Hicks (Alderman John), his MS. History of St. Ives, viii. 489
Hicks (Mrs. Mary), witch of Huntingdonshire, c. 1716, ii. 521; iii. 177, 284
Hicks family of Kilmacanogue, Co. Wexford, ix. 311
Hicks's MS. history of St. Ives, Cornwall, ix. 16 Higgins (Bobus), Sausage-maker on the great scale," ix. 112, 159, 239 High Constable, vii. 349, 399 Higham Hall, Walthamstow, its history, v. 287 Highgate. See Place-Names.
Hilcock or Heacock of Wiltshire, vii. 312 Hildersam (Arthur), of Ashby-de-la Zouch, his will, 1632, xii. 211
Hill (Mr.) On a Day of Thanksgiveing for ye Victory at Naseby, vi. 222, 280 Hill (Joseph), friend of Cowper, v. 258 Hill (Rev. Rowland), buried in Surrey Chapel, 1833, i. 189, 273, 336; his MS. diary, 1773-6,
Hincks and Foulkes families, vi. 229, 321 Hinds (John), 68th Foot, xi. 471. 517 Hindustani grammar by Adam Durnford Gor- don, ix. 128
Hints to Freshmen in the University of Ox- ford,' author, v. 290
Hirsch (Rabbi Samuel) and Prussian tyranny, 1848, i. 88
"His Excellency," title as applied to British subjects, vi. 130; viii. 110
Historia Oppidi Hatfieldiensis,' x. 209 Historian, The,' 1857, ix. 450
Historical inaccuracies, vi. 166 Histories of Irish counties and towns, biblio- graphy of, i. 422; ii. 22, 141, 246, 286, 406, 445, 522; iii. 336
History of England, Jewish, published 1821, i. 169, 220
History of England with riming verses, ii. 529 History " the vast Mississippi of falsehood," x. 34, 119 Hitch and Bettesworth families, xi. 303 Hitchman (Dr. John), memorial to, at Leaming- ton, v. 147
Hitchman, Henchman, or Hinchman family, ii. 270, 338; iii. 111; iv. 24, 304, 340; v. 133 Hitchon (Lawrence), his petition to Chancery.
Hoare (Samuel Williams), Westminster scholar, xi. 512
Hoastmen. See Company of Hoastmen. Hoather, surname, vii. 331, 396 Hoaxes, literary, vii. 8, 53, 116
Hobbs (A. E.), Chubb and Bramah locks picked by, vi. 130, 176, 197
Hobler (Francis), clerk to the Lord Mayor, allusion to in "Sketches by Boz,' xi. 27, 111, 113
Hoby (Sir Edward) = Elizabeth Poulett, c. 1600, Hockley family of Hampshire, ix. 30, 152, 198 i. 310, 418
Hocus Pocus' first published, 1651, vi. 41, 157 Hodges (Charles Howard), engraver, his sig- Hodges (George), Westminster Scholar, c. 1736, i. 11, 94
Hodges (Luke), M.P. for Bristol, 1645-6, iii. 129 Hodges family, vii. 249, 337
Hodgetts (Thomas), engraver, c. 1810, i. 227 Hodgkin (J. Eliot), alchemical MS. belonging to, viii. 49
Hodgson family, vii. 189
Hodgson family, glass-painters of York, x. 44 Hodman," use of the word, vii. 126 Hogarth (William), 1697-1764, contemporary "Hoe" cake, derivation of name, viii. 236 Italian admirer of, i. 8; his picture of Calais city gates, iii. 30; and the ticket for Field- ing's Pasquin,' 181
Hogarth miniature frames, viii. 210, 259
Hogle Grodeles,' nature of malady, viii. 148 Hog's Norton, place-name, xi. 531 Hogsflesh surname, vii. 176, 213 Holborn: demolition of the Middle Row, x. 94, 239, 318
