loving subject, John Stow (a very aged and worthy member of our city of
London), this five-and-forty years hath, to his great charge, and with
neglect of his ordinary means of maintenance (for the general good, as
well of posterity as of the present age), compiled and published divers
necessary books and chronicles; and therefore we, in recompense of these
his painful labours, and for encouragement of the like, have, in our Royal
inclination, been pleased to grant our Letters Patent, under our Great
Seal of England, thereby authorising him, the said John Stow, to collect
among our loving subjects their voluntary contributions and kind
gratuities."
The foregoing authority to beg was granted for twelve months, but, as the
response was so small, it pleased the King to extend the privilege for
another year. From one parish in the City of London he only received seven
shillings and sixpence--a poor reward, to use Stow's words, "of many a
weary day's travel, and cold winter night's study."
His end now was drawing near, and mundane trials were almost over. On the
5th of April, 1605, his well-spent life closed, and his mortal remains
were laid to rest in his parish church of St. Andrew, Undershaft. Here may
still be seen the curious and interesting monument which his loving widow
erected. It is pleasant to leave the busy streets of the great metropolis
and repair to the quiet sanctuary where rests the old chronicler, and look
upon his quaint monument, and reflect on ages long passed. When the Great
Fire of 1666 destroyed the London Stow had so truthfully described, his
monument escaped destruction.
Ye Ende
INDEX.
Abingdon, customs at, 56
Advertisement, novel, 194-197
Age of Snuffing, 168-185
Alleyn, Edward, founder of Dulwich College, 212
Altrincham, Mayor of, 60-61
Ambassadors, at bear-baitings, 211, 215-216
America, Muffs in, 45-46;
Cold places of worship, 46-47
Anglo-Saxon bread, 134
An Old-Time Chronicler, 266-274
Arise, Mistress, Arise!, 142-143
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, 84-87
Arrows, 152
Ashbourne, custom at, 241
Baker's dozen, 138
Baiting animals stopped by Act of Parliament, 221
Banbury, customs at, 58
Banks, Mrs. G. L., on hair-dressing, 38
Bankside, plan of, 213
Barber's shop, 21
Barley bread, 135
Baxter, Richard, on Sunday pleasure, 231
Barbers fined, 32
Barrington, G., poet and pickpocket, 180-181
Barrister's wig, 18, 19
Barrow bells, 157
Bear-baiting, 132-133, 205-221
Bells as Time-Tellers, 156-167
Bell ringing bequests, 261-262
Beverley, funeral at, 123;
bear-baiting at, 133
Bewdley, custom at, 142
Bish, Mr., on Lotteries, 200-202
Blue-Coat boys, draw at lotteries, 194
Boar's-head with mustard, 131
Bonfires, 234, 235
Bow bells, 159
Boroughbridge, Battle of, 77
Brandeston, removing a dead body to the church for protection, 117
Bread and Baking in Bygone Days, 134-141
Bread Street, 135
Bribes for the Palate, 63-73
British slaves, freeing, 257-258
Briscoe, J. P., on Nottingham customs, 61-62
Bromley-by-Bow, bakers at, 135
Burial at Cross Roads, 105-114
Burying the mace, 53
Butter and suet, prohibiting the use of in making bread, 140
Byng, Admiral, shot, 45
Cade, Jack, 81
Caius, Dr., on dogs, 145
Cambridge, regulations relating to tobacco, 173
Candles for lighting the streets, 52
Canterbury, curious customs at, 52-53
Capture of snuff, 171
Carlisle, Earl of, beheaded, 78-79
Carlisle, heads spiked at, 92-95
Charles II. and wigs, 7
Charlotte, Queen, gives up using hair-powder, 36;
taking snuff, 176
Christmas rhymes, 142
Chronicler, an Old-Time, 266-274
Churches, snuff taking in, 172-175
Clarinda, Burns on, 178
Clee, custom at, 263
Clergy and the wig, 15-17
Clifton rhyme, 219-220
Clocks, introduction of, 160
Clothiers in eighteenth century, 165
Closing shops, time for, 160
Cobham, Eleanor, trial of, 80
Cockledge, murder at, 123
Combing the wig, 10
Concerning Corporation Customs, 48-62
Congleton, bear-baiting at, 217-218
Conspiracy to assassinate William III., 87
