4977 Brook Bright (John), and the Cave of Adullam, vi. Britons, works on the ancient, i. 169; described ook Bright (Dr. W.), his epitaph in Oxford Cathedral, i. 5 Brightlingsea, election of deputy mayor, i. 72 Brighton, Prior John at, 1514, ix. 387, 477, 497; flint pebbles at, xii. 50, 118, 178 Brighton Herald, its centenary celebration, vi. 198 Brightwalton, Berks, field-names at, i. 228 Brightwell (Daniel), Tennyson Concordance, xi. 261, 353, 513 Brightwell (George and William) at Edenfield School, Doncaster, xi. 353 Brigstocke (G. R.) on Beldornie Press, vi. 132. Bennett of Baldock, ix. 333. Brigstocke (Owen), ii. 237; iii. 452; iv. 217. Browne (Sir Thomas), iii. 267; xi. 474. Byrt of Shrophouse, ii. 449. Harlsey Castle, co. York, ii. 89. Hopson (Admiral Sir T.), i. 269. Navy Office Seal, iii. 329. Player (Sir Thomas), v. 189. Powlett of Sombourn, ix. 109. Willock of Bordley, ii. 276 Brigstocke (Owen), d. 1689-90, his biography, iii. 452 Brigstocke (Owen), d. 1746, his biography, ii. 86, 237 Brigstocke family, iv. 113, 217 Brill, the, Somers Town, its name, xi. 26 375 Bring, its archaic use, xii. 7, 75 Brinklow family inquired after, vii. 50 Bristol Merchant Adventurers' Company, early, iv. 69 Bristol pottery plate and shoe, c. 1760, ix. 408 Britain, Tennyson on, i. 166; boars and bears in, ii. 248, 489; as Queen of Isles," 365; Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman on her supremacy at sea, vii. 169, 234 Britain Great Britain, early reference, xi. 66 Britannia as the national emblem, xi. 168, 274 British Association, Huxley and Bishop S. Wilberforce at, x. 209, 335 'British Biography' of the eighteenth century, ix. 50, 98 'British Controversalist,' articles in, xii. 109, 173 British Embassy in Paris, its history, i. 68 British Isles, mirages observed in, viii. 155; statues and memorials in, x. 387; xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 British mezzotinters, ii. 481, 521 British Museum Library: Catalogues, vi. 87; xi. 105; tickets, xi. 245 British names, early, their interpretation, vii. 101, 363 British provincial book-trade, 1641-67, x. 141. Brittany, idolatrous folk-lore in, viii. 409; ix. 17; wreckers in, xi. 446 Britten, East London burial-ground, xi. 29, 174 Britton (John), ' Memoirs of the Tower of London,' v. 47, 114; error in Tunbridge Wells,' ix. 127; Shakespeare memorial project, 1820, 246, 332, 392 ir. Brut Brow Bro T a Brixham, Coffin House at, i. 388, 493 Brixton, Sir W. Raleigh's house at, x. 348, 411 Broach or brooch, spelling of the word, iii. 28, 78 Broadley (A. M.) on a caricature, ix. 427. Cawdor dispatch, xii. 53. Civil War documents, xi. 228. Convivial clubs, ix. 448. Khaibar (Grand), x. B 107. Somers (Sir George), x. 28. Williams Br (Erasmus), x. 208 Broadside, seventeenth century, Guildhall dona- Broadsides and chapbooks, iv. 327, 413 Brock=badger, use of the word, v. 389, 432 Brockholes (Robert), Merchant Taylor scholar, vi. 230, 353 Brocklehurst on Mozart, iv. 409 Brockwell (M. W.) on Gainsborough's signed Brodribb (C. W.) on Miltoniana, vii. 87 Brokenselde, tavern name, its etymology, xi. Bromby (E. H.) on Beggearn-Huish, vi. 409. Brumby, vii. 254. Cricket pictures, iv. 496. Postliminious, ix. 48. Ruiven (Nicholas van), vi. 388. Victoria (Queen), her maiden name, iii. 413. Westralia, viii. 327. Brome family of Bishop's Stortford, i. 368 Brontë (Patrick): Mr. Prunty, iv. 100 Brontë family and Rev. Dr. Pronty, xii. 210 Brooch of Lorn and Queen Victoria, vii. 327 Brooch or broach, spelling of the word, iii. 28, 78 Brooke (C. F. T.), his Shakespeare Apocrypha,' x. 345 Brooke (Henry), his portrait by John Lewis, i. 