NOTES AND QUERIES
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"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOLUME FOURTH.
JULY-DECEMBER, 1851.
LONDON:
GEORGE BELL, 186. FLEET STREET.
1852.
NOTES AND QUERIES INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.
Transcriber's Note: See [list of Vol. IV page numbers] at the end of this index.
A.
Abacot, its derivation, 176.
Abercrombie, the two Drs., 353.
Aberdoniensis on the publication of the Doomsday Book of Scotland, 7.
---- on the late Sir J. Graham Dalyell, 35.
---- on sculptured stones in Scotland, 86.
---- on an early French printer, 234.
---- on a MS. History of Scotland, 316.
---- on giving ash-sap to children, 380.
Abigail, its application to a lady's maid, 424.
Abridgment of the Assizes, noticed, 41.
Absalom's hair, 131. 243.
Absalon (James F.) on "Kings have their conquests," 294.
A. (C.) on the pronunciation of Coke and Cowper, 24.
---- on various anagrams, 297.
Ackey trade, its meaning, 40. 142.
Acta Sanctorum, on its completion, 7.
Ἀδελφὸς, note on the word, 339. 458. 486.
Advent, or St. Teen, 99.
Adventurer in 1632, who was he? 4.
A. (E.) on Cromwell grants of land in Monaghan, 87.
---- on siege in Londonderry, 87.
Ægina, the island of, 255. 412. 508.
Ægrotus on Nelson's coat, 114.
---- on an English translation of Nonnus, 115.
---- on an English translation of Alcon, 117.
---- on the Duke of Normandy, 149.
---- on Herschel anticipated, 233.
---- on Sanford's Descensus, 232.
---- on the recall of the Duke of Wellington, 233.
---- on a physiological query, 233.
---- on Locke's manuscripts, 243.
---- on the Soul's Errand, 274.
---- on White's illustrations to Dryden, 294.
---- on Mary Queen of Scots, 313.
---- on cause of transparency, 406.
---- on lines attributed to Byron, 473.
---- on Paul Hoste, a Jesuit, 474.
A. (E. H.) inquiry respecting Rev. H. Bourne, 23.
---- on the Burton family, 22.
---- on Yorkshire fellowships at Oxford, 256.
---- on consecration of bishops in Sweden, 345.
---- on traditions from remote periods, 484.
---- on Bishop Trelawney's case in parliament, 484.
Æra, its derivation, 383. 454.
Aeronaut on bones of birds, 294.
Æsop, as usually represented, 174.
A. (F.) on Lady Petre's monument, 74.
---- on passage in Jeremy Taylor, 435.
A. (F. R.) on Charles Dodd, the church historian, 11.
---- on Miserrimus, 37.
---- on Carli the economist, 242.
Agla, meaning of, 116. 370.
Agricola on meaning of aneroid, 295.
Ague, cure for, 53. 111. 251.
Ajax on the Cagots and Cretins, 331.
---- on written and extempore sermons, 41.
A. (J. J.) on "Crowns have their conquests," 428.
A. (J. S.) on sale by candle, 383.
Albion on Sir Edmund Plowden, 319.
Alcon, English translation of, 117.
Aldgate, London, a note on, 131.
Alfieri, inedited letter of, 222.
Algor (John) on the Burton family, 124.
---- on Arbor Lowe and Stanton Moor, 390.
Alkald (St.), noticed, 445.
Allason (T.) on "Worse than a crime," 274.
Alleman (Querelle d'), notices of the family, 238.
Allport (Douglas) on peace illumination 1802, 77.
---- on William Hone, 105.
Almanac, a mental, 201. 341.
---- of 1550, 4.
Alpha on Carli and Italian writers, 175.
---- on prophecy respecting France, 471.
Alterius orbis papa, its origin, 11. 75. 489.
Altrou, note on duration of reigns, 312.
---- on print cleaning, 326.
---- on Herschel anticipated, 509.
Amadis de Gaule, early translation of, 85.
Amanuensis on Wm. Lovel of Tarent Rawson, 190.
Amanuensis (2) on the British Sidanen, 424.
Amateur on Dictionary of Musicians, 444.
Anagrams, 226. 297. 327. 350. 405.
Aneroid, its meaning, 295. 356.
Anglesey, History of, its author, 317. 453.
Anglo-Catholic Library, Overall's Convocation Book, 365. 408.
Annals of Dunagall, noticed, 41.
Annals of Ulster, account of, 41.
Anonymous Ravennas, 122.
Antiquariensis on Macfarlane's Geographical Collections, 407.
Ants of India, 231.
Apple trees, offerings to, 309.
Arabic inscriptions, the principle for decyphering, 266. 332. 382.
Arbor Lowe and Stanton Moor, 274. 390.
Armorial bearings unknown, 58. 330.
Armstrong (Edward) on the Gookins of Kent, 103.
Arrow-head, or broad arrow, 315. 371. 412.
Article XX., on a supposed forged clause, 87.
Art'rizde, meaning of, 272.
Arun on Fairlight church, 57.
---- on bells in churches, 165.
---- on the willow garland, 193.
Arundelian collection, its dispersion, 361.
A. (S.) on sacre cheveux, 208.
Ash-sap given to new-born children, 273. 380.
Ashton faggot burnt on Christmas eve, 309.
Aster, the Latin termination, 59.
Athenians, torture among, 423.
Aubry de Montdidier's dog, 231.
Aulus Gellius' description of a dimple, 134. 285.
Authors of antiquity, recovery of the lost, 282.
A. (W.) on Gen. James Wolfe, 323.
---- on Chantry's statue of Mrs. Jordan, 332.
ΑΞΩΝ on the derivation of ear-wig, 274.
Ayre family, particulars of, 274. 390.
B.
B. on a Kelso convoy, 176.
---- on Cardinal Wolsey in the stocks, 176.
---- on Royal Registers, 474.
---- on house at Welling, 502.
