Ashburnham (Sir Charles), Bart., Bishop of Chichester, 1754-98, his marriage, 280, 325 Athene and Poseidon, variations of the myth, 377
'Ave Maris Stella,' unpublished hymn, c. 1600,
Avignon, reproductions of frescoes at, 32
Ayrton Light on Clock Tower, Westminster, 90, 154, 232
Babington (Lady Anne) and her daughter, their letters, 1708-10, 202
Bachelor, origin of academic title, 261
Bacon (Roger), J. Twyne on his books, c. 1590, 261,
Baena (Alfonso de), writer, c. 1460, 251, 329 Bagpipes, used for Highland regiments, 248 Baillie, Gordon, Dickson, and Simpson families, 494
Ballads, political, of the eighteenth century, 107 Ballard's Lane, Finchley, origin of the name, 1575, 210, 384
Banbury cakes, allusion to, 1596, 262
Addison (J.), Cogan's edition of his 'Mis- cellaneous Works,' 1750, 88
Blakeway (Rev. J. B.), c. 1815, 231, 286 Braddon (Mary Elizabeth), 175, 227, 282, 366 'Chickseed without Chickweed,' 92
Coward (W.), M.D., c. 1704, 192
Duignan (W. H.), his works, 373, 461 Gretna Green, 231, 302, 322, 384 Hardy (Thomas), 228
Histories of Irish counties and towns, 103, 183, 315
Holcroft (Thomas), 1745-1809, 4, 43, 84, 123, 164, 203, 244
Hotten (J. Camden), publisher, 357 Inverness, 67
Shakespeare, Inglis's edition, 1864, 188 Southey (Robert), 31, 74
Burton (Edward), 1794-1836, 169
Bigod (Isabel), b. c. 1205, her identity, 445, 465 Billiard-room, inventory of, 1588, 227 Billingsgate, Latin rime on, 262 Birds, effect of German raid on, 29 Birkenhead, death of a survivor of the, 246
Bancroft (Archbishop), 1544-1610, his birthplace, Births, extraordinary, 27, 175
Barring-out," account of a typical, 32, 199, 271 Barsanti (Miss), actress, c. 1772, 452, 498
Bartholomæus de Proprietatibus Rerum,' 380 Bath, ringing of church bells, c. 1417, 262 Bath, Roman Spring Bath, Strand, 247, 369 Batteries, floating ironclad, 1855, 430, 482 Battles: Bosworth Field, the standard-bearer, 208; Albuera and Ypres, a comparison, 265; Edgehill, the standard-bearer, 334
Bayley (F. W. N.), his Tale of a Tub,' c. 1860, 251, 305
Beaconsfield (Lord), his allusion to "Emanuel,” 301, 390, 477
Beamish (H. H.), Evangelical preacher, c. 1850, 47, 92
Beards, notes on mediæval use, 262, 326, 388 Bede (Cuthbert), c. 1855, his grandmother, 28 Beer, notes on, c. 1620, 262
Beethoven (Ludvig van), his nationality, 247 Belgium, list of bishops of, 341, 390
Belinus, King of Britain, B.C. 310, 210
Bell Bible, sixty-three volumes, 490
"Bell and Horn," public-house, Brompton, 359 Bellerophon, Napoleon on board the, 339, 438 Bells, tubular, in church steeples, 250, 307, 408, 460
Benamor (Dr.), Turk, of Milman Street, W.C., d. 1796, 189
Bishops of Belgium and Northern France, list of, 341, 390
Bishops of the Church of England and University degrees, 381
Blake (W.), 1757-1827, and the "Sweden- borgians," 276
Blakeway (Rev. J. B.), c. 1815, bibliography of, 231, 286
Blandford (Maria Catherine, Lady), d. 1779, 86 Blood, stones used to staunch, 410, 475
Blount (Thomas), his Glossographia Anglicana Nova,' 1707, 28, 76
Blundell (Capt. J. D.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1838, 472
Boag (Lieut.-Col. J.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1812, 130
Boaistuau (Pierre), his Theatre of the Worll,' 1679, 47, 110
