Ballads, influence of, 202
Ballium, what, 474
Baldwin and Judith, 72
Barbarities, awful, 159; of forest laws, 170;
of Saxons, 70
Barker's, John, Charity, 313
Baronies, manner of computing, 99
Barret, Rev. ejected from St. Peter's, 301
Baseness of John, 188
Basford, Edward III. at, 281, Sir William
Eland, 276; Wong, 382
Battle of Cressy, 284; of Neville's Cross,
285; of Northallerton, 155; of Hastings,
142; of Lincoln, 159; of Bannockburn,
275; of Shipton, 366; of Tewksbury,
385; of St. Alban's, 386; of Towton,
462; of Edgecote, 463; of Barnet, 465;
of Bosworth-field, 470
Beards worn, 232
Beckitt's Retinue, 230
Bedford castle, 478
Beskwood-park, 181
Bel le Philip, 336
Bilby's, Elizabeth, charities, 322
Birkland and Bilhays, 180
Birth of William the Norman, 141
Bishop Braybrook, 342
Bishop of Durham's Address, 156
Black Prince, 337
Blidworth Elm, 170
Blind beggar, 451
Bold Robin Hood, 204
Bolinbroke, Henry, 364
Bondage, Norman, 231
Boroughs controlled by the Crown, reforma-
tion of attempted by James I., 129
Bovate of Land, 28 acres, 99
Bower, Julian's, 372
Bracey, Highwayman, 445
Bramcote, Cromlech, 47; a high place of
Baal, 62
Brass of Solomon' Temple, British, 41
Bread-making, ancient manner of, 67;
monopoly, 232
Bretwalda, a king of Mercia, 71
British commerce, antiquity of, 41; with
the Greeks, 40
Britain ravaged by the Picts, 69; Greek
name of ditto, 40; in the time of Alex-
ander the Great, 40
British christian churches in the 2nd century,
137; their spirituality, form of worship,
first martyr, congregational, 138; with a
Bishop to each, celibacy not introduced;
no liturgies, baptisms, 139; persecutions,
140
British foundery near Chesterfield, 105;
Corn exported to Rome, 106
British implements of war, 41
Britons, as described by Cæsar, 21; mis-
represented by ditto, 30
Britons had collieries, 105
Britons invite the Saxons, 69
Bronze knives and mirrors, 41
Brotherton, Margaret, 337
Buckley, the highwayman, 445
Budby forest, 181
Burgage-holders first admitted to vote, 129
Bulwell sacred spring, 62; park, 181
Burgess-houses on Derby-road, 118; poor
unbenefitted by land, 121; honorary do.
how originated, 129; lands of, 97
Burgess's oaths, 396; ditto householders,
129; rights of ditto monopolized by cor-
poration, 129; sr' Muted by freemen,
130; sons disfranchised, except the old-
est and the youngest, 131; elective fran-
chise usurped by corporations, 131
Burgundy, Duke of, 366
Byron, Sir Nicholas, 470
Calais taken by Edward III., 285
Camville de Gerard, 188
Carpenter's Tools, 344
Caracute of land, what, 99
Cardinal Wolsey, 166
Carmelite convent, 331
Carthusian Priory at Lenton, 332
Casiteridas, Greek name of Britain 40
Cassibelanus, a British king, 51
Castle work, oppressions of, 157
Castle building discouraged, 241
Castle, Nottingham, a British monument,
473; ditto a Saxon fortress, ditto Roman,
ditto, 474; Normanized, final improve-
ments of, history and description of, 477-
483
Cavara, generosity of, 49
Caves of the Druids, 48
Caxton, first printer, 416
Celestial judgment, 61
Celibacy of the Druids, 47
Celtic nations, 28
Celtic spear found, 64
Chancery, court of, at Nottingham, 341
Chapel Bar, meaning of, 79
Character of Henry VI., 388
Character of Robin Hood, 203
Character of Wycliffe, 336
Chair of Robin Hood, 368
Charities, St. Peter's, 302; St. Nicholas, 322
Charter of Henry II., 184; of John 187;
of Henry III., 243-245; suspension of
ditto, 247; ditto of Edward I. 247; ditto
of Edward II. 277; ditto of Edward III.
