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Baptising boys before girls, 184, 293, 403, 469

Baptism by immersion, 66, 152, 238, 253; in warm
water, 412

Barbadoes, the tomb at, 9, 58, 97, 257

Barge, the London Lord Mayor's, 326

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Bell at Scalton in Yorkshire, 391, 468; the largest in
America, 378

Bell of the passing soul, 373

Bell literature, 453

Barham (R. H.), "Dick's Long-tailed Coat," 57; in- Bell-ropes, hanging in the, 91

edited poems, 79, 155, 316, 445

Barkley (C. W.) on indelible blood, 439

Campbell's "Hohenlinden," 113
Churches with thatched roofs, 35
"Fair Agnes and the Merman," 451
Morris dances, 254]

Vent Weald, 198

Baronets of Ireland, the new order, 168, 215, 234
Bar-Point on assumption of a mother's name, 451
Funeral custom, 74

"Leasings lewd," its meaning, 48
Oldmixon (Sir John), Knt., 76
Barry (Countess du), 52, 99, 153, 214
Bartleman (James), sales of his music, 327
Bartlet house, Hyde Park, 433

Barton (Edward), ambassador, epitaph, 459
Baskerville (John), noticed, 295, 337
Bates (Wm.), on brush, or pencil, 419
Joco-Serin of Melander, 285
Lally-Tolendal and Gibbon, 308

Never the barrel the better herring," 258

Prior (Matthew), "Poems on Several Occasions,"
246, 469

Tomb at Barbadoes, 257

Baugé, the battle of, 16, 53, 118, 159, 469
Bayonet, its history, 287, 364, 398

B. (C. C.) on "Sawney's Mistake," a poem, 149
B. (C. T.) on anonymous works, 130

D'Israeli's epigram on Alison, 447
"Frightened Isaac," 130
Geography of 1654, 463
Mottoes of orders, 295
Tennysoniana, 283

B. (C. W.) on sermons in stone, 169
Beauchamp (Thomas de), his seal, 382
Beagle, a small dog, 113, 199, 299

Beauge, the battle of, 16, 53, 118, 159, 468

Bells at St. Andrews, 14; Angelus, at Kirkthorpe,
18; inscription on Angelus, 35; blessing of them
at Malta, 65

Bellini (Vincent), portrait, 90, 273, 353

B. (E. M.) on Ugo Foscolo, 279

Benedict of Peterborough, "Chronicle," 19

Bentham (Thos.) "On the Temptation of Christ," 501
Berkeley (George), bishop of Cloyne, portrait, 481
Berlichingen (Götz von), his iron hand, 35

Bernard (Dr. C. B.), Bishop of Tuam, consecrators,
288, 363

Bernard (Francis), M D., his MSS., 376
Bernardino Lombardi, his works, 256

Bethune (Dr. Alex. Neil), Bishop of Niagara, where
educated, 309

B. (F.) on Trivet: John of Bologna, 4
B. (F. C.) on the Fighting Fifth, 402
B. (G.) on the Jewish temple service, 331
B. (H.) on national and family portraits, 108

Scotticisms, 110

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B. (J. H.) on corrosion of marble in cathedrals, 307
Immersion in baptism, 152, 238

B. (K.) on the defence of Venice, 1848 9, 414
Blacas, collection of gems, 69

Black-letter leaf, 307, 400

Black Society, its motto, 482
Blackett, a widow of Oxford, 23

Blades (William) on mors maryne, 485
Blaeu (Jan)," Grand Atlas," 463, 532
Blair (D.), Melbourne, on "To Burke," 166

Cotton: "Stuffing the ears with cotton," 127
Scott's Epigrams of Martial, 124
Seeing in the dark, 106
Tennyson's early poems,

"Victoria Magazine," 99

98

Blamire (Susannah), song "The Waefu' Heart," 188,

317, 403, 451

Blashill (Thos.) on corrosion of marble, 446

Blayney (Dr. Benj.) edition of the Bible, 10

Blenheim, inscription on the bridge, 45

Blomberg (Rev. F. W.), parentage, 6

Blondel, inquired after, 373

Bloody, an offensive epithet, 460

Blow (Dr. John), anecdote, 433, 508, 529

Blyth (S.) on Peacock's "Rich and Poor," 171

Bohun (Edmund), "History of the Desertion," 435
Boissière (Marie Gabriel de la), 413