Holcroft (Thomas), 1745-1809: two letters by, 1796, i. 64; his descendants, 168, 412; anec- dotes in the 'Memoirs,' 188; and the biography of Napoleon, 1814, ii. 24, 118 Holden (Roger), monk of Whalley Abbey, 1515, iv. 73
Holden (Samuel and Jane), benefactors of Harvard College, c. 1740, xii. 31
Holder (Anthony) of Winterbourne, co. Glouces- ter, vii. 510
Holder (William), Westminster scholar, 1733, viii. 90, 137
Holderness, derivation of name, x. 370
Holford -), Journal of his travels, 1781, iii. 331
Holinshed's Chronicles,' meaning of reference,
Holland (Thomas) of Amesbury, d. 1730, ix. 430 Holland family of Denton, xi. 452, 495 Holland family of Lancashire, ix. 109 Holles (John), Earl of Clare, payments for peerages, iv. 85
Hollingbery (Charles), Westminster scholar, 1826, viii. 109
Hollingworth (Frederick), Westminster scholar, 1745, viii. 131 Hollingworth 1747, viii. 131
(John), Westminster scholar, Holloway (Thomas), pill-maker, xi. 192, 254 Holloway (William), author of The Peasant's Fate,' 1802, ii. 8, 156
Holly, its connection with mirth, v. 319; vi. Hopkins (Edward), M.P. for Coventry, c. 1701, 21, 52
Holme (Thomas) and Edward IV's expedition to France, xi. 309
Holmes (Emra), x. 131; xii. 238 Holmes family of Devonshire, vi. 37 Holmes family of co. Limerick, ii. 90 Holofernes, the original of, i. 323 Holroyd (John Baker), 1st Earl of Sheffield, an autograph letter of, 1793, iii. 201 Holt (Emily S.), "Hermentrude," her collection of pedigrees, i. 127
Holt (Mrs.), her Isoult Barry of Wynscote.' x. 93, 139
Holy Alliance, the treaty document, xi. 129,
Holy History, The,' by Nicholas Tabon, 1657, vi. 89
Holy Roman Empire, Counts of the. See Counts of the Holy Roman Empire.
Holywood. See Bosco.
Home and Foreign Review, x. 493 Home, family of, Foulshotlaw, v. 10 Hondschoote,
monument to commemorate French victory in 1793, xi, 128 Honest " epitaphs, ix. 76 "Honest Injun," origin of the expression, i. 389, 458, 517; ii. 157
Honeymoon," origin of the expression, xii.
Hooke (Dr. Robert), his drawings after the Fire of London, iv. 241
Hooker (Richard), a bust of, its location, v. 152, 306
Hoole (John), poet, his pedigree, v. 327 Hoorde (William), Winchester scholar, his history, v. 179, 241
Hoorde (William), Westminster scholar, vi. 47 Hopcroft: Brown: Belligues, vi. 11
Hope (Adrian), the painting of his family,' c. 1802, xi. 311
Hopkins (Elizabeth), b. 1761, British heroine in the American War, ii. 121; her third husband, c. 1780, iii. 147
Hopkins (Stephen), priest of East and West Wrotham, Norfolk, v. 292; vi. 78 Hop-picking songs, viii. 511
Hoppner (John), his grave, x. 288
Hop-scotch," derivation of word, ix. 470; x. 15 Hopwood (Robert), d. 1853, vii. 88 Hopwood family, vii. 88
Horace, Stevenson's slip in, xii. 109 Hore, of Bath, artist, work by, v. 208
Horn Cross " close, applied to ecclesiastical boundaries, i. 368
Hornbrook in brass, 1720, iv. 47
Hornbrook (T. L.), marine artist, c. 1834, iii.
