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André (Major John), his portrait, execution, and Anonymous Works:

ghost, 7, 31, 477

Andrew arms, 289, 336

Andrews (Henry), almanac maker, 16, 57 Angel inn, lines on, 188

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Anglo-Celt on House to let," 19

Anglo-Scotus on Maud, Countess of Clare, 473

Coupeland (John de), 284

Johanna of Acre, 304

Anon. on old Nuremberg ballad, 227

"Bovgge the bere," 168
Centenarian, 426

Diary of a Yorkshire clergyman, 88
Jacobite, Jewish, 409

Manchester parish church, 68

Anonymous pamphlets connected with Oxford, 423

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Mary Magdalen's Complaint, 447
Miserrimus, 348, 392, 432
More (Hannah), Life of, 486
Murdered Queen, 469

Muse commenc'd Preacher, 169
National Anecdotes, 259

Notes on Cambridgeshire Churches, 289
Ode to Dr. Thomas Percy, 39

Only for Something to Say, 289, 319
Opuscules Poétiques, 66

Palingenesia, the World to Come, 349, 453

Personal Sketches of Eminent Men, 217
Phil Blood's Leap, 329, 359
Pilgrimages in London, 209
Practical Philosophy, 103

Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, 229
Reminiscences of a Medical Student, 149, 199
Robert Emmet, 349

Russian Rites and English Prayers, 229

Samson Agonistes; or, History of Samson, 508
Scenes and Stories, 369

Sermons, &c., upon the Plague, 509

Shakespeare and his Friends, 329, 359, 379
Specimen of a New Jest Book, 507

Swans of Wilton, 229

Town and Country Mouse, 60
Trifles, 429

Voice from a Mask, 328

Walk through Switzerland, 229

Wanted a Title, a farce, 449

Anpiel on "Rete Corvil," its meaning, 57
Anti, a game, 228

Apis on Parthenissa, 387

Death-bed Scenes and Pastoral Conversations, 36 Apperson (G. L.), on Goldsmith's "Deserted Vil

Deil's Reply to Robert Burns, 148, 237
Delmour; or, the Tale of a Sylphyd, 89
Devil turn'd Hermit, 29

Dialogue betwixt a Cittizen and a poore Countreyman, 509

Distressed State of the Icelanders, 429

Divine Breathings, 240, 336, 418, 433, 478
Dream of the Past; or, Valerian, 428
Enderby, a tragedy, 428

England's Day, a poem, 168, 217
Explorers, and other poems, 428

Familiar Quotations, 49, 79, 99, 159, 179
Family of Genius, a comedy, 449

Faust, translation of, published in 1842, 89
Faustus, a poem, with Notes, 329
Festival of Wit, 308

Frank Heartwell; or, Fifty Years Ago, 349
Frenchman and the Rats, 509

Gaulliad, The, 349

Heads versus Pockets, a drama, 449

Hints to some Churchwardens, 248

History of France, 388

Hope Leslie, 329, 359

Legende of ye Castle at Huntyngdune, 169
Lives of Celebrated Travellers, 259

London in the Olden Time, 329, 479
Lost Brooch, 329, 359

Macbeth, a poem, 49

Maid's Revenge, 89

Man in the Moon, 288, 416

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Reynard the Fox," 296

Apuæ, use of the word, 325, 417, 477,
Arbeiter, its etymology, 341
Archer family, 408

Archery, its bibliography, 26

Argent on curious Christian names, 77
Mitford (Mary Russell), 357

Scotch territorial names, 488

Armour, funeral, 73, 178, 252, 375, 457

Arms, right to bear, 29, 152, 177, 196, 271, 309, 356, 395, 409; satirical coat of, 228; on choir stalls in Haarlem Cathedral, 269, 318, 351, 395, 417; "Nobility" rolls of, 274, 358

Army in Ireland, its pay and clothing, temp. Elizabeth, 286

Arrowsmith (Father), his hand, 94, 318
Artichoke, Jerusalem, 217

Artifex, its etymology, 341

As, its provincial use, 288

Asparagus, Dutch way of cutting, 264, 319, 397

Ass, local names for, 28, 56, 155, 157, 197
Assignat de la République Française, 127, 234
Astbury Church, its ancient monuments, 11, 221
Astley (J.) on Yateley, Hants, 31

Astrological predictions fulfilled, 85, 207

Athill (C. H.) on payments in church porches, 432 Atkinson (H. J.) on Common Prayer Book, temp.