B. (A.) on the Winchester execution, 317.
---- on descendants of John of Gaunt, 343.
B. (A. F.) on prenzie, in Measure for Measure, 63.
---- on the word rack, in the Tempest, 121.
---- on the pendulum demonstration, 129. 277.
---- on Bede's Mental Almanack, 201. 341. 436.
---- on Martial's distribution of hours, 273.
---- on MS. note in Liber Sententiarum, 326.
---- on the Aneroid barometer, 356.
---- on Shakspeare's league and log-ship, 379.
---- on the Rev. Richard Farmer, 428.
Bacon, a poet, 474. 506.
Bacon (Lord), poet referred to by him, 257.
Badger, is it amphibious? 474.
Baily's Annuities, spurious edition of, 19.
Baker's daughter becomes an owl, 269.
Banks family, notices of, 71.
Bannel (K.) on meaning of nervous, 7.
Banstead Downs, wells near, 315. 492.
Barnwell (George), notice of a play by, 483.
Baroner, its meaning, 232.
Baronette, or banneret, 44. 164.
Barrister, its etymology, 472.
Bartanus on pregnant women taking an oath, 214.
---- on early muster rolls, 367.
Barton (Catharine), her maiden name, 11.
Barton (Wm.), notices of Wm. Hone, 25.
---- on Pope and Flatman, 132.
Baskerville the printer, notices of, 40. 123. 211.
Basnet family, notices of, 77.
Bathurst (Dominus), who was he? 345.
Bay on Banks family, 71.
Bayley (Wm. D'Oyly) on Domingo Lomelyne, 194.
B. (B.) on colonies in England, 371.
---- on Roman Index Expurgatorius, 487.
---- on perpetual lamp, 501.
B. (C.) on the meaning of prenzie, 11.
---- on Bicêtre, or Vincestre, 13.
---- on Jonah and the whale, 45.
---- on sardonic smiles, 72.
---- on "Heu quanto minus," 73.
---- on Dryden and Oldham, 93.
---- on the Cagots and Cretins, 331.
---- on Lycian inscriptions, 488.
B. (C. H.) on the derivation of spon, 29.
B. (C. W.) on the expression "In print," 12.
---- on a sketch of Bogatsky, 44.
---- on Lady Hopton, 97.
---- on Ussher's works, 110.
---- on Lady Elizabeth Horner, 131.
---- on the late William Hone, 241.
Bealby (H. M.), notes on newspapers, 98. 418.
Beaumont (Wm.) on Grimesditch, 331.
Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor, 154.
Bed, lines on, 175.
Bede's Mental Almanack, 201. 341. 436.
Bees informed of a death, 270. 308. 436.
B. (E. H.) on curious facts in natural history, 189.
---- on mazer-wood and sin-eaters, 211.
B. (E. I.) on verses presented to General Monck, 421.
Bellarmin's monstrous paradox, 45. 103.
Bell-house, a Saxon, 102. 178.
Bells in churches, 165. 241.
B. (E. M.) on Spenser's portraits, 101.
---- on Spenser's Faerie Queene, 133.
Benbow on the cycle of the moon, 102.
Bene't Fink (St.), its monumental inscriptions, 407. 491.
Bensleys of Norwich, 115. 241.
Berlin mean time, how reckoned, 256. 355.
Bernard (St.), passage in, 133.
Berth, its etymology, 83. 212.
Berwick and Alva (Duke de), 133. 244.
Beuno (St.), notices of, 424.
Beville on portrait of Dryden, 59.
B. (F.) on parochial names, 153.
B. (F. J.) on armorial bearings, 58.
ב. on locusts of the New Testament, 351.
---- on cross-legged effigies, 458.
B. (H. A.) on Dictionary of Hackneyed Quotations, 405.
---- on frontispiece to Hobbes' Leviathan, 487.
Bhaugulpore, round towers at, 442.
B. (H. H.) on inscription on an oak-board, 109.
---- on churches decorated at Christmas, 109.
---- on the mistletoe, 110.
---- on curfew-bell at Charleston, 240.
Bible divination in Suffolk, 148.
---- lines on the, attributed to Byron, 473.
Bibliophilus (Periergus) on carmagnoles, 489.
Bibliothecarius Chethamensis on written sermons, 237.
Bicêtre, or Vincestre, 13.
Biographical dictionary, a new one suggested, 483.
Birds, the hollowness of their bones, 294.
---- care for the dead, 131.
Bishops, can they vacate their sees? 293.
Bishops, their marriage, 57. 125. 194. 196. 298. 346. 427.
B. (J.) on registry of British subjects abroad, 7.
---- on payments for destroying vermin, 208.
---- on parish registers and briefs, 232.
---- on the word Ἀδελφὸς, 458.
B. (J.), Manchester, on the genealogy of the Tonges, 384.
B (J. N.) on "Alterius orbis papa," 75.
---- on inscription on a pair of spectacles, 407.
B. (J. O.) on "Heu quanto minus," &c., 21.
---- on curious monumental inscription, 88.
B. (J. S.) on parish register of Petworth, 27.
---- on John Bodley, 240.
---- on parish registers, 490.
---- on clekit house, 506.
Blessing by the hand, 74. 214.
Bl. (J.) on locusts, 352.
Blood, circulation of the, 110.
Bloodhound, its scent, 368. 455.
Blowen, on the meaning of Bummaree, 39.
---- on plaids and tartans, 107.
---- on an Irish halfpenny, 138.
---- on salmon fishery in the Thames, 141.
---- on the Tradescants, 182.
---- on pun by William Oldys, 206.
---- on epitaph in Dalkeith churchyard, 230.
---- on the ball that killed Nelson, 471.
B. (M. W.) on the death of the Hon. Spencer Perceval, 4.
---- on an anecdote of Curran, 173.
---- on execution under singular circumstances, 191.
---- on portrait of Edmund Burke, 271.
---- on quotation from an old ballad, 391.
