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C. (T.) on Varia, 9

C. (T. W.) on book auction, 245
C. (W. F.) on Gunpowder Plot, 449
C. (W. G.) on hieroglyphic writing, 49
C. (X.) on William Cullen Bryant, 218

Byron (Lord), pronunciation of his name, 246
Cad, origin of the term, 383, 458

Caffièri (François), medallist to Queen Ann, 67
Cairoli family, article on, 380
Cajodanum, its locality, 35, 236

Cakes coloured with saffron, 98, 337

Calvarium or Calvaria Skull-cap, 327, 453
Cambridgeshire villages, information about, 329
Camoens (Lewis), his statue at Lisbon, 107, 136
Campbell (Adjutant) of the Guards, killed at New
Haven, 407

Campkin (H.) on Hagways, its meaning, 257
"Illustrated Family Journal," 332

Letter "ab a Sermon," &c., 264

Pope (A.), his will, 223

"Tait's Edinburgh Magazine," 457
Thames, passages on, 238

Candidacy Candidature, 106, 177
Canning (Elizabeth), her trial, 484, 509

Canning (Rt. Hon. George), Frere's epitaph on, 198,
235, 358

Canon of Salisbury on canons and prebendaries, 254
Canonicus Sarum on canons and prebendaries, 337
Canons and honorary canons, 69, 89, 108, 211, 253,
337, 395

Canoodle, its meaning, 197, 375, 457
Carlingford on Balcony or Balcony, 431
Carlist war, its history, 126, 196

Carlow, its history, 349, 436

Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Celts and Saxons, 469
Paschal candle, ritual of its benediction, 321
Talleyrand (Princess de), 4

Carr (T. W.) on Varia, 28

Carrie (J.) on armour in churches, 73

Mills, privileged, 411

Cat's tail, or Typha latifolia, 117, 137, 337

Catadonpe, or waterfall, 56, 77

Cathedral, "Metropolitan," 56, 512

Catholic periodical literature, 427, 494
Caucus, not a modern word, 438

Celery, its first cultivation in England, 107, 374
Celts and Saxons, the difference in their race, 5, 52,
213, 369, 469

Centenarian, and cognate words, 487
Centenarianism, 20, 45, 191, 218, 240, 276, 298, 332,
396, 426, 446, 466, 500, 509; Ecclesiasticus quoted
on, 35, 258

Centuries, eighteenth and nineteenth, 486

Chadwick Families, Howard's Genealogical Account
of, 238

Chadwick (J. O.) on "Account of the Families of
Chadwick," 238

Chafy-Chafy (W. K. W.) on Sir Maziere Brady, 135
Devon provincialisms, 6, 472

Chance (F.) on curious coincidences, 32, 296
Embezzle, its etymology, 248

Muff Stupid person, 384

Pronouns, superfluous, 145

Tarry, modern use of the verb, 146
"Tudieu !" French oath, 44, 456

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Charlemagne (Emp.), unable to write, 368, 517
Charles I., his executioner, 125

Charlton-upon-Utmoor, its haunted vicarage, 13
Charnock (R. S.) on Algernon: Maminot, 214
"Dilambergendi Insula," 295
Embezzle, its etymology, 250
Hems, its meaning, 93

Charters laid on the altar, 267, 473

Chaucer (Geoffrey) praised by Anthony Nixon, 25;
the word "eighteen," 503

Chesney or Chestney, surname, its origin, 155
Chess-boards, old inscribed, 89

Chesson (F. W.) on Zulu war songs, 446
Chester to London, British trackway from, 342
Chester (Col.) on Adjutant Campbell, 407
Chesterfield (Lord) and George II., 327, 491
Chichester Cathedral, its calendar in the fourteenth
century, 61

Chiffonniers, Society of, their transactions, 53
Chillon, Castle of, and Byron, 487
Chimere, worn by bishops, 182

"Choirochorographia, sive Hoglandiæ Descriptio," 34,

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Christie (A. H.) on Bindery=Bookbinding works, 99
Greenwich Ministerial dinner, 47

Christie (R. C.) on alliterative catches, 73
Christmas cheer, pig's fry for, 57
Christmas gifts placed in a stocking, 66

