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Murray (Dr. J. H. H.) on "From pillar to post," 528 Norden (John), his 'Speculum Britanniæ,' 12, 75, 198
Horse-pew: horse-block, 27

Photography, 367, 450

Photo-lithograph, 447

Phrenesiac, 447

Pickeridge: Puckeridge, 367
Piece-broker, 367

Pig swine hog, 407

Ply, 110

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N. (M.) on lonning, 70

N. (Y.) on Hebrew traditions, 429

Messiah name of the Lord, 529

Nadgairs, its meaning, 49, 213
Napoleon on Byron, 147

National Anthem, first, 249, 332

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Naval and Military Academy, Scottish, 212, 274
Naylor (Dr.), his Elizabethan Virginal Book,' 287
Neck and heels, early mention of the punishment, 465
Nelson (Horatio, Lord), and Cardinal York, 106; his
signal at Trafalgar, 321, 370, 411, 471, 533; his
royal descent, 322; colour of his uniform, 326, 370;
his patent of peerage, 365; music of 'The Death of
Nelson,' 365, 412, 450, 490; pronunciation of
Trafalgar, 385, 481; monody on his death, 407,
450; memorial rings, 421; his coat and Admiral
Westphal's blood, 445

Nelson (Lord) on Nelson and Cardinal York, 106
Nelson (Horatio), transmission of Christian name, 365
Nelson (Rev. Joseph), vicar of Skipwith, 441
Nelson (Thomas Horatio), 441

Nelson Column, its dimensions, 175

Nelson panoramas, 365

Nelson poems, 186, 329, 407, 450

Nelson recollections, 322

Nelsoniana, 445

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Nesbitt (M. S.) on Richard II.' and 'The Spanish
Tragedy,' 323

Nevill (R.) on Cromwell Fleetwood, 74

New v. old style in chronology, 173

New England, 1652, funds for preaching in, 329
'New English Dictionary.' See Historical English
Dictionary.

Newcome (W. F.) on 'The Arms of Abraham,' 409
Newland (Sir Abraham) and Newlands, Chalfont
St. Peter, 148, 213, 276, 457

Newspaper leading articles, their three paragraphs,

128

Newspapers, London, of the eighteenth century, 510
Newspapers not read by Prime Ministers, 146
Newton (Prof. A.) on Brisson's 'Ornithologie,' 105
Nicklin (T.) on drownd: deerhound, 306
Nield (J.) on author of Whitefriars,' 447
Nile, Pocock's paintings of the battle, 468

Nixon (John Rolt), his Early Wild Flowers,' 29 50
Noblesse, lacking in England, 69, 157

Norfolk, William of Wykeham and, 130
Norman (P.) on Christ's Hospital, 310

Norman inscriptions in Yorkshire, 16
Norris (J. A.) on Oxford matriculations, 290
Northampton, Royal Oak Day observance at, 31
Northamptonshire, Heralds' visitations, 1681, 530
Northamptonshire dialect, 172

North Midland on lonning, 29
Splitting fields of ice, 513

"That same," 515

Norway, Haakon VII., King of, 466
Norwich Court Rolls, 489

'Notes and Queries,' three generations contributors
to, 140

Nothe, the, Weymouth, its derivation, 169
Nouns and verbs differently pronounced, 64
Numismatic guide wanted, 288, 375
Nursery rimes: Pop goes the weasel, 54, 209
Nuttall (J. R.) on Ythancæster, Essex, 90
Nutting and the Devil's nutbag, 265, 358, 396
O. (B. I.) on black images of the Madonna, 305
O. (S. W.) on Sir William De Lancey, 409
Oakapple Day observances, 30, 132

Oates (J.) on St. Paulinus and the Swale, 168
Obituaries:-

Adams (Frederick), 499

Butler (Dr. James Davie), 480
Campbell (Rev. Bunbury FitzGerald), 499
Foster (Joseph), 199

Jackson (Francis M.), 60
Marshall (George William), 258
Sage (Edward John), 480, 540
Sotheran (Henry), 118