---- on ducks and drakes, 502.
Bne, on Jacobus de Voragine, 23.
Bockett (Julia R.), notices of the Basnet family, 77.
---- on noble and workhouse names, 198.
---- on monumental symbolism, 209.
---- on Upton Court, 493.
Bodley (John), notices of, 59. 117. 240.
Bogatsky, a sketch of him, 44.
Bohun (Edmund), particulars of, 484.
Bold on the family of Kyme, 23.
Book plates, 46. 93. 354.
Books, notices of new--
---- Agassiz and Gould's Outlines of Comparative Physiology, 510.
---- Allport's Kits Coty House, 30.
---- Andrews' Latin-English Lexicon, 199.
---- Archæologia Cambrensis, No. VII., 14.
---- Book of English Songs, 302.
---- Boswell's Life of Johnson, 302.
---- British Museum, list of autograph letters, charters, &c., 183.
---- Buckley's Canons of the Council of Trent, 46.
---- Buff's Letters on the Physics of the Earth, 413.
---- Calmet's Dictionary abridged, 333.
---- Carlile's Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Mind, 29.
---- Chase, the, by Nimrod, 286.
---- Chatelaine's Rambles through Rome, 245.
---- Chronological New Testament, 357.
---- Cicero's Orations, translated by Yonge, 510.
---- Cockerell's Iconography of Wells Cathedral, 245.
---- Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, 124.
---- D'Anton's History of Drogheda, 493.
---- De Lamartine's Stone Mason of St. Pont, 126.
---- Denarius--Shall we keep the Crystal Palace? 14.
---- Ellis's Map of various Public Clocks, 493.
---- Ely Cathedral, Archæological Guide to, 199.
---- Eothen, in Traveller's Library, 460.
---- Essays from The Times, 286.
---- Family Almanack and Educational Register, 478.
---- Foss's Judges of England, 13.
---- Foulke's Manual of Ecclesiastical History, 332.
---- Fouque's Undine, 478.
---- Gesammtabentheuer. By Von der Hagen, 263.
---- Grant's Memoirs of Sir J. Hepburn, 357.
---- Gregory's Letters on the Evidences, 166.
---- Guizot's Iconographie Chrétienne, 286.
---- ---- Monk's Contemporaries, 126.
---- Gutch's Literary and Scientific Register for 1852, 510.
---- Halle's (Dr.) Letters Historical and Botanical, 143.
---- Halliwell's Catalogue of Proclamations, &c., 493.
---- Hand Atlas of Physical Geography, 429.
---- Haydn's Book of Dignities, 429.
---- Henry's Unripe Windfalls, 509.
---- Heywood's Golden and Silver Ages, 29.
---- Hunt's Elementary Physics, 429.
---- James's Life and Times of Louis XIV., 215.
---- Kelke's Churchyard Manual, 199.
---- Kirchhoff's Beiträge zur Geschichte des Deutschen Buchhandels, 46.
---- Laing's Journal of a Residence in Norway, 182.
---- Lamartine's History of the Restoration of the Monarchy in France, 142.
---- Lansdowne Shakspeare, 509.
---- Latham's Germania of Tacitus, 477.
---- ---- Handbook of the English Language, 357.
---- Layard's Nineveh, abridged, 373.
---- Lebahn's Self-Instructor in German, 478.
---- Literature of the Rail, 183.
---- Lucretius on the Nature of Things, translated, 395.
---- Mantell's Handbook to the Organic Remains in the British Museum, 413.
---- Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, 413.
---- Merlet's Dictionary of French Difficulties, 478.
---- Mitchel's Orbs of Heaven, 303.
---- Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, 303.
---- Murray's Handbook of Modern London, 125.
---- Neander's General History of the Christian Religion, 126.
---- ---- Planting of the Christian Church, 303.
---- Notæ Ferales, a few Words on the Modern System of Interment, 14.
---- Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 459.
---- Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated, 303.
---- Pauli's König Ælfred und seine Stelle in der Geschichte Englands, 166.
---- Pfeiffer's (Madame) Voyage round the World, 373.
---- Planché's Pursuivant of Arms; or Heraldry founded upon Facts, 459.
---- Redding's The Stranger in London, 166.
---- Redding's History of Modern Wines, 395.
---- Salisbury Volume of the Archæological Institute, 395.
---- Scott's Antiquarian Gleanings in the North, 332.
---- Smith's Address before the Royal Geographical Society, 166.
---- Stöckhardt's Principles of Chemistry, 333.
---- Todd's Three Treatises by John Wycklyffe, 46.
---- Traveller's Library, 94. 460.
---- Tregelles' History of the Jansenists, 215.
---- Ullman's Life of Gregory of Nazianzum, 357.
---- Vasari's Lives of Painters, Sculptors, &c., 143. 395.
---- Vaux's Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum, 126. 413.
---- Walker's Cab Fare of London, 396.
---- Welsh Ecclesiastical Sketches, 413.
---- Whitaker's Clergyman's Diary and Ecclesiastical Directory, 478.
---- Williams' Glossary of British Dress and Armour, 29.
---- Wilson's Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject, 357.
---- Wolf's Beiträge zur Deutschen Mythologie, 493.
Books, privately printed, 17.
Bootikins described, 232.
Borderer on the Latin termination "aster," 59.
---- on Childe Harold, Canto iv. st. li. lii., 83.
---- on the Lay of the Last Minstrel, 134.
---- on plaids and tartans, 445.
Βορέας on the locusts of the New Testament, 255.
---- on anonymous works, 293.
---- on a History of Anglesey, 317.
Borough English, 133. 214. 235. 259.
Borrow's Bible in Spain, 101.
Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides, a misquotation in, 474. 506.
Botfield (Beriah) On the Caxton Memorial, 69. 289.
Bourchier family, their monuments, 233. 329. 392.
Bourne (Rev. Henry), notices of, 23.
Bow, test of strength of, 56. 210. 392.
