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A. (E. H.) on inscription in Chillingham Castle, 286
Longevity, 472

Order of the Lion and Sun, 25

Percy (Bp. Thomas), ancestry, 287

Sedes stercoraria, 271

Tailor by trade, 25

Words used in different senses, 278

Affri, its meaning, 55, 124, 405

A. (G.) Barnsbury, on the Bluecoat School, 8, 99,
Bishops' oath of office, 355
Smithfield cattle market, 411

A. (H.) on Grosley's "Londres," 299
A. (J. H.) on Abraham's conversion, 488
Christian Breadbasket, 507
May-day songs, 425

"Alceste and Eliza," a tragedy, 322
Ale made of meat and malt, 73

Alexander (Wm.), American poet, 163
'Aλteús on Philip van Macheren, 268

Allbutt (Rev. John) and "The Vicar of Moses," 125,
189, 383

Allbutt (T. C.) on the "Vicar and Moses," 125, 383
Allestree (Dr. Richard), his works, 124, 328
Alley (Wm.), Bp. of Exeter, oath of office, 355
Allibone (John), "Rustica Descriptio," 222

Almack (Richard) on R. Sackville, Earl of Dorset, 7
Almanac by Gasper Laet, 55.

Almoche (John and Richard), wills, 92
Alva (Petrus de) et Astorga, works, 400, 469
America, origin of money post office orders, 132
American bibliography, 192

American depreciation of currency, 6
American presidency and March 4th, 197
American revolutionary veterans, 219
American steamboat, the first, 151
Amphitryon, origin of the word, 509

Anderson (Sir James Caleb), 153

Anderson (John), founder of Fermoy, 153

Anderson (John) of Dumbarton, 97

Anderson (Patrick, comptroller of stamps, 202, 369

Anderton (Francis), Bart, epitaph, 130

Andrewes Dr. Gerrard), refuses a bishopric, 42
Angus and the Mearns, 231

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Anonymous Works:-

Junius: "Another Guess at Junius," 133
Lovat (Simon, Lord), Memoirs, 35, 121
Majestas Intemerata, 323

Meditations of a Divine Soul, 199, 270

Money Masters all Things, 191

My Pocket Book, 98

Philalethes, pseud., 220, 328, 448

Plain Sermons by Contributors to Tracts for the
Times, 56, 124

Rasselas, the Second Part, 199, 504

Reformed Monastery, 37

Religio Clerici, 447, 486

Reverses, or Memoirs of the Fairfax Family, 199
Robber's Grave, 66

Sermons to Asses, 479

The Tickler, &c., 44

Three Discourses delivered at Chichester, 74, 143
Vitulus Aureus, by Philander, 156

Whole Duty of Man, 9, 57, 106, 124, 290, 328,
461

Ansareys, a people of Syria, 358, 426
Anstruther Library, 289

"Anti-Teapot Review," 470, 488

Apocryphal works honoured by the Institute, 94
Apparitions of Reculver and Rochester, 239

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Apple-pie order," origin of the phrase, 133, 209,
"Arabian Nights," literary history, 68

A. (R.) on a passage in "Pericles," 316

Arbery. its meaning, 345, 407

Archbishops' wives, their precedency, 274, 294
Archdeacon, an Irish artist, 337

Architects, epigram against, 97, 119, 148
Architectural Dictionary, its compilers, 36

Argyle (Anne, Countess of), date of her death, 258
Armistead (Edwin) on price of a Bible in 1660, 132

Spenser and the daisy, 33

Arms, assumption of, 317, 380, 427,
Arms, confirmation of, 65, 124, 249
Arms, heraldic, disclaiming, 43
Armstrong (J. L.), inquired after, 475
A. (R. S.) on Angus McDiarmid, 43
Arthurian Literature, 105

469

Artistic sketches of places without names, 133
Arundell family of Lanherne, 167, 249

A. (S.) on St. Donat's Castle, 35

Ass, slang words for it, 53, 66, 165, 212
Assignats, forged, 270

Aston (Lord) of Forfar, 475

Athenian Misogynist, 47

Athos, Mount, Catalogues of the MSS., 199, 290

Atlas of History, 325

Atlas publishers, hint to, 375

"August the 12th," a public-house sign, 150

Ausonius, epigrams, 147, 208, 264, 347

Australia, art in, 278

Australian aborigines, their extinction, 110

Australian topographical nomenclature, 132

Autographs in old books, 111

Auvergne poetry, works on, 133, 231

Aziza: Azazel, inquired after, 54

B. on bishops' widows, 347

Malaquet battle, 348

B.

