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Apsley House, date of its purchase, 486

Arabian horses in pre-Mohammedan days, 71
Arabis, flower-name, its derivation, 11, 279
Aram (Eugene), his trial, 105, 279, 319

Aravamuthan (T. G.) on 'Pride and Prejudice,' 147
Arcangelus (D. Camerino,) painter, 517

Archæology, excavations in the Sudan, 108, 235
Archdeacons of Hereford, c. 1567, 128, 255
Archer (H. G.) on Alfieri in England, 421

Archibald (R. C.) on Col. T. Condon: Capt. T.

Mellish, 127

Ladies and University degrees, 247
Architecture and eminent men, 342, 398

Ardea on battle of Dunbar, 301

Audley (Sir Henry). Sec Dudley.

Austen (Canon G.) on St. Hilda: St. John del
Pyke, 467

Austen (Jane), calendar mistake in Pride and
Prejudice,' 147, 434, 477; cause of her death,
348, 397, 438

Austin (H. D.) on Artephius, De Characteribus
Planetarum,' 407

Austin (Roland) on Sir Robert Atkyns, 474
Katherine Parr (Queen), 359
Municipal records printed, 451
Prinknash, 313

Windsor stationmaster, 114

Avenger, H.M.S., lost 1847, its crew, 130, 239, 294
Average, etymology of the word, 106, 235

Aviation, early attempts at, 166; deaths of
pioneer airmen, 385, 437

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Axon (W. E. A.) on Amulet against Sickness,' 521
Bookbinding, first English book on, 403

De Quincey and Coleridge, 228
Gutenberg's 42-line Bible, 355

Sare (Richard), bookseller, 84

Shorthand teacher in A.D. 155, 285

Shropshire newspaper printed in London, 26
Twin-Brothers,' 247

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Traherne: curious rimes to "
Wordsworth: variant readings, 294

B. (E. A.) on The Buccaneer,' 308

'Arden of Feversham,' emendations in, 226, 337, B. (E. G.) on sparrow-blasted, 392

417

Aristophanes, music to, in Greek MS., 7, 76
Arkle (A. H.) on Egerton Leigh, 114, 236

Arlette and Robert, Duke of Normandy, 347,
396, 495

Armada, Sir A. Standen on its preparation, 33
Armour, parish, temp. Elizabeth, 130, 176, 258
Arms granted by Commonwealth, 8, 119
Arms of women on their marriage, 109, 175
Arms, royal, in churches, their history, 428, 513
Armstrong (E. A.) on Hyde Park monolith, 408

Arno Miscellany,' 1784, its author, 148, 234, 293
Arnold (Matthew) on 19th-century eloquence;
229, 318, 376, 438

Artephius, De Characteribus Planetarum,' 407
Artibeus, etymology of the word, 447

Arundel (Earl of), brother and uncle arrested,
1585, 208, 251

Ashton (James), Westminster scholar, 1739, 449
Asparagus =sparrowgrass, its etymology, 266

Astarte on corpse bleeding in presence of the
murderer, 328

"Storm in a teacup," 131

Astley (Sir Jacob), Royalist, his portrait, 307
Astrology and Queen Elizabeth, 107, 197, 359

Atkinson (E.) on Corio arms, 89

Atkyns (Sir Robert), K.B., his marriage, 429, 474

Attár on

Fern to make malt," 279

B. (G. D.) on genealogical puzzle, 28
B. (G. F. R.) on William Aislabie, 429
Aldrich (Henry), 368

Allen (Fifield), 449
Altham (James), 429
Ashton (James), 449

Atkyns (Sir Robert), K.B., 429

Barwell (Richard), 368

Bisset (William), 409

Botany time of flowers blooming, 78

Cade (Salusbury), M.D., 469

Clarkson, 170

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Goodchild (J.), 409

Goodwin (John), 409

Gordons at Westminster School, 389
Goulands in Ben Jonson, 533

Hare (Thomas), 509

Jamineau (Isaac), 509
Leigh (Egerton), 68, 178
Liardet, 49

Man (George), 49
Neale (Erskine), 170
Nicholls (Frank), 190
Peck (Francis), 68
Pelling (Edward), 170
Pickering (Danby), 230
Potter (Charles), 230
Thacker (Gilbert), 49

