NOTES AND QUERIES:

A.

A. on birthplace of Edward I., 601.

A. (A.) on encore, 387.

Aa (A. J. Van der) on portrait of Andries de Graeff, 573.

* Abbé, French, status of one, 102.

Abhba on Archbishop King, 44.

—— judicial families, 384.

Abigail, a lady's maid, 42. 86. 653.

Abraham and Isaac, mythological notices of, 566.

Abredonensis on battle of Cruden, 173.

—— Dictum de Kenilworth, 57.

—— Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264.

—— Scottish national Records, 405.

—— Sir Thomas de Longueville, 103.

—— Statute of Kilkenny, 80.

—— Temple lands in Scotland, 317.

—— volcanoes in Scotland, 285.

—— Willingham boy, 66.

A. (C.) on a "wilderness of monkeys," 413.

Acharis, its meaning, 198. 280.

Acworth (G. B.) on poetical tavern signs, 452.

—— school libraries, 498.

Adamson (John) on the Cid, 574.

Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 104. 257.

Adamsoniana, 135. 257.

Admiralty office, shield and arms, 124.

* "Adrian turn'd the bull," its meaning, 79.

* Advent Hymn, why omitted in Common Prayer, 639.

Advertisement, curious poetical one, 268.

Advertisements and prospectuses, their utility, 562.

A. (E. H.) on Adamsoniana, 257.

—— Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 257.

—— "Alterius orbis Papa," 254.

—— books chained in churches, 206

—— Burnet, Wharton, and Smith, 167.

—— church towers detached, 376.

—— Delaval's poems, 171.

—— Denison family, 468.

—— parochial libraries, 275.

—— Portuguese folk lore, 382.

Æschylus, Potter's translation, 622.

A. (F. S.) on Louis le Hutin, 199.

—— minuteness of detail on paper, 157.

Age, the feelings of, 550.

Agmond, on etymology of contango, 586.

A. (I. T.) on Henry I.'s tomb, 630.

* Aix Ruochim, or Romans Ioner, 150.

A. (J.) on copyright law, 468.

A. (J. P.) on "Celsior exsurgens pluviis," 220.

A. (J. S.) on Czar, or Tsar, 150.

—— inscription on a tomb in Finland, 34.

—— religion of the Russians, 582.

—— Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.

—— sneezing, 625.

Aldress, an instance of its use, 503.

Alethes on worm in books, 412.

Alfred (King), the locality of his battles, 129, 130.

* —— pedigree to the time of, 586.

Ἁλιεύς on Bulstrode Whitlock, 454.

—— Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.

—— Donatus Redivivus, 492.

—— gale of rent, 655.

—— Keate family, 525.

—— Mitre and the Crown, 80.

—— murder of Monaldeschi, 160.

—— passage in Whiston, 397.

—— Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.

Aliquis on epigram on Rome, 584.

—— fire-irons, their antiquity, 587.

Allan (Peter) of Sunderland, 539. 630. 647.

Allcroft (J. D.) on hour-glass in pulpits, 83.

—— watch-paper inscriptions, 452.

Alledius on Rousseau and Boileau, 470.

—— "When we survey yon circling orbs," 515.

Allen (H. L.) on female parish clerks, 475.

Allen (R. J.) on will of Peter the Great, 539.

—— wood of the Cross, 329.

All Hallow Eve, custom on, 490.

"All my eye," its early use, 254.

Alma Mater, its origin, 517.

Alms at the eucharist, superstition respecting, 617.

Alms-basket described, 297.

Alpha on the mother of William the Conqueror, 564.

Αλφα on descendants of Milton, 630.

* Alsop (George) noticed, 585.

Altars, portable, 101. 183.

A. (M.) on honorary degrees, 162.

—— Newton memorial, 172.

Amateur on multiplying photographs, 158.

Amateur Photographer on precision in photographic processes, 301.

Amcotts' pedigree, 387. 518.

American names, 638.

Americus on "Vox populi vox Dei," 494.

Amicus (Veritatis) on quadrille, 441.

* "Amor nummi," the author, 149.

Ampers and (&), its derivation, 173. 223. 254. 327. 376. 524.

Anathema, maran-atha, 100.

Anderson (Dr. James), notices of, 198. 326.

Anderson (James), his Historical Essay, 347.

André (Major) noticed, 174. 277. 399. 604. 643.

* Andrew's (St.) Priory Church, Barnwell, 80.

Andrews (Alex.) on Anna Lightfoot, 281.

—— Irish rhymes, 602.

—— poetical tavern signs, 627.

Angel-beast, a game, 63.

* Animal prefixes, 270.

Anne (Queen), her motto, 174. 255. 440.

Anon on camera obscura, early notices of, 41.

—— Dodo Bardolf, 605.

—— door-head inscriptions, 162.

—— epitaph on Tuckett's wife, 274.

—— inscriptions in books, 153. 652.

—— manliness, its meaning, 127.

—— "peg" or "nail" for an argument, 561.

—— Sir John Vanbrugh, 65.

—— "Virgin wife and widowed maid," 56.

—— "When the maggot bites," 244.

Anonymous names and real signatures, 5. 94. 181.

Anonymous Works:—

André, a tragedy, 174.

* Blockheads, 174.

* British Empire, Present State of, 174.

* Convent, an elegy, 172.

Days of my Youth, 467.

Delights for Ladies, 495.

De Omnibus Rebus et quibusdam aliis, 569.

Devil on Two Sticks in England, 413.

* Donatus Redivivus, 492.

Doveton, a novel, 127. 517.

Elijah's Mantle, 295. 453.

* Fast Sermon in 1779, 174.

* History of Jesus Christ, 386.

Indians, a tragedy, 174.

* Jerningham, a novel, 127. 517.

Les Lettres Juives, 541.

* Lessons for Lent, &c., 150.

Liturgy of the Ancients, 588.

Man with Iron Mask, 112.

Match for a Widow, 174.

* Mitre and the Crown, 80.

* National Prejudice opposed to Interest, 174.

Pætus and Arria, 219. 374.

* Poems published at Manchester, 388.

Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.

* Professional Poems by a Professional Gentleman, 244.

Rock of Ages, 81.

* Watch, an ode, 174.

Whole Duty of Man, 564.

Anstruther (Mr.) on the authorship of Jerningham and Doveton, 517.

Antecedents, its use as a plural, 439.

Anti-Barbarus on Latin termination -anus, 386.

Antipodes, what day at our Antipodes? 102. 479. 648.

Antiquaries, Society of, changes proposed, 45.

Antiquary on Sir Arthur Aston, 480.

-anus, quantity of the Latin termination, 386. 552.

Applauding, national methods of, 6.

A. (P. T.) on Park the antiquary, 8.

* Aquinas (Thomas) lines by, 366.

Arademaravasadeloovaradooyou, its meaning, 651.

Aram (Eugene), his Comparative Lexicon, 255.

Archæological Institute, annual meeting, 45.

Aristotle's checks, 97, 98.

A. (R. J.) on naming infants in Scotland, 468.

Armorial bearings, modern practice of assuming, 50.

Arms, battle-axe, 113.

Arms of ladies borne in a lozenge, 37. 83. 277. 448, 652.

Arnim (Bettina), her German-English, 437.

* Arrow-mark found in North Devon, 440.

Arrowsmith (W. R.) on misunderstood words, 120.

Arterus on Shakspeare's Seven Ages, 384.

Arthur (King) in the form of a raven, 618.

Arun on Letters respecting Hougomont, 293.

—— Shakspeare on the winds, 338.

* Ash-trees attractive to lightning, 493.

Astolpho on slang expression, 89.

Aston (J. W.) on a mistletoe query, 621.

Aston (Sir Arthur) noticed, 126. 302. 480. 629.

Astrology in America, 561.

Ath Chliath on chimney-piece emblem, 219.

* Athenæus, fragments in, versions of, 104.

Attwood (Wm.), his book burnt, 347.

Audley (Lord), his attendants at Poictiers, 494. 573.

Audoënus (Johannes) alias John Owen, 495.

Augusta on orange blossom, 341.

Authors' aliases and initials, 124.

—— remuneration of, 81.

Autobiographical sketch, 350.

Autumnal tints, 490.

Awkward, its etymology, 310. 438. 602.

B.

B. on the small City Companies, 470.

—— "Corporations have no souls," &c., 587.

—— digest of Shakspearian readings, 75.

—— green pots at the Temple, 171.

B. (A.) on launching query, 127.

Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.

Bacon's Essays, notes on, 141. 165. 303. 353. 479.

—— sentences taken from, 289.

Bacon or beechen, 63.

Bad, its etymology, 207.