Bomerang, Australian, 400

Bonaparte (Napoleon): "Confessions," 54

Bone (J. W.) on Grandy needles, a dance, 329
Lancashire recusant ballads, 476

Laund, a local name, 329

Rule of the road, 236

Bonfires on the Eve of St. John, 42

Book Inscriptions, 224

"Book of Curtesye," a passage, 503

Book-plates, their heraldic authority, 117, 218

Books, autographs in, 126, 166; destroyed at Stationers'
Hall, 374, 436; large paper copies, 25, 400

Books recently published:-

Adams's Barford Bridge, 366
Antenicene Christian Library, 19

Apocryphal Gospels, translated by B. H. Cowper,

160

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Books recently published:-

Cornish's Guide through Birmingham, 180
Coverdale's Bible, by Francis Fry, 538
Cowley (Abraham), Essays, 517
Dante's Divine Comedy, 59

De la Rue's Diaries, etc., 385

Dickens and Collins's No Thoroughfare, 492
Dingley's History of Marble, 472
Ewald on Our Constitution, 19

Fine Arts Quarterly Review, 80
Francis (Sir Philip), Memoirs of, 404

Godwin's English Archæologist's Handbook, 80
Gold, Silver, Lead, 426

Golden Thoughts from Golden Fountains, 492
Greenwood's Purgatory of Peter the Cruel, 453
Herald and Genealogist, 366

Hill on Dressing Salads, 160

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, their date, 40

Hotten's Abyssinia and its People, 452

Ingram's Doom of the Gods of Hellas, 140

Laboulaye, Abdallah, or Four-leaved Shamrock,

517

Letters of Distinguished Musicians, 365
Letts's Diaries and Almanack, 517
Levins's Rhyming Dictionary, 280, 452

Lyra Germanica: The Christian Life, 384
Manuel (Don Juan), Fifty Pleasant Stories, 517
Masson (Gustave), La Lyre Française, 119
Men of the Time, 538

Milton (John), Concordance to his Works, 59
Motley's History of the Netherlands, 426
Murray's Handbooks: Tyrol and the Eastera
Alps; Scotland; Gloucestershire, Worcester-
shire, and Herefordshire, 140
Pemberton's History of Monaco, 472

Perry's Treatise on Herne's Oak, 160

Piers Plowman, Visions of William concerning,

280

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Querard-a Martyr to Bibliography, 59

Rawnsley's Sermons, 19

Rogers's Golden Sheaf, 492

Routledge's Every Boy's Book and Annual, 426
Routledge's Pronouncing Dictionary, 140
Roxburghe Library, 180

Saint Paul's, a Magazine, 280

Scotland, her Songs and Scenery, 492

Shakspeare's Works, by Dyce, 365

Silent Hour, Essays for Sunday Reading, 453
Smiles's Huguenots, 385

Smiles's Life of Thomas Telford, 517

Souvestre (Emile), Pleasures of Old Age, 220
Stewart's Practical Angler, 19

Tennyson's Enoch Arden, in Latin, 517
Tennyson's Vivien and Guinevere, 425
Tennysoniana, 19

Timbs's Wonderful Inventions, 472
Tinsley's Magazine, 119, 280
Tomes's Champagne Country, 220
Twamley's History of Dudley Castle, 119
Walcott's Memorials of Stamford, 366
Wood on the Continuity of Scripture, 472
Yorkshire Worthies, Portraits of, 80

Boroihme (Brian), his harp, 248

Bos Piger on the meaning of Espec, 245
Botsford in America, 306, 447

Botsford (J. W.) on Botsford in America, 447

Bourbon sprig, 33, 55

Bourchier (Barrington), noticed, 484

Bourchier (Sir John), regicide, 68

Bourchier (Jonathan), on Cromwell and Morland, 504

Dole sorrow, pain, 55, 79

Donizetti and Bellini, portraits, 90
Hanging in the bell-ropes, 91
Parc aux cerfs, 53

Quotation: "But with the morning," &c., 75
Quotation from Pope, 492
Translations, etc., 524
Wolcot (Dr.), 95

Boutell (Charles) on dates upon old seals, 382
Bower (Scott) on epitaph in Melrose churchyard, 359
Bower (Honest Johnny), inscription on his tomb, 285,

359

Bowring (Sir John) on the Byron album, 241
B. (R.) on punning mottoes, 276
Quakerism, 532

Brace (Lieut.), his fate, 346
Braddock (Gen. Edward), death, 5
Bradley Hall, inscription on a beam, 327

