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Sussex Archæological Collections, vol. xxxix., 379
Sydney Free Public Library Catalogue, 180
Tennyson's In Memoriam, Gatty's Key to, 520
Tennyson's Lover's Tale, 479

Thoms's Exceptional Longevity, 499
Thoms's Longevity of Man, 440, 499.
Waite's Life of the Duke of Wellington, 100
Walford's Old and New London, vol. vi., 59
Walford's Pleasant Days in Pleasant Places, 199
Walpole's History of England, 39

Waltoniana, with Notes by R. H. Shepherd, 299
Wheatley's What is an Index ? 459,

Wiesner's Youth of Queen Elizabeth, 479
Booksellers in St. Paul's Churchyard, 93
Bookworm, Old, on Birmingham Free Library, 41
Specimen of a New Jest Book," 507

66

Boots, ancient pair of, 24, 75

Borlebog (Miss Anne), an aged actress, 28
Boss Master, its derivation, 77

Boston, New England, King's Chapel at, 428
Boston sounded Bawston, 34, 55, 255

Boswert (Mr.), the engraver, and his works, 68, 176
Botetourte queries, 367

Bouchier (J.) on Dante's voyage of Ulysses, 190;
Longfellow's translation, 489
Generation, length of a, 54

Milton (John) and Vallombrosa, 463
Story, fearful, 145.

Bourchier (William), his wife, 427

Bourras, Confrérie des, their office book, 452
Bovgge the bere," its meaning, 168, 257
Bower (H.) on Heane family, 269

"Lines on an Infant," 365

Bowles (W. L.), "Defence of Public Schools," 447
Bowling (James), founder of "Leeds Mercury," 127
Bowman (Anne) on "Lass of Richmond Hill," 52
Boyd (H. F.) on Princess de Talleyrand, 314
Brady (Sir Maziere), his poetical writings, 135
Braham (John), his "entusymusy," 8, 30
Braid, in Shakspeare, 363, 411

British towns, their legendary origin, 49
British trackway from London to Chester, 342
Britten (J.) on "Adeste Fideles." 265, 298, 372
Arrowsmith (Father), his hand, 318
"Devil's nutting bag," 437
Paschal candle, 372
Scambling days, 275

"Sweet smells the brier," 246

Turke (John), his will, 418
Broctuna on Loppard, its meaning, 358
Brooke (W. T.) on Bacon on "Hudibras," 298

Simpson (D.), his collection of hymns, 75 Brough (W.), D.D., Dean of Gloucester, his and writings, 107, 233

Brown (J) on Lavater on ghosts, 72
Browne (C. E.) on Elizabethan dramatists, 344
Shakspeare (W.), early allusions to, 288
Brushfield (T. N.) on curious Christian names, 53
Lothe, its meaning, 468

Bryant (Wm. Cullen), his regulations, 96; his Chris tian name, 218

Buckingham (Leicester Silk), his writings, 244,
Buffing, its meaning, 308, 398

"Builder," its 1879th number, 140
Bull, parish, 15, 37

Buller (Charles Reginald), his death, 347 Bunyan (John), his Bible, 106; death of his descerdant, 125

Burial at night, 1601, 349, 474

Burnie (R. W.) on "Peace at any price," 187 Burrowes (R.), D.D., his writings, 143, 214, 254, 277 Burton, Long, Winston monuments at, 127 Burton (J.) on Guy Head, 437

Butler (Henry) of Handley, his descendants, 488 Butler (John), Roman Catholic Bp. of Cork, 8, 31, 69 Butler (Samuel), Bacon on "Hudibras," 7, 30, 57, 298 Byron (George Gordon, sixth Lord), "And sayest thou, Cara?" 46; his religious belief. 66; lines on the Bible attributed to, 147, 175, 253; pronunciation of name, 246, 296, 356; separation from Lady Byron, 266, 311, 350; and the Castle of Chillon, 487

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C. (H. B.) on Homer: the wrath of Achilles, 102

Brancker (Rev. Thomas), M.A., of Whitegate and C. (H. G.) on lines on the Angel Inn, 188