B. (A. E.) on attainment of majority, 198. 296. 541.

—— day at our Antipodes, 648.

—— Shakspeare readings, 28. 168.

—— Shakspeare suggestions, 169.

B. (A. F.) on "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 605.

—— Pierrepont and his descendants, 303.

—— quotations, 366.

Bagot (C. E.) on Capt. Cook and the Sandwich Islands, 108.

Bagshawe (E. L.) on an old saying, 197.

B. (A. H.) on splitting paper, 604.

Bailey's Annuities, spurious edition, 242.

Balch (T.) on Martha Blount, 182.

Balderdash, its meaning and etymology, 342.

Bale MSS. referred to by Tanner, 311.

Ballard (E. G.) on Bond, a poet, 513.

—— Calves' Head Club, 315.

—— "Good Old Cause," 421.

—— hour-glass in pulpits, 83.

—— house-marks, 135.

—— inscription in Peterborough Cathedral, 303.

Ballina Castle, co. Mayo, 411. 577.

Balliolensis on Abigail, 653.

—— Joannes Audoënus, 495.

—— books burned by the common hangman, 272.

—— bottled beer, 289.

—— Bulstrode's portrait, 293.

—— death on the fingers, 362.

—— epitaph in Torrington churchyard, 537.

—— epitaphium Lucretiæ, 563.

—— Eve, its etymology, 655.

—— hour glass in pulpits, 279.

—— lawyers' bags, 281.

—— Muscipula, 550.

—— Napoleon, anecdote of, 292.

—— parochial libraries, 274.

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

—— Rev. Josiah Pullen, 489.

—— Sheridan, Latin translation from, 563.

—— Sir Philip Warwick, 268.

—— Sir Walter Raleigh, 267.

—— tenet or tenent, 258.

—— Thomas Aquinas, lines by, 366.

* Ball (Lord) of Bagshot, 365.

Balmoral, Natural History of, 467. 584.

Baretti, his portrait by Reynolds, 411. 477.

* Bargain cup, 220.

Barnacles in the Thames, 124. 223. 300.

Barrett (Eaton Stannard), his lines on Woman, 292. 350. 423.

Barry (C. Clifton) on animal prefixes, 270.

—— Fauntleroy, 270.

—— midland county minstrelsy, 357.

Barton (Mrs. C.) and Lord Halifax, 258. 429. 543. 590.

Basil (Oscimum basilicum), a plant, 40.

Basilica, a digest of laws, 367.

Baskerville the printer, his burial-place, 203. 349. 423.

Bates (Wm.) on Gibbon's library, 88.

—— Rosicrucians, 106.

—— soul and magnetic needle, 87.

—— "When the maggot bites," 526.

Bath, knights of, their escutcheons in St. Peter's, Westminster, 444.

Bathensis on Jamieson the piper, 126.

* Bave (Anthony), his manuscripts, 469.

B. (B. E) on Burke's marriage, 158.

B. (C.) on font at Islip, 363.

B. (C. W.) on epitaph from Stalbridge, 289.

—— Huc's Travels, 516.

—— "Like one who wakes," &c., 292.

—— Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.

—— right of redeeming property, 516.

B. (D. E.) on John Campbell of Jamaica, 410.

B. (E.) on manual of handwriting, 639.

Bealby (H. M.), notes on newspapers, 333.

* Beauty of Buttermere noticed, 126.

Beccles, its parochial library, 62.

Bede (Cuthbert) on books chained in churches, 206. 596.

—— "boom" as used by the poets, 183.

—— Brasenose, Oxford, 221.

—— burial in an erect posture, 59.

—— burial on north side of churches, 207.

—— centenarian couple, 490.

—— children called imps, 623.

—— curfew, where rung, 628.

—— dial inscriptions, 224.

—— epitaphs, 273. 315.

—— funeral custom, 218.

—— hour-glasses in pulpits, 209.

—— Innocents' day, custom on, 617.

—— inscriptions on bells, 248.

—— marriage service, 525.

—— nightingale, character of its song, 257.

—— oaken tomb at Durham, 180: at Brancepath Church, 454.

—— "Peccavi!" I have Scinde, 574.

—— Peter Allan, 630.

—— poetical tavern signs, 626.

—— St. Thomas's day, custom on, 617.

—— stoups, exterior, 574.

—— testimonials to donkies, 488.

—— "Up, guards, and at 'em!" 111.

—— weather predictions, 326.

Bee Park—Bee Hall, 199.

Bees, names for their migrations, 440. 575.

Bee (Tee) on arms of the see of York, 34.

—— Bee Park—Bee Hall, 199.

—— Governor Brookes, 56.

—— Governor Dameram, 34.

—— lines on the Order of the Garter, 53.

—— William the Conqueror's surname, 197.

* "Begging the question," origin of the phrase, 640.

Beginner on baths for collodion process, 42.

Behmen (Jacob), his works, 13. 246.

Belfry towers, detached, 63. 185. 376.

Belike, its meaning and derivation, 358. 600.

Bell (Robert), lines on Woman, 423.

Bell, the passing, 130.

Bellenden (Miss), maid of honour, 463.

Belle Sauvage, 388. 523.

* Bellmen, the city, their origin, 538.

Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 292. 630.

Bells for the dead, on ringing, 55. 130. 417. 576. 601.

Bells, phantom and death, 576.

B. (E. M.) on Trench on Proverbs, 387.

Berefellarii, its meaning, 420. 550.

Berosus on stipendiary curates, 341.

B. (F.) on Bishop Kennett's Diary, 470.

—— brothers of the same name, 478.

B. (F. C.) on S. A. Mackey, of Norwich, 566.

B. (F. F.) on arms of Geneva, 563.

B. (G. B.) on Keate family, 293.

B. (G. M.) on curious advertisement, 268.

—— lines in Franklin's handwriting, 196.

B. (H.) on children called imps, 623.

—— revolving toy, 63.

Bible names, how pronounced, 469. 590. 630.

Bibliothec. Chetham. on the word cash, 651.

—— battle of Villers en Couché, 205.

—— burial in unconsecrated ground, 329.

—— Darling's Cyclopædia, 125.

—— mottoes of German emperors, 548.

—— odour from the rainbow, 158.

—— sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 423.

—— stars and flowers, 158.

—— superstition of Cornish miners, 216.

—— tin, its early use, 575.

B. (I. H.) on laird of Brodie, 103.

Billyng (William), noticed, 110.

Bingham (Richard) on passage in Bingham's Antiquities, 291.

* Bingham's Antiquities, passage in, 291.

Binometrical verses, 292. 375. 655.

Bishop's Cannings church, hand in, 269. 454.

Bishops deprived by Elisabeth, 136.

—— suffragans, in Ireland, 256.

B. (J.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 371.

—— Chadderton of Nuthurst, 564.

—— Falstaff's character, 314.

—— German heraldry, 204.

—— Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I., 587.

—— Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire, 65.

—— wooden tombs and effigies, 19.

B. (J. C.) on Longfellow's Reaper and the Flowers, 583.

—— The Angels' Whisper, a song, 54.

B. (J. M.) on Danish and Swedish ballads, 444.

—— queries in The Doctor, 410.

—— Poema del Cid, 366.

—— "state," in Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1., 409.

B. (K.) on divining-rod, 479.

Black as a mourning colour, 411. 502.

* Blackamore, the fable of washing the, 150.

Blackburn (Hugh) on photographic engraving, 628.

Blackguard and blagueur, 414.

* Blackwood's Magazine, a passage in, 493.

Blake (William) noticed, 69. 435.

Blakiston (R.) on "All my eye," 254.

—— "Pinece with a stink," 270.

Blink (Geo.) on Shakspearian emendations, 75.

B.L.M., its meaning, 585.

Blood (Wm.) on idol worship, 414.

—— Patrick's purgatory, 178.

Blotting-paper, when first used, 104. 185.

Blount (Martha) noticed, 182.

Blount (Thomas), inscription on his monument, 286. 603.

* Blue-bell—blue anchor, 388.

Blue (True), who was he? 588.

Blythe (Dr. Samuel), his arms, 265. 351.

B. (M. G.) on hotchpot, 413.

B. (N.) on chair moving, 537.

—— Encyclopædias, 502.

—— translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2, 520.

B. (N. T.) on Pollocks's process, 17.

Boardman, on an early New Testament, 219.

Boase (Geo.) on encaustic tiles from Caen, 493.

Bobart (H. T.) on Jacob Bobart, 37.

Bobart (Jacob) noticed, 37. 159. 344.

Bockett (Julia R.) on gravestone inscription, 268.

—— Richard Geering, 504.

—— snail-eating, 229.