87, 153 Brooke (Henry) on John Lewis, portrait painter, i. 153 Brooke (J. T.) on Right Hon. William Conolly, vi. 516. Novel wanted, viii. 235 Br Br Br Br Br Br B Brooke (N.), his 'Observations on Italy,' xii. 289 Broom plant as French workman's badge, vii. 466 Broseley, All Saints' Church, briefs for, i. 475 Brotanek (R. F.) on chapbooks and broadsides, iv. 327 Brothers and sisters bearing same Christian name, i. 67, 257, 315, 457 Brothers bearing same Christian name, vii. 4246, 413 Brotherton (Sir T. W.), his biography, xii. 490 Brougham (Henry, Lord), steamer called after him, Brougham Castle and Hall, iv. 229, 293, 329, 373 Brown (B.) on A Poetical Revenge,' vii. 369 Brown (F. G.) on The Christmas Boys,' vii. 30 a Brown (J.) on Campbell, x. 393. Comether, xi. 417. Dish of tea, xii. 377. Ebbin, Christian name, viii. 397. Epitaphs, xii. 507. Flint and steel, vii. 377. Flint pebbles at Brighton, xii. 50, 178. Gloucestershire epitaphs, xii. 507. Pins substituted for thorns, xii. 158. Piscon-led, viii. 178. Rock of Ages': Gladstone's Latin version, vii. 369. Sacred place-names in foreign lands, xii. 493. Words and phrases in American newspapers, xii. 270 ་ Brown (Rev. John), his Self-Interpreting Bible,' iii. 228 Brown (J. W.) on Lying Bishop," vii. 449 Brown (Madox), his painting of Howe's victory, x. 407 Brown (Mrs.) on Dorothy Chamberlen, ix. 509 Brown (T. E.), Manx poet, memorial to, xii. 146 Brown (William), of Durham, d. 1854, ix. 367 Brown Candover Church, brass at, ix. 189, 315 Browne (W.), of Tavistock, his "Inner Temple Browne (W. H.) on Kennedy family of Cullean, Browning (B.) on Bec-en-Hent, house-name, xii. 174 Browning (C. W.) on Milton's L'Allegro,' vi. 475 Bruce (Robert), his heart, iii. 60; his sword, Bruce (William), physician to King of Poland, x. 249, 298 Brudenell (Elizabeth), portrait as Diana, iv. 29,193 Brühl (Count), his tailor in Dresden china, vii. Brummell (Beau) and evening dress, vii. 95 viii. 245 Brunswick (Duke of) and Brunswick Hotel, x. 289 Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, Bible Bryan on Barry O'Meara, xii. 366 v. 170 Buchanan (Capt. John), his widow married to Buchanan (Robert), and Caledonian Coffee-house in Covent Garden, iii. 189, 277; his descent, xi. 489 Buck Indian man, i. 65 Buck (Adam), his portraits, viii. 400 Buck (Samuel and Nathaniel), engravers, i. 309, 336, 370 Buck (Timothy), Westminster scholar c. 1748, iv. 509 Buck-leap, use and meaning of the word, i. 85 Bucke (Robert) and Croppenbergh family, viii. 67, 112 Buckeridge (Bishop), his birthplace, i. 287 Buckie (Groatie), myth connected with the, iv. 530 Buckingham (Duke of), ode on Purcell's death, ii. 261. Buckingham and St. Margaret's, Westminster, connected in 1699, vii. 427 Buckland, Herts, rectors of, ii. 227 Buckle (H.) on British regiment in Burma, ix. 330 Buckle (H. T.), 'History of Civilization,' xii. 328, 414 Bucklee (M. E.) on Bewdley a hundred years ago, vi. 308. Cosway and Mrs. Harding, vii. 309. Link with Charles I.'s execution, vii. 87 Buckley (Capt.) and Mrs. Errington, xii. 368, 435 Buckrose, Yorkshire Parliamentary division, ix. 449, 492 Bucks, Good Fellows, and convivial societies, ix. 448 Buckton (J. D.) on Col. Darcye's Regiment, ix. 108 Budgen (Rev. W.) on rood-loft piscina, viii. 506 Building, blood used in, ii. 389, 455; iii. 34, 76, 114, 173, 372 Building customs and folk-lore, i. 407, 515 Bulk and Baskish bulka, vii. 227, 273, 374 Bullen (R. Freeman) on 'Aryan Sun-Myths,' vi. 16. Brewer (Rev. E. C.), his school at Mile End, vi. 69. Diss, xii. 170. Macaulay on examinations, viii. 237. Prize, ix. 178. Tuesday Night's Club, xi. 