Tombs, armorial bearings upon, vii. 450, 490, 495; viii. 115
Tombstone embedded in tree, Ceylon, v. 37, 78,
Tombstone inscriptions, in Malvern Priory, v. 267, 305; Berkshire, 182
Tomlin (John) and Dickens, xi. 167
Tommiad,' poem, c. 1842, i. 128, 175, 212 Tommy "food, use of the word, xii. 330 Tommy-knockers," superstition, vii. 447 Tomohrit (Tomerit), pronunciation of word, ix. 151, 217
"To-morrow shall be my dancing day," origin of carol, v. 320
Toms or Thoms, ironmasters at Newbury, seventeenth century, vi. 168
Tom-tits attacking books in a library, i. 32, 78 Tone family of Bodenstown, co. Kildare, vi. 288, 321; vii. 432
Tonga inscription on seal, v. 64
Tongo the Denounced' (?) play, xi. 28 Tonks, origin of the surname, iii. 476; iv. 114, Tonson (Jacob), bookseller and publisher, his premises in the Strand, vii. 321; as spy on Matthew Prior, ix. 428; x. 50
Towne (Dr.), schoolmaster at Deptford, 1802, Townley family in Ireland, iv. 241 iii. 149; his Christian name, iv. 75
Townley House, Ramsgate, Queen Victoria at, Townshend (Lord Charles), was he murdered by his brother? iv. 75, 137
Toogood (Dean), Westminster scholar, 1723, viii. Tracks, submerged, v. 70
Top-hole,' Topping," derivation, v. 233 Toplady (Henry), Westminster scholar, 1749, vii. 208
Topographical books for research work, iii. 359 Topography of Dublin, c. 1700, i. 28, 77
Toponymics in Great Britain and France, v. 290, 331; French varieties of, vi. 238 Topp family, the crest of, ii. 128, 279 Toppe (John) = Ann Cardell, c. 1600, iii. 475 Toppe family, iii. 70
Torfeckan, Ireland: Torphichen, Scotland, their connexion, vi. 207, 260
Torpedo, an early reference to, ii. 7 Torphichen, Scotland: Torfeckan, Ireland, their connexion, vi. 207, 260
Tortoise, its indifference to hunger, v. 125 Torture, "humorous and lingering," origin of the term, vi. 231
Totland, derivation of place-name, viii. 231, 312 Tottenham shall turn French, the phrase, iv. 269 "Touch
for money, early use of the phrase,
iii. 26 "Touch of Paris " standard of gold, vi. 231 Touch wood, origin of the superstition, ii. 330, 418, 498
Touche (La) and Guinness Families, Memoirs of,' c. 1870, iii. 250
Touchet (Lydia), c. 1740, her identity, iii. 187 Touching" for the king's evil, ii. 114; iii. 480 Touching a sailor for luck, 1. 430, 491; ii. 13, 112, 259
Toulmin (Rev. Joshua), D.D., d. 1815, his biography, vi. 167
Tournaments: at Berwick-on-Tweed, 1599, iii. 506; Eglinton, 1839, prints and accounts of,
Tractarians and scarlet gloves, ii. 50, 116 Tracts connected with the Civil War published in Huntingdonshire, i. 86, 105
Tracts for the Times,' authorship, xi. 109, 277 Traders, Phoenician, in Britain, iii. 210, 281 Tradesman," use of the word, i. 120 Tradesmen's cards and bill-heads, v. 317; vi. 47
Tragedy, an early heroic, 1661, vi. 181 Tragedy of Caesar's Revenge,' 1607, notes on a reprint of, ii. 305, 325, 506
Tragedy of Mariam,' notes on, i. 22, 238 Tragedy of Nero,' 1675, by Nat Lee, v. 254, 299, 323
Trail (Henry), M.P. for Weymouth, 1812-13, ii. 251, 297
Trains Mixed," ix. 190, 212
Translations and reprints, foreign, vi. 210
Transom," meaning of the word, iii. 413 Transportation as a punishment, its abolition, iv. 64