265

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Baily (Johnson) on Rev. John Brabant, 77

Calamy's Abridgment, chap. ix. 153, 223

Hoods of St. Begh's men, 85

Baines (Roger), epitaph, 443

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Bedell (Bishop), grant of houses in Dublin, 398, 449
Bedford (W. K. R.) on Bp. Lyndewoode's arms, 266, 429

Ballads, historical value of popular, 127, 261. See Songs. Bedstead superstition, 9.

Ball's Pond, origin of the name, 476

Bankers and goldsmiths, 94

Baptism for the dead illustrated, 33

Baptism of a blackamoor, 198

Baptismal names, curious, 178, 309
Bar, as used in boys' games, 162, 229
Barapicklet, its etymology, 113, 169
Barcroft (John), of Balitore, 328

Bardolph's countenance, a literary blunder, 336
Barkley (C. W.) on the Mickleton hooter, 289
Barley, an exclamation, 84, 162, 227, 285
Barnet, its market for cattle, 411
Baronetess, its legal designation, 33
Bartleman (J.), vocalist, 30

Barton (Thomas), D.D., of Eynesbury, 46, 104

Baskett (Rev. Mr.), supposed author of "The Whole

Duty of Man," 9

Bastile archives, 494

Batchelor (J. W.) on Truffles, 265

Bates (A. H.) on Principio Fabricii, 137

Clent Hills, 507

Bates (Wm.) on an anonymous work, 74
Caraboo, the quondam Princess, 196
66 Journey to London," its author, 98
Miniature, its derivation, 477

"No man a hero to his valet-de-chambre," 439

"Perfervidum," &c., 102

Quotation, 426

Recipe symbol, 168

"Religio Clerici," &c., 486

"The Vampyre," 429

Toasts, 501

Uriconium, or Wroxeter, 427

Batler, a kind of mangle, 397

Baxter (W. E.) on Comets, 102

Bazubend, its meaning and etymology, 113, 211

B. (C.) on Charles Lamb's Works, 46

Beag-bheul, or Little-mouth, 46, 385

Beards, change of fashion, 151

Bearley on Garrick and Dr. Hill, 55

Bear's Den Hall, co. Surrey, burlesque on, 402, 466
Beatille pies, meaning of the saying, 113

Beaulieu (Luke), supposed author of "The Reformed
Monastery," 37

B. (E. C.) on Konx Ompax, 424

Noël, a cry of joy, 445

Beccaria, his monument, 178

Beck (J.) on miniatures at South Kensington, 458

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Bentley (Richard),

Opened," 37

"Wishes, or Harlequin's Mouth

Berkeley family arms, 337, 388

Berlin Society of Modern Languages, prizes, 48
Bernardino Baldi, his works, 9, 309

Berners Street, inhabited by artists, 243

B. (F.) on Thomas Sanden, M.D., 269

B. (F. C.) on Jussieu's Cedar, 121

Kar, Ker, Cor, 336
Meat and malt, 331
Ugrians in Britain, 414

B. (G.) on Coote Molesworth, M.D., 378

Gibbon's Autobiography: ogresses, 483

B. (H.) on "Florice and Blancheflour," 440
Stormstead, its orthography, 156

Traditions of an antecedent world, 95

Bible, price of one in 1660, 132

Bible chronologically arranged, 67

Bible supposed to have been printed at Belfast, 194

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Bibliophobia," its pseudonyms, 458

