Dying Jew's Legacy to his Daughter, poem, xii. 71
Ellen, Countess of Castle Howell (1794), ix. 450
Espion Anglois, 1779, i. 29, 78
Fashionable Cypriad, The, vii. 511 Forest (poem), xi. 452, 499 Fragments of Truth, 1852, xii. 90
Frederetta Romney, a novel, c. 1810, ii. 289 Gentleman's Calling, i. 198
Giovanni Sbogarro, viii. 268, 316 Golden Hills, xi. 233, 280
Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi in Hindustan, The, viii. 29
Grave that he Digged, xi. 312 Harry, ix. 529
Hints to Freshmen, v. 290 Historian (1857), ix. 450
Leah, the Jewish Maiden, novel, c. 1840, iii. 333
Legend of Cloth Fair, xii. 14
Letter to the Intelligencer, xii. 215, 379 Letter (a second) to the Intelligencer, xii. 215, 379
Letters from Galilee, viii. 391
Llewelyn, tale in four cantos, 1838, iv. 158 Llewelyn's Heir, 3 vols., 1846, iv. 158 Lover of his Country, xi. 233 Magical Note, 1809, i. 136
Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe, by X," 1895, iii. 230
Martin Toutrond, xii. 14, 59
Masonic Portraits, by J. G., 1876, i. 168 Meliora, viii. 30
Merchant of Venice, by "A Popular Novelist, 1913, iii. 230
Mimnermus in Church, ix. 311, 339 Miser Fairbrother's Daughter, x. 252 Moray, The Bonny Earl of, xi. 331 Nana; or Memoirs of a Welsh Heiress (1785), ix. 450
Neck or Nothing, viii. 509
New Bath Guide (Anstey, 1766), vi. 37 Newcastle Apothecary, A, ix. 491 Nocturnal Revels, vii. 511 Norman People, 1874, vi. 190 Norman People, x. 229
Numbers for the Sorrowful, poem, 1869, xii.
Perault; or, Slaves and their Masters, a story, 1843, iii. 333
Philander and Sacharissa, novel, 1724, i. 388 Piso's Conspiracy, v. 254, 299, 323 Pursuits of Agriculture: a Satirical Poem, xi. 331 Quærenda; or, Two Historical Secrets,
Quarters of the Army in Ireland, vii. 450 Reminscences of a Scottish Gentleman, 1861, iii. 30, 118
Rhymes from the Cobbler's Lapstone, 1886, vi. 272
Roman Catholic Clergy, The Frauds of the, ix. 491
Roy Modus et la Royne Racio, xii. 171 St. Patrick: by an Antiquary, Scottish novel, 1819, xii. 234
Sheridaniana, 1826, ii. 488
Sir Anthony and the Ewe Lamb, 1903, iii. 230
Society in London, ninth edition, 1886, iii. 360, 425
Soldier and a Scholar, poem, xii. 215, 259,
Wild Geese of Fountenoy, viii. 451, 499 Zoriada, 1786, iii. 5, 24, 40, 47, 60, 65 Ansell (George), b. c. 1731, his parents, xii. 231 Anson (Margaret), author of The Merry Order of St. Bridget,' ix. 111, 159
Anspach (The Margravine of), his private theatre at Brandenburgh Houses, xi. 329 Anstis (John), 1669-1744, Garter King-atArms, vii. 189, 234
Anstruther family and the 12th Regiment, viii.
