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Bingham (C. W.) on Lapwing or peewit, 124

Natter, its derivation, 224

Poor Cock Robin's death, 182

Primula, 202

Birmingham. first book printed there, 145

Bishops nominated by Pitt and Lord Palmerston,
458

Bisschop (Jani de), chorus musarum, 93

B. (J.) on heraldic query, 73

B. (J. E.) on Basing House, Hampshire, 499
Lord Hopton's memoirs, 515

B. (J. R.) on the Laird of Lee, 65

Model of Edinburgh, 116
Black Bear Inn, Cumnor, 376

Blackwood's Magazine and the Chaldee manu-
script, 314

Bladon (James) on St. Sepulchre's passing-bell, 388
Blair (D.), Melbourne, on anonymous works, 514,

518

"Fatherhood of God," author of the phrase,
514

Wroeites, a sect, 493

Blair (Robert), frontispiece to the "Grave," 196
Blake (William), his Life, 312

Blent (Cecil) on St. Ishmael, 156
Blind alehouse, explained, 137
Bliss (Miss), portrait, 516

Bloody hand in escutcheons, 54, 80

Bockett (Julia R.) on the Basset family, 417
Boileau (J. P.) on the trials of animals, 155
Boispreaux (M. de), "Rienzi," 320
Boleyn (Anne), her execution, 211
Bolton (James), botanical artist, 345
Book-covers, contents of old, 404
Book hawkers in India, 513
Book hawking exposed, 70

Books, origin of their titles, 279

Books recently published:-

Alford's New Testament for General Readers,
106

Annual Register for 1863, 490

Arnason's Icelandic Legends, 272

Arundel Society's Publications, 106

Autograph Souvenir, 410

Bernard on the Book of Job, 205

Bibliotheca Chethamensis, by T. Jones, 105

Bisset's Omitted Chapters of the History of
England, 370

Blake (William), Life, 312

Blew's Common Prayer in Latin, 44

Blondel on the Expulsion of the English from
Normandy, 44

Book of Days (Chambers), 146

Brady's Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, 272
Brown Book of Reference, 44
Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, 332

Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series,
1634-1635, 530

Camden Society: Letters of Queen Margaret
of Anjou and Bp. Beckington, 26
Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain
and Ireland: Walsingham's Chronicles of
St. Alban's, 45); Letters and Papers illus-
trative of the Reigns of Richard III. and

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Henry VII., 450; Annales Monastici: Mar-
gan, Tewkesbury, and Burton, 450
Clarke's Essay on the Apocalypse, 146
Cockayne's Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and
Starcraft of Early England, 166

Coote's Neglected Fact in English History, 470
Cre-Fydd's Family Fare, 106

Cowper (Mary, Countess), Diary, 272
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 166
Dickens, "Our Mutual Friend," 390
Dowding's Life and Correspondence of G.
Calixtus, 44

Diaries of a Lady of Quality, 409

Evans's Coins of the Ancient Britons, 185
Godwin's Another Blow for Life, 250
Goulburn on the Idle Word, 332
Griffiths's Text-Book of the Microscope, 312
Hand-Book of the Cathedrals of England, 166
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, his Life, 272
Jameson's History of Our Lord illustrated,
389

Jest Book, arranged by Mark Lemon, 490
Journal of Sacred Literature, 86

Ken's Morning, Evening, and Midnight
Hymns, 44

Lapland, a Spring and Summer in, 44
Lewins, Her Majesty's Mails, 410

Lewis's Essays on the Administration of Great
Britain, 291

Lovelace's Lucasta, by W. C. Hazlitt, 205
Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, 291
Manchester Free Library Catalogue, 429

Neckam (Alex.), De Naturis Rerum, 86
Notes on Wild Flowers, 389

Phipson's Utilization of Minute Life, 490
Post Office London Directory, 1864, 66
Quarterly Review, 86, 370

Reithmuller's Alex Hamilton, 146

Salvin's Stereoscopic Views of Copan, 105
Shakspeare: a Biography by De Quincey, 350
Shakspeare and Jonson, 350

