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W. (W.), translator, 368

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Button (T. C.) on subject of a picture, 409

Byng (Lady), nun of the Bleeding Heart, 449

Walpole (Horace), his 'Anecdotes of Painting,' Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), bibliography, 42,

266

William, the Christian name, 271

Buckley (W. J.) on the 'Decameron' in English, 131
Shakspeariana, 23

Budgell (Eustace), his papers, 487

Bullen (A. H.) on Middleton's 'Game of Chess,' 8
Bumbo Fair, 11, 194, 294

Bumboat, its derivation, 289, 313, 378
Bunch surname, 29

Bunyan (John), first edition of the 'Pilgrim's Progress,'
227, 272, 336, 376; edition printed at Glasgow,
388; and Matteo Palmeri, 487
Burcell or bursell, its meaning, 467
Burgomasco, its meaning, 11

Burke (Edmund), and the Athenian democracy, 346;
passage in, 409

Burke's 'Tudor Period,' references in, 449
Burleigh (William Cecil, Lord), his arms, 53
Burning for heresy under Elizabeth, 66
Burns (Robert), his birth, 15, 73

Burrow (Rev. Robert), LL.D., Vicar of Darrington,
229, 336

Burton (E. A.) on birth of the King of Spain, 478
Busk surname, 14

Busk (R. H.) on simulation v. representation in art,
93, 192

Bellarmine Damigiana, 334
Bonaparte spelt Bonapart, 292
Busk surname, 14

Chaucer (G.), Oriental sources of his tales, 257
Cornish carol, 96

"Dark ages," 434

'Decameron' in English, 262, 333
Distich, its author, 334

Epitaph, 412

Feast of the Precious Blood, 318, 390

Green Dale Oak, 509

Indexing monumental inscriptions, 353

Irish Church, 235

London monuments, 274

Mulberry trees, 258

Nobleman and "noble homme," 417

Pearls, their production, 179
Popes, their arms. 254

"Prendre congé," 292

Raleigh (Sir Walter), 397

Regatta, its etymology, 375

"Roi de Pâques," 158

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265, 425; early copies of Hours of Idleness,' 95;
portraits by Phillips and West, 104, 172, 277;
Finden's illustrations to 'Life and Works,' 269, 311

C. on 'Laidly Worm,' 420, 457
Lord's Prayer, 308

Shrewsbury (Talbot, first Earl of), 17
C. (E. S. E.) on Childe Childers, 167
C. (F. W.) on identification of portraits, 369
C. (G. E.) on 'Tales of the Genii,' 230
C. (H. T.) on Blue Stone, 378

C. (I. E.) on portraits having one hand on a skull, 512
C. (J. A.) on bicycle and tricycle, 415
"Man alive," 249

Napoleon I., his dream, 178

C. (J. D.) on Milton and Vondel, 246
Steele (Sir R.) and the West Indies, 126
Vinci (Leonardo da), picture by, 229
C. (J. H.) on Messiah and Moses, 92
C. (T.) on Sepelivit nuptam," &c., 71
Caffling, a provincialism, 67, 153
Calais, Porter of, 107, 137, 179, 257

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Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Dartmoor bibliography, 215 Chilton (Thomas), London clockmaker, 427

Galloway (Sir Archibald), 254, 395

Plymouth earldom, 213

Vinci (Leonardo da), 357

Carminative, its meaning and derivation, 276

Carol, Cornish, 96, 118, 315, 413

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"Vinaigre des quatre voleurs," 309

Celt on Cover, Derbyshire place-name, 150
Cemeteries, Hebrew, 302, 358

Cervantes, illustrations to 'Don Quixote,' 29
Chairs, sedan, 37, 295

Chamberlayne (Edward), rival publications to his
'Angliæ Notitia,' 123, 202, 462

Chambers (A. M.) on representation of Virgin and
Child, 408

Chance (F.) on the etymology of briar, 165, 192

Brief spell, 85

Funny bone, 331

Gammon-thigh of a hog, 226

Nobleman and "noble homme," 288

Parliamentary trains, 66

Suzerain or sovereign, 349, 452

Chancels in churches, their deflection, 387, 435

Chancery pleadings, old, 152, 318

China, armorial bearings on, 47
Chivers family of Wiltshire, 429
Chrisomer, for chrisom, 507

Christian name William, 188, 271, 332

Christie (M. P.) on Bonaparte family, 308
Christmas, absentee gentry at, 134
Christmas as a surname, 37

