Percy family, 122-133 Peter the Great obtaining the loan of a wig, 23 Petticoat charity, 265 Pig-tail, 12, 14 Pillory, bakers in the, 137 Pipes and tobacco for judges, 58 Piper playing to workmen, 247-248 Pliny on the goose, 150 Poets' Corner, Johnson and Goldsmith in, 91-92 Porpoise regarded as a delicacy, 69 Pope on Belinda, 177 Potatoes, preservation of, 70-71 Powdering the Hair, 28-39 Pontefract Castle, head spiked at, 77 Prison charities, 255-256 Punishing bakers, 138-140, 141 Puritans and lotteries, 189 Quill pens, 155 Ramillie Wig, 13 Reading, Morris Dancers at, 224 Rebel Heads on City Gates, 74-104 Revolt against Henry IV., 79 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 184-185 Riot, Wig, 25-27 Rollit, Sir Albert K., 168 Rome saved by the cackling of the goose, 151 Roper, Margaret, 83, 85 Rushes for church floors, 263-265 Rye, authority of Mayor, 62 Rye House Plot, 84-87 Saxons colouring their hair, 28 Scarlet gowns for the Mayoress, 52 Scotland, wigs in, 36-37; muff in, 42; body arrested in, 120; snuff taking in, 171-173 Scott, Sir Walter, on wigs, 37 School-boys obliged to smoke, 170 Schoolmasters forbidden to smoke, 174 Scrope, Richard, beheaded, 96-97 Selkirk, Making a sutor of, 59 Selling the Church Bible to pay for a Bear, 217-220 Sheridan, curious report respecting, 120 Shrewsbury, Parliament sitting at, 75 Shrouds for prisoners, 256-257 Shouting a kirn, 248-250 Slaves, freeing christian, 257-258 Smoking forbidden in the streets, 173-174 Snuffing, earliest allusion to, 169 Southampton, Mayoress of, 50 South Shields, suicide, burial of, 109-110 Sowing hempseed, 241 Sparsholt, dead body detained at, 115 Speaker's wig, 18 Spice bread, making prohibited, 140 St. Albans, clock at, 161 St. Paul's Lotteries drawn at the doors of, 188 State Lotteries, 186-204 Stealing wigs, 24-25 Sterne, a snuff taker, 184 Stow, John, 266-274 Stratford-le-Bow, bakers at, 135 Sugar-loaves, presentation of, 62-69 Tamworth, curious bye-law at, 167 Taxing hair-powder, 31, 33; repealing tax, 39 Taylor, John, on Hull ale, 72-73 Tea and snuff, 178 Temple Bar, 84-92 Test Act, 48 Thewes at Hull, 96 Towneley, Colonel, 88-92 Towton-field, battle of, 101 Turnspit, The, 144-149 Twyford, suicide, burial of, 113-114 Unwin, Mrs., fond of snuff, 177 Valuable snuff-boxes, 181 Vesper bell, 167 Wakefield, battle of, 97-98 Wales, subjugation of, 74 Wallace, Sir William, 75 Watches not usually carried, 165 Welsh rebels beheaded, 74 Wesley, Rev. John, and snuff-taking, 175 West Hallam, burial at four lane ends, 107 West Riding lore, 120-121 When Wigs were Worn, 1-27 Whittington, Dick, 159 Whitsun morris dance, 228 Wigs, 1-27; Riots, 25-27 Wildridge, T. Tindall, on Hull, 95