Sykes (James), 440

Vane (Rev. and Hon. Gilbert Holles Farrer), 100
Oblivion, Sir Thomas Browne on, 128, 214
"Of" after "inside," "outside," &c., 168
Officers, general, c. 1830, 107

Officers of State in Ireland, 149, 214, 314

O'Hagan (Mr. Justice), his acrostic on Jack and
Jill, 153

Oldenbuck (Aldobrand) on William Miller's engrav
ings, 437

Oliver (A.) on Dickensian London, 35

Jack and Jill, 13

Olorenshaw family, 66

'Omar Khayyam,' FitzGerald's first edition, 1859,
105; bibliography, 249

Ondatra, etymology of the word, 406

Onlooker on Sarah Curran and Robert Emmet, 310
Organ-builder, early, at Oxford, 183
Oriental on The Eve of St. Agnes,' 449
Ormskirk Church, Lancashire, its two steeples, 415
Ostermayer (Jehan), sixteenth-century musician, 287
Owen (D.) on coop, to trap, 358

Puggle, 486

Oxberry (J.) on electric railways, 406

Hyphens after street names, 515

Oxford Circus, earliest use of the name, 527
Oxford University: foundation of Magdalen College
and School, 21, 101, 154, 182, 244, 364; of Corpus
Christi College, 23; matriculations at, 290
Oxoniensis on Cromwell's death, 307

Matthew (Roger), vicar of Bloxham, 1605-57, 488

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P. (J. C.) on Looping the loop, 333

P. (M.) on bird in the breast, 448

Duelling in Germany, 388
Protestant, 427

Screaming skull, 194

P. (N. P.) on Nelson's patent of peerage, 365
P. (R. S. V.) on tinterero, 267

P. (W. H. W.) on quotations wanted, 127
P. (W. M.) on Civil War earthworks, 453
Cole (W.), Cambridge antiquary, 495
Rain caught on Holy Thursday, 447
Pace (Rev. William) and Admiral Hays, 9

Packs of sixty cards with eleven and twelve spots, 28
Pagan, derivation of the word, 304

Page (J. T.) on à Becket, 214

Besant on Dr. Watts, 38

Cheshire words, 332

Cromwell swords, 288

Detached belfries, 290

Footpaths, 125

Gibbets, 296

Greyfriars burial-ground, 253

Hazlitt (John) and Samuel Sharwood, 57

Heraldry, 349

'Light of the World,' 131

Olorenshaw family, 66

Robinson Crusoe, 357

Royal Oak Day, 30
Rushbearing, 216
Screaming skull, 331

Spanish lady's love for an Englishman, 153
"Tertias of foot," 12
'Veni, Creator,' 137
Yorkshire dialect, 170

Palestine, its soil placed in Jewish coffins, 113
Palindrome: Sator arepo, 35, 175

Palmer (Henry) = Elizabeth Borrett, 288
Palmer (J. Foster) on detectives in fiction, 456
Duelling in Germany, 455
"Famous" Chelsea, 434
Leech (John), 107
Pig swine: hog, 449
Shakespeariana, 443
Trafalgar, 431

Panopticon mentioned by Lamb, 127, 215, 297
Panoramas, Nelson, 365

Paper, etymology of the word, 164

Parallel passage: Beckford and Rabelais, 264

Pardoe (Avern) on forests set on fire by lightning, 153
Paris, old, its topography, 309, 374; its prisons at
the Revolution, 349, 394

Parish, country, population of, 428, 495
Parish records, neglected, 186, 255
Parker (Archbishop), his consecration and "suffragan"
bishops, 430

Parker family, 15, 94

Parks (W. H.) on Severance as a proper name, 148
Parliamentary whips, 507

Parliaments, dates of prorogation, 145'