Christmas (Rev. Henry), F. R.S., his writings, 68,
373, 394

Church ceremonial in the Middle Ages, 465
Church goods, ancient, in Norfolk, 183, 242, 364
Church of England, penance in, 377
Church porches, payments in, 209, 431
Church Registers, their publication, 38, 326, 377
Churches, funeral armour in, 73, 178, 252, 375, 457;
Keeping school in the parvise, 366, 394, 572
Churchman (Mr.), natural son of Charles II., 127
Churchwardens' accounts, words and phrases in, 106,
193, 378

Cicero, Shakspeare, and Dante, 286; last sentence in
"De Natura Deorum," 288

Cinderella and her slipper, 188, 485

Cinnus, its meaning, 215

Cipher, Sir Ralph Verney's, 202, 272, 298

Clare (Maud, Countess of), her descendants, 406
Clarence (Duke of) on the Convention of Cintra, 23

Claret, early allusions to, 52; Jeroboam of, 349, 516
Clark (Wm. George), his Greek and Latin verse com-
positions, 38; and the Sabrina Corolla, 55
Clarke (Hyde) on Bargaining: Prix fixe, 207
"Cock's span," 296

Evil eye and red hand, 293
Famagosta, Cyprus, 32
Folk-lore medicine, 402
Post days, 485

Shack, its meaning, 318

Statutes for hiring servants, 235
Survival, 116

Whistling, its decline, 186
Clarry on curious coincidences, 72

Dixon (W. H.), his "Cyprus," 224
"Pleasure and Relaxation," 129
Public-house signs, 138
Tradesmen's tokens, 28, 157
Words, few idle, 485

Clary and clary wine, 52

Cleopatra (Queen), painting of her death, 77

Clerical habit and beard in the fifteenth century, 243
Clerk, its etymology, 57

Clerke (Sir Philip Jennings), surname and arms, 386
Cleveland Folk-lore, 54, 236

Clk. on Embezzle, its etymology, 250

Common Prayer Book of the Church of England with
royal arms, 119; Epistle for Good Friday, 159,
217; "At the Healing," 200, 280; black letter
edit., temp. Elizabeth, 514

Communion Service, custom at, 466, 495
"Condog," and Adam Littleton, 306, 446
"Confessional, The," a painting, 427
Conyers family, 188

Cooke (J. H.) on Rev. Thomas Brancker, 174

Cookes (H. W) on Atkyns's "Gloucestershire," 457
"Deo et Ecclesiæ," 267

Restormel Castle, 407

Cooper (T.) on John Butler, Bp. of Cork, 69
Copenhagen, altar-piece at, 147
Copper's nark=Police spy, 406
Cornish dialect in old plays, 146

Cornwall, its earls before the Conquest, 469
Cospatric or Gospatric, Christian name, 35

Costs, legal, their recovery, 280

Cosway (Richard), his portrait of Mrs. Jackson, 468
Cottell (W. H.) on Douglas family, 428

Cotton family, of Oxenhoath, 487

Count Street, Nottingham, 88, 216

Counting by a primitive method, 166, 257, 338
Coupeland (John de), captor of David, King of Scots,

284

Clouston (W. A.) on Sir W. Jones's "Lines on an in- Courtenay (J.) on "Sailor's Grave," 394

