60-6, 278

Hostilities suspended for Christmas-day, 81, 84

Hot cockles, 229, 247, 252

Houghton Chapel, 220

Household Book of Henry VII., 95

Household Book of Henry VIII., 100

Housekeeping, Christmas, 232

House of Commons, 207

House of Peers, 226

Howard family, 101

Howard, Frances, Countess of Essex, 155

Howitt, Mary, 276

"Hue and Cry after Christmas," 208

Huet, Sir John, 153

Huish, 241

Humber, the, 43

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 82

Hungary, 153;
King of, 35

Hunting, 32, 54

Huntingdon, Earl of, 79;
Countess of, 82

Hunt the Slipper, 247, 313

Hussars, 10th, 301

Hussey, Sir Richard, 153

Hypocras, 55

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Iceberg, Christmas upon an, 297

Ice-bound regions, 295

Ice sports, 45, 138, 154-5

Ideler, 13

Illuminations at Hampton Court, 120

Immanuel, 5, 6

India, 299

Indian Ocean, 308

Ingenuities and devices, 63

Inner Temple, 125, 136, 138

Innocents' Day, 38, 119, 169

Inns of Court, 111, 112, 137, 201, 218

Interludes, 103, 112

Interruptions of festivities, 85, 206

"Investigator," the, 294

Iona, the monks of, 27

Ipomydon, Romance of, 33

Ipswich, 68, 210

_Ira Seu Tumulus Fortune_, 183

Ireland, 52, 288

Irish customs, 251

Irish Princes and Chieftains, 55

Irving, Washington, 241, 258

Isabel, Queen of France, 78

Isabella, daughter of Edward III., 75

Isaiah, the Prophet, 5

Italy, 288

Italian characters, 230

Italian Masque, 100

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"Jack Straw," a masque, 112

Jacobites, 237

Jade, a charming, 252

Jamaica, 288

James I., 138, 150, 191, 193, 196

James II., 220, 225

James III. of Scotland, 98

James IV. of Scotland, 98

James's, St., 241

"Jane the Fool," 108

Jellalabad Plain, 302

Jermyn, Sir Isaac, 153;
Sir Robert, 153

Jerome, St., 13, 21

Jerusalem, the church at, 11

Jerusalem Chamber, 207

"Jesus, the Nazarene," 52

Jhelum, 300

Jinks, high, 285

Joan of Arc, 84

Joan of Kent, 76, 149

Jocund holiday, 266

John's College, St., Oxford, 111

John III., Duke of Cleves, 109

John's Day, St., 86, 134, 153, 219, 320

John, King, 59

John of Gaunt, 74

John of Salisbury, 54

John the Baptist, 13

Joints of meats, 265

Jones, Rev. A. G., 308

Jones, Mr. Charles C., 102

Jones, Mrs. Herbert, 85, 263

Jones, Inigo, 151

Jones, Mary, 280

Jonson, Ben, 86, 141, 148, 149, 151, 152, 190, 197

Jordan, 19

Joseph, 5, 6

Jousts, 32, 120

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