Christmastide

Index of References.

To avoid encumbering the pages with foot-notes, all references requiring them have been omitted, but the principal works and passages referred to will be found in this Index, excepting those that already appear in the body of the work.

Many of the old Chronicles have been inspected for historical facts, but it has not been thought necessary to specify them, except in a few instances; and where one is cited, the fact is frequently corroborated by two or three others. Hickes’s ‘Thesaurus,’ vol. i, pp. 209-14, and Gebelin’s ‘Allegories Orientales,’ contain a good deal of learning about Yule or Gule, and the former as to midwinter. Du Cange’s ‘Glossary,’ in voce Festum, gives many particulars respecting the Feasts of Asses and Fools. The Wardrobe Accounts, temp. Edw. First, have entries connected with that time; and Mr. Collier’s ‘Annals of the Stage, and History of Dramatic Poetry,’ and the ‘Account of Revels,’ by Mr. Peter Cunningham, both works containing much valuable information, the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, of Henry the Eighth, and of the Princess Mary, the ‘Northumberland Household Book,’ and Nichols’s ‘Progresses of Queen Elizabeth and King James,’ are the authorities for many of the plays and masks, and the particulars of the accounts connected with them, and the New Year’s Gifts from the time of Henry the Seventh to that of James the First; and many additional particulars may be found in them. Brady’s ‘Clavis Calendaria’ contains much information respecting the early history of Christmas; and Mosheim’s ‘Ecclesiastical History,’ may also be consulted. Spelman’s ‘Glossary,’ voce Xenia, and Boulanger, ‘l’Antiquité Devoilée,’ iv, 16, 17, a work however not to be recommended, speak of the ancient New Year’s Gifts. Madox’s ‘History of the Exchequor’ states the movements of our early monarchs, mentioning for a long series of years where they kept their Christmasses; and Turner’s, Henry’s, and Lingard’s ‘Histories of England,’ and the ‘Pictorial History,’ may be referred to also, by those wishing to look further into the subject. Many facts taken from these books do not appear to require more than this general reference to them.

