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N.N. on Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102.—— school libraries, 298.N. (A.) on mineral acids, 339.—— names of plants, 136.N. (A. J.) on house-marks, 19.Namby-pamby, and other words of the same form, 318. 341. 390.Names in Bible and Prayer Book, how pronounced, 469. 590. 630.Names reversible, 244. 375. 655.Naphtali on anonymous poet, 127.Napier (Sir Charles) and the conquest of Scinde, 490. 574. 631.* Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.* Napoleon, anecdote of, 292.Napoleon's bees, 30.—— spelling, 386. 502.—— thunderstorm, 148.* Nash the artist, 79.N. (D.) on Lewis and Sewell families, 521. 621.N. (D. Y.) on the Porter family, 364.Nedlam on snail-eating, 128.* Neele (H.), editor of Shakspeare, 539.Nemo on death of Falstaff, 314.Newans (Thomas), a prophet, 381.Newburiensis on Francis Browne, 639.—— Sir George Brown, 243. 301.—— poetical tavern signs, 569.—— worm in books, 526.Newington on Milton's widow, 595.Newman (W.) on "The Devil on Two Sticks," 413.Newspapers in Scotland, the earlier, 57.Newspapers, notes on, 333.Newstead Abbey, 2.New Testament, an early edition, 219. 277.Newton (Mr. Justice) noticed, 15. 110.* Newton (Sir Isaac) and Flamsteed, 102.* —— and his half-niece, 429.* —— and Somers, 78.* —— his memorial, 172.—— on railway travelling, 34. 65.* New Universal Magazine, inquiry respecting, 639.New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, custom on, 618.N. (G.) on books burned by the hangman, 626.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83.—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 479.—— medal of Mary Queen of Scots, 444.—— old Fogie, 455.N. (G. E. T. S. R.) on chronograms in Sicily, 562.—— Gentile names of the Jews, 563.—— St. Clement's apple-feast, 618.N. (H.) on anticipatory use of the cross, and ringing of bells for the dead, 417.Nicholas (Emperor), his manifesto, 585.Nicholas (St.), his performances on Christmas Eve, 615.Nightingale and thorn, 527.Nightingale's song, 112. 475. 651.Nimmo (Thos.) on an inedited letter of Henry VIII., 510.Nine as a multiple, 149. 305.Nixon the prophet, 257. 326.* Noel family, 316.No Judge on piccalyly, 8.* Nonjurors, sources for their history, 621.Norfolk (Margaret, Duchess of), her arms, 84.Norman of Winster, 126. 302.North (Lord), a woodcut of, 183. 230. 303.Nostradamus, edition of 1605, 552.Novus on advice given to Julius III., 54.Noxid on cement of glass-baths, 397.N. (S.) on Earl of Oxford, and the creation of peers, 292.—— helmets over shields, 538.Nugget, not an Americanism, 375. 481.Nuneham Regis, discovery at, 101.Nursery rhymes, 452. 605.* Nursrow, origin of the word, 538.N (Old English). (W (Old English).), epigram on M‘Adam, 441.N. (W.) on Aristotle's checks, 98.N. (W. L.) on MS. of Spenser's Fairy Queen, 357.O.Oak, how to clean old, 45. 58.Oak, veneration for the, 468. 632.Oaken tombs, &c., 179. 454.* Oasis, how accented, 410.Oaths as taken by the English and Welsh, 364. 471. 605.Oaths of pregnant women, 503.Obnoxious, its different meanings, 439.* O'Brien (Nelly) noticed, 410.Observer on Lord North, 303.O. (D. N.) on passage in Blackwood, 493.Offertory alms, superstition respecting, 617.O. (J.) on Alexander Clark, 517.—— books burned by the hangman, 346.—— impossibilities of our forefathers, 559.—— parish clerks and politics, 56.—— Patrick Carey, 406.—— Peter Brett, 533.—— Robert Drury, 104.—— Temple lands in Scotland, 480.—— Thomas Newans, a prophet, 381.—— William Blake, 69. 435.* Okey the regicide, 620.Oldenshaw (C.) on song by Dr. Lisle, 281.Old Grumbleum on punning devices, 376.Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, 183.Oliver on Rathband family, 493.Omega on pues or pews, 127.Omicron on humbug, its derivation, 575.—— Osborne family, 448.—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 654.—— Wellington's first victory, 491.O. (P. A.) on post-office about 1770, 8.* Orange blossom, 341.O. (R. A. S.) on St. George family pictures, 104.Orton (Job), the publican, his burial, 59.Osborn family, 270. 448.Osborn filius Herfasti, 515. 654.Osmotherly in Yorkshire, tradition of, 617.O'Sullivan (Wm.) on Gurney's short-hand, 589.Oswald (Richard) noticed, 442. 549.Outlawe (Roger) noticed, 5.* Owen (Dr. Charles) noticed, 492.Owen (Hugh) on yellow bottles for chemicals, 110.Oxford commemoration squib, 1849, 584.Oxford (Earl of), and the creation of peers, 292. 392.Oxoniensis on "Amentium haud amantium," 19.—— Nightingale's song, 112.—— pure, its singular use, 125.P.Packington (Lady), supposed author of the Whole Duty of Man, 564.Paget (Arthur) on Lisle family, 423.—— Milton's widow, 452.—— Synge family, 423.—— teaching a dog French, 581.Paget family, 12. 134. 200. 375. 452.Pagoda, 401. 523.Paint, how taken off of old oak, 45. 58.Palæologus (Theodore), his inscription, 408. 526.* Pale, its meaning, 78.Paley's plagiarism, 589.Palindromes, 520.Panama, the Isthmus of, 144.Paper, how split, 413. 604.Parallel passages, 30. 195. 372. 465. 560.* Parchment deeds, on cleansing soiled, 270.Pardon churchyard, 63.Parish clerk, a female, 338. 474.Parish clerks and politics, 56. 230. 575.—— clerks' company, 341. 452.—— registers, lines prefixed to, 30.* Park, the antiquary, 8.* Parker (Abp.), his correspondence, 149.* Parliament, a member of, electing himself, 586.Parochial libraries, 62. 274. 327. 369. 527. 595.Parr (Dr.), his letter on Milton, 433.Party, its earliest use, 137.Party names in the seventeenth century, 117.Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 485.Parvise explained, 161.Pascal, a saying of his, 44.Pater-noster, the white, 614.* Patriarchs of the Western Church, 317.Patrick (Bp. Simon) noticed, 103. 205.* Patrick (St.), or Maune and Man, 291.Patrick's purgatory, 178. 327.Patten (Margaret), her picture, 442.* "Pay the Piper," its origin, 198.P. (C. J.) on fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 78.Peacock (Edw.) on ecclesiastical censure, 466.—— Francis Moore, 271.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 279.—— North Lincolnshire folk lore, 382.—— Sir William Hewet, 652.—— weather rules, 50.Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 94."Peccavi! I have Scinde," 490. 574.Pedigree indices, 317. 453.* Pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586."Peg" or "nail," for an argument, 561.* Pelasgi, a sorrowful race, 516.Pembrokiensis on tomb of Henry I., 411.Pennycomequick, its derivation, 8. 113. 184. 255.Pepys (Samuel) and East London Topography, 263.—— his grammar, 466. 502.* —— his queries, 341.Percy (Lady), wife of Hotspur, 104. 184. 251.* Perfect tense, its rationale, 410.Perseverant, its early use, 44.Persius Flaccus (Aulus), his birth-place, 389.Personage, a mysterious one, 34. 113.Perthensis on Alexander Clark, 18.—— aliases and initials of authors, 124.Peterborough Cathedral, inscription in, 215. 303.* Peter the Great, his will, 539.Petheram (John) on Sir Thomas Button's Voyages, 385.* Petrarch's Laura, 562.P. (Francis) on heraldic query, 220.P. (G.) on the meaning of trash, 135.P. (H.) on crosses on stoles, 411.—— French Prayer Books, 478.—— love charm from a foal's forehead, 292.Φ. on ampers and, 254.—— yew-trees in churchyards, 346.Φ. (2) on stereoscopic angles, 16.ףE‎. on chronicles of kings of Israel, 561.—— non-recurring diseases, 516.Ph. on oaths of pregnant women, 503.—— pagoda, 401.Φ.Φ. on standard of weights and measures, 340.Phantom bells, 576.Pharaoh's ring, 416. 521.Philadelphia Directories, 168.Philadelphia, the early delights of, 537.Philharmonicus on Weber's Cecilia, 589.Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.Philo-Handel on Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, 388.Philo-Pho. on ammonio-nitrate of silver, 204.φ. (ω.) on book inscriptions, 64.Φωτογραφοςon Dr. Diamond's calotype process, 572.Photography:—aceto-nitrate of silver, 649.albumenised paper, 395. 501. 548. 572.albumenised process, 549.ammonio-nitrate, is it dangerous? 134. 158. 204. 276.baths for collodion process, 42.calotype process, 548. 572. 596.camera obscura, 41.cameras, their lining, 157.cement for glass baths, 397.clouds in photographs, 451. 477. 501.collodion negatives, 629.collodion pictures, 181.collodion process, 41. 42. 46.cyanuret of potassium, 157.developing mixture, 549.Dr. Diamond's collodion process, 41. 133.—— lecture on the calotype process, 596.engraving, 628.gallo-nitrate of silver, 17.glass chambers, 133.iodizing paper, 46.Ingleby's Essay on the Stereoscope, 401. 451.lenses, 133. 476.Lyte's three new processes, 252. 373.—— treatment of positives, 15.manuscripts copied, 456. 501.minuteness of detail on paper, 157.Muller's process, 203. 253. 275. 451.multiplication of photographs, 85. 157.negative paper, 203.photographic exhibition, 476.photographs by artificial light, 228.photographs in natural colours, 228.Pollock's process, 17.positives, 15. 17. 397. 451.precision in photographic processes, 301.protonitrate of iron, 228.printing on albumenised paper, 324.Pumphrey's process for black tints, 349.restoration of old collodion, 650.Sisson's developing solution, 157. 181. 253. 301. 373.stereoscopic angles, 16. 109. 157. 181. 227. 275. 348. 419. 451. 476. 501.Stewart's new photographic process, 60.—— pantograph, 301.tent for collodion, 301.yellow bottles for chemicals, 86. 110.* Phrases, Dictionary of English, 292.Piccadilly, a collar, 467.Piccalyly, its origin, 8. 110.Pictor on epitaph in Wingfield Church, 98.Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264. 392. 551.Pierrepont (John), his descendants, 303.Pigs said to see the wind, 100.Pilgrim's Progress, Part III., 222.Pimlico on "Tub to a whale," 220.Pinkerton (W.) on Cambridge and Ireland, 350.—— fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 281.—— Land of Green Ginger, 606.—— Megatherium Americanum, 109.—— mysterious personage, 34.—— nightingale epithets, 475.—— "Pinece with a stink," 496.—— poem attributed to Shelley, 183.Pistol (fire-arms), its earliest use, 7. 137.P. (J.) on marriage of cousins, 387.P. (J.) jun. on Lord Audley's attendants, 573.P. (J. R.) on arrow-mark, 440.—— daughter pronounced dafter, 504.Planets, the discovery of, 601.Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.Plants, wild, and their names, 35. 136. 207.Plat (Sir Hugh) noticed, 495.Players, an interpolation of the, 147.Plum, origin of the word, 65. 654.Ply on lens for negatives, 158.Poema del Cid, with glossary and notes, 367. 574.* Poems and songs in MS., 587.Polarised light, 409. 552.Politian, his epitaph at Florence, 537.* Politics, their influence on fashion, 515.* Poll tax in 1641, 340.Polonius on Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 523.Pope and Cowper, 383.* Pope's Elegy on an unfortunate lady, 539.Popes, St. Malachy's prophecies on, 390.* Popham (Sir John) and Littlecott, 218.Porcpisee or porpoise, 208.Porridge, the Book of Common Prayer, so called, 486.Porter family, 364. 526. 576.Porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.* Post-office about 1770, 8.—— riddles for, 185.Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.Pots used by members of the Temple, 171. 256. 574.Pottery, Dutch, 183.* Poyntz (Gabriel), his arms, 440.P. (P.) on books chained in churches, 453.—— ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 329. 652.—— point of etiquette, 527.—— slow-worm superstition, 328.P. (P. P.) on consecrated roses, 38.Prayer Book, French translation, 343. 478.Prayer Books, early editions, 318.—— pictorial editions, 446.—— prior to 1662, 504.Prayer, occasional forms of, 535.* Presbyterian titles, 126.Pretenders, their births and deaths, 565.Price (R.) on Latin riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243.—— proverbial expressions, 624.Prideaux (J.) on Wm. Cookworthy, 585.Prie dieu, ancient furniture, 101. 183.Printers' grammars, &c., 62.Proclamations, collection of, 528.* Property, the right of redeeming, 516.Prophet—Thomas Newans, 381.Proverbial expressions, change of meaning in, 464. 624.Proverbs, definition of one, 243. 304. 523.—— pictorial, 20.—— quoted by Suetonius, 86.—— weather, 218.* —— wedding, 150.——Miscellaneous:—As good as a play, 363.Dover Court; all speakers and no hearers, 9.Hauling over the coals, 125. 280. 524.Put a spoke in his wheel, 269. 351. 522. 576.Putting your foot into it, 77. 159.* Raining cats and dogs, 565.* The full moon brings fine weather, 79.* Vaut mieux avoir affaire, &c., 220.Tread on a worm and it will turn, 464. 624.When the maggot bites, 244. 304. 353. 526.Psalm cxxvii. 2., translation of, 387. 519. 641.P. (S. C.) on high and low Dutch, 413.P. (T.) on Staffordshire knot, 220.Pues or pews, its correct spelling, 127.Pugillus on Andrew Johnson, 589.Pullen (Rev. Josiah) noticed, 489.Pulpits of stone, 562.Pulteney (Sir John de) noticed, 263.Pumphrey (Wm.) on procuring black tints, 349.Pun, a pictorial one, 385.Punning devices, 270. 376.* —— divine, 586.Pure, a peculiar use of the word, 125. 230. 352.P. ( W.) on "A mockery, a delusion, and a snare," 244.—— Willingham boy, 305.P. (W. H.) on church temporalities, 412.—— humming ale, 245.—— Major André, 277.Q.Q. on Ashman's Park, 376.—— etymology of awk, 602.—— etymology of bad, 207.—— belike, its etymology, 600.—— enough, its pronunciation, 210.—— lad and lass, their etymology, 210.—— lowbell, its etymology, 208.—— "mob" and "cash," 573.—— Macbeth, a passage in, 217.—— Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.—— perseverant, 44.—— porc-pisee, its etymology, 208.—— portrait of Sir A. Wingfield, 245.—— quarrel, its etymology, 206.—— scheltrum, its orthography, 206.—— spur, its meaning, 209.—— "spoke in his wheel," 576.—— tenet, or tenent, 602.—— unkid, its meaning, 604.—— voiding knife, 232.—— windfalls, 14.* Quadrille, its derivation, 441.Quæsitor on "The Whole Duty of Man," 564.Quarles and Pascal, 172.Quarrel, its derivation, 206.Quarter, as sparing life, its origin, 246. 353.* Queen at chess, 469.Questor on "the apple of the eye," 204.—— discovery of planets, 601.—— epitaph at Crayford, 363.Quotations:—Alterius orbis Papa, 254.Amentium haud amantium, 19. 89. 136.A mockery, a delusion, and a snare, 244. 302.Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi, 502. 651.Aquæ in vinum conversæ, 242.A saint in crape, 102. 208.* Celsior exsurgens pluviis, &c., 220.* Chew the bitter cud of disappointment, 103.Could we with ink the ocean fill, 127. 180. 257. 422. 522. 648.Crowns have their compass, 376.* Cutting off the little heads of light, 56.Earth says to earth, &c., 110. 353.Firm was their faith, the ancient bands, 564.From the sublime to the ridiculous, 177.Homo unius libri, 440. 569.Horace, De Arte Poetica, 444.* in copy of the Pugna Porcorum, 151.In necessariis unitas, 197. 281.Inter cuncta micans, 230.Johnson's turgid style, 366. 526.* Latin quotations, 197. 281. 353.* Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep, 292.Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102. 257.Magna est veritas et prævalebit, 77.Man proposes, but God disposes, 411. 552.Mater ait natæ, &c., 160.Never ending, still beginning, 103. 162.Now the fierce bear, &c., 440. 577.Oh for a voice of that wild horn, 622.Pinece with a stink, 270. 350. 496.Pity is akin to love, 89.* Plus occidit gula, 292.Populus vult decipi, &c., 65. 522.Quem Deus vult perdere, 73.Qui facit per alium, 231. 422.Quid facies, facies Veneris, &c., 539.* Sad are the rose leaves, 197.Sat cito si sat bene, 18. 87.Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, &c., 587.* Solamen miseris, &c., 272.* Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, 586.* To know ourselves diseased, 219.* Too wise to err, too good to be unkind, 539.* Trail through the leaden sky, 494.Up, guards, and at 'em! 111. 184. 204. 275.Veni, vidi, vici, 400.Virgin wife and widowed maid, 56. 230.* We've parted for the longest time, 388.* What does not fade? 366.* When we survey yon circling orbs, 515.Wilderness of monkeys, 413.R.R. on Baskerville's burial, 423.—— gloves at fairs, 136.R. (A. B.) on barnacles, 300.—— Coleridge's Christabel, 111.—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 182.—— lines typifying Tyranny, 56.Radcliffe (J. N.) on Huggins and Muggins, 503.—— moon superstitions, 322.Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14. 574.Railway travelling foretold, 34. 65.Rainbow, odour from the, 158.Raleigh (Sir Walter) called "Our English Milo," 495.* —— his descendants, 78.—— his supposed scepticism, 267.Rapping no novelty, 512. 632.* Rathbane family, 493.Rathe, or early, 208.Ravilliac noticed, 219. 479.Rawlinson (Robert) on falsified gravestone at Stratford, 124.—— meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.—— Shakspeare emendations, 51.R. (C.) on history of the Nonjurors, 621.R. (C. I.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.—— "Fag," or after-math, 229.—— Garrick Street, May Fair, 411.—— La Fête des Chaudrons, 57.—— poetical tavern signs, 627.R. (C. T.) on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.Reader on Norman of Winster, 302.—— Sir Arthur Aston, 302.R. (E. B.) on mousehunt, 606."Rebellious Prayer," a poem, 19.* Receipt or Recipe, 583.Rector on marriage service, 525.Red hair, 86. 522.Reed (Charles) on Haulf-Naked manor, 205.—— palindromes, 520.—— shoe thrown for luck, 377.Reformed faith temp. Hen. VIII., 135.R. (E. G.) on artificial drainage, 493.—— "Could we with ink," &c., 522.—— longevity, 255.—— mardle, 577.—— Northamptonshire folk lore, 216.—— rowans, or rawins, 229.—— strut-stowers, 233.Regium Donum, its origin, 517.R. (E. M.) on Mackey's Mythological Astronomy, 567.Rents of Assize, &c., 81.Reynolds' nephew, 102. 232.Reynolds' portrait of Baretti, 411.Reynolds (Sir Joshua), his baptism, 513.R. (F.) on female parish clerk, 475.R. (G. H.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 648.R. (G. M.) on Charles Fox and Gibbon, 312.R. (H. P. W.) on Sir Ralph Winwood, 272.Rhymes, designed false English, 249. 602.Rhymes on places, 305. 466. 615.Richard I., notices of, 72.Richard, King of the Romans, his arms, 265. 454. 653.Richard's Guide through France, 534.Richardson (John) on dog-whipping day in Hull, 409.—— Land of Green Ginger, 227.Richmond in Yorkshire, vault at, 388. 573.Richmond (Margaret, Countess of), her arms, 84.Riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243. 322.Ridley (T. D.) on muggers, 305.—— Pelasgi, 516.—— quotation from Walter Scott, 376.Riggs (Romulus), an American name, 638.Riley (H. T.) on Abigail, 42.—— angel-beast—cleek—longtriloo, 63.—— bacon or beechen, 63.—— burial in unconsecrated ground, 43.—— dissimulate, its early use, 10.—— Dover Court, 9.—— Hans Krauwinckel, 63.—— humbug, its etymology, 64.—— "Marry come up!" 9.—— mugger, 34.—— pictorial proverbs, 20.—— porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.—— rub-a-dub, 63.—— Shakspeare's Tempest, passage in, 45.—— Sir Heister Ryley, 9.—— snail-eating, 34.Rimbault (Dr. E. F.) on Abp. Chicheley, 350.—— Discovery of the Inquisition, 350.—— groaning-board, 309.—— Jacob Bobart, 344.—— palace at Enfield, 352.—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 352.—— "When Orpheus went down," 397.Ring finger, 61. 574.Ring money, called Manillas, 278.* Rings formerly worn by ecclesiastics, 387.Rings, a chapter on, 416.Rix (S. W.) on Cromwell's portrait, 55.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 209.—— parochial libraries, 62.R. (J.) on Les Lettres Juives, 541.—— nursery rhymes, 452.R. (J. C.) on Christian names, 63.—— Calvin's correspondence, 62.—— Order of John of Jerusalem, 61.—— ring finger, 61.R. (J. S.) on origin of Rundlestone, 317.R. (L. D.) on passage in Boerhaave, 602.R. (L. M. M.) on German phrase, 150.—— mysterious personage, 113.—— Pretenders' births and deaths, 565.—— praying to the West, 102.R. (M. W.) on Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 576.R. (N.) on the nursrow, 538.Roberts (Chris.) on Dr. Robert Cary, 79.—— Harmony of the Four Gospels, 416.Robin Hood's festival, 622.Robson (W.) on aldress, 503.—— crescent, its origin as a standard, 196.—— interpolation of the players, 147.—— Spanish play-bill, 336.* Roden's colt, 340.Rogers (Dr. John), his works, 172.Roman Catholic Bible Society, 494.Roman remains at Durham, 466.* Romanists confined in Ely, 79.Rome and the number six, 490.—— epigrams on, 584.* Rondall (Rev. W.) noticed, 515.Rose (Samuel), his letter on Pope and Cowper, 383.Rosicrucians, 106. 175.* Rothwell family, 243.* Rounceval, Our Lady of, 340.* Royalty dining in public, two paintings of, 538.R. (R. I.) on rapping no novelty, 632.R. (R. J.) on divining-rod, 479.R. (S.) on Dr. John Taylor, 299.—— passage in Milton, 249.—— selling a wife, 209.Rub-a-dub, its early use, 63.* Rubens's MS. on painting, 539.Rubi on book inscriptions, 64.—— poetical tavern signs, 568.—— weather proverbs, 218.Rubrical query, 207.Ruby on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 653.* Rudd (Bp. Anthony), his monument, 9.Rufus on Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, 271.Rulers of the world in 1853, 638.* Rundlestone, origin of the term, 317.Russell (Lord Wm.), his burial-place, 100. 179.Russian grammars, 561.Russians, their religion, 582.R. (W.) on authors' remuneration, 81.—— burning for witchcraft, 470.R. (W. B.) on Kentish Town Assembly House, 293.* Ryley (Sir Heister), his Visions, 9.S.S. on eclipse in 1263, 441.Σ. on clouds in photographs, 451.Saint Florentin (M. L. P.),aliasDuke de la Vrillière, 351.Salmon (W. R. D.) on mousehunt, 516.—— myrtle bee, 173. 593.—— stage-coaches, 600.Salopian on monumental inscription, 268.* Salter (Sir Ambrose Nicholas) noticed, 318.Saltpeter maker, 225. 399."Salus populi suprema lex," its origin, 410. 526. 606.S. (A. M.) on hurrah! 20.Sams (Mr.), his Egyptian antiquities, 521.Sandwich Islands discovered by Cook, 7. 108.Sangaree, its derivation, 527.Sansom (J.) on Bohn's Hoveden, 290.—— arms of the see of York, 302.—— Craton the philosopher, 603.—— hurrah! 324.—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 515.—— Reynolds's nephew, 232; his baptism, 513.—— Sir William Hankford, 278.Sarah Anna on Broderie Anglaise, 172.* Savigny, Life of, 294.* Saying, an old, "Merry be the first," 197.Sackville (Lord George) noticed, 238.Sc. on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.—— selling a wife, 43.* Scale of vowel sounds, 34.Scheltrum, its derivation, 206.School libraries, 220. 298. 395. 498. 640.* Scobell (Henry), compiler of Collection of Acts, 493.Scotchmen in Poland, 131.Scott (Francis John) on Celtic and Latin languages, 353.—— claymore, 365.—— fierce, a provincialism, 352.—— Marcarnes, 572.—— muffs worn by military men, 353.—— singular discovery of a cannon-ball, 366.—— sneezing, 624.Scott (John) on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 277.Scott (Sir Walter), unpublished epigram by, 575.Scottish National Records, 405.—— newspapers, early, 57. 161.Scrape, "Getting into a scrape," origin of, 292. 