Parry (T. H.) on William Shelley, 492

Parsloes Hall, Essex, its history, 34

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Missal, The,' 34

Pigmies and cranes, 417

Sea walls, their repair, 187

Suicides buried in open fields, 397
Tholsels, 516

Thornbury on the Civil War, 148

Worfield churchwardens' accounts, 416

Yorkshire dialect, 170, 190

Peacock (Janet L.) on Lincolnshire death folk-lore, 465
Peacock (M. H.) on Cumberland dialect, 294

Pigmies and cranes, 356

Prisoner suckled by his daughter, 353

Pearse (H. W.) on Pearse family, 189

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Penny (F.) on hickery-puckery, 232

Punch, the beverage, 531
Vaughan, Edward, 309

Penny (F. P.) on club cup, 327
Penteus or Punteus (John), c. 1700, 189
Pepysiana, 172

Perreau (Robert), his trial, 186

Perry whimptering, use of the word, 127
Perthshire on Robertson of Struan, 150
Peter-corn, origin of the custom, 350, 397

Peters (Rev. M. W.), his picture of Te Fortune-
Teller,' 390

Petherick (E. A.) on Lawson's 'New Guinea,' 456

Nelson's signal, 471

Philippina: philopoena, its name, 254
Phillips (W.) on scallions, 327

Phipps (Col. R. W.) on prisons in Paris, 394
Phonetics of the Far East, 8
Phoorea, ghost-word, 105

Photography, origin of the term, 367, 435, 450, 490
Photo-lithograph, use before 1870, 447
Phrenesiac, word in 'Waverley,' 447
Piccadilly, Egyptian Hall, its history, 37
Piccaninny, etymology of the word, 27, 128, 255, 317
Pickeridge: puckeridge, origin of the words, 367, 495
Pickering (J. E. L.) on "Pop goes the weasel," 54
Pickford (J.) on Cheshire words, 332

Coop, to trap, 358

Cricket: pictures and engravings, 132, 238

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Pickford (J.) on Sarah Curran and Robert Emmet, 111 Pitt (Col.), 1711, bis wife, 206, 333, 375

Dante's sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti, 277

Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 37

Eton School Lists, 314

Fate of the Tracys, 192

Fitzherbert (Mrs.), 530
Gibbets, 376

Jefferyes (Capt. J.), 496
Nelsoniana, 445

Nelson's signal, 533
Piccaninny, 255

Punch, the beverage, 531

Quotations wanted, 68, 168, 294
Rushbearing, 216

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Satan's autograph,
Screaming skull, 252
"Tertias of foot," 12

Pictures: inspired by music, 9, 57, 91; of cricket,
9, 95, 132, 215, 238, 496; of Old and New Testa-
ment subjects, 57; of Church history, 107; as
signs, 169, 218; of scenes in 'Julius Cæsar' and
'Romeo and Juliet,' 169, 234

Piece-broker explained, 367, 391, 412

Pier, earliest use of the word, 387, 451, 491

Pierpoint (R.) on American Civil War verses, 296
"Bear Bible," Spanish, 189

Brougham Castle, 293
Buchanan (George), 234

Charlemagne's Roman ancestors, 116

Cheshire words, 414

Christie (J. H.), 252

Cope of Bramshill, 97

Davies (Sir George), 36

Dickens or Wilkie Collins? 255

Drake (Sir Francis) and Chigwell Row, 416

Duelling, its suppression in England, 333
Eton School Lists, 356

Fermor, 393

Fleet Street, No. 53, 314

George III.'s birthday, 173

Kniaz, 152, 334

Gibbon, ch. lvi. note 81, 272

Looping the loop, 65

Lundy Island, 16

Luther's Commentary on the Galatians, 156

Moon and hair-cutting, 234

Moxhay (Mr.), Leicester Square showman, 35

Polish royal genealogy, 196

Quotations wanted, 208

'Villikins and his Dinah,' 318

Pig, use of the word, 407, 449, 510, 536

Pigeon and death folk-lore, 515

Pitt-Lewis (G.) on Love's Labour's Lost,' 32
Pitts (J.), printer of Seven Dials, 469
Place-names, American, 155