Transportations after the Forty-five, viii. 510; ix. 33, 75
Transylvanus (Maximilianus), his father, ii. 88
Trapaud (Gen. Cyrus), Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of, x. 190, 295
Trapp (Joseph), his Prælectiones Poeticæ,' a translation, 1742, iii. 387, 483
Trappe (George), director and curator of the colonies in Tauride, ix. 354; x 13
Travellers in Syria, their journals, c. 1750, iii. 331
Travels in France during the Revolution, ii. 108
Travels in Spain, book on, published c. 1830, iii. 333; iv 198
Traversin," meaning of the word, iii. 413 Treacle Bibles, particulars of, iii. 446; iv. 23 Treasure-trove and the City Coroner, i. 483; ii. 51, 91, 157
Trotman (Robert), smuggler, his epitaph at Kinson, Dorset, vi. 66, 112
Trouncer," meaning and etymology, iv. 101, 198, 229; v. 131
Trousers put round piano legs, v. 261, 301 Trousseau of a lady, c. 1630, prices, iv. 291 Troutbeck family, x. 21, 77, 97, 111, 278 Trumpets, devils blowing. See Horns. Trussell (Sir William) and Edward IV's expedi- tion to France, xi. 309
Treasury notes, meaning of Arabic words on, i.Trusty Servant,' origin of the symbol at Win- 249, 418
Treby (George), M.P. Plympton, 1708-27, iii. 69 Treby (George), senior, M.P. Dartmouth, 1722- 7, iii. 69
'Tree," final, in Essex place names, xii. 451,
Tree folk-lore, the elder, i. 37, 94
Trefira saracin," meaning of the words, 1800, i. 168, 238, 377
Trelawny (Sir William), 6th Bart., d. 1772, his marriage, ii. 508; iii. 37, 113
Trelawny (Zella), d. 1906, viii. 88, 134 Trelawny song, its origin, xii. 35 Trenchfield (Thomas) steward of St. Paul's School Feast, 1712, iii. 128
Trent (F.), Westminster scholar, 1807, vi. 273 Trent (John), Westminster scholar, c. 1785, vi. 273, 301
Trent, meaning of the river's name, i. 35, 71 Trentall of Masses, xi. 170
Tresco Abbey, Scilly, origin of the name, i. 244 Trevanion (John), M.P. for Dover, 1774, ii. 251,
Trevelyan (Sir Walter C.), memorial fountain at Cambo, iv. 208
Trevisa (John), d. 1402, his biography, i. 139 Trewman (- ), his newspaper Flying Post,' 1763-1917, iii. 355
Trewthe family, ix. 170, 215, 238, 296, 338
chester, ii. 10; portrait at Winchester Col-- lege, x. 401
Trythall family, xii. 92
Tubantia, origin of the name, ii. 408
Tubus, a Christian name, vi. 37, 157, 216, 302: Tucker (Miss Charlotte), dates of birth and death, ix. 371
Tucker (Edward), painter of coast scenes, x. 9, 58 Tucker (Hon. Judge), and court-martial duellist, Newfoundland, 1826, viii. 424 Tucker family papers, their custody, iv. 31 Tucker and Peter families, iii. 504 Tucking," definitions of, xi. 46 Tudgay, marine painter, v. 68 Tudor of Berain (Katharine), great-grand- daughter of Henry VII, viii. 311, 358 Tudor Trevor, Earl of Hereford, ix. 290, 334, 414, 435
Tudor coast defences, ix. 352
Tudor fireplace at St. Albans, x. 90 Tudsay (J.), 1838, xi. 67
Tuileurs," French masonic term, x. 309, 398 Tulchan bishops, status and origin of, viii. 52, 94
Tuninghen cheese, viii. 510
Tunnels under Thames, bibliography of, v. 181, 297, 298; Simplon, book about, 237
Tunstall (Mary)=Robert Parks, c. 1780, vi. 14
Triad, Welsh, on Three kinds of men," ii. 109, Tupper (Martin), his alleged pension from the 158
