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A. on H.M.S. Calliope, 349
'Star,' 1789, 449

A. (A. E.) on fire engines, 57
Shakespeariana, 424

Abbeys, Saxon, ante 1066, 89

Abbot (John), Westminster scholar, 469

Abbots mitred, 16, 117; Valle Crucis, 346
Abbott (T. K.) on Spanish stories in Irish, 368
Abdul the Damned, origin of appellation, 410, 456
Aberdeen, maps and plans, 508

Abracadabra, transliteration of the word, 418
Abrahams (A.) on Little Russell Street, 325

London shop fronts, 407

Mechanical road carriages, 305
Old Serjeants' Inn, 436
Pall Mall, No. 93, 16

Parcel post in 1790, 18

'Abridgement of Calvin's Institution,' 1586, 488
Ackerley (F. G.) on Grindleton, 67

Addleshaw, derivation of the name, 189, 297
Adrian IV. (Pope), his biography, 70
Advertising epitaph, 112

Aeroplanes, early flying machines, 8, 98, 145,425, 465
'Esop's Fables,' 1821, its illustrations, 270, 398
Aiguesparses (Madame C.) on Cuthbert Shields, 10
'Village Blacksmith' parodied, 10

Aisle, use of the term, 267

Aitken (G. A.) on Daniel Defoe's wife, 516
Jonson's Works,' 421

Aldersgate signs, 102

Aldress, use of the word, 1541, 346
Aldworth, Sussex, and Tennyson, 325

Alkali (Scrap Hager), authority on pearls, 169, 218
Alley aisle, use of the term, 267

All Hallows E'en: tokens, 6

Allied Armies before Sebastopol,' engraving, 189
Allot (R.), Errors in Englands Parnassus, 4, 123,
204, 283, 383, 443, 502

Almshouses, Kingsland, 124

Alsop (Vincent), Puritan author, 47, 114, 195
Ambassadors, French, in London, 1560-70, 128
Ambrose (John), University College graduate, 129
American genealogies, 49, 175

Anderson (H.) on "Though lost to sight," 438
Anderson (P. J.) on Ewen Maclachlan, 150
Angel of Meridian, his identity, 148
Angus (Rev. George), his death, 279

Animals, dead, exposed on trees and walls, 413, 518
Anne (Queen), compared with Jezebel, 341
Anonymous Works:-

Dunno's Originals, 9

Excursion to Jersey, 507
Lights in Lyrics, 18

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Mechanical road carriages, 498

'Monstrous Regimen of Women,' 235
Thimbles, 116

Williams (Roger), of Rhode Island, 346
Arabic numerals, their present form, 154
Arabic words, their pronunciation, 352
Archer (H. G.) on armorial wine-bottles, 247
Guard aloft, 35

Archibald (R. C.) on Baltimore and "Old Mor-
tality Patersons, 25, 218
Patterson (Governor Walter), 207
Arden, Westminster scholar, 129
Arkle (A. H.) on aerial navigation, 98
Blue Coat School costume, 97
Coleridge (Hartley), 217

Field Memorials to sportsmen, 415
Longmans, 51

Millennial Star,' 116

St. Mary the Egyptian, 390
Semaphore signalling, 211

Southcott (Joanna) and the black pig, 137

Arman (Anne)= Charles FitzGeffrey, 1604, 49
Armitage (H.) on William Bullock on Virginia, 169
Armorial wine-bottles, 247

Arms of English Roman Catholic bishops, 176;
of married women, 296

Army Lists, their history, 55, 153

Arnott (Thomas Haggerston), his family, 29

| Aro-setna in the Nomina Hidarum,' 126
Artahshashte for Artaxerxes in Barker's Bible,
148, 216, 294

Artificial, connected with artifice, 166
Ascension Day celebrations, 381

Aspinshaw, printing-press maker, 429
Aspirine, origin of the name, 290, 352
Astarte on doctrine of signatures, 209
Astley (Henry), Westminster scholar, 129