Brailsford (Wm.) on the word Classic, 65
Braithwaite (Rev. G.), longevity, 498
Brassicanus (Joannes Alexander), 97
Brazil, its literary institutions, &c., 282
Breccles church, inscriptions, 167

Brett (Rev. Thomas) and Princess Olive, 413
Bridge (Rev. Wm.), biography, 247, 318
Bridt (Mr.), artist, 107

Brierley (James) on licenses to preach, 392
Bright (John), epigrammatic saying, 105
Brignoles, a family name, 78, 152, 278, 363
British Museum duplicates, 342, 424
Britt. or Brit. on coins, 350

Brock, an animal, 88, 242, 300, 360, 469

Brodie (Laird of), portrait, 346

Buckton (T. J.) on Cap-à-pie, 135

Classic, as applied to first-rate authors, 156
Clock dial, 185

Göthe's sensibility, 103

Harvest time among Greeks and Romans, 192
Hindoo Trinity, 38

Immersion in holy baptism, 152

Immortal brutes, 116

Independent German governments, 257

Lancasterian system, 239

"L'Homme Fossile en Europe," 38
Manna described, 77

Margaret's song in Göthe's Faust, 166
Names, confusion of proper, 178
Needle's eye, 157

Parc aux cerfs, 52, 153, 214
Parr, a surname, 114
Penny, its derivation, 75
Philology, 118

"Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat," 99
References wanted, 217

Seals on old charters, 58
Solomon and the genii, 93

Stranger derived from "E," 177

Tomb of the Virgin Mary, 215

Translations of Eastern Works, 76

Valley of Mont Cenis, 39

Writing on the ground, 145

Buildings, restoration of old, 430, 533

Bulkely family, 244

Bull (John) and the key of his own house, 264

Bull (John), mus. doctor, anecdote, 508

Bulls, collection of, 27

Bulteel (John), "London's Triumph," 187

Bumblepuppy, a game, 119

Bunker's Hill, list of wounded at the battle, 45

Buns, early use of the word, 148, 195

Burges (George), translations, 376

Burial of living persons, 176, 399
Burke, a slang word, 166

Burke (Edmund), a Junius claimant, 34, 73, 112

Bromby (Rev. John Healey), Vicar of Holy Trinity, Burn (J. S.) on Farren or Furren family, 15
Hull, 42

Bromwicham, 361, 424, 447'

Brooke (Zachary), D.D., clerical preferments, 370

Browne (Sir Thomas), translations, 445

Browning (Robert), "Boy and Angel," 6, 55; lines on
Zermatt churchyard, 246

Brownlow (Emma Sophia Countess), 452
Bruce (John) on John Bruen's portrait, 65

Shakspeare family of Rowington, 81

Bruen (John), of Cheshire, original portrait, 65
Brunet (Jacques Charles), his death, 412
Brush, or pencil, 306, 418

Brutes, immortal, 66, 116, 260

B. (T.) on the ride from London to York, 418

B. (T.), Old Jewry, on thatched churches, 75

Buccleuch dukedom, 505

Buckley (W. E.) on baptising boys before girls, 293
Fray' and Sympree, 509

Inscription at Bakewell, 537
Proverbs explained, 488

Buckton (T. J.) on assumption of mother's name, 112,

237

Bromby (J. H.), Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hull, 42
Byron's "Don Juan," false quantity, 127

Halyburton (Geo.), Bishop of Dunkeld, 92
Irish Star Chamber, 502

"The School of Patience," 399

Treatise on Oaths, 338

Burnet (Bp. Gilbert), noticed, 367

Burns (Robert), autograph of "Bruce's Address to his
Troops at Bannockburn," 105

Burying iron fragments, 90, 260

Bushey Heath on the English language, 262

Johnson's Dictionary, 332

Knave of clubs, 96

Lambeth library, 311, 325

Pronunciation, 295

Punning mottoes, 74
Strange old charter, 175

"To sleep like a top," 421

Vow of the peacock, 445

Butler (Bp. Joseph), his best book, 23, 57

Butler (Samuel), origin of the name "Hudibras," 368

507

Butler (Thomas), on the estate of yemanrie, 462
Buttery (A.) on Smith queries, 294

Butterfly, as used by the poets, 58, 119

B. (W.) on Bridt, an artist, 107

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Penny, origin of the word, 25

