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A.

A. on birthplace of Edward I., 601.

A. (A.) on encore, 387.

Aa (A. J. Van der) on portrait of Andries
de Graeff, 573.

Abbé, French, status of one, 102.

Abhba on Archbishop King, 44.

judicial families, 384.

Abigail, a lady's maid, 42. 86. 653.

Abraham and Isaac, mythological notices
of, 566.

Abredonensis on battle of Cruden, 173.

Dictum de Kenilworth, 57.

Picts' houses in Aberdeenshire, 264.
Scottish national Records, 405.
Sir Thomas de Longueville, 103.
Statute of Kilkenny, 80.

Temple lands in Scotland, 317.
volcanoes in Scotland, 285.
Willingham boy, 66.

A. (C.) on a "wilderness of monkeys," 413.
Acharis, its meaning, 198. 280.

Acworth (G. B) on poetical tavern signs,
452.

school libraries, 498.
Adamson (John) on the Cid, 574.
Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 104 257.
Adamsoniana, 135. 257.

Admiralty office, shield and arms, 124.
*"Adrian turn'd the bull," its meaning,
79.

* Advent Hymn, why omitted in Common
Prayer, 639.

Advertisement, curious poetical one, 268.
Advertisements and prospectuses, their
utility, 562.

A. (E. H.) on Adamsoniana, 257.

Adamson's Lusitania Illustrata, 257.
"Alterius orbis Papa," 254.
books chained in churches, 206
Burnet, Wharton, and Smith, 167.
church towers detached, 376.
Delaval's poems, 171.

Denison family, 468.
parochial libraries, 275.
Portuguese folk lore, 382.

Eschylus, Potter's translation, 622.
A. (F. S.) on Louis le Hutin, 199.

minuteness of detail on paper, 157.
Age, the feelings of, 550.

Agmond, on etymology of contango, 586.
A. (I. T.) on Henry I.'s tomb, 680.

* Aix Ruochim, or Romans Ioner, 150.

A. (J.) on copyright law, 468.

A. (J. P.) on Celsior exsurgens pluviis,"
220.

A. (J. S.) on Czar, or Tsar, 150.

inscription on a tomb in Finland, 34.
religion of the Russians, 582.
Seven Oaks and Nine Elms, 34.

A. (J. S.) on sneezing, 625.

Aldress, an instance of its use, 503.
Alethes on worm in books, 412.

Alfred (King), the locality of his battles,
129, 130.

pedigree to the time of, 586.

'Asús on Bulstrode Whitlock, 454.

Cawdray's Treasurie of Similies, 499.
Donatus Redivivus, 492.

gale of rent, 655.
Keate family, 525.

Mitre and the Crown, 80.

murder of Monaldeschi, 160.

passage in Whiston, 397.

Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.

Aliquis on epigram on Rome, 584.
fire-irons, their antiquity, 587.
Allan (Peter) of Sunderland, 539. 630.
647.

Allcroft (J. D.) on hour-glass in pulpits,
83.

watch-paper inscriptions, 452.

Alledius on Rousseau and Boileau, 470.

"When we survey yon circling orbs,"
515.

Allen (H. L.) on female parish clerks, 475.
Allen (R. J.) on will of Peter the Great,
539.

wood of the Cross, 329.

All Hallow Eve, custom on, 490.
"All my eye," its early use, 254.
Alma Mater, its origin, 517.

Alms at the eucharist, superstition re-
specting, 617.

Alms-basket described, 297.

Alpha on the mother of William the Con-
queror, 564.

Axa on descendants of Milton, 630.
* Alsop (George) noticed, 585.
Altars, portable, 101. 183.

A. (M.) on honorary degrees, 162.

Newton memorial, 172.

Amateur on multiplying photographs, 158.
Amateur Photographer on precision in

photographic processes, 301.

Amcotts' pedigree, 387. 518.
American names, 638.