287; ditto of Henry IV. 373; ditto of
Henry VI. 386
Chess, game of, antiquity of, 240
Chester, etymology of, 11
Chivalry, games of, 238
Christianity, introduction of, 137
Christmas merriments, 166
Clayton, the murderer, 441
Clifton, Sir Jervase, first knight of the shire,
253; ditto beheaded, 385; ditto at Bos-
worth, 470
Clipstone park, 175
Clumber park, 176
Cockfighting, in former times. 240
Cock's Moor, Sherwood forest, 180
Coinage improved, 334
Coins found in Nottingham, 335
Colonel Hutchinson takes the fort, 90
Commons house of Parliament, 253
Common rights of burgesses, 129
Coritania, what, 65
Corporation, select body of, 131
Corporation trial, 399; servants, 411; cus-
toms, 413
Dane gelt, imposed by Ethelred, 95
Danes covet Britain, 72; take Nottingham,
73; infidelity, 74; besieged by the
ons, 75; ravages of, 76; conquests.
sacred, 77; pride, defeated by Alfre
second invasion of, 92; takes No
ham, establish their authority, 93;
by Ethelred, 95; Canute the Great
hostile to the Normans, 144
Death of Buthred, 77; of Alfred the
78;
of Ethelfleda, 79; of Edwa
Elder,92; Athelston and Edred, 93;
94; Edgar, 95; Duke Robert, and
Harold, 141; William de Peverel,
of William the Conqueror, 152; !
I. 155; Henry II. 186; Richard J
Robin Hood, 220; John 224;
III. 246; Edward 1. 274; Pierce
ton, 275; Edward II. 276; Mo
283; Edward III. 337; Queen
342;
Richard II. 365; Henry IV,
VI. 465; Edward IV. 466; Edw
467; Richard III. 470
Debased by philosophy, religion, 43
Debtors, insolvent, relief of, 420
Decrease in the depth of the Trent,
Defeat of the Earl of Warwick, 465
Defeat of Richard III. 470
Depopulation of Nottingham, 96
Description of Town Hall, 427; of 1
tle, 473-483; of County Hall, ?'
House of Correction, 453
Destruction of the world, tradition o
Dietry of town jail, 428
Dioclesian persecution, 139
Dispute between aldermen and coun
152;
Henry
. 193;
Henry
Gaves-
Distinction between burgesses and villains,
Dining tables of Saxon nobles, 108
Division of lands, by the Britons, 54
Doctor Martain on the Hebrides, 60
Doomsday book, when compiled, 146
Dorchester, Marquis of, 381
Dress of Abaris, the Druid, 59
Druidical rites, 23; orders of priesthood,
24; Sacerdotal dresses, 25; sacrifices,
26; theology, idols, 27; learning, 29;
oriental origin of, 37; fires of Baal, 34;
philosophy of, 45; tolerance, celibacy,
fraternities, 48; nobility, 51; judges,
52;
inheritance, 53; estates, 55; lite-
rary degrees, 56; tythes, 57; marriages,
59; customs, 60; laws, 61; high places,
62; caves, 151
Druidism, a hierarchy, ditto a theocracy, sa-
cred objects, 22
Duke Robert's pilgrimage, 141
Dungeon in the Castle, 147
Earl of Kingstone's residence, 383
Earls of Nottingham-Peverel, 144; Robt.
de Ferrers, 224; ditto son of ditto, 225;
William de Ferrers, 226; John Planta-
genet. 187, 226; John de Mowbray, Thos.
