INDEX

Abbott’s theatrical booth, 358 Adams, the dancer, 154 African dwarfs, 80 Albinoes, 295, 310, 313 Albion dancing-booth, 263 Algar’s dancing-booth, 263, 328, 333, 355 Allen, the dwarf, 205 Ambroise, the showman, 189 Amburgh, Van, the lion-tamer, 260 American juggler, 294 Annesley, Mrs., the dancer, 164 Appleby, the showman, 63 Arthur, the comedian, 144 Astley, the equestrian, 211 Aston, the comedian, 109, 121 Atkins’s menagerie, 258, 277, 302, 304 Baker, Mrs., the theatrical manageress, 196 Ball, the showman, 271, 303, 309 Ballard’s animal comedians, 169 "menagerie, 232, 241, 287, 303, 305 Banks and his performing horse, 23 Barnes, the showman, 63 ""pantaloon, 246 Barnett, Mrs., the actress, 349 Basil, the showman, 191 Baudouin, the comic dancer, 131 Bearded women, 33, 47 Belzoni’s feats of strength, 216 Berar’s optikali illusio, 311 Biffin, Miss, the armless portrait painter, 210, 231 Billington, the comedian, 349 Birds, performing, 178, 182, 188 Bisset, the animal trainer, 177 Blacker, the dwarf, 167 Blight, Helen, the lion-performer, 337 Boheme, the tragedian, 96 Booth, the theatrical manager, 94 Bradshaw, Miss, the actress, 144 Breslaw, the conjuror, 187, 192 Bridge’s theatrical booth, 152, 163 Broomsgrove, the showman, 313 Brown, the showman, 272, 300 Brown’s theatre of arts, 315 Brunn, the juggler, 189 Bullock, the comedian, 78, 95, 105, 107, 114, 119, 132 Burchall, the showman, 314 Burnett, the trapezist, 359 Cadman, the flying man, 145 Campbell, Mrs., the actress, 344, 349, 355 Canterel, Mrs., the actress, 110 Capelli, the conjuror, 307 Carey, the actor, 223, 230 Cartlitch, the actor, 246 Cats, performing, 178, 307 Chapman, Mary Anne, the albino, 314 "Miss, the lion-performer, 337 "the comedian, 114, 119, 127, 132, 138, 143 Chappell, the actor, 353 "the showman, 272 Charke, Mrs., the actress, 114 Cheshire girl, wonderful, 49 Chettle’s theatrical booth, 151 Chetwood, the prompter, 105 Chinese jugglers, 302, 309 "lady, 292 Christoff, the rope-dancer, 20 Cibber, the tragedian, 107, 114 Circassian lady, 290 Clancy, the giant, 313 Clark, the posturer, 59 Clarke’s circus, 268, 307, 332, 341 Clarke, Miss, the rope-dancer, 308 Clarkson, the showman, 191 Clench, the whistling man, 80 Coan, the dwarf, 167 Cooke’s circus, 249 Corder, the murderer, head of, 303 Cornwell, the showman, 61 Corsican dwarf, 155, 188 Cousins’s theatrical booth, 154 Cow, a double, 161 Cox, the comedian, 37 Crawley, the puppet-showman, 83 Crockett, the showman, 341 Crocodile, the first exhibited, 167 Crowther, the actor, 322 Cushings, the pantomimists, 150, 165 Dale’s music booth, 64 Dancey, Mrs. and Miss, the dancers, 131 Day, the showman, 298 Day’s menagerie, 355, 375 Dawson, the dwarf, 313 Derrum, Miss, the female tumbler, 115 Doggett, the comedian, 74, 79 Dogs, performing, 85, 169, 178, 307 Drury’s menagerie, 310 Ducrow, Madame, the rope-dancer, 335 Dunstall’s theatrical booth, 175 Dupain, the showman, 313 Dutch boy, wonderful, 70 "rope-dancer, 53, 150 Dwarf family, 298 Dyan, Ursula, the bearded woman, 47 Edmunds, the