Ant-bear, its indifference to hunger, v. 125, 193 Anthea as Christian name, xi. 512
Anthem, "Lord, for Thy tender mercy's sake," its author wanted, v. 291; vi. 23 Anthologia Græca,' Jonhson's translation, v. 10, 49 Anthony arms and ancestry, iv. 13, 110 Antiburschius," derivation of the word, vii. Antigua, condition of military burial-ground, x. Antigua Chronicle, xi. 157
Antiperistasis," use of the word. xii. 270
Arbor tristis = Arabian or night jasmine, Asia, iii. 386, 423
Arbuthnot (Robert), Auditor of the Exchequer, d. 1727, iv. 219
Archbishop of Canterbury buried at Hauterive, Switzerland, iii. 149, 312
Archdeacons as Presbyters, xi. 231
Archdeacons of Cleveland, complete list of, iii. 272, 344
Archer and Bowman, their use as surnames, i. 29; ii. 15, 135
Archer (Brother Jack), Masonic portrait, 1861, identity, iv. 77
Archer (John), m. 1686, ix. 68 Archer (Patrick), merchant of London Waterford, temp. Charles I., vii. 291 Archer family, British settlers in America, x. 368
Archery, the longest bowshot, v. 180, 220, 278
Argostoli, the seamills of," iii. 91, 151, 233 Argyles "gravy-pots, origin of name, v. 154, 219, 248, 326 Aristophanes, Droysen's German translation wanted, iv. 50 Aristotle, and the Dramatic Unities, i. 388; on the Greek temperament, iv. 302; V. 22; and Esoteric doctrine, xi. 88
Armageddon Chapel, Clifton, x. 109 Armorial book-stamp, vi. 230 Armorial bearings, effects of tax on, iv. 12, 79, 191
Armour, horsehair and small tin plates used as, viii. 294
Arms, Royal, a metrical description of, ii. 502; iii. 57, 94; suggested change in, 435 Arms, unidentified, ix. 330, 396, 437, 497; x. 130, 199, 236
Arms of Ellingham, viii. 391, 516
Arms of England and France, vii. 447; viii. 15 Armstrong (John), vicar of Tideham, 1845-1853, x. 257
Armstrong family, x. 48, 435
Army: ABC of regimental mottoes, xi. 61, 116, 235, 356 wing as badge of rank, 250, 298 Army and Navy, official scale of comparative rank in, vi. 273
Army: Royalist and Roundhead rates of pay, viii. 411; ix. 59; advantages granted to subalterns and soldiers engaged in Battle of Waterloo, 131
Army badges, viii. 170, 235
Army, British, the mascots of, i. 10, 58, 94, 139 Army casualties, official sources of information,
Army List, an early, xi. 104, 122, 193, 207, 239,
Army List, English, of 1740, ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 380, 391, 402, 431, 443, 460, 473, 482, 512, 524; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132, 190, 217, 234, 267, 304, 315, 339, 354, 408, 438; v. 270; vi. 17, 42, 70, 184, 223, 242, 290, 329; vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265, 308, 314, 327, 365, 423, 457; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185, 327, 405, 445; ix. 45, 125 Army Lists: 'A succession of Colonels,' ix. 209, 317 Army, Negro or coloured bandsmen in the, ii. 303, 378
Army officers c. 1780-1814, information wanted, iv. 302-1727-60, obituary list wanted, v. 273 Army slang. See Slang.
Arndell (Dr.), of Hobart, viii. 410; ix. 133 Arnold (Brig.-General), his burial place, vii. 168 Arnold. family of actors in eighteenth century, iv. 131
Arnold (Matthew) on Beethoven, iii. 508; iv. 84-" Anglo-Saxon Contagion," v. 38; proving
a negative, 38, 83-His reference to history the huge Mississippi of falsehood," x. 34, 119; his quotation from Erigena, 252-Refer- ence in his Essay on Milton,' xii. 414 Arnold (Mrs. ), afterwards Mrs. Tubbs, English actress in America, 1796, iv. 131 Arnold (Thomas), D.D., of Rugby: and America, ii. 208; and a Hebrew scholar, 229 Arnold (W. H.), author of The Devil's Bridge," &c., v. 126, 166
Arnott (Margaret)=William Nairne, vi. 274 Arran-Gore: Molyneux marriage, xi. 350 Arras, inscription over gate during siege of, ix. 441; Owen Roe O'Neill at, 487; inscription on headstone in Communal cemetery, 507- the so-called Spanish architecture of, x. 3 "the broad arrow Arrow, the King's mark, i. 206 "Arschine," etymology of, vii. 270, 315, 458, 492 Art of Book-keeping,' poem by Laman Blan- chard, iv. 17, 114
Art of Conversation," its author wanted, v. 267
Artemis Aphaia, epithet explained, iv. 70 Arthington (Henry), a prophet of Judgment," c. 1591, ii. 107
Ashton (Rev. Charles), master of Jesus College, Cambridge, 17-, ix. 170, 215
Ashwellthorpe Church, Norfolk, inscriptions in, x. 227
Ashworth (Rev. Alfred), of Hampstead, d. c. 1880, xii. 70, 139
Ashworth (George Leach), statue at Rochdale, iv. 70
Ashworth family, arms of, xii. 190, 255, 279, 315 Asiago, Vicenza, Italy, some customs, ii. 48, 134 Asiatic orpheus, An, xi. 513, 533; xii. 274
Askari, an East African levy, derivation of the word, iv. 240
Aske (Robert), haberdasher, of London, 1684, iii. 383 Aske family, ix. 89
Askell family, vii. 409, 513; viii. 75, 178 Askew (Anne), martyr, her descendants, i. 168 Asmodeus, use of name, viii. 251
Aspaltum Judaicum," bitumen, vii. 91 Assam, ancient history of, vii. 110; viii. 17 Assheton of Salford and William Penn, viii. 345
Assisi (Blessed William of), English Franciscan, c. 1232, ii. 50
"Assize" of bread. See Bread.
