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WILLIS'S

CURRENT NOTES:

A SERIES OF ARTICLES

ON

Antiquities, Biography, Beraldry, Bistory, Languages,
Literature, Curious Customs, Kr.,

SELECTED FROM

ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR

1856,

TO THE PUBLISHERS,

WILLIS AND SOTHERAN,

No. 136, STRAND, LONDON.

MDCCCLVII.

INDEX TO THE SIXTH VOLUME.

Indicates there are Woodcut illustrations to those Articles.

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Amcotts Family arms, 86.

America, a Century since, 6.

'St. Andrew penny located, 45.

*St. Andrew's Church, Portland, 41.
Angels' visits, 40, 48.

Antiquary and the Novelist, 92.

Arles called Constantina, 44.
Auchendrane Cross, 87.

Baker's dozen defined, 17.

Bangor Monastery, 82.

Bangor Episcopal monuments, 85.
Baraeco, see Barrieco.

*Barber Surgeons' arms, 90.
Barrieco? 72, 77, 78.

Bartolozzi, Woollett's Letter to, 69.
Being put to one's shifts, 80.
Belfry rhymes, 15, 27, 56.
St. Bernard's sauce? 104.

Biblical mistranslation corrected, 88.
Bishops, Translation of, 104.
Blind man's complaint, 40.
Blue Boar Inn, Leicester, 27.
Blue Jacket Order, 71.
Boar's Head Tavern? 94.
Bolingbroke's mistress? 48, 55.

Bothwell bank, Scotish song, 101 n.
Bottle Conjuror perpetrator, 6.
Bowden Ringers' Orders, 15.
Boys of the Belt, 4.

Braxfield's sneer at Christ, 96.
*Brechin Cathedral corbel, 38.
British Church not subject to Rome, 82.
Burns' monument, 23.

*St. Buryan, Cornwall, Cross, 18.
Burying Old Tom, 1.

But and ben defined, 2, 14.

Calais Staple Merchants, 6 n.
Carisbrooke Museum, 23.

Casimir's Abdication, 54.

| Centenarian Queen of the Lake, 95.

Ceolwolf, King of Mercia, 100.

Charles, Prince, at Leicester, 29.

Clerical bell-founder, 32.
Clothworkers' arms, 60-61.

Cockburn's Memorials questioned, 96.
Colchester Fiery Bull? 48.
Colonial Public Libraries, 47
*Columbus' Land fall, 76-77.
Connecticut Charter Oak, 79.
Constable as Lady Booby, 5 n.

*Continental Signs and Sign-boards,
98.

Cornish Manuscripts, 58.
Court Fools, Last of, 20.
Crimea Seventy years since, 18.
Crosses in West Cornwall, 18, 36, 37.
Cup and the Lip explained, 53.
Dalton, Duchess? 85.
Dalton's pension, 20.

De Foe's Robinson Crusoe, 73-74, 96.
*Derbyshire Traders' Tokens, 25.
Derby, Charlotte, Countess of? 61.
Edward the First's Coinage, 15-17,
35, 36, 58.

Edward the Second's Coinage, 58-59.
Egbert's St. Andrew penny, 45.
Eldon Letter, 47.

English Valour eulogised, 28.
Epitaph on a Physician, 28.
Epitaph at Lavenham, 62, 66.
Epitaphs in Leslie, 87.

Erasure in Manuscripts, 104.
Ethelfleda the Lady' of Mercia, 100.
Exchequer payments, 37.

Exchequer, discovery of Jewels, 101.
Female Professors of Science, 94.
Feminine Delusion, 47.
Flanders Fruit dishes, 29.

Flint Glass, whence the term? 80
Forget me Not Legend? 40, 103.
Fountaine, jocose letter, 67.
Frederick the Great, 8.
Fulham pottery, 96.

Gay, unpublished notes, 71.

Charles the First, at Carisbrooke, 31. George, Dr., Master of Eton, 71.
Charter Oak, Connecticut, 79.

Gerald, reformer's, Trial, 96.

St. Giles' bowl, 65-66.

Glasgow Cathedral carving, 44.
Glass-window rhymes, 56.
Glympton customs and usages, 41.
Goldsmiths' Company arms, 53.
Gordon, inedited letter, 92.
Grave tells no Tales, 68.
Grenville inedited letter, 40.

*Gulval Church, painting in, 90, 97.
Gumley, Miss? 48, 55.
Gunpowder Treason, 102.

Hall, Bp., Mysterie of Godlinesse, 2.
Hall, Dr., Memorial to, 85.
Harden Jews defined, 89.
Hares at Easter, 27.

Hats of Felt, when introduced? 5.
Haydn's pension, 26.

Hearne's unpublished Remains, 93.
Henham Evening bells, 70.

Henry the Fifth, a book borrower, 72.
Henry, Prince, poisoned, 102.
Herefordshire New Year Customs, 1.
Hertz Collection of Vertu, 93.
Holford House, Regent's Park, 88.
Holles Monument, 19-20.
Holywell, Flintshire, 98.
Holywell, Huntingdonshire, 98.
Homer's Tomb, 21.
*Hook and Crook, 83.
Horace misconstrued, 80.

Hoyle Family, 18.

Impressment of Surgeons, 99.

Ingram elected M.P. for Boston, 26.

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Ipswich Town arms, 46-47.

James the First, letter to Lord Privy
Council, 97.

Jews arbiters of Europe, 88; contra-
verted, 96.

Keigwin Family mansion, 57
Kidgell, enquiry respecting, 70.
King's Illness, Lines on, 66.
Lafrowda? 28; reply, 34.
Lass of Richmond Hill, 35.
Letter Seals for security, 12.
Liberty suppressed in France, 80.
Liesborn, Master of painter? 27.
Lille Sign-boards, 98.

Linacre's Life, by Johnston? 72.
Lines to a Fair Stoic, 78,.87.

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