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Murray (J. A. H.) on Dog-hay," 227
Dogmatism, history of the word, 227
Dog-nail, its meaning, 266
Domdaniel, its meaning, 406
Dongola race, 327

John Dory, 386, 472

'Orthodoxy is my doxy," 406

Murray (John), Gretna Green "priest," 61, 149, 389
Mus in Urbe on quadrille, 37

Musgrave (Sir William), his biography, 29, 233
Mustow or mustew, its etymology, 109, 394
Mutton family, 289, 393, 498

Myddelton (W. M.) on Catherine de Berran, 53

Grevill (Sir Edward), 97

Mytton family, 289, 393, 498

N. (T.) on 'The Summary,' 387

Nalson (Rev. John), LL.D., his birth, 287
Namancos, its locality, 37

Names, final "s" in proper, 373

Names, their derivation, 387, 449, 512
Napoleon I. See Bonaparte.
"Napoléon galeux," 365

National Debt, when fifty-five millions, 488

Naunton family, 287

Navy, child commissions in, 70

Ne Quid Nimis on May Queen, 308
Neilson (G.) on materials for barrows, 513

Lunar calendar, 501

Nelson family, descendants from Knox, 75

Nelson (Horatio, Lord), his "little Emma," 488
Nelson (Lady), her portrait, 446, 517
Nemo on old inns at Kilburn, 456
Misled: Mizzled, 415

Mural memorials, 508

Nesta on movable pew, 107

Neve (J. R.) on Naunton family, 287

Nevill (R.) on houses facing the north, 472
'New English Dictionary.'

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North (C. N. M.) on Brehon Laws, 174
Northumbrian, pseudonym, 309

'Nottingham,' hymn tune, 148

Nottingham (first Earl of), supposed portrait, 2, 113,
254; his burial-place, 226

'Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres,' 1650-58, 286
Novar collection of pictures, 505

Nuremberg tokens, 69, 153

Nursery rhyme, "Four corners to my bed," 194

O. on "Bosch" or "6 Bosh," 419

Descazeaux du Halley (Chevalier), 438
Mitrailleuse, ancient, 450
Wakefield Railway, 95

O. (C. W. P.) on Col. Stuart, 68

Oath, bishop's, temp. Henry VIII., 268, 355, 514
Oaths, Hindu, 329

Oats. See Avener.

Odin, his ancestry and descendants, 75, 172
O'Donoghue (F. M.) on Pinkethman, 86

O'Dugan family pedigree, 388

Ognall Hall, Lancashire, 48

"Old Black Jack," Clare Market, 244
Oliphant family of Kellie, 246

Oliver asking for more, 265

Oliver (A.) on Chelsea enamel, 471

Oliver (V. L.) on Billingsgate aldermen, 457
Omar surname, 12, 136

Omega on William Penn, 313

One: "More than one," 27, 77

Only, its place in a sentence, 213, 332

Opie (John), R.A., portraits by, 47, 138
Oral tradition, 6

Order in Council, the phrase, 487

Orme Square, Bayswater, column in, 507

Orr (J. S.), the "Angel Gabriel," 167, 292

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Orthodoxy is my doxy," origin of phrase, 406, 474
Osbaldeston (Richard), Bishop of London, 328, 433

See Oxford English Osborne (William), emigrant to America, 329

Newcastle-under-Lyme, its M.P., 88, 231
Newspaper, earliest use of the word, 294

Newspaper, French, in London, 1650-58, 286
'Newspaper Editor's Reminiscences,' 12
Newspaper pitches, 26

Newton, places named, 468

Our Lady of Hate, 8, 138, 253, 490
Outlander and Uitlander, 266

Ouvry (E. C.) on Madame de Ligne, 169
Overie. See St. Mary Overie.

Ovid, his 'Metamorphoses,' 427, 455
Oving, village name, 172

Owen (J. P.) on sin-eaters, 109, 236

Owen (M. C.) on Sir Thomas Sewell, 248

Owl of Andoain, picture with Basque inscription, 167
Owres lightship, 1788, 8, 96

Newton (Sir Isaac), publication of the 'Principia,' 186 Oxford, its etymology, 308

Newtowne on Lowell and Hawthorne, 516

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'Oxford English Dictionary,' 221, 318, 384

Oxford University, "ad eundem" membership, 427, 516
Oxford University Heraldry Office, 167, 235
Oxonian on a great spoon, 267
Oyster-shells used in building, 64, 214

P. (C. M.) on curious charm, 292
P. (C. T.) on relics of Charles I., 56
Nottingham (first Earl of), 113
St. Paul's, its rebuilding, 216
P. (F. A.) on Albert Pike, 147
P. (F. J.) on changes in country life, 453
Cowley (Abraham), 51

P. (G. H.) on Gibbet Hill, 432
P. (H. B.) on duel in 1843, 230

P. (J. B.) on Master of Revels for Scotland, 54

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P. (J. G.) on Arbuthnot family, 168

P. (M.) on maypoles, 10

Sin-eaters, 110

P. (R. B.) on Testament Bible, man's names, 424
'London Gazette,' advertisements in, 365

Paccanarists. See Paquanarists.