"Boches," origin of the word, 78, 246 Bodenham (Cecilia), portrait of, by Holbein, 231 Bodens (George), celebrated wit, d. c. 1781, 267, 477 Bois-le-Duc, arms of the town, 280 Boistuau (Pierre). See Boaistuau (Pierre). Bonaparte (Napoleon), and emblem ring, 1835, 93; his strategy at Austerlitz, 209; and the Bellerophon, 339, 438
Bonheur (Rosa), her painting 'The Duel,' 408 Bonington (R. P.), his picture of Grand Canal, Venice, 88, 133, 256
Bookbinder to James I., John Bateman, 263 Books recently published:-
Aberystwyth Studies, by Members of the University of Wales, 79
Alderson's (A. W.) Why the War Cannot be Final, 240
Angell's (N.) Prussianism and its Destruction, 139
Berger's (P.) William Blake, Poet and Mystic, 159
Betts's (A.) Busones a Study, 503
Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1915, 59 Burne's (C. S.) The Handbook of Folk-Lore,
Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, July, 1583-July, 1584, ed. by S. C. Lomas, 119
Notes and Queries, July 31, 1915.
Books recently published:-
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Venice relating to English Affairs Northern Italy, edited by A. B. Hinds, 410, 475 Carpenters, Records of the Worshipful Com-
Churchward's (A.), M.D., The Arcana of Freemasonry, 483
Clergy Directory, 1915, 160
County Folk-Lore: Vol. VII. Fife, 239 Courtney's (W. P.) Johnson, 503
Cox's (J. C.) The English Parish Church, 391 Cummings's (W. H.) Handel, the Duke of Chandos, The Harmonious Blacksmith,' 160
Dobell's (B.) Sonnets and Lyrics, 484 English Language, A Guide to, edited by H. C. O'Neill, 463
Fleetwood Family Records, edited by R. W. Buss, 179
Fraser's (G. M.) The Aberdonians, and Other Lowland Scots, 99
German Culture, edited by Prof. W. P. Paterson, 290
Gypsy Lore Society, Journal of the, Vol. VII. Part IV., 178
Harrison's (H.) Surnames of the United King- dom, 484
Harrison's (S. E.) The Cirencester Vestry Book during the Seventeenth Century, 160 Haslemere-Bygone Haslemere, edited by E. W. Swanton, 138
Hawes's (J. W.) Edmond Hawes of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 99
Herrick (Robert), The Poems of, edited by F. W. Moorman, 443
Hill's (G. F.) The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe, 443 Historical Documents, English, of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, edited by F. E. Harmer, 79
Humphreys's (A. L.) Materials for the History of the Town and Parish of Wellington, Somerset, Parts I.-IV., 118 Jenkinson's (H.) Palæography and Practical Study of Court Hand, 411 Jonson's (B.) A Tale of a Tub, edited by F. M. Snell, 411
Jugeler (Jack), edited by W. H. Williams, M.A., 483
Keynes's (G.) Bibliography of the Works of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, 79 Lee's (A. L.) Old Roads and Early Abbeys,
Lloyd's (T.) The Making of the Roman People, 331 Mackintosh's (R.) Albrecht Ritschl and his School, 179
Macray's (W. D.) A Register of the Members of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford: Fellows, Vol. VIII., 239
Manners's (E.) Elizabeth Hooton, First Quaker Woman Preacher, 391 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 80, 484
Morris's (H. N.) Flaxman, Blake, Coleridge, and other Men of Genius influenced by Swedenborg, 179, 276
Mundy (Peter), The Travels of, in Europe and Asia, 1608-67, edited by Lieut.-Col. Sir R. Carnac Temple, 38
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Su-Subterraneous, by C. T. Onions, 59
Nicodemus, The Gospel of, and Kindred Documents, translated by A. Westcott, 219