415 Bullim, its locality, vi. 68, 113 Bullingdon Club, Oxford, xi. 49; its history, xii. 108 Bulloch (J.) on Shakespeare and the musical glasses, v. 128 Bulloch (J. M.) on banishment certificate, x. 230. Carlyle and Lady Bannerman, vii. 210. "Baron of Franker," vi. 268. Barony of Carnousie, ix. 347. Baxter (A. Macduff), vii. 328. Beeswing Club, xii. 449. Beldornie Press, V. 269. Blacklock (Thomas), ii. 396. Blackwell (Barnaby), banker, viii. 30. Bruce (William) in ، 69. Sy Poland, x. 249. Castleman family, x. Christie (J. H.), iv. 252. Cocks (Kitty), Countess of Stamford, viii. 328. Cromartie (Lord), his issue, v. 28. 'D.N.B.': additions and corrections, ix. 272. Dublin Club in 1703: Lewis Gordon, xii. 306. English officials under foreign Governments, iii. 130. Evans : monds: Hering: Garden, iv. 397. Fencible regiment, v. 230. Ford Church, c. 1670, vii. 508. Foreigners in Tottenham, xi. 144. Gin distillery in Bermondsey, v. 349. Glen family, iv. 68. Glencairn (Lord), xii. 248. Gordon (Archer), viii. 8. Gordon (C. A.), Concise History of the House of Gordon,' vi. 169. Gordon (Lady Charlotte), x. 10. Gordon (Sir Cosmo), Byron biographer, vii. 89. Gordon (first Duke of), his birth, x. 7. Gordon (Duchess of), ii. 427. Gordon (E.), Sergeant-at-Arms, ii. 347. Gordon (George), friend of Porson, xii. 329. Gordon (James) of the Surtees Society, viii. 290. Gordon (John) and Zoffany, i. 107. Gordon (Rev. John) and New Statistical Account of Scotland,' viii. 190. Gordon (Rev. John) L.M.S., ix. 209. Gordon (L.), teacher of the deaf, xi. 209. Gordon (M.), minor poet, xi. 189. Gordon (Hon. Mrs.), her suicide, ix. 449. Gordon (Mrs.), tall Essex woman, ii. 128. Gordon (Rev. Osborne), vii. 390. Gordon (Patrick), the geographer: Peter Gordon, iii. 283, 324. Gordon (Lord Robert), x. 89. Gordon (Dr. W.) of Berbici, ix. 509. Gordon (Dr. W.) of Bristol, X. 349. Gordon (Sir William), banker, v. 449. Gordon and Short families, x. 830. "Gordon Case " and Pope Clement XI., viii. 450. Gordon epitaph, ii. 50. Gordon House, Kentish Town, v. 490; ix. 413. Gordon letters, v. 170; ix. 417. Gordon, name in Russia, v. 469. Gordon tartan: its origin, ix. 6. Gordon of West Indies, v. 214. Gordon's formulæ, v. 328. Gordons in Alsace, vi. 269. Gordons of Messina, x. 8. HesseDanish alliance, xi. 129. Highlanders barbadosed, viii. 176. Hope (Lady) of Kerse, vi. 27. Italian genealogy, xi. 73. Jamaica records viii. 478. Kant's descent, iii. 157. Kemble (Henry Stephen), vii. 9. Kenmure peerage, iii. 329. Latham (Rev. Robert Gordon), iv. 469. 'Les Jumelles,' iv. 9. Livingstone family, vi. 389. Luther family, iii. 176. Mysteries of the Embo baronetcy, vii. 246, 372; x. 234. 'National Journal,' 1746, x. 49. Never Never Land, xi. 158. Orange River, its explorer, vi. 189. Paper-making inventions, v. 208. 'Parthenopaus Hereticus," x. 149. Pennecuik (Alex.) and the Louvre, x. 189. Polytechnic Institution, 1838, v. 389. Roosevelt (President), his Scots ancestry, v. 65. Rudyard family, vii. 328. Sanders portrait of the Duke of Gordon, ix. 289. 'Sketches and Recollections of West Indies,' viii. 231. Stannus (Lady), iv. 188. Toole (J. L.), vi. 469. Vining family, vii. 28. Von Gordon family, iii. 248. Wesley (John) and gardens, iii. 111. West India Regiment, 8th, ix. 168. Wine for the King of Spain, vii. 270 Bullock (A. E.) on Pope of Wroxton, ix. 347 Bullock (Thomas), sportsman, d. 1802, xi. 507 Bumble-puppy, the game, vii. 306, 456; viii. Burleigh (Lord) and Polonius, iii. 305, 416 72, 293 Bumper, derivation of the word, ii. 28 Bumping or beating the bounds, its origin, ii. 113. Bumpus (T. F.) on Chapel Royal, Savoy, vii. 