Macclesfield, 41, 174; his lineage, 344
Brewer (E. C.) on Hycsos in Egypt, 445

Saturday and the Royal Family, 317, 379, 475
Tennyson (A.) and Elaine, 101

Brewer (Rev. John S.), his death, 160
Breweries in London, ancient, 228, 273
Bridal in the seventeenth century, 326
Bride and oak chest story, 387, 458
Bridger (Charles), his death, 480
Brightwell (D. B.) on Shropshire superstition, 45

Waller (E.), his "Go, lovely Rose," 186
Bristol Church of England Tract Society, 428
Bristol electioneering speech, 149, 234
Bristol Theatre, plays and addresses at, 449

Shrove Tuesday custom, 97

C. (H. H.) on Hatts, surname, 466.
C. (H. W.) on Bristol electioneering speech, 149
C. (J. A.) on sensitiveness of plants known to the

ancients, 348

C. (J. L.) on Heralds' Visitations, 433, 515
C. (J. M.) on Suffolk MSS., 508
C. (J. R. S.) on "Divine Breathings," 478

Monitor or backboard, 387

C. (N. H.) on colour in the treatment of disease, 16 C. (R.) on deaths on or associated with the stage, 2 C. (T.) on biographical queries, 468

Marsh (John), 48 Topham family, 67

C. (T.) on Varia, 9

C. (T. W.) on book auction, 245
C. (W. F.) on Gunpowder Plot, '449

C. (W. G.) on hieroglyphic writing, 491
C. (X.) on William Cullen Bryant, 218

Byron (Lord), pronunciation of his name, 246
Cad, origin of the term, 383, 458

Caffièri (François), medallist to Queen Ann, 67
Cairoli family, article on, 380
Cajodanum, its locality, 35, 236

Cakes coloured with saffron, 98, 387

Calvarium or Calvaria-Skull-cap, 327, 453
Cambridgeshire villages, information about, 329
Camoens (Lewis), his statue at Lisbon, 107, 136-
Campbell (Adjutant) of the Guards, killed at New
Haven, 407

Campkin (H.) on Hagways, its meaning, 257
'Illustrated Family Journal," 332
Letter "ab a Sermon," &c., 264
Pope (A.), his will, 223

"Tait's Edinburgh Magazine," 457
Thames, passages on, 238

Candidacy Candidature, 106, 177
Canning (Elizabeth), her trial, 484, 509

Canning (Rt. Hon. George), Frere's epitaph on, 198,
235, 358

Canon of Salisbury on canons and prebendaries, 254
Canonicus Sarum on canons and prebendaries, 387
Canons and honorary canons, 69, 89, 108, 211, 253,
337, 395

Canoodle, its meaning, 197, 375, 457.
Carlingford on Balcony or Balcony, 431
Carlist war, its history, 126, 196'

Carlow, its history, 349, 436

Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Celts and Saxons, 469
Paschal candle, ritual of its benediction, 321
Talleyrand (Princess de), 4

Carr (T. W.) on Varia, 28-

Carrie (J.) on armour in churches, 73

Mills, privileged, 411

Cat's tail, or Typha latifolia, 117, 187, 387

Catadonpe, or waterfall, 56, 77

Cathedral, "Metropolitan," 56,

512

Catholic periodical literature, 427, 494

Caucus, not a modern word, 438

Celery, its first cultivation in England, 107, 874

Celts and Saxons, the difference in their race, 5, 52,
213, 369, 469

Centenarian, and cognate words, 487
Centenarianism, 20, 45, 191, 218, 240, 276, 298, 332,
396, 426, 446, 466, 500, 509; Ecclesiasticus quoted
on, 35, 258

Centuries, eighteenth and nineteenth, 486
Chadwick Families, Howard's Genealogical Account
of, 238

Chadwick (J. O.) on "Account of the Families of
Chadwick," 238

Chafy-Chafy (W, K. W.) on Sir Maziere Brady, 135
Devon provincialisms, 6, 472

Chance (F.) on curious coincidences, 32, 296
Embezzle, its etymology, 248
Muff Stupid person, 384"
Pronouns, superfluous, 145

Tarry, modern use of the verb, 146
"Tudieu!" French oath, 44, 456

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Charlemagne (Emp.), unable to write, 368, 517
Charles I., his executioner, 125