B. (P.) on Joceline's Legacy, 454.
Braham Moor, account of, 270.
Bramhall (Bishop) and Milton, 341.
Bray (Dr.), his portrait wanted, 382.
Braybrooke (Lord) on Horace Walpole at Eton, 206.
---- on the song Winifreda, 238.
---- on Cooper's miniature of Cromwell, 368.
---- on the locality of Grimsditch, 372.
Breen (Henry II.) on the proverb, "Les Anguilles de Melun," 20.
---- on the phrase "Kiss the hare's foot," 21.
---- on the etymology of Fontainebleau, 38.
---- on La Mère Jeane, 40.
---- on Histoire des Sévérambes, 43.
---- on the meaning of fort une, 57.
---- on Queen Brunéhaut, 86.
---- on cockroach, 151.
---- on Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia, 190.
---- on anagrams, 226.
---- on Aubrey de Montdidier's dog, 231.
---- on lines on Cagliostro, 368.
---- on the aborigines of St. Domingo, 433.
---- on Latin verse on Franklin, 443.
---- on a passage in Goldsmith, 482.
---- on "Hell paved with priests' skulls," 484.
---- on Pope and Flatman, 505.
Brentford, the two kings of, 369.
Briefs for collections, 232.
Bristol tables, 406. 454.
Briwingable, its meaning, 22. 212.
Broad Halfpenny Down, 133. 197.
Broctuna on the Earl of Derwentwater, 133.
Broom, hanging out the, at mast-heads, 76.
Brown (J.), jun. on Oldys on London libraries, 176.
Brown (T. R.) on the word Ἀδελφὸς, 339. 487.
Bruce (J.) on written sermons, 8.
Brunanburgh, battle of, 249. 327.
Brunéhaut (Queen), 86. 136. 193.
Brunswick mum, why so called, 177.
B. (R. W.), lines on a bed, 175.
---- on fees for inoculation, 231.
B. (T.) on planets of the month, 23.
Buckhounds, master of the, 422.
Buckley (Theodore) on Pope and Flatman, 210.
---- a hint to catalogue makers, 340.
---- on verses in classical prose, 455.
Buckton, (T. J.) on blessing by the hand, 74.
---- on the whale of Jonah, 178.
---- on Nineveh inscriptions, 220.
---- on language of ancient Egypt, 240.
---- on linteamina and surplices, 262.
---- on Arabic inscriptions, 266.
---- on the Indian origin of gypsies, 471.
Bull (John) on the pronunciation of Cowper, 138.
Bummaree, its meaning, 39. 74. 93.
Bunche's (Mother) Fairy Tales, 209.
Bunting's Irish Melodies, 452.
Bunyan and the Visions of Hell, 139.
Burghley, the Lord of, a play, 12.
Buriensis on Gen. Moyle, 443.
---- on clekit house, 473.
---- on the origin of turnpikes, 503.
Burke (Edmund), portraits of, 271. 332.
Burke's "mighty boar of the forest," 391.
Burn, how to cure a, 500.
Burns and Propertius, parallel between, 54.
Burton family, notices of, 22. 124.
Burton's Life of Cromwell, 41.
Burtt (Joseph) on the punishment of Edward of Caernarvon, 409.
Bute (Marchioness of) on Lady Flora Hastings' bequest, 109.
Butler (Bp.), his MS. Sermons, 316.
Butler's Analogy, Latin translation of, 85.
Butterfly, its various transformations, 27.
Butts of Norwich, their genealogy, 501.
Buxtorf's translation of Elias Levita's Treatise, 272. 328. 391.
Bw. (F.) on Aulus Gellius' dimple, 285.
Byng (Adm.), lines attributed to him, 403.
Byron's Childe Harold, cant. iv. st. li. lii., 83.
Byron's Childe Harold, "Son of the Morning," 209. 330. 391.
C.
C. on the lord mayor not a privy councillor, 9. 28. 157. 284.
---- on the secret service money of Charles II., 40.
---- on Pope's translations of Horace, 58. 139. 284.
---- on the meaning of bummaree, 93.
---- on miss or mistress, 93.
---- on thread the needle, 141.
---- on the royal library, 155.
---- on the right divine of kings, 160.
---- on planets of the month, 164.
---- on the Bensley tragedy, 241.
---- on Pope's honest factor, 244.
---- on epigram ascribed to Mary, queen of Scots, 316.
---- on portraits of Burke, 332.
---- on a portrait of Dr. Bray, 382.
---- anecdotes of bishop's signatures, 392.
C. (A.) on school superstitions, 53.
---- on children at a birth, 73.
C. (A. B.) on marriage of bishops, 57.
---- on the pedigree of Jenings, 424.
Cabal, its earliest use, 443. 507.
Cachecope bell, its derivation, 299.
C. (A. E.) on autographs of Weever and Fuller, 474.
Cagliostro, lines on, 368.
Cagots, their history, 190. 331. 387.
Caistor church, plough suspended in, 406.
Calendar, note on the, 218.
Caleva Atrebatum, site of, 424.
Camera (de) on Serius Seriadesque, 11.
---- on the maiden name of Catherine Barton, 11.
---- on Lady Russell and Mr. Hampden, 21.
---- on round towers at Bhaugulpore, 442.
Campanella and Adami, 275.
Campbell on a quotation in The Flower of Love, 407.
Campkin (Henry) on peace illumination, 1802, 23.
---- on eisell, wormwood, and scurvy ale, 68.
---- on an engraved portrait, 443.
---- on suppressed epilogue by Dryden, 472.
Can. Ebor. on convocation of York, 425.
---- on three estates of the realm, 196.
Capital punishment, mitigation of, 434.
Carfax, its meaning, 214.
Carli, the economist, 175. 242. 356.
Carmagnoles, its meaning, 208. 489.
Carnaby, its meaning, 161.
Cassek gwenwyn, its meaning, 269. 392.