Shakspeare Life Portraits, by Friswell, 250

Shakspeare, Reference Memorial edition, 250

Shakspeare's Songs and Sonnets, 250

Shakspeare's Jest Books, 146, 350

Shakspeare's Seven Ages Depicted, 25

Shakspeare's Works, by Dyce, 166, 350;
Cambridge edition, 250, 429; Staunton, 350;
Keightley, 530

Shaw's Students' Manual, 312

Sleigh's History of the Parish of Leek, 490
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, 26, 206, 470
Smythe's Ten Months in the Fiji Islands, 186
Sterne (Laurence), Life, by Fitzgerald, 332
Taylor's Words and Places, 205
Todd's Life of St. Patrick, 25

Tytler's History of Scotland, 389
Walton's Lives of Donne, &c., 250

Webster's Syntax and Synonyms of the Greek
Testament, 470

Williams's Psalms interpreted of Christ, 86
Worgan's Divine Week, 86

Wright (Thomas), Autobiography, 186

Booth family of Geldresome, 172
Borlase (Rev. Henry), one of the Plymouth
brethren, 203

Borrow Sucken, co. Northampton, 477
Boscobel (J. C.) on longevity of Mr. Hutchesson, 33
Bothwell (Francis Stuart, Earl of) and Mary
Queen of Scots, 411; his parentage, 300
Boulogne, prints of the old cathedral, 476, 506;
public library, 477

Bourchier (Rev. Edward), noticed, 280
Bow cemetery, epitaphs, 317
Bowes (Paul), noticed, 247, 330
Bowyer House, Camberwell, 151

Boyd (Zachary), noticed, 54

Braham (John), the vocalist, 318, 444
Brahma, the Hindoo god, 197, 262
Bramston (Rev. James), biography, 205

Brandt (Sebastian), "Ship of Fooles," translated

by Barclay, 1509, 437

Branham (Hugh), noticed, 212, 271, 308
Brass knocker, or remains of a feast, 496
Bray (Owen) of Loughlinstown, 443, 502-504
Brent (Algernon) on institution of the Rosary,

154

Brettingham (Matthew), architect, 63

Bridgeman (S.), plans and drawings, 421

Bridger (Charles) on bibliography of heraldry and
genealogy, 190

Descents of the infant Prince of Wales, 129
Eleanor d'Olbreuse, 144

"Brighton Chronicle," noticed, 75

Bristol, erroneous monumental inscriptions, 87, 289
Bristow (John), noticed, 97, 248

Britannia on pence and halfpence, 37
British Gallery and British Institution, 97
British Institution of Living Artists, 165
Broad arrow, its origin, 165

Brook (Abraham), noticed, 355

Brooke (Dr. R. S.) on the verb "To Liquor," 221
Brookthorpe on Crancelin bearing, 522
Brown family of Coalston, 258, 311
Brown (F.) on Sir Edward Gorges, Knt., 377
Browne (Robert Dillon), noticed, 270, 369
Browne (Sir Thomas), belief in witchcraft, 400
Bruce (Rev. Arch.), his works, 320
Bruce (John) on Dunbar earldom, 97

Laud (Abp.), unpublished satirical papers, 1
Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, 270,

294

Bruges hospital, picture of the "Massacre of the
Innocents," 74

Brussels, patrician families at, 174, 331
Bryan (Mrs. Margaret), her death, 355

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Monks and friars, 427

Moses, etymology of the name, 408
Mottoes wanted, 116
Mozarabic Liturgy, 267

Psalm xc. 9, its translation, 102
Questmen and sidesmen, 65
"Revenons à nos moutons," 408
Schleswig-Holstein, 212
Sepia shedding ink, 408
Septuagint version, 470
Trade winds, 311

Upper and Lower Empire, 446
Budd (Henry), his death, 417, 528
Buddhists in Britain, 344

Bull-bull, a joke on the nightingale, 38, 81
Bullfinch, its mischievous propensities, 124
Bunn (Alfred), comedian, 55, 105, 182
Bunyan (John), neglected biography, 455; in-
scription on his tomb, 474