Eliz., 514

Prayer Books with royal arms, 119

Atkyns (Sir Robert), editions of his "Gloucester- B. (W. C.) on Shakspeariana, 22
shire," 408, 457

Atlas of maps of dioceses of England, 56
Attwell (H) on coach, its derivation, 390
Auster, its derivation, 215
Australian heraldry, 484

Auvergne: "Bienvenu Auvergnat," 89
Axon (W. E. A.) on banker poets, 6

Barbary, human sacrifices in, 89
Bunyan (John), his Bible, 106
Evil eye in Morocco, 8
Hunt (Leigh), his

294

Lovejoy (E. P.), 68

Sunflower, 178

Toothache, passages on, 88

B. (W. E.) on Bayard's Leap, 316

Bolles pedigree, 237

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B. (W. J.) on pistle for Good Friday, 217
Hodgson (F.): W. Gifford, 184

B. (W. M.) on "Seeing is believing," 157
B. (Y.) on burial at night, 474
Back-board, or monitor, 387

Bacon (Montague) on "Hudibras," 7, 30, 57, 298

Reading for Railways," Badges, simulated Tudor, 39

Manuscripts, method of designating, 305

Mogador, port of, its captain, 346

Morocco, classics in, 245

Norfolk dialect and hymnology, 147

Ordeal by hot iron, 225

Poet, an emigré, 66

Salt a protection against evil spirits, 206
Scott (Sir W.), letter of, 284

Tennyson (A.), his "Confessions of a Sensitive
Mind," 49

Watts (Wm. Green), 386
Ayston, bell inscription at, 53

Azure, its derivation, 104, 189, 214, 238, 497.

B. on "How Lord Nairn was saved," 9
B. (B.) on William the "Mamzer," 35

B. (B. H.) on "Assistant and Guide to Bath," 107
Brough (W.), Dean of Gloucester, 107

B. (C. O.) on Hems, its meaning, 93
B. (C. T.) on Balcony or Balcony, 56

Peter-pence, 506

B. (E.) on Ballad of "William and Margaret," 468
"Confesional, The," 427

Samosatenians, or Socinians, 48
B. (E A) on Fussock: Moke, 197

Wellingore, its derivation, 493

B. (E. M.) on style and title, 130

B. (F.) on destruction of Houses of Parliament, 77
B. (G. F.) on Ralph, its pronunciation, 99

B. (G. F. R.) on Wrest-beer and Kilderkin, 274

B. (G. G.) on Luther and Cranach, 167
B. (G. S.) on Escobarder, French verb, 455
B. (G. W.) on appropriate surnames, 446
B. (H. A.) on anonymous works, 89

Mint pasty Primrose pasty, 49
Proverbs with changed meanings, 258
Sanitarium or Sanatorium, 118
Sunflower Clytie, 58, 217
Viewy, a new word, 178

B. (H. W.) on Ribbesford Church, 267
B. (J.) on the Gunpowder Plot, 391

B. (J. E.) on Suisses-Door-porters, 55

B. (J. H.) on Elizabeth Blunt, 9

B. (J. R.) on Dissenting minister a centenarian, 509
B. (M. M.) on Bolles pedigree, 149

Waters or Walters family, 387

B. (S. W.) on American clergy, 137

Churchman, natural son of Charles II., 127
B. (W. C.) on William Brough, D.D., 233
Embezzle, its etymology, 55
President: Precedent, 507

Bailey (J. E.) on Rev. Thomas Brancker, 41, 345
Brough (Wm.), Dean of Gloucester, 233
Church Registers, their publication, 38
Daughter as a surname terminative, 195
Dee and Trithemius's "Steganography," 401, 422
Grace, "God bless us all," &c., 107

Howell (James) and his "Familiar Letters," 450
Lawrence (President Henry), 501

Leigh Grammar School: Abp. Cranmer, 83
Lunatics in the seventeenth century, 136
Bailey (Samuel), of Sheffield, his writings, 496
Baily (J.) on sting of death, 290

Panchielus, &c., 367

Balcony or Balcony, 39, 56, 78, 357, 431
Ball family of Barbadoes, arms, 386
Ball Hughes, or Hughes Ball, 296
Ballad, old Nuremburg, 227

Ballads, Fletcher's saying about, 148
Ballyspelling Spa in modern days, 368
Bancks (John), spelling of his name, 232
Banker poets, 6

