Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

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by Albert Jack


  Emesa, Syria 191

  England 97, 201

  English Civil War see Civil War

  English Dancing Master, The 147

  English Reformation 214

  Epirus 127

  equinox, spring 76

  Eucharist 199

  evil spirits 23

  Exeter Book 86

  factories 256

  Fairfax, Sir Thomas 71, 80, 82, 204

  fairies 23

  fairy stories 23, 113

  farming 211-12

  Farquhar, George Recruiting Officer, The 217

  farthings 149

  Fawkes, Guido (Guy) 173-5

  feast of St Catherine 92

  female fertility 209

  Ferdinand II of Aragon 84

  Fforde, Jasper 94

  Fiennes, Celia 178

  fire 90

  fire leaping 92

  fireworks 175

  First Act of Supremacy 106

  First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, The 111

  First World War 256

  Fisher, Kitty 123

  Fitzherbert, Maria Anne 47

  Flour of England 7, 34-6, 86, 135, 214

  folk medicine 3

  folk tales 28

  For Want of a Nail 28, 36-8, 80, 236

  Fort McHenry 264

  Fotheringhay Castle 136

  Fourth Bear, The 94

  France 9

  Francis II of France 112

  Frederick, Duke of York 52, 54

  French and Indian War 270

  Frère Jacques 38-40, 121

  Freya 137

  Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, A 40-44

  Fugitive Slave Act 267

  Gaius Julius Hyginus 62

  gallstone surgery 39

  Gardiner, Bishop Steven 134-5

  Gay, John Beggar’s Opera, The 217

  geese 51

  Genesis 199

  Gentlemen’s Magazine, The 246

  Geoffrey of Monmouth 49, 142

  History of the Kings of Britain(Historia Regnum Britanniae) 49, 142

  George Cross 122

  George I 223

  George II 33, 98, 208, 245

  George III 47, 52, 193

  George IV 47

  George V 246

  Georgie Porgie 44-8, 52, 208

  Gillray, James 47

  Glastonbury 109

  Benedictine abbey 106-107

  Glastonbury Tor 109

  Glorious Revolution of 1688 33, 54-5, 56, 184

  Gloucester 32

  God Save the Queen 244-6, 255

  Godiva, Lady 176-8

  Gomme, Alice Dictionary of British Folklore 183

  Good Friday 75, 237

  Good King Arthur 48-50

  Good King Wenceslas 247-8

  ‘goose club’ 25

  Goosie, Goosie Gander 50-51

  Gower, John 37

  Grand Old Duke of York, The 33, 184, 47, 52-5

  graveyards 135

  Great Custom 10

  Great Fire of London 118, 121, 122, 147

  Great Fire of Southwark 122

  Great Plague 180, 182

  Greek gods 127

  Greenaway, Kate 182

  Mother Goose 183

  Greene, Maurice 224

  Grey, Lady Jane 134

  Greyfriars Library 220

  Greyhound(slave ship) 242, 244

  Grimaldi, Joseph 221

  Guild of Merchants 220

  Guildford 9

  Guildhall 220

  guillotine-type devices 135

  guinea pigs 206

  Guinevere 49

  gunpowder plot 173-4

  Gwyn, Nell 43, 44

  Gylfaginning 89

  Hale, Sarah Josepha 129, 132

  Halliwell-Phillips, James Orchard 199

  Hampton Court Palace 104, 107, 145

  Handel, George Frideric 223-5

  Hardy, Thomas 237

  ‘Oxen, The’ 237

  Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark 55-7

  Harrogate 52

  Harry, Prince 55

  Harwich, HMS 242

  Hector Protector 57-60, 68

  Henri II 42

  Henri III 39

  Henry III 9

  Henry IV 220

  Henry V 58, 220

  Henry VI 58, 59, 60, 68

  Henry VII 84, 143

  Henry VIII 11-12, 35, 42, 84, 104, 107, 139, 144-5, 146, 194-5, 212, 214, 216, 258