Boerhaave, passage in, 602.

Bogie and the farmer, a mythological tale, 94.

* Böhme (Anton Wilhelm) noticed, 7.

Boleyn (Queen Anne), state prisoner, 510.

Bond, a poet, 513.

Bond (E. A.) on Wright of Durham, 326.

* Books, old, 56.

Booker (John) on books chained in churches, 273.

—— parallel passages, 560.

—— passage in burial service, 178.

Book inscriptions. See Inscriptions.

* Book reviews, their origin, 410.

Books burned by the common hangman, 272. 346. 625.

Books chained in churches, 93. 206. 273. 328. 453. 595.

Books, notices of new:—

Ancren Riwle; or Rules of Monastic Life, 606.

Antiquary, a serial, 21.

Anzeige für Kunde des Deutschen Vorzeit, 306.

Apuleius, Metamorphoses, 553.

Aristophanes' Comedies, 186. 306.

Attic Philosopher in Paris, 553.

Bacon's Advancement, by T. Markby, 45.

Bacon's Essays, by T. Markby, 45.

Bankes's Corfe Castle, 89.

Barlow's works on Cheshire, 455.

Blaine on the Laws of Artistic Copyright, 553.

Bristol Archæological Institute, 234.

Carpenter's Physiology of Total Abstinence, 282.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 455.

Cooper's Glossary of Provincialisms, 45.

Cooper's Sketch of Linton, 306.

Corner on Borough English, 138.

Cowper (B. H.), his History of Millwall, 655.

Cowper's Life and Works, by Southey, 553.

Croker's History of the Guillotine, 455.

Cyclopædia Bibliographica, 45. 138. 306. 354. 577.

De la Motte's Practice of Photography, 20.

De Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater, 90.

English Bible: Part II, 656.

Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, 186.

Foster's Lectures, 186.

French's Pedigrees of Nelson and Wellington, 90.

Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Bohn), 607.

Gray's Elegy, illustrated, 577.

Hardwick's History of the Church, 354.

Humphrey's Coin Collector's Manual, 20.

Hunter's Reply to Rev. Mr. Dyce, 21.

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

Irish Quarterly Review, 306.

Johnson's Botany of the Eastern Borders, 282.

Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius, translated, 607.

Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature, 89. 354.

Lardner's Handbook of Natural Philosophy, 527.

Lepsius's Letters from Egypt, &c., 282.

Letter to a Convocation Man, 282.

Macdonald's Botanist's Word-Book, 607.

Madden's Life of Savonarola, 234.

Mahon's (Lord) History of England, 20. 234. 455.

Matthew of Westminster's History, 90. 186.

Miller's Fly-leaves, 656.

National Miscellany, Vol. I., 577.

Ordericus Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History, 528.

Owen's Translation of Aristotle, 90.

Phippen's Practical Experiments, 138.

Promptorium Parvulorum, 606.

Ranke's History of Servia, 607.

Remains of Pagan Saxondom, 577.

Shakspeare Repository, 354.

Simpson's Collection of Epitaphs, 282.

Simpson's Mormonism, 138.

Sims's Handbook to British Museum Library, 511. 553.

Somersetshire Archæological Society's Proceedings, 553.

Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 90. 577.

Smith on the Origin and Connexion of the Gospels, 89.

Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, 607.

Stevens' Catalogue of his Library, 607.

Thomson's Archaic Mode of expressing Numbers, 21.

Traveller's Library, 45. 186.

Urquhart's Progress of Russia, 185.

Welsh Sketches, 354.

Willich's Popular Tables, 138. 528.

Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde, 306.

Books suggested for reprints, 148.

Boom, as used by the poets, 183. 375.

Booth (Capt.) of Stockport, 102. 184.

Booty's case, 62.

Borderer on anonymous ballad, 78.

Boston Notion, largest American paper, 334.

Boswell's Johnson, on the word stellas, 439. 551.

Bottled beer, 289.

B. (II.) on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.

—— "sincere," 328.

B. (P.) on George Alsop, 585.

* Bradshaw (President) and Milton, 318.

Brasenose, Oxford, origin of the name, 221.

Braybrooke (Lord) on paint taken off of old oak, 45.

—— Pepys's grammar, 502.

—— poems in connexion with Waterloo, 549.

* Brazen Head, a periodical, 367.

Brechin (Bishop of) on pagoda, 523.

* Brecost, its meaning, 78.

Breen (Henry H.) on Adamsoniana, 135.

—— antecedents, as a plural, 439.

—— Charles I.'s portrait, 151.

—— Christian names, 351.

—— Convent, an elegy, 172.

—— Creole, explained, 504.

—— "Crowns have their compass," 376.

—— Dramatic representations by the hourglass, 410.

—— Drummer's letter, 153.

—— foreign English, 137.

—— "Good Old Cause," 421.

—— "From the sublime to the ridiculous," 177.

—— heraldic colour pertaining to Ireland, 56.

—— Huet's Navigations of Solomon, 399.

—— Malachy (St.) on the Popes, 390.

—— mistranslations, curious, 201.

—— Montmartre, its derivation, 468.

—— Napoleon's spelling, 386.

—— Paradise Lost, 388.

—— Quarles and Pascal, 172.

—— table-turning, 329.

Brehon laws noticed, 80.

Brent (J.) on "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 88.

Brett (Peter), parish clerk and author, 533.

B. (R. H.) on autumnal tints, 490.

—— land of Green Ginger, Hull, 34.

—— Pennycomequick, near Plymouth, 8.

Brickwall House, portraits at, 573.

Bridges, superstition respecting, 382.

Brigantia on caves at Settle, 412.

Bristoliensis on old books, 56.

—— Chatterton, 62.

—— Cromwell's portrait, 279.

—— curious posthumous occurrence, 205.

—— Hogarth's pictures, 64.

Britain, its derivation, 291. 344. 445. 575. 651.

British Museum, Handbook to the Library, 511.

Broctuna on Henry, Earl of Wotton, 281.

—— heraldic notes, 351.

—— ladies' arms borne in a lozenge, 83. 448.

—— seals of Great Yarmouth, 321.

* Broderie Anglaise, 172.

Brooks (Rev. Joshua) noticed, 639.

* Brooks (Governor) noticed, 55.

Brooks (T. W. D.) on inscription at Aylesbury, 443.

Brothers of the same Christian name, 338. 478.

Brough (Dean), his "Crown of Glory," 113.

Brown (C.) on the myrtle bee, 450.

Brown (J. W.) on books chained in churches, 596.

Brown (T. R.), his Etymological Dictionary, 443.

* Browne (Francis), did he marry? 639.

Browne, Sir George, noticed, 114. 243. 301.

Browne's Tragedy of Polidus, 159.

Bruce (John) on Archbishop Curwen's letter to Archbishop Parker, 442.

—— Archbishop Parker's correspondence, 149.

—— Cromwell's portrait, 135.

—— Verney note decyphered, 17.

B. (R. W.) on fox-hunting, 172.

—— pictorial pun, 385.

—— Robin Hood's festival, 622.

* Bryan (Sir Francis), his pedigree, 564.

B. (S.) on Lyte's new process, 373.

—— Sisson's developing solution, 157.

B. (T.) on sangaree, 527.

B—t (J.) on blotting-paper, 185.

—— dog Latin, 218.

Buckle, its meaning, 304. 526.

Buckton (T. J.) on barnacles, 224.

—— Council of Trent, 316.

—— Druses, 360.

—— Harmony of the Four Gospels, 415.

—— Hebrew names, how pronounced, 590.

—— Jews in China, 626.

—— Land Of Green Ginger, 227. 303.

—— manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas, 585. 655.

—— Peter Lombard's knowledge of Greek, 294.

—— Psalm cxxvii. 2., 641.

—— "Quem Deus vult perdere," 73.

—— Shakspearian parallels, 240.

—— sneezing an omen and deity, 121.

—— Sophocles, passage in, 631.

—— Thucydides on the Greek factions, 137.

—— Tsar, or Czar, 225.

Bull, oblation of a white, 1.

Bullaces explained, 167. 223. 326.

Bulstrode's portrait, 293. 454.

Bunyan's Emblems, 18.

Burial in an erect posture, 5. 59. 233. 455. 630.

—— in unconsecrated ground, 43. 202. 329. 423. 527.

—— on north side of churches, 207.

—— service, passage in, 78. 177.

Buriensis on church towers detached, 63.

—— daughters taking their mothers' names, 586.

—— Dr. Butler of St. Edmund's Bury, 125.

—— parish register mottoes, 30.

—— punning devices, 270.

Burke's marriage, 134. 158.

Burke's mighty boar of the forest, 136.