Burgo (Thomas de), " Hibernia Dominicana," 457
Burial-place of still-born children, 34
Burial offerings, 35, 63, 296, 387

Burial Service, origin of the passage, "In the
midst of life," &c., 177, 407

Burke (Edmund) and "the family burying ground,"
377, 406; on the Ballot, 297, 385, 444; supposed
bull, 212, 267, 366, 445

Burn (J. H.) on stamp duties on painters' canvass,

141

Venables (Col. Robert), 163

Bryans (J. W.) on Victoria and Albert Order, 322 Burn (J. S.) on oath ex-officio, 135

B. (T.) on an antiquarian discovery, 319

Casts of seals, 507

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Burnett families, 376

Burniston (Joseph), noticed, 320

Burns (Robert), jun., noticed, 62

Burns (W. H.) on Bishop Richard Barnes, 196

Drage (Wm.), author of "The Practice of Burrow (Reuben), Diary, 107, 215, 261, 303, 361
Physic," 135

Lamballe (the Princess de), 113

Burton Annals, 450

Burton family of Weston-under-Wood, 140

Lesurques (Joseph), his unfortunate case, 473 Burton (John), D.D. of Maple-Durham, 13

Marriages, early, 23

Ministerial wooden spoon, 214

Passing-bell of St. Sepulchre's, 170

Burton (John), M.D., alias Dr. Slop, 414, 524
Burton (Samuel), high sheriff for co. Derby, 73,
140, 529

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C. on Northumbrian money, 56
Shakspeare and Plato, 63

Window glass, its introduction, 400

Caen stone, how seasoned, 68, 138

"Caged Skylark," author of the poem, 515
Calcebos, its meaning, 435

Caldecott (Thomas), unpublished Shaksperian
MSS., 480

Calf (Sir John), singular epitaph, 215

Calixtus (Geo.), Life and Correspondence, 44
Callis (Robert), legal writer, 134, 204
Calton, its etymology, 417

Calverley (C. S.), charade, 379

Calverley (Mr.), dancing-master, 101

Camaca, a silk, origin of the word, 518

Camberwell, Bowyer House, 151

Cambridge Bible of 1837, 36

Cambridge tradesmen in 1635, 10

Camden (Wm.), poem "Thames and Isis," 344

Camel born in England, 132

Campbell (Sir Alexander), noticed, 367

Campbell (Rev. Daniel) inquired after, 114

Campbell (Sir Hugh), noticed, 367

Campbell (J. D.) on Cambridge tradesmen in 1635,

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divivus," 100

Campolongo (Emmanuel), "Litholexicon," 240
Canine suicide, 515

Cannon used by the French, 1746, 456

Capell (Edward), "Notes on Shakspeare," 77
Capnobatæ, notice of this people, 23
Carey (P. S.) on Albini Brito, 505

Lambert (General), 34

Meschines, 310

Poulet (George), 213

Schomberg's Ode to Capt. Cook, 402
Witches in Lancaster Castle, 259
Carilford on Sir Richard Ford, 242

Ford rebus, or punning motto, 241
Leighton family, 135

May (Sir Edward), Bart., 35, 469
Rule for tincturing a motto scroll, 516

Carilford on Shakspeare's arms, 232

Yorke (Captain), 12; family arms, 125
Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Smyth of Braco and
Stewart of Orkney, 426

Caroline (Queen), consort of George II., lampoon
on, 242

Carter Lane meeting-house, 387

Cary family in Holland, 398, 468, 525
Castlemaine (Lord) on two or more crests, 496
Catharine of Braganza, her retinue, 377
Cats, epitaphs on, 475

Cats, great battle of, 133, 247

Catz (Dr. Jacob), Dutch poet, 259

C. (B. H.) on anagram: Andreas Rivetus, 53
Cromwell's head, 265

Grumbald Hold, 223

Gainsborough Prayer-Book, 97

Hall (Jo.), author of " Jacob's Ladder," 497
"Heraclitus Ridens," its editor, 73

Hum and Buz, meaning of the phrase, 436
Jacob (Sir John) of Bromley, 445
Loretto holy house, 73