  divorce from Catherine of Aragon 145

  herbalism 3

  Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 61-5, 265

  Hey Diddle Diddle 58

  Hickory, Dickory, Dock 58, 70-74

  Higgeldy, Piggeldy, My Black Hen 74-5

  Historia Regnum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) 49, 142

  History of Richard Whittington 221

  ‘Hitler Has Only Got One Ball’ 82

  Hoey, Gerry 250

  Hokey Cokey, The 249-52

  Holborn Viaduct 149

  Holmes, Sherlock Holofernes 168

  holy fool 191

  Holy Grail 49, 107

  Holy Thorn 107

  homosexuality 46

  Hood, Robin 93, 236

  Hoover, President Herbert 264

  Horner, Thomas 107

  hortus inclusus 136

  Hot Cross Buns 75-6

  hot cross buns 76

  House of Commons 207

  House of Correction 65

  House of Lords 11

  House That Jack Built, The 28, 77-80

  Houses of Parliament 174, 209

  Howard, Thomas 134

  Hoxton 159

  Huguenots 159

  Humpty Dumpty 80-83, 168, 222, 227

  Hundred Years’ War 11, 58

  hymns 242

  Hymns for Infant Minds 226

  I Had a Little Nut Tree 83-5, 212

  I Saw Three Ships 252-4

  Iceni 121

  In Marble Walls as White as Milk 7, 85-6

  ‘In Una Siepe Ombrosa’ 224

  Industrial Revolution 256

  internet 60

  Inuit 126

  Irving, Washington 199

  Isabella I of Castile 84, 254

  Isabella of Gloucester 93-4

  Itinerary 110

  Jack and Jill 86-9, 102, 125

  Jack Sprat 93-4

  Jack, Be Nimble 90-93

  Jacobites 99

  Jainists 19

  James I 33, 45, 97, 173

  homosexuality 46

  James II 57, 184, 228-9

  James VI of Scotland see James I

  James, Roger 109

  Japan 125

  Jenkins, Robert 246

  Jerusalem 254-6

  Jesus 107, 129, 237, 253

  Joan of Arc 58

  John, king of England 93-4 ‘Johnny English’ 170

  Johnson, Samuel Dictionary of the English Language, A 101

  Joseph of Arimathea 107, 255

  Judith (Old Testament) 168

  Kennedy, Jimmy 250

  ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ 250

  Kenyon, Kate and Luke 185

  Kéroualle, Louise de 43

  Key, Francis Scott 264

  Kilmersdon 88

  King Arthur 48-9

  King Lear 101

  Kipling, Rudyard 10

  Kitley House, Yealmpton 145

  kittens 7, 44

  Knightley, Keira 195

  Knights Templar 39

  knockdown comedy 164

  Knox, John, 111, 112

  First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, The 111

  Ladybird, Ladybird 95

  LaPrise, Larry 250

  Latimer, Hugh 214

  Lear, Edward Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets 153

  Leasor, James 182

  Plague and the Fire, The 182

  Lednock 14

  Leland, John Itinerary 110

  Leo (const
ellation) 69

  Leofric, Earl of Mercia 176

  Leopold, Duke 93

  Leslie, General Sir Alexander 202

  lexicographers 154

  Life and Strange and Surprising

  Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 156-7

  Lincoln 9

  Lion and the Unicorn, The 34, 97-9, 246, 261

  Lisle, Sir George 80

  Little Bo Peep 29, 100-103, 217

  Little Boy Blue 103-106

  Little Jack Horner 55, 106-110, 139, 194

  Little Miss Muffet 110-12, 135

  Little Polly Flinders 113-14

  Little Tommy Tucker 114-15

  Liverpool 15

  Londinium 117

  London, City of 220

  London Bridge 117, 119

  auction 119

  London Bridge Is Falling Down 115-21

  London’s Burning 39, 121-2, 218

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 205, 231

  Song of Hiawatha, The 205

  Lord Chancellor 11

  Lotti, Antonio 224

  Louis XVI of France 87

  execution 87

  Lovell, Francis 68

  Lucas, Sir Charles 80

  Lucy Locket 123-4, 270

  Ludford Bridge, Battle of 59

  Ludgate Hill 122

  Lyra (constellation) 70

  Macak, Charles 250

  macaroni 270

  MacDonald, Flora 261

  Macedonia 127

  Mackay, Charles 258