Mowbray; ditto son Mowbray banished,
337; ditto Mowbray, 338; this Earl was
beheaded for treason, 367; John Mow-
bray, son John, 466; Richard Plantage.
net, second son of Edward IV. 471
Early rising, 234
Eastern origin of the Druids, 23
Ebrank, British king, 7
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the town, 292
Edgar reigns over Mercia, 93
Edmund the magnificent, defeats the Danes,
93
Edred at Nottingham, humbles ditto, 93
Eric's law code, A.D. 675, 122
Edward Ironside, 143; ditto the Martyr, 95;
ditto the confessor, ditto partially, for the
Normans, 101; ditto the elder, 78; builds
the town wall, 79: Trent bridge, 83;
ditto burnt by Gloucester, 89
Edward I. at Nottingham, disfranchises the
town, 247; charter to, 247
Edward II. character, deposition, and death,
276
Edward III. victory of; Crecy, 284;
institutes gold currency, 333; ditto order
of the garter, 286
Edward IV. retreats .o Nottingham, taken
prisoner, 463; takes refuge in the castle,
escapes to Holland, 464; returns to Not-
tingham, proclaimed king in Notting-
ham; defeats Warwick, 465
Edward V. ascends the throne, proclaimed,
imprisoned and murdered in the tower,
467
Edwin, earl of Mercia, 143
Edwy dies of a broken heart, 94
Egbert's great power, rowed by eight vassel
Princes-exterpates wolves, 94
Eland, Sir William, 149; Hall site of, at
Alger-thorpe (Basford), 150
Election of Knights, &c., 266; of Mayor,
401; of Aldermen; Trial of, 397
Elfrida, daughter of Alfred the Great, 72
Ely, Bishop of, 192
England in A.D. 642, 103
English nobles disinherited, 145
Episcopal visitations, 293
Errippe, wife of Xanthus, 49
Ethelbald of Mercia, 71
Ethelbert's Law code, A.D. 564, 122
Ethelfleda's expedition, 78
Ethelred the Unready bribes the Danes,
imposes Dane gelt, 94, value of, 102
Evils of Feudal system, 229
Ewes milked, 107
Execution of Earl of Nottingham, 367;
of Reynolds & Marshall, 423; of Hinkley
and Smith, 424; list of ditto, 446
Expenses of town jail, 428
Fairs of Nottingham, 274
Faithless covenant of Henry III, 241
Family or Sur-names, origin of 233
Famines, A. D. 793, 975, 1040; 107
Famine in 1330, 279
Fatal Stone in Westminster Abbey, 44
Female attire, 109
Ferrers, origin of family, 224
Field potatoes first planted, 371
Financial controul of the Commons, 266
First Mayor of Nottingham, 253
Fires of Baal 31,
Folkland and bookland, what? 98
Forest walks, 181; royal do. No. of, 231;
ditto Charter of Henry II, 171, Divisions
of forests, 169; how distinguished from a
chase, 170
Forms of Parliament, 273
Fraternity of Blessed Virgin, 331
Fraternity of St. Sepulchre, 332
Freedom of Parliament, 272
Freemen, design of, ditto by birth, marriage,
service, residence, 126; ditto as opposed
to slaves, 122; may reside in a borough
or not, 123; not synonymous with bur-
gesses, 123; have subverted the rights of
burgesses, 126; substituted instead of
burgesses, 130; ditto decreasing, 134
Funeral rites, ancient, 236
Games of Chivalry, 238
Garter, order of, instituted, 286
Gathering misletoe, 43
Geraldus reproaches the Irish, 48
Gerard de Camville, 188
Gloucester burns Nottingham, 89; murders
his nephews in the tower, 343; imprisons
Lords Rivers and Greyfin Pomfret Castle,
enters London bareheaded, appointed
protector of Edward V., murders him, 467;
takes up his abode in the castle, 467
Goose Fair, 274
Governors of the castle, William de
Peverel, 152; Ralph Paynell, 158;
Ranulph, Earl of Chester; Regi-
nald de Lucy; John Plantaganet, 160;
