Horse Guards, protect the lottery wheel, 193 Howard's Household Book, 145 Hull, curious ordinances at, 51-53; Sheriff to provide his wife with a scarlet gown, 52; Andrew Marvell and Hull ale, 71-73; head spiked at, 95; ducking-stool at, 96; Mayor slain, 98; snuff-box at, 168-169 Incorporation of towns, 48 Inscription on bells, 159 Ireland, St. John's eve in, 236-237 Irish folk-lore, 175 Jackson, John, and his clock, 162-166 Jacobites, defeat of, 102 James I. and tobacco, 173; orders a bear to be baited to death, 215 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, and his snuff, 182 Judge's wig, 18 Keeping people awake, 255 Kenilworth, bears baited at, 211 King eating meal and rye bread, 141 Kingston-upon-Thames, Morris Dancers at, 223 Knocking feet in meeting houses, 47 Lady, origin of, 134 Lamb, Charles and Mary, 184 Lanthorns, bequests for providing, 262-263 Last Lottery in England, 198-200 Layer, Councillor, 87-88 Leconfield castle, 123 Leeds bridge, market on, 165 Leicester, mace lowering at, 51; bear-baiting at, 216-217 Leighton, Robert, poem by, 183-184 Letters from the dead to the living, 11 Licence to beg, 272-273 Lincolnshire geese, 153 Lion Sermon, 258-261 London Bakers' Company, 135-136 London Bridge, 75-84 London, burials of suicides, 110-111 Love divinations, 238-240 Louth, ringing custom at, 158 Lowering the mace, 51 Ludlow, customs at, 59 Lycians, heads shaven and wigs worn, 5 Mace, as a weapon and as an ensign of authority, 49 Manchester, curious baking regulations, 140 Manorial service, curious, 144, 152 Margarett, Princess, 49, 123-124 Mar, Rising of, 87 Marvell, Andrew, and Hull ale, 71-73 Mary, Queen of Scots, 102 May-pole, 233 Meals in the olden time, 127-129 Medical men and the wig, 17-18 Men wearing Muffs, 40-47 Michaelmas goose, 154 Micklegate Bar, York, 98-99; heads stolen from, 103 Milk, price of, in the olden time, 268 More, Sir Thomas, beheaded, 83 Morley, custom at, 143 Morris-Dancers, 222-233 Municipal Reform Act, 48 Murder, strange story of a, 137 Napoleon taking snuff, 181; snuff-box, 177-178 Newcastle-on-Tyne, assize custom at, 56-58; presents of wine and sugar loaves, 64-66; brank at, 66, 67; burial of a suicide, 111 Nobleman's Household in Tudor Times, 122-133 North Wingfield, dead body stopped at, 115-116 Northumberland Household Book, 125-133 Norwich, burial of a suicide, 107 Nottingham, burying the mace at, 53-55; ale and bread custom, 61-62; town's presents, 69; Goose Fair, 154 Novel mode of distributing a charity, 265 Over, Mayor of, 60-61 O'Connell, D., and his wig, 22-23 Parading a head, 79 Parliament sitting at Shrewsbury, 75 Palm-Sunday, battle on, 101 Penzance, customs at, 235 Pepys and his wigs, 7-9; muffs, 41; on the Plague, 170