Christmas mummers, 54, 177, 415
Christmas waits, 54, 177, 415

'Chronicle of the Church of St. Swithun at Win-
chester,' 269

Church, smoking in, 32, 113, 218, 297; hats worn in,

189, 251, 373, 458

Churches, deflection of chancels in, 387, 435

Churchwardens, their election, 29, 110, 251

Churchyard, single woman's, 310, 433

Cibber (Colley), his death and burial, 307, 413, 513;

and Pope, 428, 477

Clarke (G. K.) on genealogical queries, 168

Clarke (Hyde) on Canada kingdom, 387

Jones (Sir William), 289

Keats (John), 5

Longsword (William), 195
Phylactery, 292

Sibley, 136, 153

Strigul: Chepstow: Limesy, 247
Women actors, 218

Clarke (Stephen Reynolds), his writings, 487
Clarke (W. A.) on the derivation of nostoc, 258
Clarkia, after whom named, 269, 335
Clerk of the Kitchen, his office, 12
Clerke (John), his writings, 248
Clerkenwell, Black Mary's Hole at, 62, 257
Clermont (Jane), her death, 37, 76
Clifford's Inn, grace after dinner, 466
Climsell (Henry), ballad writer, 287

Clipping the church. See Embracing.
Clk. on Knoxis surname, 112
Clock, John Knox's, 46, 115
Clockmakers, 109, 171

Clouston (W. A.) on the Oriental source of some of
Chaucer's tales, 124, 182, 483

Chapman (George), peculiar words and phrases in his Clubs, social, their relations with Freemasonry, 6

plays, 184, 237, 393

Charke (Charlotte), her death, 227, 278, 378

Charles II., his musicians, 305, 384

Charnock (R. S.) on Dutton surname, 433

Els in place-names, 14

Lubbock surname, 236

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Coligny (Admiral), Voltaire on, 15
Collinsia, after whom named, 269, 335

Collyhurst, place-name, its etymology, 349, 438
Colquhoun (Archibald), Lord Clerk Register, 69, 157
Comet cursed at Constantinople, 388, 471
Commonplace book, extracts from, 26, 77

Cromwell (Oliver), his descendants, 217; his speech on
the dissolution of the Barebones Parliament, 368;
memorials at Stamner House, 429; his arms and
banner rolls, 469

Cronebane halfpenny, 17, 134

Crosstone, extracts from register of St. Paul's, 105

Commons House of Parliament: "Pride's Purge," 327 Crouch (Humphrey), ballad writer, 287

Complexion in Shakspeare, 144

Conductor, its meaning, 11, 278

Conquer, its pronunciation, 27, 71, 137
Constables in Shakspeare's time, 465

Constantinople, bloody hand at St. Sophia, 36
Convocation, preachers of Latin sermons at, 244

Cook (Henry), his portrait of Charles II., &c., 369, 457
Cook (J. W.) on Dolly's Chop-house, 329
Cooke (T. E.) on heraldic query, 188

Cooke (W.) on Twiggery-osier bed, 128

Crowdy (G. F.) on Hind peasant, 355
Crowe (J.) on stichera, 370

Crucifix, lines under, 88
Crucifixes, pre-Christian, 407

Crump (J. H.) on Randle Holme, 489
Crusade, Children's, 487

Cruso (Robinson), 89, 137, 158, 215, 295, 398
Cumberland (William, Duke of), the "Butcher
Duke," 274, 374, 411, 512

Curran (John Philpot), his "historical fleas," 49, 91

Cookes (H. W.) on Loudon's 'Arboretum et Fruti- Currie family, 347
cetum,' 489

Cooper (S.) on Collyhurst, place-name, 438

Glasshouses, 288

Cooper (T.) on rent of land in 1740, 244
Coote (W.) on "Montjoye St. Denys," 427
Cordara (Père), his 'Comentario,' 88
Cornish carol, 96, 118, 315, 412
Cornwall, ballads relating to, 428

Cornwallis (Sir Thomas), Comptroller of the House-
hold to Queen Mary, 69, 152
Coronation Stone, its history, 9, 75
Corradino, Colonna di, 407

Cosset: Cosy, their etymology, 217, 291, 338, 357
Cotton (Nathaniel), M.D., his biography, 94
County aid to a walled town, 189, 453