Cooper's Hall, Lotteries at, 193
Cornish Insurrection, 81;
folk-lore, 234-236
Corporation snuff-boxes, 168-169
Craven cartoon, 242
Crop Clubs, 34
Curious Charities, 255-265
Curious window at Betley, 225-227
Curfew bell, 166-167
Dagger Money, 57
Death, Superstitions relating to, 242
Death of William I., 167
Deering on snuff-taking, 178
Detaining the Dead for Debt, 115-121
Derby, suicide, burial of a, 106
Discarding wigs in court, 19
Doctors' muffs, 42
Dogs, earliest writer on, 145;
in muffs, 44
Droylsden, suicide, burial of, 108-109
Druidical superstitions, 234
Dryden, Haunt of, 182
Ducking Stool, 138
Duels, 106
Earle, Mrs. A. M., on American Muffs, 46
Early closing of public-houses, 167
Eating custom, 242-243
Ecclesfield, tradition at, 220
Edward III., proclamation of, against bear-baiting, 205
Egypt, goose in, 150
Egyptians, invent wigs, 1
Eldon, Lord, objects to the wig, 18
Elizabeth, enjoys baiting animals, 208
Epitaphs, 109, 116, 197, 203-204, 260-261
Erasmus in England, 206
Exeter, salmon given at, 70
False hair, 20, 22
Famous snuff takers, 176
Fathers of the Church denounce wigs, 3
Felo-de-se, Acts relating to, 112-114
Female follies, 30
Fined for arresting the dead, 118-119, 121
Fined for being deficient in elegance, 52
First English lottery, 186-188
Fish, presentation of, 70
Fisher, Bishop, beheaded, 81-82
Fishtoft, burial of a suicide at, 107
Fitstephen on bear-baiting, 205
Fletcher, Captain, 88-89
Folk-Lore of Midsummer Eve, 234-243
France, Mania for Wigs in, 6-7
Funeral, stately, 123
Garrick, Mrs., 178
George II., a selfish snuff-taker, 185
Glayer, Sir John, 258-261
Globe Theatre, 209
Gold-dust used for hair-powder, 28
Gossip about the Goose, 150-155
Great Plague, tobacco and snuff used during, 169-171
Guinea-pigs, 35
Harvest bell, 156, 157-158
Harvest Home, 244-254
Hair, cut off with a bread-knife, 44
Hale, Sir Matthew, 63-64
Hamlet, Grave scene in, 105
Hampton Court Palace, clock at, 162-163
Hannibal and his wigs, 5-6
Hartlepool, strange enactment at, 62
Hawarden attacked, 74
Heart-breakers, 20
Hempseed, sowing, 241
Henzner, Paul, 84
Herrick on harvest customs, 252-253
Hilton, Jack of, 152
Hockley-in-the-Hole, 220
Holy bread, 134
Hope theatre, 207
Horse Guards, protect the lottery wheel, 193
Howard's Household Book, 145
Hull, curious ordinances at, 51-53;
Sheriff to provide his wife with a scarlet gown, 52;
Andrew Marvell and Hull ale, 71-73;
head spiked at, 95;
ducking-stool at, 96;
Mayor slain, 98;
snuff-box at, 168-169
Incorporation of towns, 48
Inscription on bells, 159
Ireland, St. John's eve in, 236-237
Irish folk-lore, 175
Jackson, John, and his clock, 162-166
Jacobites, defeat of, 102
James I. and tobacco, 173;
orders a bear to be baited to death, 215
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, and his snuff, 182
Judge's wig, 18
Keeping people awake, 255
Kenilworth, bears baited at, 211
King eating meal and rye bread, 141
Kingston-upon-Thames, Morris Dancers at, 223
Knocking feet in meeting houses, 47
Lady, origin of, 134
Lamb, Charles and Mary, 184
Lanthorns, bequests for providing, 262-263
Last Lottery in England, 198-200
Layer, Councillor, 87-88
Leconfield castle, 123
Leeds bridge, market on, 165
Leicester, mace lowering at, 51;
bear-baiting at, 216-217
Leighton, Robert, poem by, 183-184
Letters from the dead to the living, 11
Licence to beg, 272-273
Lincolnshire geese, 153
Lion Sermon, 258-261
London Bakers' Company, 135-136
London Bridge, 75-84
London, burials of suicides, 110-111
Love divinations, 238-240
Louth, ringing custom at, 158
Lowering the mace, 51
Ludlow, customs at, 59
Lycians, heads shaven and wigs worn, 5
Mace, as a weapon and as an ensign of authority, 49
Manchester, curious baking regulations, 140
Manorial service, curious, 144, 152
Margarett, Princess, 49, 123-124
Mar, Rising of, 87
Marvell, Andrew, and Hull ale, 71-73
Mary, Queen of Scots, 102
May-pole, 233
Meals in the olden time, 127-129
Medical men and the wig, 17-18
Men wearing Muffs, 40-47
Michaelmas goose, 154