422. 601.Scribe (John) on Greek and Roman fortifications, 654.* Scrimshaw (Jane) noticed, 441.Scrymzeour on Scottish castles, 366.S. (D.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 128.Searson's Poems, 176.Sea-serpent noticed, 40.Seleucus on Adamsoniana, 135.—— slow-worm superstition, 146.—— snail-eating, 129.—— snail-gardens, 161.Semi-Tone on passage of Cicero, 640."Semper eadem," origin of the royal motto, 174. 255. 440.Serpent with a human head, 304.Serpents, notes on, 39.Serviens on anonymous works, 174.—— Major André, 174. 644.* Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.Sewell and Lewis families, 388. 521. 621.* Seymour (Col. Hyde) noticed, 388.Seymour (Jane), her royal descent, 184. 251.S. (G. L.) on History of Jesus Christ, 386.—— Lepel's regiment, 504.—— Sewell family, 621.S. (G. S.) on creation of knights, 620.—— Lady Mason's third husband, 620.Shadbolt (Geo.) on albumenised paper, 395. 548.—— clouds, how introduced, 477.—— multiplication of photographs, 85.—— stereoscopic angles, 227. 348. 476.Shakspeare:—Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.Ben Jonson's criticisms, 263. 313.coincident suggestions on the text, 265.Collier's Monovolume, 35. 338.delighted, 241. 437.digest of various readings, 74. 170. 362. 466.emendations, 51. 75.Falstaff, his death, 263. 313, 314.* first folio, reprint of, 220.Jackson's emendations, 193.meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.parallels, 240.portrait, 438. 538.Priam's six-gated city, 288. 375.Professor Hilgers' Treatise, 52.readings, 28. 168.remonstrance respecting the Shakspearian discussions, 261.skull, 217.winds, North and South, 338.passage in All's Well That Ends Well, 217.As You Like It, 383.Hamlet, 123. 195. 409.Henry IV. (Second Part), 263. 313, 314. 384. 408.King John, 28. 266. 384.King Lear, 4. 97.Love's Labour's Lost, 241.Macbeth, 217.Measure for Measure, 194. 241. 288. 361.Richard II., 338.Romeo and Juliet, 3. 216. 361. 384.Taming of the Shrew, 52. 73. 97, 98. 438.Tempest, 45. 123, 124. 169. 338. 408.Troilus and Cressida, 288.Two Gentlemen of Verona, 52.Winter's Tale, 95. 169. 254. 361.Shaw (R. J.) on names of wild plants, 36.Shaw's (Mrs.) tombstone, 222.Sheer ale explained, 168.Sheer hulk, its meaning, 126. 280.Shelley (Percy Bysshe), poem by him, 71. 183.Shepherd's Kalendar quoted, 50.Sheridan (R. B.), translation of a song by him, 563.Sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353. 423.Sherlock (Dr. Richard) noticed, 245.Ship "William and Ann," 54.Shirtcollars, 467.Shoemakers, a recitation for Oct. 25th, 619.Shoes, throwing old ones for luck, 377."Short red, God red," 182. 398.* Shoulder knots, their origin, 244.S. (H. S.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.Sights and exhibitions temp. James I., 558.Sigma on Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.Siller gun of Dumfries, 412.Silo, a Spanish granary, 639.Simpson (W. Sparrow) on battle of Villers en Couché, 8.—— bell inscriptions, 108. 448.—— books chained in churches, 93. 206. 323.—— hour-glasses in pulpits, 328.—— Prayer Books prior to 1662, 504.Sims's Hand-book to the Library of the British Museum, 511. 553. 653.Sincere, its derivation, 195. 328. 399. 567.Singer (S. W.) on Hobbes and Hollar, 368.—— its, early use of, 254.—— Milton and Malatesti, 295.—— Milton's widow, 471.—— passage in Romeo and Juliet, 3.Singleton (S.) on gravestone inscription, 328.Sisson (J. Lawson) on bell inscriptions, 448.—— derivation of Mardel, 411.—— Muller's processes, 253.—— Sisson's developing solution, 181. 253.S. (J.) on book inscriptions, 591.S. (J. H.) on Cawdray's Treasure of Similes, 386.S. (J. L.) on the arms of De Sissonne, 243.—— hour-glass stand, 454.—— poetical tavern signs, 627.S. (J. P.) on Westhumble Chapel, 410.Skyring (G. W.) on bullaces, 326.—— divining-rod, 293.—— local rhymes, Kent, 466.—— moon superstitions, 322.—— "spoke in the wheel," 522.Slang expression, "Just the cheese," 89.* Slaves, collections for poor, 292.—— execution for whipping, 112.S. (L. D.) on quotation from Canning, 365.Sleednot (J.) on "Qui facit per alium," 231.Sloane-Evans (W. Sloane) on Bible and Prayer Book proper names, 469.—— Edmund Spenser and Hans Sloane, 389.—— marriage of cousins, 525.—— Urban Vigors, 477.Slow-worm superstition, 33. 146. 328. 479.Smith (A.) on inscription near Cirencester, 76.Smith (T. C.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 127.Smith (W. J. Bernhard) on the claymore, 520.—— ducking stool, 315.—— megatherium in British Museum, 19.—— nightingale and thorn, 527.—— poetical tavern signs, 568.—— spiked maces in Great Malvern Church, 254.Snail-eating, 34. 128. 229.—— gardens, 33. 128. 161. 229.* Snayers (P.), his picture The Battle of Forty, 538.Sneezing, an omen and a deity, 121.—— popular ideas respecting, 366. 624.Sneyd (W.) on Margery Trussell's arms, 412.—— poems published at Manchester, 388.Snow (B.) on D. Ferrand, 243.S. (N. W.) on buckle, 526.—— crow-bar, 439.—— first and last, 439.—— mauilies, manillas, 278.—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 480.—— stone-pillar worship, 207.—— "To grab," 466.S. 2 (N. W.) on cob and conners, 43.—— Devonianisms, 44.Soke mills, 272. 375.Songs and Ballads:—Barrels regiment, 620.Bonnie Dundee, 19.Danish and Swedish, 444.Guardian angels, now protect me, 443.* Jamieson the piper, 126.Mary, weep no more for me, 385. 500.The Angels' Whisper, 54.They shot him on the nine-stane rig, 78. 376.To the lords of Convention, 19.When Orpheus went down, 196. 281. 397. 503.Sophocles, passage in, 73. 478. 631.Sotadic verses, 229.Soul and magnetic needle, 87. 159.* Southwark pudding wonder, 79.Souvaroff's dispatch, 490.Spanish play-bill, 336.Sparrows at Lindham, 572.S. (P. C. S.) on death of Edward II., 477.—— Hungarians in Paules, 441.—— MS. poems and songs, 587.Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697, 152.Speech, erroneous forms of, 65.* Spendthrift, inquiry respecting, 102.* Spenser (Edmund) and Sir Hans Sloane, 389.* —— Fairy Queen, the missing books, 367.Speriend on barnacles in the Thames, 124.—— blotting-paper, 104.—— Duke of Gloucester, 100.—— German heraldry, 150.Spes on Abp. Lancaster's cure for the gout, 6.—— wooden tombs and effigies, 19.Spiller (John) on protonitrate of iron, 228.Spinster on wedding proverb, 150.Spoor (Wm.) on Canute's Point, Southampton, 204.Spur, explained, 209.S. (Q. M.) on Martyr of Collet Well, 411.S. (S. A.) on Caldecott's translation of New Testament, 410.—— Calves' Head Club, 480.S. s. (J.) on Pharaoh's ring, 521.—— Picts' houses, 392.S. (S. S.) on college guide, 57.—— passage in Bishop Horsley, 9.S. (S. W.) on "pinece with a stink," 496.S. (S. Z. Z.) on Bacon's Essays, 289.—— Cranmer's correspondence, 183.—— Crassus' saying, 258.—— editors, offer to intending, 172.—— Lamech, 305.—— Latin quotations wanted, 197.—— parochial libraries, 275.—— rubrical query, 207.—— satirical medal, 231.—— Sotades, 229.—— "widowed wife," 230.Staffordshire knot, 220. 454.Stage-coaches, their speed, 439. 600.* St. Andrew's priory, Barnwell, 80.Stanhope (Charles Earl), his versatility of talent, 9. 135.Stanhope (Henry Lord) noticed, 281. 563. (SeeWotton.)Stansbury (Joseph) on Washington anecdotes, 125.Stars the flowers of heaven, 158. 346.Statfold on Chancellor Steele, 220.* Steele (Lord Chancellor), pedigree of, 220.Steinman (G. S.), notes on Grammont, 461.—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.—— Sir Arthur Aston, 629.Stephens (Edward) noticed, 588.Sternberg (V. T.) on Carlist calembourg, 618.—— Dr. Dodd a dramatist, 245.—— haschisch or Indian hemp, 540.—— Italian-English, 638.—— spurious Don Quixote, 590.—— stories of English peasantry, 94.—— Tom, mythic and material, 239.Sterne and the Drummer's letter, 153.S. (T. G.) on Anderson's Royal Genealogies, 326.—— Histories of Literature, 453.—— Temple lands in Scotland, 521.* St. George family pictures, 104.Stillingfleet (Bishop), his library, 389.Stillwell (John P.) on bees, 440.—— "Hauling over the coals," 524.Stone pillar worship, 207. 413.Stoner (W. P.) on hour-glass in pulpits, 209.—— Mulciber, 232.* Storms at the death of great men, 493.Stornoway on house of Falahill, 134.Stoups, exterior, 574.Stoven Church, the original, 80.St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca, 88. 205.Straw paper, 491.Strickland (Agnes), her Lives of the Queens of England noticed, 104. 184. 251.Strong (Augustus) on derivation of Silo, 639.Strut-stowers, 148. 233.Subscriber on the albumenised process, 549.—— mayors and sheriffs, 126.—— "Peccavi! I have Scinde," 574.—— Shakspeare's skull, 217.Suffolk, Norman church in, 622.Surgeon (A Foreign) on Göthe's author remuneration, 29.Surrey Archæological Society, its formation, 552.Suum Cuique on "Elijah's Mantle," 453.S. (W.) on collections for poor slaves, 292.—— Hampden's death, 646.—— quotation from Melancthon, 281.Swan-marks, 62. 256.Swift (Dean), his rhymes, 250.Swinney—"That Swinney," in Junius, 213. 238. 374.S. (W. R. D.) on boom, 375.* Symbol of sow, &c., 493.Synge family, 327. 423.System of Law proposed by the Long Parliament, 389.T.T. on oasis, its accentuation, 410.—— "Plus occidit gula," &c., 292.Table-turning, 57. 131. 161. 329. 398.Taffy on Soke mill, 375.Tale, as used by Milton, explained, 249.Talleyrand's maxim, 136.* Tangier queries, 33.Tavern signs, poetical, 242. 353. 452. 568. 626.Taylor (A.) on Greek inscription on a font, 198Taylor (Dr. John) of Norwich, 299.Taylor (E. S.) on ennui, 377.—— Samuel Williams, 312.—— seals of Great Yarmouth, 269.Taylor (Jeremy) and Lord Hatton, 207.* —— Holy Living, edition 1848, 469.Taylor (Weld) on Dance of Death, 76.—— detail on negative paper, 203.—— Lord Halifax and Catherine Barton, 590.—— lyric by Felicia Hemans, 407.—— Muller's process, 275.—— Richard's Guide through France, 534.—— Rubens' MS. on painting, 539.—— school libraries, 220. 498. 640.T. (C. M.) on snail-gardens, 33.* Tea-marks, classification of, 197.Teate (Dr. Faithfull) noticed, 62.Teecee on Noel family, 316.Teeth, common notions respecting, 382.* Telegraph, electric, 78.Templars' green jugs, 171. 256. 574.Temple (Harry Leroy) on green eyes, 407.—— parallel passages, 465.—— small words and low words, 416.Temple lands in Scotland, 317. 480. 521.Temple, lists of students, 540. 650.Tenet or tenent. (SeeTenent.)Tenent or tenet, their meaning, 258. 330. 453. 602.Tennent (Sir J. Emerson) on barnacles, 223.—— hurrah! 323.—— tenet for tenent, 330.—— "Tub to the whale," 328.—— "When the maggot bites," 304.Tennyson's Memoriam, passage in, 244. 399.* Terræ Filius, origin of, 292.T. (E. S. T.) on "Antiquitas sæculi Juventus mundi," 651.—— "Salus populi," &c., 606.Tewars on Amcotts' pedigree, 387.—— two brothers of the same Christian name, 338.—— hurrah! 422.—— knights of the Bath, 444.—— longevity, 351.—— Lovett of Astwell, 363. 602.—— Oxford commemoration squib, 584.—— poll-tax in 1641, 310.—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.—— sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353.—— Sir William Chester, 365.—— Thomas Chester, bishop of Elphin, 340.T. (F.) on Kenne of Kenne, 80.T. (G.) on derivation of unkid, 221.T. (G. M.) on "Service is no inheritance," 587.Θon "Now the fierce bear," &c., 440.—— parochial libraries, 527.Theta on Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, 438.Thiernah Ogieh, Ossian's visit to, 360.Thomas (J. W.) on "an" beforeulong, 421.—— anticipatory use of the cross, 545.—— cash and mob, 524.—— crescent, 319.—— "Could we with ink," &c., 422.—— gloves at fairs, 421.—— "Man proposes, but God disposes," 552.—— "Mary, weep no more for me," 500.—— misapplication of terms, 537.—— misquotation, 513.—— propitiating the fairies, 617.—— "To know ourselves diseased," 421.Thomas' (St.) day, custom on, 617.Thompson (Pishey) on glossarial queries, 294.—— Romanists confined in Ely, 79.—— Southwark pudding wonder, 79.Thornton Abbey, account of, 469.Thrupp (John) on Irish landing at Cambridge, 270.Thrush, Devonshire charm for the, 146. 265.Thucydides on the Greek factions, 44. 137. 398.Tieck (Ludwig) quoted, 124.—— Comœdia Divina, 126. 570.Tighe (Mrs.), author of Psyche, 103. 230."Till," and "until," their etymology, 409. 527.Timbs (John) on snail-eating, 128.Times newspaper, its influential power, 334.Tin, its early use, 291. 344. 445. 575. 593.Tipper (Thomas), his epitaph, 147.T. (J.) on passage in Whiston, 244.T. (J. A.) on table-moving, 161.T. (J. G.) on passage in burial service, 78.—— quarter, as sparing life, 246.—— Rock of Ages, 81.—— table-turning, 57.—— Trosachs, derivation of, 245.T. (J. H.) on derivation of forrell, 527.T. (J. W.) on "Ancient hallowed Dee", 588.—— B. L. M., its meaning, 585.—— "Getting into a scrape," 601.—— Prince Memnon's sister, 622.—— "Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re," 586.Tobacco, smoking and drinking of, 147.Tom, mythic and material, 239.* Tom Thumb's house at Gonerby, 35.Topsy-turvy, its derivation, 385. 526. 575.Tortoises and women, 534.* Tottenham, its derivation, 318.Tower on slow-worm superstition, 33.Tower, the state prison in the, 509.T. (Q.) on definition of a proverb, 523.Tradescant (John), his marriage certificate, 513.Trash explained, 135.Traves (Father) noticed, 565.Traylli (Sir Walter), his monument, 19.T. (R. E.) on quotation from Pascal, 44.* Trent Council, notices of, 316.Trevelyan (W. C.) on Basilica, 367.—— decomposed cloth at York, 438.—— Hobbes's portrait, 221.—— Roman remains, 466.—— snail localities, 229.—— Wardhouse, where was it? 400.Trevor (Geo. A.) on passage in burial service, 177.Trojan Horse, noticed, 487.Trosachs, derivation of, 245.True Blue noticed, 588.Trussell (Margery), her arms, 412.T. (R. V.) on oaths, 605.T. (S.) on fires at Honiton, 367.T. (T. C.) on murder of Monaldeschi, 34.T. (T. H.) on derivation of chemistry, 470."Tub to a whale," origin of the phrase, 220. 304. 328.* Tucker (St. George), lines attributed to him, 467.Turkish grammars, 561.* Turnbull's continuation of Robertson, 515.* Tusser's doxology, 440.T. (V.) on Earl of Leicester's portrait, 290.T. (W.) on clouds in photographs, 501.—— tea-marks, 197.* Tyddeman (Adm. Sir Thomas), 317.Types, movable metal, 454.Tyro on Cocker's Arithmetic, 540.U.Univocalic verses, 416.Unkid, its derivation, 221. 353. 604.Unneath, its meaning, 160.V.* Van Bassen noticed, 538.Vanbrugh (Sir John) noticed, 65. 160. 232. 352. 480.Vandyke in America, 182. 228.Variety is pleasing, 490.Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 388. 573.V. (C.) on Lady Percy, wife of Hotspur, 184.—— Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.* Vellum cleaning, 340.Verney note decyphered, 17.Vernon (Lady), maid of honour, 462.Veronica on Queen Elizabeth's true looking-glass, 220.Victor on Thornton Abbey, 469.* Vida on Chess, 469.Vigors (Rev. Urban) noticed, 340. 477.Villers en Couché, battle of, 8. 127. 205. 370.Virgil, passage quoted by Dr. Johnson, 270. 400. 523. 576.Vix on Mrs. Tighe, 230.Voiding knife, 232. 297.Volcanoes and mountains of gold in Scotland, 285.Voltaire on railway travelling, 34. 65."Vox populi vox Dei," 494.W.W (Old English)on blue bell—blue anchor, 388.—— clipper, as applied to vessels, 399.—— Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 366.—— nugget not an Americanism, 375.—— table-turning, 398.W. on Leeming family, 587.—— Norman of Winster, 126.—— Natural History of Balmoral, 467.W. (A.) on passage in Wordsworth, 77.W. (A. F. A.) on the Brazen Head, 367.Wake (H. Thomas) on Castle Thorpe, 387.—— Inscriptions on monuments, 215.Walcott (Mackenzie) on birthplace of Edward I., 601.—— books chained in churches, 596.—— school libraries, 298.* Wall (General) noticed, 318.Wallace (Sir Wm.), state prisoner, 509.* Wallis's Sermons on the Trinity, 172.Walpole (Horace) on Grammont's marriage, 549.Walpole (Sir Robert), his medal, 57. 231.Walter (Henry) on Cranmer and Calvin, 222.—— Froissart's accuracy, 604.—— translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 642.Walton (Christopher), his collection of mystic authors, 247.Walton (Izaak), Duport's lines on, 193.Ward (J.) on Mackey's Theory of the Earth, 468.Warde (R. C.) on Anthony Bave's MSS., 469.—— bargain-cup, 220.—— "custom of ye Englishe," 362.—— distich on the late harvest, 513.—— fable of washing the blackamore, 150.—— inscriptions in books, 591.—— John Frewen, 222.—— Lanquet's Chronicle, 494.—— Lovell, sculptor, 342.—— Mrs. Shaw's tombstone, 222.—— "Our English Milo," 495.—— party, its earliest mention, 137.—— Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.—— parochial libraries, 327.—— polarised light, 552.—— Roden's colt, 340.—— tavern signs, 242.—— "Trail through the leaden sky," 494.—— variety is pleasing, 490.—— weather superstitions, 512.—— yew-tree in churchyards, 244.—— Zincali dictionary, 517.Warden (J. S.) on Captain Cook's discovery of the Sandwich Islands, 6.—— Coleridge's Christabel, 11.—— Creole, its meaning, 138.—— Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, 640.—— Hoveden, Riley's translation, errors in, 637.—— letter "h" in humble, 54.—— literary parallels, 30.—— Man with the iron mask, 112.—— nightingale's song, 112.—— Reformed faith, 135.—— sheer hulk, 126.—— Sir Isaac Newton, 102.—— Sir Walter Raleigh, 78.—— St. Dominic, 136.Wardhouse, fishermen's custom there, 78. 281. 400.Warmistre (Miss), maid of honour, 461-463.* Warville, Brissot de, derivation of, 516.Warwick (Eden) on anticipatory use of the cross, 132. 546.—— gloves at fairs, 601.—— nursery rhymes, 605.—— swan marks, 256.* Warwick (Sir Philip) noticed, 268.* Washington (Gen.), anecdotes wanted, 125.Watch-paper inscriptions, 316. 375.Waterloo, poems in connexion with, 549.Watson (Bp.), quotation by him, 587.Watts (W. T.) on an inscription in a belfry, 561.Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, his family arms, 271. 400. 525.Way (Albert) on Caen tiles, 547.—— Lord Montague's Household Book, 540.W. (B. B.) on Sir John Daniel and Sir A. N. Salter, 318.W. (C. M.) on apparition of the White Lady, 317.W. (C. S.) on ash-trees attracting lightning, 493.—— Burton's death, 495.—— the queen at chess, 469.W. (E.) on marriage service, 150.Weather proverbs, 218. 326.—— rhymes, 512.—— rules, 50. 535.—— superstitions, 512.* Webb and Walker families, 386.* Webb of Monckton Farleigh, 563.Webb (Susannah), her burial and disinterment, 43.Weber's Cecilia, 589.Wedding divination, 455.* Weights and measures, standard in different countries, 340.Weir (Arch.) on St. Luke and Juvenal, 195.Wellesley, derivation of, 173. 223. 255.Wellington, the Duke's first victory, 491.—— curious coincidence respecting, 619."Well's a fret," its meaning, 197. 258. 330.Wentworth (Sir Philip) noticed, 184. 251.Werenfrid (St.) and Butler's Lives, 342.West, praying to the, 102. 208. 343. 591.Westbury Court, inscription over the door, 129.* Westhumble Chapel, 410.Weston, "Going to Old Weston," 232.Weston (Edward), secretary to Lord Harrington, 103. 205.Weston (Valentine) on "That Swinney," 374.W. (F. B.) on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.W. (G.) on derivation of Britain, 445. 651.—— Patrick's purgatory, 327.—— praying to the West, 208.—— tin, its early use, 291. 445.—— veneration for the oak, 468. 632.W. (G. H.) on a title wanted, 151.W. (H.) on "giving quarter," 353.—— kicker-eating, 564.—— Luther no iconoclast, 477.—— "When the maggot bites," 353.Wharton (Dr. Henry) noticed, 167.Wheale, its meaning, 302.Whisperers, the seven, 436.Whiston, a passage in, 244. 397. 645.Whitborne (T. B.) on churchwardens, 584.—— Hoby Family, 244.—— lapwing and the vine, 127.—— Mrs. Tighe, author of Psyche, 103.—— Stillingfleet's library, 389.—— Thomas Blount, 286. 603.—— Warwickshire custom, 490.Whitchurch, parochial library at, 370.White (A. Holt) on Gilbert White of Selborne, 304.—— nugget, a thick bullock, 481.—— yew-trees in churchyards, 447.White (Blanco), sonnet by, 137.White (Gilbert), his portrait, 244. 304.White (John), folk lore in his "Way to the True Church," 613.* White bell heather transplanted, 79.* White Lady, apparition of the, 317.Whitelocke (Lieut.-Gen.) noticed, 521. 621.Whithamstede (John), abbot of St. Albans, 351.Whitmarsh (F.) on the Templars' jugs, 574.Wife, on selling one, 43. 209.Wilbraham's Cheshire collections, 270. 303.Wilde (G. J. de) on caves at Settle, 651.—— curious epitaph, 147.—— True Blue, 589.Wilde (W. R.) on the forlorn hope, 569.—— groaning elm-plank in Dublin, 397.Wilkinson (H.) on stereoscopic angles, 181.* William the Conqueror, his mother, 564.* —— his surname, 197.* Williams' (Rev. Robert) Dictionary of the Cornish Language, 7.Williams (Samuel) the artist, 312.Willingham boy, 66. 305.Willison (Charles) on tavern signs, 627.Wills on Advent Hymn, 639.Wilson (Arthur C.) on London Labour and the London Poor, 620.Wilson (Bishop), his Sacra Privata, 470.—— and Cardinal Fleury, 245.* —— notices wanted, 220.* —— quotation from his Sacra Privata, 243.* Wilson (Samuel) noticed, 242.Windfall, its meaning, 14.Winds, their action, 338.Windsor Military Knights, 294.Wingfield Church, Suffolk, monuments in, 98.Wingfield (Sir Anthony), his portrait, 245. 299. 376.Winthrop (Wm.) on ambages, 232.—— American epitaph, 491.—— bells rung for the dead, 55.—— black as a mourning colour, 411.—— comet superstitions in 1853, 358.—— epitaph on an editor, 274.—— "Full moon brings fine weather," 79.—— house-marks, 231.—— injustice, its origin, 338.—— longevity, 113. 399.—— Maltese Knights, 99. 189. 557.—— "Mater ait natæ," &c., 160.—— punning divine, 586.—— "Putting your foot into it," 77.—— reversible names, 655.—— rulers of the world in 1853, 638.—— Spendthrift, a publication, 102.—— "To pluck a crow with one," 197.—— weather rules, 535.—— Wolfe's army, the last survivor, 6.Winwood (Sir Ralph), notices of, 272. 519.Wishaw (Jas.) on Colchester records, 464.—— matriculations at inns of court, 650.Witchcraft, burning for, 470.* Withered hand, picture at Compton Park, 125.W. (J. K. B.) on Barthram's Dirge, 231.—— Blanco White, 137.—— Hogarth's picture, 294.W. (J. R.) on the Porter family, 526.Wmson (S.) on Byron's Childe Harold, 258.Wodderspoon (John) on Wingfield's portrait, 299.Wolfe (Gen.) at Nantwich, 587.—— last survivor of his army, 6.Wolsey (Cardinal), his arms, 233. 302.Woman, lines on, 292. 350. 423.Women and tortoises, 534.Women, their rights in the United States, 171.* Wood (George) of Chester, 34.Wooden tombs and effigies, 19. 255. 455. 604.Words, misunderstood, 120.—— small and low, 416.Wordsworth, on a passage in, 77.Worm in books, 412. 526.Worsaae (J. J. A.) on names of places, 58.Wotton (Henry Earl of) noticed, 173. 281. 563.Wren (Sir Christopher) and the Young Carver, 340.Wright (Robert) on shape of coffins, 256.Wright (Thomas) of Durham, 218. 326.Wt. (T.) on arms of See of York, 233.Wurm, in modern German, 624.W. (W.)Northamptonshire, on "Going to Old Weston," 232.—— Longfellow's Poetical Works, 267.W. (W. S.) on meaning of wheale, 302.Wylcotes (Sir John), motto on his brass, 494.

