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A Contest of Precedence
Abolition of the passport-system in France
Ancient and modern giants
Ancient Books
Ancient watches
Alchemy
Aqua Tufania: Poison used to put down relatives and enemies
Ancient writing-materials
Arundelian Marbles
Archery in England
Antiquities:
Falsehoods and forgeries in connection with antiquities
Atrocities of Giles de Laval - The original Bluebeard
Autumnal Equinox
B
Ballad Singers and Grub Street Poets
Banbury and its Remarkables
Banks Horse
Barebones Parliament
Bartholomew Act, 1662
Bartholomew Fair
Bear Baiting
Bell Man
Bells of Big Ben
Bibliomania, or book-madness
Blood Stains on wood
Bogs of Scotland
Borrowed Days
Bread, its making and sale in the middle ages
British infantry soldier first appearance in trousers
Brotherhood of the Piu
Bull running in England
Burial Mounds
Burial Sepulcurs
Burning of Milton's Books by the Hangman
C
Cannibalism in England
Catchpoles
Calve's Head Club
Child Prodigies: Heinecker, Christian
Child suckled by a goat
Children detained for a father's debt
Church bells
Church bell legends
Cider Making
Clog almanacs
Coffee House Clubs
Commonwealth of Hades
Cornish language, Expiration of the
Cornish Wrestling
Cotswold Games
Council of Trent
Court Fools and Jesters
Curfew-bell
Curious advertisements of two centuries ago
Curious notions and practices respecting the human heart of a deceased hero
Curious old divisions of the life of man
Curious Prayer
Custom of hoarding or burying money
D
Day's diving machine
Death and funeral of a squaw in London
Death of John Day
Deserted towns of Ancient Britain
Diets:
Dr. George Cheyne vegetable & milk diet
Discovery of America by Columbus
Dowerys
Dragons and dragon slayers
Dress of a lady of fashion in the seventeenth century
The female head-dresses of 1776
Drinking customs of various nations
Drinking Fountains in 1685
Dunking Stools
E
Earl of March's carriage race
Earthquake in Scotland
Eearly roads of England, their conditions, & the introduction of stage coaches
Eccentricities of Dr. William Kitchiner
Edict of Nantes, Revocation of
Eglintoun Tournament
Eikcon Basilik�
Equator:
On the naval ceremony performed when crossing it
Ember-days
: Fasts for imploring the blessing on the produce of the earth
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Extraordinary calculators
Execution of the rebellious Lords of 1746
Expiration of the Cornish Language
F
Fairlop Oak Festival
Family omens of death
Fanaticism
Fantoccini Puppets
Feast of the Ingathering
Fenmen, & their notorious opposition to all schemes of drainage
Fire that fed on water
Fires and their effect on rain
First balloon ascents in Britain
First British Steam Passage-boat
First Creation of Baronets
First steamers on the Thames
Fleet Marriages
Flitting Day:
Day most renters change their residences
Floors:
The use of rushes, straw, and sweet herbs to cover floors
Flying ship in 1709
Folk Lore of Nail-cutting
Forks and their use in England
Fox Hunting:
The history of Foxhunting
Franking of letters letters
Freak show personalities
G
Glastonbury thorn
Ghostly visitation as experienced by Lord Erskine
Gotham 'Cuckoo Bush'
Gothic Crown:
Notes on an ancient Gothic crown
Grave Robbers
Great storm of 27
th
November 1703
Greater Eaters
Greenwich Fair
H
Halifax Law
: Criteria use to determine in a person should be beheaded in Halifax
Halley's Comet of 1682
Hasting Diamond
Head-dresses of 1776
Hell-fire clubs: Fraternities of free-living men
Hermit:
The Old Hermit of Newton Burgoland
History of:
Silk Stockings
Wedding Rings
Halloween
Holyrood day
: Empress Helena discovered the true cross
Honeycombs in timber
Hoaxes
Falsehoods and forgeries in connection with antiquities
The Bottle Hoax
Horn Book
: Book used for learning the elements of English literature
Hour Glasses
Household expenses of Edward II
Hunting practices of the court of James I
I
Invention of the Cross
Invention of the thermometer
Imperial Crown, its history and construction
Iron crown of Italy
J
Jam and jelly making
K
Killing of two rustic lovers by a lightning stroke
King Christian IV of Denmark 1606 visit to England
King James and the Tower Lions
Knight of the Garter
L
Lammas: One of the four great pagan festivals of Britain
Lamp lighting in old London
Large-wheel vehicles in 1771
Last words of remarkable people
Legendary account of Gerbert, Magician and Pope
Legitimacy of gambling
Letter Franking
Life style of county squires
London inns, their signs and tokens
London Shoeblacks
London street nomenclature
Lord Mayor's show
: Festivities on the searing in of a new mayor for London
Loss of the 'Royal George'
Lotteries
The last 'State Lottery' drawn in England
Lydford's Law
Lyttelton ghost story
M
Macadam: On its use in building roads
Man in the Iron Mask
Management of debtor prison
Mary Moder, the German Princess
Mechanics' Institutions
Mermaids
Meteorology Forty Years Ago
Meteorite showers of 1831 to 1833
Miscellaneous Sayings
Mississippi Scheme
Montyon Prize for Virtue
Morris Dancing
Mug House riots of 1716
Musical geniuses
N
Names for animals when going together in companies
Newspaper management in the seventeenth century