Paddington, thatched cottage at, 54
Padoreen, its meaning, 289, 412, 461

Padua, English and Scotch students at, 329

Page (J. T.) on Bunhill Fields Burial-ground, 515
Burial at cross roads, 325

Darling (Grace), her monument, 486
Figures, emaciated, 152
Fish and ring story, 405
Hampton Court maze, 178
Heidelberg students, 190
Leake family, 323, 463
Poplar trees, 371

Staves, parish constables', 464

Topographical collections for counties, 497

Paine (Tom) and stays, 508
Painting signed "E. 1747," 27

Palamedes on royal birthday calendar, 367
Cannibalism in British Isles, 129

Common Prayer Book in Roman offices, 469
Joan of Arc, 307

Liverpool, its derivation, 515
Mistletoe, cross on, 28

Owl of Andoain, 167

Paley (Dr. William), his portrait, 167, 273, 313
Palindrome, 167, 253, 295

Palladist and Palladism, 297
Palls, archiepiscopal, 29, 131

Palmer (A. S.) on cruces in translation, 166

Palmer (J. F.) on new cryptogram, 33

Foster of Drumgoon, 193

Humbug, its meanings, 412

Joan of Arc, 392

"More than one," 77

Shakspeariana, 123, 422, 423
Translation, 484

Pamela, death of her daughter, 384

Pape, in Dante, 183

Paper, gilt-edged, 208, 237, 354, 414, 496

Paper water-mark, fool's cap, 327, 373, 431
Paquanarists or Paccanarists, 348, 396

Paris, Convent of Chaillot at, 13

Parish charities recorded in church inscriptions, 36
Parish constables, their staves, 464

Parish councils and records, 17

Parish registers. See Registers.

Park bound, its meaning, 307, 391
Parker (F. J.) on
"" Caucus," 511

Parliamentary poll, earliest, 66
Parry (J. H.) on flat-irons, 96

Hillier family, 191

Parson of moiety of church, 68, 158, 436, 491

Pasley (Joseph), Gretna Green " priest," 61, 149, 389
Paste star with interchangeable centres, 347, 397
'Patrician, The,' numbers published, 87, 193
Patriot, history of the word, 493
Patriot on Russian songs, 228
Patterson (W. G.) on Burns, 304

Patterson (W. H.) on St. Michael's bannock, 309
Paul (J. B.) on Leitchtown and Gartur arms, 153
Paynter family of Boskenna, Cornwall, their motto, 8

Peacock feathers unlucky, 408, 458

Peacock (E.) on material for barrows, 425
Booking places, 244

Cross on ballot papers, 106

'Dictionary of National Biography,' 271
Engine, its meanings, 324

Executions, public, 26
Florence as a male name,
Handsomebody surname, 205

Our Lady of Hate, 138
Sedilia, 507

Story wanted, 209
Sundial mottoes, 5

Town, its definition, 456

Verbs, English reflective, 354

Peacock (F.) on American pond weed, 87
Cramp rings, 127

Games in churchyards, 488
Holdfeld (Richard), 428

Mortars and bell-founders, 448

Peddie (R. A.) on Ku Klux Klan, 505
Peed or pead, its meaning, 37, 271

Peel Castle and the Duchess of Gloucester, 382, 452
Peeresses married to commoners remarried to peers,
227, 352

Peet (W. H.) on Earl Ferrers, 349

'Marmion Travestied,' 374

Penel Orlieu, Bridgwater street-name, 129

Penn (William), plot to capture, 243, 318, 357
Pennant (Thomas), his 'Tour in Wales,' 349
Penny in the slot in 1844, 226

Penny (C. W.) on "Archdiocese," 72
"Boom off," 383

Chinese sensitive leaf, 78

Comfortable comforting, 13

Hayes (Sir J. W.), 273

M.B. coats and waistcoats, 6

"Pin and Bowl," tavern sign, 424

St. Evurtius, 326

Penny (F.) on child commissions, 198

Pepys (Samuel) and "Beauty, retire !" 307, 489
Periam family, 48, 231, 488

Perina, Christian name, 452

Perrinchief (Richard), D.D., his biography, 446
Perth in the sixteenth century, 226, 294
Pertinax on silver Latinity, 487

Peryam family. See Periam.