Horne (R. H.), illustrations in his History of Napoleon,' 1841, xii. 252, 474
Horneck (Capt. Kane W.), his death, c. 1755, i. 209, 278
Horner (Mr.), builder of the Colloseum in Regents Park in 1824, xi. 28, 73, 111
Horner (Sir John) and the Jack Horner' nursery rime, iii. 524
Horngarth," origin of custom, xi. 331, 379 Horns, devils blowing, representations of, iv.. 134, 201, 308 v. 48, 186
Horrocks family of Toxteth Park, vii. 466 Horse Guards buildings, demolition of, vii. 232,
Horse Guards. See Royal Horse Guards. Horse washed with rice, versions of story, i. 289; magnifying power of its eyes, 509; Wetting its head," an old custom, xii. 63, 152; white, of Kent, and other parts, its Horse-blocks, vii. 7, 38; in Waterloo Place, symbolism, iv. 245, 312; v. 25 Horse-chestnut, the horseshoe mark on its inscriptions on, xii. 310
branches, ii. 172, 237, 294
Horsehair armour, Spanish, viii. 294
Horseleperde," meaning of the word, v. 320;- viii. 34
Horse-racing: stable terms, x. 286 Horse-riding records, viii. 509; ix. 32, 56, 73, 99, 235
Horses, cream-coloured, viii. 338, 396; wild, 511; ix. 159; historical, their colour, xii. 71, 115, 179, 197, 259; sayings on colours of, xi. 169, 212, 357, 416
Horsfall (Bishop), information wanted, iv. 330 Horsfall (James), F.R.S., information wanted, iv. 330
Hoskins (John) and Samuel Cooper, ix. 1 Hosier (Admiral), his family. vii. 248 Hoste (Capt. W.) of H.M.S. Bacchante, c. 1812, iii. 328, 363, 450, 483
Hotel Bristol in Calcutta, v. 25 Hotels Bristol, why so called, iv. 272, 310 Hotel dinner bills, two, 1715, iii. 228 Hotten (J. C.), illustrations to his edition of 'German Popular Stories,' 1848, i. 208, 315 Hotten (John Camden), his publications, iii. /30 Houghton (Richard) in the Tower of London, xi. 369; xii. 118
Houghton Meeting at Newmarket, origin of name, v. 154, 250 House and garden superstitions, ii. 89, 138, 159, 214, 419.
House-bells, introduction of, ix. 190, 236
House of, publishers' method of describing themselves, iii. 331, 402
House of Commons, Fathers of, 1654-1868, vii. 272, 317; 1901-1920, 192, 271
House of Lords, Gentleman Ushers of the Black Rod, 1591-1877, vii. 429, 494 House of Lords: "Thank God, there is a House
House, new, risks of entering, in India, ii. 509;
House, Roman, at Wemberham, Somerset, xii. Houses of historical interest, iii. 315, 414, 432 Houses, log, in British Isles, vi. 48
"How not to do it," origin of the phrase, i. 508; ii. 17
"How to be Happy Though married," first use of title, viii. 368
Howard the philanthropist, portraits of, v. 222. Howard (Mr.) of Knaresford, pedestrian per- formance in 1818, viii. 428
Howard (Mr.), portrait by G. H. Harlow, iv. 18; v. 222
Howard (John), the philanthropist, portraits of, viii. 169, 216
Howard (Thomas), Earl of Arundel, portraits by Van Dyck and others, iv. 101 Howarth (Henry), advocate, d. 1783, x. 228, 258, 354
Howlers," use of expression, viii. 449; ix. 56 Howley (William), Archbishop of Canterbury, 1828-48, and the conundrum I sit on rock," xii. 53
Hoxton local magazine, vii. 4
Hoxton Sausage and Jerry-Wags Journal,' vii. 4
Hoyle (Alderman Thomas), M.P. York city, 1640, iii. 91, 157, 318 Hoyta (Henricus de), his Tractatus de Con- tractibus,' v. 265, 298
Hrethel the Great in Arthurian romance, xii. 327
Hubback (Mrs.), of Aberystwyth, xi. 171, 216 Hubert de Rie and Fulbert of Dover, x. 388, 436, 475
Hubert (Robert), alias Forges, Gent., collector of rarities,' c. 1665, iii. 479 Huddlings, a game, viii. 59
Hudson (James), his position at Court, 1832, ii. 29, 94
Hudson family, x. 391, 438
Humble," pronunciation of, vii. 170, 195, 237, 277, 318, 374
Hume (David), his 'Philosophical Essays,' viii. 248
Hume (Dr.), the guardian of Shelley's children, xii. 109, 156
Hume (Donald, John Lloyd and Richard), West- minster scholars, xi. 471
"Hume (Joseph) of Dorsetshire," viii. 350 Hume (Tobias), his First Part of Ayres French Polish and Others,' x. 31, 76
Hummel (F. L.), musician, and the Honble.. Miss Gordon, xii. 171, 217 Humphreys (David), 1752-1818,
humorist and lyricist, vi. 149, 198, 217, 281 Hundred Courts, powers of, xi. 101 Hundreds, boundaries of, xii. 310 Hundredth Psalm gaelic versions, vii. 408;: viii. 233
Hungarian tourney, information about, xii. 311 Hungary, Oliver Cromwell on, ix. 310, 358 Hungary Hill, Stourbridge, origin of the name, ii. 430, 517
Hungary water," x. 409, 476; xi. 14, 15, Hunger in place-names, xi. 511; xii. 18, 58,.