Atkinson (Richard Mosley) of Clare Coll., Camb.,
108, 178

Atton (H.) on John Paul or Paul Jones, 447

Atwood (Dr.), Worcester oculist, and Dr. Johnson,
103

Aubrey (John), his marriage, 266

Aunt Sally: Sallee, 305

Auriol (Charles James), matriculated at Oxford,
108, 177, 213

Austen (Canon G.) on Blue Coat School costume,47
St. Anthony of Vienne, 47, 152
Austen (Joseph), postboy, d. 1909, 247
Austin (Roland) on Promptoriumi,' 14
Tolsey at Gloucester, 15

Automata, collection of, c. 1811, 345
Automaton dancers, Dickens on, 289, 357
Aviation, early attempts, 8, 98, 145, 425, 465
Axon (W. E. A.) on copyright in letters, 125
Davis (Crusoe Richard), 425
Sea-Roamers: Johnny Wolgar, 146
Young Lawyer's Recreation,' 47
Axton (E. H.) on Dumas and Shakespeare, 290
Roast pigs crying "Who 'll eat me?
Ayeahr on Curious House, Greenwich, 32
Elizabeth (Queen), her day, 13
Howard (Lady Honoria), 66
Parcel Post in 1790, 17

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296

Aylesbury, farmers of, and Straits of Malacca,

410, 453, 470

Ayres (H. M.) on May's Julius Cæsar,' 248
Ayton (Richard), his 'Sea-Roamers
Wolgar, 146

B

B. on William O'Brien, 488

Young (Joseph), 488

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B. (A. T.) on English topographical pottery, 337
B. (C. C.) on " Before one can say Jack Robinson,"

B. (G, F. R.) on Burney (James), 308
Cary (Henry), 329
Corbridge (James), 208
Cowper (Spencer), 308
Ellison (Henry), 170
Glasse (Isaac), 269
Harris (Joseph), 230
Hayes (Samuel), 149
Hesilrige (Sir Arthur), 308
Ingram (James), 429
Kensell (James), 329
Kitchen (Robert), 289
Leigh (Lyster), 469
Mears (James), 269
Medley (Edward), 230

Meredith (Richard), Dean of Wells, 410
Montagu (Sir James), 388

Montresor (Major John), 410

Neile (Richard), Archbishop of York, 388
Osbaldeston or Osbolston (Lambert), 371
Steward (Richard), 289, 455
Stuart (Sir John), 329
Taylor (Sir Robert), 329
Webb (Richmond), 208

B. (G. R.) on Rev. Thomas Nicolson, 306
B. (G. S.) on vagrancy, 226

B. (H. I.) on English poem in Welsh metre, 367
Gray: two references, 236

London origin of the name, 303

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Place-names: their etymology, 398
Shakespeariana, 243

Village names feminine, 297

Violet in Welsh, 207

B. (J.) on Sir Humphrey Gilbert's last words, 447
Hen, white, 448

Recusants' marriages, 373, 475
St. Sidwell, 377

B. (P. G.) on Belfour family, 293

B. (R.) on Egypt as a place-name, 94
Manor house, c. 1300, 18

Mitred abbots, 117

Parcel Post in 1790, 17
Partrendune, Bucks, 388

Place-names, 454

"Quid est fides?" 296

Yew trees in churchyards, 113

B. (R. S.) on “ Before one can say Jack Robinson,”

233

Bristol and the slave trade, 6

Clayton (John), 396

Clayton (William), Baron Sundon, 188, 317

Ernisius, a proper name, 33

Gaunox, 357

Harbours, 514

Hawser, 307

Lickbarrow (Isabella), 38

Manor Court terms, 517

B. (R. W.) on Fleetwood of Calwich, 183
B-r (R.) on Bourne in place-names, 451
Burial half within a church, 318
Epitaphiana, 504
Horse Hill, 155
Marylebone, 356

B. (W.) on Catalaunian fields, 88
Shoe in A.V., 133

St. Mary the Egyptian, 391

B. (W. C.) on Befana: Epiphany, 6
Briefs for Greek Christians, 357
Corpus Christi Day, 443

Daylight-saving, 226

Dickens's "automaton dancers," 357
Easter bibliography, 282

Scottish -is and -es in proper names, 37
Watchet, 367, 457

Bayne (W.) on Sir David Wilkie's pictures, 329

Melbourne (Lord) and Baldock, 9

Sainte-Beuve on Castor and Pollux, 392
Baldwin (E. T.) on "punt " in football, 355
Bale (Otway), Westminster scholar, 170, 214
Ball (E. J.) on " He which drinketh well," 53
Ball (F. Elrington) on Edouard or Edouart, 371
Baltimore and" Old Mortality" Patersons, 25, 218
Bandy Leg Walk, its name, 35

