppers.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Harvest-Home at Hawkesbury on Cotswold.
Hawkesbury Harvest Home.
Harvesting on Sunday.
Ceres.
“Crying the Mare.”
Gloucestershire and Suffolk.
Norfolk.
Devon.
Essex.
SEPTEMBER.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 1.
Giles.
Application for a License.
THE LOSCOE MISER.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 2.
London Burnt, 1666.
Bartholomew Fair, 1826.
Roman Remains at Pentonville, and The White Conduit.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 3.
Purton Fair, Wilts.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 4.
How to keep Apples.
How to mark your fruit.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 5.
Old Bartholomew.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 6.
Chronology.
A Total Eclipse in Caligraphy.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 7.
Enurchus.
Chronology.
Baron Brown, the Durham Poet.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 8.
Nativity B. V. M.
Chronology.
Staines Church, Middlesex. Exhumation.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 9.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 10.
Lunar Rainbow.
Pump at Hammersmith.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 11.
Woodland Walks.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 12.
Storm at Enghien.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 13.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 14.
Holy Cross.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 15.
“The Devil looking over Lincoln.”
Satanic Superstitions.
Printers’ Devils.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 16.
Fraudulent Debtor.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 17.
Lambert.
Remarkable Thief.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 18.
George I. and II. Landed.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 19.
University of Gottingen.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 20.
Health—Cholera Morbus.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 21.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 22.
St. Maurice.
Battle of Threekingham.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 23.
Opening of the Winter Theatres.
MY FIRST PLAY By Elia.
Sherborne Bells.
Bow Bells.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 24.
A Good Tenant.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 25.
Sea Side Sports.
Brighton.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 26.
St. Cyprian. Old Holy Rood.
Paisley Hallow-Eve Fires. Sheffield Scotland Feast.
Asidew.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 27.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 28.
Madame Geneva lying in State.
County Customs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 29.
St. Michael.
St. George.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
September 30.
The Season.
“Extraordinary News!”
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OCTOBER.
October 1.
Lawless Court.
Order of Fools.
Stage Accident.
Mountebanks and Mr. Merriman.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 2.
Extraordinary Walking.
Extraordinary Riding.
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October 3.
Extraordinary Horse.
Birds and Mists.
Swallows.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 4.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 5.
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October 6.
St. Faith.
Somnambulism.
Remarkable Storm.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 7.
Conjugal Indifference.
Old Times and New Times.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 8.
Ancient Manners.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 9.
St. Denys.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 10.
Chronology.
Pack Monday Fair, at Sherborne, Dorsetshire
The New River at Hornsey.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 11.
“Duncan’s Victory.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 12.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 13.
Translation K. Edward. Conf.
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October 14.
A Lucky Day.
Taking Honey without Killing the Bees.
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October 15.
Exhumation.
The German Showman.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 16.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 17.
A Lying-in Custom.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 18.
Death of the Lottery.
Forged Notes in Shop Windows.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 19.
Garrick.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 20.
Wrestling.
Blackford, the Backsword Player.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 21.
Battle of Trafalgar.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 22.
Child played for.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
The Roman Station at Pancras.
The Antiquary.
October 23.
St. Surin.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 24.
An October Sunday Morning in Cockneyshire.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 25.
Crispin.
Shoes and buckles.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 26.
Royal Debts.
Nelson
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 27.
Fleet Market.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 28.
“Wardens!”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 29.
October in London.
Beginning of “Fires.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 30.
Yeomen of the Guard.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
October 31.
Hallow Eve.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
NOVEMBER.
November 1.
Inscriptions in Churches.
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November 2.
Old Hob.
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November 3.
The Beckford Family.
Clack Fall Fair.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 4.
King William Landed.
King William’s Peers.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 5.
Powder Plot.
Purton Bonfire.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 6.
Leonard.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 7.
Origin of the London Gazette.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 8.
Lord Mayor of London.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 9.
Lord Mayor’s Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 10.
A Father’s Wishes.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 11.
St. Martin.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 12.
Admiral Vernon’s Birth-day.
Admiral Vernon’s Answer to Admiral Hosier’s Ghost.
Crossing the Line.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 13.
The “Bridewell Boys,” and Bartholomew and Southwark Fairs.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 14.
A Trifling Mistake.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 15.