  Mad Hatter 228

  Magna Carta 94

  Maijor, Richard 72

  Malaysia 126

  Malory, Thomas Morte d’Arthur, Le 49-50

  Man Friday 157

  man in the moon 89

  Man in the Moon, The 89, 124

  Man of Thessaly, The 126-7

  Manchester 15

  Ship Canal 15

  Marcus Manlius Capitolinus 51

  Margaret of Anjou 59, 60

  Marian Persecutions 214

  Marie Antoinette of France 87

  execution 87

  Marlborough, Duke of 55

  Marley, Alice 32

  marriage 139

  Martello Tower 102

  Martin, Sarah Catherine 145, 146

  Martin Lane 148-9

  Mary Had a Little Lamb 29, 128-33, 217

  Mary I of Scotland 111

  Mary of Guise 42

  Mary Queen of Scots 36, 42, 111, 134, 135-6

  execution 36, 136

  Mary Tudor 12, 35, 111, 134-5, 212, 213, 214, 215

  Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 133-6, 145, 214

  Mary, mother of Jesus 95, 134, 136

  Mason, Dr Lowell 129

  Mass 199

  Massachusetts 186

  Mayflower 186

  McCulloch, Robert P. 119

  medieval times 114

  Mells Manor House 108

  Members of Parliament 21

  Merchant of Venice, The 30

  Mercia 176

  mice 211

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 62, 89

  Miller of Dee, The 25 7-9

  Miller, William 229, 230

  Milton, John 255

  Paradise Lost 255

  Milton: A Poem 255

  minstrels 140, 251

  Molay, Jacques de 39

  monasteries 139

  Monday’s Child 137-8

  Mont Cassell 54

  Montague, Edward, 3rd Earl of Sandwich 185

  Montague, Richard 185

  moon 23, 70, 125, 137, 171

  man in the 89

  Morris dancing 179

  Morte d’Arthur, Le 49-50

  ‘Mother Goose’ 113

  Mother Goose 182

  Mother Goose’s Melody 8, 85

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 227

  Muffet, Dr Thomas 112

  mulberry trees 64

  Murray, Lord George 98

  music 140

  music hall 250

  Muslims 19

  Muzio Scevola 223

  Napoleon 54

  Napoleonic Wars 53

  National Covenant of 1638 203

  Neale, John Mason 248

  Needles and Pins 139-40

  Nelson, Admiral 54, 172, 231

  Neville, Anne 68

  Neville, Richard 67

  New Model Army 71

  New York Times 129

  Book Review 129

  Newburn, Battle of 202

  Newbery, John 8, 185

  Mother Goose’s Melody 85

  Newcastle 203

  Newgate Gaol 150, 220

  Newmarket 43

  Newton, John 242-4

  nonsense poems 65

  Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets 153

  North Star 268

  Northampton 9

  Battle of 60

  Northumbria 176

  Norwich 124

  nuns 136

  Nurse Truelove’s New Year’s Gift, or The Book of Books for Children 79

  ‘O du lieber Augustin’ 155

  Oedipus 86

  Olaf of Norway 120

  Old Bailey 149-50

  great bell 150

  Old English poetry 86

  Old King Cole 140-43, 227

  Old Mother Hubbard 35, 104, 143-6

  Old Norse literature 85-6, 89, 120

  ‘Old Rowley’ 43

  Old Testament 168, 199, 266, 268

  imagery 191

  Olney Church 244

  Olympus, Mount 127

  One-Eyed Thompson 81, 82

  Onward Christian Soldiers’ 125

  opera, Italian 223

  Oranges and Lemons 146-52, 219

  Original Poems for Infant Minds 226

  orphans 114

  Ottar the Black 120

  Owl and the Pussycat, The 152-4

  ‘Oxen, The’ 237

  Oxford, Siege of 204

  ‘Oxford Martyrs’ 214

  Oxford University 72

  paganism 76

  Palmer, Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine 43, 44

  Pammelia, Musickes Miscellanie 30

  pantomime 221

  Paradise Lost 255

  Parliament 105, 209

  Parliamentarians 4

  Parr, Katherine 139

  Parry, C. Hubert H. 256

  pawnbrokers 161

  peep shows 186-7

  ‘peeping Tom’ 177

  pepper 211

  Pepys, Samuel 6, 162-3, 182-, 221

  Percy, Henry 68

  Perrault, Charles 113

  Perth 14

  Philip II of Spain 35, 214

  Pickwick Papers, The 148