Planche, place-name, its meaning, 389
Plantagenets, their descendants, 528

Platt (H. E. P.), his 'Byways in the Classics, 261,
352, 435

Platt (J.), Jun., on Almansa, 315

'Arabian Nights,' 409

Ascham (Roger): Schedule, 216
Badges, 55

'Bathilda,' 93

Belot (Adolphe), 46

Bombay Grab, 177

Detectives in fiction, 456

Dumas, its pronunciation, 189
"Famous" Chelsea, 517

Herero, its pronunciation, 527
Hickery-puckery, 87
Ithamar, 438
Kabafutoed, 335
Klimius (Nicholas), 153
Kniaz, 152, 193
Man of noses, 125
March (Ausias), 469
Melisande: Ettarre, 156

Mereday, Christian name, 334

Ondatra: its origin, 406

Paunches, a kind of silk, 366

"Pearls cannot equal the whiteness of his teeth,"
355

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Ply: to ply, etymology of the verb, 44, 110
Pocock (Nicholas), his paintings of battle of Nile, 468
Poem in Welsh, containing only vowels, 208, 392, 516

Pilgrim of eternity," applied to Byron, 68, 158, 213 Poets, English, and the Armada, 346, 414
Pillars, Adam's Commemorative, 69, 136

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Pope (F. J.) on private library, c. Charles I., 303
Population of a country parish, 428, 495
Portraits, engraved index of, 200

Portraits which have led to marriages, 92

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Prisoner suckled by his daughter, 307, 358, 432
Prisoners' clothes as perquisites, 96

Prisons in Paris during the Revolution, 349, 394
Probates, index of, 188, 277

Potemkin, its transliteration and pronunciation, 152, Pronunciation, nouns and verbs, 64
193

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Anstice (Joseph), 150, 172
'Arabian Nights,' 513

'Chevy Chase,' 155

Christ's Hospital, 355

Coliseums, old and new, 176

Concerts of Antient Music, 49
Correct, 294

'Coryate's Crudities,' 195

Cromwell House, Highgate, 489
Crown Street, Soho, 373

Dekker's Gull's Hornbook,' 227

Evans Symonds: Hering: Garden, 454

"Famous" Chelsea, 470

Greyfriars burial-ground, 253
Herrick's' Hesperides, 1648, 482

Hollicke or Holleck, co. Middlesex, 77

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Hookes's Amanda,' 301

Ithamar, 516

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Prorogation of Parliaments, 145

Protestant, for member of the Church of England, 427
Proverbs and Phrases :-

A d'autres, dénicheur de merles, 504
Bird in the breast, 448
Bush and grease, 207
Character is fate. 405
Crying down credit, 40

Dying beyond my means, 127
Eau bénite de cour, 505

Facts are stubborn things, 204
Fate of the Tracys, 128, 192, 274
Graisser la patte, 505

Growing down, like a cow's tail, 264

Il ne faut pas mettre tous ses œufs dans un panier,
505

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Quenington, Gloucestershire, its history, 36
Quillan or Quillin surname and arms, 206, 253
Quince and mulberry folk-lore, 386, 438
Quotations:

A maiden's dreaming, 509

A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, 460
A peacock on every wall, 468

A rose-red city half as old as Time, 435
Alas! for man who has no sense, 68

All quiet along the Potomac, 230, 297, 354
Aliudque cupido, Mens aliud suadet, 480
An original something, fair maid, 529

As Dutchmen hear of earthquakes in Calabria, 247

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Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded gate, 529
Fly, envious Time, 460

Fountain-heads and pathless groves, 350, 390
Gashed with honourable scars, 540
Hence, all you vain delights, 350, 390
I lay me down, hoping to sleep, 140
I live for those who love me, 280

I who a decade past had lived recluse, 208, 334

If by each rose we see,
127

I've no money, so you see, 38

Lame dogs over stiles, 38

L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, 92
Last eve I paused beside a blacksmith's door, 249,