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N.

N. on Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102.—— school libraries, 298.N. (A.) on mineral acids, 339.—— names of plants, 136.N. (A. J.) on house-marks, 19.Namby-pamby, and other words of the same form, 318. 341. 390.Names in Bible and Prayer Book, how pronounced, 469. 590. 630.Names reversible, 244. 375. 655.Naphtali on anonymous poet, 127.Napier (Sir Charles) and the conquest of Scinde, 490. 574. 631.* Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.* Napoleon, anecdote of, 292.Napoleon's bees, 30.—— spelling, 386. 502.—— thunderstorm, 148.* Nash the artist, 79.N. (D.) on Lewis and Sewell families, 521. 621.N. (D. Y.) on the Porter family, 364.Nedlam on snail-eating, 128.* Neele (H.), editor of Shakspeare, 539.Nemo on death of Falstaff, 314.Newans (Thomas), a prophet, 381.Newburiensis on Francis Browne, 639.—— Sir George Brown, 243. 301.—— poetical tavern signs, 569.—— worm in books, 526.Newington on Milton's widow, 595.Newman (W.) on "The Devil on Two Sticks," 413.Newspapers in Scotland, the earlier, 57.Newspapers, notes on, 333.Newstead Abbey, 2.New Testament, an early edition, 219. 277.Newton (Mr. Justice) noticed, 15. 110.* Newton (Sir Isaac) and Flamsteed, 102.* —— and his half-niece, 429.* —— and Somers, 78.* —— his memorial, 172.—— on railway travelling, 34. 65.* New Universal Magazine, inquiry respecting, 639.New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, custom on, 618.N. (G.) on books burned by the hangman, 626.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83.—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 479.—— medal of Mary Queen of Scots, 444.—— old Fogie, 455.N. (G. E. T. S. R.) on chronograms in Sicily, 562.—— Gentile names of the Jews, 563.—— St. Clement's apple-feast, 618.N. (H.) on anticipatory use of the cross, and ringing of bells for the dead, 417.Nicholas (Emperor), his manifesto, 585.Nicholas (St.), his performances on Christmas Eve, 615.Nightingale and thorn, 527.Nightingale's song, 112. 475. 651.Nimmo (Thos.) on an inedited letter of Henry VIII., 510.Nine as a multiple, 149. 305.Nixon the prophet, 257. 326.* Noel family, 316.No Judge on piccalyly, 8.* Nonjurors, sources for their history, 621.Norfolk (Margaret, Duchess of), her arms, 84.Norman of Winster, 126. 302.North (Lord), a woodcut of, 183. 230. 303.Nostradamus, edition of 1605, 552.Novus on advice given to Julius III., 54.Noxid on cement of glass-baths, 397.N. (S.) on Earl of Oxford, and the creation of peers, 292.—— helmets over shields, 538.Nugget, not an Americanism, 375. 481.Nuneham Regis, discovery at, 101.Nursery rhymes, 452. 605.* Nursrow, origin of the word, 538.N (Old English). (W (Old English).), epigram on M‘Adam, 441.N. (W.) on Aristotle's checks, 98.N. (W. L.) on MS. of Spenser's Fairy Queen, 357.

N. on Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102.

—— school libraries, 298.

N. (A.) on mineral acids, 339.

—— names of plants, 136.

N. (A. J.) on house-marks, 19.

Namby-pamby, and other words of the same form, 318. 341. 390.

Names in Bible and Prayer Book, how pronounced, 469. 590. 630.

Names reversible, 244. 375. 655.

Naphtali on anonymous poet, 127.

Napier (Sir Charles) and the conquest of Scinde, 490. 574. 631.

* Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.

* Napoleon, anecdote of, 292.

Napoleon's bees, 30.

—— spelling, 386. 502.

—— thunderstorm, 148.

* Nash the artist, 79.

N. (D.) on Lewis and Sewell families, 521. 621.

N. (D. Y.) on the Porter family, 364.

Nedlam on snail-eating, 128.

* Neele (H.), editor of Shakspeare, 539.

Nemo on death of Falstaff, 314.

Newans (Thomas), a prophet, 381.

Newburiensis on Francis Browne, 639.

—— Sir George Brown, 243. 301.

—— poetical tavern signs, 569.

—— worm in books, 526.

Newington on Milton's widow, 595.

Newman (W.) on "The Devil on Two Sticks," 413.

Newspapers in Scotland, the earlier, 57.

Newspapers, notes on, 333.

Newstead Abbey, 2.

New Testament, an early edition, 219. 277.

Newton (Mr. Justice) noticed, 15. 110.

* Newton (Sir Isaac) and Flamsteed, 102.

* —— and his half-niece, 429.

* —— and Somers, 78.

* —— his memorial, 172.

—— on railway travelling, 34. 65.

* New Universal Magazine, inquiry respecting, 639.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, custom on, 618.

N. (G.) on books burned by the hangman, 626.

—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83.

—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 479.

—— medal of Mary Queen of Scots, 444.

—— old Fogie, 455.

N. (G. E. T. S. R.) on chronograms in Sicily, 562.

—— Gentile names of the Jews, 563.

—— St. Clement's apple-feast, 618.

N. (H.) on anticipatory use of the cross, and ringing of bells for the dead, 417.

Nicholas (Emperor), his manifesto, 585.

Nicholas (St.), his performances on Christmas Eve, 615.

Nightingale and thorn, 527.

Nightingale's song, 112. 475. 651.

Nimmo (Thos.) on an inedited letter of Henry VIII., 510.

Nine as a multiple, 149. 305.

Nixon the prophet, 257. 326.

* Noel family, 316.

No Judge on piccalyly, 8.

* Nonjurors, sources for their history, 621.

Norfolk (Margaret, Duchess of), her arms, 84.

Norman of Winster, 126. 302.

North (Lord), a woodcut of, 183. 230. 303.

Nostradamus, edition of 1605, 552.

Novus on advice given to Julius III., 54.

Noxid on cement of glass-baths, 397.

N. (S.) on Earl of Oxford, and the creation of peers, 292.

—— helmets over shields, 538.

Nugget, not an Americanism, 375. 481.

Nuneham Regis, discovery at, 101.

Nursery rhymes, 452. 605.

* Nursrow, origin of the word, 538.

N (Old English). (W (Old English).), epigram on M‘Adam, 441.

N. (W.) on Aristotle's checks, 98.

N. (W. L.) on MS. of Spenser's Fairy Queen, 357.

O.

O.

Oak, how to clean old, 45. 58.Oak, veneration for the, 468. 632.Oaken tombs, &c., 179. 454.* Oasis, how accented, 410.Oaths as taken by the English and Welsh, 364. 471. 605.Oaths of pregnant women, 503.Obnoxious, its different meanings, 439.* O'Brien (Nelly) noticed, 410.Observer on Lord North, 303.O. (D. N.) on passage in Blackwood, 493.Offertory alms, superstition respecting, 617.O. (J.) on Alexander Clark, 517.—— books burned by the hangman, 346.—— impossibilities of our forefathers, 559.—— parish clerks and politics, 56.—— Patrick Carey, 406.—— Peter Brett, 533.—— Robert Drury, 104.—— Temple lands in Scotland, 480.—— Thomas Newans, a prophet, 381.—— William Blake, 69. 435.* Okey the regicide, 620.Oldenshaw (C.) on song by Dr. Lisle, 281.Old Grumbleum on punning devices, 376.Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, 183.Oliver on Rathband family, 493.Omega on pues or pews, 127.Omicron on humbug, its derivation, 575.—— Osborne family, 448.—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 654.—— Wellington's first victory, 491.O. (P. A.) on post-office about 1770, 8.* Orange blossom, 341.O. (R. A. S.) on St. George family pictures, 104.Orton (Job), the publican, his burial, 59.Osborn family, 270. 448.Osborn filius Herfasti, 515. 654.Osmotherly in Yorkshire, tradition of, 617.O'Sullivan (Wm.) on Gurney's short-hand, 589.Oswald (Richard) noticed, 442. 549.Outlawe (Roger) noticed, 5.* Owen (Dr. Charles) noticed, 492.Owen (Hugh) on yellow bottles for chemicals, 110.Oxford commemoration squib, 1849, 584.Oxford (Earl of), and the creation of peers, 292. 392.Oxoniensis on "Amentium haud amantium," 19.—— Nightingale's song, 112.—— pure, its singular use, 125.