Micklegate Bar, York, 98-99;
heads stolen from, 103
Milk, price of, in the olden time, 268
More, Sir Thomas, beheaded, 83
Morley, custom at, 143
Morris-Dancers, 222-233
Municipal Reform Act, 48
Murder, strange story of a, 137
Napoleon taking snuff, 181;
snuff-box, 177-178
Newcastle-on-Tyne, assize custom at, 56-58;
presents of wine and sugar loaves, 64-66;
brank at, 66, 67;
burial of a suicide, 111
Nobleman's Household in Tudor Times, 122-133
North Wingfield, dead body stopped at, 115-116
Northumberland Household Book, 125-133
Norwich, burial of a suicide, 107
Nottingham, burying the mace at, 53-55;
ale and bread custom, 61-62;
town's presents, 69;
Goose Fair, 154
Novel mode of distributing a charity, 265
Over, Mayor of, 60-61
O'Connell, D., and his wig, 22-23
Parading a head, 79
Parliament sitting at Shrewsbury, 75
Palm-Sunday, battle on, 101
Penzance, customs at, 235
Pepys and his wigs, 7-9;
muffs, 41;
on the Plague, 170
Percy family, 122-133
Peter the Great obtaining the loan of a wig, 23
Petticoat charity, 265
Pig-tail, 12, 14
Pillory, bakers in the, 137
Pipes and tobacco for judges, 58
Piper playing to workmen, 247-248
Pliny on the goose, 150
Poets' Corner, Johnson and Goldsmith in, 91-92
Porpoise regarded as a delicacy, 69
Pope on Belinda, 177
Potatoes, preservation of, 70-71
Powdering the Hair, 28-39
Pontefract Castle, head spiked at, 77
Prison charities, 255-256
Punishing bakers, 138-140, 141
Puritans and lotteries, 189
Quill pens, 155
Ramillie Wig, 13
Reading, Morris Dancers at, 224
Rebel Heads on City Gates, 74-104
Revolt against Henry IV., 79
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 184-185
Riot, Wig, 25-27
Rollit, Sir Albert K., 168
Rome saved by the cackling of the goose, 151
Roper, Margaret, 83, 85
Rushes for church floors, 263-265
Rye, authority of Mayor, 62
Rye House Plot, 84-87
Saxons colouring their hair, 28
Scarlet gowns for the Mayoress, 52
Scotland, wigs in, 36-37;
muff in, 42;
body arrested in, 120;
snuff taking in, 171-173
Scott, Sir Walter, on wigs, 37
School-boys obliged to smoke, 170
Schoolmasters forbidden to smoke, 174
Scrope, Richard, beheaded, 96-97
Selkirk, Making a sutor of, 59
Selling the Church Bible to pay for a Bear, 217-220
Sheridan, curious report respecting, 120
Shrewsbury, Parliament sitting at, 75
Shrouds for prisoners, 256-257
Shouting a kirn, 248-250
Slaves, freeing christian, 257-258
Smoking forbidden in the streets, 173-174
Snuffing, earliest allusion to, 169
Southampton, Mayoress of, 50
South Shields, suicide, burial of, 109-110
Sowing hempseed, 241
Sparsholt, dead body detained at, 115
Speaker's wig, 18
Spice bread, making prohibited, 140
St. Albans, clock at, 161
St. Paul's Lotteries drawn at the doors of, 188
State Lotteries, 186-204
Stealing wigs, 24-25
Sterne, a snuff taker, 184
Stow, John, 266-274
Stratford-le-Bow, bakers at, 135
Sugar-loaves, presentation of, 62-69
Tamworth, curious bye-law at, 167
Taxing hair-powder, 31, 33;
repealing tax, 39
Taylor, John, on Hull ale, 72-73
Tea and snuff, 178
Temple Bar, 84-92
Test Act, 48
Thewes at Hull, 96
Towneley, Colonel, 88-92
Towton-field, battle of, 101
Turnspit, The, 144-149
Twyford, suicide, burial of, 113-114
Unwin, Mrs., fond of snuff, 177
Valuable snuff-boxes, 181
Vesper bell, 167
Wakefield, battle of, 97-98
Wales, subjugation of, 74
Wallace, Sir William, 75
Watches not usually carried, 165
Welsh rebels beheaded, 74
Wesley, Rev. John, and snuff-taking, 175
West Hallam, burial at four lane ends, 107
West Riding lore, 120-121
When Wigs were Worn, 1-27
Whittington, Dick, 159
Whitsun morris dance, 228
Wigs, 1-27;
Riots, 25-27
Wildridge, T. Tindall, on Hull, 95
Winchester, presents of sugar loaves at, 66-69;
curious regulations, 215
Women wearing wigs, 9, 22
Worcester, curious baking regulation, 140
Wressel Castle, 125
Wycombe, customs at, 55-56
York, Duke of, slain, 98;
head spiked, 98
York, Lord Mayor of, 49
York, walls and gates of, 96-104
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