Bibliothecar. Chetham on Cold Harbour, 344

Chartulary of Whalley Abbey, 508

Dublin Letter, 508

Fires how anciently extinguished, 508
Greek Church, 203, 321

Homer and his translators, 174

Index, General Literary, 373, 455

Superstition, origin of the word, 360

"Bibliotheca Hibernica" announced, 52, 120
Bidding prayer, 152, 291

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Bishops' wives, their precedency, 273, 294, 347
Bismuth, demand for, 200, 454

Bisset (Mr.), "Omitted Chapters in the History of
England," censured, 3

Bisset (Dr. Wm.), Bp. of Raphoe, offered the Arch-
bishoprick of Dublin, 256

34

B. (J.), Bombay, on Omar Cheyam, &c., 11
B. (J. L.) on pedigree of the Dwight family,
B. (J. R.) on Henry Erskine's witty remark, 41
Precedence of bishops' wives, 347
Protestant, origin of the word, 93
Smith (Adam) and Mandeville, 352

Blackamoor, baptism of one, 198
Blackfriars broken bridge, 177

Bladen and Hawke families, 258, 326

Blair (D.), Melbourne, on Rev. Joseph Charles, 79
Australian topographical nomenclature, 132
Extinction of native races, 110
Female franchise at Victoria, 93
Lobeck's "Aglaophamus," 259
Tucker's "Light of Nature," 278

"Blanket of the dark," explained, 51, 176, 266, 316, 452
Blow (James), Bible said to have been printed by him,

194

Blue Coat School, its foundation, 8, 99

Boase (G. C.) on mahogany, a beverage, 280
Boccaccio's Decameron, Earl Spencer's copy, 301, 355
Bockett (Julia R.) on St. Anne's chapel on Caversham
Bridge, 257

Boleyn (Queen Anne), materials for her use, 73
Bolingbroke (Henry St. John, Lord), "Collection of
Political Tracts," 156

Bolton (Wm.), prior of St. Bartholomew, 57, 140
Bonaparte (Napoleon), and the Iron Crown, 223; an
author and a student, 454; "History of his Cabi-
net," 136, 228, 328; invasion of England, 198
Bonar (Dr. Horatius) on locality of Zion, 306
Bone (J. W.) on Englishmen buried abroad, 268
Stale mate, 285

Bonifatio (Natal), engraver, 137

"Bonnie Dundee," the air, 418, 465

Book auction in 1689, 6, 98

Books recently published:-

Anti-Teapot Review, 470

Arrowsmith's Shakespeare's Editors, 332
Artemus Ward, his Book, 252
Arthur: Le Morte Arthur, 105

Autograph Mirror, 292, 430

Autograph Souvenir, 252

Bartlett's History of Wimbledon, 430

Bibliotheca Americana, 192

Blackader's Chronological Bible, 67

Book of Golden Deeds, 126

Boutell's Heraldry, Historical and Popular, 26
Brande's Dictionary of Science, 291, 370
Burn's High Commission Court, 172
Burnet's History of the Reformation, 252
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, Reign

of Elizabeth, A.D. 1581-1590, 410

Camden Society: Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to
Sir George Carew, 48

Charnock's Spanish Bradshaw, 370

Chatelain's Poems and Translations, 370

Chetham Society: Catalogue of Tracts for and
against Popery, 212

Christian Soldier's Penny Bible, 212

Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and
Ireland Itinerarium of Richard Coeur de Lion,
by Wm. Stubbs ; Collection of Chronicles, by
John de Waurin, edited by Wm. Hardy; Leech.
doms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early
England, by T. Oswald Cockayne, 171; Hig-
den's Polychronicon, by C. Babington, 271;
Annals of the Monasteries of Winchester and
Waverley, by H. R. Luard, 450