Assize, records of the Clerks of, vi. 328
Arthur (King), his spear called Ron, xii. 229 Arthurian Romance, Hrethel the Great, xii." Association books," use of the term, vii. 408, 327
Artillery, its early history, errors in Cleave- land's Notes,' iv. 239
Artist of Gloucester, of eighteenth century, xii.
Artists: biographical details, ix. 534; x. 9 Artists, European, in India, to 1850, iii. 415, 454
Artists of marine subjects, c. 1780, iii. 475 Artists in stained glass, eighteenth century, ii. 374; 1700-1900, iii. 299, 396 Arundel Club, x. 321
Arundel (Sir John) and Edward IV's expedition to France, xi. 270
'Arundines Cami' (comic), medley of English and Latin verses, i. 36, 76
Arymes Prydein Vawr,' Welsh poem, refer- ences to the Germans in, i. 446 'Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer,' biblio- graphy of, xii. 172
Ascension Day: Warwickshire custom, viii. 347 As dead as a doornail," its origin, v. 266, 303, 304
Asgill (Gen. Sir Charles), c. 1762-1823, his burial- place, xii. 451
Ash (Charles Bowker), minor poet, b. 1781, viii. 466, 471
Ash and the oak, weather rime, iv. 161, 229 Ashbee (H. S.) and Caliari's picture, ii. 69 Ashbee (Henry Spencer) =" Pisanus Fraxi," ix. 330
Ashbourne, Derbyshire, author of History and Topography,' iv. 218, 256, 283
Ashbourne: the Green Man Inn, viii. 29, 77, 113, 157, 176, 278, 498; the Talbot Inn, vii. 350, 438, 515; viii. 16
Ashburnham (G. H.), water-colour artist, ix. 490, 534
Ashburnham House, Dover Street, ix. 272 Ashby (Henry), artist, c. 1770-1840, iii. 333 Ashmolean Museum, building accounts of, 1678, xii. 183
Assumption of the Virgin.' See under National Gallery.
Astertion flowers-nasturtium, v. 267, 302 Astleham, Middlesex, information wanted, iv. 210
Astley (Sir John) and Edwards IV's expedition to France, xi. 269
Astley's and Sanger's circuses, ix. 329, 373, 393, 413
Aston (Francis) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's funeral, 1560, ii. 268, 373
Aston (Hervey), m. 1789, viii. 368 Astrologer, office of King's, vi. 313 Astronomical table, vi. 207; vii. 407 Astronomy at Oxford, Observatory begun, 1772, ii. 42
Atherstone (Edwin), his birthplace, vii. 12 Atherstone (Hugh), vii. 13
Atkinson (Rev. John), headmaster of Mill-Hill' School, 1807-10, vii. 47
Asylum for lunatics at Islington, c. 1850, i. 247, 339
"At or "in," use with place-names, x. 170, 234, 358 Athànree or Athanry, battle of, 1316, iv. 148 Atheist's Tragedy,' by Tourneur, its date, v. 228
Athelstan (King), grant to two Ryhopes, co.. Durham, 930, i. 49, 98, 153
Athens, Milton and Newman on, iv. 181 Atherstone (Edwin), 1788-1872, his birthplace, vi. 313
Atkins (Thomas), M.P. Norwich, 1639-40, iii. 149 Atkinson (James), medical officer in India, d. 1852, x. 289, 337
Atkinson (John[?]), his petition to Chancery, 1833, iii. 299
Atkinson (William), ix. 10
Atlas Newspaper, file of, for 1829, xii. 53 Atrobus (Bejamin), his birth and death. xii. 433
Atterbury (Francis), Bishop of Rochester, poems attributed to, x. 91
Atwood (George), of Westminster, d. 1807, xii. 452
Aubrey (Rev. Thomas), Rector of Brobury, his grave, v. 290
Aucher and Depedene families, x. 149 Auchmutz (Robert), American loyalist, tombstone, v. 236
Auction sales in 1714, viii. 10
Autumn, use of the word, ii. 287, 334, 414, 496 Autumn's glory, plant-name, iv. 104, 226 Auvergne (Jeanne d'), xi. 250
Avatar," pronunciation of the word, ix. 151,
Avebury (Lord), his burial-place, ix. 250, 377 Aveline (Mrs. E. L.), died c. 1850, xi. 232 his Avenell and Fennell families, xi. 48 Averno, Facilis descensus Averno,' xii. 372 Avery (Thomas Richard), of Boscastle, 1785, vii.