menagerist, 337, 355 Egleton, Mrs., the actress, 108 Elephant, performing, 284 "escape of an, 288, 347 Elliston, the theatrical manager, 236 England, the flying pieman, 240 Esquimaux youth, 294 Evans, the wire-walker, 172 Ewing’s wax-work exhibition, 306, 310 Excell, the duettist, 123 Fairgrieve’s menagerie, 365 Farnham, the dwarf, 313 Faucit, the actor, 221 Fawkes, the conjuror, 110, 112, 117 ""showman, 116, 123, 139, 150 Ferguson’s wax-work exhibition, 310 Fielding, the novelist, 103, 107, 110, 113, 119, 124, 127 Finch, the posturer, 313 Finley, the acrobat, 73 "Mary, the rope-dancer, 73, 78 Fitzgerald, Mrs., the actress, 110, 123 Fives Court drinking booth, 333 Flemish giantess, 47 Flockton, the juggler and showman, 191, 200, 202, 206 Ford, the gingerbread vendor, 99 Fossett’s circus, 358 Frano, Mdlle. de, the dancer, 131 Frazer, the conjuror, 303 Frazer’s acrobatic entertainment, 341 Freer, the tragedian, 344 French, the single-stick player, 158 Gaetano, the bird imitator, 187 Garrick, the actor, 165 German rope-dancers, 50, 63, 73 Giffard, the theatrical manager, 106, 130 Gipsies’ drinking booth, 333 Girardelli, Josephine, the fire-eater, 235 Glee-men and glee-maidens, 19 Gobert, Madame, the athlete, 244 Godwin, the showman, 151 Goodwin’s theatrical booth, 143 Gouffe, the man-monkey, 306 Gregory, the showman, 374 Griffin, the actor, 107, 114, 137 Grosette, the actor, 225 Grove’s theatre of arts, 341 Gyngell, the showman, 207, 238, 254 Haines, the fire-eater, 311 Hales, the Norfolk giant, 350 Hall, the rope-dancer, 43, 45 ""actor, 108, 119 Hall’s museum, 192 Hallam, the tragedian, 107, 114, 119, 127, 131, 138, 143 Harper, the comedian, 96, 103, 109, 111, 114, 118, 137 Harris, the cat imitator, 182 Harris, the showman, 313 Haydon’s theatrical booth, 320 Heads, lecture on, 186 Heidegger, Master of the Revels, 139 Herring, the pantomimist, 322, 336 Hewet, the comedian, 109 Hilton’s menagerie, 336, 341, 359 Hilton, Miss, the lion-performer, 336 Hind, the actor, 121 Hippisley, the tragedian, 108, 110, 113, 119, 127, 132, 138, 143 "Miss, the actress, 162 Hipson, Miss, the fat girl, 289 Hoare, the showman, 243 Hocus Pocus, the King’s conjuror, 30 Hog, enormous, 154 Holden’s glass-blowing exhibition, 299, 301 Holland’s, Lady, mob, 125, 201, 256 Horses, performing, 20, 23, 43, 83, 164, 178, 202, 305 Horton, Mrs., the actress, 94 Howard, the actor, 348, 355 Hoyo’s wax-work exhibition, 310 Hulett, the comedian, 105, 109, 114, 120 Hussey’s theatrical booth, 145, 151, 153, 156 Hyenas, tame, 308, 371 Inchbald, Elizabeth, the actress, 196 Irish giant, 52 Italian rope-dancer, 40 "sword-dancers, 154 Ives, the showman, 191 Jack, Manchester, the lion-keeper, 260 Jackman’s theatrical booth, 358 Jano, the rope-dancer, 115, 130 Jefferies, the actor, 225 Jobson, the puppet-showman, 191, 202, 208 Johnson, the showman, 317, 320 "and Lee’s theatrical booth, 321, 325, 336, 341, 343, 348, 352, 356 Kean, the tragedian, 214, 221 Keith, the clown, 358 Keyes and Laine, the conjurors, 303 Killigrew, Charles, Master of the