Inder.

Abbot of Misrule, ii. 322.

Abbot of Unreason, ii. 322.

Absurdities, Papistical, derived from the Heathens, ii. 17. Accession of George the Third, ii. 31, 228.

A Cruce Salus, that motto, i. 361.

Ad Græcas Calendas, a classical proverb, ii. 119.

Advent, ii. 308.

Advocates, Roman, restricted in their time of pleading, i. 5.

Æra, the Christian, ii. 342.

Agatha, St. her Legend, i. 206.

Age, Apostolical, ii. 365..

Ages of the Sovereigns since the Conquest, ii. 228.

Agnes' Fast, custom of keeping in England, i. 169.

Agnes, St. her Legend, i. 168.

why painted with a Lamb, &c. i. 169.

Ahaz, his the first dial, i. 2.

Alban, or Latin Calendar, i. 15.

Alban, St. his Legend, ii. 54.

Albans, St. the town of, ii. 55.

Ale, a favourite beverage of the Saxons, ii. 349.
Ale Stake, i. 346.

Alfred the Great, anecdote of, i. 364.

his method of dividing time by candles, i. 6.

All Fools day, customs of, i. 299.
All Saints, or All Hallows, ii. 240.

All Souls, ii. 242.

Almanac, general description, etymology of, &c. i. 39.
Alms, those given on Maundy Thursdays, i. 285.
Alphage, St. his Legend, i. 318.

Ambrose, St. his Legend, i. 309:

Ambrosian Rite, church-singing so called, i. 259, 314.

Amphibalus, St. his Legend doubted, ii. 58.
Anchor the emblem of St. Clement, ii. 303.
Andrew, St. the Apostle, ii. 311.

Andrews, St. the town of, in Fifeshire, ii. 313.
Angelo, Michael, anecdote of, i. 335.

Anna, or Anne, St. her Legend, ii. 115.
Anniversaries, their origin, &c. ii. 201.
Anno Domini, ii. 12, 342.

Annunciation, i. 281. ii. 200.
Apostle of the Circumcision, ii. 80.

of the Germans, ii. 49.

of the Jews, ii. 81.

Apostles, antient custom of giving them worldly titles, ii. 191.

April, general description of that month, i. 67. -

its pictural representation, i. 68.

" In April, Dove's flood,

Is worth a King's good,"

April Fish, i. 300.

Fool, i. 299.

a proverb, i. 69.

Aquarius, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 60.

Aquitaine, Duke of, represented at the Coronation, ii. 181.

Archee, Fool to James II. anecdote of, i. 302.

Archer, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 92.

Ardesoif, Mr. anecdote of, i. 213.

Aries, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 66.

1

Arms, the regal, ii. 35.

Ascension-day, i. 372.

Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent, i. 183, 223.

Ashes, i. 224, 279.

Assassins of Becket, ii. 100.

Asses, in the ceremonies of the Romish church, i. 269. ii. 86.
Assumption, the, ii. 136.

Astite, a provincialism, i. 209.

Astrology, Judicial, its absurdity, i. 41.

Athanasius, his creed, i. 393.

Atoms of the Antient Hour, i. 138.

Audry, a causeway at Ely, ii. 220.

August, general description and derivation of the term,
i. 27, 76.

pictural representations of, i. 79.

"A man has made his August," a proverb, i. 79.
Augustine, St. of Hippo, his Legend, ii. 141.

Friars, the order of, ii. 143.

Austin, or Augustin, St. his Legend, ii. 1.

Autumn, ii. 66.

B.

Bacon, why formerly eaten by Christians at Easter, &c. i. 296.

ii. 345.

Bajazet, anecdote of, i. 306.

Balance, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 83.

Baptism substituted for Circumcision, i. 141.

Bard, ii. 138.

Barley, its etymology, i. 82.

Barme, its etymology, i. 82.

Barnabas, St. the Apostle, ii. 52, 201.

Bartholomew, St. the Apostle, ii. 139, 201.
Battle Axe, badge of St. Mathias, i. 245.
Beads, ii. 12..

Beauclerc, why Henry 1st. so called, i. 364.
Becket, Thomas à, ii. 93.

anecdote of, fasting, i. 236.

Bede, Venerable, ii. 8.

Admirable, ii. 8.

Admiral, ii. 14.

Beef-eaters, or Yeomen, origin of, ii. 174.

Beheading, first instance of in high rank, ii. 129.

Beloved Disciple, ii. 363.

Beltein Fires, ii. 241, 356.

Benedict, St. his Legend, i. 273.

Benedictine Monks, the formation, &c. of that order, i. 274.

Benefit of the Clergy, i. 363.

Beshrew, that expression, i. 210.

Bills of Exchange, regulations respecting, i. 54.
Birth-days, their observance very antient, ii. 31.
anniversaries so called, ii. 201.

ii. 31.

of the reigning monarch and his consort, i. 380.

Bishop, universal, i. 257.

Bishops and Archbishops do not confer titles upon their con-
sorts, i. 385. ii. 269.

Bishops and Clergy of the middle centuries, their extreme

ignorance, i. 363, 404.

Bissextile, or Leap-year, i. 24, 237.

Blase, or Blaize, Bishop, his Legend, i. 201.

various representations of, on tokens, i. 204.

Blazing, i. 203, 298.

Blazy, a town in Cornwall, i. 204.

Bloody Act, a statute so called, i. 385.

Boar's-head, an antient favourite dish, ii. 345.

Boniface, Pope, the Eighth, his indecorous conduct, i. 222.

Boniface, St. his Legend, ii. 47.

Bosom, leaning upon, origin of that phrase, ii. 363.

Bow, regulations respecting that weapon, i. 278.

Bowing at the name of Jesus, ii. 123.

Bowl, Wassail, ii. 346.

Box Money, ii. 344.

Boxes, Christmas, ii. 343.

Boy Bishop, ii. 315.

Brandeum, a superstitious relic, i. 357.

Brandon, Richard, supposed executioner of Charles the First,

i. 190.

'Bread and Cheese Ordeal, ii. 282.

Brethren of our Lord, ii, 113, 236, 363.

Britain, Great, ii. 34.

Britain, the Proto-Christian King of, i. 158.

Britius, St. his Legend, ii. 275.

Britannia, the impression of, on our copper coin, ii. 27.

Britanniarum, ii. 133.

Broad Seal, ii. 214.

Bull, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 68.

Bulwer, his instructions to Gluttons, i. 89.

Buns, Cross, i. 290.

Bury St. Edmund's, ii. 293.

Butler, the chief, at a Coronation, the Lord Mayor of London,
ii. 269.

C.

Caesar, Augustus, his alteration of the Calendar, i. 26.
Julius, his alteration of the Calendar, i. 22.

Calendar, general description of, i. 14. ii. 330.

Modern French, description of, i. 31.

Cambridge Terms, i. 175.

Cancer, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 74.

Candle muss Day, i. 196.

Candles used to shew the progress of time, i. 5.

superstitious uses of, i. 196, 202. ·

form of blessing, for the dead, i. 200.

Canicular Days, ii. 87.

Star, ii. 88.

Canterbury, why the Metropolitan Church, ii. 5.

Cap, a Cardinal's, why worn by Henry the Eighth, ii. 41.

Capricorn, that sign of the Zodiac, i. 94.

Captives, St. Leonard the patron of, ii. 264.

Care or Carling Sunday, i. 261.