Oak, how to clean old, 45. 58.

Oak, veneration for the, 468. 632.

Oaken tombs, &c., 179. 454.

* Oasis, how accented, 410.

Oaths as taken by the English and Welsh, 364. 471. 605.

Oaths of pregnant women, 503.

Obnoxious, its different meanings, 439.

* O'Brien (Nelly) noticed, 410.

Observer on Lord North, 303.

O. (D. N.) on passage in Blackwood, 493.

Offertory alms, superstition respecting, 617.

O. (J.) on Alexander Clark, 517.

—— books burned by the hangman, 346.

—— impossibilities of our forefathers, 559.

—— parish clerks and politics, 56.

—— Patrick Carey, 406.

—— Peter Brett, 533.

—— Robert Drury, 104.

—— Temple lands in Scotland, 480.

—— Thomas Newans, a prophet, 381.

—— William Blake, 69. 435.

* Okey the regicide, 620.

Oldenshaw (C.) on song by Dr. Lisle, 281.

Old Grumbleum on punning devices, 376.

Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, 183.

Oliver on Rathband family, 493.

Omega on pues or pews, 127.

Omicron on humbug, its derivation, 575.

—— Osborne family, 448.

—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 654.

—— Wellington's first victory, 491.

O. (P. A.) on post-office about 1770, 8.

* Orange blossom, 341.

O. (R. A. S.) on St. George family pictures, 104.

Orton (Job), the publican, his burial, 59.

Osborn family, 270. 448.

Osborn filius Herfasti, 515. 654.

Osmotherly in Yorkshire, tradition of, 617.

O'Sullivan (Wm.) on Gurney's short-hand, 589.

Oswald (Richard) noticed, 442. 549.

Outlawe (Roger) noticed, 5.

* Owen (Dr. Charles) noticed, 492.

Owen (Hugh) on yellow bottles for chemicals, 110.

Oxford commemoration squib, 1849, 584.

Oxford (Earl of), and the creation of peers, 292. 392.

Oxoniensis on "Amentium haud amantium," 19.

—— Nightingale's song, 112.

—— pure, its singular use, 125.

P.

P.

Packington (Lady), supposed author of the Whole Duty of Man, 564.Paget (Arthur) on Lisle family, 423.—— Milton's widow, 452.—— Synge family, 423.—— teaching a dog French, 581.Paget family, 12. 134. 200. 375. 452.Pagoda, 401. 523.Paint, how taken off of old oak, 45. 58.Palæologus (Theodore), his inscription, 408. 526.* Pale, its meaning, 78.Paley's plagiarism, 589.Palindromes, 520.Panama, the Isthmus of, 144.Paper, how split, 413. 604.Parallel passages, 30. 195. 372. 465. 560.* Parchment deeds, on cleansing soiled, 270.Pardon churchyard, 63.Parish clerk, a female, 338. 474.Parish clerks and politics, 56. 230. 575.—— clerks' company, 341. 452.—— registers, lines prefixed to, 30.* Park, the antiquary, 8.* Parker (Abp.), his correspondence, 149.* Parliament, a member of, electing himself, 586.Parochial libraries, 62. 274. 327. 369. 527. 595.Parr (Dr.), his letter on Milton, 433.Party, its earliest use, 137.Party names in the seventeenth century, 117.Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 485.Parvise explained, 161.Pascal, a saying of his, 44.Pater-noster, the white, 614.* Patriarchs of the Western Church, 317.Patrick (Bp. Simon) noticed, 103. 205.* Patrick (St.), or Maune and Man, 291.Patrick's purgatory, 178. 327.Patten (Margaret), her picture, 442.* "Pay the Piper," its origin, 198.P. (C. J.) on fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 78.Peacock (Edw.) on ecclesiastical censure, 466.—— Francis Moore, 271.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 279.—— North Lincolnshire folk lore, 382.—— Sir William Hewet, 652.—— weather rules, 50.Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 94."Peccavi! I have Scinde," 490. 574.Pedigree indices, 317. 453.* Pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586."Peg" or "nail," for an argument, 561.* Pelasgi, a sorrowful race, 516.Pembrokiensis on tomb of Henry I., 411.Pennycomequick, its derivation, 8. 113. 184. 255.Pepys (Samuel) and East London Topography, 263.—— his grammar, 466. 502.* —— his queries, 341.Percy (Lady), wife of Hotspur, 104. 184. 251.* Perfect tense, its rationale, 410.Perseverant, its early use, 44.Persius Flaccus (Aulus), his birth-place, 389.Personage, a mysterious one, 34. 113.Perthensis on Alexander Clark, 18.—— aliases and initials of authors, 124.Peterborough Cathedral, inscription in, 215. 303.* Peter the Great, his will, 539.Petheram (John) on Sir Thomas Button's Voyages, 385.* Petrarch's Laura, 562.P. (Francis) on heraldic query, 220.P. (G.) on the meaning of trash, 135.P. (H.) on crosses on stoles, 411.—— French Prayer Books, 478.—— love charm from a foal's forehead, 292.Φ. on ampers and, 254.—— yew-trees in churchyards, 346.Φ. (2) on stereoscopic angles, 16.ףE‎. on chronicles of kings of Israel, 561.—— non-recurring diseases, 516.Ph. on oaths of pregnant women, 503.—— pagoda, 401.Φ.Φ. on standard of weights and measures, 340.Phantom bells, 576.Pharaoh's ring, 416. 521.Philadelphia Directories, 168.Philadelphia, the early delights of, 537.Philharmonicus on Weber's Cecilia, 589.Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.Philo-Handel on Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, 388.Philo-Pho. on ammonio-nitrate of silver, 204.φ. (ω.) on book inscriptions, 64.Φωτογραφοςon Dr. Diamond's calotype process, 572.Photography:—aceto-nitrate of silver, 649.albumenised paper, 395. 501. 548. 572.albumenised process, 549.ammonio-nitrate, is it dangerous? 134. 158. 204. 276.baths for collodion process, 42.calotype process, 548. 572. 596.camera obscura, 41.cameras, their lining, 157.cement for glass baths, 397.clouds in photographs, 451. 477. 501.collodion negatives, 629.collodion pictures, 181.collodion process, 41. 42. 46.cyanuret of potassium, 157.developing mixture, 549.Dr. Diamond's collodion process, 41. 133.—— lecture on the calotype process, 596.engraving, 628.gallo-nitrate of silver, 17.glass chambers, 133.iodizing paper, 46.Ingleby's Essay on the Stereoscope, 401. 451.lenses, 133. 476.Lyte's three new processes, 252. 373.—— treatment of positives, 15.manuscripts copied, 456. 501.minuteness of detail on paper, 157.Muller's process, 203. 253. 275. 451.multiplication of photographs, 85. 157.negative paper, 203.photographic exhibition, 476.photographs by artificial light, 228.photographs in natural colours, 228.Pollock's process, 17.positives, 15. 17. 397. 451.precision in photographic processes, 301.protonitrate of iron, 228.printing on albumenised paper, 324.Pumphrey's process for black tints, 349.restoration of old collodion, 650.Sisson's developing solution, 157. 181. 253. 301. 373.stereoscopic angles, 16. 109. 157. 181. 227. 275. 348. 419. 451. 476. 501.Stewart's new photographic process, 60.—— pantograph, 301.tent for collodion, 301.yellow bottles for chemicals, 86. 110.* Phrases, Dictionary of English, 292.Piccadilly, a collar, 467.Piccalyly, its origin, 8. 110.Pictor on epitaph in Wingfield Church, 98.Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264. 392. 551.Pierrepont (John), his descendants, 303.Pigs said to see the wind, 100.Pilgrim's Progress, Part III., 222.Pimlico on "Tub to a whale," 220.Pinkerton (W.) on Cambridge and Ireland, 350.—— fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 281.—— Land of Green Ginger, 606.—— Megatherium Americanum, 109.—— mysterious personage, 34.—— nightingale epithets, 475.—— "Pinece with a stink," 496.—— poem attributed to Shelley, 183.Pistol (fire-arms), its earliest use, 7. 137.P. (J.) on marriage of cousins, 387.P. (J.) jun. on Lord Audley's attendants, 573.P. (J. R.) on arrow-mark, 440.—— daughter pronounced dafter, 504.Planets, the discovery of, 601.Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.Plants, wild, and their names, 35. 136. 207.Plat (Sir Hugh) noticed, 495.Players, an interpolation of the, 147.Plum, origin of the word, 65. 654.Ply on lens for negatives, 158.Poema del Cid, with glossary and notes, 367. 574.* Poems and songs in MS., 587.Polarised light, 409. 552.Politian, his epitaph at Florence, 537.* Politics, their influence on fashion, 515.* Poll tax in 1641, 340.Polonius on Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 523.Pope and Cowper, 383.* Pope's Elegy on an unfortunate lady, 539.Popes, St. Malachy's prophecies on, 390.* Popham (Sir John) and Littlecott, 218.Porcpisee or porpoise, 208.Porridge, the Book of Common Prayer, so called, 486.Porter family, 364. 526. 576.Porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.* Post-office about 1770, 8.—— riddles for, 185.Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.Pots used by members of the Temple, 171. 256. 574.Pottery, Dutch, 183.* Poyntz (Gabriel), his arms, 440.P. (P.) on books chained in churches, 453.—— ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 329. 652.—— point of etiquette, 527.—— slow-worm superstition, 328.P. (P. P.) on consecrated roses, 38.Prayer Book, French translation, 343. 478.Prayer Books, early editions, 318.—— pictorial editions, 446.—— prior to 1662, 504.Prayer, occasional forms of, 535.* Presbyterian titles, 126.Pretenders, their births and deaths, 565.Price (R.) on Latin riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243.—— proverbial expressions, 624.Prideaux (J.) on Wm. Cookworthy, 585.Prie dieu, ancient furniture, 101. 183.Printers' grammars, &c., 62.Proclamations, collection of, 528.* Property, the right of redeeming, 516.Prophet—Thomas Newans, 381.Proverbial expressions, change of meaning in, 464. 624.Proverbs, definition of one, 243. 304. 523.—— pictorial, 20.—— quoted by Suetonius, 86.—— weather, 218.* —— wedding, 150.——Miscellaneous:—As good as a play, 363.Dover Court; all speakers and no hearers, 9.Hauling over the coals, 125. 280. 524.Put a spoke in his wheel, 269. 351. 522. 576.Putting your foot into it, 77. 159.* Raining cats and dogs, 565.* The full moon brings fine weather, 79.* Vaut mieux avoir affaire, &c., 220.Tread on a worm and it will turn, 464. 624.When the maggot bites, 244. 304. 353. 526.Psalm cxxvii. 2., translation of, 387. 519. 641.P. (S. C.) on high and low Dutch, 413.P. (T.) on Staffordshire knot, 220.Pues or pews, its correct spelling, 127.Pugillus on Andrew Johnson, 589.Pullen (Rev. Josiah) noticed, 489.Pulpits of stone, 562.Pulteney (Sir John de) noticed, 263.Pumphrey (Wm.) on procuring black tints, 349.Pun, a pictorial one, 385.Punning devices, 270. 376.* —— divine, 586.Pure, a peculiar use of the word, 125. 230. 352.P. ( W.) on "A mockery, a delusion, and a snare," 244.—— Willingham boy, 305.P. (W. H.) on church temporalities, 412.—— humming ale, 245.—— Major André, 277.

Packington (Lady), supposed author of the Whole Duty of Man, 564.

Paget (Arthur) on Lisle family, 423.

—— Milton's widow, 452.

—— Synge family, 423.

—— teaching a dog French, 581.

Paget family, 12. 134. 200. 375. 452.

Pagoda, 401. 523.

Paint, how taken off of old oak, 45. 58.

Palæologus (Theodore), his inscription, 408. 526.

* Pale, its meaning, 78.

Paley's plagiarism, 589.

Palindromes, 520.

Panama, the Isthmus of, 144.

Paper, how split, 413. 604.

Parallel passages, 30. 195. 372. 465. 560.

* Parchment deeds, on cleansing soiled, 270.

Pardon churchyard, 63.

Parish clerk, a female, 338. 474.

Parish clerks and politics, 56. 230. 575.

—— clerks' company, 341. 452.

—— registers, lines prefixed to, 30.

* Park, the antiquary, 8.

* Parker (Abp.), his correspondence, 149.

* Parliament, a member of, electing himself, 586.

Parochial libraries, 62. 274. 327. 369. 527. 595.

Parr (Dr.), his letter on Milton, 433.

Party, its earliest use, 137.

Party names in the seventeenth century, 117.

Party-similes of the seventeenth century, 485.

Parvise explained, 161.

Pascal, a saying of his, 44.

Pater-noster, the white, 614.

* Patriarchs of the Western Church, 317.

Patrick (Bp. Simon) noticed, 103. 205.

* Patrick (St.), or Maune and Man, 291.

Patrick's purgatory, 178. 327.

Patten (Margaret), her picture, 442.

* "Pay the Piper," its origin, 198.

P. (C. J.) on fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 78.

Peacock (Edw.) on ecclesiastical censure, 466.

—— Francis Moore, 271.

—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 279.

—— North Lincolnshire folk lore, 382.

—— Sir William Hewet, 652.

—— weather rules, 50.

Peasantry, popular stories of the English, 94.

"Peccavi! I have Scinde," 490. 574.

Pedigree indices, 317. 453.

* Pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586.

"Peg" or "nail," for an argument, 561.

* Pelasgi, a sorrowful race, 516.

Pembrokiensis on tomb of Henry I., 411.

Pennycomequick, its derivation, 8. 113. 184. 255.

Pepys (Samuel) and East London Topography, 263.

—— his grammar, 466. 502.

* —— his queries, 341.

Percy (Lady), wife of Hotspur, 104. 184. 251.

* Perfect tense, its rationale, 410.

Perseverant, its early use, 44.

Persius Flaccus (Aulus), his birth-place, 389.

Personage, a mysterious one, 34. 113.

Perthensis on Alexander Clark, 18.

—— aliases and initials of authors, 124.

Peterborough Cathedral, inscription in, 215. 303.

* Peter the Great, his will, 539.

Petheram (John) on Sir Thomas Button's Voyages, 385.

* Petrarch's Laura, 562.

P. (Francis) on heraldic query, 220.

P. (G.) on the meaning of trash, 135.

P. (H.) on crosses on stoles, 411.

—— French Prayer Books, 478.

—— love charm from a foal's forehead, 292.

Φ. on ampers and, 254.

—— yew-trees in churchyards, 346.

Φ. (2) on stereoscopic angles, 16.

ףE‎. on chronicles of kings of Israel, 561.

—— non-recurring diseases, 516.

Ph. on oaths of pregnant women, 503.

—— pagoda, 401.

Φ.Φ. on standard of weights and measures, 340.

Phantom bells, 576.

Pharaoh's ring, 416. 521.

Philadelphia Directories, 168.

Philadelphia, the early delights of, 537.

Philharmonicus on Weber's Cecilia, 589.

Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.

Philo-Handel on Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, 388.

Philo-Pho. on ammonio-nitrate of silver, 204.

φ. (ω.) on book inscriptions, 64.

Φωτογραφοςon Dr. Diamond's calotype process, 572.

Photography:—

aceto-nitrate of silver, 649.

albumenised paper, 395. 501. 548. 572.

albumenised process, 549.

ammonio-nitrate, is it dangerous? 134. 158. 204. 276.

baths for collodion process, 42.

calotype process, 548. 572. 596.

camera obscura, 41.

cameras, their lining, 157.

cement for glass baths, 397.

clouds in photographs, 451. 477. 501.

collodion negatives, 629.

collodion pictures, 181.

collodion process, 41. 42. 46.

cyanuret of potassium, 157.

developing mixture, 549.

Dr. Diamond's collodion process, 41. 133.

—— lecture on the calotype process, 596.

engraving, 628.

gallo-nitrate of silver, 17.

glass chambers, 133.

iodizing paper, 46.

Ingleby's Essay on the Stereoscope, 401. 451.

lenses, 133. 476.

Lyte's three new processes, 252. 373.

—— treatment of positives, 15.

manuscripts copied, 456. 501.

minuteness of detail on paper, 157.

Muller's process, 203. 253. 275. 451.

multiplication of photographs, 85. 157.

negative paper, 203.

photographic exhibition, 476.

photographs by artificial light, 228.

photographs in natural colours, 228.

Pollock's process, 17.

positives, 15. 17. 397. 451.

precision in photographic processes, 301.

protonitrate of iron, 228.

printing on albumenised paper, 324.

Pumphrey's process for black tints, 349.

restoration of old collodion, 650.

Sisson's developing solution, 157. 181. 253. 301. 373.

stereoscopic angles, 16. 109. 157. 181. 227. 275. 348. 419. 451. 476. 501.

Stewart's new photographic process, 60.

—— pantograph, 301.

tent for collodion, 301.

yellow bottles for chemicals, 86. 110.

* Phrases, Dictionary of English, 292.

Piccadilly, a collar, 467.

Piccalyly, its origin, 8. 110.

Pictor on epitaph in Wingfield Church, 98.

Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264. 392. 551.

Pierrepont (John), his descendants, 303.

Pigs said to see the wind, 100.

Pilgrim's Progress, Part III., 222.

Pimlico on "Tub to a whale," 220.

Pinkerton (W.) on Cambridge and Ireland, 350.

—— fishermen's custom at Wardhouse, 281.

—— Land of Green Ginger, 606.

—— Megatherium Americanum, 109.

—— mysterious personage, 34.

—— nightingale epithets, 475.

—— "Pinece with a stink," 496.

—— poem attributed to Shelley, 183.

Pistol (fire-arms), its earliest use, 7. 137.

P. (J.) on marriage of cousins, 387.

P. (J.) jun. on Lord Audley's attendants, 573.

P. (J. R.) on arrow-mark, 440.

—— daughter pronounced dafter, 504.

Planets, the discovery of, 601.

Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.

Plants, wild, and their names, 35. 136. 207.

Plat (Sir Hugh) noticed, 495.

Players, an interpolation of the, 147.

Plum, origin of the word, 65. 654.

Ply on lens for negatives, 158.

Poema del Cid, with glossary and notes, 367. 574.

* Poems and songs in MS., 587.

Polarised light, 409. 552.

Politian, his epitaph at Florence, 537.

* Politics, their influence on fashion, 515.

* Poll tax in 1641, 340.

Polonius on Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 523.

Pope and Cowper, 383.

* Pope's Elegy on an unfortunate lady, 539.

Popes, St. Malachy's prophecies on, 390.

* Popham (Sir John) and Littlecott, 218.

Porcpisee or porpoise, 208.

Porridge, the Book of Common Prayer, so called, 486.

Porter family, 364. 526. 576.

Porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.

* Post-office about 1770, 8.

—— riddles for, 185.

Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.

Pots used by members of the Temple, 171. 256. 574.

Pottery, Dutch, 183.

* Poyntz (Gabriel), his arms, 440.

P. (P.) on books chained in churches, 453.

—— ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 329. 652.

—— point of etiquette, 527.

—— slow-worm superstition, 328.

P. (P. P.) on consecrated roses, 38.

Prayer Book, French translation, 343. 478.

Prayer Books, early editions, 318.

—— pictorial editions, 446.

—— prior to 1662, 504.

Prayer, occasional forms of, 535.

* Presbyterian titles, 126.

Pretenders, their births and deaths, 565.

Price (R.) on Latin riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243.

—— proverbial expressions, 624.