Hungerford Revel, Wilts.
Earl of Warwick, the King Maker.
“Death of the Lottery.”
COLLECTIONS RESPECTING LOTTERIES
1569.—The First Lottery.
Book Lotteries.
A Penny Lottery.
Lucky Numbers.
The Lottery Wheel, 1826.
Drawing Prizes.
The Unfortunate Lady.
Lottery of Deer.
Harburgh Lottery.
Bank Clerks’ Finesse.
Love, Death, and the Lottery.
Fielding’s Farce.
The Charitable Corporation.
Westminster Bridge Lottery.
An Organ Lottery.
Lottery at Stationers’ Hall.
Ticket stuck in the Wheel.
A Peer’s Substitute for Lotteries.
Chances of Tickets.
A Lottery Job in Ireland.
Leheup’s Fraud.
Lottery Insanity.
Large Division of Tickets.
A Number twice sold.
A Fraudulent Insurer.
Love Tickets.
Good and ill Luck.
A Little Go.
Insurance Cause.
Tricks of an Insurer.
Proceedings respecting a Blue-coat Boy.
Lottery Suicide.
A Blank made a Prize.
Insuring.
Evasions of the Insurers.
Lottery Suicide and Heartbreaking.
Sharing a Prize.
Insuring.
Little Goes.
The Great Go.
Conclusion.
Lottery Puffs.
Lottery for Women in India.
Interesting Addenda.
November 16.
Extraordinary Lunar Halo.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Whims and Oddities.
November 17.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln.
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November 18.
Chronology.
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November 19.
Chronology.
Pleasant Illustrations—and Additional Notices.
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November 20.
Offensive Barbers.
Roman Stations at Pancras and Pentonville.
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November 21.
Ærostation.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 22.
Cecilia.[511]
Cecilian Society.
Astronomical.
“Ben”—“the Old General”—of Nottingham.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 23.
St. Clement.[515]
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 24.
Spectres and Apparitions.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 25.
St. Catherine.
Bubbles.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 26.
The Season.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 27.
A National Death Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 28.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
November 29.
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November 30.
St. Andrew.
The Model Lottery.
Corrections and Illustrations,
DECEMBER.
December 1.
Obesity.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 2.
Winter.
The Season.
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December 3.
Chronology.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 4.
The Walking Post.
The Weather.
Men in the Moon.
Penny Lotteries at Brough, Westmoreland.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 5.
St. Nicholas’ Eve.
Pig-alls.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 6.
St. Nicholas.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
The Boy Bishop.
Henry Jenkins—Older than Old Parr.
December 7.
Old Sights of London.
A Particular Article.
Clack Fall Fair.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 8.
Conception B. V. M.
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December 9.
Jewish Marriage Ceremony.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 10.
A Welsh Baptism.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 11.
The Female Character.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 12.
National Song.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 13.
Art of Preserving Health.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 14.
Irish Linen.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 15.
A Literary Disaster.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 16.
O Sapientia.
Story-telling.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 17.
Country Mansions.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 18.
Old English Living.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 19.
An Upstart.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 20.
An Old English Squire.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 21.
St. Thomas’s Day.
Doleing Day.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 22.
Card Playing.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 23.
The Christmas Days.
The Wonder of the West.
A Lady’s old Shoe, and Clog.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 24.
Robin Hood.
Christmas-eve. Bellman’s Verses Upon Christmas-eve.
Glastonbury Thorn.
“Hodening” in Kent.
Christmas Pottage.
Marseilles’ Festival.
Carols.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 25.
Whitehaven Customs.
Hornchurch.
Subterranean Christmas Bells.
Christmas at Christ’s Hospital.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 26.
St. Stephen.
George Barnwell.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 27.
St. John.
The Clayen Cup.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 28.
Innocents.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 29.
“Christmas Gambols.”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 30.
Avingham Fair and Sports.
Bath Anecdotes.
Nine Men’s Morris.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
December 31.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
INDEXES.
1. THE GENERAL INDEX.
II. INDEX TO ROMISH SAINTS.
III. INDEX TO THE POETRY.
IV. CORRESPONDENTS’ INDEX.
V. INDEX TO THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS CONTAINED IN THE VOLUME.
Transcriber’s Notes
General remarks
Specific remarks
Changes and corrections made
General
Specific corrections and changes
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