Parrot, the proverb, An almond for a parrot, explained,

ii. 245.

Parrot teacher explained, i. 122.

Parfon explained, i. 147.

Partlet, Dame, explained, i. 252.

Paftorella, her ftory, i. 254, 259, 260. 270.

Pavin, a dance, i. 236.

Pedlar defcribed. i. 265.

Pegge, whence derived, i. 194.

Penance, going woolward for it, i. 154.

Pendragon, Uter, an account of his bravery, ii. 7.
Pepin, King, i. 147.

Periapt explained, ii. 24.

Peter of Pomfret, his prophecy, i. 296.

Petition, a very uncommon one, i. 121.

Petruchio, the tamer of a fhrew, 192. 195, 196.

Philomela. See Tereus.

Philofopher. See Weeping philofopher.

Phanix tree, and Phænix, i, 27.

Pin and Web, i. 247.

Pinker, Friar, an account of his flattery, in a fermon at the
coronation of Richard III. ii. 61.

Pinto, Fernand Mendez, one inftance of the improbability of
his history, i. 23.

Pittachus, the Mitilenian general, an account of his treacherous
ufage of Phryno, the Athenian general, i. 101.

Pix, and Pax, explained, i, 388.

Plague, red, explained, i. 13. Of Athens alluded to, ii. 125.
Plantagenet, whence the royal family were fo called, in the
reign of King Henry II. ii. 32.

Plantain formerly fuppofed of great use against poisons, ii.
264.

Pledge explained, ii. 120.

Point, devife, explained, i. 231.

Pamander defcribed, i. 269.

Pope called by fome of the canonifts, a god, i. 21.

Portia, daughter of Cato Uticenfis, and wife of Brutus, an ac-

count of her fortitude, ii. 180. Of her death, 188.

Portugal, bay of, its depth, i. 184.

Potions, love. See Love-potions.

Poifoning. See Boiling to death.

Poifons, the Italians and Spaniards infamous on that account,
i. 30. See Squire.

Prayer, a remarkable one of a mariner in a storm, who had
never prayed before, i. 61.

Prevarication, a remarkable one, i. 150.

Prices

Prices of grain, cattle, &c. in the reign of Henry IV. and
preceding reigns, i. 355, &c.

Prieft, piel'd, or pied, explained, ii. 3.

Primero, and Primavifta, the game explained, ii. 96.'
Profpero, Duke of Milan, his skill in natural magick, i.
36, &c.

Pucelle, an account of her, ii. 5. 12. 14.

Purples, long, explained, ii. 308.

Pyramus and Thisbe, their story, i. 72, 73, 74, 75-

Pyrrhus, King of Epire, an account of his remarkable
ftrength, ii. 139.

Rabel, Lady, wife of a baron of Bohemia, had two children
at a birth, at the age of 75, her husband being 80 years
old, ii. 191.

Raddock, the Robin-red-breaft, ii. 226.

Rede explained, ii. 285.

Religious houfes, the firft blow was given to them by Cardi-
nal Wolfey, for the building of Chrift Church, called Car-
dinal College, and his College at Ipfwich, ii. 96.

Rescue explained, i. 242.

Rhefus furprised, and flain in his tent by Ulyffes and Dio-
medes, ii. 45.

Rhiming to death, i. 181.

Rialto in Venice defcribed, i. 131:

Richard I. why called Cœur de Lion, i. 278. Shot at the
fiege of Chalons, with a crofs-bow, by Bertrand, 279.
Richard II. his extravagance in dress, i. 312.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, (afterwards King Richard III.),
born with teeth, ii. 49. Came into the world with his
feet forward, 50. His badge alluded to, 59. Endeavours
to prove his brother, King Edward IV. a baftard, 60.
Murdered his wife, probably with a defign of marrying
the Princess Elizabeth, his brother's daughter, 63. His
dream, id. ib.

Rinaldo, one of the four fons of Agmon, an account of his
death, i. 25.

Riots, cognifable in the Star Chamber, i. 94. And by the
King and counfet, 97.

Roderigo del Rio, his courageous answer to a King of Spain,

i. 393.

Romp

Romp, whence derived, ii. 217.

Romulus and Remus faid to have been nursed by a wolf, i. 253.
Ronion explained, ii. 141.

Rofemary, its ufe as a cephalic, with the whimsical opinion of
a person who was cured by it of a head-ach, ii. 300.
Round, Round 1, and Roundelet, explained, i. 57.

Rue, (or herb of grate), formerly used in exorcifms, and as an
amulet against witchcraft, ii. 301.

Ruffia. See Night.

Salique. See Law.

S

Sancho Panfa, an account of his ill treatment by his physi
cian, when fham governor of Barataria, i, 201, &c.
Sanctuary explained, ii. 58.

Say, Lord, barbaroufly ufed and murdered by Jack Cade, ii.
27, 28.

Scathe explained, ii. 22.

Scent. See Dutch virgin.

Scone, the place where the Kings of Scotland are crowned,

ii. 145.

Seckerfon, a noted bear in Shakespeare's time, i. 99.

Seton, Governor of Berwick, an account of the bravery of
his lady upon the fiege of that place, i. 321.

Shaw, Dr. preached a flattering fermon at the coronation
of Richard III. ii. 61.

Shepherd, his life defcribed, i. 290.