Catalogue makers, hint to, 340.
Cavalcade, its proper rendering, 269. 343.
Caxton memorial suggested, 33. 69. 107. 145. 289. 384.
---- coffer, 250. 270. 292. 312. 340. 436.
---- his presses, sticks, and chases, 232.
C. (B. H.) on anachronisms of painters, 369.
C. (B. N.) on symbols in painting, 443.
C. (D.) on fort une, 142.
C. (E.) Praed's charade on, 368.
Cebes, ancient wood engraving of, 12.
C. (Edith) on Queen Brunéhaut, 136.
Cephas on marriage of ecclesiastics, 298.
Cervantes, the date of his death, 116. 261.
C. (G.) on Baskerville, the printer, 40.
C. (G. A.) on General Moyle, 490.
C. (G. R.) on Borough-English, 235. 259.
---- on authors of the Homilies, 346.
C. (H.) on Petty Cury, 121.
---- on Sundays, on what days of the month, 134.
---- on the origin of cockney, 273.
Chalk-back day, its origin, 501.
Chalmers (George), inquiry respecting his MSS., 58. 196.
Charib, its derivation, 484.
Charles II., his statue formerly in Stock's Market, 40. 124.
---- secret service money of, 40.
Charter, date of one wanted, 152. 215.
Chatter-box, its derivation, 344.
Chattes of Haselle, its meaning, 382.
Chaucer and Gray, parallel between, 54.
C. (H. C.), on a Saxon bell-house, 178.
---- on Rectitudines Singularum Personarum, 442.
C. (H.) de St. Croix on prophecies of Nostradamus, 140. 329.
Chesterfield (Lord), his lines on Queen Caroline, 444.
Chevy-chase, a ballad, 206. 254.
Children at a birth, 73. 114.
Chipperfeild & Co. (Tom.), 251.
Churches decorated at Christmas, 109.
Churches, services within ruined, 231. 261. 355.
Churchill's paraphrase on Psalm cxxxvii., 82.
Cicada, or Tettigonia Septemdecim, 423.
C. (I. J.) on notation by coalwhippers, 21.
Civilian (an old Bengal) on "Son of the Morning," 209.
C. (J.), on discount, 208.
C. (J. H.) on meaning of rasher, 177.
---- on meaning of mop, 190.
C. (J. N.) on the locality of Dell, 39.
---- on the meaning of Ackey trade, 40.
---- on an Irish coin with legend Voce populi, 57.
---- on "suum cuique tribuere," 75.
---- on panelling inscription at Lynn, 407.
---- on Connecticut halfpenny, 424.
C. (J. S.) on discovery of drowned bodies, 298.
Clarke (Mrs. Mary Anne), notice of, 396. 493.
Claymore, inscription on a, 59. 124.
Clekit house, its meaning, 473. 506.
Cleopatra's needle, when and why so called? 101.
Clergy charities, list of, wanted, 21.
Clericus on the genealogy of Lord Clifford, 274.
---- on the meaning of farlieu, 317.
Clerk of the House on whig and tory, 57.
Clerke (Francis), notice of, 192.
Clifford (Lord), his genealogy, 274.
Climate, the eighth, its meaning, 301.
Clydesdale (Lord), noticed, 154.
Cm. on Article XX., 87.
Coalwhippers, principle of notation by, 21. 124.
Cock and bull story, 312.
Cockayne motto "En bon et poyer," 473.
Cocker's Arithmetic, 102. 149.
Cockney, its origin, 273. 318. 475.
Cockroach, its derivation, 151.
Coke, how pronounced, 24. 76. 93. 244. 300.
Cole (Robert) on Moore's Almanack, 162.
---- on General James Wolfe, 322.
Coleridge's Christabel, query on a MS. portion of, 316. 410.
---- Essays on Beauty, 175. 214.
Colet, on Oxford edition of Jewel's works, 225.
Collar of SS., 147. 230. 236. 345. 456.
Collier (J. Payne) on John a Kent and John a Cumber, 83.
Collins (Mortimer) on Coleridge's Essays
---- on Beauty, 214.
---- on a MS. portion of Coleridge's Christabel, 316.
---- on stanzas in Childe Harold, 325.
---- on Vogelweide, 346.
Collodion, and its application to photography, 443.
Colman (J. B.) on pauper's badge, 294.
---- on finger pillories, 458.
Colonies in England, 272. 370. 452.
Columbus' bust at Havanna, 437.
Commandments, early divisions of the ten, 63.
Commissioners on officers of justice, their report, 152. 198.
Companion ladder, its meaning, 485.
Complexion, its meaning, 28.
Conceyted Letters, &c., their author? 7.
Connecticut halfpenny, 424.
Conquest's (Dr.) Emendated Bible, 103.
Conscience, a case of the force of, 38.
Constant reader on companion ladder, 485.
Constantius II., coins of, 238. 327.
Convocation for the province of York, 368. 425.
Cooper (C. H.) on early visitations, 29.
---- on Petty Cury, 120.
---- on Cowper or Cooper, 137.
---- on Fairlight church, 160.
---- on the man of law, 197.
---- on commissioners on officers of justice, 198.
---- on a sword-blade note, 213.
---- on ancient Gravesend boats, 230.
---- on the term baroner, 232.
---- on decretorum doctor, 242.
---- on bells in churches, 244.
---- on story referred to by Jeremy Taylor, 262.
---- on music at funerals, 404.
---- on descendants of John of Gaunt, 490.
Cooper's miniature of Cromwell, 368.
Cordeux family, their armorial bearings, 407.
Corney (Bolton) on a Caxton memorial, 33. 107. 384.
---- on the Caxton coffer, 250. 270. 292. 312. 340.
---- on the first edition of Welwood's Memoirs, 45.
---- on the Rev. Richard Farmer, 407.
---- on Hugh Holland, and his works, 91.
---- on De Grammont's Mémoires, 261.