Prideaux (J.) on Wm. Cookworthy, 585.

Prie dieu, ancient furniture, 101. 183.

Printers' grammars, &c., 62.

Proclamations, collection of, 528.

* Property, the right of redeeming, 516.

Prophet—Thomas Newans, 381.

Proverbial expressions, change of meaning in, 464. 624.

Proverbs, definition of one, 243. 304. 523.

—— pictorial, 20.

—— quoted by Suetonius, 86.

—— weather, 218.

* —— wedding, 150.

——Miscellaneous:—

As good as a play, 363.

Dover Court; all speakers and no hearers, 9.

Hauling over the coals, 125. 280. 524.

Put a spoke in his wheel, 269. 351. 522. 576.

Putting your foot into it, 77. 159.

* Raining cats and dogs, 565.

* The full moon brings fine weather, 79.

* Vaut mieux avoir affaire, &c., 220.

Tread on a worm and it will turn, 464. 624.

When the maggot bites, 244. 304. 353. 526.

Psalm cxxvii. 2., translation of, 387. 519. 641.

P. (S. C.) on high and low Dutch, 413.

P. (T.) on Staffordshire knot, 220.

Pues or pews, its correct spelling, 127.

Pugillus on Andrew Johnson, 589.

Pullen (Rev. Josiah) noticed, 489.

Pulpits of stone, 562.

Pulteney (Sir John de) noticed, 263.

Pumphrey (Wm.) on procuring black tints, 349.

Pun, a pictorial one, 385.

Punning devices, 270. 376.

* —— divine, 586.

Pure, a peculiar use of the word, 125. 230. 352.

P. ( W.) on "A mockery, a delusion, and a snare," 244.

—— Willingham boy, 305.

P. (W. H.) on church temporalities, 412.

—— humming ale, 245.

—— Major André, 277.

Q.

Q.

Q. on Ashman's Park, 376.—— etymology of awk, 602.—— etymology of bad, 207.—— belike, its etymology, 600.—— enough, its pronunciation, 210.—— lad and lass, their etymology, 210.—— lowbell, its etymology, 208.—— "mob" and "cash," 573.—— Macbeth, a passage in, 217.—— Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.—— perseverant, 44.—— porc-pisee, its etymology, 208.—— portrait of Sir A. Wingfield, 245.—— quarrel, its etymology, 206.—— scheltrum, its orthography, 206.—— spur, its meaning, 209.—— "spoke in his wheel," 576.—— tenet, or tenent, 602.—— unkid, its meaning, 604.—— voiding knife, 232.—— windfalls, 14.* Quadrille, its derivation, 441.Quæsitor on "The Whole Duty of Man," 564.Quarles and Pascal, 172.Quarrel, its derivation, 206.Quarter, as sparing life, its origin, 246. 353.* Queen at chess, 469.Questor on "the apple of the eye," 204.—— discovery of planets, 601.—— epitaph at Crayford, 363.Quotations:—Alterius orbis Papa, 254.Amentium haud amantium, 19. 89. 136.A mockery, a delusion, and a snare, 244. 302.Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi, 502. 651.Aquæ in vinum conversæ, 242.A saint in crape, 102. 208.* Celsior exsurgens pluviis, &c., 220.* Chew the bitter cud of disappointment, 103.Could we with ink the ocean fill, 127. 180. 257. 422. 522. 648.Crowns have their compass, 376.* Cutting off the little heads of light, 56.Earth says to earth, &c., 110. 353.Firm was their faith, the ancient bands, 564.From the sublime to the ridiculous, 177.Homo unius libri, 440. 569.Horace, De Arte Poetica, 444.* in copy of the Pugna Porcorum, 151.In necessariis unitas, 197. 281.Inter cuncta micans, 230.Johnson's turgid style, 366. 526.* Latin quotations, 197. 281. 353.* Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep, 292.Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102. 257.Magna est veritas et prævalebit, 77.Man proposes, but God disposes, 411. 552.Mater ait natæ, &c., 160.Never ending, still beginning, 103. 162.Now the fierce bear, &c., 440. 577.Oh for a voice of that wild horn, 622.Pinece with a stink, 270. 350. 496.Pity is akin to love, 89.* Plus occidit gula, 292.Populus vult decipi, &c., 65. 522.Quem Deus vult perdere, 73.Qui facit per alium, 231. 422.Quid facies, facies Veneris, &c., 539.* Sad are the rose leaves, 197.Sat cito si sat bene, 18. 87.Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, &c., 587.* Solamen miseris, &c., 272.* Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, 586.* To know ourselves diseased, 219.* Too wise to err, too good to be unkind, 539.* Trail through the leaden sky, 494.Up, guards, and at 'em! 111. 184. 204. 275.Veni, vidi, vici, 400.Virgin wife and widowed maid, 56. 230.* We've parted for the longest time, 388.* What does not fade? 366.* When we survey yon circling orbs, 515.Wilderness of monkeys, 413.

Q. on Ashman's Park, 376.

—— etymology of awk, 602.

—— etymology of bad, 207.

—— belike, its etymology, 600.

—— enough, its pronunciation, 210.

—— lad and lass, their etymology, 210.

—— lowbell, its etymology, 208.

—— "mob" and "cash," 573.

—— Macbeth, a passage in, 217.

—— Naples and the Campagna Felice, 33.

—— perseverant, 44.

—— porc-pisee, its etymology, 208.

—— portrait of Sir A. Wingfield, 245.

—— quarrel, its etymology, 206.

—— scheltrum, its orthography, 206.

—— spur, its meaning, 209.

—— "spoke in his wheel," 576.

—— tenet, or tenent, 602.

—— unkid, its meaning, 604.

—— voiding knife, 232.

—— windfalls, 14.

* Quadrille, its derivation, 441.

Quæsitor on "The Whole Duty of Man," 564.

Quarles and Pascal, 172.

Quarrel, its derivation, 206.

Quarter, as sparing life, its origin, 246. 353.

* Queen at chess, 469.

Questor on "the apple of the eye," 204.

—— discovery of planets, 601.

—— epitaph at Crayford, 363.

Quotations:—

Alterius orbis Papa, 254.

Amentium haud amantium, 19. 89. 136.

A mockery, a delusion, and a snare, 244. 302.

Antiquitas Sæculi Juventus Mundi, 502. 651.

Aquæ in vinum conversæ, 242.

A saint in crape, 102. 208.

* Celsior exsurgens pluviis, &c., 220.

* Chew the bitter cud of disappointment, 103.

Could we with ink the ocean fill, 127. 180. 257. 422. 522. 648.

Crowns have their compass, 376.

* Cutting off the little heads of light, 56.

Earth says to earth, &c., 110. 353.

Firm was their faith, the ancient bands, 564.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, 177.

Homo unius libri, 440. 569.

Horace, De Arte Poetica, 444.

* in copy of the Pugna Porcorum, 151.

In necessariis unitas, 197. 281.

Inter cuncta micans, 230.

Johnson's turgid style, 366. 526.

* Latin quotations, 197. 281. 353.

* Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep, 292.

Limerick, Dublin, and Cork, 102. 257.

Magna est veritas et prævalebit, 77.

Man proposes, but God disposes, 411. 552.

Mater ait natæ, &c., 160.

Never ending, still beginning, 103. 162.

Now the fierce bear, &c., 440. 577.

Oh for a voice of that wild horn, 622.

Pinece with a stink, 270. 350. 496.

Pity is akin to love, 89.

* Plus occidit gula, 292.

Populus vult decipi, &c., 65. 522.

Quem Deus vult perdere, 73.

Qui facit per alium, 231. 422.

Quid facies, facies Veneris, &c., 539.

* Sad are the rose leaves, 197.

Sat cito si sat bene, 18. 87.

Scire ubi aliquid invenire posses, &c., 587.

* Solamen miseris, &c., 272.

* Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re, 586.

* To know ourselves diseased, 219.

* Too wise to err, too good to be unkind, 539.

* Trail through the leaden sky, 494.

Up, guards, and at 'em! 111. 184. 204. 275.

Veni, vidi, vici, 400.

Virgin wife and widowed maid, 56. 230.

* We've parted for the longest time, 388.

* What does not fade? 366.

* When we survey yon circling orbs, 515.

Wilderness of monkeys, 413.

R.

R.

R. on Baskerville's burial, 423.—— gloves at fairs, 136.R. (A. B.) on barnacles, 300.—— Coleridge's Christabel, 111.—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 182.—— lines typifying Tyranny, 56.Radcliffe (J. N.) on Huggins and Muggins, 503.—— moon superstitions, 322.Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14. 574.Railway travelling foretold, 34. 65.Rainbow, odour from the, 158.Raleigh (Sir Walter) called "Our English Milo," 495.* —— his descendants, 78.—— his supposed scepticism, 267.Rapping no novelty, 512. 632.* Rathbane family, 493.Rathe, or early, 208.Ravilliac noticed, 219. 479.Rawlinson (Robert) on falsified gravestone at Stratford, 124.—— meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.—— Shakspeare emendations, 51.R. (C.) on history of the Nonjurors, 621.R. (C. I.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.—— "Fag," or after-math, 229.—— Garrick Street, May Fair, 411.—— La Fête des Chaudrons, 57.—— poetical tavern signs, 627.R. (C. T.) on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.Reader on Norman of Winster, 302.—— Sir Arthur Aston, 302.R. (E. B.) on mousehunt, 606."Rebellious Prayer," a poem, 19.* Receipt or Recipe, 583.Rector on marriage service, 525.Red hair, 86. 522.Reed (Charles) on Haulf-Naked manor, 205.—— palindromes, 520.—— shoe thrown for luck, 377.Reformed faith temp. Hen. VIII., 135.R. (E. G.) on artificial drainage, 493.—— "Could we with ink," &c., 522.—— longevity, 255.—— mardle, 577.—— Northamptonshire folk lore, 216.—— rowans, or rawins, 229.—— strut-stowers, 233.Regium Donum, its origin, 517.R. (E. M.) on Mackey's Mythological Astronomy, 567.Rents of Assize, &c., 81.Reynolds' nephew, 102. 232.Reynolds' portrait of Baretti, 411.Reynolds (Sir Joshua), his baptism, 513.R. (F.) on female parish clerk, 475.R. (G. H.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 648.R. (G. M.) on Charles Fox and Gibbon, 312.R. (H. P. W.) on Sir Ralph Winwood, 272.Rhymes, designed false English, 249. 602.Rhymes on places, 305. 466. 615.Richard I., notices of, 72.Richard, King of the Romans, his arms, 265. 454. 653.Richard's Guide through France, 534.Richardson (John) on dog-whipping day in Hull, 409.—— Land of Green Ginger, 227.Richmond in Yorkshire, vault at, 388. 573.Richmond (Margaret, Countess of), her arms, 84.Riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243. 322.Ridley (T. D.) on muggers, 305.—— Pelasgi, 516.—— quotation from Walter Scott, 376.Riggs (Romulus), an American name, 638.Riley (H. T.) on Abigail, 42.—— angel-beast—cleek—longtriloo, 63.—— bacon or beechen, 63.—— burial in unconsecrated ground, 43.—— dissimulate, its early use, 10.—— Dover Court, 9.—— Hans Krauwinckel, 63.—— humbug, its etymology, 64.—— "Marry come up!" 9.—— mugger, 34.—— pictorial proverbs, 20.—— porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.—— rub-a-dub, 63.—— Shakspeare's Tempest, passage in, 45.—— Sir Heister Ryley, 9.—— snail-eating, 34.Rimbault (Dr. E. F.) on Abp. Chicheley, 350.—— Discovery of the Inquisition, 350.—— groaning-board, 309.—— Jacob Bobart, 344.—— palace at Enfield, 352.—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 352.—— "When Orpheus went down," 397.Ring finger, 61. 574.Ring money, called Manillas, 278.* Rings formerly worn by ecclesiastics, 387.Rings, a chapter on, 416.Rix (S. W.) on Cromwell's portrait, 55.—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 209.—— parochial libraries, 62.R. (J.) on Les Lettres Juives, 541.—— nursery rhymes, 452.R. (J. C.) on Christian names, 63.—— Calvin's correspondence, 62.—— Order of John of Jerusalem, 61.—— ring finger, 61.R. (J. S.) on origin of Rundlestone, 317.R. (L. D.) on passage in Boerhaave, 602.R. (L. M. M.) on German phrase, 150.—— mysterious personage, 113.—— Pretenders' births and deaths, 565.—— praying to the West, 102.R. (M. W.) on Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 576.R. (N.) on the nursrow, 538.Roberts (Chris.) on Dr. Robert Cary, 79.—— Harmony of the Four Gospels, 416.Robin Hood's festival, 622.Robson (W.) on aldress, 503.—— crescent, its origin as a standard, 196.—— interpolation of the players, 147.—— Spanish play-bill, 336.* Roden's colt, 340.Rogers (Dr. John), his works, 172.Roman Catholic Bible Society, 494.Roman remains at Durham, 466.* Romanists confined in Ely, 79.Rome and the number six, 490.—— epigrams on, 584.* Rondall (Rev. W.) noticed, 515.Rose (Samuel), his letter on Pope and Cowper, 383.Rosicrucians, 106. 175.* Rothwell family, 243.* Rounceval, Our Lady of, 340.* Royalty dining in public, two paintings of, 538.R. (R. I.) on rapping no novelty, 632.R. (R. J.) on divining-rod, 479.R. (S.) on Dr. John Taylor, 299.—— passage in Milton, 249.—— selling a wife, 209.Rub-a-dub, its early use, 63.* Rubens's MS. on painting, 539.Rubi on book inscriptions, 64.—— poetical tavern signs, 568.—— weather proverbs, 218.Rubrical query, 207.Ruby on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 653.* Rudd (Bp. Anthony), his monument, 9.Rufus on Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, 271.Rulers of the world in 1853, 638.* Rundlestone, origin of the term, 317.Russell (Lord Wm.), his burial-place, 100. 179.Russian grammars, 561.Russians, their religion, 582.R. (W.) on authors' remuneration, 81.—— burning for witchcraft, 470.R. (W. B.) on Kentish Town Assembly House, 293.* Ryley (Sir Heister), his Visions, 9.

R. on Baskerville's burial, 423.

—— gloves at fairs, 136.

R. (A. B.) on barnacles, 300.

—— Coleridge's Christabel, 111.

—— lines on the institution of the Garter, 182.

—— lines typifying Tyranny, 56.

Radcliffe (J. N.) on Huggins and Muggins, 503.

—— moon superstitions, 322.

Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14. 574.

Railway travelling foretold, 34. 65.

Rainbow, odour from the, 158.

Raleigh (Sir Walter) called "Our English Milo," 495.

* —— his descendants, 78.

—— his supposed scepticism, 267.

Rapping no novelty, 512. 632.

* Rathbane family, 493.

Rathe, or early, 208.

Ravilliac noticed, 219. 479.

Rawlinson (Robert) on falsified gravestone at Stratford, 124.

—— meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.

—— Shakspeare emendations, 51.

R. (C.) on history of the Nonjurors, 621.

R. (C. I.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.

—— "Fag," or after-math, 229.

—— Garrick Street, May Fair, 411.

—— La Fête des Chaudrons, 57.

—— poetical tavern signs, 627.

R. (C. T.) on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.

Reader on Norman of Winster, 302.

—— Sir Arthur Aston, 302.

R. (E. B.) on mousehunt, 606.

"Rebellious Prayer," a poem, 19.

* Receipt or Recipe, 583.

Rector on marriage service, 525.

Red hair, 86. 522.

Reed (Charles) on Haulf-Naked manor, 205.

—— palindromes, 520.

—— shoe thrown for luck, 377.

Reformed faith temp. Hen. VIII., 135.

R. (E. G.) on artificial drainage, 493.

—— "Could we with ink," &c., 522.

—— longevity, 255.

—— mardle, 577.

—— Northamptonshire folk lore, 216.

—— rowans, or rawins, 229.

—— strut-stowers, 233.

Regium Donum, its origin, 517.

R. (E. M.) on Mackey's Mythological Astronomy, 567.

Rents of Assize, &c., 81.

Reynolds' nephew, 102. 232.

Reynolds' portrait of Baretti, 411.

Reynolds (Sir Joshua), his baptism, 513.

R. (F.) on female parish clerk, 475.

R. (G. H.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 648.

R. (G. M.) on Charles Fox and Gibbon, 312.

R. (H. P. W.) on Sir Ralph Winwood, 272.

Rhymes, designed false English, 249. 602.

Rhymes on places, 305. 466. 615.

Richard I., notices of, 72.

Richard, King of the Romans, his arms, 265. 454. 653.

Richard's Guide through France, 534.

Richardson (John) on dog-whipping day in Hull, 409.

—— Land of Green Ginger, 227.

Richmond in Yorkshire, vault at, 388. 573.

Richmond (Margaret, Countess of), her arms, 84.

Riddle in Aulus Gellius, 243. 322.

Ridley (T. D.) on muggers, 305.

—— Pelasgi, 516.

—— quotation from Walter Scott, 376.

Riggs (Romulus), an American name, 638.

Riley (H. T.) on Abigail, 42.

—— angel-beast—cleek—longtriloo, 63.

—— bacon or beechen, 63.

—— burial in unconsecrated ground, 43.

—— dissimulate, its early use, 10.

—— Dover Court, 9.

—— Hans Krauwinckel, 63.

—— humbug, its etymology, 64.

—— "Marry come up!" 9.

—— mugger, 34.

—— pictorial proverbs, 20.

—— porter (liquor), early use of the word, 9.

—— rub-a-dub, 63.

—— Shakspeare's Tempest, passage in, 45.

—— Sir Heister Ryley, 9.

—— snail-eating, 34.

Rimbault (Dr. E. F.) on Abp. Chicheley, 350.

—— Discovery of the Inquisition, 350.

—— groaning-board, 309.

—— Jacob Bobart, 344.

—— palace at Enfield, 352.

—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 352.

—— "When Orpheus went down," 397.

Ring finger, 61. 574.

Ring money, called Manillas, 278.

* Rings formerly worn by ecclesiastics, 387.

Rings, a chapter on, 416.

Rix (S. W.) on Cromwell's portrait, 55.

—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83. 209.

—— parochial libraries, 62.

R. (J.) on Les Lettres Juives, 541.

—— nursery rhymes, 452.

R. (J. C.) on Christian names, 63.

—— Calvin's correspondence, 62.

—— Order of John of Jerusalem, 61.

—— ring finger, 61.

R. (J. S.) on origin of Rundlestone, 317.

R. (L. D.) on passage in Boerhaave, 602.

R. (L. M. M.) on German phrase, 150.

—— mysterious personage, 113.

—— Pretenders' births and deaths, 565.

—— praying to the West, 102.

R. (M. W.) on Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 576.

R. (N.) on the nursrow, 538.

Roberts (Chris.) on Dr. Robert Cary, 79.

—— Harmony of the Four Gospels, 416.

Robin Hood's festival, 622.

Robson (W.) on aldress, 503.

—— crescent, its origin as a standard, 196.

—— interpolation of the players, 147.

—— Spanish play-bill, 336.

* Roden's colt, 340.

Rogers (Dr. John), his works, 172.

Roman Catholic Bible Society, 494.

Roman remains at Durham, 466.

* Romanists confined in Ely, 79.

Rome and the number six, 490.

—— epigrams on, 584.

* Rondall (Rev. W.) noticed, 515.

Rose (Samuel), his letter on Pope and Cowper, 383.

Rosicrucians, 106. 175.

* Rothwell family, 243.

* Rounceval, Our Lady of, 340.

* Royalty dining in public, two paintings of, 538.

R. (R. I.) on rapping no novelty, 632.

R. (R. J.) on divining-rod, 479.

R. (S.) on Dr. John Taylor, 299.

—— passage in Milton, 249.

—— selling a wife, 209.

Rub-a-dub, its early use, 63.