Americus on "Vox populi vox Dei," 494.
Amicus (Veritatis) on quadrille, 441.
*"Amor nummi," the author, 149.
Ampers and (&), its derivation, 173. 223.
254. 327. 376. 524.

Anathema, maran-atha, 100.

Anderson (Dr. James), notices of, 198. 326.
Anderson (James), his Historical Essay,
347.

André (Major) noticed, 174. 277. 399. 604
643.

* Andrew's (St.) Priory Church, Barnwell,
80.

Andrews (Alex.) on Anna Lightfoot, 281.

Andrews (Alex.) on Irish rhymes, 602.
poetical tavern signs, 627.

Angel-beast, a game, 63.

* Animal prefixes, 270.

Anne (Queen), her motto, 174. 255. 440.

Anon on camera obscura, early notices of,

41.

Dodo Bardolf, 605.

door-head inscriptions, 162.

epitaph on Tuckett's wife, 274.
inscriptions in books, 153. 652.

manliness, its meaning, 127.

"peg" or "nail" for an argument, 561.
Sir John Vanbrugh, 65.

"Virgin wife and widowed maid,” 56.
"When the maggot bites," 244.

Anonymous names and real signatures, 5.
94. 181.

ANONYMOUS WORKS:-

André, a tragedy, 174.
*Blockheads, 174.

* British Empire, Present State of, 174.
* Convent, an elegy, 172.
Days of my Youth, 467.
Delights for Ladies, 495.

De Omnibus Rebus et quibusdam aliis,

569.

Devil on Two Sticks in England, 413.
* Donatus Redivivus, 492.
Doveton, a novel, 127 517.
Elijah's Mantle, 295. 453.
*Fast Sermon in 1779, 174.
* History of Jesus Christ, 386.
Indians, a tragedy, 174.

* Jerningham, a novel, 127. 517.
Les Lettres Juives, 541.

* Lessons for Lent, &c., 150.
Liturgy of the Ancients, 588.
Man with Iron Mask, 112.
Match for a Widow, 174.
*Mitre and the Crown, 80.

* National Prejudice opposed to Inte-
rest, 174.

Pætus and Arria, 219. 374.

*Poems published at Manchester, 388.
Preparation for Martyrdom, 152.

* Professional Poems by a Professional
Gentleman, 244.

Rock of Ages, 81.

* Watch, an ode, 174.

Whole Duty of Man, 564.

Anstruther (Mr.) on the authorship of
Jerningham and Doveton, 517.

Antecedents, its use as a plural, 439.
Anti-Barbarus on Latin termination

Aram (Eugene), his Comparative Lexicon,
255.

Archæological Institute, annual meeting,
45.

Aristotle's checks, 97, 98.

A. (R. J.) on naming infants in Scotland,
468.

Armorial bearings, modern practice of
assuming, 50.

Arms, battle-axe, 113.

Arms of ladies borne in a lozenge, 37. 83.
277. 448. 652.

Arnim (Bettina), her German-English, 437.
*Arrow-mark found in North Devon, 440.
Arrowsmith (W. R.) on misunderstood
words, 120.

Arterus on Shakspeare's Seven Ages, 384.
Arthur (King) in the form of a raven, 618.
Arun on Letters respecting Hougomont,
293.

Shakspeare on the winds, 338.
*Ash-trees attractive to lightning, 493.
Astolpho on slang expression, 89.

Aston (J. W.) on a mistletoe query, 621.
Aston (Sir Arthur) noticed, 126. 302. 480.

629.

Astrology in America, 561.

Ath Chliath on chimney-piece emblem, 219.
Athenæus, fragments in, versions of, 104.
Attwood (Wm.), his book burnt, 347.
Audley (Lord), his attendants at Poictiers,
494. 578.

Audoënus (Johannes) alias 'John Owen,,
495.

Augusta on orange blossom, 341.
Authors' aliases and initials, 124.
remuneration of, 81.

Autobiographical sketch, 350.
Autumnal tints, 490.