Hunger stone' in the Rhine, ix. 511 Hruger strike in 1669, vi. 249, 300; century, viii. 293, 354, 398
Hunn (Mrs.), mother of George Canning, ix. 370
Huns, Germans so called, first use of the term, iii. 383, 427; vii. 330, 375, 438, 492; viii. 35
Hudson's Bay Company, its motto, v. 93, 132, Hunt (Fredk. K.) "Student at Law" his bio--
Hunting (Elizabeth) Timothy Constable, c 1736, 1. 128 Hunting pictures, seventeenth-century painters, ix. 352, 392 Huntingdon (Elizabeth, Countess of) and Dr J. Donne, c. 1620, i. 227, 353; use of chapels. i. 247, 394; date of collection of hymns, 247 352; author of her Life and Times,' iv. 131, Huntingdonshire almanacs from 1782, i. 5; book- sellers and printers, iv. 125, 153; Civil War tracts, i. 86, 105; Feasts in London, c. 1678, ii. 61
Hussey (Thomas), M.P. for Whitchurch 1645-53, ii. 88, 135, 158
Hussey (Thomas) = Elizabeth Ann Palmer, c. 1820, xii. 233
Hutchins (John), Dorset historian, c. 1743, xii. 150
Hutchinson (Edith M.), singer, dates of birth and death, xi. 331
Hutchinson (Col. John), the regicide, portrait of, ix. 130
Hutchinson (Mrs. Lucy), her biography, vi. 251 Hutchinson (Rev. R.), Rector of Church Law- ford, iv. 242, 334
Hutchinson family, early descents, iv. 106, 255 Hutton (Richard and Charity), c. 1721, their parentage, vi. 10
Huxley (Thomas) on St. Thomas Aquinas, vi.
Hymns medieval, attributed to St. Thomas à Becket, ii. 228, 271; "Adeste Fideles," its origin, vi. 23, 73, 119; "Heart of Christ! O cup most golden,' ix. 19; "Holy Father, in Thy mercy," its author, iv. 85; Just for To-day," x. 94, 159, 298; from Sarum Missal, Zyma vetus expurgetur, i. 229, 296, 337 Hymn-tunes Lydia," i. 309, 377, 434, 495; Presburg,' origin of the name, i. 409, 513;
"I don't think," use of the phrase, 1862, ii. 487 "I. F. C.," initials on Armada fireback, 1588. xii. 70
I," substitution for "a," ix. 77 Ibarra (Joachim), 1725-85, Spanish printer, ii. Ibbetson, Ibberson or Ibbeson, meaning of the 171, 253
surname, ii. 110, 198, 294 Ibsen (Henrik), his Chamberlain, ii. 469, 536 Icarus, a French, in London, 1751, xii. 449 Iceland, Finland, Scandinavia, English books Ice-worm, description of, vii. 430 Ichwe: Sons of Ichwe," meaning of, iv. 216; Icke family, derivation of its name, iv. 106, 226, v. 48
Ghosts,' and the Lord
Idioms, Hebrew and English, viii. 512 "If I should die to-night," authorship debated, v. 318; ix. 318
Illusion, auditory, explanation desired, iii. 297 'Illy," American use of word, viii. 449; ix. 97, 136, 218
Imlay (Gilbert), family records, ix. 448; published letter of, 488; and Henry Lee, x. Immortality, views of S. T. Coleridge, v. 39 128; and Mary Wollstonecraft, xii. 511 Immurement, bibliography of medieval, v. vi. 48 Imp " of Lincoln Cathedral, iv. 34 Impecuniosus," writer on sport, x. 390 Impey (J.), Westminster scholar, 1809, xii. 71 Imrapen: Baden in Swtzerland, vi. 292, 342 Imray (James), his nautical academy, vii. 510 in Bisset's MS. Rolment of Courtis,' vi. 14, 234
at," use with place-names, x. 170 "In commendam," origin of the phrase, c. 1658, iii. 29