* Rubens's MS. on painting, 539.

Rubi on book inscriptions, 64.

—— poetical tavern signs, 568.

—— weather proverbs, 218.

Rubrical query, 207.

Ruby on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 653.

* Rudd (Bp. Anthony), his monument, 9.

Rufus on Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, 271.

Rulers of the world in 1853, 638.

* Rundlestone, origin of the term, 317.

Russell (Lord Wm.), his burial-place, 100. 179.

Russian grammars, 561.

Russians, their religion, 582.

R. (W.) on authors' remuneration, 81.

—— burning for witchcraft, 470.

R. (W. B.) on Kentish Town Assembly House, 293.

* Ryley (Sir Heister), his Visions, 9.

S.

S.

S. on eclipse in 1263, 441.Σ. on clouds in photographs, 451.Saint Florentin (M. L. P.),aliasDuke de la Vrillière, 351.Salmon (W. R. D.) on mousehunt, 516.—— myrtle bee, 173. 593.—— stage-coaches, 600.Salopian on monumental inscription, 268.* Salter (Sir Ambrose Nicholas) noticed, 318.Saltpeter maker, 225. 399."Salus populi suprema lex," its origin, 410. 526. 606.S. (A. M.) on hurrah! 20.Sams (Mr.), his Egyptian antiquities, 521.Sandwich Islands discovered by Cook, 7. 108.Sangaree, its derivation, 527.Sansom (J.) on Bohn's Hoveden, 290.—— arms of the see of York, 302.—— Craton the philosopher, 603.—— hurrah! 324.—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 515.—— Reynolds's nephew, 232; his baptism, 513.—— Sir William Hankford, 278.Sarah Anna on Broderie Anglaise, 172.* Savigny, Life of, 294.* Saying, an old, "Merry be the first," 197.Sackville (Lord George) noticed, 238.Sc. on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.—— selling a wife, 43.* Scale of vowel sounds, 34.Scheltrum, its derivation, 206.School libraries, 220. 298. 395. 498. 640.* Scobell (Henry), compiler of Collection of Acts, 493.Scotchmen in Poland, 131.Scott (Francis John) on Celtic and Latin languages, 353.—— claymore, 365.—— fierce, a provincialism, 352.—— Marcarnes, 572.—— muffs worn by military men, 353.—— singular discovery of a cannon-ball, 366.—— sneezing, 624.Scott (John) on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 277.Scott (Sir Walter), unpublished epigram by, 575.Scottish National Records, 405.—— newspapers, early, 57. 161.Scrape, "Getting into a scrape," origin of, 292. 422. 601.Scribe (John) on Greek and Roman fortifications, 654.* Scrimshaw (Jane) noticed, 441.Scrymzeour on Scottish castles, 366.S. (D.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 128.Searson's Poems, 176.Sea-serpent noticed, 40.Seleucus on Adamsoniana, 135.—— slow-worm superstition, 146.—— snail-eating, 129.—— snail-gardens, 161.Semi-Tone on passage of Cicero, 640."Semper eadem," origin of the royal motto, 174. 255. 440.Serpent with a human head, 304.Serpents, notes on, 39.Serviens on anonymous works, 174.—— Major André, 174. 644.* Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.Sewell and Lewis families, 388. 521. 621.* Seymour (Col. Hyde) noticed, 388.Seymour (Jane), her royal descent, 184. 251.S. (G. L.) on History of Jesus Christ, 386.—— Lepel's regiment, 504.—— Sewell family, 621.S. (G. S.) on creation of knights, 620.—— Lady Mason's third husband, 620.Shadbolt (Geo.) on albumenised paper, 395. 548.—— clouds, how introduced, 477.—— multiplication of photographs, 85.—— stereoscopic angles, 227. 348. 476.Shakspeare:—Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.Ben Jonson's criticisms, 263. 313.coincident suggestions on the text, 265.Collier's Monovolume, 35. 338.delighted, 241. 437.digest of various readings, 74. 170. 362. 466.emendations, 51. 75.Falstaff, his death, 263. 313, 314.* first folio, reprint of, 220.Jackson's emendations, 193.meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.parallels, 240.portrait, 438. 538.Priam's six-gated city, 288. 375.Professor Hilgers' Treatise, 52.readings, 28. 168.remonstrance respecting the Shakspearian discussions, 261.skull, 217.winds, North and South, 338.passage in All's Well That Ends Well, 217.As You Like It, 383.Hamlet, 123. 195. 409.Henry IV. (Second Part), 263. 313, 314. 384. 408.King John, 28. 266. 384.King Lear, 4. 97.Love's Labour's Lost, 241.Macbeth, 217.Measure for Measure, 194. 241. 288. 361.Richard II., 338.Romeo and Juliet, 3. 216. 361. 384.Taming of the Shrew, 52. 73. 97, 98. 438.Tempest, 45. 123, 124. 169. 338. 408.Troilus and Cressida, 288.Two Gentlemen of Verona, 52.Winter's Tale, 95. 169. 254. 361.Shaw (R. J.) on names of wild plants, 36.Shaw's (Mrs.) tombstone, 222.Sheer ale explained, 168.Sheer hulk, its meaning, 126. 280.Shelley (Percy Bysshe), poem by him, 71. 183.Shepherd's Kalendar quoted, 50.Sheridan (R. B.), translation of a song by him, 563.Sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353. 423.Sherlock (Dr. Richard) noticed, 245.Ship "William and Ann," 54.Shirtcollars, 467.Shoemakers, a recitation for Oct. 25th, 619.Shoes, throwing old ones for luck, 377."Short red, God red," 182. 398.* Shoulder knots, their origin, 244.S. (H. S.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.Sights and exhibitions temp. James I., 558.Sigma on Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.Siller gun of Dumfries, 412.Silo, a Spanish granary, 639.Simpson (W. Sparrow) on battle of Villers en Couché, 8.—— bell inscriptions, 108. 448.—— books chained in churches, 93. 206. 323.—— hour-glasses in pulpits, 328.—— Prayer Books prior to 1662, 504.Sims's Hand-book to the Library of the British Museum, 511. 553. 653.Sincere, its derivation, 195. 328. 399. 567.Singer (S. W.) on Hobbes and Hollar, 368.—— its, early use of, 254.—— Milton and Malatesti, 295.—— Milton's widow, 471.—— passage in Romeo and Juliet, 3.Singleton (S.) on gravestone inscription, 328.Sisson (J. Lawson) on bell inscriptions, 448.—— derivation of Mardel, 411.—— Muller's processes, 253.—— Sisson's developing solution, 181. 253.S. (J.) on book inscriptions, 591.S. (J. H.) on Cawdray's Treasure of Similes, 386.S. (J. L.) on the arms of De Sissonne, 243.—— hour-glass stand, 454.—— poetical tavern signs, 627.S. (J. P.) on Westhumble Chapel, 410.Skyring (G. W.) on bullaces, 326.—— divining-rod, 293.—— local rhymes, Kent, 466.—— moon superstitions, 322.—— "spoke in the wheel," 522.Slang expression, "Just the cheese," 89.* Slaves, collections for poor, 292.—— execution for whipping, 112.S. (L. D.) on quotation from Canning, 365.Sleednot (J.) on "Qui facit per alium," 231.Sloane-Evans (W. Sloane) on Bible and Prayer Book proper names, 469.—— Edmund Spenser and Hans Sloane, 389.—— marriage of cousins, 525.—— Urban Vigors, 477.Slow-worm superstition, 33. 146. 328. 479.Smith (A.) on inscription near Cirencester, 76.Smith (T. C.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 127.Smith (W. J. Bernhard) on the claymore, 520.—— ducking stool, 315.—— megatherium in British Museum, 19.—— nightingale and thorn, 527.—— poetical tavern signs, 568.—— spiked maces in Great Malvern Church, 254.Snail-eating, 34. 128. 229.—— gardens, 33. 128. 161. 229.* Snayers (P.), his picture The Battle of Forty, 538.Sneezing, an omen and a deity, 121.—— popular ideas respecting, 366. 624.Sneyd (W.) on Margery Trussell's arms, 412.—— poems published at Manchester, 388.Snow (B.) on D. Ferrand, 243.S. (N. W.) on buckle, 526.—— crow-bar, 439.—— first and last, 439.—— mauilies, manillas, 278.—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 480.—— stone-pillar worship, 207.—— "To grab," 466.S. 2 (N. W.) on cob and conners, 43.—— Devonianisms, 44.Soke mills, 272. 375.Songs and Ballads:—Barrels regiment, 620.Bonnie Dundee, 19.Danish and Swedish, 444.Guardian angels, now protect me, 443.* Jamieson the piper, 126.Mary, weep no more for me, 385. 500.The Angels' Whisper, 54.They shot him on the nine-stane rig, 78. 376.To the lords of Convention, 19.When Orpheus went down, 196. 281. 397. 503.Sophocles, passage in, 73. 478. 631.Sotadic verses, 229.Soul and magnetic needle, 87. 159.* Southwark pudding wonder, 79.Souvaroff's dispatch, 490.Spanish play-bill, 336.Sparrows at Lindham, 572.S. (P. C. S.) on death of Edward II., 477.—— Hungarians in Paules, 441.—— MS. poems and songs, 587.Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697, 152.Speech, erroneous forms of, 65.* Spendthrift, inquiry respecting, 102.* Spenser (Edmund) and Sir Hans Sloane, 389.* —— Fairy Queen, the missing books, 367.Speriend on barnacles in the Thames, 124.—— blotting-paper, 104.—— Duke of Gloucester, 100.—— German heraldry, 150.Spes on Abp. Lancaster's cure for the gout, 6.—— wooden tombs and effigies, 19.Spiller (John) on protonitrate of iron, 228.Spinster on wedding proverb, 150.Spoor (Wm.) on Canute's Point, Southampton, 204.Spur, explained, 209.S. (Q. M.) on Martyr of Collet Well, 411.S. (S. A.) on Caldecott's translation of New Testament, 410.—— Calves' Head Club, 480.S. s. (J.) on Pharaoh's ring, 521.—— Picts' houses, 392.S. (S. S.) on college guide, 57.—— passage in Bishop Horsley, 9.S. (S. W.) on "pinece with a stink," 496.S. (S. Z. Z.) on Bacon's Essays, 289.—— Cranmer's correspondence, 183.—— Crassus' saying, 258.—— editors, offer to intending, 172.—— Lamech, 305.—— Latin quotations wanted, 197.—— parochial libraries, 275.—— rubrical query, 207.—— satirical medal, 231.—— Sotades, 229.—— "widowed wife," 230.Staffordshire knot, 220. 454.Stage-coaches, their speed, 439. 600.* St. Andrew's priory, Barnwell, 80.Stanhope (Charles Earl), his versatility of talent, 9. 135.Stanhope (Henry Lord) noticed, 281. 563. (SeeWotton.)Stansbury (Joseph) on Washington anecdotes, 125.Stars the flowers of heaven, 158. 346.Statfold on Chancellor Steele, 220.* Steele (Lord Chancellor), pedigree of, 220.Steinman (G. S.), notes on Grammont, 461.—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.—— Sir Arthur Aston, 629.Stephens (Edward) noticed, 588.Sternberg (V. T.) on Carlist calembourg, 618.—— Dr. Dodd a dramatist, 245.—— haschisch or Indian hemp, 540.—— Italian-English, 638.—— spurious Don Quixote, 590.—— stories of English peasantry, 94.—— Tom, mythic and material, 239.Sterne and the Drummer's letter, 153.S. (T. G.) on Anderson's Royal Genealogies, 326.—— Histories of Literature, 453.—— Temple lands in Scotland, 521.* St. George family pictures, 104.Stillingfleet (Bishop), his library, 389.Stillwell (John P.) on bees, 440.—— "Hauling over the coals," 524.Stone pillar worship, 207. 413.Stoner (W. P.) on hour-glass in pulpits, 209.—— Mulciber, 232.* Storms at the death of great men, 493.Stornoway on house of Falahill, 134.Stoups, exterior, 574.Stoven Church, the original, 80.St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca, 88. 205.Straw paper, 491.Strickland (Agnes), her Lives of the Queens of England noticed, 104. 184. 251.Strong (Augustus) on derivation of Silo, 639.Strut-stowers, 148. 233.Subscriber on the albumenised process, 549.—— mayors and sheriffs, 126.—— "Peccavi! I have Scinde," 574.—— Shakspeare's skull, 217.Suffolk, Norman church in, 622.Surgeon (A Foreign) on Göthe's author remuneration, 29.Surrey Archæological Society, its formation, 552.Suum Cuique on "Elijah's Mantle," 453.S. (W.) on collections for poor slaves, 292.—— Hampden's death, 646.—— quotation from Melancthon, 281.Swan-marks, 62. 256.Swift (Dean), his rhymes, 250.Swinney—"That Swinney," in Junius, 213. 238. 374.S. (W. R. D.) on boom, 375.* Symbol of sow, &c., 493.Synge family, 327. 423.System of Law proposed by the Long Parliament, 389.

S. on eclipse in 1263, 441.

Σ. on clouds in photographs, 451.

Saint Florentin (M. L. P.),aliasDuke de la Vrillière, 351.

Salmon (W. R. D.) on mousehunt, 516.

—— myrtle bee, 173. 593.

—— stage-coaches, 600.

Salopian on monumental inscription, 268.

* Salter (Sir Ambrose Nicholas) noticed, 318.

Saltpeter maker, 225. 399.

"Salus populi suprema lex," its origin, 410. 526. 606.

S. (A. M.) on hurrah! 20.

Sams (Mr.), his Egyptian antiquities, 521.

Sandwich Islands discovered by Cook, 7. 108.

Sangaree, its derivation, 527.

Sansom (J.) on Bohn's Hoveden, 290.

—— arms of the see of York, 302.

—— Craton the philosopher, 603.

—— hurrah! 324.

—— Osborn filius Herfasti, 515.

—— Reynolds's nephew, 232; his baptism, 513.

—— Sir William Hankford, 278.

Sarah Anna on Broderie Anglaise, 172.

* Savigny, Life of, 294.

* Saying, an old, "Merry be the first," 197.

Sackville (Lord George) noticed, 238.

Sc. on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.

—— selling a wife, 43.

* Scale of vowel sounds, 34.

Scheltrum, its derivation, 206.

School libraries, 220. 298. 395. 498. 640.

* Scobell (Henry), compiler of Collection of Acts, 493.

Scotchmen in Poland, 131.

Scott (Francis John) on Celtic and Latin languages, 353.

—— claymore, 365.

—— fierce, a provincialism, 352.

—— Marcarnes, 572.

—— muffs worn by military men, 353.

—— singular discovery of a cannon-ball, 366.

—— sneezing, 624.

Scott (John) on ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 277.

Scott (Sir Walter), unpublished epigram by, 575.

Scottish National Records, 405.

—— newspapers, early, 57. 161.

Scrape, "Getting into a scrape," origin of, 292. 422. 601.

Scribe (John) on Greek and Roman fortifications, 654.

* Scrimshaw (Jane) noticed, 441.

Scrymzeour on Scottish castles, 366.

S. (D.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 128.

Searson's Poems, 176.

Sea-serpent noticed, 40.

Seleucus on Adamsoniana, 135.

—— slow-worm superstition, 146.

—— snail-eating, 129.

—— snail-gardens, 161.

Semi-Tone on passage of Cicero, 640.

"Semper eadem," origin of the royal motto, 174. 255. 440.

Serpent with a human head, 304.

Serpents, notes on, 39.

Serviens on anonymous works, 174.

—— Major André, 174. 644.

* Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.

Sewell and Lewis families, 388. 521. 621.

* Seymour (Col. Hyde) noticed, 388.

Seymour (Jane), her royal descent, 184. 251.

S. (G. L.) on History of Jesus Christ, 386.

—— Lepel's regiment, 504.

—— Sewell family, 621.

S. (G. S.) on creation of knights, 620.

—— Lady Mason's third husband, 620.

Shadbolt (Geo.) on albumenised paper, 395. 548.

—— clouds, how introduced, 477.

—— multiplication of photographs, 85.

—— stereoscopic angles, 227. 348. 476.

Shakspeare:—

Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.

Ben Jonson's criticisms, 263. 313.

coincident suggestions on the text, 265.

Collier's Monovolume, 35. 338.

delighted, 241. 437.

digest of various readings, 74. 170. 362. 466.

emendations, 51. 75.

Falstaff, his death, 263. 313, 314.

* first folio, reprint of, 220.

Jackson's emendations, 193.

meteorology of Shakspeare, 336.

parallels, 240.

portrait, 438. 538.

Priam's six-gated city, 288. 375.

Professor Hilgers' Treatise, 52.

readings, 28. 168.

remonstrance respecting the Shakspearian discussions, 261.

skull, 217.

winds, North and South, 338.

passage in All's Well That Ends Well, 217.

As You Like It, 383.

Hamlet, 123. 195. 409.

Henry IV. (Second Part), 263. 313, 314. 384. 408.

King John, 28. 266. 384.

King Lear, 4. 97.

Love's Labour's Lost, 241.

Macbeth, 217.

Measure for Measure, 194. 241. 288. 361.

Richard II., 338.

Romeo and Juliet, 3. 216. 361. 384.

Taming of the Shrew, 52. 73. 97, 98. 438.

Tempest, 45. 123, 124. 169. 338. 408.

Troilus and Cressida, 288.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, 52.

Winter's Tale, 95. 169. 254. 361.

Shaw (R. J.) on names of wild plants, 36.

Shaw's (Mrs.) tombstone, 222.

Sheer ale explained, 168.

Sheer hulk, its meaning, 126. 280.

Shelley (Percy Bysshe), poem by him, 71. 183.

Shepherd's Kalendar quoted, 50.

Sheridan (R. B.), translation of a song by him, 563.

Sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353. 423.

Sherlock (Dr. Richard) noticed, 245.

Ship "William and Ann," 54.

Shirtcollars, 467.

Shoemakers, a recitation for Oct. 25th, 619.

Shoes, throwing old ones for luck, 377.

"Short red, God red," 182. 398.

* Shoulder knots, their origin, 244.

S. (H. S.) on "Could we with ink," &c., 180.

Sights and exhibitions temp. James I., 558.

Sigma on Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.

Siller gun of Dumfries, 412.

Silo, a Spanish granary, 639.

Simpson (W. Sparrow) on battle of Villers en Couché, 8.

—— bell inscriptions, 108. 448.

—— books chained in churches, 93. 206. 323.

—— hour-glasses in pulpits, 328.

—— Prayer Books prior to 1662, 504.

Sims's Hand-book to the Library of the British Museum, 511. 553. 653.

Sincere, its derivation, 195. 328. 399. 567.

Singer (S. W.) on Hobbes and Hollar, 368.

—— its, early use of, 254.

—— Milton and Malatesti, 295.

—— Milton's widow, 471.

—— passage in Romeo and Juliet, 3.

Singleton (S.) on gravestone inscription, 328.

Sisson (J. Lawson) on bell inscriptions, 448.

—— derivation of Mardel, 411.

—— Muller's processes, 253.

—— Sisson's developing solution, 181. 253.

S. (J.) on book inscriptions, 591.

S. (J. H.) on Cawdray's Treasure of Similes, 386.

S. (J. L.) on the arms of De Sissonne, 243.

—— hour-glass stand, 454.

—— poetical tavern signs, 627.

S. (J. P.) on Westhumble Chapel, 410.

Skyring (G. W.) on bullaces, 326.

—— divining-rod, 293.

—— local rhymes, Kent, 466.

—— moon superstitions, 322.

—— "spoke in the wheel," 522.

Slang expression, "Just the cheese," 89.

* Slaves, collections for poor, 292.

—— execution for whipping, 112.

S. (L. D.) on quotation from Canning, 365.

Sleednot (J.) on "Qui facit per alium," 231.