Barbadoes, its registers, 178

Barbary, human sacrifices in, 89

Barbeau sprig, a china pattern, 353, 377
Barbers' shop forfeits, 33

Bargaining: Prix fixe, 207

Barker (Col. John), his relations, 408

Barker (John), his diary, 227

Barker (W. P.) on French prisoners of war, 335

Barnham (J. C.) on portrait by Gaultier, 228

Baronets, designation of their wives, 486

Barrow (G. F.) on church goods in Norfolk, 183,

242, 364

Barrows, ancient, assemblies near, 369, 413

Barrymore ("Lady"), her biography, 276
Bartlett (T. E.) on William Bartlett, 329
Bartlett (William) A.B., 1607, 329

Bassi (Laura), professor at Bologna, 8, 75
Bates (W.) on blushing in the dark, 131
Cyprus: Hogarth's frolic, 149

Erskine (Lord Chancellor), 233
Hone (Nathaniel), 218

Knox (V.), his "Spirit of Despotism," 43
Lavater (L.) on ghosts, 71

Periwig, its derivation, 152

Poems on towns and countries, 169

Theology the queen of sciences, 32

Bath, "Stranger's Assistant and Guide to," 107; its
churches, 215

Battersea, site of Watney's distillery, 36

Baughan (M. A.) on Henry Andrews, 16

Bayard's Leap, South Lincolnshire, 126, 315

Bazeley (W.) on St. Ives charters, 248

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Bell, waggonell, 149

Bell inscriptions, 53

Bell (J.) on privileged mills, 410

Bellamy (E.) on “Dilambergendi Insula," 295
Bellman's proclamation, 98

Bells, pancake, 186; striking after the passing bell,
186, 276

Benn (Rev. R.), of Charlton-upon-Otmoor, 13
Bentley (Richard), publisher, temp. Charles II., 282
Bernhard-Smith (W. J.) on Balcony or Balcony, 39

Dante and the word Lucciola, 358
Juncare, an old custom, 435

Mushrooms growing near the sea, 495
Root Cat, 337

Bernher (Austin), presented to Southam rectory, 168,
274

Berwick (Edward), pseudonym, 289

Betts (B. R.) on story of a man who sold his soul, 508
Bevitzky (Count) and his library, 448

Bevys: Sir Bevys, winner of the Derby, 449, 493
Bible, translations and meaning of Learning, 22;
Isaiah xxii. 18, 26; Antwerp Polyglot and Wal-
ton's, 187; Isaiah lii. 14, Astonied or Aston-
ished, 188, 257; publication of the Canonical
Books, 209; "La Sainte Bible," Elzevir, 1669,
409; Morgan's Welsh Bible, 448, 514; old Bibles
not in Caxton Exhibition List, 505
Bibliothec. Coll. Owens on old Bibles, 505
Horæ, or Books of Hours, 426

Supplement to the Notes

, with No. 290, July 19, 1879

Bibliothecary on James Bowling, 127

Chess-boards, old inscribed, 89

Generation, length of, 255

"Greatest happiness of the greatest number," 247

Knox (V.), his "Spirit of Despotism," 174
Littleton (Adam) and "Condog," 446
"Macbeth," annotated by Rowe, 317
Otway (Thomas), 291

Shelley (P. B.) and Byron, 66
Telephone, M. Soudré's, 386

Bickerton in the "Oxford Spy," 172

Bickly (C. H.) on Joan Shakespere, 514
Bicycle battalion, lines on, 346

Bicycle Club, mottoes for, 46, 418
Bierley Hall, Roman remains at, 426

Bigland (Ralph), his "Gloucestershire Collections," 367
Bille (Torben de) on Divining or winchel rod, 157
Bindery Bookbinding works, 76, 99, 357

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Bingham (C. W.) on MS. of sixteenth century, 464
Moot-hills, 196

Servants' hall forfeits, 236

Somersetshire meteorological notices, 445

Biographical queries, 468

Birch (W. J.) on "Life would be tolerable," &c., 366
"Man is a fool," &c., 425

Razors, their early use, 384

Bird, ungrateful, 385

Bird (Mr.), sculptor, 126

Birkenhead wreck, poem on, 248

Birmingham Free Library, its destruction by fire, 41

Bishop (Sir H. R.), his Vandunk, 52

Bishops, College of, their designations, 125

Bishops, present of gloves by, 268; their wives, 448
Bishops, suffragan, address and precedence, 67, 194
Black Monday in 1360, 345