  pirates 90, 195-8

  plague 14

  Plague and the Fire, The 182

  Plague of 1666 13

  Plato 85

  Playford, John English Dancing Master, The 147

  playing cards 167, 168

  PlayStations 24

  Plough (constellation) see Ursa Major

  ploughing 211

  plum pudding 34

  Poems of Early Childhood 183

  Polly Put the Kettle On 154-6

  Polo, Marco 211

  Polydore Vergil 49

  Poor Law Act 56

  Poor Old Robinson Crusoe 156-7

  Pop Goes the Weasel 158-62

  Popular Rhymes of Scotland 251

  porridge 124

  potato 119

  Powers, Richard K. 129

  Prague 248

  Presbyterian Church 111

  Prestonpans, Battle of 98, 246

  priest-holes 51

  Prince Charming 113 ‘Princes in the Tower’ 66

  prisons 64

  Wakefield 64

  Privy Council 46

  privy counsellors 135

  prostitutes 123

  prostitution 189

  Protectorate 72

  Protestantism 35

  Protestants 135, 202

  pub crawls 161
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  Pudding Lane 149

  Punch and Judy 162-4

  Puritans 105, 179, 251

  Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat 164-6

  Pye, Henry James (poet laureate) 193-4

  Pyramus and Thisbe 62-3

  Quakers 267

  Queen of Hearts, The 83, 166, 222

  quilts 268

  Rackham, Calico Jack 90

  rags-to-riches 113

  Rain, Rain, Go Away 169-70

  Raleigh, Sir Walter 119

  Ratcliffe, Sir Richard 207

  Ravenscroft, Thomas 215

  Deuteromelia 215

  Melismata 215

  Pammelia 215

  Read, Mary 91

  Recruiting Officer, The 217

  Red Sky at Night 170-71

  Redstone School 132-3

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November 97, 172-5

  Restoration 43

  Reynolds, Joshua 123

  Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 7

  Richard I 93-4

  Richard II 218-9

  Richard III 66, 68, 69, 110, 207

  Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York 58, 59, 60

  riddles 85

  Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross 4, 106, 176-9, 251

  Ridley, Nicholas 214

  Ring-a-Ring o’ Roses 180-83

  Rizzio, David 112

  robins 237

  Rock-a-Bye, Baby 54, 97, 184-6

  Roman Catholic Church see Catholic Church

  Roman Catholicism see Catholicism

  Roman Empire 142

  Romeo and Juliet 63

  Roulstone, John 132-3

  rounds 121, 218

  Royal Academy of Music 223

  Rub-a-Dub-Dub 186-7

  Rufus, William 122

  Rufus Stone 236-7 ‘Rule Britannia’ 245

  runcible 153-4

  Runnymede 94

  Rupert, Prince 204

  St Albans, Battle of 59

  St Bartholomew’s Hospital 220

  St Catherine, feast of 92

  St Ceneu ap Coel 142

  St Clement Danes 148

  St Clement’s Church 147-8

  St Helena 142

  St James’s, London 73

  St Leonard’s 102

  St Leonard’s Church 150

  St Martin Orgar 148

  St Martin’s Church 148-9

  St Paul 192

  St Paul’s Cathedral 122

  St Sepulchre-without-Newgate 149-50

  St Simeon of Ermesa 191, 192

  miracles 192

  St Stephen’s Day 28

  St Thomas’s Hospital 220

  Salisbury, Earl of 60

  Salmagundi 199

  Salmagundi 199

  Sandman 230

  Saturn 137

  Sawyer, Mary 130-33

  Saxe, John Godfrey 19, 20

  Scotland 97

  Scott, Sir Walter 262

  Scottish Presbyterian movement 267

  sea shanties 21

  Second Jacobite Rebellion 246

  Second World War 82, 122, 248

  See-Saw, Marjorie Daw 188-9

  see-saws 188

  Selkirk, Alexander 156-7

  Sepher Haggadah 80

  seven 199

  Seven Years’ War 270

  Severn (river) 32

  Shakers 251

  Shakespeare, William 29, 69, 89, 110

  King Lear 101

  Merchant of Venice, The 30

  Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 62, 89

  Romeo and Juliet 63

  Tempest, The 29

  shamans 125

  Sharp, Sir Cuthbert 254

 

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