V., 81

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 155

Ovid, 230

Oxford, 38, 51, 68, 109, 140, 210

P

Paganism, 19, 20, 22, 28

Pageantry, 31, 63, 122

Paget, Lord, 120

Palatine, marriage of, 151

"Palemon and Arcite," 140

Palestine, 54

"Pallas, Knights of," 102

Palmer, Mr., Lord of Misrule, 198

Pansch, Dr., 295

Panting Piper, 305

Pantomime, 229, 230

Papal Legate, 64

Pappa Westra, 287

Paris, 35, 291, 316, 317, 318

Paris, Matthew, 54, 63

Paris Tournament, 78

Parker, Lieutenant and Mrs., 313

"Parlement," 45

Parliamentarians, 206

Parliament, new Houses of, 46

Parliament, the first English, 65

Parson makes merry with parishioners, 113

Parties, 309

"Paston Letters," 86, 91

Pastoral, "Calisto," 218

Patriarch of Venice, 336

Patrick, St., 284

_Paulinus_, Missionary, 30

Paul, Mr. Howard, 309

Paul's Cathedral, St., 140

Paul's Church, St., 119

Paul's Cross, St., 92

Paul St., Earl of, 79

Paul's School, St., 77

Paupers, merry, 288

Pavy, Salathiel, 142

Peacocks, 96, 97

Pegasus, 198

Pembroke, the Regent, 62

Pembroke, Countess of, 241

"Penelope's Wooer," 187

Penshurst, Kent, 148-9

Pepys, Samuel, 145, 218

Perche, Countess of, 47

Peres, William, 103

Performers, various, 41, 77

"Periander," a tragedy, 185

Periodicals, 292, 313

Period of Christmas, 12, 35, 111, 135, 227

Perrers, Alice, 74, 75

Perth, 274

Perry, 55

Peshawur, 300

Petavius, 13

Peter of Blois, 56

Peter, St., 283

Peter the Great, of Russia, 223

Peter's, St., Rome, 330

_Petit Souper_, 322

Petworth, 225

Philip of Spain, 118

Philip and Mary, 119

Philippa, Queen, 72

"Philomathes," 176

"Philomela," a tragedy, 169

Philosopher's game, 195

Phoenicia, 55

Picnics, 304

Picts and Scots, 26, 31

"Picturesque Europe," 224

_Piece de resistance_, 294

Piers Gaveston, 68

Pigment, 55

Pilgrims, 59

Pires Barnard, 68

Pipers, 31, 89

_Place de la Madeline_, 319

_Place de la Republique_, 319

Plague, the, 139

Plantagenets, 68

Plato's Dialogue, 17

Plays, Christmas, 76-7, 84, 91, 95, 102, 112, 125, 136-7, 142, 284,
320-1

Playing Cards, 90

Plum-pudding, 245, 263, 265, 273, 317, 319

Pocahontas, 314

_Poculum charitatis_, 237

Poetic pictures of Christmas, 33, 34, 43-4, 69, 203, 204-5, 217,
221-2, 227, 250, 258, 274, 276-8, 288, 298, 350

Poictiers, 74

Pointer, 237

Poleaxes for Pensioners,