Black (W. G.) on Celts and Saxons, 52
Child first carried upstairs, 118
Folk-lore medicine, 454

Milton (J.) and J. R. Green, 165
Orator, its pronunciation, 206
Shakspeariana, 22

Small-pox, treatment of, 76
Blakalyr, its meaning, 487

Blaydes (F. A.), on Boswert, the engraver, 176
Fisher's "Antiquities of Bedfordshire," 228
Hearse cloth at Dunstable, 246
Marvell (Andrew), 283

Blenkinsopp (E. L.) on Cad, its meaning, 458
Common Prayer Book, temp. Eliz., 514
Ff, initial, in names, 392

Isaiah xxii., 18, 26

Islamism, women under, 477

Manus Christi, 136

Muff Stupid person, 511

Prayer towards the east, 490

Smollett (T.), his " Adventures of an Atom," 9

Thistle as the emblem of Scotland, 295

Turnip-stealing, 378

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Upper ten thousand," 174

Whip-top, its antiquity, 36

Whistling, a local habit, 275

Winter, hard, and many berries, 146

Yankee, its meaning, 18

Blooming, a new slang word, 46, 174, 197

Blossoms, or Bossoms, a tavern sign, 18, 278, 377

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Burke's Historical Portraits, vol. i., 219

Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 199
Burns's Works, vol. v., Prose, 459

Camoens's Lusiads, translated by J. J. Aubertin,
59

Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ
Bodleianæ, 498

Chesterfield's Letters, 400

Clarke's Recollections of Writers, 239

Colenso's Pentateuch and Book of Joshua, part
vii., 100

Collins's The British Birds, 180

Cornwall Royal Institution, Journal of, 180
Court, Household, and Itinerary of Henry II.,
360

Creighton's Life of Duke of Marlborough, 499
Creighton's Shilling History of England, 279
Cruikshank (George), Critico-Bibliographical
Essay, by W. Bates, 219

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Gwydir Family, History of the, 300

Harvey (William), by R. Willis, 99
Hatton Family, Correspondence of the, 160
Hawker's Poetical Works, 339

Hearn's The Aryan Household, 458

Heine's Prose, Wit, Wisdom and Pathos from, by
J. Snodgrass, 319

Home's Songs of a Wayfarer, 20

Jessopp's Generation of a Norfolk House, 399
Lancashire and Cheshire Historical and Genea-
logical Notes, 180

Library Journal, 360

Locker's Patchwork, 139

Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage, 199

Loftie's Memorials of the Savoy, 279

Magazine of American History, 60

Moore's Columbarium, 380

Müller's Lectures on Origin and Growth of
Religion, 119

New Quarterly Magazine, 120

North's Plutarch, Four Chapters of, 100

Palgrave Family Memorials, 140

Peacock's Index of Royalists, 459

Pindar, by F. D. Morice, 219

Plymtree Church, Chancel Screen of, by T. Mozley,
259

Poets Laureate of England, by W. Hamilton, 79
Pritchett's Gamle Norge, 420

Pryce's Ancient British Church, 379
Quarter Sessions from Elizabeth to Anne, 100
Ramage's Bible Echoes in Ancient Classics, 480
Records of the Past, vol. xi., 299

Reiester Booke of Saynte Denis Backechurch,
439

Rembrandt Van Rhyn, Catalogue of Etched Work
of, by C. H. Middleton, 179

Remembrancia, Analytical Index to, 499
"Restoration" in East Anglia, 500

Books recently published:-

Ross's Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds, 260
Ruskin, Bibliography of, 120

St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vol. xiv., 100
St. Hugh of Avalon, Life of, by G. G. Perry, 319
St. John's Gospel in Anglo-Saxon, 220
Sandys's In the Beginning, 340

Shakespeare's Time, by Edwin Goadby, 140
Shropshire Word-Book, by G. F. Jackson, part i.,

519

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

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 life
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, 58

Lothe, its meaning, 468

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

Buckingham (Leicester Silk), his writings, 244, 295
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 descen-
dant, 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

C. on Landegg family, 336

C. (C.) on Richard Cumberland, 504
C. (F. W.) on “Practical Philosophy," 103
Wine, altar, 75

C. (G.) on Francis Eginton, 274
C. (H.) on South Belgravia, 514
Kitchen rhyme, 126

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, 166
C. (R.) on deaths on or associated with the stage, 242
C. (T.) on biographical queries, 468

Marsh (John), 48
Topham family, 67

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