Audlem near Nantwich, connected with Alde- lima, v. 157
Augury from magpies in Shakespeare, v. 5, 116; vi. 3, 310
August Society of the Wanderers, x. 322 Augustine and the utterance of famous line in Terence, ix. 153
Aumbry, use of in English Cathedral, xii. 171,
Aural illusion, explanation wanted, iii. 297 Austen (Jane), her 'Persuasion,' i. 466
"" 'Horrid romances mentioned in her North- anger Abbey,' ii. 9, 56, 97; ix. 361-Places in her Pride and Prejudice,' iii. 358, 423; novel continuing her characters, 358, 423 Mrs. Dixon's wedding present, in Emma,' iv. 244; Mr. Churchill and his wife's funeral, in Emma,' 244, Richard' in Northanger Abbey,' vi. 273, 315-References wanted, x. 450 Query, xi. 67-Reference to "Emma and Henry in her Persuasion,' xii. 233 Austen-Leigh (Rev. Edward)" Sexagenarian," X. 437
"Auster," meaning of term, viii. 109, 192, 233, 516
Austerlitz and "The Table of the Marshals," xi. 349
'Aviatik," origin of the word, i. 370, 435; ii. 38
Aviation, project, in 1835, v. 58, 107; prophetic verses in eighteenth century, 64 Avignon Society, c. 1788, its history, iii. 475 Awdeley family of Kent, iii. 298 Axford (John), author of
Brought to Light,' viii. 410 Ayhoffe (Sir Joseph), his birth, c. 1709, xii. 451 Aylesbury (Sir Thomas), 1576-1657, his bio- graphy, xii. 414-Master of Requests, xii. 452 Aylesford, Countless Stones, bibliography wanted, v. 318
Ayliffe (John), referred to in Charles Churchill's Epistle to W. Hogarth,' xi. 87, 137, 157
Aymard (Abbot) and cheese, ix. 335 Ayr, the cloth industry, in the seventeenth cen- tury, ii. 227, 338
Ayres (Jane) and an Elizabethan shoe horn, viii. 168
Azincourt relics, ix. 430 Aztec calendar, ix. 212, 256
Austin (Joseph), actor (1735-1821), viii. 347, 418 B. A. and T. Fawcet, printers, viii. 293, 337 Austin or Austen (Mrs.), 1637, and Bp. Bowle's B. C.," a poet on cheese, xi. 290 death, iv. 240, 315
Australia, birds and flowers of, i. 90 Australia, introduction of rabbits into, x. 32 Australia: names of early Church of England chaplains, xi. 47, 95, 116
Australian bush, definition of the, vi. 230, 255,
Australian judicature, viii. 269 Australian memorial inscriptions, iii. 269, 330- St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, iv. 184-St. James's Church, Sydney, v. 174 Australian slang, specimens of, iii. 296, 400, 521 Austria, inquests in, xi. 289, 357 Austrian and German titles relinquished, vi. 248, 340
Austrian hunting-horn, x. 390
Austrian money from London mint for Abyssinia, v. 12
Austrian princes fallen in the War, 1916, ii. 428 Austrian titles relinquished, vii. 32
Auterac (Joseph), Westminster scholar, x. 110 Authors, British, foreign graves of, ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495; iii. 39, 59, 96, 114, 176, 238, 277. 392, 460
Authors paid for corrections and improvements of their works, c. 1750, i. 125
Autolycus, picture of, the actor and artist, xii.
Automata: exhibitions in London, x. 269, 331, 396; see also under Games-Chess. Automobile, an early, vi. 187
Backgammon, Russian, ix. 309 'Backsyfore," use of word, xi. 108, 176 Bacon (Anthony) of Cyfartha, 1777, his pedigree, iii. 210, 315
Bacon (Charles, John and William), West- minster scholars, x. 331
Bacon (Francis), erroneously, called "Lord Bacon." i. 487; ii. 15; sentencing a pickpocket, 1612, 25; his 'Histoire Naturelle,' 1631, 49; Miniature by Hilliard, iv. 131; his use of the proverb about Mohammed and the mountain, 325
Bacon (Sir Francis) and Sir Francis Godolphin, vi. 312 Bacon (Roger) and a wall of brass round Eng- land," vi. 228, 297
Bacon family, xi. 312, 494
Badams (Dr.), vii. 350
Ballad, its position in Shakespeare's plays, iv. 40. See also Songs and Ballads.