Nobility, Titled, of Europe, compiled and edited by the Marquis of Ruvigny, 12 Palmer's (A. S.) The Samson-Saga and its Place in Comparative Religion, 462 Petit-Dutaillis's (C.) Studies and Notes on Stubbs's Constitutional History, 424 Reed's (E. A.) Hinduism in Europe and America, 272
Rivers's (W. H. R.) Percy Sladen Trust Ex- pedition to Melanesia, 331
Roberts's (R. G.) The Place-Names of Sussex, 351, 389
Saunders's (M.) The Mystery in the Drood Family, 38
Swift (Jonathan), The Correspondence of, edited by F. E. Ball, Vols. V. and VI.,
311 Tacitus, The Histories of, English Translation by G. G. Ramsay, 258
War, Five Articles on, 352 Whitaker's Almanack, 1915, 19 Whitaker's Peerage, 1915, 19 Who's Who, 1915, 60
Booksellers' Catalogues, 140, 180, 220, 260, 292, 332, 412, 464, 504
Booksellers, provincial, of the seventeenth century, 45; of Cirencester, 141
"Born," bornesteyd "=barnstead, 1063, 417 Borrow (G.), and “the Lion and the Unicorn," 417; and De Vega's ghost story, 417, 498 Borrows (W.), M.A., drawing of monument of, 471
Borstal, derivation of the name, 13, 35, 54 Bosbury, offerings to the vicar, 1635-41, 263 Bosworth Field, the standard-bearer at, 208 Botany fire and new-birth, 12 Boteler family, arms of, 399, 496 Botolph Lane, Lombard merchants in, c. 1480, 8 Boucher family of Somerset, 451 Bourn Bridge, Cambridgeshire, the inns at, 379 Bourne (Cardinal) with the British army in France, 166
Brabançonne,' translation of the, 297, 423 Bradbury (Thomas), Lord Mayor, 1509, 52, 112 Braddon (Mary E.), 1837-1915, her 'Phantom Fortune,' 130, 175; bibliography of her works, 175, 227, 282, 366
Branks, engraving of a woman wearing the, 263 Brantôme, translation of his works before 1612,
Breedon (Lieut. J.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1795, 151
Breval (M. de), 1671, his Christian name, 322, 423 Brighton Customs Book,' its whereabouts, 148 Brisac (Lieut. W. H.), Royal Reg. Artillery, retired 1819, 131
British Isles, statues and memorials in, 24, 145, 275, 428, 476
Bronte (Rev. Patrick), his marriage, 378 Brook (G. V.) engraving of, as Philip of France, 7, 59, 72
Cattle, goats kept with, 452, 500 Caxton (William) and Bishop Douglas, 1513, 46 Chalmers (James), memorial to, Thursday Island, 25, 476
Champaigne (Pierre de), Esquire, tracts by, 1509, 293
Chantries, maintained by old Guilds, 322, 443 Chaplains, English, at Aleppo, 201, 289, 388 Chapman (George) and Prologue to Marston's 'Eastward Hoe,' 5
Chapman (Thomas), 1670-1731, of Putney, 69; =Elizabeth Tyson, c. 1710, 251
Chapter of Denain, armorial bearings of, 321 Chapter of Maubeuge, armorial bearings of, 321 Charles I., engraving on coin, 1642, 293 Charles II., statue at the Royal Exchange, 30, 114; and T. Rosewell, minister, 293 Charles V. (Emperor), autobiography of, 454 Charles Edward (Prince), his English, 491 Charlett (Dr. Arthur), anecdote, 1764, 294 Charms against toothache and waterspout, 294 Charters relating to land at Holborn belonging to Malmesbury Abbey, 488 Chesapeake and Shannon, song, 454, 500 Cheese, allusion to smell of, 1669, 294; foreign luxury" in Ireland, c. 1750, 472 Cherokees, derivation of the word, 294 Chess, remarks on Persian game, 1767, 294 Chickseed without Chickweed,' reading book, 92 Chimneys, invention to prevent smoking, 1663, 294 "China to Peru," use of the phrase, 6 Chippenham, weekly lectures at, 1590, 294 Chopin," pronunciation of the name, 168, 217 Chostwick. See Gostwick.