fant," 431

Scogin's Jests, 302, 382, 426

Cloville (Henry), of Cloville's Hall, his heir, 508

Clytie, flower to which she was changed, 58, 132,
217

Coach, its derivation, 308, 390

Coat armour, similar, 289

Cock, in local names, its derivation, 48, 196

Cockman (Dr.), of University Coll., Oxford, 9, 273
Cockney pronunciation, 506

Coffee in the seventeenth century, 365
Coincidence, literary, 266

Coincidences, curious, 32, 72, 296, 474
Coins made into boxes, 49, 216

Coker, for cocoa, 487

Cole (Emily) on Guy Head, 437

Lamb (Charles), "Tales from Shakspeare," 338

Cole (Sir H.) on Hampstead parish church, 307
Ivy on old habitations, 369

Peacock (Thomas Love), his works, 348
Prayer towards the east, 427

Coleman (E. H.) on the game anti, 228

Blossoms, a tavern sign, 18

Knock Fergus Street, 414

Ship, historical, 146

Slad or Slade, 495

Vintage of 1879, 326

Watney's distillery, Battersea, 36

Colley family, 65, 175

Collins (Charles), painter, 427, 474

Collins (Frances) on passages on the Thames, 217

Waller (E.), his "Go, lovely Rose," 275
Colomb (G.) on Schiller's "Song of the Bell," 25
Colombo restored to Portugal by treaty of 1661, 208
Colour in the treatment of disease, 166
Colston (Edward), his house at Mortlake, 261, 355
Columbier (Duc de), a decayed noble, 346
Comma as a note of elision, 486

Courtney (W. P.) on "Illustrated Family Journal,"

332

"Macbeth," with notes by Rowe, 337

Nash (Beau), epigram on, 71

Newman (Dr.), his "Loss and Gain," 175

Cow spelt Kow, or Kowe, 48, 97, 196, 218
Coway Stakes, their preservation, 349

Cowper (William), first edit. of "John Gilpin," 207,
373, 394

Cows not milked in Cyprus, 224, 376
Cox (J. C.) on sacramental wine, 176
Cox (T.) on Rich. Pace, 427

Crampley (R.) on Frs. Egington, 168

Crampton (T.) on "Pleasure and Relaxation," 262

Cranach (Lucas), his works, 167, 234

Cranmer (Abp.), his autograph, 83, 135

Crawford (Mrs.), a centenarian, 426

"Crisis, The," a periodical, 497

Cromie (H.) on Trenchmore, spelt French-more, 488
Crompton (S.) on Samuel Bailey, of Sheffield, 496

Cross, a sign of it in Spain, 329

Crossley (J.) on "Divine Breathings," 433

Crowe family, of Meriden, co. Warwick, 168, 237

Cryptograph on Sir R. Verney's cipher, 272

Crystals, divination by, 171, 456

Cubières (M. de), an emigré poèt, 66

Cuck, in local names, its derivation, 48, 196

Cucking or ducking stools, 88, 399, 456

Cuckoo Folk-lore, 403

Cumberland (Richard), his "Calvary," &c., 504
Curiosus on the right to bear arms, 177
Curtis (J.) on Jeroboam of claret, 517
Cutler (A.) on Rev. Henry Christmas, 373
Cuxton, Kent, brass at, 6

Cynicism, its great poet, 465

Cyprus Hogarth's frolic, 106, 149, 173
Cyprus, its arms, 7, 374, 429; Drummond on, in 1754,
146; cows not milked by Cypriotes, 224, 376

D. (B.) on penance in the Church of England, 377
D. (D.) on armour in churches, 73

D. (E.) on François Caffièri, 67

D. (E. A.) on Charles Collins, painter, 427
Lampadius, fragment from, 97

D. (E. L.) on Rete Corvil, 27

D. (F.) on John Bunyan, 125

Count Street, Nottingham, 216
Epitaphs, 346, 454

D. (J.) on payments in church porches, 431
Cinnus, its meaning, 215
Hems, its meaning, 93
Shakspeariana, 363

D. (M.) on Slide of Alpnach, 454

"Man in the Moon," 416

D. (Q) on arms of Cyprus, 7

Style and title, 276

D. (R.) on epitaph at Nottingham, 387
D. (X. P.) on white ale, 193

Norfolk dialect, 354
Weather saying, 18

Dallaway (Rev. James), his "Journey from Rod-
borough to Gloucester," 28

D'Almeida (H. B.) on Your's for Yours, 348, 415
Dana (E. E.) on John Barker, 227, 408

Blue and Orange Society, 448

Dana (R. H.) on Richard Dana, 248
Dana (Richard), 1640, his lineage, 248
Danger and Peril, their difference, 228, 510
Dante (Alighieri) and the word Lucciola, 78, 358;
voyage of Ulysses in the "Inferno," 148, 190, 351;
and Shakspeare, 233; and Cicero, 286; best life of
him, 289; Longfellow's translation, 489
Daughter as a feminine surname terminative, 87,
195, 238