Burleigh (Lord) and the dissenters, 487.

Burnet (Bp), H. Wharton, and Smith, 167.

Burn (J. S.) on inscription at North Stoneham, 339.

—— book burnt by the hangman, 348.

—— parish clerks' company, 452.

—— saltpetre-man, 399.

Bursary explained, 159.

Burton (Henry), his Works, 540.

* Burton (John), his descendants, 271.

Burton (Robert), author of Anatomy of Melancholy, his death, 495.

Butler (Mr.) of St. Edmund's Bury, 125. 604.

* Butler's Lives of the Saints, various editions, 387.

Button's (Sir Thomas) Voyage, 385. 450.

B. (V.) on Junius facts being authenticated, 8.

B—w (F.) on derivation of unkid, 353.

—— "Never ending, still beginning," 162.

—— passage in Virgil, 400.

—— quotation from Pope, 208.

—— Tyndale's New Testament, 277.

-by, as a termination, 105.

* Byron (Lord) noticed, 55.

—— Childe Harold, passage in, 258.

* Bysshe (Edward) noticed, 318.

C.

C. on Abigail, 86.

—— cash and mob, 524.

—— Christian names, 63.

—— encore, 524.

—— "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 255.

—— honorary degrees, 86.

—— island, its derivation, 209.

—— kissing hands, 64.

—— Lord North, 230.

—— Napoleon's spelling, 502.

—— Pennycomequick, 255.

—— "Sat cito si sat bene," 18.

—— "Up, guards, and at them!" 204.

—— Vandyke in America, 228.

C. (1) on Rev. Joshua Brooks, 639.

C. (A.) on pedigree to the time of Alfred, 586.

—— Tangier queries, 33.

C. (A. B.) on cob-wall, 151.

—— curious posthumous occurrence, 6.

—— designed false English rhymes, 249.

—— first and last, 439.

—— "For man proposes, but God disposes," 411.

Caen, encaustic tiles from, 493. 547.

Cæsar (Sir Julius), his letter to Sir W. More, 172.

* Caldecott's Translation of the New Testament, 410.

* Caley's Ecclesiastical Survey, 104.

Calves' Head Club, its doings, 315. 480.

Calvin's correspondence, 62.

Cambridge graduates, 365. 525.

Cambro-Briton on the coronet of Llewelyn ap Griffith, 514.

"Came," its early use, 468. 631.

Camera lucida, 271. 354. 503.

* Campbell (John) of Jamaica, 410.

Campvere, privileges of, 88. 231.

* Canning on the Treaty of 1824, 365.

* Cannon-ball, singular discovery of one, 366.

Cantab. on pedigree indices, 453.

Cantab. (A.) on Nelly O'Brien and Kitty Fisher, 440.

Cantab (Emmanuel) on passage in Bacon, 303.

Cantabrigiensis on honorary D. C. L.'s, 8.

* Canterbury, ancient privileges of the See, 56.

Canute's Point, Southampton, 204.

Capital punishment, mitigation of, 42. 112.

Captain on Adm. Sir T. Tyddeman, 317.

Caret on camera lucida, 271.

Carey (Patrick), 406.

Carlist calembourg, 618.

Carnatic on "Begging the question," 640.

Carr (Sir George) noticed, 327. 423.

Carter (R. W.) on Yorkshire tradition, 617.

* Cary (Dr. Robert) noticed, 79.

Cash, is it an English word? 386. 524. 573. 651.

* Castles of Scotland, how maintained, 366.

* Castle Thorpe, Bucks, 387.

C. (A. T.) on Sir Geo. Downing, 221.

Cateaton Street, its derivation, 540.

Cato (Isaiah) on monumental brasses abroad, 497.

Cats, are white ones deaf? 135.

Caucasus on the spelling of D'Israeli, 441.

Cause: "The Good Old Cause," 44. 421.

Cavaliers' Common Prayer Book, 536.

Caves at Settle, in Yorkshire, 412. 651.

Cawdrey's Treasure of Similes, 386. 499.

Cawdrey (Zachary) noticed, 152.

C. (B. H.), a chapter on rings, 416.

—— ballad of Sir Hugh, 614.

—— Baskerville's burial, 423.

—— black as a mourning colour, 502.

—— books chained in churches, 453.

—— chronograms, 280.

—— De Quincey's Account of Hatfield, 26.

—— engin-à-verge, 231.

—— examples of the word its, 12.

—— Hackney Church tower, 63.

—— "Haul over the coals," 280.

—— letter X on brewers' casks, 439.

—— magnet symbolical of Venus, 280.

—— mammon, an idol, 173.

—— monk and till, 527.

—— passage in Job, 205.

—— Pepys and East London topography, 263.

—— "Salus populi suprema lex," 526.

—— St. Paul and Seneca, 205.

—— scrape, its meaning, 422.

—— sheer hulk, 280.

—— Tsar, its etymology, 422.

—— weather rhymes, 512.

C. (E.) on Hupfeld, 34.

—— Peter Allan, 539.

—— scale of vowel sounds, 34.

Cecil (Lord), his Memorials, 442. 502.

Celt, its derivation, 271. 651.

Celtic etymology, 229. 551.

Celtic words, collection of, wanted, 654.

Celtic and Latin languages, their connexion, 174. 280. 353.

Centenarian couple, 490.

Ceridwen on Shakspeare controversy, 124.

—— yellow bottles for chemicals, 86.

Cestriensis on book inscriptions, 591.

—— Geo. Wood of Chester, 34.

—— Minshull's Cheshire Collections, 467.

—— Wilbraham's Cheshire Collections, 270.

Ceyrep on door-head inscriptions, 38. 454.

—— oaths, 605.

—— Raffaelle's Sposalizio, 574.

—— rings worn by ecclesiastics, 387.

C. (F.) on Boswell's Johnson, 439.

C. (F. G.) on symbol of sow, &c., 493.

C. (G. A.) on Major André, 604.

—— Dr. Butler and St. Edmund's Bury, 604.

—— pronunciation of Coke and Cowper, 603.

C. (G. M. E.) on execution for murdering a slave, 112.

C. (H.) on splitting paper, 413.

* Chadderton of Nuthurst, 564.

Chaffers (W.) on voiding-knife, 297.

Chair-moving, 537.

Chandler, Bishop of Durham, accused of simony, 341. 630.

Chanting of jurors, 502.

Chapman (Mr.), one of the binders of the Harleian MSS., 335, 336

Charity-schools, origin of, 69. 435.

Charlecott on Shakspeare portrait, 438.

Charles I., his portrait, 151. 233.

Chartham on Sir Arthur Aston, 126.

Chasles (Philarète) on berefellarii, 420.

—— blagueur and blackguard, 414.

—— comminatory inscriptions in books, 472.

—— Italian-English, German-English, &c. 436.

* Chatham (Lord) on Fox and Newcastle ministry, 33.

Chatterton and the Rowley Poems, 62.

C. (H. B.) on Booty's case, 62.

—— capital punishment, 112.

—— historical impossibilities, 72.

—— old jokes, 146.

—— passage in Whiston, 645.

—— Tieck's Comœdia Divina, 570.

C. (H. C.) on arms: battle-axe, 113.

—— Osborn filius Herfast, 654.

—— Richard Geering, 504.

—— Sir Arthur Aston, 629.

—— Sir G. Browne, 114.

Chemistry, its derivation, 470.

* Chester (Sir Wm.) noticed, 365.

* Chester (Thomas), Bishop of Elphin, 340.

Chesterfield (Earl of): see Wotton, Henry, Earl of.

Cheverells on burial in erect posture, 5.

—— hurrah! &c., 185.

—— ornament in Crosthwaite Church, 200.

Chicheley (Abp.), date of his birth, 198. 350.

"Chip in porridge" explained, 208.

"Chip of the Old Block" on the Heveninghams, 103.

Choice of Hercules, 89.

Choirochorographia, 151. 229.

Christian names, 63.

Christian year, note on its motto, 335.

* —— on a passage in, 539.

Christmas in Pennsylvania, 615.

—— tree, 619.

Christ's cross, 18.

Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, 561.

Chronograms, 42. 280. 351.

—— in Sicily, 562.

Church, high and low, 117.

Churches of England and Rome, which committed schism? 485. 631.

* Church temporalities before Constantine, 412.

Churchwardens, origin of, 584.

* Cicero quoted in an unknown work, 640.

Cid, a poem, 367. 574.

City Companies, the smaller ones, 470.

Civis on Edward Bysshe, 318.

C. (J. G.) on poetical tavern signs, 353.

C. (J. M.) on Anna Lightfoot, 87.

Clare, legends of the county, 145. 264. 360. 437. 616.

