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    fire-hunting, 241
    fireplaces, 63, 101–4, 179
    accidentally falling into, 28
    banking of, 59, 63, 270
    chimneys of, 51, 99–100, 101–2, 274, 293
    fuels for, 102–3, 169, 178, 265
    kindling for, 102
    lighting fires in, 102
    as light sources, 103–4
    magical protection of, 99–100, 270
    open central, 101–2
    stoves vs., 102
    urination into, 297, 305
    fire-priggers, 55–56
    fireraising, 54–55
    fires, 7, 9, 29, 32, 38, 48–56, 59, 74, 79, 81, 110, 155, 333
    candles and, 51–52
    chimney, 51
    in clothing, 51
    cries of “Fire” at, 117
    fireplaces and, 51
    Great Fire of 1666, 10, 49, 62
    in houses, 51, 55
    local economies damaged by, 48
    lookouts and, 77
    nightwatch in prevention of, 79, 85
    rats and mice as cause of, 52
    and reading in bed, 52
    rural, 50–51, 54
    smoking and, 79
    in thatch roofs, 48, 50, 51
    in urban areas, 48–50
    winds and, 48, 49
    in workplaces, 52
    see also arson
    fireworks, 69, 211
    “first sleep,” 300–302, 303, 305, 308, 311–12, 320, 321, 322–23, 335, 337
    fishing, 160, 171, 177, 241
    Fitch, John, 114
    Fithian, Philip, 297–98
    Flandrin, Jean-Louis, 278
    fleas, 269–70, 294–95, 295
    Fletcher, John, xxxi, 15
    flock mattresses, 274, 276
    Florence, 44
    aristocratic gangs in, 224
    carrying weapons banned in, 66
    death penalty in, 86
    filthy streets of, 27
    homosexuals in, 230
    night courts of, 85
    operas in, 211
    plague in, 230
    private guards in, 165
    public celebrations in, 69
    foliots, 18
    Fontaine, John, 35
    foot-pads, 34
    Forbes, Betty, 116
    Forman, Simon, 281
    fortified cities and towns, 61–89
    carrying lights mandated in, 67, 129
    carrying weaponry prohibited in, 66, 142, 152
    fixed street barriers in, 64, 65, 75
    gates of, 61, 62–63, 145, 172, 328
    nocturnal disguises prohibited in, 66–67
    toll gates of, 63
    walls of, 61–63, 76, 327–28
    see also criminal justice; curfews; nightwatch; street lighting
    Foxton, Thomas, 59
    Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 318
    France:
    ar cannerez of, 19
    armed peasants in, 142
    arson by burglars in, 54
    barred windows in, 93
    cabarets of, 187
    charivaris in, 253–54
    chauffeurs in, 38
    coureurs de nuit in, 245
    courtship in, 195
    day-laborers of, 157
    Demoiselles as insurgents in, 258
    dormitoires in, 271
    écreignes in, 182
    falots in, 125–26
    Famile de Guet in, 75, 76
    fire-fighting in, 79
    fires in, 49
    Huguenot Protestants of, 228
    magic charms of, 143
    millers of, 161
    nightwatch in, 75, 79
    Paleolithic lamps found in, 5
    porte-flambeaux in, 125
    public celebrations of, 69
    punishments for nocturnal offenses in, 87
    rushlights in, 108
    servants’ beds in, 277
    smugglers of, 243
    spinning and knitting bees in, 178, 182, 184
    supernatural encounters in, 144–45
    thefts in, 33
    veillées in, 178, 184
    walled towns of, 63
    watchdogs in, 95
    werewolves of, 19, 143
    witch hunts of, 20
    wolves in, 171–72
    youth gangs in, 245, 248, 251, 252
    Francis, Duke of Milan, 226
    Francis I, King of France, 226
    Franklin, Benjamin, 264, 320
    cold air baths of, 306
    on fires, 51, 115
    two beds advised by, 297
    Frappe-d’abord, 190
    Freke, Elizabeth, 51, 288
    Freud, Sigmund, 313, 316
    Frye, Thomas, 105
    Fuller, Thomas, 268
    fulmars, oil from, 107
    funerals, nocturnal, 213
    funeral wakes, 194
    Fuseli, Henry, 291, 321

    Gaelic, xxxii
    Gallathea, 323
    Gallo, Augustin, 172
    gallows (gibbets), 41, 141–42
    game laws, 241
    games of chance, 72, 186, 189, 189, 221, 235, 328
    Gamester, The (Shirley), 224
    gangs:
    of burglars, 37, 38–39
    of libertines, 224–26
    see also youth gangs
    “Gardy-loo!” warning, 28
    Gauguin, Paul, 4
    Gay, John, 44, 125, 134, 143
    geese, as watchers, 96
    Gelasius, Pope, 69
    Gelsi, Giovanni, 235
    Geneva:
    broken pavements of, 27
    burglaries in, 38
    city gates of, 63
    murder of domestic intruders in, 87
    night’s darkness as sacred in, 74
    nightwatch of, 82
    vagrants in, 65
    Gentleman, The (Steele), 218
    Gentleman’s Magazine, 166–67, 216, 324
    George II, King of England, 321
    Germany, 15, 16, 23, 97
    Beisetzungs in,