'In Flander's Fields,' poems, v. 317 Inaccuracies, historical, vi, 166 Incense, post-reformation use of, viii. 29, 72, 115, 178 Inchbald (Mrs. E.), her A Simple Story,' 1791, i. 408, 456
Income tax, exemption for Brighton, viii. 293, Incumbents and patrons of Bredwardine and 337; exemption of priests from, i. 348, 400 Brobury, v. 200; indexes of, 153, 245 Incunabula in Irish libraries, ii. 247, 288 Indentures, Sir J. G. Frazer's view, and the origin of, v. 148, 211
Hyphen, the neglect of, in printed English, i." Index Ecclesiasticus, 1550-1800" of Joseph
India, Hindu magic square, 11th century, iii. 383, 424, 454, 517; European artists in, to 1850, 415, 454; and Italy in the fifteenth century, vi. 168
"Indian grass," substitute for horsehair for fishing lines, viii. 190
"Indian kings, four," entertainments to, in London, 1710, ii. 304, 397
Indian mounds, U.S.A., origin and purpose of, iii. 90, 154, 372, 431
Infant school, St. Paul's, in 1729, iv, 47
Influenza," use of the word, 1775, ii. 328, 457 Influenza and colds, germs brought to islanders, ii. 468
Ingelow (Jean), "Lindis in High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,' iv. 85; her verses "When sparrows build," 270, 310
Ingham (Benjamin), his sect, iv. 9; journal wanted, 131
Ingham (Sir James), chief magistrate, Bow Street, 1875, viii. 449
Inghamites, religious sect, their history, iv. 9 Ingleby (Edward), his descendants, v. 40 Inglis (Frances Erskine), wife of Angel
Calderon de la Barca, x. 250, 339 Inglish family, glass-painters of York, viii. 323 Ingoldsby Legends,' reference in, to Lyon Levi's suicide from the Monument, viii. 392, 434, 473; suggested annotation of, ix. 97, 158, 238; x. 33, 99, 177
Ingram-Shepherd (Hon. Francis), b. 1761, ix. 49, 97
Ingrassias (Giovanni Filippo) and the word. stapes," xi. 198
Inishglara, "antiseptic island," x. 489
Inman collection of Indian antiques, xi. 211 Innocent X., medal, Innocentius X. Pon. Max. an. III.," 1647, iv. 216
Inn signs, vi. 226, 310, 342
Innholders, London, of 1613, 1632, 1679 and 1709, vi. 186, 235, 284
Inns Dolphin (Ludgate Hill), viii. 228, 313; London coaching and carriers inns in 1732, viii. 61, 84, 102; Furnival's, records of, xii. 170; London eighteenth century, vi. 29, 59, 84, 105, 125, 143, 162, 213, 258; vii. 27, 67, 97, 103, 145, 157, 255; naming of public rooms in, ix. 189, 231, 255, 274, 318, 377, 455; x. 178; with interesting associations, in use, 1917, iii. 134, 169, 257, 314, 370, 432
Inns of Court in Elizabeth's reign, vi. 252, 298; the Candlemas revels at, ix. 509 Innsbruck, statues in the Franziskaner-Kirche, vii. 251
"Innumerous," use of the word, ix. 69 Innys collection of maps, viii. 151