Pessimism, origin of the term, 26, 317

Petition formula, phrase at its end, 266, 377

Pett (Phineas), his biography, 107, 191, 237
Petty (S. L.) on charr in Windermere, 227
Elder-tree superstition, 517

Pew, movable, 107, 191

Pews, right to their possession, 194

Pewter hall-marks, 167, 294, 335, 375

Philippen Colony, church brief relating to, 421

Phillips (F.) on curious charm, 451

Franklin (B.), his house at Passy, 428

Phillips (George Spencer), author, 177

Phillips (Sir Richard), his 'Million of Facts,' 104, 315
Phillips (Sir Thomas), Governor of Lismahady, 67
Pickering Press, its history, 366, 414, 472

Pickford (J.) on beaver in Britain, 238

Canaletto in England, 133

Cat, wild, 93, 252
Church, "moiety" of, 437

Pickford (J.) on 'Cumnor Hall,' 352

Ferrers (Earl), 349, 435

French prisoners of war, 497

'Guardian' jubilee, 137

"Herb John," 452

Homer: Omar, 136
Jemmy crowbar, 424

Killiecrankie, battle of, 332

Latin inscription, 90
Lichfield, its etymology, 38
Literary Club, 375
Mount Grace Priory, 22
Napoleon I., his marshals, 51
Nottingham (first Earl of), 226
Osbaldeston (Bishop), 433
Portraits, substituted, 277
Ream and Rimmer, 512
Sewer, his duties, 433
Sotheby family, 191

Voltaire (F. M. A.), his bust, 444
Windows, sash, 436

Writing-paper, gilt-edged, 354
Picture, its subject, 348, 394
Picture, old, of child marriage, 51
Pierpoint (R.) on Channel Islands, 272
Charivari, its derivation, 117
Gallett, its meaning, 113
Galley: Galeode, 407
"Half seas over," 125

Latin inscription, 397

Picture, old, 51

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Pole (Sir William), his MS. of Charters, 407, 475
Politician on "Catching the Speaker's eye," 208
Poll, earliest parliamentary, 66

Pollard (A. F.) on "Driving coach and six through
an Act of Parliament," 208

Pollard (H. P.) on books illustrated by authors, 338
Ducking stools, 57

Priory Farm, Hertford, 124
Pollard (M.) on Austrian lip, 374
Pontifex Maximus, the title, 429
Poor's, use of the word, 74, 434
Poores house, its early meaning, 194
Poplar trees in France, 89, 371, 450
Populist, history of the word, 507

Porter (Miss Lucy) and Dr. Johnson, 201

Portrait, skull in, 109, 357, 412; eye in, 468

Portraits, substituted, 277, 371, 434, 458
Postage at high rates, 118

Thistle Order, its motto, 157

Pigott (W. G. F.) on sporting dog of ancient Britons, 14 Potato, first welcomed in France, 38

Elder-tree superstitions, 91

Newcastle stones, 208

Petition formula, 377

Pigott (W. J.) on Peryam or Periam family, 48, 488

Pike (Albert), American Freemason, 147, 210, 297

"Pin and Bowl

as a tavern sign, 424

Pink (W. D.) on Richard Beckford, 108

'Dictionary of National Biography,' 405

Henley (Sir Thomas), 273

Jenkinson (Sir Robert), 316

Lady, knighted, 124

Newcastle-under-Lyme M.P.s, 231

Parliamentary poll, early, 66

Pinke (William), 106

Southwark M.P.8, 308

Pinke (William), his biography, 106

Pinkethman, biographical notes on, 86

Pitch of newspapers, 26

Pitcher (D. G.) on Philip D'Auvergne, 154

Heraldic supporters of English sovereigns, 478
Umbrellas, 156

Pitt Club, its history, 13, 116
Place-names, their pronunciation, 156
Plague, Great, prayer against, 66, 131
Plant-names, Anglo-Saxon, 163

Platt (J.), jun., on "Bosch ""

or "Bosh," 418

Brebon Laws, 174
Brucolaques, its meaning, 55
Chinese in London, 377, 498
Chinese phrase, 129

Dutch family history, 447

Potatoes a cure for rheumatism, 248, 396, 438
Potter (G.) on Highgate Jewish academy, 297
Povey family, 346

Powder, fairy, 306

Powell (William) not the “ Harmonious Blacksmith,"