Maps of Roman Britain, 196
Private Prayers for the Laity, 193
Psalms: "Li Sette Salmi," 98

St. Mary Matfelon, 223
Taffy, Paddy, and Sandy, 194
Toothache, folk-lore cure, 393

C. (E.) on ancient seals, 113

Chess, its antiquity, 428

Cervantes, and the pamphlet " Buscapié," 512
C. (G. A.) on brass knocker, 496
Frumentum: Siligo, 13

Heraldic queries, 497

Wegh, a certain weight or quantity, 38

C. (H.) on Black Bear Inn at Cumnor, 376
Book hawkers in India, 513
Buddhists in Britain, 344
Congreve's parentage, 132
D'Abrichcourt family, 320

De Foe and Dr. Livingstone, 281
Druidical remains in India, 53
Eastern Ethiopians, 354

Fingers of Hindoo gods, 73

Fowls with human remains, 182

Godfrey of Bouillon's tree, 458

Hindoo gods, 449

Invention of iron defences, 173

Iron mask at Woolwich, 135

Ivanhoe Waverley, origin of the titles, 176

Jack of Newbury, 478

Maiden Castle in Dorsetshire, 101

Massachusetts stone, 298

Mounds of human remains, 191

Medmenham Club, 482

Puck his eastern origin, 394
Seraglio library, 415

Sign manual at Iconium, 436

Upper and Lower Empire, 379

Vishnu the prototype of the mermaid, 238

Chaffers (A.) on picture of Agincourt battle, 171
Chaigneau (Wm.), Irish novelist, 11, 66, 507
Chaldee manuscript, 314

Chaloner (John), his works, 204

Chambers (G. F.) on casts of seals, 450

Chancellors, their London residences, 8, 92, 200
Chandler (Richard), compiler of Parliamentary
Debates, 151

Chandos portrait of Shakspeare, 336

Chaperon, its meaning, 280, 312, 384, 446, 509
Charades: The drugget, 379; "Sir Geoffrey lay,"

425

Charlemagne (Emperor), his posterity, 134, 270,
365; his tomb, 461

Charlemont earldom and viscount, 33
Charles I., Gustavus Adolphus letter to, 294; an
epitaph on, by J. H., 13; place of his execu-
tion, 204

Charles II., his illegitimate children, 211, 289, 365,
409

Charnock (R. S.) on Towt, towter, 311
Chaworth or Cadurcis, 114

C. (H. B.) on passage in Antiphanes, 486
Ballot three blue beans, 444
Cruel King Philip, 103

English topography in Dutch, 406
Evander's order, 309

"Here lies Fred," &c., 386
Mævius of ancient times, 182

"Royal Stripes, or a Kick from Yarmouth to
Wales," 346

Satirical Sonnet, Gobbo and Pasquin, 81
Tydides, 23

C. (H. C) on Freemasons noticed by Gesner, 97
Horace not an old woman, 475

Portraits of Our Lord, 290

Chelmorton, inscription on the font, 299, 365

Cheque, Clerk of the, 62

Cherington (Viscount), "Memoirs," 347

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Clerk of the Cheque, 62

Clifton, cenotaph to the 79th regiment, 11, 84
Climachus (St. John), his "Climax," 241
Climate of England, testimony to it, 95
Clonmell (John Scott, Earl of), Diary, 477, 529
Clotworthy (John), 1st Viscount Massareene, 344
Cloyne parochial records, 272

Club at the Mermaid Tavern, 498

Cobbett (Wm.), his learning and political princi-
ples, 370, 422, 423, 442

Cobham pyramid designed by S. Bridgeman, 421
Cock Robin's death in a church window, 98, 182
Cockle, an Order in France, 117, 184, 221
Coffee-houses considered a nuisance, 493

Coffins and monuments made before death, 255,
363, 423, 469

Coin, Danish, 355

Coins, Dictionary of, 172

Cokayne (Mrs.) of Ashbourne, 20

Cokayne (Thomas), barrister, 21

Coke (Bp. George), certificate of Conformity, 374
Colasterion, information required, 496
Colborne families, 171