Pine's portraits of David Garrick, 205
Portraits of criminals, 276

"Caledonian Mercury," discontinued, 44
Calligraphy, works on, 114, 174

Camelot, its ancient site, 415, 451

Camoens (Lewis de), English translations of the
Lusiad," 189

Campbell family motto, 146

Campbell (Archibald), "Lexiphanes," 322, 449
Campbell (Thomas), "Hohenlinden," 22, 72, 113, 156,
177 origin of, 148; "Ye Mariners of England,"
22, 113, 176, 194, 216

Camphire posset, 16
Canada, lines on, 127

Candle queries, 244, 318

Canning (Hon. George) and the preacher, 423, 491

Canterbury, silver font at, 127

Cap-à-pie, its etymology, 65, 135

Capper and Hyde families 483

Cardinals, list of English, 2, 71, 235

Carib population in Dominica, 64

Carmichaels of that ilk, 53

Carr (Charles A.), extraordinary escape, 167

Carrascon (Thomas), works, 310
Carring carrion, 400

Cartaphilus, Chronicles of, 338
Cartwright (R.) M.D. on Upspring, 3

Carylforde, on Mister supplanting Master, 8
Cat o' nine tails, 226

Catterick (Bp. John), inscription on his tomb, 9
Caucus, a cant werd, 171

Caulfeild (Dr. Charles), consecrated bishop of Nassau,
351

Cayley (C. B.) on Dante's "lonza," 410

C. (B.) on "Fair Agnes and the Merman," 490
C. (B. H.) on Mons. De Joux, 441

Liturgy on Universal Principles, 332
Nose-bleeding recipe, 449

Private Act of Parliament, 186

Tomb of the Virgin Mary, 215

C. (C.) on assumption of a mother's name, 111, 237
C. (C. A.) on the Irish greyhound of Celtic times, 8.
C. (E.) on Duke of Roxburgh, 284

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Despatch, or dispatch, 307

Dryden queries, 7, 89, 206, 308, 413
Howard (Lord) of Escrick, 109

Key-cold: key: quay, 148

Oldham's Poems, ed. 1722, 286

Relict, or relic, 309

Shard, its meaning, 434

Shooting stars and the Sedgmoor battle, 434

Chaise (Père la), letter on the Edict of Nantes, 330
Chalice, silver, at Pakefield, 105, 309, 403, 469
Chalices with bells, 163, 255

Champion whip, its present possessor, 413
Chantrey (Sir Francis), no seaman, 389
Chapels, chantry, 295

Chappell (Wm.) on

"Lord Sinclair and the men of

Guldbrand Dale," 511

Bull (Dr. John), anecdote, 508

Song, "Rich and Poor," 278

Charles I., equipments during the Civil War, 206,
279; parliament at Oxford, 523; letter to the pope,
260; execution, 431

Charles II., his death, 264, 538
Charmouth, bracket in a window, 434

Charters, rhyming 33, 175, 209; substances of the
seals, 25, 76

Chaucer (Geoffrey) and "The Testament of Love," 303;
discovery of his portrait, 505

Chaucer Society, 300

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C. (H. G.) on Scottish pedigrees, 348

Chief head, their identity, 481

Chignons of other times, 306, 400

Colours, permanent, 130

Communion, its derivation, 18

Commonwealth of England, its history, 405

China marks, 8; receipt for broken, 346, 448; made at Compton (F.) on married on crooked staff, 159

Stratford-le-Bow, 171

China ware: the Bourbon sprig, 38, 55

Chinese newspapers, 65, 217, 338
Cholmondeley (Richard de), 90

Christ Church, Hants, legend, 264

Christ (Jesus) a carpenter, 17

Christian names, royal, 130, 197

Christie (W. D.), on John Hobbes surgeon, 264
Church consecrated by an archdeacon, 24, 59, 96
Church, men's heads covered in, 446

Church desecration during the Commonwealth, 323,
379, 416, 490

Church-door proclamations, 285, 359

Churches sunken, 25; two under one roof, 105, 197,
273; with thatched roofs, 35, 75, 100, 361