Clarence, origin of the dukedom, 565.

Clarendon (Lord) and the tubwoman, 19.

Clark (Alex.) noticed, 18. 517.

Claymore, the original weapon, 365. 520.

Cleek, a game, 63.

Clem, as meaning starve, 64.

Clement (St.), his apple-feast, 618.

* Clergyman (English) in Spain, 410. 574.

* Clerical duel, 7.

Clericus (A.) on administration of the eucharist, 292.

Clericus (D.) on Queen Anne's motto, 174.

—— arms of De Sissonne, 503.

—— head-dress temp. Charles I., 172.

—— Laodicean council, Canon xxxv., 7.

—— lines on Sir Francis Drake, 195.

—— Ravilliac, 219.

Clericus Rusticus on cash and mob, 386.

—— namby-pamby, 318.

—— tailors' cabbage, 315.

—— topsy-turvy, 385.

Clerk (A.) on photographs by artificial lights, 228.

Clifford (Roger, fifth Lord) noticed, 184. 251.

Clipper, its meaning, 100. 398.

Close (Antony) on canonisation in the Greek Church, 292.

Cloth, decomposed, discovered at York, 438.

Clouds, classification of, 337.

Clunk, origin of the word, 65. 654.

C. (M. A. W.) on French Prayer Book, 343.

C. (M. E.) on raining cats and dogs—helter skelter, 565.

Cob and Conners, 43.

Cob-wall, 151. 279.

Cobb (Francis), his Diary, 18.

Cocker's Arithmetic, later editions, 540.

Coffins, their shape, 104. 256.

Coin, its etymology, 443.

Coke (Sir Robert), his ancestors, 517.

Coke and Cowper, their pronunciation, 54. 603.

Colchester corporation records, extracts from, 464.

Coleridge's Christabel, 11. 111.

—— unpublished MSS., 43.

Collar, a gold one found in Staffordshire, 537.

Collar of SS., 398.

College (Stephen), 310.

* College exhibitions, work on, 57.

Collier (J. Payne) on passage in "The Taming of the Shrew," 73.

—— Monovolume Shakspeare, 35.

Collis (Thomas) on the churches of England and Rome, 631.

Collyns (W.) on house-marks, 62.

—— Hon. Miss E. St. Leger, 89.

—— old lines newly revived, 76.

—— pronunciation of Bible names, 630.

Comet superstitions in 1853, 358.

* Confirmation, prejudice against, in adults, 440.

Conger, its etymology, 444.

Conner or Connah's quay, 43.

Consecrated roses, 38. 135.

Constanter on movable metal types, 454.

Constantinople—Istamboul, 148.

Constant Reader on Bishop Ferrar, 103.

—— Muller's processes, 451.

—— "Solamen miseris," &c., 272.

* Contango, its derivation, 586.

Convocation and the Propagation Society, 100.

Convocation in the reign of George II., 465.

Cook (Capt.), did he discover the Sandwich Islands? 6. 108.

* Cookworthy (William) noticed, 585.

Cooper (C. H.) on blotting-paper, 185.

—— "delusion, a mockery and a snare," 302.

—— dream testimony, 287.

—— Sir Thomas Elyot, 276.

—— strut-stowers and yeathers, 148.

—— "Tub to a whale," 304.

Cooper (R. Jermyn) on "We've parted for the longest time," 388.

Cooper (Samuel), the painter, 368.

Cooper (Wm. Durrant) on longevity in Cleveland, 488.

Cooper's Chronicle, 494.

* Copyright law and the British Museum, 468.

Corner (G. R.) on Reynolds' portrait of Baretti, 411.

Corney (Bolton) on Capt. John Davies, 450.

—— Milton and Malatesti, 237.

—— Robert Drury, 181.

—— Sims's Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, 511.

—— Vida on Chess, 4-9.

Cornish (James) on Hamlet and George Steevens, 195.

—— "Mary, weep no more for me," 385.

—— Pennycomequick, 184.

Cornish miners, superstition of, 7. 215.

* "Corporations have no souls," &c., 587.

Corpse, curious occurrence respecting, 6. 205.

Corser (Thos.) on parochial libraries, 369.

Coryate's Crudities quoted, 558.

* Cotterell (Sir Charles), his death, 564.

Cotton (Archd.) on Roman Catholic Bible Society, 494.

* Cottons of Fowey, 317.

County rhymes, 615.

Court House in Painswick, 493. 596.

Cousins, marriage of, 387. 525.

Cowgill on Talleyrand's maxim, 136.

—— the termination -by, 105.

Cowper and Pope, 383.

Cramp (W.) on origin of book reviews, 411.

Cranmer's Correspondences, 183. 222.

Cranston on Milton's Familiar Correspondence, 640.

Crashaw (Richard), epigram by, 242.

Crassus' saying, 258.

Craton the philosopher, 441. 603.

Creed (G.) on Judas Iscariot's descendants, 56.

—— Tom Thumb's Castle at Gonerby, 35.

Creed, the superstitious use of, 613.

Creole, its meaning, 138.

Crescent, origin of the standard, 196. 319. 653.

C. (R. H.) on Craton the philosopher, 441.

—— passages in Shakspeare, 216.

—— Prie-Dieu: ancient furniture, 101.

* Crieff compensation, 540.

* Crispin and Crispianus, story of, 619.

Crito on city bellmen, 538.

* Cromwell's descendants, 442.

—— portrait, 55. 135. 279.

Cross, its anticipatory use, 132. 417. 545.

Cross of Calvary composed of four kinds of wood, 329.

* Crosses on stoles, 411.

Crossley (Francis) on Celtic etymologies, 345.

—— humbug, its signification, 422.

—— letter "h" in humble, 298.

—— longevity, 523.

—— pronunciation of humble, 551.

—— yew-trees in churchyards, 448.

Crosthwaite Church, ornament in, 55. 200. 452.

* Crow—"To pluck a crow with one," 197.

Crow-bar, its derivation, 439.

* Cruden, the battle of, 173.

Cruickstown Castle noticed, 445.

C. (R. W.) on Cottons of Fowey, 317.

C. (S. G.) on Derbyshire folk lore, 512.

—— Gabriel Poyntz, 440.

—— gold collar found in Staffordshire, 538.

—— Illustrium Poetarum Flores, 243.

—— lemon-juice as a medicine, 217.

—— pronunciation of humble, 393.

—— sincere, simple, singular, 567.

—— Sir William Hankford, 342.

—— tin, early notices of, 593.

C. (T.) on family of Hoby, 525.

Ctus (J.) on Lofcopp or Lufcopp, 245.

Cucumber time, 439.

Cumming (J. G.) on St. Patrick and Maune, 291.

—— yew-trees in churchyards, 346.

* Curates, stipendiary, 340.

Curfew, places where still rung, 466. 603. 628.

Curtis (J. Lewelyn) on liveries worn by gentlemen, 473.

* Curwen (Archbishop), his letter to Archbishop Parker, 442.

Cusack (Capt. George), the pirate, 272.

Custom of y^e Englishe, 362.

C. (W.) on "I put a spoke in his wheel," 351.

—— Laird of Brodie, 232.

—— manners of the Irish, 279.

—— white bell heather transplanted, 79.

Czar or Tsar, its derivation, 150. 226. 422.

D.

D. on Crieff compensation, 540.

—— New Universal Magazine, 639.

D. (A. A.) on passage in the Christian Year, 539.

—— font, its position, 149.

—— praying to the West, 591.

—— Taylor's Holy Living, 469.

—— Wilson's Sacra Privata, 469.

Dale (J. H. Van) on Flemish refugees, 196.

D'Alton (John) on Ballina Castle, 577.

* Dameran (Governor) noticed, 34.

Dance of Death, its republication, 76.

* Daniel (John) noticed, 318.

Danish and Swedish, 444.

Danish names in England, 58.

Darling's Cyclopædia, its utility, 125.

Daughter pronounced dafter, 292. 504.

* Daughters taking their mothers' names, 586.

* Daventry, duel at, 78.

David's mother, 539.

Davies (F. R.) on legends of the county Clare, 145. 264. 360. 436. 616.

Davis (Captain John), 385. 450.

Dawson (Benj.) on "an" before u long, 244.

—— letter "h" in humble, 229.

Days, unlucky, 305.

ד‎. (ב‎.) on X on brewers' casks, 572.

D. (C.) on foot-guards' uniform, 64.

D. (C. D.) on New Brunswick folk lore, 382.

D.C.L.'s, honorary, 8. 86. 162.

D. (E.) on Bunyan's emblems, 18.

—— Cobb's Diary, 18.

