Lackington, James, and bargain-hunters, 39 apprenticeship, 33, 34 benefactions to Wesleyan denomination, 47 birth and parentage, 31 boyhood, vender of pies, almanacs. etc., 32 business and profits in 1791, 44 buys Young's "Night Thoughts," 38 courage as a boy--the ghost story, 32 death and burial, 47 extensive purchases, 42 first sale catalogue, 40 gives up shoemaking for book-selling, 38 goes to London, 1774, 37 helped by the Wesleyan Fund, 39 kindness to his relatives, 46 life in Bristol, 35, 36 marries Nancy Smith, 36 "Memoirs and Confessions," 29 motto for the door of his carriage, 30 "No credit" system, 41, 42 reads Epictetus, etc., 35 retires from business, 1798, 45 second marriage, 40 sets up a "chariot" and "country-house," 44 starts as bookseller, 38 strictures on the Wesleyans, 29 "Temple of the Muses," 29, 45 tour through England and Scotland, 45, 46 Lamb, Charles, on Shoemakers, 91, 227 Lacroix, "Manners and Customs of Middle Ages," 198 Lee, Dr. Samuel, 172 Gideon, Mayor of New York, 277 "Leisure Hour," articles on shoemakers, 211 Leno, John B., 248 Lestage, Nicholas, of Bordeaux, 203 Let the cobbler stick to his last, 191 "Literary Gazette " on Gifford, 93, 94 Living examples of illustrious shoemakers, 248 Llandaff, Earl of, and O'Neill, 245 Lofft, Capel, 99, 239, 243 Mackay, of Norwich, 225 Macon, Mr., on Roger Sherman, 275 Madan, Martin, and "Helmsley," 234 Marriage, remarks on, 136, 137 Marshman's "Carey, Marshman, and Ward," 131, 144, 145 John Clarke, author of "Carey, Marshman, and Ward," 145 Mr., Dr. Carey's friend and colleague, 143, 145 Meistersingers of Germany, 204 Men's and Women's _conscia recti_, 225-6 Milbanke, Miss (Lady Byron) and Blacket, 241 Miller, Thomas, and Thomas Cooper, 173, 180 Montgomery, Jas., and Thomas Cooper, 177 Morrison, Rev. Robert, D.D., 258, 259 Mutual Improvement Society at Gainsborough and T. Cooper, 171 Murray, John, and Gifford's editorial stipend, 83, 84 Murray, John, his "drawing-rooms," 83 Myngs, Sir Christopher, 19, 28, 219 Narborough, Sir John, 19-21, 219 Newton, Sir Isaac, and Boehmen, 206 Nichol, Rev. James, 239 Notes and Queries, 225 Odger, George, 266-8 Olivers, Thomas, 234 O'Neill, John, temperance poet, 244-6 "Oracle," The, 268 Parsons, William, of the _Junto_, 277 Partridge, Dr., 220-3 Peace Societies, founded in America, 273 Peel, Sir Robert, and shoemakers, 266 Polwhele, Rev. Mr., and S. Drew, 120 Pope John XXII., 209 Pope and Partridge, 221 and Savage, 230 Portraits of naval officers at Greenwich, 219