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INDEX.

TENTH SERIES.-VOL. III.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EDITORIAL,
EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARIES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS,
SHAKESPEARIANA, Songs and Ballads, and TAVERN SIGNS.]

A. (B.) on authors of quotations wanted, 128

A. (B. C. W.) on "God rest you merry," 49

A. (O. B.) on "The Hungry Forties," 87

Alexandra (Queen), her surname, 114, 174, 351, 412.
Aleyn (John), law reporter, his biography, 344
Algarva, meaning of the word, 127, 194

A. (F. G.) on "Who pays the piper calls the tune," 468 Algonquin element in Fnglish, 34, 77
A. (F. W.) on Sir Harry Bath: Shotover, 337

A. (J.) on heriot, 142

A. (P. W.) on pompelmous, 256

Abbotsley, St. Neots, Hunts, list of incumbents, 29
Abrahams (A.) on Coliseums old and new, 53, 255
Concerts of Antient Music, 488

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Allen, motto of Louis II., Duke of Bourbon, 208, 473
All Fools' Day, customs on, 286, 333, 416
Almqvist (E.) on King Edward VII., 327
Amberskins, meaning of the word, 309, 393

America: dates of beginnings of different States, 326
American place-names, 188, 276, 333
American Prayer-Book, 208

Amory (T.), author of 'John Buncle, bis widow's
death, 326

Anchorites' dens, descriptions of, 128, 234, 298, 333,

391

Anderson (J. L.) on Patrick Bell, Laird of Anter-

mony, 12

Holyrood font, 109

Andrews (W.) on toastmaster, 309

Wesley and the wig, 269

Angles England, origin of the word, 16

Anglo-Indian on pompelmous, 831

Anjou, genealogical table of House of, 270, 317, 333

Anne (Queen), memoirs of her last years, 32; as
Semandra in 'Mithridates, King of Pontus,' 164
Anonymous Works:-

Alderman Ralph, 229, 270, 415
Antidote against Infidelity, 208
Beyond the Church, 205

British Code of Duelling, 49, 192
Cinderetta, 365

Faithful Admonition of 1554, 484

Genesis: Notes on Book of Genesis, 50

Janus; or, Edinburgh Literary Almanack, 368
My Cousin's Tale of a Cock and a Bull, 268,
334

Pictures of the Old and New Testaments, 487
Rebecca, 128, 176, 293, 435

Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling, 320

Steer to the Nor'-Nor'-West, 13, 172, 436

Stukeley (Capt. Thomas), Famous History of, 301,
842, 382

Theatrical Remembrancer, 429

99 66

Albert (Prince), as poet and musical composer, 308, 374 Anscombe (A.) on “England,' 'English," 822, 453

Ainsty of York, its meaning, 183, 256, 835

Aldenham (Lord) on 'Coryate's Crudities,' 426

Spelling reform, 31, 134

Aldrich (S. J.) on Franciscus de Platea, 108

Antiquarian v. antiquary, 153

Anvari, Persian poet, his 'What is Love?' 186
Apothecaries' Act of 1815, 328, 394

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Armstrong (T. P.) on cross in the Greek Church, 56
Arnold (Sir Edwin), error in memorial inscription, 176
Arnold (Matthew), his 'Horatian Echo,' 6
Artemon on Whistler's ship, 227

Artists, modern Italian, 38

Ashbridge (A.) on Rooque's and Horwood's maps of
London, 187

Ashen faggot, Christmas custom in Somersetshire, 236
'Assisa de Tolloneis,' its date, 38

"As such," meaning accordingly, 49, 193
Astarte on Charlemagne's Roman ancestors, 869
Irish folk-lore, 813

Lady's coat of arms, 898

Attorney of 1870 on 'The Law List,' 887
Auden (G. A.) on anchorites' dens, 333
Twitchel, 351

Audience Meadow, its name, 493

Austin (James), his great plum-pudding, 255
Authors and their first books, 247, 297
Autograph of Satan, 268, 356, 415

Axon (W, E. A.) on Robert Farren Cheetham, 64
'Faithful Admonition' of May, 1554, 484
Lando (Ortensio) and Eugenio Raimondi, 863
Statue in a circle of books, 8

Ayeahr on Farrell, of the Pavilion Theatre, 188

Lamb in place-names, 294

Maiden Lane, Malden, 329, 477
Police uniforms: omnibuses, 432
Spratt family, 227

B. on Marriage Service, 7

St. Anthony of Padua, 8

B. (C. C.) on patent medicines, 86

Q in the H. E. D.,' 146

B. (D. v.) on bringing in the Yule "clog," 166

B. (E. G.) on St. Sepulchre, 173

B. (G. F. R.) on Calland, 9

Carne (Samuel Charles), 867
Grimke (John Faneherreaud), 867
Grinfield (Rev. Edw, Wm.), 870
Quenington, Gloucestershire, 489
St. Paul's Cathedral, 468

Trelawny (Sir Jonathan, Bart.), 447

B. (H.) on 'Patience,' 229

B. (H. J.) on penny wares wanted, 16

B. (H. W.) on Joseph Wilfred Parkins, 108

B. (K. M.) on Marmont family, 189

B. (R.) on English officials under foreign Govern.

ments, 129, 214

Epigram on a rose, 855

Houses, ancient religions, 69

B. (R. E.) on blood used in building, 178

Police uniforms: omnibuses, 187

B. (R. W.) on Cromwell Fleetwood, 466
B. (S.) on Molly Lepel's descent, 172
B. (W.) on bellringing, 466

Lead language, 145

B. (W. C.) on blood used in building, 35
Bringing in the Yule "clog," 11
Campden mystery, 367
Cholsey, Berks, 326
"Dunelmiæ Filius," 368
Easter eggs, 303
Easter sepulchre, 304
Heriot, 234