Davies (Clementina), her death, 400

Davies (E. C.) on Leicester Silk Buckingham, 295
"Press Orders," by Albert Smith, 107
Davies (J.) on "My mother bids me bind my hair," 479
Davies (J. S.) on "Lord Mayor of the Buckinge," 427
Davies (T. L. O.) on old games, 48
Dayman (E. A.) on Hankford arms, 457
Death, sting of, 290, 312, 357
Deaths, historical, 347

De Clare family, 424

Decoys, old and modern, 7

Dee (Dr. John) and Trithemius's "Steganography,"
401, 422

De la Mawe (William), temp. Edward II., 328, 437
De Laune family, 468, 509

Delaune (Thomas) and his " Present State of London,"
47, 95

Delevingne (H. C.) on Escobarder, French verb, 455
Perils and dangers, 511

Shrewsbury, names of places in, 116, 178
Shrewsbury School custom, 125

"De Oculo Morali," early tract, 469
Deo Duce on Welsh proverbs, 158

"Deo et Ecclesiæ," 267, 473

Desmond (old Countess of), her biography, 191, 332

Devon, its earls before the Conquest, 469

Devon provincialisms, 6, 116, 472

Dew (G. J.) on Limb Scamp, 376

Dexter on Gaultry Forest, 419

Howard (Lord William), 435

Dialects, glossaries of English provincial, 149, 175;
French, 322, 364, 381, 442

Diary of a Yorkshire clergyman, 1682, 88, 139
Dickens (Charles), his autographs, 87; real and ideal
in his works, 404

Digbeth, origin of the name, 68

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Dilambergendi Insula," its meaning, 269, 295, 357
Dilke (W.) on turnip stealing, 158

Dilly (Edward and Charles), the publishers, 29
Dioceses of England, atlas of maps of, 56
Diprose (John), printer, his death, 520

Disraeli (Benjamin), 1788, public notary, 23, 117
Dissenting minister a centenarian, 509

Ditty: Ditty-bag: Ditty-box, its derivation, 76, 118
Divination by crystals, 171, 456

Dixon (J.) on Lysiensis, its meaning, 67, 139

"Samson Agonistes," 467

Dixon (Thomas), author of "Portrait of Religion in
Newcastle," 29

Dixon (W. Hepworth), his "Cyprus," 224, 376
Dobson (A.) on Cyprus : Hogarth's frolic, 150, 173
Dobson (W.) on style and title, 131, 251, 276
Doctor (The) on "The pilot that weathered the
Storm," 47

Dog, mad, old "verse" cure for its bite, 385
Doheney (James), an Irish centenarian, 45
Domino, a pseudonym, 328
Done, its provincial use, 288

Doran (A.) on Calvarium or Calvaria, 327
Dorset, witchcraft in, 66
Dorsetshire toast, 78
Douglas family, 428

Douglas (Robert), surgeon and author, 199
Downes's Wharf, Lower East Smithfield, 55, 221
Doyle (Sir F. H.), passage in "How Lord Nairn was
Saved," 9, 38, 70

Dragon in Mordiford Church, 369

Drake (Sir Francis Henry), his monumental inscrip-
tion, 227; his descendants, 310
Dramatists, estimate of Elizabethan, 344
Draperies sold at Norwich, temp. Elizabeth, 116, 337
Drey Nest, 247, 379

Drift Ford, 309, 317

Dublin, Botany Bay at Trin. Coll., 18; Lord E. Fitz-
gerald and Old Newgate Prison, 107; consecration
of twelve bishops at St. Patrick's, 186
Ducking or cucking stools, 88, 399, 456
Dudley Castle, its siege in 1644, 156
Duguid, Scotch name, its origin, 349

Duignan (W. H.) on British trackway from London
to Chester, 342

Digbeth, origin of the name, 68
Mills, privileged, 410

Dunboyne (Lord), Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork,
8, 31, 69