429 Bung, etymology of the word, v. 422 Bungay and Bacon, the name combination, viii. 69 Buns, cross sign on, ix. 345, 436; x. 157 Bunyan (John), Mr. Get i' th' hundred," iv. 88; his will, viii. 468 Bunyan and Milton genealogies, vii. 329; viii. 15 Burch (E. T.) on Gibbon, ch. lvi. note 81, iv. 167 Burch, Birch, or Byrch families, i. 328, 417 Burchell (Dr. W. J.), his diary and collections, ii. 486; iii. 77 Burden (J.) on "What you but see," ix. 493 Burford stone, used for St. Paul's Cathedral, iv. 114 Burgess & Son (J.) on paste, i. 510 Burgh (Hugo de) and Queen Matilda, legend of, iii. 408 Burghclere (Lord) on setting of precious stones, i. 29 Burglars, lump of coal as charm for, vii. 426; viii. 75 Burgo (Johannis de), his writings, vi. 408 Burgoyne (Capt.), V.C., his biography, vi. 469 Burial and funeral, c. 1413, distinction between, viii. 9, 73 Burial custom in Scotland, iv. 10, 76 Burial half within and half without a church, xi. 108, 230, 318 Burial in woollen, v. 467 Burial of suicides in the open fields, v. 76, 173 Burial with the face uncovered, viii. 90, 137, 215, 254 Burial-ground, English, at Lisbon, ii. 448; iii. 34, 135 Burial-ground, Greyfriars, iv. 205, 253, 352 Burial-grounds, their consecration, vi. 9, 76; Nonconformist, ix. 188, 233, 297, 336, 434; x. 31, 150, 237, 334 : Burial-places of celebrities, iii. 449; of notable Englishwomen, xii. 207, 253, 298; of notable actresses, 449, 513 Burleigh Street, Strand, destruction of St. Michael's Church, v. 181, 507 Burlington, pronunciation of the name, ii. 36, 77; written Bridlington, i. 471 Burma, languages in, vii. 166; British regiment in, 1852, ix. 330 Burn (J. S.), his 'History of Parish Registers,' ix. 170 Burne-Jones (Sir E.), his tomb at Rottingdean, viii. 288; lines used by, 449; his 'Heart of the Rose,' ix. 48, 158 Burneis, meaning of the word, ii. 368 Burnell family, xii. 289 Burnet (Gilbert), 'Letters Italy,' viii. 449 from Switzerland, Burnet and Mair families, iii. 149 Burney (Charles), collation of 'History of Music," x. 9, 57; plates in first volume, xii. 494 Burney (Rev. E. A.) on Burney family, vi. 92 Burney (Fanny), her Cecilia,' vi. 91 Burney (James), portrait painter, his biography, xi. 308 Burney Collection of Theatrical Portraits, v. 449 Burney family, v. 269, 510; vi. 56, 92, 112 Burnham (Lord), and Indian Mutiny veterans, ix. 2 Burnham Society, Somerset, 1798, objects explained, ix. 28, 77, 291 Burns (Robert), English commentators on, i. 261, 321, 375, 456 ; "Her prentice hand" and other anticipations, 286, 357, 371; and Prof. Wilson, li. 306; Cruikshank's designs for 'Tam o' Shanter,' 309; his 'Twa Dogs' and Cervantes, 465; parody on "Scots wha hae," 488; letters to George Thomson, iii. 148, 213; and Young, parallel passages, 466; his last words, iv. 45; loan in The Twa Dogs,' 70; and Palace of Traquair," 387, 437; and the song Charlie, He's my Darling,' v. 45; his Bonnie Lesley,' 345; his use of solitary" as a substantive, vi. 275; his Mensuration School," viii. 70, 115; anonymous song attributed to, 305 66 Burnt alive, girl sentenced to be, vi. 129, 176, 235, 273 Burris, meaning of the word, ii. 368 Burrough (Sir James), d. 1837, viii. 430, 473 Burrowes (Robert), Dean of Cork, his writings, viii. 209 Burst, use of "bust " for, iv. 105 Burstall (Timothy), his steam coach, 1825, xii. 31, 96, 158, 414 Burt (Rev. Robert) and Mrs. marriage, v. 307 Fitzherbert's Burton (A.) on earl's eldest son and supporters, v. 408. "From the thick film," v. 129 Burton (James), J. Birkett, and St. Leonards, xii. 285 ་ Burton (Richard), his Scented Garden,' vii. 449 Burton (Robert), errors in Shilleto's