Bank-note sandwich story, 447, 514

Banner (Parliamentary) in the Civil War, 89, 177
Barclay (John), Theodorus Prodromus,
Burton, 101

Barkas (A. A.) on Edward Barnard, 28

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Barking Abbey and William the Conqueror, 447
Barkly West, S. Africa, place-name, 325
Barlow (W.), Bishop of Chichester, 51
Barlow (W.), Bishop of Rochester, 51
Barnard (Edward), head master of Eton, his
marriage, 28, 116

Barnard (G. W. G.) on Sir Thomas Browne, 473
Barnard & Staples, Cornhill bankers, 189, 252
Barton (Bernard), his Metrical Effusions,' 389
Battle-field memorials, 441

Baughan Boffin, derivation of the name, 509
Bayley (A. R.) on Æsop's Fables,' 1821, 398
Aplin family, 335

Belfour family, 293

Bishops of St. Asaph, 435

Britannia as the national emblem, 274
Burial half within a church, 230

Canopied pews, 273

Carstares or Carstairs, 397

Coffee-drinking in Palestine, 90, 358

Cromwell (Oliver), his head, 390

English queen as Jezebel, 458

Episcopal scarf or tippet, 295

Essex's Irish campaign, 154

Eton College names, 351
FitzGeffrey (Charles), 49
Gainsborough's wife, 38

Glose or gloss, French verse-form, 337
Gordon (Mrs.), née Isabella Levy, 114
Meredith (Richard), Dean of Wells, 474
Milton: portrait as a boy, 52
Names terrible to children, 53

Nym and "humour," 156

Pack (F. Christopher), 297

Polhill family, 315

Ruckholt House, 92
Scroyles, 418

276

Beachey Head, its derivation, 186, 294, 358
Beaconsfield (Lord) and the primrose, 37; and
"Defixionum Tabellæ," 186, 276; his first
schoolmaster, 362, 454

Beating the Bounds in 1763, 384, 497

Beaven (A. B.) on Sir Lewis Pollard, 365

Scrope (Adrian), 117

Townshend (C.), M.P., 282

Beaver (H.M.S.), c. 1828, inquired after, 189
Bêche-de-mer, use of the word, 482
Beckford queries, 386, 438

Beddoe (J.) on Capt. Rutherfurd at Trafalgar, 454
Beddows (H. T.) on field memorials to sportsmen,
196

Bedwell (C. E. A.) on Spencer Cowper, 377
Bee (Thomas), his Anthology,' 108, 218
Beechey (E. M.) on Chantrey and Oliver, minia-
turists, 29

Beeswaxers, football boots, 187, 237, 297
Beezely, place-name, its locality, 475

Befana Epiphany, Roman folk-lore, 6, 72
Belfour family, 250, 293

Bell (E.) on Oliver Cromwell's head, 389

Bell (James C. C.)= Jane Strangman Mead, 429
Bell customs at Lisbon, Leicestershire, 16
Bell-horses, nursery rimes, 295
Bellagio, inscriptions at, 325
Bells rung backwards, 297, 397
Belton, epitaphs at, 505

Benedictine, manufacture of the liqueur, 57

Ben Meir in Longfellow's Scanderbeg,' 248, 318
Bennet (Thomas), bookseller, d. 1706, 488

Bensly (E.) on authors of quotations wanted, 32,

Elizabethan library, 407

England's Parnassus,' 1600, 4, 123, 204,

283, 383, 443, 502

Gaol, 428, 510

Harbours, 409, 452, 514

Italian genealogy, 14, 73

Jonson (Ben), 421

Khayyam (Omar), 54

Machlachlan (Ewen), 90, 150
Noorthouck (John), 301
Nuga Antiquæ,' 161
Peacock (T. L.), 43, 224

Place-names, their etymology, 288, 398, 454
Shakespeare, 366

Tennyson: concordances, 261, 353, 513;
additions to Mr. Wise's Bibliography,' 322
Wild (Jonathan), 347, 435

