JOHN DE CRITZ (3rd S. ix. 470.) I can find nothing in Flemish biographies or others (excepting Horace Walpole's (G. Vertue's) Anecdotes of Painting) about the said John de Critz, who seems, at all events, to have been very well off in the world, as we see he could bear without flinching a royal debt of 2,1581. 13s., "having been due vnto him a long tyme since in his Mat greate wardrobe." P. A. L. COUTHLY (3rd S. x. 129.)-"Couth," in South Yorkshire, is used in the sense of keen. "He's couth eniff at a bargain," is a phrase sometimes heard. C. C. R. PELL-MELL (3rd S. xii. 483.) - Your learned correspondent A. A. has indeed unearthed a curiosity. Clearly the 'prentice-box, or Christmasbox, was so called from piller and malle, spoil-box or polling-box, to contain the spoil or black mail levied by them. Mail means rent or tribute, and is mal in Saxon. It also means a spot, macula, mole, but the round tribute could hardly designate a halfpenny. 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(A.) on Birds, extraordinary assemblage, 319 Books, large paper copies, 24 Candle queries, 244 Evil eye in Italy, 317 Glass-cutter's day, 245 Homeric traditions and language, 268 Old sayings as to various days, 478 Rule of the road, 236 Seven bishops, 257 Stool ball, a game, 73 Thanet notes, 203 Ussher family pedigree, 92 Walsh (Edward), M.D., biography, 415 Wolfe (Arthur), Lord Viscount Kilwarden, 86 Abyssinia and its people, 300, 452; its royal arms Stalactites and stalagmites, 344 Addis (John), jun., on beauty unfortunate, 18, 114 Cap-à-pie, 136 Circular, curious uses of the word, 167 "Conspicuous from its absence," 119 Corsie, its meaning, 390 Dole, its different meanings, 117 Othergates, 140 Percy's fol. MS., ed. Furnivall, 376 Proverbs explained, 487 "Rose of dawn," 88 Sield happy, 305 Taylor (Bishop Jeremy), works, 404 Tomb at Barbadoes, 58 "Troilus and Cressida," 122 "When Adam delved," &c., 73 Wolwarde, its meaning, 524 A. (E. 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Hélène, 54, 276 Mephistopheles in England, 265 Memoirs of the Life of Parnese, 445 Our Zion, or Presbyterian Popery, 98 Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of the Eng. lish Language, 24 Right of Tythes Asserted, 426 School of Patience, 309, 399, 463 Shakspeare and his Friends, 27 Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 130, 219 Sketches of Young Ladies, 130, 219 Songe d'un Anglais, 150 Summer Rambles, Studies, &c., 244 Vision, or the Romish Interpretation, 150 Anserine wisdom, 478 Antwerp Cathedral described, 328, 447 Apron, wearing a leather, a saying, 208 Archer (Rev. John), nonconformist, 109, 198 Archimedes on two-faced pictures, 58 Archipelago, its derivation, 118 Arms, so-called grants of, 15, 259; augmentation of, Arras, portraits in its public library, 455 Art Catalogue, 493, 517 "Articles to be followed and observed," 1549, 6 Ashley (Sir Anthony), first cultivator of cabbages, 287, 533 Anglo-Scotus on the birth-place of Cromwell's mother, Assembly room rules, 477 383 Colbert, bishop of Rodez, 397 Fisher family, co. Roxburgh, 292 Gib baronetcy, 274, 536 Hamilton (James), of Bothwellhaugh, 12 Mercer (Sir Andrew), 252 Oath of the peacock, 275 Angus (G.), printer at Newcastle, 446 Animals, language for, 501 Anonymous Works:- Albumazar, a comedy, 135, 155, 510 Caroline, "The Queen's Case Stated," 460 Dorking, a Picturesque Promenade round, 461, 537 George IV., "The King's Treatment of the Queen," 460 Great Question on Thi gs Indifferent, 208 Asses in England, 373 Atone, or attone, its orthography, 337 Attainders of 1715 and 1745, 522 Aubrey (John), "Miscellanies" annotated, 306 Australia, its gold, 522 Avery (Richard), ejected minister, 413 |