Thames Water Company, 91

Thomson, R.A., 114

Trelawny (Sir William), 449

Vernon (Dorothy), her elopement, 497

Warmestry (Gervase), 109

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 88
Wilson (Bernard or Barnard), 109
Wilson (Sir John), 88
Worthen (John), 88

B. (H.) on Erlkönigs Tochter,' 89

B. (H. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 449
Colani and the Reformation, 488

B. (H. I.) on Edward - Iorwerth, 35

Holy crows, Lisbon, 155

Myddelton: Dref: Plas, 131
Traherne (Philip), 383

B. (J.) on saint's cloak on a sunbeam, 357

B. (J. B.) on St. Catharine's College, Cambridge,
308

B. (J. E. C.) on oatcake and whisky as Eucharistic
elements, 278

B. (M. W.) on Doge's hat, 8

B. (R.) on Amaneuus as a Christian name, 88
Anonymous works, 238

Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198

Day with Cromwell,' 189

Mensen the courier, 246
Obvention bread, 148

Rupert (Prince), 56

Usona=U.S.A., 197

B-r (R.) on American words and phrases, 132

Cowes family, 58

Teart, its meaning, 59

Tenement-house, 495

B. (R. S.) on John Latham, 209

Municipal records printed, 532

Pelf, its early meanings, 286
Prior's Salford Church, 9

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434

B. (R. W.) on Gulston Addison's death, 210, 289

B. (S.) on Bath and Henrietta Maria, 198

Limerick glove in a walnut shell, 297

401

Fea (James), Orkney author, 458
Friendless Wapentake in Craven, 89
George I. statues, 135

Goats and cows, 534

Hay, wet, 535

Heworth, its etymology, 75
Horses' names: ancient, 283

Horses' names: modern, 124

Kipling and the swastika, 338

Lecturage, use of the word, 266

Pitfield (Rev. Sebastian), his ghost, 510
Portygne, its meaning, 138

St. Leodegarius and St. Leger Stakes, 112
Sare (Richard), bookseller, 137
Scissors and jaws, 448

Shakespeare: chronological edition, 348

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Sovereign of Kinsale, 256

Staple in place-names, 192

Tailors, itinerant, 505

Turcopolerius, 337

Wasps, their pesent scarcity, 285

Westminster Cathedral, alphabet ceremony,
110

Wetenhall (Bishop Edward), 434

B. (W. G.) on snuff-box inscription, 93

'Babe Christabel,' by Gerald Massey, 267, 312
Babies' health affected by kittens, 509

Babington (Anthony), the conspirator, deed of
1585, 205

Baddeley (St. Clair) on Prinknash, 313

Venice and its patron saint, 54
Badge worn by paupers, its history, 487
Bael, fruit of the Egle Marmelos, 426
Bagnall (J.) on Bath King of Arms, 32
Coats of arms, mock, 112

English sepulchral monuments, 1300-50, 199
Follies, 273

Teart, its meaning, 11

Baily (Johnson) on Prayer Book Calendar, 169
Baldock (Major G. Yarrow) on Canons, Middle-

sex, 535

Corpse bleeding in presence of the murderer,
391

Hughson (David) = Edward Pugh, 89

Islington historians, 250

Red Lion Square obelisk, 176

Vanishing London: Proprietary Chapels, 255

Balfour (John), b. 1775, graduated 1789, 427

Ball. Coll. on Col. Phaire, 207

Ball (F. Elrington) on Secretaries to the Lords
Lieutenant, 233

Ball (H. Houston) on Jacob Henriquez and his
daughters, 279

Public School Registers, 52

Ball (J. Dyer) on "Canabull blue silke," 119

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Excelsior' in Pigeon English, 357

Banks, telephones in, 169, 258, 297

Banks (Sir John Thomas), place of his birth, 467
Banks (M. J.) on Sir John Thomas Banks, 467