Revels, 50 "Thomas, the King’s jester, 49 Lacy, Mrs., the actress, 121 Ladder dance, 85 Laguerre, the actor, 119 Lane, the conjuror, 191 Laskey, the showman, 341 Lee, Nelson, the theatrical manager, 247, 254, 320, 346 Lee’s theatrical booth, 102, 106, 108, 111, 114, 119, 121, 132, 138, 152, 163 "unlicensed theatre, 255 Legar, the actor, 132 Leigh, the comedian, 95 Leopard, escape of a, 232 "a tame, 287, 310 Leopards, performing, 368, 371 Lincolnshire dwarf, 294 Lion, a tame, 32, 274, 285 "baiting with dogs, 261 Lioness, escape of a, 241 Lion-tiger cubs, 277, 285, 304 Little, the comedian-hawker, 324 Living skeleton, the, 305 Lorenzo, the lion performer, 368 Lorme, Madlle. de, the dancer, 106 Luce, the dancer, 106 Macarthy, the lion performer, 362 Mackenzie, the hermit, 314 Macklin, the comedian, 144 Macomo, the lion performer, 360 Madagascar woman, 294 Mahoura, the cannibal chief, head of, 298 Malay savages, 290 Manchester Jack, the lion keeper, 260 Manders’s menagerie, 359 March, the clown, 50 Maori woman, 292, 351 Mare with seven feet, 291 Master of the Revels, office of, 30 Matthews, the dancer, 164 Maughan, the showman, 289 Melville, the actor, 349 Menagerie, the first, 88 Mermaids, 162, 298 Miles’s music booth, 64, 85 "menagerie, 209 Miller, the comedian, 75, 77, 107, 114, 119 Mills, the comedian, 107, 114, 119 Monkeys, performing, 20, 23, 40, 169, 178, 314 Monstrosities, 22, 32, 60, 161, 204, 217, 291, 310, 314, 346 Morgan, the comedian, 121 "Miss, the dwarf, 205 Morgan’s menagerie, 287, 302 Morosini, the rope-dancer, 115 Mullart, the tragedian, 111 Mussulmo, the rope-dancer, 151 Mynn’s theatrical booth, 86 Negro, wonderful, 168 Newman and Allen’s theatrical booth, 323 Newsome, the lion performer, 359 Nichols, the comedian, 109 Nokes, Mrs., the actress, 104 Oates, the comedian, 105, 114, 119, 134, 162 "Miss, the actress, 114, 120 O’Brien, the Irish giant, 194, 229 Ogden, Mrs., the dancer, 154 Oronutu savage, 154 Orsi, the singer, 204 Owen, the clown, 196 Oxberry, the comedian, 221 Paap, the dwarf, 236 Pack, the comedian, 95 Palmer, the theatrical bill-sticker, 165 Parker’s theatrical booth, 79 Peep-shows, 289, 305, 307 Penkethman, the elder, comedian, 71, 79, 95, 106 ""younger, comedian, 106, 108, 113, 120, 132 Penley, the showman, 200 Perry’s menagerie, 159 Persian giant, 290 Peters, the comic dancer, 131 Petit, the showman, 115 Phantasmagorial exhibitions, 311 Philips, the fiddler and clown, 54, 57 Phillips, the posturer, 113 ""showman, 164 ""comedian, 133 "Mrs., the dancer, 134 "the Welsh dwarf, 294 Pidcock’s menagerie, 186 Pierce, the gigantic Shropshire youth, 313 Pig-faced lady, 303, 305 Pigs, learned, 178, 243, 297, 301, 314 Pike’s theatrical booth, 303 Pinchbeck, the mechanist, 110, 116, 123, 134, 139 Pinkethman, the puppet showman, 83 Polito’s menagerie, 187, 209 Powell, the comedian, 105 ""fire-eater, 179 ""puppet showman, 83 Price, the equestrian, 309 Pritchard, Mrs., the actress, 113, 120, 127 Pullen’s theatrical booth, 105 Punch and Judy shows, 27 Punchinello, the puppet showman, 