Clergy List for 1865, 126

Cox's Hymns from the German, 26

Craik's Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties, 410
Cronelly's Irish Family History, 146
Cowper (Mary, Countess), Diary, 172
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 172
Devotions before and after Communion, 410
Dircks's Memoir of Samuel Hartlib, 232
Early English Text Society: Lawder's Tractate-
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, 105
Edward VI., Historical Narrative of his Death, 272
Edwards on Libraries and their Founders, 145
Engel on the Music of Ancient Nations, 47
Ferguson on the Holy Sepulchre, &c., 390
Fitzgerald's Story of Dr. Dodd, 192
Fortnightly Review, 410

Forster's Israel in the Wilderness, 311
Foss's Tabulæ Curiales, 125

Friswell's Familiar Words, 26

Fuller on the Court of Final Appeal, 332

Furioso, the Life of Beethoven, 26

Governing Families of England, 231

Harland's Ballads and Songs of Lancashire, 509

Hassard's London Diocese Book, 272

Hume's Orthographie of the Britan Tongue, 232

Bookbinding, works relating to, 138, 329,
Book swindler, 48

365

Herald and Genealogist, 68, 272, 450

Books, universal Catalogue of English, 334
Books first bound in boards and cloth, 138

Books recently published:-

Aide's Romance of the Scarlet Leaf, 390
Annual Register, 1864, 390

Hunt's Stammering and Stuttering, 272

Jervise's Memorials of Angus and the Mearns, 231
Jewitt on the Wedgwoods, 390
Kempt's American Joe Miller, 126
Kenrick's Papers on Archæology, 146
King's History of Precious Stones, 509

515

Books recently published :—

Kübler's Lyra Germanica, 311
Lady Ina, and other Poems, 509
Lanarkshire Upper Ward Described, 86

London: The Old City and its Highways and By.
ways, 105

Lubbock's Pre-Historic Times, 470
Merivale's Historical Studies, 212

Mitchell's Biographies of Eminent Soldiers, 370
Moffat's Secrets of Angling, 332
Monkhouse's Dream of Idleness, 272
Mornings of the Recess, 1861-4, 67
Moxon's Miniature Poets, 470

Murray & Co.'s Book for Railway Travellers, 430
Napoleon's Life of Cæsar, 68

New Testament, by Churton and Jones, 311
New Testament, by Dean Alford, 470

Payne's Family of Millais, 292

Philobiblion, a Monthly Journal, 86

Picton's Notes on South Lancashire Dialect, 272

Playing Cards, their History, 26
Public Schools Calendar, 1865, 48
Ramsay's Moralist and Politician, 26

Reynolds (Sir Joshua), Life and Times, 291
Rimbault's Early English Organ Builders, 390
Rimmel's Book of Perfumes, 86

Russell's History of Defence of Sebastopol, 86
Sargent's Norwegian Grammar, 509
Shakspeare's Works, by Booth, 86; Keightley, 86;
Dyce, 126; Clarke and Wright, 490
Smith's Practical Dietary for Families, 145
Souldier's Pocket Bible, 212

Spanish Notes and Queries, 370
Strickland's Queens of England, 292

Sweden, Ten Years in, 369

Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, 272

Taylor's Ballads and Songs of Britanny, 47

Tennyson-Selections from his Works, 47
Thimm's Shakspeariana, 332

Thornbury's Haunted London, 192
Timbs's Romance of London, 490

Timbs's Walks and Talks about London, 105

Todd's Books of the Vaudois, 311

Trench's Notes on the Greek of the New Testa-
ment, 105

Trotter's Studies in Biography, 68

Tulloch (Dr.), The Christ of the Gospels, &c., 67
Tytler's History of Scotland, 86

Voices of the Year, or Poet's Kalendar, 106
Webster's Dictionary enlarged, 85, 146, 292
Williams' Superstitions of Witchcraft, 430
Wright's History of Caricature, 105
Booksellers Satirised, 191

Booth (John), jun., "Register of Noblemen since the
Conquest," 115

Borwens, i. e. farms, its derivation, 418

Bospiger on Dighton's caricatures, 119

Boston House, Brentford, 82

Boswell (James), his family, 197
Botrie (John), of Lincoln's Inn, 356
Botta (Carlo Giuseppe), biography, 359
Bottle conjurer in 1749, 84