B. (W.) on Matthew Arnold on eloquence, 229, 318 Bar" sinister," early use of the term, 485
Follies, 273

King in place-names, 192

B. (W. C.) on Anthony Babington, 205

Boase's Modern English Biography,' 226
Booksellers, provincial, 112; Scotch and
Irish, 171

Christmas: bibliography and notes, 502
Cley-next-the-Sea Church: woodwose, 472
Corpse bleeding in presence of the murderer,

Crusie, Scottish lamp, 393

Barabbas, a publisher, the comparison, 29, 92
Barkley (R. W.) on General Wolfe's death, 37
Barm or Barn in place-names, 53, 216
'Barnaby Rudge,' by Charles Dillon, comedian,
348, 397

Barnes (Barnaby), his 'Parthenophil and Parthe-
nople,' 245

Barwell (Richard), 1741-1804, his parentage, 368
Basil the Great, translation of sentence in, 190, 454
Basle, Prince Bishop of, his biography, 68, 118
Bath, Queen Henrietta Maria at, 150, 197

Bath King of Arms, the title, 32
Batsford (B. T.) on tradesmen's cards, 348
Battle in Lincolnshire, 1855, its identity, 468
Battle of Dunbar, estimate of losses, 301
Baum (F.) on Max O'Rell's works, 409

Bayley (A. R.) on Adrian IV.'s ring and Emerald
Isle, 250

All Souls College, Oxford, 355

Arundel (Earl of), brother and uncle arrested,
251

Canons, Middlesex, 374
Carlin Sunday, 314
Crests, taxes on, 511

Cromwell (Richard), his daughter, 330

Edward I. and Henry VIII.'s queens, 464
Elephant and castle in heraldry, 36, 115
Feild (Theophilus), 236

Folly, 158

Gordons at Westminster School, 437
Guildhall, old statues at, 312

Islington historians, 239

Jones (Sir William) and Oxford University, 3

Jonson (Ben), 132

Monsieur Tonson,' its author, 356

"On the tapis," 353

Princes of Wales, 70

Puns on Payne, 453

St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, 359
Swift (Dean) and the war of 1688-91, 317
Taylor (Jeremy), his descendants, 258
Vertimmus,' Latin comedy, 196

Victoria (Queen) and George Peabody's
funeral, 311

Women carrying their husbands, 452

Bayne (T.) on Arden of Feversham':

337

Arnold (Matthew) on eloquence, 376
Austen (Jane), her death, 397

Classicly, use of the word, 449

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'Pride and Prejudice,' 434

Proverb quoted by Bishop Fisher, 46
Seventeenth-century quotations, 235, 392

Taylor (Jeremy) and Petronius, 65

Thackeray at the British Museum, 472

Ulysses and Pulci, 514

Women carrying their husbands, 452

Benton (Jay) on Carlyle on singing at work, 494
"You have forced me to do this willingly," 493
Berkeley (Lord), adventures with highwaymen,
1776, 305

Bermuda, inscription in cemetery, 1783, 525

If you ask for salt, you ask for sorrow," 198 Bernau (C. A.) on " All right, McCarthy," 358

Jonson (Ben), 174

King in place-names, 192

Names terrible to children, 194

Old-time English dancing, 257

Onion, its pronunciation, 14
Practice practise, 246
Puns on Payne, 454

Rain-smir, use of the word, 415
Teest, its meaning, 233

Transcendant, the spelling, 305
Utilitarian, use of the word, 405
"Whom as subject, 446

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Wordsworth: variant readings, 294, 476
Beaconsfield. See Disraeli.