Lamb in place-names, 150
Marriott (Rev. Randolph), 193

May Day: two poetical tracts, 344
Palm Sunday and Easter customs, 304
Parkgate Theatre, 355

Richardson (W. V.) and the Russian Church, 376
Snowte: weir and fishery, 137
Vicariate, 204

"Visitations of Southwell,' 66
Weathercock, 288

Bacon (Francis) and Ben Jonson, 35, 94; or Usher?
94, 155, 234; singular address by Thomas Powell
to, 106; authorship of "The world's a bubble,"
and of Bacon's epitaph, 155, 234, 316;
"Glendower," 302

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Badges, curious words in their description, 407
Badley (R.) on addition to Christian name, 874
Bailey-Kempling (W.) on Matthew Arnold's 'Horatian
Echo,' 6

Name coincidences, 466
Balances, guinea, 847, 413, 472

Balances or scales, early, 208, 273

Baldock (G. Y.) on Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 297
Nail and the clove, 231

Baldwin (Sir Timothy) in 'D.N. B.,' 806

Ball (F. E.) on Battle-axe Guard, 315
Ballowe (Henry) in 'D.N.B.,' 267
Baltic Fleet, Russian, in 1788, 246

Balzac, cipher used by, 868

Bananas, varieties of, 14

Bankrupts in 1708-9, 154

Bannerman (Rev. David) Janet Turing, 167, 316

Baptist Confessions of Faith, 89, 116, 455

Barclay-Allardice (R.) on patents of precedence, 90

Police uniforms: omnibuses, 76

Barker (H. T.) on St. Patrick, 450
Barker and Killigrew families, 224
Barnfield (R.), his 'Cynthia,' 425

Barrel-organ builders in Cheapside, 348

Barrow (Oswald) on the Fitzwilliam family, 165

Barry (Dr. James), her biography, 228, 813

Baskish, New Year's Eve in, 86; P. d'Urte's
Genesis' in, 148; butterfly in, 226; Leiçarragan
verbin, 267

Bath, memorial tablet to James Quin at, 185; Gay's
Beggar's Opera at, 865

Bath (Sir Harry) and Shotover, 209, 277
Batten (W. M.) on Hallet family, 308

Maxwell of Ardwell, 889

Battle-axe Guard, o. 1709, 247, 814
Battlefield sayings, 35

Bayley (A. R.) on House of Anjou, 817

Blake (Benjamin): Norman: Oldmix on, 15
"Gentle Shakespeare," 170

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Ramsay (Allan), 78

Scotch words and English commentators, 272
"Tertias of foot," 429
Wilie-beguilies, 125

Young and Burns, 466

Beaconsfield (Lord), his faith, 867

Beardshaw (H. J.) on date of the Creation, 333
Beating the bounds, the custom, 209, 293, 390
Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick, their pedigree, 488
Beauty of Buttermere,' Sadler's Wells play alluded
to by Wordsworth, 352

Bedford (Rev. W. K. R.), his death, 120

Begbie (K. M.) on Verschoyle: Folden, 116

Bell (Patrick), Laird of Antermony, his biography, 12
Bellomont (Viscount) and Charles Mason, Royalist
divine, 388

Bellringing performance, notable, 466

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Bensly (E.) on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' 203
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King's Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 447
Letters, their names, 277

Bent (M. V. A.) on Edmond Hoyle, 196

Woffington (Peg), her portraits, 195
Berlioz (H.), his 'A travers Chants,' 365
Besant (Sir Walter), pronunciation of his surname,
28, 118, 155, 196; Dr. Isaac Watts, 489
Betagh (William), his 'Voyage round the World,'
1719, 61

Betty black pudding or haggis, 6
Bevan (Rev.

of Worcester College, his
'Parochial Letters,' 1829, 87
Bible Baskish translation of Genesis, 148; John
Brown's 'Self-Interpreting Bible,' 228; Luther's
'Commentary on the Galatians, '229; Psalm cxxxvii.
2, the weeping willow, 247; in Gaelic, 289
Bibliographies, bibliography of, 243, 316, 394
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Anne (Queen), her last years, 32

Arithmetic, 50, 98

Authors and their first books, 247, 297
Beating the bounds, 891

Bibliographical queries, 227, 292, 473
Bibliography of bibliographies, 243, 316, 394
Bliss (Dr. P.), his remarkable cancels, 62
Blood used in building, 35

Bonaparte (Napoleon), 167, 212

Book sales, catalogue of English, 341
Boswell's 'Johnson,' 284

Borrow (George), his Turkish Jester,' 229, 835
Brewer (Anthony), 118
Burns (Robert), 148

Burton (R.) his Anatomy of Melancholy,' 203
Catalogues of seventeenth-century tracts, 174
Charnock (R. S.), 263

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Sarpi (Father Paul), 44, 84, 144, 232
Sheridan (R. B.), his Critic,' 845
Southey's Omniana,' 92

Spenser (Ed.), his 'Epithalamion,' 246, 412, 474
Stukeley (Sir Lewis), his Petition,' 428

Tacitus, trans. by Greenwey and Savile, 488
Thackeray (T. J. and W. M.), 22, 73, 131, 151,
196, 275

Travers (Henry), his 'Miscellaneous Poems and
Translations,' 346, 416

Warden (David Bailie), 309

Willis (Edmond), his 'Abreuiation of Writing by
Character,' 828, 375

Zornlin, 402

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