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Brash, its meaning, 76

Brass pot in the Pinckney family, 268, 398
Breathm, a modern bogus word, 345
Brenan (J.) on Manka process, 497
Breviary, Cardinal Quignon's, 77
Brewer (E. C.) on Bow Street runners, 368
Coloquintida, 208

Dénigrer, its derivation, 377
Jordeloo, its derivation, 78
Printer's error, 266

Richmond (first Duke of), 318

Brewery, early instances of the word, 247, 278, 438
Bric-a-brac, before 1840, 207, 298

Bridegroom, history of the word, 127

Bridesmaid, history of the word, 127, 177, 238, 371
Bridgetower (G. A. P.), violinist, 508
Brierley (G. H.) on Betty: Bellarmine, 414

Bragge (J.) on "Bibliotheca Nicotiana," 252
Brahminee as female of Brahmin, 174
Braidy (J. R.) on lines read at Home Circuit Mess, 273 Bunyan family in Scotland, 44

Burcell or bussell, its meaning, 77

Brailsford (W.) on True Blue as a name, 226
Brains: "With brains, sir!" 69, 334
Brangling, its meaning, 226, 357

Burgundy dukedom, 476

Hats worn in church, 375

Brighton, Royal Pavilion at, 451; its dolphin badge,
477

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Buckley (W. E.) on toyful and jarl, 286
'Travels of Edward Thompson,' 195
Buckworth (Rev. John), his 'Hymns for Sunday
Schools,' 290

Buda, anniversary of its recapture, 1686, 406, 470
'Buke of the Howlat,' 368

Bullen (A. H.) on Jones's 'Muses Gardin of Delights,"

169

Bullion, its etymology, 383, 526

Bunhill Fields and the Cromwell family, 268, 413,

Burial of suicides, 106, 237, 359

Burke (Sir Bernard), seventh edition of his 'Landed
Gentry,' 1, 62, 94, 162

Burlesque and parody, 509
Burnie (R. W.) on Bonaparte, 216

Incas, their history, 54
Nash (Miss), 152

Servants, their correction, 350

'Travels of Edward Thompson,' 149

Burns (Robert), Tam o' Shanter in a Derbyshire story,
305, 417; Wordsworth on, 427

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Byerley (Thomas) and the 'Percy Anecdotes,' 195
Byles (M. B.) or Rockabill Lighthouse, 169
Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), "There let him
lay," 14; poems attributed to him, 33, 73, 158; and
Homer, 137; his sobriquet "Albé," 425

C. (A. M.) on Machell MSS., 249

Pembroke (Herbert, Earl of), 450

C. (C.) on first edition of 'Pickwick,' 75

C. (D. F.) on Bonaparte, 355

C. (F. J.) on Caswallon, 155

C. (I.) on bells ringing at 5 A.M., 278

C. (J. D.) on Watchet plates, 247

C. (J. H.) on the lily of Scripture, 134
Zimisces (John), 412

C. (J. W.) on Calvert family, 134

Yorkshire pedigrees, 515

C. (L. T.) on national subscriptions, 497

C. (R. F.) on Blazer flannel coat, 408

C. (R. W.) on Lieut.-General Middleton, 496

C. (W.) on Dr. Terrot, 55

C. (W. A.) on Hagway, 35

Cabillaud: Morue, their difference, 48, 214, 377, 454

Caddee, its meaning, 476
Caddy. See Tea-caddy.
Cadency, marks of, 517
Calvert family, 7, 133, 436

Cambridge University, surplices in college chapel, 267,
390, 481; visit of Prince of Tuscany in 1669, 471
Cameron (M. A.) on suicide of animals, 337
Campbell (Lady Charlotte), lines addressed to, 87 1
Campbell (J.) on Lieut. R. Campbell, 464
Campbell (J. D.) on Coleridge's lectures, 6
Campbell (Lieut. Ronald), his journal, 387, 464