—— effigies with folded hands, 9.

—— Faithful Teate, 62.

D. (E. A.) on Samuel Wilson, 242.

Death on the fingers, 362.

De Bure (J. J.), sale of his library, 434.

Deceitfulness of Love, an inedited poem, 311.

Deck (Norris) on Eugene Aram's Lexicon, 255.

—— Cambridgeshire folk lore, 512.

—— font, its position, 234.

—— heraldic notes, 265.

—— nightingale's song, 651.

—— pure, its meaning, 230.

—— Richard, king of the Romans, his arms, 653.

—— wooden tombs and effigies, 255.

Dedication crosses, 201.

Dee, legendary allusions to its divinity, 588.

Degrees, honorary, 8. 86. 162.

D. (E. H. D.) on ampers and, 524.

—— lines "Could we with ink," &c., 257.

Delaval (Miss), her Poems, 171.

* Delft manufacture, 125.

Delta (H.) on "Mirrour to all who follow the wars," 151.

De Mareville (Honoré) on oaths, 472.

Demayne (Charles) on work on the human figure, 390.

Denham (M. A.) on Henry, third Earl of Northumberland, 515.

—— no sparrows at Lindham, 572.

—— vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 573.

* Denison family, 468.

Dent (Mr.) of Winterton, his burial, 202.

Denton (William) on Bishop Thomas Wilson, 220.; extract in his Sacra Privata, 243.

—— Cardinal Fleury and Bp. Wilson, 245.

—— Dr. Richard Sherlock, 245.

De Quincey's account of Hatfield, 26.

De Sissonne of Normandy, his arms, 243. 327. 503.

Devereux (John) of Wexford, 5.

Devereux (Walter) on Theobald le Botiller, 572.

Devlin (J. Davies) on Crispin and Crispianus, 619.

Devonianisms, 44. 65. 654.

Devoniensis on "Well's a fret," 197.

D. (F.) on point of etiquette, 386.

D. (G.) on Hartman's account of Waterloo, 198.

D. (H. W.) on stereoscopic angles, 501.

Dial inscriptions, 224.

Diamond (Dr. H. W.) on collodion process, 133.

—— calotype process, 548. 596.

—— printing on albumenised paper, 324.

—— simplicity of the calotype process, 596.

Dick, or Duke Shore, Limehouse, 263.

Dictionaries and encyclopædias, 385. 502.

* Dictionary of English Phrases, 292.

Dictum de Kenilworth, 57.

Dimidiation by impalement, 230.

* Dimmeson (Capt. Jan) noticed, 469.

Diodati (Charles) noticed, 295. 577.

* Dionysia in Bœotia, 340.

Dionysios on "Amor nummi," 149.

Dionysius on Henry Burton, 540.

Discovery of the Inquisition, 137. 350.

Diseases, non-recurring, 516.

* D'Israeli, how spelt, 441.

Dissimulate, its earliest use, 10.

Divining-rod, 293. 350. 400. 479. 623.

D. (J.) on Donnybrook fair, 86.

—— poetical tavern signs, 568.

D. (M.) on foreign medical education, 398.

—— photographic copies of MSS., 501.

D. (N.) on emblems of the precious stones, 539.

D—n (W.) on gloves at fairs, 136.

—— Ken: The Crown of Glory, 113.

* "Doctor," queries in the, 410.

Dodd (Dr. Wm.) a dramatist, 245.

* Doddridge (Dr.), love poem by him, 516.

Dodo, or Doun Bardolf, 605.

Dog-Latin, 218. 523.

Dog, an old, the phrase, 208.

Dog taught French, 581.

Dog-whipping day in Hull, 409.

Dollop, its etymology, 65.

* Domesday-book abbreviations, 151.

Dominic (St.) noticed, 136.

Done pedigree, 57.

Donkies, testimonials to, 488.

Donnybrook fair, 86.

Don Quixote, spurious Continuation of, 590.

Dotinchem, in Holland, 151. 375.

Doubter on longevity, 182.

Downing (Sir George) noticed, 221.

* Doxology in Tusser, 440.

D. (Q.) on emblematical works, 88.

—— Shakspeare and the Bible, 384.

Dragoon on the forlorn hope, 526.

* Drainage, artificial, 493.

Drake (Dr.), his Historia Anglo-Scotica, 272. 346.

Drake (Sir Francis), his ship, 558.

—— lines on, 195.

Draught, or draft of air, 317.

Dream testimony, 287.

Dredge (John I.) on Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 500.

Dress, recent works on, 390.

Drofsniag on gloves at fairs, 421.

Drummer's letter, 153.

Drury (Robert) noticed, 104. 161.

Druses, 360.

D. (S.) on translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 643.

D. (T.) on hackney-coach proclamation, 122.

Du Barry (Countess) noticed, 151.

Ducking-stool, 315.

Dumfries, the siller gun of, 412.

Dunkin (A. J.) on Henry IV.'s leprosy, 340.

—— lines from Sir Walter Scott, 622.

—— Our Lady of Rounceval, 340.

Duport's lines on Izaak Walton, 193.

Dutch, high and low, 413. 478. 601.

Duval (C. A.) on Duval family, 423.

Duval family, 318. 423.

D. (W. B.) on books chained in churches, 596.

—— hour-glasses, 525.

—— motto on Wylcotes' brass, 494.

E.

E. on privileges of Campvere, 89.

—— English clergyman in Spain, 574.

—— Laurie on Currency, &c., 491.

—— Marlborough at Blenheim, 409.

"Earth upon earth," &c., 110. 353.

Eastwood (J.) on acharis or achatis, 280.

—— books chained in churches, 273.

Eaton (T. D.) on positives on glass, 451.

Ebff (J.) on county rhymes, 615.

Ecclesiastical censure in the Middle Ages, 466.

E. (C. I.) on the translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., 520.

Eclipse in 1263, 441.

* Eclipses of the sun, list of, 244.

E. (C. P.) on quotations in Bacon's Essays, 353.

—— "Populus vult decipi," 65.

Edict of Nantes, its revocation, 639.

Edifices of ancient and modern times, 81.

Editors, offer to intending, 172.

Edmeston (James) on Belle Sauvage, 523.

Edward II., where was he killed? 387. 477.

Edward V., his birth-place, 468. 601.

Effigies and wooden tombs, 19. 255. 455. 604.

* —— with folded hands, 9.

E. (H.) on shirt collars, 467.

Eirionnach on Catholic floral dictionaries, 585.

—— Cornish miners, their superstition, 7.

—— "Homo unius libri," 569.

—— longevity, 577.

—— phantom bells, 576.

—— pigs said to see the wind, 100.

—— Rosicrucians, 175.

—— serpents, notes on, 39.

—— women and tortoises, 535.

E. (J.) on Major André, 399.

E. (J. H.) on Richard Oswald, 549.

Elections, contested, 208.

* Electric telegraph, its discoverer, 364.

* Elizabeth (Queen) and her true looking-glass, 220.

—— and the Michaelmas goose, 368.

Ellacombe (H. T.) on bell-ringing for the dead, 130.

—— coffins, their shape, 104.

—— Colonel Hyde Seymour, 388.

—— door-head inscriptions, 454. 652.

—— female parish clerk, 475.

—— Mr. Justice Newton, 15.

—— Roger Outlawe, 5.

Elliot (Mr.), binder of the Harleian MSS., 335.

Elliott (R.) on Stewart's pantograph, 301.

Elliott (R. W.) on Beauty of Buttermere, 126.

—— books chained in churches, 206.

—— burial in erect posture, 630.

—— burial in unconsecrated places, 203.

—— Chicheley, archbishop of Canterbury, 198.

—— History of York, 125.

—— Holy Trinity Church, Hull, 638.

—— Lamb's unpublished Essay, 55.

—— Land of Green Ginger, 160. 522.

—— ornament in Crosthwaite Church, 55. 452.

—— ringing bells for the dead, 130.

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

Elly (Little), a mythological tale, 95.

Elsevir on portraits at Brickwall House, 573.

Elyot (Sir Thomas) noticed, 220. 276.

E. (M.) on colour of ink in writings, 30.

—— Dr. Doddridge, 516.

—— contested elections, 208.

—— Jeremy Taylor and Lord Hatton, 207.

—— Lachlan Macleane, 619.

—— longevity, 523. 655.

—— Lord North, 183.

—— Major André, 644.

—— national methods of applauding, 6.

—— portrait of Lee, 540.

—— red hair, 522.

—— "The Rebellious Prayer," 19.

* Emblem on a chimney-piece, 219.

Emblems of the precious stones, 539.