Beaven (A. B.) on Aldermen of London, 27
Alleyn (Sir John), 176

Browne (Sir Richard), Bt., 443
Cooke (Sir Thomas), 6

Grierson, Grereson, or Greir family, 38
Knighthood bestowed twice, 178

Latour (Peter de), 287

Percy (T.), Prior of Holy Trinity, 85

Philip (Sir Matthew), 24, 133

Poll-books of the City of London, 77

Robinson (Sir John), Bt., 74

Rush (Sir W. B.), 94

Secretaries to the Lords Lieutenant, 187

Beaver-Lea, place-name derived from beavers,
263, 311, 391, 436

Beazant (H.) on minister: verger v. sacristan, 274
Beckab, 14th-century word, its meaning, 507
Beefsteak Club of 1710, 445, 497

Beke (Dr. Charles), his diary, 1841-3, 74

Cromwell (Richard), his daughter, 330
Sark bibliography, 127

Vavasour surname, its derivation, 233
Bevan (A. T.) on dog poems, 395
Bhel, fruit of the Egle Marmelos, 426

Bible, history of, published in Shropshire, 26, 78;
curious statistics, 119, 171; Gutenberg 42-line
Bible, 307, 355; Lyoner Goldene Bibel, 369;
Printer's Bible, edition c. 1612, 408, 475;
rats and plague connected in, 465; dog in, 522
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'Letters by an American Spy,' 427, 536
London, 53, 113, 190, 464
Matsell's Vocabulum,' 5287

'Miscellanea Ægyptiaca,' 69
Music, 87

Peacock (T. L.), 508

Printing, early, in Europe, 126, 176
Sark, 127

Shakespeare: biography, 1708/9, 345; chro-
nological edition, 348, 431

'Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative,' 8, 96
Skeat (Walter W.), 61

Slavonic literature, 286
Swedenborg, 22

Bibliophile on book-covers: "Yellow-backs," 189
Bierle family of Gamnecourt Picardy, 429
Billinge family of Billinge, Lancs, 389
Birch (J. Basil) on Jew's eye, 208
Bird (T.) on 'St. James's Chronicle,' 409
Birds falling dead at soldiers' shouts, 309, 393
Birth-records on pincushions, c. 1750, 326
Bishop, Prince, of Basle, his biography, 68, 118
Bishopsgate Street Without, its widening, 246
Bisset (William), c. 1670-1747, his marriage, 409
Blacklaw, in Scotland, its locality, 527
Bladud on Le Paysan Perverti,' 189
Blake (William), his Laughing Song':
version, 241

Blanket, verbal use of the word, 327, 376
Bleackley (Horace) on Eugene Aram, 319
Berkeley (Lord) and highwaymen, 305
Casanova in England, 386
Catchpenny, 285

Common Hangman, 477

'Diaboliad,' by William Combe, 147
Duels between clergymen, 445

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Elliott's (Mrs.) During the Reign of Terror,'
371

Fisher (Kitty) and Belle's Stratagem,' 346
Luttrell (Lady Elizabeth), 366

Napoleon and the Little Red Man, 447

Ordinaries of Newgate, 325

Sumner (Miss): Mrs. Skrine, 389, 475

Trecothick (Barlow), Lord Mayor, 298
Wilkes (John), 27

Blücher and Wellington at Waterloo, 227, 370,
418, 453

Blue and buff as party colours, 11

Blumenordnung at Nuremberg, 369, 470

Blundell (Thomas), Macaulay's friend, c. 1813,
365

Boadicea and Battle Bridge, place-name, 18

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Boase (F.), his Modern English Biography,' 226,
271

Boase (F.) on mock coats of arms, 59

Boccaccio, quotation from, 428

Bohemia, early printing in, 286
Bohemian musical folk-lore, 485

Bohemians and gipsies, popular error, 306, 418,
512

Bolland (W. C.) on " broche," 16

"Bolton ffaire groates," meaning of the phrase,
467

Bonaparte (Napoleon), satiric parody, 326;
coloured print published 1797, 390; five-franc
pieces, 448; and Little Red Man, 447, 511
Bookbinding, first English book on, 403
Book-covers: Yellow-backs, &c., 189, 237, 274,
295, 373, 114, 458

Book-purchases of Charles II., 32

Books and engravings, their preservation, 54

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Davies's (G. S.) Renascence: Sculptured
Tombs in Rome, 259, 304

Dobson's (A.) Old Kensington Palace, 379
Elliot's (G. D.) During the Reign of Terror,
280