edition of Anatomy of Melancholy,' i. 42, 163, 203, 282; ii. 124, 223, 442 ; iii. 203; iv. 25, 523; v. 146; vi. 143; vii. 103, 184; x. 383; xi. 65; on Josephus Struthius, ii. 108, 151; and Dr. Johnson, vi. 294; and Fletcher, 464; and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, vii. 208; his "Anatomy of Melancholy, presentation copy, viii. 326; Meswinde the Fair in 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' ix. 8, 54, 77; and John Barclay and Theodorus Prodromus, xi. 101; Chinese proverb in Anatomy,' 168; and Jacques Ferrand's Melancholie erotique,' 286; 108; Urceo quoted by, 185; in Anatomy, 277; scene of 325 Latin poem, xii. Burton Abbey Cartulary, its ownership, iii. 127 Bury (Arthur), his Naked Gospel,' xii. 130 Bury (H.) on quotations wanted, v. 449 Bury family, v. 349, 396, 437, 513 Bury Parish Registers, certificate of touching for king's evil, vi. 345 Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, model of, vi. 488 Bus, sunken land of, vi. 111 Bus, used for omnibus, viii. 147, 295 Critical trunk-maker, v. 433. 'Dandies' Ball,' ix. 217. Dyer (George), iii. 282. Hayley and Blake, viii. 277. Hazlittiana, ix. 177. Lamb (C.), iv. 512, 538. Lamb (C.) at weddings, v. 265. Lamb (C.), his Jewish extraction, vii. 212; on Thicknesse's 'France,' 274. Lamb allusion explained, v. 225. "Ocean 'mid his uproar wild,” v. 77. "Phil Elia," iii. 112. Plump in voting, vi. 276, 377. Quotations wanted, v. 248, 295. Rowe's Shakespeare,' vii. 117. S, its long and short forms, viii. 258. "Set up my (his) rest," vii. 53. Shacklewell, iii. 352. Shakespeare illustrations, vii. 13. Sonnets by Alfred and Frederick Tennyson, vii. 159. Stevenson and Scott: "Hebdomadary," v. 91. Buttery, derivation of the word, ii. 167 Button (T. C.) on Spenser and Shakespeare, i. 204. Busbequius, flying Turk mentioned by, xii. 127, Button or Button-hole Sunday, v. 247, 376 Buse surname, iii. 309 "Bush Tavern," Bristol, in 1787, xi. 7 Bushell (Brown), date of his execution in 1651, Bushell (S. W.) on arms on punchbowl, ix. 33 Button-man, 1760, use of the word, vi. 405 Buxton, Latin lines on, viii. 69, 332; antiquities Buxton (Travers) on first female abolitionist, vii. 10 Buzzing, explanation of, ii. 167 By (Col.), R.E., c. 1834, his biography, v. 470; vi. 135 Bussemaker (Prof.), of Groningen, his writings, ii. Byard family, i. 348, 414 Bust and burst, use of the word, iv. 105 Butchers exempted from juries, vii. 449; viii. 17 Butler (C. E.) on John Butler, M.P. for Sussex, Butler (Geoffrey) on Gabriel Butler, ii. 527 Butler (Dr. James Davie), his death, iv. 480 Butler (John) of Mullaghowny, temp. Charles I., x. 290 Butler (J. C.) on Billy Butler, x. 310 Butler (Samuel), and Milk Street, iii. 168; breese Butler family of Toderstaff, v. 468, 517 Butterworth, place-name, its derivation, xii. 9, 91 Butterworth (Major S.) on Anglo-Indian 'Little Jack Horner,' vii. 97. " As You Like It,' I. i., vi. 505. Authors of quotations, viii. 374. Blake and Coleridge, v. 135. Blake's songs: early private reprint, vi. 473; vii. 56. Boer War of 1881, i. 277. Browne (Sir Thomas), his knighthood, viii. 173. Christabel, ix. 112. Coleridge items, ix. 133. Coleridge (Hartley), x. 118. Cowper, Lamb, or Hood? vii. 11. Bygges or Biggs family, Worcestershire, ii. 346 Byng (Admiral), his connexion with Torrington, Byng (C.) on Admiral Byng, i. 189 Byng (Henry), serjeant-at-law, c. 1626, ix. 408 ix. 29 Byrch (Thomas), c. 1536, his arms, iv. 90, 135 Byron (G. G.,sixth Lord), his bust by Thorwaldsen, · Byron (Robert Stratford), c. 1770, viii. 469 Byron-Biron controversy, ii. 50 Byrt (James) of Shrophouse, ii. 449 |