Christ Church, Oxford, Catechist at, 1634-78, 174
Christian names: Thirmuthis, 17, 75; in parish registers, Walton-in-Gordano, 489
Church of England, the Bishops of, and University degrees, 381
"Church of England" or "Episcopalian," 28 Church music, organ-voluntary, 1640, 294 Church, Preston Parish, the dedication of, 362, 422 Church, standing and sitting in, 1696, 414 Church, Stoke Poges, picture of, 494 Churches, use of tubular bells, 250, 307, 408, 460
Churchwarden, a black man as, 1676-7, 298 Cirencester, booksellers and printers of, 141 Cistern of lead, 1736, original owner of, 321 Clarendon (E. Hyde, Earl of), his MSS., 1727, 294 Clarke (Capt. R.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1793,
Clay (Ann) = William Cobbett, 1791, 489 Claymore, the right to wear the, 392 Clerical Directories from 1817, 109, 158, 199 Cliffe, Kent, Rector of, temp. Edward IV., 294 Clock, hands called "fingers," 188, 255 Clocks and clockmakers, 33
Clonfert, Diocese of, schools established, 1785, 294
Clovis, place of his baptism, 19
Clubs of London,' 1828, 71, 474
"Clyst," the meaning of, in place-names, 361, 437
Coaches, fares in 1663, 294
Cobbett (W.) = Ann Clay, 1791, 489
Cobbold (Elizabeth), her descent from Edmund Waller, 109, 173, 257, 325
"Cock," "cockboat,' from Foreign Account
Cockburn, meaning of the surname, 188, 258
Collyer (Lieut. E.), Royal Reg. Artillery, c. 1813, 452
Cologne, Colonia, substitute for London and Paris, 1702, 402
Commonwealth, whereabouts of the mace of the, 474
Communion, Holy, notes on customs, 294 Como, the Cardinal of, 1525-1607, 279 Confirmation, notes on customs, 295 Constable (Timothy), d. 1750, his ancestors, 150 Consuls, English, in Aleppo, 1582-1850, 182, 254, 327, 389; in Cyprus, 1626–1878, 225 Contarine family, 48, 92
"Conturbabantur Constantinopolitani," the dis- tich, 109, 156, 174, 346
Cooke (Nathaniel), organist of Brighthelmston, c. 1800, 8, 53
Cooke (J. Esten), author, 1830-86, 340
Davis, Ward, Norbury, and Moore families, 188, 238, 305
Dawson (Nancy), dancer, her career, 400, 460 Day, Field, Sumner, and Whitton families, 150 Day, "The Day," origin of the phrase, 7 Deacon (Capt. H.), Royal Reg. Artillery, 1807, 151 Deacons, English sovereigns as, 48, 97, 137 Deaf-mutes, alphabets for, 68
Deafness, old-fashioned cures for, 68, 117, 247, 328, 477 Debreczin, support of the Professors at, 1756, 279, "Debuss and embuss," words used in war, 1914, 246
Dekker (T.), Zulziman in his 'Satiromastix,' 474 Denain, armorial bearings of the Chapter of,
De Quincey. See Quincey (Thomas de).
Copley (Joseph) and The Case of the Jewes Derwentwater memorial, history of, 361 stated,' 1656, 431
Copying machines patented, c. 1647, 295 Copying-pad, recipe of ink for, 88
Corporations, account of English municipal, 295 Corpus Christi, the festival in England, 430, 496 Costa. See Mendez da Costa.