Cinque Port seals, 433

Circular, curious uses of the word, 167, 276
City Poets of London, 186

C. (J. E.) on the Rev. William Cole, D.D., 346

Cole (Henry William), 346

C. (J. L.) on Gen. James Edw. Oglethorpe, 68

C. (J. S.) on tap-room. game, 477

Clarendon and Whitelocke volumes sold by lottery 264

Clark (E. S.) on market at Waltham, 525

Clarke (Rev. C. C.), noticed, 505

Clarke (Hyde) on Abyssinia, 186

Anonymous works, 208

Auxiliaries, 430

Byerley (G. H.), 264

Evil eye, 365

Greek patriarchs, 359

Jumart, or hybrid, 500

Lake habitations, 4

Language for animals, 501

Olive (Princess) and mariner's compass, 371

Clarry on a note for Oliver Cromwell, 322, 416, 490

Class and its compounds, 242, 356, 465

Classic, its modern meaning, 65, 156

Clayton (Mrs.), longevity, 328

Clayton (Sir Robert), artist of his monument, 433

Clerke (Ven. C. C.) on episcopal wig, 527

Clery (M.), an adherent of the Bourbons, 460

C. (L. H.) on "Mémoires relatifs à l'Histoire de
France," 462

Clock dial, a new one, 185, 443

Cluaid Clyd, its locality, 168

C. (N. B.) on sign of the Three Pigeons, 25

Coat, or court cards, 44, 137, 177, 278, 360

Cock: La sentence du coq, 478
Coffins disturbed in church, 371

Coillus on pride of ancestry, 343

Conduit Mead, Bond Street, 147

545

Coningsby (Sir Harry), inscription on his tomb, 265,

364

Conolly, origin of the name, 374, 515

Consols, price at different periods, 23
Cooper's "Athens Cantabrigienses," 306

Corbet (Bp. Robert), "Poems," 150

Corney (Bolton) on Wm. Davenant on Shakspeare, 3
Death of Jacques-Charles Brunet, 412

Hazlitt (W. Carew), lost books, etc., 183, 252
Holland: fine linen, 127

Wedgwood (Josiah), "Catalogue of Cameos," 304
Cornish (W.) on Bishop Hay, 365

Cornub. on Charles I. at Oxford, 523

Herbert (Lord) "De Veritat," translation, 375
Mawe, a surname, 503

Monumental inscription at Louvain, 431
Norden's "Survey of Kirton in Lindsey," 91
Pretyman baronetcy, 421

Silver chalice, 1337, 309
Whitsun Tryste fair, 187

Correspondent: "Our own correspondent," 521
Corsie, its meaning, 390, 516

Cottle family, 78

Court, or coat cards, 44, 137, 177, 278, 360
"Court de bone compagnie," a club, 107, 178

Court of Queen's Bench and Exchequer, 90, 157
Court sermon, 1674, in manuscript, 367
Courtenay family, 435

Courtois on "Honi soit qui mal y pense," 18

Iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen, 35

Cousin, its etymology, 331

Couthly, a provincialism, 538

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Coventry (A.) on birthplace of Cromwell's mother, 48

Cowper (J. M.) on epitaph by John Philipott, 390
Marsh (Rev. R.) epitaph, 284
'Nointed, a provincialism, 238
Party, meaning a person, 365
Tomb of the Virgin Mary, 214
Vent Weald, 198

Cpl. on Bampton's tax, 206

Bartlet house, Hyde Park, 433
Form of abjuration, 225

Mummy, receipt for it, 171

"Whoop! do ine no harm, good man," 170

C. (R.), Cincinnati, on Calligraphy, 170
MS. court sermon, 1674, 367

C. (R.) Cork, on anonymous poems, 45
Harvest home, 193

Crab, a slang word, 263

Cradle tenure, 391

Colbert, Bishop of Rodèz, in France, 226, 272, 317, Crannoges in Ireland, 230, 344

397, 437

Cold Ashton church, its pulpit, 169

Cole family, genealogy, 517

Cole (Henry Wm.), biography, 346

Cole (Rev. Wm.), D.D., dean of Lincoln, 345

Coleridge (S. T.) at Rome in 1806, 281;"Christabel,"

430

Collier (General), noticed, 468

Crawley (C. Y.) on Eton College plays, 58

Medical query, 347

C. (R. C.) on Persius, with Commentary of Lerissa, 197
Creation, novel views of, 374, 449, 534
Creole natives of the Tropics, 62, 139
Creswell (Mrs.), noticed, 63
Cresy (E.) on Bishop Seth Ward, 9
Criminals, their portraits, 276

Collier (J. P.) on Chaucer and "The Testament of Critz (John de), notice 1, 538
Love," 303

Croker and Guthrie families, 434, 536

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