Charlton-upon-Utmoor, its haunted vicarage, 13
Charnock (R. S.) on Algernon Maminot, 214
"Dilambergendi Insula," 295
Embezzle, its etymology, 250-
Hems, its meaning, 93--

Charters laid on the altar, 267, 478

Chaucer (Geoffrey) praised by Authony Nixon, 25;
the word "eighteen," 503

Chesney or Chestney, surname, its origin, 155
Chess-boards, old inscribed, 89

Chesson (F. W.) on Zulu war songs, 446
Chester to London, British trackway from, 342
Chester (Col.) on Adjutant Campbell, 407
Chesterfield (Lord) and George II., 327, 491
Chichester Cathedral, its calendar in the fourteenth
century, 61

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Church ceremonial in the Middle Ages, 465
Church goods, ancient, in Norfolk, 183, 242, 364
Church of England, penance in, 377
Church porches, payments in, 209, 481
Church Registers, their publication, 38, 326, 377
Churches, funeral armour in, 73, 178, 252, 375, 457;
Keeping school in the parvise, 366, 394, 572
Churchman (Mr.), natural son of Charles II., 127
Churchwardens' accounts, words and phrases in, 1064
193, 378

Cicero, Shakspeare, and Dante, 286; last sentence in
"De Natura Deorum," 288

Cinderella and her slipper, 188, 485

Cinnus, its meaning, 215

Cipher, Sir Ralph Verney's, 202, 272, 298

Clare (Maud, Countess of), her descendants, 406

Clarence (Duke of) on the Convention of Cintra, 23

Claret, early allusions to, 52; Jeroboam of, 349, 516
Clark (Wm. George), his Greek and Latin verse com-
positions, 38; and the Sabrina Corolla, 55
Clarke (Hyde) on Bargaining: Prix fixe, 207
" 296

"Cock's span,

Evil eye and red hand, 293
Famagosta, Cyprus, 32
Folk-lore medicine, 402
Post days, 485

Shack, its meaning, 318

Statutes for hiring servants, 235
Survival, 116

Whistling, its decline, 186
Clarry on curious coincidences, 72

Dixon (W. H.), his "Cyprus," 224
"Pleasure and Relaxation," 129
Public-house signs, 138
Tradesmen's tokens, 28, 157
Words, few idle, 485

Clary and clary wine, 52

Cleopatra (Queen), painting of her death, 77

Clerical habit and beard in the fifteenth century, 243
Clerk, its etymology, 57

Clerke (Sir Philip Jennings), surname and arms, 386
Cleveland Folk-lore, 54, 236

Clk. on Embezzle, its etymology, 250

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Restormel Castle, 407

Cooper (T.) on John Butler, Bp. of Cork, 69
Copenhagen, altar-piece at, 147
Copper's nark=Police spy, 406
Cornish dialect in old plays, 146

Cornwall, its earls before the Conquest, 469
Cospatric or Gospatric, Christian name, 35
Costs, legal, their recovery, 280

Cosway (Richard), his portrait of Mrs. Jackson,
Cottell (W. H.) on Douglas family, 428
Cotton family, of Oxenhoath, 487
Count Street, Nottingham, 88, 216

Counting by a primitive method, 166, 257, 338
Coupeland (John de), captor of David, King of Sets,

284

Clouston (W. A.) on Sir W. Jones's "Lines on an in- Courtenay (J.) on "Sailor's Grave," 394