492

Les grandes douleurs sont muettes, 16

Libris autem morientibus, 154

Like as the waves make for the pebbled shore,
168, 197

Love and sorrow twins were born, 488

Love [Fame ?] flees from the cold one, 509
Love in phantastick triumph sat, 48, 132, 212
Love that groweth unto faith, 249
Mon verre n'est pas grand, 92
Mox ruet et bustum, 154

Nobile virtutis genus est patientia, 369, 417
O! for a booke and a shadie nooke, 229
Oh, don't the days seem limp and long, 92
Oh, that there may be nothing! If again, 28
Parva sed apta, 387

Pearls cannot equal the whiteness of his teeth,
307, 355

Qui souvent se pèse, 14

She has come unarray'd in the pomp, 208

She never found fault with you, 249, 316
Sorrow tracketh wrong, 10, 273, 353

Still like the hindmost chariot wheel is cursed, 529
Straight is the line of duty, 180
Swayed by every wind, 92

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis, 86
That life is long which answers life's great end,
10, 158

The fate of the Tracys, 128, 192, 274
The hand that rocks the cradle, 447
The most eloquent of ancient writers, 287, 393
The red moon is up, 340

The tombs of McClean and McLeod, 249
The trappings of a monarchy would set up, 488
There is a form on which these eyes, 127
There is so much good in the worst of us, 168
There shall no tempests blow, 12, 96
These are the Britons, a barbarous race, 510
They made her a grave too cold and damp, 340
This too shall pass away, 368, 435, 456
Those only deserve a monument, 488

Those temples, pyramids, and piles tremendous,
260

Quotations:-

Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, 468
Thoughts that do often lie, 100

To maintain the day against the moment, 168, 197
To make his destiny his choice, 488

Totum sume, fluit, 350, 391

Unanswered yet? the prayer your lips, 220, 346]
Un jour de fête, 92

Warm summer sun, shine friendly here, 135
We eat what we can, 260
When danger's rife, 440

When in doubt-don't, 408

Who lights the faggot? not the full faith, 10
Whose part in all the pomp that fills, 529
With a heart of furious fancies, 68, 134
With kind confiding eyes raised up, 509
Words may be as angels, 127

Yet all these were, when no man, 468, 513
R. (A. F.) on His Majesty and motor car, 7
Spongeitis, 347

R. (B.) on Warwickshire charter, 128
R. (D. M.) on Quotations wanted, 158
Welsh mutations, 286
Welsh poem, 392

R. (E. L.) on Elizabeth Milton, 149
R. (J. F.) on Lord Chesterfield, 158

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Coryat's Crudities,' 49

French Revolution pottery, 228

R. (R. T.) on 'Poetic Works by a Weird,' 489
R. (W.) on Anthony Bec, 369

Quotations wanted, 509

Rabelais and Beckford, 264

Rabi'ah, son of Mukaddam, pronunciation of the
names, 449, 515

Radcliffe (Ann), novelist, d. 1823, her biography, 9, 76
Radcliffe (Ann), poetess, d. 1767, her biography, 9, 76
Radcliffe (J.) on Academy of the Muses, 54

Almsmen, Westminster Abbey, 236
Child executed for witchcraft, 38
Enderby (Sir W.), 9
Fermor, 393

Gytha, mother of Harold II., 232
House of Lords, 1625-60, 36
Lulach, King of Scotland, 178
Mint at Leeds, 51

Rates in aid, 53

Wood (G.), clockmaker, 68

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Raddidoo wideawake hat, Yorkshire term, 68
Rae (C. D.) on Birch on Whitsunday, 87

Raglan (Lord) on Den and Brice families, 326
Railway, first Belgian, 267, 475; earliest electric, 406
Rain caught on Holy Thursday, 447, 497
Rainsford (F.) on Rainsford Hall, 349
Rainsford Hall, co. Lancaster, picture of, 349
Ralling (J. F.) on quotations wanted, 127

Ramsay (David), his 'Military Memoirs of Great
Britain,' 68

Randolph (J. A.) on detached belfries, 207

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