Courage & Co., London brewers, c. 1685, 433 Courtesy titles, the use of, 250, 330 "Cousamah," in Thackeray's The Newcomes,' 7, 58
Coventry, cross defaced, 1610, 295
Desbrisay (Capt. T.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1806, 151
Detectives in fiction, 11
Dialect words of Rochdale, c. 1850, 295, 403, 496 Dibdin (Charles), d. 1814, commemoration in Southampton, 41, 98; his Helicon Theatre, 480 Diccell (Sir Robert), mentioned in will, 1592, 170 Dickens (C.), and wooden legs, 37; his 'David Copperfield' dramatized, 106; a photograph of, 211; Miss Twinkleton's speech in Edwin Drood,' 492
Dickson (Charles), translator of Bion and Moschus, 1825, 319
Coward (William), M.D., his works, 1704, 67, 192 Dickensiana, 106, 226 Crabbe (G.) and Lord Tennyson, 450 Craniology, books dealing with, 91 Cratcliffe, crucifix in Hermit's Cave," 126 Craven County, South Carolina, name altered, 1776, 31, 189, 290, 348
Crests: mural ccronet, mailed arm embowed, 1679, 322; dog on a helmet, 342; white stag trippant, 471
Cricket: evolution of the game, 186; "common game," c. 1720, 295; Wellington's saying on, 300
Cromwell (Oliver), his connexion by marriage with an Earl of Essex, 69; his nickname Iron- side," 181, 257, 304, 342, 383, 404, 419, 436; change of family name, 295 Cromwell (Oliver), of Uxbridge, c. 1551, 9, 73 Crooked Lane, London Bridge, inhabitants of, 56, 93, 137, 348, 456
Crownfield (Henry), Etonian, 1757, “hanged," 9 Croze (Maturinus Veyssière de la), historian, c. 1730, 130, 175, 215, 236
Cruikshank (G.), his residences in Clerkenwell, 338 Cryptograms by Royalists, explanation of, 225 Culebath =flabellum, meaning of, 189 "Cultura," English equivalent of, c. 1200, 125 Cumberland (Ernest Augustus, Duke of), his descendants, 27
Curmudgeon," origin of the word, 429 Cyder Cellars, Maiden Lane, 208, 256, 366 Cyprus, Levant Company and Consuls in, 1626- 1878, 222, 241. 263, 499; folk-lore of, 486
Dickson, Baillie, Gordon, and Simpson families, 494
'Dictionary of National Biography,' additions and corrections, 21, 75, 118-68-68, 115-109, 158, 199-148, 192-209, 255-250-399-400-474 Diezer (August), artist, c. 1804, 228 Digby (Sir Everard), his letters from the Tower, 8,59
Disraeli. See Beaconsfield.
Döllinger and the authorship of Janus,' 1869, 418, 497
"Dominion" of Canada, origin of the word, 418 Donnington Castle, St. Gilbert's staff there, 334
Douglas (Bishop), “ Sibil" in his Virgil, 8; and Caxton, 1513, 46
Dover (James), London printer, c. 1705, 49 D'Oyley's Warehouse, its use, 1855, 169, 216, 238, 328, 478
Dramatist,' by Ann C. Holbrook, 147 Dreams and literature, 32, 326, 385
Druid, William John, Arch-Druid, 1821, 334 Druidism, a modern advocate of, 14; sacrificing white bulls, 90, 138
"Drury (Madame)," aged 116, her death, 18 Dryden (John) and Swift, their relationship, 191, 257
Dublin, lease of the Priory of All Saints, 1539, 266; street- and place-names, 416
"Duck's storm," origin of the phrase, 188, 254, 370 Dufferin (F. T., Marquis of), his Letters from High Latitudes,' 88, 135 Duignan (W. H.), bibliography of his works, 373, 461
Dunfern (Sir John), "in the immortal story," 69 Duppa (Brian), and Duppa's Hill, Croydon, 299, 349; his foreign mission, temp. Charles I., 299, 349
Dupuis, French violinist, 340, 389, 442