203, 230, 311, 354, 456, 493

Prendergast baronetcy, 341

Preston (Dr. John), bis will, 198

Previte, house of, Dukes of Spiani, 495

Prideaux (Miss), actress, her biography, 85, 253

Prideaux (W. F.) on Avery Farm Row, 237

Baldwin's Gardens, 191

Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, 429
Bellenden (Mary), 419

Birdcage Walk, 165

Bond (Sir Thomas), 176

Buckingham House, College Hill, 445

Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, 450
Chiffinch (William and Thomas), 73
Cosway (Richard), R.A., 7, 132

Evelyn (John), discovery of his 'Memoirs, 95
Fulham Palace, its chapel, 321

Giaour, its pronunciation, 491

Holborn, Hanwell, and Harrow, 185, 369

Judgement and judgment, 497

Kilburn, old inns at, 188, 371

Milton (John), and Marvell, 146; his mother, 234
Namancos, its locality, 37

"Out of kelter," 288

Paddington, thatched cottage at, 54

Preston (Dr. John), 198

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Prideaux (W. F.) on Miss Prideaux, actress, 85, 253

Richard III., his coronation, 394
Robson (F.), comedian, 519
Rosslyn House, Hampstead, 381
St. Ermin's Hill, Westminster, 242
Shakspearian desideratum, 476
Storey's Gate, 165

Street names changed, 332, 471
York Street, Westminster, 505

Prince (C. L.) on Canaletto in England, 15
Hops, earliest allusion to, 134

Printers' errors, 404, 445, 514
Printery printing office, 25

Priory Farm, Hertford, its destruction, 124, 276
Prisoners, communication between, 49
Proley collection of pictures, 366, 446
Pronunciation, "gutter," 243, 392
'Protestant Tutor for Children,' 88

Proverbs and Phrases :-

Boom off, 383

Broom: Hang out the broom, 94, 435
Bung: Go bung, 224

Catching the Speaker's eye, 208, 338

Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est, 90, 192,
397

Driving coach and six through an Act of Parlia-
ment, 208

Facing the music, 168, 272, 477

Fool and his money soon parted, 509

Fool's paradise, 327, 414, 496
Fountain of perpetual youth, 468
General: Our only general, 166
Half seas over, 125
Halifax law, 92, 353
Heart of hearts, 92

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Quarrell (W. H.) on St. Mary Overie, 92
Quarter: "No quarter," 228, 278, 494
Queen's English, note on, 46

Quentin (Col.), mezzotint portrait, 54
Querist on Lord Nelson's "little Emma," 488

Quotations :-

A kindly man unto his beast is kind, 469
Ave Cæsar, morituri te salutant, 267, 415
C'est une composition entièrement barbare, 35
Erubuit; salva res est, 309, 378, 399, 439
Happy the man, and happy he alone, 309, 439
He sleeps his last sleep, 409

He that does me good with unmov'd face, 79
He was born a man, he died a grocer, 469
He whistles as he goes, 309, 378

Hoc Matthæus agens hominem generaliter implet,

449

I mean to be a President, 149, 255

I shall pass through this world but once, 169,
239, 378

In a glance, 169

In the years fled, 309

Le plaisir de mourir sans peine, 109
Methinks, if I could but see her, 409

Mille habet ornatus, 168, 235

Mine after life! what is mine after life? 169, 239
Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem, 258
Non annorum canities est laudanda, 49
Oh! Memory, thou fond deceiver, 509
On sea or land, 506

Rabbits quarrelling over one blade of grass, 127
Risum teneatis, amici? 26

Since all the downward tracts of time, 509
σμικρὰ μὲν τάδ' ἀλλ' ὅμως ἔχω, 309, 439

So long as we may, let us enjoy this breath, 49
Strong as necessity Waugh starts away, 309
That buy the merry madness of one hour, 268,
439

The clouds of sickness cast no stain, 309
The cream of a nation's thought, 109
The grave has eloquence, its lectures teach, 469
The greatest virtue of which wise men boast, 509
The light that never was, on sea or land, 506
The secret that doth make a flower a flower, 49
The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, 248, 312
These thick-sown snowflakes, 47

They eat the fruit and blame the woman still, 409
They write a verse as smooth, as soft, as cream, 49
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean, 500
"Tis he whose every thought and deed, 268, 339
Too fair to worship, too divine to love, 349, 439
We are born originals, we die copies, 469
Willing to serve God, so that they did not offend
the devil, 268

Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, 109, 159
Quotations, French, Spanish, Italian, and German, 197