Dunce, its etymology, 57

Dunstable, hearse cloth at, 246, 436

Durham bishopric, 1674 to 1879, 125

Durnford family, 126, 177

Dutch fairs, ghost shows at, 127

Dyer (T. F. T.) on rubbing with a dead hand, 94
Twelfth Day, 3

E. (C.) on Ginnel, its meaning, 137

E. (C. J.) on "Deo et Ecclesiæ," 474

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Holland, exiles in, 493

Saunterer, its derivation, 337

"Square man in the round hole," 89
338

Watch case verses,

E. (G. O) on parish documents, 37
E. (H. T.) on Buffing, its meaning, 398
E. (J. P.) on William Shippen, 439
E. (J. W.) on "John Gilpin," 394

E. (K. P. D.) on the word Grouse, 438
Ketch (Jack), the hangman, 349
Slad or Slade, local name, 495
Surnames, curious, 378

Toothache: St. Apollonia, 516

E. (M.) on "Man proposes, but God disposes," 206
Obituary verses, singular, 45

Slide of Alpnach, 388

Earwaker (J. P.) on Astbury church monuments, 11
Easter at Llanfairpwllycrochon, 281

Easter paschal candle, ritual of its benediction, 321,
372, 418

Eaton (Charlotte Ann), authoress, 380, 458

Ebsworth (J. W.) on Nappy: "Vicar and Moses,"
473

"Pilot that weather'd the Storm," 157
"Pleasure and Relaxation," 128

Songs, old, 211

Edgcumbe (R.) on Lord Byron, 253, 296, 311, 487
"Edinburgh Review," Wm. Hazlitt's contributions to,
165

Edward I., when surnamed Longshanks, 9, 75, 197;
his knights, 329

Effemel on Smurring, its meaning, 271
Egington (Frs.), artist in stained glass, 168, 273
Egremont Papers, printed, 226, 256
Egypt, Hycsos in, 361, 444, 482

Eighteen," in Chaucer, 503

Elaine in Malory's and Tennyson's writings, 101

Electioneering speech at Bristol, 149, 234
Electoral facts, information about, 39
Electric light patented in 1848.9, 26
Electric light or gas foretold, 126

Elegant, a stray word, 226

Elizabeth (Princess), her imprisonment, 347, 438
Elizabeth (Queen), pay and clothing of her army, 286;
martyrs in her reign, 391

Elizabethan dramatists, estimate of, 344
Ellacombe (H. T.) on lost American MSS., 269
Ellcee on Count Street, Nottingham, 216

"House to let," 235

Tallard (Marshal), 107

Ellis (A. S.) on assemblies near ancient barrows, 413
Beaumonts of Folkingham, 16

Daughter as a surname terminative, 238
Ff, initial, in names, 247

Generation, length of, 254

Gospatric, Christian name, 35

Ellis (G.) on Miss Anne Borlebog, 28

Synagogue, Royal visit to, 493

Ellis (R. R. S.) on Jeremiah, or Jerma, 64
Sindbad and Ulysses, 314

Elwes (D. G. C.) on Bayard's Leap. 316
Embezzle, its etymology, 30, 55, 248
Encyclopædia, the first, 447, 478
English, their pedigree, 405

English Dialect Dictionary, 260, 294, 421
English Dialect Society, 266

Englishman on English pedigree, 405
Engravers, list of English, 27, 155

Epigrams:-

Nash (Beau), 12, 71, 357

Towns and countries, 169

Epitaphs :-

"As you pass by behold my length," 426
Godfrey (Boyle), chymist and doctor of medicine,

128, 177, 197, 213, 234

"Here lye I and my three daughters," 205
"Our life is but a winter's day," 346

Reid (John) in Fearn churchyard, 48, 78
Rose (John) in Betchworth churchyard, 346
Routleigh (George), watchmaker, 108, 135, 178
"Too sweetur babes you nare did see," 205
Trees (John), at Lillington, 266

"Whose name so fully doth his worth express,"
387, 454

Epitaphs, absurd, Mr. Spurgeon on, 205
Eques on wives of peers and baronets, 486
Era, French Republican, 419

Erigena on Scotchmen and Irishmen, 297
Erskine (Hon. Henry), his writings, 369
Erskine (Lord), his family name, 126, 175, 197, 233
Escaba, its etymology, 88

Escobarder, modern French verb, 455
-Ess added to occupations of women, 87, 316
Este on Fisher's Bedfordshire MSS., 339