Tribal Hidages, viii. 309, 355
Tribion," French neologism, v. 287
Trick numbers, xi. 511; xii. 17, 97
Trigg Minor, Read family of, vi. 251 'Trilby,' novel by Du Maurier, key to, v. 151, 245
Trim (Aaron and John), c. 1800, the polite grocers, xii. 251
Tri-Mountain, early name of Boston, 73, 195
Trinidad: The Minutes of the Illustrious Cabildo, xi. 270
Turke (Hutchinson), Westminster scholar, ix. 389 Turkey, Henry VIII's envoy to, iii. 66 Trinity, the Blessed, representations of, iii. 168, Turkey and Poland, Voltaire on, ii. 226 231, 307; iv. 55, 228, 331; Trinity Brotherhood, v. 197 Trinity College, Cambridge, hereditary scholar- ship at, v. 297
Turkey-red dye, introduction of, into England, iii. 167
Turkish badge, crescent and star, i. 189, 254, 435
Turks and the Caliphate, vi. 189; their repulse from Vienna, 1683, i. 385
Turner (A. B.), Bishop in Korea, d. 1910, xi. 331
Turner (C. or G.) portrait-painter, xi. 491 Turner (George), Leeds prophet, iv. 76 Turner (J.), painter, c. 1820, v. 69, 131 Turner (J. M. W.), painter, his family, i. 165; and Haddon Hall, x. 49
Turner (John), minister of Preston, x. 330
Turner (Richard), of Erith, his pedigree, iii. 210
Turner (Spencer), nurseryman, viii. 91, 137 Turner (W. Horsemonden), M.P. for Maidstone, 1734-41, 1747-53, ii. 251, 297
Turner (William), d. c. 15—, his Commonplace Book, ii. 507
Turner (William), of Marbury, x. 330
Turner (William), of Shrigley Park, co. Ches- ter, his family, v. 94, 249
Turner family, viii. 238, 299; x. 17, 49, 330 Turnip, its introduction into England, ix. 409,
Udall (Nicholas) his 'Ralph Roister Doister,' viii. 281
Ude, the cook, and Lord Beaconsfield, x. 110 Udimore, Sussex, families formerly settled there, ii. 330
Uday (J.), M.P. for Kintore, 1681-2, his wife, vi. 66
Ugbrooke Park, Devon, poem on, 1776, ii. 291, 356
Ulleskelf Hall, Yorks, sketch of, xii. 232 Ulster emigrants to America, 1779-80, xi. 311 Ulster rhymes, viii. 292, 334
Umbrellas: Donne's use of the word, xi. 78; not used by women in Sicily, iii. 414
Unigenitus," Bull issued by Pope Clement XI., 1713, i. 200
Union Jack. See under Flags
Union Star,' published in Dublin, c. 1797, ii. 529
United Service Club, windows closed up as memorial to Duke of Wellington, ix. 389 Unitd States of America: first British Minister to, xi. 410; capital city of, iii. 170, 338, 428; English railings in, ix. 130, 197; first official use of title, ix. 258; first raising of the Stars and Stripes, x. 307, 357; use of plural number in speaking of as a nation, ix. 97, 136; Underground Railway, 1863, 125
United Synagogue, jubilee of, vii. 127 Unities of Time, Place, and Action, the doc- trine of, i. 388
Universities, Scotch, undergraduates gown, ii. 469, 537; iii. 59
University Family Bible: Henry Southwell, vii. 297
University of London, vi. 270, 322 Unknown warrior, burial in Westminster Abbey, vii. 449
Unthinkable," use of the word, ii. 186 Unwin (James William), Westminster scholar, 1780, viii. 391 Unwin (Mary), two unpublished letters of, xi. 483
Up and down," often misused, v. 262 'Up to,' use of phrase, x. 169
Upcott (William) and Dickens, xi. 171; his sale catalogue, 1846, xii. 68
Upcott collection and the British Museum, ix.
