Salisbury, Marchioness, burnt to death, 184 Semaphore on Royston Heath, 66 Sheep stealing, death sentences for, 89 Shelford fires, death sentence for, 168 Shepreth, skilful woman of, 101 Shield, Capt., the Rev. Thomas, 68, 71 Small-pox, a recommendation, 44 Snelgar, Rev. J., 186 Snowstorms, memorable, 181, 182, 185 Soame, Sir Peter, 131, 132, 136 Stocks, a Lord Chief Justice in, 85 "Tally-ho" and "Safety" Coaches, 146, 148 Taxes on marriages, &c., 78 Therfield, searching for mail, 49 Threshing machines, breaking of, 166 Thurnall, Henry, and the highwayman, 90 --Commended by Poor-law Commissioners, 171 Thurnall, H. J., picture by, 18 Thurtle and Hunt, trial of, 49 Tinder Box, the, 73, 74 Tithes collected in kind, 124 Turpin, Dick, traditions of, 13, 14 Velocipede, the, 152 Volunteers, associations of, 67 Wadesmill Turnpike, 155 Wagon and sign post, the, 184, 185 Walton, Joe, coachdriver, 148, 149 Warren, J., 68, 157 Window tax, 79 Witches, 101 Wheat, 28s. a bushel, 60 "Wheatbarn tasker," the, 166 Woodcock, Elizabeth, buried alive in the snow, 181 Wortham, Lady, 77 Wortham, Squire, 131 Wrestling matches, 24 End of Project Gutenberg's Fragments of Two Centuries, by Alfred Kingston