Campbell (Thomas), 'Lord Ullin's Daughter,' 53, 139;
his family, 345

Can and Ken surnames, 327

Candlemas Day, lenders and borrowers on, 249, 374
Canel of a bell, 168

Cannon or canon of a bell, 168

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Champion of England, 151, 235, 313

Chance (F.) on Bandalore, 230

"Beau idéal" and "bel idéal," 105
Bullion, its etymology, 383

Caryatid, its French equivalent, 473
Dolmen, its etymology, 146
"French leave," 5, 518

Hair turned white with sorrow, 95
Henchman, its etymology, 150, 310

Hobby Hobby-horse: Hobler, 182, 506
Morue: Cabillaud, 214, 454

Chanticleer, earliest instance of the name, 288, 352
Chappell family, 28, 197

Charles I., on eve of battle at Newbury, 36; and
the Puritan soldiers, 72; his extant portraits,
187; his warrant to the Earl of Glamorgan, 188
Charles II., his marriage, 37; why nicknamed
"Rowley," 440

Charlotte, Cape, its name, 309, 480
Charlton family, co. Warwick, 497

Cape of Good Hope, Huguenot settlement at, 269, 376 Charnock (R. S.) on Abracadabra, 504

Carafa (Francesco), sonneteer, 207

Cardmaker, its meaning, 115, 232

Carew, Castle=Carey, 447

Carey (T. W.) on Castle Cary, 129

Cards, their early use in England, 206, 294

Percival De Perci, 517

Carhart (A. S.) on horseshoe ornament, 209

Carlile (Richard), his biography, 228, 317, 373, 464
Carlyle (Thomas), his definition of genius, 84
Carmichael (C. H. E.) on Balguy family, 270, 316

Dundas (Major Lawrence), 438
Erskine of Balgonie, 292

Erskine (Charles), Lord Justice Clerk, 256
O'Doherty (Charles), 499
Rumball family, 503

Carmichael (D. C.) on cart-wheel at Tivoli, 246
Carpet, use of the word, 105, 152, 231, 399
Cart-wheel at Tivoli, 246

Cary, Castle, co. Somerset, 129, 257
Caryatid, strange use of French equivalent, 473
Cash (A. M.) on Sir Gilbert de Lancaster, 187
Caslanus, Caslans, Clan, origin of the word, 495
Cass (F. C.) on Abraham and Hanna Cowley, 328
Cromwell family, 137
Cromwell (Henry), 327

Avallon, Vale of, 359, 481
Henchman, its etymology, 482

Kelts in Britain, their predecessors, 111
Madrague-decoy, 482

Morue: Cabillaud, 377

Muriel, Christian name, 58

Sitwell: Stotville, 397

Chatterton (Thomas), references to, 40
Child (Mrs.), the "Berkshire Lady," 75

China, Oriental, 27, 58, 154; "porcelain of China," 52
Chine-mourning, 183, 332, 519

Chisholm of Chisholm, the last male of his race, 426
Chisholm (Caroline), her birth and death, 228, 357
Chrisomers' Hill and chrisomer, 195, 274
Christ Church parish, Blackfriars, 241, 343, 442
Christ Hospital, or Christ's Hospital, 517
Christ (Jesus), Sentence of Pontius Pilate,' 287, 460;
'Dernier Soupir du Christ,' 408

Christian names: Richardyne, 8, 95, 178, 276;
Garnet, 10, 78, 175; Embrance, 27; Muriel, 57,
238, 357, 464; curious, 78; Advent, 106; male
"femalized," 178; Christmas, 215, 334; female
obsolete, 276; Jubilee, a woman's name, 285, 460;
of English Jews, 357, 464

Christie (A. H.) on Boast: Bosse, 151

Christie (A. H.) on Douglas Jerrold, 218

'Memoirs of Grimaldi,' 114

"Piper that played before Moses," 353

Christie (M.) on heraldic query, 108

Christie (R. C.) on 'De Laudibus Hortorum,' 254
Christmas, a Christian name, 215, 334
Christmas bibliography, 152
Chronological errata, 447