Emblems, works on, 88.

E. (M. M.) on Keiser Glomer, 126.

—— Tieck's Comœdia Divina, 126.

Encaustic tiles from Caen, 493. 547.

Encore, when first used, 387. 524.

Encyclopædicus on dictionaries and encyclopædias, 385.

Enfield palace, 271. 352.

Engin-à-verge explained, 65. 231.

Engraving, historical, 86.

Ennui, its modern use, 377. 523.

Enough, its pronunciation, 210.

Epaulettes, their origin, 244.

Epigrams, 8. 154.

Greek, 622.

Kemble, Willet, and Forbes, 8.

* MacAdam, 441.

Epitaphs:—

Alvechurch, Worcestershire, 274.

American, 491.

Appleby, Leicestershire, 196.

Cofton Hacket, 274.

Crayford, 363.

editor, 274.

enigmatical, at Christchurch in Hampshire, 147.

epitaphium Lucretiæ, 563.

Ireland, 513.

Leicestershire, 582.

Llangerrig, Montgomeryshire, 30.

Matilda, empress, 77.

Ombersley churchyard, 274.

Pewsey, Wiltshire, 274.

Politian at Florence, 537.

Robin of Doncaster, its original, 30.

Stalbridge, Dorsetshire, 289.

St. Andrew's Church, Worcester, 274.

Thomas Blount, 286.

Thomas Tipper, 147.

Torrington churchyard, Devon, 537.

Tuckett's wife, 274.

Wingfield church, Suffolk, 98.

Wood Ditton, 385.

Wordsworth's on Mrs. Vernon, 315.

Ἡραλδικος on Gresebrook in Yorkshire, 389.

Erica on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.

—— bees, 575.

—— burial of Ben Jonson, 455.

—— oaths, 471.

—— Warwickshire folk lore, 146.

Erin on Cromwell's descendants, 442.

Este on books chained in churches, 453.

—— day at our antipodes, 479.

—— lines "Earth says to earth," &c., 353.

—— passage in Tempest, 408.

—— Shakspeare, with a digest, 362.

Etiquette, a point of, 386. 527.

Etonensis on school libraries, 298.

Etymo on Cateaton Street, 540.

Eucharist, how administered, 292.

Euclid on British mathematicians, 541.

* Euripides, passages from, 198.

Evans (John) on medal of Mary Queen of Scots, 445.

Eve, etymology of the name, 655.

Evelyn (John), inscription on his tomb, 329.

E. (W.) on burial in unconsecrated ground, 527.

—— slow-worm superstition, 479.

—— receipt or recipe, 583.

Ewart (Wm.) on Harris's MS. sermons, 439.

—— Lord Chatham, 33.

—— Napoleon's bees, 30.

E. (W. F.) on Dr. Diamond's collodion process, 41.

Eye, the primary idea attached to it, 25. 204.

F.

F. on Mallet's second wife, 272.

—— passages from Euripides, 198.

—— passage in Virgil, 576.

—— "Short red, God red," &c., 182.

Faber on "Hauling over the coals," 125.

Fairies, propitiating the, 617.

Fairlie (Robert) noticed, 159.

Falahill, the house of, 134.

Falconer (Thos.) on case referred to in Hamlet, 123.

Farrer (Rev. James), his bequest of books, 369.

Fatal Mistake, by Jos. Hayns, 174.

Fauconberge family, 155.

* Fauntleroy, inquiry respecting, 270.

Faussett museum, 553. 656.

F. (C. E.) on albumenised paper, 373. 572.

—— glass chambers for photography, 133.

—— new process of positive proofs, 397.

F. (C. H.) on Matthew Lewis, 388.

Fecialis on Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson, 515.

Fenton on the forlorn hope, 411.

* Fenton (R.), translation of Athenæus, 198.

Ferguson (James F.), epitaph in Ireland, 513.

—— unlucky days, 305.

Ferguson (J. F.) on Captain Geo. Cusack, 272.

* Ferns wanted, 441.

Ferrand (D.) noticed, 243. 329.

Ferrar (Bishop), 103. 376.

F. (G. F.) on Old Fogie, 64.

Fiat Justitia on Paley's plagiarisms, 589.

Ficulnus on ballad of Bonnie Dundee, 19.

Fierce, a peculiar use of the word, 280. 352.

Figg (Wm.) on second growth of grass, 229.

* Fire-irons, their antiquity, 587.

First and last, their different meanings, 439.

* Fisher (Kitty) noticed, 440.

Fisher (P. H.) on the Court-House, Painswick, 596.

—— epitaphs unpublished, 30.

—— inscription near Cirencester, 129.

—— school libraries, 640.

Fitch (Joshua G.) on mottoes of German emperors, 170.

Fitzherbert (Anthony) noticed, 158. 276. 351.

Fitzsimons (R.) on Virgil, quoted by Dr. Johnson, 270.

F. (J.) on John Frewen, 296.

F. (J. W.) on "delighted" in Shakspeare, 241.

* Flemish refugees, 196.

Fleury (Cardinal), his regard for the Manx, 245.

* Floral directories, Catholic, 585.

Florin and the royal arms, 621.

Fogies, old, 64. 154. 256. 455. 652.

Folk Lore, 145. 215. 264. 360. 382. 512. 613-618.

Cambridgeshire, 382. 512.

Cheshire, 617.

Clare, 360.

Cornish, 618.

Derbyshire, 512.

Devonshire, 146. 265.

Hampshire, 617.

Lincolnshire (North), 382.

Manx, 617.

New Brunswick, 382.

Northamptonshire, 146. 216.

Nottinghamshire, 490.

Pennsylvanian, 615. 618.

Portuguese, 382.

Staffordshire, 618.

Warwickshire, 146. 490.

Worcestershire, 617.

Yorkshire, 617.

Font at Islip, 363.

Font, its position, 149. 234.

Foot-Guards, their uniform, 64.

Forbes (C.) on Boswell's Johnson, 551.

—— green eyes, 592.

—— plea for the horse, 287.

—— "Putting your foot into it," 159.

Foreign-English, specimens of, 137.

Forlorn hope, its origin, 411. 526. 569.

Forms of prayer, Occasional, 535.

Forrell, its derivation, 527.

Fortification, Greek and Roman, 469. 654.

Foss (Edward) on collar of SS., 398.

—— green pots at the Temple, 256.

—— judges styled Reverend, 276.

—— Littlecott, Sir John Popham, 218.

—— Mr. Justice Newton, 110.

—— Sir William Hankford, 342.

* Fossil trees between Cairo and Suez, 126.

Fox (Charles) and Gibbon, 312.

Foxes and Firebrands, reprint suggested, 172.

—— noticed, 485.

* Fox-hunting, its origin, 172.

Fox (Major-Gen. Charles) on Baretti's portrait, 477.

Franklin (Dr.), lines in his handwriting, 196. 281.

—— portrait by West, 208.

* Fraser (Gen.) noticed, 586.

Fraser (W.) on etymology of balderdash, 342.

—— Burke's Mighty Boar of the Forest, 136.

—— books burned by the common hangman, 625.

—— Canterbury see, its ancient privileges, 56.

—— chanting of jurors, 502.

—— cob-wall, 279.

—— confirmation, prejudice against, 440.

—— Convocation and Propagation Society, 100.

—— Convocation temp. George II, 465.

—— Devonshire charm for the thrush, 146.

—— Elijah's Mantle, its author, 295.

—— fierce, its peculiar use, 281.

—— French abbés, 102.

—— General Fraser, 586.

—— "Homo unius libri," 440.

—— Irish suffragan bishops, 256.

—— Jewish custom, 618.

—— judges styled Reverend, 631.

—— love charm from a foal's forehead, 606.

—— Mary Queen of Scots' medal, 293.

—— patriarchs of the West, 317.

—— singing psalms and politics, 230.

—— Speaker of the Commons in 1697, 152.

—— "stars the flowers of heaven," 346.

—— Terræ filius, its origin, 292.

—— "to speak in lutestring," 202.

Freher (Dionysius Andreas) noticed, 247.

* French abbés, their status, 102.

French (G. J.) on tiles from Caen, 547.

French, teaching a dog, 581.

French verse, 336.

Frere (Geo. E.) on Greek epigram, 622.

—— stage-coaches, 439.

Frewen (John) noticed, 222. 296.

Froissart's accuracy, 494. 604.

F. (R. W.) on second growth of grass, 102.

F. (T.) on Gen. Sir C. Napier, 631.

—— Major André, 277.

—— Scotch newspapers, 57.

Fuenvicouil [Fingal] and the giant, 610.

Funeral custom, 218.