Cold in the month of June, 164

Cole (Robert) on Sir Michael Stanhope, 516

Chess, its antiquity, 377, 428, 447; works on, 114 Coleridge (Herbert), his death, 450

Chetham Library Catalogue, 105

Cheyne (Capt. Alex.), his death, 34

Children, burial-place of still-born, 34
Children's games, 394, 395

Chitteldroog on misquotations by great authorities,

454

Colloquialisms not always vulgarisms, 511
Hornecks (the Miss), 521

Christenings at court in 1607, 496-
Christian names from the Pagans, 24

Christian (T. P.), author of "The Revolution," 435
Christmas customs, 395

Chronicle, English, in manuscript, 54

66

'Church," a poem, its author, 297

Coliberti, a species of villenage, 300, 384, 446
Colkitto, an Irish officer, 118, 183, 287
Collier (Jeremy), "Short View of the Stage," 38
Collier (J. P.) on verification of a jest, 491

Raleigh (Sir Walter), particulars of, 7; docu-
ments, 108, 207, 351

Collins (John), "To-morrow," 17, 204; its proto-
type, 461

Colloquialisms not always vulgarisms, 511
Colossus of Rhodes, 457

Colvill (Alex.), D.D., noticed, 51
Colvill (Samuel), noticed, 51

Comberbach (Mr.) and Milton's third wife, 95
Comet of 1581, 114, 364

"Church of our Fathers," poem, its author, 297, Comic songs translated, 76, 172, 223

369

Churches within Roman camps, 173, 329, 441

Churchman (Richard), lines on his death, 209
C. (J. E.) on fardel of land, 358

Tamar manor-house, 357

C. (J. L.) on Richard Adams, 42

Peckard (Peter), D.D., his MSS., 35
Washington (Joseph), 23

C. (K. R.) on Esquire and academical degrees, 377
Throgmorton (Sir Nicholas), 43

Clarence (Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of), coat
armour, 330

Clarendon (R. V.), inquired after, 496

Clarke (Charles), F.S.A. of Balliol College, 435
Clarke (Charles), Capt. R.N., 435

"Common Law," its original signification, 152, 222
Common Prayer-Book printed at Gainsborough,

97, 144, 164

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Compete," its early use as a verb, 97

Conformity, Bp. Coke's certificate, 1641, 374
Congreve (Lieut.-Col. Harry) on painting of the
Siege of Valenciennes, 459
South African discovery, 498
Congreve (Wm.), his parentage, 132

Congreve (Sir Wm.), inventor of iron defences, 173
Coningsby (Sir John de), lineage, 280, 349
Consonants in Welsh, 364

Constable (Henry), confined in the Tower, 7
Constantinople, seraglio library at, 415, 526
Cook (Capt.), ode to him by Sir A. Schomberg, 402

Cook (Thomas), alderman of Youghal, 55
Cooke (T. F.) on Lord Thurlow's residence, 200
Cooper (C. H. and Thompson) on Richard Adams,
64

Bankes (George), Vicar of Cherryhinton, 43
Bentley (Richard), D.D., 530
Bowes (Paul), 247, 330
Bramston (Rev. James), 205
Branham (Hugh), 271, 308
Cambridge villages, 271

Clotworthy (John), 1st Viscount Massareene,

344

Coo (Thomas) of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 43
Forster (Joseph) of Queen's College, 258
Gilbert (Thomas), Esq., 263
Hall (John), B.D., 530
Hawkins (John), 20
Hennebert (Charles), 164
Horrocks (Jeremiah), 509
Lloyd (Charles), the poet, 10
Molesworth (John), Esq., 378
Richardson (Rev. Christopher), 271
Rowley (Rev. Joshua), longevity, 82
Spencer (Beckwith) of Yorkshire, 498