Church, hats worn in, 31, 134, 258, 375; precedence
in, 74, 157, 394, 500; premier parish in England,
116; dancing in, 166, 435; sexes divided in, 306
Church discipline, 127

Church wall, alphabet on, 111

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Collins (Arthur), his 'Peerage,' 187, 434
Coloquintida colocynth, 208, 291

Churches, Queen Anne's fifty, 108, 178; owned by Comber family, 515
corporations, 148; compass in, 289

Churchwardens' accounts, entries in, 268, 437

Cibber (Colley), bibliography of, 21, 96, 174, 375
Cinquefoil on Heralds' College, 331

Clark (A.) on Thomas Flower, 293

Clark (C. J.) on the Incas, 55

Russia, English families in, 371

Clarke family of Bedfordshire, 329
Clarke (Hyde) on Thomas Byerley, 195
Carlile (Richard), 465

Federation, 438

Huguenot settlement at the Cape, 377
Jewish dialect on the stage, 217

Kelts in Britain, their predecessors, 391
Lisle (Lord), his library, 215

'Moniteur Universel,' 86

Muriel, Christian name, 238
Shakspeariana, 264

Thackeray (W. M.), his 'Esmond,' 277
Topography, local, 237

Clarkson (Thomas), his monument, 36, 463

Clergy, their social position in the seventeenth century,

19; beneficed, 1731-2, 518

Clergymen, "wisest of English," 128, 193

Clerisy, origin of the word, 269, 396

Cleveland family, 228, 336

Clock-making, its history, 69

Clockmakers, old, 145, 196, 228

Clocks, trade names for, 285

Closure as noun and verb, 385

Club society, first use of the word, 88

Cobbold (F. T.) on old tunes, 387

Cobham title, 52

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Comets seen in England, 409, 484

Common Prayer Book of the Church of England, its
sources, 77; significance of "N. or M." in, 105, 217,
315, 417

Commons House of Parliament, its members circa
1620-4, 105, 151, 231, 393; smoking in, 286;
"Who goes home?" 388

Compass in church, 289

Conant (John), sermon by, 59

Congers, bookselling phrase, 17

Convicts, sent to the colonies, 58, 114, 193; shipped to
Maryland, 329

Cook (Capt. James), his second voyage, 405

Cooke (W.) on Nixon's Coffee-house, 229

Cooke's "Topographical Library," 388, 521

Cookes (H. W.) on freedom of the City of London, 129

Corbet (John), author of the 'Military Government
of Gloucester,' 68, 157

Cornish histories, 514

Cornish tokens, 496

Cornwall, appointment of sheriffs for, 148, 198, 213,
293, 317, 433, 519

Cornwall duchy, its arms, 29, 76

Corporations owning churches, 148

Cory (W.) on Elizabethan English, 186

More root, 186

County badges, 35

Coway Stakes, 155

Cowley (Abraham), his residences, 48, 155, 372; his

father, 372, 438

Cowley (Abraham and Hanna), 328

Cowper (J. M.) on daughter and dafter, 189

Epitaph at Newhaven, 326

Huguenot families, 257, 297

Noble (William), 68

Richardyne, a Christian name, 8

"Roaring forties," 175

Cowper (William), unpublished poem attributed to,

261, 389

Cox (F.) on " Bolt out of the blue," 522

Crabbe (George), his birthplace, 306, 460

'Craftsman,' duplicate No. 63, 8

Crape as a symbol of mourning, 52

Creel, its derivation, 44

Crofton (H. T.) on the Jews in England, 449

Croker (J. W.), his works, 88, 139

Crom on O'Donovan pedigree, 9

Cromwell family, 48, 107, 137, 232, 268, 276, 413,

415

Cromwell (Henry), his marriage, 327

Cromwell (Oliver), lock of his hair in a ring, 168

Cromwell (Richard), his debts, 26

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Davis (Moll), her portrait by Kneller, 247
Dayman (E. A.) on earthquake in London, 33