Feuillerat's (A.) John Lyly, 339

Fifty Pictures of Gothic Altars, 200
Fisher's (H. A. L.) Frederick William Mait-
land, 138

Harper's (C. G.) The Cornish Coast (South), 19
Husband's (M. F. A.) Dictionary of Waverley
Novels, 439

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scottish Language,
ed. Johnstone, 79

Lang's (A.) Sir Walter Scott and Border
Minstrelsy, 538

Latham's (C.) In English Homes, Vol. III.,

218

Law's (E.) Shakespeare as a Groom of the
Chamber, 539

Leadam's (I. S.) History of England. 1702-60,
79

Longmans' Historical Illustrations, 218
Lyly (John), by A. Feuillerat, 339

McClure's (E.) British Place-Names in their
Historical Setting, 459

Marczali's (H.) Hungary in Eighteenth Cen-
tury, 159

Martin's (C. T.) The Record Interpreter, 280
Masefield's (C.) Staffordshire, 100

Monypenny's (W. F.) Life of Benjamin
Disraeli, Vol. I., 398

Nashe's (T.) Works, ed. McKerrow, Vol. V.,

360

Nobilities of Europe, ed. by Marquis de
Ruvigny, 419

Pollard's (A. F.) Political History of England,
1547-1603, 439

Previté-Orton's (C. W.) Political Satire in
English Poetry, 38

Russell's (Lady) The Rose Goddess, 498
Seignobos's (C.) History of Medieval Civiliza-
tion, 339

Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor,
1602, ed. Greg, 100
Shedlock (M.

Legends, 19

L.), Eastern Stories and

Suffling's (E. R.) English Church Brasses, 298
Swift's (Jonathan) Poems, ed. W. E. Brown-
ing, 319

Terry's (C. S.) Scottish Historical Clubs,
1780-1908, 119

Walker's (H.) Literature of the Victorian
Era, 458

Whitaker's Almanack and Peerage, 1911, 518
Wright's (J.) Grammar of Gothic, 59

Young's (W. T.) Anthology of the Poetry of

the Age of Shakespeare, 518

Booksellers: Bristol, 23; provincial, 52, 112;
Scotch and Irish, 170, 418

Booksellers' Catalogues, 40, 80, 139, 179, 220, 260,
300, 340, 400, 420, 440, 460, 479, 500, 519, 540
"Boreal Bourdaloue," Sydney Smith on, 368, 473
Bostock (R. C.) on Duke of Grafton, East India-
man, 237

Botany time of flowers blooming, 29, 78
Bowling (Tom), typical sailor, 387, 432

Bowring (Sir John) and Fauriel, letters, 1822, 221
Bradley (H.) on etymology of "scruto," 187
Scupper, use as verb, 207

Bradshaw (President), alleged burial in Jamaica,
404

Bramwell (J.) on Billinge of Billinge, Lancs, 369
Brandreth (H. S.) on authors of quotations, 28,
488

Vavasour surname, its derivation, 149
Brassington (W. Salt) on Gower family, 452
Bread, obvention, given by parishioners to priest,
148, 216

Brereton (W.) on Little Gidding and Mary Colet,
403

Breslar (M. L. R.) on blanket as a verb, 376
Book-covers: Yellow-backs, 238

Cromwell (Richard), his daughter, 398
Goldsmith and Hackney, 10

Henriquez (Jacob) and his daughters, 150
66 Jehovah in affirmations by Jews, 346
Jew's eye, 277

Kipling and the swastika, 293

Sir Isaac's Walk, 9

Smouch, term for a Jew, 292, 375, 457
Telephones in banks, 258

Bridgeford Chapel, Lambton, Durham, site iden-
tified, 466

Brierley (H.) on Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 48
Bright (John), his quotations, 508

Bristol booksellers and printers, 23

Bristol Cathedral, tablet to Richard Hakluyt, 84
Bristow Cowsway= Brixton Road, allusions to,
448