---- on Dr. Bernard's character of Abp. Ussher, 365.
---- on earwig, 429.
---- on foreign ambassadors, 477.
---- on Johannes Trithemius, 489.
Cornish arms and motto, 175.
Cornish (James) on plagiarisms, 36.
---- on statue of Mrs. Jordan, 58.
---- on hanging out the broom, 76.
---- on notices of W. Godwin, 76.
---- on the American use of raised, 83.
---- on D'Israeli and Hume, 83.
---- on D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith, 99.
---- on Hogarth and Cowper, 85.
---- on etymology of gooseberry, 92.
Cornish (Wm.) on Baskerville, the printer, 211.
Corpse passing makes a right of way, 124. 240.
Corruptions in acknowledged words, 313. 436. 470.
Costume for ladies, 150.
Covines, authorities wanted, 208.
Cowgill on proverbial philosophy, 81.
---- on oaths taken by pregnant women, 151.
---- on Charles Lamb's epitaph, 161.
---- on the authoress of A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic, 237.
---- on marriage of ecclesiastics, 348.
---- on surplices, 356.
---- on family of Butts, 501.
Cowley and Gray, 204. 252.
Cowper, how pronounced, 24. 76. 93. 137.
Cowper law, 101. 242.
Cozens, the painter, 368. 412. 491.
C. (P. P.) on punishment of prince Edward, 454.
Cranmore on the Rev. J. Paget, 133.
---- on Cocker's Arithmetic, 149.
---- on proverb, "As lazy as Ludlam's dog," 165.
---- on Baskerville, the printer, 211.
Creed (G.) on the sign, the Dog and Duck, 37.
---- on the statue of Charles II., 40.
---- on Margaret Maultasch, 56.
---- on quotation from Shakspeare, 154.
---- on the origin of log-book, 154.
---- on Brunswick mum, 177.
---- on serpent represented with a human head, 191.
---- on ash-sap given to new-born children, 273.
Creusius (Jacobus) noticed, 473.
Critolaus and the Horatii and Curiatii, 443.
Cromwell (Oliver), his private amours, 19. 122.
---- Cooper's miniature of, 368.
---- did Bp. Gibson write his life? 117. 180. 330.
---- grants of land in Monaghan, 87. 123.
Crosses and crucifixes, 422. 485.
Crossley (Francis) on derivation of London, 505.
Crossley (James) on Pope's Translation of Horace, 122. 239.
---- on "the right divine of kings," 125.
---- on Bunyan and the Visions of Hell, 139.
---- on lines from Chorus Sacerdotum, 139.
---- on Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe, 152.
---- on whig and tory, 164.
---- on Gibson's Life of Cromwell, 180.
---- on Blackloanæ Hæresis, 240.
---- on a sermon of Jeremy Taylor, 251.
---- on warnings to Scotland, 283.
---- on stanzas in Childe Harold, 285.
---- on the study of geometry in Lancashire, 300.
---- on Defoe and the Mercator, 338.
---- on inscriptions in the church of St. Bene't Fink, 407.
Crow and lady-bird charms, 53.
C. (S. C.) on the astronomical term climate, 301.
---- on passage in George Herbert, 329.
Cs. (R.) on quotation in Boswell's Hebrides, 474.
C. (Streatham) on Vincent Kidder, 502.
C. (T.) on the locusts of the New Testament, 351.
---- on the effects of moonlight, 355.
---- on Berlin astronomical time, 355.
Ct. (J. W.) on Bellarmin's paradox, 45.
Cuckold's cap, an old Song, 468.
Cunningham (Peter) on De Grammont's Memoirs, 233.
---- Hand-book of London, additions to 267.
Curfew bell in Charleston, 240.
Curiosus, on statute of limitations abroad, 256.
Curol, its meaning, 101.
Curran, anecdote of, 173. 391.
C. (W. J.) on the derivation of charib, 484.
C. (W. K.) on authors of the Homilies, 412.
C. (W. R.) on Noctes Templariæ, 152.
Cycle of the moon, 102.
D.
D. on an almanac of 1550, 4.
---- on Lord John Frescheville, 441.
---- on parish registers, &c., 473.
Δ. on the authorship of Conceyted Letters, &c., 7.
D. (A.) on bees being informed of a death, 309.
D. (A. A.) on noli episcopari, 346.
---- on works on the origin of evil, 346.
---- on verses occurring in classical prose, 382.
---- on gold medal of the Duke of York, 407.
---- on Dido and Æneas, 423.
---- on pegs and thongs for rowing, &c., 423.
Dacre monument at Hurstmonceux, 354.
Dacres of the north, 382.
Dalstonia on Mother Bunche's Tales, 209.
Dalyell (Sir J. Graham) notices of, 35.
Damasked linen, 446.
Darby and Joan, an old ditty, 196.
Darnell (N. N.) on tapestry story of Justinian, 256.
Dauphin of France, 149. 195.
Davies (Thomas Stephens) on magnetical discovery, 58. 125.
Davus on the cognomen Walker, 424.
Davys, [Davis, or Davies] (Sir John), his monument, 256. 327.
Day of the month, lines on, 130.
D. (C. de) on an adventurer in 1632, 4.
---- on umbrellas, 75.
---- on Cowper law, 101.
---- on the pronunciation of Coke, 300.
D. (E.) on Perrot's Primmer for children, 28.
Dead, on salting the bodies of, 6. 43. 162.
Dead letter, origin of the term, 345.
Deal, its meaning, 88. 161.
Deans (Jeanie), her energetic character, 434.
Decretorum doctor, its use, 191. 242.
D. (E. A.) on the word bummaree, 74.
---- on Flemish account, 504.
De Foe, an engraved portrait of, 443. 491.
---- connection with the Mercator, 338.
---- house at Stoke Newington, 256. 299.
D. (E. H. D.) on Stella being Swift's sister, 160.
---- on translation of Sarpi's Council of Trent, 275.