Wilde (Oscar), 254
Witchcraft, 386, 491

Bickerton or de Bickerton family, 189

Bilker, use of the word in 1717, 166

66

Birkbeck (R.) on Master Pipe Maker," 10
Birkenhead, place-rime, 145

Births, marriages, and deaths, their registration,
348

Bisham Abbey, cartulary, 210

Bishop, first English to marry, 51, 147

Bishops, scarves worn by, 130, 295, 494; of
St. Asaph, 147, 435

Bishops, English Roman Catholic, their arms, 176,
Bishops, suffragan, their arms, 109, 193

Black (W. G.) on "Défixionum Tabellæ :
Disraeli, 186

Blackborough (William) and John Milton, 13
Blackburne (Abp.), grave in St. Margaret's, West-
minster, 508

Blackfriars Road, demolition of old houses near,
106

Black guard, use of the term 1513, 446
Blake (William) and Gymnastics,' 287

Blancherd or Blancher, Alderman of Hull c. 1640,
69

Blazers, origin of the word, 287, 333

Bleackley (Horace) on Bank-note sandwich, 447
Bew (J.), bookseller, 416

Bullock (Thomas), sportsman, 507
Casanova in England, 437
Davies (Black), 507

Day (Nancy), Lady Fenhoulet, 393
Diaboliad,' by William Combe, 458
Ferrers (Earl), 434

Fisher (Kitty), her death, 245
Gaol literature, 511

Goadby (M.), publisher, 470

Hangmen who have been hanged, 468
Johnson's uncle hanged, 429

Ladies' cricket matches, 386

La Roche (Miss), Lady Echlin, 501
Marie Antoinette's death mask, 327
Mechanical road carriages, 374

Modern Ship of Fools,' 429
Moore (Zachary), 429

Moran (C.), publisher, 490

Morangiés (Comte de), 411

Murray (Fanny), her death, 466

Mystery of Hannah Lightfoot, 472

Nanny Natty Cote: Lucy Locket, 397

Townshend (Ethelreda, Viscountess), 498

Tracy (Handsome), 197

Truman (T.), bookseller, 347

Tuesday Night's Club: Mrs. Cornelys, 415
Vergy (Treyssac de), 370

Wild (Jonathan), bibliography, 435
Wilkes's Essay on Woman,' 493

Bligh (Richard), 1780-1838, his biography, 149,

214

Blind, earliest asylum for, 348, 435
Blue Coat School costume, 47, 96

Blundell (E.) on dew-ponds, 428

Bobbery, origin of the word, 187, 234

Boffin Baughan, derivation of the name, 509
Boleyn (Anne), her execution and burial, 88, 237
Bolland (W. C.) on St. Anthony of Vienne, 153, 332
Bonassus, wonderful animal, 356
Bonefons, poem attributed to, 26
Bononcini and Handel, epigram, 426

Books: emendations in English, 401; produced
in prison, 428

Books recently published:—

Almack's (E.) History of 2nd Dragoons
(Royal Scots Greys), 478

Archæologia Eliana, Third Series, Vol. IV.,
458

Baptist Historical Society, Transactions,
Vol. I., No. 2, 499

Barnes's Poems, ed. by T. Hardy, 99

Bible, 1611, Authorised Version, ed. by W. A.
Wright, 358

Bleackley's (H.) Ladies Fair and Frail, 398
Brückner's (A.) Literary History of Russia,

ed. by Ellis H. Minns, tr. H. Havelock, 259
Burke's (Sir B. and A. P.) Peerage and
Baronetage, 219

Burlington Magazine, 39, 119, 199, 298, 380,
479

Butler (S.), Notebooks, Characters
Passages, ed. by A. R. Waller, 58

and

Dickens Dictionary, by Philip, 338
Edinburgh Review, January, 1909, 260
English Catalogue of Books for 1908, 278
Ferrero's (G.) Greatness and Decline of Rome,
trans. by Rev. H. J. Chayter, Vols. III.
and IV., 519

Formula Book of Diplomatic Documents,
ed. by H. Hall, 198

Foster (J.), A Shakespeare Word-Book, 139
Hall's (H.) Studies in English Official His-
torical Documents, 198

Holmes's (T. S.) Wells and Glastonbury, 118
Jaggard's (W.) Index to Book-Prices Current,
1897-1906, 399