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3	29	Nehemiah, viii, 10.
15	31	Rabelais, vol. i, 478, n. ed. 1823.
20	22	Lingard’s Hist. Eng. ed. 1837, vol. i, 259.
21	22	John of Bromton. Twysden, X Scriptores.
25	26	Archæologia, vol. xi, 13 (from Wilkins’s Concil.).
27	26	Blount, Fragmenta Antiq., by Beckwith, 50.
30	13, 21	Madox’s Hist. Exchequer, 258.
33	13	The Woman’s Prize, Fletcher, iv, 2.
34	9	Hamlet i, 1.
36	18, 29	Baker’s Chronicle, 82, 83.
37	31	Théâtre Français au moyen Age, 1842, p. 118.
38	20	Cronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, 46.
39	21	Archæologia, xxvi, 342.
40	24, 30	Archæologia, xxxi, 37, 38, 43, 122.
42	9	Cotton MS. Nero, C. viii.
—	15	Petitôt Mémoires, 1st Ser. vi, 66.
—	22	Monstrelet, ed. 1840, i, 153.
44	11	Warton, Hist. of Poetry, 8vo, ii, 71, 72.
45	—	Henry V, i, 1.
46	24	Archæologia, xxi, 66. Old Poem on Siege of Rouen.
—	31	Petitôt Mémoires, 1st Ser. viii, 35.
47	26, 31	Excerpta Historica, 148, 150.—(Cotton MS. Cleopatra, F. iv.)
—	28	Proceedings of Privy Council, iii, 285.
48	4	Fairholt’s History of Costume.—(Harl. MS. 2278.)
—	11	Proceedings of Privy Council, v, 114.
—	14	Rymer’s Fœdera, x, 387.
—	30	Collier, Hist. Dram. Poetry, ii, 127.
50	17	King John, ii, 1.
51	28	Harl. MS. 5931.
52	3	Fabliaux et Contes du xii et xiii siècles, i, 329, &c.
54	29	Additional MS. 6113.
55	25	Antiquarian Repertory, i, 328.
56	4	Hamlet, i, 4.
—	7	Love’s Labour Lost, v, 2.
57	31	Ritson’s Ancient Songs, 304. (From New Christmas Carols.)
58	15	Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii, 1.
—	24	Herrick’s Works, ii, 92.
59	25	Ordinances of Royal Household, 120.
61	14	Archæologia, xxv, 319-27.
66	6	Hall’s, Holinshed’s, and Baker’s Chronicles may be consulted for this and most of the Christmas revels in the time of Henry VIII; also Collier’s Annals of the Stage, for many particulars of payments and gifts.
72	29	Henry VIII, i, 4.
76	18	Hall’s Chronicle.
78	14	Ellis’s Original Letters, i, 271.—(Cotton MS. Vespasian, F. xiii.)
79	16	Cotton MS. Appendix, xxviii.
80	27	Strutt’s Sports, &c. 305.
81	8	Archæologia, xxv, 422.
82	4	Leland’s Itinerary, iv, 182.
83	7	Camden’s Remains, 262.
—	18	Archaeological Journal, No. 4, 367.
—	24	Kalendars of the Exchequer, i, 269.
89	10	Particulars of George Ferrer’s Misrule will be found in Stow’s Annals, Baker’s Chronicle, Loseley MS. 45, &c. and Machyn’s Diary, 13, &c.
90	10	Loseley MS. 90.
91	17	Machyn’s Diary, 162.
92	4	Machyn’s Diary, 222.
93	19	Dugdale Origines Jurid.
—	24	Account of Revels, 28.
95	—	See Collier, i, 196, &c., for this page.
96	13	Lansdowne MS. 71.
—	22	Ben Jonson’s Conversations with Drummond, 23.
102	—	See Archæologia, i,9; Ditto, xix, 292; Nichols’s Progresses; Sloane MS. 4827; Ditto, 814, Additional MS. 5751;—for particulars of New Year’s Gifts in this and preceding pages.
103	6	Account of Revels, 204
108	12, 22	Pictorial History of England, iii, 88.
110	25	Nichols’s Progresses, i, xl, n.
—	30	Account of Revels, xi.
111	30	Lansdowne MS. 92.
112	26	Doblado’s Letters.
113	17	Introduction to Canto 6, Marmion.
—	28	Romeo and Juliet, i, 4.
115	6	Horace, lib. i, od. 9.
—	19	Michaelmas Term, ii, 3.
—	23	Promptorium Parvulorum, 238.
116	2	Johnes’s Translation, vol. iii, c. 7.
—	16	Herrick’s Works, ii, 124.
—	30	Witty Fair One, iv, 2.
118	27	Nichols’s Illustrations of Manners and Expenses, 53.
121	25	Archæologia, xviii, 335.
122	6	Curiosities of Literature, iii, 269.
124	6	Hone’s Every Day Book, i, 9. (Banquet of Jests, 1634.)
125	29	Petitôt Mémoires, 47, 101.
136	17	Percy’s Reliques, ed. 1840, 169.
—	28	Evans’s Ballads, iii, 262.
137	15	Evans’s Ballads, i, 146.
138	15	City Madam, ii, 1.
144	23	Roper’s Life of Sir T. More, 73.
146	17	Cowley’s Anaercontiques, No. 2.
147	9	Wine and Walnuts, ii, 157.
—	30	New Year’s Day, by Hartley Coleridge.
149	30	Brady Clavis Calendaria, ii, 316, 17.
154	20	In Wily Beguiled.
155	22	Collier’s Annals of the Stage, i, 22.
157	18	Malcontent, by Marston, iv, 2.
158	—	Dr. Macculloch’s Proofs and Illustrations of the Attributes of God, i, 358, a work of remarkable learning and information joined to sincere and unaffected piety—the production of a gifted and accomplished man, whose death will ever be regretted by those who, in his lifetime, enjoyed his friendship.
160	25	Milton’s Ode on the Nativity.
161	25	Sandys’s Travels, 141.
162	12	Harl. MSS. 437, 619.
—	16	Apocryphal New Testament, 2, 3.—Infancy, iii, 2.
—	29	Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, 1638, 225.
163	16	Diary of Philip Henslowe, 70.
—	22, 28	Hone’s Every Day Book, i, 46.
165	16	Fabliaux et Contes, par Barbazan et Meon, ii, 285.
—	18	Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes, 8vo, 344.
166	12	Archives Curieuses de l’Histoire de France, 2 Series, v, 392.
168	13	Warton’s History of Poetry, 8vo, ii, 91 n.
—	16	Harl. MS. 5931.
170	9	French Mystery of the 15th Century, ‘Le Geu des trois Rois.’
171	13	MS. Bibl. Reg. 5 F. xiv, 7. Ib. 18 A, x, 8. Harl. MS. 1704-11.
—	14	Harl. MS. 2407, 13.
178	24	This reference should be ‘Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales.’
179	12	Barzaz-Breiz, Chants Populaires de la Bretagne, i, 1, 25.
180	2	Description of Patent Rolls, by T. D. Hardy, 129.
183	6	Privy Purse Expenses of Princess Mary, Introduction, xxvii.
—	7	Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, 83.
184	25	Barnaby Googe, translation of Naogeorgus.
185	11	Pictorial History of England, iii, 446 (address by Mr. John Davison to General Assembly in Scotland, 1596).
186	25	Old Ballads, 1723, p. 69.
188	11	Batt upon Batt, 1711, p. 6.
191	6	Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Chartes, i, 250.
—	20	Rabelais, vi, 209, n. (liv. 4, c. 22).
—	26	Pasquier les Recherches de la France, 383-4.
—	30	Ménage Diction. Etymol., voce Noël.
192	3	Archæologia, 22.
—	17	Fabliaux et Contes, iv, 80, 99.
194	1	Laborde’s Essai, i, 118, n.
200	27	Notes and Queries, v, 7, communication by Mr. Thoms.
203	8	Introduction to Scotch songs, i, 104.
206	2	See French mystery of fifteenth century, La Nativité, edited by Jubinal, ii, 19, Cornish play of Creation of the World, and poem of Mount Calvary, for further particulars.
—	26	Horne’s introduction to the Scriptures, i, 629.
213	2	Maccabees, 15, 38.