County badges, 470, 518

Courtney (W. P.) on an epitaph, 514

Song wanted, 412

'Valor Ecclesiasticus,' 98

Cover, Derbyshire place-name, 150, 217

"Cow and Snuffers," a tavern sign, 150, 194, 278

Cowley Street, Westminster, 247, 337

Cowper (J. M.) on Batho surname, 495

Chrisomer, 507

Cruso (Robinson), 158

Faithorne Grant, 297

"Filius populi," 6

Register, entries in, 126

Rondeau family, 149

Scochyns: Scochyn money, 17, 372

Smoking in church, 33

Stilt crutch, 75

Woollett (William), 68

208, 394

Curtoys (Sir William), his biography, 129

Cust (Sir John), Speaker of the House of Commons,
228, 274

Cycle and cognate words, 290, 415

Cymbeline on Lord Avonmore on Blackstone, 267

D. on the Porter of Calais, 137
Josselyn of Horksley, 13
More (Sir Thomas), 389
Musical mems, 412
Rose, blue, 357

D. (A. H.) on Dunstanborough Castle, 133
Tyneside words, 368

D. (E. S.) on smoking in church, 113, 297

D. (F.) on Pope's translation of the 'Iliad,' 34
D. (R.) on Green Dale Oak, 347

Damant (H. C.) on Bergander-sheldrake, 239
Damigiana, its meaning, 334

Danby-Harcourt family, 160, 558

Dance (Elizabeth), daughter of Sir Thomas More, 488
Daniel (Luke), poems by, 345

Daniels (William), pictures by, 348

D'Argent (E. A.) on the Children's Crusade, 487

Dark ages, their delimitation, 309, 434, 494

Dartmoor bibliography, 107, 215

Darwin (Erasmus), his 'Life,' 509

Dasent (A. I.) on the New State of England,' 123,
202, 289, 462

'On the Unhappy Conflagration of the Theatre
Royal,' 506

Daughter, seventh, 6, 91

Davenport (Mrs.), Pepys on, 187, 314

Davies (Catherine), her death, 448

Cox (Sir Richard), Bart., Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Davies (F. R.) on Toot Hill, 154

Coxe (H. O.) and Simonides, 486

Cracke: "Immortall Cracke," 89

Crawford (W.) on verses on smoking, 472

Wilkes family, 178

Creation of the world, light before the sun, 287, 452

Crecy, battle of, alleged eclipse at, 466

Cree (J.) on Collegium Grassinæum, 115

'Plain Dealing,' 109

Crest wanted, 168, 197

Crest wreaths, 57, 112, 190, 291

Cretic foot, metrical term, 269

Crickman surname and arms, 170

Davies (T. L. O.) on hats worn in church, 189
Dayman (E. A.) on stichera, 470

Days, dismal, 145

Deane (E. C.) on Gainsborough's 'Boy at the Stile,'

434

Deaths in 1885, 63, 137, 214

De Courcy privilege, 50

Dee (Dr. John), his birthplace, 127, 192

Deedes (C.) on a bell inscription, 235

Cruso (Robinson), 295

Feast of the Nails and Spear, 465

Defoe (Daniel), Cruso name and family, 89, 137, 158,
215, 295, 398

De Horsey family, 328, 437

De la Pole, Earls and Dukes of Suffolk, 170, 325, 459
De Lascy (Peter), Russian field-marshal, 449

De la Warr (Charles, sixth Earl), "In Memoriam,"
488

Delevingne (H.) on churchwardens, 29

Montaigne queries, 107
Parallel passages, 167
Petronius Arbiter, 405
Plan, date of, 248

"Sitting on both sides of the hedge," 6
Stichera, its meaning, 470

Ticket: "That's the ticket," 494

Dennis (John), Savage's epigram on, 385, 473
De Percheval family, 328, 437

De Quincey (Thomas), his method of notation, 248
Derby, its pronunciation, 200

Derby Chelsea vases, set of four, 327

Dering (Dr. Heneage), Dean of Ripon, 189, 276; and
Thomas Gent, 308, 356, 392, 436, 471

De Vere (S.) on Samuel Wydown, 128

Devil names, 28

Devil's Causeway or Causey, 25, 193
Devonshire, ballads relating to, 428

Dibdin (Charles), his Ben Block,' 187, 310;
Hathaway,' 269, 433; his writings, 348, 394
Dibdin (E. R.) on Anne Hathaway,' 433

Dibdin (Charles), 348

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Dickens (Charles), his ' Memoirs of Grimaldi,' 36, 312,
378, 473; simile in Sketches by Boz,' 229, 258;
"Spoffish," 267, 316; his Mrs. Harris, 307

'Dictionary of National Biography,' notes and cor-
rections, 25, 82, 342, 376

Diddams (N.), engraver, 409, 516
'Disasters at Sea,' 167, 218
"Dismaill dayis," 145

Distich, anonymous, 188, 333

Dixon (F. A.) on font inscriptions, 58

Dixon (J.) on blackleg, slang word, 493

Boswell (James), his 'Johnson,' 426

Jury list, Puritan, 18

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Ducarel (P. J.), author, 489
Ducatus (Leonellus), 1687, 87

Duckett (Sir G.) on Gundrada de Warenne, 194
Ducks, proverbs on, 107, 257, 417
Duel, last, in England, 129, 193, 293
Dumps, small colonial coins, 38

Duncan I. and II., Kings of Scotland, 72
Dunmow flitch, 140

Dunois (John) and the Bastard in 'King John,' 143
Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland, 69, 132
Dunston (F. W.) on Currie family, 347
Durrant (E.) on standing at prayers, 68
Dutch Britons, 363, 410, 455, 495
Dutton surname and family, 308, 433

