156

Pole, Cardinal, 118, 119

"Pompey," 36

Pontefract, 87, 92

"Poor Robin's Almanack," 217, 222, 223, 230

Pope, poet, 46, 230

"Popish Customs," so called, 109

Popple, John, 257

Popular festivities, 242

Portugal, 226, 288

Post and Pair, 247, 250

Post-office and postmen, 292

Poverty at Court, 86

Prayer Books of Edward VI., 117

Presbytery, 109

Presents, 15, 42, 69, 88, 312, 323, 326, 335

Presentation in the Temple, 348

_Presepio_ (manger), 328

Preston, Sir Richard, 190

Priestess, Druid, 228

Priests bearing relics, 90

Priestly practices, 121, 317, 328

Primate's cruelty, 200

Primitive celebrations, 19

"Prince Charlie," 237

Prince of Wales, 85, 225, 263

Prince of Wales's Strait, 294

Princes of Germany, 35, 109

Princes play in masques, 152, 197

Privy Council, 117

Prolongation of Revels, 201

Promethus, 152

Protectorate, the, 213

Protestantism of Queen Elizabeth, 122

Provencal Plays, 320-1

Provence, 320, 321;
Eleanor of, 62-4

Provision for the poor, 257-8, 260-6

Prowess, 67, 72, 73, 84, 99, 190

Prussian Royal Family, 334

Prynne, William, 199

Psyche, 19

Ptarmigan pasties, 295

_Punch_, 282, 342

Puppet shows, 227, 321, 328

Purification, the, 73

Puritan Directory, 207

Puritanism, 109

Purposes, 195

Puss-in-the-Corner, 236

Pynson, printer, 104

Q

Quadrangle, Royal, 88

"Quartette" cards, 272

Queen's College, Oxford, 109

Queen's Gentlewomen, 88

Questions and Commands, 195, 236

Quintin, 45, 59

R

Races, 218

Railways, the, 292

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 152

Rampini, Sheriff, 286

Ratcliffe, 93

Rathbertus, a priest, 49

Reade, Mr., 346

"Read's Weekly Journal," 232

"Recollections of old Christmas," 272

Recreations, 195, 315

Redcoats, 294

Redmile, 266

Roedwald, 29

Reformation, 106, 109

Regatta, the Christmas, 304

"_Regis Orator et Calamo_," 114

Regulations for a grand Christmas, 112

Reindeer-sleigh of St. Nick, 311

Rejoicings on French battle ground, 72

Relics, sacred, 90, 331

Religious matters, 117

Rennes cloth, 88

Reresby, Sir John, 219

Restoration, the, 215

Reunions, 313

Revels resembling _Saturnalia_, 18

Revels, called a Maskelyn, 100

Revels, Master of the, 112 (_see also_ "Lord of Misrule")

Revels, 132, 153, 180, 181, 192, 193, 218, 315

Revolution, 220

_Rex Fabarum_, 109

Rhedon, 93

Rheims Cathedral, 94

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