Awkward, its etymology, 310. 438. 602.

-B. on the small City Companies, 470.
66 Corporations have no souls," &c.,
587.

digest of Shakspearian readings, 75.
green pots at the Temple, 171.

B. (A.) on launching query, 127.
Bacon (Lord) and Shakspeare, 438.
Bacon's Essays, notes on, 141. 165. 303.
353. 479.

sentences taken from, 289.

Bacon or beechen, 63.

Bad, its etymology, 207.

B. (A. E.) on attainment of majority, 198.
296. 541.

day at our Antipodes, 648.
Shakspeare readings, 28. 168.
Shakspeare suggestions, 169.

B. (A. F.) on "Hip, hip, hurrah!" 605.
Pierrepont and his descendants, 303.
quotations, 366.

Bagot (C. E.) on Capt. Cook and the Sand-
wich Islands, 108.

Bagshawe (E. L.) on an old saying, 197.
B. (A. H.) on splitting paper, 604
Bailey's Annuities, spurious edition, 242.
Balch (T.) on Martha Blount, 182.
Balderdash, its meaning and etymology,
342.

Bale MSS. referred to by Tanner, 311.
Ballard (E. G.) on Bond, a poet, 513.
Calves' Head Club, 315.
"Good Old Cause," 421.
hour-glass in pulpits, 83.
house-marks, 135.

inscription in Peterborough Cathe-

dral, 303.

Ballina Castle, co. Mayo, 411. 577.

Napoleon, anecdote of, £92.

parochial libraries, 274.

แ

Quid facies, facies Veneris," &c., 589.
Rev. Josiah Pullen, 489.

Sheridan, Latin translation from, 563.
Sir Philip Warwick, 268.
Sir Walter Raleigh, 267.
tenet or tenent, 258.

Thomas Aquinas, lines by, 366.
*Ball (Lord) of Bagshot, 365.
Balmoral, Natural History of, 467. 584.
Baretti, his portrait by Reynolds, 411. 477.
*Bargain cup, 220.

Barnacles in the Thames, 124 223. 300.
Barrett (Eaton Stannard), his lines on Wo.
man, 292. 350. 423.

Barry (C. Clifton) on animal prefixes, 270.
Fauntleroy, 270.

midland county minstrelsy, 357.

Barton (Mrs. C.) and Lord Halifax, 258.
429. 543. 590.

Basil (Oscimum basilicum), a plant, 40.
Basilica, a digest of laws, 367.

Baskerville the printer, his burial-place,
203.349. 423.

Bates (Wm.) on Gibbon's library, 88.
Rosicrucians, 106.

soul and magnetic needle, 87.
"When the maggot bites," 526.

Bath, knights of, their escutcheons in St.
Peter's, Westminster, 444.

Bathensis on Jamieson the piper, 126.
*Bave (Anthony), his manuscripts, 469.
B. (B. E.) on Burke's marriage, 158.
B. (C.) on font at Islip, 363.

B. (C. W.) on epitaph from Stalbridge, 289.
Huc's Travels, 516.

"Like one who wakes," &c., 292.
Potenger's unpublished letter, 53.
right of redeeming property, 516.
B. (D. E.) on John Campbell of Jamaica,
410.

B. (E.) on manual of handwriting, 639
Bealby (H. M.), notes on newspapers, 333.
*Beauty of Buttermere noticed, 126.
Beccles, its parochial library, 62.
Bede (Cuthbert) on books chained in
churches, 206. 596.

"boom" as used by the poets, 183.
Brasenose, Oxford, 221.
burial in an erect posture, 59.

burial on north side of churches, 207.
centenarian couple, 490.
children called imps, 623.
curfew, where rung, 628.
dial inscriptions, 224.
epitaphs, 273. 315.
funeral custom, 218.
hour-glasses in pulpits, 209.

-Innocents' day, custom on, 617.
inscriptions on bells, 248.
marriage service, 525.