---- on fides carbonarii, 283.
---- on ancient language of Egypt, 302.
---- on the earliest use of cabal, 443.
---- on dial motto at Karlsbad, 507.
---- on wyle cop, 509.
Dell, in what county? 39.
Delta, on Sanskrit elementary books, 103.
De Missy (Cæsar), account of, 153.
Deodands, and their application, 484.
Deptford, inundation at, 316.
Derwentwater (Earl of), 133.
Desmond, the old Countess of, 305. 426.
Dessawdorf on the disguisyings, 254.
Devil's knell, 116.
Devonian on meaning of pallant, 442.
Devonshire superstitions, 98.
D. (G. H.) on MS. fragments of old poetry, 51.
D. (H. G.) on two broadside ditties, 311.
---- on Gen. James Wolfe, 322. 503.
Dial motto at Karlsbad, 471. 507.
Dido and Æneas, 423.
Dies iræ, dies illa, its authorship, 71.
"Dieu et mon droit," its origin, 299.
Dingle, early history of, 152.
Discount, its origin, 208.
Disguisyings, a performance, 254.
D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith, 99. 381.
D'Israeli and Hume, 83.
Distord, its meaning, 6.
D. (J.) on the cunning of the fox, 295.
D. (J. D.) on St. Beuno, 424.
D--n, on lord mayor not a privy councillor, 236.
Dn. (W.) on wife of St. Patrick, 190.
---- on Lord Strafford and Abp. Usher, 349.
Dobbin (O. T.) on English sapphics, 182.
---- on works on the Life of St. Paul, 198.
---- on a work on Speculative Difficulties, 198.
---- on the late William Hone, 241.
Dodd (Charles), notices of him, 11.
Dog and Duck, the sign, 37.
Dog--the phrase "old dog," in Hudibras, 21.
Dog's head in the pot, the sign of, 139.
Dogmatism and puppyism, 102. 160.
Dole-banks, or boundary-banks, 213.
Domingo, St., the aborigines of, 433.
Domesday [Doomsday] book of Scotland, was it ever published? 7. 213.
Dominis (Mark Antony de), Abp. of Spalatro, 257. 295.
Don, a poem, the early editions, 441.
Donizetti, new facts concerning, 380.
Dorfsnaig on marriage of bishops, 196.
Douglas (J. A.) on Lady Petre's monument, 22.
Douglas (Robert) and Mary queen of Scotland, 23. 299.
D. (P.) on parliamentary debates, 1768 to 1774, 368.
D. (Q.E.) on religious statistics, 382.
D. (R.) on the use of bootikins, 232.
Dray, its meaning, 209.
Dredge (John I.) on John Bodley, 240.
---- on Dr. Wm. Wall's works, 490.
Drimmnitavichillichatan, its locality, 501.
Drowned, how to discover their bodies, 148. 251. 297.
Dryander (Francis). See Enzinas.
Dryasdust on Gibson's Life of Cromwell, 117.
---- on Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, 272.
---- on the early use of the crucifix, 422.
Dryden, on a passage in, 13.
---- and Oldham, 36. 93.
---- illustrated by T. Holt White, 294. 411.
---- portrait wanted, 59.
---- suppressed epilogue by, 472.
D. (T.) on Sinaitic inscriptions, 382.
Dubourg (G.) on musical composition of Matthew Dubourg, 443.
Dubourg (Matthew), musical compositions of, 443.
Ducks and drakes, 502.
Dunrossness on Shetland folk lore, 500.
Durden, its etymology, 424.
Durham see, its privileges and customs, 425.
D. (W.) on the first panorama, 54.
Dx. on Berlin mean time, 256.
---- on locusts of the New Testament, 352.
Dyke (Henry) on Aulus Gellius' dimple, 285.
E.
E. on lord mayor not a privy councillor, 180.
---- on poet referred to by Bacon, 257.
E. (A.) on Pope's connection with Upton Court, 315.
Eagle, arms displayed on spread, 424.
Earthquake at the Crucifixion, 343.
Earth's form, theory of, 76.
Earwig, its derivation, 274. 393. 411. 429.
Eastwood (J.) on Petty Cury, 120.
---- on Sacre cheveux, 262.
---- on payments for destroying vermin, 389.
---- on derivation of London, 505.
Eboracomb on the family of Etty, 27.
E. (B. P. D.) on an entomological query, 141.
Ecclesiastics, marriage of. See Bishops.
Eclipse, mistake as to one, 58. 125.
E. (C. P.) on Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor, 154.
Eden (C. Page) on sermon of Bp. Taylor's, 354.
Edward, prince of Wales, his punishment, 338. 409. 453.
Effagies on Gray and Virgil, 285.
Effaress on Broad Halfpenny Down, 133.
Effigies, cross-legged, date of the latest, 382. 458.
---- of English sovereigns in France, 265.
Egmont (Frederick), 151.
Egypt, language of ancient, 152. 240. 302.
E. (H.) on supposed witchcraft, 35.
---- on the city Fermilodum, 345.
---- on play of George Barnwell, 483.
E. (H. N.) on monumental symbolism, 72.
---- on meaning of Pharetram de Tutesbit, 316.
---- on Chattes of Haselle, 382.
---- on testing a bow, 392.
---- on the arms of the Methwen family, 424.
E. (H. T.) on the first panorama, 54.
---- on the house of Yvery, 101.
---- on posie of other men's flowers, 125.
---- on works on horology, 240.
---- on ruined churches, 356.
Eisell controversy, 36.
E. (J.), was Milton an Anglo-Saxon scholar? 100.
---- on an entomological query, 101.
---- on the poems of Richard Rolle, 116.
---- on a ship's berth, 212.
Elfshot, its cure, 500.
Elginensis on warnings to Scotland, 233.
Elizabeth (Queen), equestrian figure of, 231.
---- madrigals in her praise, 185.
---- scandal against, 161.