Furvus on Nottinghamshire customs, 490.

—— saltpetre maker, 225.

F. (W. H.) on Picts' houses, 551.

F. (W. M.) on collodion pictures, 181.

—— cyanuret of potassium, 157.

—— Dr. Parr's letter on Milton, 433.

—— lining of cameras, 157.

—— multiplying photographs, 158.

—— trial of lenses, 133.

G.

G. on Dr. James Anderson, 198.

—— consecrated roses, 135.

—— Earl of Oxford, 392.

—— German heraldry, 204.

—— helmets, 645.

—— Lady Percy, 104.

—— pedigree indices, 453.

—— Queen Anne's motto, 255.

—— quotation in Bishop Watson, 587.

—— Tradescant's marriage, 513.

—— Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson, 552.

Gage (Thomas), author of the New Survey of the West Indies, 144.

Gale of rent, its meaning, 563. 655.

Galilei (Galileo), sonetto by, 295.

Ganske on La Blanche des réaus Lignages, 150.

Gantillon (P. J. F.) on "Amentium haud Amantium," 136.

—— burial in unconsecrated ground, 527.

—— Burke's marriage, 134.

—— Edinburgh Review, reference, 152.

—— Fenton's translation of Athenæus, 198.

—— Fragments in Athenæus, 104.

—— Hodgson's Atys of Catullus, 563.

—— Jacob Bobart, 159.

—— "Johnson's turgid style," 526.

—— misquotations, 315.

—— "old dog," use of the phrase, 208.

—— Presbyterian titles, 127.

—— quotation from Byron, 305.

—— "rathe" in the sense of "early," 208.

—— rhymes on places, 305.

—— topsy-turvy, 526.

* Gardiner (Bp.), De verâ Obedientâ, 54.

Gardiner (H.) on the word mob, 631.

—— nightingale's song, 652.

Gardiner (W.) on The Forsaken Nymph, 444.

Gardner (J. D.) on "Up, Guards, and at them!" 184.

Garland (John) on Nash the architect, 79.

Garlichithe on Milton's widow, 134. 594.

—— on Sir John Vanbrugh, 160.

* Garrick Street. May Fair, 411.

Garter, lines on the institution of the Order, 53. 182. 479.

Gascoigne (C. J.), his tomb, 278. 342.

Gatty (Alfred) on bells at Berwick-upon-tweed, 293.

—— mitigation of capital punishment, 42.

Gaunt (John of), his descendants, 155. 268.

G. (C. P.) on La Fleur des Saintes, 410.

G. (C. S.) on oaths, 364.

G. (C. W.) on daughter pronounced dafter, 292.

—— serpent with a human head, 304.

G. (E. A.) on Martyn the regicide, 621.

G. (E. C.) on muffs worn by gentlemen, 63.

Gedge (Sydney) on nightingale's song, 112.

Geering (Richard), his arms and pedigree, 340. 504.

Genealogy, catalogue of privately-printed books on, 606.

Geneva arms, 563.

* Genitive and plural, analogy between, 411.

Gentry, return of, temp. Henry VI., 469. 630.

Geometrical curiosity, 468.

George III. reviewing the 10th Light Dragoons, 538.

—— a mark of his dislike of the Prince of Wales, 538.

German, or Christmas tree, 619.

German emperors, mottoes of, 170. 548.

—— heraldry, 150. 204.

* —— phrase, 150.

Getsrn on bibliography, 62.

—— cleaning old oak, 59.

—— edifices of ancient and modern date, 81.

—— shoulder knots and epaulettes, 244.

G. (F. J.) on an Indian word, 539.

G. (H. T.) on analogy between genitive and plural, 411.

—— "came," its early use, 468.

—— tenets, or tenents, 453.

Gibbings (Robert) on riddle in Aulus Gellius, 322.

Gibbon (Edward), his library, 88. 208.

—— his letters quoted, 247.

——, lines on his promotion to the Board of Trade, 312.

Gibson (Wm. Sidney) on Petrarch's Laura, 562.

—— the state prison in the Tower, 509.

Gilbert family, 18.

Gilbert (James) on the Gilbert family, 18.

Ginger, its cultivation in England, 227.

G. (J.) on marriage of cousins, 525.

G. (J. M.) on books chained in churches, 595.

—— historical engraving, 86.

G. (K.) on Bp. Patrick, 103.

Glaius on Cambridge graduates, 525.

—— return of gentry temp. Henry VI., 469.

—— the Rothwell family, 243.

Glossarial queries, 294.

Glover's handwriting, 589.

Gloves at fairs, 136. 421. 601.

G. (M. L.) on female parish clerk, 475.

G. (M. R.) on Father Matthew's chickens, 469.

Göthe's author-remuneration, 29.

Goldsmith's Haunch of Venison, 640.

Gole (Russell) on attainment of majority, 371.

—— female parish clerk, 474.

—— hand in Bishop's Cannings Church, 269.

—— marriage custom at Knutsford, 617.

—— mitred abbot in Wroughton Church, 411.

G. (O. L. R.) on Ballina Castle, 411.

—— Bishop Grehan, 440.

—— Hodgkins's tree, Warwick, 410.

—— M‘Dowall family, 563.

—— Siller gun of Dumfries, 412.

—— vault at Richmond, Yorkshire, 388.

Gordon (G. J. R.) on Dotinchem, 151.

Gorran (Nicholas de) noticed, 81.

Gough (Henry) on arms of Richard, King of the Romans, 454.

—— burial in an erect posture, 455.

—— effigies in wood, 455.

—— hand in Bishop's Cannings Church, 454.

—— heraldic query, 480.

—— Stafford knot, 454.

Gout, Abp. Lancaster's cure for the, 6.

G. (R.) on Bp. Gardener, "De verâ Obedientiâ," 54.

—— Lord Cecil's Memorials, 502.

—— Laodicean council, 87.

—— "pinece with a stink," 350.

—— portable altars, 183.

Grab, its derivation, 466.

Graeff (Andries de), his portrait, 573.

Grafton (third Duke of) noticed, 238.

Grammar in relation to logic, 514. 629.

Grammont's Mémoires, notes on, 461. 549.

—— his marriage, 549.

Granville family, their arms, 265.

Grass, its second growth, 102. 229.

Graves (J.) on Bohn's edition of Hoveden, 11.

—— manners of the Irish, 111.

—— pedigree of Sir Francis Bryan, 564.

—— real signatures, 94.

Gravestone falsified at Stratford, 124.

Gray, "The ploughman homeward plods," 241.

Grayan (A.) on sights and exhibitions temp. James I., 558.

Gray's Inn, list of students, 540. 650.

* Greek Church, canonisation in, 292.

—— epigram, 622.

—— inscription on a font, 198. 352.

Green (Dr. J. H.) and Coleridge, 43.

Green eyes, 407. 592.

Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.

* Green's Secret Plot, 79.

* Grehan (Bishop) noticed, 440.

Gresebrook in Yorkshire, 389.

Griffin on Dr. Misaubin, 8.

Griffith (H. T.) on books chained in churches, 273.

—— "Clamour your tongues," 254.

—— detached belfry towers, 185.

—— Hewit, Sir William, 270.

—— "Inter cuncta micans," &c., 230.

Groaning-board, 309.

—— elm plank in Dublin, 397.

Gulielmus on Webb and Walker families, 386.

Gurney's Short-hand, 589.

Gw. on Hayns' Fatal Mistake, 174.

—— Pætus and Arria, 219.

—— Professional Poems, 244.

G. (W. H.) on Duport's lines to Izaak Walton, 193.

G. (W. S.) on inscription near Chalcedon, 151.

—— Istamboul: Constantinople, 148.

—— oblation of a white bull, 1.

—— Rome and the number Six, 490.

H.

H. on day at the Antipodes, 102.

—— Duval family, 318.

—— Flaxman's Æschylus, 622.

—— General Wall, 318.

—— lane, its meaning, 366.

—— Lessons for Lent, the author, 150.

—— manners of the Irish, 4.

—— white cats being deaf, 135.

H, the letter, in humble, 54. 229. 298. 393. 551.

H. (A.) on Sir C. Wren and the young carver, 340.

Hackney-coach proclamation, 122.

Haden (F. Seymour) on Historical Account of Libraries, 653.

Hale (Philip) on fragments of MSS., 77.

Halifax (Lord) and Mrs. Catherine Barton, 429. 543. 590.

Halliwell (J. O.) on coincident suggestions on the text of Shakspeare, 265.

—— digest of Shakspearian readings, 466.

Hampden (John), his death, 495. 646.

* Hampton Court pictures, 538.

* Handel's Dettingen Te Deum, 388.