R. on Trilby, 277

R. (A. E.) on Hulke and Hulse families, 427

R. (D.) on 'Betty Careless,' 366

R. (J. F.) on Victualler: Flesher, 186

R. (M.) on Swift's 'Creed,' 28

R. (R.) on Catherine de Berran, 53
Flat-irons, 174

"Fool's paradise," 414, 496

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Rae (Sir David), Lord Eskgrove, his biography, 136
Ralfe (James), author of 'Naval Chronology,' 47
Ramsay (Allan) and Semple, 75

Randall (J.) on 'New English Dictionary,' 221

Thames or Isis, 455

Randolph family in London, 187

Randolph family of Northants, 329

Ranking (John), his biography, 47

Ratcliffe (T.) on Battletwig-earwig, 14
Charm, curious, 375
Fantigue fidget, 36
"Hang out the broom," 94
Misled Mizzled, 326

Poor's, use of the word, 74

Rathe ripe or rathe-ripe, 426

Rayner (W.) on successful debarkation, 338
Ream and Rimmer surname, 261, 430, 512
Reckon, as a noun, 249

Record Office, Fetter Lane, its architecture, 105

Records and parish councils, 17

Redmond (P.) on Hugh, King of Italy, 509
Register, non-parochial, recovered, 465

Registers, printed, 337

Reid (A. G.) on Comfortable=comforting, 12

Innerpeffray, 444

Muirburn, in Scotland, 404

Perth in sixteenth century, 226

Plague, prayer against, 131

Robertson (Strowan), 161

Weymes (Countess of), 1688, 365

Reid (G. D.) on Ker family, 115

Rest, its derivation, 243

Rhine watercourse, 157,

371

Ripon (first Earl of), his nicknames, 194
River-names. See Witham.

Rivett family and William of Wickham's chalice, 302
Rivett-Carnac (J. H.) on corpse arrested for debt, 354
Lowes (Rev. John), 223

Rivett family and William of Wickham's chalice,
302

Robbins (A. F.) on newspaper, 294

Rifles, repeating, 305

Sunday markets, 32

Wesley (Rev. Samuel), the elder, 21

Roberts (W.) on duty on auctions, 307
Chinese collection, 489

Coleridge MSS., 285

'Dictionnaire des Girouettes,' 7

Eon (Chevalier), 106

Novar collection of pictures, 505

Robertson (Strowan), his wanderings after Culloden, 161
Robinson (F. J.), Earl of Ripon, his nicknames, 194
Robinson (G. H.) on 'Phaudhrig Crohoore,' 148
Robinson (J.) on portrait of Dr. Paley, 273

Westminster Abbey, oyster-shells in walls, 64
Robinson (John), Bishop of London, his death and
descendants, 468, 512

Robson (F.), comedian, his portraits, 468, 519
Rochester register recovered, 465

Romance sources, English words from, 481
Rood-lofts, figures in, 345

Rose family, 327

Rose-gall, its names and folk-lore, 93

Rossetti (Dante G.) and the Jacobites, 425

Rosslyn House, Hampstead, its history, 381

Rough ruffian, origin of the word, 186, 316

Rousby (Mrs.), actress, her biography, 18, 33, 231
'Rover's Bride,' song or poem, 507

Rowe (A. F.) on heraldic anomalies, 449

Roxby (Robert), comedian, his biography, 67, 116, 172
Royal Exchange, church near, 213

Rumbold (Sir H.) on D'Oilliamson family, 287, 511
Ruprecht (Knecht) and the dancing story, 112

Rushmore, its etymology, 286, 356

Ruskin (John) and "doomed Moabite," 228, 274

Russell (F.) on Foster of Drumgeon, 109

Russell (F. A.) on booking places, 357

"More than one," 77

Russell (Lady) on Margraves of Anspach, 215

Bream's Buildings, 170

Brucolaques, its meaning, 55

Chelsea enamel, 471

Dockerer or dockerrer, 197

Fishguard, French landing at, 433

French kings, their wives, 215

Indexes, inaccurate, 286

Poetry and science, 512

Russell (Lord John) as a poet, 506

Russell (Thomas), LL.D., his poems, 145, 214, 450

Russian songs, translated, 228, 336

Rutton (W. L.) on Thames or Isis, 368

Ruvigny (Marquis de) on Isabella of Angoulême, 194
Rye (W.) on epitaph by Dryden, 328

Ryley (Samuel William), his biography, 87, 112, 132

Richard III., "By St. Paul!" 148, 198, 295; his Rymer surname. See Rimmer.

coronation, 394

Rifles, repeating, 305, 371, 472

Rimmer surname and ream, 261, 430, 512

Rings, cramp, 127, 253, 357

S, final, in proper names, 373

S. on Calcutta banks, 488

Gainsborough (Thomas), 509

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