Reginald de Clifton, of Clifton; Ralph
Fitz-Nicholas, 242; Philip March, Hugh
Fitz Ralph, William Bardolph, Hugh de
la Despenser, 243; John Seagrave, 274;
Robert de Clifford, Pierce Gaveston,
Richard de Grey, 275; Lord Welles, 466
Graphic description of the battle of North-
allerton, 156
Greeks, ancient, trade with Britain, 38
Grief of Buthred, retires to Rome, 76
Groans of the Britons, 69
Ground plan of the castle, 478
Guilds, spiritual, 332
Guildhall, description of, 418
of merchants, 5
Guildford Castle, 476
Hector and Achilles, 47
Henry I. leaves Matilda the throne, 155
Henry II. extinguishes the Peverills, 159;
afforests by charter Thorney-wood and
High Forest, 171; grants a charter to the
burgesses, 184; re-builds Nottingham,
ditto churches, town wall, and Trent
bridge, holds a parliament in Nottingham,
dies, 186
Henry III. forest charter, 241; makes a
postern, 243; ditto charter, 243; ditto
ditto, 245
Henry IV. deposes Richard II. 365; disqui-
eted, proclaimed protector of the Church,
persecutes the Lollards, 367; builds a
chapel at St. Anne's Well, 368
Henry V. dies in the French war, 384
Henry Vl. persecuted, 384; marriage, 385;
made prisoner, 386; incorporates Not-
tingham, 387; committed to the Tower,
463; secretly put to death, 465
Hieroglyphics of the Druids, 29
Himilco Carthagenian navigator's voyage
to Britain, B.C. 1000, 40
History of the fatal stone, 45; ditto of Not-
tingham; by a monk, 7; ditto of Eng-
land, may be traced beyond Roman au
thors, 8
Housekeepers only burgesses, 124
Hymerius, the Greek, 58
Importance of history, 8
Independent spirit of the poor, 122
Indian philosophers, 37
Inefficiency of prison discipline, 461
Infangentheof, &c. meaning of, 98
Infidelity of the Danes, 74
Influence of ballads, 202
Inhabitant householders burgesses, 125
Massacres of the Britons, by Saxons, 70
Matilda, Empress, lands in England, 155
Mechanics national benefactors, 6
Mechanical superiority, 6
Medway Castle, 478
Mercia, Christanity prevalent in, 140
Merchants' Guild, 5
Mercillinous, on the learning of Druids, 60
Michael's, St., church, 294 and 332
Minorite Friars, 331
Miracles and Charms, 44
Mistletoe, an emblem of Christ, 44; ditto
of Logan and Talmar, 23
Misrepresentations of the Druids, ditto of
Strabo, 39
Monastic habits of the Druids, 48
Monumental inscriptions of St. Nicholas's
church, 320
Mulct, etymology of, 103
Municipal corporations, evil of, 126, first
granted in 1439, 127
Murmur against Parliament, 343
Navigation of Trent, 19
Newcastle castle, 478
New drop, first used, 423
New Leen Bridge, 14
Nobility of Druids, 51
Nottingham proved a British city, 10; ditto
a Roman station, 66; ditto taken by the
Danes, 73; ditto castle taken by the
Danes; ditto a scene of wars and sieges,
82; ditto besieged by Buthred, 74; ditto
taken by Alfred the Great, ditto re-taken
by the Danes, ditto expelled by Ethel-
fleda, again threatened by the Danes, 93;
ditto re-possessed by the Danes, visited
by Edred, who humbles the Danes, 93;
again subject to the Danes, 95; depopu
lation of, ditto a Saxon borough by pres-
cription, 96; never incorporated till Henry
VI, every charter granted to burgesses
alone, limits of the borough property of
the burgesses, free district, courts, baron
and leet, vassals, villains, chartered pri-
vileges, 97; taken by the Conqueror, di-
vided into two boroughs, 144; Normans
locate at ditto, 145; description of in
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