Deane (Charlotte G.) on Together, 77

Deane (W.) on the elephant in carvings, 14

Persian costume, 179

Death, jokes on, 18, 97, 194, 315, 480; euphemisms

for, 404, 498

Deaths, tercentenaries of, 365

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Master and servant, 157
Parallel passages, 26
Dana family, 47, 53
Dance (Charles), dramatist,
Dancing in church, 166, 435
Dandy Club, 451

Dane's skin freckles, 451

Daniel (P. A.) on Marlowe's 'Faustus,' 33
Daps: Dap'd, provincialisms, 367

Darby the Blast on "Fighting like divils," 88
Darkling, use of the word, 148, 191, 374, 526
Darton (I. W.) on Adelaide O'Keefe, 503
Daughter pronounced dafter, 189, 253, 433
Davenport (Elizabeth). See Roxalana.
Davies (C. J.) on 'Banbury saint," 128

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Heinel (Mdlle.), 211

Davis (A. M.) on Harvard College and William Doctors of the Church, 429, 523
Penoyer, 245

Dickens (Charles), and Pickwick, 30, 112, 175, 273, 393,
526; first edition of 'Pickwick,' 75, 175, 257; his
'Memoirs of Grimaldi,' 114

'Dictionary of Kisses,' 55

'Dictionary of National Biography,' notes and cor-
rections, 101, 382

Digby (Everard), Rector of Orton Longueville, Hunts,
107

Digby (Lieut. William), his biography, 368

Dillon (H.) on cadency, 517

Dinners "à la Russe," 348

Diplomaticus on Papal envoys to England, 495
Dipps (J.) on first edition of' Pickwick,' 75
Disedify Disedification, 406

Disgruntled, its meaning, 25, 192, 295

Disraeli (Benjamin), notary public, 89, 152, 232, 295,

371

Dixon (J.) on a poem attributed to Cowper, 390

Daughter and dafter, 253

"French leave," 110

"Man and a brother," 394

Nuttall's 'Dictionary,' 266

Dobson (A.) on Goldsmith and Voltaire, 358

Doctrinaire, origin of the word, 306

Dodd (Dr. William), his execution, 227, 334, 416;

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Story of a Famous Forgery,' 346
Dogs, epitaphs on, 38

Dollar as an English word, 118, 233
Dolmen, its etymology, 146, 238, 318
Domesday farthings, 424
Domesday wapentakes, 61, 92
Don, the Irish affix, 128, 255

Dorchester Company, 1620-30, 28
Dore (J. R.) on the Bishops' New Testament, 266
Bogie: Bogy, 178

Leaves, their old signatures, 481

Fire of London, 38
Lincoln, imp of, 18

Drawing, its subject, 267, 415

Drawoh on "Hatchment down!" 93
Noises, nocturnal, 132

Queen's College, Oxford, 392
Royal salutes, 496

Widdrington family, 38

Douglas (Baron v. B.) on Yarner family, 329
Douglas (Sylvester), his 'Reports,' 366
Douthwaite (W. R.) on Gray's Inn Hall, 289
Dover (George J. W. Agar-Ellis, Lord), 89
Dowdall (P.) on Voltaire's editors, 8
Dowling (A. E. M.) on 'Sentence of Pontius Pilate,' Eel, salt, 258

287

Dun cow slain by Guy of Warwick, 495

Dunbar, its ancient burial-place, 9, 76

Dundas (Major Lawrence), his family, 349, 438

Dunheved on misquotations, 327

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Dowson (A.) on bells ringing at 5 A.M.,
Good Friday, playing marbles on, 308
Huer, its meaning and derivation, 27
Ivy-Hatch, 192

Egerton (R.) on regimental histories, 396
Egle icicle, 165, 234, 294

'Eiphnapxia,' a misprinted book-title, 514
Electric telegraph, lines on, 448
Elephant in wood-carving, 14, 413, 524