Vagrancy in the eighteenth century, viii. 81, 137
"Unberufen,' word to take its place, iii. 417," Vailing the hat," meaning of the phrase,
Valady (Marquis de), in England, 1786 and 1788, vi. 273
Vale (- -), marine artist, c. 1798, iii. 475 Valera (Cipriano de), c. 1602, Spanish trans- lator of the Bible, xii. 189
Valerian, Gloucestershire name for, ix. 29 Valetta Regis and Valetta, Corone Regis, v 294
Valhalla," peculiarity in its spelling, v. 237 Vallois family, xii. 293, 458
'Valoé, conte,' 1817, scientific discoveries anti- cipated in, iv. 184
Valoines (Peter de), b. about 1035, x. 345
Valonüs (Hamon de), witness to early royal charter, x. 242
Valuation of ecclesiastical benefices, 1292-3, vi. 15
Value of money, relative, vi. 36, 94
Van Balen, artist, and Charles Lamb, vi. 167, 212
Van Courtlandts family, early settlers in America, ix. 463
Van der Does, derivation of name, viii. 392, 437 Van der Plaes (David), Dutch Artist, viii. 13 Van Dyck (Sir A.), portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, its whereabouts, iv. 101; portraits: Two Young Cavaliers' and Jane Goodwyn, x. 150, 215
Van Eyck: the Ince Blundell Madonna, xi. 512; xii. 35, 316
Van Goyen (Jan), landscape painter, 1596-1656, x. 8. 53
Van Mildert (Bishop), his ancestry, iv. 232 Van Rea (Anthoine), xi. 331
Van Schevichaven (J.), 'Jacob Larwood," a pseudonym of, vii. 441; viii. 508
Van Somer (Paul), supposed portrait of 1st Earl of Marlborough, iv. 45
Van Voorne (Albert) and the three days tourna- ment in West Cheap, xi. 391, 438 Vanderbank (John), painter, c. 1737, xii. 450,
Vane (Ann), d. 1736, and Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes,' viii. 48
Vane (Frances, Viscountess), b. 1711, d. c. 1788, her biography, iii. 167 Vanessa. See Butterflies
"Vanity Fair,' first edition of, i. 467; carica- ture of Charles Kingsley, x. 226 Vanneck and Lovelace families, ii. 350 Vans, Sir Gammer Vans,' old nonsense story, ii. 410, 498, 518
Vansittart family and the 12th Regiment, viii. 450
"Variétés Amusantes," theatre owned by the Earl of Barrymore, xi. 329
Varley (John), pugilist of Hackney, ii. 529 Vassall family, v. 278
Vassel (Florentius), Westminster scholar, 1719, vi. 295, 341
Vaucauson, his inventions, x. 331
Vaughan (Cardinal) and Wales, ix. 354, 394 Vaughan (Hugh) of Bicknor, Monmouthshire, ix. 450
Vaughan (Lord [John]), and the Dehany family, v. 268, 330; vi. 46
Vaughn and Welch families, iii. 418, 457 Vaughn surname, its origin, iv. 28 Vaumorell (de) and Yonge families, xii. 171 Vauvenargues, "La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes," attributed to, v. 39, 105, 135
Vaux (William), indicted for the murder of Nicholas Ridley, 1586, ii. 9
Vauxhall Gardens, antithesis to, at Denbies, iii. 412; allusions to, in Dickens's works, xi. 28, 111, 113
Vavasour (Sir William) at the Earl of Shrews- bury's funeral, 1560, ii. 268, 372
Veal and lamb, composition for, 1624, iii. 508 Vega (Garcilaso de la), Spanish poet, correct form of his name, iv. 132, 254; vii. 70 Vega (Lope de), translation of his Pastores de Belen,' iii. 274, 397 Vehicles becoming extinct, fly,' hackney," midge," and jingle," ii. 32, 95; the num- bering of, 1700, ii. 430
Velasquez (Diego), 1599-1660, his portrait of Cardinal Galli, iii. 30 Venables (Peter), b. 1649 1690, vi. 40 Venedi and Veneti, identification of the, vi. 206 Veneti and Venedi, identificaton of the, vi. 206 Venetian account of England, 1497, iii. 50, 135; xi. 190, 235
Venetian coin inscriptions, c. 1450, i. 328 "Venetian Window as applied to church windows, meaning of, viii. 347, 416, 433 Venice: the Sotto Piombi, or the Piombi, x. 6 Venner's Insurrection, xi. 535; xii. 94 Verdant Green, The Adventures of Mr.,' author of, ix. 409, 452