fant," 431

Scogin's Jests, 302, 382, 426

Cloville (Henry), of Cloville's Hall, his heir, 508

Clytie, flower to which she was changed, 58, 132,
217

Coach, its derivation, 308, 390

Coat armour, similar, 289

Cock, in local names, its derivation, 48, 196

Cockman (Dr.), of University Coll., Oxford, 9, 273
Cockney pronunciation, 506

Coffee in the seventeenth century, 365
Coincidence, literary, 266

Coincidences, curious, 32, 72, 296, 474
Coins made into boxes, 49, 216

Coker, for cocoa, 487

Cole (Emily) on Guy Head, 437

Lamb (Charles), "Tales from Shakspeare," 338

Cole (Sir H.) on Hampstead parish church, 307
Ivy on old habitations, 369

Peacock (Thomas Love), his works, 348
Prayer towards the east, 427

Coleman (E. H.) on the game anti, 228

Blossoms, a tavern sign, 18

Knock Fergus Street, 414

Ship, historical, 146

Slad or Slade, 495

Vintage of 1879, 326

Watney's distillery, Battersea, 36

Colley family, 65, 175

Collins (Charles), painter, 427, 474

Collins (Frances) on passages on the Thames, 217

Waller (E.), his "Go, lovely Rose," 275
Colomb (G.) on Schiller's "Song of the Bell," 25
Colombo restored to Portugal by treaty of 1661, 208
Colour in the treatment of disease, 166
Colston (Edward), his house at Mortlake, 261, 355
Columbier (Duc de), a decayed noble, 346
Comma as a note of elision, 486

Courtney (W. P.) on "Illustrated Family Journal,"

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Macbeth," with notes by Rowe, 337
Nash (Beau), epigram on, 71

Newman (Dr.), his "Loss and Gain." 175

Cow spelt Kow, or Kowe, 48, 97, 196,28
Coway Stakes, their preservation, 349
Cowper (William), first edit. of "John Gilpin," 297,
373, 394

Cows not milked in Cyprus, 224, 376
Cox (J. C.) on sacramental wine, 176
Cox (T.) on Rich, Pace, 427

Crampley (R.) on Frs. Egington, 168
Crampton (T.) on "Pleasure and Relaxation," 262
Cranach (Lucas), his works, 167, 234
Cranmer (Abp.), his autograph, 83, 135
Crawford (Mrs.), a centenarian, 426
"Crisis, The," a periodical, 497

Cromie (H.) on Trenchmore, spelt French-more, 488
Crompton (S.) on Samuel Bailey, of Sheffield, 496
Cross, a sign of it in Spain, 329

Crossley (J.) on "Divine Breathings," 433
Crowe family, of Meriden, co. Warwick, 168, 237
Cryptograph on Sir R. Verney's cipher, 272
Crystals, divination by, 171, 456
Cubières (M. de), an emigré poet, 66
Cuck, in local names, its derivation, 48, 196
Cucking or ducking stools, 88, 399, 456
Cuckoo Folk-lore, 403

Cumberland (Richard), his "Calvary," &c., 504
Curiosus on the right to bear arms, 177
Curtis (J.) on Jeroboam of claret, 517
Cutler (A.) on Rev. Henry Christmas, 373
Cuxton, Kent, brass at, 6
Cynicism, its great poet, 465

Cyprus Hogarth's frolic, 106, 149, 173
Cyprus, its arms, 7, 374, 429; Drummond on, in 1754,
146; cows not milked by Cypriotes, 224, 376

D. (B.) on penance in the Church of England, 377
D. (D.) on armour in churches, 73

D. (E.) on François Caffièri, 67

D. (E. A.) on Charles Collins, painter, 427
Lampadius, fragment from, 97

D. (E. L.) on Rete Corvil, 27

D. (F.) on John Bunyan, 125

Count Street, Nottingham, 216
Epitaphs, 346, 454

D. (J.) on payments in church porches, 431

Cinnus, its meaning, 215

Hems, its meaning, 93
Shakspeariana, 363

D. (M.) on Slide of Alpnach, 454

"Man in the Moon," 416

D. (Q) on arms of Cyprus, 7

Style and title, 276

D. (R.) on epitaph at Nottingham, 387
D. (X. P.) on white ale, 193

Norfolk dialect, 354
Weather saying, 18

Dallaway (Rev. James), his "Journey from Rod-
borough to Gloucester," 28

D'Almeida (H. B.) on Your's for Yours, 348, 415
Dana (E. E.) on John Barker, 227, 408

Blue and Orange Society, 448

Dana (R. H.) on Richard Dana, 248
Dana (Richard), 1640, his lineage, 248
Danger and Peril, their difference, 228, 510
Dante (Alighieri) and the word Lucciola, 78, 358;
voyage of Ulysses in the "Inferno," 148, 190, 351;
and Shakspeare, 233; and Cicero, 286; best life of
him, 289; Longfellow's translation, 489
Daughter as a feminine surname terminative, 87,
195, 238

Davies (Clementina), her death, 400
Davies (E. C.) on Leicester Silk Buckingham, 295
"Press Orders," by Albert Smith, 107