425; ii. 47; at Poltimore almshouse, Exeter, 71, 116; on brass plate, Newland Church, 90, 138; Hebrew, at Sheepshed, Leicestershire, 109, 195; in the parish church, St. Mary, Battersea, 125, 145; in churchyard of St. Newlyn East, Cornwall, 228, 317, 418; on Communion table, 1617, 250; in Tower of London, John Prine, 1568," 390, 516; in the burial-ground of Chapel Royal, Savoy, 425, 498; to William of Orange, iii. 29, 78; in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, 183, 254; Gotlestmirde on. still. stan.," on old davenport, 230; relating to Durham, 250; Australian memorial inscriptions, 269, 330; Hampton Court abbreviated inscriptions, 383, 426; in the churchyard of St. Saviour's, Southwark, iv. 42; in chapel at Gip- ping, 132; Neale and Dutton families,
at Cheam, 159; in St. Paul's Church, Deptford, 180; in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, 184; Dutch, on old davenport, 197; on Berkshire tombstones, v. 182; on Jenner statue at Boulogne, 288; on Louis XVIII. monument at Calais, 288; in Marylebone Burial Ground, list wanted, 236; in St. James's Church, Sydney, 174; in St. John the Evangelist's, Waterloo Road, 63, 135, 193, 216; on Edna Lyall's grave, 94; on tombstone in Malvern Priory, 266, 305; at Cassel (Nord), vi. 255; xi. 142; in City churches, vi. 294, 323, 338; Gallician, 166; at St. Omer, 145; on stone at Healey Hall, Rochdale, 38; in City churches, vii. 15; in old house at St. Albans, viii. 468; on Phaestos Disk, 151, 237, 275; No Jews-Lord Egmont for ever » (on claret-jug), 211, 257; "Ivalid Office, White- hall, 130; at Arras, ix. 441, 507-St. Omer, 391; on Chinese vase, 409, 452; in Eskdale Church- yard, 428-St. Nicholas Churchyard, Deptford, 3, 22, 58; in courtyard at James Fort, Accra, x. 245; Ashwellthorpe Church, Norfolk, 227; Bedford churches, chapels and burial- grounds, 325, 365, 405, 447, 484; on an Icon, 33, 117; over entrance of the Lazenki Palace, Warsaw, 151, 254; on Irishman's tomb on frontier of Afghanistan, 347; Bedford: churches, chapels and burial-grounds, xi. 43, 84, 125-Boulogne-sur-Mer, 184, 227, 326- and epitaphs, appropriate, 68, 137, 176; on a Quaich, 31, 78, 237; on English graves, Iquique, xii. 27, 88; Kia tau te Marie," 233, 275; in Winwick Church, 512
Instruments, surgical, from ancient Etruria, i. 15
Insurance companies, London: bibliography, vii. 388, 437
'Intermédiaire,' notes from, i. 80; ii. 220
Inoculation, an advocate of in 1799, xii. 413, Interment in other families' graves, v. 121 455, 517
Inquests in Austria, xi. 289, 357
Inquisitions, post mortem, in the 16th century, xii. 30, 75
International law, bibliography of, vi. 228, 299 Intue," use of word, x. 410, 474 Invention of the Holy Cross, feast of the, vi. Inventory of goods, 1620, words occurring in, ii. 430, 516; of a house in Warwickshire, 1559, ii. 501
Inscriptions to Baron Westbury, i. 10, 18, 95; in the churchyard, St. Mary's, Lambeth (corrigendum, 60); PRSVRY, &c., 96; in St. John's Church, St. John's Wood Road, 145," 204, 306; on Venetian coins, c. 1450, 328; on church bell, Farnham Dorset, 389, 420, 436; monumental, of Owen Brigstocke, 408; monu- mental, and heraldry in Salisbury Cathedral,
Invicta," history of the motto. iii. 477; iv. 29 Ion, origin of the surname, i. 207, 273 Iona, etymology of place-name, v. 40 Ipswich School, its history, before 1800, xii. 230, 275, 355, 396
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