Limehouse, its derivation, 34
Dowson (E. C.) on a French ballad, 15
Drakard (John), proprietor of the Stamford News, 89, Eliot (John), missionary, 269, 434
176, 196, 235, 375
'Elisabeth, Reine d'Albion,' 75
Elizabethan English, 186
Eliziam on heraldic query, 417
Ellcee on John Drakard, 375

Drake (Sir Francis), his arms before 1581, 495

Drake (H.) on dancing in church, 435

Revolution of 1688, 306

Ellis (G.) on Sir Joseph Banks on St. Swithin, 425
Jewish dialect on the stage, 373

Lord Mayor's Day, 497

Masquerade, King of Denmark's, 64
Wilkes (John), 306

D'Urfey (Thomas), dirge in his 'Don Quixote,' 167
Dying, euphemisms for, 404, 498

Woman or lady, 135

Ellis (John), reference to, 235
Embrance as a Christian name, 27
Endorsation = endorsement, 517

York (Richard, Duke of), 113

Droeshout (Martin), his original portrait of Shak- English, foreign, 36, 153, 195, 294; Elizabethan, 186
speare, 425

Drummond (J.) on parallel passages, 115

"English as she is wrote," 106, 156, 193
'English Dialect Dictionary,' 322, 365, 423
'English Mercurie,' 1588, 329, 394, 479

Dubordieu family, 329, 458

Duff (E. G.) on Charles II.'s copy of Shakspeare, 436 Engraving of Henry Maydman, 15, 114, 251
Duke with the silver hand, 477
Environs and suburbs, their difference, 516

E. (A.) on breathm, a modern bogus word, 345

E. (H. D.) on Folifate or Folifoot family, 71, 481

E. (K. P. D.) on bishops in partibus infidelium, 494
Disedify: Disedification, 406

Edgcumbe (R.) on the sobriquet "Albé," 425
Cromwell (Oliver), lock of his hair, 168
Dancing in church, 166

Mohammedan convert, 516
Proverb on wine, 474
Ring with inscription, 286

E. (R.) on Huguenot settlement at Cape of Good
Hope, 269

Regimental histories, 248

Edmond (J. P.) on Aberdeen University theses, 367
'Annals of Scottish Printing,' 349
'Buke of the Howlat,' 368

Earle (Sir Richard), his epitaph, 39

Earthquakes, in London, 33; in England, 409, 484
Earwaker (J. P.) on Stanley: Savage, 57
Easter bibliography, 286

Easton (Edward), bookseller, of Salisbury, 518
Eboracum on the 'Chant of Achilles,' 276

Pickwick surname, 273

Eclipses in England, 409, 484

Eddystone Rocks, Camden on, 31, 112; historical
data, 428

Raban (Edward), 476
Scotch books, early, 408
Edwin (John Prosser), actor, 451

Egerton (G.) on Lieut. R. Campbell, 387
Peninsular medal, 195

Dymoke family, 151, 235, 313

Dymond (R.) on daughter pronounced dafter, 253, 433 Epitaphs :—

Epigrams :-

Beaconsfield (Lord), 328

Ex luce lucellum, 228, 318, 432
Wilkes (John), 306
Episcopal dress, 387, 502

Dogs, 38

Earle (Sir Richard), in Stragglethorpe Church, 39
"Earth take thine Earth," 106

"Goe thou O carkas rest in dust," 474

"Great Jove has lost his Ganymede I know," 426

"Here Lies a Chain of Gold," 474

"Here Vernon lies," 74

Lee (Dame), in Aylesbury Church, 505
Nautical, 6

"O death thou suggenar soe bold," 474
Servants, 373

"This stone may speak of human versv," 474
Tipper (Thomas), at Newhaven, 326

"Two grandmothers, with their two grand-
daughters," 474

Epitaphs as evidence, 321, 502
"Erba d'invidia," 95

Ernst (C. W.) on dollar, 233

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"Experto crede," 17
Harum-scarum, 228

Erpingham (Sir Thomas), his age at Agincourt, 309, 398

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