Baddeley Twelfth Night cake at Drury Lane, Ballantine (Mr. Serjeant William), his defence print, 1827, i. 1, 21, 146
Baddeley's Bath Journal, xi. 108 Baden in Switzerland, vi. 292, 342
Badge, official: indentification, xi. 49; xii. 111, 154
Badge of the Earls of Warwick, the colours of, ii. 49, 95, 134
Badges, description and indentification of, ii.
"Men of Kent," and Invicta on, iii. 477; of the Northumber- land Fusiliers, 509 Badges, Royal, lions and eagles, xii. 32, 74, 139 Badham (C.), M.D., F.R.S., of Glasgow Uni- versity, i. 428
Badulla, Ceylon, tombstone at, v. 37, 78, 167 Baerle (Gaspard van), Dutch poet, vii. 431, 513 Bagnal family, its history, v. 176 Bagot (Chester) and Westminster School, vii.
Baker (Bridget), wife of Rev. G. Baker of Devon, vii. 408
Baker (George G.), translator of Livy, informa- tion wanted, iv. 78.
Baker (Sir John), Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Henry VIII, ii. 449 Baker (Maj.), Governor of Derry, viii. 431 Baker's Chop-House, London landmark, its history, i. 34, 52
Bakyrsaxther (Keare), 1390-91, his name, iv. 242 Balchin (Admiral Sir J.), 1669-1744, his parent- age, i. 350
Balderdash, origin of the word, vi. 111; vii. 148 Baldock (John), 1654, confession of murder, vii. 127
Baldwin (Charles) and The Standard,' i. 341, 363, 381
Baldwin (Francis), author, 1564, iii. 90, 156 Baldwin (George Dimsdale), Westminster scholar, x. 331
Bâle, English prelates at the Council of, ii. 28, 74, 111; iii. 153
Balham Hall, Surrey, its history, iii. 478
Ball and Paleologus families and Barbados, xi. 30, 74 Ball games. See Games.
of the Guicowar of Baroda in 1875, vii. 348, 436,.514 Ballard (John and Martin), Westminster scholars, 1775, vii. 490
Balleny Island, origin of the place-name, iii. 149, 253
Balmoral, St. Swithin ceremony at, iv. 43 Balmain (James) of Lauriston, d. 1789, viii. 390 Balsam of Ferrabas, xi. 470 Baltimore (Calverts, Lords), their number and history, iv. 76, 142, 196
Balvaird (Lord), 1643, xi. 529; xii. 57 Baluchistan, Pathans of, their origin, vi. 334 Balzac (Honoré de), Countess Hanska's letters inquired for, iv. 327; ix. 313
Bambino," wax figure, information wanted, v. 207
Bambridge (John), M.D., physician and astro- nomer, 1582-1643, ii. 41 Bambridge (Mrs. Mary), of Oxford, her will, 1646, ii. 41
Bambridge family, ii. 41, 108
Banbury the Globe Room, x. 226 Banbury: To Banbury came I, O profane one,
Banbury (Earl of), and the Duke of Wellington, Banca Romana of Rome, whereabouts of, xii. Bancroft (Richard), Arcbishop of Canterbury, "Banded binding," bookbinders' use of the word, ii. 347
Bandello in Spanish, printed 1584, i. 468 Bandsmen, Negro or coloured, in the Army, ii. Bangor wills before 1635, information wanted,
Bank of England: letter relating to, 1695, iii. 355; its nickname, v. 238; Governors, xi. 310, Bank note slang, v. 309; vi. 51, 159 355, 458 Bank notes, private, viii. 227 Bankes (Rev. Thomas), his
Banner of the Resurrection, Genoese flag, iv. 160 System of Uni- versal Geography,' xi. 191 Bannerman, Turing. West, and De Morgan families, iii. 358, 455
Bannister (Anthony), his statue, at Hull, v. 147 Bannister (John), comedian, xi. 370, 436 Bannister (John W.), " Settler," his biography, xii. 92, 138, 219
Bannister family of Antigua, information wanted, v. 152 Banns-cum-marriage registers, viii. 368 Banquo, surname, viii. 308, 354, 495; ix. 16 Baptism, 1644, new fashion," i. 50, 95 Baptism of infant on its mother's coffin, ix. 134, 178
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