257.

nightingale, character of its song,
oaken tomb at Durham, 180: at Bran-
cepath Church, 454.

"Peccavi!" I have Scinde, 574.
Peter Allan, 630.

poetical tavern signs, 626.

St. Thomas's day, custom on, 617.
stoups, exterior, 574.
testimonials to donkies, 488.

"Up, guards, and at 'em!" 111.
weather predictions, 326.

Bee Park- Bee Hall, 199.

Bees, names for their migrations, 440. 575.

Bee (Tee) on arms of the see of York, 34.
Bee Park - Bee Hall, 199.
Governor Brookes, 56.

Governor Dameram, 34.

lines on the Order of the Garter, 53.
William the Conqueror's surname,

197.

*"Begging the question," origin of the
phrase, 640.

Beginner on baths for collodion process, 42.
Behmen (Jacob), his works, 13. 246.
Belfry towers, detached, 63. 185. $76.
Belike, its meaning and derivation, 358.
600.

Bell (Robert), lines on Woman, 423.
Bell, the passing, 130.

Bellenden (Miss), maid of honour, 463.
Belle Sauvage, 388. 523.

*Bellmen, the city, their origin, 538.
Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed, 292. 630.
Bells for the dead, on ringing, 55. 130. 417.
576. 601.

Bells, phantom and death, 576.

B. (E. M.) on Trench on Proverbs, 387.
Berefellarii, its meaning, 420.550.
Berosus on stipendiary curates, 341.
B. (F.) on Bishop Kennett's Diary, 470.
brothers of the same name, 478.
B. (F. C.) on S. A. Mackey, of Norwich, 566.
B. (F. F.) on arms of Geneva, 563.
B. (G..B.) on Keate family, 293.
B. (G. M.) on curious advertisement, 268.
lines in Franklin's handwriting, 196.
B. (H.) on children called imps, 623.
revolving toy, 63.

Bible names, how pronounced, 469.590. 630.
Bibliothec. Chetham. on the word cash, 651.
battle of Villers en Couché, 205.

burial in unconsecrated ground, 329.
Darling's Cyclopædia, 125.

mottoes of German emperors, 548.

odour from the rainbow, 158.

sheriffs of Glamorganshire, 423.

stars and flowers, 158.

superstition of Cornish miners, 216.
tin, its early use, 575.

B. (I. H.) on laird of Brodie, 103.
Billyng (William), noticed, 110.
Bingham (Richard) on passage in Bing-
ham's Antiquities, 291.

*Bingham's Antiquities, passage in, 291.
Binometrical verses. 292. 375. 655.

Bishop's Cannings church, hand in, 269.454.
Bishops deprived by Elizabeth, 136,

suffragans, in Ireland, 256.

B. (J.) on battle of Villers en Couché, 371.
Chadderton of Nuthurst, 564.
Falstaff's character, 314.

German heraldry, 204.

Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I., 587.
Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire, 65.
wooden tombs and effigies, 19.

B. (J. C.) on Longfellow's Reaper and the
Flowers, 583.

The Angels' Whisper, a song, 54.

B. (J. M.) on Danish and Swedish bal-
lads, 444.

queries in The Doctor, 410.

Poema del Cid, 366.

"state," in Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 1., 409.

B (K.) on divining-rod, 479.

Black as a mourning colour, 411. 502.

* Blackamore, the fable of washing the, 150.
Blackburn (Hugh) on photographic en-
graving, 628.

Blackguard and blagueur, 414.

* Blackwood's Magazine, a passage in, 493.
Blake (William) noticed, 69. 435.
Blakiston (R.) on " All my eye," 254.
"Pinece with a stink," 270.

Blink (Geo.) on Shakspearian emendations,

75.

B.L.M., its meaning, 585.

Blood (Wm.) on idol worship, 414.

Patrick's purgatory, 178.
Blotting-paper, when first used, 104. 185.
Blount (Martha) noticed, 182.

Blount (Thomas), inscription on his monu.
ment, 286. 603.