The table book, of daily recreation and information : concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties ... forming a complete history of the year ... / by William Hone.

  • William Hone
Date:
[1857?]
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Credit: The table book, of daily recreation and information : concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties ... forming a complete history of the year ... / by William Hone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deer, antiquity of, 746. Beethoven, musician, memoir of, 20 4 Begging Quaker, &c. 761. Bellows and bellows-makers, 603 Bells. See Binging. “ Belphegor,” old play, 552. Beverley, a strong porter, 550. Beverley, St. John of, 545. Bhye, Alia, amiable character of, 520. Bilbocquet, a royal amusement, 348 Bill of fare, 44. Birds; water-fowl at Niagara, 534 ; Dr. Ful- ler’s account of one, 287 ; Sandy’s method of hatching their eggs, 681. See Storks, &c. Birmingham, clubs of, 89 ; manufactures,&c. of, 595. Bishops; resignation of one, 103. Blacking, notices about, 435. Blackthorn, old custom of, 240. Blake, W., hostler, engraving of, 47. ?bod, circulation of, notices about, 724. Bloomfield, George, poet’s brother, engrav- ing, 801. , Robert, poet, notice of, 802. “ Blurt, Master Constable,” old play, 739. Bodies, elements of, 214. Bolton, John, of Durham, 409. Bonaparte at Torbay, 360. Bones, advice for breaking, 511. Booker, Rev. L., notice of, 163. Books; lending of, 285, 287; my pocket- book, 403; device taken from a book of prayers, 615, (note.) Boots, importance of shape of, 512. Boswelliana, 255. Bowel complaints, receipt for, 256. Braco, Lord, and a farthing, 242. Brandon, Gregory, hangman, 699. Brass-works, 601. Bribery, in England, by foreigners, 16. Bridal, public, 374. “ Bride,(The)” old play, 134. Bridlington, custom at, 582. Bristol, opulence and inns at, 243; prince George of Denmark at, 243; high cross at, 715. Bromley, bishop’s well at, 65 ; engraving of the church-door, 97 ; extraordinary ringing at, 527. Bruce, lord Edward, notices about, 225. “ Brutus of Alba,” old play, 711. Brydges, sir E., epitaph on his daughter, 280. Buckles, notices of, 597. Budeus, (the learned) blunder of, 413. Budge, [Fur] notices about, 236; budge- bachelors, 237 ; Budge-row, 237. Building estimates should be doubled, 352. Bunyan’s holy war dramatized, 24. Burial in gardens, 460. See Funerals. Burkitt, Dan., an old jigger, 278. Bush tavern, Bristol, 44. Butler, (Hudibras,) hint adopted by, 410. Buttons, notices about, 596. Buying and selling, 2! 1. Cabalistic learning, 20 Cabbage-trees, vast height of, 471 Calvin and Servetus, 730. Cann, Abraham, wrestler, 499. CAPITAL extempore, 480. Capon, W illiam, scene painter, notice of 709. Carlisle, customs at, 373. Castle-baynard, tale of, 242. Casualties of the ancients, 574. Cataracts of Niagara, 631. Caverns, tremendous one, 541. Centenaries; medal for the centenary of the diet of Augsburgh, 321; centenary of the revolution, 515. Cesar and Amilcas, 638. “ Chabot, Admiral of France,” old play, 6. Chains, hanging in, 149. Chairs, (arm) curious ones, 436, 622. “ Challenge to Beauty,” old play, 498, 622. Charlemagne, misfortunes in family of, 397. Charles I. and treaty of Uxbridge, 521. II., anecdote of, 33; procession on his restoration, 505 ; his court, 832. V., bribery of English parliament by, 16. Charost, M. de, a royal favourite, 512. Chartres, duke of, notice of, 209. Chateaubriand, viscount de, anecdote of, 415 Chatsworth, 135. Chemistry of the ancients, 743,746, 789. Chequers at public-houses, 38. Chester, custom at, 613. Chiari and rival dramatists, 11. Children, customs relating to, 21; children and mother, 441 : children and split trees superstition concerning, 465; affection for children, 491. Christening, customs at, 23. Christian Malford, plague at, 553. Christmas-pie, 506. Chrysanthemum Indicum, 737. Churches, remarks on beautifying, 25; cus- tom of strewing with rushes, 277. See Fonts. Church-yards,beautiful one at Grassr»ere,278 Cigar divan of Mr. Gliddon, 673. Cinderella, origin of, 719. Circle, squaring the, 797. Circulation of the blood, 724. Cities, ancient, 822. Civilisation promoted by trade, 212. Cleopatra’s pearl, 789. Clergy, luxurious dress of, 236; weekly ex penses of a clergyman, 283; devoted at tachment of one to his flock, 483. Clerk’s desk, 195. Clocks, difference between, accounted for 409. Closing the eyes, 27- Clubs at Birmingham, 89. Coachman, considerate, 146 Coats, how speedily made. 86. “ Cock and Pvnot” public-house, 513. Colossus of Rhodes, 823. Colours, philosophy of, 406. Comets, philosophy of, 472