Night watchmen of old London
Noah and his wife
Norfolk Commotion of 1549
O
Oatmeal - Its former uses in England
Odd bequests in last wills and testaments
Oddities of family histories - centenarians
Old Newspapers
Old sayings as to clothes
Old suburban tea-gardens
On the ability of people to fast for long time periods
On the benefits of medicinal springs
On the nature of parties given at the public gardens at Vauxhall
On the selling of wives
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester railway
Opium:
On the effects of Opium
Order of Fools
Order of the Garter
Origin of Hackney-coach Stands
P
Painting of faces by women in Elizabethan times
Paschal controversy - Early church discussion as to when Easter should fall
Passports:
Abolition of the passport-system in France
Patron Saints of various countries, groups and activities
People who are extraordinary heavy
People who have been married many times
People who have lived long lives
Ancient and modern giants
Authors who have lived long lives
People who could ruminate their food
People who have lived 100 years
People who have lived longer the 100 years
Women who have lived long lives
People who have revived after being hung
People who have ridden horses over long distances in short time periods
People who have slept for long time periods
Penny Post - Its creation
Pickpocket & Cut-purses
Pig faced lady
Pillory
Plague of London - 1665
Plants named after animals
Playing of sports on Sunday
Poet-laureates
Priest hiding spaced during the reformation
Prince Hohenlohe's Miraculous Cures
Prince of Wales:
The history behind the term 'Prince of Wales'
Prison ships on the Thames
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Prophecies of the death of noted people
Prosecution of animals
Punch and punch bowls
Puppets a hundred and fifty years ago
Q
Quakerism and the role of William Penn
Quarter-staffs
Questions considered amusing in the year 1510
R
Rat Legends
Remarkable cases of suspended animation
Remarkable cases of resemblance of distant relatives
Resistance to Fire
Royal Marriage Act
Relics worshipped by Roman Catholics
Revocation of Nantes
: Edict prohibiting the Christian burial of Protestants
Rich Beggars
Roads of England and their conditions
Road-tramways
Robin Hood Games
: Meant to represent the adventures of legendary Robin Hood
Rogation Days:
The Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Holy Thursday
Rules Governing ownership of abandoned, lost, or unclaimed property
S
Sale of three of the City gates of London, on the 30th of July 1760
Saltpetre Man
Scarborough Warning:
Regarding the abruptness of the danger
Scotch Non-trading League Against England
Sent Balls
Seventh sons and their seventh sons
Shakespeare Commemoration Festival in 1769
Shoe Blacks
Shrews: The way shrews were tamed long ago
Sighting of Sea Serpents by ships
Signals for servants
Sitting below the salt
Showers of animals
Snow Crystals and how they are formed
South Sea Financial Bubble
Spectre-dogs: the spirits of evil persons, who have been transformed into dogs
Spurs and Spur-money
St. Distaff's Day
Starving doctor
Stock market bubbles
South Sea Financial Bubble
The Mississippi Scheme
Strange history of the Chevalier D'eon
Sun dials
Sun spots
Sunday - how people perceived the sacredness of the day
Superstitions about diseases
Superstitious related to certain animals
Superstition related to the Cuckoo bird
Sweating sickness
T
Tea Gardens
The Book Fish
The coldest day in the 19
th
century
The cost of things in the early 1600's
The crimes of the Marchioness of Brinvilliers
The death of John Hampden, his burial and disinterment in 1828
The first steamer on the Thames
The Great Bed of Ware
The Hastings diamond
The history of London fashionable life
The Holy Coat of Thebes
The Horn Book
The hot Wednesday of 1808
The last of the Arctic Voyagers
The life of John Camden Neild - Eccentric gentleman & miser
The Old Hermit of Newton Burgoland
The Order of Fools
The Macaronis
: People who sought to attract attention by eccentricities in dress
The Man in the Iron Mask
The nature of doctors in the late 1600s
The 'Prentice's Pillar of Roslin
The scaffold code of etiquette
The Sea Monk & Sea Bishop
The sense of pre-existence
The story of the Resolute: Abandoned in the ice & found floating 445 days later
The trafficking in women's hair
The way shrews were tamed long ago
The witches of Belvior
Tombstones with interesting epithets
Tornado in Cheshire
Toasting a drink to someone's health
Trial of domestic animals in the common criminal courts
Traveling minstrels, quack, &c of the 16 & 17 century
Tune of old called Greysteil
Turnspits & Turnspit Dogs
U
Unfounded but Deserving Popular Notions
V
Vegetables, herbs, and fruits in England in the thirteenth century
Visiting cards of the 18
th
century
W
Wales:
The origin of the Emblem of Wales
Washing tallies
Wassail ale
Watches:
Ancient watches
Water & Paper Marks
Water supply of old London
Weapons' salve
Weather notions
Wedding Rings:
The History of Wedding Rings
Welshman Inventory
Whipping of vagrants
Whitehorse of Berkshire
Woman who swallowed a brass padlock
Wynyard ghost story