Sloane-Evans (W. Sloane) on Bible and Prayer Book proper names, 469.

—— Edmund Spenser and Hans Sloane, 389.

—— marriage of cousins, 525.

—— Urban Vigors, 477.

Slow-worm superstition, 33. 146. 328. 479.

Smith (A.) on inscription near Cirencester, 76.

Smith (T. C.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 127.

Smith (W. J. Bernhard) on the claymore, 520.

—— ducking stool, 315.

—— megatherium in British Museum, 19.

—— nightingale and thorn, 527.

—— poetical tavern signs, 568.

—— spiked maces in Great Malvern Church, 254.

Snail-eating, 34. 128. 229.

—— gardens, 33. 128. 161. 229.

* Snayers (P.), his picture The Battle of Forty, 538.

Sneezing, an omen and a deity, 121.

—— popular ideas respecting, 366. 624.

Sneyd (W.) on Margery Trussell's arms, 412.

—— poems published at Manchester, 388.

Snow (B.) on D. Ferrand, 243.

S. (N. W.) on buckle, 526.

—— crow-bar, 439.

—— first and last, 439.

—— mauilies, manillas, 278.

—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 480.

—— stone-pillar worship, 207.

—— "To grab," 466.

S. 2 (N. W.) on cob and conners, 43.

—— Devonianisms, 44.

Soke mills, 272. 375.

Songs and Ballads:—

Barrels regiment, 620.

Bonnie Dundee, 19.

Danish and Swedish, 444.

Guardian angels, now protect me, 443.

* Jamieson the piper, 126.

Mary, weep no more for me, 385. 500.

The Angels' Whisper, 54.

They shot him on the nine-stane rig, 78. 376.

To the lords of Convention, 19.

When Orpheus went down, 196. 281. 397. 503.

Sophocles, passage in, 73. 478. 631.

Sotadic verses, 229.

Soul and magnetic needle, 87. 159.

* Southwark pudding wonder, 79.

Souvaroff's dispatch, 490.

Spanish play-bill, 336.

Sparrows at Lindham, 572.

S. (P. C. S.) on death of Edward II., 477.

—— Hungarians in Paules, 441.

—— MS. poems and songs, 587.

Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697, 152.

Speech, erroneous forms of, 65.

* Spendthrift, inquiry respecting, 102.

* Spenser (Edmund) and Sir Hans Sloane, 389.

* —— Fairy Queen, the missing books, 367.

Speriend on barnacles in the Thames, 124.

—— blotting-paper, 104.

—— Duke of Gloucester, 100.

—— German heraldry, 150.

Spes on Abp. Lancaster's cure for the gout, 6.

—— wooden tombs and effigies, 19.

Spiller (John) on protonitrate of iron, 228.

Spinster on wedding proverb, 150.

Spoor (Wm.) on Canute's Point, Southampton, 204.

Spur, explained, 209.

S. (Q. M.) on Martyr of Collet Well, 411.

S. (S. A.) on Caldecott's translation of New Testament, 410.

—— Calves' Head Club, 480.

S. s. (J.) on Pharaoh's ring, 521.

—— Picts' houses, 392.

S. (S. S.) on college guide, 57.

—— passage in Bishop Horsley, 9.

S. (S. W.) on "pinece with a stink," 496.

S. (S. Z. Z.) on Bacon's Essays, 289.

—— Cranmer's correspondence, 183.

—— Crassus' saying, 258.

—— editors, offer to intending, 172.

—— Lamech, 305.

—— Latin quotations wanted, 197.

—— parochial libraries, 275.

—— rubrical query, 207.

—— satirical medal, 231.

—— Sotades, 229.

—— "widowed wife," 230.

Staffordshire knot, 220. 454.

Stage-coaches, their speed, 439. 600.

* St. Andrew's priory, Barnwell, 80.

Stanhope (Charles Earl), his versatility of talent, 9. 135.

Stanhope (Henry Lord) noticed, 281. 563. (SeeWotton.)

Stansbury (Joseph) on Washington anecdotes, 125.

Stars the flowers of heaven, 158. 346.

Statfold on Chancellor Steele, 220.

* Steele (Lord Chancellor), pedigree of, 220.

Steinman (G. S.), notes on Grammont, 461.

—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.

—— Sir Arthur Aston, 629.

Stephens (Edward) noticed, 588.

Sternberg (V. T.) on Carlist calembourg, 618.

—— Dr. Dodd a dramatist, 245.

—— haschisch or Indian hemp, 540.

—— Italian-English, 638.

—— spurious Don Quixote, 590.

—— stories of English peasantry, 94.

—— Tom, mythic and material, 239.

Sterne and the Drummer's letter, 153.

S. (T. G.) on Anderson's Royal Genealogies, 326.

—— Histories of Literature, 453.

—— Temple lands in Scotland, 521.

* St. George family pictures, 104.

Stillingfleet (Bishop), his library, 389.

Stillwell (John P.) on bees, 440.

—— "Hauling over the coals," 524.

Stone pillar worship, 207. 413.

Stoner (W. P.) on hour-glass in pulpits, 209.

—— Mulciber, 232.

* Storms at the death of great men, 493.

Stornoway on house of Falahill, 134.

Stoups, exterior, 574.

Stoven Church, the original, 80.

St. Paul's Epistle to Seneca, 88. 205.

Straw paper, 491.

Strickland (Agnes), her Lives of the Queens of England noticed, 104. 184. 251.

Strong (Augustus) on derivation of Silo, 639.

Strut-stowers, 148. 233.

Subscriber on the albumenised process, 549.

—— mayors and sheriffs, 126.

—— "Peccavi! I have Scinde," 574.

—— Shakspeare's skull, 217.

Suffolk, Norman church in, 622.

Surgeon (A Foreign) on Göthe's author remuneration, 29.

Surrey Archæological Society, its formation, 552.

Suum Cuique on "Elijah's Mantle," 453.

S. (W.) on collections for poor slaves, 292.

—— Hampden's death, 646.

—— quotation from Melancthon, 281.

Swan-marks, 62. 256.

Swift (Dean), his rhymes, 250.

Swinney—"That Swinney," in Junius, 213. 238. 374.

S. (W. R. D.) on boom, 375.

* Symbol of sow, &c., 493.

Synge family, 327. 423.

System of Law proposed by the Long Parliament, 389.

T.

T.

T. on oasis, its accentuation, 410.—— "Plus occidit gula," &c., 292.Table-turning, 57. 131. 161. 329. 398.Taffy on Soke mill, 375.Tale, as used by Milton, explained, 249.Talleyrand's maxim, 136.* Tangier queries, 33.Tavern signs, poetical, 242. 353. 452. 568. 626.Taylor (A.) on Greek inscription on a font, 198Taylor (Dr. John) of Norwich, 299.Taylor (E. S.) on ennui, 377.—— Samuel Williams, 312.—— seals of Great Yarmouth, 269.Taylor (Jeremy) and Lord Hatton, 207.* —— Holy Living, edition 1848, 469.Taylor (Weld) on Dance of Death, 76.—— detail on negative paper, 203.—— Lord Halifax and Catherine Barton, 590.—— lyric by Felicia Hemans, 407.—— Muller's process, 275.—— Richard's Guide through France, 534.—— Rubens' MS. on painting, 539.—— school libraries, 220. 498. 640.T. (C. M.) on snail-gardens, 33.* Tea-marks, classification of, 197.Teate (Dr. Faithfull) noticed, 62.Teecee on Noel family, 316.Teeth, common notions respecting, 382.* Telegraph, electric, 78.Templars' green jugs, 171. 256. 574.Temple (Harry Leroy) on green eyes, 407.—— parallel passages, 465.—— small words and low words, 416.Temple lands in Scotland, 317. 480. 521.Temple, lists of students, 540. 650.Tenet or tenent. (SeeTenent.)Tenent or tenet, their meaning, 258. 330. 453. 602.Tennent (Sir J. Emerson) on barnacles, 223.—— hurrah! 323.—— tenet for tenent, 330.—— "Tub to the whale," 328.—— "When the maggot bites," 304.Tennyson's Memoriam, passage in, 244. 399.* Terræ Filius, origin of, 292.T. (E. S. T.) on "Antiquitas sæculi Juventus mundi," 651.—— "Salus populi," &c., 606.Tewars on Amcotts' pedigree, 387.—— two brothers of the same Christian name, 338.—— hurrah! 422.—— knights of the Bath, 444.—— longevity, 351.—— Lovett of Astwell, 363. 602.—— Oxford commemoration squib, 584.—— poll-tax in 1641, 310.—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.—— sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353.—— Sir William Chester, 365.—— Thomas Chester, bishop of Elphin, 340.T. (F.) on Kenne of Kenne, 80.T. (G.) on derivation of unkid, 221.T. (G. M.) on "Service is no inheritance," 587.Θon "Now the fierce bear," &c., 440.—— parochial libraries, 527.Theta on Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, 438.Thiernah Ogieh, Ossian's visit to, 360.Thomas (J. W.) on "an" beforeulong, 421.—— anticipatory use of the cross, 545.—— cash and mob, 524.—— crescent, 319.—— "Could we with ink," &c., 422.—— gloves at fairs, 421.—— "Man proposes, but God disposes," 552.—— "Mary, weep no more for me," 500.—— misapplication of terms, 537.—— misquotation, 513.—— propitiating the fairies, 617.—— "To know ourselves diseased," 421.Thomas' (St.) day, custom on, 617.Thompson (Pishey) on glossarial queries, 294.—— Romanists confined in Ely, 79.—— Southwark pudding wonder, 79.Thornton Abbey, account of, 469.Thrupp (John) on Irish landing at Cambridge, 270.Thrush, Devonshire charm for the, 146. 265.Thucydides on the Greek factions, 44. 137. 398.Tieck (Ludwig) quoted, 124.—— Comœdia Divina, 126. 570.Tighe (Mrs.), author of Psyche, 103. 230."Till," and "until," their etymology, 409. 527.Timbs (John) on snail-eating, 128.Times newspaper, its influential power, 334.Tin, its early use, 291. 344. 445. 575. 593.Tipper (Thomas), his epitaph, 147.T. (J.) on passage in Whiston, 244.T. (J. A.) on table-moving, 161.T. (J. G.) on passage in burial service, 78.—— quarter, as sparing life, 246.—— Rock of Ages, 81.—— table-turning, 57.—— Trosachs, derivation of, 245.T. (J. H.) on derivation of forrell, 527.T. (J. W.) on "Ancient hallowed Dee", 588.—— B. L. M., its meaning, 585.—— "Getting into a scrape," 601.—— Prince Memnon's sister, 622.—— "Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re," 586.Tobacco, smoking and drinking of, 147.Tom, mythic and material, 239.* Tom Thumb's house at Gonerby, 35.Topsy-turvy, its derivation, 385. 526. 575.Tortoises and women, 534.* Tottenham, its derivation, 318.Tower on slow-worm superstition, 33.Tower, the state prison in the, 509.T. (Q.) on definition of a proverb, 523.Tradescant (John), his marriage certificate, 513.Trash explained, 135.Traves (Father) noticed, 565.Traylli (Sir Walter), his monument, 19.T. (R. E.) on quotation from Pascal, 44.* Trent Council, notices of, 316.Trevelyan (W. C.) on Basilica, 367.—— decomposed cloth at York, 438.—— Hobbes's portrait, 221.—— Roman remains, 466.—— snail localities, 229.—— Wardhouse, where was it? 400.Trevor (Geo. A.) on passage in burial service, 177.Trojan Horse, noticed, 487.Trosachs, derivation of, 245.True Blue noticed, 588.Trussell (Margery), her arms, 412.T. (R. V.) on oaths, 605.T. (S.) on fires at Honiton, 367.T. (T. C.) on murder of Monaldeschi, 34.T. (T. H.) on derivation of chemistry, 470."Tub to a whale," origin of the phrase, 220. 304. 328.* Tucker (St. George), lines attributed to him, 467.Turkish grammars, 561.* Turnbull's continuation of Robertson, 515.* Tusser's doxology, 440.T. (V.) on Earl of Leicester's portrait, 290.T. (W.) on clouds in photographs, 501.—— tea-marks, 197.* Tyddeman (Adm. Sir Thomas), 317.Types, movable metal, 454.Tyro on Cocker's Arithmetic, 540.

T. on oasis, its accentuation, 410.

—— "Plus occidit gula," &c., 292.

Table-turning, 57. 131. 161. 329. 398.

Taffy on Soke mill, 375.

Tale, as used by Milton, explained, 249.

Talleyrand's maxim, 136.

* Tangier queries, 33.

Tavern signs, poetical, 242. 353. 452. 568. 626.

Taylor (A.) on Greek inscription on a font, 198

Taylor (Dr. John) of Norwich, 299.

Taylor (E. S.) on ennui, 377.

—— Samuel Williams, 312.

—— seals of Great Yarmouth, 269.

Taylor (Jeremy) and Lord Hatton, 207.

* —— Holy Living, edition 1848, 469.

Taylor (Weld) on Dance of Death, 76.

—— detail on negative paper, 203.

—— Lord Halifax and Catherine Barton, 590.

—— lyric by Felicia Hemans, 407.

—— Muller's process, 275.

—— Richard's Guide through France, 534.

—— Rubens' MS. on painting, 539.

—— school libraries, 220. 498. 640.

T. (C. M.) on snail-gardens, 33.

* Tea-marks, classification of, 197.

Teate (Dr. Faithfull) noticed, 62.

Teecee on Noel family, 316.

Teeth, common notions respecting, 382.

* Telegraph, electric, 78.

Templars' green jugs, 171. 256. 574.

Temple (Harry Leroy) on green eyes, 407.

—— parallel passages, 465.

—— small words and low words, 416.

Temple lands in Scotland, 317. 480. 521.

Temple, lists of students, 540. 650.

Tenet or tenent. (SeeTenent.)

Tenent or tenet, their meaning, 258. 330. 453. 602.

Tennent (Sir J. Emerson) on barnacles, 223.

—— hurrah! 323.

—— tenet for tenent, 330.

—— "Tub to the whale," 328.

—— "When the maggot bites," 304.

Tennyson's Memoriam, passage in, 244. 399.

* Terræ Filius, origin of, 292.

T. (E. S. T.) on "Antiquitas sæculi Juventus mundi," 651.

—— "Salus populi," &c., 606.

Tewars on Amcotts' pedigree, 387.

—— two brothers of the same Christian name, 338.

—— hurrah! 422.

—— knights of the Bath, 444.

—— longevity, 351.

—— Lovett of Astwell, 363. 602.

—— Oxford commemoration squib, 584.

—— poll-tax in 1641, 310.

—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 630.

—— sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 353.

—— Sir William Chester, 365.

—— Thomas Chester, bishop of Elphin, 340.

T. (F.) on Kenne of Kenne, 80.

T. (G.) on derivation of unkid, 221.

T. (G. M.) on "Service is no inheritance," 587.

Θon "Now the fierce bear," &c., 440.

—— parochial libraries, 527.

Theta on Lord Bacon and Shakspeare, 438.

Thiernah Ogieh, Ossian's visit to, 360.

Thomas (J. W.) on "an" beforeulong, 421.

—— anticipatory use of the cross, 545.

—— cash and mob, 524.

—— crescent, 319.

—— "Could we with ink," &c., 422.

—— gloves at fairs, 421.

—— "Man proposes, but God disposes," 552.

—— "Mary, weep no more for me," 500.

—— misapplication of terms, 537.

—— misquotation, 513.

—— propitiating the fairies, 617.

—— "To know ourselves diseased," 421.

Thomas' (St.) day, custom on, 617.

Thompson (Pishey) on glossarial queries, 294.

—— Romanists confined in Ely, 79.

—— Southwark pudding wonder, 79.

Thornton Abbey, account of, 469.

Thrupp (John) on Irish landing at Cambridge, 270.

Thrush, Devonshire charm for the, 146. 265.

Thucydides on the Greek factions, 44. 137. 398.

Tieck (Ludwig) quoted, 124.

—— Comœdia Divina, 126. 570.

Tighe (Mrs.), author of Psyche, 103. 230.

"Till," and "until," their etymology, 409. 527.

Timbs (John) on snail-eating, 128.

Times newspaper, its influential power, 334.

Tin, its early use, 291. 344. 445. 575. 593.

Tipper (Thomas), his epitaph, 147.

T. (J.) on passage in Whiston, 244.

T. (J. A.) on table-moving, 161.

T. (J. G.) on passage in burial service, 78.

—— quarter, as sparing life, 246.

—— Rock of Ages, 81.

—— table-turning, 57.

—— Trosachs, derivation of, 245.

T. (J. H.) on derivation of forrell, 527.

T. (J. W.) on "Ancient hallowed Dee", 588.

—— B. L. M., its meaning, 585.

—— "Getting into a scrape," 601.

—— Prince Memnon's sister, 622.

—— "Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re," 586.

Tobacco, smoking and drinking of, 147.

Tom, mythic and material, 239.

* Tom Thumb's house at Gonerby, 35.

Topsy-turvy, its derivation, 385. 526. 575.

Tortoises and women, 534.

* Tottenham, its derivation, 318.

Tower on slow-worm superstition, 33.

Tower, the state prison in the, 509.

T. (Q.) on definition of a proverb, 523.

Tradescant (John), his marriage certificate, 513.

Trash explained, 135.

Traves (Father) noticed, 565.

Traylli (Sir Walter), his monument, 19.

T. (R. E.) on quotation from Pascal, 44.

* Trent Council, notices of, 316.

Trevelyan (W. C.) on Basilica, 367.

—— decomposed cloth at York, 438.

—— Hobbes's portrait, 221.

—— Roman remains, 466.

—— snail localities, 229.

—— Wardhouse, where was it? 400.

Trevor (Geo. A.) on passage in burial service, 177.

Trojan Horse, noticed, 487.

Trosachs, derivation of, 245.

True Blue noticed, 588.

Trussell (Margery), her arms, 412.

T. (R. V.) on oaths, 605.

T. (S.) on fires at Honiton, 367.

T. (T. C.) on murder of Monaldeschi, 34.

T. (T. H.) on derivation of chemistry, 470.

"Tub to a whale," origin of the phrase, 220. 304. 328.

* Tucker (St. George), lines attributed to him, 467.

Turkish grammars, 561.

* Turnbull's continuation of Robertson, 515.

* Tusser's doxology, 440.

T. (V.) on Earl of Leicester's portrait, 290.

T. (W.) on clouds in photographs, 501.

—— tea-marks, 197.

* Tyddeman (Adm. Sir Thomas), 317.

Types, movable metal, 454.

Tyro on Cocker's Arithmetic, 540.

U.

U.

Univocalic verses, 416.Unkid, its derivation, 221. 353. 604.Unneath, its meaning, 160.

Univocalic verses, 416.

Unkid, its derivation, 221. 353. 604.

Unneath, its meaning, 160.

V.

V.

* Van Bassen noticed, 538.Vanbrugh (Sir John) noticed, 65. 160. 232. 352. 480.Vandyke in America, 182. 228.Variety is pleasing, 490.Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 388. 573.V. (C.) on Lady Percy, wife of Hotspur, 184.—— Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.* Vellum cleaning, 340.Verney note decyphered, 17.Vernon (Lady), maid of honour, 462.Veronica on Queen Elizabeth's true looking-glass, 220.Victor on Thornton Abbey, 469.* Vida on Chess, 469.Vigors (Rev. Urban) noticed, 340. 477.Villers en Couché, battle of, 8. 127. 205. 370.Virgil, passage quoted by Dr. Johnson, 270. 400. 523. 576.Vix on Mrs. Tighe, 230.Voiding knife, 232. 297.Volcanoes and mountains of gold in Scotland, 285.Voltaire on railway travelling, 34. 65."Vox populi vox Dei," 494.

* Van Bassen noticed, 538.