Ellacombe (H. T.) on Thomas Kingeston, 22.
---- on the first panorama, 119.
---- on payments for destroying vermin, 447.
Elliot (R. W.) on superstitions respecting bees, 308.
---- on the proverb, "merry Wakefield," 369.
---- on a plough in Castor church, 406.
Ellison (Nathaniel) on the death of Pitt, 232.
Ellrake, or Hell-rake, 192. 260.
Elsevir on the two Drs. Abercrombie, 353.
Ely cathedral, inscription in, 116.
Emblems, a chapter on, 403.
E. (M. C.) on etymology of London, 437.
Em quad on Caxton's printing materials, 232.
England, metrical history of, 315.
Enquirer on the convocation of York, 368.
Ensis on the proof of a sword, 39.
Entomological query, 101. 141.
Enzinas, or Dryander, inquiry after his works, 5.
Epitaph in Dalkeith churchyard, 230.
E. (P. S.) on the completion of the Acta Sanctorum, 7.
Equestrian statues, 72. 126.
Equivocation, treatise of, 419. 488.
Erasmus, epigram on, 437.
Ercad on the Dacres of the north, 382.
Ermines on heraldic figures at Tonbridge, 115.
Ernle's letter respecting Lady Hopton, 97.
Eryx, on the word secant in Virgil, 24.
Erza on Lady Flora Hastings' bequest, 44.
Essex's expedition to Ireland, 191.
Etty, the artist, family of, 27.
Eupator on treatise of equivocation, 419.
---- on justice to Pope Pius V., 421.
Eustace (St.), his legend, 52.
Evans (Lewis) on the custom of souling, 506.
Execution under singular circumstances, 191. 243. 284. 317.
Exon on legal time, 502.
Exons of the guard, 87.
F.
F. on Mallet's second wife, 191.
---- on the Winchester execution, 284.
Faber-Ferrarius On Dryden and Oldham, 93.
Fairlight church, description of, 57. 160.
Fairy dances, 173.
Fanny on a fragment, "The Abbey," 372.
---- on Isabel, queen of the Isle of Man, 423.
Farlieu, its meaning, 317.
Farmer (Rev. Richard), his character, 379. 407. 428.
Fasciculus temporum, 148. 276.
F. (E.) on thread the needle, 140.
F. (E. D. C.) on the spelling of Orinoco, 24.
Fell (Leonard), was he brother of the judge? 256.
Felton, where is the letter found in his hat? 152.
Fennell (Wm.) on portrait of Whiston, 21.
Fenton (John) on Nao, ship, 28.
Fermilodum, was it a city? 345. 395.
Fest sittings, 42.
F. (F. F.) on the word repudiate, 163.
F. (H.) on the privileges of the Durham See, 425.
---- on compositions during the Protectorate, 490.
---- on dial motto at Karlsbad, 507.
"Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum," origin of the apothegm, 91.
"Fides Carbonaria," origin of the phrase, 233. 283.
Finavdis (Father), an anagram by him, 405.
Finger pillories in churches, 315. 395. 458.
Fire unknown in certain islands, 209. 283. 331.
Fishes, Greek names in the Vespae, 501.
Fits, cure for, 53.
Fitzgerald, Lord Edw., the house of, 173. 230. 411.
Flemish account, origin of the expression, 504.
Fm. on Mary Anne Clarke, 493.
Folietani, or leaf-eaters, 256.
Folk lore, 3. 52. 98. 148. 227. 251. 291. 308. 380. 404. 436. 470. 500.
---- Cheshire, 405. 506.
---- Devonshire superstitions, 98. 309.
---- East Norfolk, 53. 251.
---- Lincolnshire, 470.
---- Shetland, 500.
---- Somersetshire, 149.
---- Suffolk, 148.
---- Surrey, 291.
Fontainebleau, its etymology, 38. 193.
Forbes (C.) on kiss the hare's foot, 74.
---- on curious omen at marriage, 142.
---- on "A posie of other men's flowers," 211.
---- on visiting cards, 243.
---- on story referred to by Jeremy Taylor, 326.
---- on "A little bird told me," 394.
---- on "Call a spade a spade," 456.
Forbes' poem, The Don, 441.
Foreign ambassadors, list of, 442. 477.
---- English, 130.
Form for receiving converts, 189.
Fort une, its meaning, 57. 142. 328. 476.
Foss (Edw.) on collar of SS., 147.
---- on judges styled Reverend, 198.
Fourth fare, its meaning, 39.
Fox, its cunning illustrated, 295.
Frampton (Tregonwell), particulars of, 474.
Francis on Moore's Almanack, 74.
Francis (St.), the Vine of, 89.
Franciscus on the locality Gillingham, 28.
---- on Broad Halfpenny Down, 197.
---- on Borough-English, 214.
---- on "Dieu et mon droit," 299.
---- on payments for destroying vermin, 389. 447.
Franklin, Latin verse on, 443.
Fraser (W.), on three estates of the realm, 115. 278.
---- on Borough-English, 133.
---- on "But very few have seen the devil," 133.
---- on scurvy ale, 162.
---- on the term Milesian, 175.
---- on cycle of Cathay, 181.
---- on hand giving the benediction, 214.
---- on an archbishop of Spalatro, 257.
---- on "Call a spade a spade," 274.
---- on Merlin and the electric telegraph, 341.
---- on printing in 1449, and Shakspeare, 344.
---- on the custom of souling, 506.
---- on rural and urban deans, 502.
---- on legend of the robin redbreast, 506.
Freemasons, works on their origin, 234.
French refugees, treaty of compensation, 423.
Frere (G. E.) on the death of Cervantes, 116.
Frescheville (John Lord) noticed, 441.
Friends, a member of the society of, on Quaker expurgated Bible, 412.
Frogs in Ireland, 75.
Fuller (Dr. Thomas), his autograph, 474.
Funeral in Hamburgh, 269.
Funerals, music at, 404.