Watch-case verses, 19

Eusden (Laurence), Poet Laureate 1718-30, 28, 152
Everard (Capt. Kobert), his biography, 449
Experto Crede on Society of Chiffonniers, 53
Expressions, obscure, 58, 176; peculiar local, 186, 275

F. (C. P.) on Braham's "entusymusy," 30

F. (D.) on Blossoms, or Bossoms, inn, 278
Butler (Bishop), 8

Irish highwayman, 87
Racehorses, famous Irish, 67
Welsh game, 29

F. (F. D.) on Bindery: Ropery, 357
"Blooming," a new slang word, 174
Dickens (Charles), his autographs, 87
Irish highwayman, 176

F. (F. J.) on praise of Chaucer (G.), 25
Leathern-Skin-clad, 206

"Stacions of Rome," 184

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F. (J. T.) on dog, mad, 385

Ff, initial, in names, 392
Gospatric, Christian name, 36

Higgin (Anthony), Dean of Ripon, 436
Newbury, its "unknown acre, "16
Sacramental wine, 318

St. Paul's Cathedral, 210
Toothache St. Apollonia, 516
Wessel, wesley, or vessel cup, 25
F. (W. 2) on Papal dispensation, 86
Fabyan (Robert), his life and writings, 461
"Fair one with the Golden Locks," 18
Fairs, their charters and customs, 447
Fall over, an Americanism, 288, 436, 478
Fallow (T. M.) on bell customs, 186
Canons and prebendaries, 211
Isaiah lii. 14, 188

Fama on "Gooseberry picker," 234

"Westward Ho!" 458

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Fisher's "Antiquities of Bedfordshire," its unpublished
MSS., 228, 339

Fishwick (H.) on payments in church porches, 431

Churchwardens' accounts, 378

Ginnel, its meaning and derivation, 97

Lunatics in the seventeenth century, 89, 337
Maudesley, or Maudslay family, 291
Mills, privileged, 411

Whip-top, its antiquity, 36

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Cuckoo, 403

Drowned bodies recovered, 119, 278

Dying, difficulties in, 125, 414
Egg-shells on a bush, 287
Evil eye in Morocco, 8, 293
Eyebrows, meeting, 198
Fogs in March, 327
Highland plant, 167, 257
Hogmanay custom, 39, 297
Hok Day custom, 329, 494
Holly that has adorned churches, 206
Hydrophobia, cure for, 6
Irish, 317

Ivy that has adorned churches, 206
Loaf cracked in baking, 86

Love charms, 167

March moon, 288, 416
Medicine, 402, 454

Moles averse to blood, 403

Months, rhymes on, 405

Red hand, 8, 293

Rooks going away a sign of bad luck, 506
Rosemary grows where "woman is master," 18

Rubbing with a dead hand, 43, 94, 358

St. Bride and her cat, 167

Salt as a protection against evil spirits, 206
Shropshire superstition, 45, 74

Shroving custom, 166

Weather sayings, 18, 327

Whooping cough cure, 402

Winter, hard, and many berries, 146

Yule log, 186, 375

Folk-lore, meaning and origin of the word, 267
Folk-lore literature, 300

Folk-lore Society's publications, 120
Fontenay (Marquis de), his family, 169
Foot (Mr.), J.P., co. Cork, a centenarian, 45

Fitzgerald (D.) on Highland plant and other super- Foot (H. W.) on King's Chapel, Boston, 428

stitions, 167

Irish superstition, 317

Fitzgerald (Lord Edward) and old Newgate Prison,
Dublin, 107

Fitz Herbert (R. H. C.) on "Deo et Ecclesiæ," 474
Fitzhopkins on cynicism, 465

Turnip-stealing, 126

Vandunk: Claret, 52
Witchcraft in Dorset, 66

Ford (E. R.) on Wells family, 8

Forman (H. B.) on pronunciation of Byron, 356

Shelley (Percy Bysshe), 70, 179

Tait's "Edinburgh Magazine," 457

Forte (N.), jun., on wills in seventeenth century, 289
Foster (W. E.) on Folk-lore, 186

Funeral armour, 253

Fowke (F. R.) on prayer towards the east, 490
Fowler family, of Islington, 78

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