Volume 3

The Percy anecdotes / collected and edited by Reuben and Sholto Percy [pseud.].

Date:
pref. 1868
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Percy anecdotes / collected and edited by Reuben and Sholto Percy [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bear, wonderful, 208 Beard, reason for a long’, 462 Beards, fashions of, 445 Beards, stiletto and dagger, 459 Beards, tax on, 445 Bears in jeopardy, 142 Beasts not machines, 104 Beau, Nash, issues an edict, 470 Beaumont and Fletcher, 313 Beauty, tribute to, 223 Beauty, valuing of, 235 Beaver, the, 133 Bebe, the dwarf, 223 Becket's executioners, 31 Bedford, Duchess of. 211 Bedridden mechanic, rs9 Bee charmer, no Beggar, silent, 266 Beggar’s opera, a real, 332 Begging quarter, 228 Beguiling hunger, 149 Bel and the dragon, 218 Benefit playbill, 323 Benefits of expectancy, 592 Benefits of teasing, 554 Bengalese, the, 380 Bequests extraordinary, 247 Bereaved father, 605 Berlin, Bank of, 402 Better half, the, 219 Big Brogues, Peter, 239 Big Brogues, Peter, nephew of, 247 Bills of exchange, 401 Bird fancier, 261 Birds, artificial, 132 Bishop, boarding a, 462 Bishop’s wives, 627 Bisset, the animal teacher, 125 Biters bit, the, 334 Bleachgrounds, protected, 74 Blind Man’s Buff, 491 Blind tailor, 158 Blood money, 63 Blood's attempt on Ormond, 53 Blood’s attempt to steal the crown, 76 Blue-stocking club, 538 Blunder, a dramatic, 330 Blunders, literary, 226 Boar-hunting in France, 533 Bold monitor, 4 Bolton, Duchess of. When an actress, 318 Bon mot, 242 Bon mot, imperial, 238 Bon mot, theatrical, 329 Bonaparte on suicide, 70 Boots, invention of, 448 Bordereau, Renee, heroism of, T,558 - Borrowing, 49 Boruwlaski the dwarf, 223 .Boswell and Coleman, 216 Boursault’s will, 247 Boxing, an athletic sport, 324 Brancas, Count de, 278 Branks, the, 57 Brave hunters, 68 Breaking evil tidings, 169 Breaking on the wheel, 67, 89 Bribe, well-weighed, 8 Bribery outbribed, 235 Bridal night, a, 6r4 Bridal tragedy, 541 Bride, spirited, 608 Bridewell, prisoners in, 80 Bridge of Pisa, mock fight at, 492 Bridge of Ronda, 181 Bridge, singular, 355 Bridges, Chinese, 184 Bridgewater, Duke of, 180 Bridport, Lord, 203 Brindley, Mr., 180 Bristol, criminal law at, 23 British sailors, 626 British Timon, 254 Broken heart, the, 99 Brothers, inseparable, 599 Brothers, the rival, 571 Brown, Bishop of Cork and the poor curate, 615 Bruin, sagacious, 140 Bruges, trade of, in the 14th ccn- tury, 398 Brunell s clock machinery, 190 Bubbles, barefaced, 412 Buchan, Countess of, 49 Bucher, C., his benevolence to orphans, 363 Buckebourg, Count de, 254 Buckingham, Duke of, 317 Buckingham, Duke of, liis magni- ficent apparel, 474 Buckles, fashion for wearing, 457 Bucks of 1728, 463 Bullfights, Spanish, 309 Burgoyne, Genera], 200 Burleigh, Lord, 218 Burleigh precepts, 452 Burney, Dr., peculiarities of, 242 Burney, Miss, and her secret novel, 579 Burning alive, 33 Burning a witch, 40 Burning forty-seven widows, S49 Butler, Sir Toby, 221 Butterfield, Lady, her annual chal- lenge, 517 Buttons, Dutch fondness for, 467 Buston, Jedediah, 270 By-and-by, 262 OABIN, an Irish, 394 Cachmere shawls, manufac- ture of, 371 Cadis, Turkish, 8 Caesar, death of, 84 Calculating crow, 103 Caledoniana, 209 Calf stealing, 284 Caliph, the just, 600 Caliph reclaimed, 8 Cali birds, 135 Calumny, 233 Cambyses, King of Persia, 6 Campo, Marquis del, the Spanish ambassador, 623 Canal navigation, 180 Canals in China. 