Boutell (Charles) on episcopal rings, 459
Fylfot, in heraldry, 493
Heraldic queries, 436

Boutell (Charles) on John Milton's arms, 504
Ostrich feather badge, 440

Royal standard and Union flag, 208
Sepulchral monuments, their restoration, 451
Bowyer (Rev. Mr.), inquired after, 177
Brabant (Rev. John), epitaph, 77, 145
Brabener, an officer at Dundee, 113

Bracton (Hen.) MS., " De Legibus Angliæ," 35, 103
Bradshaw's Railway Guide, the earliest, 261, 329
Braham (Sir Richard), day of his death, 9, 82
Brandon (Richard), supposed executioner of Charles I.,

220

Braun (Geo. Christian), German author, 418
Breakneck Steps, Old Bailey, 233

Breeches Bible in Latin, 442

Bremen, its condition from 1731-1757, 323; coin,
388

Brent (Algernon) on bankers and goldsmiths, 94
Breton music, 298

Brevis on the "Christian Breadbasket," 356

Fortescue (Gen. Richard), 341

Brickdusts, or 53rd regiment, 71, 120
Bridewell Hospital founded, 8, 9
Bridge inscription near Dublin, 421
Bridges (Wm.), his family, 120
Brightling on epigrams, 148
Britanny, its ballads and songs, 47
Brito (Albini), his arms, 497

Britons, early, and the prehensile thumb, 323
Britton (Thomas), books on magic, 421
Broadhurst, Sussex, mansion, 33, 104
Brocar (John), printer at Alcalà, 12, 72
Bromley (John) of Bromley Chapel, 308

Bronscomb (Bp. Walter), arms, 437

Brooke (Samuel), performers of " Melanthe," 401, 425
Brown (Hannah), longevity, 180

Brown (Robert), the separatist, 67

Browne (Sir Thomas), "Religio Medici," new edition,

113

Browne (Sir Valentine) and family, 340, 386

Brownie, modern belief in the, 46, 385
Bruce (John) on Herbert Palmer's burial, 11
Bruce (Robert), his claim to the crown of Scotland, 319
Bruce (Syr Mitchil), a caricature, 34, 122
Brunswick (Duke of), "Fifty Reasons for abjuring
Lutheranism," 68, 121, 428, 468

Brunswick (Princess Charlotte of ), "Life," 9, 102
Brute creation, immortality of, 339, 385, 410
Bryskett (Lodowick), noticed, 430

B. (T.) on the early use of cannon, 242
Capital punishments in Russia, 351
Circumstantial evidence, 217
Leeds dialect, 277

Marrying day in Scotland, 493

"Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte," 136
Surgeon executed for murder, 112
"Tentamen Medicinale," 223

B. (T. J.) on Neger, an Irish word, 85

Buckton (T. J.) on Abraham's conversion, 488.
American depreciation of currency, 6

Baptism for the dead, 33
Egypt, its third plague, 408
Exodus of the Israelites, 502
Foxes or sheaves, 389

Louis XVI., his pretended son, 39
Manetho, 389

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Bull Inn, Bishopsgate, 240

Bunhill Fields registers, 146

Bunyan (John), "Pilgrim's Progress" dramatised, 458
Burgh (Barons), noticed, 260, 387

Burgh (Hubert de), Earl of Kent, 385
Burial in coffins, origin of, 113, 266
Burn (J. S.) on S. Decharmes, 248
Fag, a remnant, 268

Burton (E. F.) on Mount Athos, 290

Burton (Johu) on Romney's portrait of Wesley, 103
Butcher's patent for a corporation, 412
Bute (John, 3rd Earl of), burial-place, 181
Butler (Charles), "Principles of Musick,” 65
Butler (Sir James) of Ormond, his seal, 149
Buttery (Albert) on Duke of Buckingham, 249
Botrie (John) of Lincoln's Inn, 356
Franklin (Benjamin), 409

Buttresses, flying, 377

B. (W.) on medical sign, B, 94

Significant names, 506

B. (W. J.) on great seal of South Carolina, 279
Names, curious coincidence of, 298

"Oh, oh, ray, oh Amborah," 155
Old house at Hastings, 199
Town Clerk's signature, 136
Translations of Virgil, 56

Byng (Adm. John), execution, 300

Byron (Lord), not the author of "The Vampyre," 201,
421; continuation of " Don Juan," 42

C.