E. (A. H.) on Sir William Palmer, 349
E. (B.) on an epitaph, 412

E. (C.) on father and son both bishops, 16
Cronebane halfpenny, 17
Folk-superstition, 186

E. (D. G. C.) on an unknown portrait, 228
"Stone Axe," 208

E. (H. D.) on Folifate or Folifoot family, 44
Registers of St. John's, Ousebridge End, York,

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Doyle's 'Official Baronage,' errata in, 222, 282, 374, Elizabeth (Queen), her godchildren, 38; letter to the

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Emperor of Cathay, 427

Ellcee on Paddy whack almanac, 478

Mislested, a provincialism, 34

Ellis (A. S.) on Akeberga: Belaga, 55
Halifax, its arms, 113

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Ellis (A. S.) on London, new street in, 145
London diocese, 169
Streanaeshalch, 150
Touch surname, 76

William, Christian name, 332

Ellis (G.) on Sanhedrim of the Israelites, 170

Els in place-names, 14

'Embarkation,' a picture, 109

Embracing the church, a curious custom, 329

F. (J. T.) on Thomas Gent, 471
Grace before meat, 416
Grime (Molly), 469
Hebrew cemeteries, 302, 358
Lay baptism, 178
Lent fines, 108

Proverbs on ducks, 417
Sedan chairs, 37

Smoking in church, 32

Emerson (Ralph Waldo), misprints in edition of his F. (T.) on Freemasonry, 72

'Poems,' 5, 97, 176

En, the prefix, 112

English, slipshod, 446

English accent, its effects, 363, 443, 482

English language, its early pronunciation, 109, 327,
497

Englished, use of the word, 480

Englishmen, noted, in the tenth century, 193
Epigrams:-

Dennis (John), by Savage, 385, 473
Manslaughter, 109, 138, 156
Episcopus, the title, 92, 192, 429, 457, 497

Epitaphs:-

Gray (Philip), 149, 234

Hebrew, 302

"Here lies a piece of Christ," 73

"Here lies my wife, and Heaven knows," 37
"Here lies the carcase of a cursed sinner," 73

"I came into the world indeed," 412

Fabian (Brother) on Antonine Itineraries, 435
Barnes (Joshua), 292, 394

Dutch Britons, 410, 495

Suzerain and sovereign, 170, 270, 389
Thames, contributions to its history, 1, 21, 41,
61, 81, 101, 121, 141, 161, 181, 201, 221, 241,
261, 281, 301, 321, 341, 361, 381, 401, 421,
441, 461, 481, 501

Fagan (L.) on William Woollett, 91, 155
Fahie (J. J.) on O'Donovan's 'Merv,' 157, 456
Painters' bee or fly, 437

'Paradise Lost' in prose, 14
Sterneana, 472

Faithorne Grant, 209, 297, 372

"Farmer's Creed" in the seventeenth century, 448
Farnham (Sir Clement), Knt., 152, 318
Farrant (F. W.) on Nancy Wilkes, 229

Farrer (E.) on heraldic query, 274

St. Winnock, 337

Farthing Ward, London, 168, 256
Fast days, Scottish, 36

"Just to its lips the cup of Life it press'd," 309, Father and son both bishops, 16

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of Byron,' 269, 311

Findlay (W.) on John Knox, 166

Fines, feet of, 13, 91; Lent, 108
Finmore family, 228

Everard, Bishop of Norwich, and Everard de Mont- Fishes, their Scotch names, 8, 55, 73, 152

Heraldic queries, 468

Precedence, 253

gomeri, 426

Exteme, its meaning, 56

Eye-closers for a corpse, 246

Ewing (F. J.) on the Irish Parliament, 77

F. S. three and twopence, 11

F.S.A.Scot. on Thomas à Becket, 93

Saints, queries about, 306

F. (F. J.) on constables and the watch, 465
"Where is the life that late I led ?" 348

F. (H. C.) on Chancery pleadings, 318
F. (J.) on musical mems, 438

F. (J. T.) on Dr. Heneage Dering, 276
Funny bone, 332

Fishmongers' Company, their arms, 197

Fishwick (Caroline) on heraldic swan, 55

Fishwick (H.) on John Armetriding, 49

'Patrician, The,' 474

Smith (John), Gent., 397
Travers (Henry), 473

Werden (Ashton), 28

Fitzgerald (P.) on Hon. Mrs. Norton, 8

FitzPatrick (W. J.) on Breakspear family, 393
Epitaph, 412

Waverley Novels," spurious, 252

Five-finger, its meaning, 185, 237, 393

Flamborough, place-name, its etymology, 245, 375
Fleas, Curran's "historical," 49, 91

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