Verdigris, the formation of ii,. 470; iii. 33 Verdun Barony, English, the creation of, iii. 274, 341, 492
Verdun, English Prayer Book printed at, 1810, i. 176; Englishmen detained at, 1806, iv. 232 Verdy-brown," applied to coats or dresses, meaning of, v. 166
Vere (Edward de), his mother, vi. 190 Vere (Henry de), his sponsors, vi. 190 Verlaine (Paul) at Stickney Grammar School, ix. 429, 470; at Ramsgate Grammar School, 472, 518; his stay in England, x. 14, 237 Vernon (Dorothy) and Sir John Manners, vii. 409, 454, 515
Vernon (Admiral Edward), his capture of Porto Bello and his relations with Brigadier Went- worth over the Cartagena failure, ix. 321, 350, 393; and James Annesley," 437 Vernon (Elizabeth) of Hodnet = Henry, third Earl of Southampton, i. 267
Vernon family of Vernon's Hall, Liverpool, viii. 432, 477
Vernon, and Vernon Harcourt. See Harcourt. Versailles, Kensington gravel at, viii. 30, 57 Verses, old MS., the original of, ii. 229, 278,
Vertue (George), drawing of East India House in 1711, iv. 72
Verus (Emperor Lucius), date of death, xi. 46, 97
Vesalius (Andreas), his mother, x. 349 Vespasian emperor, brass sestertius at Grimsby, v. 301
Vestris (Madame), a letter of, 1839, xii. 251 Veto of Sovereign exercised by Queen Anne, v. 95, 155, 214, 272
Vicar elected by ballot, viii. 429
'Vicar of Bray,' ballad, i. 12, 72, 139, 213
"Vicious circle," meaning of, in pathology, i. 90
Vickers (John) of Fulham, d. c. 1672, his paren- tage, iii. 189
Vickers family of Fulham, v. 123 Victor Emmanuel III., King of Italy, and Charles I. of England, ii. 267, 358, 496 Victoria (Queen): her French tutor, F. Grand ineau, ii. 10; her statue in the Medical Examination Hall, Strand, 448; iii. 15; and J. T. Delane, vi. 241; at the Prince of Wales's wedding, 265; at Towneley House, Ramsgate, 271
Victoria County Histories," additions and corrections, i. 386, 431
Wadbidding, place-name, vii. 89
Victoria Cross, the bibliography of, iii. 49, 97, Waddilove (Robert Darley), Dean of Ripon.
Vinecombe (Daniel), his bequests, viii. 13 Vinegar its effect on pearls, ii. 37, 98, 178; the action of, on rocks, 38; upon nitre, in Prov. xxv., 20, explanation of, v. 205 Vint (Henry), bust at Colchester, v. 146 Violins, tone of old and new, vii. 430, 497 Virement,' use of the word, ix. 208, 377 Virgil on quarrels, translation of, v. 66; ivory gate of: English misconception, ix. 84, 132,
Wagner and Hemans families, iii. 128 Wahab family, i. 247, 320 Wainewright (Jeremiah) whereabouts of his will, v. 180 Wainewright family and Grafton Manor, Oxon., vi. 197
Wainwright (Henry), his poem on his murder of Harriet Lane, x. 251, 338 Waite (Anthony), Winchester scholar, x. 469 Waithman (Alderman), his monument in Fleet Street, xi. 28, 71, 72, 73, 113
Wake (Edward), Westminster scholar, 1774, iii. Wake (Henry T.), Quaker bookseller, c. 1890, Wake (Richard), Westminster scholar, 1812, iii. 333 Wakefield (Gilbert) and Anne Watson, vii. 390,
Wakefield (Thomas), Hebraist, Cambridge, d. 1575, v. 91
Wake-wailers in Yorkshire, xi. 390
Waking a sleeper, superstitious objections, i. Walcheren expedition, epigram on, ix. 355, 394 Waldegrave (Frances Elizabeth Anne, Countess Virginian letters, c. 1730, names referred to in, Waldegrave and Wentworth families, x. 468; of), her fourth marriage, 1863, iii. 90
Virginia Company, x. 341
i. 309, 354, 415, 454
Waldo-Lynnatus," vii. 149, 217
Waleran, Count of Meulan, 1104-1166, and Robert de Neubourg, xii. 43, 207
Waleran and Plugenet families, ix. 489
Wales (Prince of), the title Duke of Corn- wall and his visit to Australia, viii. 26 Wales: the arms of, xii. 286, 337, 356; maps, x. 32, 115; North, Sir Walter Scott in, 1825, iv. 126, 278
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