"British Glory Revived," medal inscription, 29,
77, 279

British Institution, its history, 178
British Isles, statues and memorials in, 42, 242, 381
British Museum, W. M. Thackeray at, 428, 472
Britten (F. J.) on clocks and their makers, 308, 394
Brixton Road called Bristow Cowsway, c. 1631, 448
Broche, Norman word, its meaning, 16
Bromby (E. H.) on arabis: thlaspi, 279
Liston and Ducrow, 487

Brooke (John), barrister, c. 1501, 69, 111, 156,
257, 394, 457

Brougham (Lord), legacy to, 190
Broughton (Bes), female fanatic, c. 1650, 286, 333
Brown (R. Stewart) on Houghton family, 509
Brown sex female sex, the term, 505

Brownbill (J.) on Unecungga: Ynetunga, 212, 333
Browne (Sir Richard), Lord Mayor 1660-61, 443
Browne (Sir Thomas), his marriage, 1641, 509
Bruce (Archibald), fl. 1727, his identity, 227
Brushfield (T. N.), his death, 480; his library, 487
Brutus on Malmaison, 289

Vanishing London: Proprietary Chapels, 254
Buddha in Christian art, 147, 217
Budget, verbal use of the word, 47
Buff and blue as party colours, 11
Buffoon's admirers referred to by Fielding, 534
Builders in Devonshire, 1812-30, 310, 418
Bull (Edward), 1798–1843, publisher, 87, 176
Bull (Sir W.) on Duke of Grafton, East Indiaman,

189

Maids of Taunton, 491

Swale (Mrs.), 1761-1845, 248

Bull (Sir W.) on Isaac Watts's collateral
descendants, 168, 351

Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo, 227, 453
Bullion, use of the word in 1336, its etymology, 6
Bulloch (J. M.) on Belt family, 186

East India Company's marine service, 193
Gordon (Charles), publisher, 67
Gordon (Peter), explorer, 126
Gordon (Pryse Lockhart), 266
Military Corps of Ladies, 1803, 448
Stair divorce, 1820, 489

Burdon (C. S.) on Rumbelow, 38
Speaker's Chair, 218

Statues in the British Isles, 383
Burghmote court of a city, 1743, 510
Burnet (Bishop Gilbert), early graduation, 427
Burntisland place-name, its derivation, 249
Burr (Mrs. A. M.), artist, her biography, 268, 350
Burton (R.), Anatomy of Melancholy,' quotations
in reprints, 146

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Irwin (Dame Elizabeth): Sir John Murray, 76
Palata (Duchess of), 99

C. (S. D.) on arms of Stoneley Priory, 59
Chapel le Frith, 72

Corio arms, 217

Fraiser (Charles), 495

Sir Isaac's Walk, Colchester, 74

C. (W.) on Queen Katherine Parr, 99
C. (W. J.) on Capt. Pottinger or Porringer, 248
Cade (Salusbury), M.D., his marriage, 469
Caird (Peter), uncle and nephew, c. 1753, 468
Caister life-boat, account of its wreck, 429
Calais lost for lack of mustard, 308
Calendar in Prayer Book, 169

Calonne (Charles Alexandre de), his house in
Piccadilly,

Calvary at Myddelton Lodge, Ilkley, 235
Calvert (Hon. Mrs.) at a Drawing-Room, 1818, 427
Cam on Boccaccio quotation, 428

Campbell (Niall W.) on saint's cloak and sun-
beam, 357

Cambridge, arms of St. Catharine's College, 308,

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Canabull blue silke," 1559, 33, 119

Cannell (Eva Bright) on Maids of Taunton, 408
Canons, Middlesex, 18th-century house, 328,
374, 394, 437, 534

Canova (Antonio), busts of Mars and Minerva, 528
Capital, stone, in old High Tower, Westminster,
181

Cardonnel (Adam de), his 'Picturesque Antiquities
of Scotland,' 282

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Cards, etymology of " pips on, 465, 514
Cards, tradesmen's, c. 1600 and 1700, 348
Carlin Sunday and "The Hole," Fleet Street,
229, 314, 392

Carlyle (T.), French version of his 'French Revo-
lution,' 206; on singing at work, 309, 494

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