Cæsar (Julius) and Britain, 322; the Delphic oracle,
182; a grammarian, 257; his Life by the Emperor
Napoleon, 68

Caistor gad, or whip, sold, 354, 388

Calais, St. Mary's church, 300

Calamy (Dr. Edmund), annotated copies of his " Abridg
ment," 223; his Lists of the ejected Clergy, 153
"Caledonia," a packet ship, 94

Calvin, derivation of the name, 151

Camden Society, Marquess Camden elected President,
68; general meeting, 370

Camelford (Lord), inscription on his monument, 131
Campbell (Col. James), of Laweris, 3

Campbell (J. D.) on words in Dalyell's Poems, 254
Canadian clergy, their longevity, 32

Cannel coal, its derivation, 418, 485

Canning (Hon. George), anecdote of the Red Lion, 183
Cannon, its early use, 242

Canonbury tower, Islington, 57

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Carilford on Caryll family,

9

Duke of Brunswick's "Fifty Reasons," 428
Milton (John), crest and motto, 460
Witches and brooms, 420

Yorke (John), of Denbighshire, 441
Carolina, South, its great seal, 279

Carpenter (John), monumental inscription, 126
Carro (Jean de), letter on Louis XVII., 79
Cary family, 117, 170, 203-206, 310, 424, 466
Caryll family of Harting, 9

Casey (Wm.), Bishop of Limerick, 466
Cat in foreign languages, 151

Catwater at Plymouth, its original name, 74
Cavalier, in military warfare, 179, 508
Caversham Bridge, St. Anne's chapel, 257
C. (B. H.) on Cat in foreign languages, 151
Cureton (Dr.), and "Quarterly Review," 185
Epistle to the Laodiceans, 397
Foxes or sheaves, 426

Hymn to the Virgin, 85

Inscription on the Cross, 189

King (Bishop), and Dr. John Rainolds, 73
Limehouse, its derivation, 190

Manual of Palæography, 256

Milton, Shakspeare, Raleigh, &c., 376

St. Matthew's Gospel written by Barnabas, 278
Sea-serpent again, 178

Sedes stercoraria, 102

C. (C. B.) on Hercules in Dante's Divine Comedy, 254,

362

Cecil (Sir Robert), letters to Sir Geo. Carew, 48
Cecil (Sir William), two letters to him, 8
Cedrenus (Geo.), a Grecian monk, his work, 97
Censoriousness, annual sermon on, 399
Cervantes and Lope de Vega, 413; his grave, 112
C. (F. R.) on Garrick's book-plate, 359
C. (H.) on Abraham's conversion, 458

St. Agnes and her Lamb, 402
St. Augustine and Holy Trinity, 440
Chaldee manuscript, its key, 469
Challsteth (A.) on bibliography, 116
Books on Magic, 421
Local ghosts, 366

Milton and his illustrator, 209
Prior and the expected deluge, 140
Satan, works on, 220

Search for the Lapis in 1865, 454
Snail-eating, 349

Tithe barns, 249

Chalmers family of Cults, 34

Chap, slang word, early notice of, 380, 426, 470

Caraboo, a quondam princess, 196, 269, 310, 386, 408, Chapel Royal choristers, 173
418, 447

Caraboo (Dr.), alias Dr. Wilkinson, 490, 506

Chaplin (Dr.) and "The Whole Duty of Man," 57, 12:
Chapman (George), poet, 461

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Carew (Sir George), letters to him from Sir Robert Chappell (Wm.) on Bonnie Dundee," 465
Cecil, 48

Carew (Sir Thomas), noticed, 205

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Oh, oh, ray, oh Amborah,” 306
Toads in stone, 469

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