Elizabeth, Queen, a chess player, 3; her indecision, 34; drank common beer, 47; her bill of fare, 77; detested dwarfs and monsters, 86; aversion to smells, 87; patroness of dancing, 102; fond of hunting, 138; pageants and masques at Kenilworth, 156-7; her support of the masque, 158; horse-racing in reign of, 206; tennis in her reign, 224; sports of her reign, 231-2; fond of animals, 251; rejoinders made to her, 265-6; fond of jests, 266; love of finery, 295-6; her jesters, 331; patroness of the drama, 336-8; literary compositions, 363-4; musical, 379; and the comet, 397; belief in occult sciences, 407-8; talisman presented to, 409; credulity, 413 Elizabeth, queen of Edward IV., fond of nine-pins, 231 Eric XIV. of Sweden, violence of, 15; his fate, 15; superstitions, 402, 415 Essex, Earl of, his masque before Elizabeth, 156-7 Feodor, son of Ivan IV., his bell-ringing hobby, 124 Ferdinand I. of Austria, his weak mind, 96 Ferdinand II., story of his jester, 316 Ferdinand I. of Naples, taste for fruit, 73 Ferdinand II., Grand Duke of Tuscany, “the fool of his health,” 89 Ferdinand V., the Catholic, a hunter, 148; disliked finery, 292 Ferrand, Count of Flanders, a chess player, 4 Francis I. of France, injured at snowballs, 8; his licentiousness, 40; fond of hunting, 145; introduced short hair, 288; his Court fools, 320-1 Frederic, Elector, collector of relics, 131; advice of his fool, 318 Frederic of Baden, Princess, wife of Gustavus IV., 19 Frederick, Austrian prince, died of eating melons, 58 Frederick the Great, an epicure, 66; cost of his dinner, 67; his bill of fare, 68; activity, 97; collector of snuff-boxes, 132; denounced hunting, 148; his masked ball in 1745, 165-6; his dogs, 259; and horses, 260; anecdote of, 264; retort to, 282-3; Carlyle’s story of, 283; General Ziethen’s reply to, 283-4; slovenly habits, 293; fond of theatricals, 352-3; a musician, 389-91 Frederick II., anecdote of, 319; a writer, 374; belief in astrology, 403; alchemy in the reign of, 405-6 Frederick III., his indolence, 96 Frederick, Prince of Wales, his sudden death, 226-7; fond of private theatricals, 344; lines written by, 368-9 Frederick William I., a hard drinker, 38; his bill of fare, 68; passion for recruiting giants, 93-4; eccentricities, 95; fond of hunting, 148; his coarse jokes, 281-2; ignored fashion, 293; fools at his Court, 319; fond of music, 389 Frederick William III., averse to hunting, 148 Gadbury, John, astrologer, 404 Gascoigne, Judge, committed the Prince of Wales, 33 Geoffrey, son of Henry II., dissolute habits, 45 George I., fond of good living, 81; horse-racing in his reign, 213; partial to dwarfs, 244; his humour, 270-1; indifferent to fashion, 300; fond of the play _Henry VIII._, 342; death predicted, 423