426 Canary, charitable, T32 Candidate, a frank, 284 Canine sheep-stealer, 103 Canine smugglers, 103 Canine tragedian, 99 Canute, code of, 50 Capital punishment, 30 Caprice, 330, 550 Caprice of fashion, 467 Caps, emblems of, 446 Caravans of the East, 427 Cardan, 278 Cards, origin of games, 490 Caroline, Queen, her domestic happiness, 618 Caroline, Queen, letter Of, 373 Carrier pigeons, ir4 Carrier’s dog, 137 Carte and tierce, connubial, 206 Carter, Mrs. E., her knowledge of languages, 573 Carthaginians, the, 392 Cat and crown, 117 Cat harmony 108 Catcher caught, 122 Catching the small-pox, 2J6 Catharine, Empress, and her brother, 622 Catharine, Empress, her com- passion, 343 Cato, the elder, educating his son, 587 Cazotte, M., and his daughters in prison, 63r Celerity, manufacturing, 353 Ceremony, 241 Certainty of punishment, 64 Challenge, family man’s answer to a, 623 Challenger, a brave, 317 Chambers, Richard, 21 Changing signals, 149 Chapelle and Boileau, 275 Chaplains, royal, 223 Character, real, 229 Charioteers, Roman, 490 Charles I„ fate of, 54 Charles II. and Lord W. Russell, 54 Charlotte, Princess, and Prince Leopold, 602 Charlotte, Queen, landing in Eng- land, 466 Charm, the, 134 Charmed warriors, 528 Charondas, the legislator of the Thurians, 39 Chase, extraordinary, 508 Cherry, Andrew, an enthusiast of the sock and buskin, 325 Chess, isr Chess on a great scale, 514 Chess playing, antiquity of, 4S9 Chess playing, blindfolded, 513 Chester in an uproar, 203 Child saved, 107 Children of Darias, 593 Children of Thespis, 335 China, American trade to, 424 China, Emperor of, 29 China, filial piety in, 587 China, rare, 482 Chinese, inventions of, 170 Chinese fashion, 477 Chinese feats of agility, 514 Chinese fishing birds, no Chinese mode of fishing, 139 Chinese regrets, 630 Chinese, the, 351 Chinese, trading with the, 424 Chinese women, their small feet, 477 Chisel, wonders of the, 179 Christian IV., justice of, 20 Cibber, Colley, 223 Cibber, Colley, a natural coxcomb, 484 Cibber, Colley, his reward and Sunishinent. 331 ber, Mrs., her juvenile appear- ance on the stage, 331 Circassian women, 562 Circumstantial evidence, 12,17 City common hunt, 497 City glutton, 2or Civilized Indians, 354 Clairon, Madame, the French actress, 332 Clameur de Haro, 26 Clark, Mr., of Exeter Change, 187 Claudian emissary, the, 362 Cleemenes, K,ng of the Lacede- monians, 149 Clement XIV’., Pope, and his good manners, 469 Clerical dancing, 520 Clergyman, royalist, 285 Clever thief. 22t Clients, singular, 48 Clock of Heidelberg, 157 Clock of Louden, 175 Clockwork, English, 156 Clockwork, Scottish, 157 Clonmel. Lord, 234 Clough and Shutcr, 279 Coaches, when introduced into England, 454 Coal mines, discovery of, 373 Coalbcarers, female, 359