Duston or Durston, Northants, the living in 1641, 334
East Anglia, families of, 9, 72 Easter eggs, origin of, 320, 382
Easter hare, Leicestershire custom, 320, 407 Easter, observances in Russia, 277, 440, 498 Easton Maudit, family portraits at, 63, 186; furniture at, described in inventory, 186 Ecclesiastical archives, the custody of, 359, 436, 501
Ecclesiastical letter, Scottish, to James I., 1614, 129
Eccleston (Daniel) and pamphlet on 'The Children of Israel,' 1813, 190, 238, 325 Echoes from the Classics,' an error, 27 Edgehill, the battle of, standard-bearer at, 334 Edward V., an incident in the life of, 221 'Edwin Drood,' Miss Twinkleton's parting speech, 492
Egg, Easter eggs, origin of, 320, 382
Egypt, letters from an army officer, 1801, 334 Eisteddfod, revived about 1788, 334
Elizabeth (Queen) and a well in Surrey, 334 Elbée family, arms of, 108, 213
Eleanor of Provence (Queen) and fine remitted, 334
Electro-plating, discoverers of, 297, 365, 459 Ellerman (C. F.), c. 1854, author, 452 Elliott and Parker families, 229
Ellison (Capt. Lieut. Thomas), Royal Reg. Artillery, 151
Ellops (or elops) and scorpion, Milton's use of the words, 150, 212
Elton (Edward), his book on the Ten Command- ments, 1624, 334 Embuss 1914, 246 Emerson (R. W.), quotation from essay of, 190 Emigrants, Highland transatlantic, list of, 417 England and France quarterly, 50, 74, 96, 138, 177,
and debuss," words used in war,
Death, that fell Kite, on Betty Pidgeon pounc'd, 168
Epitaphium cujusdam de numero annorum ejus, 334
Hereunder lyeth a man of fame, 137
Learne so to live by faith, as I have liv'd before, 334
Presbiter hic verus Huswyf jacet ecce Rogerus, 334
Esquire, title used by a clergyman, 1681, 334 Essex (Earl of), account of attack by, 1596, 293 Etonians, Old, 9, 29, 56, 69, 110, 151, 154, 169, 229, 235, 267, 452
Farthing stamps, c. 1880, 34, 93, 134, 176 Farquhar (G.), Scrub in his The Beaux Stratagem,' 149
Fat, human, as a medicine, 35, 438
Fauquier (H. T.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1840, 151, 215, 271, 367
Fawcett (Christopher), Recorder of Newcastle, his parentage, 380, 421
Fawcett (Rev. Joseph) of Walthamstow, 208, 269
Feld or Field families of Yorkshire, 434
Felix (Don), character in an old play, 320, 409 Ferrers (Sir Humphrey), Tamworth
Field, Day, Sumner, and Whitton families, 150 Field or Feld families of Yorkshire, 434 Fielding (Henry), geography of Tom Jones,' 12, 56, 60; and Sarah Andrew, 1725, 301 Fife, called the " Kingdom" of, 11 'Fight at Dame Europa's School,' pamphlet, 1871, 93
Film-producing companies, American, 321 Filtering stones brought from Barbados, 229, 310
"Fingers" of the clock, 188, 255 Fire and new-birth of seeds, 12
Fitzgerald (P.) on Dr. Johnson and Hannah More, 188, 235
Fitzroy (George), Duke of Northumberland, and his duchess, 134
Flabellum called culebath," 189
Flags: use of the white flag, 1444, 147; Red Cross flag, the right to use, 148, 191; French, and the Trinitarian Order, 167, 235; of the Knights of Malta, 359, 439, 481
"Flash" of the uniform of the Welsh Fusiliers, 324 Flemish immigrants, names of, before 1750, 451
Flynn (Lieut. C.), Royal Reg. Artillery, d. 1781,
Flynn family, Irish, the descent of, 305 Foley (Lord) and the first Earl of Mansfield, 399
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