Vanbrugh (Sir John) noticed, 65. 160. 232. 352. 480.

Vandyke in America, 182. 228.

Variety is pleasing, 490.

Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 388. 573.

V. (C.) on Lady Percy, wife of Hotspur, 184.

—— Philip III. of Spain, his death, 583.

* Vellum cleaning, 340.

Verney note decyphered, 17.

Vernon (Lady), maid of honour, 462.

Veronica on Queen Elizabeth's true looking-glass, 220.

Victor on Thornton Abbey, 469.

* Vida on Chess, 469.

Vigors (Rev. Urban) noticed, 340. 477.

Villers en Couché, battle of, 8. 127. 205. 370.

Virgil, passage quoted by Dr. Johnson, 270. 400. 523. 576.

Vix on Mrs. Tighe, 230.

Voiding knife, 232. 297.

Volcanoes and mountains of gold in Scotland, 285.

Voltaire on railway travelling, 34. 65.

"Vox populi vox Dei," 494.

W.

W.

W (Old English)on blue bell—blue anchor, 388.—— clipper, as applied to vessels, 399.—— Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 366.—— nugget not an Americanism, 375.—— table-turning, 398.W. on Leeming family, 587.—— Norman of Winster, 126.—— Natural History of Balmoral, 467.W. (A.) on passage in Wordsworth, 77.W. (A. F. A.) on the Brazen Head, 367.Wake (H. Thomas) on Castle Thorpe, 387.—— Inscriptions on monuments, 215.Walcott (Mackenzie) on birthplace of Edward I., 601.—— books chained in churches, 596.—— school libraries, 298.* Wall (General) noticed, 318.Wallace (Sir Wm.), state prisoner, 509.* Wallis's Sermons on the Trinity, 172.Walpole (Horace) on Grammont's marriage, 549.Walpole (Sir Robert), his medal, 57. 231.Walter (Henry) on Cranmer and Calvin, 222.—— Froissart's accuracy, 604.—— translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 642.Walton (Christopher), his collection of mystic authors, 247.Walton (Izaak), Duport's lines on, 193.Ward (J.) on Mackey's Theory of the Earth, 468.Warde (R. C.) on Anthony Bave's MSS., 469.—— bargain-cup, 220.—— "custom of ye Englishe," 362.—— distich on the late harvest, 513.—— fable of washing the blackamore, 150.—— inscriptions in books, 591.—— John Frewen, 222.—— Lanquet's Chronicle, 494.—— Lovell, sculptor, 342.—— Mrs. Shaw's tombstone, 222.—— "Our English Milo," 495.—— party, its earliest mention, 137.—— Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.—— parochial libraries, 327.—— polarised light, 552.—— Roden's colt, 340.—— tavern signs, 242.—— "Trail through the leaden sky," 494.—— variety is pleasing, 490.—— weather superstitions, 512.—— yew-tree in churchyards, 244.—— Zincali dictionary, 517.Warden (J. S.) on Captain Cook's discovery of the Sandwich Islands, 6.—— Coleridge's Christabel, 11.—— Creole, its meaning, 138.—— Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, 640.—— Hoveden, Riley's translation, errors in, 637.—— letter "h" in humble, 54.—— literary parallels, 30.—— Man with the iron mask, 112.—— nightingale's song, 112.—— Reformed faith, 135.—— sheer hulk, 126.—— Sir Isaac Newton, 102.—— Sir Walter Raleigh, 78.—— St. Dominic, 136.Wardhouse, fishermen's custom there, 78. 281. 400.Warmistre (Miss), maid of honour, 461-463.* Warville, Brissot de, derivation of, 516.Warwick (Eden) on anticipatory use of the cross, 132. 546.—— gloves at fairs, 601.—— nursery rhymes, 605.—— swan marks, 256.* Warwick (Sir Philip) noticed, 268.* Washington (Gen.), anecdotes wanted, 125.Watch-paper inscriptions, 316. 375.Waterloo, poems in connexion with, 549.Watson (Bp.), quotation by him, 587.Watts (W. T.) on an inscription in a belfry, 561.Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, his family arms, 271. 400. 525.Way (Albert) on Caen tiles, 547.—— Lord Montague's Household Book, 540.W. (B. B.) on Sir John Daniel and Sir A. N. Salter, 318.W. (C. M.) on apparition of the White Lady, 317.W. (C. S.) on ash-trees attracting lightning, 493.—— Burton's death, 495.—— the queen at chess, 469.W. (E.) on marriage service, 150.Weather proverbs, 218. 326.—— rhymes, 512.—— rules, 50. 535.—— superstitions, 512.* Webb and Walker families, 386.* Webb of Monckton Farleigh, 563.Webb (Susannah), her burial and disinterment, 43.Weber's Cecilia, 589.Wedding divination, 455.* Weights and measures, standard in different countries, 340.Weir (Arch.) on St. Luke and Juvenal, 195.Wellesley, derivation of, 173. 223. 255.Wellington, the Duke's first victory, 491.—— curious coincidence respecting, 619."Well's a fret," its meaning, 197. 258. 330.Wentworth (Sir Philip) noticed, 184. 251.Werenfrid (St.) and Butler's Lives, 342.West, praying to the, 102. 208. 343. 591.Westbury Court, inscription over the door, 129.* Westhumble Chapel, 410.Weston, "Going to Old Weston," 232.Weston (Edward), secretary to Lord Harrington, 103. 205.Weston (Valentine) on "That Swinney," 374.W. (F. B.) on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.W. (G.) on derivation of Britain, 445. 651.—— Patrick's purgatory, 327.—— praying to the West, 208.—— tin, its early use, 291. 445.—— veneration for the oak, 468. 632.W. (G. H.) on a title wanted, 151.W. (H.) on "giving quarter," 353.—— kicker-eating, 564.—— Luther no iconoclast, 477.—— "When the maggot bites," 353.Wharton (Dr. Henry) noticed, 167.Wheale, its meaning, 302.Whisperers, the seven, 436.Whiston, a passage in, 244. 397. 645.Whitborne (T. B.) on churchwardens, 584.—— Hoby Family, 244.—— lapwing and the vine, 127.—— Mrs. Tighe, author of Psyche, 103.—— Stillingfleet's library, 389.—— Thomas Blount, 286. 603.—— Warwickshire custom, 490.Whitchurch, parochial library at, 370.White (A. Holt) on Gilbert White of Selborne, 304.—— nugget, a thick bullock, 481.—— yew-trees in churchyards, 447.White (Blanco), sonnet by, 137.White (Gilbert), his portrait, 244. 304.White (John), folk lore in his "Way to the True Church," 613.* White bell heather transplanted, 79.* White Lady, apparition of the, 317.Whitelocke (Lieut.-Gen.) noticed, 521. 621.Whithamstede (John), abbot of St. Albans, 351.Whitmarsh (F.) on the Templars' jugs, 574.Wife, on selling one, 43. 209.Wilbraham's Cheshire collections, 270. 303.Wilde (G. J. de) on caves at Settle, 651.—— curious epitaph, 147.—— True Blue, 589.Wilde (W. R.) on the forlorn hope, 569.—— groaning elm-plank in Dublin, 397.Wilkinson (H.) on stereoscopic angles, 181.* William the Conqueror, his mother, 564.* —— his surname, 197.* Williams' (Rev. Robert) Dictionary of the Cornish Language, 7.Williams (Samuel) the artist, 312.Willingham boy, 66. 305.Willison (Charles) on tavern signs, 627.Wills on Advent Hymn, 639.Wilson (Arthur C.) on London Labour and the London Poor, 620.Wilson (Bishop), his Sacra Privata, 470.—— and Cardinal Fleury, 245.* —— notices wanted, 220.* —— quotation from his Sacra Privata, 243.* Wilson (Samuel) noticed, 242.Windfall, its meaning, 14.Winds, their action, 338.Windsor Military Knights, 294.Wingfield Church, Suffolk, monuments in, 98.Wingfield (Sir Anthony), his portrait, 245. 299. 376.Winthrop (Wm.) on ambages, 232.—— American epitaph, 491.—— bells rung for the dead, 55.—— black as a mourning colour, 411.—— comet superstitions in 1853, 358.—— epitaph on an editor, 274.—— "Full moon brings fine weather," 79.—— house-marks, 231.—— injustice, its origin, 338.—— longevity, 113. 399.—— Maltese Knights, 99. 189. 557.—— "Mater ait natæ," &c., 160.—— punning divine, 586.—— "Putting your foot into it," 77.—— reversible names, 655.—— rulers of the world in 1853, 638.—— Spendthrift, a publication, 102.—— "To pluck a crow with one," 197.—— weather rules, 535.—— Wolfe's army, the last survivor, 6.Winwood (Sir Ralph), notices of, 272. 519.Wishaw (Jas.) on Colchester records, 464.—— matriculations at inns of court, 650.Witchcraft, burning for, 470.* Withered hand, picture at Compton Park, 125.W. (J. K. B.) on Barthram's Dirge, 231.—— Blanco White, 137.—— Hogarth's picture, 294.W. (J. R.) on the Porter family, 526.Wmson (S.) on Byron's Childe Harold, 258.Wodderspoon (John) on Wingfield's portrait, 299.Wolfe (Gen.) at Nantwich, 587.—— last survivor of his army, 6.Wolsey (Cardinal), his arms, 233. 302.Woman, lines on, 292. 350. 423.Women and tortoises, 534.Women, their rights in the United States, 171.* Wood (George) of Chester, 34.Wooden tombs and effigies, 19. 255. 455. 604.Words, misunderstood, 120.—— small and low, 416.Wordsworth, on a passage in, 77.Worm in books, 412. 526.Worsaae (J. J. A.) on names of places, 58.Wotton (Henry Earl of) noticed, 173. 281. 563.Wren (Sir Christopher) and the Young Carver, 340.Wright (Robert) on shape of coffins, 256.Wright (Thomas) of Durham, 218. 326.Wt. (T.) on arms of See of York, 233.Wurm, in modern German, 624.W. (W.)Northamptonshire, on "Going to Old Weston," 232.—— Longfellow's Poetical Works, 267.W. (W. S.) on meaning of wheale, 302.Wylcotes (Sir John), motto on his brass, 494.

W (Old English)on blue bell—blue anchor, 388.

—— clipper, as applied to vessels, 399.

—— Ireland a bastinadoed elephant, 366.

—— nugget not an Americanism, 375.

—— table-turning, 398.

W. on Leeming family, 587.

—— Norman of Winster, 126.

—— Natural History of Balmoral, 467.

W. (A.) on passage in Wordsworth, 77.

W. (A. F. A.) on the Brazen Head, 367.

Wake (H. Thomas) on Castle Thorpe, 387.

—— Inscriptions on monuments, 215.

Walcott (Mackenzie) on birthplace of Edward I., 601.

—— books chained in churches, 596.

—— school libraries, 298.

* Wall (General) noticed, 318.

Wallace (Sir Wm.), state prisoner, 509.

* Wallis's Sermons on the Trinity, 172.

Walpole (Horace) on Grammont's marriage, 549.

Walpole (Sir Robert), his medal, 57. 231.

Walter (Henry) on Cranmer and Calvin, 222.

—— Froissart's accuracy, 604.

—— translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 642.

Walton (Christopher), his collection of mystic authors, 247.

Walton (Izaak), Duport's lines on, 193.

Ward (J.) on Mackey's Theory of the Earth, 468.

Warde (R. C.) on Anthony Bave's MSS., 469.

—— bargain-cup, 220.

—— "custom of ye Englishe," 362.

—— distich on the late harvest, 513.

—— fable of washing the blackamore, 150.

—— inscriptions in books, 591.

—— John Frewen, 222.

—— Lanquet's Chronicle, 494.

—— Lovell, sculptor, 342.

—— Mrs. Shaw's tombstone, 222.

—— "Our English Milo," 495.

—— party, its earliest mention, 137.

—— Plantin Bibles in 1600, 537.

—— parochial libraries, 327.

—— polarised light, 552.

—— Roden's colt, 340.

—— tavern signs, 242.

—— "Trail through the leaden sky," 494.

—— variety is pleasing, 490.

—— weather superstitions, 512.

—— yew-tree in churchyards, 244.

—— Zincali dictionary, 517.

Warden (J. S.) on Captain Cook's discovery of the Sandwich Islands, 6.

—— Coleridge's Christabel, 11.

—— Creole, its meaning, 138.

—— Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, 640.

—— Hoveden, Riley's translation, errors in, 637.

—— letter "h" in humble, 54.

—— literary parallels, 30.

—— Man with the iron mask, 112.

—— nightingale's song, 112.

—— Reformed faith, 135.

—— sheer hulk, 126.

—— Sir Isaac Newton, 102.

—— Sir Walter Raleigh, 78.

—— St. Dominic, 136.

Wardhouse, fishermen's custom there, 78. 281. 400.

Warmistre (Miss), maid of honour, 461-463.

* Warville, Brissot de, derivation of, 516.

Warwick (Eden) on anticipatory use of the cross, 132. 546.

—— gloves at fairs, 601.

—— nursery rhymes, 605.

—— swan marks, 256.

* Warwick (Sir Philip) noticed, 268.

* Washington (Gen.), anecdotes wanted, 125.

Watch-paper inscriptions, 316. 375.

Waterloo, poems in connexion with, 549.

Watson (Bp.), quotation by him, 587.

Watts (W. T.) on an inscription in a belfry, 561.

Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, his family arms, 271. 400. 525.

Way (Albert) on Caen tiles, 547.

—— Lord Montague's Household Book, 540.

W. (B. B.) on Sir John Daniel and Sir A. N. Salter, 318.

W. (C. M.) on apparition of the White Lady, 317.

W. (C. S.) on ash-trees attracting lightning, 493.

—— Burton's death, 495.

—— the queen at chess, 469.

W. (E.) on marriage service, 150.

Weather proverbs, 218. 326.

—— rhymes, 512.

—— rules, 50. 535.

—— superstitions, 512.

* Webb and Walker families, 386.

* Webb of Monckton Farleigh, 563.

Webb (Susannah), her burial and disinterment, 43.

Weber's Cecilia, 589.

Wedding divination, 455.

* Weights and measures, standard in different countries, 340.

Weir (Arch.) on St. Luke and Juvenal, 195.

Wellesley, derivation of, 173. 223. 255.

Wellington, the Duke's first victory, 491.

—— curious coincidence respecting, 619.

"Well's a fret," its meaning, 197. 258. 330.

Wentworth (Sir Philip) noticed, 184. 251.

Werenfrid (St.) and Butler's Lives, 342.

West, praying to the, 102. 208. 343. 591.

Westbury Court, inscription over the door, 129.

* Westhumble Chapel, 410.

Weston, "Going to Old Weston," 232.

Weston (Edward), secretary to Lord Harrington, 103. 205.

Weston (Valentine) on "That Swinney," 374.

W. (F. B.) on Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 14.

W. (G.) on derivation of Britain, 445. 651.

—— Patrick's purgatory, 327.

—— praying to the West, 208.

—— tin, its early use, 291. 445.

—— veneration for the oak, 468. 632.

W. (G. H.) on a title wanted, 151.

W. (H.) on "giving quarter," 353.

—— kicker-eating, 564.

—— Luther no iconoclast, 477.

—— "When the maggot bites," 353.

Wharton (Dr. Henry) noticed, 167.

Wheale, its meaning, 302.

Whisperers, the seven, 436.

Whiston, a passage in, 244. 397. 645.

Whitborne (T. B.) on churchwardens, 584.

—— Hoby Family, 244.

—— lapwing and the vine, 127.

—— Mrs. Tighe, author of Psyche, 103.

—— Stillingfleet's library, 389.

—— Thomas Blount, 286. 603.

—— Warwickshire custom, 490.

Whitchurch, parochial library at, 370.

White (A. Holt) on Gilbert White of Selborne, 304.

—— nugget, a thick bullock, 481.

—— yew-trees in churchyards, 447.

White (Blanco), sonnet by, 137.

White (Gilbert), his portrait, 244. 304.

White (John), folk lore in his "Way to the True Church," 613.

* White bell heather transplanted, 79.

* White Lady, apparition of the, 317.

Whitelocke (Lieut.-Gen.) noticed, 521. 621.

Whithamstede (John), abbot of St. Albans, 351.

Whitmarsh (F.) on the Templars' jugs, 574.

Wife, on selling one, 43. 209.

Wilbraham's Cheshire collections, 270. 303.

Wilde (G. J. de) on caves at Settle, 651.

—— curious epitaph, 147.

—— True Blue, 589.

Wilde (W. R.) on the forlorn hope, 569.

—— groaning elm-plank in Dublin, 397.

Wilkinson (H.) on stereoscopic angles, 181.

* William the Conqueror, his mother, 564.

* —— his surname, 197.

* Williams' (Rev. Robert) Dictionary of the Cornish Language, 7.

Williams (Samuel) the artist, 312.

Willingham boy, 66. 305.

Willison (Charles) on tavern signs, 627.

Wills on Advent Hymn, 639.

Wilson (Arthur C.) on London Labour and the London Poor, 620.

Wilson (Bishop), his Sacra Privata, 470.

—— and Cardinal Fleury, 245.

* —— notices wanted, 220.

* —— quotation from his Sacra Privata, 243.

* Wilson (Samuel) noticed, 242.

Windfall, its meaning, 14.

Winds, their action, 338.

Windsor Military Knights, 294.

Wingfield Church, Suffolk, monuments in, 98.

Wingfield (Sir Anthony), his portrait, 245. 299. 376.

Winthrop (Wm.) on ambages, 232.

—— American epitaph, 491.

—— bells rung for the dead, 55.

—— black as a mourning colour, 411.

—— comet superstitions in 1853, 358.

—— epitaph on an editor, 274.

—— "Full moon brings fine weather," 79.

—— house-marks, 231.

—— injustice, its origin, 338.

—— longevity, 113. 399.

—— Maltese Knights, 99. 189. 557.

—— "Mater ait natæ," &c., 160.

—— punning divine, 586.

—— "Putting your foot into it," 77.

—— reversible names, 655.

—— rulers of the world in 1853, 638.

—— Spendthrift, a publication, 102.

—— "To pluck a crow with one," 197.

—— weather rules, 535.

—— Wolfe's army, the last survivor, 6.

Winwood (Sir Ralph), notices of, 272. 519.

Wishaw (Jas.) on Colchester records, 464.

—— matriculations at inns of court, 650.

Witchcraft, burning for, 470.

* Withered hand, picture at Compton Park, 125.

W. (J. K. B.) on Barthram's Dirge, 231.

—— Blanco White, 137.

—— Hogarth's picture, 294.

W. (J. R.) on the Porter family, 526.

Wmson (S.) on Byron's Childe Harold, 258.

Wodderspoon (John) on Wingfield's portrait, 299.

Wolfe (Gen.) at Nantwich, 587.

—— last survivor of his army, 6.

Wolsey (Cardinal), his arms, 233. 302.

Woman, lines on, 292. 350. 423.

Women and tortoises, 534.

Women, their rights in the United States, 171.

* Wood (George) of Chester, 34.

Wooden tombs and effigies, 19. 255. 455. 604.

Words, misunderstood, 120.

—— small and low, 416.

Wordsworth, on a passage in, 77.

Worm in books, 412. 526.

Worsaae (J. J. A.) on names of places, 58.

Wotton (Henry Earl of) noticed, 173. 281. 563.

Wren (Sir Christopher) and the Young Carver, 340.

Wright (Robert) on shape of coffins, 256.

Wright (Thomas) of Durham, 218. 326.

Wt. (T.) on arms of See of York, 233.

Wurm, in modern German, 624.

W. (W.)Northamptonshire, on "Going to Old Weston," 232.

—— Longfellow's Poetical Works, 267.

W. (W. S.) on meaning of wheale, 302.

Wylcotes (Sir John), motto on his brass, 494.

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