Ships, the number employed by the Grecians at the fiege of
Troy, ii. 238.

Shrew, a defcription of one, i. 125. Of Catharina, ase-
markable one, 190.

Shrift and Confeffion the fame thing, ii. 271.

Sidney, Sir Philip, an account of his great generofity to Mr.
Spenfer the poet, ii. 211.

Siege explained, ii. 311.

Simpcox the impoftor, his pretence of being cured of his
blindness at St. Alban's tomb, ii. 20.

Sirward, Earl of Northumberland, his magnanimous beha-
viour upon hearing that his fon died bravely in the field of
battle, ii. 155.

Snakes, an account of their cafting their fkins annually, i.

56, 57,

Spilcorn, Vifanius, cured of the evil by Edward the Con-
feffor, i. 154.

Spinfter explained, ii. 310.

Spoon, long. See the proverb of eating with the devil, i. 20.

Squire

Squire, Mr. an account of his attempt to poifon Queen Elixa"
beth, i. 30.

Staffords, Sir William, and Sir Humphrey, flain in Cade's re-
bellion, ii. 26.

Staff, Profpero put an end to his conjuring, by breaking of
his, i. 36.

Stanley, Lord, his remarkable dream, ii. 59.

Stansfield, Sir Philip. See Murder difcovered.

Storm, a remarkable one, with an account of the behaviour
of the failors, i. 4, 5. An account of the cowardice of
the failors in another ftorm, 6. A perfon in danger pro-
mifes to the Lady of Gazope, a candle as big as the mast
of his ship, provided he efcapes, 8. A ftory from Eraf-
mus to the fame purpose, id. ib. Rabelais's defcription of
a remarkable ftorm, 9.

Strachy, Lady of, explained, i. 232.

Suffolk, William de la Pole, Duke of, his hard fate, ii. 24, 25.
Suns, three, appeared at one time in the reign of Edward
IV. from whence he gave the fun in full brightness for
his badge and cognifance, ii. 35.

Surinam, cold eel of, defcribed, i. 230.

Swallows, where to be found in winter, i. 262. Built their
nefts in Cleopatra's admiral-fhip, 212. A later inftance
as remarkable, id, ib.

Sword, drawing one in the King's prefence death, ii. 8, 9.
The custom of fwearing by it, 192. Poifoned ones for-
bidden in combat, 302. A proclamation in Queen Eli-
zabeth's reign, for cutting fwords of an equal length, 309.
Sycorax, a witch, and mother of Caliban, compared with Circe
and Canidia, i. 38.

T

Talbot, Lord, an account of him, ii. 5. For his bravery
created Earl of Shrewsbury, 8. See p. 13.

Tereus, the ftory of him, and his fifter Philomela, ii. 131.
Thames, river, flowed thrice in one day, without any ebb,
i. 362.

Thanes of Scotland, their titles changed to Earls by Malcolm,
in the year 1057, ii. 156.

Thefeus, his ftory, i. 40. Turn'd Athens (which was a mo-
narchy before) into a commonwealth, 41. Subdued the
Amazons, with their Queen Hippolita, whom he afterwards
married, id. ib. A great admirer of hunting, 65.
Thumb, the biting of it affrontive, ii. 264.

Tilts. See Tournaments.

Timon

Timan of Athens, faid to have given himself away in paper,
the meaning of the expreffion, ii. 121.

Timur Bec [Tamerlane] made a wall of near 2000 flaves, who
were taken prifoners in the fortrefs of Sebzuar, iii. 259.
Tipftaff humorously described, i. 240.

Tokens of the plague, what, ii. 240.

Forpelo defcribed, i. 265.

Tortofa, the bravery of the women of that place, in for-
cing the Moors to quit the fiege of it, in the year 1149,
i. 102.

Tournaments, an hiftorical account of their rife and origin,
with the feveral laws made upon their first inftitution, i.
81, &c.

Tower of London, when built, ii. 58.

Treason, the punishment of it in women, i. 251. An instance
of an Empress burnt on that account, id. ib.

Tremor cordis explained, i. 244.

Tribunes, their firft inftitution in Rome, ii. 159.
Trochleares. See Eye-lids.

Trot, old, described, i. 118.

Troth-plight explained, i. 377-

Trials, by combat, as ancient as the middle of the fifth cen-
tury, i. 305, &c. An end put to them in England in the
year 1631, id. ib.
See them defcribed, i. 309, &c.
Turkish Emperor, his haughty ftyle, ii. 13.

Turner, Mr. wrote one treatife, to prove that an uncle might
lawfully marry his own niece, and another, to fhew that
was unlawful for firft coufins to marry, ii. 64.

U

Valentine, the firft Pope that made the whole fenate of Rome
kifs his foot, i. 21. See Pantofle.

Valour. See Buxom.

Venetians fond of being buried in the Friar's habit, ii. 31.
See Drefs.

Vere, Robert, Earl of Oxford, the first person who received the
title of Marquis as a diftinct dignity, ii. 57.

Verfe, magic, the power thereof, ii. 1.

Virginius, an account of his flaying his daughter, and for
what, ii. 135.

Unicorns, the manner of taking them, ii. 176.

Vultures (and other birds of prey) ufually follow the camp,
a remarkable inftance in proof, ii. 189.

Walker,