Symes (Wm.), master of St. Saviour's school,

400

Talbot Papers, 489

Torre (James), Yorkshire antiquary, 507
Venables (Col. Robert), 120

Watson (Wm.), LL.D., 517
Whiting (Nathanael), 420

Wilkinson (Rev. Thomas), 480

Wood (John), rector of Cadleigh, 437

Cpl. on Markham (Lady), Donne's friend, 498
Swinburne (Mr.), Sec. to Sir H. Fanshaw, 12
C. (P. S.) on Aubery and Du Val, 133
Calcebos, its meaning, 435

Danish right of succession, 331
Martin family, 349

Mordaunt barony, 416

Witch trials in the 17th century, 324
Crabtree (Henry), biography, 192

Cradock (Sir Richard Newton), his tomb, 87
Craggs (Thomas), on enigma of five brothers, 199
"He digged a pit," 193

Craig (Rev. Thomas) of Whitby, 22
Crancelin in heraldry, 457, 522
Cranidge (John), M.A, of Bristol, 280

Cranstoun (Helen D'Arcy), unpublished poems,
147, 484

Crapaud ring, 142

Crests, on bearing two, 496

Creswell (S. F.) on Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council, 193

Kings! an exclamation in children's play, 456
Cribbage, the ancient Noddy, 358

Croghan, King's County, noticed by Spenser, 399
Cromwell (Oliver), his supposed skull, 119, 178,
264, 305

Croquet, its derivation, 494

Crossley (James) on Dobbs' Trade and Improve-
ment of Ireland, 63

Crowe field in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, 153
Crowne (John), " Andromache," 323

66

C. (T.) on the Ballot: three blue beans, 385
Rye-House plot cards, 9

Cooper (G. J.), on Bellamy's translation of the Cuckoo, notes on the, 394, 450

Bible, 14

Horsley (Bishop), portraits, 38
Longevity of clergymen, 22

Owen Glyndwr's parliament-house, 247
Preface to the Bible, 283

Copan, stereoscopic views of its ruins, 105
Copley (Christopher), biography, 201
Coriate (Thomas), the traveller, 310, 369
"Cork Magazine," author of an article, 73
Cork parochial records, 272

Cornelisz (Lucas), monogram, 380
Corner (C. T.) on Colossus of Rhodes, 457
Corney (Bolton) on Francis Wise, B.D., 121

Shakspeare's birth-day, 225
State-Paper rectified, 5
Cornish proverbs, 208, 275
Cornish stannary court, 374

Coronets used by the French noblesse, 80
Corpse, meaning a living person, 296
Corseul, arrondissement of Dinan, 389
Cotterell (Lieut.-Col.), noticed, 297
Couch (T. Q.) on Coliberti, &c., 300

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County Families," claims and descents, 71
Coventry (Sir John), K.B., 191

Cowper (B. H.) on the Newton stone, 245, 428
Cowper (Mary, Countess), "Diary," 272

Cox (James), his museum, 305

Cpl. on christenings at court, 496

Club at the Mermaid tavern, 498

Cokayne (Mrs.), 20

Donne (John), jun., 21

Cuckoo song, its notes, 418, 465, 508
"Cui bono," proper use of the phrase, 192
Cullum (Sir Thomas), bart., relative, 55
Cumberland (Richard) and Congreve, 496
Cumming (James), F.S.A., 212, 308
Cumnor, Black Bear inn, 376, 438
Cunningham (Peter) on wit defined, 30
Curll (Edmund) and Voiture's Letters, 425
Curmudgeon, its etymology, 319, 370
Cuttle (Capt.) his note on notes not original, 54
C. (W.) on Thomas Gilbert, 349

Sheen priory drawings, 379.

D.

▲ on Sir Edward May, 84
Wilson (Beau), 284

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D'Abrichcourt family, 320, 408, 524
'Daily Advertiser," 1741, its value, 211
Dalhousie (Earl of), a rejected M.P., 34
Dalton (J.) on "El Buscapié," 512

Camaca, a kind of silk, 518

Doña Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, 418
Library of the Escorial, Spain, 276
Madrid, Spanish lines on, 436

Maria de Padilla, 149

Moore (Sir John), monument, 329

Moses, its etymology and meaning, 344
Psalm xc. 9, 103

Monograms of painters, 380

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