29 Purden, Mrs., the actress, 121 Quin, the comedian, 95 Rapinese, the posturer, 131 Ray, the comedian, 104 Rayner’s theatrical booth, 105 "the tumbler, 149 "Miss, the rope-dancer, 149 Reader, the showman, 341 Reed, the actor, 225, 317 Reed’s theatrical booth, 350 Reverant, Madlle. de, the rope-dancer, 115 Reynolds, the comedian, 104, 106 ""showman, 151, 154 Richardson, the fire-eater, 48 ""showman, 217, 230, 235, 239, 248, 264, 302, 306, 316 River, the tumbler, 115 Roberts, the tragedian, 121 Roberts, Mrs., the actress, 114 Robinson, the conjuror, 191 Robson, the comedian, 356, 358 Rose’s, Miss, imitations of actresses, 187 Rossignol, the bird trainer, 188, 193 Roy, Madlle. le, the dancer, 131 Rudderford, the mountebank, 50 Ryan, the comedian, 95, 119, 127 Saffery, the rope-vaulter, 308 Saffry’s theatrical booth, 50 Saker, the comedian, 256, 350 Salway, the comedian, 113 Samwell, the showman, 270, 309 Saunders, Sarah, actress and acrobat, 323 "the showman, 209, 219, 221, 231 Scotch dwarf, 61 "giant, 303 Scowton’s theatrical booth, 230, 316 Seaman, the actor, 349 Serpents, performing, 190 Settle, the dramatist, 86 Shaw, Miss, the beautiful albino, 310 "the harlequin, 344 Shuter, the comedian, 174, 179, 182 Silver-haired lady, 301, 351 Simmett, the showman, 313 Simpson, the vaulter, 80 Skeleton, the living, 305 Slater, Miss, the columbine, 349 Smith, the hand-bell ringer, 179 Spanish youth, wonderful, 61 Spellman, Mrs., the actress, 110 Spiller, the comedian, 95 "Mrs., the actress, 109, 111, 121 Spotted boy, 301 "girl, 351 Steward, the slack-wire performer, 168 Stock, Elizabeth, the giantess, 300 Stokes, the vaulter, 58 Strand, the lion performer, 359 Strength, feats of, 40, 98, 168, 244 Sword dancers, 64, 85 Talliott’s circus, 359 Tarvey, the clown, 197 Taylor, the dancer, 123 Terwin, the showman, 134 Thwaites, the actor, 225 Thompson, the comic dancer, 131 Tiger, a tame, 159, 283 Tigers, performing, 371 Tarbutt, the comedian, 138, 143 Turkish rope-dancer, 33, 151 "wire-walker, 144, 188 Vanbeck, Barbara, the bearded woman, 33 Vaughan, the actor, 225 Vidina, Signora, the singer, 204 Violantes, the, rope-walkers, 144 Walker, the comedian, 94 Wallack, the actor, 221 Walpole, Lydia, the dwarf, 290, 313 Warner’s theatrical booth, 150, 163, 174 Waterloo giant, 299 Wax-work exhibition, the first, 31 Webber, Eliza, the dwarf, 313 Wells, the actor, 225 Welsh dwarf, 167 Weston, Priscilla and Amelia, the twin giantesses, 313 Whitehead, the fat boy, 298 Whiteland, the dwarf, 203 Wignell, the poet, 179 Williamson, Mrs., the actress, 109 Wombwell’s Menagerie, 257, 273, 302, 305, 307, 310, 337, 341, 347, 355, 365 Woodward, harlequin and actor, 97, 138, 144 Woolford, Miss, the rope-dancer, 336 Wright’s menagerie, 341 Yates, the comedian, 134, 138, 143, 162, 174, 180 "Mrs., the actress, 144 "Miss, the actress, 164 Yeates, the showman, 116, 131, 163, 168 "the conjuror, 116, 131, 133, 149, 151, 153, 157, 163, 168 "Mrs., the actress, 157 Yorkshire giantess, 299

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