Johnson's (W.) Folk-Memory, 298
Lamb's (C. and M.) Works, ed. T. Hutchinson,
138, 295

Lang's (A.) Maid of France, 99
Leland (J.), Itinerary,

ed. L. Toulmin

Smith, Vol. IV., 420
Memorials of Old London, ed. by P. H.
Ditchfield, 219

Michaelis (A.), A Century of Archæological

Discoveries, 139

Montalban's (J. P. de) La Monja Alférez, 79
New English Dictionary, ed. Murray, 179
Newspaper Press Directory, 260
Noble's (P.) Anne Seymour Damer, 519
Nun Ensign, trans. by J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 79
Oxford Thackeray, edited by G. Saintsbury, 18
Philip's (A. J.) Dickens Dictionary, 338
Plunket's (Hon. E. M.) Judgment of Paris, 520
Price's (F. G. H.) Old Base Metal Spoons, 79
Priestley's (Lady) Story of a Lifetime, 38
Quarterly Review, January, 1909, 239
Ramsay's (Sir J. H.) Dawn of the Constitu-
tion, 439

Renshaw's (G.) Animal Romances, 159

Swift's Prose Works, edited by Temple

Scott, Vol. XII., 19

Thackeray, Oxford, ed. Saintsbury, 18
Thompson's (F.) Shelley, 419
Thomson's Works, ed. by J. L. Robertson, 158
Tudor Facsimile Texts, 220

Virgil's, Eneid, trans. by H. S. Wright, 118
Ware's (J. R.) Passing English of the Victorian
Age, 440

Watson's (Foster) English Grammar Schools,
499

Wells's (Ch.) Joseph and his Brethren,
Introduction by Swinburne, 339
Wright's (H. S.) trans. of Æneid, 118
Booksellers' catalogues, 19, 40, 60, 100, 119, 140,
159, 199, 240, 279, 299, 340, 360, 400, 459, 480,

500

Booksellers in the provinces, 127
Bosting in dressing stone, 508
Bostock (R. C.) on author of quotation, 355

Bradley (H.) on samnitis, 187

Saskatoon, 207

Bradley (J. W.) on St. Sidwell, 377
Brandreth (H. S.) on Molière on opium, 88
"That's another pair of shoes," 169
Bray (Sir R.), Speaker of House of Commons,
267, 349

Breakspear (Nicholas), Pope Adrian IV., his
biography, 70

Brede Manor, Sussex, its history, 308, 357, 377
Breslar (M. L. R.) on Robert Buchanan's descent,
489

Cambridge Heath: Bernales Buildings, 289
Candlemas and Passover, 324

Milton and Hackney, 388

Potter's Bar: Seven Kings, 89, 335
Sneezing superstition, 7

'Story of my Heart,' 130

Whitman (Walt), on Alamo, Texas, 510
Brett (Thomas), Westminster scholar, 449
Bride and bridegroom at Church, 10, 136
Brickwork, rod as measure for, 77, 116, 237
Bridegroom and bride at Church, 10, 136
Brief for Greek Christians, c. 1630, 289, 357, 458
Brierley (H.) on Richard Mosley Atkinson, 178
Auriol (Charles James), 177
Brightwell (Daniel), Tennyson Concordance, 261,

353, 513

Brightwell (George and William) at Edenfield
School, Doncaster, 353

Brigstocke (G. R.) on Sir Thomas Browne, 474
Brill, the, Somers Town, its name, 26
Brillat-Savarin in New York, 507
Bristol and the slave trade, 6
Britain: Great Britain, early reference, 66
Britannia as the national emblem, 168, 274
British Museum Library : Catalogue, 105;
tickets, 245

Brittany, wreckers in, 446,
Britten, East London burial-ground, 29, 174
Broadley (A. M.) on Civil War documents, 228
Broadside, seventeenth century, Guildhall dona-
tion, 505

Brockwell (M. W.) on Gainsborough's signed
pictures, 368

Lancaster, painter, 490

Broken Cross, Westminster, 1687, 49, 111
Brokenselde, tavern name, its etymology, 10, 58,
Brontë (Charlotte), 'Jane Eyre' and Minerva
Lane, 67

110, 172, 233, 517