Davies (J.) on "My mother bids me bind my hair," 479
Davies (J. S.) on "Lord Mayor of the Buckinge," 427
Davies (T. L.O.) on old games, 48
Dayman (E. A.) on Hankford arms, 457
Death, sting of, 290, 312, 357

Deaths, historical, 347

De Clare family, 424

Decoys, old and modern, 7

Dee (Dr. John) and Trithemius's "Steganography,"
401, 422

De la Mawe (William), temp. Edward II., 328, 437
De Laune family, 468, 509

Delaune (Thomas) and his " Present State of London,"
47, 95

Delevingne (H. C.) on Escobarder, French verb, 455
Perils and dangers, 511

Shrewsbury, names of places in, 116, 178
Shrewsbury School custom, 125

"De Oculo Morali," early tract, 469
Deo Duce on Welsh proverbs, 158

"Deo et Ecclesiæ," 267, 473

Desmond (old Countess of), her biography, 191, 332

Devon, its earls before the Conquest, 469

Devon provincialisms, 6, 116, 472

Dew (G. J.) on Limb Scamp, 376

Dexter on Gaultry Forest, 419

Howard (Lord William), 435

Dialects, glossaries of English provincial, 149, 175;
French, 322, 364, 381, 442

Diary of a Yorkshire clergyman, 1682, 88, 139
Dickens (Charles), his autographs, 87; real and ideal
in his works, 404

Digbeth, origin of the name, 68

"Dilambergendi Insula,” its meaning, 269, 295, 357
Dilke (W.) on turnip-stealing, 158

Dilly (Edward and Charles), the publishers, 29
Dioceses of England, atlas of maps of, 56
Diprose (John), printer, his death, 520

Disraeli (Benjamin), 1788, public notary, 23, 117
Dissenting minister a centenarian, 509

Ditty: Ditty-bag: Ditty-box, its derivation, 76, 118
Divination by crystals, 171, 456

Dixon (J.) on Lysiensis, its meaning, 67, 139

"Samson Agonistes," 467

Dixon (Thomas), author of "Portrait of Religion in
Newcastle," 29

Dixon (W. Hepworth), his "Cyprus," 224, 376
Dobson (A.) on Cyprus : Hogarth's frolic, 150, 173
Dobson (W.) on style and title, 131, 251, 276
Doctor (The) on "The pilot that weathered the
Storm," 47

Dog, mad, old "verse" cure for its bite, 385
Doheney (James), an Irish centenarian, 45
Domino, a pseudonym, 328
Done, its provincial use, 288

Doran (A.) on Calvarium or Calvaria, 327
Dorset, witchcraft in, 66
Dorsetshire toast, 78
Douglas family, 428

Douglas (Robert), surgeon and author, 199
Downes's Wharf, Lower East Smithfield, 55, 221
Doyle (Sir F. H.), passage in "How Lord Nairn was
Saved," 9, 38, 70

Dragon in Mordiford Church, 369

Drake (Sir Francis Henry), his monumental inscrip-
tion, 227; his descendants, 310
Dramatists, estimate of Elizabethan, 344
Draperies sold at Norwich, temp. Elizabeth, 116, 337
Drey Nest, 247, 379

Drift Ford, 309, 317

Dublin, Botany Bay at Trin. Coll., 18; Lord E. Fitz-
gerald and Old Newgate Prison, 107; consecration
of twelve bishops at St. Patrick's, 186
Ducking or cucking stools, 88, 399, 456
Dudley Castle, its siege in 1644, 156
Duguid, Scotch name, its origin, 349

Duignan (W. H.) on British trackway from London
to Chester, 342

Digbeth, origin of the name, 68
Mills, privileged, 410

Dunboyne (Lord), Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork,
8, 31, 69

Dunce, its etymology, 57

Dunstable, hearse cloth at, 246, 436

Durham bishopric, 1674 to 1879, 125

Durnford family, 126, 177

Dutch fairs, ghost shows at, 127

Dyer (T. F. T.) on rubbing with a dead hand, 94
Twelfth Day, 3

E. (C.) on Ginnel, its meaning, 137

E. (C. J.) on "Deo et Ecclesiæ," 474

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